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rodrick heffley dating hcs

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pairing: rodrick heffley x gn reader

warnings: rodrick has really low self esteem, he also has adhd and dyslexia and general bad mental health, mentions of rsd, his parents are pretty shitty so yikes, brief mentions of parties/hookups/making out, barely proof read

song recs: teenage dirtbag - wheatus, cupid's chokehold/breakfast in america - gym class heroes

a/n: I can't get hyperfixated on diary of a wimpy kid again I can't watch all the movies just for rodrick I can't want to pounce on this man every time I see him.... and yet....

also this is exactly 6 pages in google docs what am i on

(aged up to 18+ for brief mention of hookups, otherwise sfw)

tags: @dustyinkpages @yesv01

First of all

Rodrick is a scorpio

So that makes a lot of sense right off the bat

If we look at how he’s portrayed

Which is through Greg’s perspective aka the most unreliable narrator of all time

We see an angry, angsty, aggressive rebellious teenager

He’s viewed as lazy, selfish, and manipulative, while being simultaneously “dumb” and smarter than he lets on

I saw a post that said maturing is realizing Rodrick wasn’t a villain, he has shitty mental health and a lot of issues he’s not getting help for

And yeah

Yeah that’s what’s actually going on

First of all I think we can all agree he’s dyslexic

Sweaty??? Loded diper???? D-o-r-e?????

Hello

Dyslexia has entered the chat

I think it’s also pretty safe to assume he has adhd

Maybe I am just projecting shut up

But I know for a fact this boy has had a monster energy dependency since he was Greg’s age

We know at this point that people with adhd and dyslexia (separately and together) often times have low self esteem for a variety of reasons

And my god there is no one with worse self esteem than Rodrick Heffley

He knows his parents think he’s dumb

They’re not good at hiding it

They might not have said it to his face but he knows

I get the sense that Rodrick isn’t really aware that all of his struggles are both diagnosable and treatable

So until he learns that many years later

He does actually think he’s kind of dumb

At least in terms of academics

But he can say at least he’s pretty clever

He definitely favors street smarts over book smarts yk

And that’s something that he relies on a lot

He’s taken the classic undiagnosed adhd + learning disorder rout of convincing himself school is stupid and doesn’t mean anything

Even though he actually gets really bad rsd

Especially through academic invalidation

So by the time he was around Greg’s age he’d already convinced himself that school is stupid and doesn’t matter

That no one else gets him

And what better way to back up that belief than fixating on rock and pop punk music???

In his eyes, all the greats had an up and coming early days “no one believed in our vision but us” era

That’s what Rodrick finds himself in now

So when his mom calls his hours and hours of drum practice noise and racket

And when his dad says all that rock and roll is melting his brain (even more than it is, is the implied rest of the sentence)

And when Greg refers to him as his “talentless brother”

It’s fine

Because the more people don’t believe him

The better his success will be

The further back he’s pulled, the further forward he’ll fly

Honest to god, green day’s discography is the reason he’s functional at all

If he can’t listen to american idiot or dookie or nimrod while doing it

He’s not going to do it

Pop punk and hot girls are the only sources of serotonin he’s been able to cling onto

That’s what’s keeping him going right now

A few more years he reminds himself

A few more years until he’ll have left and signed a recording contract and will finally get what he deserves

I think he’s actually kind of scared of someone liking him

Like, actually liking him

The same way where he expects people to be disappointed in him but it’s okay because no one sees his creative vision like he does

He’s convinced himself that the girls in plainview probably aren’t going to get him

So besides his stint with Lyndsey

Which hurt way more than it was supposed to

(remember all that rsd???)

And a fling with that girl from Isla de Corales that burnt out as hot and fast and ugly as he expected it to

He hasn’t really had any actual relationships

Besides the occasional hook up or make out session at a party

He doesn’t want to admit to himself that he knows if a girl actually liked him enough to really get to know him they’d see past the punk boy persona to how fucked up he is

And they’d get scared off

Because who wouldn’t be???

(remember that low self esteem???????)

On a similar note

His band mates may or may not be aware of this

But he’s kind of hiding all his good songs???

