#i have a lot of songs that i associate with gotg help

[retrobr]

since i suddenly started talking about music, here are some of my favorite songs that i think would've fit in any of gotg movies:

"don't stop" by fleetwod mac

"everywhere" by fleetwod mac

"footloose" by kenny loggins

"she's a beauty" by the tubes

"easy lover" by philip bailey & phil collins

"addicted to love" by robert palmer

"i'm gonna be (500 miles)" by the proclaimers

"girls just want to have fun" by cyndi lauper

"everybody wants to rule the world" by tears for fears

"promises promises" by naked eyes

"call me" by blondie

[samwiseism]

Rocket for the ask game, please!

1. favorite thing about them

how he genuinely is quite sensitive to the needs of his friends - he’s hell when dealing with strangers, and maybe isn’t the best at reading the room, but he DOES care. he’ll be kicking and screaming about it and denying it but if something is not right he’s not one to sit by and ignore the problem

2. least favorite thing about them

it probably ties into the first thing in that just cause he recognises a problem it doesn’t mean he knows the right way to go about fixing it. try telling him that though. i’ve noticed a lot over the years (and obviously different writers too so this is all subjective) that rocket’s version of arguing back tends to hinge on being louder than the other person and getting the last word. he needs to learn to shut the fuck up sometimes (affectionate). (wouldn’t be him if he wasn’t like this though! it shouldn’t change!)

that being said, kind of a tangent, I dislike it when some writers choose rocket arguing back as just him being an asshole. i haven’t played the telltale game in a long time, but i seem to remember their rocket falling into this trap. sometimes he would be contrary just cause…. the writers called for it i guess? so he came across as a dick for no reason. eidos rocket meanwhile was kind of a dick but always a dick who was trying to make a point and had legitimate quibbles. for his two page appearance in star-lord grounded rocket also blew up at peter - but had objectively good reasons to! and was willing to listen when pete met him on his level.

so long story short - he’ll snark back, might blow his top a bit but in his mind he always has his reasons and when you look at them they’re mostly legit from his perspective.

a lot of writers unfortunately just make him angry for no reason and it’s really, really, REALLY annoying /rantover

3. favorite line

rocket probably makes me laugh the most out of any character he has so many ridiculous lines there’s too many to count. “that’s how we do things in the raccooniverse”lmfao. that being said I’ve always liked the dialogue between him and Pete at the end of vol. 2. Rocket’s hardly an optimist but it kind of ties into my answer for 1. He knows Peter is beating himself up and when Peter tentatively reaches out, Rocket knows what he needs to hear. Hell, Rocket himself probably also needs to tell himself but they did good!

Peter: This guarding the galaxy thing sure comes at a price.

Rocket: You knew that when you put this team together, Pete.

Peter: Yeah… but Adam? Phyla? The cosmos will be a poorer place without them.

Rocket: What about Mantis? The Major? Gamora? God help me, even that damn dog. We thought they were dead. Life and death. The trick is to keep the books balanced.

4. brOTP

groot obviously. Pete.

5. OTP

none

6. nOTP

none

7. random headcanon

he and gamora are actually closer than you’d suspect - he quite often will help her deal with her implants if they’re becoming painful, or even take out ones she doesn’t need anymore. raccoons having weirdly small human hands comes in handy (ha!) for that. she’s surprised at first - he’s more capable of serious conversation than she initially thought - they have way more in common than both of them originally thought. he knows all too well how painful it is when your implants start bugging out, but he didn’t expect one of the most famous assassins in the universe, who should by all means have the best, to be almost as cobbled together as him.

it’s sad, though neither would admit that, but it makes the two of them feel less alone.

8. unpopular opinion

i feel like a lot of this is just wider MCU fandomy stuff that i’m not part of but, like i said, generally rocket ISN’T just an asshole for no reason.

9. song I associate with him

Mr Roboto by Styx

10. favorite picture of them

I wish i had a screencap of that selfie that he took of him and the team that’s in pete’s room in the eidos gotg game because it’s too cute. that one.

[pantsaretherealheroes]

Current Music Obsessions

RULES: List the top 10 songs you’re listening to nowadays and tag 10 mutuals!

