#elo stuff

[set-wingedwarrior]

We all celebrating the bees and the fact that we got to slowly see who Blake actually was all along underneath the pain and trauma and this is all awesome, but can we get a minute to apreciate how hopeful this portrayal of Blake is?

Like, it's not just about seeing what she was like before, but the fact that she was able to get and be herself again!

When we go through so much pain we are so afraid to lose who we are, to "never be back to who we were". In a way, it's true that we'll never be exactly the same, but that applies even if we don't get through hard times simply because changing is part of growing up. We're constantly evolving during our life and we never stop, but that doesn't mean that we'll lose who we are!

I'm rambling, what I mean is that seeing how you don't lose who you are at your core and that you can get back to it and be yourself again, even after the worst times, even with all the added knowledge and experiences, is such a great and positive message.

I will never thank CRWBY enough for giving me this through Blake, and I'm beyond happy for being able to witness her arc like this.

#rwby #bumbleby #blake belladonna #rwby9 #rwby spoiler #rwby spoilers #elo stuff #i'm rambling #i'm just happy to see a character get back to herself even with all the added scars

[twinkle-art]

i know this isn't the website where you posted it but your wol andromeda seems really cool. you mind saying a bit more about her

i would be THRILLED to tell you all about my beloved daughter. pics and exhaustive description below the cut

andromeda elo (or andromeda viator caecus) is, as you could probably sus out, my mixed garlean/roegadyn girlprince wol💗

she's very into the whole "embodying a super idealized image of The Hero" thing. some would say to her detriment. her decision to run away from her upbringing in garlemald and throw herself headlong into life as an adventurer was, initially, a pretty childish and impulsive one. then some stuff happened and now she's eorzea's champion so. that's pretty irreversible at this point

she's quite cagey about her past- despite hardly being the only garlean defector among them, she has it in her head that the truth of her identity would get in the way of being a perfect, uncomplicated symbol. and for reasons she's not yet willing to self-reflect on, the thought of losing that (totally definitely attainable) status is unbearable to her.

that said, if you spend enough time with her, you'll probably notice that her various stories don't quite add up or that the way she talks can be a bit strange at times. she was raised to be a proper lady, and even though she's rejected that box her whole life, it's not something she's truly free of, even as Thee warrior of light

she (by which i mean me, but i'm doing it for immersion) spent arr/hw as a paladin (it has the aesthetic she likes and isn't magic heavy- she grew up taking for granted that this was out of reach for her. but it's not.) then switched to red mage early on in sb after getting her shit rocked by zenos and having a full-on crisis of identity

the deeper Lore to her backstory is that her mother, lucretia eir caecus, was once an idealistic adventurer in her own right- in her time outside of the empire, she had a passionate affair with a man that she no longer speaks of. despite this, she ultimately found herself becoming the second wife of the head of a particularly stifling military family.

already bearing the mark of being an illegitimate child (and one othered by being visibly not-garlean among what i imagine was a pretty damn hostile environment, at that), lucretia raised her daughter strictly, believing that her keeping her head down and playing a more demure role was the only route she had to a comfortable life in their environment. naturally this didn't go over well with teen andromeda, who was just old enough to remember a time before her mother was so embittered and resigned to their fate, and resents her for it.

as for her father, i still haven't figured that part out andromeda knows next to nothing about him. she's not even sure if he's alive or not. her only keepsake from him was signed e. loetwilfsyn which, due to her not knowing a word of roegadyn, became bastardized into elo, the name she adopted in eorzea.

uhh this has gotten really long so here's some lightning round notes on relationships

she's a lesbian but i'm not sure she's properly sorted that one out yet despite a very long string of intense female friendships because her weird sense of identity keeps getting in the way

in ARR, she had a little crush on minfilia that had absolutely nothing to do with her as a person and everything to do with liking feeling like a dutiful little knight who answered to a woman who was authoritative.. but still gave her ample opportunity to feel like the big hero saving the princess. she thought this was normal

in HW, she was utterly taken by ysayle for slightly adjacent reasons. this went just as poorly as the first one. maybe worse.

