#stuart trio

[bellia-25]

The dream team is literally just the stuart trio. Those who know, know. 

[bifrostiron]

Ma'am. Listen to me. I need you to continue the Hamptons fic. This is so important.

this might be the best ask I've ever gotten skfhdjgkkgk

If you're unaware, I do actually have more written in this universe over on my AO3. But I also wrote a brief epilogue on Discord a while back, so I guess this is as good a time as any to share it.

[badplayerana]

crying screaming please I need them back

Pluviophile

Pluviophile

(n) a lover of rain; someone who finds joy and peace of mind during rainy days

The bus parked as close as it possibly could to the cover, but when those doors opened, wind and rain came in, causing the boys at the front to howl. Logan just rolled his eyes as he got up, pulling with him his umbrella and his duffel bag emblazoned with Dalton’s crest. He’d already had a long shower following the fencing meet, but it seems the world was determined to give him another one before he made it back to the warm confines of Stuart House.

In front of him, preparing to step out of the bus, he could see Blaine make a grimace before he stuck his own umbrella outside, the friendly fwop! of it opening sounding a moment later. “Where’d this rain even come from…?” he heard him say before the roar of the downpour drowned him out.

Logan eyed the outside, how everything was filtered gray through the rain, misty droplets blowing in the wind. He tucked his things a little closer to him before he made it to the steps, already mentally calculating how long he’d have to endure this rain in the walk to Stuart.

I’d have to take the long way, he thought grimly, stepping out. The shortcut would be all muddy. Just...perfect.

Thunder sang overhead, and a few of the boys flinched under their umbrellas. The coach was yelling something--commands, instructions maybe. But Logan didn’t hear them and had no intention of doing so. He was exhausted, his shoes and the bottom of his pants were soaked, and the wind was blowing the wet onto him in spite of his umbrella. He wanted to be back in Stuart House.

Like the other boys already starting to disperse (whatever the coach said must’ve meant nothing to them too, or the Windsors in the club were just too willing to pretend they didn’t hear), he started to break away from the pack, trying to keep umbrellas from bumping into each other.

There was a ruckus as boarders from the dormitories came running up to the team through the downpour--they had heard they’d won, and had come to greet the victors through the rain, bearing umbrellas and ponchos thrown over them to protect their things from the wet. The cacophony was loud, even with the backdrop of rain, and Logan moved away from it purposefully, wondering if there were Stuarts in the group. He couldn’t tell--the rain was getting heavier.

In the ensuing chaos of boys fighting to cover each other and starting to scatter off towards their respective dormitories, Logan was alone.

That is, until he raised his umbrella slightly, trying to see his way, and found someone without an umbrella standing before him.

Drenched to the bone, white school shirt soaked and dripping, tie loose and wearing a Cheshire smile bright as the sun, was Julian. And he stood under the complete mercy of the rain that beat down upon him unhindered.

“Hey!” Julian yelled over the roar, a laugh tailing the word. “I heard you guys won! Congratulations!”

A little appalled, Logan stared. At the look on his face, Julian dissolved to a laugh that sounded as though this was the happiest day in the world to him. He pushed his streaming dark hair away from his face and grinned. “Come on!” he called to him. “Let’s take you back to the dorm!”

“What are you doing out here?!” Logan shouted back, even though he was perfectly aware of the answer. He gripped his umbrella tight to keep it from sailing away as the wind blew afresh, throwing the rain into them and causing the crowd of boys to cry out in the cold. “Are you crazy?!”

His only answer was another laugh. Julian reached out and grabbed his sleeve, towing him away. “Come on already! Don’t just stand there!”

Logan shook his head, stifling a groan of annoyance, and his feet could do nothing but get wetter by the moment and follow after Julian’s lead, the other boy pulling him along down the pavement.

“Where’s Derek?!” Logan demanded, staring at the drenched figure in front of him.

“Oh, you know him!” Julian replied cheerily. “Not rain or wind will stop his practice! Okay, maybe even Murdoch’s called this one on account of rain, but he’s stuck in the field.”

“This rain is too much, even for you,” Logan eyed him doubtfully. He made to draw him under the umbrella but Julian broke away, knowing what he was up to.

