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frankwoods · 3 months

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Re: your tags on my post - I'd love to hear more about Frank x Luke if you ever felt like sharing!

of course! i love talking about my boys! (even tho I struggle to put my thoughts in a coherent way most of the time lmaooo)

some ramblings below

Basic run down is:

Luke get drafted to Vietnam, and through his wits and sniper skills, he gets placed into Frank's team (since he was one of the leaders of MACVSOG)

Although Luke would get on his nerves often, Frank liked having someone has honest as him. And even thought it would piss Frank off when Luke would go on his anti-military/anti-government rants, at least he knew how Luke truly felt at all times

Slowly, the two got close, Luke becoming one of Frank's right hand men alongside Alex and Joseph. The two eventually come to the conclusion that they both needed to blow off steam and ended up turning to each other for "private" meetings

Supposed to be no strings attached, but alas it didn't quite work out that way. Other marines could catch onto Frank's favoritism

Luke essentially confess first, which lead to an argument. Frank basically saying Luke should look somewhere else, that he can find someone better

Things become bitter between the two, Luke being short with Frank and Frank secretly kicking himself for it, progressing into what would be the "Crash Site" and "Payback" missions. Luke manages to escape separately, given they kept him from the other 3. He comes across Bowman's dead body and the remnants of Alex and Frank's escape

He's found by other marines and Jason Hudson, and when he learns of Alex and Frank's "deaths", he convinces Hudson to let him leave Vietnam. Hudson tries to convince him to work for the CIA, impressed by his work in Vietnam but Luke refuses.

"Bring them [Frank and Alex] back and I'll become an agent"

Before Luke leaves, he finds out that Frank at the last second officially made him part of his family so if anything happen to him, Luke would get any of his remaining belongings. I like to think that Frank probably had old military portraits that he immediately hid that Luke would gladly take as a reminder

1972 - Hudson informs Luke of Frank's survival. Luke heads to the hospital that he's located asap. Frank couldn't believe that Luke would come to see him, figured that Luke never wanted to see him again. When Frank is discharged, Luke takes him under his care.

And from there, the two come forward with their feelings. Frank is especially feeling it because no one has ever got to this degree (aside from Alex of course) to take care of him. Man is head over heels, and the two officially become an item when Frank starts feeling better

When Frank goes back into service, Luke goes with him. Neither one is happy about it, Luke for obvious reasons and Frank not wanting to put Luke in danger again, but Luke agreed he would sign on to be an agent if Hudson gave Luke closure

Luke has a son that Frank is almost always the father of (in most universes). Ideally, Jonathan happens shortly after Frank is fully recovered but I can't make up my mind on timelines lol

And of course, like I mentioned in the tags, I have a ton of aus for them. My most recent is my "hide and seek" au. Takes place in the early 90s with Luke as the "new" Ghostface and Frank a discharged marine doing vigilante detective work. When a another killer takes to the streets, Luke and Frank become unlikely allies, and then more...

#also sorry for the last reply i was distracted by school + other things #and i was trying to figure out what to say lol #but thank you E!#asks #efingart #frank x luke #oc: luke #also i should actually write this stuff down more rather than keeping it all in my head lmaoooo

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apricusapollo · 1 year

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(please don't repost my fics anywhere else. translations posted on ao3 are completely fine!)

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on sinking ships (you showed up just in time) - (7,5k words) (cody x obi-wan) (canon divergence, post-order 66) (oneshot)

~ lord of the rings ~

lights will guide you home - (2,1k words) (legolas x aragorn x boromir) (angst & hurt/comfort) (oneshot)

~ star wars ~

the other side of stars - (10,3k words) (din x luke) (canon divergence) (3/3 chapters)

when the sun came up (you were looking at me) - (8,8k words) (han x leia) (canon divergence, 5+1 things) (oneshot)

in a winter wonderland - (3,5k words) (extended skywalker family) (modern setting, christmas shenanigans) (oneshot)

nothing in the world belongs to me (but my love mine, all mine) - (4,1k words) (cody x obi-wan) (canon divergence, order 66) (oneshot)

just between us, did the love affair maim you, too? - (2,8k words) (han x luke) (inspired by all too well: the short film by taylor swift) (oneshot)

i said, "i love you" (you say nothing back) - (2,7k words) (cody x obi-wan) (inspired by say don't go by taylor swift) (oneshot)

i got nothing to believe (unless you're choosing me) - (11,7k words) (din x luke) (inspired by one specific scene in shadow and bone) (2/2 chapters)

sacred touches & wasted days - (16,3k words) (din x luke) (inspired by call me by your name) (oneshot)

balancin' on breaking branches - (5,3k words) (din x luke) (inspired by exile by taylor swift) (oneshot)

~ red white and royal blue ~

if we loved again (i swear i'd love you right) - (3,7k words) (henry x alex) (canon divergence, inspired by back to december by taylor swift) (oneshot)

would you be mine (just wanna be with you) - (2,7k words) (henry x alex) (inspired by american boy by estelle & london boy by taylor swift) (oneshot)

english love affair - (9,3k words) (henry x alex) (inspired by english love affair by 5 seconds of summer) (oneshot)

until the sunrise, hold me tight - (4,3k words) (henry x alex) (inspired by greys anatomy) (oneshot)

running through rose thorns - (6,7k words) (henry x alex) (angst with happy ending) (oneshot)

