#o'malley rambles

[atlassiix]

i drew messymoonmad's poseidon !!!! i thought he was foo pretty and i finally drew a lil doodle of him >:3

[atlassiix]

glory

So ‘Sisyphus’ was trending on Twitter and it was just Classics jokes!

[atlassiix]

lord apollon plague edition!

[every-tedious-beat]

in the clerb, we all fam

[fishfingersalad]

I have a very silly crack au I've been calling 'Milf Sheila au' which is pretty much just. Tex brings all the ai to bloodgulch and Sheila adopts Theta. Eventually the other ai too. Sheila, Church, and North have to figure out a split custody agreement (North argues that since Church and Sheila live together with the rest of the blues there should be a 50/50 split on time. Sheila and Church think it should be 66/33 split so they each individually get the same amount of time with Theta). When Theta is with Sheila he goes in a little rc car. Sarge keeps offering to mod the rc car and add weapons to it.

[atlassiix]

this is so relatable (i'm ody)

Ithaca saga am right♥

[atlassiix]

new style check !

[kittieshauntedourfantasy]

In my life, I was Abraham DeLacey, Giuseppe Casey... BUT, in my dreams, I played a different role... I was... Thomas O'Malley... O'Malley the alley cat...

[shoplifting]

"Wallace Wells got to be a more fleshed out character bc we saw him being messy, emotionally stunted in relationships, and therefore more than just the voice of reason" TO YOU. I saw him labeled as Scott's Gay Roomate and saying all the smart things and knew immediately from real life experience that that's who he was though.

[atlassiix]

this is the joy i needed in my life thank u op

The past Friend Reveal :

For @autisticgremllin

[daddy-long-legssss]

The Story Behind The Song: Arctic Monkeys’ early ambitions on ‘A Certain Romance’

Lucy Harbron – Far Out Magazine | January 17, 2024

It was 2006. Mortgages were crashing, and businesses were going bust. Tony Blair was on his last legs in office as the longest-serving prime minister since Margaret Thatcher, and the hangover of ‘Cool Brittania’ was beginning to set in with an unexpected ferocity. Things were bleak when a young Alex Turner sang, “There ain’t no romance around there” through the public’s speakers. Arctic Monkeys were about to write themselves into musical history as the voice of a new generation.

The final song on their debut album, there has always been something special about ‘A Certain Romance’. In 2022, after the release of their seventh album, The Car, Turner seemed to find himself reflecting back on that 2006 track. To the musician, that early cut holds a clue to everything that was to come as he said the piece “showed that we did actually have these ambitions beyond what we once thought we were capable of”.

Coming in at over the five-minute mark, ‘A Certain Romance’ almost feels like the Arctic Monkeys’ version of a rock opera, summarising all the themes, feelings and energy that came before it on their seminal album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not. It has the cheekiness of ‘Fake Tales Of San Francisco’ and the catchy instrumentals of hits like ‘Dancing Shoes’ or ‘I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor’. Utilising the northern charm of ‘Mardy Bum’, it stands as a final, neatly summarising point on the social commentary found in their early tracks like ‘From The Ritz To The Rubble’ or ‘Riot Van’. Really, it could be argued that ‘A Certain Romance’ is the ultimate example of Arctic Monkeys’ original sound, perfectly encapsulating all the things that made the world listen up and pay attention.

It’s like they seemed to know that, too, always allowing the song a special place. In fact, it was really the band’s opening remark. Years before the offer of a debut album came around, the group were a well-oiled machine with their own local hits. They had the northern live music scene in their hands as their homemade demo CD was passed around like everyone’s worst-kept secret. Beneath the Boardwalk features eight out of the 13 songs that would be on Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, albeit in a slightly different, lower-quality version. But the opening number, ‘A Certain Romance’, sounds just the same.

It’s all there, from the rolling opening drums to that final guitar solo. Recorded and produced in a rented studio at only age 17, the existence of ‘A Certain Romance’, one of the band’s most explorative and energetic numbers, in this form this early in their career feels like a diamond sitting in a mine. It proves that they were always onto something special.

They never needed any help. In fact, their producer, Jim Abbiss, noted that they even seemed nervous about the help. “I think they were probably a bit weary, like ‘who’s this guy? And is he gonna make our sound this or that.’”

