#totp tag;

[bejeweledmp3]

i am typing this with my heart on my fingertips, but i just wanted to say that chapter five of too old to play (and too young to mess around) is officially up now, and that the epilogue will be posted next saturday. rambles under the cut

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA first of all i have to say that i have no idea if anyone that was waiting for the chapter will ever read this, but if that's you then above all i am so so sorry for how long this took. i have wanted and tried to write this for months, and after so much desperately trying it came out like this!!! i really hope you enjoy it and that it makes you feel anything at all.

i will never stop thanking my darling friend @bisexualgoth for being there for me when i couldn't write a word just as much as he was there when words couldn't stop coming. nat i love you and i wouldn't have been able to write this without you.

i have nothing else to say, other than it would really mean the world to me to hear whatever you have to say about this chapter!!! ok that's me until next week!! AAAAAAAAA

[sunburnacoustic]

Muse on Top Of The Pops in 2006

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

[zurdta]

Tagged by @alabamyright and @pineapplefulfillseveryneed thank you kindly ^_^

Last song: Aztec Camera - Somewhere in my Heart. Random but yeah.

Favorite colour: Blue. Specifically that lapis/cobalt blue.

Currently watching: Just finished Stath Lets Flats (UK, Channel 4)

Spicy/savoury/sweet: Spicy. I don't do sweet.

Relationship status: Depressingly single. Still.

Current obsession: Really into the Horrible Histories / Yonderland / BBC Ghosts gang - aka the Six Idiots aka Them There. [Larry is my fave.]

(I'm going to add some things to make this tag game more tailored to the Sparks community, as I'll be tagging Sparks people ^_^ Reply to it any way that feels natural to you, as I am well aware of how hard it may be to answer things.)

What made you a Sparks fan: FFS 2015. Was a Franz Ferdinand fan and was puzzled as to wtf the collaboration would sound like. I played the first song - Johnny Delusional - and knew I had to get some Sparks into my life. I mean, I knew Sparks, but hadn't been aware of them since 1979... and my mom had fancied Russell back in the day so me and my sister would laugh about them and deface their pictures in the teen magazines... so when I got into Ron, my sister did remind me and laugh.

Sparks era(s) closest to your heart: Well - being of a certain age and watching TOTP back in 1974 - 70s Sparks will always have a place. BUT, I really love now - their latest stuff is always surprising and yeah, astoundingly good. Easier to say which era I am not into - and that is the 80s because I hate the 80s in general (I was there and it was shit).

Favourite music video: When I'm With You. Despite the 80s being my least fave musically, (and hating the 80s in general) Ron is so handsome... All their videos are good though - I mean the ones they actually appear in.

Dream show(s) if you had a time machine (max. 3 to keep it interesting): Fairfield Halls 1975 because chaos.

Not tagging because I am late to this and everyone is tagged. However, if you fancy it and have not been tagged go for it and say I tagged you - because I love to read this stuff.

[wolfpants]

getting to know you

Rules: Tag 10 people you want to get to know better. Thank you for the tag, @writcraft! ❤️

Relationship status: Single as hell! I opened up (and quickly closed again) Hinge the other day for the first time in about 6 months. Clearly I'm feeling super motivated to Get Back Out There (life is hard as a smallish-town greyace lesbian).

Favourite colour: All shades of green but I've a particular love for a really soft, sage green.

Song stuck in my head: Ever since the Wham! documentary dropped I haven't stopped singing Freedom. What a banger. Wham! are very Pages of You Drarry, I think. I can definitely see them both getting into Wham! a couple of years into their relationship when the band make it onto TOTP.

Last song I listened to: fountain - iamamiwhoami

Three favourite foods: Chicken gyros, anything with blue cheese, Italian deli meats (any, I'm not fussy)

Last thing I googled: Taylor Swift Murrayfield Map 😅

Dream Trip: I did a dream trip to Nashville earlier this year, so now I've got my sights set on Salem for 2024.

No pressure tagging @saintlupin @schmem14 @stavromulabetaaa @getawayfox @citrusses @thehoneybeet !

[catboymisogynist]

thx for tagging me @romansbeathearts !

