#parallel lines

[bl00dstainzz]

debbieeee

#70s rock #70s punk #70s music #70s fashion #70s #blondie band #blondie #debbie harry #deborah harry #parallel lines

[girlreviews]

Review #146: Parallel Lines, Blondie

Man oh man oh man. I love Blondie so much. I found this record in the Windsor Oxfam. I don’t remember exactly how old I was, but I remember what boyfriend was with me so that puts me between 15 and 18. Yeah, same guy. I actually don’t remember if he ended up getting his hands on this record or not. I think I still have it. Will rifle through my collection later to check.

Blondie was in the “being cool” wilderness for some absolutely crazy reason at that point, and nobody really gave a shit about them anymore. When I was 17 or 18 they were playing the Reading Hexagon which is honestly still just such an unbelievable insult I’m still annoyed about it. I’ll circle back to that.

Parallel Lines epitomizes the complete and total coolness and badassery of Debbie Harry. I have never wanted to be someone more than I wanted to be her. So much confidence. Such incredible cheekbones. Such commitment to art. No apologies. The voice of an angel one moment and snarling whimsical warnings, like, hey you, don’t fuck with me, the next. Always standing in front of all of those completely non-descript nobody dudes. Yeah they’re playing the music, but who cares, who are they? It’s all her. She is Blondie.

Can I pick a favorite? It opens with Hanging on the Telephone, in which she is really threatening to rip the phone clean off the wall. It might be that one. But we’ve also got the classic One Way Or Another, which needs no comment, and one of my actual favorites of all time, Heart of Glass which never fails to fuck me up, but like, it’s a god damn disco track? Like sure, yeah, let’s boogie away our heart break. And I did. And I have. And I will. And these are all SINGLES. We aren’t even discussing the actual album tracks yet. Just listen to it. Honorable mention goes to Sunday Girl, which I always really loved. It’s cute and it’s kind of sweet in a very teenage girl kind of way that worked for me since I was in fact, a teenage girl. Also, not on the official album release, but there was a version of that track where the latter half was sung entirely in French and I always really dug it.

Okay so circling back to the Hexagon. This is a weird story and I’m still not sure how I feel about it, to this day. As I said, Blondie were playing a show at the Hexagon. I was absolutely obsessed with them, and Debbie Harry. I was also 17 or 18 and spent every penny I had on going to shows, but those pennies were pretty limited. I worked as a waitress at the pub that was two doors down from my house. It was full of characters. One such character was a regular, he was in his late 40s, was very wealthy, didn’t drive, was single, and spent literally every bit of his spare time in that pub. Think on that. He paid a lot of attention to the various young women that worked there. Was he creepy? No not exactly. But did it make you uncomfortable? Yes it did. Because you never knew when he might make it weird. Everyone liked him well enough. One day out of the blue this guy presented me with five tickets to the Blondie show. I didn’t know what in the hell to say or whether to accept them. Or what it meant. Whether there were expectations attached to them. Whether it was okay to take them. I was uncomfortable. I was 17.

Here’s what happened. My Mom, who sort of knew him too, since he was always there, decided it was fine, because she wanted to go. But for it to be okay, she decided he also had to come. So we went, he came, and a few friends too. The thing is though, she never knew him like I did. I saw him every day. I saw him with the other girls that worked at the pub. I saw him drunk off his ass. I don’t know that I ever would have taken the tickets. Or if I did, I’m not sure I ever would have invited him. I feel a bit queasy about it to this day. I think in the end something really off-base happened one night between him and someone on staff and he got barred. That was usually the way it went with regulars who were there that often.

The other thing to note is that Blondie ended because Debbie Harry was with Chris Stein, who was literally dying of some rare autoimmune disease throughout their last tour. There were other factors at play, but essentially, they broke up because he was too sick and she stayed at his side and became his full-time carer. When he was well, he left her. They are, remarkably, still close friends to this day and still perform together. Just never forget that men are dogs, and that Blondie is and always will be Debbie Harry. I love her. To this day she looks better than I do in a mini skirt and I love that for her.

ETA: I checked and in fact, I do not still have Parallel Lines in my record collection, but I am quite confident it got lost when I moved back to the US. Also, I’m not 100% certain that show was at the Reading Hexagon. I just know it was a shitty venue not worthy of Blondie. This was 18 years ago. You get the idea.

#album review #music #music review #rolling stone top 500 #blondie #parallel lines #debbie harry

[sistermorph1ne]

Debbie Harry photographed by Kate Simon, 1977

#debbie harry #blondie #1977 #1970s #70s music #black and white #kate simon #punk #new wave #parallel lines #female musicians

[lindenardenshighlights]

untitled

#photographers on tumblr #abstract #parallel lines #architecture

[traderrock]

Blondie cover shoot for Parallel Lines.

