#it had lights n shit

[spinninglightning]

whenever i read fics i always end up thinkin of a song for the fic or like, th chapter and then i canr stop associating the fic w/ those songs

#i listen to sm fckn music tht all the songs end up bein wildly diff too #ong i cld make playlists for multi ch fics #*stares at electric rebels* #actually u know what #i will #here r some songs: #our song by matchbox twenty is (early ch) electric rebels treemina coded #butterfly by bts (song is abt the fear of losing a person and in electric rebels this is very much true #everyone has the fear of not only losing their lives but losing their family(+found) as well #time is very much sacred n stuff like that) #humming by turnover (thr lyrics “with you ill make it out alive” sold me on this one) #viva la vida by coldplay specifically for the capital students because of how disillusioned theyve become due to the games #and forming relationships w/ their tribute #really good examples are vipsania and hilarius #rhythm of love by plain white t's makes me think of all the good moments treech n lamina have had despite their circumstances #(its also just a them song in general) #young volcanoes by fall out boy for the tributes!!! it seems light a more lighthearted victory song almost? #a “we will persevere” thing but more full of complete happiness #think abt the scene of teslee mizzen n treech running down the hill in jubilation (obvs before shit went down) #would that i by hozier just makes me think of when treech first met lamina up in the tree #which witch by florence + the machine is definitely for vipsania just before & after the bombing (aspen too but to a lesser degree almost) #“whos a heretic now” “im miles away hes on my mind” yeahhhh #love grows (where my rosemary goes) by edison lighthouse is jst a rlly good treemina song #rousseau by nerina pallot is a good fpr one of the main questions in the fic “are we really born free?” #(no. theyre not they have to work for that freedom. rousseaus main theory specifically the idea of it works really well for this fic #and the hunger games in general) #the promise by when in rome seems to work especially for treech and how he interacts with the others #he always seems to make promises - that theyll live - that he wont leave - that hell take care of the living for the deceased #this ended up sm longer than intended i reached the TAG LIMIT #basil.txt

[ii-zi]

fun fact I was born with hair so extremely straight I couldn't keep a hair tie, pin, or heat curl in my head for the life of me

I barely cut my hair (to this day) but once randomly we decided to chop of more than a foot of length and my hair was never straight again. for some fucking reason

#I've lost hair bc health issues but ive got thick hair genes so i still have quite a lot of it lol #thinking abt chopping it to my mid upper back to help it regain a lil bounce #it's quite long rn and the weight makes it flatter bc i do not have a tight curl pattern #my mom used to complain so much about my hair bc she's always had curls and didn't know what to do with mine lol #she'd give mr ponytails so tight i looked permanently surprised but i could feel the hair tie slipping even as i walked out of the house #it's so funny now bc i havent worn my hair tied outside the house in like 8 years lol #also the change was probs like hormones or something bc if my calculations r right #(bc no i do not remember any of this lol i remember telling ppl about it n like. remembering it) #it was right before i started going gray! #it's been around a decade and the progress has been slower than i anticipated but it's still noticeable! #or so I've been told lol i dont look at my hair that much. it's dark n the mirror's lighting is shit JDKDDKDJ

[hua-fei-hua]

it's definitely extremely funny that after i start writing a smut For Real (not clickbait) i proceed to receive. a fucking nosebleed. like this is anime.

