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[so-ingestible]

the unspeakable comfort of an image of gerard way with long horrifically sweaty hair plastered to his face

#like the length is so nostalgic at the same time that its so different and im just. heart so full and in convulsions #my chemical romance #This has been a text post #i love him i love mcr i love i love i love #this is my favOURITE BAND PLAYING MUSIC AGAIN. #mcr

[asuka--langley--soryu]

people on twt claiming aot is the best anime of all time like deeply convinced it’s even top ten I’m so sorry am I in high school again what’s happening I thought we all got past this phase

#this has been a text post #half of it is bait sure but still some people come in and are like ‘no i genuinely think its so good’ whaT #putting aside its relative merits on its own just saying in comparison to other anime??? im SORRY?????????? #people who only watch shonen truly a league of their own jfc #i too once was reblogging jeanmarco and levi like it was my job in yknow. fucking 2014 or whatever.

[bawnjourno]

tried to pipe the HYL logo on my ice cream cake and it’s giving SPARS

#sparksnation get up! #lmao my actual bday is tomorrow but i’ll be at a concert #this has been a text post #sparks stuff

[likehipsters]

THIS PHOTO HAS ME SCREAMING

#i love them #taylor swift #florence and the machine #this has been a text post

[danishprince]

very funny how the first few seasons of better call saul were almost absurdly chaste and then around season 5 the creative team was suddenly like. We Have to do it. we have to show bob odenkirk's ass

#and they were right. #anyway i do think bcs is better than breaking bad (at least on a character level which is why i watch shows) #although it does suffer from Two Different Shows Smashed Together Syndrome in its middle seasons #but the payoff ended up being worth it #better call saul #this has been a text post

[excalibur-red]

Ended up doing a Barbie/Weird: The Al Yankovic Story double showing which was unexpected

#this has been a text post #barbie #weird al #weird: the al yankovic story

[jonellescribbles]

I’ve seen a few posts along the lines of “I don’t feel like the ship represents LGBT space for me” or “I feel like other parts represent queerness for me, but I feel like the ship is hetero culture”

I feel like this is coming from a place where people see the characters chafe under the stress of masculine conformity and don’t recognise that place as the loving and open queer spaces we mostly have access to now.

Perhaps some of these sentiments are coming from younger queers, so I just wanted to remind people that up until very recently many queer people and spaces felt they had to hyper perform masculinity and binary gender roles in order to claw any dregs of respectability left after coming to terms with their own gay identity. I mean, do I have to remind anyone of the ‘no fats no fems no Asians’ that people willingly put on their own dating profiles.

Something that sticks in my mind was this biography of a man arrested for sodomy - before the Oscar Wilde case. He was frank in describing himself as a gay man, but when he was in jail he looked around at the feminine ‘limp-wristed’ men also in jail with him and compared them to pedos and degenerates, saying “at least I’m not THEM.” Baffling. The mental gymnastics. But that’s what people did. Butches and fems, bears and twinks. The masculine partner was expected to perform masculine roles and the feminine partner received. Needless to say in fiction and reality we can see how these roles box people in and destroy them and their relationships.

I don’t know if people have memories like this but personally, my best friends parents were a lipstick lesbian lawyer (say that five times faster) and a bra-less, short-haired, woodworking dyke in men’s jeans and waistcoats. When they broke up - messily- one of the first things the butch did was steal her partners car and start wearing dresses. (Resist rooting for her she was Troubled and abusive and I’ve made her sound much cooler than she was).

For me the pirate ship is an Extremely Queer space, ESPECIALLY because of the toxic masculinity (and touch of misogyny through their initial suspicion of Jim etc), not in spite of it.

The first shot we have of Blackbeard he’s a leather daddy surrounded by a crew and culture of buff leather daddies, here to save foppish, limp Stede. They, and S1 Izzy, represented the hatred and fear of being something WORSE than gay - feminine. And I love that the story works to undo that.

What I’m saying is that for me OFMD nailed it. The ship is a crew of weirdos - the people in the grey area; nonbinary people, people of colour, bisexual people, and poly people. And FEMININE people. The crew is ‘soft’, ‘weak’, ‘foppish’, all of which are insults the queer community has levelled at their most fem members.

Anyway, I’m rambling but I just wanted to put up my hand and go “Um-yeah. I like your opinions but please don’t forget about the negative parts of our gay history too!” Thanks for attending my Ted Talk, the doors have been unlocked now.

#our flag means death #ofmd #this has been a text post #from your friendly neighbourhood librarian

[electr1c-ethan]

do not send me unsolicited dick pics. i WILL block you.

#psa #this has been a text post #dont do this shit #puppy sub #bd/sm puppy #ftm bottom #ftm puppy #ftm sub #subby puppy #bitch in heat #breeding k1nk #ftm ns/ft #dumb puppy #puppy thoughts #stupid puppy #puppyboy #puppyposting

[rosesutherlandwrites]

I fvcking KNEW it that BITCH

#Rebecca #daphne du maurier #this has been a text post

[black-cat-aoife]

/geht zu Saturn

/steht hilflos vor den diversen Adapterkabeln, zieht eines heraus auf dem DP/HDMI steht

Mitarbeiter kommt vorbei: "Kann ich helfen?"

