#teflon brothers

[storm-ec]

From Motionless in White to Teflon Brothers..my spotify is wild today

[because-its-eurovision]

Finland 2024: UMK contestants

Sini Sabotage – Kuori mua Windows95man – No Rules Sara Siipola – Paskana Jesse Markin – Glow Mikael Gabriel x nublu – Vox populi Cyan Kicks – Dancing With Demons Sexmane – Mania

[theflyingfeeling]

Awww I feel the same way about Joel! You can tell this band means the world to him and it's endearing 🥺 I also love how he doesn't always say/do the right socially acceptable things and I relate a lot to that 😅

yeeeeessss he wears his heart on his sleeve and doesn't sugarcoat his words 😅💞 actually that's what I love about the whole band; they are just so genuine and...real? What you see is exactly what you get 🥰

I can still remember the exact moment I totally fell for Joel for good, which also happened to be the moment I decided I need to see them live, even though I was super nervous about going to my first ever BC concert. In August 2021, Niko and Joel were being interviewed live on TV (on Viiden jälkeen) and they were asked if they have someone who's in charge of their social media (i.e. a professional), and Joel answered that they had actually been offered a person to do all that but that they want to do it themselves, because they want it to be 100% authentic. I nearly started crying on the spot, because how many bands/singers DO that?! Most of them are HAPPY to have someone else handle all that for them, but no, not Blind Channel 🥺

[stromcuzewon]

I need to have a chat with someone from Spotify Finland about their Canadian licensing agreements

[needleman1]

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[versacethotty]

the way julie chen has survived nearly 30 seasons after all the shit she put herself and others through… something must be in the holy water!

streets saying bbcan house in foreclosure

[fbfh]

Tristin Dugray lore hcs

wc: 1k

warnings: mentions of broken/dysfunctional families, tristin's siblings both have drug problems, mentions of sexism and abortion (v briefly), mentions of cheating (also v briefly), tristin is not super close with his siblings, brief mention of DUIs (not tristin), I think that's it??

summary: lore on Tristin's family whipped up in my little plastic play kitchen by yours truly lol

a/n: I MISS HIM!!!! I SAW SOME GIFS THAT MADE ME SALIVATE!!!!! also!! in case it wasn't obvious the Dugray family is based on the real life Dupont family, just like how the Huntzbergers are based on the Sulzbergers

song recs: family jewels - Marina (ouch!), be here - palaye royale, everything is romantic - charli xcx

The Dugray family have made their fortune as far back as the American revolution, starting with immigrating to America and manufacturing gunpowder for the American soldiers

This eventually led to the Dugray family owning one of the largest and most established chemical manufacturing corporations in America, DuGray

They invented a number of household names like pyrex, teflon, styrofoam, and even superglue, and also make ppe for people who work with or around chemicals

A while back, they also acquired two bank chains on the east coast, one of which is for east coast businesses, and the other is expanding slowly across america. 

The Dugray family’s net worth is roughly 18.6 billion. I know. 

Also, the Huntzberger family’s net worth is roughly 21.7 billion. I know.

Tristin mentions at one point that he has a “matching set” of baggage with Paris, and we know Paris’s parents are not at all close to her, or each other

We also know that her father is the head of a pharmaceutical company, and when her parents divorced it was in the newspaper

So yikes!

Anyway the only family mentioned by name is Janlon Dugrey, his paternal grandfather (I’m assuming if Janlon was his mom’s dad he would have a different last name yk)

So OBVIOUSLY I had to flesh things out a little 

Looking at this family tree I made a while ago, Tristin has two older siblings: his oldest brother Royce, and his older sister and middle sibling Sutton

They’re both a bit older than Tristin, since his mom is their dad’s second wife

Truett DuGrey married Helena Holshire and had Royce, then Sutton

They divorced when Royce was around 7 and Sutton was almost 5 because Helena suspected Truett of cheating, and Truett suspected Helena of being a gold digger

Both were true

A couple years later, Truett is introduced to Blythe Ross while working on publicity for the banks his family as acquired 

Blythe and Truett didn’t necessarily get along, but she could handle him better than most other women he’s met 

They were actually introduced through Mitchum Huntzberger and his wife Shira, because Shira and Blythe are sisters

Surprise!

