#v. unless you mean it

[pcstvlates]

FRANCIS’ DEBUT ALBUM ‘WASHUP’ GETS DELUX RELEASE

It’s been only eleven months since the release of the new folk-pop singer’s debut album. Francis Mancini, better known by just ‘Francis’ has been taking TikTok by storm with her raw and intimate music. Fans have been begging for a deluxe version. Finally, Empiric Records gave in and have released the special addition to include four extra songs, two covers, and two new singles released within the past few months (one of them being with Sawyer, which had the internet gagging).

This month, at Woodstock Magazine, we got to sit down with the new folk sensation, and talk to her about her iconic record.

Read the interview below, and check out the album HERE.

JONES: I’m going to be honest Francis, I didn’t expect your deluxe version to include covers, what made decide to include the two iconic songs?

FRANCIS: Honestly, I think the songs on my album were really tough to write. Like, they’re really personal, they took a lot out of me. At the time the album took off, and there were talks for a potential deluxe, I couldn’t really imagine putting myself in that headspace. It has to come naturally. So really, if the big guys wanted a deluxe, it was going to have to be covers.

JONES: But you did include a couple originals, though they’re singles people are already familiar with. And they stack up against the rest of the album in terms of intensity. What was the choice with that?

FRANCIS: Well, they’re still released pretty close to this album, and in terms of era and theme, they still seemed to fit quite well. Hopefully, my next album doesn’t have to be a drugs, loneliness, and losing a love. I hope I’m somewhere else by the time I start on the next thing.

JONES: I wanted to ask about that. This album is known for how hard it hits, and you’re not shy about what this album is based off of in your personal life. How has it felt sharing that with the world?

FRANCIS: It’s a part of the healing, honestly. I’ve been so grateful to be able to share my life through music and that the music reaches so many people. I mean, the process of making this album was brutal. I was at some pretty low moments, but the craft of it, I knew, would be so important for me. Now that it’s out there and I meet the people it connects to, I know that taking this leap of openness was worth it.

JONES: Can you tell me about the title ‘WASHUP’, what was the message you wanted people to take from it?

FRANCIS: It’s two-fold, honestly. I mean, there’s the sense of being a washup in the sense that I was a failed playwright, drug addict, dumped two months before my wedding, and in a city where I had few friends. I was washed up. But it’s also this idea of washing onto shore of a new space, I will wash up onto the sand and I will be reborn. This is me moving on.

JONES: That’s really beautiful. Now I have to ask, you did a song with Sawyer, the ex-band member of the super succession rock band Riot Band. None of us saw that coming, but the song is genius. What was that like being in the studio with such a talent?

FRANCIS: I mean, totally honest, I wasn’t really a fan of Riot Van when they were in their hay day. And I think it’s important to clarify he reached out to me. I didn’t even know he sang until he showed up to the studio and we started working together.

JONES: I would have loved to been a fly on the wall in that studio. What was that process like?

FRANCIS: It was totally wild. I mean he’s such a professional, it was like the moment he stepped in, it was all about the music. I had had a verse of something written, and he’d had some lyrical ideas as well, it was just uncanny that they happened to fit together so well. They when we kind of figured out the groove, it was like we shared the same mind. I had began playing on the piano and he began to play his guitar and then next thing I knew we were recording and I was crying and we were done.

JONES: You cried?

FRANCIS: A little, yeah. I mean, when we sang, the energy--- I mean, it’s like--- really, I can’t explain it, I was just overcome. 

JONES: Sounds like you two have something special. Do you think you’ll work together again?

FRANCIS: I mean he’s busy making his album, I don’t think that’s going to be in our futures anytime soon.

JONES: I think people are disappointed to hear that, but I understand. Thank you for taking the time to talk to Woodstock, Francis. I’ll be playing this Deluxe album on repeat for weeks. 

FRANCIS: Thank you, my mom said the same thing.

#v. unless you mean it #c. francis mancini

[uncanny-tranny]

Me in 2016: You know, saying things like "trans rights are human rights" doesn't necessarily mean that person is safe around trans people. In fact, sometimes people still have unchecked bias against trans people, and that can be clouded by them saying that trans rights are human rights. It can prevent them from fully looking into their own preconceptions about cissexism and trans people.

