#i'm very normal about this band

[happylandfill23]

typical ember behaviour

#i'm very normal about this band #if you couldn't tell #13 hours only of my gorillaz playlist this doesn't include my first listen to cracker island + any other listens outside of this playlist #especially bc my mom put the album on a lot and we listened to it together quite a few times #gorillaz #cracker island #music #ember core #(i'm ember if you somehow didn't know)

[gluteus-canis-familiaris]

I wondered if people back home would ever know what it cost the soldiers to win this war. In America, things were already beginning to look like peace time. The standard of living was on the rise, race tracks and nightclubs were booming. You couldn't get a hotel room in Miami Beach, it was so crowded. How could anyone ever know of the price paid by soldiers in terror, agony, and bloodshed if they'd never been to places like Normandy, Bastogne, or Haguenau? reconcile the fact that Nixon followed Winters from OCS to the paratroops, that they were two officers born in the same year amongst a company of mostly 18-year old baby boys, that Winters was so impressed at Nixon getting him the support and ammo he needed at Brecourt and so flattered when Nixon asked him to give a lecture on leadership to the incoming officers after D-Day that he had to write in his memoir about how that 'cAuGhT mY AtTenTion', that immediately after Winters explains how you can't let yourself succumb to emotion at the loss of men while you're on the front-- lapses in his incredibly professional and technical recollection of the war to say that had he lost Nixon to that bullet to the helmet in Holland, that THAT WOULD BE HIS ONE EXCEPTION, that everyone went on leave to Paris and who knows where but Winters and Nixon were the only two officers spending their night on base together right before the news that the Ardennes offensive had broken through??????, that Nixon gave up his blessed leave to the States to stay on the front in Bastogne and help, oh I dunno, the general war effort I guess??, and not a singular, daily-shaving, suffering-in-silence 2nd Battalion XO????, that Winters unintentionally described Nixon's alcoholism as "BEAUTIFUL" because it meant Winters would watch over everything during the day while Nixon would watch over things for him during the night and that they were essentially a military match made in heaven (it's! on! record! the voice clip!! is out there!!!), that Winters looked at this stupidly handsome, post-demotion alcoholic on VE-Day and said.... u kno wat.... here's some more of the stuff..... i saved it all under special guard duty just 4 u.......enjoy......"bro"......., that Nixon was COMPELLED !!! COMPELLED !!!! to drag this guy's butt back home to Jersey with him after the war, that years after the show when Ron Livingston was asked what his favorite scenes to shoot/watch were, he brought up previously mentioned moment and describes loving the bromance aspect of it, and has the AU-DA-CI-TY to liken the tension in it to when you're "INVITING THE GIRL TO PROM" (?!?!?!?! his words!!! not mine!!!), that Winters was Nixon's best man AND gave the eulogy at his funeral, THAT--

#band of brothers #hbowar #if it wasn't apparent #my very last braincell is petrified in the necrotic goo left behind by #WINNIX #dick winters #richard winters #lewis nixon #damian lewis #ron livingston #gonna tag this as #this is a helluva meme tab #but I am also just spitting facts here #more than a decade in this fandom foxhole #and i'm Totally Normal About Everything

[celluloidbroomcloset]

I don't even know what to do anymore.

#rhys darby #love birds #gif #ofmd #like what is even happening #i'm mostly making these to harass my friend with #something about a gigantic dork who is also really fucking hot #totally normal for rhys darby tumblr association #my bisexuality is basically: very select slightly odd men and all women #if stede and the crew had a queen-inspired rock band #fang is even there! #ed would be their number one and only groupie

[artificialisangelus]

Illustrated one of my Instagram posts' caption 💯

Happy birthday to Jutty Taylor btw 😋

#autism creature #swiss ghoul #swiss ghost #ghost #the band ghost #ghost bc #nameless ghoul fanart #shitty doodles #I'm very normal about this guy

[the-bellhopper]

2 of my favorite characters named Ash

#my art #evil dead #ash williams #i'm in the band #they have a LOT of similarities & i am very normal about it. yayy #okay back to working on comms now yayy

[golden-rats]

Dewdrops first morning cig

Aether doesn't smoke but he keeps an ashtray on his bedside table just for Dew

#I am so very normal about him #I love Dew a normal amount #I'm not lying #you are #dewdrop ghoul #nameless ghoul #the band ghost #ghost fanart #rat draws

[void-botanist]

19, 20, 21, 22 for the polycule of your choice? :0

whoops we're doing it for two of them :3 and I'll include Heith too

19 - Summarize your character's goals in one sentence.