So Blythe gets pregnant and Truett can feel another Helena gold digger situation coming

That’s when Blythe tells him she can’t go to his work event because she has to go to a clinic

Truett stops in his tracks and realizes three things at the same time

Blythe is not in fact using a pregnancy to try and get access to his money

He loves his son Royce as much as he’s able to, but he’s already becoming apathetic and Truett can’t pass over the family business to someone with no drive or ambition

Royce is 10 by the way

Lastly, he realizes that this might actually be beneficial to him

So he convinces Blythe not to get an abortion and to elope instead

Once she gets her body back after the baby they’ll stage some wedding photos and claim it was from a little over a year ago so no one knows he had the baby out of wedlock

When she’s 18 weeks along, he schedules a private ultrasound to find out the baby’s gender

He tells her that if it’s a boy, everything will be fine

If it’s a girl, he’ll serve her annulment papers and nice fat alimony and child support checks to keep both of them out of his life

Blythe isn’t sure if she’s relieved or not when the doctors announce they’re going to be having a healthy baby boy, but Truett sure is

So he grows up watching his burnt out older brother and back bone of the family older sister navigate middle school and high school when he’s barely starting kindergarten

They don’t have any harsh feelings toward Tristin

Not really

They were just never that close yk

It’s like the pilot of umbrella academy, “we only see each other at weddings and funerals”

Except really, they only see each other when Truett forces them into whatever is going on with the family business, or to bail each other out of trouble

Royce is just waiting for his trust fund to kick in so he can fuck off and smoke weed in peace

Sutton is desperately trying to keep her image and life together while hiding her nicotine dependency and steadily growing pill problem from the public eye

And Tristin just wants to fucking feel something

His mom has been in and out of “med spas” and “wellness retreats” for so long he wouldn’t be surprised if she didn’t recognize him, and the only time he and his dad talk is when he’s making charges go away

Sutton is engaged to this guy Clint

And he’s fine or whatever, Tristin hasn’t really talked to him much before

But he’s keeping his ear to the ground to make sure he treats his sister right

Sure Sutton can be condescending and a total control freak and act more like a mom than his actual mom

But she’s still his sister

So Sutton’s been off planning this huge wedding and trying to start some lifestyle brand for luxury dog beds and organic phone cases or something

Royce barely managed to keep his latest DUI for driving stoned under wraps but Truett still found out and sent him off to rehab

So Tristin starts high school at Chilton feeling almost lonelier than ever

Tristin aches for consistency, for stability

Thanks to Duncan and Bowman he sort of has that

And people like Paris that he’s literally been in school with since he can remember

It’s not that they’re particularly close, but he just likes that she’s always around when he’s going to and from class

There’s a few other people like that too, loose acquaintances that haven’t dropped out or transferred

They make him feel like even if everything else has gone to shit, he still has his winning personality

And he still has Chilton

[tenabrye]

Could I possibly get some headcanons for what type of music Vash, Nick, and Knives would listen to in a modern au?

If not thats totally fine! Thank you so much!

I hope I wrote this well since a lot of bands and artists can fall under a variety of genres.

Vash

Psychedelic rock is a genre he's not afraid to admit liking and listening to. MGMT, Tame Impala, Pink Floyd, etc. He typically likes to hum along and even sway his body to the beat, oftentimes just flat out dancing to the rhythm if it's a song or band that he can get really get into.

Alternative/Indie rock is another good genre for him. His top five might include Arctic Monkeys, Florence + The Machine, Two Door Cinema Club, Chase Atlantic, and possibly Teflon Sega. Not only do a lot of the ones he listens to sound amazing, but some songs just feel good after a stressful day.

Alternative/Indie pop, but he's picky about this genre. Lana Del Rey, Twenty One Pilots, and Blink-182 are just a few that he'll listen to. He's open for recommendations with this genre, though.

Synthwave is his JAM. It's his go-to genre for literally doing any sort of chore around the house. Kavinsky, Trevor Something, Mr. Kitty, and Wayfloe. He may also listen to such songs when trying to sleep, as they have an easy way of relaxing him.

Anything classical, but that's really only because his brother likes it. He's not really picky with any pieces belonging to this genre, but he does tend to listen to the softer, less intense ones. Sometimes he'll play a piece, whether it be on his own piano or from an app on his phone, and just think about Knives and how he's doing at the moment.

Knives

He's very into the classical genre, so anything from Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, and Puccini can and will be heard in his home. He'd much rather play the pieces himself than to use an app to listen to them, however, he'll elect to use the app if he doesn't have any intentions to play them himself.

Classic pop, which he's honestly very picky about. He leans more towards artists that are similar to Frank Sinatra, and of course he listens to Michael Bublé.

Synthwave, but only because Vash had it playing when he visited. He didn't care much for the genre, at first, but it grew on him. Only listens to Kavinsky and Wayfloe, though. Might seem stubborn to broaden this genre, but he's just picky.

Alternative/indie. Only listens to Florence + The Machine, Lana Del Rey, and Fleurie. Such powerful and captivating voices will always grace his ears for as long as he lives. Not that anyone would know he listens to them.

Industrial metal, but no one will ever know. His favorites from the genre are Rammstein, Oomph!, Celldweller, and Nine Inch Nails. He once heard Vash play an Oomph song and got scared, thinking his brother knew about it.

