#idk ANY obscure pop culture references

[mariocki]

Infinite list of favourite lyrics: 221/?

Half Man Half Biscuit - Stuck up a Hornbeam (2014)

"I'm so desolate, I'm so all alone.

I feel arthritic in every single bone.

I've got a mynah bird -

It does nothing but moan.

For you, I'd lose

My self-esteem;

For you, I'd lose

My self-esteem;

For Crewe, I'd use

Junction 16."

[jugsdead-blog]

“Please stay.” for Jugronica!

please stay // jeronica

Veronica Lodge hadn’t really imagined herself to be the kind of girl who cries alone on a swing-set in the middle of the night. If anything, she thought she would be alone in her penthouse, wrapped in a silk robe like Britney in the “Lucky” video. Her life, however, has been full of surprises over the course of the last year.

Another night, another verbal sparring match with her mother, another slammed door, and here the great Veronica Lodge sits, alone. “Away from the prying eyes of the masses,” is what she will say if anyone asks her.

Veronica is internally rehearsing the speech she’s going to give her mother upon her own inevitable return home when she is startled out of her thoughts by the heavy sound of footsteps behind her. She whips around to surprise her would-be attacker, but swallows the scream bubbling in her throat as soon as she sees who it is.

Jughead doesn’t even give her the courtesy to look sheepish for scaring her nearly to death. His death, she adds confidently, like he can hear her. He doesn’t say anything, doesn’t even really acknowledge she is there or that the mascara she had so carefully applied earlier in the day is smudged beyond recognition around her swollen eyes. He just moves to sit in the swing beside her, shoes digging into the gravel below them.

“What are you doing here?” She asks him after a few long seconds. It comes off more accusing than she intends, but he either decides to ignore it or doesn’t catch on.

He digs his feet in deeper. “What I’m always doing: walking to Pop’s. Only I ran into a Nicholas Sparks heroine on the way.” He looks around the darkness and clicks his tongue. “Thing is, I don’t see Ryan Gosling chasing after you, and it’s not raining so…” he trails off. “I thought I may as well step in. See what the deal was”

She’s so caught off-guard that she feels her jaw slacken. “Oh my god, you’ve seen The Notebook. Oh my god, you know who Ryan Gosling is.”

He smirks but there’s no sarcastic bite behind it like there is when he usually smiles at her.  “And yet, no one will believe you when you tell them.”

She sobs a small laugh; the sound reminds her why she’s there in the first place. She feels her face fall and tears spring to her eyes. She looks down, ashamed. No one in Riverdale has seen her cry yet. Before leaving New York, she promised no one ever would.

Veronica hears the gravel rustle under them, and a strange sort of panic rises in her throat.  Before she can stop herself and think about what the hell she is doing, she sniffles a pathetic sounding “Please stay,” and reaches out for his arm, grabbing the cheap fabric of his jacket.

There’s a pause in his movements, but Veronica doesn’t look up at his face, choosing to remain focused not he wear and tear of his jacket. She won’t let Jughead (won’t let anyone) see her face when she’s like this.

“I wasn’t leaving.” He clears his throat, sounding uncharacteristically embarrassed. ”There’s, um, a rock in my shoe.”

“Oh,” Veronica says lamely. But she doesn’t let go of Jughead’s arm and Jughead doesn’t move to pull away.

Her grip tightens on his jacket and she begins to cry, leaning into him slightly, cheek resting lightly on his shoulder. It’s uncomfortable for the both of them; the swings are bent unnaturally to accommodate this strange embrace.

Jughead’s reaction is—different. It isn’t like it would be with Archie: all panicked apologies and unsure touches. Or with Betty, bless her, with big sad eyes and pitying words. Instead, it’s just…Jughead. Sarcastic, brooding Jughead, who remains still and silent as she cries into his shoulder. But he’s the only solid thing in her world right now, so she hangs on.

They stay like that a long while after she finishes, until Veronica stands up and casually offers to treat him to a burger “so as to counter all the blackmail material you currently have on me.”