He keeps telling himself that it’s fine to just perform fluff and filler songs at first

Because once they get an audience

Once they get practice and a following

Once he knows the right people will hear him

Then he’ll drop the songs with substance

The ones where he really actually has something to say

Because if he posts diper overlode online and it gets 5 views, who cares

But if he posts a song that’s all his innermost thoughts to the hardest drum beats and guitar riffs and bass solos he can possibly come up with

And it gets 3 views and a comment that says it’s shit

It would kill him

Nothing can make him stop making music

Except maybe that

So once he gets into a more accepting, less harshly critical environment

It will be way easier for him to start dropping better and better songs

A little positive reinforcement goes a very long way with him

So by the time that you finally stumble into his life

However that happens

Maybe you saw him at Heather’s sweet sixteen and actually thought he was really good

You hunted him down a while later to tell him

And ask when their next performance will be

Or you heard him blasting his band’s cd at the pool for about 12 seconds before he had to shut it off

And you marched right over to buy one

And he fell in love right there

Or maybe you’re auditioning to be loded diper’s new guitarist or something

And he takes one look at you absolutely shredding

And his stomach drops and his heart starts pounding

Or some other meet cute

Or meet uncute knowing him

Goddamn you give him so much serotonin right off the bat

You figure out pretty quick that the way to his heart is making him laugh, quality time, and very gentle encouragement

And making out

But more on that later

He’s kind of obsessed with you

Okay not kind of

Super

Really super obsessed

Really fast

But like he’s going to play it cool

In spite of how down bad he is for you

Even though he’s not very good at it

He’ll try to play it cool as much as he possibly can

He’ll definitely flirt

He’ll try all his lines and moves

“I’m in a band ;)”

“We play so loud we make people’s ears bleed ;)”

“I can comp you some tickets to our next show ;)”

“Oh yeah I’m a drummer btw ;)”

“A drummer in a band ;)”

Yeah that’s pretty much all he’s got

But unless you want to jump into making out

He really has no idea what to do after that

(Plankton voice) I don’t know I never thought I’d get this far

So if you really like him

Which you do

Actually dating him might be a little tricky

I feel like what would probably happen is you two would just start by being friends who make out sometimes

Like a lot

And then

Eventually after a while

Making out with you will stop scratching that itch

He’ll want more

He’ll want you more

And he’ll start calling himself your boyfriend

Mostly because he really starts to hate it when other people flirt with you

Or stare at you too much

He knows he’s got it bad when he starts getting snippy and annoyed at his bandmates for trying to impress you

That’s when he’s like oh shit

Oh no I actually really like you

And I’m pretty sure you like me too

And if he said that to you

And you said “yeah, yeah I like you a whole lot” and pulled him in by his necklace to kiss him

Everything is solidified in that moment

He’s yours now

Also if you really, really want to make his heart go boom boom

And get him really in love and obsessed with you

Which why wouldn’t you

Tell him he looks like billie joe armstrong with his messy black hair and eyeliner

Oh my god

His heart is 100% yours

Even more than it was before

God he will kiss you right then and there

He really has no idea how he managed to catch you

Or like

Why you like him

(remember that low self esteem?????????????)

He really never thought he’d be a good boyfriend

But once it kind of clicked that being your boyfriend just means doing what he’s already doing with you

Plus a few extra things he already wants to do with you but wasn’t sure he could

He was like wait

It’s that quick easy and free??????? Fuck yeah

He’s so excited

Like really excited

And in spite of what he thinks

He is a good ass boyfriend in a really chill way

Like a lot of the stuff he does is under a very thinly veiled guise of like

Pfft it’s no big deal this is totally chill and casual

I just love kissing you and making out with you at every opportunity cause you’re super hot totally not cause I’m kind of in love with you

I like struggling through homework together cause you’re hot not cause looking at you kind of makes me believe in myself a little and makes really shitty things easier to get through

I try to keep you away from my family because they’re so annoying and you’re so hot not because I know my parents have historically sabotage everything that makes me genuinely happy (which used to just be rock but now is you and rock) and I don’t want them to say something to upset you

Or try to come between us because I’m not going to say this and I want to avoid this situation at all costs but I know if it came to an ultimatum most likely from my mom that I’d pick you

All of this is really just him trying not to jinx anything

Because look at you

Look at how great you are

The only two things he wants are a music career

Any kind of music career

And you

And he’s not going to do anything to jeopardize that

On the surface his feelings towards both you and his band might seem casual

But don’t test him

Cause he will do anything to protect those

Also the fact that you genuinely support him

You actually like the music his band makes

It’s almost unfathomable to him

Like he thought it was going to be a long time before he found someone like you

He’s still in the early life section of his future wikipedia page as a rock legend

And god he’s so excited he found you this soon

He’s just so excited

Being around you

Even just thinking about you is like someone slapped some jumper cables on him and revved the engine

He’ll almost definitely act like what you two have is super casual and barely anything worth noting for a while

Mostly around his family

That way you can avoid a formal Meet The Parents moment

He’s not going to subject either of you to that

After enough time passes his family is just kind of used to seeing you around

Rides to and from school

Hanging out during band rehearsals

Doing homework together

Once you’ve reached I’m with the band status

He doesn’t worry as much

They just sort of mentally put you in part of his friend group/inner circle yk

Which is great because now you can basically come over and spend as much time together as you want without any questions