1. How long have you been a New Order fan? I'm not sure. I really got into them in 2020 thought so I would say about 4 years

2. How many New Order concerts have you been to? 1!

3. What was your favourite New Order gig? I don't listen to bootlegs that often so idk 😭 I remember liking Detroit 1989

4. What is your fav New Order album? Technique and Movement

5. Fav New Order song? it changes all the time but my most played is Broken Promise

6. Favourite Member of New Order? Gillian!

7. Favourite Former Member of New Order? this is such a funny question to me because there's only 1 lol.... and even then i wouldn't say he's my fav

8. How many NO albums do you own? 6! I own Movement, PCL, Low-life, Substance, Technique, and Republic on CD and Low-life on vinyl

9. Do you own any Joy Division? no😭

10. Least Favourite album? Get Ready

11. Do you have all the side project albums? I don't have any but I would really like a CD of Raise the Pressure

12. Which is your favorite side project? Electronic

13. Favorite remix? I don't listen to remixes really sorry

14. Favorite video? Touched by the Hand of God and The Perfect Kiss

15. Favorite cover? the only NO cover i've listened to is Blue Monday by Orgy so I'll say that

16. Should Hooky rejoin the band? no and honestly I think he just needs to move on

17. Do you like Barney’s dancing and fav dance move? the only Barney dance I can think of is when they played Fine Time on TOTP lol I do think it's fun and silly :)

18. How many times a day do you listen to NO? many

19. Is New Order your favorite band? ya

20. Should Steve audition for Dr. Who? of course

21. Favorite Barney collaboration? Won't Stop Loving You mix he did for A Certain Ratio

no pressure tagging-- @roxannebythepolice and @dazaiconfused and anyone else who would like to do this :D

[reginarubie]

hi! i see you're using a lot of tags on your aemond/sansa posts but could you use the #aemond x sansa tag specifically so it's easy to blacklist please? your posts are coming up often in the sansa stark tag and i'd personally rather skip them. thanks in advance :)

Ciao nonny!,

sorry if I have been a nuisance, even if I reply only now (in delay, my bad) you'll see I've been more mindful of my tags; stopped using the sansa stark tag continuously (tho, tbh since it is about Sansa Stark content I feel like it is a bit wrong); and I've used the word sansa only in tags with Aemond so that it doesn't get too difficult for you to blacklist it if you don't wanna see it!

Maybe I'm not good at getting how tags work but if I put the Sansa Stark tag and in the same post put the aemondxsansa tag if you blacklist the aemondxsansa shouldn't my post not come up at all?, is there not an option to make it so if it's not that way already? (you know like on ao3 when you put the tag you want to see and put TOTP to filter stories which feature others ships as well?)

Still I've tried to adjust the tags so people who don't wanna see my content don't see it, tell me if it still comes up (as I've said I'm not overly expert on the tags).

And I ask the rest of the firesteel fandom (if they aren't already doing it) to do the same if they can, so that it'd be easier for anyone to enjoy what we like!

Thank you for telling me nonny and I hope I've resolved the problem!

As always sending my love ~G.

[topofthepops]

Welcome to TOTP, a blog focusing on 80s decade TS4 Sims and CC recs with the specific aesthetic of new wave and adjacent music. I will often create Sims of real people/celebrities on here, so if that's not your thing, I get it. You are still welcome to download them and use them as a basis for some knock-off 80s musician Sims (or completely different Sims entirely).

All CC I use on my Sims will be linked (if still up) and if I can tag the creators on here, I'll do that as well. I only use Maxis match with maybe some Maxis mix in my games so that's what you'll see on here. I don't currently make my own CC, though I used to, but if there's anything I end up needing I might delve into it again and then I'll include it.

WCIF-friendly because I go CC shopping all the time and I have way too much. I also have a lot of older/lost items that I can't really find anywhere else now but not all of it still works well.

I will also be taking requests for Sims of new wave (and adjacent) musicians. If you have a specific look or era you want, be sure to let me know that as well. Thank you!

[spaniardindaworks]

I posted 927 times in 2022

That's 501 more posts than 2021!