Jughead doesn’t say a word, only nods and follows her to Pop’s.

In the middle of Jughead’s third burger, when they’re arguing over what Ray Bradbury really meant when he wrote Fahrenheit 451, it occurs to Veronica that she doesn’t know Jughead Jones nearly as well as she should.

[juniorsailmakermattcruse]

when I watch phineas and ferb (which is often) I call it Feeding My Autism because that’s what it genuinely feels like. like idk how to explain it it’s just an autistic show. the plot formula and all the ways they subvert and lampshade it? all the nerdy jokes and obscure pop culture references? all the characters just… being who they are? (see that post I just reblogged) the music? its fast pace? just the fact that there are so many episodes and you don’t really have to watch them in any particular order? idk maybe some of those are just for my own personal brand of autism but altogether it’s just got major vibes. and because it’s been one of my special interests for like 12 years I have a lot of good memories associated with it and also a lot of information/trivia/quotes and song lyrics stored in my brain. and watching it feels like unmasking I guess? like it kind of feels like stimming in a way. idk this is a very long stupid ramble but it’s 3 am and I have thoughts

[defiantlywhole]

@evil-robot-cat replied to your post “i might have to start selling cross stitches to make some income until...”

It's almost impossible to make any profit doing a small and time-consuming activity like cross stitch. Do you like making patterns? Setting up an etsy shop and pushing patterns isn't easy, but it's more likely to generate real profit than doing the stitching itself.

i mean, i’m not really looking to make a profit per se, just a little extra money for the next few months - and longer, if it catches on, but i’m not super worried about that. and i don’t currently have any real demands on my time either, so doing something time consuming for some extra pocket change will feel good. i’ve got tons of supplies gifted to me so i don’t have to spend a ton to keep up.

i do enjoy making patterns but i’m not terribly artistic? and i’ve never actually made one in any sort of program - all my patterns have been drawn out by hand on graph paper, which doesn’t exactly make it easy to disseminate. i’m also not super savvy with pop culture so idk that i could even come up with anything that people would actually buy, unless there’s people actually interested in ‘references to ya lit series that came out a decade ago’ and ‘super obscure 17th century theater’ and specifically Green Grass, Running Water by Tom King.

but if you have suggestions for good programs that are free and someone not particularly artistically inclined can use, i’m definitely all ears?

[agentharrisonofshield-a]

😑 😴 😙

Emoji mun questions@brooklynislandgirl

😑- what is one charector you refuse to roleplay as and why?

So I guess I’m just going to jump into the potentially controversial shit right off the bat, huh?

I can’t see myself ever RPing as a character from Black Panther.  It’s not that I don’t think people can/should/have the ability to write outside their personal racial experiences.  I just think that Black Panther, especially as it’s presented in the MCU (I don’t know enough about the comics to voice an opinion there), is something that the African diaspora have so often been denied.  The idea of a part of the African continent that’s never known a white colonizer, that’s never been subject to another country’s rule, that remains proud and strong and uniquely itself in a way that defies the harsh reality we live with is something that may be amazing to me, but that I do not have a stake in.  It’s not my story to tell.  The implications of Wakanda’s existence aren’t mine to play with.  There are people for whom Wakanda, everyone in it, and the implications of its existence are incredibly personal.  And I don’t want to play in their sandbox.  I want to leave it to the people who can use it so much better than I ever could because it’s theirs in a way that doesn’t apply to me.

Disclaimer: This is not a judgement on any non-black who writes a Black Panther character.  I’m just saying that I, personally, am never going to do so.

😴 - have you ever given up on a blog and regretted it?

So many.  I apparently used up all my ability to stick with a RP blog through the rough part of starting up with Vivian, Ros, and Duvessa.

