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For me for me please sir can I get a Ramyatta with number 36 whatever that may be?
Coming right along good sire, #36 Heaven Sent by The Steeldrivers
Shake my head and I wonder how / I'll ever get to heaven now
Time does not treat him gently, but he is learning to do so himself. Itâs one lesson into the next like dominoes. First came the dull realization that few hands would ever touch him gently, then the wisdom to not let himself be counted among his advisaries.
âBrother, would you forgive me?â heâd asked the night sky, his voice hushed and tense. He remembers still, the first time, with Mondatta right there beside him, not in the flesh - heâs had to forcibly scrub every easy human metaphor from even his most intimate thoughts - but in something warmer and more real than that. Right there beside him to hum thoughtfully and say:
âIt is not my place to do so.â
Back then, the words had welled into his chest like tar, staining even the parts of him the crisis had left unscathed. Now, the memory wells up in overwhelming clarity, the details crisp and almost searing. The thing it leaves behind now is warm and sure.
âWould you now?â he asks now, his chin tilted up so only the scant stars catch the sound. The sky is covered in dappled gray, forever clouds lit up and burning by a million lives unfolding beneath them. At times, he misses the clarity of the monastery, the serenity, the sharp cleanness of the sky just after the first snowfall. And yet heâs grown fond of this as well.
A world wrought from violence and fear yet painting the belly of the sky in a flighty, bleeding brush. His own fists shine dully, flashes red and green with the traffic lights flickering on and off right outside his window.Â
The hazy monk who inhabits his memories never answers his query. Itâs a step, heâs trying to convince himself, to freedom and revolution and justice. To his own apotheosis.
He hopes he gets to go gently in the end. Gently and forgiven.
Time will wither him, he can already feel it. He grows slow and blunt now that Anubis can no longer support or upkeep him. He has a sneaking suspicion that it wouldn't change much even if the god program still hummed along somewhere out there. He was never meant to outlive his maker. He has much to do still, and little to atone for.Â
âI will forgive me,â he tells the unblinking stars, the two brightest one that peek through the cloudlayer. A satellite spins and travels in a sinewy line over the sky; a machine shooting star to fasten a machine dream upon.
#ramattra#overwatch#overwatch 2#do NOT point out that this is extremely similar to the first one hcu<ijas#not my fault it landed on two very similar songs in vibe for me#anyway#ram and mortality anyone???#also first proper yeehaw warning of this game
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Shuffle your On Repeat playlist and list the first 10 songs that play, then tag 10 people.
Love these! I get to listen to my fave music, and see what other people are listening to. We have such a variety of music in this fandom <3. Thanks for the tags @youarenevertooold, @thewholelemon, @best--dress, @bookish-bogwitch, @imagineacoolusername, @you-remind-me-of-the-babe, and @prettygoododds! I feel so loved and tbh it's made me smile so much this week!
I actually drafted one of these earlier, but my list was overtaken by items from various release radars (all collected in a single playlist because I'm woefully behind) and weren't very indicative of what I actually listen to.
So going to try this again, and this time I'm just gonna skip any songs I don't actually LIKE lol. Here we go. (And yes, I'm incapable of doing a list like this without adding commentary.)
"Dead of Night" - Ruelle (this is absolutely the fault of my fic the Haunting of Simon Snow)
"World Burn" - Renee Rap, Cast of Mean Girls (this is 100% new music fodder, because it just kept coming up on successive release radar weeks. But that said⌠it's a damn good song that totally captures Regina's personality, and it has been stuck in my head all damn week. So I'll leave it in here. It's very angry girl. XD Spoilers for Mean Girls, of course.)
"You & Me Makes Us" - League of Legends, Tori Kelly, DEEGAN (okay we're obviously still in new-music-land, but I do like it! Has Snowbaz applications, in a sugar sweet way XD I need to watch the film it's from...)
"You Matter to Me" - Sara Bareilles & Jason Mraz (Okay now we're talking. This song is very important to me and 1000% is inspirational in my fic writing.)
"Never Enough - Loren's Version" - Loren Allred (I'm obsessed with this song in all forms, and her voice is WHAT amazing. OBSESSED.)
"No Strings" - X Ambassadors (New music! But I generally like X Ambassadors, and I like the general vibe of this one)
"I'm With You" - Avril Lavigne (Goodie from the dark days. And another Haunting Simon Snow song. I'll just always love this song, full stop. It's a mood.)
"Keep Your Head Up" - Fireflight (Look this just... ugh. Makes me feel feelings. And have thoughts. Like. Lucy's POV watching Simon. And. Similar.)
"Ghost" - Parachute (YES. This is the most romantic stalking song ever LOL But also, totally on my Haunting Snow playlist. Ahem. Reasons. Pining. Pining is the reason.)
"What Was I Made For" - Billie Eilish (ya'll don't need my notes on this one lol)
Okay, that's a bit better. With a bit more of my fanfic listens represented, which is nice LOL (I AM working on it, I swear!)
I've been using my eyeballs for things other than browsing tumblr lately, so I only know those who tagged me and like... two others... so gonna toss some names out here, low pressure though! @alexalexinii, @bubble-gumhead, @facewithoutheart, @hushed-chorus @ic3-que3n, @messofthejess, @nightimedreamersworld, @palimpsessed, @rimeswithpurple, @that-disabled-princess
Cheers!
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The Naruto/Frozen Crossover
So I was planning on just doing an image ID thing for this post, but apparently the formatting on desktop is such a mess that itâs easier to just make a new post thatâs text only. I can also like. Bulletpoint it so that it can be a little neater. All ideas were made with @firebirdeternal���âs help, because they are the most efficient enabler I have.
Also I added some bits at the end.
Under a cut, because itâs Long As Heck.
I originally had two options: either Mid-teens Elsa and Anna being transported to ninja land sometime pre-canon and running into Haku and Zabuza... or just like. Born as a Daimyou's daughters.
Spoiler alert, weâve got nukenin and Iâm a sucker for an intrusive crossover, so transported to ninja land it is.
Suggestion from Birdie:
Mechanism for crossover: Elsa ices over a Wishing Well by accident after having Wished for someone else who understood her, Anna and her fall in and get Ice Mirror Portaled to Ninjaland, falling out of an iced over pond near a shrine that Haku recently prayed at for similar lonely child reasons?
Which I like! They donât end up there soon enough to run into Haku, because I want a dramatic chase first, but I like it.
Obviously, Anna is forced to learn about Elsa's powers because it's the only thing keeping them safe
Or at least alive
(Elsa will do ANYTHING to keep Anna safe, and if that means she has to get her hands dirty...)
...neither of them knows Japanese, so, you know. Thereâs that.
I'm thinking that they end up in/near Kiri at first
And they aren't FAST ENOUGH to get away so Elsa panic-enchants a giant reindeer made of snow to run away across the suddenly-frozen ocean.
She and Anna have to ride and Elsa is probably crying the whole time.
Oh shit this is like. RIGHT after their parents die, I forgot. So thatâs a thing! They are in mourning and all that fun stuff.
Point is, they use the powers for a Self Defense thing and BBY Haku is just !!! "Master can we rescue them for Ice Cousin reasons?" Zabuza: Yes, and only for those practical reasons and not because I collect endangered children like people collect pokemon cards.
I imagine that maybe they track rumors of a Yuki-onna down, or the Giant Snow Reindeer rides by and Hakuâs just like Wat
The girls just tag along with Zabuza because. Like.
Do they like him? No. Do they trust him? No. Do they enjoy the fact that he considers them pathetic civilians? No.
However, Haku is Baby.
Zabuza is REALLY annoyed at them being Useless Civilian Royals âbut Haku likes them so I guess they can stay.â
Age at meeting, three years pre-canon:
Zabuza - 23
Elsa - 18
Anna - 15
Haku - 12
Elsa is 90% anxiety/depression master combo BUT if Zabzua protects her then she's WILDLY dangerous so like. Whatever
Elsa's bingo book nickname options, uninspired:
Winter Witch
Winter Queen
Ice Queen
Snow Queen
Something about a Yuki-Onna maybe
She's Very Stately and kinda breakable but Winter is her Bitch
I mean like, the fact that, if protected, she can shut down the agriculture of a fucking country? That's an S-rank even if she's not that useful in a fight.
She's like. Jinchuuriki-level destruction. Generally speaking she wouldnât. But she could.
Elsa:Â What the fuck is a chakra? Elsa: my snow monsters are self-sustaining. Elsa: I'm gonna build us a house.
Zabuza has NO idea how her powers work and it is INCREDIBLY frustrating but âthereâs no chakra cost to keep these things going and we have shelters on demandâ is too convenient to question after a while.
Haku: Delicate, deadly, incredibly fast ninja work. Elsa: I can't dodge a kunai but watch me wreck your entire country's ecosystem in under a day.
Elsa is a siege weapon.
Meanwhile, Anna is really, really into the physicality of ninja practice.
She's clumsy and she's not very good at ninja stuff, but she sure is determined!
Anna also gets on Zabuza's nerves because she keeps insisting that Haku get to be a kid.
Anna: Let's make flower crowns! Zabuza: No, he needs to train, not- Anna: FLOWER CROWNS
Consider: Haku saying Elsa-nee-sama and Anna-hime.
Or just calling Elsa âonee-sama.â
Anna is also younger than Elsa and way more Fun so she probably gets adjusted to Anna-chan or Nee-chan.
If Zabuza calls Elsa âHime-chanâ or âElsa-himeâ or, Sage forbid, âElsa-sama/donoâ then heâs VERY MUCH making fun of her and heâs probably getting his soup frozen that night.
At one point, Elsa... tries to like. Convince herself to have a crush on Zabuza or Kakashi or something until Zabuza just puts a hand on her shoulder and asks "do you even like men?" "...that's an OPTION?"
Zabuza urging her to try and ask out a Cute Kunoichi and Elsa's like.... I can't decide if she's bright red and a useless lesbian or uncomfortable and ace.
I am SO invested in the siege weapon thing.
SHE IS THE SQUISHIEST WIZARD.
It's not her fault that every single other combatant on the continent is Massively Dangerous in melee! She took a very traditional back-line build!
Enemy:Â Doesn't it GRATE to protect someone so pathetic, Zabuza? Zabuza:Â She literally froze an entire castle of enemies to death because they harmed her sister, so. No.
Most Ninjas: Sharp Knife. S-Rank Mega Ninjas: Gun. Elsa: High Yield Explosive Rocket Launcher. Literally loses fights to the Knife People, because she can't bring her power to bear on that scale. But if you can give her Time and Prep? No contest.
Long distance AoE
Like you know how Nagato is literally dying of starvation due to illness and can't walk, but he's also capable of leveling powerful villages more or less on his own?
Elsa is the same Vibe.
Itâs like sealing a bijuu in a civilian.
She's honestly both more and less powerful? Like it'd be hard for her to kill everyone in Konoha in the snap of a finger? But also, she could starve out the Country of Fire in a summer.
She WOULDN'T, but she could.
I always read Elsa as gay or ace but my brain keeps trying to ship her with dude ninjas and I have to yank it back on a child leash.
People insinuate that Zabuza is interested in Elsa and he's just "What? Ew she's like five."
"I'm eighteen."
"Five."
BUT
Elsa! Might mistake trust and companionship for a crush!
I can see THAT happening despite gay/ace.
Also like. I donât think Zabuza is straight.
So mlm/wlw solidarity?
And Haku is probs genderqueer.
So Anna is THE TOKEN STRAIGHT.
Anna is like, the Straight Friend who will go to the mat for her queer friends. Like vicious. In-your-face barking like a mean dog at people who were being bigots.
You know how Elsa in the second movie uses her powers to make toys for kids out of ice?
Okay, so her practicing by making things with Haku.
But yeah, Elsa can't really do "throws ice senbon," but she can do Delicate Geometry Things since she apparently, canonically studies math for fun and loves fractals.
Haku: I can trap you in a prison of ice mirrors, and you are at my mercy. Elsa: LOOK AT THIS CASTLE I MADE???
Haku wants to do Pretty Things like Elsa
OH.