#it's definitely Something that it also happened like. after i seem to have lost interest in writing it #BUT ALSO THE NOSEBLEED JUST LIKE. FUCKING HAPPENED??? #LIKE I WAS TRYING TO SLEEP (had been for like an HOUR) AND THEN SUDDENLY. I FEEL THIS RUSH OF LIQUID OUT MY NOSE???? #and i'm like 'oh it's like when i'm ill and have a runny nose.' but i also wasn't sentient enough to think 'but i'm not sick???' #however i WAS sentient enough to think 'what if it's a nosebleed? let's taste it' AS IF I HAD A NOSEBLEED IN THE LAST DECADE #and then i was like 'hmm well it's kinda thick and metally. let's turn on the light just in case.' AND WHABAM.... BLOOD ON MY HANDS #okay well that's a lie i also smeared some on my fingers n squinted at it in the dark n was like 'that's awful dark. it might be blood' #and THEN i turned on the light and saw all the blood. my sheets have tinie bloodstain on them now. and also my stuffed unicorn :c #and then it just like. wouldn't stop. but it has stopped now! huzzah #i almost went to the bathroom to get a wad of toilet paper but then i remember i still keep a box of tissues by my bedside #from my plague days when i Definitely Fucking Needed Those Things All The Live Long Day #(oh right i got vaccinated yesterday <33 well i guess two days ago now. we love inoculation!!! i'm doing my part :D) #anyway i'm now chillin in bed with the lights on and my head tilted back bc i'm worried #that if i just try to go back to sleep then my nose will just start gushing blood again #anyway i also went and got a glass of water. that's supposed to help right? right #anyway (2) we'll see what happens to that smut. i Need to be better than my archnemesis at this #tho considering she writes like Peak any two guys shit these days i imagine it would not be that hard! #花話

[doodlboy]

We drove through a rich neighborhood today and like..what the fuck

#everything is so nice and like..clean here #even the fucking gas station we stopped at is nice #it has a villa or whatever with fairy lights. A GAS STATION #i thought our neighborhood was nice but this is idealistic and shit.. #all the cars are clean and the roads aren't bumpy and theres trees n shit #also theres a lot of abortion protesters everywhere. i wish i had a flag or smth that says i <3 abortion & gay sex or smthn #just 2 piss them off bc the signs they were holding were misleading as hell #anyway i feel bad abt where we live now or whatever #elliot rambles

[bylertruther]

"there's no basis or case to be made for will having powers" okay then genuinely please explain any of the following now after watching season four:

why does the upside down look like hawkins and is presumably stuck on the day will arrived despite the fact that vecna was there first and has been residing there this whole time? if vecna was capable of reshaping the world, as he's stated he wants to do, why hasn't he done it in his own world? why is he so intent on seeking out the person for whom time apparently stopped if it's all just coincidence? if will didn't do that and he doesn't have powers, then why didn't time progress or the setting change once the teenagers got there? why was time only influenced by will and will alone if he has no powers whatsoever?

how was will able to call joyce multiple times? the only person we've seen so far be able to do something similar is eleven when she would channel what she heard through the radio. electricity doesn't work in the upside down, so how did will do that? why did it cause a shock and ruin the phone, the same way that the radio went up in flames when eleven did it, if he doesn't have powers?

how did he manage to wake joyce up at one point? (it could've been her imagination, but the show made it pretty clear that joyce had been right about everything the entire time even though everyone thought she was crazy, and will was wearing the same outfit but he looked and sounded distressed + exhausted like he may have been while hiding in his upside down version of the house.)

how was will able to see his mother and guide her with the lights to the place he was hiding?

how was will able to see the letters she wrote on the wall?

how was will able to light up the lights that fast and sometimes simultaneously? especially with the lights that were on the ceiling? the way he communicated with joyce isn't totally similar to the way the teens communicated with the party in season four. he's too short to reach the ceiling and he doesn't have elasti-arms or super speed, so he couldn't have been touching that many lights that fast all by himself with his own hands. if anything, it's more similar to the training exercise brenner had the lab kids do, because they didn't need to touch the lights (obviously) to control them. so, how do you explain that if he has no powers?

how did he acquire true sight before his possession? the doctors thought it was ptsd and all in his head, but just like with joyce, we come to learn that will had been right the entire time. the mind flayer was real and it was coming for them all and eventually it did. how did he know that? how could he have had such knowledge before it ever melded minds and bodies with him? no other powerless human could do that, so how do you explain it?

