#now to go listen to streetlight manifesto

[aspoopalypse]

i enjoy porya hatamis approach to noise, i think its almost in an opposite space to merzbow at times in how it verges on anti music in how light its touch is. like when does the pop of vinyl blending into the sound of rain become music. i really enjoy the way they make a little go so far

[mokeonn]

if you dont mind sharing, what are some of your favorite ska songs/bands?

I will admit I am not a huge band person I tend to be more of a "pick whatever random songs sound good" person, so I can't recommend any good bands. I also listen to Ska Punk, which is a subgenre of Ska... and Punk. So I am not a good authority on Ska songs to listen to I am just someone who is banned from being passed the aux cord...

But some of my favorite songs include:

No Children - Ska (cover)

Quinto Patio Ska

Everything Went Numb

S F D D

And songs by Reel Big Fish tbh. I know I just said I don't listen to specific bands but Reel Big Fish has some pretty good songs like...

Sell Out

And their Take on Me cover

Here's my disclaimer, though: I am not into music subcultures I just listen to whatever sounds good (and jazzy punk with horns sounds good), so I could be giving absolutely awful music recommendations that anyone who is especially into Ska (and more specifically Ska Punk) might find egregious. I personally just grab whatever song sounds good and add them to my forever long playlist.

Also the Jabberjaw (Running Underwater) song from Pain used for the Cartoon Network Boomerang Groovies is probably the reason I enjoy Ska punk so much, and it has been in my playlist for years now:

If nothing else in this list interests you, I require everyone by law to listen to Jabberjaw Running Under Water by pain and watch the Cartoon Network Boomerang Groovie video of it. I used to watch Boomerang a million times, and this was probably the only Groovie I really enjoyed watching and didn't go to the bathroom during.

[druckers]

3 14 27 and 32 !!!!

3. a song that reminds you of summer

in a sweater poorly knit by mewithoutYou! I listened to it during hikes I went on over the summer a bit ago and it's been ingrained in my mind since :^) very much a favorite.

14. the last cd/album you bought

I haven't bought anything Yet but I have my eyes on the pentiment ost (of course.) and some mountain goats records. would like to pick up something by the twilight sad too... sighs wistfully

27. one song that starts with each letter of your name

going to marrakesh - the extra glenns age of kings - the mountain goats the receiving end of it all - streetlight manifesto rise to me - the decemberists the engine driver - the decemberists throw yourself into the water again - the twilight sad to leave it now - trembling blue stars

32. a song that you associate with the color yellow

bowl of oranges by bright eyes! just feels very warm to me. and such.

[iantimony]

didn't poast last week so this is a two-week extravaganza post! con: got roped into DMing dnd pro: none of these fools have read mdzs so i can steal plots from there. hope the party is ready to be lead on a quest by a disembodied arm!

listening: oh shit SO many things. i will not be linking to all of them.

depeche mode: basically just their top songs on spotify, not any specific album. strong shoutout to 'shake the disease' and 'wrong' (which featured in my secret samol post!)

disturbed: ditto

franz ferdinand: albums 'hits to the head' and 'tonight'. throwbacks

phoenix: 'wolfgang amadeus phoenix' ditto throwback

inxs: 'x' DITTO throwback. doesn't hit the same as when i first listened to em years ago unfortunately

streetlight manifesto: album 'somewhere in the between'

boy and bear: 'harlequin dream'

sammy rae: 'let's throw a party', 'the good life', and their 'everybody wants to rule the world' cover

hozier: 'wasteland baby' and 'unreal unearth'

paramore: album 'this is why'

grizzly bear: 'veckatimiest' and 'painted ruins'

haken: their newest album 'fauna' because i'm thinking about whether or not to go to one of their shows in feb (leaning towards yes right now)

my SO's pinecore playlist

shosty symphony no 5 (<3)

and, finally, a lot of borodin symphony no. 1 in e flat and the last two movements of rimsky-korsakov golden cockerel because that's what the youth orchestra i'm volunteering with is playing right now haha

for podcasts, i've listened to the new counter/weight prequel eps! i'm so charmed to see these characters again. i still haven't finished millenium break holiday special because i lost my spot when a bunch of an episode played without sound by accident so i finally went and scrubbed back to the beginning of the episode (it's the second to last part) so by next week i will FINALLY be out of holiday special zone.

