#patrick o'donoghue

[sharpened--edges]

As anarchists, we do not make a fetish out of death, especially not in the way that fascists, armies, and nations do. We do not prefer our comrades, friends, and lovers to be cold and stern memorials, or rose-colored memories revived in the haze of sentimental poetry. We prefer them beside us, creating with us the spaces and struggles of our liberation, and fighting alongside us in defense of our lives. We do not ask for martyrs. We do, however, know that [it] is inevitable that those of us who struggle, who revolt against the crushing daily violence of the state, capital, and all existing hierarchies, will be put in the cross hairs of repression. We know that those of us who seek to build new worlds in the cracks and unstable edges and boundaries of the old will face all the dangers of the current world’s collapse along with threats from those who try to cement it together again in blood and terror. We are born in the history of the Haymarket martyrs hanged for resisting the industrialists’ police, Suga Kanno strangled by the empire of Japan, and Carlo Giuliani shot down by the Italian cops. We inherit a flag stained black in the remembrance of our dead, the negation of their killers, and the promise to never surrender.

Patrick O’Donoghue, “Seeds Beneath the Snow: Anarchists Mourn Our Dead,” in Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief, edited by Cindy Milstein (AK, 2017), p. 410.

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Grand Marshall Colin O'Donoghue attending the St Patrick's Day Parade in Drogheda on March 17 2024 [source x, x, x]

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GALLERY UPDATED!

▫️ St. Patrick’s Festival: Opening Ceremony at Scotch Hall Shopping Centre ▫️ St. Patrick’s Festival: 60th Anniversary Parade

[hollyethecurious]

HAPPY COLIN O'DONOGH-

um... I mean...

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY! 🍀🇮🇪☘️💚

[killian-whump]

First things first, I love Colin's outfit for the Fireworks display. Lovely, lovely. Casual but classy, warm, and with a touch o' green.

But check this out...

In the tent they had some kind of weird spotlight that totally changed the coloring of his outfit, turning blue jeans and a black coat into... beige slacks and a bright green coat.

PRESTO CHANGO!!!

And we get TWO lovely outfits for the price of one, lol 😂

[delusionaldebutante]

My two favorite Irishmen

[kazoosandfannypacks]

today is 3.17 which means it's st. patrick's day so we tend to think a lot about irish people today. 3.17 is also the epsiode number of once upon a time's episode "the jolly roger," which is a largely captain hook- centric episode of the show. captain hook is played by notable irish man colin o'donoghue.

[paradiselady19]

And seeing Colin with his family for the first time ever!! Made me so emotional!!

I'm a tiny little bit disappointed of the lack of Colin wearing something green. I mean, the scarf was nice, but come on! 😅 But, his daughter and his son made totally up for their father missing the topic of the day. 🥰

[ouat-the-hell]

[nicoleinmagicwonderland-blog]

2022 review

A little late but there it is! The 2022 review. The year was full with conventions, very little fanmail returns (not because lack of trying though) Lots of new shows discovered. But lets start with the conventions. What a thrill it was. After the Covid lockdowns 2022 was finally convention year! 2022 was my convention record.

CONVENTIONS

Dutch Comic Con Spring Meeting Colin O'Donoghue again was absolutely amazing after so many years! This time in my own country and not Paris.

German Comic Con Spring This may or may not be my favorite of the year. Its a hard pick between this 1 and the Winter edition. The Vikings cast is always the best and the sweetest. They are all just so, so nice! Also an amazing opportunity for me to meet some of The Witcher cast and Alyssa Milano (who was my teenage idol)

Magic Con The most disappointing con of the year. I was suppose to meet Miranda Otto and Aidan Turner (long time con dreams/wishes of mine) but both cancelled. But I had a lot of fun with friends and I got to meet some of The Rings of Powers cast.

German Vikings Con What a blast! The sweetest cast of all time together at 1 convention and meeting George Blagden after being on my wishlist for such a long time wow!

Dutch Comic Con Winter Only met Stephen Amell and Jenna Coleman at this convention. Stephen Amell was awesome. Did a sweet hug photo and his panel was fun. Jenna was nice and seemed more relaxed then at other cons.

German Comic Con Winter Again the Vikings making my convention for me. Especially Clive Standen en Jordan Patrick Smith.. they are so, so lovely! Leo Suter from Vikings: Valhalla was pretty amazing as well and since Vikings: Valhalla is my current obsession show it was again an amazing opportunity.

These are just the actors I named but I had so many great meetings in 2022. In 2023 I sadly can’t do as many cons as I would like to.

FANMAIL

2022 was a disaster year for fanmail. The worst of all time. But I got a few nice returns: Henry Cavill (pre-signed The Witcher photo), Carrie Coon, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Xander Berkeley, Leo Suter, Charlie Vickers and Taylor Hickson.