if will is truly a powerless human being, why did vecna hunt him down? we know that vecna stalks his prey before he strikes. we know that "the monster" followed will from mike's house all the way to the shed where they vanished without a trace. we then saw it stalk will again and eventually possess him. will said that vecna wanted to kill everyone else, but not him. why? we know that vecna doesn't care about people. so what did will have that he wanted so bad? what was it about will that made him more valuable to vecna—a self-perceived god among useless, pitiful, and brutish men—alive than dead? what was it about will, a supposed powerless and normal human boy, that made vecna want to spare him and use him? if he wanted access to the lab, weapons, or tools that could bring down entire nations and rendered millions around the globe defenseless to his attack, then he wouldn't have picked a sweet twelve year old boy who lives a tiny little life in a tiny little town who just wants to hang with his friends and play games. unless... he was the key to achieving his plans? but according to this argument that will is just a normal boy, why is it then that vecna did all of that if will isn't capable of anything?

additionally, we know that gates are opened with a psychic connection. when the psychic connection was made in that shed, will entered the upside down. there, he was hunted for a week. why did the demogorgons kill and eat everyone else, but never will? why did they only carry him to the library aka the source of it all? why didn't they treat him roughly or eat him like they did all of the others? will didn't suffer any serious damage from the upside down, so he couldn't have been "dead" for long when his parents found him. why was it different with him? why did he get special treatment even in hell if he's just a boy?

why does will still sense the creatures of the upside down even after he's been exorcised? how is it that the psychic connection is still there? how is he still able to know what vecna is feeling, the kind of state that he's in, and what it is that he's planned? how does he have this connection still even though he shouldn't if he's Just Some Guy?

if will was just a normal, powerless boy... then why did a self-proclaimed god try so hard to recruit him more than once? why did it hunt only him? why did this god want to kill everyone but him? why did this god deem him more worthy and useful in life and at his side than in death? why did it seek him out and not eleven, a girl who actually has powers, powers that were once stronger than his own even and that he clearly wanted as we saw in s3? why is the upside down stuck on the day will went missing, despite it clearly being inhabited by other creatures that we assume to be more powerful than him? why is will going to be central to season five, the season where it will all come to a close and we'll be learning about the upside down and more, if... he's Just Some Guy that had to brave it for a week and that's it? why did season four (and the show overall, but said outright and explicitly here in 4x09) reiterate that it has always been vecna and that will has always been his victim/in his sights/connected to him? why did vecna choose will byers, who some of you claim to be Just Some Boy, of literally all people on planet fucking earth to achieve his plans?

vecna stalked will. he hunted him. and when his plans were foiled, he tried again. when he couldn't do it his way, he sought to kill eleven so that he could absorb her powers (s3). and now, they're back in each other's heads. the silver cat fed when blue met yellow in the west, but they're back now and we've been told that this is only the beginning. if will is just another powerless human, then what is the point of any of that? how do you explain everything that we've seen? how do you explain the choices these characters have made and continue to make? how do you explain away the connection that they keep drawing our eyes to? the connection that shocked the duffers and made them ask jamie if he'd seen the scripts when he brought it up (that it all goes back to will, how everything and everyone is connected to will)? the connection that they themselves are saying we'll see clearly in season five?

that isn't even scratching the surface of all the obvious instances where they make it clear that will is vecna's narrative foil, because that would make this already gargantuan post thirty miles longer.

they wouldn't have done everything that they've done over the span of multiple seasons now if it was just for nothing.

it doesn't make sense if will is just some normal kid and a random fluke in the master plan. the writers could've had vecna pick anyone. they could have made it so that will's connection was severed or lessened, but they didn't. they could've admitted that will was just a meaningless casualty, but they didn't because he wasn't. it wasn't a random animal that took will, he wasn't possessed for shits and giggles, and he doesn't continue to have that psychic connection for no reason. they don't tell us that nothing is a coincidence and they don't have the characters themselves remind us that they need will just for it to be... nothing.

will knows what's coming, what's happening, and the condition of the person who will do it all. why have him experience all of that, and even be able to in the first place, if he's... powerless? how do you even explain the connection in the first place? no other character, not even the ones cursed by vecna, are able to do what he's done. how is that not considered a power? and how do you write off the hours of content that you've witnessed as nothing?

clearly, at some point you have to realize that something is going on, no? like, you don't even have to take my (one-too-many) word(s) for it. jamie and the duffers themselves have been saying it over and over again. so... honestly, what's not clicking?

