#never seen it. btw. but they got me in some weird chokehold

[nai-z4ro-0ne]

I am forever doomed as feedism enjoyer because I'm most likely to get into a) Fandom/character that is incredibly unpopular and therefore there's no feedism content about it or b) Fandom/character that is sooo popular and big. But no feedism content? For some reason???

[where-does-the-heart-lie]

Ok so, I really need to know if you have any personal headcanons on ASL brothers because I need more serotonin for the day, btw I adore your art! Lots of love 💖

Thank you so much for this request! I don't actually have many head cannons for them in their universe tbh. I do have a couple for a modern au though!

this post turned out kinda long ":)

First of all: this is them 👇

Anyway,

Original universe headcanons:

-Ace is proud of his freckles. He doesn't much know what his mother looks like, but he's seen his father's appearance and knows that Rodger doesn't have freckles. So he sees his mother through his freckles :)

-despite his name, Ace is the only allosexual within the trio. I do think ace is aromantic though. I just don't think romantic relationships suit any of them, personally

-sabo cuts his own hair. I read a SBS submission asking oda why sabo grew his hair out. Oda responded saying he does to hide his scar. He said that sabo doesn't exactly see it as a badge of honor. Which makes me uhhhhhhhh very sad yuh huh. But it also makes me imagine he cuts his own hair because no one else can get it right. How I draw him, his bangs are uneven so that his scarred eye is covered and his working eye doesn't get blocked out. It looks fine now, but the first couple times he cut his hair were ✨disasters✨

Modern au:

They share an apartment and it is very apparent who's room is luffy's by level of messiness. Don't get me wrong, Ace's room is messy, but it's messy in an organized way. Unlike Luffy, who is just... Who knows if there's a floor over there. No one's ever seen it.

Sabo's room is so clean it's boarder-line sterile. It also just doesn't look lived in at all. If he invited you over and you saw his room, you'd think he was a serial killer.

Sabo and Ace both have their own mini fridges in their rooms that are under lock and key so that Luffy cant get into them. little fuckin gremlin man...

There is a tally board on their fridge that keeps track of who wins in wrestling matches that break out sometimes, much like in the show.

Sanji owns a restaurant near their apt that they always go to. The three of them have a chokehold on the "Big-Ass Bowl of Spicy-Ass Ramen eaten the fastest" title as they are currently in a three way tie that not they nor anyone else can beat.

Ace flirts with Sanji and his brothers give him flack for it, saying he's just trying to get a free meal!! support your local businesses, Ace! pay for you meal!!

Luffy always be challenging his brothers to spontaneous races and is always surprised when he inevitably loses. Sorry lil guy, they just got longer legs than you, not your fault.

They love trying new weird food. Whenever they see some kind of afront of nature that a snack-food company put out, like buffalo sauce flavored pretzels or plant based jerky, they'll absolutely buy and try it. It never goes well. Ever.

Ace and Sabo are the main Money Makers for their household. Luffy is always trying to get a job, though. Under the off chance he's actually hired though, his employment is usually terminated sometime within his first day. He's trying his best, man.

Whenever theyre having an issue in their household that they dont know how to combat, they call Dadan for advice. Kinda like those scavenger monkey themed guys from the beginning of Skypeia.

Thats all i have for now, sorry for any typo's. I could add on to this list later if I have any new ideas. i'll probably draw some of that modern au, too.

thanks again for the ask! i hope this got to you within your serotonin needing day!

[drunkkenobi]

A livejournal-style bandom post because I’d kind of like it to be 2008 again

mood: drunk

music: The Academy Is... “Sleeping With Giants”

So, I spent quite a few hours this week backreading my livejournal. It all started innocently, I wanted to reread my initial capslock thoughts about Deathly Hallows in honor of HP’s 20th anniversary but then it turned into my rereading the many, many, many posts about dumb band boys, so I got all nostalgic for their music and put on my Just Beautiful playlist for the next few days.

It has prompted Thoughts.

It’s weird because more than half of this music I still listen to somewhat regularly. I have over 80 playlists and many of them include songs or albums by those bands, so it’s not like I never listen to them anymore. But I don’t tend to listen to the full albums or certain songs that much, and I don’t listen to all of these bands at once very much, so the deep concentration of bandom music all at once has been quite the throwback. It’s also been very enlightening as to why only one of these bands has survived.

Caveat: I cannot and will not ever be objective about Empires and their music so they’re not apart of this discussion. They’re still too close to me. (after all this time? always)

Anyway, so! Let’s get this out of the way:

Wow, Panic!’s albums have aged super weirdly. Like, Fever was always a goofy weird album but listening to in 2017 is so strange! I don’t know what to make of it! I mean, don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the hell out of it still, but it just sounds so of the moment from 2006 that I can’t really think of anything else when I listen to it. 

Pretty. Odd. is also odd, (ha) and I found myself liking it less than I used to. “Northern Downpour” is still my fav ever and I don’t hate it or anything but I found myself not wanting to listen to those songs as much? Also, my car stereo is much better than my old laptop’s and those goddamn “doots” on “Mad as Rabbits” are fucking loud. 