It’s a pretty good way to gently fold you into his life

The way you’d tenderly fold whipped egg whites into pastry dough

I do have some unfortunate news

Which is if you’re dating Rodrick

Greg will probably get a weird awkward crush on you too

It sort of comes with the territory

Thankfully you have about one interaction with him every six months or so

All of which are by coincidence or accident

So it’s not really an issue

Unless you’re a babysitter or tutor or something

That’s when things can get messy

But hopefully that won’t be an issue

For now at least

Cause for now he just wants to spend time with you

He just wants to listen to music with you and drive around in his van and kiss your beautiful face

He knows shit won’t always be this easy

So he’s holding onto these good old days while he can

Because he knows these moments with you right now

These early morning texts about weekend plans and homework answers

Afternoons practicing the drums and trying unsuccessfully not to be distracted by how pretty you are when you watch him

Nights driving around in his van, going nowhere in particular

Just so you can be together a little longer

Just so you don’t have to go home yet

So he can savor the feeling of your hand in his for a few more minutes

For one more song

These are the good old days

And there will be even better days ahead

And he wants them with you

#rodrick heffley #rodrick x reader #rodrick heffley x reader #rodrick #diary of a wimpy kid #doawk rodrick #diary of a wimpy kid x reader #doawk x reader

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goatcheesecak3 · 6 months

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Hcs for Rodrick w/ an artistic s/o? who makes their own custom loded diper shirts? Who does small paintings or doodles on his van when allowed? Who has a sketchbook full of little drawings of him???

This is such a cute idea omg😭 yes I can definitely do that

He begs you to design tattoos for him, so you make him a little flash sheet of doodles to give him ideas. His favourite one is a sketch of a snake, someday he wants to get it as a sleeve, winding all the way down his arm.

Before a show, you surprised the band with custom löded diper shirts you'd made by bleach painting them. They all had the band's logo and a cool picture that you'd designed (Rodrick's was the grim reaper playing the drums). Needless to say, the entire band freaked out over this, congratulating a very smug Rodrick on getting himself a real keeper.

He loves it when he catches you sketching him, you always get embarrassed, as if he's not literally your boyfriend. He teases you for being so shy, and reassures you that he finds it flattering.

For Christmas you painted one of the heffley family portraits and gifted it to Susan, who absolutely ADORED it, and you.

Rodrick is quite artistic too, so sometimes you work together on pictures for fun. One of you will draw the outline and the other has to add colour. The pictures usually come out looking.... contemporary is the nice way to put it.

Sometimes Rodrick likes to take you on dates to art galleries or museums to help inspire you, constantly telling you "someday all these walls will be covered in your work, baby"

He gets you to draw all over everything he owns, you painted little nuclear waste symbols on his docs which he LOVED (a/n, fun fact: my mum was a punk in the 80s and she painted that symbol on her boots, so shoutout to me mum for the inspo ig lol)

You're planning to move in together soon, so as a surprise Rodrick took you to a paint your own pottery place, where you each painted bowls for eachother to have your morning cereal out of.

Rodrick wants to hang up every single piece of art you make, like EVERYTHING. Whether it's a huge canvas or a doodle on a napkin, he thinks it all deserves to be shown off.

He constantly jokes "I can't throw this doodle away! It's a y/n original, this is gonna be worth a lot of money someday!"

A/n this was such a cute idea thsnk u so much for the request :^)

Replies and reblogs are very much appreciated because I thrive off of your validation

Requests are open and very much encouraged! Check my pinned post for Request rules and my masterlist <3

#rodrick #rodrick rules #rodrick heffley #doawk #diary of a wimpy kid #rodrick hefflei #devon bostick #rodrick headcanon #rodrick x reader #diary of a wimpy kid rodrick #rodrick hcs #hcs #rodrick heffley headcanon #headcanon #rodrick fluff #fluff #not my rodrick

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best-fictional-band-poll · 3 months

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THIS IS THE OLD SUBMISSIONS POST. UP TO DATE SUBMISSIONS CAN BE FOUND HERE

Sorted alphabetically by band. Please click through to original post to see full list. IF IT'S NOT ON THE LIST, PLEASE SUBMIT IT. NO BAND IS TOO NICHE. Multiple bands from the same media are permitted.

Putting this under the cut because it's getting too long!

