#anyway re: elo idk!! some of it for me at this point is also that i just have a ton of good memories associated with it

[bilbao-song]

hello it's your secret rocker santa again! so sorry it's taken me a few days to respond - you are right on when you say this time of year is hectic! hopefully you'll get some time to relax and enjoy things too?

ok so i confess i am only familiar with ELO's big hits like don't bring me down, livin thing, mr. blue sky (and i think sweet talkin woman and some other songs were played on something i watched recently and i yelled out ELO!). i understand about the song v. album recommendation, as i am pretty much an album listener as well. my spotify wrapped thing said so, so you know it's true!

i listened to eldorado at lunch this week and i really liked it! i liked the blend of classical music and how lush the sound was. i also listened to out of the blue and liked it a lot! i think starlight was my favorite track, but i also liked across the border - it had a sound that was a little reminiscent of one of my favorite beach boys songs, heroes and villains. anyway thank you for the recommendations, i was very happy to listen to full albums!

this may seem like the most obvious question, but how did you get into jeff lynne and ELO? what appeals to you most about him as an artist?

hope you have had a good week so far!!

hiiiii!!! it's okay!! it's a busy time :') i don't even have that much going on atm and it still seems to be hectic haha. but yesss so far it's been a really nice Holiday Season™ :-) i hope you're enjoying it too!! are there any seasonal activities you usually do this time of year??

i'm glad you like eldorado!! i have a hard time choosing favorites, but it's a strong contender for my favorite album of all time...at least like, tied with 3-4 others haha. i also think it's perfect for fall (and winter tbh!) so i'm usually particularly in the mood for it around this time of year. and YES across the border is one of my favorites!! it gets compared to heroes and villains quite a bit, which i definitely understand; they have really similar vibes overall

hmmmmm well!!! i was more or less always aware of ELO (i was pretty much raised as a 70s music enjoyer) but it just kind of gradually evolved into madness over time for me. out of the blue was the first full ELO album i listened to and i was kind of instantly obsessed with it :') otherwise!!! i don't even know where to begin tbh. i looove his voice (i always feel like his voice/vocal ability is somewhat underappreciated tbh. he's very versatile lmao) and just??? his overall Sound = happiness to me at this point :') it's just so deeply ingrained in my life i don't even know how to describe exactly what it is for me haha. generally though, there's a certain Zestiness that a lot of the 70s ELO songs have that i just love (and that's basically what initially hooked me), BUT i'm also really attached to the newer sound as well. idk!!! i truly like it all so it's hard to describe very specifically lmao

anyway :-) sorry for taking awhile to reply again!! hope ur having a good weekend!!

[wearethegladiators]

it’s been a long time i haven’t ranted right

i have’nt re-read your posts @elo (et je dois te répondre sur fb!!!! ouloulou c’était la hess ces temps-ci) mais j’ai toujours en mémoire le “NATHAN WOULD NEVER GROW A MUSTACHE” et MDRRRRRRRR

pardon

i have been angsty these past few days and i needed to SHARE.

about Wynona and Sacha

Sacha makes me sad. i want him to get the support he deserves. i want them to MAKE UP. can you imagine being an engineer and yet your best friend asks for someone else (a NON-ENGINEER) to help work on her new leg(s)??? or him helping take care of the kids/dragons and her avoiding him as much as possible because she’s so ashamed/feeling so useless?? and so him having to go through all this shitstorm all alone?? THIS IS NOT OKAY.

btw about Wynona’s trajectory in the war: ok so she killed that family (let’s try to be chill about it okay she did not mean any harm *okijesorsdéso*), joined an extremist group and did some fucked-up shit for a while until SOMETHING happened (maybe she had to confront/kill a friend or something) and she ran away. for like a couple weeks, maybe a couple months?? leaving Sacha/Nathan/Lily/whoever with the kids (who can’t look at her in the eyes anyway now mdr). that’s like the least Wynona thing EVER but i think she really needs it. and then she would go back to the ranch and pretend like everything is normal, go back to taking care of the dragons as much as she can (and getting frustrated all the time), maybe even re-starting to work on her thesis or stuff like that. casually ignoring the war.

