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katelynnwrites · 2 years ago

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Got My Mind On Your Body (And Your Body On My Mind) | Ona Batlle

warnings: mild smut

word count: 1978

summary: you’ve constantly got ona’s body or more specifically her abs, on your mind and neither of you would have it any other way

chosen song: cool for the summer by demi lovato

a/n: requested, bonus chapter 4 of you were bigger than the whole sky (you were more than just a short time)

You run your hand over Ona’s abs, feeling the way her muscles tense as you do so. The both of you were lying on her bed, you reading a book and Ona studying for an upcoming test.

As you continue to absentmindedly trace the contours of her abdomen, your girlfriend lets out a shaky breath, (slightly) regretting her decision to let you freely touch her body.

She loves having your hands on her but it was making it really really hard to keep her composure. Ona just wants to kiss you silly.

Except that she couldn’t right now because she had to concentrate on her studying. You were unintentionally making it so difficult for her and she sighs, stopping you gently.

‘I’m sorry.’ You say immediately, pulling your hand back and staring at her with wide eyes.

Your girlfriend is the most important person in your sixteen year old self’s life and you hated to think that you had somehow upset her.

Ona shakes her head.

‘Don’t be sorry. I love it but you’re making it really hard for me to concentrate.’ She apologetically tells you.

The brunette bites her lip, ‘Can I make it up to you later amor?’

‘You don’t have to.’

You smile and kiss her lightly.

‘Focus on your work, I’ll still be here to cuddle you later.’

Ona returns your smile, ‘Gracias mi amor.’

******

The very first time you notice that Ona has abs is from the quick glimpse you get as she changes out of her sweaty jersey and into her clean shirt.

You swallow hard and try to focus on anything other than your girlfriend’s very very hot body.

It’s an entirely unsuccessful attempt (that results in you nearly knocking over a water cooler because fifteen year old you was not very smooth) and when Ona affectionately wraps her arms around you, planting a sweet little kiss onto the top of your head, you blush furiously.

Ona kisses you again, this time on your cheek before she whispers, ‘You’re so cute when you blush mi cielo.’

******

After Ona finds out that you have a (pretty big) thing for her abs, she does more core exercises.

She also wears more cropped tops.

You think she’s trying to drive you crazy.

And Ona is. She is rather impatiently waiting for you to break.

It happens after she asks your opinion on which bikini she should wear for the team bonding at the beach.

You had come over to her house to do homework and when you walk into her room, it’s to find her standing in front of her mirror, in a white bikini.

‘Ona…’ You gasp, eyeing her figure appreciatively immediately.

You can feel your cheeks heating up and you need to touch her. (you always craved the feel of her skin against yours but now it was overwhelming).

‘Do you like it?’

You shake your head slightly but before Ona’s expression can fall, you place your hands on her waist.

‘I love it. You’re so gorgeous.’

Ona smiles and leans in to kiss you before suddenly pulling away.

‘Wait I got to show you the other one! You have to help me decide which one to wear tomorrow!’ She excitedly says.

‘The other one?’

There’s panic in your voice and you’re the epitome of a gay mess as you watch Ona go into her bathroom to change. (you can’t see her so you don’t know that your girlfriend is smirking, knowing exactly what she’s doing to you).

Ona’s abs are almost always on your sixteen, nearly seventeen year old self’s mind.

But after Ona comes out of the bathroom, you know you’ll never be able to get the image out of your mind ever again.

‘Fuck.’ You breathe (it’s honestly a miracle you were able to breathe).

Your girlfriend looks so proud of herself and she does a little twirl to show off for you.

‘Can I kiss you?’

It’s a rather desperate question from you but the brunette’s face lights up.

‘Please.’

Ona fights back a smile so that she can kiss you back properly. It’s a good decision because you refuse to break the kiss, eagerly and passionately kissing your girl.

‘Bebé.’ She moans, catching onto your plan quickly.

You up the intensity of your kisses and Ona whimpers, bringing her hands up to your chest to stop you for a brief moment.

‘Got to close the door mi amor. Joan’s home and I don’t want him to come in.’ She breathlessly explains.

‘I’m not stopping you.’ You tease, slowly bringing your lips down to meet hers again.

Ona lets out a rather undignified noise (more of a squeak really) and tries her best to kiss you and rush to lock her door all at the same time.

As soon as the door closes and the lock clicks, you press Ona against the door.

She moans, tilting her head back with closed eyes.

You kiss and suck on her neck, hands running over the exposed skin of her waist.

‘Mi amor.’ Ona pants, bringing her hands up so that she can tangle her fingers in your hair.

She tugs on it none too gently and you whimper her name softly.

There’s a moment where you and Ona just stare at each other, breathing heavily but with big cheesy grins on both of your faces.

Your girlfriend catches her breath first and with a mischievous look, starts to kiss you again.

She slips her hands under your shirt, stroking your skin and making goosebumps appear.

‘I love you.’ She murmurs, in between kisses and you moan her name.

‘Take your shirt off. Please mi amor!’ Ona begs.

The Spaniard needs more skin to skin contact with you, she just needs to feel your skin on hers.

You’re more than happy to please her, raising your arms up so that Ona can tug your shirt off.

The brunette fullback practically throws your shirt across the room and that makes you giggle.

‘I’m enthusiastic okay?’ She defends.

You laugh harder and Ona rolls her eyes, pressing her lips onto yours to shut you up, in the best way possible.

‘Te amo.’ You gasp, the intensity of Ona’s kisses building the warm feeling in your stomach.

Ona pulls you towards her bed and with a smirk, pushes you onto her bed.

She straddles you and you moan. The combined feelings of her body weight on you and her long hair tickling your cheek as you smell her perfume, it makes you feel like you’re in heaven. Being under Ona further builds the warm feeling in your stomach and you buck your hips upwards uncontrollably.

Your girlfriend whimpers into the shared kiss and you turn your head to the side to break it, gasping, ‘Stop. I-I need to stop.’

Ona sits up immediately, running a hand through her tangled hair.

Her lips are kiss swollen, like yours and she reaches out to hold your hand.

‘Are you okay?’

Worry is evident in her voice and concern etched all over her features.

‘Sí. I just had to stop because if we didn’t, I don’t think I would have been able to stop.’

Ona’s eyes widen and she whispers, ‘You want me that much?’

‘Of course mi Oni.’

The blush on your cheeks darken, letting your girlfriend know that you meant what you were telling her.

Ona grins, pressing a gentle kiss into your forehead.

‘Well I can’t wait for the day my parents and my brother aren’t home so that we don’t have to stop.’

Your cheeks are tinted pink but you manage to answer, ‘I promise that when that does happen, I’ll make sure I wear something a lot nicer than this for you.’

Ona frowns slightly, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about. You look beautiful just like this.’

‘Gracias mi amor. But I’ll still pick out something more appropriate.’

‘You don’t have to but whatever you choose, I will absolutely love on you.’ Ona promises.

******

‘You are drooling.’ Lucia teases.

You panickedly straighten up and wipe the back of your hand across your mouth immediately.

‘I was just kidding.’ The Manchester United forward laughs, making you flush a bright red.

She looks across the gym at Ona for a moment before remarking, ‘She does have an amazing set of abs though.’

Your gaze is drawn back to Ona who is casually wiping the sweat off her face with the hem of her training jersey, exposing her toned stomach.

‘She really does.’ You mumble.

Lucia laughs again, louder this time.

‘Okay little miss gay panic. Focus more on your weights and less on your fiancée.’

******

‘You’re insatiable.’ You moan as Ona puts a hand under your shirt, palming your breast immediately.

‘I need to make up for lost time.’ She cheekily says.

You’re so glad that she has forgiven herself that you can’t even be mad at her.

‘Ona. Ona babe we’re gonna be late. We c-can’t.’

Your breath catches on the last word, Ona clearly having an overwhelming effect on you.

‘We can be late.’ Ona whines but you firmly shake your head.

‘We were already late last time and I really don’t want to have to put up with our teammates’ teasing all night again mi amor.’

Ona uses her thumb to stroke your skin and it’s so sensitive that you shiver.

You bite your lip, not wanting to give Ona the satisfaction of hearing you moan her name while partially chiding her for her actions.

Your wife sighs.

‘Fine.’

She takes a step back from you, fixing your clothes so that you look presentable again and less like you just had a teenagers’ makeout session.

‘Gracias mi amor, I promise to be naked for you all night okay?’

Ona’s eyes light up and she nods eagerly, rushing off to go and change into the outfit she had chosen for the team dinner.

******

Having finished touching up your makeup (Ona had smudged your lipstick with her earlier activities), you’re sitting on the kitchen counter, waiting for the brunette when she calls out, ‘Close your eyes.’

‘Why?’

‘Trust me amor.’ Ona says, an undercurrent of laughter in her voice.

You do as says and eventually hear her footsteps come right in front of you before she says, ‘You can open your eyes now.’

From the way she’s grinning at you, you just know that she had chosen that particular outfit to make sure her (absolutely glorious) abs are on full display for you.

A tube top and tailored trousers paired with a blazer you were sure she had stolen (Ona would say it was borrowed) from you. Her signature hoop earrings completed the look.

‘Mi amor…’ You groan, reaching for her eagerly.

Ona steps back with a loud chuckle.

‘No. No touching. You said no making out so that we won’t be late.’

‘Ona come on. Just one kiss por favor.’ You plead.

‘Nope. You have to wait till we come back.’ She sings, already making her way to the door.

