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"Who wouldn't want it when he looks like that?"
Yes, Olly Alexander knew exactly how JK felt
I've been absent, I know. Life. But look, one chirp ;) from the lovebirds and I'm back hehehe
With no preamble I'm going to sweep straight past the cute and charming interactions between Jimin & JK on Weverse - always together - and only glance at JK's song recommendations because right now I'm more interested in what came before.
This post by the fabulous @slaaverin, about JK and the song he posted 10 years ago - Memo by Years & Years - hit me so hard in the feels, I had to sit down. Even though I've mostly paid attention to their song recommendations (yes, I know I can do better) this one passed me by completely.
How could I not know that JK posted a song by Years & Years??!
And especially in 2015, when he was really going through it. He had feelings bigger than a house and nowhere to put them.
This for me is a key moment. Watch Gayo 4 and tell me JK wasn't dying of love.
He was - and still is - a boy with big feelings that he doesn't always have words for. His face and body language have told us that he's filled up to the brim but he seems to keep it inside unless he's made up his mind to say something.
Which of course makes the song recommendations in 2015 so significant. We know it wasn't only about the songs - it never is - it's all about how he's feeling at he time. And he picks out the lines so carefully, so precisely, so that they can speak for him.
And if you read the lyrics of all those songs from 2015 and focus on the lines he picked out, there's a clear message.
I'm pretty sure he wasn't looking at Eels cover of Elvis's Can't Help Falling In Love for musical inspiration. And picking out I'll give you my everything - a cheesy love song from the '70s - so he could say I have something to tell you? Neatly in between the 2015 Osaka fan-meet and the notorious RBT concert in Hong Kong?
Smooth...
Very smooth, JK
He was in love. He was in lust. He was probably confused and afraid of the consequences, but he couldn't let it go. I know this has been thoroughly dissected so I won't go down that path.
What I am stuck on here, is Years & Years.
Where some of the lines he posted could be the result of searching for songs with particular words in the lyrics, like I have something to tell you, Memo doesn't hit the same way.
I want more (x4) isn't romantic or emotive like some song lines he chose and also it doesn't convey a specific message like others. Without hearing the rest of the song it feels a little brash but in the context of the rest of the lyrics, and with the gentle melody, it's honestly very soft.
He must have listened to a lot of Years & Years because Memo is a beautiful song but it isn't one of their hits. It vanished into obscurity pretty quickly.
Memo wasn't just an LGBT+ song. Years and Years was a very brazenly LGBT+ group.
Olly is a huge icon.
Gay, out, and unapologetic, Olly was singing pop songs about genuine personal feelings and experiences. The songs explored all the nuanced feelings of lust, yearning, hurt, and uncertainty that come with falling in love. They have authenticity. They're the same type of songs Troye was singing in 2016 but a little more... adult. A little further along the track towards resolution. Olly was living the life of a young gay man and his songs reflect that. The content is pretty direct.
Years & Years weren't huge like The Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode, or The Communards, but they were successful and popular especially amongst the lgbt+ community. They did get radio play in the UK too. Outside of that I think the group was relatively niche.
And yet, JK found them.
That he found them, says to me the he was searching for something. Searching for ways to make sense of his feelings in an environment that would be stifling for a young queer boy who was in love with his best friend.
The songs might not have been #1 on Billboard, but what they WERE was authentic and unambiguous.
Maybe I'm making too much of it but it makes me wonder where he would have been without a group like Years and Years.
If he hadn't heard those words in those songs, and felt the connection with the feelings expressed, would he have had certainty that what he felt was honest and real?
If he hadn't listened to someone else articulate emotions he could relate to, would he have had the words to describe his feelings when he finally confessed?
If Years & Years, and particularly Olly Alexander, hadn't been as successful as they were in 2015, would he have had the determination to face up to the company?
Who knows... maybe none of it really mattered and it was just a line from a song that he liked. But knowing - as ARMY - how much music can change your perception and your life, I don't think that's true. I think it meant something.
I'm so glad he found them.
💗💜💗
In case you've never seen him in action, here's Olly with the other members of Y&Y in concert at YES24 Hall in October 2022. He's wearing a yellow body stocking and thigh boots. Absolutely stunning performers.