reading: finished rereading tgcf lol,,, in loving memory of square checkbox: apparently apple is switching to circle ones? hateful wikipedia page for kessler syndrome my friend @celestialtourguide sent me a dm to ask about a few of the characters in this manuscript and i was immediately charmed by it. it's so pretty, i loved the informational blurbs, just really cool stuff. it was already on waybackmachine but i've gone ahead and updated it.

watching: kurtis conner looksmaxxing. weird little subculture peek. rewatched sideways' why the music in cats 2019 is worse than you thought because my roommate was interested. this led us to the same channel's why avatar has the most ironic soundtrack of all time because roommate misread ironic as iconic and she really likes that movie. no accounting for taste, but aight. much more interesting than i thought it would be. that video then lead us to tony hinnigan's woodwind demos because hell fuckin yes. big-ass panpipes.

i've been keeping up on dunmeshi anime in little watch sessions with my SO, and also am working through kill la kill with him! i've seen it before but he has not so i'm really enjoying that.

playing: fallow.

making: i managed to finish my secret samol gift in time for reveal day!!! comics are fuckin hard dude!!!! i don't know if i'll be doing it again but it was a fun challenge. i decided to use a New App for some reason instead of procreate because procreate has not been hitting right and i wanted comic half tone brushes for this project. app is called sketchbook, it's an orange icon with a pencil on it. shrug! it's fine! i'll probably keep using it for a bit. started working on an english paper piecing project! soliciting tips for that because right now my method is: cut out hexagon using pattern piece i made to be 1/4 in larger all around than the template, gluestick template onto hexagon, baste edges down neatly, whip-stitch right sides together. remove template once all six sides have something attached. i'm sure there's a better way to streamline this process, i'll have to experiment. this will end up as a dice bag i think.

finally, pottery starts again this week! so next week will have some of that in here

eating: ah beans i did not do a good job keeping track of this. uh. made the ground pork & cabbage thing again because my roommate got SO much napa cabbage for making kimchi and we had a shitload left over. napa cabbage isn't as good as a more standard cabbage for this imo, standard cabbage tends to be a little sweeter i think once it's cooked in? idk. had some stage 5 mental illness moments last week trying to cook dinner on a very short time scale with lots of other shit to do, following a recipe because fucking of course my roommate wanted me to cook with a recipe that night. anyways.

misc: like said at the top, somehow i managed to sign up for Another Activity god damn it. so now every saturday evening i run dnd. tl;dr i'm in a group irl that meets biweekly, someone who i give a lift to for that was complaining in the car that their other online group's dm ragequit after his encounter wasn't well-balanced (skill issue) and before thinking about it i just was like oh well i could probably step in if you need! god damn ittttt lol i have missed dming so it should be fun. i vibe checked them for a session 0 last week and they seem chill and honestly shouldn't be too much work on my end, especially if i yoink plots from mdzs ha ha ha. other than that, all is basically well. i've settled back into a schedule, applied for some summer positions (!), and absolutely hate the amount of busy work in one of my two classes. yippee

[trixster37]

Ska punk Recs: Go listen to Streetlight Manifesto right tf now start with the hands that thieve (Album)

I've been listening to Streetlight Manifesto a bunch this month, they're kinda the only ones I know (I also started with everything goes numb and not hands that thieve, but that's in the past now)

[indecentpause]

Until Our Hearts Go Numb: A Soundtrack

Max's parents are dead and his guardian, Josselin, a close friend of the family, is suffering from brain cancer. Josselin's lost his insurance and can't afford treatment anymore. So what do Max and his siblings do? They rob a bank, of course. A story of the rise and fall and eventual mental unwinding and collapse of three siblings, who have nothing in the world but each other. A Sheraton Academy AU.

the offspring - gone away // oleander - hands off the wheel // sum 41 - the hell song // kill hannah - they can't save us now // choking victim - 5 finger discount // streetlight manifesto - everything went numb // franz ferdinand - the fallen // cherry poppin' daddies - zoot suit riot // the refreshments - banditos // franz ferdinand - this boy // garbage - temptation waits // provocalize - radioactive/my songs know what you did in the dark // des rocs - wayne // the death set - they come to get us (original punk verison) // fenix tx - something bad is gonna happen // the dillinger escape plan - setting fire to sleeping giants // afi - the boy who destroyed the world // the white stripes - seven nation army (glitch mob remix) // alt-j - tessellate // the mountain goats - dilaudid // ham sandwich - floors

listen here

read Until Our Hearts Go Numb: ao3

[skwigelfskwisgaar]