Your wife gives you a teasing wink and you make a frustrated noise, hurrying after her and desperately willing the hours to pass quickly, just so you could be back home with your love again.

******

There’s a tiny smile growing on Ona’s face as she feels you slip a hand under her shirt to rest on her stomach.

Her smile widens when you subconsciously flatten it to get the full effect of her abs.

‘T’estimo.’ She murmurs, pressing a kiss onto your shoulder.

You’re still asleep and Ona gently pulls you a little closer, reveling in the feeling of being able to hold you.

It’s fairly early, the faint sunlight coming through the curtains not quite enough to wake you yet so Ona kisses your shoulder again and closes her eyes, content to fall back asleep with you in her arms.

Spanish Translations:

amor - love

gracias mi amor - thank you my love

mi cielo - my darling

bebé - baby

mi amor - my love

te amo - i love you

sí - yes

Catalan Translations:

t’estimo - i love you

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dresden-syndrome · 3 months ago

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26/VII-1978. State Security department No. 64, Burgas region, People's Union Republic of Bulgaria, EESU.

"Full name?" Iva Kostadinova Milcheva.

"Date of birth?" 7th of April, year 1950.

"Registration place?" City of Burgas, "Prvi Internatsional" street, **** **** **.

"Ethnicity, citizenship?" Bulgarian, citizenship of EESU.

"Employment?" European Communist Party, chairman deputy of Burgas municipal committee.

The same unchanging questions and answers, learned by heart and thrown in an emotionless bureaucratic manner. Who knows how many thousands of them Iva had to fill before; in this country, it's just a part of life. Only this time she was made to sit in what looks like interrogation room, the guards standing besides and the light of table lamp straight to her face. Trying to keep calm and still, like she always used to, just as if today is not the most horrible day in her life.

"What did you bring me here for?"

During her Party career Iva managed to cooperate with State Security quite a lot; although wary of them, she viewed them with respect rather than fear. This day, when they called her to get in the black Volga for a visit, she didn't think anything could go wrong - saying no to State Security invitations has never been an option anyway - until they cuffed her hands and turned to the unknown direction.

"You've been accused of assisting in a right-wing revisionist conspiracy against the socialist regime. Did you know that?"

Arrested. Arrested for political crimes.

It's somewhat like an accident; nobody is safe from it, everyone prays it doesn't hit close to home yet it feels like it won't happen to you right until it does. As experienced as she was, Iva couldn't yet believe that. Isn't it that only the spies and enemies end up there? How could she, who always loved her motherland more than life itself, become one?

"No. I didn't participate in anything."

There were no answers in her head, no time to plan what to say or do for a better outcome. Only one task of immense willpower. Not to cry. Not to scream out loud. Not to think of her breaking future. Stay calm. Do what they say. Even if it gets worse. Even as she feels the cold steel lock on her wrists and her eyes cover by a thick cloth.

"Take that one to cell 2-18."

As Iva exited the main hallway, held by guards by each side, into what seems to be a staircase, a horrifying scream struck her ears from below. It sounded like someone cried out in pure agony, abruptly ending with a sound of doors locked at that lower floor.

"Just what they deserve."

After a long disorientating walk through quieter upper floors, the blindfold falls, the cuffs unlock and the door shuts with an unpleasant metal bang. A cold lonely prison cell, for a couple of weeks or for the rest of her life. Nobody knows.

The nice summer day which began with a cup of strong coffee, two cigarettes and a nice walk along the beach filled with Soviet tourists and ice cream shops finally comes to an end.

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lafamilledelioncourt · 5 months ago

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New Chapters! Devil's Minion and Lesmand? Is it my birthday?

A Deal of Consequence || writerformanymuses

Chapter 27: But It's Not Real, and You Don't Exist

Summary:

Lestat and Armand have it out at long last, Claudia sinks into her despair, and Daniel begins to fight for his memories and his future with the new unholy family.

EXCERPT:

“For how long?” Daniel whispers, his throat growing more and more raw as emotion creeps up. Armand leans over, his lips pressing into Daniel’s hair, and he strokes his cheek before pulling back to regard him. “I don’t know. I never know, and you know that too.” “No, Armand… I mean this. How long are you going to keep doing this? This game you play with me as if I’m some-- some fucking toy. Is that what I am? Am I just a toy for you to play around with?” His voice trembles, and he’s unable to do anything else as Armand holds his face with the utmost care. His eyes move over his features, reading him so plainly even if Daniel never dared to realize it then. How unfeeling, he remembers thinking of him. How utterly maddening and cruel. “I would never think of you as such,” Armand murmurs, and he leans in once more to press his lips to Daniel's brow. “You are a precious thing, Daniel, and I haven’t the heart to let you go just yet.” It stings. This realization stings, and it is worse than the seductive pain they shared in the quiet dark. To be a mere bug trapped in the web of some indomitable creature. To think, if not for the whims of Armand, Daniel could also be a dead thing. Sucked dry of hope, ambition, wit, and warmth. Every defiant bone within him crushed to dust, and every quivering vein dried into fragments of meaningless waste. The words ‘just yet’ echo through his mind like a hurricane bashing onto a shoreline. He’d reported on a hurricane this very year, hadn’t he? 1978? 79? He remembers one, at least. He remembers standing on a veranda of some exotic location, a camera in his hand, as he furiously tried to capture the bowing and buckling of trees on a beach. Daniel never had a problem with facing death. No, he was almost always chasing it. What was it Claudia said? “You were so in love with death that I was starstruck by you.” Only death was not a time, not a sentence, was it? It was him, it was Armand.

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palmtreesx3 · 1 year ago

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As my header states, I'm too old for this. But here I am anyway. If you're here you're gonna watch me embarrassingly lust over every version of Steve Harrington (who am I kidding, just Joe Keery in general) and while I mostly just react to other people's tremendously talented work, I occasionally dabble myself.

So if you are lurking, enjoy and leave some kisses 💋

(18+, don't be cunty, yada yada yada)

🔥 Spicy/Smutty 🚨 Cannon/Cannon Adjacent ❤️ Fluffy/Boyfriend-ism 😩 Angsty

Get Off (Series) 🔥18+ - SexShop!Steve x Reader : SexShop!Robin x OC (7/9)

Summary: Steve and Robin have about had it with Hawkins, so on Robin's 25th birthday, the pair decides that there's nothing holding them there anymore and they start packing their bags. The friends move to Chicago and quickly find an apartment to call their own. As luck would have it, within hours of arriving to the city, Robin stumbles on a no-strings-attached job offer for both of them - what could be better?! Now just to break the news to Steve…. This multi part story will both explore their platonic relationship and their chaotic experience working at the sex shop together as well as their own paths of self discovery as they plant their roots in their new city and finally deal with the invisible baggage they drug along with them when they moved. Act 4 - Out Now :)

Prologue || V-Card || Act 1 || Act 2 || Act 3 || Act 4 || Act 5 || Act 6 || Epilogue

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King of Wishful Thinking (Series) ❤️ Fluffy but eventually 🔥 18+ and marked as such because I'm a hoe - Steve Harrington x Reader (2/?)

Summary: Steve has been in love with you for his entire life. He has always wanted to express his feelings and do nice things for you, but every time he tries to come up with new and creative ways to show you how much he cares, but it seems like fate is always against him. Even though he shallowly convinces himself that you’re just meant to be friends and despite these setbacks, Steve remains determined to keep trying. He still holds onto the hope that someday he'll be able to express his feelings to you and maybe, just maybe have them reciprocated. Paused but not forgotten

1974 || 1978 || 1980 (coming soon)

Joe Keery Photo Drop Support Group A place to gather when he sends us into a tizzy. This support group was started in response to the Behind the Blinds Photo Drops but can and will be revisited anytime this man rocks our world like that again....All are welcome. Judgement Free-zone. Cake ALWAYS served.

Birthday Cake Train 🍰 A communal space to celebrate birthdays and serve up a slice of Cake....you know which kind. Join the thread when it's your turn. There's enough to go around.

Seeing Stars 🔥18+ The crew finally decides it's time to start celebrating the 4th of July again, but Steve Harrington finds he can't stop himself from staring.

A Girl Like You (PT 2 to Seeing Stars) 🔥18+ In the aftermath of the 4th, embarrassment and emotions are flying, tables turn and shit gets figured out. Read Part 1 to see how exactly we got here.

Deeper for You 🔥18+ It's your annual beach trip with the crew from Hawkins, something you've all been doing together your whole adult life after life forced everyone to part ways. You're all close, but this year, an accidental encounter in the outdoor shower makes you get a little closer with one person in particular.

Jealous Friend One Shot 🔥18+ ask Watching your friend, Steve Harrington, go on Kamakazi Mission dates over and over again was getting kind of old. You’re always there to listen, comfort and pick up the pieces but what if this time it’s just too much? What if this time you’ve had enough and something that feels a little bit like jealousy rears its ugly head?