Me in 2023: Oh, thank gd this person said "trans rights are human rights," I was worried they also abhorred trans people

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #transphobia #transphobia tw #you know i still kind of agree with the 2016 statement but that comes with the caveat that at least they're fucking saying that... #....our rights are human rights. so long as their actions also reflect that i have way less of a problem with that statement than before #but it's crazy just how awful it's gotten in some ways #bruh i was worried a hisotry youtuber i somewhat liked was an anti-woke chud... #..and then i was proven wrong when he blatently posted support for trans people so good for him!! always happy to be proven wrong (genuine) #can statements like TRAHR be used disingenuously to put a false sense of secutity in them? yes sure... but also... #...don't immediately jump to that conclusion *unless* they have shown their ass about it #note that when i say 'anti-woke' i mean how conservatives belolieve woke means things they don't like #NOT the meaning of woke that originated in Black spaces and AA(V)E #hopefully that clears any confusion?

[suppenzeit]

thinking about how astarion can peacefully listen to gales heartbeat without feeling the need to feed

#:V #bloodweave #bg3 #i mean unless you subscribe to the 'LEMON SOUR !!! ... but such flavor intrigues' school of thought #which i do. but still i feel like astarion doesnt really hunger that much for gales blood

[c-kiddo]

watched latest tom scott video (about a cryonics facility) and was so taken aback by him keeping on really strongly saying humans should be working to “defeat death”.. like girl it is just not happening.

(humans wont defeat death the same way we wont conquer chomolungma or mars or the ocean. we will die because we're alive like every other animal and all the stars ever, and fighting that feels so ignorant and also prevents actual action and discussion of rights as humans after death , imo. and death rights and normalising of death and mourning are actually so important. because otherwise cultures' (western, often the US in specific) fear of death leads to nonsense like people get buried in reinforced caskets and embalmed with chemicals that’ll poison the soil but wont stop you rotting)

#its just interesting to hear someone say that really comfortably and not elaborate. especially with a vry big following #idk what his deal is (credentials-wise) apart from making youtube videos but i just found is kind of wild. like i want to know more of why #he thinks that!!!!!! its interesting to me sm #(also you should watch Atrocity Guide’s video about immortalists and cryonics. its v good) #kiddo say #acknowledgment that im not a scientist either but i think its pretty clear that humans wont be immortal. our bodies just cant really do tha #i mean. unless by defeating death you mean uploading a consciousness online? which would be vry unreliable #its silly to me. stop being weird abt death challenge

[fluffalpenguin]

@ygoc-week Day 1: Introductions

I couldn't think about what and how much to write about them, so I'm letting them speak for themselves (literally)

Image heavy post, so the rest is under the cut!

Toyhouse link! (with mostly empty bios and two of them aren't even on it yet but at least most of their galleries are updated)

Also, Noelle isn't actually mine (she belongs to @shshshotsz) but her gallery on TH is all me anyway 👍 just kidding i was forced at gunpoint to include her

➞[Next] Day 2: Family

#pasu makes ocs #yugioh oc week 23 #the duel disks come out on day 3 #can you tell i made this in google docs #its 6am and i have work later blinks for help #theyre not all gonna feature in all of the days unless i have something already done ish haha just kidding unless (dies) #in case it isn't obvious yes they're all arc-v #some of them have ties to canon characters but they aren't that strong #i mean one of them is like arc-v rio which like (gestures to the air)

[spoopy-sloth]

Dude, Tumblr just recommend me an insulin for me to lose weight.

I'm diabetic. What the actual fuck.

#that's actually pretty upsetting considering i had to stop using that same type of insulin since it may cause pancreatitis again #and the ad is like 'if your bmi is over 31 you may qualify for blah blah' while spinning said insulin with a large tag of “Lose up to 30% #body fat!' like are you for real???? that insulin is 1k! and my insurance has been an asshole with me at least 3x by refusing to pay for it #unless i had an authorization. i mean i tolerated the first time but the second and third time were insane because they /know/ I'm diabetic #and have been for 6 years now. and they still had the audacity to go 'mmmm idk. i dont think you need the dosage change' #this is long but im just annoyed that i got an ad that's suggesting me that i can lose weight if i take this insulin #when that same insulin had helped me with my real diabetes-related symptoms. like fuck off. how dare you use my medical information to #try and sell me bullshit #fuck people who use diabetic medicine to lose weight :V #thanks i hate it here #my text