The actor turned gracefully on one heel, flinging water droplets as he did, and bestowed another grin at him. “Are you kidding? This is amazing!!” The last word was a scream, and Julian dissolved to manic laughter as the lightning and thunder sang out in answer to him.

“God, you’re like a three-year-old,” Logan grumbled as Julian trotted ahead of him, and he followed.

“Where’s your sense of adventure?” Julian teased, his shoes squelching and running over already.

“Right where it should be along with my sense of self-preservation,” Logan retorted, clutching his duffel a little closer.

Julian was taking off his shoes now, going barefoot on the wet walk. “I’m going over the lawn,” he declared.

“You are not going running into the mud!” Logan grabbed his hand but the rain made the overly-excited actor too slippery--Julian merely sprung away from reach. “Jules! For goodnessake, get it together!”

“Nope!” Julian replied, already barefoot on the grass and twirling as thunder echoed overhead.

Logan stopped, sighing and watched as Julian did as he always does: running in the rain, whirling in it like a dervish and laughing.

“Jules,” he began.

He watched as dark lashes rested on Julian’s cheeks when he closed his eyes, before standing with his arms spread and palms to the heavens, in a manner he thought people only ever did in movies. Assailed by the cold rain, he stood perfectly at peace, as though this was his benediction, a supplication to the lightning and thunder, and the endless rain that he loved so much.

He wasn’t sure how long he stood there watching him. There were so few times that he saw Julian so relaxed outside of him being asleep. And all because of the rain.

Logan wished it were just as easy for him too.

“Hey!”

Julian was grinning at him again. He was walking up to him, pants stained and muddied. Logan raised an eyebrow. “Had enough?”

Without warning, Julian’s eyes glinted. He grabbed him by the wrist and yanked him forward, knocking his umbrella away. Logan was met with the full force of the rain, the roar of the wind, and Julian’s laughter dancing around him.

“Jules!!” Logan howled as Julian dragged him onto the grass, and in the ensuing struggle, the two of them were hurled onto the mud and the grass, screaming.

“Stop being such a wet blanket, for heavenssake!!” Julian yelled to him somewhere in the tangle.

“I can’t get any wetter now, obviously!” Logan snapped back, completely drenched and mud all over his clothes, but even then, he couldn’t bring himself to really be angry. It was too cold and wet to be that angry. Julian’s mood was too infectious right now, and he hated it. He hated how he felt the smile crawl onto his face.

As though it was just that easy.

Logan leapt onto him and tackled him into the grass, Julian screaming in laughter as he got pushed into the mud. The smell of ichor was everywhere, heady and fresh, and under such rain, it was like there was nothing in the world but this.

Breathless as he scrambled back upright, Julian smirked at him, lashes heavy with water drops. “That wasn’t so bad, was it?”

“You’re a head case,” Logan snorted, brushing bits of grass off himself. “You ought to be in Windsor.”

“Ah, but then who’d be here to drag you out into the rain?” Julian replied easily.

It felt easy.

Logan let out his breath and squinted up at the sky that bombarded his face with raindrops. “Well...I guess this is sort of celebrating the win.”

“The sky is cheering for you,” Julian grinned as another thunderclap sounded. “It sounds just like this when I’m standing in front of a crowd and they cheer my name.”

Logan smirked. “So that’s why you like it here. You live on the attention and the cheering.”

“Eh,” Julian shrugged, turning his face to the sky. “Nothing like mother nature at full force to remind you that you’re small, really.”

“You feel small?” Logan raised an eyebrow. “You? You don’t even flinch when you get grilled on talk shows for being a brat. Like there’s anything in this world that will ever make you think you’re inadequate.”

Julian sighed and smiled at him, warmly in spite of this cold. “You’d be surprised.”

Puzzled, Logan stared at him, not sure how to respond to such a strange revelation. Julian sitting there easily, as though nothing in the world mattered but this moment, completely soaked in the middle of school grounds and relishing the torrent, Logan couldn’t imagine what in the world could make someone like his friend feel as though he wasn’t enough. He couldn’t think of anything that ever would.

The noise started to die. It was still raining and hard, but not quite the roar it had been. Logan glanced at the sky, and picked his umbrella up from where it lay on the grass. Julian groaned and threw a handful of grass at his face.