Firefighter!Steve One Shot

Taking Care of Steve (Road Head) Blurb 🔥18+ ask

Vampy Steve Blurb ask

Fool in Love Blurb (King of Wishful Thinking inspo) ❤️

Stevie Takes Care of You When You're Sick Blurb ❤️ ask

Joe Keery as Steve Harrington Micro expressions

Steve Harrington Smells Like head cannons

Cozy Cardigan Steve (Joe Keery Dork Mag inspo) ❤️

Ok maybe I'm being overdramatic, but please also consider reading these fics or series I feel like I'd lay down my life for because they have become a visceral part of me and changed the fabric of my being and I think about them all the time. They are all *chefs kiss* and written by amazingly talented people who also have deep Masterlists that also deliver. So wake the fuck up and read em! Again, most (okay fine, all) are 🔥 18+ ...again, because I'm a hoe

Into Open Flames 🔥😩🚨 on AO3

Midnight City 🔥 by @superblysubpar

We'll Call it Love 🔥😩 by @superblysubpar

If Tomorrow Never Comes 🔥😩🚨 by @sweetsweetjellybean

All I Really Want is You ❤️🔥 by @loveshotzz

Whatta Man (Steve's Night) 🔥 by @loveshotzz

New Years Eve (Steve & Eddie)🔥😩 by @loveshotzz

Beyond 🔥 by @abibliophobiaa

We Tried the World 🔥😩 @upsidedownwithsteve

And I Snuck in Through the Garden Gate ❤️🔥 @upsidedownwithsteve

Don't Call Me Baby 🔥😩 by @katyswrites

Aftermath (Steve & Eddie)🔥😩🚨 by @sweetsweetjellybean

Daisy 🔥 by @thyme-in-a-bubble

PSA: Don't steal my shit. Don't repost my shit. Don't steal other peoples shit. Don't use AI. Don't feed my shit into AI. Don't feed other people's shit into AI. Just come here, read about this sweet piece of a man and live on our fantasy island together in lust and in peace.

#its not much but it's mine #palmtreesX3 Masterlist #my masterlist #steve harrington masterlist #steve harrington fics #steve harrington fic recs #fics in progress #wip #my blurbs

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lil-melody-moon · 11 days ago

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give me the best fact you know about keith moon <3

There are actually three I personally love and they are:

he was right about the surf music and The Beach Boys all along

his love to reading - comic books, books, his obsession towards "Treasure Island"

how much he grew up while being in a relationship with Anette

Now I have to choose one out of the three, hmmm...

Alright, I feel like talking about the third point so here we go!

Recently I stumbled upon a lot of photos where they were together and as much as I don't pay attention to personal life of a rockstar I like, Keith is an exception. Seeing me as self-shipper you might think: "she looks at them and she's jealous", but in reality I'm not like that, I'm happy to see that Keith had someone like her. I'm actually happy to see any photo with them because, in comparison to Keith's photos with Kim, Keith's photos with Anette have different vibe.

I'm not saying Keith loved Kim less than Anette, far from that, Keith was fucking obsessed with Kim to a very toxic level, but I think her leaving him and the divorce taught him something and that's why he treated Anette differently. They just seem very happy together in photos, just look:

Additionally, whenever you see an interview with Anette or even read how she talks about Keith, even after all these years she still misses him. She talks about the bad things - how his behaviour could shift from calm to psychotic in a second after he took drugs or drunk a lot, how she begged him to seek help with his alcoholism knowing how difficult it was especially at the times they lived together - but she also talks about his sweet side, the loving side that pictures him as a little boy with a lot of insecurities and in need of mental help - how sweet he could be when he was sober, how he loved her, how he wanted to propose to her or how he could not drink when they were on a trip, far away from all the popularity around Keith.

To quote and not be just someone who says something and don't show a proof of that:

"On June 4, 1978, Keith and Annette left for a month-long holiday on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. Everyone hoped that getting Keith away from the bars and clubs and other temptations of London, now that the nine-month ordeal of Who Are You was finally over, would be good for his health.

It appeared to be. The holiday was idyllic, the couple spending their time scuba diving, fishing, lying on the beach and reading. They befriended a reformed alcoholic who had worked with the Beatles, and Keith seemed impressed by the attractions sobriety could offer. Indeed, just as in Tahiti, he showed that he could take or leave the booze."

Quote from: T. Fletcher, Dear Boy: The life of Keith Moon, Omnibus Press, 1999, p. 505.

Sure, Keith was still out of control, his health was getting worse, his decision making horrible as usual, but in the end it was Anette who he trusted the most, the one who he turned to cry and tell her everything.

With the growing up, as far as it can concern him, I don't mean the cheating, because that was out of control, I meant the factor of treating Anette as a woman. As far as I know there wasn't any physical abuse from Keith's side, not like with Kim. Anette had to suffer the verbal abuse, but that is sadly impossible to avoid with drunkards and drug abusers. He treated her more like his girlfriend and a part of his life than he ever treated Kim (and that woman didn't deserve anything that she had to suffer through while being Keith's wife). So considering how he was while being married to Kim, this is a BIG progress from his side.

Only if the addictions didn't win that could have a very happy ending. I was watching one interview with Anette, it was in a whole documentary about Keith. She said there that she'd like to know what was going on in his head and help him. If this is not how love sounds like even after all these years, then I don't know what is.

#thank you for asking #hope that explains what I meant #because it's kind difficult without simple pointing out and saying #he progressed he treated Anette better <3 #I wanted to have it some ground and I hope I could do that #ask corner #the who #keith moon

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cafenostalgique · 29 days ago

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My ultimate film watchlist (1960s-1970s)

1930s-1940s | 1950s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s

Welcome to part three of my personal ultimate film watchlist! For an explanation, please see part one listed under the 1930s-1940s tab. Otherwise, let's get on with the list!

To preface, this is probably going to be one of the shorter installments in this series, solely because some years release banger after banger, and others end with little excitement in the industry. I'm sure there were reasons for this outside of just the studios. I'm also no well-versed, nor entirely interested in films from these decades, as this is when both soft-core, and full-on pornography became a lot more common. There are some suspicious films in this list that I want to watch primarily for the historical context it provides to the era, however there's no guarantee I'll finish them. Some film discriptions are also very vague during this era, so be sure to look up reviews before watching lesser-known films!

watched | loved| wouldn’t watch again | holiday

1960

Breathless

Eyes Without a Face

House of Usher

La Dolce Vita

L'Avventura

Little Shop of Horrors

Peeping Tom

Pollyanna

Psycho

Spartacus

Swiss Family Robinson

Ten Who Dared

The Apartment

The Time Machine

The Virgin Spring

Toby Tyler

1961

Babes in Toyland

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Greyfriars Bobby

Last Year at Marienbad

Nikki, Wild Dog of the North

One Hundred and One Dalmatians

One, Two, Three

The Absent-Minded Professor

The Innocents

The Parent Trap

West Side Story

1962

Cape Fear

Carnival of Souls

Dr. No

Ivan's Childhood

Lawrence of Arabia

La Jetée

L'Eclisse

Lolita

My Life to Live

The Exterminating Angel

The Manchurian Candidate

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence

The Miracle Worker

To Kill a Mockingbird

1963

Bye Bye Birdie

Charade

Cleopatra

Contempt

From Russia with Love

Son of Flubber

The Birds

The Great Escape

The Sword in the Stone

1964

A Fistful of Dollars

A Hard Day's Night

Bikini Beach

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Goldfinger

Mary Poppins

My Fair Lady

Red Desert

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Woman in the Dunes

1965

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Dr. Zhivago

Help!

Repulsion

The Sound of Music

Thunderball

1966

Blow-Up

Daisies

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Persona

Seconds

1967

Belle De Jeur

Bonnie and Clyde

Magical Myster Tour

Marketa Lazarová

The Crucible

The Graduate

The Jungle Book

Weekend

1968

2001: A Space Odyssey

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Funny Girl

Night of the Living Dead

Planet of the Apes

Rosemary's Baby

The Love Bug

The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band

Yellow Submarine

1969

Army of Shadows

Baby Love

Freedom to Love

Frosty the Snowman

Hello, Dolly!

Journey to the Far Side of the Sun

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Pippi Longstocking

Romeo and Juliet

The Gay Deceivers

The Littlest Angel

1970

Let It Be

Love Story

M*A*S*H

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

The Aristocats

1971

A Clockwork Orange

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

1972

1776

Silent Running

Sisters

The Godfather

1973

American Graffiti

Badlands

Robinhood

Soylent Green

The Exorcist

The Way We Were

The Wicker Man

1974

Earthquake

Herbie Rides Again

The Godfather Part II

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

1975

Escape to Witch Mountain

Jaws

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

1976

All the President's Men

A Star is Born

Carrie

Freaky Friday

Rocky

Taxi Driver

The Omen

1977

A Tale of Two Critters

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo

Saturday Night Fever

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

The Hills Have Eyes

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

The Rescuers

1978

An Unmarried Woman

Grease

Halloween

Halloween with the New Addams Family

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Piranha

Return from Witch Mountain

The Initiation of Sarah

1979

Alien

Mad Max

The Black Hole

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siriusly-rem-writes · 10 months ago

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Where Will We End Up? (Headcanons/Context)

In honor of the resurfacing of JATP S2 rumors, here's some context set in the WWWEU? Universe.

Warnings: mentions of absent fathers, relationships with parents, implied hostile home environment, use of Y/N, Alex is Catholic, implied homophobia, female reader (Let me know if I missed something!)

Luke Patterson

Born November 25, 1977 (13 at the start of the story)

The oldest of the group

Born and raised in Canada

Moved to LA when he was 12 for his 8th-grade year

Only child

Lives with both his parents

Has a good relationship with both but struggles to communicate with his mom more

His dad plays guitar and taught him how to play

Has ADHD

Has a slight accent

And a stutter

Started cutting the sleeves of his shirts because too much fabric bothered him

Was overstimulated on the first day of school

He bumped into Alex in the cafeteria causing both of their trays to fall down

It was his last straw and he exploded

“Hey! Watch where you’re going!”