77 posts created (8%)

850 posts reblogged (92%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@psygull

@charlesandkeef

@thebuffalospringfeild

@evildilf2

@petermonkeebff

I tagged 908 of my posts in 2022

Only 2% of my posts had no tags

#gif - 104 posts

#art - 55 posts

#the beatles - 52 posts

#aes - 49 posts

#movies - 43 posts

#paul mccartney - 38 posts

#george harrison - 35 posts

#neil young - 29 posts

#mcr - 29 posts

#h.txt - 25 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#edit: lost media wiki says some of the footage has been archived by the bbc but not released. there’s lost beatles and t rex totp media too!

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

my fellow americans....i am coming out to you as genderfluid

13 notes - Posted April 23, 2022

#4

he ate my heart.

14 notes - Posted July 21, 2022

#3

this came to me in a dream

14 notes - Posted March 26, 2022

#2

glyn johns

25 notes - Posted January 18, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

the cramps are just the b-52s if they were evil

26 notes - Posted October 4, 2022

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[bejeweledmp3]

Too old to play (and too young to mess around) is officially a complete work, and also maybe the thing I’ve made that makes me the most glassy eyed and proud. I love this fic beyond words, I loved writing it, I love my friend @bisexualgoth who helped me every step of the way. It would mean the world to me if you read it, and so it goes, again and again.

That’s it for now, I think ˖°𓇼🌊⋆🫧🍵☀️

[not-nastassia]

I was not tagged either but my brain is sparking out so bad I need to do this

Last song-

I married a Martian by sparks‼️

Favorite color-

Red. Any kind of red I think

Currently watching- still on a Vincent price binge. Other than that I’m pretty into quantum leap!

Spicy/savory/sweet-

Depends on the day. Savory, More often than not though

Relationship status-

Single! Not sure if happily or not, though!

Current obsession-

SPARRRKKKS……..

What made you a sparks fan-

Ive been a causal fan since probably may of last year but I revisited kimono my house in January! Got me into the album.

Sparks era(s) closest to your heart-

Probably either 1979-1983 or around 1972-1975

Favorite music video-

It’s tied between I predict and tryouts for the human race. The 1997 no. 1 song in heaven is a close second though.

Dream show(s) if you had a Time Machine (max. 3)-

Id be curious to see the show they did in Huston where Russ dropped a hammer on his head. Id also really love to see any performance with Jane Wiedlin and their infamous TOTP performance

I don’t have anybody to tag! I made this blog earlier, so if you see this feel free to reblog!

Tagged by @parts-of-me-unravelling, thank you kindly ^_^

Last song: Sparks - You Were Meant For Me (last non-Sparks song: exist†trace - 夢にキスを)

Favorite colour: Black

Currently watching: You've somehow caught me at a rare moment where I'm not watching anything. I most recently re-watched Sense8, which I love but I tend to prefer things that have a little less violence in it.

Spicy/savoury/sweet: At the moment sweet. Candy and fruit - hell yeah :) (I don't cope with spicy at all, so that's never the answer.)

Relationship status: a happy singular entity of many years, though more recently I'm questioning if I've changed my mind and want this to change at some point.

Current obsession: Sparks forever and always <3 (More specifically I'm currently fixating on getting my Sparks files in order, which has been consistently taking up pretty much all my time. Once that's done I'll probably go back to trying to draw as much as possible and grow my skills as I feel a little stuck there.) My other obsessions (most notably Good Omens and The Owl House) are currently in hybernation but never far away :)

(I'm going to add some things to make this tag game more tailored to the Sparks community, as I'll be tagging Sparks people ^_^ Reply to it any way that feels natural to you, as I am well aware of how hard it may be to answer things.)

What made you a Sparks fan: Good Morning/Exotic Creatures Of The Deep. Ron's existence. Seeing them live. Russell's entire everything.

Sparks era(s) closest to your heart: Two Hands One Mouth (the start of my journey but also those shows were truly something else) and Latte (what a next level album and tour!). (I'm being rigorous here and only picking two things.)

Favourite music video: My Baby's Taking Me Home

Dream show(s) if you had a time machine (max. 3 to keep it interesting): Balls, 21x21 performance of Indiscreet, Exotic Creatures Of The Deep. (For people who have to answer this in the future, yes I too am tortured by my own limit of 3. There's shows I was at and wish I could go see again but I guess that's what youtube is for.)