Wolfwood

Alternative just oozes out of this man. Bands/artists such as Muse, Sub Urban, My Chemical Romance, Green Day, ThxSoMch, etcetera, are what he will be listening to. Will even sing along to the song if he's feeling it, and that happens a lot.

Not opposed to rock or heavy metal. Metallica, Slipknot, Korn, Tool, even Ghost are bands he'll listen to. He likes the volume loud a lot, however, he'll make exceptions for when people visit him.

Rap rock bands such as Hollywood Undead, Linkin Park, and Limp Bizkit are also thrown into the mix. Listens to it during chores because he says it "energizes" him. Will most definitely sing along to every song.

Electropop, yeah, he likes it. Anything similar to Graveyardguy, Slayyyter, Night Club, and Ayesha Erotica he likes. Vash doesn't like riding in the car with him ever since he played Emo Boy with a smirk. Kidding, since the blond suggests similar songs for car rides now.

Metalcore, but he only ever listens to this genre when he's in a certain mood. Usually a bad one, but he thinks listening to bands like Bring Me the Horizon, Bullet for My Valentine, All That Remains, and Of Mice & Men will cancel out his bad moods. It's become a tell of his that lets everyone know how he's feeling without saying.

[reaja]

When I am talking about something passionately and my wife just silently stares down at her phone and then I trail off. Because I'm sure I'm being crazy or annoying or I've done something wrong and failed somehow. So I just turn back to my own phone and scroll Tumblr or check discord.

It's kinda a similar feeling to when my brother ignores the text I send to him that says "I saw this shirt made from the Garfield sheets we had as kids, it's selling for $250! Isn't that crazy!" or the one that says "I'm working really hard on this math course I'm taking, you've always been the math whiz so it's making me think of you :)"

My 20 year high school reunion is coming up in about six months and on the Facebook post discussing the venue I asked that we not hold it at the local brewery because we're nearing forty years old and some of our graduating class are in recovery and it seems inconsiderate to them. That was awhile ago and there hasn't been a thumbs up or reply.

It seems like I have reached the terminal velocity of isolation. I have spent too much time alone and now I just repel people. Human Teflon. A non-stick surface. A mirrored window of a person.

[pansexualkiba]

Hi If I may ask could you take this small idea for me.

All for one shows up just as bakugo comes back alive Izuku realizing something doesn’t reach to grab bakugo hand but runs to embrace All for one. From Izuku side he has woken up his own version of AFO and Comes up with the selfless plan to hug All for one (Who is pretty frozen that his kid is hugging him but in return feels quirks being taken and pulling one for all away) and take a few of his quirks until he feels his body has taken enough but slowly start crack down and AFtomura isn’t having it (more so he is lost a what to-do)

This is all I have I can’t think of anymore I’d like you to make something of it for me please and thanks -🍪 cookie for your troubles

This may not be exactly what you wanted but this is what I was able to come up with - I'm not used to doing requests, haha ^^; @doubleheaded-angel

"Your final boss..." Bakugou grinned manically. "IS ME! DUMBASS!"

"You..." All for One growled. "I thought I'd seen the last of that stupid little mongrel who stole my baby brother from me-"

"WAIT!"

All for One, Bakugou, and All Might's prone maybe-corpse all froze and turned towards the sound. It was......... Midoriya Izuku!

"DEKU?!" Bakugou shouted. "WHEN DID- Fucking, GO TAKE CARE OF SHIGARAKI, I'M STEPPING IN LIKE WE AGREED!"

"Young Midoriya!" All Might coughed out, "You need to prioritize-"

"So." All for One coolly interrupted All Might, "One for All has come to return to me once more-"

"I am here!" Midoriya completely bulldozed over All for One, "And I'm going to do one thing!"

Midoriya sped towards the battlefield.

"I'M GOING TO HUG MY DAD!" Midoriya declared manically.

"HAAH?!" Bakugou's eyes bulged out of their sockets.

"Y-Young Midoriya!" All Might protested. "Not that I do not appreciate your concern, but there is a time and a place, and besides, I haven't even talked to your mother about such things-"

Midoriya tackle-hugged All for One, who was frozen in disbelief.

"Ah." All Might grimaced. Blood began pouring out of his mouth. "I see."

"THAT L.E.D. SON OF A BITCH IS YOUR DEADBEAT DAD?!" Bakugou demanded.

"All for One has a son?!" Edgeshot reacted in shock.

"Why are you still here?" Bakugou wondered.

All for One... No, Hisashi slowly began to return Midoriya's embrace. "How did... You know? Izukkun?"

"You look exactly how you do in that wedding photo mom tried to shred in the garbage disposal." Midoriya explained.