Wynona and the kids: effed-up relationship, they’re either scared of her or super pissed at her for leaving them. ofc they love each other to death but angst angst angst, especially with sacagaewa.

Wynona and Lily: they’re a thing!! like i’m pretty sure they did not get along at first, but they always had loads of respect for each other (and relatively similar values, even with different perspectives??). pretty sure also they had a girl talk at one point about Nathan (hihihi) like “i know you love him but he shouldn’t get to treat you like that” sort of thing. ET TOC. anyway, they kept on seeing each other after Wynona went rogue - unofficially. Nathan probably doesn’t know about that. even more so, when Wynona went back to the ranch after disappearing and officially stopped being involved with any rebellion movement whatsoever, she actually started working for the muggleborn rebellion as their engineer hihihihi. so they see each other pretty often and they go each other’s back. Wynona was the one that Lily called to burn the bodies of her family. small bonding stuff like that.

Wynona and the rebellion: the ranch is kept hidden by a Fidelitas (probably not with Sacha, bby :’( MAYBE LILY ???? THIS IS GOING TOO FAR). there’s probably a whole part dedicated to the rebellion tbh, like bungalows in the middle of the forest (quite far from the ranch but still apart of it) where fugitives can temporarily hide. there’s definitely some sort of little cabanon where Wynona does her little experiments and still meets with rebellious leaders sometimes. trying to preserve her kids.

BTW: Wynona was an “official” pureblood/neutral figure up until pretty late in the war, so she was very cautious about hiding her identity - until the massacre. after that she always appeared without a mask, so she took all kids back from Hogwarts to the ranch. they’ve literally been living there for years without seeing ANYONE ELSE (beside the refugees and the few persons Wynona lets in). bonne ambiance.

BACK TO WYNONA AND SACHA

i don’t know how this could happen but i just have this one!! scene!! in!! mind!! where Sacha has a moment like “SOME OF US ARE HUMAN” and Wyn just stays super calm/quiet/silent and when he’s done she goes to him and grabs his hands and is like “Sacha. you’re family. you’re the blood of my blood” and it’s like the biggest love declaration Wynona can ever make?? cause it’s not like the Evans, for the Blackbirds blood and family are SACRED. and they probably have this sort of “cérémonie de passage à l’âge adulte” in which they have super long discourses and say stuff like “blood of my blood” in their native tongues and Sacha is so close to all of them that he has probably witnessed one of these!! and so he would know that’s like a big thing. AND IDK BUT PLEASE HAVE A HUG AND BE FRIEND AGAIN AND WYN PLS BE SUPPORTIVE OF HIM HE’S YOUR CHILD TOO!! *bye* idk, or maybe about the whole Edan thing but i really want Wynona to have one of these moments in which she can explain why she pushed him away like that :’(

Wynona and Nathan

ok i remember reading stuff about Wynona and Nathan!! like going to pureblood galas together mdrrr. ARE THEY GOING AS AN OFFICIAL COUPLE sorry. also this means that maybe they have already met each other BEFORE she joined the rebellion in one of such events?? maybe when they were younger? and maybe when the war had started and this is when Wynona noticed him and was like “hmhm. il est po clair ce gars let’s goooo” it sounds like a Wynonathan AU i like it hihihihi. (can you imagine if they had already seen each other meeting for the first time when Wyn is trying to join the rebellion and he is her contact?? mdr)