“Don’t be like that,” Logan scolded him as he reached for the duffel too. “We have to get back inside. You know what Derek’ll do to us if he find we’ve been out in this mess.”

“Derek doesn’t care, he lets me sit outside Stuart in the rain as long as I like,” Julian replied smugly, stubbornly still sitting.

Logan rolled his eyes. “That’s because he can keep an eye on you like the clucking mother hen that he is. He’ll call you in any time he feels like it. But out here? You’ll catch it.”

“No.” Julian stubbornly flopped onto the grass like a toddler.

Opening the umbrella, Logan groaned and grabbed him by the wrist, hoisting him up. “Come on, get up, you spoiled brat. Time to head in. I want to get warmed up with some coffee and food and I refuse to be subjected to being your nurse if you get a cold.”

Julian stood with a sigh of disappointment, looking up at the weakening rain. His gaze was disappointed and a little contemplative. “...I guess it couldn’t last forever.”

Water struck his cheeks, everything about him was shining in the wet. Logan reached out and pulled him under the umbrella with him, and this time Julian didn’t fight him away, looking up at him questioningly. Logan gazed down at him and smiled. “Maybe next time.”

Julian smiled again. Neither of them trembled even though it was so cold.

“Are you two serious right now?!”

The two of them looked up to see Derek, positively livid, under a gigantic umbrella, gaping at the two of them. “What are you doing standing in the rain like--WHY ARE THE TWO OF YOU DRENCHED?! DO YOU REALIZE HOW COLD IT IS OUT HERE?!”

Julian erupted into laughter and to Logan’s surprise, he found himself laughing too. He grabbed Julian’s wrist and towed him away towards Stuart, with Derek yelling at them the whole time.

[doubletroubletrio]

Let Team Rocket help you get into the Christmas spirit by singing this lovely little gem, The Christmas Song.

Here’s a fun little fact about this album: Eric Stuart (OG dub VA for James/Brock/Butch) fought to get this album made. I’ll actually post the video where he discusses it a little later on.

Can you believe that they originally weren’t gonna have the VA’s sing on this? It’d be a completely different album without them.

[musickickztoo]

CONTRA2023-11  BETTER DAYS

TRACKLIST:

The Giant Robots - No Way To Hide The Ape-ettes - Hearing Protection split system - Alone Again Cool Sorcery - God Inside A Human Machine The Pretty Flowers - Another Way To Lose Brother Of Monday - Ken Tremendous The Lemon Drop Gang - Johnny Is A Jerk Zack Keim - Better Days Bong Wish - Dreaming Of Switzerland Creation Rebel - That's More Like It Stuart Pearce - Forza Garibaldi Flat Worms - Suburban Swans Astrologer - Bang Bang Orangutang Ben Lee and Georgia Maq - Androgynous The Shivas - Love Buzz The Guy Hamper Trio feat. James Taylor - It's So Hard To Be Happy Teenage Fanclub - Foreign Land The Zack Static Sect feat. Danny Kroha - I'm Movin' On

The 11th playlist of the year!  (The 150th in total)

Listen: https://www.mixcloud.com/Contraflow/contra2023-11-better-days/

You’re welcome!

[theroyalthrones]

BEHIND THE SCENES | Grenoble, Montebeliard, Lavande

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As Aubrey sits in the opulent opera house, a wave of self-doubt washes over her. The elegant surroundings, once enchanting, now feel like a gilded cage, amplifying her discomfort and amplifying her insecurities. She can’t shake the feeling that her drastic style transformation has only drawn attention to her perceived inadequacies. Surrounded by the confident glances of others, she wonders if she’ll ever feel at home in this world. Each smile and nod from the crowd feels like a reminder of how far removed she is from their effortless charm, igniting a painful longing for acceptance that seems just out of reach.

transcript below↓↓

Aubrey and Laurie have made it to their seats at the opera house in Grenoble, Lavande. Aubrey is feeling light headed after all of the chaos that was the red carpet. With all of the added attention she is recieveing from the drastic change of her style. She feels uncomfortable in her skin. Not knowing how to navigate the world outside of her comfort zones.

‘how do they live like this’ she thinks.

having watched Laurie shmooze with the other attendees, the public. Making a show of who he was, it was so absurdly fake that she knew deep down. She knew she never really could know him at all.

