#sorry bands your songs are about my blorbos now

[hatshepsut9]

Song lyrics that belong to The Locked Tomb now: 1-5/?

1. Talas - Sojourner  (Harrow, HtN montage)

Sight returns Before cruel thought There's such grief in waking I long to drift unknowing here But memory soon Breaks me anew

Again that dreadful whisper It moves across the drowning tide I hide in broken towers But still it knows all that I've done Will I become this darkness? Will I forget all that I was? Only you There's only you

Now, the ghosts drifting forward In the dark of the void But I do not stand alone As I ever have before And I hear the words resound In your voice, "Take my hand" No, I do not stand alone As I ever have before

And I hear the words resound In your voice, "Take my hand" No, I do not stand alone As I ever have before

Here we stand at the heart Of this hopeless World of chaos No, we do not stand alone As we ever have before 2. Frozen - Within Temptation (post-GtN Gideon)

I can't feel my senses I just feel the cold All colors seem to fade away I can't reach my soul I would stop running, if I knew there was a chance It tears me apart to sacrifice it all but I'm forced to let go Tell me I'm frozen but what can I do? Can't tell the reasons I did it for you When lies turn into truth I sacrificed for you You say that I'm frozen but what can I do? I can feel your sorrow You won't forgive me, but I know you'll be all right It tears me apart that you will never know but I have to let go Tell me I'm frozen but what can I do? Can't tell the reasons I did it for you When lies turn into truth I sacrificed for you You say that I'm frozen but what can I do? Everything will slip away Shattered pieces will remain When memories fade into emptiness Only time will tell its tale If it all has been in vain I can't feel my senses I just feel the cold Frozen... But what can I do? Frozen... Tell me I'm frozen but what can I do? Can't tell the reasons I did it for you When lies turn into truth I sacrificed for you You say that I'm frozen, frozen... 3. Stardust - Delain (this works for John et al but also BoE)

Dreamscape in a blanket silver grey Homesick for a memory washed away All light in our hollow eyes is stardust, stardust

Once you learned there is no return to lies Heaven cried as we left the earth to die Homesick for a memory In silent sleep eternally

Bring me to life Come bring me the starlight Come bring me the sun and moon Release the stars tonight

Far away in a distant memory There is lush There is green and you and me All blood in our hollow hearts is stardust, stardust

Washed away Like your face drawn in the sand At the edge of the sea is how we end Painful is the memory We did it to ourselves!

Awaken me Bring back my heartbeat Bring back the warmth of skin The world we're living in

Bring me to life Bring me the starlight Bring me the sun and moon Release the stars tonight

Bring me to life (dreamscape into grey) Bring me the starlight (homesick, all washed away) Bring me the sun and moon Release the stars tonight 4. Angels - Within Temptation (Alecto @ John)

Sparkling angel, I believe You are my saviour in my time of need Blinded by faith, I couldn't hear All the whispers, the warning's so clear

I see the angels I'll lead them to your door There's no escape now No mercy no more No remorse 'cause I still remember The smile when you tore me apart

You took my heart Deceived me right from the start You showed me dreams I wish they'd turn into real You broke the promise And made me realise It was all just a lie (just a lie)

Sparkling angel, I couldn't see Your dark intentions, your feelings for me Fallen angel, tell me why What is the reason? The thorn in your eye

I see the angels I'll lead them to your door There's no escape now No mercy no more No remorse 'cause I still remember The smile when you tore me apart

You took my heart Deceived me right from the start You showed me dreams I wish they'd turn into real You broke the promise And made me realise It was all just a lie

Could have been forever Now we have reached the end This world may have failed you It doesn't give the reason why You could have chosen a different path in life The smile when you tore me apart

You took my heart Deceived me right from the start You showed me dreams I wished they'd turn into real You broke a promise And made me realise It was all just a lie

Could have been forever Now we have reached the end 5. The Proud and the Broken - Kamelot (John + original lyctors?)

Where have all the heroes gone that used to bleed for us? Still holding on to fading lullabies and fear the end when every note is lost

How can we know if a glance beyond the shadow wall could free our souls?

In the wake behind the virtuous we carry on While listening to the poetry of lies And darkened by the prosperous we carry on As ignorance of human life subsides

They left us blind and broke our pride They told us to be brave But like an insect drawn to light, we circle around the radiance of truth

How can we know if a glance beyond the shadow wall could free our souls?