Marcus: be okay and go home, but also never have to tell Heith about all of his lies by omission

Heith: figure out if she's actually for real serious about Marcus (she thinks she might be actually for real serious about Marcus) and one way or another move out of her hotel room on Aephar

Yera: be a mom and try to make peace with the fact that Marcus is not here to be a part of the family

Hossan: be a dad and help Umedes figure themself out

Gren: see Marcus again and hopefully find out that there was no need to be jealous about his girlfriend, and make sure everyone's okay, especially the baby

Pali: prevent Kiatcarmen from finding Marcus (though that isn't a very active job), make sure the shifter coalition in the court doesn't budge, and get somewhere with her studies of shifter magic

Umedes: figure out whether they want to have a kid or not help

Kiatcarmen: find Marcus, because Minaya must not ascend, and do whatever else she can to preserve her accomplishments in the kingdom

Pirianus: broaden Kiatcarmen's vision beyond legacy, or, failing that, as he has for some 30+ years, get her to open up to him

Caladea: see Marcus again, and for his polycule's sake believe with all her heart the lies they tell Kiatcarmen

Thade: continue completing the political project du jour and end up in a happily ever after with Pirianus, which might also make him more welcome in the palace

Orvi: complete the one thing he was installed in the palace to accomplish

20 - Who's in the way of those goals?

Marcus: his mother. Always his mother. And honestly a little bit himself

Heith: herself, mostly. This is so not like her - well, specifically the part where she's still here when there have been plenty of times to go home

Yera: realistically, Kiatcarmen. But she still sometimes feels like she's lost some of her verve

Hossan: Umedes is the big challenge here. They're just so indecisive

Gren: Kiatcarmen, but sometimes it's easier to focus on the fact that Marcus has an interstellar girlfriend that none of them have ever met and that's so frustrating

Pali: herself. There aren't enough hours in the day for everything, and she has to sleep ugh

Umedes: themself, because they were the one who said this would be a great idea for when Marcus comes back. Who 100% believed Pali and Minaya and her ferasca spouses that this would go great. And who also took one look at Yera & Hossan's baby and thought that maybe they were signing up for more than they realized

Kiatcarmen: Marcus. Always Marcus. But she also blames Minaya and Yera and Pali for his disappearance, and she needs Pirianus to just shut up. This would have been so much easier with Jimmy

Pirianus: Kiatcarmen because he put his eggs all in one basket. But he mostly blames himself

Caladea: Kiatcarmen, but she tries to focus on what she can do better, and how she's getting in her own way

Thade: he's beginning to suspect he's been in his own way this entire time but it can't be understated how much Pirianus is constantly hot and cold

Orvi: it changes frequently, but always some contingent of the court

21 - What is your character's relationship with their emotions?

Marcus: he can't control his bad emotions, so he suppresses them. This has never caused any problems

Heith: she's just as cynical about her emotions as she is about everything else, but sometimes she just can't not feel something completely unironically

Yera: she's gonna feel them whatever they are so [grits teeth] negative emotions are part of the fullness of experience (she will be screaming into this pillow later)

Hossan: left to his own devices, he would feel his emotions, and then let them cast away upon the wind. Being with Yera and Gren has made him learn how to interrogate them more

Gren: he feels everything. A lot. He also conceptualizes things in terms of feelings a lot

Pali: she would like to believe she doesn't have them, but then she lays awake at night deconstructing them

Umedes: they tend to put intense feelings away for later, but don't ever get to later unless later comes for them first