[here-comes-the-bard]

vibrates... do they seal their pinky promises with kisses... like they link pinkies and then the promiser kisses their own hand and then the promised kisses their own hand or smth...... i can't quite describe it bc i can't fully envision the hand positions but god that image has SO much healing energy omg god fuck

#the citrus speaks #healing hands #those pinky promise rings are canon in my heart of hearts #and so is the lego key holder #rrrrrgh #me when nithral gets gently pulled into doing slightly silly things with his husband #except yaevinn is genuinely v serious abt pinky promises #always has been #you do not make a pinky promise to yaevinn unless you are near certain you can keep it #and yaevinn only asks for/makes pinky promises under the same conditions #he will never make a pinky promise that he doesn't think CAN be promised #but he will be very very serious about it #anyway. thanks nithvinn collab pinterest board #and by that i mean thank you molly XD #and thank you ALSO for that one pin of a painting you added recently that's making me wish i could write sexy AT ALL man #and thank you ALSO for more siren x merman thoughts #lots of thanks to you molly lol XD

[soracities]

do you feel any sort of way when your posts (even your ask posts) get screenshotted and circulated around on twitter getting twitter users a bunch of followers off of your posts?

wait my posts are where?? doing what now?

#i mean i know one or two are on ig bc people have messaged me directly asking if it was ok to post them which was v thoughtful #but i've seen others that i wasnt asked about bc friends have sent them to me which is always....interesting lol. not necessarily in a #bad way just. Interesting. bc i post things and just like. forget them most of the time lol #but i did not know this was a recurring thing on twitter since WHEN?? #but for your question i dont think about the follower thing in that way at all tbh and its not something id give any weight to anyway so #screenshots winding up on twitter arent a big deal to me (unless people are passing them off as their own bc that HAS happened which was.. #..Yeah 🤭) but anyway thank you for this anon it was v enlightening #ask #anonymous

[themyscirah]

Philippus? Wym philippus this is a wholeass other woman?????? She's white?????? Guys come on now

ALSO cursed white Euboea in this same sequence.... homeboy she's Asian please stop

Joe Phillips I'm sorry but this is some shitty ass guest pencilling how can you not know anything abt what these people look like thats literally your job... you also just needed to read the issue before this to know?

Editors should have caught this one these are major Amazon characters

#also i did a quick wiki check for one thing and basically confirmed that i was right about this entire arc so i win i guess 💪💪💪💪 #like “the amazons are starting some crazy murder shit!” are they really now. which amazons may i ask? are you sure its not the bana- #oh yep its the baba mighdall. well then. TOTALLY didnt see this coming (said w love) #i mean its like maybe im being perceptive but they literally showed two of them in their armor and had one say phthia aka one of the #founders of the bana. like okay i had to do a wiki to check that and obvi id know slightly more than a pérez run reader abt them #(but not much honestly ive read the same stuff they wouldve just plus some fandom osmosis/knowing who artemis is) but i digress. do think he #maybe could have put showing them off but i understand the motive of not wanting readers to go months thinking the amazons were chopping #ppls heads off. but they could have teased the mind control red herring (probably? think it was a red herring although it could pop back up #the arc is still ongoing) a little bit more considering weve had dr psycho starting shit for the past 4 (at LEAST) issues but well whatever #anyways the pencilling on this one needed help like its not even a coloring issue at the core of it its legit this guest guy drawing #totally different people... very lame #anyways maybe im too quick to blame it all on the bana i am only halfway through the arc #like i do think it is the bana. i think thats the answer. but again dr psycho IS causing problems and theres been hints of the cheetah being #involved (“animal attack” killings + a shot of her in arkham) AND circe was namedropped (although now we know it was dr psycho) but im still #slightly suspicious bc there seems to be possesed animals... like they are v much laying different hints and pathways here #but i think its the bana. i think its psycho fucking around and also the bana and MAYBE a psycho controlled cheetah or the bana mimicing her #patterns. or are the bana even there if psychos involved??? he could just be fucking around then- okay you know what. maybe im less sure of #this than i thought and should just read more. wait but how would psycho even know about the bana to have ppl hallucinate hed just use the #themyscirans-- okay i need to read more im getting distracted. the bana are definitely involved though im calling it. its them and maybe #psycho. and maybe cheetah. and maybe circe but likely not bc we already established that was a false lead. unless that was also a trick. and #WHAT ABT ARES ALL THE STOLEN ARTIFACTS HAD TO DO WITH WAR-- #.... guys im losing it. fuck it im saying its all giganta and calling it a day i cant do this #no but i love how this mystery is set up its like they just dropped clues for every single ww villain onto it and said “here. good luck.” #this is before the big ww crossover too so it could actually be all of them im losing my mind here. WHO IS IT #ive twisted myself in a circle here i dont know anything now. only that i did call it if it was the bana. or if theres mind control or smth #sus about heracles cup. i also called that although its seeming less and less likely now that the bana and psycho are likely involved. and #maybe cheetah. and circe. and ares. guys im falling apart here #what was the point of this post then? oh shitty guest pencilling and editor flops. the editor flop part i can understand im sure they were #busy even if this is a big thing to miss imo. the penciller though is just silly come on now. someone should have caught that. anyways-- #swishy liveblogs