Y/N put him in his place after he yelled at Alex

He looked for them a few days later to apologize

“I uh, brought cookies?”

He brings cookies every time he messes up

Doesn’t have physical boundaries with his friends

It took getting smacked on the forehead by Bobby many, many times for him to understand not to hug him unprompted

Emily loves hosting

The group used to sleep over at Luke’s a lot

The more serious Luke got about music, the more arguments he had with his mom

It got so bad he eventually ran away from home

He actually wasn’t allowed in Alex’s room alone anymore after they got caught kissing

Every time he went over to Alex's the air was tense

He stopped showing up the way he used to, instead opting to sneak in

He picked up a job as a waiter at a local diner

The group loves to go in just to terrorize him

Firmly believes that you choose your family and he chose his

Isn’t bad at school, he just can’t focus on it for the life of him

Gets detention a lot because he gets caught not paying attention

The reason they have a zero-tolerance after 3 tardies rule

He takes boxing lessons with Jose Camacho to release his pent-up energy

Forgets he knows how to fight

Reggie Peters

Born May 06, 1978 (12 at the start of the story)

Third oldest of the group

Born and raised in LA

Lives by the beach

Likes to sneak out and listen to the waves

Can surf

Lives with both his parents

But he doesn’t have a good relationship with either

He doesn’t hate them nor have they directed anything at him, he just wishes they’d listen and spend more time with him

Only child

But he babysits Diego Miller, the little boy next door who he decided was his little brother

He’s not as dense as he makes himself out to be

He just doesn’t like to think about things too much because it stirs his feelings

Really good at Math and Science

He likes that it's logical thinking, not emotional

Doesn’t like English because it requires him to tap into emotions and he really doesn’t want to

He doesn’t like History either because it leaves him bothered by the shitty and unfair past

Has selective mutism

It kicked in badly during one of his parents' fights

The longest he’s gone mute was 2 months

It kicks in every now and then but not for as long and not around everyone

He learned ASL because of it

Sometimes he uses it outside of an episode just because it’s easier

Everyone else tries to pick it up, levels of proficiency vary

He found “Wright’s Domain” a comic book shop one day after he had walked out of his house

He spends most of his Summers there

He sits in the same bean bag

The more time he spent there, the more he found himself doing random things

He’d reorganize comics, reposition figurines and when someone asked him where they could find a specific section he pointed them to it

The couple that owns the store started to notice him

They left snacks by his bean bag chair with a note thanking him for fixing up

He wrote back a thank you with a doodle of himself holding two thumbs up and an arrow pointing out his name was Reggie

The snacks waited for him every visit

His voice did come back, at the shop

He spoke to the owners, Donna and Michael, quite often, they love hearing about his day

He eventually got a job there

Ended up bringing everyone one day

He was a little nervous because the shop was his safe space but so was the group

The owners loved the group too

Donna and Michael live in THE house

Alex Mercer

Born August 23, 1978 (12 at the start of the story)

Second to last youngest

Lives with both his parents

The eldest

He has a younger sister named Sophia

Had a good relationship with both his parents up until he came out

Always watches out for his sister

He plays tea party and dresses up with her

His dad made a comment about it and Alex stopped doing it so frequently

Grew up Catholic

He never really thought much of it until he noticed he looked at boys a lot for being a boy himself

He’s not the biggest fan of it anymore

Was already an anxious kid but as he got older; his religious background, his dad's expectations, and being more aware of the world's problems made his anxiety skyrocket

He fidgets by tapping his fingers on a surface or hitting his thighs with his hands

His parents got him a drum set to help ease it

He met Y/N when they were 7

He defended her against a bully

He got detention

She walked home with him that day and they realized they lived 3 streets down from each other

Really wants to make his dad proud

His dad has a lot of traditional views of men which contradict with Alex 95% of the time

His first crush was on Ryan, a boy he went to church with, but he didn’t know it yet

His stomach dropped when he saw Ryan and another girl share a quick kiss at the park

Developed a crush on Luke

His first kiss and boyfriend was Luke

His dad opened the door to Alex’s room and caught them kissing

His dad stood there, closed the door and walked away

His dad didn’t speak to him at all through dinner

The next day, his dad told him he’d take him to church to repent

Alex said no and came out when he was 15

They got into an argument

His dad didn’t kick him out (to save his image) but told him that until he repented, he wasn’t his son

He was the first to meet Reggie

They’re in the same Math class and the teacher asked Reggie to tutor him

They met up after school twice a week

Alex wasn’t looking for a friend but Reggie being the social butterfly he is, didn’t care

The more times they saw each other, the more Alex got used to him and his antics

He actually understood Math the way Reggie would teach him

One day Luke didn’t want to go home because he had fought with his mom and Y/N was busy, Alex found Reggie to tell him he had to stick to Luke

Reggie told him Luke was welcome to join their session

Luke sat across from them and wrote in his journal but was still fidgety

Reggie cut the tutoring session short and invited them out for ice cream

Alex questioned his life choices as Luke and Reggie’s loud personalities mixed

He initiated his and Luke’s first kiss

And then immediately panicked before Luke laughed and pulled him back in

He was the one who broke up with Luke

There was an awkward air for like 2 minutes before they talked about everything and went back to being best friends

Bobby Shaw

Born March 16, 1978 (13 at the start of the story)

The second oldest of the group

Never knew his dad

Lives with his mom and grandma

Has a good relationship with both

Only child (not really but we'll get into that later)

Keeps to himself mostly

Skates

He paints, though he doesn’t like people looking at his art

Took an art class during his freshman year

He never did anything in class

He’d do it at home and sneak in the assignment the next day, nameless

His art teacher caught him one time and told him he’d leave the art room open for him to do his assignments so as long as he starts signing his name

He spends a lot of time in the art room

Close to the art teacher, Mr. Cervantez

He was the first positive male influence in his life

Befriends Y/N first, she takes an art class with him

He’s actually not sure how to handle social interactions

He’s pretty awkward

He helped Luke on their first week of high school

Luke was being picked on and they had taken the beanie off his head

He stopped Luke from launching himself at the other guys

“Come on guys, give it back.”

One of the guys looked at him questioningly

Bobby stood his ground

The guys tossed the beanie back at Luke and Bobby walked off as soon as they left

Luke approached him weeks later and he internally panicked the whole time

Has problems with authority

That guy that will touch something after you said not to

His grandma hates that he does that but he can’t help it

He’s respectful to both his mom and grandma, no one else really

Lacks a filter, has accidentally hurt people’s feelings because of it

Not a big physical touch guy

He has to be very comfortable with you to initiate touch

All talk

Like he can’t fight

He’s gotten by on physical appearance alone

The guys hide behind him all the time and when Y/N needs him, his tall looming presence behind her has people running for the hills

He’s punched one person and one person only

It was Alex’s dad

Y/N Y/L/N

Born September 01, 1978

The youngest of the group

Only child

Lives with her mom

Dad walked out when she was 7

Her mom started drinking, causing the mother-daughter bond to break

Spends the night at Alex’s a lot

The first time, her bed was set up in Sophia’s room

After everyone had gone to sleep she snuck into Alex’s room

The next day, his parents found her sleeping at the edge of his bed with his blanket draped over the edge also to cover Alex who slept on the floor

After it happened 3 more times, they stopped trying to separate the two

She has clothes in the bottom drawer of Alex’s dresser

Alex’s number 1 protector

They made friendship bracelets, purple yarn for her and blue for Alex

Luke and her = sibling energy

Likes to wear other people's clothes

Makes her feel like they’re with her and she’s not alone

Literally carrying their love with her

It started with one of the shirts her dad left behind

She likes Alex’s hoodies, Luke’s beanies and in the Summer she’ll snag one of his sleeveless tees, Reggie’s flannels and in the Winter his leather jacket, Bobby’s t-shirts and vests

The guys knock on her door when they can’t find the item they want to wear because they know she has it

She and Alex remade their friendship bracelets to include Luke (Orange)

She made them remake them later once Bobby (Green) and Reggie (Red) became part of their little group

All 5 of them wear it no matter what

She likes to draw

Was the first to befriend Bobby in art class

She admired him from afar (because look at him) and wondered what he did, given that he always slept in the class

One time while waiting for Alex and Luke to get out of detention, she walked around school and caught Bobby in the art room

His back was to her and he wore headphones as he painted

She loved his piece and wondered why he never did anything in class

Wrote him sticky notes encouraging him to show his work

Eventually, he wrote back saying he’d reveal his work if she revealed who she was

It was a deal and they started talking more afterwards

Luke was upset when he learned she was friends with Bobby

Mostly because he thought Bobby was a dick (a dick he tried to be friends with first but failed)

TEASER

#fanfic writing #julie and the phantoms #jatp fic #bobby shaw #reggie peters #luke patterson #alex mercer #sunset curve 90s #sunset curve x reader #sunset curve #wwweu?#ash writes #bobby shaw x reader #reggie peters x reader #x reader #insert reader #julie and the himbos #sunset curve headcanons #jatp headcanons

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tinybrightthings · 6 months ago

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24 More Classic Films to Give You Vintage Summery Vibes

Some more films to invoke vintage feelings of running through fields, having picnics, enjoying some time at the beach, and more.

*I went for anything pre-1985 for those who were looking for something more on the vintage/retro side. I also tried to pick from a selection of different genres to suit whatever mood you might be in.