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4*town - Turning Red

About Gardens - ROGUEMAKER

The Ark - I Was Born For This

ABXY - Splatoon

Arno van Eyck - Disco Elysium

The Band With Rocks In It - Discworld

The Beets - Doug

The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton - The Mountain Goats

The Bettys - Phineas and Ferb

Black Stones (BLAST) - NANA

The Blues Brothers - The Blues Brothers

Bottom Feeders - Splatoon

Boys In The Sink - Veggietales

Boys Who Cry - Spongebob Squarepants

Boyz4Now - Bob's Burgers

Boyz 12 - American Dad

Bunk Bed Junction - No Straight Roads

Cheetah Girls - Cheetah Girls

The Clash At Demonhead - Scott Pilgrim

The Covey - Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Crash & The Boys - Scott Pilgrim

Daisy Jones & The Six - Daisy Jones & The Six

Damp Socks - Splatoon

De Bois Band - & Juliet

Deep cut - Splatoon

DETHKLOK - Metalocalypse

Dedf1sh - Splatoon

Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeros - Space Opera

Dingoes Ate My Baby - Buffy The Vampire Slayer

DJ Octavio - Splatoon

DJ Stylbator - Samurai Jack

Dr Teeth and The Electric Mayhem - The Muppets

Drive Shaft - LOST

Evar Orbus & The Galactic Jizz-Wailers/The Max Rebo Band - Star Wars

Fig and the Cig Figs - Dimension 20 Fantasy High

The Flaming Creatures - Velvet Goldmine

Fran-Shou-Shou - Zombie Land Saga

Gallifrey Academy Hot Five - Doctor Who

Gem & The Scotts - Secret Life SMP

Gillion & The Tidestriders - Just Roll With It

Girls Dead Monster - Angel Beats

Gorillaz - Gorillaz

Grifters Bone - Magnus Archives

Hatsune Miku - Vocaloid

Heaven Seventeen - A Clockwork Orange

The Hectic Glow - The Fault In Our Stars

Hex Girls - Scooby Doo

Ink Theory - Splatoon

Jem & The Holograms - Jem & The Holograms

Johnny Casino and The Gamblers - Grease

Josie & The Pussycats - Archie (Comic)

The Juicy Fruits - Phantom of the Paradise

Julie and the Phantoms - Julie and the Phantoms

Kessoku Band - Bocchi the Rock

Killer Boy Rats - Horrid Henry

The Killjoys - My Chemical Romance

Lacus Clyne - Mobile Suit Gundam Seed

Lady Parts - We Are Lady Parts

The Last Days - The Last Days

Lemonade Mouth - Lemonade Mouth

Leningrad Cowboys - Leningrad Cowboys

Lincoln Hawk - Gossip Girl

Little White Lie - Little White Lie

Loded Diper - Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Love Burger - Can't Hardly Wait

Love Händel - Phineas and Ferb

LumberZacks - Milo Murphy's Law

Mad Gear & The Missile Kid - Danger Days, My Chemical Romance

Maxwell Demon & The Venus In Furs - Velvet Goldmine

The Mechanisms - The Mechanisms

Milkcan - Um Jammer Lammy

The Misfits - Jem & The Holograms

Muppet Orchestra - The Muppets

Needy Beast - Hatchetfield

Octoplush - Splatoon

Old Gods of Asgard - Alan Wake

ok, kids - Andre and Karl

Off The Hook - Splatoon

Pink Slip - Freaky Friday

Plasmagica - Show By Rock

Proto Zoa - Zenon Sweep

The Rainbooms - Equestria Girls

The Rats - Velvet Goldmine

RIP - Ruby Gloom

The Risky Fix-Ins - Buzzfeed Unsolved Franchise

The Rutles - All You Need Is Cash

Sadie-Killer & The Suspects - Steven Universe

Sadgasm - The Simpsons

SCÄB - Home Movies

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles

Sev'ral Timez - Gravity Falls

Sex Bob-omb - Scott Pilgrim vs The World

Sing Street - Sing Street

Soundcheck - Odd Squad

Spinal Tap - This Is Spinal Tap

Squid Sisters - Splatoon

Squid Squad - Splatoon

The Stiff Dylans - Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging

Sunset Curve - Julie and the Phantoms

The Superconducting Supercolliders - Designations Congruent With Things (Pacific Rim fanfiction)

The Three Lights - Sailor Moon

Trapnest - NANA

Turquoise October - Splatoon

The Vampire Lestat - The Vampire Chronicles

Wonderlands x Showtime - Hatsune Miku Colourful Stage/Vocaloid

The Wonders - That Thing You Do

Wyld Stallyns - Bill & Ted franchise

Wet Floor - Splatoon

w-3 (omega-3) - Splatoon

Yoko & the Gold Bazookas - Splatoon

Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars - David Bowie

#submissions

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lode-builds · 1 year

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VINTAGE lode build (c. 2018)

#minecraft #mineblr #minecraft build #minecraft builds #bsl shaders #lode-builds #from the midst of my MC resurrection after my 2017 hiatus (aka I discovered mods and Mizunos 16 Craft #the shape of the build is older though fun fact Ive built that thing like 4 times since 2015 with different block palettes #which is almost 10 years ago kind of which I wont think about #theres some stylistic choices I no longer subscribe to but i think it still holds up. she’s cute and cool!#does anybody even read these tags?#send an ask saying #‘tax returns’#if you are reading this rm #<- this will be cool to see. And will also hopefully remind me to file my taxes tomorrow bc I need to do that #LIFE HACK #anyway #passed 1 whole thousand followers a bit ago and i think that’s so awesome. thanks for following even tho i post once in a blue moon 🌚

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edgeofthegibbuniverse · 7 months

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This is going to be a multi post because I found the mother lode of new pics of Barry and Linda from one of the Sgt Pepper’s premiere parties. These will blow your mind.