Babe, i heard that you don't know what ska is, i'm about to change that. You're going to sit your ass down and listen to this album with me and you're going to learn this shit, you have no choice. Now sit down, let me show you a personal favorite of mine Streetlight Manifesto! Okay, we're gonna start with their album Somewhere in between and go from there, if we dived into Everything went numb first you'd fuckin' loose your head at this shit. If this doesn't do anything to you i have some other choices under my sleeve. We got Bumpin Uglies, they'll defiantly knock your socks off! We also could go down The Aquabats route (but personally i think they're a bit overrated.) Or, Or! IF, and i mean IF you're feeling really fucking zesty i'll throw on some Voodoo Glow Skulls! so sit tight and chillax babe, you're gonna go on experience! [ @theknubblerexperience]

Oh? Amns you doingsk de Magnus t'ing wheres you makes me listen to olds grandpas rock? I don't have de liver for dat game anymores but I's verr interesteds in listening to new musics.

Amnst going to improves mine skill if I amnst aware of all the de music.

Lets me gets whats de few drinks for de exkperiences, dis amnst fun wit-out drinks. Maybes I shows to you mine collection of de old vinyls I listened to laters.

Foirst t'ough, what amns ska?

[jikanet-tanaka]

Ideas for stories and such...

I'm a bit overwhelmed with plot bunnies right now, and I think writing them all out is the best way to get 'em all straight. So... here are a few ideas for future fics I'd want to write. I dunno which one(s) I should focus on first...

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

A Saga Most Ordinary : I have ideas for two more chapters, one about Eivor playing Dungeons and Dragons with the three Good Boys, along with Hytham, Randvi and Tewdwr, and another about her and Valka Staging An Intervention because she thinks Sigurd went and joined some cult because of his new girlfriend (ie Fulke).

Untitled/maybe it’ll just be chapter two of an existing fic, I dunno: A new companion piece/sequel of sorts to ‘Nornir's Curse, Nótt's Counsel’ about Randvi and Valdis just hanging out (on the beach while their respective spouses watch over the young ‘uns) and talking about their (rather similar, really) lives.

Dishonored

Take Your Silver Spoon (Dig Your Grave) : A two-shot about two bastard-born princesses of the Kaldwin line. Part of it is already written, I just need to get off my ass and do something about it lol

You and Me and The Leviathan Makes Three : An AU where Daud survives the events of DoTO, and Billie is stuck trying to find new purpose in her life while teaching a god-turned-boy how to Human and a suicidal old man how to… not be a total wreck of a person . Oh, and the Abbey of the Everyman is falling apart all around them (which makes the Boysider happy, since his two newfound biggest goals in life are 1) to destroy organized religion and 2) to save the whales. Every chapter would be set in a different isle, with titles based on sea shanties.

Dracula

Untitled : A little one-shot about how Drac might have gotten to Mina on the night of October 3rd. Because the details are kinda hazy on that, right?

Final Fantasy XVI

The Tale of the Telamonides : Before the mission to Drake’s Head, Mid shows up to the Hideout to Bring Chaos and Shenanigans to everyone’s live. Because I was sad that we never did see her interact with Cid.

Gravity Falls

Dungeons and Dummies : …I need to finish this you guys, I already have it all planned out. I feel weirdly anxious about this story, mostly because I don’t happen to have the whole of the rules of D&D stamped in my brain (shocking, I know). It’s like I’m afraid I’ll have someone go, ‘hey, that’s not how it goes in the Player Handbook, page so-and-so blah blah blah ’ so I don’t even try, you know?? It’s a weird thing.

The Awesome Mixtape of the Apocalypse: A story where Dipper and Mabel’s parents join both sets of twins on a roadtrip to Gravity Falls. The concept would be that Mabel made a mixtape with songs for everyone in her family (so for example Ford definitely gets weird prog rock like this, listen my dad was a happier, most well-adjusted Ford, and that was his shit, car trips in my family were trippy), with each character represented by a particular musical style (the Pines mom’s got punk ska like Reel Big Fish and Streetlight Manifesto lol…) and each chapter corresponding to one song. I got every big story beat and character moment planned out, I just… need to get off my ass and write, I guess.

Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West

Untitled : Aka Aloy watches Varl and Zo together, gets confused/frustrated, and shares a convo with Erend that helps her figure out she’s asexual. Sweet!

Untitled Rost and Ersa fic : Rost and Ersa, as ghosts, hang around Aloy and Erend for the events of the first game (and have a mini ship war about the merits of Ereloy as a couple). Also known as ‘Rost Gets Another Grumpy Daughter Because These Are Sure Fun To Collect Or Something’.

Mass Effect

Untitled : Just a little Shakarian ficlet about Shepard listening to Thane’s story about how he met his wife after the events in Garrus’ loyalty mission and her being like, oh, oh boy, oh no.

Radiant Historia

Will You Learn to Love (Without Consuming): A little one-shot set in the Apocrypha ‘verse which is not compliant with the canon shown in Perfect Chronology. Basically my take on who became the big Mana Monster causing the desertification (and why he’s a foil to both Heiss and the Conuts Guy).

Déjà Vécu : A one-short about Ernst and Heinrich (and, by association, Stocke and Heiss) because I guess that’s what I always write about in this damn fandom.

This Sweet Corrupting Reality : Basically the only parallel history I would have liked to see in Perfect Chronology, that is, Stocke wakes up and realizes he is now King Ernst of Granorg.

[puzzle-paradigm]

Ten songs I’ve been listening to!

Tagged by @blizzardsuplex AND @limbreaper ! Sorry this took so long, I got Distracted. Enjoy? I hope!

1: Natural Born Killer by Highly Suspect:

“I’ve been having dreams about falling in love. It feels so real but nobody is here when I wake up. Do you know my name? The devil's in the detail”

2: Strawberry Lipstick by YUNGBLUD:

“I got a toxic attitude and lack of self control. A reasonably fucked up individual. Need you to cleanse my sins so Ican go to school P-p-p-please”

3: Painkiller by Beach Bunny:

“After all this time I start asking why I'm staying. Were you ever mine? Are we something that's worth saving? Every conversation puts me back on medication sometimes sorry’s just another word you're saying”

4: Angelica by Wet Leg:

“But I don't wanna follow you on the 'gram. I don't wanna listen to your band. I don't know why I haven't left yet. Don't want none of this”

5: Green Honda by Benee

“That was a waste of fucking time. You were a waste of fucking time. Since I left you I've been great. You were my biggest mistake”

6: Love interruption by Jack White

“I want love to walk right up and bite me, grab a hold of me and fight me leave me dying on the ground. And I want love to, split my mouth wide open and cover up my ears and never let me hear a sound”

7: Day in Day Out by Streetlight Manifesto

“Even if I told you what it meant to me (see) you'd disagree, (see) you'd never let it be, you just wanna dance around the problem. And everybody's talking about humility, (see) indecency, (see) smoke and mirrors to me, you had the world, and you pissed it all away”

8: Nothing Matters by The Last Dinner Party

I put my heart inside your palms, my home in your arms, now we know nothing matters, nothing matters.

9: dragon bones by Jamie T

Cannibal love animal lies, Annabel's heart Annabel’s thighs. Everything now that you've ever dreamed of.

10: estella// by KennyHoopla+Travis Barker

I don't wanna fake it 'til I make it, I don't need to see it to believe it. I don't need to touch it, I can taste it. All the shame feels the same when the pain hits

Tagging @spaghettisaurusrex @etherealamberdust @fandomfail @pepperstreak @broke-bruce-wayne @milfzatannaz if any of you feel inclined

[vacationbiblestudy]

75, 76, 77?

75 - we got classic rock. I listen to this song sparsely because I don't want to burn myself out on it. Are The Monkees a one hit wonder? I don't know. I've never bothered to look into them other than this song. Maybe I've heard their other songs, maybe I haven't. I can't tell.

76 - ska is my soul. I absolutely love, love, love the trumpet/guitar combo. The instruments are povers. This song opens up with the line: "Someday you will grow up and learn to lie. Just like your daddy did when he told you 'no one ever really dies' I hope that I'm not there when you realize, that those with their nose in the air will never look you in the eyes" do you know how fucking powerfully that hit me the first time I heard it? I've been listening to this song for a handful of years now and it always makes it's way into my wrapped

77 - Dropkick Murphys are genuinely one of my favorite bands. They sound just as good live as they do in the studio. This song was written by Woody Guthrie. A socialist, anti-fascist legend who inspired generations of politics and music. The most famous musician inspired by Woody Guthrie was Bob Dylan.