~ marauders era ~

i know heaven's a thing (i go there when you touch me) - (8k words) (james x regulus) (a snippet from paper rings universe) (oneshot)

watch it all burn - (4,3k words) (james x regulus) (inspired by first burn / the reynolds pamphlet from hamilton) (oneshot)

paper rings - (92,7k words) (james x regulus) (briefly inspired by paper rings by taylor swift) (12/12 chapters)

robbers - (2,5k words) (james x regulus) (inspired by art heist, baby! by otrtbs) (oneshot)

the end is here - (5,8k words) (james x regulus | regulus & sirius) (inspired by star wars: revenge of the sith) (oneshot)

better than revenge ('cause he's like so whatever) - (14,1k words) (james x regulus & regulus x barty) (inspired by better than revenge by taylor swift & girlfriend by avril lavigne) (oneshot)

hoax - (25,7k words) (established barty x regulus; past james x regulus) (inspired by white collar (TV show) (4/4 chapters)

don't you (forget about me) - (21,3k words) (barty x regulus) (inspired by the breakfast club) (oneshot)

golden days of yore - (15k words) (james x regulus) (christmas fic inspired by art heist, baby! by otrtbs) (oneshot)

last christmas - (17,9k words) (james x regulus) (inspired by last christmas by wham!) (3/3 chapters)

it's all over (it's not meant to be) - (4,2k words) (james x regulus) (major character death) (oneshot)

you can't force the stars to align (when they've already died) - (3,9k words) (james x regulus) (inspired by euphoria) (oneshot)

kiss in the kitchen (like it’s a dance floor) - (6,3k words) (james x regulus) (domestic fluff) (oneshot)

anti-hero - (1,3k words) (regulus character study) (oneshot)

a little love is better than none - (4,9k words) (unrequited barty x regulus) (oneshot)

living for the hope of it all - (8k words) (not actually unrequited james x regulus, unrequited barty x regulus) (sequel to a little love is better than none) (oneshot)

what a ghostly scene - (10,9k words) (james x regulus) (major character death) (oneshot)

somethin’ stupid (like, “I love you”) - (14,7k words) (james x regulus) (oneshot)

the other side (without you) - (7,7k words) (james x regulus) (major character death) (oneshot)

~ haikyuu ~

seventeen - (56,3k words) (tooru x hajime) (inspired by seventeen by troye sivan) (6/6 chapters)

the ballad of a dove - (9,1k words) (tooru x hajime) (heavy angst; hurt/comfort) (oneshot)

champagne problems - (8,7k words) (tooru x hajime) (inspired by champagne problems by taylor swift) (oneshot)

dark paradise - (49,4k words) (tooru x hajime) (spies & secret agents au) (4/4 chapters)

easy - (25,2k words) (tooru x hajime) (inspired by easy by troye sivan) (6/6 chapters)

everything has changed - (6,6k words) (tooru x hajime) (friends to lovers) (oneshot)

sedecim - (3,6k words) (tooru x hajime) (exes to lovers; open ending) (oneshot)

eternal promises - (3,8k words) (tooru x hajime) (royalty au) (oneshot)

afterglow - (7,3k words) (tooru x hajime) (angst with happy ending) (oneshot)

let me go (we'll meet again soon) - (8k words) (tooru x hajime) (inspired by anohana) (oneshot)

fragile & composed - (3,5k words) (tooru x hajime) (character study; heavy angst) (oneshot)

mystery of love - (11,4k words) (tooru x hajime) (royalty au; arranged marriage) (oneshot)

calls from argentina - (4,2k words) (tooru x hajime) (angst with sad ending) (oneshot)

pacify her - (5,6k words) (tooru x hajime) (inspired by pacify her by melanie martinez) (oneshot)

comfort crowd - (1,8k words) (tooru x hajime) (friends to lovers) (oneshot)

found & lost - (8,5k words) (tooru x hajime) (major character death) (oneshot)

so it goes... - (56,2k words) (tooru x hajime) (inspired by la casa de papel) (7/7 chapters)

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scrunkl3bunk1e · 2 years

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Welcome to the Showgrounds! ⭐️

(flags: EvilShadowSkullgender, Evilgender, Xenogender, Autigender, Maverique, Aporagender, Asexual, Abrosexual)

I'm SMG4, but you're free to call me Four, Quad or Luke. I'm not really Luke or the SMG4 channel, but anyway, this blog is owned by one person named Alex/Alley!! Or just alexzalley :)

discord server

Asks/RQs/etc: Open and empty on all sides! Please please send me asks plea

Info time!

Alex is a minor (16) in high school and uses they/him! But for neos, well... zi/zim, brey/brem, jay/jem, 👾/👾's, 💀/💀's, 💣/💣's, ☕️/☕️'s <3

Alex is a HECTIC SMG3 kin. Expect chaos.

Alex is also autistic and can show up as eccentric, defiant, or just generally terrible. They can be annoying or infurating at times as well.

Alex is a satanist, and if you've got a problem, then GET 'CHO ASS OFF DA BLOG. This is a safe space for any folks, dude!

We stand for Mar4 (Mario x SMG4) here, SMG34 is platonic ONLY here.

Do note I am NOT Luke Lerdwichagul and do not intend to impersonate him. I'm merely being SMG4 here for entertainment, kinning purposes, and mostly because I wanted to!!

Fur/Kinsona ref:

(Persona/kinsona may change at random, please be aware)

If there's anything else you need, my inbox is open, always! I'm also on Discord as skeletalmemegamer3!!!

DNI/BYF:

Pro/com/darkshippers, anti-mogai/xenogender, anti-furry/therian, radqueers, zionists, nsft, anti-endo/tulpa systems, misogyn/andrists, ethnocentrists, basic dni criteria, pro-black/whitewashing, ppl under 15, map/aam, radfems/terfs, problematic shippers. •

if you ONLY accept reblogs as appreciation i will not reblog.

i am a minor, and a gr0oming survivor. i can be very hypersexual in private situations, i apologize

no, i'm not the real smg4 nor am i a youtuber. my accounts are only on here, discord, and scratch (TheTabbyCatFan). any others are not real or are not me.

secondary blog for my more 16+ or suggestive/f3tishy material coming soon someday maybe idk.