Photo: Edo Bertoglio

#Blondie #Parallel Lines #Debbie Harry #Chris Stein #1978 #1970s #Rock n' Roll #New Wave #Punk #Photo

[cosmonautroger]

parallel lines, optical illusion

#parallel lines #optical illusion

[freckliedan]

@simplydnp because you were interested in the tags on my recent rb, here is what i remember of the au i came up with in my college algebra class in 2018:

in this au phil is a math professor & has been for a couple years. he's hot about this

math is a kind of language, you know? it's not that much of a stretch.

dan and phil in this au are long distance/online best friends for YEARS, never managing to end up in the same city

one of them moving to the other has always been the plan & they've visited each other/taken trips together as often as possible so they know that living together would work well

they both know there's a mutual attraction but they never were single at the same time/never in a good place to do long distance indefinitely

it has now been a Long time since they had any conversations about it, which isn't a surprise because they're still not living in the same location

dan dropped out of university, halfway through his first semester. in this universe, he decides to go back to school for something he's actually interested in. possibly queer studies?

he gets into the school phil teaches at. EXCITING! they're going to be in the same place.

since dan's going to be a non-traditional student—phil was already teaching at dan's age—the dorms would suck. finding somewhere affordable to live also sucks

phil, of course, offers for dan to move in with him. he's got a second bedroom that's currently an office

move in day is a LONG day of travel & lugging around boxes and smaller furniture dan brought with him and they're going to get dan a mattress and bedframe tomorrow but aw hell, phil's air mattress has a leak

it's a no-brainer for them to share phil's bed for the night, they've shared smaller mattresses before on trips

"for the night"

reader, they never get dan his own bed. and they never really talk about it.

lead up to the semester. time for dan to meet with his academic advisor and build a schedule.

dan's plan is to knock out general education requirements he probably won't enjoy early on, but not to have those be the majority of his schedule.

dan doesn't realize it's PHIL'S basic math class he's been put in until he gets home (to the home they share!)

by then it feels like more trouble than it's worth to reschedule with his advisor and figure out an entirely new set of classes to take—the current ones took forever to plan in the first place

it'll be fine. honestly it'll be fun to see what phil's classes are like, & easier than struggling to pay attention with somebody else and having phil help explain things anyways—

halfway through the third week of class dan realizes he's in love with phil, it's not just attraction or a crush, it's been almost a fucking decade, oh my god

and the deadline to drop a class was last week.

phil already knows he's in love with dan. but phil has a strong commitment to ethics. there is a 0% chance he's going to do anything about it while dan's in his class

they go home to their shared home where they have a shared bed. dan almost broaches the conversation.

please can we not talk about it, asks phil. it will be easier for me if we don't talk about it until we can— it'll be easier for me if we don't talk about it yet. that'll make it more real.

roll a semester long slow burn where they're already being extremely domestic and both know they have mutual feelings. there's so much room for further tropes & exploration of existing ones here

there's room for self worth struggles surfacing on dan's part and moral anxiety/anxiety issues on phi'ls part especially with them intentionally not talking about it.

oh noo they have a bad week and dan has a breakdown & almost goes to actually buy a bed setup for himself. etc. quite honestly i didn't get this far i just like putting people in fucking predicaments

of course they fuck nasty once final grades are submitted. merry christmas

i think they go straight from best friends to engaged

dan did actually learn math well from phil but he's never taking another phil class in his life thankyou very much

this au is partially born out of me being inherently contrarian to MYSELF even. i'm generally squicked badly by teacher/student aus on account of Both My Parents Are Teachers so it was a fun exercise in figuring out one that didn't make my skin crawl. aaaand scene.

i'm never going to write this so if anybody who does write finds something they like in it. feel free to run with that just @ me if you post something. i'm freckliedan on ao3 as well

#jam posts #fic #parallel lines #phan #aries and i were also on our stupidly slowburn shit w other ideas in 2018

[thatnamewill-probably-change]

So I was rewatching Eddie Begins and (this isn’t going to be the most eloquent so hold on) when Eddie is drowning and all the memories are flashing before his eyes, they use the song ‘Carry You’ by Ruelle. This song is the same song they use in MayDay in season 5 when the team goes to save Bobby and May.

What makes this so cool to me is that when it comes to both scenes, both men have dealt with a reality where they thought they wouldn’t be able to have a proper family; Bobby because of losing Marcy, Bobby Jr, and Brook (and not wanting to overstep w/Athena and the kids) and Eddie because of Shannon and his parents and his own struggles of feeling inadequate and not wanting Christopher to suffer, so putting up a wall of some sorts.

