#tender indie

[sighcomics]

For an eternal moment we gazed into each other, the next we were completely changed.

[lucybellwood]

I wish I could be in the Pacific Northwest to attend one of these screenings for Dark and Tender, a film exploring the work of Aaron Johnson and the Chronically UnderTouched (CUT) Project.

From their website:

The Chronically UnderTouched (CUT) Project is a movement supporting People of the Global Majority — people of color — to recover healthy, nourishing, platonic touch in a culture that, in the United States, denies it at every turn.

Born out of the development and tracking of the Chronically UnderTouched trauma story, the CUT Project develops accessible practices — deep listening, song, access to nature — as antidotes to the Black Brute archetype. […] Tender, thoughtful touch and holding, to the Black male body, is so dangerous to white supremacy that they use all matters of violence to erase this practice.

[unadulteratedcoffeetimemachine]

Staring at the ceiling now, a million hours pass. Love will always last, love will always hold me down What is it all about?

Bruises Off The Peach - Ryan Beatty

[alarrytale]

https://www.tumblr.com/alarrytale/762609138761072640/your-answer-was-so-interesting-it-made-me-think?source=share

yikes. you should try to get to know Louis.

he was always an oasis/green day guy, into indie brit rock.

not surprised a larrie is looking down at him, but still. the way you people think so little of him, as if his taste and choices dont matter unless they're exactly like harry.

I just need to understand. Do you think Louis have chosen this indie kind of music style to support his laddy image?

I very much think it’s actually the music style Louis likes and he’s finally confident and free enough to make the music he really wants? It’s not a secret to anyone that he wasn’t a big fan of the first 1D albums and he did what he could to get their music in another direction.

Yes the music style goes well with his laddy bro image, but I doubt that he chose the music style because of that.

Hello, anon (yes, these two asks are from the same anon)

First of all, "he was always a oasis/green day guy" is simply not true and i'm pretty tired of this attempt at rewriting history. If you go back and actually look at the evidence and what Louis has said himself you will see that.

Jay said that Louis was obsessed with S club 7 from a young age. On Louis' own bebo account he had a list of his favourite artists and bands. Do you remember which one's he mentioned? I do. He was in a band the Rogue which did covers of hit songs. Do you know which songs they performed? Songs like I got a feeling by the Black eyes peas. Louis is also into musicals, he played Danny in Grease and has mentioned that his favourite movie is Grease and his favourite song from Grease is Hopelessly devoted to you. He's got a tattoo of a Nickleback song, he and H went to the same the Script concert. His guilty pleasure music is Abba. He covered Look after you by the Fray and didn’t sing anything Oasis, britpop or indie at his xft auditions.

He has mentioned being a Green day fan, but there is zero evidence from 1991-2020 (ish) that Louis has ever been into britpop. I can buy that he was a casual fan (like 99% of the british population in the 90's.). But this "Oasis is my inspiration, i've always been a massive fan" thing? That's a narrative they've created recently, to match his change in image and sound. He's never had an Oasis poster in his bedroom, or worn an Oasis t-shirt. He's never been to an Oasis concert. He was 4 years old when Wonderwall came out. I honestly think he's more of a 00's music kid than 90's, because that's what all the evidence suggests.

I think that Louis and his team felt he needed to find himself as an artist and find his sound. Who is Louis Tomlinson the artist? The pop world is hard to compete in, and i think he gave up trying to make it in that genre (with that note he posted about redefining what success means to him). He also needs to appear straight and like a lad that's into women, and he's northern, so his label probably suggested that he'd lean into his northern, common lad, chavvy style roots and northern common lad music. They probably suggested he'd go back to the 90's glory days of northern, common lad music and replicate that. It's something he is able to do, it doesn’t feel foreign to him and like pretending, and i don't think he dislikes the music.

I think Louis music style is still very much pop, with elements of indie, punk rock and alt. Music. But it's still too pop to be classified as something else. Matt Vines can say that Louis is indie and has always been indie with his full chest. That won't ever make it true. You can’t rewrite history.

[teapotart]

When I say my songs associations with characters are weird, I do mean it. Congrats on my Obito brainrot.

(bottom frame is basically tfw your clan members didn't appreciate your choice of music for revolution)

[satin-carmin]

As I walk / as I bleed / I wanna take you everywhere with me As I cry / as I weep / I want you to know that you're a part of me

Lime Garden, Love song

[vetteldixon]

JAMES HINCHCLIFFE & SCOTT DIXON 2018 Indy 500 Pit Stop Competition by Scott R. Lepage

[4noki-vns]

tender feelings like water Chinese translation // 《柔情似水》 中文版

Our yuri fantasy visual novel "tender feelings like water" has a simplified Chinese translation now! Thank you so much to Yuan again for translating!!

我们的百合游戏《柔情似水》现在有中文版了! 欢迎大家来玩 (*¯︶¯*)

[velvetpill]

⸻ ❝ you torture me, ❞ comes out in a half-whisper, half-purr, so feline in nature. from those extended, sharp canines to the inquisitive look in his eyes, peering straight into the other's soul. ❝ i hunger and hunger, yet you deny me. ❞ that doesn't stop him from leaning close, allowing fangs to scrape along their throat, a quick scratch that doesn't yield blood yet. he pulls back just as quickly. ❝ why do you tell me no? ❞

[s1ithers]

this might be the bleakest thing that's ever happened to me in a videogame

[coming-dot-home]

[osteus]

      ❛  Orochimaru-sama wouldn't approve of this. Why are you here?  ❜

[mayshing]

We released our winter jazz music video 1 hour on YT, safe for your streams and content. :D

[bea-lele-carmen]

[satin-carmin]

Gentle were you on my mind; drank up all the lilac wine In spite of ourselves And gentle, it’s only my heart; we don’t need to start over

Gentle, Lily Talmers