Put this on an anti showcase blog and I'm calling security /hj

I block liberally and doomscroll on tags I hate, so sorry if you end up in the void :(

#introductory post #intro post #pinned post #smg3 reblogs 💀#smg3 makes stuff 💀#smg3 posts 💀#smg3 kin #fictionkin #fictkin #alex posts 👾#alex makes things 👾#alex rb's 👾#smg4 pops in 💠#mario pops in 🍝

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williamaltman · 3 years

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Ok, I’ve watched the video where they talk about the scene where Luke and Alex hold hands in episode 9 as they bow after the performance... And Owen said they did that because he thought he heard Kenny telling everyone to hold hands as they bow after the performance(which groups usually do when doing that) but then only he and Charlie did it(?), and then when he realized he asked Kenny why he let that in and he said it was “cause he thought it was cute”. I saw people saying “omg Kenny Lukealex rights” and, well, I guess so in the sense that y’all are not thinking about this seriously like I am, but: Either Kenny told EVERYONE to hold hands and they just didn’t heard it or (most likely) Owen imagined that and “improvised it” thinking they were all supposed to be doing it. So we know for a fact that it was not some intentional way of showcasing a possible history between Luke and Alex. Not by Kenny or the writers or even Owen and Charlie themselves. There’s also the fact that after questioned about it, Kenny said it was just “because it was cute” rather than any actual story reason, and that if you think about it, they were the only ones who would be able to hold hands considering their positions, as Julie can’t touch them and hold hands with Reggie and Luke who were on her side(which probably shows how they were never supposed to hold hands, and is likely the actual main reason they were fine with letting that in with Luke and Alex).

#Anti LukeAlex #Anti Lulex #Anti Lukelex #Anti Lalex #Anti Luke x Alex #LukeAlex #Luke x Alex #Alex x Luke #Alex #Luke Patterson #Julie and the Phantoms #JATP #I hope it's fine to let this on the tags #cause I'm not actually saying anything bad about them #just pointing out facts #I don't dislike LukeAlex just the headcanon that they're exes

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sunset-bobby · 3 years

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Dismantling the lalex community....one lukebobby, one juke, one boggie, one willex, and one bolex at a time

please note that all of these ships also count as interracial ships soooo hahaha

(the peterpatter community pretty chill as of rn..we’ll see)

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fandomshatepeopleofcolor · 4 years

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So before I saw on this blog that Julie and the Phantoms had a black lead character I literally had no idea from all the gifs I saw of those white boys, but can we talk about how gross it also is that theres all these theories circulating about Luke being bi and shipping him with Alex that I literally didnt know there was an actual canon queer romance plot in the show!! With an indigenous guy!! I've never seen a queer indigenous character ever and it should be treated like a huge deal

OMG I KNOW I’m trying hard not to be bitter about how much everyone is shipping luke/alex when Julie/Luke and Willie/Alex are literally right there. But yeah Booboo is a really interesting mix according to his imdb: “he has Japanese, Chinese, and Korean ancestry on his mother's side along with Scottish, Russian, and Blackfoot ancestry on his father's side.”

So like when do we get to see a queer asian/indigenous character?! Um never! This should be celebrated and I really love both canon ships and would love for there to be more support for them too. Because as of right now they’re slowburn and I LOVE SLOWBURN.

mod ali

#julie and the phantoms #willie x alex #julie x luke #julie molina #booboo stewart #fhpoc asks #anti Luke/Alex #Anonymous

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a-tomb-with-a-view · 3 years

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I Find It Hard To Trust (Not Only Me But Everyone Around Me)

Tw: discussion of emotional abuse and emotional manipulation

Luke doesn’t know when his mom yelling at him became preferable to the quiet conversations, the ones where she’d squeeze his knee and remind him that she wasn’t mad, that she loved him, that she just didn’t understand why he kept putting his music before her and their relationship.

All he knows is that when he was younger, her approval meant everything, and when she’d choose soft words and a softer tone over harsh tellings off, it would dig deep, but it was a relief, not to be yelled at.

This fills the angst box of my @jatpbingo card

Fic link is in the reblogs :))

#jatp #julie and the himbos #julie and the phantoms #julie and the fat ones #luke patterson #julie molina #reggie jatp #alex jatp #willie jatp #willex #jatpbingo #juke #Julie x Luke #anti Emily patterson #not Emily patterson friendly #pls this is just me protecting #jatp fic #Julie and the phantoms fic #fic rec

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hitchell-mope · 3 years

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Jatp camp rock au

Julie. Mitchie

Luke. Shane

Alex. Nate

Reggie. Jason

Flynn. Caitlin

Carrie. Tess

Trevor. Brown

Caleb. Axel.

Willie. Dana

Rose. Connie

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mk-tozier · 3 years

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Welcome Newcomers!

I am redoing this for many reasons!

Hello newcomers, i am Kai. I use they/them pronouns. I am pansexual and genderqueer

if you are anti-lgbtq, racist or ableist get off my tumblr.

I will not write anything discriminatory

I write imagines, headcannons, smut and reblog various posts. I do take requests but it varies between being open and closed, make sure to check my bio to know whether my requests are opened or not. Usually I only close requests to catch up.

You can always send a scenario in just to talk about or maybe you just wanna talk abt your day, whether requests are open or closed I will always take these and I will always respond!!