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Animated:

It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown (1969)

Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977)

Comedy:

American Graffiti (1973)

California Dreaming (1979)

The Heartbreak Kid (1972)

The Miller's Beautiful Wife/La Bella Mugnaia (1955)

Paris When It Sizzles (1964)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Drama:

Big Wednesday (1978)

Lifeguard (1976)

National Velvet (1944)

Pollyanna (1960)

Summer of '42 (1971)

Summertime (1955)

Horror:

The Funhouse (1981)

Summer of Fear (1978)

Musical:

Blue Hawaii (1961)

Carousel (1956)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

Fun in Acapulco (1963)

Hello Dolly! (1969)

The Music Man (1962)

The Sound of Music (1967)

Summer Love (1958)

#I am so late on this; I'm so sorry #I've just been so busy lately #film recommendations #film recs #classic films #vintage films #The Sound of Music #Elvis #Audrey Hepburn #Julie Andrews #Elizabeth Taylor #summer films #summer movies #Some Like it Hot #Marylin Monroe

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talenlee · 4 months ago

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Story Pile: Elfen Lied

Back in 2006, Kim Manning, the programming director of Adult Swim, said that there was an anime she was an avid fan of, had watched all in one sitting, and wanted to know if they could air it on Adult Swim. Adult Swim, an adult-oriented channel for adult-oriented animation, resolved that under Broadcast Standards and Practices, the series would need to be so extensively edited that it would be rendered unintelligible. According to Kim on a now-missing messageboard, the series ‘would have been cut to shreds.’

That series was Elfen Lied.

If you’ve never watched it, you probably know Elfen Lied as a punchline mentioned by other anime commentators, of a needlessly gory anime series, constructed of the nastiest edgy excesses of early 2000s anime.

It is one of my favourite anime.

Content Warning: Elfen Lied is a horror anime from 2004 that includes themes of gore, child endangerment, public incontinence, childlike minds in mature bodies, a form of incest, cruelty to animals, pet death, parental neglect and child sexual assault. This anime starts — more or less — with a nude woman wearing a metal mask decapitating another woman to use her body as a human shield and it gets more or less worse from there. This is an anime that wants to consider racism and genocide from the perspective of a Japanese author in 2003. I cannot stress enough that this is an anime that has a bunch of nasty stuff in it and that nasty stuff is not being obscured by inference, but rather explicitly focal. This series is a big fucking downer.

Spoiler Warning: I’m going to talk about events that only come to meaning in the whole of Elfen Lied which necessitates spoiling the whole series, and particularly a part of the mystery narrative the story keeps obscured until the last episode.

Alright, plot in summary. First things first, we have Kouta, a boy, returning to a rural part of Japan to live with his cousin as part of his studies or whatever, a pretty common trope from anime at the time, with the abundance of Ronin harem anime inspired by Love Hina. While he and his cousin Yuka are walking the beach, they find an unconscious girl with horns, or cat ears, in the vein of the popular Catgirl Outsider that’s been popular in anime since… jesus, Urusei Yatsura was 1978, anyway. The cute girl, seemingly incapable of meaningful conversation, says only the word ‘Nyu’ and they take her home with them to care for her, whereupon they go through a range of very common ‘mysterious girl from nowhere’ tropes you saw in anime in the time.

Except Nyu is really quite helpless compared to the standard style and instead of things like comically eating soap or whatever, she demonstrates a near inability to do anything, including holding her bladder. They have to teach her how to eat food, they try to teach her about bathing, and clothes, and then Nyu breaks a momento of Kouta’s (since it made him sad and she wanted to stop him from being sad), prompting him to yell at her, and her to run off into the night.

And then the completely unhinged government assassins get involved.

The lede I’m burying and the lead this series is loading, though, is that before all those events are shown we see a government facility where Obviously Nyu was being kept before all this. She was being suspended in a metal cage and kept from contacting anything, in a big metal mask that kept her from seeing anything, and there were rules about never letting anything enter that space, nothing ever to be dropped on the ground. One day, someone dropped something and she proceeded to kill them, then use them as a tool to break out, and in the process got shot in the head with a Barrett 50 cal gun. That is to say (checks notes) a big gun.

They’re doing this because Lucy is a Diclonus, a human variant with uh, psychic powers? She has multiple extra, invisible arms, with hands and all, that are super-powered and super fast, that she can use to wreck shop around her. Bulletproof at range and deadly within two meters, Lucy is an unprecedented and impossible monster who is hard to affect because she can treat even small mundane objects as immensely dangerous. In her escape there are numerous shots of her using pens to kill people, for example.

She survived the shot in the head, but the damage basically gave her Split Personalityism where one part of her was an infant that needed constant babying and one part of her was uh, the walking apocalypse. Kouta and Yuka, at first unaware of her other half, Lucy, try to care for Nyu and rescue her from growing complexity of their lives that grow to incorporate a runaway child, and the various attacks on their home and life that come from housing Nyu.

I’m simplifying.

Through this story, Kouta and Yuka and Lucy and Nyu have various interactions that involve getting frustrated with one another, building up problems, then resolving them and the tension in the series that it’s ramping up to is that this is all while more of these Diclonuses (Diclonii?) come out and we see more of how this facility has been trying to contain this situation. The Diclonus are an existential threat to humanity, since they can contaminate non-Diclonus humans to have Diclonus children. Those children, known as Silpelets, are always girls, and sterile. The only Diclonus capable of diverting non-Diclonus reproduction into making more Diclonus is Lucy, a Diclonus Queen.

What’s more, all these special babies being born with superpowers, aside from the ones that were being killed shortly after birth after confirming they were Diclonus, all grow up really messed up and violent and hostile. Which the doctors assume must be because they have no proof of any Diclonus growing up as anything but a horrible monster person. Based on this, the researchers assume that all Diclonus are fundamentally bad, genetically even, and must be exterminated for the good of humanity, no matter the cost of other human lives.

But what if, eh.

After all we’ve tried isolating and murdering them and they all wind up really bad, what other options do we have?

Anyway, flash back to Lucy’s childhood! And this is where things get fucked up because we get to see that Lucy was a pretty nice little kid who got bullied for having horns. Then she got isolated and put in an orphanage and bullied, and when that wasn’t enough, a child from the orphanage beat and killed her pet dog, which was her tether to trying to be kind. This is the kind of anime where you cheer for when the monster kills a room full of children, by just making sure it’s very clear that these children are committing a very normal kind of cruelty and think they’ll get away with it.

Lucy then runs out into the wilds to live as a wild child where she makes a friend and surprise! It’s Kouta! This is all building up to the big twist of the series where the reveal is the reason why Kouta’s family are dead is because Lucy, as a child, known at the time as Kaede, saw him with his cousin, and immediately lashed out as a girl who kinda sorta liked a boy but also had the powers of a person-sized woodchipper, and turned his parents and little sister into a milkshake, so abruptly, so wholly, that she 404’d Kouta’s memory of the entire traumatising incident. And what were people around him going to say? “Sorry kid, your family were made into a special effect by an angry ghost while a little girl hollered at you about you lying to her about your cousin being a hot girl.”

Oh, the pieces at work here.

I’m told the manga Kouta doesn’t forgive Lucy-Nyu, but anime Kouta does.

Anyway, Kouta remembers this when he watches Lucy kill someone else, and suddenly has a big ole flashback and this is all happening while the initiative sending soldiers to kill them all has popped their own baby dangerous Diclonus (a Silpelet technically) out of storage and wants to use her to kill Lucy. The finale involves whole missiles being launched around as two terrible Diclonii have a war in the name of responding to an emotional need (approval from a father figure, revenge against that abusive father figure, or protecting a love interest), and in the end, pretty much everyone is dead or missing. The initiative kinda fails, with an open ended question of what comes next for them, Nyu is missing, and Kouta, Yuka and Mayu (the little girl from earlier) are living together as uni students.

Then Kouta opens a door and hears Nyu and the series ends.

Alright, that’s a lot, and it might be at this point you’re left wondering: Hey, Talen, this all sounds like it makes the experience of watching this horror anime really shitty. Like this isn’t just material that’s distressing and horrifying within the general play boundaries of horror media, but there’s a bunch of stuff in here that’s genuinely triggering, and one might imagine, unnecessary to the story.

And like, I skipped over a lot of things. Like, I skipped over the way that one of the ‘heroic’ characters of the story, Bando, introduces himself by gleefully punching a defenseless woman in the face. I didn’t talk about Nana at all, as a Diclonus struggling for parental approval while being functionally dumped in a box on a street corner, and the repeated abuses she suffers at the hands of both the Initiative and Lucy. I didn’t even talk about Mayu’s involvement in the story which starts with her on the run from her sexually abusive stepfather, and all of those things are part of the broader complexities of the middle of the story. Mariko was completely absent from my summary. I just gave you the premise and the button, really.

Sometimes when I talk about Anime, I use the phrase ‘Anime Bullshit’ to refer to a general collection of tropes and choices that are common to the Anime genre that I don’t necessarily like but it’s easy to disregard or discard as part of the overall whole. Part of the problem with Elfen Lied as a discussion, in that unlike other anime which are, for example, heavily fanservicey or silly about ages, or an excess of tits, or the way that the anime just has a character who’s a sex pest the story treats as a delightful comic relief, the elements here are not really readily discarded or put under the heading of ‘bullshit.’ It isn’t something you just flip past to get to the ‘real’ story, because like it or not, the horrible and triggering and transgressive elements of Elfen Lied are part of the story. It is a work of horrible events and abusive violence, and it shows that as part of the story, because that’s what the story is about.