BEST TV OF 2022

• The Rings of Power, sorry for all the haters out there. No it wasn’t even close to the master of piece of The Lord of The Rings. But I really loved the show and for sure much better then The Hobbit. • Vikings: Valhalla, I’m kinda obsessed with this show. I love the cast, the music, the story.. just everything about it. • The Handmaids Tale Season 5, I love every season of the show. It just always amazed me. The acting, the story. • 1899, Kinda sad it got cancelled. It had me intrigued for sure. Bummer that I will never know the end of it. • The Sandman, love this weird, dark fantasy show. Very happy it’s renewed.

[wyntereyez]

Once again, I got...

I'm good with these consistent results.

It’s time for my favorite Buzzfeed quiz!!

Hope you get your fave! (I did!)

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(This picture was edited due to the privacy of his children)

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Colin O'Donoghue attending the St Patrick's Day 60th Anniversary Festival in Drogheda as the Grand Marshall. (March 15, & March 17, 2024).

[wileys-russo]

If its not too much trouble could you share the list of book recommendations you got sent in? I am always looking for new ones 🙂

of course!

Hearing Red by Nicole Maser

The Kingkiller chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss

The DCI Kett series by Alex Smith

Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli

Melt With You by Jennifer Dugan

Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner

A Discovery of Witches series by Deborah Harkness

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

American gods by Neil Gaiman

Priory of the orange tree by Samantha Shannon

If we were villains by M.L. Rio

The invisible life of addie larue by V.E. Schwab

Last night at the telegraph club by Malinda Lo

This is how you lose the time war by Smal El-Mohtar

The Chronicles of St Mary’s series by Jodi Taylor

The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

Beg, Borrow and Steal, Limits, Anything But Easy all by Susie Tate

Slouch Witch, Star Witch, Spirit Witch all by Helen Harper

Sula by Toni Morrison

The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue

Good Material by Dolly Alderton

Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

In The Woods, The Likeness, The Searcher all by Tana French

Happy Place by Emily Henry

Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins

Carrie Soto is back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

A Good Girls Guide to Murder and The Reappearance of Rachel Price both by Holly Jackson

The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

Delilah green doesn’t care series by Ashley Herring Blake

Hotshot by Clare Lydon

The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpugo

[whumpofalltime]

whump of all time

SEMIFINALS!

Find links and propaganda under the cut. Quarterfinalist and later match-ups are untagged, so your votes and reblogs matter!

Once Upon A Time:

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"There's blood, wounds, captivity, bondage, a slow-dipping-mechanism, a big rescue, and excellent acting by Colin O'Donoghue - who delivers the tiniest whimper and the most delectable of trembles for our whump-loving eyes to devour!" ~ @killian-whump

"[...] Killian was BROKEN. Absolutely and heart-wrenchingly devastated. He was tortured within an inch of his life (… or death, I guess) and practically left to slowly drop into a pit of eternal despair.

Killian was not easy to break. He would get injured and get back up with a sneer and an "I'm alright love you should see the other guy".

But to reach that point? The point of telling Emma she should have kept herself safe instead of saving him from this torment, to hold on to her like she was his lifeline, to SMILE that small smile from the first bit of hope he'd gotten since he ended up there?

The relief upon watching this episode for the first time was visceral. For two episodes we knew Hook was being tortured, we saw him try and fail to limp to safety, we saw his resolve and defiance desperately hold on, we saw him accept his fate, we saw him preferring to be tortured further than hurt his friends… And then he got saved! And he had no witty comeback, no effort to hide his pain. He just fucking collapsed in the arms of his beloved, of his saviour, and held on for a moment to realize that it was real, she was there, he was finally safe.

Add to that some amazing, jaw-dropping, emotional acting by Colin O'Donoghue, how can you get any better than that?

Anyway vote for ouat. Because this whole torture mini arc existing is probably what caused a chain reaction of me understanding and accepting I love whump, so. I wouldn't be here torturing blorbos if it weren't for it 🤣" @piracytheorist

"god tier acting" ~ @caliburn-the-sword

The Young Blood Chronicles (Save Rock and Roll's music videos, Fall Out Boy):

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"Everyone gets bloodied, bruised, beaten up, tortured, rescued, limbs are amputated - it's brutal. Alone Together is particularly strong."

sorry for being late, but you want YBC propaganda? then you're getting YBC propaganda. I know you're a FOB fan, but I will be writing this for the benefit of those who don't know what YBC is, for better propaganda purposes! and yeah this is gonna be LONG. sorry.