[elympios]

[stares into the distance] am i supposed to read into lara lalla travis being explicitly described as having flaxen hair and violet eyes. am i?

#this means nothing except being a weird detail i guess???? #unless like. idk. maybe they're meant to be reincarnations or something? #(if you had to think about it like me. flaxen is indeed the colour i'd describe elle and lara's hair as being. a sort of washed out blonde. #v #x2

[iwantyoursexmp3]

omffggg so bashar murad, the palestinian artist who collaborated with hatari (iceland’s eurovision act who held palestinian flags during the voting) and is now trying to represent iceland at eurovision, he had his first performance and qualified to the final of their national selection and HIS PERFORMANCE IS SOOOO GOOD he did amazing. it’s full of palestinian flag colours, watermelon imagery, the choreography is inspired by a traditional dance, and like i’m just so happy for him i’ve been following his music since 2021 (maskhara is a great ep btw!!!!) and the idea that there might be palestinian representation at eurovision, on such a massive stage that has also been used for such vile propaganda that the ebu welcomed, i just wish him nothing but the best

#it sounds like the icelandic broadcaster is v supportive of him bc apparently he talked about what’s going on during the show #the song is called Wild West you can find clips of it on twitter #he learned icelandic for the semi final performance and you can tell how much it means for him to have qualified #as for Them the current rumour is that they’ll get disqualified over their song lyrics #which btw their propaganda song is literally called OCTOBER RAIN what the fuck #the lyrics got published and they are vile. but apparently they refuse to change them #fuck the ebu and eurovision either way because like yes disqualify them but it’s too little too late #but I would love to see that stage be used for something positive. keeping an eye on updates #there’s also quite a few artists representing other countries who have protested Israel’s participation #but have said they thought it was better if they still participate #which has me curious like are you guys organising something?? because that doesn’t matter unless you do something #you’ve got one chance with one of the biggest states and platforms if you’re going to go up there actually. do something worthwhile!

[strigital]

"The taller the giant — the longer and darker his shadow."

— Yukihime Sato-Bryce, head of Kuroko, a secret anti-Arasaka network

#just a quick doodlerino of the myth the legend the queen: v's mom #look she looks evil here but trust me she's a good baddie #i mean unless you're with 'saka #you could say she's a lil bit disgruntled with the company's policies #seriously tho this woman is quite unhinged even if she tries so very hard to hold onto those poor hinges with her fingernails #anyways #my art #digital art #oc #yukihime sato #v's mom #cyberpunk 2077 #cp77 #cdpr #cd projekt red

[slugs-at-midnight]

Fortnite is fun now???

