#rows of people in front of me

[camscendants]

That was an eventful two days

#I had a better time at the Waterparks concert #Noah was great #buuuut #I was on the barricade #I had my cousin hold onto my spot while I grabbed some merch and he didn’t hold onto the barricade so when I got back there were like three #rows of people in front of me #tall people too #and I got a ticket for my friend who wound not being able to go #and my brother who took us didn’t wanna go so I completely wasted $25 on a ticket #and it just Sucks that I spent so much money on ticket and got there super early just to be shoved way back when I LITERALLY had the front #there was this rude entitled lady who made everyone move for her son #he only knew tx2 but stayed up front the whole time #(she also took a spot right on the barricade too) #I was just really upset about how it didn’t go according to my plan and I kind of had a panic attack. like. a really fucking long one #and I had my vip bag + merch with me and everyone was stepping on it (no one was even playing?) and they fucked up my poster #but yeah I pretty much had a 2 hour long panic attack my ribs hurt now from hyperventilating (leaving the pit wouldn’t have helped) #the vip part was still good #I met Noah again he remembered me he did great it was just the people around me #oh I also like fucked up my knee #but that’s cause two concerts in a row hurt I think someone kinda accidentally kicked in a mosh pit and the first venue the ground had a #slight tilt to it. so it was kinda uncomfortable after a few hours #Waterparks #noahfinnce #concert #tx2 #music

[nowritingonthewall]

Oscar being the sweetest and cutest at stage door (part two)

#oscar isaac #the sign in sidney brustein’s window #som #I was like three rows from the barriers and kind of tried to film over everybody else's head 😆 #But I was so lucky to see the curls in real life this close 🥺 #And he really did his best trying to sign everything that people shoved in front of his face and taking pictures with everyone who asked #While being so sweet and apologizing that he wasn't able to get to everyone #And he really is so smol and it was so fricking cute how he tried to reach up to sign everything 🥺 #The Steven and Poe energy is still killing me 🥺

[genericaces]

more rambling about a s5 au: lindsey comes back for a redemption arc to act as legal counsel for angel's team. this ostensibly gives gunn a reason to opt out of the lawyer operation, but he does it anyway because he doesn't trust lindsey not to fuck them over.

lindsey acts as a moral foil to gunn, who comes to believe his necessary contribution to the team (since he's no longer their only lawyer) is being the defender of the group's principles while working at w&h. they frequently butt heads while working on a case, but eventually develop a begrudging respect of each other's respective strengths.

this hostile-to-friendly-rivalry arc is tested when it comes out that w&h was responsible for some demon problem that's been plaguing gunn's home community. gunn has, unbeknownst to himself, been somehow contributing to it while working at w&h; lindsey knowingly contributed to it when he was last working there as a lawyer. lindsey is forced to confront who he was, while gunn is forced to confront who he’s becoming.

since he was involved in the project, lindsey uses his insider knowledge to help come up with a plan to fix the problem. they execute it, something goes wrong, and lindsey risks his life to ensure the plan goes off successfully. he expects congratulations and a pat on the back from gunn, but gunn isn't interested in absolving lindsey's sins (or his own), and their warming relationship freezes over.

at some point, gunn lets himself get taken by the senior partners in an effort to deal with his guilt over various lapses in judgment/perceived moral failures. during their rescue mission to the holding dimension, lindsey stays behind in gunn's place so he can escape, assuring gunn that he's the lawyer the team needs right now. their mutual arcs culminate in lindsey rejecting the idea that redemption is done for recognition, and gunn rejecting the idea that guilt/self-punishment is inherently redemptive.

eventually after being busted out by illyria, lindsey is there to empathize with gunn about losing parts of yourself (body, mind, and/or soul) to w&h, relationships to power when you've grown up without it, and what it means to live with the consequences of your actions. both of them reflect on the nature of redemption/forgiveness/intent as they grapple with how to own up to an appropriate share of the blame.