"Ah." Hisashi grimaced. "That wouldn't happen to be the one from the photo album I treated with Teflon Spray x2, Induced Impenetrability, and Flameproof Object x3, would it?"

"The one with the green cover."

"Yeah, that's the one. She was that mad?"

"You vanished without even paying child support." Midoriya explained blithely. "Anyone'd be mad. Kacchan doesn't call you a deadbeat for nothing."

"AND I'M RIGHT."

They didn't acknowledge Bakugou. Instead, father and son stood there, embracing for what felt like an eternity. The fighting had drawn to a complete halt, as everyone slowly became uncomfortable with this ridiculously private family moment.

Kilometers away, Todoroki Shouto's eyes snapped open.

"Shouto?!" Fuyumi startled.

"Fuyumi-nee." Shouto wheezed. "Something is horribly wrong."

Back with the Midoriyas, Hisashi made to let go of his son, perhaps to ask politely for One for All, but Izuku did not let go. "Um, Izukkun?"

Midoriya began to clutch harder.

Hisashi felt something in him jump. This was not a good thing, as what had jumped was Hair Manipulation Quirk number twelve.

"Izukkun?" Hisashi asked again, a bit more panicked.

Another Quirk, Flame Feet number four. Then Spider Thread number six. Then Spearlike Bones, then Pinkie Promise, then Noise, then Search - all of Hisashi's stockpiled Quirks had begun to revolt within him.

"What is this?!" Hisashi, no, All for One demanded. "What are you doing, Midoriya Izuku?!"

"When you gave Stamina Stockpile to Uncle Yoichi," Midoriya muttered, "You didn't check to see if he had another Quirk. Inheritance fused with Stockpile to create One for All, and that's what I've now inherited from All Might."

All for One's breath caught in his throat - or perhaps that was Prehensile Tongue Quirk number two.

"It looks like," Midoriya continued, slowly gaining confidence, "You should have checked yourself to see if I had a Quirk or not instead of relying on reports from your doctor. Because now that One for All has been passed on to me, it's fused with the actual Quirk I had this whole time."

Midoriya's head snapped upwards to stare his mortified father in the face.

"Tell me!" Midoriya grinned rebelliously, "What kind of Quirk would be born from an Attraction Quirk and a Quirk to take other Quirks!"

All for One immediately began to cycle through possibilities, coming up with two most likely candidates. Foremost, a long-range version of his own was certainly on the table, but then his own son wouldn't be latched onto him like a limpet if that was the case. But the other idea was a Quirk that attracted other Quirks, but didn't keep them. An infinitely weaker variation of his own-

Just like Inheritance had been.

"One for All: Quirk Attraction!" Midoriya declared, proving All for One correct. "Sorry, dad, but consider this child support!"

"You-" All for One grimaced as blood began to mingle with his saliva. He could feel the Quirks leave his body, absorbed into his son's own stockpile. "You insolent brat!"

"That's no way to talk to your son." All Might chuckled from his position on the ground. "What would Inko think?"

"DON'T YOU DARE TALK ABOUT MY WIFE, ALL MIGHT!" All for One screamed, but his body slowly began to shrivel like a juice pouch as several vitality-based Quirks left him at once. I need to escape! All for One realized. What my foolish progeny has yet to realize is I still have my Mental Ejection Quirk! Times five! Backup, here I come!

Shigaraki startled as All for One entered his brain. "Aw, fuck, I thought I got rid of you." Shigaraki grumbled.

"Wait, hold on," Hisamura frowned. "Why are you here?"

"Our son." Hisashi explained. "That's twice now we've failed to account for our most precious having some invisible Quirk."

"Ah," Hisamura grimaced. "Well, in that event, you are more than welcome to help me eliminate what yet remains of Young Tomura's mind."

"Yeah, no." Shigaraki grimaced. "I'm still going to evict both of you. In fact..." Shigaraki manifested in his brain space and kicked Hisamura into Hisashi, effectively merging the two into one being. "There, that's less confusing."

"Foolish Tomura." All for One grinned. "Don't you realize th- Hrk- What?"

All for One's stomach began to cave in, and then hundreds of hands reached out of the darkness of Shigaraki's mind and grasped at All for One.

"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!" All for One demanded.

"It was my final request for Iguchi." Shigaraki smirked. "In the event of my body getting somehow possessed, I wanted him to spike my pre-pep rally energy drink with that weird hippie tea that makes your third eye prolapse or whatever." Shigaraki became concerned. "I hope he's doing alright..."

"WHY?!" All for One seethed as the hands slowly began to break him apart.

Shigaraki shrugged.

