#Mod Mick

[tf2occontest]

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

Poor Miss Pauling has been utterly overrun by wayward mercenary applications! We at Team Fortress Industries are pleased to announce a new contest for all of YOU original and creative people to thin the flock, prove YOUR worth to the battlefield and this company, and determine who amongst YOU is the best of the best*

This is a contest where you are encouraged to create, share, and fight to the death for the sake of your most prized character! Make art and writing for propaganda, tell us all about them, and face off against one another in a series of randomized polls narrowing down who will win the TF2 OC Contest of 2024!

A pinned post with all of the rules and the submission form for this contest will be following shortly. Be sure to follow this blog for more updates!

*(Not an actual indicator of who is the "best" -- this is meant to be a fun, low-stakes, community driven event.)

[tf2occontest]

Get ready to take the backseat on announcing and get in the fight! I hope your skills are up to snuff! HAHAHA!

Survive.

wait – who put me in a tournament????? usually i announce this kind of stuff??? help????

[RAY is now part of the tf2 oc contest this year!! yay]

[callemodista]

The Rolling Stones

[theredbushman]

Da blue popsicle (best flavor, most fought over)

Wrong, mate. It's tha red. And I ain't just sayin' that 'cause o' my team.

[tf2occontest]

Well, well, well. Looks like we really are reaching out beyond just RED or BLU! Get ready to spit-shine those rhinestones, we like your odds!

someone got me signed up for that contest

now, i ant one t flaunt m'self round but...

if i do end up placin', ill let the team bedazzle my head with rhinestones like they always wanted to

[gallacrafts]

Happy ho ho holiday, crafters! You've heard of Elf on a Shelf! This year we're giving you Theme 40:

🎉Mick on a Dick 🎉

In the spirit of gallacrafts you can make this one naughty or nice, or both! You could even put Mickey nowhere near a dick! Regardless, we look forward to seeing wherever our little elf Mickey pops up this month.

Posting day will be Sunday December 15th and we look forward to seeing your crafts in any and all mediums!

As always don't forget to @gallacrafts and use tags #gallacrafts #theme 40 #mick on a dick and #shameless elves so we can reblog and flail about your creations!

Happy crafting! 🎉

[animatronicappreciation]

hello!! it was jokers family fun & games in maine, there used to be two locations in augusta and westbrook but i remember going to the augusta one the most since it was a bigger location, plus i also remember seeing these guys there (bare with me here since i was a kid so my memories gonna be fuzzy) it was pretty much chuck e cheese but for maine and i remember there were on a blue, round stage area with no curtain or backdrop so most of the time (or at least in my memory) we saw them idle with some slight movements i don't remember most of the band but i do remember the front man being a moose in what i believe was a black tuxedo, kind of looked like bull-winkle (it makes sense considering moose is kind of a staple of maine lol) if you guys aren't unable to find these guys that's okay! i've tried couple times myself with no results, but i enjoyed getting to share these guys! i really loved going to jokers a lot as a kid and remember i would sit in front of the stage a lot because these guys stuck out to me a lot lol SORRY TO RAMBLE JUST, I LOVE ANIMATRONICS LIKE THESE LOL

OK! SO! I DID find some footage of animatronics at a (now closed) Joker's location! Yippee!!

HOWEVER!

The show isn't really what you described, which means we've still got a mystery on our hands!

Here's what we've got so far! This was at the Auburn Mall location! No moose to be seen-- looks like a band of big cats, perhaps? Looks like a panther on keyboard, a lion(?) on drums, and a cheetah/leopard on guitar? I don't recognize this particular show, but it looks super cute!

Does anyone have any information, either on the show OP is describing or the show in the video? Send it in, we'll be more than happy to post it!

-Mod Possum

EDIT: BAND IDENTIFIED!

This is Mick Jaguar and the Sly Cats by VP Productions! I believe we featured them briefly in an old post.

-Mod Rat

[torchlitinthedesert]

This quote gets a lot of mileage from Beatles writers. (This one is from Mojo’s special edition on Lennon and McCartney.) But it reads quite differently in context. Here’s Buckle’s full sentence:

“John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison are the greatest composers since Beethoven, with Paul McCartney way out in front.”

The key edits - suppressing poor George, and keeping John and Paul in balance - come from Hunter Davies, who says: “On 29 December [1963], in the Sunday Times, Richard Buckle, reviewing John and Paul’s music used in the ballet ‘Mods and Rockers’, said they were ‘the greatest composers since Beethoven’.”