As they walk to their seats, a suprise awaits them. sitting there looking more comfortable in his body, than aubrey could ever be, was Azrael Hottinguer. [The “best friend” of Laurie]

Unlike the other’s Azriel doesn’t get up to greet his future king. The couple walk over and Aubrey is somehow left in the center of the trio. They boys share a curt introduction as the ballet begins. Things are quiet, things are going well until Azriel moves in closer to Aubrey, and whispers close to her ear.

Az] You’ve seen this before, no?

Au] No this is a first.

Az] Ahh.

Laurie looks over, slightly perplexed. Aubrey can feel his gaze upon her, she ignores it. Quite frankly, she’s over the way Laurie treats her. Her care has flown out the window, and the more Laurie pays attention the better.

Az] … Something’s changed.

Au] It hasn’t.

Az] Did you finally realize what was so clearly in front of your eyes? Are you still denying…

Au] Why are you doing this? Is it to get back at him for something?

Az] (ammused) I’m merely trying to help.

Au] (suspicious) hmm.

The show is finished, the lights are back on. Laurie and Azriel are standing and chatting. Aubrey is still sitting down, very uncomfortable. Laurie has a way of excluding her, of making her feel invisible in the presense of others. As if she is a secret done can divulge, even himself.

The relationship between Azriel and Aubrey is interesting. It’s not one of romance, simply of user and toy. In honesty, Azriel is using her as a pawn, and for a girl who has not experienced the proper love on should recieve from a romantic interest. Aubrey is wary, and doesn’t notice what exactly it all means.

Az] Miss Stuart, you’ve been a lovely companion this evening.

La] You’ve got it confused, she’s mine.

Az] Forgive me, it’s just you haven’t looked at her all evening. One would guess you’re worse than strangers.

Au]…

He leans in and kisses her hand. something that has been a trend for Azriel and Aubrey. Making her flustered, and unable to think properly because (she isn’t used to such affections). Right as they do, a single flash interupts them, a paparazzi member having secured the image of the pair appearing to be more than cozy.

Au]S- Stop.

Az] [chuckling) it happens. they’ll be talking about this for a while, you’ll be relavent for a few more weeks.

Au] (annoyed) You hold yourself in such high regard.

L] (amused laughs)

The scene changes, Caroline and Laurie are sitting around a table. And She smacks a news article onto it. showing her disapproval at the situation.

The Magazine encapsulates Aubrey and Azriels “rendezvous”. A moment that is being taken way more out of context then it should.

C] What is this?

L] They’re just friends.

C] Friends? Laurie… I don’t care about what they are to each other. I care about what people are saying!

C] You can’t tell me this doesn’t look bad.

She is angry as she sips her tea (which she’s been doing all along).

L] (sighs) what do you want me to do about it?

C] Control your-

Caroline is interrupted by the woman who walks into the room. Giselle De La Valliere, walks in. This takes Laurie by suprise, in this state, he doesn’t bother about thinking of Caroline’s reaction. Instead he gets up and kisses her on the cheek like the Lavandish do. He pulls Giselle toward the table, his hand in hers. Caroline watches this, she sips her tea.

L] What are you doing here?

G] um, Her Royal Highness called for me.

L] You did? (to caroline)

C] I did.

L](anxious)… I can’t stay.

C] You told me you were excited for the first course.

L] (chuckling nervously) something came up.

C] that hair better be cut! (she yells after him)

He makes a break for it, leaving giselle behind. stranded alone with his very perceptive sister. Giselle eyes the headline on the table, she says nothing about it.

G] I should go…

C] sit, I’ve still got a lot of tea, I can’t finish it by myself.

(awkward laugh)

…

…

C] So… you and my brother?

G] Yes?

C] … I wasn’t able to attend the last gala at the Museum of Natural History. I heard you accompanied him in my stead.

G] (choked up)

C] Giselle, I hope you haven’t gotten involved with my brother. As you know, he’ll soon be engaged.

G] Engaged?

C] There are many who want to see him wed. Many who want to know our future Queen.

G] …To Ms. Aubrey?

C] (laughing) I haven’t a clue. By all accounts, you, could be a better match. But I dislike such disingenuous ways. I know what you’re after.

…

C] He is whom you should be convincing.