Um, I have to say the ones I’ve regretted most were Shae and Sera.  (And my MCU multimuse but I really am going to get that off the ground any day now :| )

Shae because the world Gaiman built in American Gods is so good and leaves so much room for more than is in the book.  And the show’s done well in interpreting the book to screen (I mean jfc is Gillian Anderson a shapeshifter??) that I couldn’t resist the chance to jump in on the new fandom.  And, much like Vivian, Shae is a relatively easy muse for me to write because she draws from things close to me.  I grew up in the heart of the slowly-dying Hungarian immigrant community in NJ and it’s remained so much a part of my life that I’m now working for one of the institutions of it.  And I’m just sad that the fandom was never welcoming to OCs because I was really looking forward to playing with obscure folklore.

Idk.  I might revamp her as a fandomless or other-fandom OC and try again.

Sera I haven’t exactly given up on so much as I don’t have the energy for more than three blogs right now - if that, even.  Plus Sera I feel like I might have thrown her out there a little too soon - which is to say I have a thousand questions about her I haven’t answered yet and I should have an answer for at least half of them.  Which in turn makes me super hesitant to reach out to people.  Which is my own problem.  I will say that the MCU and Norse myth fandoms have been great and there have been people who have latched onto my sweet little thread mage and interact with me whenever I do manage to get on her.

😰 - what is one charector you desperately want your muse to interact with

Ohgods.

I’d kill for a Jessica Jones, tbh.  There are some great similarities between Jessica and Vivian but I think that they’re different enough that they’d be one of those ‘they either love each other or they despise each other’ kind of deals.  But if they got along can you imagine the level of ‘I do not want to be putting up with this shit’ that they’d collectively exude?  And the snark.  OMG the collective snark.

And I know it said one but...

Please for the love of gods someone give me a CA:TWS-style Natasha Romanoff.  With the pop culture references and casual discussions about being who someone wants you to be instead of yourself.  And the ass-kicking that leaves Vivian jealous af but also more than a little turned on and um can she maybe try learning that move?  And Natasha being brilliant and clever and unexpected and Vivian just being all hearteyes. 

AND FOR THE RECORD:

I desperately want Vivian to interact with all the OCs.  ESPECIALLY all the amazing female OCs.

[inardescos-blog]

✤ + alyona 😘

send me ✤ + a ship and i’ll tell you… // currently accepting

who laughs when the other trips?

neither ?? i feel like alyona is 2 serious for that. when he falls she probs just looks at him like ??? get up, dude. and when alyona falls ?? well, i feel like she never falls tbh. the girl simply is too badass to fall.

who pays the bills?

definitely alyona. david doesn’t understand bills and would literally fuck them up so bad. he wouldn’t be able to do it at all, so all of that responsibility would fall on alyona’s shoulders. 

which one makes a bigger deal around the holidays?

ok like, seriously, get this image of strict alyona out of my head. i definitely feel like david makes a bigger deal, primarily because he’s so goofy and not serious at all ?? he’s the one that wastes all the money on christmas lights so that he can string them EVERYWHERE, even in the bathroom. he’s just… too childish for this. he also makes alyona take pictures with him whilst wearing reindeer antlers. 

who checks their daily horoscope?

david probably. i feel like he’d be the one wrapped up in it, especially with alyona. idk what her sign is, but, like, can you imagine ?? “omg alyona, that’s so ____ of you. you’re such a _____.” and she just looks at him with the cut throat glare

who sings louder in the car?

look… tell me why i envision them listening to russian music and david WANTS to sing along, but he can’t pronounce any of the words. so he kinda just ?? encourages alyona to sing because it’ll help him learn the language better if she does. but then he starts playing some music from when he was growing up and she just ??? doesn’t like it. he’s sitting there blasting the spice girls and stuff and she just does not sing along while he SCREAMS every word. 

who leaves the cap off the toothpaste?

definitely david. even tho he’s a bit of a germaphobe, he forgets SOMETIMES, and when comparing it to the number of times alyona forgets… it’s bad. alyona never forgets. you’ll never catch her slippin. 