So! The Youngblood Chronicles (shortened to YBC) is a series of 11 music videos made by the band Fall Out Boy, for their album Save Rock And Roll (you know this album, it's the one with My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark on it). The whole thing is quite short, less than fifty minutes long (even shorter if you don't count the uncut version's credits!!), and every single music video has some element of whump in it. This propaganda is gonna break down each individual music vid, and at i'll also talk a little bit about the irl context the album was written in, and why even THAT can be a little bit whumpy if you're insane like me!

(note: i'm going in the original release order over the uncut order, hence why i'm starting with MSKWYDITD instead of The Phoenix)

My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark: Arguably the least whump-y out of all of them, but man, seeing all of Fall Out Boy's discography and memorabilia be burnt while people are dancing around the destruction? Man, when you know the real life stuff (the reception the band had in 2009, leading to them to take a three year hiatus)... and at the end, you see four guys bound in the back of a van!! And that van is getting burnt!! Burn everything you love and burn the... ashes.

The Phoenix: NOW here's the first of MANY whump tastes you'll get. Patrick Stump, the singer/cutie of the band, gets kidnapped, tied to a chair, has his hand CHOPPED OFF and mailed to his bandmate/best friend Pete Wentz, then gets tied down and utterly tortured by women who are laughing at his misery the entire time, getting prodded and stabbed by tools for... well, you'll see. By the end of the video, Pete and the other two members of FOB (Joe Trohman and Andy Hurley) have been kidnapped by these mysterious women too, with Pete specifically getting kidnapped by the blonde woman he was in bed with when Patrick's hand got delivered to him. If you enjoy cute boys getting tied down, covered in blood, and writhing around like worms while getting tortured... well you'll enjoy all of YBC but specifically you'll enjoy this!! I did :D! The war is won, before it's begun, release the doves, surrender love...

Young Volcanoes: Good news, FOB has been reunited! Bad news, by the women who dismembered Patrick! And now all the band members are tied to chairs, hooked up to IVs full of god knows what types of drugs, and blindfolded (all except Patrick). They are then forced to drink, snort hard drugs, and are force fed Patrick's organs! Yep, all four of them are forced to eat their lead singer's guts, and are so fucking drugged up they don't even realize what's happening (and now you know what the women were doing to him in the last mv, and you even get a nice little shot of the hack job of stitching him back up)!! Patrick hallucinates everyone having fun, but of course, at the end, all of them are knocked out because of the drugs. Americana, exotica, do you wanna feel a little beautiful baby?

Alone Together: This is the song the OG propaganda mentioned, and for good reason. All four of them are shipped off into little personalized torture rooms, and, well, tortured! Pete is able to break out and even steals the hook from the girl who was torturing him, but little does he know that'll be his own undoing... also, in general, this song has some whumpy elements, specifically the line "my heart is like a stallion/they love it more when it's broke-in"... but notice how easy it is to hear "broke-in" as "broken"! At the end of the video, Pete is at least able to find Patrick (Joe and Andy have NOT been having a good time, either!! But sadly, they aren't found by Pete, but Pete DOES find Big Sean), and is even able to attach the hook to the stump (ha!) where his hand used to be. But something is clearly wrong with Patrick now. His eyes are yellow, and as the song ends, we hold on him, sneering and twitching. This is the road to ruin - and we're started at the end...

The Mighty Fall: First off if you say this is the worst song off of SRAR I will hunt you for sport. OKAY ANYWAYS, chronologically this comes after MSKWYDITD, and yeah, the four guys are the members of FOB. Pete is able to free himself with Patrick's new hook hand, and is able to get the other three out while Pete is hacking up a lung from the fire they just barely escaped. But they're not done getting their shit rocked yet. A gang of children show up (the leader being the kid Patrick waved at right before he was kidnapped back in the Phoenix MV), and proceed to separate them and beat the living shit out of them. The leader kid who's chasing Patrick plays something on a boombox... which triggers Patrick to go yellow-eyed again (from here on out i'll call it "going Youngblood" or "Youngblood self"). It was confirmed in the commentary track that ANY music would cause him to go Youngblood. And knowing Patrick IRL fucking loves to create/compose music... yeah! Take something he loves and turn it into something that drives him insane!! I'm normal!! And also the irl parallel you could draw to his solo career doing the same thing to him (on a less uh Dramatic level but you know)!!! Ouch!!!! Big Sean is able to save Patrick, but at the cost of his own life (and a killer rap verse... HELL YEAH I'M A DICK GIRL, ADDICTED TO YOU). Oh, how the mighty fall in love...