#slugs speaks #i only started playing it recently after not touching it years until i saw Gianni playing it and holy shit so much has changed #i mean it’s understandable since it’s been like 7 sevens but there’s a lego mode that’s like minecraft and it’s super fun #also like little side things you can do in battle royale like fishing and driving around listening to the radio #you can also get music for you game and they got nine inch nails and weezer for some of the songs too??? like oh my god?? #also there’s a hot tiger guy and peter griffin in the game just wanted to let people know #though ultimately im never buying v bucks for things unless they put gabriel ultrakill in the game then maybe i’ll buy

[totentnz]

sometimes i think to myself "v does too many things you need to shave some off" but then i remember that (obviously) you start of as a somewhat new merc (even though streetkid v can tell kerry thats what they have been doing their entire life) and with them being 27 years old there is plenty of time to pick up many hobbies and have many different jobs and just have experience with a lot of things so im good

#sammy says shit #listen my v is the epitome of jack of all trades master of none #like yeah she was in a band and knows some instruments (not enough to say they play it but she can play her fave songs on the drums) #she had many different jobs (waiting tables tech repairs etc etc) #she knows how to dance (she REALLY likes that one) #she can sew (not like make clothes from scratch but repair clothing and stuff + being punk also gives you proficency with it LMAO) #she dyes and cuts her own hair #has the audacity to think that owning a tattoo gun means she can tattoo #maybe did some of her piercings (punk again) #etc etc #i know it sounds like a lot but honestly? at the age of 27 not that crazy #unless im delusional feel free to give me some honest feedback here

[quietwingsinthesky]

🌹:O

:3c

Lucifer doesn't care how the labcoats say it works; he knows there's no such thing as a clean break from a drift the minute the plug is pulled. Instead, Michael goes from a second consciousness beside his own to being dragged out of Lucifer the further Lucifer gets from him, both of them gripping tight to the connection until it slips, until it snaps, with a violent recoil that knocks Lucifer's brain out of alignment and reminds his legs that they don't work. His next step falls too fast, too heavily, and refuses to take his weight. It's only Michael, now only a voice outside of Lucifer's head yelling his name, catching him from behind that allows Lucifer to collapse to the floor with his dignity intact.

#is this more than one sentence? yes. yes it is. because tumblr deleted this post once and pissed me off. #i had so many tags about lucifer already and boom. gone. #anyway. tfw you see your boyfriend get severely injured during a battle and this makes you panic so bad you manage to make it a few meters #which is a lot for a guy who can't actually walk. #lucifer's got a whole Situation. turns out plugging a guy's brain up to a giant robot is not without its bugs. #especially when said guy was one of the first to be stuck inside the giant robot with his brother. and testing was a lower priority due to #everyone wanting a faster solution to the Giant Fucking Monsters. so lucifer's brain got overloaded and can't send signals to his legs #anymore to move right unless he's hooked up to a mech. technically when this first happened the doctor told him 'well if you stop doing mec #shit you can walk again.' but 1) he's not doing that. and 2) that was years ago. just because that recommendation is still on a file #somewhere doesn't mean it would actually work for him. or even that it would have back then. it's still the official answer for 'fixing' hi #because that's better optics than the truth. which is that he can't walk.* #(technically. technically. if he was left disconnected from the mech for a week he could walk. it would also be exhausting. and painful. #and slow. this is not something lucifer considers to be helpful information when he moves faster and with more ease in his chair. #this is something other people like to point out about him that makes him want to start hitting them. and it's not even really true anymore #the 'a week disconnected' thing. again. was a long time ago. it would take over a month for him to stand nowadays.) #(v few people Get all of this but like. michael is one of them. he's in lucifer's head enough that it would be weirder for him not to get i #add to that him being one of the few people who has seen lucifer walk nowadays and focused more on 'hey he looks like he hates that' #than praising it. and he gets it. and is also the requisite amount of annoyed when lucifer *runs off* before michael can help him into his #chair!! not the first time this has happened and will not be the last. michael's used to catching him.) #ask #oh my god that was so much rambling. this isnt even the point of the fic btw. this is just. backstory. worldbuilding.

[trashlie]

now wait a DANG minute......

all this stalkyoo talk gave me a stupid epiphany....

the fact that Nol is the only one that is actively calling Shinae "Yoo" rn....

And it makes the title of the story soo transparent than it already is .

😭

i know i know its a dumb thought but i just NEVER read it in that angle for the first time until now.... :p

I've thought about this a lot and I'd really love to hear quimchee talk about it but I don't know if she'll be able to until later, in case it's right and it was an indication of Nol lol

I remember her once saying that there isn't anything to read into re: the title, that it was just something she came up with because she's bad at titles and it wasn't meant to be an indication of anything but... she's also said things to throw us off the trail before or to evade giving spoilers lol so I don't know if that was truthful or not?