In the wake behind the virtuous we carry on While listening to the poetry of lies And darkened by the prosperous we carry on As ignorance of human life subsides

I am you You are me Feel the grace I set you free I am the empire  I am the empire  I am the empire

I am learning to crawl Denying The Fall In time, I'll stand again I am bare to the skin, I'm refusing to give in You can't break my heart again But I try, I keep trying And I'm dying to forgive All the matters is what's going to be

I try, I keep trying I'm dying to forgive

In the wake behind the virtuous we carry on While listening to the poetry of lies And darkened by the prosperous we carry on As ignorance of human life subsides

[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):

(link)

"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.

[lyriumsings]

oh damn I was just wondering if I should ask if you took oc questions and I saw a post about you wanting to talk about them. so. this is your sign: free pass tell me whatever you want about whoever you want. I’d like to know stuff about them (please. thank.)

This ask has literally been sitting here for like a year and I can’t stop thinking about my infamous mc so i’m gonna use this as a sort of preview introduction lol so anon if you’re out there im so sorry lmaooo and i absolutely love asks about my brain blorbos or anything really ngl i’ll probably copy and paste all this information to their Official Art ™️

Name: Octavia “Tavvi” Blackwater

Stage name: Tavvi

Pronouns: they/she

Sexuality: Bisexual

Band name: Beneath the Challenger (BTC). Octavia came up with the name and it’s basically a metaphor for them being super depressed lmao. It comes from the Challenger Deep which is the lowest point on earth beneath the Mariana’s trench.

Vocal Insp: donna missal (pinnacle voice bc for them tbh), The pretty reckless, the haunt

Music Insp: The Pretty Reckless, The Haunt, (for all of these bands i have very specific songs that i plug in as BTC’s lyrics lmao i have a playlist for them that i basically hc as their songs), Bad Omens (Just Pretend is SUCH a seven x mc song and i hc it as BTC’s best song), Mothica (VICES tho), and Honey Revenge! Here’s their playlist it grows everyday lmao

Fandom: Aquanauts. I hc that Maya figured out the bands meaning and picked based on that, Octavia genuinely loves it and finds it cute. And somehow the fact that the name makes sense to what the band name is makes them feel very seen and comforted tbh

Ep: Under the Water

Favorite unreleased single: The Slowest Heart (Which i actually took from Gilded Lily bc that song has heavy Octavia x Seven vibes) They have “the slowest heart” tattooed on there left rib age side boob area lol Although I feel like if she wrote it it’d be closer to the sped up version and a bit angrier mixed with hurt but the lyrics are perfect)

Romance: Seven’s ex. Still has his initials and doesn’t bother to cover it. And they are harboring a very blatant crush on Orion that if they’re being honest about started specifically because Orion seems pretty unattainable and they have no actual expectations of that fantasy becoming a reality (at least at first). Some cute stuff about them and seven tho: I hc fans called them Seven8 cuz Octavia means 8 or i guess Setavia works but Seven8 is so cute to me. And that seven had them in his phone as “8” and Octavia had him as “7 Ducky”

Some backstory:

Octavia is biracial her mom is white and her dad is black (specifically has afro indigenous roots but he was a foster kid so very estranged from these cultures) does not have a good relationship with their parents at all. Their parents didn’t really want kids? Sort of had Octavia because that’s what they were “supposed” to do next after getting married. Octavia is very much just an item checked off a list in a lot of ways regarding them. Very much the type of people who probably shouldn’t have had a kid not because they didn’t provide physically but they’re just emotionally nonexistent and incredibly dismissive lol. So yeah, so she had a very lonely childhood.

They did lots of ballet/contemporary dancing and soft ball which she does still actually enjoy as hobbies presently, but for the most part she’s obsessed with music and making music. They have a bat from highschool that they call “Lucky Lucy” where for two separate games in a row she hit nothing but home runs with it. Now, she takes it to every show and makes everybody touch Lucky Lucy before performing.

Octavia is obsessed with old hollywood glamour and old movies/shows from that era— most specifically Audrey Hempburn. They have several references/quotes from her tattooed on them: “never throw out anyone” is a partial quote from “People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; never throw anyone out.” that they have tattooed directly under their S.D. tattoo which is my favorite lol and another is “i was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.” probably on their opposite forearm from S.D. (There’s more but i gotta map them out.) They can do a transatlantic accent, and did so for many months as a teen to annoy their parents.

Lastly, romantic history: before Seven they had a girlfriend, Maria. Who was pretty much their polar opposite—very straight laced, serious, and structured but also incredibly sweet, polite, absolute wifey material—and honestly while she supported Octavia’s dream on a surface level she thought Octavia needed a more concrete plan for the future. They dated for about half of high school and split amicably when it became clear that Octavia wasn’t going to change/Octavia’s underlying feelings for Seven became a bit too obvious to ignore. They’re still in contact and friendly and Maria is married and has two kids.