I’ve decided that I will open requests for a month or two and then close them and take a month or two to catch up on those requests.

So there will be a fic every 1-2 months.

I will not write certain things if they make me uncomfortable. i write for the characters in the list below but you can of course, request a character. If i feel uncomfortable with this scenario or character, or do not know that character i will not write the request.

You can request platonic x readers or sibling x readers, ect

please read everything so you know the requirements and what i write for.

I am always updating this list so make sure to check for changes!

FANDOMS/CHARACTERS I WRITE FOR

CELEBRITIES

Colby brock

pete davidson

DOAWK

Rodrick Heffley

Richie tozier

Bill denbrough

Stanley uris

Beverly marsh

CRIMINAL MINDS

Penelope Garcia

Derek morgan

Agent Hotchner

Spencer Reid

COBRA KAI

Miguel

Hawk

STRANGER THINGS

Mike wheeler

Dustin Henderson

Max Mayfield

Steve Harrington

Robin Buckley

Will byers

JULIE AND THE PHANTOMS

Luke

Flynn

Julie

Reggie

HARRY POTTER

Draco Malfoy

Fred weasley

George Weasley

Hermione Granger

ONE DAY AT A TIME

Alex Alvarez

Elena Alvarez

SHAMELESS

Carl Gallagher

Lip Gallagher (i personally dont like Lip but I’ll write for him)

Fiona Gallagher

Ian Gallagher (i will not write ANY smut for Ian)

Mickey Gallagher (i wont write ANY smut for mickey + platonic only)

MY HERO ACADEMIA

Katsuki Bakugou

Izuku Midoria

Denkt Kaminari

Eijiro Kirishima

Shoto Todoroki

Kyouka Jirou

Mina Ashido

‘DEATH NOTE

Light Yagami

BIRDS OF PREY

Harley Quinn

Black Canary

Huntress

BLUE EXORCIST

Rin Okumura

Shima Renzo

Kirigakure Shura

MY BABYSITTERS A VAMPIRE

rory

benny weir

ethan morgan

sarah

erica

FEAR STREET

young ziggy

young nick

josh

deena

MCU

Tony stark

Peter Parker (toms version sorry lol)

Black widow/Natasha

Thor

Pietro

Wanda

REQUESTS:

I write angst, blurbs, fluff and smut

please give me a fandom, character, whether you want it to be an imagine.small Drabble. headcannon or smut and basic plotline, details you may want added

i.e “hi I’d like to request a IT imagine with Richie where he gets mad at the reader for getting a boyfriend“

i try to make my imagines for everyone so i wont be doing certain details like eye color, hair color, race, ect

all though you can request a fic where The reader has a certain body type and the focus of the fic is that

i.e “hey I wanna request a shameless smut with Carl where the reader is insecure about their body because they are on the heavier side and have stretch marks and carl helps them feel better about themselves?”

i will not be writing for a particular race because i am white and i would feel uncomfortable writing as a certain race because i have not experienced their experiences nor am i that race and fully informed with certain cultures. I feel as if itd be out of my place to write as a certain race knowing i am not that race.

I don’t write mlm. I am not mlm and do not know how to write these experiences. and I definitely will not write ANY mlm smut whatsoever.

All though i will write wlw and nblw smut. As i am afab/nonbinary

I will write bi!characterxreaders for characters such as Ian Gallagher but i will not write smuts for those characters. I dont feel comfortable writing smut for a character who is originally gay and its stated in the show/movie that the character is in fact gay. Especially if that character is male.

SMUTS/NSFW HEADCANNONS:

i will not write the following

ageplay

blood kinks

piss or shit

incest

rape/non-consent

heavy beating/spanking

animal Kinks

anything furry related

anal play

mlm/amab

piss kinks

any fetishes

if you wanna request something that is not on either list then request it and i will let you know if I’m uncomfortable with writing it or not

what i will write

degrading

praising

quirk related smuts (i.e denki uses his quirk on you during the smut)

wlw/afab

light bondage

light spanking

teasing

edging

overstimulation

CNC (consented-non-consent)

oral

Requirements for smut:

tell me fandom, character, basic plot line/what you want, tell me any specific details you may want, smut with plot or no plot

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v1olentdelights · 3 years

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Prom Dress

Sunset Curve x Reader - Mercer Reader x Reggie - a tiny bit like She’s All That.

Word Count: 2,461

Your brother had been adamant on you going to prom seeing as his bandmate, Luke, said they shouldn’t go to make a statement. It was only Junior prom, nothing big. You were on the planning committee, the theme was Paris, though it was a classic prom theme you wanted to make it different. Adding in the Pont des Arts bridge, more well known as the Love Lock bridge, an amazingly painted Louvre museum (all thanks to the amazing art students), and lastly the most obvious Eiffel Tower. You had forced the boys to help you assemble it, because “helping out your baby sister is the best way to show love!”

Though there were a few people on the prom committee, you were the leader, and the one doing most of the work. This was one of your biggest projects meaning it was creating a whole lot of stress. And everyone knows how well you deal with stress, you became irritable and snappy. You always tried to be kind but it was hard.

“Let me help you out, I can even ask the boys to help out.” Your brother, Alex, had urged. He had never liked seeing you like this, he may be a butthead but he’s still your brother.

“Didn’t Luke say you aren’t going? And no, I’m fine.” you huff looking over the expenses.

“I don’t care what Luke said, also, helping prepare the dance isn’t actually going is it?”

“Sure, but I still don’t need your help.” Closing your eyes you rub your face praying that the math would do it itself. But then again nothing gets done right unless you do it yourself.