#jeon jungguk#jikook#kookmin#국민#true love#jungkook#jungkooks song recommendations#olly alexander#years and years#years and years Memo#gay love songs
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something my coworker's 3 year old did the other day, glorious ( ' ')b
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#one piece#vinsmoke yonji#vinsmoke ichiji#sanji#niji vinsmoke#sora vinsmoke#vinsmoke get along au#tagging for personal organization purporses#if it wasn't clear sanji and niji are whapping each other with their sleeves#the coats only fit yonji correctly GOTTA GET 'EM BIGGER SO THEY GROW INTO THEM#yonji didn't get the memo as sora will learn over the years
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HAPPY CRAB KARKAT DAY!! 🦀
#it's his wriggling day hehe#I did something kinda similar to last year's illustration where I used some of his iconic lines#and this year you get two more iconic karkat lines :D#the top quote is from page 2852 in one of his memo to Jade#the bottom one is from his 'first' convo with John on page 2628#Maybe I could do this every year with some new quotes until I run out of them haha#karkat#karkat vantas#homestuck#homestuck fanart#beta kids#wriggling day#homestuck redraw#my art
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sometimes I think abt how the months coming up to and the prom night in freshman year must feel to class swap sklonda. your perfect kid who has literally never gotten a single reprimand for anything does what can only be described as a quad crit crime combo and becomes a nerd punisher by the end of the night
#dimension 20#fantasy high#fhfy#fhjy#riz gukgak#ft. sklonda fig and jawbones#fh class quangle#class swap! bard!riz u know the drill!#the peace treaty thing is about kalina being employed by the fallinel government. I imagine riz can tease out Too Much from that#this is my favourite thing. when a character becomes annoying to show that they feel comfortable around certain people#one thing I will never change about riz is that he goes whole hog all the time forever. kid does Not know moderation he is 100% at all time#the switch up in freshman year turns out slow bc he and his friends get thrown in jail for two months but the moment he#gets the memo that he just doesn't get to bow out of the fight like other people bc of who he is he immediately goes okay <3 violence it is#I feel like I've been kinda glossing over how Intense the little guy is in the class swap bc it's a more lowkey kind of intense usually#but like he is lol. he's intense and he's Mean too. that's his magic <3
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memo pad layton!! 🎩🧩
#art#fanart#professor layton#hershel layton#my art#last of the memo pad drawings...for now#wanted to post it before i forgot and it got swamped away in my camera roll lol#ill probably do more memo pad drawings just at a later date aaaaa#also i had not drawn layton for like 10 years before this so im sorry its not amazing#i tried OTL
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Reca’s the type of man to look at you longingly while you’re doing the most mundane stuff
#You could be together for over 20 years and to him you’ll still look as beautiful as the day he met you#it does not matter what you do he just always has that loving look in his eyes#i am. unwell#I love him so much#mr reca#honkai star rail#hsr#mr reca hsr#hsr mr reca#memo speaks#mr reca x reader#mr reca/reader#headcanons#honkai star rail x reader
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fairly odd parents still infecting my brain have a redraw
og screenshot ^ im already working on stuff with backgrounds i dont need to make even more
#fop#fopanw#dev dimmadome#fairly odd parents#the fairly oddparents#fairly oddparents#development devin dimmadome#fairly oddparents a new wish#fop dev#fop a new wish#fanart#from here on out are my own tags#memo's constellations#✳️#:dev#ahhhh millions of different tags for one thing i did not miss you#I STILL GOT IT THO! it being creating actual full lined pieces#very fun drawing. back to the reference sheet and animation mines for me though#i dont think i said it but i'm actually animating in fopanw reanimated!!#this drawing was just a quick break and also to make a discord icon thats my own art#i havent been so hyperfixated on something since fuck. i dont even know#but this show is taking over my mind dogggg its all i can think about#i keep saying this but#if you told me like a year ago that id be being really ill about doug dimmadome owner of the dimmsdale dimmadome etc's grandson#to the point of adding him to my fucking kinlist which hasnt been updated in fucking months#i would not believe you#but. here we are LOL#if you think im insane. honestly i dont know what to say except watch anw cause Jeeeesus christ dev dimmadome is one fucked up kid#okay sorry for ranting in the tagsss certified memo moment of ranting in the tags. its over now BYE <3
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Suzy's Zoo sticky note pad, year unknown
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shaved him
#fixed his hairline too bc its been 2 YEARS and it still haunts me that legends didnt get the memo he was in his mid-to-late 20s#now to gaslight myself into believing thats what he looks like under the mask next time i rewatch botr#like i told the gang this is such a 2022 post from me#tagging later#mortal kombat#sub zero#💙❄️💙
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Does that mean lefty is gonna be sleeping forever, or that he just needs a few more minutes then he’ll be good to go?
he needs one of these

WAKE UP BITCH!