who is more up to date in pop culture?

definitely david on this. he’s always quoting things whenever they sit around gossiping and half the time, he has to explain things to her. then alyona comes in with these very obscure references that just make david SUPER confused. like ??? “this is worse than the time rasputin was killed” and david is like “???? rasputin was real ???”

who insists on going to see the newest movies?

david honestly. but it’s super annoying because he talks during the movies. he will constantly poke at alyona’s shoulder and be like “hey, did you see that ??” and just be the most annoying piece of shit. so it gets to the point where alyona refuses to go, and if she does go, she makes him sit on the other side of the theater. 

who cries when the abused animal commercials come on?

david is the most emo dude ever, ok. like, alyona can watch them without the slightest twitch, but not david. it gets to the point where he sees the commercial, and he just excuses himself out from the room so that he can relax and just… not cry in front of her

who’s the lighter sleeper?

probably alyona ?? i can imagine that she has a hard time falling asleep. unless they stay up drinking wine, of course. then both of them can sleep perfectly fine. so… i guess neither because they always drink wine and gossip. 

who believes in ghosts?

out of the two ?? probably david. he hears a bump and he looks at alyona the way ryan looks at shane. i mean, honestly ?? they are literally ryan and shane from buzzfeed unsolved. 

who does the grocery shopping?

alyona for sure. if she trusts david with money, that’s a big mistake. imagine she did one time, but when he came back with 14 packets of those capsule sponge dinosaurs that expand underwater, ice cream, wine, and water balloons, she quickly decided that he was not to be trusted. 

who updates their facebook status more often?

can u imagine alyona being a meme ?? “doctor said i could only have one glass of wine per day…. he didn’t say how big !!” man, i feel like both of them would do shit like that. especially david, but he would be 10000000% serious. 

[undxunted]

💐 𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘯𝘢 & 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘭 💐 OR 💐 𝘴𝘪𝘥 & 𝘮𝘪𝘬𝘬𝘺 💐 OR 💐 𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘯𝘢 & 𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘺 💐 OR 💐 𝘴𝘪𝘥 & 𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘶𝘴𝘵 💐 OR 💐💐𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 & 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨-𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘨𝘢𝘣𝘦 💐💐

Annona & Basil

Okay, listen to me, at some point I sad that Basil wouldn’t know who she is because he is too disconnected from pop culture, but after giving it more thought, I realized that he’d be a big fan of her work in general so listen to me:

Before meeting he’d send her bouquets of lavender, lilacs and some poisonous flowers (upon ingestion and constant exposure to it, not like poison ivy stuff).

He knows almost every episode of Annona & Joe by memory because it was probably what he watched whenever his mom neglected him as an escape route.

They most likely meet when she’s half-retired or taking a break from the acting world and he recognizes her immediately, but he is pretty stoic so he wouldn’t make a big deal about it.

They are both obscure, affected by death and seem to vibrate in a different frequency so I am guessing they get along.

They hang out at some place like the park, either at the busiest hour or in the middle of the night; they spend most of the time just observing (maybe she’s smoking) and barely exchange any word or opinion but that’s how... they hang out?

Basil has lucid dreams (the only one of my charas that can do it actually!) but every now and then he has dreams that are uneasy and somehow... disturbing even though he cannot point out why. Annona is in all of them. He usually wakes up and runs to throw up.

Basil lives in an ancient god delusion so what’s Annona? A god slayer in another life? An enemy? A friend? He’s decided to find out and hopefully drag her to the same delusional state.

Basil likes to visit antique shops and stuff like that, he’s pretty much anti-21st century and should’ve grown up in either the Dark Ages, the Victorian Era or the 80′s, but anyways, he visits these places and probably looks for something unsettling and/or visibly haunted and that’s what gives Annona for Halloween (what’s even Christmas??) or her birthday.

Mocking the living.

Equally strange ways of dressing, living goth doll and Post-apocalypse war boy. They scare the little kids with their presence alone.

Horror movie marathons.