Kiatcarmen: her emotions are so rich and nuanced and nobody understands that, so all of her emotions collapse into some flavor of annoyance

Pirianus: don't like that feeling? Repress it! This will never result in it returning in continually more warped and incomprehensible forms

Caladea: being in the palace seems to have stunted her emotions - they're flatter, duller, and way more anxious no matter what they are

Thade: don't like that feeling? Deflect it! The more mirrors there are between you and your emotions the less you will ever know what they are and the less you can ever be responsible for them

Orvi: he has a mental Tupperware for emotions that allows him to keep control of himself. He is the only person on this list who will actually open that Tupperware on purpose later

22 - What regrets do they have, if any? (From any part of the story, not just exposition.)

Marcus: missing out on eight years of his "real" life, and especially not being there when Gren's grandmother died. If only he'd been stronger, he could have stayed

Heith: before finding out about Marcus, that she's kind of a flake to her band, but they don't seem to mind that much. After finding out about Marcus, that she ever thought there was some kind of "magic" between them and maybe she could feel naïve about love for two seconds

Yera: she regretted drifting away from her father and sister, so she's fixing that now

Hossan: most of his regrets are from the now-distant past and don't make much sense - even he will say so - but he always finds himself regretting that he can't seem to do more for people

Gren: not going home even more before his grandmother died, even though he was practically splitting his time between his home city and the palace. He also regrets letting Marcus leave, even though he had to, and there was no other real choice

Pali: after getting married, she got more distant from her professor mentor, and the regret hit her hard when they died

Umedes: most immediately, thinking that having a kid was a good idea (they are beginning to think that this is a pregnancy kink that got out of hand). But more than anything they regret not going with Marcus, even though they couldn't

Kiatcarmen: Ashmalo was a liability, but she still regrets that he died (despite her image she does not think that assassination is the right way to deal with most problems, including Ashmalo). Conversely, she regrets that she couldn't save Jimmy, even though medical science itself could not have saved Jimmy. She also regrets letting Minaya slip out from under her thumb, because if she hadn't, she wouldn't be stuck looking for her runaway son

Pirianus: that he can't seem to permanently extract himself from Thade. If he stops and thinks about it (read: gets drunk and sad) he regrets spending so many years of his life trying to get through to a woman who would just as soon throw him to the dogs

Caladea: that she couldn't do more for Marcus or Minaya or Ashmalo, and that she still can't. And that being stuck in the palace has left her struggling to try and pick up the pieces of her creativity and her passion even though it should have given her unlimited resources to pursue them

Thade: things he's said to people. Most of them used to be seared in his brain because he thought they were funny, and eventually he figured out that oh, maybe they weren't. But some of them seemed bad from the moment they came out of his mouth (not before that, unfortunately, because he wasn't thinking about it) and he wishes he could take them back for real, especially the things he's said to Pirianus

Orvi: that he's still here. He had one thing to accomplish, and even though it was complex, it's taking SO. LONG. He knew that marrying into the royal family meant that he probably wasn't going to permanently go home again, but the longer this drags on the less he even wants to show his face there, and he wonders if it was worth it at all

#I need to spend more time with Heith tbh. I know she must have other regrets in her life that feed into the cynicism #I'm just not totally sure what/what her situation is outside of her band #Kiatcarmen's polycule gives me the worst heartache help #I actually wrote like 2k words about some shit Thade said to Pirianus after she died and how that did not go well #honestly Thade also kind of regrets never yet telling Pirianus that he loves him as anything but a joke. but he's not unpacking that one #me: Pali was basically a wizard's apprentice before she got married but there are no wizards in this setting #me: wait #I think it's pretty clear actually that Pali doesn't really do regrets. she's maybe better at forgiving herself than any of the others #simultaneously laughing and crying when I imagine Umedes with the baby because they are TERRIFIED of hurting it somehow #despite normally being a very gentle person and very unlikely to do anything wrong #kink mention #c: Kiatcarmen #c: Orvi #c: Caladea #c: Pirianus #c: Thade #c: Marcus #c: Yera #c: Gren #c: Pali #c: Umedes #c: Hossan #c: Heith #wip: iecunem #50 questions ask game

