#california umbrella

[giftiaa]

Dallas Deck Backyard An illustration of a medium-sized traditional backyard deck with a fire pit

[inthedarktrees]

Pirkle Jones, Figures in Rain, San Francisco, 1955

[teathattast]

I'll sing a love song to the first cloud I see in the sky

Thank you so much, for coming by

I'm gonna slide down the flooded sidewalk

I'll dance until I can't walk

`~°•☆•°~`♡`~°•☆•°~`

Babe please rain, rain, rain on me

Bring me to my knees

Babe please rain, rain, rain on me

Let me feel at home in my own body

[brucespencer]

“One Woman Under Rainbow__ Van Damme/ Little River Beach, 

Mendocino County, California” © Bruce Spencer 2023

[tomwindeknecht]

Let's play a game: Zoom in close, look around, what do you see looking back at you?

Location: Orange Street Alley - Redlands, California

[mygenderenvyromance]

so killjoys comics right? i’ve had California for about a year. it’s wonderful. amazing images and story telling and everything. i got National Anthem this past year for Christmas. read it yesterday in one go. it’s wonderful. amazing images and story telling and everything.

i’ve seen that majority of people far prefer California, and have to read National Anthem several times to somewhat understand it. idk why, it’s probably autism-related, but i understood it perfectly on my first read. i probably prefer it to California.

i don’t really get how it’s hard to understand? i mean i sort of do with the way it’s layed out and each chapter being sort of different perspectives but also not? but i loved the story and the concept behind it.

i really admired the character backstory and development behind Mike Milligram and the way BL/I wiped them so they had little to no memory of being killjoys.

also trans Kara makes me so unbelievably happy. the fact that they all catch on instantly. they don’t give a shit that she’s trans, they just want her to come back to them. to keep rebelling. that’s what i adore about Gerard’s writing.

i don’t know if it classifies as a ‘coming out scene’ but i found quite a few correlations with that and Viktor’s coming out in season 3 of Netflix’s ‘The Umbrella Academy’.

it made me really interested to see that possibly that scene was based of Gerard’s previous writing in National Anthem. i know Gerard isn’t too involved in the actual producing of the show, but they obviously have some input since they wrote the comics the show, primarily the first season, are based on.

this may be far-fetched but i love the thought that Steve Blackman or anyone else working behind scenes in the show possibly had a look at, or had already read, Gerard’s previous works, and incorporated a part of that into the show.

also, rehashing the Viktor transition thing. as a transgender person myself, i absolutely love and admire the way the transition and coming out was represented in the show. and i know that some people were a little shocked to see how quickly the producers worked it in to the season.

but really?

nothing written by, or based off something written by Gerard Way would ever do a transition scene wrongly.

that is all, thank you.

[also, credits to the other creators of The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys and The Umbrella Academy comics:

Gerard Way, Shaun Simon, Becky Cloonan, Nate Piekos, Dan Jackson, Sierra Hahn - Leonardo Romero, Jordie Bellaire - Gabriel Bá, Dave Stewart - Nick Filardi - Ian Culbard]

[fyregrl]

Reading any comic book by Gerard Way feels like going for a walk in the woods and getting attacked by a shark. Just throws you right into the deep end and there are no lifeguards. No context no explanations we die like Kobra Kid on the Crash Track.

[retropopcult]

Downtown Los Angeles during a rainstorm, March 1947

[sheikh-hamdanbin-fazza]

Life is all about those happiest moments that make everything worthwhile. 🌟 What’s the moment that made your heart the happiest? Share with me below

[the-cricket-chirps]

Christo & Jeanne-Claude

The Umbrellas

ca. 1991

[bandcampsnoop]

10/31/23.

I really liked The Umbrellas (San Francisco, California) debut LP in 2021 on Slumberland, but if "Three Cheers!" is a true indication of what their new album, "Fairweather Friend" sounds like then I will give a genuine "Hip, Hip, Hoorah"!

The Bandcamp write up says, "Channeling sold gold influences like The Pastels, Comet Gain, Orange Juice and The Aislers Set, The Umbrellas represent the fertile San Francisco Bay Area scene’s at its most pop-tastic." Before I read that, I immediately thought of older Pastels and Orange Juice. Their earlier work does have a decidely Aislers Set feel.

Slumberland is putting this out. I know we posted about the band lightheaded a while back, but give it another listen. I did a couple of days ago and enjoyed it more this time around.

[aristocratvisuals]

Downtown Redlands, CA by Joelle Burgado

[1-800-simping]

i wore such a cute fit to go to school today to chicken in front of my crush AND for it to rain super hard and ruin the fit and i had my natural hair down and everything. i felt so cute wtf

[soppingwetratboy]

Crazy when I check the dates and it’s like “okay I’ve been insane about mcr since…. July 16th”

[thingsdavidlikes]

Comings and Goings by ijp01

[gingintigtig]

To give International peeps an idea of what the fuck is happening to the Conservatives in the UK right now, leading up to the July 4th election

In a grand total of only 14 days, the conservatives have done the following on the campaign trail.

Announced the election outside of number 10 in the pouring rain with no plans to use an umbrella or take it inside.

Went to a brewery in Wales and asked if they were looking forward to the summer football, only for staff to respond that Wales didn't make the qualification for the cup.

Person who questioned the PM on Television was actually a plant

Went for an interview at the Titanic Quarter in Belfast and the reporter said "are you captaining a sinking ship into this election?"

This picture.

Promised a return of National Service which OBLITERATED the young vote.

A top Tory minister instead of campaigning went to fucking Greece.

A Tory minister gave up her own seat and told everyone to vote for the Reform candidate instead.

Three Tories defected to a different party.

Did a PR thing involving the PM dribbling a football and someone commented on camera "he's as good at football as he is as being Prime Minister" (he was terrible).

Former Tory minister suggested on Twitter that once he loses the election he would bugger off to California to be a speaker at GOP conferences like other former Tory ministers have done, and he had to furiously deny the allegations.

He said he'll get rid of poor value for money University Courses and when asked which ones, couldn't name a single one.

Announced the election but were nearly 200 candidates short to compete and are scrambling to find some.

Hung the flag upside down in their campaign video, which means we're in distress.

Gave a speech with factory workers, and one woman was so aghast at his bullshit on camera that they sent someone out to stand in-front of her to block her reactions; it has already been satirised.

A high profile conservative MP called a pollster who was live on air, the pollster answered, telling him that he was going to lose his seat by a massive majority. The MP didn't say anything and just hung up. Again, this was LIVE ON AIR.

They went campaigning in Hanley, and in the river behind them, the Liberal Democrat party very slowly sailed by on a little boat. The camera man panned the camera away from the prime minister to focus on the Liberals in the boat slowly sailing down the river.

A new poll shows that for the first time in decades, if not over a century, the Conservatives could be in third place, with Labour (Social Democrat) and the Liberal Democrats becoming the top two parties.

I hope you've been keeping count here, because it's been fourteen days and that is 18 pieces of terrible publicity.