#that lucky old sun

[legions-top-dog]

mother fucker, I specifically took out all the parts that made that stupid toy gun work and had the power plant have a meltdown. How the hell did you fix the stupid toy?!

Slave I tasked with fixing it blew up. Gun got knocked around and it started working. Despite the facility damage, the weapon still works- even at a quarter of maximum power. The Legion has been keeping it under lock and key in an undisclosed location- you won't find it on my corpse.

The Legion will conquer Hoover Dam. We have complete control over HELIOS 1, and we are repairing and upgrading it's output power, courtesy of the C-Finder, and the plant defense system is active.

[furbtasticworksofart]

Helpful diagram, I might draw more canon(?) related things but I quite enjoy making a bonkers AU just for myself.

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

... morning music ...

[nedison]

RIP Jeffrey Foskett -- one of the creative forces that buoyed both The Beach Boys' and Brian Wilson's live and recording careers (for better or worse...) ever since the early 80s.

My fave solo Brian is seeing him front a big band on this DVD and the SMiLE concert show with mostly the same backing band. Jeffrey figures greatly in both performances and was an essential part of the sound. He'll be missed!

[sarcasmic-skies]

🎧 hehe

this is one of my favorite songs ever. lyrics below start at 2:25 (i couldnt pick one line lol. bill’s performance here is insane)

“…i want you to lift me, i want you to lift me to paradise

show me that river, please take me, please take me across

wash all my troubles, i want you to wash my troubles away

and like that lucky old sun, i’ll have nothing to do

but roll around heaven, i want to roll, please let me roll around heaven all day…”

[amid-fandoms]

dan howell is so lucky :/

[tsbs-shipfessions]

Hey creator self ship anon you are so based and powerful (someone who's thought the creator is hot but too weak to simp😔)

All of you terrify me-

[acerikus]

Finally showing off my (deltarune) older Clover design! (As well as my tentative Asriel design 👀) Larger sprite and additional thoughts under the cut:

They're at college with Asriel and Chara and are majoring in chemistry. Martlet adopted them off the streets when they were pretty young and they latched onto her straight away, and the two of them live a few hours away from Hometown.

(Berdly always drags them into playing video games with him during family gatherings. They only really care about super smashing fighters and shooters though.)

Azzy can be kind of a dick now that he's free of the expectations everyone has of him in hometown and his friends enable this waaaaay too much.

[singeratlarge]

SONG OF THE WEEK: “That Lucky Old Sun” https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/that-lucky-old-sun

The lyrics of "Lucky Old Sun" contrast the toil and hardship of the singer's life with the obliviousness of the natural world. Yet he sees a silver lining and God's deliverance behind it all. This song was written in 1949 by big band musician Beasley Smith and prolific Tin Pan Alley lyricist Haven Gillespie—who also wrote "You Go To My Head" (another favorite of mine). They said “Ol’ Man River” inspired this song, which gained more presence with me after hearing Brian Wilson's 2007 concept album based on this song. In 2020 I added it to my set list for when I perform in assisted living homes. My arrangement blends the definitive Frankie Laine recording with the soul of Louis Armstrong's (in 1949 both artists released "competing” versions). I've grown fond of singing it and I added a gospel flair to it. Please listen (feedback welcome), and don’t work too hard out there.

#luckyoldsun #GreatAmericanSongbook #OlManRiver #BeasleySmith #HavenGillespie #BrianWilson #LouisArmstrong #FrankieLaine #gospel #work #river #johnnyjblair #singeratlarge

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: March 25

"Groovy Little Summer Song" by James Otto

[legions-top-dog]

ARCHIMEDES II. An experimental artillery/communications/reconnaissance satellite of the former US, and the torch the Legion used to weld the NCR open at the Dam.

It now handles Legion and Eagles communications, performs laser ranging for mapmaking and occasionally divine skeleton death blasts stuff by proving the sun is a deadly laser to it’s targets.

Headcanon is that ARCHIMEDES is a solar pumped laser (it reflects stuff from the sun,) but uses a lot of power and needs the occasional microwave energy pumped from HELIOS ONE to charge it’s firing circuits and cryogenic pumps each 90 minute orbit

Drew this because it was fun, based it off SOL from Akira, the ESA Olympus satellite and concepts for solar pumped lasers.

[furbtasticworksofart]

Of the firm belief that Henry should've been an antagonistic force actively during the story more. Not in an "I'm going to murder people for fun" way but in an "My sense of judgment is severely clouded and I cannot perceive the world outside of my own perspective."

He does a lot of good things, but also can make things worse because he gets caught up in his own head and fails to recognize the reality around him. Like thats a huge plot point of the novel trilogy, homie has Issues.

I think given the fact he was only in FFPS, having him be a secondary or tertiary antagonist in the security breach eras would have been extremely compelling. Because we have seen him take things to extremes, and it still wasn't enough.