Part 1

#barry gibb #linda gibb #beegees #Bee Gees #the brothers gibb #sgt peppers lonely hearts club band #new pics!#they look so amazing I can’t even #barry in white is a personal favorite

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classpectpokerap · 2 days

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I believe I understood the rest, but what are !hing and _board supposed to mean?

so this ask (which is in reference to a recent post on my sollux rp blog, @double-ended ) is actually a good opportunity to talk about this.

the names for the other coding languages were all written collaboratively! credit to my friend Luke on my discord server for assembling all the names we came up with. don't remember who came up with what but yeah, shoutouts to the lukemeister. :3

TIME: ~ath (tilde ath = til death)

SPACE: exp& (expand)

HEART: m-> (marrow)

MIND: _board (underscore board = under scoreboard)

RAGE: @tack (attack)

HOPE: slap- (slapdash)

BLOOD: ,nd (command)

BREATH: half| (halfpipe)

DOOM: dis* (dis asterisk = disaster isk)

LIFE: ^cake (carrot cake)

VOID: !hing (not hing = nothing)

LIGHT: lode* (lodestar)

each language in the post actually has the relevant aspect listed, lol.

i really like these silly little faux programming languages. it's a neat lil expansion of the lore.

oh, and ^cake being a language for coding fetch modii was taken from the mspfa Fuck It We Ball by @horsesbones. :3!!

#homestuck #homestuck fanfic #hs meta #etch asks #my fanfic #sollux captor

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zhongrin · 6 months

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𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐛𝐥𝐫 𝐞𝐛𝐠 𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑

✼ー storyline explanation / clarifications:

✼ crys and risu’s theories nailed most of the plot, so give those a read before continuing ;)

✼ ciphers translation: “beware of subjectivity” and “everyone has their own agenda”

✼ childe doesn’t like meirin romantically: reference to chilly (childe/holly)… man almost called her ‘honey’ smh he’s down bad, ‘my dearest witch’, ‘wifey’ (on that note, everyone stan chilly pls and ty)

✼ when childe said ‘i’m not your friend, that’s for sure’ + remember the matching jewelries post? the earring there is red-colored but the one he gives meirin is gold colored —> it’s because i’d like to think despite having agreed to everything, when he saw how distraught she was getting, he felt bad. so it was more of like “we’re not friends. i don’t deserve that title.”. and the gold earring he gave her was actually his attempt at nudging her memories.

✼ as for childe’s agenda, crys’ original theory post nailed it. yup. man just wanted to pick a fight with zhongli because why not, right? a fight with a god sounds fun! :D (also i’d like to think that he’s still keeping a liiiiitle grudge from liyue archon quest, yk? lol)

✼ yes, coviello used god’s remains. ‘mother’ was referring to the mother lode. remember baizhu’s story quest? god’s remains causes memory loss and makes whoever consumes the child lode to obsessively seek out the mother lode eventually, which explains the things you were seeing from her pov - the creepy whispers/voices, paranoia, her not remembering her friends, her odd actions/movements.

✼ coviello’s posts (coviello rambles, tartarin, ??? ships, coviello’s journal) are written from their perspective, so they’re all highly biased and subjective. it’s the unreliable narrator case :D

✼ the flowers childe ‘gave’ meirin were in fact from coviello (in one of the asks, kopi offered to get them mondstadt specialties and they asked for cecilias)

✼ー fun little tidbits about coviello:

✼ they’re somewhat based on ‘coviello’ - a character from commedia dell’arte, which the fatui harbingers are also taking references from.

✼ related to the above, on their introductory post there’s a hidden link on the “ 𝐜” (no it doesn’t link you to the picrew) ; )

✼ they dislike their cryo vision, hence why you barely see them use their cryo vision throughout the story and their preference to use their pyro delusion instead (despite fully knowing it’ll cost them their life) and how they’re particularly wary of cryo wielders (e.g. queen) a shame no one brought in wrio huh

✼ the ‘names’ in their journal:

first line (red color, not bolded): danger. confident to kill when needed

second line (red color, bolded): danger. tread carefully; not confident to kill

third line (orange): suspicious. to watch carefully

fourth line (green): harmless

✼ whenever they answers an ask, they always use the person’s full url handle. yup. no exceptions. deeeefinitely none.

i doubt there are many who are actually interested in this actual 'lore' but feel free to send in asks if you have any questions. i had so much fun stringing things along hahahah <3

lastly— if you’re reading this far, congratulations! come closer, i have a secret to tell you…….