"THIS IS WHY I DIDN'T WANT KIIIIIIIIIIIIIDS-" All for One screeched as he was pulled into the vortex of Midoriya's own version of All for One, having effectively been created by the fusion of One for All and an unrelated, incredibly weak Quirk.

All for One, in the real world, slumped over, dead.

Midoriya huffed and puffed. "Now..." Midoriya heaved, "Now All Might's my dad... You goddamn son of a bitch..."

Kilometers away, Todoroki Shouto closed his eyes. "I am now at peace. Take me home, Touya-nii."

"SHOUTO! NO!" Natsuo begged, "DON'T GO TOWARDS THE LIGHT!"

[calciumdeficientt]

how do u think dahlia would act w harin

Oooufffff this one is gonna be juicy. Couldnt help myself and wrote a little something….. (scooches ko-fi link forward) https://ko-fi.com/milkybonezz/commissions

DAHLIA AND HARIN HCS

The short answer is that Dahlia would hate her guts. But short answers are boring and are not in line with my brand.

Dahlia Harrington is solid Teflon. She is the epitome of perfection, in all senses of the word. She’s pure pedigree and she damn well knows it. Brought up in seclusion, away from society, her brother and often times even her own father, she’s not very much used to ‘normal’ girls for lack of a better word. Common girls are servants, waitresses, personal shoppers or hookers. They shouldn’t even dream of coming close to a single molecule of her. She’s been in an ivory tower for so long she honestly thinks that is a poor person touches her she’ll be petrified and even though she would make an absolutely stunning marble statue, that is something she couldn’t ever fathom.

She’s barely friendly to her own clique. Dahlia hates her own brother’s guts, and hates the company he keeps. She’s all smiles with Tad but its only because she has to be, lord knows her father has eyes everywhere, and besides, she just LOVES making paupers jealous of her perfect fairytale relationship. Dahlia is sympathetic to Pinky, but then again, it all circles back to her pure, unadulterated, seething hatred of her twin. Because of this, she feels absolutely nothing but contempt for ir the other cliques polluting Bullworth. Especially the greasers, their horrid, dirty auto-shop spoils her perfect view. And god knows she can scream the house down if everything isn’t PRECISELY to her liking.

Dahlia is a spoiled, rotten, festering COW. That evil aura seems to radiate off her, no matter how much she acts like a demure little cherub. If even this doesn’t put Harin off, the vile things that leave her mouth when she’s approached certainly will. Harin should cut her losses and run fast far away before she gets hit with a wave of deadly neurotoxin.

It was deepest winter in Bullworth, a harsh nip in the air and a light layer of frost over everything, the kind of cold that requires a minimum of two layers just to maintain a normal body temperature. Weather this horrid so early on in the winter could only mean one thing. She was back. Dahlia Harrington was fresh off of a private plane back home from Belgium, her father had sent her out to go and study for a semester at one of the best conservatoires in the world, of course she’d barely studied at all. European boys were just so enchanting, and their money was so much older than that pathetic frog Tad’s. She was tired and irritated, her day had started off just dreadfully. Her coffee at the airport had not only been one minute late getting to her, and not immediately in her hand, and it was 104 degrees when she specifically asked for it to be 104.5. Typical, these poors didn’t know their worth. They didn’t know that she could have them compacted into cubes and made into fertiliser for her garden. They didn’t know she could render them jobless for the rest of their existence. Not that she knew how long poor people lived, she assumed they were born; bred like horrible, filthy vermin; and died. Dahlia pressed the tips of her long, slender, and perfectly manicured fingers into her temples and rubbed small circles into her smooth skin, her blue-bottomed Aquaberry heels making a distinct click against the paving of Bullworth’s campus. God she needed a bump, she was practically dying, she figured she should at least look happy to see her brother or else he would blab to their father.

The sound of another pair of feet behind her made her stop and turn. Behind her, stalking up the path to Harrington House, was a greaser. She didn’t have to look very hard to figure that out, nor did she want to, she could feel herself catching something already. Black hair with a slight curl at the end like she was trying to be some kind of do-wop tramp, a heavily worn looking leather jacket paired with the most hideous pair of pleather trousers Dahlia had ever had the displeasure of seeing and a round, doughy looking face. This was a girl who really looked like she didn’t care about herself. She simply had to be a greaser. Dahlia was already in one of those moods, so the staring really wasn’t making her feel any better “What? Are you blind, or just stupid?” She barked at the girl, looking down her highly modified, ever-impervious nose at her. “Oh- sorry I was just admiring your coat” she seemed startled by the confrontation. The nerve of that little wretch, it was obvious she wanted to steal it. They were all the same. Dahlia snorted and forced herself to look the girl up and down one more time, she snorted a little bit at the weak excuse “Hmph.” Her coat was marvellous, 100% pure chinchilla fur, it was so bespoke she’d even personally picked out all of the chinchillas that she wanted to be skinned to make it, but it wasn’t made so that paupers could get their drool all over it. Dahlia turned and took a few more steps towards Harrington house, and yet agin she hear the same pair of footsteps on her tail, how annoying. “Hey I’ve not seen you around before… are you new?” She asked, her tone was genuine and bright, it made Dahlia feel ill. She swivelled and looked down at her again, her jaw set “Oh now I see, you’re both blind and stupid… pity” she pouted a little in mock sympathy and folded her arms across her abysmally flat chest. Practically concave on account of her lack of a heart. “I thought they put people like you in homes… or you lay down to sad music and die like the elephant man” the girl in front to her looked shocked by her response, that was often what happened to Dahlia. How could a woman so beautiful be so vile?