From my understanding, this album and it's sister EP, Okemah Rising, were all previously unreleased lyrics of Woody's. There is a song or two that features his vocals. Go listen to both of these albums.

[lo-sulci]

tagged by @itshighjuniper to share 5 songs i've been listening to recently!! thank you juni ^u^ i am not including songs that are on the playlist that plays at my work (which I have been listening to ad nauseam but not by choice) or songs from the OSTs of stuff, just because those would probably dominate the list (that said, some of the OSTs I've been listening to lately: Across the Spider-Verse, Revue Starlight, Gatchaman Crowds, fanmade g witch covers). anyways!!

- PRESSURE BOMB 2!!!! by Jhariah: have been listening to a LOT of jhariah lately, super super cool style and I always always always love narrative albums. this song in particular just makes my brain happy and also, like, vibrate aggressively. it's nice!!!! other favorites include ENTER: A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO FAKING YOUR OWN DEATH (the opening track off the album A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO FAKING YOUR OWN DEATH), Promises, Needed A Change of Pace, and Flight of the Crows

- Riptide by the Scary Jokes: been a fan of the scary jokes for a whiiiile now, and this has been one of the songs from their newest album that i've been listening to the most (other two favorites from the album probably being Forever In You and Rage). Burn, Pygmalion!!! is still an all timer to me tbh (MEANWHILE ON THE ROOF JEANNIE CONSIDERS THE VASTNESS OF THE COUNTRYSIDE THE DARKNESS OF THE MOUNTAINS-) but I am also enjoying RB and bonus points the cassette looks SICK AS HELL

- Love Me Dead by Ludo: introduced to by way of a podcast and thoroughly wormed its way deep into my brain along with Tick Tick Boom by The Hives, Electric Version by The New Pronographers, and Picture, Picture by Harvey Danger. anywhays, god DAMN that chorus kicks ass. also, the video is pretty fun!!

- Venus Ambassador by Bryan Scary: song that I actually found ages ago and only recently checked out the rest of the album for- it's really good!! i think there's a narrative going on here even if I havent quite figured it out in its entirety but in the meantime gosh the music is good and the vibes are exquisite. other favorites off Flight of the Knife include La Madame on the Moon, Mama Waits, and Son of Stab

- A Better Place, A Better Time by Streetlight Manifesto: Streetlight Manifesto singlehandedly made my opinion of ska as a genre do a 180. one day while cleaning/organizing stuff in my room I decided to listen to, like, almost if not all of their discography, and this one was my favorite. made me cry the first time I listened to it!! anyways, my personal recommendation is to do what I did and listen to the entire Streetlight Manifesto discography just fuxking do it

anyways, tagging @theclairewitch @plaintivemeow @lvnarsapphic @sg-x00-airgetlam @destructix (absolutely no pressure tho yall lol) and, like, anyone who sees this and wants an excuse to do one of these!!

[kadebronson]