I saw this post earlier but Annona wants to go to the cemetery because she needs haunted dirt and Basil goes walks along while playing Pokemon GO. They like reading tombstones and playing “haunted or not?” and half-joking about spirits following them home.     Strange things do happen for some weeks after they return from their graveyard trip.

Idk, might make a Pinterest board to settle down more ideas for them but lmk what you think!

Sid & August

Unlikely friends. Adventure partners.

They get dragged by each other to unwanted trouble and shenanigans.

“You lived in the streets, can’t you talk to the stray cat or something? ..... Sorry that was offensive”.

“How did we end up getting chased by Japanese gangsters?!” “Yakuza” “WHATEVER”.

Buzzfeed Unsolved vibes!!

Visiting haunted houses and places full of history with August never shutting up about the lore.

August being really scared of (everything) dark alleys, low neighborhoods and clinging to Sid’s sleeve but still decided to go in because “ThErE iS a MyStEry To Be SoLvEd, SeEd”.

August giving him the lunch his mom gave her because “you’re probably more immune to poisoning than me”. Y’know, rude but true friendship.

Oooh! August inviting him home and his parents being weirdly attentive and nice and August doesn’t trust them because “ARE THEY GONNA KILL MY FRIEND??”

Sid dropping some acid jokes while they are having lunch (it’s okay, August always invites) and August just laughing softly cause he didn’t get it and late that night he wakes up at 2 am and calls him because “I GOT THE JOKE NOW AND I DON’T KNOW IF I SHOULD BE LAUGHING OR DISGUSTED BUT YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED EITHER WAY”.

Virgin club! (Is Sid even a virgin? aslkjldk)

Video games night that turn into horror movie/slasher movie night and both are probably a little more scared than they’d like to admit.

Sid getting August drunk for the first time. August becomes really sarcastic and a hugger. He also cries.

August’s parents referring to Sid like “Oh, honey, is your dirty friend coming over today?” “How is Grimey Sid doing, champ? I heard they are bathing pets at the Johnson’s” and August can’t believe how incredibly rude they are but... he knows they lack empathy whatsoever so he tried to dodge the questions as much as possible and actually gets really upset about it, but he never dares to speak up.

BEING THERE FOR EACH OTHER AT ALL TIMES, GETTING IN FIGHTS WITH BULLIES AND BEING PULVERIZED BUT ALWAYS STANDING UP WITH A BUSTED LIP AND SWOLLEN PURPLE EYES LIKE “YO LEAVE MY FRIEND ALONE YOU... YOU... UNEDUCATED PUNK!”

[gendryw4ters-blog]

Gonna send this in now; don't worry about responding for a while, it's almost time for me to go to bed and you have fun things to do! Lieb: As anyone can tell you, Lieb doesn’t give a shit. Not about how much his clothes cost, if he went to college, the type of beer he drinks, and who he loves. Which means of course he’s punk, through and through. This comes through from old-school punk, like the Ramones, and through more modern groups like Palma Violets, Arctic Monkeys, and (1/?)

FIDLAR, his choice of pre-gaming music. He’s the cultural heir to the Beastie Boys and Nirvana and he’s proud of it. Jamie T’s songs feel like they fit that particular sentiment, with the chorus of “Sticks n Stones” REALLY summing up Lieb: “When there’s no one left to fight/Boys like him don’t shine so bright/Soon as I see the dust settle/He’s out on the town tryin’ to find trouble”.Wavves and FIDLAR (two of my favorite bands) bring in the SoCal element to Lieb. I feel like even though in (2/?)

canon he’s so damn proud of being from there, in a modern AU, he’d constantly be trying to distance himself from the general hippie reputation in favor for the grittiness of NorCal or even claiming New York (“Well, Web’s from there, and I lived with him before we came out here, so really, I am a New Yorker. And the Ramones would’ve loved me, so fuck off.”). Toye: Much like how Ron and Lip are Joy Division and New Order, the Joes are the Ramones and the Clash or the Damned: same genre, same (3/?)