G]…

C] seeing as he’s not… available. You know what would be a terrible thing. You and Laurie are over… and breaking up such a happy relationship… it would be horrible.

G] I’m aware.

C] I’m glad.

[crepesuzette2023]

So whats like the general consensus about Stu and John? Do we think they ever messed around or not?

Ooooh, I won't burn and scar my typing fingers on anything like "general consensus," and my cop-out answer is: depends on who you ask. I mean, if you're living in a world where 'a man being with a woman' = straight, or 'a man who never came out unequivocally as queer' = straight, then John and Stu very much never messed around, and, more importantly, didn't feel the desire to.

But I think if you look at it with an open mind, without being afraid of the possibility, you'll see it's more likely they did than that they didn't.

First, you have John, with his life-long romantic idea of being in love with your creative partner (see: his comments on Yoko and Paul)—an idea that fits Stu seamlessly, and perhaps even started with him. In the Hunter Davies bio, John (in '67) calls Stu Paul's predecessor in the 'my trusted partner in art' role.

There is also this conversation with Stu's girlfriend, Astrid Kircherr, as related by Backbeat director Iain Softley:

Paying tribute to Astrid this week, film director Iain Softley revealed her moving words from his interviews with her when he made 1994 movie Backbeat about her and Stuart’s romance.

They hint at a complex relationship between her, Stuart and John. She said it was only after Stuart died that she and John “took a load of pills” and talked for 12 hours about “all the things on our minds about Stuart”. “‘He was jealous when Klaus and I fancied Stuart more, and took him home and left John out,” she told Iain.

“He told me he really loved Stuart, but was afraid of the feeling.”

Iain adds: “I think she thought he meant as a friend, I don’t think there was any suggestion they were in a relationship. But Stuart had always been John’s best friend, they shared a flat in Liverpool. John would write to Stuart as ‘Jesus Christ to John the Baptist’, in the sense Stuart was showing him the way. He looked up to him.

“There was a sense John didn’t want Stuart taken away from him, he didn’t want Stuart to stay in Hamburg.

“At the same time he was very fond of Astrid, but I think there was a conflict there.”

If John was afraid of the feeling, then I'm thinking he felt something that, at the time, and probably still today, was a scary thing to feel. I'll leave it at that.

Also, they were, what? 18, 19, 20 years old? At that age, odds are you do fool around, even if you regret it afterwards. Nothing wrong with that.

Look at this picture of Stu (r.) with Astrid and Astrid's ex, Klaus Voormann. Klaus, who later said he and Astrid didn't work as a couple because she wanted him to be exactly like her image of him, and whose marriage (to a woman) was a platonic marriage of convenience, according to himself. We have now reached the beautiful stage of come onnn! "Straight" was at the party, but so were many others. These relationships were messy! That's awesome!

And how do we feel about John feeling up Gene Vincent, while Paul and George look on knowingly, and Pete Best blanks out? We feel joyous and unsurprised.

A word about Paul vs. Stu, since we're (sort of) at it.

It's possible (what an understatement) to think of their rivalry as sexual rivalry. This is, once more, hinted at in Backbeat, where Stu is more or less giving away John to Paul.

And yet. I think it was more than that. I think everyone, back then, was fighting for more than a bed-partner. They were fighting for their future, for a life unlike their parents'. Paul was fighting for the band, Stu was fighting for John to join him on his artist's way (even giving 'rock'n'roll' a try), and John..

John was, on the one hand, the person either of the others felt he needed in order to realize his dream. But on the other hand, he was the least decided of the three. He may have perceived that, within the trio, he had the fewest fall-back options: Stu had his obvious, much-mentored artistic talent. Paul had a possible academic future bwxt to his musical talent, plus a clear determination to make it in music. John had talent in spades, but perhaps less of a clear-cut idea of where and how to apply it. So he tried keeping both of them close...?

With fun scenes like these as a result:

John sure is feeling campy/cuddly, while Paul is incandescent with rage. A hot look for both of them.

In the end, we don't know if they ever did fool around. My usual reply in those cases is: I hope they did, if they both wanted it. I hope it was good.

I need to check out this book:

John and Paul look happy.