Elsa makes... snow bunnies..
For the ninja distraction reasons but also because it's a Soft Thing that makes her feel better about, uh, everything. And Haku likes bunnies.
Zabuza still takes The Dirty Missions but Elsa gets upset when he does something that hurts innocents and Nobody wants Elsa upset. Even Zabuza doesn't want Elsa upset.
When Elsa gets upset, overnight accommodations are suddenly Very Uncomfortable for everyone except her and Haku.
And then Anna gets upset, which makes Elsa even MORE upset.
And then things just keep getting colder.
Zabuza doesn't want Elsa upset for many reasons, not limited to: "Is actually capable of killing me from outside of Sword Range if she's mad enough, even if itâs not that easy" and "the Small Children would be unbearably sad if she died and honestly so might I."
She's more of a friend than a ward and he's not entirely sure he's okay with that.
Zabuza: "Ew, friendship."
He has absolutely no idea how to have a social interaction with people he isn't Bullying, Raising, or Threatening to Kill.
Elsa and Anna have no trouble convincing people they're related, at least. Different coloration with almost identical bone structure.
A tendency to burst into song when they feel emotions.
Identical weird accent that nobody can place.
FOOD
The girls are royalty, they don't know how to COOK.
But they also want food from HOME.
It's a lot of trial and error.
More error than not, since they have both no knowledge and also a language barrier to overcome. It probably takes YEARS before they can describe things like Unfamiliar Flavors well enough for people to say "OH that sounds like spearmint."
When they run into something they know thatâs familiar, itâs life-changing.
Chocolate is more common in the elemental nations than in Arandelle and Anna may or may not cry about it.
Anna is loudly bossy, even at Zabuza.
Zabuza is gruffly commanding, to everyone.
Elsa doesn't actually like being in charge, but when she talks, people LISTEN.
(Haku is just happy to be here.)
Elsa radiates two things: Anxiety, and Natural Command, and she basically just fluctuates between those.
"I don't want to be in charge but also I'm vetoing this."
So, obviously, the main reasons that Zabuza keeps the girls around is that Elsa is a living siege weapon and he thinks she could be convinced to help him run a revolution in Kiri, and also that the Ice Queen schtick is like. Really good for Haku and Zabuza canât really say no to the kid.
HOWEVER, Anna is clumsy and messy and all that, so Zabuza starts training her in Ninja stuff. Elsa joins in on the âI need to know how to Run Fast to get away from fights I donât want to have in the first place,â but Annaâs the one thatâs like âTEACH ME HOW TO SWORD.â
Itâs honestly not that hard to teach her, sheâs just really, really, REALLY enthusiastic.
Once or twice someone asks why sheâs so bad at this yet running around with an A-rank nukenin and Zabuzaâs just like âIâve only had her for a year and a half, shut up!â because itâs not that heâs a bad teacher, itâs that she was a very pampered civilian until like a week before he met her.
He should get a MEDAL for even getting her to low Chuunin.
Zabuza: I'm taking a job from Gato Elsa, who has Training in economics and politics and bureaucracy: I have a better idea.
This is actually not entirely what Iâd do but I wanted to make the joke first ANYWAY hereâs an actual plot or something.
Oh, also by this point everyone is Canon Ages so Elsaâs 21 and Annaâs 18 and Zabuzaâs 26 and Hakuâs 15.
Elsa is getting paid to keep the water from interfering with construction, by way of....
ICE COFFERDAM
Elsa with Haku as her Guard while Zabuza is off running his own mission? Which Anna begged to go on because Cool.
Elsa also kind of keeps her involvement on the ice front semi-secret by claiming sheâs there as an engineering consultant.
LISTEN canon made her like geometry, I can ENTIRELY believe sheâd be excited about the bridge-building.
Gato has hired someone else on the danger level of Zabuza, who is Threatening to Team 7 + Haku? But then when things look bleak Anna and Zabuza arrive and then Scary Sword Man is on our side and oh dear that's a lot of blood.
Which, you know, fun!
Birdie suggested Raiga which Iâm not feeling but I do feel the need to bring up as an option.
Itâs also not Kisame BUT
Kisame:Â [giant lake dome filled with sharks]
Elsa: uhhhhhhhhhhh...
Giant lake dome:Â [is now a giant ice dome]
Anyway
Gato: I'm hiring an army. Elsa: [giant ice wall around his compound] Gato: ... these guys can walk up walls! Elsa: [adds snowman guards] Elsa: ... Elsa: [adds a ceiling]
Just puts Gato's entire mob in a fucking snow globe.
Zabuza shows up twenty minutes late with (Throwing) Star(buck)s just like "Oh, they dead? No? Want 'em to be? Okay cool I'm gonna go pick up Haku, I'll be back in like an hour."
Anna would... LOVE Naruto
ENERGETIC FRIENDLY GOOFBALL
"I found us a baby brother!" "No, we already have Haku." "BUT LOOK AT HIM."
Anna is only a year or two older than Itachi.
OH RIGHT
I wanted to make a joke about how Naruto also vibes with her because he's less judgmental that she can't really... talk properly.
Sasuke is Judgy and Kakashi is Paranoid and Sakura is Uncomfortable.
Meanwhile Naruto is just like "And I Shall Scream."
Anna, who learned Japanese from Zabuza (rude) and Haku (uber polite): WELL FUCK YOU, GOOD SIR Naruto: YEAH WELL FUCK YOU TOO, LADY Elsa, overly formal: I am... so very sorry.
Anyway, generic missing nin fights and all that.
Elsa gets injured in the process and after a variety of arguments, Naruto manages to convince them to take her to Konoha for medical attention.
Elsa is... usually the one getting injured.
Zabuza and Haku are FAST and Anna is at least learning (even if sheâs only been doing it for three years), but Elsa is The Squishy Wizard.
If someone throws a kunai... she canât... really dodge...
So yeah, gut wound.
Normally they find a nukenin medic to patch them up but Konoha is reasonably close and has some of the more skilled medics on the continent and they DID technically help the Konoha nin so like. Gah.
Thatâs Zabuzaâs final thought. Gah.
Just âFuck it, letâs save the ice queen.â
Elsa ends up in a half-literal-ice stasis state on the way there and itâs happened before (it is not the first time she���s been stabbed), but itâs always terrifying.
Especially to the Konoha genin who are just like WHAT THE HECK IS THAT.
So they get to Konoha, thereâs a whole bunch of stuff about extradition treaties and âyou are bringing a literal WMD of a woman into our townâ and âwe canât just let MOMOCHI ZABUZA in.â
Anyway, it ends up being that Zabuza has to wait outside the village while Elsa is treated inside, and one of the Teenagers goes in. Obviously, itâs Anna, because Zabuza is INCREDIBLY UNCOMFORTABLE with letting Haku enter a village thatâs known for having lots of bloodlines, and anyway, Annaâs the sister.
Bunch of stuff, sheâs healing, etc, and then one day Anna comes in and is told âyour sister had a bad reaction to the anesthetic, we couldnât save her, Iâm sorry, sheâs gone.â
She flips out, gets shown the corpse, flips out MORE, gets escorted out to the village walls where Zabuza and Haku are waiting.
Horrified reactions
Zabuza doesnât want to admit that itâs EMOTIONS because this is his FRIEND, he is clearly just upset about losing the living siege weapon.
Haku is just super confused and goes âBut sheâs not dead.â
âWhat.â
âSheâs not dead, I can feel her, I can always feel her, itâs like sensing but just her, because weâre both ice. Sheâs alive, somewhere over... there?â
And points right in the direction of the Hokage Mountain, which for the purposes of this fic and also Drama is where ROOT headquarters is.
YEP we absolutely have that plot point.
Is Danzo overused as a plot device? Probably. Am I going to diabolus ex machina him anyway? Ye.
They kick up enough of a fuss that the Hokage gets called down.
He wouldnât, normally, heâd leave it to a couple of skilled jounin and call it a day, except Naruto got involved so like. You canât. Ignore that.
Thereâs lots of shouting.
Just like. A lot.
And then part of the mountain explodes!
AS ONE DOES
Elsa comes flying backwards out of the hole, catches herself on a spontaneous ice slide, gets to her feet.
Girl is swaying like MAD.
There are absolutely ANBU (both fake and real) coming after her.
At least one of them gets speared through by an ice spike.
Anna runs up to her, tries to hug her, gets batted away.
Elsaâs staring at her in sheer TERROR and starts muttering something about how Anna died years ago, this isnât real, etc.
Nobody except Anna understands most of it, but Haku picks up enough to translate when Annaâs freaking out.
Elsa starts doing her Ice Castle thing in the middle of Konoha as a coping mechanism, mostly so she can get Up and Away and Shielded By Ice.
This is not a good look.
Especially because sheâs singing, which Zabuza always thinks is a bad omen because it means shit is getting real and one or both of the girls are about to get a powerup or be beaten even harder than otherwise. When they start singing, things get More Dramatic And Extreme).
(Zabuza does not like Disney Musical Rules)
Danzo shows up.
Thereâs a bunch of arguing.
All the medics insist that nothing she was given at the hospital should have caused amnesia, psychosis, hallucinations, delusions, etc.
Itâs. Not hard for Hiruzen to guess what happened.
Namely that Danzo, upon finding out that chakra dampeners didnât do shit since none of Elsaâs powers come from chakra, decided to keep her drugged up and start using genjutsu to make her more malleable.
Because like. An injured WMD just showed up in your village. What are you supposed to do, not try to kidnap her and turn her to your side? Like, come on. What was he supposed to do?
Not that, Danzo. Literally Not That.
IDK how it gets resolved, probably Anna getting to her with the power of love, because Elsa is ultimately Super Disney.
I also donât really know where to go from there other than âMaybe Jiraiya can get you home, but also Iâm pretty sure Zabuza wants you all to get the hell out of here and take over Kiriâ but who knows.
Also
IMAGINE ELSA MEETING GAI.
Imagine Ino getting a puppy crush on Elsa.
IDK thatâs it for now.
#Frozen#Naruto#Momochi Zabuza#Yuki Haku#Zabuza#Haku#mini fic#Phoenix Babbles#Crossovers#Phoenix Posts
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Always Gold by Radical Face is a c! crime boys song please let me elaborate.
First of all, Welcome home son by radical face is a c! Tommy and c! Techno song. So as an sbi enthusiast I think itâs fun to give them songs by the same artist who have very similar vibes. Radical face has a wonderful job of calmly showing intense emotion. When you listen to the words in a lot of their songs itâs very emotional, but you can also tune out and just listen to the music. Iâm working my way through their discography but they just radiate fanon sbi vibes. Same energy as a piece of fanart I saw a long time ago with Tommy sleeping on Wilburs lap as techno leans against them. Just that calm and relaxed sense of love and belonging.
Anyways analysis time woo letâs crank out some lyrics. Honestly the lyrics are so perfect throughout Iâm basically going to include most of the song oops.
âWe were tight knit boys, Brothers in more than name. You would kill for me And knew that I'd do the sameâ
Already off to a good start. I mean the tight knit part is obvious, like theyâre both incredibly close with each other, especially at the beginning. Brothers in more than name?? Canonically Wilbur and Tommy arenât siblings but they still SHARE that brotherly bond they still think of each other of family after everything. âYou would kill for me and knew that Iâd do the sameâ at the start? When theyâre protecting their country together?? Yeah because theyâre FAMILY they care about each other so much.
âAnd it cut me sharp, Hearing you'd gone away. But everything goes away, Yeah everything goes awayâ
Do I need to explain this one. Iâm taking gone away as a reference to death here, like heâs up and left Tommy, and suddenly heâs just. Gone. Also the everything goes away is a great way to show the beginning of c! Tommys trauma, how he always feels like good things are going to be taken away from him. No matter what he has, his friends, his country, his discs, itâs all going to be gone eventually. Good things never seem to last for him.