#imagine i'm explaining this to you like the charlie day pepe sylvia scene #now let's talk about two characters who have barely interacted can we talk about two characters who have barely interacted #angel the series #ats #charles gunn #lindsey mcdonald #i think it's about two people who have grown up with a front row seat to how people with power will use it to step on others #the difference being that gunn thinks 'i need to be strong so i don't let people in power fuck over me or my own' #while lindsey thinks 'i need to BE those people in power' #also lindsey's appearance is a big PITA to gunn because he's a reminder that to anyone looking from the outside #gunn now looks a lot like the same evil guys in suits that he once fought against #which also reflects some of the themes in s5 more broadly! can they do good while working within evil inc or will they be corrupted etc #plus there's a lot of parallels to what's going on with spike and angel #art

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

hold on dont have it in me to scribble rn but i have updated Thoughts on Laughingstock. the update has affected my feelings on them

and those feelings are:

I LOVE THEM EVEN MORE NOW, WHAT THE FUCK??? THEY'RE??? AGH????

i am so glad i accurately pinned down their dynamic in my brain because OHHHH MY GOD HEARING IT OUT LOUD. AUGH. MINECRAFT DAMAGE NOISES

I KNEW THEY'D GO TOGETHER SO WELL! i mean! holy shit! they just! fucking! Work!

Howdy keeps Barnaby updated on family gossip! Barnaby knows the drama & members well enough to accurately call out "Wooly Aunt Molly'! Howdy tells Barnaby he has to bring his mom around for a drink!!! their shared love/style of humor! their shared laughs! The snappy, easy, familiar fluidity of their conversations! "I know I can always talk to you, Barn."

MY FUCKING GOD! THESE BITCHES GAY! GOOD FOR THEM! GOOD FOR THEM! i am laying face down in a ditch taking damage. my health bar does not deplete

#wailing sobbing screaming tearing into couch cushions with my teeth and eating the stuffing #they make my heart go WEH #wally in 12-14: really? right in front of my drink? #GODDDDDDDD AGH AGH AGH BARKING!!!!!! LOSING MY MIND!!! #thank fuck for a second i was starting to calm down about them #the train is back on the rails and hurtling full speed towards a cliff yeeHAWWWWW #i cant wait for my art motivation/ability to come back so i can DRAW THEM #I NEED TO DRAW THEM #BRAIN LET ME DRAW THEM #THE SCRIBBLES!!! I NEED TO FEED MY PEOPLE THEY ARE STARVING!!! #laughingstock #absolutely unprompted #barnaby watching his husband sell soap as food: man of my dreams <3<3<3<3 #howdy listening to barnaby make the same bad puns ten times in a row: man of my dreams <3<3<3<3

[omppupiiras]

I was never gonna come to Böle before the afternoon but this whole queue mess is making me so determined to enjoy my "bad" spot all the more 😂

#käärijä #I'm gonna take my own advice and chill! 😎 #i was front row at a erika gig last week that was enough serotonin for me 💖 #I don't think I'll ever get the chance to be front row for kä but that's okay #honestly i just feel bad for jere #i would go insane in his shoes always seeing the same people in the dront row... #front

[fortune-maiden]

99. "How could you forget your son’s birthday?”

MDZS with one of the baby Lans? Or Jiang Cheng?

Thank you <333

I'm hoping by baby lans you meant baby twin jades or this is going to be awkward. But at least I got to write Shufu? ^^"

Sorry for sad Lan hours ;w;

Lan Qiren is not the kind of person to question an elder. There is an order and a hierarchy to the world, and his brother’s always had the final say. But this time, he doesn’t agree. “A-Huan was looking forward to this. He wants to see you.” “Not today, Qiren. Please,” his brother pleads. Every time they meet, he looks less a person, and more a fading ghost. “Whether it’s today or not, what difference does it make?” “What difference!” Lan Qiren huffs. “How could you forget your son’s birthday?” He turns away, not willing to see his brother’s reaction.

Also bonus drabble under the cut because I spent a long time looking at this prompt trying to see if I could make it funny somehow xD

“…so next week, we’ll swing by Pingyang – “Not next week,” Lan Wangji interrupts. “It’s Sizhui’s birthday.” “Oh.” Wei Wuxian blinks. “Huh.” “How could you forget your son’s birthday?” “Rather than forget, it’s more that I never – my who?” Lan Wangji stares. “You gave birth to him.” He says it so seriously that Wei Wuxian bolts upright, his mind spinning madly with the dawning horror that he would have to explain to his husband… Then he catches the twinkle in Lan Wangji’s eye, and bursts out laughing. That Lan Zhan – how long had he waited to turn that back on him?