So in Eddie Begins, the song swells when he has decided to keep going. He keeps going despite being at deaths door because he doesn’t just have Christopher (although thats the main part of it) , he has an entire family that he and Chris are a part of and he accepts that. That he has a family that loves him

Bobby sees May as a daughter but doesn’t necessarily expect her to see him the same way as a dad. Also, while he has gotten 100x better ever since his infamous, “We’re not a family” in season 1, he still has that doubt when it comes to his team; 2021-22 had been hard on his team, the family aspect of it especially crumbling and he has been having to hold it together. But then he’s in danger, and as the song swells, his family which had been broken reaffirms that they are family that he is a crucial member of it, and they pull him and May out (and we get the scene of May affirming that this is her dad).

And at the same time we also get Eddie, who tore himself from his family because he thought it was the right thing to do (because of overwhelming trauma about to pop off like mentos in soda) coming back to his family and realizing that is where he is meant to be.

Anyway, Bobby and Eddie being mirrors of each other makes my chest fill with emotions and they both get families and happiness and I thank god for the 9-1-1 writers we have.

#eddie diaz #bobby nash #911hiatus2023 #god bless the 911 writers #i love them so much #parallel lines #they just want a family and they had to find it but their family is goinv to be there 100% #like that lilo and stitch quote #this is my family i found it on my own. It’s little and broken but its still good. Yeah still good #anyways someone probably could say this a lot more eloquently than i could but I just needed to get it out #thank god the amptp tenatively got their heads out of their asses #now pay your freaking actors next please #911

[jt1674]

#blondie #parallel lines #hanging on the telephone #debbie harry

[amomentwiser]

Heard someone say, "Parallel lines are the saddest concept in mathematics -- they will never meet."

But I think the opposite -- other lines will meet at a point and then diverge, but parallel lines will travel together forever 💞

#friendship #mathematics #parallel lines #love quotes

[yoyokslut]

They both love their teams so much but it looks like their teams don't love them back 😢

Gif not mine

From @il-predestinato

#charles leclerc #charles leclerc 16 #c16 #cl #f1 #formula 1 #scuderia ferrari #ferrari #mason mount #mm #mm19 #chelsea fc #chelsea #parallelism #parallel lines #they deserve better #they're too good for this world

[pinkorchidsinspring]

ARE THESE NOT GIVING

TELL ME THIS ISNT A STEP IN THE RIGHT PR DIRECTION… (you can’t)

BURNING DOWN THE LOVER HOUSE,

POISON IVY + DAISY DRESS 👗

BUTTERFLY JEANS

A FULL RAINBOW OF OUTFITS FIRST CONCERT BACK AFTER THE “break up”

DON’T BLAME ME FOR WHAT YOU MADE ME DO

THE INCLUSIVITY OF THIS TOUR

THE GLASS CLOSETS

(If there’s not a picture there’s a link to a tiktok)

#taylor swift #kaylor #gaylor swift #all of the girls you loved before #blondie #parallel lines #tay tay #fashion #coming out #new era #midnights #lover house #butterfly #me! taylor swift

[firstbandonthemoon]

Debbie Harry from 'Blondie' and Nina Persson from 'The Cardigans' for Melody Maker magazine, May 22 1999

#ninapersson #the cardigans #90s #firstbandonthemoon #nina persson #dollete aesthetic #eva herzigova #blondie #debbieharry #70s #70s rock #70s punk #70s new wave #blondie parallel lines #parallel lines #one way or another #chris stein #lovefool #romeo + juliet #1999 #1990s #magazine scan #90s magazine #the cranberries #90s baby #myfavouritegame #90s music #mtv #mtv unplugged #heart of glass

[sistermorph1ne]

Debbie Harry of Blondie photographed by Brad Elterman at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles, 1978.

#debbie harry #blondie #1978 #1970s #whiskey a go go #parallel lines #70s music #female musicians #women in rock #punk #brad elterman

[lisamarie-vee]

#debbie harry #blondie #hanging on the telephone #parallel lines #chrysalis records #b&w #1970s #rock and roll hall of fame

[matsinko]

Parallel Lines

Pairing: Iwaizumi/Oikawa Rating: T WC: 55k Tags: Magic AU, HP AU, Auror Iwaizumi Hajime, Quidditch Star Oikawa Tooru, Case Fic, Mystery, Very Slow Burn, Second Chances

Summary: In post-war wizarding Tokyo, Iwaizumi is an Auror who goes through life on autopilot. He craves adventure that never comes, buried underneath a pile of documents and small-scale crimes. Until he’s finally given a high-profile case: the murder of Japan’s sweetheart, the Quidditch star Oikawa Tooru. A household name, once the name of his childhood best friend, now stamped across a case folder.

What follows would lead him to confront not only the unravelling mystery but the haunting shadows of his own past.

Notes: I am delighted to finally share my @hqbb piece with everyone! Thank you to my lovely team and the amazing mods of this event.

Read Chapter 1 on AO3

#iwaoi #haikyuu!! #hqbb2023 #oikawa tooru #iwaizumi hajime #hp au #hq fanfic #hq fic #haikyuu #my writing #haikyuu fics #hqbb #parallel lines