[codename-adler]

Allison Reynolds - Character Asks

walk walk fashion baby~ 💃

How I feel about this character

i think she’s got much more in her and about her than canon allowed us to see!!!!!!! i think she’s too often overlooked as a Fox. like, she is an honest-to-god Fox. and, well. her grief. oh, her grief…… i miss Seth too, baby. i love her very much.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

Seth. Renee. Robin (again, in an alternate fixed timeline). Renee & Robin ;) Ichirou… Cat & Laila. Aaron? Stuart. uhhh i believe that’s all.

My non-romantic OTP for this character

oof. i guess Renee. or maybe Matt? girl you really need a bestie…

My unpopular opinion about this character

i think Alli is so fucking strong for pulling herself out of her grief enough to stand back on the court; and i think that SHE IS JUST AS IMPORTANT IN THE FOXES’ TURNAROUND AND WIN AS NEIL AND KEVIN ‼️

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon

well, apart from the obvious ‘Renison canon’ i’ll say again i wish we had more of her in the context of Fox Girls trio… like imagine her learning pole dancing and striptease from Dan 🥹😍 her showing Renee how to style her clothes in a way that makes her feel good!!

[kindheart525]

Now for the long-awaited Glep x Marge horde! Ever since I first started working on this next gen as a serious project, I knew these two would have a whole horde of kids because of how madly in love I think they are. Glep has that raw bad boy edge and Marge is smoking hot so of course they have a big family to prove how much time they’ve spent loving each other if you catch my drift. They may have seven whole kids, but they’re just as youthful and energized as ever, which is far more than what can be said about Pim and his four kids. To outsiders, Glep looks like he’s fooling around on an iPad all day, but he’s somehow managing to give each of his kids proper attention AND keep Marge relaxed and satisfied. He’s got to be warping time itself to do all of that because I don’t know how you can have time for a full-time job AND seven kids AND a stable marriage without it wearing on you. Who knows how Glep does it.

As for the kids themselves, from right to left we have:

Blep inherited her mom’s supermodel looks but has an aesthetic all her own, going for a goth look that makes her look almost otherworldly combined with her unnaturally green skin. This combined with her speaking exclusively in her dad’s Wingon tongue leads people to make a lot of assumptions about her, that she’s weird or even scary, but the truth is that she’s very nice and sociable. She sometimes joins Kip and Dottie as a third to their trio, as aside from their common interests, both girls can relate to having assumptions made about them based on their looks.

Suzy, to many, looks like a hairball sliding around on the ground, but she would feel utterly insulted if you described her that way. She has her dad’s body and her mom’s luscious locks, though most don’t know where the hair ends and body begins. Despite her face being completely concealed, she’s so eloquent in her speech and mannerisms that you could completely forget that she’s basically a pile of hair as you become entranced in a conversation with her. She’s a classy lady and every unusual part of her only adds to her allure.

Gola is a model at some high-end agency, with an unbreakable confidence and an insatiable need to make sure the whole world knows how sharp her style is. She is quite sassy but can also be kind of dumb, arguing until she’s blue in the face to defend a claim that is flat out wrong just so she can have the satisfaction of being right. She’s also picked up a lot of her speech patterns from her dad’s friend Allan, so catch her comically mispronouncing a lot of words as well.

Chad is a pretty normal guy. As engaged in meme culture as any of his generation and especially as a child of the tech savvy Glep, so sometimes the family will be hit with a “skill issue” or “had to do it to em.” He likes to act like he doesn’t care what people think of him and will often lounge around in socks and sandals when not cosplaying as a meme. Sarcasm and jokes get a good laugh out of him but not when they’re at his expense, like when his siblings compare him to Stuart Little because of his abnormally short, less-than-two-foot stature. 

Giorno is a total gym rat, who cannot get through a single day without going through his elaborate full-body routine. He lives off of whey smoothies and many speculate lots of steroids, but he won’t confirm or deny that. School and work hardly matter to him as long as there’s gym. Workout stuff aside he has a sharp sense of humor and can engage in some good witty banter, especially with his best friend, favorite workout buddy, and love interest, Ell Pimling.

Eep, in contrast to her more eloquent and self-assured twin Suzy, is a shy little thing whose personality is as small as her stature. She is super sweet and loving with the people and critters she trusts most, and almost everyone she meets finds her very likable. This agreeability is something she finds joy in, but she has a hard time speaking up for herself when she wants something or disagrees. Her “speaking” sounds more like a squeaky dog toy than actual speech, but just like everyone can understand Glep’s Wingon tongue, she is perfectly clear to everyone when she does express herself.