âBut I'm going to be here until I'm nothing but bones in the ground. And I was there, when you grew restlessâ
Wilbur talking about lmanberg as âhereâ. He knows heâs never going to leave it, the country he built. He lived there and thatâs where heâll die. The captain always goes down with his ship. The restless line reminds me of pogtopia, like Tommy watching as Wilbur started to lose it, started to grow more and more unstable. He was there for everything, the good and the bad even as he watched his brother descend into this downwards spiral and not being able to help him.
âLeft in the dead of night. And I was there, when three months later. You were standing in the door all beat and tired and I stepped asideâ
Now thereâs two ways we could take this one. We could take a brief tour to sbi land and make this about Tommys exile, like he left exile at night after dream blew it all up, and he ended up at technos. And when Techno finally found him there itâs still that same kid he knew before who is just tired and needing someone, and so he lets him in. OR we could make this in reference to Wilburs revival. The three months later would be a reference to the time passed before Wilbur was revived. Now I could make this soft or I could make this angsty so I provide multiple options. 1. Tommy steps aside so Wilbur can see the sunrise, see the works that heâs missed and truly enjoy it again (not canon but shh) 2. I stepped aside but itâs Tommy moving away from Wilbur. Going no, you hurt me and Iâm sorry that youâre suffering but I canât be here for you anymore. 3. Or we got that nice metaphorical door of Tommys life and tommy seeing the brother he lost and choosing to let him âinsideâ, back into his life despite everything.
âWe were opposites at birth I was steady as a hammer, No one worried cause they knew just where I'd be. And they said you were the crooked kind, And that you'd never have no worth But you were always gold to meâ
Tommy is steady! Tommy wants the same things, he wants to protect his country, his friends and his discs. Everyone always knew what Tommy wanted and he was very open about what he cared about so everyone knew what was going on with him. Referring to Wilbur as the crooked one, the one who causes problems by creating a drug van, starting a war, blowing up his country. He had no worth because he thought so little of himself that he had to replace his personality with his actions. But tommy still sees him for who he is and up to Pogtopia thatâs his big brother. Thatâs the man he would follow anywhere and trusts his whole world with. Wilbur was always special to tommy, even when he wasnât to others.
âAnd back when we were kids, We swore we knew the future. And our words would take us half way 'round the world. But I never left this town and you never saw New Yorkâ
My main focus here is on the âbut I never left this townâ Wilbur always stayed in Lâmanberg, till the very end. He could never go anywhere else, and he didnât. This also relates back to another song on my crimeboys list, two birds by Regina Spektor. Wilbur is never going to let go of Lâmanberg. Itâs a part of who he is and heâs never going to be able to âleaveâ it. The you never saw New York line could be tommy because who knows Tommys plans before lâmanberg. Then he got so wrapped up in this country he built that it became his everything, and he never got a chance to do anything else because of the effect it had on him. (I know this is stretching canon bear with me I like angst)
âAnd we ain't ever cross the sea. But I am fine with where I am now, This home is home, and all that I need. But for you, this place is shame. But you can blame me when there's no one left to blame. Oh I don't mindâ
So many thoughts I donât even know if I can make this coherent. For you this place is shame for Wilbur ESPECIALLY. Itâs a reminder of the explosion he created, the hurt he caused the people whoâs lives he ruined. He wants it to stand for all it was before, but he has to think about how itâs a source of hurt for so many people and how he sees that as his fault. I donât think I can form coherent thoughts on the rest of this, enjoy
âAll my life iâve never known where you've been. There were holes in you, The kind that I could not mend. And I heard you say Right when you left that day, Does everything go away? Yeah, everything goes away. But I'm going to be here till forever, So just call when you're around.â
Final paragraph folks!! Ive never known where youâve been! Tommy can never get a read on Wilbur and his emotions because he internalizes and hides them! Heâs never going to be able to know and understand because Wilbur wonât let him! Holes in you the kind that I could not mend? YES. Wilbur is mentally ill and tommy cannot fix that, and he shouldnât have to be the one responsible for helping Wilbur. Right when you left that day, the 16th, the day he left for the last time. Another reminder to tommy that everything leaves, nothing is guaranteed. Lâmanberg is gone and so is Wilbur. If we look at this pre revival, Iâm gonna be here til forever could be Wilbur at Lâmanberg. He died there, and thatâs where heâs always going to stay. He might be gone, and Lâmanberg might be gone but theyâll still always be there in spirit (get it spirit. Ghost. Ghostbur building Lâmanberg? Anyways...)
Mhm that was longer than I meant it to be I am working on multiple more dsmp playlists and I will share once Iâm done and maybe do some more of these cause I find them fun. I also did not edit this at all so sorry if this is incoherent
#c! wilbur#Wilbur soot#dream smp Wilbur#dsmp Wilbur#dream smp#tommy and Wilbur#crimeboys#always gold#radical face#crimeboys songs#crimeboys music#Wilbur song#tommy song#c! crimeboys songs#lmanberg#lâmanberg#lmanburg#fanon crimeboys
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Croatia brings no men in a hamster wheel to Rotterdam 2021
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Now could this be the teddy bear uprising invasion Muse has warned us about 12 years ago?
And LITERALLY, these review series make me feel like Croatia is openly taunting me - I watch the days go, Iâm losing track of time, and when another day comes, Iâm screaming âoh no I forgot to publish a review sooner than wanted!!â. Guess Iâm for one glad thereâs a time related song this year, hum?
ARTIST & ENTRY INFO
Repping the Adriatic coast nation that got all the sea instead of Bosnia & Herzegovina is some 22 year old Albina GrÄiÄ, who first popped up on X Factor Adria back when that was a thing, and got lumped into a girlgroup in later stages, but to that she said âhvala neâ and moved on with her life, getting eliminated just like that. Queen <3 She did get her second chance to compete as a soloist and make a more prominent mark on her career when she ended up on The Voice in Croatia. She did well, placing third overall in the season, but somehow, during the duel stage, her coach initially favoured her fellow Dora 2021 contestant Filip Rudan:
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Her Voice success landed her a record deal with the Croatian division of Universal Music, she released a debut single, sometime later ended up on Dora, and here she is now, on Eurovision.
âTick-Tockâ is the song, a standard upbeat pop song, and one of the ones that talks about a girl leaving a terrible relationship and being so well over it that she âfound [her]self and [sheâs] finally freeâ, and the âtick-tockâ here is used to represent the time passing by, not the sound of her heart, unlike a fellow ESC entry of a similar title. The tune (or its lyrics only) is co-authored by some dude you mightâve heard of from Franceâs 2018 preselection Destination Eurovision, and that is Max Cinnamon - some half-English guy with a half English song about love (âAilleursâ) that did moderately averagely in the final... I donât even know if his influence shows, I just love how 2021 has sort of become revenge of the NF flops but theyâre writing other entries instead (Suzi P, âAdrenalinaâ).
REVIEW
I often donât really fully vibe with female bops in Eurovision as much as I want to, like, for the most part theyâre overhyped, and I let the âyass queeeeenâ audience gorge on the everything their favourite bops give them. But this year there are plenty of great ones to choose from, as I think that itâs safe to say that most, if not all, are tucked in somewhere inside my top 20, top 25 at the very minimum. Croatia managed to even do the impossible and land into my top 10.
Why?
Well, the answer is that the song is just so damn good.
I mean, whatâs NOT to like about it? Itâs a catchy and upbeat song that incorporates xylophones (or whatever is it that sounds like them), guitars and synths; has a good bassline in the chorus; and itâs just... a very good composition overall, like, all the instruments in it are just in their right place and uplift the song massively. I also like Albinaâs performance on it, both live and studio, it clearly shows that sheâs a very good singer (also shown on her cover of the scandalous Oscar award snubbery âHusavikâ). Sounds like a song a common pop loving Eurofan could gear themselves towards. Besides, it also has possibly my favourite pre-chorus section of the 2021 year? Oh wait, thereâs also Switzerland, scratch that. âTick-Tockâ has one of my favourite pre-chorus sections of 2021. It builds up so well instrumentally and the way Albina sings it is even better. I obviously like to believe Albina heard those voices from far away that helped her to escape, has found herself, and sheâs finally free from her âpartnerâsâ bad lovinâ and restraint. Yas queen go be free you didnât deserve his tomfoolery anyway! đ (Also I admire a section thatâs not quite the pre-chorus but is still before the 1st chorus, the one that goes âIf you pull me down then I'll come aroundâ - literally just a lot of the parts of the song are full of nice vocal performance and I donât regret ranking this in my top 10 not a second.)
If it has any drawbacks, itâs just that it gets a tad too repetitive after the halfway mark... like, the pre-chorus before the second chorus is the one to be repeated once again, and no new verse, nothing - but it does launch itself into something extraordinary, and that is a chorus in Croatian, which I assume she would perform in Eurovision because thereâs no Eurovision version on the song promo bundle, I suppose. Comparatively the Croatian chorus is not as complex in lyrics as the English language one, and flows slightly differently too. But the song still has a long chorus by the end, and song with too many choruses is never a good sign for those that look for a song thatâs constructed well, but I guess itâs a good factor for those that value the songâs catchiness. I guess thatâs what one of the two Eurovision 2005 hosts valued the most when writing the Ukrainian 2006 entry âShow Me Your Loveâ, which if you ask me, is straight up 75% chorus, lol.
So yeah my verdict is that almost everything about this song, I like. Iâm just a little devastated that in a usually very easily gorged on category of female bops, this just tends to lag behind in love, like a fellow song I really like this year, Israel. Instead people tend to prioritize Cyprus (which I get because theyâve established themselves as a girlbanger nation since Fuego swept Eurovision) and... probably even Azerbaijan? (which I might also get because Eurovision rarely has this thing called an ethnobop anymore, and it has more ethno than âCleopatraâ did, but still unnecessarily underwhelming lol.) Well then, in a year of female bangers, I would just like Croatia to not be swept under the rug come semis I guess. Yeah âTick-Tockâ may not sound like it brings something totally never seen before in a Eurovision environment (foreign language lyrics, themes about a break up, hell even her dancers looked like they were wearing the same hats as Tamtaâs dancers), but you got to have a lot in you to sell a worn out idea to the new heights, and Albina does exactly that in my eyes.
Approval factor: Yeah! There is a lot of it in here for me. Follow-up factor: A great follow-up, not so great in regards to panini but musically itâs just going up and up from what we had in the past few years. Iâve actually not minded âThe Dreamâ for the most part but I knew it was a chanceless plodding ballad and Roko harboured heaps of wasted potential working with Jacques Houdek and having wings as part of his performance, uff. *_* And then thereâs âDivlji vjetreâ which I also like a lot - a much better male ballad winner choice! If the Dora re-up winners keep being decent imo just like this, I have a feeling I will follow it a lot more often than I did just this one time this year. I am just saying that panini-wise, it was a sucky move from HRT for not allowing their last yearâs winner promote his new song with Tijana (from Serbia 2017) on the Dora night, so we sadly only heard a pre-recorded opening version of âDivlji vjetreâ to start off with :( Otherwise I think itâs not Doraâs fault in itself that Damir himself chose not to even submit an entry this year because he hadnât found a good one - much like with Diodato for Sanremo (he was NOT rejected, if you think he still was, shush). But aside that, musically, it just keeps going up for me. Well done Croatia, for youâve used to be a Eurovision country I donât necessarily care about, that you brought two pretty damn good entries in a row. Qualification factor: I can absolutely trust in Albina bringing in a little bit of her charisma and well-likedness, and on top of that, a great vocal performance, in Rotterdam. Donât ask me why, I just do. She doesnât really perform her song live on pre-parties as much as Iâd like to hope she would, but you heard girlie on the national selection, she didnât win for nothing. Yeah yeah there might as well be female uptempo songs hungrier for the last spot, but Iâd like to think Albina is one of the ones ready to devour than to be devoured. Go girl! Take us all dancing!