Post Seven, Octavia had one serious relationship that was on and off for 8 months about a year after their initial split. It was bad. Incredibly toxic content warning type bad. Dean Clayton was the lead singer of another indie band Violet Vapors and was a general misogynistic piece of shit. It was a they just didn’t see the red flags until they were already in it type situation, bc no one advertises themself as a pos partner obvs. She doesn’t like to talk about it and borderline actively ignores it, but if they ever saw him again they’d probably take their bat to him tbh. Octavia is in a muuuuch better place now (comparatively speaking, which i mean the bar is in hell so do with that what ye will) still does drugs and drinks but it’s not nearly as bad as uhhh this era of their life.

[smieska]

My musical addled brain and Dracula addled brain are chatting and I'm just seeing so many connections and FFFFF god I wish to draw everything.. but instead I'll just mildly point things out in a stupid brain dump thing ughhfh I'm sorry I'm not very eloquent with my words

Hadestown

The 3 Fates obviously are excellent for the 3 Brides, but especially their song 'Nothing Changes'

Why the struggle, why the strain? Why make trouble? Why make scenes? Why go against the grain? Why swim upstream?

It ain’t, it ain’t, it ain’t no use You’re bound, you’re bound, you’re bound to lose What’s done, what’s done, what’s done is done That’s the way the river runs

So why get wet? Why break a sweat? Why waste your precious breath? Why beat your handsome brow? Nothing changes Nothing changes Nothing changes anyhow

Something about 'His Kiss, the Riot' feels so Dracula to me because of the way he spins this almost incantation to Jonathan as he first arrives at the castle and he slowly starts to go mad.

Only one thing to be done Let them think that they have won Let them leave together Under one condition: Orpheus, the undersigned Shall not turn to look behind She’s out of sight And he’s out of his mind

Every coward seems courageous In the safety of the crowd Bravery can be contagious When the band is playing loud Nothing makes a man so bold As a woman’s smile and a hand to hold But all alone his blood runs thin And doubt comes… Doubt comes in

And just the whole "Doubt Comes In" song is like .. JUST…. Very Jonathan trying to keep his wits about him (by thinking of Mina) and the brides antagonizing him???? IDK MAN I'm just a simple peasant who enjoys musicals and blorbos being tormented

and I'm talking about the original Doubt Comes In lyrics from 2017, not the Broadway version.

[FATES] Doubt comes in And strips the paint Doubt comes in And turns the wine Doubt comes in and leaves a trace Of vinegar and turpentine

[FATES and ORPHEUS] Where are you? Where are you now?

[FATES] Doubt comes in And kills the lights Doubt comes in And chills the air

[ORPHEUS] Doubt comes in and all falls silent It’s as though you aren’t there

[FATES and ORPHEUS] Where are you? Where are you now?

[EURYDICE] Orpheus, You’re shivering Is it cold or fear? Just keep singing The coldest night Of the coldest year Comes right before the spring

[FATES] Doubt comes in With tricky fingers Doubt comes in With fickle tongues

[ORPHEUS] Doubt comes in and my heart falters And forgets the songs it sung

[FATES and ORPHEUS] Where are you? Where are you now?

[EURYDICE] Orpheus, Hold on, hold on tight It won’t be long ’cause the darkest hour Of the darkest night Comes right before the dawn-

[idreamonpaper]

[answer whenever] happy blorbo blursday, grey! sorry for barging in your inbox this way. for any character: How has your character's personality changed from childhood to adulthood? sending good ~~ vibes ~~ and good luck to ya! 🍀🍀🍀 - ✨ (@enchanted-lightning-aes)

HELLO!!! Never apologize for barging into my inbox @enchanted-lightning-aes !! Everyone is welcome! Have a cup of your favorite drink and sit down for a bit! Take off your shoes and get comfy because this answer will be long.

First of all happy belated blorbo blursday to you too!! I meant to get to this ask yesterday but I got busy, my bad! I'm sending the good vibes and the good luck right back to you!

Anyway, I'll go with my boy Icarus for this question as I usually do! I would say the biggest change is his social levels.

As a child Icarus was very shy, didn't really make a lot of friends. He was mostly kept at home and even home schooled by his dad. Having his sharp teeth, he couldn't exactly have a normal childhood. Still his dad did his absolute best to make it a good childhood!

When he did meet children his own age he would hide behind his dad, and talk very softly. Now if you meet a 26-year-old Icarus he'll introduce himself first! He'll sling his arm around your shoulders (if you're comfortable with that) and talk your ear off. Always the life of the party and the first to start conversations, an adult Icarus is quite different from his shy tiny self.