01. come on eileen - save ferris

02. love will tear us apart - fall out boy

03. take on me - reel big fish

04. build me up buttercup - the goops

05. walking on sunshine - ice nine kills ft. reel big fish

06. you really got a hold on me - she & him

07. mickey - b*witched

08. teenage dirtbag - cavetown ft. chloe moriondo

09. i melt with you - sugarcult

10. got the time - the matches

11. 20th century boy - the replacements

12. androgynous - joan jett ft. laura jane grace & miley cirus

13. (we're gonna) rock around the clock - the replacements

14. swingin party - lorde

15. royals - the holophonics

16. dancing with myself - blink-182

17. dear prudence - siouxsie and the banshees

18. under pressure - my chemical romance & the used

19. queen bitch - birdbrain

20. running up that hill - placebo

21. landslide - the chicks

22. pumped up kicks - american murder song

23. crazy - kidneythieves

24. don't stop me now - the regrettes

25. 99 red balloons - goldfinger

26. ...baby one more time - bowling for soup

27. i love rock and roll - britney spears

28. 1999 (i want to go back) - vengaboys

29. paint it black - harley poe

30. chop suey! - nekrogoblikon

31. relax, take it easy - mika

32. you really got me - oingo boingo

33. land down under - leftover crack

34. the boys are back in town - the ataris

35. smalltown boy - orville peck

36. lithium - the polyphonic spree

37. such great heights - streetlight manifesto

38. roots radical - mustard plug

39. rebel yell - the brains

40. love song - jack off jill

41. pink elephants on parade - the circus contraption band

42. the candyman - sloppy seconds

43. sabotage - FIDLAR

44. my sharona - the number 12 looks like you

45. teenagers from mars - buck-o-nine

46. pet semetary - groovie ghoulies

47. bad moon rising - rasputina

48. immigrant song - trent rezner ft. karen o

49. personal jesus - mindless self indulgence

50. it's a sin - pansy division

51. cry little sister - aiden

52. you're dead/vampire ska - we are the union

53. always something there to remind me - the hippos

54. blue (da be dee) - fleshgod apocalypse

55. WAP -brojob

56. jolene - me first & the gimme gimmes

57. we're not gonna take it - less than jake

58. don't stop me now - the vandals

59. turning japanese - skankin' pickle

60. paint it black - the unseen

61. hurt - johnny cash

62. the ballroom blitz - calibretto 13

63. dancing on my own - dale hollow

64. milkshake - goodnight nurse

65. i know what boys like - the bouncing souls

66. touch-a, touch-a, touch me - the mary lous

67. it's my life - no doubt

68. real wild child - josie and the pussycats

69. dead man's party - tsunami bomb

70. smooth criminal - alien ant farm

71. piece of my heart - jaguar love

72. you don't get me high anymore - PUP

73. somebody to love - troye sivan

74. it's the end of the world as we know it - the suicide machines

75. jumpin' jack flash - the queers

76. ring of fire - social distortion

77. surrender - anti-flag

you can listen to the playlist here!

[godmodebeginswithlesbians]

10 songs you like that everyone should go listen to right now, GO

UHHHHH

wild roses by of monsters and men

the ghost of you by my chemical romance

sloom by of monsters and men

organs by of monsters and men

slow it down by the lumineers

sugar in a bowl by of monsters and men

the diary of jane by breaking benjamin

so cold by breaking benjamin

i will not bow by breaking benjamin

a moment of silence/a moment of violence by streetlight manifesto (technically 2 songs but its more like one song that was split into 2 tracks?)

[akayna]

1, 10, 23

1: what song makes you feel better?

I guess depends on what kind of feel better I need. If I'm low energy, I've got a long list of hype songs in various genres. Do I need to get pumped for a day at work? The soundtrack from Six! will do it. Do I need to get pumped to do other adulting tasks? Whiny 2000s pop punk. Do I want get silly? 90s and 2000s pop. Do I want to feel the soul of summer? Better grab my mixed bag country playlist. Do I want to feel inspired? Stronger (We the People) by Janelle Monae.

If I'm annoyed and stressed I'll usually go for singing ABBA songs with vengeance until I mellow out and sing along the way they're meant to be sung.

If I'm super duper deep void depressed? I'll listen to A Better Place, A Better Time by Streetlight Manifesto on repeat to start my ascent out of the spiral.

You get the picture.

10: What's something you're excited for?

Going on more trips - work and non-work. I'm really stoked to go meet a wonderful mutual at HIS WEDDING THIS SUMMER!! I won't tag you right now but I hope you see this :)

I'm still being super careful with masking and whatnot and people acting like the pandemic is over scares me and I'm weighing the costs vs value for every trip.

23: Favorite piece of clothing?

Hmmm. I practically live in this sweater housecoat one of my people gave me as a cast off they didn't like. I've added pockets to it and basically wear it every day. Comfy.

[indecentpause]

Until Our Hearts Go Numb: Soundtrack

the offspring - gone away // oleander - hands off the wheel // sum 41 - the hell song // kill hannah - they can’t save us now // choking victim - five finger discount // streetlight manifesto - everything went numb // franz ferdinand - the fallen // cherry poppin’ daddies - zoot suit riot // the refreshments - banditos // franz ferdinand - this boy // garbage - temptation waits // fall out boy vs imagine dragons - radioactive in the dark // des rocs - wayne // the death set - they come to get us // fenix tx - something bad is gonna happen // the dillinger escape plan - setting fire to sleeping giants // a.f.i. - the boy who destroyed the world // the white stripes - seven nation army (glitch mob remix) // alt-j - tessellate // the mountain goats - dilaudid // ham sandwich - floors

[listen here]

[read it on Ao3 here]

Max’s parents are dead. His hometown is now a city of ghostly reminders of the family he used to have. He and his twin sister, Roxie, slowly start to unravel, and their grandmother sends them to live with some family friends overseas in the United States. Josselin, Meara, and their adopted son Tommy have been friends of the family since before the kids were born, and take them in with no questions and open arms.