NF CORNER
To be honest with you, âTick-Tockâ winning Dora caught me by surprise. Ever since its re-up, the last two editions were kind of won by male ballads, and maaaaybe the dancey females were doing moderately well enough for themselves, but not overall? But look, juries were very keen on Albina, probably because she can SANG and she creates one hell of a fancy presence on her performance. And somehow she ended up snatching a win out of the hands of 5G conspiracy theorist 2016 representative Nina KraljiÄ, who was at first too drunk to care, but too unexpectedly sober to yell all over the soc. media how she was robbed and how the contest was rigged against her with her being on first and all that. Which is a shame that she is one of THOSE people, because her NF entry âRijekaâ is kinda nice? We did have the Balkan-esque ballads coming from Croatia in recent memory, but we havenât had a truly proudly folksy one at that from Croatia for a long while, if not ever. Nina couldâve very well brought that to Rotterdam (and another mismatched wardrobe choice oops). But instead she was the one screaming âoh no, oh no, oh noâ.
Actually I regarded Nina as one of my faves pre-show, and Albina was on her way, though she didnât really cement the personal fav status until after all performances, thus making Nina and Albina switch spots for me. But truly, the one song that was my top favourite, iiiiiiiiiiis
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GIMME AN OCEAN! OF LOVE!
2021 made me realize that damn, maybe anything thatâs funky is my favourite music genre afterall. Up until then I vibed with entries like âTonight Againâ and âWhatâs the Pressure?â that had this sort of energetic flair and very rhythmic kinda sound to it, but 2021 just simply cemented it to me that my music world has probably been about nice and smooth and funky all along. I owe so much gratitude to ToMa first and foremost along the lines of more to have come in this yearâs lineups - I just canât not want to dance to âOcean of Loveâ, and ToMa is quite alright at selling it live as well. There are small gripes with some instrument usages but that doesnât detract from the fact that I love love LOVE funky guitar tunes.
Aside from that, I can give shout outs to Beta Sudar, whose song not only was underrated, but also had an underrated meme format throughout its performance:
My other props go to Bernarda, who not only competed in a national selection singing a song about seeing âColorsâ while blind (and ironically there was a song called âBlindâ in that same NF sung by a well-seeing guy!!), but also for finally putting this every countryâs reject to rest. Seriously. That particular song was passed on to everyone in need of a competitive Eurovision bop, from Poli Genova to Helena Paparizou as of recently. Oh well, at least the song died a honourable death - well performed slice of good typical Eurovision pop (maybe even overperformed a little towards the end), that got a good rank with the regional juries, but somewhat murdered in televote, fellow Boris Milanov composition âChameleonâ style.
This one Mia NegovetiÄ chick was promising too! Her song was written by the Debs and you might be tired of them trying to continue infiltrating Eurovision at this point, but a lot of their Eurovision songs are usually something I enjoy, âSheâs Like a Dreamâ is no exception. Nothing but 3 minutes of pastel-dressed Croatian Ariana Grande doing what she does best <3
Oh and also some dudes tried to play chess on stage too I guess. But their song is not worth looking into, because one of the acts on it is apparently also a conspiracist, and maybe because oft this their entry is aptly titled âSing, for the freedom has arrived!â lol I wonder what exactly is the kind of freedom youâre thinking of my guy
Was this the âbetter mood gameâ Laura was warning everyone about? Beats me
NF CORNER (NON-COMPETITIVE)
⢠Itâs still hilarious to me as to how one of the acts this year, Brigita Vuco, was planning to bring in backing dancers, only for them to show a fake COVID test or something and outright BARRED from coming with her on stage. <3 Whatever she intended to do with them dancers, I have absolutely no idea, but at least she committed to her song being about drunken nights visually by having all these blurry shots
⢠Nina KraljiÄâs greenroom shenanigans, from the â1-2-3, 1-2-3, drinkâ to numb the sadness over some results (and the 8 she got from the region Rijeka for the song âRijekaâ lmao), to whatever she saw on the phone that made her smile or go neutral
⢠Greenroom reactions in general. I swear, this year had cameramen in every single corner everywhere just to make sure something covers up for a human audience instead of severals of Zoom screens permitted to act as an audience. Random people in greenrooms were doing some sort of emotions after random acts, and also randomly they ended up pointing a camera towards an act that lost, but the act didnât treat losing as if it were such a big deal <3
⢠All the other memes the Croatian Twitter mightâve noticed me for:
seriously Bernarda was locked in a bluelight mathematical dice contraption. how fucking cool is that
ANY LAST WORDS?
I just fucking hope that Albina shatters any doubts that people have had about her song come rehearsals, and somehow Croatia AND Israel slip through, because never too many female bangers I appreciate in the final, if they all are the bangers I appreciate, lol.
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i finallyyyy finished the explanations for my tlb playlistttt so come get yall juice
if you havenât already seen my first (official) post about this silly little playlist then you are still in luck !!! here is the spotify and the youtube links !!! oh yeah also all of the songs are in chronological order (maybe not by month but definitely by year) because i had to be organized like that sbjhshsjbs
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i mean. there isnât much to explain about it but sbjshbsjhs itâs based on samâs line âyouâre a creature of the night, michael!â of course but i made it plural because this playlist is sort of a. general boys / movie playlist, if that makes sense??? but yeahhhh theyâre all littol creechers who love the night >:o]
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⼠paint it, black â the rolling stones
so !!! i was kind of trying to relate it to the boys vampirism and. love of black clothes sbhsjbshjs but no. similar to the title, they. literally live in darkness because of not being able to go into the sun and because of the few lights in the lair but thereâs also a sort of duality where being vampires in an internal darkness??? like. each of the boys takes heavy advantage of the benefits of being undead but i canât imagine itâs without its faults outside of the lack of sunlight and such. iâm sure thereâs a kind of uh. monster complex that follows it, especially with the way outsiders view them, which certainly fits with the songâs vibe of being washed with this sort of sensory overload to color and earning weird looks for it
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⼠riders on the storm â the doors
first of all, thereâs a giant ass jim morrison poster in the lair therefore the boys definitely listen to the doors (if not idolize jim) so jot that down. but also !!! it has very Them vibes !!! i think the storm effects definitely relate to boys in how storms create a darkness that is soothing in its own way, and comes on strong, just like the boysâ presence. and. technically they Are killers on the road that Will kill a sweet family sbhjsbshjsb but no most of all the !!! âinto this house weâre born // into this world weâre thrownâ and !!! the found family that the boys have going. like, if you look at. vampirism as the house they have LITERALLY been born into it and been thrown into a whole new world, depending on each other for comfort and pleasure !!! oh also. they ride motorcycles so theyâre also literal riders sbhjsbshjs (fun fact, according to genius lyrics: apparently it was the last song jim recorded before he died a few weeks later đł)
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⼠love her madly â the doors
whole jim morrison poster and listening to the doors reasoning is sustained. HOWEVER for the rest of reasoning⌠perhaps itâs more straight up 95060 than anything but sbhsjbsshj the whole woman walking in and out of the audienceâs life is very symbolic of michael being in and out with the boys, never really deciding whether he wants to fully join them and straining. all of his relationships with that indecision and sitting on the picket fence (those who sit on the picket fence are impaled by it). although, it could also be partly symbolic of that indecision, as he does find Some charm in the boysâ lifestyle and keeps finding himself drawn back enough to even consider partaking in it. also, if you wanna go the parko route, paul loves marko madly enough to go after the frog bros personally for killing him <3
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⼠walk this way â aerosmith
i am. blanking on how to tie it in other than being on the movieâs soundtrack (yes i avoided it and people are strange until the very end of making the playlist, but one of the evils got me clearlyâ have always ADORED people are strange though). but. i guess you can make the case that the song is full of innuendos and some scenes, like the feeding scene, are lowkey horny sbsjhbshjsbs and YES itâs the aerosmith version instead of the run dmc one because. i prefer this one and itâs my silly little playlist <3
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⼠the boys are back in town â thin lizzy
technically the boys never Left town but !!! *christopher walken voice* Boys !!! them cast ARE crazy and theyâre ALWAYS dressed to kill, ready to spill some blood and pick a fight !!! yeah no itâs just a very fun song that i think really works to. represent their crazy lifestyle and infamy around town due to causing trouble !!! and you can almost say that in this scenario star is the girl who used to dance a lot and slapped the shit out of someone <3 just girlboss moments <3
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⼠xanadu â rush
hehehe⌠this started as the. desire to add more rush to the playlist for my own amusement but the more times i listen to it, the more iâm like â!!! it actually fitsâ⌠like. xanadu here is meant to a sort of utopia thatâs long searched for, partly BECAUSE of the promise of immortality which !!! the boys have (unless. harmed in one of the ways at the end of the movie) because of their vampirism. like even if we donât know the exact reasons they got turned, they all still, mostly indirectly probably, sought out that same principle. And the dining on honeydew and drinking the milk of âparadiseâ is similar to their thrill-seeking tendencies and general enjoyment of being unable to die, leaving them to enjoy their undead lives to the fullest. not to mention, in [b part 2] (as genius refers to it) thereâs talk of many, many years passing and waiting for the world to end, which we know thereâs been quite a few years in between the boys getting turned and the movie, as well as iâm sure they sit back and wait on Some apocalypse, if not just to watch the world burn. in writing this, iâve ALSO realized how it can be considered very Michael; he didnât exactly seek this life out but he found it and indulged, only to be that âmad immortal manâ towards the end of the song
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⼠runninâ with the devil â van halen
i just van halen is neat sbjshbsjsh and would definitely be something the boys would actually listen to hsjbshjsb i donât Necessarily think vampires are in any way tied to the devil but. here itâd be more like a metaphor of âtaking a walk on the wild sideâ if you wanna call it that; also, they all truly live their lives like thereâs no tomorrow (not that they have to worry about death until the very end), have stolen a lot of things just to get by (probably in life AND death), donât bode well with the âsimpleâ life (likely including the idea of a nuclear family like max proposed) because of itâs lack of pleasures, and donât exactly have any âlove [that] youâd call realâ unless you read into the subtextÂ
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⼠hot blooded â foreigner
originally this was going to be another joke about the. lowkey horniness of the boys and the movie as a whole but iâve realized in writing these explanations thus far and rereading the lyrics that itâs. itâs just michael-centric sbshjsbsh sam is âat the mercy of his sex glandsâ and so is the audience of both the movie and the song sbhsjbshsj like. michael finds himself attracted to star immediately and tries for two secret rendezvouses, with only one working, and. can be said that he also finds a fever running within him when heâs around david and the boys sbhjsbshjs i just đ
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⼠renegade â styx
renegade is my favorite styx song so i just said âfuck itâ and added it sbshjsbshj but !!! you can say that, again, the boys live their lives on the wild side and. probably commit enough crimes to warrant dozens of sentences, some that would lead to death row (like, ya know, the. manslaughter) but they manage to get away unscathed. And the law man serving as an allegory to all of the people, including the frogs and grandpa, that want them dead for being vampires, with the bounty to be rewarded being the ridding of their trouble from santa carla
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⼠big shot â billy joel
mikey :o) ⌠ok yeah he isnât the. silver spoon in hand (nose) type but heâs LITERALLY the type to open his mouth and get himself deep in enough shit that a fight breaks out, potentially bloodied his eyes, nose, and/or fists. i donât have much of an explanation outside of he is a himbo jock who pulled a âi didnât know how to talk to my crush so i wrote a note telling them to get out of my schoolâ except he said it with his fist instead of his mouth sbjshbshsj
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⼠boys donât cry â the cure
pretty sure this is one of the ones i stole off of shovel (@/iswearimavamp) sbshjbshjs but i do love this song in a general sense too. in regards to the movie, like. none of the guys. obsess over masculinity or anythingâ and both david AND michael cry at different pointsâ so thatâs not necessarily an issue. but, there *is* still a lot of hurt and stepping on toes in many of the relationships in the film that can be stretched to fit, i would think sbjhsbshjs
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⼠highway to hell â ac/dc
this and back in black were some of the last two i put on here because i. wanted to make an âevenâ 35 sbsjhsbshjs BUT, like with runninâ with the devil, itâs about a devilish lack of care for oneâs own life or the âstatus of their soulâ and just doing what feels right or like the most fun, no matter if it lands them in hell or not. and !!! âmy friends are gonna be there tooâ fits with the friendship within the boysâ found family and how theyâll all always be together, no matter what !!!