#like i just genuinely don't get it lol #vecna is a big bad and you think he hunted this tiny nerdy little twelve year old for shits n giggles? #you think the writers are making will a main point in their final season and are saying that we're going to learn so much more about #why the upside down is stuck on the day he went missing just to be like 'oh yeah jk it's nothing LOL' #you think that vecna jus went 'lol sure why not' and picked a child with no connections no powers no nothing just because?!?! #like literally WHAT #VECNA LITERALLY HATES HUMANS HE DOESNT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THEM SO WHY DID HE NOT WANT TO KILL WILL?!?!?! #why did he value will more than EVERYONE else!?!?!? IF HE'S JUST NORMAL?!?!?!?! #literally explain it to me genuinely bc i don't understand lol this is season five that we're headed into #i didn't think will had powers beyond his beast sense bc we weren't given any indication otherwise #but now that we know there was A Guy planning everything that it wasn't just random chance but A Person who is manipulative and cunning #and deceptive and ambitious and who is behind EVERYTHING THAT WE'VE SEEN SINCE THE VERY BEGINNING #and now that we know how the lights work and that that realm is stuck on the night will went missing and that gates are formed with psychic #connections and that will STILLLLLLLLL knows what he feels etc etc i just . I Just Don't Get It i don't get how you can think #there's nothing there? especially when the creators of the show are telling you he'll be a major focus? IN THEIR LAST SEASON?! #but no im sure its nothing. will did all those inexplicable things and the mastermind big bad chased him and wanted to spare him and use #him for shits and giggles or because the cuteness aggression was too much lol it means Nothing At All obviously #crazy together was in their auditions they Knew what they were going to do with will they're telling us that it MEANS something that the #upside down is STUCK on the day WILL went missing will spent all of season one trying desperately to go home he went to his house and his #castle to hide and joyce said that emotions can make time go really fast or really slow and one day vecna said Enough and stopped the cloc #k himself he created his own powers the duffers TOLD USSSS that it MEANS SOMETHING THAT THE UPSIDE IS STUCK ON THAT DAY #AND THAT WILL IS GOING TO BE A BIG FOCUS AND WE'LL BE GETTING ANSWERS AND THAT WILL AND VECNA HAVE HISTORY #WILL DID EVERYTHING RIGHT TO TRY AND ESCAPE BUT NOTHING WORKED AND THE FOUR VICTIMS IN S4 DID THE SAME THING #THAT WAS VECNA IN THE SHED WILL HAD A CONNECTION WITH HIM BEFORE HE WAS EVER POSSESSED WILL WAS STALKED THE SAME WAY THAT THE VICTIMS WERE #STALKED WILL IS ABLE TO DO THINGS THAT OTHER CHARACTERS CANNOT INCLUDING ELEVEN HE HAS EXPERIENCES THAT ARE ENTIRELY DISTINCT AND HE HAS #VERY SPECIFIC AND OBVIOUS PARALLELS TO VECNA BECAUSE HE IS THE LIGHT WIZARD TO HIS DARK WIZARD #WHAT IS NOT CLICKING !!!! am i missing something. do u think they would do all of that in EVERY SINGLE SEASON for it to mean nothing? #they're going to start and end the show with will but don't worry he's Just Some Guy? bro. duuuuude my GUY !!!! #mine

[purplequay]

Hmmmm Owl House requests… maybe any dollified belos you’d be willing to share?

hi anon ty for reminding me i had a bunch of wips surrounding this au . im going to use this ask as an excuse to ramble abt some

i think this one was supposed to be for an anon ask for when i just posted about the au ? i think ? this one is not finished cuz well he missing a hand . i might finish this later and color it for practice . BUT anyways this is about how since he got dollified and was in the demon realm all those two months flapjack is completely fine . he is still well . wary and suspicious to say the least

this was a wip for just a general art i wanted to do because sometimes a kid gotta do some silly evil stuff as a little treat :-33 will hopefully finish

i have a teeny bit more but its like just sketches of the poses (nakey) and also a comic i was doing for fun that i wanted to at least clean up the sketch for before posting BUT idk if i have the . energy for that . would you guys wanna see it anyway