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

Danger Days as a narrative actually makes more sense/is slightly more insane if you go with "Jet Star and Kobra Kid die and [the song] Party Poison is a direct response to the setting and mindsets that made that happen" btw. if you even care

#this is going on main bc I want it to #I'm going dweu on this and making my own narrative you cannot just hand me a concept album with actual characters and plot #(''plot'' being used very loosely here) #and expect me to be normal about it #Lu rambles #mcr #''all the good times give you cancer'' woaaugh #also btw the referential stuff to actual band culture and production thereof is.. fascinating??? like #like yeah it IS fake innit or at least that's what people want. ''hit the pyro cue'' is getting me as a production nerd skskdkfnsk #anyway. certified cringe (affectionate) post on main :)

[wastehound-voof]

It's so embarrassing to like werewolves.

Actually, it's so embarrassing to like anything.

Because of other people who like it as well. Always because of other people...

#i'm very normal about the things i find interesting #you people however... #i've gotten rid of all my band shirts because of Other People (tm)

[icharchivist]

Do you have an all-time Within Temptation song?

evil ask. ask a mother to chose between her children. smh.

mhmm honestly i think like, the one i never get tired of is The Cross. and also probably Murder. (Murder is. 3rd in my most listened songs of those past 6 months. ✌️ And The Cross is 5th. ✌️) Any of the others songs can come and go depending on how much i listen to them but those two are some i never skip, i love them so much.

On some honorable mentions tho, bc those two songs have been songs i've only listened to """"recently""" (as in like, when i went back to listen to the discography 5 years ago and rediscovered the band of my teenagehood), but a song that deserves an honorable mention is Our Solemn Hour, which has stayed in many of my playlists even during the cringe phase of my life where i thought i was too good for Within Temptation (i was wrong. but even when i was wrong i knew to recognize greatness.)

So those would be my picks for sure, but that's evil i love this band soso much. I almost listed just "fav song from each album LETS GOOO" but i'm being so brave about it. and reasonable looking at my spotify stats and seeing that i have clear favorites.

so o7 here u go!

#ichareply #anonymous #sorry i've been fan of the band for 15 years so i'm really normal about it #(Our Solemn Hour is SUCH a dgm song for me so it has always been there) #(basically i stopped listening to the band at some point when my mp3 then broke and i lost the songs) #(and i was thinking it was too cringe anyway so i made myself a reason) #(but i always had OSH saved somewhere so this one never left me) #(but now that i don't rely on mp3 anymore i just can listen to everything) #(but i stopped listening to WT back then before the release of The Unforgiving) #(which is. always going to be a shock to me bc it's easy one of my fav album to listen to) #(*waves fist* damn u young me and trying to 'outgrow your cringe phase' by cutting out perfectly based music taste) #(also very sorry if this is how you discover that my music taste is Songs About Murder)

[biblicalhrt]

i'm so normal about bands i like (if i dont get to see them in concert at least once a year i will kill myself)

#ive seen bad omens 3 times in the past 2 years. i'm seeing them again a 4th time in may #i've seen miw 2 times in the past 4 years and i'm seeing them again this summer #...and i've seen ice nine kills 3 times in the past 2 years as well #i'm very normal about metalcore bands #metalcore #metal blog #not yearning #not mlm #text post

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

#showaddywaddy #i'm laughing so much #i love them #the plant #in the middle of the group picture #almost the same height as russ #malcolm looking like he's creeping behind it #just peeking through #al with his shirt tied like this showing off his belly #which i'm not complaining about by the way #rod and buddy wearing the silky shirts completely open like that #i'm still not complaining #buddy's hand on dave's leg #and trevor leaning on dave's shoulder like that #rod using romeo's leg as an arm rest #romeo is probably holding the plant but if you look at it a certain way the positioning looks like he's got a grip on rod's hair #also love that romeo is the only one wearing a showaddywaddy shirt and is dressed normally compared to everybody else #okay the pants are the same but the shirts are not #this is a very cute band okay #showaddywaddy pictures

[running-in-the-dark]

why is everything connected to Toto somehow, this is starting to drive me insane.