#basically he needs to get the memo and kick into year. he should. hypothetically. still be working. but he just needs to be woken up.#he's been taking it easy for too long.#the good news is i'm flying to america in less than a week! so. if that isn't gonna kick him into gear i don't know what will.#sci speaks
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Williams Racing: Logan got the summer break memo 😎
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every now and then i see people reference that they played DAI when they were like. 15 years old or even earlier and I have to go out back and dig another shovelful of dirt out of my grave
#makes me feel SO old lmao#like i KNOOWWWWW it came out over 10 years ago i Know this but seeing people SAY that makes it hit different#ramblings#guys there are now 15 year olds who were born after DA:O came out#there are now probably dragon age fans who are Younger Than Dragon Age#i know this is how Time works but i spent like all of the 90s & 2000s oblivious to pop culture#so most of the 'THIS THING FROM YOUR CHILDHOOD IS NOW 20 YEARS OLD!!!!' memos just go over my head yknow#dragon age#dragon age: inquisition
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Danny calling John Constantine a “discount, hyped-up voldemort wannabe” and complaining that “at least voldemort didn’t make that much paperwork for the ministry”
A list of why the insult is legit, maybe written by a spite fueled Danny, the soul tax collector, helped by Clockwork who wrote the file he’s getting his info from probably:
British
Magic
Manipulate, Mansplain, Manwhore
Bad habits
Soul splitting (!!!)
Involved in some weird shit
His house could kill you
Tax evasion
Mother dies and father resents him for reasons (in some version, or an orphan at some early point, either way)
Magical, special lineage connected to cunning
Dark arts knowledge
Met a lot of Ghosts but most don’t like him
Dies?
But not really
Many contacts and connections everywhere
Killed people
People die around him (Different things)
Problems with the Government (mood but also >:( )
Grave robbing (implied? it has to have happened, i can’t believe otherwise)
...
You know what, a lot of crime in general, what the heck?
Asshole (should’ve been higher on the list honestly)
Gets a blood transfusion from an enemy and becomes stronger
Protected from mind control (Lucky)
Probably called you-know-who by someone at least once
Smart (???)
Changed his name and joined a band (So to speak)
#dp x dc#behold: the idea i had that made me acquire some knowledge about john constantine#most of them are right#others are technically right#other others might just be for fun#(i say because I am not all knowing and did this on a whim and bc it was funny)#(my machinations lay undetected for years for I’m a Master of Deception)#<--that's john#thinking he's getting away with it#if you've seen the vid you know what danny is doing#danny: *deadpan-unimpressed-done with this bs*#danny unironically calling john you-know-who with contempt when talking about him#danny: you-know-who split his soul. AGAIN--!#the flying paper planes only it's blobs coming with memos that it happened once more#jazz: did you find john--#danny: he-who-must-not-be-named has not YET been found#more info at eleven#(not really)#*pinches his nose in frustration*
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a year ago to the day i kissed my wife for the first time. turns out you can do whatever you want forever and it Rules.
#in case anyone missed the memo on this i am Platonically Married to one of my best friends#and we have made various decisions about physical intimacy in that context#and a year ago i asked if i could kiss them#after being engaged for like a year and a half lmfao#anyways#it’s the best and i should write platonic kissing fic of some kind to Observe The Occasion or something#gav gab#we also fucked not too long after that#aros and lesbians stay winning#sex ment in tags
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SO TURNS OUT I COULD DO IT AFTER ALL
WITH 11 MINUTES TO SPARE. LIKE A MADMAN
BUT I DID IT
BA THESIS SENT OUT AND DONE AND OVER WITH !!!!!
thank you guys who reached out ily so much 😭😭😭💜💜💜
#those of you who were in the trenches with me??? unparalleled. I owe my whole entire sanity to you#fuuuuck#I need to sleep for 11 years!!!!!!!!!!!!#I mean I'm sure one night will do but!!!!!!!!!!!!! emotionally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#yesterday morning feels like it was 2 years ago#simon.out.#academic shitposting#memo to self: never do that again
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HOURLY COMIC DAY IS TOMORROW. FOR THOSE OF US WHO DONT KNOW WHEN THIS GOES DOWN.
#scheduling this from feb 1st#because guess who DIDNT get the memo. again#from what i can tell its yearly#so im giving myself a heads up#I WANNA DO THESE#BUT I NEVER KNOW WHEN IT IS#SO HERE WE ARE#<- tiniest bit upset. i just love neat little art challenges and want to do it too!!!!!!! and i keep missing out!!!!!#BUT NOT ON 2025#ALSO JESUS CHRIST 2025???#fake year. Fakest year.#that's not real
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