#the comic doesnt have belos in him btw . its a hunter thing #but uhhhh ya damn i should finish these that last one has such a cool sketch n shit #also i had another rly cool art idea but im kinda ass at backgrounds SOOOOOO idk if that will ever see the light of day and not just be #stuck in my mind for forever #ya .... :-3

[kandibatz]

had a dream where for some reason bob was moth themed instead of devil themed and somehow it was so so much more terrifying esp in the context of the dream

#LIKE THE LOGIC OF THE DREAM WAS CUZ HE WAS MOTH THEMED HE WOULD BE LIKE. ATTRACTED TO LIGHTS SO WHEN WE WERE RUNNING AND HIDING WE HAD TO #WE HAD TO DO THAT IN PITCH BLACK SO WE COULD HEAR HIM COMING BUT WE COULDNT SEE HIM AND WE HAD TO BE SOSO FUCKING QUIET #other random details of the dream i remember was i was with a group of people and we were trying to gather evidence to get bob arrested #cuz i guess he hadnt gotten caught before yet? #i dont know why cuz we were just a bunch of random ppl that jobs for the 2 goddamn cops in the entire town we didnt have to risk shit #but we did anyways i remember near the end of the dream we did find some hard evidence so its just some losers like OHHHH SHIT!!!!! #but then we heard bob coming and we were in a place with ZERO hiding spots but we had to try hiding anyways #and my best attempt was just pulling some random fcking blanket over me like u do when ur a lil baby as if that gonna stop The Killer 😭 #it stressed dream me out so bad that i just woke up n i was liek ouGh

[confetti-critter]

The night is young and I am free to do whatever my heart desires but unfortunately I have once again found myself trapped in the Time Prison and so I

#the good old 'I don't feel like doing anything including doing nothing and I want to go to bed but I know I'm not tired' #WEH. #I'm enjoying typing but I don't want to commit to practicing typing for real so I'm just making excuses to type more #I was looking at custom ESC keycaps because I was thinking about that whole community of ppl obsessed with keyboards and like I get it I #like the clicky clacking and keyboards can look so pretty but some of those key caps man wtf. #why would you want 3D transparent donald duck ESC key from temu what is wrong with you #saw a set of key caps that were little kittys with little kitty ears n I was like fuuuuuuuuuck #49.00 USD probably 100000 CAD+shipping goto helllll #I was thinking about what if I had like confetti keycaps and a custom kittycake esc key or like an actual little cake and matching desk mat #or even just a new cute mousepad cuz mine is old as fuck and I spilled vegetable cream stew on it once #and then I was thinking like sighhh and wouldn't it be cool to have arcade carpet on the stairs leading down to my basement hovel and #rainbow lights along the ceiling corners and what if I painting my bedroom like I wanted to do and sighhhhh #I haven't been wasting my money buying shit like that but I'm thinking about it again. #but the same thing stopping me from doing anything at all is stopping me from wasting my money which like that's good I guess??????? #gosh I really like typing why did I stop doing daily typing practice #oh yea The Thing Stopping Me From Doing Anything At All #meow meowm meow meow meow #ok I really gotta tear myself away from my computer and brush my teethses and try going to bed #I already played minecraft earlier it's fine I didn't do NOTHING tonight it just feels like I did #and tomorrow is another day #and next week is a short work week thank fucking christ almighty #literally cuz its easter sunday and he was in that tomb but he escaped or whatever he did #thanks jeezy boy #you maybe shoulda milked it for like half a week at least #moved the big ass boulder like have an inch at a time #*pause for laughter* #that s from my new stand up comedy routine do uiuop like it djfskll;askjdgflksjdflksajdflksjdf the dsjalkjfolidasfgjoiweljsdalkjflskdjflak #meowww #I am the only one I know on here who 'talks' this fucking much about absolutely nothing #I do all this and my poor followers can click read more and spend time reading alllllll this garbage