Glorp is the least imposing critter you will ever meet. He is practically a background character. Every time he opens his mouth one of his siblings, parents, or peers starts speaking, so nobody knows what his voice sounds like or what his personality is. He doesn’t put up any fuss as he walks or slithers around with his noodly body, so everyone assumes he is perfectly content with the way things are. Nobody has asked him but he would probably agree based on his facial expression. 

[daggerzine]

Throwback Thursday #69!- Young Marble Giants- Colossal Youth (1980 Rough Trade)

This Welsh trio of Alison Statton and the Moxham brothers, Stuart and Philip, weren't around long, a few years, but released a couple of excellent EPs and this, their lone LP in 1980. 

Stark and minimal doesn't even begin to describe it. You've got ultra-nominal guitar/bass/organ and a hushed drum machine. Oh and the recited vocals of Statton, all to create this totally unique record. 

You have stellar cuts like the opening "Searching for Mr Right," the echoey/jagged "Include Me Out," and the weirdly haunting "The Taxi," ...and that's the first three songs. 

Elsewhere, "N.I.T.A." comes directly out of the future, while you can almost dance to the title track, and "Credit in the Straight World"  (covered in the 90s by Hole) stabs a plastic fork in every direction, and hits each and every time.

The EPs are totally worth your time as well, but man, Colossal Youth is the one. A magical debut by a band that wasn't long for this world, but made the most of it.

www.dominomusic.com

[boricuacherry-blog]

Promise is lush and unhurried, reclining somewhere between jazz, Brazilian pop, and soul. The album's title was inspired by a letter that Adu received from her father, in which he wrote about the "promise of hope," a reference to a source of strength he found during his battle with cancer.

Multiple articles and reviews from the time of release leaned on the same descriptor for the singer, the band, and the music: "cool." It's mood music, at the purest definition: Stuart Matthewman's sax, Andrew Hale's keys, and Paul Spencer Denman's masterful bass envelope listeners, transport them. Their live recordings were a departure from the heavily programmed production of the era, and the sparse elegance that some found - and still find - too loungy is one of the primary factors in Sade's sound and catalog aging beautifully.

Promise's opener, "Is It a Crime," is Sweetback's (the name Matthewman, Hale, and Denman perform under as a trio) showcase. This is a definitive Sade song, with Hammond organs and djembes and Adu pleading over big-band style crescendos. She describes her love as one that "dives and jumps and ripples like the deepest ocean," and that's what the song does, waves of sax and piano cresting and breaking over Adu's insistent declaration of love.

While Sade's music is often categorized as relaxing or sensual, the smoothness of her vocals and the mellow instrumentation belies the melancholy in most of the album cuts. Lyrically, Promise is a collection of short stories exploring the varied stages of love and relationships; some autobiographical to Adu, who co-wrote every song on the album but one.

"War of the Hearts" frames the end of a relationship as a standoff; Jezebel is the deceptively simple story of a prostitute, told in innuendos, "Jezebel, what a belle/Looks like a princess in her new dress/How did you get that?/Do you really want to know? she said," and Maureen is about a friend she lost and all the new experiences she'll never get to tell her about.

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Heroes & Villains The DC Animated Universe - Paper Cut-Out Portraits and Profiles

The Terrific Trio

After being exposed to high levels of radiation during a particle fusion experiment, Physicists Mike Morgan, Mary Michaels and Stuart Lowe each underwent dramatic genetic mutations. The accident altered their DNA and bestowed them each with metahuman powers. The three decided to use their abilities for good; hence they became the team of super heroes known as the 'Terrific Trio.'

Dr. Morgan was transformed into a hulking behemoth composed of a lava-like substance possessing of incredible strength and durability.  He took on the name of ‘Magma.’ Dr. Michaels meanwhile was endowed with the ability to transform her body into a vapor-like substance enabling her to essentially phase through solid matter; she took on the codename ‘Freon.’  Finally, Dr. Lowe was changed into a flattened version of himself with the ability to stretch his limbs; this additionally rendered him highly resilient to harm.  He took on the name ‘The 2-D Man’ and acted as the leader of the heroic trio   

The government financed and established their base of operation, known as the Trio Tower. The Trio vowed to fight the crime in Gotham City, although General Norman of the United States Army did not trust operative that possessed superhuman powers and he covertly planned an accident that would result in the trio’s death.