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⼠back in black â ac/dcÂ
i canât really think of an explanation that differs from highway to hell so just reread the above sbsjhsbsh
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⼠witch hunt â rush
OK !!! this is the song iâm the MOST excited to explain !!! right off the bat, moving pictures as a whole is an IMMACULATE album, absolutely love it. right so !!! this song literally SOUNDS like it belongs on the movie soundtrack; it has the same overtones and sounds as cry little sister and itâs just !!! and with the title, a witch hunt is BASICALLY what sam + the frogs went on in search of the lose boys, relying on little else but hearsay and catching glimpses at what was happening to michael, âconfident that their ways are bestâ and moving along like a mob of three to get to the bottom of it. âfeatures distorted in the flickering light // faces are twisted and grotesqueâ is very reminiscent of the faces the lost boys pull when theyâre about to attack, and âthey say there are strangers who threaten usâ is symbolic of them being outsiders/outcasts that make everyone uncomfortable, even if You arenât going to be their next victim. âthe righteous rise with burning eyesâ AND âquick to judge, quick to anger // slow to understand // ignorance and prejudice // and fear walk hand in handâ can apply to any number of characters, particularly the mains who are all pitted against each other, the humans fighting for their lives and the vampires fighting for their Right to live, neither taking into consideration the otherâs perspective. i just⌠ADORE this songâŚ
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⼠red barchetta â rushÂ
this one was mainly just because of the car that grandpa keeps in the barn and both sam and michaelâs fascination with it sbhjsbsshj and just to get more rush on here shjsbshjsbsh
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⼠maneater â hall & oates
one of the first songs to hit the playlist !!! because the boys eat people !!! theyâre the lean and hungry type that only come out at night !!! theyâll be sitting with you but their eyes are on the door and if you want love from them, you wonât get very far !!! the beauty IS there but there are beasts inside that can rip your world apart !!! theyâll chew you up but also leave you begging for more :o)
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⼠hungry like the wolf â duran duran
the second song to have gone on the playlist !!! the boys are always on the prowl for fresh meat (in both the food AND turning senses) and they come alive while on the hunt, blood no doubt rushing through their veins (assuming it still can) !!! and in the movie, michael is the one theyâre after for the turning connotation, all wanting a taste of him for themselves !!!
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⼠subdivisions â rush
this rush song actually went on before the others shbsjsbshj but !!! it still fits just as well (certainly better than red barchetta)⌠the movie all takes place on the fringes of the city, âin between the bright lights // and the far unlit unknownâ, and while itâs not exactly in the suburbs, thereâs still little comfort to soothe the restless dreams of youth. there IS a drawing like moths into the city, for both the emersons and the lost boys, which is what ends up bringing all of them together, although it starts are cruising for action just to feel the living night. and just !!! NOBODY fits in !!! if you take the movie title as them being Lost instead of an allusion to peter pan, then you get slapped with thinking about what actually makes them lost and how they donât conform in any way, shape, or form to just about. anything. and !!! the emersons are new, which immediately puts them at a social disadvantage, but they Also donât seem too terribly great at making new friends in general so !!! ânowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so aloneâ!!!Â
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⼠abracadabra â steve miller bandÂ
i just love this song for whatever reason. and i think the allusion to magic to very fitting for the hallucinations that david gives michael, putting a sort of magic spell on him if you want to look at it that way. not a lot of silk and satin going gone but plenty of leather and probably some lace in there somewhere ( ;o] ) ⌠also michael DOES heat up like a burninâ flame whenever his name is called and the situation with the boys just keeps going round and round with no exact end in sight, only the calling of desireÂ
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⼠separate ways (worlds apart) â journey
you would think i would have more journey on here ??? because i love them ??? but instead i stole this off of shovel too ??? itâs fine. time to be back on the 95060 bullshit sbsjhbsjhs we all know david Really wants michael to join them but. michael is reluctant, so that hesitance sets them worlds apart from each otherâ as if they werenât alreadyâ and thereâs still love between them, or at least the bgeinning sparks of it, even if michael refuses to act on them and only keeps pushing david awayÂ
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⼠cum on feel the noize â quiet riot
just some boys loving to party <3 some boys with evil yet dirty minds, out of time singing, funny faces, and that have a lazy time <3 yeah no this is one theyâd rock out to and someone would probably pull a muscle over because itâs just such a banger sbshjsbsjh
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⼠rebel yell â billy idolÂ
Another stolen off of shovel sbjhsbsjhs also ever since itâs been pointed out to me that david looks like billy idol iâve just been losing it a little sbhjsbshjs Anyway. theyâd definitely idolize him to some degree, even if just for looks, and it certainly fits the way that they. most Definitely let out a rebel yell at the midnight hour if you know what i meanâ *taken out by a sniper*
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⼠every breath you take â the police
would to believe to know i took it from shovel (i swear the last three where i say that will be rock you like a hurricane, livinâ on a prayer, and cherry pie sbshjsbsh) BUT !!! the watching every move is yet another. david keeping watch over michael and uh yearning from afar moment, heart aching the longer heâs away and the longer he keeps up this game of not knowing what exactly he wants to doÂ
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⼠handsome devil â the smiths
ok THIS one was lent to me by ej (@/maybe-strawberry-blue) sbshjbshjsbs and let me tell you. this song (especially when paired with this charming man) is Very homoerotic, aka perfect for this movie shbjsbshjsbs like what got me first was âlet me get my hands // on your mammary glandsâ and just. thinking about trans parko sbhsjbshjs but also in general the. âand i would like to give you // what i think youâre asking forâ and âa boy in the bush // is worth two in the handâ and just sbhjsbshjs Everything. fits the ambiguous homoeroticism. And i think the boys would listen to the smiths (will elaborate more in the other smiths song explanation)
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⼠panama â van halen
i Told you all i think van halen is neat sbsjsshjb what can i say. the boys like fast moving vehicles, hard partying, and tender loving sbsjhsbhsj also forgot to mention that i think theyâd all be :eyes: about pre-1985 david lee roth and i cannot blame
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⼠rock you like hurricane â scorpions
third to last shovel snatch sbshjsbh Here you can replace any one of the boys with the animals mentioned, as theyâre always hungry and need to feed⌠they come out scratching and ready to win, willing to rock anyone who gets in their way like a hurricaneâ including with lust, depending on the situationÂ
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⼠livinâ on a prayer â bon jovi
i actually canât even manage an explanation for this one either just because of the songâs plot and how greatly it differs the movie plot <3 however it will stay because shovel said one of the boys (i forget which) would listen to it and friendship is more powerful than my small brain <3
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⼠the queen is dead â the smiths
rightttt so hereâs the deal, buds and duds. something in my gut just tells me that david would pull a me and. listen to this entire album on repeat, particularly bigmouth strikes again and i know itâs over when in dramatics bshjsbsjh BUT to make a case for the title track itself, breaking into buckingham palceâ or really any major buildingâ with only a sponge and rusty wrench would ABSOLUTELY be an endeavor the boys would get up to And theyâd all pale (worse than normal) about finding out theyâre the descendant of some royal. âoh, has the world changed, or have i changedâ and âlife is very long, when youâre lonelyâ is quite fitting of their immortality, which i can only imagine would leave them questioning how the world has evolved and, although they have each other, iâm sure living forever still can get a Little lonely. And theyâd certainly celebrate the death of a royal (because anarchy <3). mostly iâve just been listening to this song on repeat for days sbhjsbshj but, i think itâs the most. generally related to all of the boys, whereas like. cemetry gates would be more solely 95060Â
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⼠need you tonight â inxs
my favorite inxs song⌠technically the 21st century Wasnât yesterday when the movie came out nor when the song did sbhjsbshjs but there *is* a lot of sweating from desire and aiming to put that passion into use, very blatantly letting everyone know that sbjhsbshjs
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⼠bad medicine â bon jovi
thereâs just something so fun about this song⌠and while listening to it on the drive home, i was thinking about it from a 95060 perspective where. davidâs a bit lovesick (hence the love like bad medicine) and the choir of voices in the bg, saying âthatâs what you get for falling in loveâ, would be the other boys knowing heâs gotten himself in over his head over what was supposed to be a minor tease or a small fling (would be a real fun and poppy animatic i think)
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⼠pour some sugar on me â def leppard
legitimately this started as a âhaha what about my âwhat if the blood was kool-aid insteadâ jokeâ and then i realized it was. a fair enough fit, especially with the feeding scene. except theyâre actual vamps not just video vamps sbjhsbshjs anyway. sugar highs and red hot flames of passion for one another <3
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⼠cherry pie â warrant
ok THIS is the last song i took from shovel and. my reasoning is pretty much the same as pour some sugar on me and. Friendship
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⼠somebody told me â the killers
i wasnât going to add any modern songs but. i thought itâd be funny if michael had had a girlfriend before leaving phoenix that looked a bit like david sbshjsbshj and then it only just added to angst sbhjsbshj
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⼠you know what they do to guys like us in prison â mcr
i was reminded that vampires will never hurt you exists but. i went with my favorite mcr song instead because. vwnhy is more like ??? a vampire that fears themselves ??? so like. an edward cullen type ??? while ykwtdtgluip is more about the homoeroticism and community ??? i said what i said
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⼠house of wolves â mcr
thank god this is the last song because iâm getting tired sbjshsjshb a little less homoeroticism, a little more general sinning and egotism <3
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The Song of our Hearts (Lukadrien June 2020)
Day 10: Sacrifice
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Luka is waiting for Adrien on the Liberty when his photoshoot ended early due to a storm. ( I guessed most people would write something angsty for the Sacrifice prompt so I went with something more lighthearted. ) You can read it on Ao3 here.
Adrien is supposed to arrive soon. He had a photoshoot scheduled this afternoon but it stated to rain quite heavily when the storm hit. Itâs gone now and the sun is starting to peek through the clouds, but the ground is still wet and apparently it wasnât the look they were going for. I never really understood it, but it must be like me when I donât vibe with one place to play music. I wonât complain, the rain allows me to see my boyfriend.
The deck of the Liberty is slippery with all the puddles. I walk across the deck with the ease of someone who was raised on a boat. Juleka and Rose leave for a walk chatting between themselves. I sit on a dry spot near the edge, my legs dangling over the water. Some would be scared of the height, but I learned to swim very young and when youâre a superhero, a jump into the Seine isnât the scariest nor the most disgusting thing youâll do. I take the guitar off my back and start strumming some chords. The light of the sun slowly piercing through the clouds and reaching the ground, chasing the greyness. Itâs similar to how Adrien lights up any room heâs in. In that big manor, heâs the only source of warmth. Well, his bodyguard is nice when you get to know him, but Mr. Agreste and his assistant: two cold hearted beings with shattered heart songs. I would pity them if they werenât so horrible to Adrien.
I wouldnât even be surprised if at our wedding, itâs his bodyguard standing beside us rather than his actual father.
Wedding, Iâm getting ahead of myself. I should leave the overthinking and over planning to Marinette. Knowing her, she may already have started to design our wedding clothes as well as hers and Kagamiâs.
I trust Adrien and I know that even if things between us donât work, weâll still be friends. Iâll make sure heâs happy, even if thatâs not with me.
I hear someone walking onto the boat, though they must want to continue to listen to my music because they donât say a word. Iâm pretty sure itâs Adrien, he can be incredibly sneaky when he wants to, the only reason I heard him is the puddles. Mom and Jules would just say hi or ask me if Iâm still thinking about Adrien, which is actually the case.
He walks closer to me, probably wanting to sit next to me as usual when Iâm playing. Suddenly, he screeches and I see him fall forward beside me. I drop my guitar and catch Adrien with both arms while launching myself backwards so we donât fall into the water. We land on the hard wood of the floor, water drenches the back of my jacket and my shirt. Adrienâs face is into my lap but he quickly straightens up and massages his face. After a few seconds, he looks at me and grins.
"Um, I didnât pin you down as the guy to do wet t-shirt contests, he purrs.
- I could have let you fall into the Seine and youâd be completely wet⌠Whereâs my guitar?
