Parachute - Alec/Eliot/Parker Fanvid by twwings
Sorry, Leverage OT3 Shippers, I'm stealing your song. XD A little more seriously, I saw that post about "Leverage OT3 propaganda" reblogged over on @polyshipweek, decided to check out the video, and ended up really liking it and the song. And because it was an OT3 video, I naturally started associating the song with my OWN Valicer OT3. :) The actual lyrics might be a little more plain Valice (referencing things like keeping a relationship hidden from the haters, telling someone they're the only one you trust, going "you and me against the world," etc), but I don't think that it's too hard to adapt them to a Valicer situation. After all, twwings did it with the Leverage OT3. XD
And, of course, the specific Valicer situation I'm thinking of is the Valicer In The Dark one -- the attempts at a Valicer music video that keeps popping up inside of my brain involve those three the most. (In particular, one of the "down, down, down" bits sparks an image of Victor falling off a building mid-heist, forcing the other two to help catch him and pull him back up -- which is a scene I'd had in my head before, but it's enhanced by putting it to music.) But yeah, I'm enjoying the vibes here, and I'm happy to add this to my own OT3 playlist. :)
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Summer Days
Summer Days you've been my friend
But this soon will have to end
But I will see you
And you will see me too
You and school not alike it fits
You are like some opposites
I hope this song fits
You've both got benefits
You can learn and you can grow
You can hurt and you can show
The world that you got this
You can run or fly through this
Oh
Summer, my real friends I see barely
Imaginary ones I see daily
At school it's the other way around
But it can't be all that bound
Oh
Summer days and Winter times
Autumn's tunes and Spring's rhymes
All beautiful tunes
They've all been in runes
Summer days you've been my friend
But this will soon have to end
I'll be waiting for you
So please wait for me too
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Song Saturday #1
Wrapped in Black from Sonic Rush
This song was put together by Hideki Naganuma who is most well known for his work on Jet Set Radio. A little fun fact about this song is the vocals used are actually sampled from a Malcom X speech. It's believed this sample is the reason the Rush ost is no longer available on streaming platforms.
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So I see folks pointing out that Louis' circle A tattoo is more likely an aesthetic choice than an announcement of a political commitment to anarchism, and saying basically that that maybe makes him a bit of a poser and I mean- I GUESS. But I don't like to look at things that way and I don't think it's useful. As I see it the subversive sexiness of the symbols of resistance have ALWAYS been gateways for people who are drawn to the struggle in vague ways and that's GOOD. Aligning yourself with those values is good no matter the reason, in my book, especially given the wretched options available out there, but also the journey doesn't necessarily stop there. Gatekeeping queerness victimizes people who are just trying things out and starting to discover that it may run deeper than just trying on a new look who should instead be welcomed and helped along their path, and I fail to see how gatekeeping political affiliations is any different (plus how counterproductive to actual movement building is that?)
ANYWAY. What I really want to say about Louis is that while I KNOW that Louis is probably not secretly a theory reading anti-state communalist anarchist, I think that actually Louis' optimism and idealism (and his unwavering commitment to allying himself with the working class and embracing those roots) are a perfect fit for the philosophy and always have been. I know that anarchism is mostly understood as being about throwing molotov cocktails and fighting the state (and the allure of its symbols are that they signify this, a terrific aesthetic for him to choose to sign on with in my book), but that's honestly largely cartoonish stereotyping that comes directly from anti-anarchist state propaganda. That resistance is necessary in this hellscape of oppression we live in and is super important, but in its heart anarchism is only about the state in that the state and capitalism currently stands in the way of its goals. The whole point of anarchism is that it's NOT about the state! It's about being able to imagine something better than a state, it's about how we live and about how we SHOULD live, it's about HOPE and picturing something utopian and something free of the ways capitalism pits us against one another! What could be more Louis than that?
"I need you and you need me and I love that" is as beautiful a way of talking about the cornerstone of anarchism that is mutual aid as any long winded essay I've read (even if what he meant was contextually different), and I think when he talks again and again about how special the space fans have made around him is he is expressing an intuitive understanding of the importance of autonomous zones, places and moments outside of the shitty life imposed on us by the system (also a huge part of anarchist thought). Maybe I'm just being an optimist but I think that Louis DOES understand that caring for people and wanting self-determination and freedom for all and allying himself with the working class involves a certain amount of resistance to and positioning yourself in opposition to the state. Thinking the symbols of smashing that state are cool isn't meaningless; it's a CHOICE. There are other cool symbols out there and I just happen to think that feeling a resonance with certain ones is something in and of itself, even if at this moment he does not choose to start a fight with the media about it all.
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Random Pictures! Here we go!
Drew this a few nights ago. Her name is Amber and yes, she is dead and half her face is rotted.
Here we have a drawing of a hammerhead shark. I took a picture of a hammerhead shark at a zoo once. One day I got bored, so I drew the shark.
On one side we have Sips from @dingodoodles talking with my OC, Fruit Bat.
"White fur? Red marks? You must be that character written by that wannabe author who married you off to here."
On the other side we have Sister Spring who is always late and careless(spring is always late here) and Lady Winter who is responsible enough to stick around until Sister Spring arrives. This is why winter is longer than spring here.
"You're late. Again"
On one side we have the serpent talking to Eve in the garden.
On the other side we have Sneeze from @dingodoodles holding three krakazyabras. Magic creatures from Ukraine.
My attempts at drawing Topa from @dingodoodles. Here we go!
"My fourth attempt at drawing you, Topa."
My fanfic story is called "Red for the Martyrs" where a group of young missionaries try to convert the winged people, but all of them get killed except for one. Topa, one of the winged people witnesses them die. But instead of panicking or crying out or even fighting back, they sang. He was almost impressed with how they were handling it.
Fruit Bat's sister, Tangerine, found a magic rock. Despite her sister's warnings, Tangerine picked it up and it transformed them.
Here is the song that the red martyrs sang.
Batshalom: "I heard there was another world
that had not heard of the LORD
And I saw fire light up in our eyes
Now here we are at Death's dar arc
I can't believe my last words are
Let's sing a last Hallelujah
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
I know we heard this song before
So let us write another verse
And sing togeth' until we all die
And I hope have some words to sing
And a song the them we'll bring
Let's all sing hallelujah"
Everyone: "Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah"
Elihu: "Well it's been fun but we got to go
We brought words so you would know
That Christ loved you even when you kill us
I hope that you will tell this tale
So others can believe as well
And that they can sing hallelujah"
Everyone: "Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah"
Benshamiem: "Well every song must end
But here's a hope that I will lend
That Jesus takes all sinners home
So with final breath
The song that we will sing 'till death
Will not be our last hallelujah"
Everyone: "Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah"
Everyone except Elihu: "Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah"
Everyone else except Benshamiem: "Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah"
Now Batshalom is last: "Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelu..."
Legend has it their song never ended and if you go to where you they were martyred, listen close. You might hear the faded words "hallelujah".
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