Thanks for tagging me @nimmieamee love these music meme things 😊

1)      Dust My Shoulders Off – Jane Zhang I found this on youtube a while back and was sucked in by its cool art nerd music video (i’m only an amateur art nerd but I love a gallery) but the song grew on me, it’s actually a banger (timbaland produced it though so it was never gonna be garbage)

2)      Fox On The Run – Sweet - I recently re-watched GOTG vol. 2 and it is such a GOOD trailer song for that movie. It’s just got such a bombastic opening and now I listen to it whenever I need to get pumped up for cooking or putting washing out.

3)      Seashore – The Regrettes - This was another youtube find, and the music video is great, but also the song is a great indie music feminist fuck you, and I love it.

4)      Final Song – MO - I did not have any thoughts on the girl from Lean On and then I saw her interviewed on british music tv and I heard this song a lot and it grew on me and then I associated it with something I was writing and now I’m still listening to it a year later.

5)      Sun/Changing Of The Seasons – Two Door Cinema Club – I’m gonna do an obnoxious subtle brag here so sorry but I saw them live overseas kind of by chance and it reignited my love of them. I couldn’t pick a song but these are the two I love a lot.

6)      Kids – OneRepublic – I saw this in a best of video, liked it, forgot about it, remembered it and associated it with a certain ship and now I’m very fond of it. I do this a lot and my phone is full of songs I used to be obsessed with and am too lazy to delete

7)      Hoops – The Rubens – This is the only Australian band on this list I should be ashamed of myself. It’s just a solid, moody rock jam that I rediscovered a few months ago and is a great writing song for creating a specific mood.

8)      Where Are You Now? – Lady Leshurr ft. Wiley – Traveling alone is fun except for when you’re in a tiny hotel room in the country by yourself, that can get a bit echo-y, so I often had the tv on the one channel I knew, the music channel, and it played this song and got me psyched up for the day – so I downloaded it and listened to it a lot where I went, and now , I’m very nostalgically fond of it. Also it’s a solid banger, with another bombastic opening.

9)      I Feel It Coming – The Weeknd ft. Daft Punk – When Starboy came out I thought they would never do a better collab. I was wrong. This might be the best version of The Weekend, romantic without being sappy, sexy without being misogynistic, backed by the assured production skills of two French DJ robot men. It’s like peak MJ. It’s been a year and I’m still obsessed with this song.

10)   Take On Me - Aha – I live my life in a constant state of never getting sick of this song, but this year for some reason I’ve been listening to it a lot, and accidentally getting it stuck in my head and annoying my poor friends who are in class with me. I’m sorry everyone, it’s just too strong of a banger.

This was originally a different post but tumblr mobile ate it and I’m petty so I left it a few hours and did it again. It was very fun to do though! Harder than I thought, I listen to a lot of stuff on repeat, and I’m sorry I said banger so much I can’t help it.

Tagging if you’re into it @manycoloureddays @mistressoftroy @napolecnsclc @jellicle-ball @spaceportfloozy @sonhoedesrazao @timberwolfoz

[platinumink]

I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED!! I'm adding on to your list with some of my favorites as well from a list I have started years ago with bangers I'd love to see in the universe:

"We built this city" by Starship

"Heaven is a place on earth" by Belinda Carlisle

"We're not gonna take it" by Twisted Sister

"Jump" by Van Halen

"We didn't start the fire" by Billy Joel

"Blue Monday" by New Order

"You Make my Dreams (come true)" by Daryl Hall and John Oates

"The Wild Boys" by Duran Duran

"Centerfold" by The J. Geils Band

"Heat of the Moment" by Asia

"Dancing in the Dark" by Bruce Springsteen

"Runaway", "Living on a Prayer" and "You give love a bad name" by Bon Jovi

"The Power of Love" by Huey Lewis & The News

Thank you!

since i suddenly started talking about music, here are some of my favorite songs that i think would've fit in any of gotg movies:

"don't stop" by fleetwod mac

"everywhere" by fleetwod mac

"footloose" by kenny loggins

"she's a beauty" by the tubes

"easy lover" by philip bailey & phil collins

"addicted to love" by robert palmer

"i'm gonna be (500 miles)" by the proclaimers

"girls just want to have fun" by cyndi lauper

"everybody wants to rule the world" by tears for fears

"promises promises" by naked eyes

"call me" by blondie