The two particular points that I think cross where I think most of my friends’ lines are that the pet abuse sequence, and a direct reference to child sexual assault. The latter is handled reasonably tastefully for what it is: We see silhouettes, it’s made very clear what’s happening, and we see a reaction. It’s presented in bright, contrasting shapes and it’s not presented to titillate. The pet abuse sequence is however treated like another story might treat the tragic death of a person. In this sequence, a bully kicks a dog across the room into a wall, then uses a vase to beat the dog to death off-screen. We don’t get to escape that, though, just as Lucy-Nyu-Kaede — the dog’s caretaker! — is restrained in place.

And then she uses the power she already had and knew she had and kills the bullies, who again, are orphan children.

This is a pretty interesting challenge point in that it’s kind of hard to pitch ‘this series legitimately made me feel good about the murder of orphans’ especially when in hindsight well, yeah, what was in place to stop these orphans bullying other orphans and how do we address this problem? Yes, the orphans were terrible little shits, but what made them bully? What made them feel they were free to bully? What left them with the means and opportunity to kill a dog in a classroom? None of these factors are the orphan’s fault. This is a failure of the world that was something people chose to make, and the orphans are responding to the factors around them reasonably, as is Lucy in that moment.

But god damn.

Okay but why do I love it?

There is a purity and intentionality to what Elfen Lied is doing, even as an anime. The creator, Mamoru Kanbe, who seems well on the way to being a patron saint of challenging manga being impossible to properly convert into anime, bemoaned cutting a character from this manga, and the way that the story needed to be changed to make it ‘work’ in the time and budget necessary. That means that whatever Elfen Lied the anime was going to be, from the start, it was never going to be Elfen Lied, The Manga, The Anime. Thanks to that choice, then, the anime had to be its own thing with its own reasons for things, its own choices that still involved the same or similar story pieces moving in the same way with the same general direction.

There’s also something to be said for the way this anime can do things that you just can’t do with other media forms, not at this price point and not in this form. There are scenes of special effects that can be rendered only because this is an adult animation, a series of drawings that don’t need to worry about safely handling things like guns or stunt actors or even just the sheer unfeasibility of showing some of the spectacle of meat, blood and metal violence it does. This anime gets to look amazing at what it’s doing, even as a modestly budgeted show with a lot of limitations on what they could execute on from the director’s vision.

It’s not hard to draw a connection between my love of Elfen Lied and my love for the Yandere archetype. I mean, one of the pictures in that article is from Elfen Lied. It’s a tiny bit of a misnomer there, though, because in that article I praised the Yandere as a violent, dangerous person who has it under control, and Lucy very much does not have it under control. There’s a voice in her head telling her to kill everyone, which rings in my mind of the challenges that people who hear voices have to deal with when they want to be taken seriously — that it’s something people who struggle with have to struggle with alone because the mere presence of the problem is treated as a sign of its inevitable victory over one’s own control. I really like Lucy, and I understand that feeling of containing violence at all costs while still recognising that there is an unfairness in the world that you have an obligation to act on.

Once upon a time I imagined part of what Elfen Lied was ‘doing’ was a deliberate attack on what anime at the time was doing. To me, it represented a sort of deliberate, antagonistic attack against anime tropes of the 00s that were either stale or deployed thoughtlessly. I don’t know how true that is now, and I don’t imagine it’s anything I could ever actually prove. That’s not even important any more; the fact that I saw it as a sort of attack on Love Hina and similar anime isn’t any less true now that I recognise that it doesn’t have to be intentional.

This series is by all accounts, a commercial failure. It only screened on ‘Satellite’ in Japan, which I understand to be a less financially rewarding avenue than broadcast TV. Its manga never got an English translation, until 2019, 15 years after the series was well out of the public mind. It is a bloody, gnarly little gem of its time and it doesn’t even have the luxury for a lot of transgressive, violent, gory, sexualised media of its time for being what people might call ‘a good time.’ It is a tortured story about suffering and part of its endurance, I fear, is just in how unpleasant it is in all of its parts.

Man, I even went the whole thing without really underscoring the way that the whole Kouta/Yuka incest thing is just positively boring in the greater context of the story. I mean, c’mon, the Queen of England was fucking her cousin a few short slutty years ago, it’s hardly a scandal if these fake adults do it.

Anyway, the OP is amazing, the ED is a banger, and it’s possible that media can do things that are bad and transgressive and shocking while still being excellent works that connect to us very deeply. Maybe it’s okay to look at a gory murder story about bad things and not try and find some way to reinvent Catholocism to justify enjoying it. It’s possible that media can feature terrible things and even consider whether or not they’re good and if they feel good, and how they can feel good even if you can maintain your sense of reality outside the story and recognise that hey, maybe I can handle the idea of media not 1:1 representing what I think should be normal!

This is an anime about committing genocide. Successfully! By the end of the story, the Diclonus are definitionally a fundamental danger to humanity, as a byproduct of all the ways that humans dealt with that first encounter. The Diclonus, very seriously, are an endangered species that has every reason to treat humanity as an existential threat, which means, from humanity’s perspective, that’s what the Diclonus are now. A self-made self-justified genocide and the genesis for all of it is that these Diclonus were bullied in a way that is, in the setting, completely normal, completely natural, and nobody even wants to try and address it. In the world of Elfen Lied, the society is set up to make monsters out of people who are born with power, because they are different, and there is no imagined way to guide that power away from existential violence.

It is a world where it is easier to genocide a human species than it is to emotionally care for your daughter.

Check it out on PRESS.exe to see it with images and links!

#Media #Story Pile

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helenadurazzo · 1 month ago

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Jonthia Masterlist

Jonthia is a series of stories that initially started as an AU but have developed to be much more between me and @melodymidway asking the question of how things would change if Jonathan Midway and Cynthia Hearst got together. This started on amino and has developed over the years but now we are planning on moving it over to tumblr. While this story initially started focusing on Hogwarts Mystery characters, stories range from the Hogwarts Legacy and Magic Awakened generations

This will take some time with different posts needing edits due to recent changes. However everything that is listed here and does not have a link is either on the Hogwarts Mystery amino still or is in either mine or Melody’s drafts.

Hogwarts Legacy MC -> Phineas Hearst (1880 - 1953)

Hogwarts Mystery MC -> Melody Midway (1973 - ????)

Magic Awakened MC -> Genna Raleigh (1996 - ????)

Aesthetics

HPHL Parents

Iola (née Black) Hitchens

HPHL Aesthetics

HPHL Kids Aesthetics

HPHM Parents

Olivia (née Hearst) Tremblay

Garrett Tremblay

Cynthia (née Hearst) Midway

Jonathan Midway

Joseph Hearst

Loretta (née Selwyn) Hearst

Elijah Hearst

Fauna Osborn

Moira (née Scrimgeour) Weatherford/Midway

Suzanne (née Whitman) Livingstone

Alessandro Durazzo

Donella (née Durazzo) Silverstri

Gregorio Durazzo

Vasco Durazzo

Ottavio Durazzo

Vittorio Durazzo

HPHM

Melody Midway

Jackie Midway

Canon Characters

Orion Amari

Rowan Khanna

Skye Parkin

Erika Rath

Ismelda Murk

Years

Phineas’ Year

Jacob’s Year

Jackie and Renée’s Year

Melody’s Year

Genna’s Year

Info Posts

Mariam x Zacharias

Jonathan x Cynthia

Garrett x Olivia

Alessandro x Liza

Facundo x Fauna

Jonathan’s Friends

Jacob Durazzo

Rex and Ru

Georgiana x Gladys

The Livingstone Family

The Scandal

Genna x Elma

Lady Hephaestina’s Curse

Hazel Wotton

Hearst Succession

The Hitchens Family

Stories

1890s

The Wedding That Never Was (July 1895)

An Eventful Hogwarts Arrival (Sept 1895)

Peculiarities in Hogsmeade (Sept 1895)

Professor Onai’s Prophecy (Oct 1895)

A Fellow Alchemist (Oct 1895)

Slytherin’s Scriptorium (Jan 1896)

The Final Repository (May 1896)

Silenus Hearst’s Announcement (Mar 1898)

1900s

N/A

1910s

An Extended Stay (Aug 1917)

Stating the Obvious to the Oblivious (Oct 1917)

1920s

Reaching Out (Mar 1925)

1930s

From the Darkest Corners of My Soul (Oct 1931)

Unconditional Love (Jan 1932)

1940s

Upholding Traditions (Jan 1943)

The Witch and the Soldier (July - Aug 1943)

Soothing Words (Jan 1945)

1950s

Consequences of Confrontation (Sept 1957)

Once Upon A Time (Oct 1957)

Betrothal Negotiations (Nov 1959)

1960s

Love Amongst the Bookworms (Mar 1960)

The Eventful Evening (Apr 1960)

Meeting Again (June 1960)

Happiness and Unrest (Aug 1961)

At The Edge of the Forest (Jan 1962)

Light At The End of the Tunnel (June 1962)

The Midsummer Ball (June 1962)

Trials and Tribulations (Aug 1962)

The Turning Point (Dec 1962)

The Holidays With the Tremblays (Dec 1962)

Stings of Jealousy (June 1963)

Long Awaited Moments (Aug 1963)

