#meerkathideout

[leopardom]

Which jo member do you think has the best sense of style? On stage, off stage or both?

the logical answer would be Kris since he’s The Model of the band, but off stage he has committed some serious fashion crimes i don’t even wanna think about 🥲

for me it’s between Jan and Jure. on stage they always slay, off stage they keep it casual but thankfully not in the way Bojan balkan dad Cvjetićanin does, as far as i see they don’t wear brown colours as much as Nace does (i’m sorry but i don’t like Nace’s brown jacket mostly because i don’t like brown as a colour 😭)

so yeah i can’t pick between them so i’m picking both of them

[sepetajmikolikomehoces]

Okay, I have finally recuperated after yesterday's getting home-snafu. In the process of trying to get to the train station, I ended up missing my train and the only available options was either paying an assload for an evening train ticket or a slightly smaller assload for an even later evening train ticket.

Smaller assload it was.

Anyway.

Good GOD what a weekend. Putting it under the cut.

I have been so hyped about seeing Kuumaa since we got tickets in February and fucking hell if just the prospect of seeing them hasn't carried me through this year amidst finalizing my divorce and dealing with the aftermath of that on top of work and school.

The friend group I have been so lucky to be welcomed into realized that four of us would be going to Kuumaa, and when we found out Kä would perform at Tullikamari the day after we all realized we could go and bought tickets, deciding along the way to make a pikkujoulut-weekend of it complete with secret santa and everything.

Kuumaa are just... insane live. I had some expectations, but I was not ready for Johannes kicking us off with a very stripped down version of "Tarkotin sua". Everything after that was just highlight after highlight. Some of the songs from their earliest album were slightly unfamiliar to me, but still fucking slapped. Bawled my eyes out during "Luotan tulevaan" as predicted, had chills down my spine for all of "Tuiki tuiki" and felt like my soul was soaring as 10 000 of us sang along to "Ylivoimainen". Insane, and it took me a while to land from that experience and fall asleep later.

Saturday was Kä day with my beloved potatoes @frikatilhi @harmaanoita @punanenmarli @meerkathideout and @maladroitoracle. Gifts were exchanged, Marli also got an additional late birthday/early Christmas gift in the form of a Fisherman's rib cardigan, and my lovely meerkat got their very own Jure sweater.

This was probably the absolute chillest pregigging ever, and I want to do this every time. We piled six people into a car meant for five and went and had pasta dinner at a place near Tullikamari, then showed up just as doors had opened. Still got an excellent view, and holy shit, THE GIG.

So many people have already talked about how incredible the gig was and I can only echo the sentiment. "Ready to go" is the fucking BEST opening song, Kä was so happy all throughout the gig, the yapping was A+ and I fucking died when we got "Rock Rock" AND "Menestynyt yksilö" on the setlist. Getting "Urheilujätkä" after some chanting was just the cherry on top, and of course Jesse was missed, but if nothing else, this is proof of how beloved he is.

Had the most fucking Fenno-Swedish encounter post-gig. Guy comes up to me and meerkat and this happens:

Guy: Hey, are you from [region X]?

Me: ....yeah?

Guy: I FUCKING KNEW IT, I COULD TELL. Where from, north or south?

Me: Well, technically neither???

Guy: No, no, you're either from the north or the south!

Meerkat: How about "secret third option"?

Guy: The fuck does that mean?

Meerkat: [explains]

Me: Yeah, so I am from [place]. Hence "secret third option".

Guy: OH FUCKING HELL.

He then turns around and yells for his friend. Who is also from the same place as me (though apparently doesn’t live there anymore). We spent five minutes just making sure we weren’t related. We weren't. But still. Can't go fucking anywhere without finding some sort of connection to home.

Six people, a five seat car repeated on the way home, and we first spotted the Kä bus coming towards us, screamed a little, then had to immediately freeze because we passed a police car. Then realized five seconds later the Kä bus was a little ways behind us. Exit pursued by the Kä bus.

Can't thank my lovely potatoes enough for this weekend, and I hope we can do this again (not necessarily with back to back gigs involved) very, very soon.