- Didnât you have it in your arms⌠Oh noâŚ
- Oh no what?"
He points to a floating mass onto the Seine, drifting away too quickly to hope to catch it. The belt was already starting to tear and I guess the push to catch Adrien was enough, it fell into the river.
"I weâre fast enough, we could get to one of the nearby bridges and we could try to catch it? Donât you  have a fishing rod or something?
- Itâs no use, it would be too heavy and the rod would snap.
- Iâm so sorry Luka, you should have let me fall instead, I know how much it meant for you.
- Itâs okay⌠The guitar is replaceable, not youâŚ
- Itâs not like I would have died or anything? Iâm not fragile, you know. Ladybug and Chat Noir went into the Seine, they would have said it if there was a monster or something.
- What is done is done, we donât have any second chances."
He circles me with his arm, keeping me close. I snake my arms around his waist and lay my head on his shoulder.
"Iâll buy you a new one, itâs my fault itâs in the Seine.
- What? No! Itâs not your fault. No matter what your father or his assistant may have taught you, itâs not your fault. Accidents happen all the times.
- Still, I know you donât have the means to buy a new one, let me buy it for youâŚ
- Adrien, no. Itâs my guitar, itâs an important part of my life, Iâll work to get a new one. Itâs really kind of you, but I donât want your money. Youâre more than your fatherâs fortune to meâŚ
- But what will you do in the meanwhile? Music is everything to you⌠Are you sure you donât wantâŚ
- Yes, Iâm sure. Mom has an old ukulele, Iâll borrow it. Itâs not like a guitar, but it will be fine."
 Iâd give up more than my guitar to make you happy, Adrien.
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Drag Race Winners Ranked
I should start out by stating two things:
1) This is not a âleast favorite to favoriteâ list. If it were, these would be in a completely different order. Iâm ranking the queens based on their runs on the seasons they won in, the queens they were up against, and their overall C.U.N.T.
2) These are my opinions, and mine only. If you disagree, fantastic! People have different opinions, itâs what makes us human.
Edit: Updated with our Season 10 winner, Aquaria!
13) Trixie Mattel
Trixie isnât a bad or mediocre queen by any means, despite undoubtedly being the most undeserving Drag Race winner as of yet. If it werenât for All Stars 3â˛s (one of the most disappointing, soulless Drag Race seasons, but thatâs another post entirely) ridiculously flawed jury twist, where previously eliminated queens decide the top two All Stars, and BenDeLaCreme eliminating herself, she wouldnât have won. Her performance on All Stars 3 was mediocre in the first half of the season, but she turned it out in the second half. There were, however, other queens that did much better than her throughout the season, and were solid all the way through. I think Trixieâs great, but her win felt extremely anticlimactic, and it wasnât really her fault.
12) Sasha Velour
âFour challenge wins, four challenge wins..
Then the finale comes and the crowned queen is?âŚâ
Sasha is a great queen. Sheâs intellectual, artsy, unique, annoyingly endearing with her history lessons that pop out of seemingly nowhere, and her run on Season 9 was relatively great, landing in the bottom once and never having to lip sync for her life. Sheâs winner material through and through. Why is she this low on the list, you might ask? Two words: Shea CouleĂŠ.
Letâs be honest, Season 9 was Sheaâs season. She won four challenges, a record which she shared with two queens at the time, Sharon Needles and Alaska Thunderfuck (AS2), both of whom won their respective seasons. Even the editors werenât expecting Sasha to win, since Shea was very clearly getting the winnerâs edit. Season 9 felt like Season 8 most of the way through in terms of how obvious the winner was. âThereâs no way in hell Shea isnât winning thisâ the majority of people thought. Then it happened. In one of the most iconic moments in the showâs history, rose petals came flooding out of Sashaâs wig during her lip sync against Shea, and it all came crashing down.
âItâs not right but itâs okayâ was the perfect final lip sync song, indeed.
11) Violet Chachki
This is where things get tough, because from here on out, I genuinely believe every single winner deserved the title of âAmericaâs Next Drag Superstar.â
Oh, Season 7. Such a great cast wasted on a stupid amount of acting challenges. Itâs a shame Violet never got the chance to REALLY shine during the non-runway parts of the season, because sheâs a fantastic queen. Interestingly, her best moment came from an episode of Season 8, not 7. At the end of Season 8â˛s crowning episode, she came out wearing what is, in my humble opinion, the best thing to walk down a runway in the entirety of the series, stealing the three finalists of Season 8â˛s thunder.
She might not have always been at the top during the challenges in her season, and she can come off a bit rude, but when it came to the runway, she never under-delivered. Being up against, in the words of Trixie Mattel, âa partially sedated twink from Brooklynâ might have helped her win the crown, though. Ginger Minj was stiff competition, but in the end, Violet prevailed. Thank God she did, because she gave us one of the most iconic moments of Season 8, one which Iâm obviously still not over.
10) Tyra Sanchez
Letâs get this out of the way: No, Raven was not robbed.
Look, Tyra can be mean-spirited, hateful and rude. Tyra on Season 2 was, in all honesty, a bitch. But you know what? She fucking deserved the crown. Her reasoning behind being a bitch was that she was focused on winning the season, and while Iâm not sure if thatâs true or not, she definitely slayed the game. Tyra delivered in almost every single episode of her season, and has her fair share of iconic moments (âDIS GROOB IS FOR MAH GIRLSâ remains one of my favorite Drag Race moments ever!) She unfortunately gets a lot of unwarranted hate from âfansâ of the show for ârobbingâ Raven of her crown and being a bitch.
Being nice is great and all, but Tyra showed us that you donât have to be Miss Congeniality to be Americaâs Next Drag Superstar.
Unfortunately, Tyra has lost her way recently. Itâs extremely unfortunate, because sheâs extremely beautiful and talented.
9) Chad Michaels
Iâm going to try my best not to reference The Hunger Games during this section.
If thereâs one thing the Drag Race fanbase can universally agree on, itâs that All Stars 1 is objectively the worst season of Drag Race ever, because of its oh-my-god-this-is-so-stupid-who-thought-this-was-a-good-idea teams twist. This is why Chadâs win is usually swept under the rug in the community, but in all honesty, Iâm just glad Chad won something.
During Chadâs run on Season 4, he showed us how a professional drag queen acts, dresses and talks. If it werenât for Sharon Needles, Chad would have probably won the season. Thereâs really not much else to say other than Chad was a really polished queen that deserved to win something, even it was the worst season of a great show.
8) Bebe Zahara Benet
Dubbed âThe Lost Season,â Season 1 of Drag Race is kind of a mess. The best kind, of course. The budget was paper thin, they had that awful vaseline filter throughout the whole thing, and nobody knew what they were doing. Not Ru, not the producers and definitely not the contestants. In a way, Season 2 was actually the first season of Drag Race, whereas Season 1 felt like an elaborate pitch. There was no âSnatch Game,â a challenge that would become a staple in the series, for example.
However, Season 1 has something later seasons lack in a major way: genuineness. The contestants of Season 1 didnât really come in with catchphrases prepared, or cared how âfansâ would harass them on social media. They were a bunch of men in wigs having fun. One of those contestants, Bebe, really stood out. Born in Cameroon, as she likes to remind us (she really, really likes to remind us) she had and still has a sense of presence none of the other contestants on the show have. When she walks on stage, you really feel like a Queen is walking down the runway. To this day, she is the sole queen that gives off those vibes.
She is sadly always forgotten, despite having a stellar run on Season 1 and being the OG winner. Thankfully, All Star 3, where she had another great run, put her back on the radar. May she never be forgotten again. Cameroooon!
7) Aquaria
In all of my years watching Drag Race, Iâve never done a complete 180 on a Ru Girl as hard and fast as I did on Aquaria. Rewatching her âMeet the Queensâ video, I still have no idea why she presented herself the way she did. Going into the Season, I saw Aquaria as a bratty look Queen that was extremely full of herself, and to be quite honest, the first few episodes didnât change my viewpoint.
As the season went on, however, she started to show her true self. Aquaria went from a brat to a sweet, awkwardly endearing dork, and I loved every single microsecond of it.
Iâve failed to mention her runway looks, which were nothing short of excellent. Every time she walked out on the runway, all you saw was polish from head to toe. Her Mermaid, Hats Incredible and Evil Twin looks are absolutely breathtaking. Her performance in the challenges was just as good. If you had told me Aquaria would win Snatch Game at the beginning of the Season, I would have laughed in your face. But she did. Week after week, she defied expectations and was always full of surprises.
She didnât deserve the crown, the crown was deserved by her. It truly is the dawning of the Age of Aquaria.
6) Bob the Drag Queen
Iâm paraphrasing, but Thorgy Thor, a contestant on Season 8 of Drag Race, said something along the lines of knowing she wasnât going to win when she saw Bob walk into the werkroom for the first time in an interview.
Season 8, perhaps more than any season of Drag Race, had the most predictable winner, and yet, nobody was really mad about it. The reason being is that Bob deserved every single fake jewel on that crown. Season 8 had a fantastic cast, but Bob was so much better than the rest of them, it bordered on being unfair. You could sense that the moment he walked into the werkroom.
Fashion and Makeup is where Bob usually faltered, but more than made up for it by being absolutely hilarious in acting challenges, killing Snatch Game, and all around just being a good sport.
Thereâs this thing about Bob that other winners lack but I canât quite put my finger on it. He feelsâŚâReal,â I guess? I donât really know how to put it into words, but whenever Bob talks, he exudes friendliness, whereas most of the other winners have an âauraâ around them. It makes him very, very special.
5) Jinkx Monsoon
Everyone loves a good underdog story!
For the first half of her season, Jinkx mostly flew under the radar, despite constantly doing great in challenges. The other queens started realizing that she was a threat around halfway point of the season, when it was a little too late to be able to do something about it.
Because of this, Rolaskatox, a clique created by Roxxxy Andrews, Alaska Thunderfuck, and Detox Icunt, started going ham on Jinkx, bullying and hating on her every time she did as much as draw a breath. It felt very similar to Season 3â˛s âHeathers vs. Boogers,â except this time, âBoogersâ was made up of one person. Seeing Jinkx take them down one by one felt fantastic and oh, so satisfying.
Jinkx, out of all the winners, is probably the nicest and most innocent one. Sheâs kind and completely unbothered by any kind of drama whatsoever. She marches to the sound of her own drum, and itâs honestly so refreshing.
4) Raja Gemini
Raja gets major props for winning hands-down, the most difficult season of Drag Race yet. Queens frequently say that Drag Race is the âOlympics of Drag,â and rightfully so (Yara Sofia wouldnât have broken down during a lip sync if it werenât. Season 3 in particular was pretty bad.) But other than that, Raja served some of the most creative and iconic looks to ever grace the runway. Her Marie Antoinette and Native American looks, I imagine, are engraved in everyoneâs minds because of how beautiful they were. Her drag is extremely different than everyone else, especially than the ones that were on her season.
She also gets props for beating Manila Luzon, who is undoubtedly the most talented runner-up in the showâs herstory.
To this day, Raja still delivers some of the most gag-worthy looks to come out of Ru girls, and managed to stay relevant by being the co-host of âFashion Photo Ruview,â a show where she and Season 2â˛s Raven Toot and Boot looks from episodes of Drag Race.
3) Sharon Needles
When Sharon walked down the post-apocalypse runway dressed up as a half zombie, half mummy thing, with blood pouring out of her mouth, she made an impact on the entirety of drag. Up until that point, drag, especially on Drag Race, hadnât gone there.
This is why Sharon is celebrated, because she showed everyone that drag wasnât just about looking fishy, pretty or anything of the sort. Drag can be spooky, disgusting and horrifying. I donât believe Sharon invented this kind of drag, but she certainly brought it to the forefront. I honestly believe that Dragula, another drag competition, would not exist had Sharon not won Season 4.
She was also a part of one of the best Drag Race storylines, if not the best: Sharon vs Phi Phi. No matter how hard the show tries, it just canât replicate the legendary rivalry between those two girls. Sharon obviously prevailed at the end, but it was a story for the ages.