[anominous-user]

damn dorm supply be looking different than what i remember

#honkai impact #flame chasers #fire moth #had the idea of every single the fcs being available in one supply so i. did this #in light of the recent cn survey of the possibility of playable male characters #(which included the four guy fcs) #dont mind the battlesuit names for the dudes i. had no idea what else to name them other than that one fanart w/ a bunch of titles n shit #honkai edit #???? sure why not

[eebie]

mindy's motivation is so beautiful, in my mind

#living on the outskirts of her village and working for years to turn a grain silo into a boat using only garbage so she can gtfo #only for august 2 show up n pause everything . And now she has 2 go back into her village again regularly with him to work #bc him being there is burning a hole through all of the rations n shit that she had saved for #her journey across the sidh which potentially goes on forever #then she sees old friends starts to question whether or not she actually even wanted to leave anymore #but then august wrecks everything and fucks off bc some random guy told him to #now she’s pissed n rll has no choice orher than 2 fuck off after him and kick his ass #i say this all light heartedly But it is gut wrenchingThe way it all plays oht in m mind #id love to do a comic

[the-dye-stained-socialite]

i need to gather enough motivation to write up an outline of what exactly happens with elias and edward regarding thei uhm. lethean tea-leaves-ing of that ambition

(consequences. that's what happens)

#feel free to send asks about this btw it might help #also i need to decide how exactly i want to tie in thei parabolan reflection #maybe we see stuff from still doing the ambition. just post tea leaves. (meets harper (and phileas picks up where elias left off) and things #go quoet for a bit with him) and then huge timejump #modern elias now hangs around parabola a bit. gets haunted by the nughtmare of poor edward who is still stalking them behind the mirrors #they go to deal with their reflection in parabola after an Interesting Interaction at Mahoghany Hall #(clara and hephaesta rememeber them #and they still perform music they learned there/ but elias doesn't remember those two. maybe glass/shroud shit happens with their reflectio #n and they go try to figure out what's going on but instead of someone who didn't get their heart's desire. #its them but if they had completed light fingers. and elias can't rmemeber a thing about what's going on. #also i have no idea how to resolve this whoops #elias leroux

[kindacreepy-kindaugly]

why is it so much worse knowing how many people out there want me (& everyone in this body) dead cause we don't feel empathy than knowing about the ones who want the same cause we're trans

#i mean i guess it's cause we live in a bubble where most people we know are trans #n the whole 'empathy makes us human' thing is a rly popular opinion in the more progressive circles #i guess it's. just another item in the long list of traits that might make us subhuman to others #we don't even have it as bad as people w/ like aspd n stuff. it's a lot easier to hide for us #usually will come off as social awkwardness instead #but every time there's a video going around the mainstream sm where someone w/ low/no empathy talks about how their mind works #the majority of the comments are just so. dehumanizing. like we're some rabid animals that need to be put down for public safety #n i guess causw it's so inherently linked to whatever it is about our wiring that makes us so. different from almost everyone else. #why we can't seem to connect w/ people n why we feel so fucking isolated all the time #like we just came out wrong n there's no fixing it #& the way we've lately come to understand more how much dmg our mother prevented w/ her parenting #but also how much of it that stuck coulda been prevented if she'd had the tools & safe environment #i don't even mean like. the trauma shit. but the things that needed to be noticed n steered into a different direction when we were small #instead of us wreaking havoc up to our late teens when we finally connected some dots that most people have connected from birth #though i think most of the usual ways of correcting it are more or less abusive. there's ones that aren't but idk how accessible that info #woulda been 20+ years ago #anyway it just really sucks how our fb feed tries to give us some light informative vids on people w/ similar experiences in some areas #n the comments are 80% ppl throwing around diagnoses they don't understand #n holding us responsible for everything their shitty abusive ex/parent/boss did #n literally sayin shit like 'people like this are better off dead' #not very good for my mental health #even though i don't give much more value to those people than they put on ones like me #spdrvent

[mars-ipan]

just fucking like me to go somewhere cool in a foreign country and then immediately lose my id

#marzi speaks #not the end of the world if it’s gone bc i have my passport but. SIGHHHHH #gdi >:] #gonna stay until 12:30 and if it hasn’t shown up leave my contact info #UGHHHH #gotta try to conserve phone battery too but also all these lights n shit r starting to overwhelm me #i’m tired #my brother also lost my scrunchie (he had to tie his hair back n it disappeared apparently) #but that’s much less important lmao

[autistme]

GREAT QUESTION. YOU WILL NOW RECEIVE A LATE NIGHT INFODUMP.