Nathan being the mastermind and Wyn the engineer!! yes!! btw sorry BUT I HAVE ANOTHER HEADCANON IN MIND. what if, recently, Nathan came up with a GENIUS plan and everyone’s like “that’s a really good plan. we just don’t know how to do it. like we PHYSICALLY don’t know how to do it and all engineers are either dead or working for the government” (hey don’t get me wrong Sacha is a genius engineer but for the purpose of drama we will rule that this is not his field of specialty ok). OH YOU KNOW WHAT Nathan looking at Sacha like “can you do it?” and he’s like “no........” and Nathan just stares at him and goes like “I know someone who can” and BAM, cut to black, he goes to Wynona (SORRY i’m watching too many TV shows i should have written the GOT finale i knoooow)

mdr and after that Nathan bringing Wynona to the rebellion headquarters to work on the plan and she asks “hey you told them it’s me right??” “yeah yeah no worries” .... they go in the headquarters and everyone goes silent like “mdr wtf encore”

also it’s very unclear in my head what Wynonathan’s relationship has been over the past few years?? the more i think about it the more i think Wyn must be freaking in love with him which is terrible because NATHANGELE IS ENDGAME. like he’s probably coming to the ranch quite often to help with the kids/creatures but they probably don’t talk that much, maybe they don’t even look at each other in the eyes anymore (NOW YOU LOOK AT ME LIKE A CRIME SCENE RIGHT). is he trying to help her, is he disgusted/scared of her like everyone else?? pretty sure she’s angry af against him for “letting her down” at her worst (bah i mean that’s Wynona you know) (also she’s probably mad jealous/hurt by the whole Angele plot, bby). and then he comes to her with this plan and they’re working on it like before and??? i don’t know??

(this is not related but maybe when Wynona disappeared she came back with dragon eggs from we don’t know the hell where. and she’s been training dragons for the rebellion in secret? and who’s gonna get it, the muggleborn resistance or the rebellion??? ouloulou???)

this is already FREAKING LONG so i’ll come back to faire un point on Lily/reread your posts later. thank you for coming to my confused ted talk!!

[bilbao-song]

Hello! I'm looking for a new wallpaper for my phone. Do you have any good pictures of Jeff (preferably 70s Jeff)/ELO that would be suitable for a phone background? Thank you! :)

hi!!!!!!! i’ll put some under a read more :^) (note that this is going to be extremely image heavy bc it’s basically just a massive photo dump at this point)

also: i’m really not sure if these will be big enough if you save them directly from my blog so if you need any of them bigger/higher res just send me a message or another ask (anon or not) and i’ll see what i can do lol

first of all, i figure this is as good a time as any to mention the fact that i made an elo lockscreen for no reason a few months ago, like, i’m not even using it (which i’ll explain in a minute lmao) but it’s very obviously based off of/made from this poster which was honestly just begging to be a lockscreen. so!!! here it is:

nothing too fancy but. yeah. i have no idea what size screen it’s even for but i think you can resize as needed??? i’m also not sure if saving it from my blog is going to leave you with a high enough res/correctly sized copy so if anyone wants to just download it here it is on dropbox

anyway! the reason that’s not my lockscreen despite the fact that i like it a lot lol is because for like ~4 years my lockscreen has been space jeffrey. the problem with this is that i didn’t even originally make it to be a lockscreen so the clock goes across his face (at least on the iphone???) but i’m planning on remaking it so there’s more space (pun maybe intended?) at the top when i get a new phone lmao

anyway!!!!!! what you actually asked for, which is pictures:

(idk about this one bc i’m on a pc right now but i would imagine as long as you can get it big enough it would probably be pretty ideal w/ all the empty space at the top)

(i feel like this one might be too small but it would also be lovely lmao)

(i��m just biased bc i’m in love with this photo honestly)

the main thing with this one is that i feel like in order to really make it into a good lockscreen you would need to trim it down just to the photo of him and that add some more empty space at the top but it would be So Easy and it would look so cool

(maybe???)

and these last two are going to have two different versions each bc at one point while playing around with photoshop i edited them for no reason but my own entertainment so here you go (the original of each is first and my edit is second)

and the only other thing i wanted to add was that my phone background (not my lockscreen but like…the other thing) is this poster, and that posters in general make kind of nice albeit somewhat busy backgrounds:

anyway!!! that’s about all i can come up with!!! if anyone else has any suggestions feel free to reblog this or something lol