“Okay. If you need me I’ll be-”

“In the basement, got it.” He stood there for a bit longer hoping you’d let him help. “Stop hovering like mom. Go practice.”

You had fallen asleep at your desk working on homework for tomorrow, something that had been happening more often now. Simply because you didn’t have the energy to move to your bed. However you woke up tucked under your sheets. Wiping your bleary eyes you noticed your room was picked up and your desk was cleared off. You smiled to yourself softly.

Alex had knocked at your door to check on you. When you didn’t answer he had realized you’d fallen asleep. Running down he got the boys to help you out. Bobby had hooked his arms under your legs and around your back to pick you up, you instinctively wrapped your arms around his neck pulling yourself closer. Luke, Alex and Reggie had helped pick the books and journals tossed around your room. Reggie had looked over your spreadsheet, quickly scribbling down the total that you had spent and what you had left for the prom. All four then slipped out as if they were never even there.

As the prom was finally nearing, you had spent most of your time either in the library or one of the practice rooms in the school finalizing every detail. Everyone was bustling about getting asked out as a date or grumbling about the ‘anti-prom’ that a few of the students were having. You hadn’t been asked yet, not that you cared that much. You didn’t need a man to validate yourself. Though it would be nice to have a date, but no biggy.

There was a knocking at the practice room door that startled you, looking up you see a rosy cheeked boy staring in. He pointed down at the door handle, silently asking if he could come in. Pushing some of your books to the side to make space for him, he comes to sit next to you. You continued working on an essay that was due by 8th period.

“How is it coming along?”

“Pretty well, how are you today Reg?” he smirked at your nickname, though you couldn’t see.

“Good, we have a gig tonight. It’s at a book club this time.” your nose scrunched up the slightest.

“A book club? Well I hope it goes… okay. I wish I could come but I have homework to catch up on and I am helping out a freshman with biology. But I’m sure Alex will come home and not shut up about it.” you smile at the thought of your brother bouncing around the kitchen talking about his gig as you got out the ice cream. The bell outside sounded, alerting you of your upcoming class.

“See you later!” You pack your things up and leave behind a dazed boy. He was currently wondering if he made a mistake of not asking you to the prom.

The next day you had ridden into school with Alex, talking all about your silly boy crush. He was the only one you trusted with this information simply because you knew it would never become something.

“Alex, I swear to you that James is literally like sent from the heavens. Just look at him!” You pointed to him through the windshield. Alex could only chuckle, he knew that Reggie had adored you but you hadn’t known that.

“Stop laughing at me. I know it’s stupid and I mean he has never even looked in my direction. But Aleeex!” You whined on.

“I didn’t even say anything. I don’t personally think you should be with him. I can’t stop you though.” Both of you had been through this before. It was as simple as what you had said, James had never even looked in your direction. It was stupid to step out of your box in highschool. But everyone loves James, except for your boys.

Rolling your eyes you got out gabbing your backpack from the back seat. Pulling Alex in for a side hug you began your trek to your locker.

“See you later NERD!” he yelled across the parking lot. Today was going to be a normal day, get through all your classes, spend lunch working on some prom things, finish school and go home to do more work. That was until you showed up at your locker, you had opened it and roses fell out all over your feet. You could feel your face get hot as everyone's eyes were on you now. Someone had cleared your throat, turning around you saw James smiling brightly with a bouquet of roses.

“Will you Y/F/N Y/L/N, go to the Junior prom with me?” Saying it loud enough for everyone in the hallway to hear. If your face wasn’t already on fire it sure was now, you were stuttering over your words trying to figure out how to say yes. Deciding it best to simply shake your head, he grabbed your hand brushing his lips across your knuckles.

He had written his number on your wrist before kissing it lightly. You couldn’t think about anything else all day, the way his lips felt against your knuckles were imprinted in your mind. During lunch you had sat in the back of the library reviewing, for the final time, everything. The list of those who bought tickets, art work, the locks, food, drinks, venue, and transportation for everything. Reggie had slipped in the seat next to you setting a canned iced tea in front of you. It was like clockwork, Reggie would come and eat lunch with you either making small talk or not talking at all.

“So James asked you out?” he asked quietly unsure of how to approach the situation.

“He asked me to the prom. I don’t know if that’s asking me out or just asking me to prom. But it doesn’t really matter because it's like James. Ya know?” You giggle softly allowing yourself to let go the tiniest bit.

“Huh nice. Lucky guy. Well the boys and I are going to head out, practice and all. But Alex will come pick you up after school. See ya later.” grabbing his back he left you there alone.

**** **** **** ****

They say prom can either be the best night of your life or the worst night of your life.

Finally the day of prom had come, you were allowed to take the day off of school. So you spent the first half of it setting up at the venue, though there wasn’t a whole lot to do. You wanted everything to be perfect, you were so unknowingly anxious that your hands were shaking. The second half was you getting ready, previously you had texted James making sure he would be here at 6:00 pm so that you could go out to dinner beforehand. You were pinning back your hair and putting the final touches on your makeup. Clipping on the necklace the boys had collectively bought you for one of your birthdays, you were ready. Stepping into your dress that you had picked out specifically to match James’ shirt. But it wasn’t a big deal.

You had gone downstairs and out to the garage, knocking quietly to alert your presence before walking in. Your shoes clicked against the hard ground as you moved further in. Spinning around to show off your outfit, hair, and make up. Luke began hooting and clapping while Bobby cat called. Feeling your face grow warm you stopped to face them smiling.

“Thank you, thank you very much!” Your smile couldn’t be brighter, and Reggie’s heart couldn’t be more broken.