The First Page of a Married Life (Nov 1965)

Celebration (July 1966)

1970s

Playground Bully (Mar 1975)

Clouds Over The Manor (June 1977)

A New Midway (Nov 1977)

Two Sides of the Same Coin (Apr 1978/Aug 1984)

Disturbing Dragons (June 1979)

Murky Waters (June 1979)

1980s

Turbulent Times (May 1981 / July 1981)

Beach Day (July 1981)

Revelations of Love (Mar 1988)

The Howler (June 1988)

Fire with Fire (July 1988)

Dwindling Flames (July 1988)

Smoldering Ashes (July 1988)

Just a Little Encouragement (Mar 1989)

Lottie Midway and the Cursed Vaults (Dec 1986/June 1988/Mar 1989)

The Love Potion (Apr 1989)

Curse Breaking Apprenticeship (Apr 1989)

In The Depths of Greenhouses (July 1989)

Discovery and Disagreement (Oct 1989)

Sisterly Advisement (Oct 1989)

Reconciliation (Nov 1989)

1990s

The Last Lesson (Jan 1990)

The Fateful Night (Jan 1990)

Hardships to Endure (Jan 1990)

The Curse of Cypress (Sept 1986/Jan 1990)

A Fresh Start (Jan-Feb 1990)

Foggy Future (Jan 1990)

A Knife in the Back (Jan 1990)

An Old Friend (Feb 1990)

A Little Birdie Told Me (Feb 1990)

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (Mar 1990)

New Day, New Fight (Mar 1990)

Mind Games (Mar 1990)

The Night Before The Battle (Apr 1990)

Comfort Among the Owls (May 1990)

Dwindling Hope (May 1990)

Deserved Reunions (July 1990)

Dried Tears (July 1990)

The Wonders of Family Dinners (Aug 1990)

The Days of Respite (Aug 1990)

Twin Trouble (Mar 1991)

The Backstage of Quidditch (May 1991)

Succession (June 1991)

Suspicious Intentions (May 1992)

The Lost That Went Unmourned (Dec 1992)

Acceptance and Trust (Aug 1994)

Accidental Apparation (Mar 1996)

The Herbologist and the Beater (Dec 1996)

2000s

Found Family (Sept 2003)

The Orphaned Scurlock (Dec 2003)

A Beater’s Bat (Nov 2004)

The Surprises of Fate (May 2007)

Entering the Magic (Sept 2008)

2010s

Strengthened Bonds (Nov 2010)

A Holiday Surprise (Dec 2011)

Quaint Cafe (Nov 2012)

The Lords of Wotton Manor (Aug 2013)

Grandmother’s Necklace (Nov 2015)

Farewells and Welcome Backs (Aug 2018/Dec 2018)

#hogwarts legacy #hphl #hogwarts mystery #hphm #magic awakened #hpma #Jonthia #Phineas Hearst #Melody Midway #Genna Raleigh #Marie McKay #Georgiana Wotton #Esther Hitchens #Helena Tremblay #Miles Tremblay #Rex Tremblay-Rath #Elma Truell

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indie-queer-movie-tournament · 1 year ago

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Entries List (which I will keep updated)

Anything in bold has propaganda

Alex Strangelove (2018)

Alice Junior (Alice Júnior) (2019)

A Moment in the Reeds (Tämä hetki kaislikossa) (2017)

A Single Man (2009)

And Then We Danced (და ჩვენ ვიცეკვეთ) (2019)

Beach Rats (2017)

Big Eden (2000)

BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017)

Blue is the Warmest Colour (La Vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2) (2013)

Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

Booksmart (2019)

Bottoms (2023)

Bound (1996)

Boys (Jongens) (2014)

Boys Don’t Cry (1999)

Breakfast with Scot (2007)

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)

Camp (2003)

Can You Ever Forgive Me (2018)

Carol (2015)

Call Me By Your Name (2017)

Center of My World (Die Mitte der Welt) (2016)

Chasing Amy (1997)

Closet Monster (2015)

Cloudburst (2011)

Colette (2018)

Crash (1996)

Crush (2022)

Dating Amber (2020)

D.E.B.S. (2004)

Desert Hearts (1984)

Disobedience (2017)

Duck Butter (2018)

Edge of Seventeen (1998)

Elephant (Słoń) (2022)

Esteros (2016)

Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

Fire Island (2022)

Freak Show (2017)

Funeral Parade of Roses (薔薇の葬列) (1969)

Get Real (1998)

God’s Own Country (2017)

Grandma (2015)

Handsome Devil (2016)

Happiest Season (2020)

Happy Together (春光乍洩) (1997)

Hearts Beat Loud (2018)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

I Can't Think Straight (2008)

I Dream in Another Language (Sueño en otro idioma) (2017)

I Killed My Mother (2009)

I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)

In & Out (1997)

Jenny's Wedding (2015)

Je Tu Il Elle (1974)

Kajillionaire (2020)

Kill Your Darlings (2013)

Kinky Boots (2005)

Latter Days (2003)

Longtime Companion (1989)

Mario (2018)

Maurice (1987)

Milk (2008)

Moonlight (2016)

Mosquita Y Mari (2012)

Mulholland Drive (2001)

My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

Mysterious Skin (2004)

Nina's Heavenly Delights (2006)

North Sea Texas (Noordzee, Texas) (2011)

Operation Hyacinth (Hiacynt) (2021)

Pariah (2011)

Patrik Age 1.5 (Patrik 1,5) (2008)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) (2019)

Princess Cyd (2017)

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)

Rafiki (2018)

Rūrangi (2020)

Saving Face (2005)

Selah and the Spades (2019)

Shiva Baby (2020)

Sorry Angel (Plaire, Aimer et Courir Vite) (2018)

Straight Up (2019)

Swan Song (2021)

Tangerine (2015)

Tár (2022)

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Die Bitteren Tränen Der Petra Von Kant) (1972)

The Bubble (הבועה) (2006)

The Conformist (Il conformista) (1970)

The Feels (2017)

The Half of It (2020)

The Handmaiden (아가씨) (2016)

The Kids Are All Right (2010)

The Lost Boys (Le Paradis) (2023)

The Meetings of Anna (Les Rendez-vous d'Anna) (1978)

The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)

The Power of the Dog (2021)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

The Strong Ones (Los fuertes) (2019)

The Watermelon Woman (1996)

The Way He Looks (Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho) (2014)

The 10 Year Plan (2014)

Tomboy (2011)

Totally Fucked Up (1993)

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)

Transamerica (2005)

Water Lillies (Naissance des Pieuvres) (2007)

Yossi & Jagger (יוסי וג'אגר) (2002)

You, Me and Him (2017)

#i'll add my own propaganda to the movies i like but i haven't written it yet #in the meantime please send stuff in!#i also have seen several of these way too long ago to remember anything much to say about them even if i did like them

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therecordchanger62279 · 7 months ago

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MY 200 FAVORITE ALBUMS OF ALL-TIME

(Revised 2024 Edition)

To my way of thinking, a list of favorite albums changes over time. At any moment, there might be as many as 300 or 400 albums that are good enough to make a favorites list of 200. Where and how to cut is the question. I do a new list whenever the old one feels outdated to me. The criteria I use is pretty basic. I choose my favorite records to listen to, and those that get played more often are ranked higher. But my listening habits change from time to time, so when an album I love doesn't get played as often because I'm getting tired of it, it falls to a lower spot on the list, or disappears altogether. If I haven't played it in awhile, and it sound fresh to me, it goes back into regular rotation, and subsequently climbs higher on the list. I go through periods when I listen to one genre more than another, and that can also affect where the album lands on the list. Playability is the most important factor. That's why an album that has one great side that gets played all the time while the other side is ignored, won't rank as high as one that I enjoy playing from start to finish. And critics lists are things I often read, but completely ignore when it comes to doing my own. My list reflects my tastes, and my biases only.

This is my first revision since March of 2023. There are 28 new additions to the list this time marked with an asterisk. And, in case you're wondering, there were five artists that placed at least five albums on the list. They were The Rolling Stones (13), The Beatles (8), and The Beach Boys, Steely Dan, and Tom Petty each had five (though four of Petty's were with The Heartbreakers, and the fifth was a solo album). Here's my list, and I hope it encourages you to explore something you might not have heard, or to pull something out you may not have played in awhile.