has a DEEPLY personal vendetta against zenos for. you know. being both an embodiment of her homeland and being a real prince. except her animosity crumbles into primal, bone-deep fear in his actual presence

(i haven't actually finished sb yet so i'm jumping the gun with this last one but i'm too obsessed with it not to share)

emet-selch reminds her of her mom. it's going to be exactly as psychologically harrowing as that sentence suggests. please look forward to that it's gonna get really weird over here in about a month

i'm.. definitely forgetting stuff because she's been in the slow cooker of my mind for about. three months of playing this now and i feel like i'm starting to lose it. all of this is subject to be fleshed out further in the coming months. you're welcome, or i'm sorry

#ffxiv #andromeda elo #<- now that i've broken the seal and outed myself as a ffxiv player i suspect i might end up using that a bit #wrote this without explaining all of the. final fantasy stuff in it so sorry if anyone is interested in a more general oc sense #i'm pretty sure the bigger ideas come across

[arashi-no-saxlphone]

I'm thinkin maybeeeee more c.S jump cancel backward > fuck off on Axl pressure for certain MUs. Fucking around with Wild Assault for longer blockstrings and pressure is cool and works sometimes but I think if I just play slower at certain intervals and back off and force them to play "Axl's Whacky Maze" (neutral) again I'm more likely to win games. Pretty sure most of my losses and missteps come from pretending I'm Sol Badguy and not giving up my shitty pressure which leads into overextensions and then me dying, and the other times it's leading into a crummy post wallbreak situation without a HKD or sucky damage because Axl Low hates killing people. Which is fine it's how it should be but if I keep refusing to accept that this is Neutral Zoner Man most of the time then I'm just gonna piss myself off and wonder why I'm losing LOL.

#sairambles #guilty gear #ggst #axl low #just kinda rambly stuff from me watching back certain games #I'm much more satisfied since caring less about ELO #it's not like you can fall out of celestial for the month or anything so I might as well just take it as #“Consistent games with other psychopaths” #that being said I do get clowned on and super pissed off sometimes still LOL #man I need Sol Badguy's knees broke a litte he's so fucking dumb right now #that man is never in an RPS situation that's not at least slightly in his favor #which I don't mind or anything cause he's Sol Badguy he SHOULD be top tier imo #but dude some of this feels preeetty undeserved LOL

[sol-draws-sometimes]

I hate that rock for me a just baseline, unless it’s like CLEARLY rock. Like I’ll hear any sub-genre of rock and just think it’s generic good music. Especially any of the sub genres that are ‘softer’ rock.

This shit is doubly embarrassing considering the fact that I’m a musician, like, I’ve been doing this shit for ~11 years. I should know how to identify genres by now.

#rock #music #soft rock #leo/need #l/n #prsekai #sol talks #it me! #my post #Anyways my sister just told me that leo need is rock #This post applies to a lot of my musical tastes tbh #there are a lot of bands I just thought were ‘a band’ and didn’t realize did rock #I didn’t realize ELO was rock for the longest time #Also people get surprised when I tell I like rock for some reason #I mean I mostly listen to dad rock(or I guess more specifically… yatch rock *tears*) but I can listen to harder stuff #it’s just not in my MO since I don’t KNOW as much of the harder stuff so I just stick to what I know #I will never forget the time some was surprised that I liked Jethro Tull??? #he’s not super loud or anything #It also happened with G N’ Roses or Aerosmith ( I don’t remember the song/band but it was in that genral area) #NOT ME GOOGLING AREOSMITH AND IT HEAVY METAL!?? THAT SEEMS WRONG #yah SEE WHAT I MEAN! #most sources said hard rock but apparently they at the very least metal influences(also blues) #this is like me finding Blue Oyester Cult is Heavy Metal/Hard Rock(even asked my metal head friend #uuh… as I was about to say I’m don’t listen to enough Hard Rock but I do like it! I just need to sit down and culture myself #Even though I artistically understand and as a singer respect the technique behind death growls I’m not the biggest fan of bands/songs that #use that. But besides that I fuck with most rock. I mean I fuck with metal if it’s clean #I mean I do like screaming or those like small growls just not full on growl if that makes sense #tbh I’m bad at identifying genres point blank unless it’s obvious #like songs can have vibes but I’m ass at telling apart genres