Because the romance is such a secondary thing I've always taken what she said at face value because I think the main focus of the story is still so much about those interpersonal relationships, the way Shinae was accidentally drawn into this very complex family drama and how she sort of got centered between these two brothers with a really messed up dynamic, and how becoming involved with that affected her own life. But, yeah lol with a lot of the development we've seen up until now, it sure comes off that way, right?

I have a friend who also reads (though she hasn't caught up in ages and I am dying waiting for her to lol) who ships Dieter and Shinae but when we got to episode 151 when Nol called her Yoo for the first time she was like "Ohhhhh I see it's going to happen huh" lol and I hadn't! Even thought about that? Because I really did take what quimchee said at face value lmao and now I want her to talk about it one day - if she really intentionally named it that or not!

Cos yeah, even now he still continues to call her Yoo, and right, he's the ONLY one who does, and I think he will for a while. Someone I was talking with on reddit pointed out that it was because Shinae had told him if she's not allowed to be familiar with him, he can't be familiar with her and call her by her name - which I had definitely forgotten about lol - and we think that's probably what it is?

Gonna stick some spoilers under this read more now hehehe

Even as VERY FAMILIAR as Nol is acting with her, he's still calling her Yoo and he's probably struggling with that disconnect. He doesn't think himself allowed to be familiar with her yet, after everything that's happened, so he still calls her Yoo, even though he seems to be acting on more familiar instincts. The closeness, the touching, the dance invitation!!! These are SO INCREDIBLY FAMILIAR.

And yet, who he is he to her? Is he ready for her to call him Nol, Nolan? Does he still want to be Yeonggi? If he can't let her use Nol, does that mean he can't call her Shinae? If he goes by Yeonggi, that's still unfamiliar, right, because he's using his mask. So even though he's acting on these wants, being familiar with her in a way they hadn't (consciously) previously been, in his mind he cannot call her Shinae yet, because he cannot be Nol yet.

(I think that will be INCREDIBLY exciting future development, when not only he's able to call her by her name again, but when he will let her call him Nol. The name that once was so precious to him has been marred and demeaned and now feels like a branding of what he means to that family, but I think when he's ready to take that name back, to reclaim it and let it be something special again, and when he lets Shinae use it is going to be a big, BEAUTIFUL moment. I think he's far from that yet - Nol has been used against him for so many years, it will take a lot of undoing for the name to become something special for him again. But GOD when Shinae gets to use it ;~; I will cry. When his friends get to call him Nol, I will cry ;~;)

So!!!! To respond to you basically - I FULLY had not considered it that way because I will believe what people tell me until proven otherwise LMAO but it definitely feels really suspicious at this point now that it's been 50+ episodes and Nol still cannot use her name, and will probably continue to, and who else does it?! But also yeah, because this was so romance secondary I had never considered it to mean anything pertaining to romance? So idk! We'll see in time won't we lol. I'm always interested in hearing what other peoples' interpretations are, because for a while, my working interpretation has been that Shinae has inadvertently gotten involved in so many peoples' lives and, much as Yeonggi did with her, she's grown to become this very special person, so in a sense, so many people have come to love her? But also again I just believed that quimchee threw together a pun and said i guess this works and it was too late to ever change it LMAOOOOOO

ANYWAY DON'T FEEL DUMB! I think a lot of us took what quimchee said at face value and have just never thought anything else of it LMAO so being the first time you're reading it that way definitely isn't dumb!

#I Love Yoo #ILY Brainrot #ILY Spoilers #ILY FP #it's not major spoilers but i like to be careful over here hehehe #i don't want to ruin a surprise or something for people i want everyone to get to enjoy their first read through #yknow unless you are someone who knowingly reads because you also like to be spoiled before you read lmao #no shade guys i do it all the time it gets me extra hyped afljakfjajkfjaf LMAO #but anyway truly v v minimal spoilers #this ask is so cute lmao i love it thank you for sending it!!!! #i love little giddy what a minute i just realized!!!! messages #i love it when people go 'wait a minute i've been reading this and it got me thinking' like ;~; #idk how do i put it? it's just so cool that anyone goes 'omg i have this thought' and decides to come tell me ;A; it means a lot