“00:00. 🔓. 𝐆𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭”

#rin plays ebg

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diceriadelluntore · 8 months

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Storia Di Musica #289 - Genesis, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, 1974

Quando si parla di dischi dove davvero si sente quanto siano bravi i musicisti, non si può non pensare all’epopea del progressive (che come quelli che mi sopportano in questa rubrica da più tempo sanno, sia uno dei miei pallini musicali). Il prog, che vorrei sottolineare è una definizione che negli anni è diventata sempre meno descrittiva e precisa, ma che per consuetudine e anche affetto si continua ad usare, è stato il primo e significativo della gioventù europea di creare musica pop fuori dallo schema del blues americano d’importazione. Sembra un particolare secondario, ma è fondamentale, come lo è l’estrazione sociale dei protagonisti: tutti baby boomer (termine che vuol dire la prima generazione nata dopo la guerra, non il sarcastico e odioso epiteto di oggi contro chi non è “giovane”), sospinti dalla crescita economica e, particolare importantissimo, la prima generazione che fa musica studiando a livelli superiori; quasi tutti i grandi gruppi progressive sono formati da ragazzi laureati, spesso in materie scientifiche (l’esempio più famoso è Brian May, laureato con lode in Astrofisica, ma ricordo anche i componenti dei mitici Van Der Graaf Generator tutti dottori in materie scientifiche). Tutto questo portò ad un approccio molto serio e tecnico alla musica, e al netto delle preferenze personali i capolavori del prog sono tutti dischi suonati magistralmente, e potrebbero essere tutti citati in questo mese. Aggiungo, in primis, disseminati nei post di questa ve ne sono tanti, e in secundis per celebrare degnamente i dischi stato dell’arte ho scelto uno dei più famosi dischi prog, capolavoro di una delle band leggenda del movimento.

I Genesis sono stati i principi del progressive, una dei gruppi mitici di quel periodo. Eppure l’inizio fu tutt’altro che promettente: dopo una scrittura per la Decca e due singoli, esce From Genesis To Revelation (1969), che ha così poco successo che tutti i membri della band, Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, Chris Steward, Anthony Phillis e Michael Rutherford tornano a fare gli studenti universitari. Fu però l’intuito di un grande discografico, Tony Strattor-Smith, che fondò la Charisma, la casa discografica motore del prog, a intuire il potenziale: entra a fare patte della band John Mayhewm con cui registrano Trespass (1970), che sebbene non ha vendite confortanti è apprezzato e ha il primo, grande brano, The Knife. Ma il meglio deve ancora venire: Mayhew se ne va con Phillips, e tramite un annuncio sulla famosissima rivista Melody Maker, vengono scelti due nuovi musicisti, Steve Hackett alla chitarra e Phil Collins alla batteria. Nasce qui la line up leggendaria, e piano piano inizierà a prendere forma il loro mondo di testi colti, ironici e surreali, con tanti riferimenti letterari e alla mitologia non solo classica ma anche del folklore locale, una musica maestosa e a tratti magicamente ipnotizzante con largo uso di tastiere e sintetizzatori, creando o anticipando stili futuri, tipo il rock sinfonico. Nursery Crime, Foxtrot, Selling England By The Pound sono i primi tre capitoli di una tetralogia magnifica di capolavori che impongono lo stile musicale del gruppo ma anche l’istrionismo di Gabriel, cantante superbo, e da ricordare soprattutto che fu il primo ad introdurre l’aspetto teatrale e scenografico nei concerti, usando travestimenti, trucchi in volto, caratterizzando la voce dei vari personaggi delle canzoni. Il disco di oggi è l’apoteosi di questo concetto, un disco che è molto di più di Gabriel che dei Genesis, nella stessa misura di The Wall disco di Roger Waters che dei Pink Floyd.