circles, still different enough to be their own. Joe definitely is more in touch with his emotions outside of pissed off than Lieb, and he doesn’t really care as much about his reputation as long as he’s not publicly considered weak or soft, which leads into what I (lovingly) refer to as “1980s emo”. As with Oasis vs. Blur, the Smiths vs. the Cure is a huge debate (I’m firmly with the Cure on this one), but as long as there are songs he can mope around to, Joe doesn’t care. He does fit more (4/?

into 90s and 2000s alt in terms of his reactions and how he conducts himself, so I think Tame Impala, Pixies, and The Strokes fit him well in that area. They rep his outer reputation to people. But he’s a softie and as much as he denies it, he’s the guy who lays in bed and listens to mostly sad or apathetic music for a few days after a break up, then gets mad and makes himself get over it. Also, for some reason, this tattoo metaphor for the Joes (Lieb is stick-and-pokes done by a friend (5/6)

with some shitty alcohol and not quite legally and Joe is one of those old schools at an obscure but critically acclaimed parlor) popped in my head??? Do with it what you will. So that’s my thoughts, and I think I’m going to take a bit of a break w/the mixes. Would you like me to send in one or non-music things or something else? (6/6)

LIEB:

firstly; you’re absolutely right. lieb doesn’t give a shit about ANY of that- like he isn’t a very materialistic person at all, more concerned with collecting experience than he is with collecting actual things (aside from records, which i think perhaps he’d have a lot of- it ties in with the Web/Brooklyn Baby thing too because he’d be in awe of Web’s record collection and all of his rare finds and he genuinely does think Web is cooler than him because of that) (okay maybe not QUITE cooler than him but, yknow, close ahah). 

i actually have a whole document i did one night on why jamie t and joseph liebgott are the same person (which in retrospect would have been better as a powerpoint presentation tbh), but yeah, i think sticks and stones sums him up particularly well in that respect. it’s not even that he’s necessarily always seeking to fight, just that there is nothing else to do but fight. the kids i work with have a grand total of zero things to do at lunchtimes so they just fight for fun, which i think is something that comes with lieb quite a lot- and, presumably, jamie t. both of them have grown a lot though, and i think that becomes evident through music moreso than anything else. take sticks and stones and compare it to trouble, is what i think i mean?? idk im rambling here definitely but!! i hope you get what i mean kind of haha

ALSO i love FIDLAR and im always shook when i meet other people who do too so like!! that’s fucking awesome. and also that’s an interesting take on lieb actually! i wanted to include things to do with california because i knew his home state kind of played a big part in shaping his identity, but im afraid i was less aware of the north/south divide in terms of culturey things so!! learning that was cool, and yeah i could absolutely see him as claiming new yorker status on behalf of web omg!

TOYE:

fuck fuck i’m laughing so hard ok so I did my analyses of the Joes last night, and we have pretty much the same things to say about the Joy-Toye. I didn’t go into relationships b/w other mixes but wow, ok, 95% of it is what I had. I can still send it in, but it’s basically the same thing

first of all it’s both hilarious and wonderful that we reached the same conclusion on toye omg- like, we must obviously be doing something right if we’ve BOTH reached the same point of conclusion right?? right?? ahah

i dont really know what else to say on the matter of toye since youve worded it so brilliantly in your ask, like oh gosh, the image of him lying around after a heartbreak listening to mopey music is just like- agh i wanna give him a hug and tell him everythings going to be fine

ALSO THE TATTOO METAPHOR IS REALLY COOL AND I LIKE THAT A LOT

im tempted to write something but! i dont know what but i just, gosh its a great metaphor and great imagery too!! thank you for this!!

and also!! you do whatever you like rae honestly! im always around to chat or discuss music or the shows or anything you wanna!! you’re super cool and thank you so much for these mix things because i really appreciate them a lot!!

much love! and i hope that all is well!!