Just One Yesterday: The last vestiges of comfort you're gonna get for a WHILE. The four are separated, getting even more beaten up, Pete vomits up a snake, Andy gets his shit rocked by a homeless guy, Joe has to use white sheets as a makeshift tourniquet bc his leg got fucked up in The Mighty Fall MV, and Patrick is picked up by a kind stranger (hi Foxes! you have a very pretty voice! PLEASE KEEP YOUR HANDS ON THE STEERING WHEEL!). And finally, finally we get a hope spot. Fall Out Boy is reunited (the part where Andy just grabs onto Patrick's arm, in disbelief they're both alive... augh!!! AUGH!!!!), and for a moment, it seems they've been delivered to a hospital... before Foxes' eyes go completely black, looking at Patrick... and turns on the radio. She's able to trigger the Youngblood. And now Patrick is gone. The other three scramble into the hospital, Patrick not far behind, determined to kill them to stop the noise in his head. If Heaven's grief brings Hell's reign, then I'd trade all my tomorrows for just one yesterday...

Where Did The Party Go: Patrick, now fully consumed by the Youngblood brainwashing, is now stalking his bandmates in a hospital. Patrick is seeing visions of the hospital as an abandoned party, Andy has to painfully disinfect the wounds he's gotten, Pete is able to call for the police, and Joe... oh, poor Joe. He barricades himself into a room, but not well enough. Patrick finds him, and kills him, slitting his throat with the hook hand, showing no remorse at all... until Andy and Pete find them. The Youngblood wears off, and Patrick looks to what he's done, and is horrified at what he's done to his friend. And, bad news for him, the police are here, ready to arrest the murderer. All Andy and Pete can do is watch as tears roll down Patrick's eyes. And for the extra IRL context, this was the first song written for the album that made Pete and Patrick realize they had to get FOB back together... so lets match that with a music video where the member who helped get the band together in the first place dies. By the hands of the kid he found. Let's fade away together, one dream at a time...

Death Valley: Joe gets... uh, a little comfort? I mean, he thinks he's getting sent to heaven but goes to hell, buuuuut I think doing drugs in rock and roll hell with Tommy Lee is actually a pretty sweet deal, better than the deal the other three got! Pete and Andy are being interrogated while Patrick is in a jail cell. We find out that the cult that kidnapped them, Silence the Noise, is lead by Pete's girlfriend from WAAAAY back in the Phoenix MV, Courtney Love. And at the end of the MV... Patrick is bailed out of jail by Silence the Noise. They have him again. And this time, they're not gonna let him walk out until he's fully under their control. 'Cause tonight it's just fire alarms and losing you...

Rat a Tat: Silence the Noise has Patrick, and they utterly brainwash him, A Clockwork Orange style, with electroshock stimulation to keep him from looking away or closing his eyes, until there is nothing left. Patrick Stump does not exist anymore. Only the Youngblood, pliant under the control of Silence the Noise, tasked to destroy what he once loved; music. Andy dies at the hands of the cult, and now Pete has to protect a briefcase, the thing that got them into this mess, and keep it away from Silence the Noise, all while his best friend hunts him down. Are you ready for another bad poem?

Miss Missing You: THE WHUMPIEST OF THE WHUMP. What if we were best friends but you've been driven insane and I know the only way to stop you is to kill you and it was my fault you got into this mess and I was the one who gave you the weapon that will be my own undoing. What if we both died at the same time. What if we died, both of us failing the mission we had before us. What if that was a reference to one of their first music videos. What if this song was originally written for Patrick's solo album but he realized it was more of a Fall Out Boy song so it was scrapped until now. What if there's a legit argument to be made that half the lyrics for this song was written by Patrick. What if we were both boys. Grips walls, yeha i'm normal. If you don't watch ANY other music vid, watch Miss Missing You. Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger. The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger.

Save Rock And Roll: And our final track gives us a final bit of comfort. Patrick is able to overcome the Youngblood, and gets into heaven, where all of FOB is finally, finally reunited. God (aka Elton John) gives them new instruments and brings them back to earth, so they can do what they love; play music together. Which just so happens to release people from the control of Silence the Noise! But, because we can't have nice things, a cult within Silence the Noise got a hold of the briefcase, and summoned a spirit that starts to kill everyone. FOB stands together, and blasts the evil spirit, the blood coming up to the gates of heaven and covering Elton John in it. And... that's how it ends. No true resolution. Just Elton John covered in blood, as the song fades out. Oh, no! Wherever I go, go! Trouble seems to follow! I only plugged in to save rock and roll!

UH. AGAIN I APOLOGIZE FOR THE LENGTH. but i really wanted to express just how much WHUMP they manage to fit into less than fifty minutes, all backed by an amazing album colored by the three years they were apart. colored by how they grew, colored by how bad the hiatus was for Patrick specifically, colored by how Confessions of a Pariah got Pete to reach out to help him, and this album came out of it, Fall Out Boy came back out of it, and now here we are, ten years later, with the title track being performed every night for their concert, with all the band singing the final lines together, and the line you are what you love, not who loves you hitting every single night.

SORRY. LISTEN TO FALL OUT BOY. thanks for letting me rant.