Dahlia set off again, and this time she made it almost all the way up to the door before she heard the greaser girl cry out to her “I’m Harin by the way… just in case.. maybe you wanted to know” it was clear she’d lost confidence at the end, clearly shaken by Dahlia’s coldness. She was this day personified. Cold, hard, and weirdly striking. Dahlia looked over her shoulder, her long platinum, perfectly formed ringlets seeming to spill over the shoulder of her fur coat in a way that felt choreographed; her face was twisted into a sneer “Dahlia Harrington.” There was a specific kind of emphasis she put on her last name, a certain kind of vitriole “And I suggest you remember it”. Dahlia soon stamped off into Harrington House and Harin drifted back to the auto shop, dazed… In some short of trance, almost.

Good god… what a bitch.

[gumnut-logic]

For @onereyofstarlight :D Cos it was her idea :D

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Virgil was up later than usual this morning. Possibly because he went to bed later than usual. He really needed to not look at his blog before bed. The argument had been dangling like a carrot and he couldn’t help himself.

Next time he would leave the idiots for Brains and let the genius decimate them with math. He was a weapon to be wielded as needed, but Virgil liked to fight his own engineering wars and keep him for the big ones.

This one was big enough.

Consequently, he stumbled down the stairs to the kitchen at least an hour later than usual and in need of at least a gallon of coffee before he would be willing to engage with anything or anybody.

So it was both wonderful and annoying to find the kitchen full of brothers.

“You’re kidding.” Alan sounded shocked more than anything else.

John was hovering over the table and cocked an eyebrow at his youngest brother. “He flies the fastest plane on the planet, Alan.”

“Yeeeaah, but this is different.”

“How?”

Alan muttered something, but Virgil was far more interested in the coffee machine across the room.

“Afternoon, Virg!” Gordon, as usual was far too many decibels higher than the zero Virgil preferred.

Virgil wasn’t rude, however. A grunt sufficed.

If a glare was involved, it was truly in the effort of saving his younger brother’s life.

Gordon, of course, only grinned wider and shoved his sandwich in his mouth as he wandered past.

Virgil ignored him.

Extensively.

“But you’re a genius!” The exasperation in Alan’s voice drew Virgil’s attention back to the kitchen table. Scott had his head down and what appeared to be a stylus sticking out over his right ear.

“Labels, Alan. Everyone needs someone to check their work.”

“Ask Eos!”

“Why? Scott has always been my beta.”

Oh, so that’s what Scott was doing. Virgil went back to staring at the coffee machine and for the umpteenth time ran the designs through his head that could help develop a machine that could beam in coffee abracadabra so he didn’t have to wait.

“You’ve missed a variable.” Scott’s voice was thoughtful.

“A whole variable?!”

“You doubled it here, but you missed it in the final equation.”

A glance at the table again and Virgil raised an eyebrow. John looked fit to explode.

“Goddamnit, how the hell did I miss that?”

“Easy done.” Scott pulled the stylus out of his hair and started scribbling on the table.

Oh, so we are at table level already. Virgil tried to remember if Alan had ever seen Scott play with math. A slow blink and honestly, he couldn’t recall.

The coffee machine chimed and his attention was drawn back to the warmth awaiting him. He wrapped both hands around the mug and focussed on rebooting his brain.

It was wonderful.

“But how?!” Alan’s voice was incredulity itself.

As expected, Scott continued scribbling and ignored Alan completely.

Virgil had to smirk. Table level was really something to see.

Wall level…well, there was a reason why they used certain kinds of teflon paint throughout the villa and especially in Scott’s office. Not that his brother had had the chance to really play with math since Dad…

Ugh. Virgil needed more coffee.

At least that explained why Alan was so gobsmacked.

But still, it wasn’t as if John had stopped programming.

But then, Alan did tend to be clueless on some fronts.

Eh. Another cup of coffee coming up.

“I can’t believe it. Scott, that is perfect…wait, why that coefficient?” John sounded almost eager.