[gurorori]

ME TODAY & ME EVERYDAY

#idk but i genuinely get shaky & stuff over phone callssss i jus' don see da appeal & comfort in em #i still call w like my. my ex i guess on discord but i rarely ever speak whcih ppl find weird #i jus' don' find voice calls fun .... i'd much rather text. srsly. #might b a bit of an autism thing tho? like. ppl find it more 'personal' or even easier 2 talk in voice rather than text #nawt 4 me. 100% nawt how i feel.. always text over voice #especially since we have processin' issues with speech #ESPECIALLY lately. i feel bad cuz it angers em when i keep askin' huh? huh? huh? didn' hear.. #>_< #mika asks #elo 🐌

[ms-blue-sky]

ELO tumblr, I have an idea for a fanfic essentially

Ok so basically, there’s this girl from another planet named Desdemona, and she’s apart of the planet’s royal guard. She finds a crashed spaceship and inside is, well, ELO. She essentially gets to know them, and they eventually help her overthrow the corrupt monarchy.

Yes I know probably very nerdy, but how do we like this?

#electric light orchestra #elo #oc stuff #pls tell me elo tumblr #dont wanna spoil to much

[badtimenightmarefaces]

Timealbumic/albu

💙 Based on the album Time by ELO 💙-albumic/-albu referring to albums

#albumic/albu #gender stuff #music #mine #ELO #musicagender

[emerald194]

Mr. Blue Sky Fun Facts

"Mr. Blue Sky" was written while Jeff Lynne spending time in the Swiss Alps.

It’s on the album, “Out of the Blue”, an album primarily centered around the nighttime. I highly recommend it.

The official animated music video (see above; tw for flashing lights) was released in 2012, & features a re-recorded version of the song.

The animation was done by a team of college students.

One student in particular, Einar Baldvin, designed the characters Mr. Blue Sky & Mr. Night.

Baldvin went on to create several short films & a graphic horror novel.

Sources featured below:

Warning! Einar Baldvin's "About" page is fine, but other tabs feature flashing gifs & unsettling content.

#mr. blue sky #my stuff #elo #electric light orchestra #tw flashing lights #I went down a rabbit hole of information a while ago and felt like sharing it #but anyway yeah baldvin becoming a horror author/animator explains why Mr. Blue Sky & Mr. Night look so spooky #Videos

[egoarc4de]

TAG GAMEEE 

6 albums that were a big part of your childhood!

tagged by @chocopinda :))) !!! thank u i am finally getting to this lolol 

if u see this i am giving u a free coupon to be tagged by me and do this i dont want to bug anyone!

#this was hard... i didnt listen to many albums when i was like a kid kid #except for elo stuff on repeat #ok maybe good monsters by jars of clay that's what being a little christian kid will do to a man. #so take these with a grain of salt #if i were to repeat artists it would just be six ELO albums #so this is all like... age 13 and below #i listened to lots of music just not rlly albums! i got my sibling to burn cds and my ipod for me lol #i think also all of these still have a lasting legacy in my listening... maybe not vessel but ... #i listened to it like every day walking home from school #fake you out probably still goes hard #rambling #ghar speaks #tag game

[eloarei]

I know it's dark, so pictured is: me, after feeding the baby; the baby, taking a lovely nap on my left shoulder; and Mister Baby aka Mordecai, who is not allowed on the bed, deciding that if he doesn't get exactly identical cuddles then he's gonna die.