2) Alaska Thunderfuck 5000
Iâm going to say something a bit controversial here: Alaska isnât really one of my favorite queens. She comes off as a bit of a perfectionist, something I personally despise. Why is she this high on the list, then?
As I stated at the beginning, this isnât a âleast favorite to favoriteâ list. Itâs a list based on queensâ strength, and I struggle to find someone as unapologetically talented as Alaska.
She is, in my opinion, the most well-rounded queen in the showâs herstory. She can act, sing, lipsync, serve looks, readâŚI could go on. Sheâs the epitome of âJack-of-all-trades, master of all.â She absolutely swept the floor during All Stars 2. Yes, it mightâve been rigged for her, but even if it werenât, sheâd still easily sweep the floor and win.
Sheâs also a Drag Race superfan, and will probably get any sort of reference you throw at her.
1) Bianca Del Rio
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I mean, was there really any other choice? Weâve reached a point where I personally believe weâre never getting a winner as good as Bianca, and a season as good as Season 6 of Drag Race, and Iâm at peace with that.
Bianca is the living embodiment of C.U.N.T. Sheâs charismatic as all hell, unique and unlike any other queen, can and will read a bitch whenever she gets the chance to, and sheâs out-of-this-world talented.
She sailed through her season, never landing in the bottom 3. Just like Bob, everyone knew Bianca was going to win the moment she walked in, but nobody cared because it just felt right.
It felt right.
#rupaul's drag race#rupauls all stars#trixie mattel#sasha velour#violet chachki#tyra sanchez#bebe#chad micheals#bob the drag queen#jinkx monsoon#Raja#sharon needles#alaska thvnderfvck#bianca del rio#Aquaria#Drag Race#Season 10#Rupaul
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08-Baseball, But Better
This chapter Is about trying to take a girl on a date in the zombie apocalypse. Hope you like it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- âAre you sure you should be drinking this early?â Kevin pat Darrin on the back who was hunched over the bar his face barely above his glass.
Darrin turned to look at Kevin his eyes were still red and his face had lost most of its color âI think Iâll just stay here for the dayâ
The bartender smirked as he began to draw another beer for Darrin. He was a large man with facial tattoos and a nose piercing his head shaved clean. When he set the drink down he leaned  and whispered âIâve got a few other things that could make you feel better too, if you need.â
Moon grabbed Kevin and pulled him away from the conversation âWell...This bar is kinda creepy so weâre going to go wander around the city a bit. Right Kevin?â
Kevin noticed many of the patrons were watching as the walked out of the bar. All of them males, long beards, bandanas, sunglasses and leather jackets, âyeah...letâs get the fuck outta this placeâ
They made their way back into the sunlight and city streets. The city was contained to just a few roads. It probably was host to a few thousand people before the outbreak. Only a few builds had been destroyed unlike many of the town's Matt had liberated which often boasted burnt ashes of government building, banks and mansions. Kevin and Moon explored the city streets not finding much to do. To their surprise despite the city being in pretty good physical condition many of the people there were living in squalor. The city streets were almost completely empty, and those that did cross their path looked as though they had not eaten or bathed in days. They stopped and sat on a park bench. Kevin fiddled through his backpack and pulled out an old off brand MP3 player and some earbuds. He placed one in his ear and offered the Moon. She smiled and placed it in her ear. Kevin scrolled through the artists, for a moment then finally landed on one and hit play. They kicked back and looked up into the sky for a few minutes in silence.
âSay Anything huh?â Moon slowly turned her head towards Kevin.
âYeah they are my favorite bandâ
âOh yeah? You love those sappy love songs, or just the angsty vibe of ...Is a real boy?â
âI love everything about them. I always thought Max and I were kinda the same, and if someone like him could find love after all the emotional struggles he went through when he was younger, maybe I could too.â
Moon giggled a little âYeah you just gotta have the perfect voice and the perfect bod first before you can find your Sherriâ
Kevin shrugged âOk ok, maybe weâre not super similar, but you know what I mean.â
Moon turned back to the sky âYeah I get it you are a Cusack boyâ
Kevin smiled âAre you Molly Ringwald girl?â
Moon put her hand on Kevinâs back prompting them to stand up together âHm, I donât know. But Iâm sure there is a guy out there writing shitty pop-punk songs accusing me of being his Mollyâ
Kevin nervously pressed the conversation on âOh yeah? Did your last boyfriend write music?â
Moon responded almost automatically âNoâ
âWhat was he likeâ
Moon shivered involuntarily âHe was nothing more than a bodyâ
âOh...um, we donât have to talk about that if you donât want to, Iâm sorry for always asking you about it.â
Moon looked up at Kevin. Her eyes welled up, but she kept a smile on her face âYeah, sounds good.â They continued walking through the city passing the MP3 player back and forth taking turns picking songs. They ended up at a diner which boasted having the best food that stayed dead. The menu was carved into a wall above the grill, notably it did not include prices, just money symbols.  âRabbit $, Deer $$, Pig $$$, Water, Beer $$âÂ
 Kevin chuckled at the simplicity âHm, doesnât look like this place has any specials or a seasonal menu, you sure we should eat here?â
The cook turned around exposing a scarred face and missing eye âyah can order something, or fuck offâ
âWell take 2 orders of deer and watersâ Moon took a place at the bar not intimidated by the chef.Â
The chef smirked and extended his arm putting a finger on the center of Moonâs chest âAnd how exactly do you propose to pay for this missyâ
Moon grabbed his wrist and squeezed as she bent his arm away from her âWere good for the money, now I believe your job is serving us not harassing me.â
âYou let this little bitch act like this? Sheâs gunna get killed out hereâ the chef turned to Kevin looking for someone to take his side.
Kevin had partially drawn his short sword âLook man, you are lucky you didnât get killed when you touched her so maybe you should start cooking if you plan to make a sale here.â
The two waited in silence as their food was prepared. Kevin pulled out an old flip phone and began typing a text message trying to be quiet about it. He passed it over to moon beneath the bar.Â
âThis guy is a dick, lets just go somewhere elseâ
She shook her head and began typing back âNo, weâre not backing down. But you are probably gunna have to fight him to prove you are more macho than himâ
Kevin laughed aloud a bit prompting the cook turned around. He slammed two waters on the counter with a grumpy stare. Kevin quickly hid the phone in his jacket. The cook grunted as he scanned over both of them, then turned back to the grill. âYou are outsiders huh?â he paused and cracked his neck âBet you got a lot of nice stuff on youâ He spun around thrusting a knife forward. Kevin barely dodged it. About to fall off the bar stool he reach out and grabbed the manâs arm, accidentally pulling the cook over the bar counter. The two of them tumbled to the ground wrestling for control of the knife. Kevin push the knife clear of his head, then let go with one of his hands and began elbowing his assailant in the head. The cook let go of the knife and grabbed Kevin, pulling him to his feet. He lifted Kevin off the ground and tossed him crashing into a booth. Kevin braced the attack and attempted to draw his sword but the hilt was stuck under the tabletop. Rolling over onto the floor he dodged a plate which was hurled towards his head. Kevin struggled to get out from under the table, before he could clear it the cook stepped on his right hand. Kevin cried out for a second in pain then he bent over wedging his swordâs sheath into the manâs stomach. He flipped forward shoving the man backward while simultaneously drawing his blade. Kevin stumbled to his feet using a bar stool to prop himself up. The cook reached over the counter, and pulled out a shotgun. Kevin took a deep breath and audibly exhaled. *TWACK* The back side of moonâs blade smashed against the chefâs head. He lost his balance falling over onto a table. Silverware and coffee cups shattered as the body spilled to the ground.Â
Kevin sighed as he put his sword away âI would have paid him tooâ
âWell Iâm still hungryâ Moon gestured her head toward the grill.
Kevin pulled up his sleeves and dusted off his clothes âOk ok, give me a minute.â He search through the building finding a few things not listed on the menu. He finished the dish able to serve the meat seasons with garlic powder and a side of lettuce, with a dessert of half a chocolate bar. The two took their food to go. Before leaving Kevin dug in his pack to find a few old dollar bills. In very teenage angst fashion, He had drawn the anarchy A over the presidentâs faces. He left $60 laying on top of the unconscious body and lightly patted him on the face âSee you could have all the useless money you want and we wouldnât have beat the shit out of you.â
The pair ended up at an abandoned movie theater and decided to take refuge there to avoid another run in with a less than friendly member of the city. They sat side by side towards the back eating their food. Kevin sat with his legs on top of the seat in front of him while Moon kept to her space respecting the potential viewers in front of her. A piece of meat fell from Moonâs plate and almost immediately a rat scurried out to procure it. Before he could make it back to his hiding place beneath the seats a throwing knife pinned him to the ground.Â
Moon nudged Kevin her face half smiling âWell if you are still hungry, I found some more meatâ
Kevin pretended to gag then brushed the body away with his foot âNah, Iâm good⌠you know, the projector here is probably digital, I bet I could rig it up to play something. What do you want to see?â
Moon sat for a minute pondering, âHm, Â it doesnât have to be a drama, but just something you really connect with emotionallyâ
Kevin took off to the upstairs and made his way to the video room. Sure enough it was a digital projector. He opened his backpack and poured out a few electrical devices. He cut off the plug for the projector and stripped the cables, then tapped them to a laptop battery. After a few seconds the projector powered on. He took out a tablet and scrolled through a movie folder. Eventually he settled on the first Gurren Lagann movie. With his chest puffed out Kevin proudly walked back into the theater signing the opening theme song of the movie.Â
Taking his seat next to moon he placed a smartphone between them with the speakers facing up.âI donât have enough electricity for the sound system...So this will have to doâ
âMeh good enough for me.â
Kevin very energetically watched the film explaining to Moon the parts which had been left out from the original anime, and the cool new scenes that were improved in the movie. He echoed all of his favorite lines from the film, sometimes even standing up and pointing to the sky copying the pose of the characters on screen. As the film came to a close, the scene which Kevin dreaded began.Â
He sat back with his arms crossed. âBitchâ he whispered under his breathÂ
Moon turned to look at him âWhat?â
âSheâs a bitchâ
âYoko?â
âYeah she comes between Kamina and Simon and causes him to dieâ
Moon threw her arms up âHow is that her fault? What did she do, have boobs, and that ruined their friendship?! Maybe if men could control their desire to want to fuck every woman they see this wouldnât have happened.â
âYou donât get itâ
Moon very frustratingly rubbed her forehead âNo. You donât get it. Look, Simon does nothing, he just sits there and watches. How can that be Yokoâs fault?â
Kevin crossed his arms and turned back to the screen. Moon got up and began to walk out. Before she left the theater she stopped and looked at Kevin for a minute. Kevin noticed and adjusted himself to be facing away from her. âJust leave. I donât want to talk to youâ She sighed as she walked out of the theater, rubbing her eyes.
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Countdown to #Eurovision: Yearly Reviews - 1982
Weâre approximately three months away from the next edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, and while weâre waiting for more of the 2017 songs to be released before reviewing them (as we did last year), weâre going to revisit Eurovision song contests from the past and rank our favorites in each contest.
Welcome to Harrogate! Well, where is that? In North Yorkshire, apparently... as if all people should know where that is, of course... Itâs in England, where I participate in watching the last contest that Iâm not too familiar with - for a while, that is. From 1983-1996, Iâm well-informed about the songs and the presentation. However, Iâm curious enough to watch this edition in full; itâs only a little over two hours long. British efficiency â but of course! Jan Leeming (I think thatâs her name) would lead a very structured and quick songs presentation and voting sessions; the first song is already starting about 8-9 minutes in! When we get to 1997, itâll be an entirely different era of Eurovision starting to take form, and Iâm interested in seeing that, too. Her French is a bit awkward and clumsy, but so will be 1983âs English and French, soo⌠what can we say. They didnât try to pull anything crazy, but the presentation of 1982 wouldnât be very memorable as a result. Moreover, there were only 18 countries â Greece, Italy, and France all jumped ship. For shame!