#this reminds me of a ficlet I wrote for shufu week and refused to post because I thought it was too sad #mdzs #the untamed #the number one question i always ask when writing a drabble: can i make it funny? #the answer is no but i'll still try even if its only funny to me #lan qiren #qingheng jun #wei wuxian #lan wangji #fortune's drabbles #i think most people like to write qhj as antagonistic and contrary but i like writing a defeated depressed man #who's just completely given up on everything #and shufu has front row seats to this #and keeps trying to get him to take an interest in spending time with his sons

[carcarrot]

i wish i could articulate the experience of seeing a band you're into live like actually seeing them in person because its so strange yet fascinating

#every time i hear take me for a ride by sparks it makes me think of the nyc show - the first show of theirs i saw #bc that was their walk on music. and i was front row for that show #and like. it was so surreal. so strange. obviously in a good way but its just something id never experienced before #and i noticed this especially with russell in that i had a weird thought that went 'oh wow thats him. he realls looks like himself' #and like of course he looks like himself but what i meant by that was he looks like that guy who ive seen 5 billion images of. hes that guy #like not only does he look like the him in more recent pictures but seeing him in person like 10 feet away #its like i could recognize every era of him. i could see like 70s russell in his face. bc of course thats his face! but still #is this making any sense. #like i feel like if you met 70s russell once and never saw him again until now youd immediately recognize him #and sure thats because of two other things - one that he has distinct facial features kinda and also that hes aged so well #but it was again so surreal to be like. in the same space. right in front of. fairly close to. that guy whos been in my phone. you know? #this was true for ron and the other guys in the band too of course its that feeling of wow its them! those people ive only seen pictures of! #and again being front row for that was bonkers insane. its like what do you mean these people are real #but the thing w russell i just especially noticed almost immediately when they came out onstage like hes that guy. for real #is this making any sense . anyway i just had to finally get this one out #the only downside of this experience was that yes these people are real and yes they can see me. a little anxiety inducing #its like nooooo dont look at meeeee im such a weirdo i bought a ticket to see you like everyone else here #anyway. concert thoughts

[amiscreations]

hot take of the day: people who hold phones up for the whole time at concerts should be shamed just as much as the people who hold large signs up the whole time.

#maybe I'm calling out some people here oOP #but yeah at the Halestorm/Black Veil Brides concert I went to the other day #there was a person in front of me with a sign #they were SUPER respectful with it #they showed it to me and explained they would only hold it up for short periods in between songs #and that they would try their best to not get it in my way #I was like wHAT THATS COOL? no worries at all have fun! #and that wold have been all done and good #however whenever they weren't holding the sign they were holding their fucking phone #they recorded every BVB song #all the way through #not giving a single sHIT` about whether or not their phone could have been in my way #which it was #like I could not see past it (I'm short and have a hard time at concerts as it is if I'm not barrier) #what I'm trying to say is just be respectful with your phone at concerts #if you are two rows back from the front you do not need to be holding it up high #and just enjoy the artist in front of you you dont have to watch through your phone #TLDR phones are equally as annoying as signs at concerts #just take into consideration those behind you

[weidli]

two wolves inside me one wants to sit at the front of the vorlesungssaal so that i can hear and understand everything despite my fucked up ears the other one wants to sit at the back so that i can observe the nonsense everyone gets up to on their laptops when the vorlesung gets boring

#Vorlesung: Also. die fragmentarische Kompetenz des Bundes - #Random person two rows in front of me: closes notes. starts shopping for ikea furniture #to be clear i think the fälle of fragmentarische kompetenz des bundes is a fascinating subject. i just also like shamelessly observing other #people's public behavior like i'm undercover on an alien planet and am gonna have to report back to my superiors on all this

[puppy-steve]

had my stepdad's funeral today (not my current stepdad) and hoooooo boy the abandonment issues are in full swing :)

#not a single mention of me in his obituary - as if the 15 or so years where he raised me suddebly didn't matter anymore - #- bc he and my mom were no longer married. all his current step kids were listed though :) (along with their partners/spouses) #i didn't even get to sit up front with everyone. i sat in the very back of the room in the very last row. #and you know what? i really fucking needed the comfort of my step brothers #like i was 10 again and they were the only ones standing between me and him when his temper got ugly #i got it at the end at the cemetery where we all three hugged really tight. but i still would've liked to sit beside them. #it was just like i was sort of overlooked the whole time - which in fairness i havent actually been his stepkid in 10 years #but. idk. it still hurt. #bc i also noticed it with my own parents #people are always shocked when i tell them that yes - this is my dad and this is my mom #bc they know their Other Kids. not me. #it's like a friend said: sometimes it's not the middle child that's forgotten. it's the eldest. #ok sorry rant over ive just been stewing over this all day #cj talks

[the-busy-ghost]