1. All Things Must Pass – George Harrison (1970)

2. Revolver (UK) – The Beatles (1966)

3. The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle – Bruce Springsteen (1973)

4. Blood on the Tracks – Bob Dylan (1975)

5. Sticky Fingers – The Rolling Stones (1971)

6. Close to the Edge – Yes (1972)

7. The Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd (1973)

8. L.A. Woman – The Doors (1971)

9. Surrealistic Pillow – Jefferson Airplane (1967)

10. The Who by Numbers – The Who (1975)

11. Help (UK) – The Beatles (1965)

12. A1A – Jimmy Buffet (1974)

13. Bitches Brew – Miles Davis (1970)

14. Kind of Blue – Miles Davis (1959)

15. Pet Sounds – The Beach Boys (1966)

16. A Tribute to Jack Johnson – Miles Davis (1971)

17. Pat Metheny Group (1978)

18. A Hard Day’s Night (UK) – The Beatles (1964)

19. Aftermath (US) – The Rolling Stones (1966)

20. The Division Bell – Pink Floyd (1994)

21. Heavy Weather – Weather Report (1977)

22. Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel (1970)

23. Sweet Baby James – James Taylor (1970)

24. Surf’s Up – The Beach Boys (1971)

25. Exile on Main St. – The Rolling Stones (1972)

26. At Fillmore East – The Allman Brothers Band (1971)

27. Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen (1975)

28. The Hissing of Summer Lawns – Joni Mitchell (1975)

29. The Doors (1967)

30. Highway 61 Revisited – Bob Dylan (1965)

31. Rust Never Sleeps – Neil Young & Crazy Horse (1979)

32. Let It Bleed – The Rolling Stones (1969)

33. Astral Weeks – Van Morrison (1969)

34. (Untitled) (4th) – Led Zeppelin (1971)

35. Teaser & the Firecat – Cat Stevens (1971)

36. The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)

37. On the Road to Freedom – Alvin Lee & Mylon LeFevre (1973)

38. Tea for the Tillerman – Cat Stevens (1970)

39. The Complete Africa Brass Sessions – John Coltrane (1961)

40. Holland – The Beach Boys (1973)

41. Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs – Derek & the Dominos (1970)

42. Heartbreaker – Free (1972)

43. Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, Jones, Ltd. – The Monkees (1967)

44. Beggar’s Banquet – The Rolling Stones (1968)

45. III – Led Zeppelin (1970)

46. Seventh Sojourn – Moody Blues (1972)

47. Forever Changes – Love (1967)

48. My Favorite Things – John Coltrane (1961)

49. Meet The Beatles – The Beatles (1964)

50. Can’t Buy a Thrill – Steely Dan (1972)

51. Beautiful Vision – Van Morrison (1982)

52. Days of Future Passed – Moody Blues (1967)

53. Setting Sons (US) – The Jam (1979)

54. The Captain & Me – Doobie Brothers (1973)

55. The Dream of the Blue Turtles – Sting (1985)

56. Willy & the Poor Boys – Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969)

57. The Way It Is – Bruce Hornsby & The Range (1986)

58. One Fair Summer Evening – Nanci Griffith (1988)

59. The Beatles Second Album -The Beatles (1964)

60. Who’s Next – The Who (1971)

61. Idlewild South – The Allman Brothers Band (1970)

62. Beatles ’65 – The Beatles (1964)

63. Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes featuring Veronica - The Ronettes (1964)

64. Chuck Berry is On Top – Chuck Berry (1959)

65. First Circle – Pat Metheny Group (1984)

66. The Allman Brothers Band (1969)

67. Young Americans – David Bowie (1975)

68. The End of the Day – The Reivers (1989)*

69. Visions of the Emerald Beyond – Mahavishnu Orchestra (1975)

70. Will O’ The Wisp – Leon Russell (1975)

71. 461 Ocean Boulevard – Eric Clapton (1974)

72. Band on the Run – Paul McCartney & Wings (1973)

73. It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll – The Rolling Stones (1974)

74. Manassas – Stephen Stills & Manassas (1972)

75. Pretzel Logic – Steely Dan (1974)

76. Peter Gabriel (3rd/Melt) (1980)

77. Made in Japan – Deep Purple (1973)

78. Where Have I Known You Before – Return to Forever (1974)

79. Green River – Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969)

80. Making Movies – Dire Straits (1980)

81. Rock ‘N’ Roll Animal – Lou Reed (1974)

82. Selling England by the Pound – Genesis (1973)

83. Heroes – David Bowie (1977)

84. Afro Blue Impressions – John Coltrane (1963)

85. Some Girls – The Rolling Stones (1978)

86. Diesel & Dust – Midnight Oil (1987)

87. Mysterious Traveler – Weather Report (1974)

88. Blues from Big Bill’s Copacabana – Various Artists (1968)

89. Modern Times – Jefferson Starship (1981)

90. Blow Your Cool – Hoodoo Gurus (1987)

91. Ram – Paul & Linda McCartney (1971)

92. Caravanserai – Santana (1972)

93. Odessey & Oracle – The Zombies (1968)

94. Black Market – Weather Report (1976)

95. Heart Like a Wheel – Linda Ronstadt (1974)

96. 12X5 – The Rolling Stones (1964)

97. Santana (1969)

98. In Concert: Live at Philharmonic Hall – Miles Davis (1973)

99. Bridge of Sighs – Robin Trower (1974)

100. Pirates – Rickie Lee Jones (1981)

101. Benefit – Jethro Tull (1970)

102. Madman Across the Water – Elton John (1971)

103. Countdown to Ecstasy – Steely Dan (1973)

104. McCartney – Paul McCartney (1970)

105. Yesterday’s Wine – Willie Nelson (1971)

106. Howlin’ Wind – Graham Parker & The Rumour (1976)

107. Voice of America – Little Steven (1984)

108. Out of Our Heads (US) – The Rolling Stones (1965)

109. Blow by Blow – Jeff Beck (1975)

110. Robbie Robertson (1987)

111. Gaucho – Steely Dan (1980)

112. Desire – Bob Dylan (1976)

113. Vol. 4 – Black Sabbath (1972)

114. Abbey Road – The Beatles (1969)

115. Aja – Steely Dan (1977)

116. Yessongs – Yes (1973)

117. Rickie Lee Jones (1979)

118. Bare Trees – Fleetwood Mac (1972)

119. Something/ Anything? – Todd Rundgren (1972)

120. After the Gold Rush – Neil Young (1970)

121. Physical Graffiti – Led Zeppelin (1975)

122. Rock ‘N’ Roll – John Lennon (1975)

123. Abraxas – Santana (1970)

124. Hard Promises – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (1981)

125. A New World Record – Electric Light Orchestra (1976)

126. Ghost in the Machine – The Police (1981)

127. The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys – Traffic (1971)

128. Dreaming My Dreams – Waylon Jennings (1975)

129. We’re an American Band – Grand Funk Railroad (1973)

130. Chicago Transit Authority – Chicago (1969)

131. What’s Goin’ On – Marvin Gaye (1971)

132. Don’t Cry Now – Linda Ronstadt (1973)

133. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Elton John (1973)

134. Jaco – Jaco Pastorius (1976)

135. Peter Frampton (1975)

136. Prisoner in Disguise – Linda Ronstadt (1975)

137. El Mocambo 1977 – The Rolling Stones (2022)

138. Document – R.E.M. (1987)

139. Harbor – America (1977)*

140. Love’s Melodies – The Searchers (1981)*

141. Doll Revolution – Bangles (2003)*

142. Learning to Crawl – Pretenders (1984)

143. Black & Blue – The Rolling Stones (1976)

144. The Yardbirds (Roger the Engineer) (1966)*

145. Lifes Rich Pageant – R.E.M. (1986)*

146. America (1971)*

147. Wildflowers – Tom Petty (1994)*

148. Aladdin Sane – David Bowie (1973)

149. Dusty in Memphis – Dusty Springfield (1969)

150. Everything – Bangles (1988)*

151. That’s Why God Made the Radio – The Beach Boys (2012)

152. Stephen Stills (1970)*

153. On the Border – Eagles (1974)

154. Baron Von Tollbooth & The Chrome Nun – Kantner, Slick & Freiberg (1973)

155. The Pretender – Jackson Browne (1976)

156. Under the Big Black Sun – X (1982)*

157. Stand Up – Jethro Tull (1969)

158. Let Me Up (I’ve Had Enough) – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (1987)*

159. London Calling – The Clash (1979)*

160. Live at The Star Club – The Beatles (1977)

161. The Joshua Tree – U2 (1987)

162. Eat to The Beat – Blondie (1979)*

163. One of These Nights – Eagles (1975)*

164. Scarecrow – John Mellencamp (1985)*

165. Live – Bob Marley & The Wailers (1975)

166. Tattoo – Rory Gallagher (1973)

167. Orange Crate Art – Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks (1995)

168. Damn the Torpedoes – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (1979)*

169. Hard Again – Muddy Waters (1977)

170. Valley Hi – Ian Matthews (1973)

171. In the Court of the Crimson King – King Crimson (1969)

172. One Live Badger – Badger (1972)

173. Automatic for the People – R.E.M. (1991)*

174. Trilogy – Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1972)

175. Sunflower – The Beach Boys (1970)

176. 80/81 – Pat Metheny (1980)

177. Moving Pictures – Rush (1981)

178. Blue and Lonesome – The Rolling Stones (2016)

179. You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw – Spooky Tooth (1972)

180. Quadrophenia – The Who (1973)

181. Go for Your Guns – Isley Brothers (1977)

182. Hearts of Stone – Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes (1978)

183. Get Happy! – Elvis Costello & The Attractions (1980)*

184. Long After Dark – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (1982)*

185. Master of Reality – Black Sabbath (1971)

186. Led Zeppelin (1969)

187. Sign O’ The Times – Prince (1987)

188. Ambient 1: Music for Airports – Brian Eno (1978)

189. Liars – Todd Rundgren (2004)*

190. Electric Ladyland – Jimi Hendrix Experience (1968)

191. Blonde on Blonde – Bob Dylan (1966)

192. Tattoo You – The Rolling Stones (1981)*

193. My Generation – The Who (1965)*

194. Going For The One – Yes (1977)*

195. The Tortured Poets Society: The Anthology – Taylor Swift (2024)*

196. Bloodletting – Concrete Blonde (1990)*

197. Fear of Music – Talking Heads (1979)*

198. English Settlement – XTC (1982)*

199. Brain Salad Surgery – Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1973)

200. Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols – Sex Pistols (1977)

#Top 200 Album List

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