“You look amazing Y/N!” Reggie said softly. Alex looked as though he might cry, you were worried for a moment.

“My baby sister all grown up!” wiping the underside of his eye you fling a pillow at him.

“I’m only younger by a few minutes!” hearing the chorus of laughs to your response fills your heart.

“Well dear baby sis, I hope you have fun tonight. Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.” You make a throwing up face.

“You wouldn’t do anything Alex.”

“That’s that point! And call me if you need anything.” he stands up enveloping you in a hug. Even through the banter you could feel his nervousness, you both did all the big things together. He was there to help you if you needed it and you helped him. But you were alone now, and with that stupid James boy. Squeezing him back twice as hard you quickly kiss his cheek before stepping back.

“I am going to go wait inside, it’s cold out here. But I’ll stop in to let you know I'm leaving.”

You took your leave sitting in the living room waiting. Looking at the clock you saw it was 5:55, no need to worry some people don’t show up early. It’s alright no need to stress. While waiting you had decided to grab a book from upstairs.

6:15, you could still make your reservation right? Plus maybe he needed a bit more time to get ready.

6:30, well you wouldn’t be able to get dinner now but you could still go to prom together. You were now bored with the book and just hoping that James hadn’t forgotten. Luke had walked in the house to grab some water but was startled when he saw you sitting at the kitchen counter.

“Hey, what are you still doing here? Weren’t you supposed to go to dinner?” he asked while filling up his cup.

“I was supposed to, but it doesn’t matter. The actual dance starts at 7.” You smile half-heartedly.

7:15, there was the sound of a car driving down the street that had you jump to your feet, running outside. Seeing a limo drive down past, a figure stands up through the sunroof. You smile and wave when you realize it’s James, but then another body pops up next to him. Then she kisses him, and your heart drops.

“Sorry baby, I thought you would catch on by now. Honestly, someone like me? With you? Never gonna happen.” he shouts from the car before connecting lips with the girl next to him, the car takes off. You sink to your knees feeling your heart sink with you. Tears are streaming down your face, making your makeup run. The makeup you had learned to do for this evening, that took you hours to perfect.

Gaining the strength to stand, you practically drag yourself over to the garage. You could hear the sounds of their movie bouncing off the walls and could see the colors changing through the window. Pushing the door open it creaked, alerting all four boys of your presence. Alex whipped around as soon as he made eye contact with you he was on his feet rushing over to you. He wrapped his arms around your shoulders as you fell into him feeling defeated.

“What’s wrong? Did something happen?” He tried to sound collected. But he had never seen you so distressed, even on your bad days.

“I-I don’t want to tal-talk about it. Pl-please.” you sniffled. You hadn’t even wanted a date in the first place, you were okay with going alone. But then James had to go and make the night awful.

“It’s okay, you don’t have to talk to us about it. But how can I help?” you could hear his poor heart practically beating out of his chest.

Reggie had come up behind you rubbing your back slightly, trying to calm you down the same way you had done for him so many times before.

“I don’t know…”

“Why don’t we go out and get some ice cream?” Luke stood in front of you.

“Yeah, and we can walk around the park for a bit. But only if you want.” Bobby added. Looking around at your boys, you realized how much you loved them.

“That sounds nice.” Smiling very smally.

All the boys had loaded up in the car as Alex ran to get his wallet. Luke was sitting shotgun, Bobby behind the driver seat, Reggie behind Luke, and you in the middle. You laid your head on Reggie’s shoulder, sighing deeply. How could you’ve been so stupid? Honestly James? Interested in someone like you? What a joke.

You all had gotten ice cream, the boys having 2 scoops, whereas you had 3. Alex cut them off. To everyone at the ice cream shop you probably looked crazy, 4 tall boys 3/4 of which were dressed in dark colors; and a girl in a puffy dress all dressed up with her makeup running slightly with her legs kicked up on one of their legs. But to you, this was family. You couldn’t have asked for a better one, because you had just had one of the worst nights of your life, having your heart broken by something you hadn’t even wanted in the first place. But here you were sitting with your boys laughing over something stupid Luke had said with your legs kicked up over Alex’s legs.

#Julie and the phantoms #sunset curve imagine #sunset curve x reader #mercer reader #alex mercer x sister!reader #luke patterson x reader #reggie peters x reader #bobby wilson x reader #fluffy #grace writes

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NAME ╱ erin

AGE, TIMEZONE, PRONOUNS ╱ 30 but i will be having a turning 30 bash this year because i didn’t get one last year :’) | pst | she/her/they

HOGWARTS HOUSE ╱ hatstall between gryffindor and slytherin

FAVORITE TROPES ╱ himbos first and foremost (i see any himbo slander, it’s on sight !!!), there is only one bed, anything mushy and romantic, enemies to lovers, rich father leaves business and fortune for kids to fight over, forbidden love, anti-hero heroes including lots of sarcasm, etc etc i am a trash baby.

FAVORITE FACES ╱ margot robbie, hwang in-yeop, parveen kaur, lydia graham, choi soo-young, george mackay, oscar isaac, patti harrison, luke powell, shin ye-eun, chris pine, nicola coughlan, but there are so many more.

LEAST FAVORITE EMOJI ╱ i will use any emoji once... but maybe 🤥 if i actually have to say i hate one. idk.

ANYTHING ELSE? ╱ rolling out of semi-retirement for the alex x shani collab. can i get on the pr mailing list? thank u xoxo

GIF OR MEME ╱ @1987rp because i don’t think everyone can see my post ):

#1987rp #intros

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Blundstones and Neo-Nazis

February 4, 2021

Romper Stomper (1992). Directed by: Geoffrey Wright. Produced By: Film Victoria. Starring: Russell Crowe (Hando), Daniel Pollock (Davey), Jacqueline McKenzie (Gabe), Alex Scott (Martin).