Look I respect the art of past ages, but it's the 21st century and personally I'd like to see less depictions of the Greek Muses as ethereal sexually objectified fairy women, and more art of Thalia doing stand-up

#I mean both can coexist don't get me wrong #You want to do the muses as ethereal sexy women you do you #And again ancient Greek comedy differs from modern day approaches of course #But also they provide a great opportunity for more modern treatments #Unlike Aphrodite or the Graces you really do have the opportunity to present them as ordinary people #(Nothing wrong with interpreting Aphrodite in that way either just it's more obvious with the Muses) #Thalia in a dumb t-shirt microphone in hand half-grinning while picking on the front row of the audience at the Fringe #Or like #Idk Hannah Gadsby-esque comic- though I haven't seen enough of her stuff #Clio doesn't have to be sexy librarian; she could be anything from 'elderly professor obsessed with old coins' to tabloid journalist #I may resent the latter but at the end of the day history relates to everyone #We each have our own particular relationship with her #The ancient Greeks for a start probably had a very different conception of what history is to us

[purpleminte]

If someone was pulling gum out of their mouth to stick to the underside of a table and they happen to stick it right on top of a wad of gum that happened to already be stuck there, would that person get grossed out ??

#I’m trying to fathom what would drive someone to stick gum to a table #like it’s such a cliche I can hardly imagine it being a thing people do in real life #even though like 90% of the tables and desks I’ve sat at ever have had a considerable amount of gum stuck underneath #LIKE HOW DO YOU HAVE GUM BUT NOT HAVE A WRAPPER WITH THE GUM??? #AND IM LIKE SITTING AT A FRONT ROW DESK AND THERE IS SO. MUCH. GUM. #HOW DID YOU GET AWAY WITH THAT????? #I can’t imagine these people have any amount of self awareness or morals #this is such a phenomenon to me and it grosses me out to no end

[akechi-if-he-slayed]

front row tfb concert could fix akechi

#once again pushing midwestemokechi agenda. it is very real to me in fact. #i think he would hear makoto or ryuji playing tfb and act like it’s the worst music ever only to go home and emo while listening to batman #tfb world tour in japan oh akechi would be front damn row screaming crying and it is very amusing to akira (dragged along) because it is so #strange and unexpected from goro of all people. #in reality gorkechi is midwest emo loser. trust me when i say this. #goro akechi #persona 5 #the front bottoms

[fortes-fortuna-iogurtum]

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#ugh I have got to work on my attitude WHY is it rearing up right now??? #I just cannot control my face lately #people say things that I disagree with and I just. react. and then I feel terrible about it. #:((( #I just wanna take a nap so badly #maybe if I finish my lab report first. maybe then I can allow it. *sigh* #(anyway for reference I sit in the front row of one of my classes and the professor today said something that I disagreed with and #I think I accidentally made a noise out loud and if he didn't hear/see it then the girl next to me definitely did. #and I feel extremely lame about it.) #(the thing he said was about Catholicism being idolatrous which. looking back I THINK I know what he was getting at #and it was not the way my brain took it #but I knee-jerk reacted and now I'm feeling bad about that.)

[witch-of-the-sands]

2023 is not my year 99% of the time, but it is my year for movies. The dnd movie, across the spiderverse, Barbie, fnaf, the movie industry is finally feeding a hungry watcher after years.

#movies #dnd movie #atsv #barbie movie #fnaf movie #I'm actually begging people to go to the theater with me again for the first time in years #I WANT to go to the theater for the first time in years #the joy of watching with others has returned for the first time in forever #I think the last time I was begging to go to the theater was going to see big hero six when it first came out in theaters #I watched that shit front row opening night at my fav theater in a packed room and SOBBED it was so good #and now I'm hyped as HELL for all these upcoming movies #my family is sick of me #kelpie rambles

[palmtreepalmtree]

Last night at the theater a woman a few rows back answered a phone call in the middle of the show and started talking in a totally normal voice. When the people around her asked her to put her phone away and be quiet, she told them to 'fuck off' and that she'll do what she wants. All of this was loud enough for practically the entire section to be disrupted.

She and her companion were escorted out at intermission to applause.

#i really think something in some people broke during c0vid #my mom thinks it's the influence of tr0mp #whatever it is #people suck way more than they used to suck #a woman in the row in front of me #was scrolling on her phone through the first ten minutes of the show #an usher had to come tell her to turn it off #i don't know what was up with the show yesterday #and wtf is wrong with people