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, che esce nel 1974, è il primo, e unico, concept album dei Genesis. Racconta la storia di Rael (anagramma di Real, reale, ma anche parziale di Gabriel), un ragazzo portoricano fuggito dall’orfanotrofio di Pontiac che va a New York a scrivere graffiti, unica forma per esprimere i suoi sentimenti. Camminando per Broadway, Rael si imbatte in un agnello sdraiato fra i vapori dei riscaldamenti sotterranei, che si trasformano in una nebbia che lo trasporta in un'altra dimensione spazio-temporale, quasi interamente ambientata sottoterra. Qui troverà mostri mitologici, uomini mezzi rettili, personaggi grotteschi, ma troverà anche suo fratello John. Proprio per salvare la vita di John, al culmine della storia, Rael rinuncerà a tornare nella sua Manhattan, magicamente riapparsa oltre una finestra nella roccia, per gettarsi fra le rapide di un fiume. Subito dopo il salvataggio tuttavia Rael si accorge sgomento che John ha assunto le sue stesse sembianze, rivelandosi di fatto una proiezione del suo io, e appena capito cosa sta per succedere immediatamente dopo i "due Rael" scompaiono in una misteriosa foschia purpurea assieme a tutta la scena e alla storia stessa. Non esiste un brano “killer” come ci sono stati in altri lavori precedenti, ma basta il brano omonimo che apre il disco, che raccoglie come una ouverture di musica classica tutti i temi del disco ( il doppio LP dura oltre 90 minuti), la dolcezza di Hairless Heart o The Carpet Crawlers, o la forza di In The Cage o di Counting Out Time per decretare questo disco di una tale ricchezza di spunti, sia lirici che sonori, da dare il capogiro. La storia di Rael è l’ennesimo, e più sofisticato, tentativo di Peter Gabriel di critica al consumismo, alla imminente globalizzazione, agli idoli fallaci di un mondo dove i confini tra illusione e realtà sono sempre più fittizi, dove essere e apparire si fondono perdendo di contorno e significato, e molto più di altre occasioni c’è una dimensione personale di racconto emozionale per dar forma a temi che riguardano la sua interiorità, come il rapporto col sesso (The Lamia, The Colony Of Slippermen), con la paura o con la morte (Anyway, Here Comes The Supernatural Anaesthetist), visti con gli occhi di Rael. E se per qualcuno c’è il dubbio, in It, misterioso e sarcastico brano di chiusura, Gabriel canta “Se pensi che sia pretenzioso, sei stato preso per un viaggio\Guarda attraverso lo specchio figliolo, prima di scegliere, decidi” e finisce con “it's only knock and know-all, but I like it", che storpia il titolo di It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It), degli Stones, traducibile pressappoco: «criticare e [fare il] saccente su tutto», quasi a profetizzare le future critiche delle riviste musicali al lavoro, accusato di essere uno spaccato di megalomania, per la storia così complicata (che ha, per essere precisi, un finale aperto, come a sospettare un continuazione prevista). Gabriel dopo il tour successivo questa faticaccia se ne va, nel 1975, anche perché gli animi degli altri non vedevano bene il suo protagonismo. Ci sono le ultime tre cose da dire: i Genesis ne volevano fare un film con William Friednik, recentemente scomparso, ma non se ne fece mai niente; il disco fu accompagnato da 102 concerti, dove Gabriel cambiava vestito per decine di volte, ed è un peccato che non ne sia mai stato fatto un live come si deve; i Genesis, dopo l’addio di Gabriel, passano le redini a Phil Collins, che dopo la bufera del punk (che odiava la maestria del prog, a cui opposero i suoni viscerali e spesso sgangherati), specializzerà il gruppo in una sorta di pop d’autore, che regalerà risultati di vendita mai visti, soprattutto negli Stati Uniti, che ovviamente non capirono mai del tutto il prog. Ma il passaggio tra le due epoche equivale a passare in una strada dove prima sorgeva una cattedrale maestosa, tra le più grandiose di sempre per meraviglie, al cui posto adesso c’è una villetta in riva al mare, che accoglie l’ondeggio lento delle onde. Un cambiamento non da poco.

#genesis #the lamb lies down on broadway #1974 #recensione

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americassoldierboy · 4 months

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I honestly want more screenshots of Rodrick singing and in his loded diaper shirt. If anyone has any, please reblog this post with the photos :)

#loded diper #rodrick rules #rodrick heffley #devon bostick

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firewalkzwit · 8 months

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runt // jonathan crane x reader. (15)

Chapter 15

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first, a little poem ☺️

Profane words

Out of your pure mouth.

All my sweetness,

Hovers over you.

Light of my life

Fire of my loins

My sin, my soul.

Hesitation was precursor to decisions prone to be regretted after the sunlight began to surface over the Gotham skyscrapers, its red light reflecting on the fragile reflective glazing. Fragile, brittle and bound to shatter. His calloused fingers grazing gently over the silk of her skin, intoxicating her chastity, reminded him of such fragility. The word must be interpreted with care and a tint of subjectivity, as most words that may seem mere verbiage or even to be interpreted literally must be subject to a wide variety of abstract, wild interpretations. Chastity, in a sentence where the prose seems to lead who reads it to presume the protagonists are engaging in intimate and literary candy-coated sex, still must be taken with certain caution. He didn't even bother to ponder over the question of whether she was a virgin or not, frankly who does? Such questions are to be made by teenagers whose individuality is still frail, and who grow to believe possessing someone else's first time puts them in a privileged position. Chastity wouldn't be the adequate word for someone who isn't pure in the eyes of God, but he still felt like merely his lecherous, vulgar touch on her body that, in that moment only seemed to radiate light of innocence, was a corruption of her chastity. Once again, reader; innocence is not to be taken literally. Y/N was not particularly naive, just too good, more human than most.