Buckle was reviewing a ballet that used songs by all three (Please Please Me, From Me To You, I Wanna Be Your Man, Don’t Bother Me, This Boy, She Loves You), which explains why George is on his composer list, even at this very early stage. Singling out Paul is more surprising, especially with that playlist; I wonder what Buckle based that on? Perhaps he was influenced by Paul’s greater visibility in London’s art world? He might just be mistaken - he also thinks George wrote This Boy, and didn’t bother to correct it for his collected criticism, which is where I got the text below.

I wonder if John was remembering this review when he complained to Davies about music criticism: “It’s nice when people like it, but when they start ‘appreciating’ it, getting great deep things out of it, making a thing out of it, then it’s a lot of shit. It proves what we’ve always thought about most sorts of so-called art. It’s all a lot of shit. We hated all the shit they wrote and talked about Beethoven and ballet, all kidding themselves it was important. Now it’s happening to us.” [emphasis mine]

Buckle’s review gives a sideways snapshot of Beatlemania in 1963. In fact he’s not “getting great deep things out of it”. He was a fearlessly camp writer who enjoyed being outrageous. Writing for a mainstream readership, he assumes they know all about the Beatles and their 1963 Christmas show.

Those who were distressed that Christmas Day went by without the Beatles sending any message to their subjects, and who have not got seats for the Astoria, Finsbury Park, can console themselves with a visit to the Prince Charles Theatre, where Western Theatre Ballet are performing a short numero by Peter Darrell, Mods and Rockers, with music by John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison. I wouldn’t exactly call this a ballet, but it is good value. My mother liked it, anyway.

In an open-work set representing a café, adorned only with the portraits of you-know-who on a record sleeve, two Beatle- (or Cardin-) jacketed males and three female mods are shaking. A wa-wa-ing on the mike from one of the combo in the pit is the signal for a gang of rockers in black leather to take over the floor. They rock and the mods cast up their eyes.

A pas de deux is accompanied by a voice wailing This Boy (by George Harrison); there is a fight, and SImon Mottram, the chief rocker, in form-fitting leather-look pants, gives Sylvia Welman, the chief mod girl, the come-on and they beat it up the old M1, leaving both sides raving.

To one who has been long in Covent Garden pent, watching Swan Lake nightly for over forty years, it makes a change. The kids put it over with terrific zing. John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison are the greatest composers since Beethoven, with Paul McCartney way out in front. I’m told I have to go all the way to Whitechapel to get a pair of those pants.

(If you’ve got access to the BFI’s player, you can watch a tv version of the ballet, filmed in 1965. The Beatles bit starts around 13.30. Amazingly, the drummer for the onstage band is Mick Fleetwood, before Fleetwood Mac.)

[voxteardrop]

the rolling stones - high tide and green grass (1966)

[tf2occontest]

ROUND 4 COMPETITOR MATCH-UP LIST

Seen below is our complete list of competitors and who they will be facing off against in Round 4! Usernames for each contestant are included in case competitors would like to communicate for mash-ups!

ROUND 4 CONSISTS OF THREE 1v1v1 MATCHUPS!

!! Clicking on the names of each matchup will take you to their poll (once posted) !!

The Therapist VS THE HUNTER VS The Barman

@/hazardtoons, @/scozthewoz, & @/trypo-p

Armani & Marcel, The Decoys VS The Glider VS Rico Black

@/friendlyengie, @/ruthytwoshakes, & @/blackblackheart

The Courier VS Ágatha, the Nurse VS The Intern

@/sicc-nasti, @/arts-of-gjb, & @/queensqueercourt

[steddiemicrofic]

happy spooky bitch season babiesss 🎃🦇🪄🔮✨ get horny and weird ready because the microfic October prompt is:

🧛 suck | 480 words 🩸

y’all know the drill: gimme your kas!eddies, your sucker punches, your dick suckers, thumbsuckers, people who just plain suck, suck it up buttercups, etc etc etc.

interpret it however you like, make it steddie, and verify your word count on wordcounter.net before you submit. mods will comment a 🥧 emoji on your post once it’s added to the reblog queue.

[popstarpicmixes]

🍂 You can't always get what you want (sweater weather) 🍂

🍁 But if you try sometimes, well, you just might find 🍁

🎃 You get what you need (pumpkin spice latte) 🎃

[callemodista]

The Rolling Stones, Glasgow 1966

[theredbushman]

chicken

Scout? That you, mate?

[pokenstars]

Ray, Rory, and Damien are all babygirls to me

[gallacrafts]

Mick on a Dick & Time Warp Round Up!

Thank you to @jessij1997-gallavichxlove @callivich @mybrainismelted @blue-disco-lights for your wonderful crafts and fanfic to finished out 2024 - What a beautifully creative 12 months it's been!

Click on Theme 40 or Theme 39 in the tags to check out the individual crafts, reblog them, and leave love for our fabulous artists <3 and we will see you back here next Sunday for the February teaser...