This cat really does think he's my literal child and I cannot deny him anything 😂

#Elo talks #Baby stuff #Cat stuff #Selfie

[valen-dreth]

assigned listening for the day is ELO's On The Third Day btw

#listening to it doing my Tasks........ GOOD album (like elo's early stuff could miss.) #theremin in it. also the first song is an aril song #ALSO it ends with in the hall of the mountain king

[set-wingedwarrior]

BREAKING NEWS

In her pursuit of having a fucking break, local girl stays up until almost 3am on a school night!

#Elo stuff

[twinkle-art]

All the current Andromeda info seems so heavy i almost want to give her a break, poor girl. Now i mostly have p superficial questions : what is her favorite fruit, what would her pinterest board look like if she were to make one of herself, what's the underlying Theme of her character if any, is she a good gift giver, is she a pisces, is she scared of bugs

i love this more than words can possibly describe. you are so right anon

she’s a big fan of fruit in general and got very excited to try anything she could get her hands on after leaving that frozen hellscape, but i think her favorite is peaches. she doesn’t have that strong of an eye for aesthetics so her pinterest would likely just be a lot of pictures of cool swords. her most prominent theme is probably that obsessing over the narrative of your life is a prison and you need to free yourself from it and actually be a person. she’s not that good at thinking of things people want but she’s always very heartfelt about it so her gifts usually go over well anyways. she’s a libra. she’s not scared of bugs but she IS scared of rats. she’s the light of my life. here she is smiling for once

#posting from my layover in vancouver immediately before getting back on a 10 hour flight. because this is important stuff #andromeda elo

[1980ssunflower]

Hey Poll

#i like to reblog elo or jeff lynne related stuff a lot #ive also talked abt the time album a lot so tbh i wonder if any of my music talk / posting has made you guys check them out #IF YOU HAVENT IM ON MY KNEES BEGGING YOU #THEY ARE THE GREATEST BAND TO EVER EXIST AND JEFF LYNNE IS A GENIUS #tape entry circa 1980

[earhartsease]

AuDHD is when you change the lightbulb and the lampshade gets crunkled in the process and then somehow it's two days later and the times when you're in bed and notice are not the times when you're not in bed and could rectify this - but now I quite like how it looks?

and it keeps reminding me of this

which leads me to my favourite moment from an ELO video, watching this as a kid and longing to disappear up into the stars too (link is to the end of ELO's Wild West Hero video where the cowboy's horse turns into a pterhippus and they head into the night sky)

#adhd stuff #elo

[norskheks]

Tagged by @stereopticons a while ago to shuffle my playlist and post the first ten songs.

It's called "Road Trip/Driving", but it's really just my library without the slow songs, boring songs, or songs that must be followed by another specific song (like "We Will Rock You"), or songs for special occasions only (like "Birthday").

1. "Yes, I'm Your Angel" - Yoko Ono

2. "Don't Bring Me Down" - ELO

3. "Not A Second Time" - the Beatles

4. "Another Saturday Night" - Yusuf/Cat Stevens

5. "Amsterdam" - Guster

6. "Lola" - the Kinks

7. "Livin' Thing" - ELO

8. "Tubthumping" - Chumbawamba

9. "Hard Times Are Over" - Yoko Ono

10. "All Star" by Smash Mouth

I'm not tagging anyone because I think every I'd tag has already been tagged??? So just enjoy making fun of my Dad Rock taste in music instead. :p (Or do it if you want to and haven't been tagged yet, idc.)

#my Spotify seems to be into repetition today #I don't actually have that many ELO or Yoko songs so I guess it was like 'oh you liked that one? how bout this one?' #I'm keeping it going and 11 is I've Got A Feeling from Let It Be #also I know you're not supposed to capitalize a or the in titles but idc it looks weird when I don't and also Spotify does #music stuff #tag game