In my head Vanessa/Vanny and Henry are great parallels because they are inadvertently a root cause of much of the tragedy that are occurring, though it isn't entirely their fault. They could've pulled the plug on everything before things got worse, but instead they just kept digging themselves deeper until it wasn't just them getting hurt. I think they would be excellent adversarys because they are inherently at odds due to the situations surrounding them despite how much they have in common. And the fact they have things in common would make them hate eachother a lot more.

It also recontextulizes FFPS in an intresting way, especially if the rest of the souls did move on. It was a drastic solution, that was able to resolve everyone else's conflict, but never his. It also makes sense to me that Henry would double down and become adversarial to the people around him in the name of "the greater good". Especially if Gregory and Vanessa did work for the very force he blames on current misfortune. He can justify trapping his own entirely young daughter in an active prison using extreme force. He's willing to lobotomize someone for knowing more than he'd like. He could justify destroying everything, at his lowest.

Because if William is gone, what does that leave him? When so much of your life has been dedicated to your catastrophic relationship with one man, what do you do when he's gone? And if Charlotte doesn't come back, would that mean she hasn't forgiven him for what he did to her? What meaning is there when the people you idolized have left you behind? Who even are you without them?

Do you even like the person you are now?

I don’t think the answer to that would be easy to reach all by yourself. Maybe it would be easier to try to be something else instead.

[celestial-toys]

been laying here listening to Lucky by Dermot Kennedy on loop for half an hour while thinking about Everything Stays and crying

[siixkiing]

@thesnowbellebakery { ☯ }

"Cute but that's probably one of the worst lies you've told me so far."

"I take offense to that, I have never lied a day in my life."

[blackbird-brewster]

I miss old OTP/ship nomenclatures. Before everything turned into a portmanteau á la "Brangelina"

I understand how portmanteau are usually easier to use in fandom tags, because OTP names are usually more personal to each fan, but dang, I still miss it.

"OTP + ship reference" (ex. JJ x Emily are OTP: Blackbird) is just such a perfect way to sum up a ship, yanno?

[inkskinned]

she's singing in another room and my dog is asleep at my feet. my grandma asked me why i haven't found a man yet and i laughed. oh, you know. i like my house clean.

my girlfriend is also my man is also "my partner" if i'm in a professional setting. yesterday we went to a ren faire and a man mimed at me - you're together? and at my delighted nod, his baffled, you're gay? made me laugh. a woman with rainbow hair said i love the two of you together. you're both so beautiful it's absurd.

my dad introduced my partner as my "..... friend. or whatever" the other day. he knows we're dating. in the same way, i was never able to get my sister's husband to stop saying that's gay like it's 2008. he still uses the word fa***t, and my sister's defense of him has always been well, he's just kidding.

my lover and i dance to old music in a tiny kitchen. we judge new music together and take food critique very seriously. we watch love is blind before we fall asleep and agree that if they had a queer season, it would be bloody but also make for excellent tv. of fucking course queer people would know someone for only 2 weeks and agree to get married. what are you saying.

at a bar with friends, a man puts his hand on my wrist. got a boyfriend? and yes, i do have a boyfriend, she's amazing. i am texting her while i wander around a gas station named after geese. i am visiting a swing state for a wedding. in the candy aisle i overhear: she's actually like a lesbian it's disgusting. two teenage girls with packaged sandwiches in their hands, giggling. no literally, like. i'm not, like. okay with her being there while we're all, like, naked and changing.

my girlfriend and i tailgate, drink gin and cider out of cups. from the frat group beside us, a man corrects himself with one of his friends: bro, i mean, nonbinary entity, and it makes everyone around him laugh, myself included. he razzes his friend the same way i would have killed for at 19 years old - like nothing happened, he continues: you apply sunscreen like an alien. he does a little sassy (and fairly accurate) dance interpretation of the motion. his friend is laughing so hard they're crying.

i am lucky, i live in a safe neighborhood in a safe state. my masc passenger princess comes up from DC. i drive her for an hour to where all the leaves are a violent arrangement of color. we walk along the trails, letting autumn into our blood. in this part of the state, there's a lot of pickup trucks and trump signs. when we chastely kiss before getting into the car, i accidentally make eye contact with a woman holding her child's wrist. she looks disgusted. she looks fucking pissed.

two hours later my girl and i are eating dinner on a patio, soaking in the last warmth of new england sun before the chill of winter sets in. we are giggling and trying to talk through plastic vampire teeth. at another table, i see a young woman sit up straighter. i watch her watch us. she blushes and takes her partner's hand from across the table. shy, like the taste of evening has just become something deeper.

it's worth it for this moment, i think. my lover is still humming the same song she's been singing for four days straight and i don't want to kill her for it. her guitar is beside my bed. her toothbrush is in my bathroom. in a few moments i will make us lunch. we are lucky enough to have found each other. it is lucky enough to be in love.