thinking about how i am forever in alongside the boys in jumpers on bikes from schools and cars, with autumn leaves fallen sparse across the mid afternoon. she blazed about how cultural language is an operating system, a simple interface rendered feeble and listless when tested with divinity or a true understanding of the human condition. i never did understand the duality of art and reality, living life and treating it as such but with a certain disconnect to touch that cajoles at the artist with comfort and abandon, and between the spires and rolling roofs of the white city, that orange english light cast only one, singular shadow, for you are not beside but within me
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"I am forever in alongside the boys in jumpers
On bikes from schools and cars
With autumn leaves fallen sparse across the mid-afternoon.
She blazed about how cultural language is an operating system,
A simple interface rendered feeble and listless
When tested with a divinity or a true understanding of the human condition
I never did understand the duality of art and reality,
Living life and treating it as such but with a certain disconnect
To touch that cajoles at the artist with comfort and abandon
And between the spires and rolling roofs of the white city,
That orange, English light cast only one, singular shadow
For you are not beside but within me"
- Loving Someone, the 1975
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It's always
"Matty Healy kisses bandmate"
"Matty Healy shares kiss with male bandmate"
"The 1975 banned from performing in Malaysia after Matty Healy’s ‘controversial’ kiss with male bandmate"
and never
"Ross Macdonald pulls bandmate in by the waist, changes the angle and adds tongue in defiance of the law"
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Actually I think I deserve to be feral about Tommy 1975
it's a rock opera and it's got elton john and tina Turner in it, yeah, it's got the pinball wizard song, right, goofy times with the who
Tommy Walker is explicitly disabled in a way that reads nowadays as autistic and traumatized, and canonically experiences neglect, physical abuse, and childhood sexual abuse because of the ways in which he is disabled. he is sexually abused by his uncle and, arguably, his cousin, stepdad, and mom. (I think the beans/soap/mirror bedroom "Tommy Can You Hear Me" sequence is. unfortunately. an extremely thinly veiled metaphor.)
his disabilities combined with his talent for pinball turn him into an exploited child/young adult celebrity that his family uses to build their own personal wealth and he gets turned into inspiration porn for the pseudochristian cult they start, which expands further when he "miraculously" regains his sight, hearing, and speech as a 30 year old christ allegory. it's wretched because he does genuinely feel like he can help people by sharing his lived experiences with them, but it's too late - his parents have already turned his example and teachings into a pricey commodity and people who have paid every penny they owned for enlightenment end up violently rebelling against the lies they were (literally) sold, despite Tommy's best intentions.
and what does he get after a lifetime of suffering that culminated in his genuine attempts to help people? he sees his family murdered, everyone who ever supported him marching away into the distance, and he swims off into the sea and to apparent enlightenment, alone.
just. it's such a movie. I must've watched it a couple dozen times in my teen years. it's absolutely the product of its time but it's got a LOT to say about the exploitative nature of organized religion, cults, faith healing, "Disability Parents" (you know what I mean,) show parents/parent managers, cycles of abuse/exploitation, cycles of trauma, military worship, incest, heteronormativity/corrective rape, celebrity worship culture, etc... and like! it's not for everyone, but I still think everyone should have to watch it at least once.
anyway Tommy 1975 everybody. if you pick only one 50 year old Problematic Media to consume this year please pick this one. I need more people to talk to about Jack Nicholson's cameo and the Themes and the Bean Scene and the Ska Enjoying Cultists.
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The live version of “When We Are Together” will always be my favorite thing, especially the last chorus. After introducing the band, everything goes quiet, the lights slowly go out as everyone leaves and we’re left with just Matty and his guitar, alone in his house; and now that chorus that felt happy and warm previously feels so alone and melancholy. And sure it’s a love song but it’s not just romantic love, or I’d even say it’s mostly not about romantic love. It’s about touring, it’s about the fans, but most importantly it’s about his boys. Idk its just so gut wrenching and vulnerable, and something i think anyone who’s felt that kind of loneliness can really relate to. 🥺🫶
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Would you still follow me if i stopp posting fics at all (i consider myself on a hitus lol)...or anything related with the guys (not that i think i can do it)??
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Guys I dunno if my George series is going to be a full series or a mini series (5-6 chapters)... I've barely written two and it's just not... Coming to me.
It sucks because I had all these ideas and I stupidly didn't write them down and now I'm like 🫠🫠🫠
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I wish I was a celebrity just cause I know I would fr be the most unhinged one
like idk fuck personal image ig, and like I would be a messy messy celeb I just know 🤷♀️
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