But this is all very weird to me because I still generally really like and even love a bunch of the songs of The Young Veins’ album. But I’ve also gotten into ‘60s pop a ton more since 2010 so maybe that’s why. (I...I do not care for Vices & Virtues almost at all. Positive note: I do really like the newest album! good for you Brendon!)

Also aging strangely, to me, is The Black Parade. “Famous Last Words” is a forever jam and still my favorite MCR song but I approached that album as a whole so differently a decade later (fuck I am so old). I didn’t like “Mama” as much as I used to but I liked “Teenagers” more. I do not love “I Don’t Love You” or “Cancer” at all. Many of the songs run together in my head. But “Sleep”, a song I had few feelings about in 2006 really stuck out to me as one of the best songs on it now.

Three Cheers, however, has aged pretty excellently. So has Danger Days. Bullets, not so much, at least for me. I still cannot believe that Gerard Way is a respected comics writer and editor of a DC imprint, btw. 

Cobra Starship’s stuff sounds exactly like I remember it, for better or worse. They just wanted to give us a party and it all would still sound great at a party. (I wish This is Ivy League had given us more twee as fuck sad pop songs though)

Gym Class Heroes has mostly aged well, with a some exceptions. Mostly just “Cupid’s Chokehold” because all I can think of when I listen to it is that this song is about Katy Perry and how fucking weird that is.

I still follow and adore Greta’s music (Springtime Carnivore is her current band and it’s incredible) so I still really enjoy The Hush Sound but her voice also sounds so young that it throws me a little.

Periphery bands are all over the place. I still listen to The Like all the time so I still love their stuff. The Cab sure was a thing. It’s very weird to listen to a Hey Monday song when I remember that Cassadee Pope won a season of The Voice as a country artist. 504 Plan is the best pre-bandom band don’t @  me.

So that leaves me with Fall Out Boy and The Academy Is...

Fall Out Boy’s stuff, with only a scant few exceptions, has aged very well. It also sounds the least “of that time”, at least, in comparison to everything else. Like yeah, “Sugar We’re Goin’ Down” takes me back to 2005 but it’s not so 2005. 

They are also the only band left standing as a full group, give or take whatever the status of GCH is.

I feel like this can’t be a coincidence. 

It’s also really astounding to realize that they’ve never changed members (well, if you don’t count Evening Out With Your Girlfriend, which you shouldn’t). Like, holy shit, that’s so impressive! They took their big break but came back with one of their best albums ever. Elton John is on that album! That’s fucking bonkers! But it really shows how good of a band they are and how well those 4 dudes work together. Look at everyone they’ve left in their wake. Even a contemporary who is still going strong, Paramore, has had more member turnover than Taking Back Sunday (Which, don’t get me started). It makes me respect those guys in a whole new light.

So, when I say that TAI has the best debut album of all the bandom bands, I really, truly, somewhat non-objectively mean it. 

Seriously, Almost Here has aged wonderfully. I can listen to every song on there and not get caught up in mid-2000s nostalgia. I mean, I do, but not in the way Panic’s music does. And while Santi is still my favorite album of theirs, I still don’t like a couple of the songs on it (ugh “Seed”) but I really enjoy every song on Almost Here. Maybe because it’s slightly less depressing than their other stuff (which 40% of is about how they’re almost gonna make it, they’re just on the cusp of making it big, this is gonna be the time! and welp, it didn’t really happen. it’s obviously a big part of Almost Here but it’s much less desperate when Bill Beckett is only like 21 singing about it) I’m also less emotionally compromised it, which is why Santi remains my favorite btw, so I think that’s allowed it to age so well, at least for me.

“But!” you cry. “Take This To Your Grave exists!” oh my child, yes, it does. And while “Saturday” still is great and so is a lot of that album, the screamo, my child, is not. Also not? “Grenade Jumper” because the second-hand embarrassment is strong. Stronger than it even was in 2008.

And the rest: Fever’s weird, Bullets is unpolished as hell, Cobra’s is fun but they would do better, GCH’s has scrappy charm but I don’t listen to it much, The Hush Sound’s is just okay (remember it’s not Like Vines). Almost Here beats them all, at least for me.

It’s so good and fun and it was their best chance and I’m still so depressed they’re gone and I don’t know what any of them are doing, besides Sisky playing bass for Carly Rae Jepsen, and I miss them. I miss them and Empires so much. I miss refreshing FriendsOrEnemies or blogspots all the time for band updates and I miss trying to figure out complicated timelines and I miss staying up late to wait for a new song to drop at midnight and I miss TAI TV and I miss saving every photo I could of Tom Conrad and I miss the complete and utter joyous shock of those two going on an acoustic tour together and how thankful I am to have seen that, even if Sean was half-dead from the flu and I miss Bill’s terrible earnestness and I just... I miss them. 

I get it, life happens, things don’t work out, it’s for the best, people need to find their own happiness their own way, not everyone makes it. Not everyone is supposed to make it. Fall Out Boy is a one in a million for a reason. And I love them. I love their music, still. I’m so happy for them and I love that they are left standing.

But sometimes, I’d give anything for TAI or Empires to have their spot.