Also as a child he was quite imaginative and creative. Quite the artist, he picked up hobbies like painting and drawing. Now he doesn't really have the time to indulge in his creative hobbies anymore. Icarus has to focus on his band and writing songs which takes a lot out of him. It leaves him burnt out with hardly any energy to pick up a paintbrush. All his energy goes towards meeting the demands of the record label he has a contract with.

Lastly, another big change is how reckless he got as he grew up. You couldn't convince a tiny Icarus to get on a bike without some tears and stomping feet. Now you have to plead with an adult Icarus to please put on a helmet before he gets on his motorcycle. Tiny Icarus thought skipping the last step on the stairs was deadly, now Icarus will skip three steps for an adrenaline rush.

That's about all I can think of for now! Thank you for the ask!

[flavia-draws]

Secret santa here!!

I don't really have a question for today. Sorry :')

But...I'm actually curious that who is/are your main blorbo(s)?

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blorbos… hmm…. right now it’s kind of jonathan richman

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okayokay this was in my drafts and since it has been in my drafts the state of "jonathan richman is kind of my blorbo" has morphed into full-on i am wearing a modern lovers sweatshirt i painted last night while listening to i, jonathan obsession. BUT. i can name some other blorbos i swear. peter sinfield. jon anderson. david byrne. also i had a really big syd barrett obsession a couple of years ago which is why i joined tumblr but he doesn't really go into the category of blorbo. who are your blorbos?

rant

the incomprehensible thing about jonathan richman (there are a lot of those. but the one i am talking about) is that he's simultaneously this somewhat-obscure touchstone of coolness who was in a proto-punk band and hung out with the velvet underground, and at the same time by any kind of objective measure of "cool" (which doesn't exist) he's so very much Not That that why is he cool? he's the anti-lou reed who hero-worshipped the velvet underground. he's the exact opposite not detached or nihilistic or a drug user or standoffish or even disliking of squares! i mean fucking Old World! ("i still love the fifties"???? who was saying that) fuckign Dignified And Old! HEY THERE LITTLE INSECT! did anyone see my joke about Man Quits Proto-Punk Band, Releases Song About Trying To Befriend Bugs Despite Being Afraid Of Them. i need to go to sleep. somebody go lsiten to give paris one more chance

[yourlocalsewerdragon]

Ok this has turned into a full on ask.

Hi. My name is Aura and I like Project Sekai.

PjSekai is a Japanese rhythm game featuring none other than Hatsune Miku herself. The songs are certified bops and I consistently have at least two playing on loop somewhere in the browser tabs of my brain. There’s quite easy modes if you’re not good at rhythm games and/or want to play casually, or you can be stupid and play this game nonstop for three months and now are trying to full combo all of the expert and master difficulties because you already got all the hards. You can probably guess what I did.

The real draw of this game isn’t the music, however. It’s the fantastic, gay, I-will-live-in-your-head-rent-free cast of blorbos. There’s five main bands, each specializing in a vibe of music, plus six Virtual Singers (Miku and friends!!) that join each unit :)

Leo/Need is the one I started with. They’re a group of four childhood best friends who drifted apart during middle school. Now, they’re trying to reconnect and form a band. Epic. All the girls are wonderful and lovely and id kill for each and every one of them. They have Megurine Luka though and let me tell ya. I’m gay. Instant win for the sapphics.

VIVID Bad Squad is a group of street performers aiming to put on the best event ever. It’s also simultaneous wlw and mlm hostility. You could read An and Kohane / Toya and Akito as platonic, but why would you? If they revealed they were canonically dating this entire time I wouldn’t even bat an eye. Oh and they either have the best dads ever or the worst. Toya. I’m stealing you. Get out of that house your dad sucks and I can snap him in half.

Nightcord at 25:00 is a band that communicates exclusively through Discord at 1 am. Never heard of that happening before… oh! And they have a canonically non binary / transfem character. What imaginative content. Jokes aside though they delve into what it means to live and feel and keep going.