Again â I only know a few of these songs. I also know that everyoneâs immediate reaction to Bucks Fizz winning the year previously was to start dancing and actinâ a fool. But Iâm ever-so-eager to learn what else will surprise me here. Letâs go!
(Click the titles of the songs below to listen to the full-length songs.)
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1. PORTUGAL â Doce, âBem-Bomâ - 13th place, 32 pts
God damn, Portugal! For two straight years you sent really fun and interesting music! They donât usually do âwackyâ entries, but this was as close as they got back in that day. I love the thumping drums that keep the song moving and interrupt this from being a true disco-beat. The four ladies who sing the song have fun dance moves, all black and white ensembles, and the âHey!â shout followed by two claps during the choruses enhances this song. The only thing I could fault them for is the vocals themselves, which are very basic. Itâs just fun, and a great start to the contest.
2. LUXEMBOURG â Svetlana, âCours apres le tempsâ - 6th place, 78 pts
With a name like Svetlana, Iâm going to guess she is not a native Luxembourgian. Well, whatever â sheâs beautiful, and her voice soars high into falsetto-land. High and above the heavens, at the end! She is attempting to fly like a bird and starts prancing like a ballerina. Iâm not sure how I feel about the song itself, given itâs simple pop feel, very typical for that era. But I think it holds up well for what itâs setting out to accomplish. This is much different, and much better than, their 1981 entry â but they would perfect it even more in â83.
3. NORWAY â Jahn Tiegen & Anita Skorgan, âAdieuâ - 12th place, 40 pts
Gah, theyâre back!  Actually I read somewhere something interesting about this â apparently Norway was getting tired of being relegated so lowly in the voting, so they put forth some ridiculous amounts of effort in ensuring the lyrical and musical quality of the song would sound less âNorwegianâ and be more accessible. I think it paid off! I am fonder of this than Luxembourgâs song already, and itâs simple but steady⌠at least, steadier than Jahnâs microphone. Calm down, dude, no need to be nervous! Itâs cute, itâs cuddly, and very loving. Good on you, Norway!
4. UNITED KINGDOM â Bardo, âOne Step Furtherâ - 7th place, 76 pts
Alright, so youâre at home in the UK, watching your act take the stage and thinking how awesome it is that your country is hosting the biggest television show in the world. Two singers, a male and female, proceed to sit on the stage. Then this tribal drum sound starts up, the title comes stuttering up the screen, and the dancers start rolling and ⌠air-humping? Wow, Mom and Dad, we sure are a great country! The problem with this song is that it tries to do EVERYTHING at once. Itâs over-the-top. There are great parts, and horrible parts. Her singing is more inconsistent than the guyâs, too. I wanted to really like this, but all I can remember is how the first 10 seconds of the song were completely unnecessary.
5. TURKEY â Neco, âHani?â - 15th place, 20 pts
âNot there, honey!â Okay, then where? Well, itâs obvious to me that the 1970âs arenât completely over yet in Turkey. Now, Neco has a great voice; it takes a lot of confidence and experience to lead an effort like this. Also, the sounds that take over toward the end â the electro-disco synthesizers and drums - make this song so much better than the year before. A solid effort from the country that had yet to see a Top 10 placing.
6. FINLAND â Kojo, âNuku pommiinâ - 18th place, 0 pts
Oh⌠This is that song⌠LOL. Well, Finland makes sure to expand your idea of music, thatâs for sure. I donât know how they expected to score well with this song; the first two lyrics (in English) sound like âYo sir Kunaka, eating cock-aaaaâ and the credibility flies out the door. The chorus is âBomb me â bomb me â nuku bomb me â lean on help a bombâ⌠Itâs a rock song in Eurovision, and itâs very new-wave 80âs rock. Now, this is one of those âso-weird-slash-bad-slash-odd-that-its-goodâ entries. Iâm having a hard time doing anything but making fun of the song. But in 1982, this was too progressive, and he literally screams half the song. The breakdown at the end is very cool, and he has a Bruce Springsteen vibe. He loses that rep when he makes a snore sound at the end. I donât care if this was part of the original composition, itâs dumb. Why do the Finnish insist on making awkward sounds in the last five seconds of their music? (See 1980.) The man at the giant drum does this pirouette move and fails to pretend to hit the drum on queue. Watch it, itâs hilarious!! I will have to balance these things towards the end with my voting. Summary: this song is awesome. But itâs challenging.
7. SWITZERLAND â Arlette Zola, âAmour on tâaimeâ - 3rd place, 97 pts
Well this pondered right into the hearts of the 50 and 60-year-olds watching from home, huh? I get a weird half-Aunt vibe from Arlette; not to mention, sheâs trying to be Kate Bush a-la Wuthering Heights during her ESC performance, dress and all. She has the right voice to take this song to new heights, though, and itâs very schlager. But itâs not in a category of song that I wish to pursue after Iâm done watching this song contest.
8. CYPRUS â Anna Vissi, âMono i agapiâ - 5th place, 85 pts
This has a very melancholic feel for a ballad, and I sure do love it. It harkens to âJohnny Blueâ but carries a true sense of lament. This song shows off Annaâs vocals so much more than âAutostopâ did, not to mention, her intonation is flawless. Literally not even one note was out of tune! I can definitely feel something going on here, and itâs probably the best ballad of the night thus far!
9. SWEDEN â Chips, âDag efter dagâ - 8th place, 67 pts
There was supposedly a band named Chips in the Irish National Selection, which could have caused the very interesting and odd situation of two groups with the same name in one contest! This is so lame, Iâm sorry. Interestingly itâs similar in design and content to the 1985 winner, but for whatever reason I could feel the energy and jubilance of that song. This just looks lame, and outdated. Maybe itâs those loser saxophone players; I donât know. Thereâs also some weird thing going on toward the end that lends influence by ABBA themselves. And ABBA you are not. Get off stage, please.
10. AUSTRIA â Mess, âSonntagâ - 9th place, 57 pts
You named your song âSundayâ? You... named your group âMessâ? This song is a mess. Well, this is the reverse of the UK â the female singer is much better than the male. But again, itâs a lame throwback song. Are there any redeeming qualities to it? Uhhmmm⌠well, they look colorful on stage? And the man did a good job at catching the girl? No, this is definitely a candidate for the big goose egg from me, which hurts â I really like most of Austriaâs songs from the 1980s.
11. BELGIUM â Stella, âSi tu aimes ma musiqueâ - 4th place, 96 pts
Yes! We have officially entered the world of 80s pop! Itâs a bit schlager, but not too bad. And dare I say that Stella is knock-dead gorgeous. Yes, I do love your music! Now the lyrics end up coming off as a bit corny, and Iâm not sure how well the Francophone countries scored this, but the composition boosts this one for me. It has a very sunshiney feel that was missing from the previous two songs, since those came off as so fake. This actually makes me happy!
12. SPAIN â Jan Lucia, âElâ - 10th place, 52 pts
I was listening to the Spanish commentary leading up to this entry, and it was really conserved â but I imagine the hype was there! Lucia is such a diva on stage, and she controls the audience with her delivery. Itâs very Spanish and itâs basically tango music, but I have to love the dance breakdown halfway through the song. What an interesting way to enhance its uniqueness. Spain has recovered from an otherwise dull past two years! So, knowing that ethnic can work, what do you think theyâll send in â83? âŚ. :D
13.  DENMARK â Brixx, âVideo-videoâ - 17th place, 5 pts
Oh my god, Denmark, you actually sent new wave music to Eurovision!!?!?!? YES! The music television era has begun! Now, let me guess â the song did horribly with the juries. It is a tad short, and the front-manâs voice is a bit cringe-worthy at times. But talk about a song that can get stuck in your head⌠âVideo! Video! Ja, video mejâ. Iâm definitely rewarding this some points if I can!
14. YUGOSLAVIA â Aska, âHalo, haloâ - 14th place, 21 pts
Okay, I was watching the first 15 or so seconds of the beginning of this performance thinking, âOkay, so the only really bad comment I have so far is their clothing. Not a deal breaker!â but then they started singing, and I put my hand to my face. Not only does the orchestra have to literally quiet down so that these ladiesâ voices can be heard, but then youâre welcomed with a bunch of 45-year-old housewife voices grooving and sidestepping to a schlager-fest. No thanks. There are⌠okay elements to this, especially towards the end, but itâs too late. The lady in the black dress looks so bored. Itâs too bad because I recognize one of the singers (the one in blue) â sheâd return in 1983 as a backup singer for a much better song.
15. ISRAEL â Avi Toledano, âHoraâ - 2nd place, 100 pts
This is one of the other few songs Iâm aware of (save for the winner) for a very hilarious reason. Problems with the design of the British stage become evident during this performance; at about 1:27 in from the beginning of the song, the female dancer on the back-right knocks over her microphone, making a very audible fall. You donât actually see it fall, but when they cut to the next shot, you see it on the floor. The female dancer on the back left is looking over to her like, âGod damn it you messed this up for us!â and I laugh it off. Thereâs just not enough space to do those dances on that stage. But listen â the song itself is fantastic, perhaps even the best dance song of the night. Very Israeli, but powerful, driving, and led by Avi, who sings it with all heâs got. An excellent entry! And just when you think it canât get any louder and bombastic, it does! Whoever composed this song for the orchestra deserves a gold medal. For real.
16. NETHERLANDS â Bill van Dijk, âJij en ikâ - 16th place, 8 pts
Okay. I had to pause this video and get over some laughter â what is it with people not realizing how their lyrics could be interpreted in other languages? Surrounded with girls, Bill runs up in surprise, points to the audience, and croons, âCake!â As for the song itself, itâs so 80âs. And then the female drummer winks at you with total honesty. And then Bill grinds against the magenta-dress-wearing backup singer. And then Bill gargles a Dutch lyric. Then he screeches a bit. And then he does the reverse splits. And points some more. And pirouettes. Good luck winning, guys. Now I want cake.
17. IRELAND â The Duskeys, âHere Today, Gone Tomorrowâ - 11th place, 49 pts
The Irish brought disco schlager to Britain. Fitting! Given what the Irish have accomplished in all the years theyâve been doing this contest, prior and later on, this seems so lame and effortless compared to others. The only thing I can think of is that this music was big at that time in Europe. For what it sets out to accomplish, itâs not the worst thing in the world â I like the harmonics of the voices during the âHere today, gone tomorrowâ lyrics. But it has not aged well. And the âla-la-laâs are a cop-out.
18. GERMANY â Nicole, âEin bisschen Friedenâ - 1st place, 161 pts
You know, this is a quite peculiar song to end the series of songs prior with! The order of the songs was always random in these days, so only one could wonder how Nicole wouldâve finished if she were placed differently amongst the other tunes. Despite all this, this song rocked the show so hard because everyone felt the need to capitalize on what Bucks Fizzâs win brought to Eurovision; even Britain. Germany stripped it all down and sent a girl with a guitar to center stage, sit down, and sing a song about peace. And it was a great song, too; probably the best folk song ever entered into Eurovision. Definitely deserving of the win; Germanyâs first win!
Just another anecdote - Israel and Germany would trade each other the douze points on the night, which was seen by many as a sign of putting past histories aside for the sake of music and peace. If only some of the countries participating today could do such a thing! Ahem, Azerbaijan...
My votes:
12 -Â Germany 10 -Â Israel 8 -Â Portugal 7 -Â Cyprus 6 -Â Belgium 5 -Â Denmark 4 -Â Norway 3 -Â Spain 2 -Â Turkey 1Â -Â FinlandÂ
(Luxembourg and Switzerland come close to scoring, though!) The âBig Fat 0âł award: Austria Honorable Mention: Luxembourg Worst Dressed: SwedenÂ
And here is the overall count of points thus far:
1st - 26 - Germany (1982) 2nd - 19 - Portugal 3rd - 18 - Greece (1981) 4th - 17 - Belgium 5th - 13 - Ireland (1980) 11 - Denmark 11 - Norway 10 - France 10 - Israel 8 - Luxembourg 8 - United Kingdom 7 - Cyprus 6 - Spain 5 - Turkey 3 - Finland 2 - Sweden
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