“You can’t have that result and expect that equation to solve to match that number without that coefficient. That is why you needed the variable.”

Virgil watched over his coffee cup as John frowned down at the table.

Alan appeared to be watching a tennis match between them.

“You’re right.” It was a sigh from John and his brother wilted.

Scott smiled up at him and went back to scribbling on the table.

“Now what are you doing?” Alan peered at the table.

“I like the pattern.”

John snorted.

“What pattern?” Alan sounded genuinely curious.

Virgil wandered over to the table and peered down at the numbers his brother was scribbling down.

Virgil was good with math. He used it like any other tool to get the results he needed. He was an engineer; he could speak numbers.

John wrote in numbers, he created in numbers and thoroughly enjoyed it, but again, math to John was as much a tool as it was to Virgil. A means to an end.

To Scott it was something else.

Sure, Scott had the math skills to be an excellent pilot, but his interest lay way beyond that relatively simple application.

Math to Scott was like music to Virgil.

The only reason Alan might not know this was that Scott spent so much of his time doing the necessary rather than the fun.

Watching him let himself play was wonderful.

Virgil stepped up beside Alan

His littlest brother looked up at him, shock still all over his face. “Why didn’t he tell me?”

Virgil shrugged and sipped at his coffee. “Nothing to tell.” Scott had always enjoyed maths.

Alan waved at the numbers on the table. “This is amazing.”

Scott was oblivious, of course. Virgil couldn’t help but smile. He hadn’t seen Scott go on a math bender in years. Looking up at John, he found a smile similar to his own. Perhaps this was planned, perhaps not. John’s exasperation had appeared real enough.

Scott was skirting the edge of Virgil’s knowledge and no doubt, left to himself, his big brother would leave Virgil in the dust.

John could follow, but then Scott’s mathematical creations were more for the enjoyment than any practical purpose, and John had a tendency to get distracted by individual concepts in Scott’s mosaic and run off with those.

Virgil just enjoyed watching Scott enjoy himself.

Hell, right now his classy big brother had his tongue peeking out one side of his mouth as, eyes wide, he scribbled down yet another equation that summarised the previous array of functions.

Truly it was like music.

Alan nudged Virgil, causing ripples in the remains of his coffee, and whispered. “Scott enjoys math?”

Another sip of his coffee. “Yeah, Scott enjoys math.”

And it was beautiful to watch him play.

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[trickerys-domain]

Y'all ready for my hilariously candid unpopular UMK ranking!

Obligatory preferace that I'm just an opinionated bitch. This selection is overall really strong and I'm very much excited for the live show. I think a lot of these songs will make or break during the live. I also think there is an odd disparity in the obvious budget and set quiality for the 7 music videos. Almost like they had a different line-up and some songs were last minute replacements.

I also did not factor in whether a song would do well in eurovision at all because frankly rn I do not care.

This ranking will also probably change so like who cares, I'm ready to enjoy a great liveshow full of people who give a shit about their art.

Ok, here we go!

7. Vox Populi - Mikael Gabriel

The general sound of this one is fun and easy. Good filler or backgroud music. Like if it came on in shuffle I probably wouldn't skip it. However, the lyrics are like really bad. Especially in context of the seeming general opinion of this man I am seeing. Also, this man is strategically pandering and a. Its not working, b. No on seems to have noticed. The use of Matti and that obviously käärijä influenced face in the music video smacked me on first watch. He is capitalizing and I'm very curious to see what he does with the live. Not excited, just curious.

6. Dancing with Demons - Cyan Kicks

I liked Hurricane better. There its been said. I do enjoy listening to this but I forget about it a lot. It also took me until basically now to kinda remember what it sounds like. Meanwhile I can still think of the Hurricane chorus 2 years later having not listened to it since UMK 2022. I do think Cyan Kicks has a really good fun sound, I just don't vibe with this song all that much.

Also, this bears no weight on my opinion of either song. But I need to call out the hypocrisy I've been seeing online. I've seen so many people comment that they don't like the amount of autotune Sexmane uses in Mania and then go on to say how much Dancing with Demons showcases Susanna's voice. Like...... there is so much autotune on Dancing with Demons. It will not sound like that live. And that's fine, its clearly an artistic choice that fits with their musical style, like Sexmane. But pls just sit with that for a bit before complaining about the, frankly much less, autotune in a rap song. Tangent rant over.

5. Kuori Moi - Sini Sabotage

This is where my ranking will probably swap a lot. This song is really catchy and I ingeneral like this type of music. I call it chill sex. This is also a very fun unserious song and video played straight, and I appreciate that. I am worried about something with vocals this chill live. They're good vocals, but very intentionally monotone and if the staging isn't engaging it might fall flat. This song is mostly at 5th place because I dont have anything bad to say about it, but it doesn't stand out quite as much as some of the others. I adored her interview tho.