It was because of this that, unlike what most would expect, it was apprehension on his behalf that occasionally interrupted the even flow of intercourse between the two. He felt sick, like he didn't often. Concerns of morality weren't often what stopped a man like Jonathan Crane from satisfying his urges, even the most evil and unsacred ones. Yet something about the instrumental way her moans vibrated on the edge of his ear, or how her nails dug into his skin without causing any pain beyond the pleasure of her lewd scratching, made him feel like his body against hers was vicious filth grazing untarnished motherhood.

He could tell her head occasionally motioned towards his face, wavering to be so cruel to allow her to kiss him. She was too good and he couldn't do that. Jonathan Crane was very open about his misanthropy. However he felt he'd encountered the embodiment of grace and femininity, which he associated with images of motherhood and selfless devotion to loving. Loving whoever and whatever, but the act of loving in its most pure state is inherently altruistic. He believed selflessness is the most pure act of humanity, a step further in evolution, and often his concept of womanhood embodied this idea. The true Übermensch, to Crane, should be the one that can acheive the selflessness only the mothers in the figments of his imagination could. However, this often collided with his misanthropy, and his encounters with women combined with such high expectations were bound to result in disappointment. He hated most women, but not because they were women, but because they were people. His hate was even greater than his lust, which could only imply that he hated with fervour.

He often even hated her, but not because of the same reasons he hated most people. He hated that he couldn't grasp why or how she'd managed to make herself so mothering in his eyes. No one ever could or should, he felt it provoked him to deflect from pursuing his purpose. Initially, he was being impulsive. He didn't know if he actually wanted to have sex with her, or if he genuinely intended to aid her in the discovery of her dreams. Something in him simply ignited the familiar curiosity, a subtle covet to unveil a lode in her intimacy, her secrecy. It wasn't the first time he felt a need to morbidly shine lights on her every corner, especially when he'd visit her apartment. However he'd never gone as far as to comply to his urges, lowering himself to the standard man. Now that he had cracked, the same erection he'd held in his hands when he had lewd dreams of her now opened her folds and was wrapped around the warmth of her insides.

How or why Y/N had agreed to have sex with Crane got lost in translation. It didn't take an explicitly worded 'yes' from her mouth, or immediate agreement, but rather a tacit understanding. The way her fingers softly tapped the champagne glass, or how her knees would anxiously tap against each other after he'd asked so bluntly. Initially, she'd deflected from the question, avoiding an answer she feared she'd regret, which applied to either options. As they'd continue to talk, she tried to decode the reasons behind his question. There are many reasons why a man could want to have sex with a woman beyond lustful desire, and whoever believes otherwise is guilty of simplism that did not exist in her thought process. Everything branches out into multiple reasons and options, of which she tried to possess as many as she could.

However, the evening reached a point where they both knew the second they got into the car, they'd be driving home to have sex. The whys or hows were questions neither could answer, but something in the silence gave away that they just knew. It mostly happens like that, an implicit understanding, and despite Crane breaking this stereotype by bluntly inviting her to have sex, the rest flowed smoothly like it did most times. At least most of it.

Crane was a weird man, in all aspects, even in bed. She discovered the latter in his strange fretfulness. He was apprehensive, and often wouldn't know what to do with himself. He'd fumble around and his limbs would jitter erratically. This didn't particularly startle her, as she was just as awkward, but he seemed unexperienced and even afraid. Clearly, he didn't fear her, as he'd demonstrated so before, yet as she lingered on the thought as she woke up the next morning feeling the lack of his weight on the opposite side of the bed, Y/N pondered on the idea that perhaps she was hypocritically guilty of being simplistic. Why would she assume that because he didn't compose himself as afraid of her, meant that he actually wasn't? The possibilities were endless, and she rewinded on his refusal to kiss her.

To this she refused to even begin to search for an answer, as she lacked fundamental elements beyond simply sleeping with him to even begin to carry out research. To start drawing conclusions she'd need to know more about his past, his personality, his fears and taboos, finally demonstrating that he did actually experience the dread of repression, too. Even a man like Crane, who seemed to show to the world that he didn't have a care or qualms about anything.

Oh, how do we go on from here...?

#jonathan crane #scarecrow #jonathan crane x reader #scarecrow x reader #batman #the batman #batman begins #nolanverse batman #batman x reader #cillian murphy

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