#The Lockdown Sessions

[runnning-outof-time]

Reunited (and it feels so good)

After being away on a - rather exciting - press tour for Oppenheimer, Cillian comes home and surprises his wife with flowers. Champagne by the fireplace follows (because having him home is a cause for celebration) before the two find themselves wrapped up in each other under the covers.

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Created in celebration of Alex @cillmequick hitting 1500 followers — I just had to do something with your lovely Lockdown couple … I hope this fits them well. Congrats on your much deserved milestone! 💕

[alexisnotstraight]

does someone else also feels that no matter what your knowledge of a show/movie/musician/fandom/etc, its never enough? like, yeah ive seen this show front to back multiple times because i like it, and i would love to interact with the fandom and then they judge you because you didn't see the show when it first aired or you started to watch it when it became highly popular.

i think that us as people that are part of a fandom (a community for people who have a shared interest) we should be more open to accept people that don't necessarily fit the stereotype of a fan.

idk, im a swiftie, i dont get mad when i see that someone wasn't aware of the existence of the last time ft gary lightbody (my favorite ts song of all time), because is not one of her popular songs, im not expecting everyone to know the lyrics from memory and its nice that they're enjoying their music and always trying to lean more. if you enjoy something, you dont need to change the way you consume it just to fit on a community. again speaking about taylor swift, if your favorite songs her most popular and enjoy them, that doesn't mean you're a fake fan, the songs are popular for something, you're enjoying something that so many people also does. if you dont listen to the unreleased songs, if you have a few songs you dont like, if you dont know her personal life and everything about her from memory, if you dont own any merch, if you haven't been to any of her shows you're not a fake fan. and this us not just about taylor swift this is about everything.

here's another example: i ove elton john's music, i saw his biopic and feel in love with the work that he has done, i listened to his albums on repeat for years, i got out of work early just to be able to see live his concert on disney when it premiered. but, i dont like his most recent music, i didn't like the collaborations that he did with dua lipa or britney spears, i didn't even listen to his most recent album, the album before that, i only liked two songs of all of it. i dont idolize him, yes, he is someone i look up too and admire, but i dont put him on a pedestal. i judge his as any consumer of media can. am i still a fan? yes!

the definition of what makes you a fan has changed a lot over the years, you dont need to have every piece of information of that matter ingrained into your brain. there a lot of really great and caring fandoms, but theres always someone out there willing to prove you wrong no matter what

we need to change, we need to welcome people the same way they welcomed us. we need to stop gatekeeping, you wouldn't believe all the people that ive seen throwing tantrums over their favorite piece of media becoming mainstream. aren't you happy that something that brought you so much happiness is being shared around and is gonna have so much impact on other people? we cant wait for everything to get better, we need to actively try to change for the better

[shelbydelrey]

Silent Treatment

This moodboard goes to @cillmequick and her 300 Followers Milestone! I know you're not hosting a celebration dear Alex, but i didn't participate in the 100 Followers one and i thought of redeeming myself with this silly little gift 😁

It depicts my favourite chapter (so far!) from your amazing story The Lockdown Sessions (the muffin-gate episode and it's consequences 😂)

[poprocklyrics]

Riding beside me, silver light lightning, time quickly disappears Born out of fireworks, still looking skyward as darkness reappears

E-Ticket, Elton John & Eddie Vedder

[the-slytherin-poet]

Now I’ve got that feeling once again

I can’t explain

You would not understand

This is not how I am

[al-luviec]

juvie buddies

[honeyvenommusic]

❗️NEWGLASSANIMALSGLASSANIMALSGLASSANIMALSGLASSANIMALSGLASSANIMALSGLASSAN-

[runnning-outof-time]

The Lockdown Sessions

Moodboard inspired by the multi-chaptered fic by @cillmequick

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This idea came to me out of nowhere and I decided to run with it. I hope you like it, Alex. 😊 I looked back at the chapters’ titles and decided to choose symbols that represented a mix of some of my personal favs and some of the important ones. Thank you for sharing this lovely story with us - it truly reads like a movie in the sense that I can visualize everything that’s happening as I’m reading it. 💕

[viir-tanadhal]

wish neil had revealed what a new bohemia's b-sides are at the koko gig

[katya-goncharov]

i have a horrible feeling i'm going to have to watch gaming videos as research for my creative writing, and i don't quite know how i'm going to stand the boredom

[sodrippy]

getting all these hiking vids on my feed rmring how i planned a big national parks hiking trip and how fucking different my body was four years ago. ok 2am mental breakdown

[poprocklyrics]

Born out of fireworks, still looking skyward

E-Ticket, Elton John and Eddie Vedder

[sloshed-cinema]

Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions (2020)

This is perhaps the most Pandemic Lockdown of all concert videos. Am I a pretentious indie-head who only deigned to listen to this in 2020 because I was losing my mind and knew about the involvment of various Dessners from The National in the record, and because Sufjan Stevens’ The Ascension was still months away? Yes. Did I drink an entire bottle of rosé while listening to it and grudgingly admit to myself that I liked it? Yes. And what better way to capture that tenuous moment of transition midway through lockdown than with this moment: some performers are together in an isolated location, others “Skype in” as it were. It’s minimalist in all regards. The camerawork isn’t terribly interesting, but I suppose there are only so many ways you can shoot a studio. Early tracks are stripped to the bone in a way almost pushing beyond simplicity, though the overall performance of the album does gain a greater degree of textural variety and interest as it goes along. It’s a fine document of a fine album and a bit of a snapshot of a time we’d probably all rather forget on some level or other.

What’s more interesting to me is how I felt ever more like some sort of anthropologist while watching the film. Co-producer Jack Antonoff reads as the coolest middle schooler in his wardrobe and try-hard attitude, though by midway through I just wanted to bully him or something. Aaron Dessner, meanwhile, was introverted and the picture of impeccable musicianship—every once in a while the camera seems to gasp at him effortlessly and efficiently ripping out fingerstyle riffs while Antonoff frantically strums away on the other side of the room. The fireside chats were a thing of beauty even just in terms of watching where the wine bottle wandered and whose glass had a different level than in an earlier snippet. It’s a little goofy and weird, everyone extremely complimentary, but at the end of it all, the musical synergy is there. If nothing else, there are subtle casts to Swift’s gaze which indicate just how personal this is, even beyond lyrical jabs. If she’s got a bit of a mask on in interviews it slips away some in performance. Unless this is just another intentional layer. Let’s over-analyze the piece.

THE RULES

PICK ONE

Select either LOCKDOWN, PANDEMIC, or QUARANTINE and sip whenever that is mentioned.

SIP

A track begins.

The camera seems shocked at Dessner's musicianship.

Every time someone at the fireside chat takes a drink.

Exterior drone shot of Long Pond Studio.

BIG DRINK

William Bowery is mentioned or credited.

Jack, a 'bit' has to be funny for it to be a 'bit'.

AW SHIT THE WINE BOTTLE MOVED

[sheilamurrey]

Integrating the Spirals: Background and Who Benefits

My DE-Program course I developed in 2020 begins again tomorrow and this is how it came to be and why I’d love for you to join me in this practice of, Integrating the Spirals™. As well, I go into who I think will align with this and some other information I’m sharing in this post. If you would rather listen instead of read, play the audio: Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening wherever you…

[potatoesandsunshine]

People say friends don't destroy one another What do they know about friends?