Romper Stomper is a film that depicts the lives of a group of Neo-Nazis as their cohesiveness disintegrates in the face of a changing society. The film juxtaposes two reactions to this disintegration in the characters of Hando and Davey. Whereas Hando becomes unhinged and lashes out increasingly shunning the needs of his group as well as the reality of his situation, Davey questions the practicality of following Hando down his spiral. Such a contrast is made more apparent by the love interest of the film, Gabe, whose relationship with Hando suffers as Hando loses his control over his life, while her relationship with Davey grows to have feelings of love in a group where genuine care is scarce.

The film intends to depict the uncompromising nature of white nationalism. At the very beginning of the film, Hando is surrounded by a group of friends who party together and all share in the revelry of their perceived racial superiority. Yet, as he is asked to yield ground on his beliefs, whether that be to allow the Vietnamese-Australians to buy his favorite bar, or when the hanger-on women of his group disapprove of murder, He doubles-down on his erroneous belief that following the dogma of white nationalism is the right course of action.

The film succeeds in bringing its point across not through the character of Hando, but through the choices that Davey makes when presented with the same situation. For example, to Hando, Gabe is another sexual conquest to had his way with while he praises Adolf Hitler and the 4th Reich, yet to Davey, she represents someone that took the time out of her life to care for him when he became wounded. She shows him a side of the world to which he is not accustomed, and demonstrates that Davey is not as indoctrinated into racial theory as Hando. He wants the companionship that Hando has shown him in this group, but is less ardent in displaying active hatred. Tellingly, it is only after Gabe kicks the Vietnamese owner of the pub that Davey finds it alright to show off in front of her and beat the man bloody. This conflict of values between the love and care he seeks and the racist world to which he belongs come to a head in the final scene on the beach. There, as Hando is suffocating Gabe with all his animalistic hatred, Davey choses to put an end to his friend’s life, and thereby putting an end to his last link to his former life. Davey’s choice not to subdue Hando, but to straight out kill him, show the only response that white nationalism offers to all its adherents, either you stand with the neo-Nazis, or you oppose them; both options lead to the eradication of the other.

The most obvious comparison for Romper Stomper is American History X (1998). This Tony Kaye film depicts the life of a white nationalist in America as he tries to rehabilitate his life. Both films show the unforgiving nature of becoming involved in the male dominated, racist world of white nationalism. The depict men having huge booze filled parties, and networks of friendships that consider each other as close as kin due to their racial parity. The endings to both films hint at the same message, though American History X offers a take that is far more tragic than its Australian cousin. For while there is a redemptive component at play in the character of Davey, in American History X, no matter what strides Derek Vinyard makes in his own relationship with other races, his family still suffers for his chosen past.

Punk rock is a genre defined by short bursts of anti-authoritative energy. To this end, the backing tracks to the fight scenes in Romper Stomper are extremely effective in energizing its audience. While the actions on screen are hateful depictions of racially motivated crimes, the backing tracks bolster the positions of both sides of the conflict. If you are watching this movie with the intent of idolizing Hando, then the lyrics of the “Fourth Reich Fighting Man” will confirm not only the glory of the cause that you are fighting for, but also that there is already an established group of people making action music for your movement. Likewise, if you see yourself represented in the plight of the Vietnamese-Australians climbing up the tire structure to defend their newly acquired bar, then the lyrics of songs that are filled with hatred towards all types of minorities will make your own blood boil and beg for these men to be destroyed. The soundtrack to Romper Stomper underlies the message of the film that hate breeds hate.

On a personal note, one of the things that struck me the most is how much the neo-Nazis of Australia love Blundstones. This made sense to me the more I thought about it. Blundstones are an Australian product, and they love all things made to represent white Australia so of course this would be no different. The only thing is that I have spent a lot of years among liberal arts students of all races, religions and creeds, and we LOVE a good Blunstone too. So to see such an iconic piece of Halifax liberalism crushing the hand of a Vietnamese man who is trying to escape a gang of neo-Nazis, well, that woke me up.

Review: https://www.theguardian.com/film/australia-culture-blog/2014/jan/10/romper-stomper-classic-australian-film

In this review, Luke Buckmaster ponders at the nature of the film’s ending, questioning if “Wright being ironic? Sarcastic? Dabbling in some kind of horrible last-minute black comedy? Hando's takedown feels mean-spirited at best and sadistic at worst.” While I feel like in a traditional movie, this is worth considering, Hando is hardly a usual protagonist. Even an anti-hero like Walter White has some modicum of sympathy that the audience can cling to in order to make the case that they are cheering for him. In Romper Stomper there is no attempt to sway the pathos of the audience. Hando does not try to redeem himself, or overcome his personal shortcomings. To Mr. Buckmaster I reply, that there is no irony in Hando’s death. It is the rightful cathartic end to a life that bred racial hatred and was wholly unapologetic about it. This is also to the benefit of Wright’s defense in filming a movie filled with hateful scenes of racial violence. At no point does he try to make Hando a sympathetic character, precisely because there is no redeemable quality in the way that Hando relates to his ideological stance.

Overall I give this film a 7/10. This falls within the realm of movies that come to have surprised me in some way. Romper Stomper is an action movie filled tale that verges on being moralizing without holding its audience’s hand. The main Faultline it falls on is that its message might be too subtle for its own good. In the quick google search I found at minimum two racially motivated killings or slaughters whose perpetrators drew inspiration from this very movie. Regardless of the artistic intent behind the film, such a real life consequence within the content that Wright presents has to come with a dire warning that it did not do enough to dissuade its audience that Hando is no hero. Even in his own review, Luke Buckmaster, whom I have to assume is no neo-Nazi glorifier finds the death of Hando possibly ‘mean-spirited’. A narrative that lacks blatant condemnation of white-nationalist ideologies while degrading its protagonist leaves Hando as an idol, martyr and symbol for all those who believe in that hatred.