The Trio proved highly popular among the general public of Gotham.  Terry McGinnis was also a fan but Bruce Wayne was less trusting, worried over the dangers that can exist when untrained individuals wield such incredible abilities. 

Things for the Trio took a turn for the worse when they realized that the accident that caused their transformation was continuing to alter their genetic composition and would likely lead to their demise.  Desperate and unhinged, The Trio attempted to recreate the accident in the hopes that it would stabilize their conditions.  This ran the risk of a major core rupture that could destroy a sizable portion of Gotham.  

Batman tried to explain the dangers to the Trio but their were beyond reasoning with.  As such Batman had to battle the three and ultimately proved successful.  The three one-time heroes were captured and taken into custody by the U.S. Government.  These governmental officials promised to do all they could to help the Trio yet what eventually became of the three remains unraveled.    

Actor Robert Davi provided the voice for Magma; with Laura San Giacomo as Freon; and Jeff Bennett as the 2-D Man.  The Terrific Trio appeared in the sixth episode of the first season of Batman Beyond, ‘Heroes.’  

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I remember I had these old character ideas of a Cartoon trio I called the Inklets.

The third one is supposed to be an animal but I'm gonna get to drawing them again with Otega. But the third member is Zink.

The one on the left is Tandago and the right is supposed to be Watcher.

Rimslin and Thinik are made by @iguessimfished and @stuart-lonk

[slashingdisneypasta]

💚 WIP Ask Game! 💚

I was tagged by @masqueradeball on my main blog! ^^ I'm gonna do it here though if that's okay ^^

I also don't really save my drafts to my files anymore cuz I have never get back to them there 😅- but here are some random titles for ideas I have in my Tumblr Drafts and Notes App! You're welcome to ask about these.

Jim Bickerman or Wayne Jackson x Reader except uhhhhhh you dunno which one you're talking to until the end. Oops. (Split Ending)

Dale Acton x Reader, 'I gotta get the door, it could be Norman-' 'Norman doesn't kiss as good as I do though' 'it could be Wayne- ' 'No neither does he'

DMD!Trio (Scarecrow, Tin Woodman & Lion) x Reader where you have to go Home.

Fem!Disney Villain's as Mommy's.

Bo Sinclair, Jim Bickerman, Professor Callahan, Jerry Dandridge (+Possibly more) x Readers where reader is Drunk, Tired, and just wants their old man to come and pick them up because they miss them So much 😭

Inkubus x Immortal!Reader who thinks Inkubus is Actually Dead when she totally by accident comes upon what must be his awkward geeky adorable doppelganger... Stuart.

OUAT!Cruella De Vil x SameStory!Reader in Storybrooke. Maybe Cruella's a crazy, evil bitch but she's your crazy evil bitch from home.

Pick any one of these that you might be curious about and I'll give you a little snippet or overview! ^^

Tagging: Anyone who wants to do this. Really, anyone. I mean it. If you see this and you want to do this I mean YOU.

[citizenscreen]

At New York’s Paramount Theatre, a special screening of Irving Berlin’s BLUE SKIES directed by Stuart Heisler with appearances by Stan Kenton and his orchestra plus the King Cole Trio.

[disturbingstar]

Scream 5 trivia

• The films original title was SCREAM FOREVER, with a working title of Parkside.

• In March 2021, an alleged line from the film was leaked on Reddit — “When are you fuckers going to learn? This is my story! I make the fucking rules!”

• Most of the movie scenarios – like Stuart Macher’s House – were built on Screen Gems Studios. Unlike the other movies of the franchise, mostly shot in location, filming at sound stages gave the filmmakers the secrecy they needed.

• With Sidney, Gale, Sam, Tara, Mindy, and Chad all surviving, this makes the most survivors by the end of the movie with six survivors. Beating out the traditions of having the trio (Sidney, Gale, and Dewey) with usually a third survivor that usually dies in the sequel (Randy, Cotton, and Judy).