I'm going to try my best to tag as many people as possible, no pressure though! (Sorry if you've been tagged before or if I managed to forget to include you - consider yourself tagged by me if you want to be. Also if you've already done this before but want to answer the added questions, go for it! I'd love to see your answers!)

@votedmostlikelytofail, @cilogram, @dinkydiamond, @where-did-the-groove-go, @bawnjourno, @sparklepants123, @ron-do-i-get-to-sing-my-way, @heart-worm, @crystalblast, @whompthatsucker1981, @crinklecutfry, @reeny829, @adreamofroses, @pearlsandpetticoats, @betweentimeand42, @wombooooo, @8vb-girl, @carcarrot, @taintmansion, @zurdta, @glampacked, @drnutsack, @new-wave-worm, @bronskibeet

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

[comicalsansfont]

Parklife on TOTP

[uksqueeze]

The past has been bottled and labelled with love - squeeze (1981)

[silver-wield]

As another massive tifa and cloti fan and ffvii in general, I admire your collection of books and merchandise! Do you have any ranking or top recommendations for someone who wants to start collecting? I mainly mean books of all sorts but feel free to reference anything else!

Thank you 💖☺️ I love my books too ❤️

There's a lot of new merch coming out that's on the high price tag side, so if you want to start a collection I think the first thing you should do is decide what you want to collect.

Aside from my OG Tifa and dissidia Cloud I don't have any big play arts Kai dolls and I decided when I started collecting I wouldn't go into the play arts Kai side because those get really expensive and there has to be a limit when you're buying merch or else you just spiral into hoarding and trying to build the biggest collection you can imo.

I'm fussy about fanmade merch too. I only buy good quality ones that I really like. I have a couple of lamps, some pins and a bracelet.

With my official merch, I hunt most things on eBay or cdjapan.co.jp does proxy sometimes and they find it if it's not too old. My theatrhythm statics were really hard to get hold of, but I wanted a set because Nojima has them too 🤣

With the new lines it's best to hunt around and not just go with the first price you see. My Cloud statuette I got a little bit cheaper than retail but I almost forgot to check SE direct and nearly paid more than they were selling it for, so definitely definitely double check before buying. With things that come in sets you should decide if you want the entire set or if you just want a couple of characters. One of my Cloud and Tifa minis has a set of twelve and I also wanted the set that had Balthier and Fran in it, but Fran's one was super expensive at the time and in the end I gave up. I probably would buy all of those eventually but I'm saving my money for remake merch for now. I'm betting they do a grunt Cloud and cowgirl Tifa statuette.

As for the books, the shipping cost on them usually costs at least half what you pay for them, and SE direct is always late. I think the only book I got on time that didn't come from eBay was my world preview book. The older ultis I got off eBay and haggled for when I could.

With those I think it depends what info you wanna learn more about. The AC reunion files is already translated, but the others aren't in English except for the archive books, world preview, material ulti and ulti plus.

The archive books are really nice if you wanna read more about all the games. They're a set of three, although I only have the one for 7,8,9 atm. Most of the books repeat the same info, so unless you're into collecting books (I am 🤣) it's really only the art style ones like the material ulti that have all the concept artwork that are worth buying. They're really pretty ❤️

The AC reunion files, material ulti, world preview book and archives are the prettiest and have info in English you can read. The others need Google lens to read but they have some nice info if you put the effort in.

The novels are harder to get now than when I bought them. I got the kids are alright and otwtas from Amazon for £20. Picturing the past is in the world preview book and it'll be in the translated version of trace of two pasts when it comes out, so it's up to you if you get the JP version as well. ToTP is supposed to be out in November 🤞

I think it comes down to deciding what you wanna see on your shelves and then searching for it. I have things bookmarked for ages and if I lose out on something I wanted I just wait a while and then look again. Patience is really important. I never impulse buy. I always check my budget and never go over it.

I lost out on a few Tifas I wanted, but I got them eventually. My heroines set took ages to get, so did my OG Tifa mini play arts Kai. I hadn't even planned to collect until I saw that and decided I wanted her, then I had to get Cloud. I got Cloud, lost out on Tifa, found another one and two years later I have two display cases full of stuff 🤣

I also don't have the full of from the 10th anni, but I don't want them. So, don't feel like you need all of one set if you don't want them all. It's your collection.