But Josselin has inherited the brain cancer that killed his mother when he was fourteen and his insurance has paid for all it will, leaving him stuck without the life-saving treatment he needs. So the three kids do the only logical thing they can think of.

They rob a bank.

For the first time in his life, Max is alive, and the story of three friends and their downfall from model students to criminals on the run begins.

A novella about loss, death, and all the ways it can destroy those who are left behind.

ONE LAST NUMB POST goodnight y’all thank you for reading along <333

General taglist:  @ohsugarfoot​​​​ @abalonetea​​​​ @only-book-lovers-left-alive​​​​ @poore-choice-of-words​​​​ @leadhelmetcosmonaut​​​​ @jasperygrace​​​​ @drippingmoon​​​​ @athena-anna-rose​​​​ @viskafrer​​​​ @thelaughingstag​​​​ @athenswrites​​​​ @kaiusvnoir​​​​​ @magic-is-something-we-create​​​​​

[duskythesomething]

music asks: 1, 4, 6, 8 (or artist tbh), 13 and 19!!!

1. what is your favorite song. right now. tell me.

proooooobably Lovejoy's cover of The Perfect Pair, but Dropshipped Cat Shirt from Wilbur's newest album goes DELIGHTFULLY hard

4. what band started it all for you?

growing up i listened to a lot of the same rock music my mom did, and my first mp3 player had all those types of songs. i'd say Skillet and Three Days Grace were the first of those bands i notably recognized as favorites for more than just 1 or 2 songs. the first artist i personally demanded be put on that mp3 player was Selena Gomez, but the first artist that really got me insane about music and lyrics and how it made me feel was Fall Out Boy!

6. what bands/artists do you want to see in concert?

Lovejoy ofc but also Streetlight Manifesto and Joywave!! i've been fortunate enough to see quite a few of my top artists but these three have slipped by me due to timing or lack of funds when they were coming to my areas. other artists that would be cool would be quadeca or Freddie Dredd :3

8. tell me about your favorite band. go on infodump for me.

i mean currently it's Lovejoy duh but also those who know me know my LOVE for Yung Gravy and bbno$. i've seen Gravy 3 separate times (with bb for 2 of those shows) and one of them was a whole 4 hour drive away. any time Gravy goes on tour i immediately buy tix if he's coming close enough by to convince my friends to go with me (since i can't drive myself just yet). out of all 3 shows the 2nd one was easily the best! they played in a college auditorium and had a pre-show experience that came with a free pin (mine has a visual defect and i LOVE it) where we all took a big selfie. the 1st show i saw of him was at a local small bar/concert venue where i got separated from my friends, but it was fun! the 3rd time my friends and i didn't have great time management and missed the first chunk of the show trying to get back and forth from the state fair to our hotel to get ready, and get back to the state fair to the concert hall, and the seats were just folding chairs crammed REALLY close together. it was stuffy and i could barely see despite buying seats that WOULD HAVE BEEN INCREDIBLE in any other typical seats or standing room. not the artists' faults though, the venue just sucked and after a terrible day at the state fair itself it just wasn't a good time.

(below is mentioned picture from Gravy Baby pre-show experience!!)

13. what is one album that has irreparably damaged your social skills?

i could easily just say Your City Gave Me Asthma but, honestly rather than album i'd say artist, and that artist would be Quadeca. something about the absolute angst and anger he put into a lot of different songs carried me through a really rough time at my old workplace, but not necessarily in a good or productive manner. i'm an angy person by default, so angy music doesn't always help that.

19. what is your favorite album art from one of your favorite artists?

let me highlight a personal favorite artist i practically never talk about, The Used!! their 2007 album Lies for the Liars is my fucking JAMMMMM and i specifically asked for that specific CD as a kid! the funky boxhead guy has always stood out to me, and i think his expression really captures the feel of the album. i'm also a fan of Streetlight Manifesto's 2003 album Everything Goes Numb, the red and black palette makes for great merch and the songs on it all slap. another notable mention is Joywave's 2015 album How Do You Feel Now, very funky and again perfect for the sound of the album!!