TLDR; Yes hiatus is up to James, but no it's not based on the accident

SO. the 2020-2023 timeline is

>Against me! is working on 8th album >starts tour two (2) days before shutdown >tour is cancelled >Zoom/virtual shit is just out of the question >???? shit happens >guess we will just wait until the world is back >James starts making pedals in his basement and selling them >Laura works on and releases Stay Alive on her own in 2020 because even if she cant coordinate shit online, at least she can work on the remnants of the album on her own (most if not all of Stay Alive was already written [including Shelter in Place despite the name!]) >Laura does a few shows in 2021, releases an EP >Atom joins a new band and releases an album, also does touring drums for a few bands throughout 2022 >Andrew joins a duo and the two of them release an album >Laura starts doing actual tours again in May 2022, live demoing songs left and right >James, surprising even himself, becomes Frank's guitar tech for MCR+Dunes >Against Me! is finally confirmed to be on indefinite hiatus in August 2022 >well shit >Frank was considering starting ANOTHER new band with James and Tucker, no clue how that's going nowadays or if it was dropped >Atom gets in a motorcycle accident and breaks several bones >well shit >passage of time >as of 2023 Atom is now fully recovered and in a wild turn of events joined Alkaline Trio >well shit >Laura remains touring and is releasing another solo album soon

SO. what does this all mean.

>Atom is probably not coming back (although who knows!) >Andrew is a complete wildcard, I did not see his return coming at all in 2018 so like anything could happen if the band gets together again!

BUT

These two, while like obviously important to the band with Andrew being the longest running bassist and Atom being a year shy of being tied with Warren for longest running drummer, Laura can make the situation work as it has happened several times where either a drummer will leave OR both the drummer and bassist will leave the band within short time frames. It sucks but the band has managed to keep going twice with the rhythm section having to be fully replaced.

BUT

What matters most is James. James isn't TECHNICALLY a founding member but he is what made the band a 4 piece and his arrival (right around the release of Crime) is when the band really started Being Pretty Serious and like The Truest Lineup of the band to Laura. And so like he has stayed with the band for over 20 years through 8 entire members coming and going over the years. So like, Laura does not see the point in keeping the band name if the last remaining core member dips, at that point the band is just Not The Band Anymore in her eyes. So we just kinda wait for if/when James comes back. Like his pedal business is going super great for him, he's probably going to be Frank's tech for the Dunes summer tour since he posted from the rehearsal yesterday, and most of all there's always behind the scenes stuff exists that We Don't Know, so who knows what the future holds! Laura is keeping the faith that thing will be back eventually.

#this is truly the most convoluted answer to this question #also no clue if you want to be tagged or not love and light #some of this is Patreon Knowlege #so theres def More Specific Shit but eh not my place to air out specifics from That #n e ways stream [ALBUM TITLE PENDING] when it drops #truly the sound of the summer #this is the longest the band has been inactive in its history which is A Bit Terrifying but yknow. it is what it is #if this is incoherent ill edit it when i wake up lmao #ALSO PORTED THIS TO A NEW POST BC IT THE HIATUS TALK WAS IN THE TAGS I REALIZED AND SOUNDED WILD AFTER THE ROOT POST #as for the plausibility for jrankucker band james has always been down for working on non am! music but just cant write lyrics #so he never had a solo project despite being interested but presumably in this frank would do lyrics #GOD in porting this to a new post the links got killed #stream plosivs and nighttime flyers #and the jrankucker band was mentioned in the 2m2ln interview last year