They didn’t want anything to change too much, as the group already had the songs figured out. Turner certainly did, as the track’s meandering narrative about hometown lads, fights, and local boredom is already there. Talking on a podcast, original member Andy Nicholson revealed the story behind the song. “We had a practice room with a pool table in, and we had a party in there, and we invited another band who were friends of ours, and we all had some drinks,” he said. “Then something happened, someone throws a pool cue, someone throws a pool ball, and everyone ends up fighting,” he added, explaining the lyrics, “there’s boys in bands / And kids who like to scrap with pool cues in their hands.”

But the magic of Arctic Monkeys lies in their nuance. What begins as a snooty analysis of his local landscape is a genuinely affectionate take. “Well, over there, there’s friends of mine / What can I say? I’ve known ’em for a long long time / And, yeah, they might overstep the line / But you just cannot get angry in the same way,” Turner sings, looking around at his bandmates and lifelong friends. ‘A Certain Romance’ is not only a time capsule for the group’s beginnings but is an ode to all the people who were there with them. It’s an ode to the hometown that made them and all its various characters.

But as the last guitar solo roars to life, there is an unspoken statement that they’re going to be bigger than what they came from. “I remember when we were recording ‘A Certain Romance’ and having a conversation with the producer about the final guitar solo,” Turner told NME, recalling the moment these songs were reworked for their debut. But they wouldn’t let anyone mess with ‘A Certain Romance’, knowing exactly what they were doing and trying to say with that one. In the 2003 demo version, all the feeling is already there, and Turner wouldn’t risk it.

“There’s something that happens at the end of that track where we break some rules in a single moment,” he continued. What happens at the end of the piece feels even more special, considering how the album was recorded. “These are the songs we wanna do, and I think this is the order we wanna do them in,” Alex Turner told their producer, recounting the conversation in 2007 to RadioX, “And he goes, ‘alright, we’ll try to record them in that order as well.’” As the final song, that last guitar solo is the last thing recorded for the album, standing as a cathartic outlet and a chance for the band to prove themselves.

“We focused on the [emotional] effect of the instrumentals over the words,” Turner reflected on the track, concluding, “and I feel like we’ve been trying to do that again and again since then.”

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[yellowloid]

once you stop interpreting the bakery simply as a song about romantic (and most likely one-sided) longing and start interpreting it as describing the euphoric and very specific feeling of recognising another queer person in a public space without them having to explicitly come out to you and, vice versa, the weird wave of sadness that comes with not getting recognised as queer by other queer people because being straight-passing is a thing... yeah once you start doing that it's all over bro. yeah you start analysing the queer-coded layers of the 'seeing' and 'being seen' themes and it all goes downhill from there

[atlassiix]

WAAAA ILY PEACHI THANK U FOR THE TAGGY TAG

I LOVE ALL THESE PEOPLES ARTS SO MUCH !!!!!

@physicalhazards @seaduxky @sickneurotic

having a mutual who’s a good artist literally feels like beyonce saw me at a supermarket and decided to make me her best friend

[virdemption]

i lovelovelove having a 14yo as one of the main villains in rlqosliex because it makes dumb stuff like this himcore

he would post this

[aadrawings]

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

The worst thing ever has finally happened: I watched an anime and actually liked it.

I know. It's horrifying.

But really, this was fun. Visually stunning, solid voicework(the MVPs being Roxy, Knives, Gideon and Wallace), a kickass soundtrack, and a story that goes into some unexpected but welcome twists makes for the most refreshing entry in the Scott Pilgrim mythos to date. I'd argue it's probably even better than both the books and film(but I'd rather not throw hands. Verbally speaking, of course.).

Not bad for an anime, I suppose.

[every-tedious-beat]

does anyone remember that post where someone said that the squad should be introduced while sympathy for the devil was playing in the background? well, i propose an entirely classic rock/70s soundtrack for the aurora cycle tv show. here are some of my ideas:

back in black by acdc: saedii being introduced

seven seas of rhye by queen: when auri and the starslayer are fighting the rahaam ships (or whenever auri does something with her powers)

there are many songs that could work for the bar brawl, but i personally like mississippi queen by mountain

comfortably numb by pink floyd playing during that one chapter where it's just fin being silly by himself

the great gig in the sky by pink floyd playing when tyler dies in the alternate future and kal is confronting his father for his actions

i think for the echo scenes there should be some of the psychedelic beatles songs, like strawberry fields forever or lucy in the sky with diamonds

let me know if you have any other ideas i would love to hear them