"Ja. Mein Laptop hat einen HDMI Anschluss und mein Monitor DP"

/Typ schaut eine halbe Sekunde auf die Schachtel "ja der geht" und ist schon wieder weg

/kauft Kabel

/probiert es daheim

Es geht nicht

/googelt

HDMI2DP Kabel sind unidirektional und man muss beim Kauf drauf auf die Richtige achten. Das stand nicht auf der Schachtel. Und der Kerl hat kein Wort davon gesagt

Aber in Geschäften wird man wenigstens noch beraten. Anders als online!1!!11

#this has been a text post #außerdem hat der Schuster gesagt dass ich meine Schuhe wegwerfen kann weil er das nicht mehr reparieren kann #1A Tag wirklich

[author-morgan]

*cracks knuckles* new Daemon fic later today, I feel it in my bones.

edit: new Daemon fic here (fluff) edit: another new Daemon fic (smut)

#daemon targaryen #daemon targaryen x reader #personal #this has been a text post

[bawnjourno]

oh hey, if sparksblr cares, my assignment for my last english class was to write public facing writing, so i made a website filtering sparks and talking heads music through three types of neurodivergence! there are some essays that were fun to write if you’re interested xoxo

#sparks #talking heads #this has been a text post #i paid for the domain into i think november 2024 so that’s when it’ll come down lol #reblogs r ok!

[ariaalways]

aaaaaaaaa?

#me #life stuff #this has been a text post #will update this post later when I have more definite info but I'm. freaking out? in a good way. mostly

[asuka--langley--soryu]

genshin impact for better or worse continuously proving itself to be an extended love letter to evangelion

#genshin impact #for ts lol #thats not all it is obviously but it also is very definitely that #this has been a text post #also yes this is not the only ref that is the point but also no i didnt want to turn this into a whole thing. just believe me. im right.

[likehipsters]

i want the 2 am more music theory to be true 🤡

#am i clowning yeah probs #this has been a text post #taylor swift

[where-did-the-groove-go]

Boulder show report: Sparksblr Edition

Pre-show shenanigans... I bought The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman at the record shop that was a few blocks away from the venue. My mom was actually cool and helped me recreate the day's tour photo. Conversation topics with my neighbors while waiting for the show to start included complimenting everyone's black-and-red outfits and shoes, the gal to my right showing the photo she took of Ron and Russell at the airport earlier, and the gal to my left telling us she'd kept a few sequins from Russell's green suit that she collected off the stage after a show in the 80s.

Russell came on in his black-on-red jacket, so I was matching with him, yay! So May We Start received a tremendous reaction and had Ron smiling. I did the fist pump in unison with Russell during the beat drop in The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte, and I think Ron noticed because I swear he looked straight at me afterwards. Russell had added "the good news is, it's never too late to change" to his speech preceding It Doesn't Have To Be That Way since the last time I'd seen it, and while it still didn't hit me as hard as in Manchester, I was choked up. I was probably the sole person in the audience giving them a standing ovation afterwards, but it doesn't matter--that's how much that song means to me.

My neighbor gave me a look like "wut??" but stood up so that I wasn't the only one dancing during Balls, and Russell's shirt had gone from fully-buttoned to all the way halfway open by the time I noticed. Shopping Mall Of Love had one of the best responses I've ever heard; there were cheers after every single one of Ron's lines all the way to the end of the song. I'm pretty sure Russell held eye contact with me during the final "one fleeting glance" in Escalator, I nearly died, and it was extremely fitting since it was the only time it happened, whereas it seemed like Ron was looking my direction every other time I looked at him :3

Eli was totally working the Bon Voyage solo, unfortunately that was the only moment I noticed from him because Ron was mostly blocking him from my vantage point, not to mention it's impossible to ignore Russell when he's bouncing mere yards away from your face (the front row was knees-to-the-stage so even though I was in the second row I was still VERY close). There was a really sweet moment where Russell smiled at Ron during The No. 1 Song In Heaven when he wasn't looking. Ron was pulling silly faces during his shuffle, and this time there was absolutely no mistaking it, he stared me dead in the eye during the last few seconds of it, and I flashed him a hand heart when he sat back down.

Ron rubbed his hands together like a gleeful cartoon villain before he started My Baby's Taking Me Home. Russell introduced the backing band and cheerfully said "I think that's everybody", then just waited for the crowd's reaction before saying "Oh yeah... Mr. Ron Mael" to huge cheers, and then Ron actually reached out and grabbed the mic away from Russ to introduce his brother. Russell spoke before All That, saying it was a song that was "really apt for how we all feel about all of you guys, and especially on a night like tonight", and it nearly made me cry.

They basked in the final applause for a bit, and Russell gave a cute little gesture like "aw shucks". I climbed over into the front row, waving a card that I'd made for them, but I'm not sure that Russell noticed since he didn't take it from me (and he started giving out handshakes too far over to my right so I didn't get one, sad). So I did what a girl's gotta do, after the band had left I pulled a Fairfield Halls and hopped up onto the stage, and managed to put my card on Ron's keyboard before I got kicked off. I really hope they got it...

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I'm not exaggerating when I say that Sparks have entirely changed my outlook on life. I don't know what or when, but I know that things are going to be drastically different for me sometime soon. This album and this tour have really solidified that. It's not even a choice anymore.

I'm in a void somewhere between euphoria and despair now, still on a high from my shows but the post-tour blues have kicked in. I know I'll never be able to cling to these memories as strongly as I'd like. I've been crying from emotions I can't even name. I'm so so so grateful for getting to take part in all of this, and forever thankful that the Maels have had such an unwavering commitment to Sparks and that they're still doing what they love.

#photos to follow #sparks tour 2023 #my posts/additions #this has been a text post