I'm reading the wikipedia page for Joseph Williams (one of the many singers they've had, and one of the three remaining band members) and:

that. that was my favourite show as a kid. I didn't get to watch it often (we were rarely allowed to watch TV at home so I only watched it at my grandma's), and of course I only ever saw it in German, so I had never even heard the original song until I just watched it on YouTube, but like??? that's my boy* in that intro what the fuck

*he's actually a 61 year old man now but shhh who cares he's my boy

and also this:

I've never seen The Lion King (wasn't allowed to watch Disney movies and then felt like I was too old; I will watch it someday, probably) but again. that's. my. boy!!

also his dad is John Williams (the composer).

combined with all the albums/songs all the other members of Toto have worked on over the decades it really feels like literally everything is related to them somehow and I'm feeling so normal about it all

#who is this post even for? me of course. the one person who cares about this crap lol 💖 #I am ridiculously awful at recognising voices so I never would have known that was him even if I had heard any of those songs before #and even knowing it was him I was still like 🤔 really? the entire time lol #but still! that's my boy!! #toto #joseph williams #I'm really so very very normal about this band #I think seeing them live was a mistake. somehow I'm even more obsessed now. didn't think that was even possible

[lil-melody-moon]

Listening to The Doors's "Waiting for the Sun" album to get familiar with the songs and you know what? "Yes, the River Knows" is such a good song. Slow, almost mesmerizing! It's pure poetry, both in melody and words.

Free fall flow, river flow On and on it goes Breath under water 'til the end

Those lyrics, while sung, are just gonna get stuck in your head

#I love The Doors #it's the third album I'm getting familiar with #and it gets better and better with each listen #I truly found the fourth band I'm very *normal* about #talking corner

[tbcanary]

category 100000 roy harper moment

#text.tb #[santana glee voice] he has a FAMILY he's a FAAAH THER #god. fuck. i love that guy. #it's so funny to me that this blog has existed for like. what. a month and a half? #and already there are MULTIPLE posts that are just me staring off into space like SIGH.... ROY <3 #or ollie but that one's new #i've been a roy bitch for like a year and a half it's practically my default state #do you ever think about how he signed his name with that little arrow beneath it. do you think about how he was in a band for a while. #he has a CHILD and he loves her SO MUCH #and he's smart and charming and for a while there he had the sTUPIDEST TATTOOS #and now he doesn't. which is because of reboots BUT if you're a GENIUS like I AM. #if you're an ENLIGHTENED SOUL #then you know that he doesn't have them because they were TEMPORARY TATTOOS HE APPLIED EACH MORNING #that one's not a real headcanon i'm just laughing about it #i'm so sorry to people who don't know me very well. but i literally am always like this. my personal blog has hundreds of posts where i jus #do this in the tags instead of talking like a normal person #but the thing is i need to SAY that i think roy should get recognized not as a hero but as a member of a relatively lackluster hobby band #EXCLUSIVELY in the pacific northwest #and i need to say it where only the dedicated can see it and understand my vision #anyway. i'm done now. for like the next few hours probably. #we'll see. #if you read this far you can redeem this coupon for one (1) tiny kyle ray/ner with his hands held above his head #that's real btw i have that png

[mylittleredgirl]

The Zombies - This Will Be Our Year

i’ve been listening to a lot of music from 1968 and 1969 for a throwaway line in a new fic and i’ve fallen in love with this pure little upbeat tune

#youtube #sadly can't use it in the fic despite its thematic perfection since it wasn't released as a single #which i know because i am Deep into the radio charts of this era #absolutely normal amount of fic research i assure you #given my pathological fear of zombies i had not explored this band #but now i'm very heart eyes about the odessey and oracle album #now listening