[cruisingforcruiserweights]

pseudo-tagged by @cutebodyhorror 😈

shuffle your on-repeat-playlist and let your followers pick their favorite from the first 10!

tagging: @plutoceanic @smonkdude @stealthywing @darkerthanblack-666 @spentandpent @meerkathideout @jaarijani if you haven't done it yet!

[leopardom]

*kicks door in*

I CAME AS SOON AS I SAW YOUR MESSAGE.

Which of the JO and/or BC members would you trust enough to drive you somewhere? And who would you definitely not trust behind the wheel?

hmmm i guess it’s trust Jure and Tommi to drive me somewhere because those two are the ones i see driving most of the time, i suppose they know their shit (what’s up with drummers and driving anyway?)

from jo i’m just gonna randomly pick Bojan to not trust when it comes to driving for no specific reason tbh. and from bc, well, Joonas 💀 idek if the blond princess can drive (i assume he can?) but either way he’s born to be a passenger princess so…

[sepetajmikolikomehoces]

WIP wordgame

Rules: you will be given a word. then you share one sentence/excerpt from your wip(s) that starts with each letter of your word!

I was tagged by @xianvar and given the word NGVOT

N - No matter how vividly he tries to recall Damon’s fingers playing along his spine like keys on a piano, or Bojan pulling him in for a half hug, or Jure’s hands digging into his thighs to hold him up.

G - Getting to be greedy, having time and Jere askingaskingasking about the album.

V - >>vibrating into the next several dimensions wHAT IS HAPPENING

O - Otherwise I take plane and come back to Slovenia.

T - The nonchalance should strike at his proud heart, but his heart is weak, his heart is in danger, hidden behind nothing but a splintered cage of brittle, smoldering bones.

Tagging in turn @meerkathideout @saffei @blossom-boo @mint-ty and @dragon0blood the word RUOSKA

[teal-skull]

Thank you for the tag! <3

Tagging: @jaarijani @meerkathideout @smimon

@zomb1edude @radiant-sunlight-blueberry

no preasure <3

cute thing im coming up with

this picrew of yourself and your current hyperfixation !!

no pressure tags @pearlzier @julesssyy @reidsfavoritegirl @whitney23317 @willowsblanket @flowercrownsandtrauma @rottenletter

[leopardom]

What's your favorite interpretation of what SSF stands for? And what do you think would be the funniest?

slightly sexual footage from the welcome to the backstage ep.1 is stuck in my head for good but for some reason my mind messed up Jan’s interpretations from that episode at some point

so i present to you “super sexual footage”, which tbf suits them just great 🥲

[leopardom]

Never annnoying! I've liked BC ever since Eurovision, but wasn't really a fan if that makes sense. Flatline just really hit different from what I had heard so far and I've been actually listening to BC and looking forward to hearing their new stuff.

oh 👀 yeah their new stuff sounds interesting and i’m curious to see what’s gonna be the follow up to Flatline. until then, you can still stream their oldest albums, LOTSAD is not even a year old yet lol 😂

[leopardom]

So, funny story. I've followed you since the Hurts days, and every now and then I've seen you on my dashboard posting about Blind Channel. So I've been passively following the band, through you. Then Flatline happened and I saw the televised performance and I haven't been able to get it out of my head and I went on a spree looking through you blog because you're the only Blind Channel blog I know. So thanks for re-introducing me to the band through your persistency :D

omg i must be annoying with all the bc content huh? 💀💀💀

what i understand is that they’re currently growing on you a bit so i’m glad i can provide you with content 😌 and thank you for keep following me even though i went from obsessing over one band to another 😂

[sepetajmikolikomehoces]

@meerkathideout credit where credit is due.

You know that habit of talking to yourself like you're on a talk show?

I do that.

And also a knit version of that.

Where I make notes of what I'm doing like I'm a knit pattern designer.

I hope to god I will never have to share the full version of this because it's just... not entirely unhinged, but there is definitely a concerning amount of creaking.