#romper stomper #russell crowe #australia #movies

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(REVIEW) Addons, by Dom Hale

‘Because it is a poem about and in contemporaneity, any achievement it makes is provisional, any ending quickly obsolete.’ In this review, Alex Grafen spends time with the effervescent, improvisational and ‘distressed’ lyrics of Dom Hale’s Addons, out now from brand new imprint Gong Farm.

> Addons is the first publication by Gong Farm, an imprint set up by Tom Crompton and Alex Marsh. Gong Farm grows out of Out Else, which, until recently, held bi-monthly readings at SET in Dalston. Hale read at the first Out Else on 25 April 2019 in a programme that also included Amy Evans Bauer, Luke Roberts, Camilla Isola and Laura Calcagno. Available to buy were copies of summat, short improvised pamphlets with samples of work by the performers of that evening. Addons still wears improvisation on its sleeve: colourful printed letters worm across the front cover, wilfully wonky, inked up to varying degrees. Imperfect repetition down the page serves as a small-scale iteration of the print-run. It also serves as a good précis of the contents.

> The question prompted by the title – Addons to what? – can be answered simply, if a little reductively: Scammer. Scammer, Hale’s long poem, was composed between August 2018 and late 2019, and is, as of writing, forthcoming from the 87 Press. The poems of Addons then are in the unusual situation of a patch release before the game or, to remain within the field suggested by the title, the printer before the computer, the extra cover before the basic insurance policy. The facility of the answer is complicated not only by chronology. It is also complicated by the nature of Scammer, a poem which repeatedly tests the limits of its own coherence. It does so in part by amassing disparate material and discourses. The poem’s final section, ‘The Noughties’, rapidly accumulates references to Pokémon, fluff journalism, Margaret Thatcher and Quentin Blake. The implied hub of these discourses is the poet himself as part exposed nervous receptor, part digestor and regurgitator of environments primarily cultural and political, occasionally technological. A subject-voice emerges with some consistency though with varying degrees of groundedness throughout. Coherence is also challenged by the poem’s evasion of the sort of overarching structure that might serve to marshal its contents. The closest it comes is in the titles of its sections, Bits V, W, X, Y and Z, but these point more to a back-configuration from an endpoint: 'Here I go in alphabetical order / apropos of nothing’. Addons adds on to something completed, but something whose completion was only ever a formality. Because it is a poem about and in contemporaneity, any achievement it makes is provisional, any ending quickly obsolete.

> None of the poems of Addons would have been out of place in Scammer, though some of them see the latter’s concerns and methods pushed in new directions. None of them are as long as the more extended stretches of Scammer, so we have more of a sense of poems in dialogue with a lyric tradition, and more of a sense of poems fizzing briefly into life before collapsing on themselves. Emergent across the poems are distressed lyric personae that offer brief moments of situated life; flashes of exultant anger coruscating out of a background glare; and an earwormish recycling and reworking of the sound and shape of line and phrase. The third of these is perhaps most pronounced in ‘Unjust July', which begins: ‘You up. You up. You up.' It could be a set of pestering questions, a wake-up call announcing the poem’s beginning, but its repetition pushes it towards sheer phonetic surface, like a transcribed birdsong.

> Silliness works in them as an anaesthetic, dislocating a response to a contemporaneity characterised by violent, exploitative capital. Rather than keeping the earnestness nimble by the careful balance of ironies, Hale compresses extremes into frantic proximity:

@ precisely 19:00 hours a focus group of genetically engineered lice alleviate the housing crisis.

These lines from ‘Minimal Fuss’ highlight the cliché of a ‘housing crisis’ that includes both people struggling with mortgages on second homes and people living on the street. The lice communicate a reality of verminous dwelling, while at the same time tapping into the richly overdetermined ‘vermin' and ‘parasite'. But to stress this is to lose sight of the whimsy and the determining power of sound: the lice are engineered at a precise time to answer the crisis because of rhyme as much as anything else. ‘Focus group' and 'genetically engineered’ might have been automatically generated by a search for roughly contemporary buzzwords, though Google Ngram suggests that while the star of 'focus group’ continues to rise, 'genetically engineered' peaked some time around 2001. If the contingencies of sound and contemporary cliché are formal constraints operative in the poems, constraints countered by a zealous recombination that makes them productive.

> The arrival of the poem is presented as something won from a world and time understood to be anti-poetic. Again in ‘Unjust July', we are told ‘My teeth got chipped. Something / chipped my teeth'. There is a rearrangement of words but also of agency. The chipped tooth is the punishment for speech, for taking too big a bite. But the rearrangement is a movement towards recognition of the punishers and a discovery of poetic ferment and fertility in that identification: ‘despite the economic privation etc, the human imagination starts working, being a kind of uncontrolled horse itself, and its words animate the wood’ (LZ). The poems may collapse on themselves, but, more Whackamole than Chumbawumba, they pop back up again, not only adding to the moment but rebutting it, minor incursions that can turn cliché to birdsong.

Addons is published by Gong Farm and available now to order here.

Text: Alex Grafen

Image: Gong Farm

Published: 1/5/20

#poetry #poetry review #Dom Hale #Alex Grafen #Dominic Hale #review #reviews #Addons #Gong Farm

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