4. Paskana - Sara Siipola

This is a great power ballad while still being upbeat. It doesn't drag. The vocals are great. The music video is great even while being very simple. The lyrics and message are really really good too. This song gets stuck in my head a lot and I think it is, on a technical level, the stongest song this year. I really hope the staging supports the song but with how raw and peeled back the vibe of the song is it will be difficult to make staging that is engaging without being distracting.

3. No Rules! - Windows95Man

Pure unashamed 90s nostalgia schlock. This is very much the type of trashy eurodance I enjoy, so home run for me. I think the staging will be very fun, but maybe too much. Or it will be organized chaos like Portion Boys last year. Speaking of, this is definitely this years silly fan fave that will be well received but probably not win, a la Portion Boys and Teflon Brothers. For being trashy eurodance, I do think it is construced very well. It flows and it actually written well, its bad on purpose and it is successful. Is it the most original or masterful, no. It is very enjoyable and fun and low pressure, yes.

2. MANIA - Sexmane

This one gets stuck in my head the most. Good beat, good flow. I really like the sound of the chorus, including the auto tune. The lyrics hold more than I think comes across initially and you can tell Sexmane really connects with this song the way his voice delivers even in the studio version. This is the song that I'm most excited to see live because I wanna know what kind of staging he pulls out. Side note: I think it's really funny that the brother called Sexmane is less sexual musically than the one just called Isaac.

1. Glow - Jesse Markin

This is just a really phenomenally written and positive song. It is really nice to have some good classic rap at a competition like UMK. The flow is impeccable with his rapping too. There's a lot of American artists who can't write that well in english. The message of this song is really uplifting without feeling hollow because it recognizes you gotta actually work at being in a good place. Jessie is someone who knows exactly who he is as an artist and person and that translates into the song. Also Alpaca!

I think the the songs that have the biggest chance of winning are Paskana, Dancing with Demons, and No Rules!

But truly I have no clue how this will go. This is a very evenly matched line-up both in quality and fan reception. The live perfomances will 100% decide the outcome.

[morsobaby]

Pelikaani lens turbiiniin, punaselle kaikki puhelin kii

[Pämppää - teflon brothers]

[because-its-eurovision]

do you think we finns get to send another rock act to ESC next year? 👀 we've been doing so well with BC and Jere but I feel like we never get too many in a row before people just forget what our strengths are and try to send in another ballad 😭

Based on the hints UMK shared about the participants of next year, there’s going to be at least one rock act involved so I’d say there’s a fair chance it gets picked. It all comes down to the entry itself though, and a good song is a good song regardless of genre. At this point I don’t credit our success that much to certain genres as Cha cha cha was something we’ve never seen in Eurovision before, but to choosing whatever we (the Finnish public) like. It has proven that we’re not afraid to vote for bold entries - Lordi, PKN, Erika, BC, Käärijä, not to mention UMK second-placers Teflon Brothers & Portion Boys - and lately that has also paid off.

Heavier entries are usually my personal preference as well and I do think that is still what we're best at. Still I’d love us to send something really ethnic-inspired (think Ukraine 2016/2021, Montenegro 2015, Czechia 2023), perhaps even in a Sámi language, or a gorgeous Finnish-language ballad. I don’t accept ballad slander here 😤 Pernilla, Norma John, Ilta and Lxandra were all amazing (Norma John would’ve qualified with televote only) and my dream would be to see something like Lautturi or Missä muruseni on from us.

You don't have to be afraid though since Finland hasn't gotten behind any ballads in UMK after 2017 when Norma John was the only reasonable choice since the early favourite Emma messed up her live. In 2020 Aksel won thanks to juries and Erika's live wasn't convincing though she eventually did win the televote.

Personally I’m more afraid of lukewarm pop entries (we can never beat Sweden in that territory) or trying too hard to be Eurovision-appropiate like Saara Aalto and Darude did, without really understanding what the contest is about nowadays. Thankfully UMK seems to be finally going to the right direction as every performance last year was visually incredible and contest-ready, and got rid of the ridiculous clichés like dresschanges. I have very high hopes and faith in UMK team for the first time ever and I can’t wait to see what they deliver next year 🥰

[damiannasworld]

The official YT Music recap just dropped!

This was a bit suprising. I listened the CCC Alan Walker remix a lot when it came out but 1st? 🤔 I wonder where are ICIP and Huhhahhei, I could swear they're the ones I've been listening the most.

Top 5 artist are all Finnish, the brainrot is real. 😂 (Teflon Brothers and Antti Tuisku are there only for featuring Käärijä & Portion Boys but anyway).

The genres; Russian pop and Indian hip hop, wtf? 🤣