MORE! MORE! JUMP! is an idol group!! Minori wants to become an idol more than anything but cannot pass an audition to save her life. She ends up meeting not one, not two, but THREE former idols at school who had given up their dreams. They then form voltron (sorry)

I have saved the best for last. My favorite theater kids. Wonderlands x Showtime. Drags, I love these kids so much. At first they were my least favorite. Tsukasa was arrogant and Emu was annoying. Surely there isn’t anything fun about them? Boy oh boy was I wrong. Tsukasa tries so hard and puts it all on the line and he just really loves his sister (a member of Leo/need!!), Emu is so silly and fun and happy, Nene deserves the world and more, and Rui. I want to study him. He’s a genius roboticist and scientist who’s also really good at creating and directing plays. The talent. Does he sleep? Where did he get so much gender? Why is he a menace to society? He puts such dangerous stunts into his shows but he always puts ten times more effort into making sure they’re safe. Amazing. He just really loves his friends and he has a place he belongs and I AAAIFBSBDHSB. Sorry rui is my favorite. Did you know he accidentally created another world within their sekai because he loves his friends that much. Anyways yeah WxS wants to create shows that make people smile and I think that’s beautiful. They succeed btw. To make me smile at least.

I should probably explain the sekai part, huh? In this world, there are mysterious (and by mysterious I mean if you think about it too hard you will cry) dimensions called SEKAI created by the feelings of people. When the feelings that created the SEKAI are realized, they become a song! Each group has its own sekai with its own theme. Leo/need is a starry classroom, More more jump is a ton of stages, vivid bad squad is a street cafe, wxs is a carnival, and nightcord is the void. The sekai are inhabited by the virtual singers I was talking about!! All of them have Miku , but each Miku is slightly different. For example, n25 has a very quiet, depressed Miku while wxs has the most extroverted catgirl clown you will ever see. They also have at least one other virtual singer! i love them all they’re just silly little guys :)

So yeah download this game it’s the best and worst decision I’ve ever made.

HOLY SHIT. THIS SOUNDS. SO FUCKING COOL. WHAT. WHAT. WOOOAAAAAAH WAIT OMG THIS SOUNDS EXACTLY LIKE MY TYPE OF SHIT I LOVE THIS SM. IM SO OBSESSED. IM CRYIGN. OMG

. I NEED THIS. DO U HAVE TO PAY FOR IT. IF NOT GREAT BUT IF YES I'M 90% WILLING TO PAY

[yewphoric]

💿 + Jenais,,,,

[sweats] his playlist is 55 songs long,

ok i will keep it to the Top 5 Jenais Songs..... in no particular order!

this got long so putting it under a cut! :'D

Walk Tall by Set to Stun

this song is from an album that's very much an interesting concept/story album about the character the band created. i choose to ignore that and make it about blorbo from my mind <3 i could talk for hours about specific parts of this song that apply to Jenais but instead i'll add a few lyrics. i will make the Big disclaimer though that all the misogynistic lyrics in this song Do Not apply to Jenais </3

All the kids down the street They're fucking laughing at me Cause I'm a MURDERER I hear them under their breath All the neighbors call me Mr. Death (But I don't give a shit!)

Lobster by Boy Called Cute

this is the 3rd song on his playlist from early on in developing him and it's mostly vibes, but it's still a core Jenais Song to me because it was so formative <3 mainly for this song i can make it about being aromantic specifically for him lol, but the lyric i'm including is more of a symbolic one for his backstory

I don't wanna stay too long But I'm not trying to go home Elastic bands on my claws I'm holding my breath for far too long

Are You Satisfied? by MARINA

the song ever honestly. such a great song about being an ambitious perfectionist with Issues so a very good blorbo/oc song. the lyric i'm attaching is honestly Quite a Jenais lyric, one of the Jenais lyrics of all time,

Are you satisfied with an average life? Do I need to lie to make my way in life? Are you satisfied with an easy ride? Once you cross the line, will you be satisfied?

Formidable by Twenty One Pilots

ok this song is about his relationship with Ragnar... i haven't worked everything out about either Jenais' or Ragnar's stories, besides the fact they work together and become friends, but i want them to be extremely close platonically eventually and like each other's most important person, even if Ragnar eventually ends up in a romantic relationship he will not give up their friendship! but yeah fun lyric

Fast-forward thirteen years now Don't know what it was but somehow we played it out in reverse I'm afraid of you now more than I was at first And I know you just left, but can I take you everywhere we've ever been? I wanna see it all, no surprises, yeah

First Kill by Amon Amarth

ending on a more morbid note lol! this song to me is not about Jenais's first kill, but the kill that was most emotionally significant to him and was one of his earliest ones. not gonna specify who that was on the off-chance i write anything about it, but yeah just. Important Murder(tm). the chorus is what i'm attaching and it's less situational and just Yeah That's Him

I am an outcast All alone I'm a nomad without home I am an outlaw I'm disowned And I am no man's son

SORRY THIS GOT SO LONG LOL if anyone read this i'm kissing your knuckles like a mobster. i owe you my life.

since this is this long already i'm gonna take this chance to drop his full playlist :3 50 more Jenais Songs(tm) for your listening pleasure

Playlist here!