Imo best books are:

Material ulti

Material ulti plus (that's not out in English until Feb 2023 but it's the same as the JP one)

Archive ultimania vol 2

AC reunion files

Best Tifa:

Statics (although they're not out yet either)

Trading arts vol 2

Mini play arts kai

Best Cloud:

10th anniversary

Remake static

Remake mini

One thing to check is the faces on them. Cause of you don't like the face there's no point getting it 🤣

Top left: Tifa trading arts vol2

Top right: mini play arts Kai (these have changeable faces)

Middle: 10th anni.

Bottom left: remake static

Bottom right: remake mini (these are a set of five that shouldn't cost more than £50)

Hope all my rambling helps ☺️

Happy collecting!

[takaraphoenix]

Thoughts on Jagnus?

Thanks for playing! <3

JAGNUS IS THE BEST SHIP EVER. NO I AM NOT BIASED.

And goodness gracious, even on a platonic level, the show did them DIRTY.

Magnus, canon love interest of the guy Jace shares a soul with and we don’t like.. .get any bonding? Even though both sides should have investment in getting to know the other?

THEY WERE ROOMMATES. OH MY GODS THEY WERE ROOMMATES.

C’MON.

Not even just in a fanfiction tropey way. HOW do you literally only show one (1) scene of them together when they lived together for like a season. You had the perfect set-up to establish their dynamic.

And that is STILL not mentioning all of the PARALLELS - shit father, mother committed suicide, both traumatized by finding a parent dead, both using unhealthy coping mechanisms and too much sarcasm and snark to keep people at arm’s length, both struggling with accepting love, both having magically glowing golden eyes (something that really stands out for me considering how important it seems to Magnus that he never met anyone with eyes like his).

(And talking about eyes, I can not neglect to mention the fact that Magnus, in book-canon, has a weakness for blue eyes. And Jace, in show-canon, has blue eyes. FATE? YES INDEED.)

They are so similiar and I DESERVED TO SEE THEM BOND OVER IT, GODS DAMN IT. I, PERSONALLY, DESERVED THAT.

And me aside, the show needed it. The show was so overly focused on romance and just completely neglects platonic dynamic and this was one where the circumstances offered it on a silver fucking platter, both a reason for them to bond and an opportunity to, and still nothing. Deadass this show’s biggest failing was that it didn’t even try despite all the potential it had.

Moving on.

THE BOOKS THOUGH. Jagnus is gonna be what actually makes me read the rest of those books, because regardless of how little, the first book at least gave me SOMETHING.

Their banter when they first met gives me life. My OTP tag for them - keep it in your pants - is... literally... the first thing Magnus says to Jace in canon? About Jace’s stele but how do you turn that into an innuendo? HOW am I supposed to not read that as flirting?

Everyone going to Magnus for the first time is entirely a Jagnus interaction. Alec’s in the background and speaks like once. Izzy is off getting drunk with Simon. Clary is being sad. Magnus and Jace are circling each other like wild cats and I am living for it. (Still salty that the show turned the narrative on that just completely around.)

And in the end of the first book Magnus just... gives... Jace a flying motorbike. Jace, specifically, and only Jace. That’s where Jace got his flying motorbike in the book, because Magnus gave it to him. For free. As a gift. Saying it just “takes up space” because it’s parked outside the loft but you could literally just remove it from there with a wave of your hand or gift it to the guy who’s supposed to be your endgame romance but you chose to turn it into a gift. For Jace. HOW AM I NOT SUPPOSED TO SHIP THEM.

Seriously how did anyone read City of Bones and read Jace and Alec fanboying about flying motorbikes like excited children, talking about how both ALWAYS wanted one and then there is this rich warlock and he just gives one to Jace and... you didn’t end up shipping them? That’s just weak.

Having read only the first book, I am already very optimistic that the books will provide me with more canon Jagnus interactions than the show did in its run.

I love them. I love them very dearly. They are my TOTP. My Truest OTP.

Ask Me My Thoughts On [insert whatever you want here]!