#lennon curtis

[wildestdreamcatcher]

Christmas

Summary: Summer has a Christmas gathering with her Dad's side of the family

TW: Mentions of feeling nauseous, anxiety, family tensions, arguing

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Christmas gatherings used to be something that I loved. I loved seeing my grandparents on both sides and I still do, I spent half of the summer with them this year because my parents didn’t want Lennon and I to be alone after what happened with Jake. I still loved seeing my aunts, uncles, and cousins but now I didn’t know what to do especially since I hadn’t seen them that much. I still felt guilty when my parents skipped the 4th of July at my aunt’s house because of how depressed I had gotten, I felt like Lennon was still upset that he missed it even if he hadn’t vocalized it. I felt disgusted right now: the gemstones on my eyelids felt uneven, the red dress made me feel too hot, the tights made my legs look weird, and the heeled Mary Janes made my feet hurt but we were already running late so I didn’t have time to change any of this. 

When I walked into the living room, Lennon and my parents were already dressed and trying to prepare all the gifts. I was jealous of how my mom always looked gorgeous. Her hair was perfectly curled, her makeup looked perfect, we both coordinated by wearing red velvet dresses except her tights were an opaque black paired with black heels. Ever since Jake got arrested, my mom had become my best friend. I remember being angry that my parents had decided to press charges against Jake but I started noticing things that Jake told me might’ve been lies, the first being that my parents wouldn’t love me anymore if they found out but now I was spending all my time with my parents and wearing matching bracelets with them. 

“You look so beautiful, Summer!” My mom said excitedly. My dad nodded and hugged me. Both of my parents were always supportive of me. I could tell Lennon looked annoyed with how long it took me to get ready but we were both trying to be nice to each other tonight. I wondered what tonight was going to be like. I knew it would be loud, they always were, especially now that my oldest cousin just had a baby, and since my dad’s side of the family was a lot bigger there would be more people to speak to and ask me questions. They hadn’t seen me in a while so I knew they were going to ask me so many questions. 

I braced myself in the car ride trying to brace myself. When we walked in, my dad’s oldest brother, John, and his wife, Lauren hugged me and I tried not to recoil. It felt odd, I loved my uncle but everything felt so overwhelming already. I just wanted to run into the bathroom and vomit. I didn’t want to seem rude,  especially since they were hosting this year , Lennon immediately got excited when he saw our cousin, Rose. She was his favorite cousin, she was like a younger sister to them and they were super close in age since my mom and Lauren got pregnant at the same time. When Rose hugged me, I jumped back a little. It was the fourth time I had been hugged and it felt like a fucking overload. She noticed and seemed annoyed but just started talking to Lennon like nothing happened. Lennon rolled his eyes at me. 

Grandma had invited me to sit with her and Grandpa on the couch. No one else had gotten there, John’s oldest son, Alex was still driving down with his wife and baby. Mary was supposed to be getting here soon with her husband and so was Christina and her family. My grandparents weren’t being overwhelming towards me, they didn’t really ask a lot of questions, and I sat there talking to them about how school had been going. I was trying to talk more, especially after Lennon told me a few days ago that “my newfound distance and standoffish personality” seemed offputting to everyone. I prayed that my parents would let me sit at the adult table since I no longer know how to talk to my cousins or Lennon. I wanted to curl into a ball when more people started to come. 

I looked over at my parents and noticed how happy they were, the kind of happiness that almost felt contagious, the kind of happiness I could only dream of. They had been together for 21 years now and I knew this year had been hard on them between the lawyers, the court dates, social workers, and all of the shit that Jake had brought but they always seemed to make it out on the other side. My parents always told Lennon and I that communication always worked for a relationship, and between that and the couple’s therapy they had been doing, it seemed like things were perfect. I watched as my parents whispered gossip into each other’s ears as they laughed together. 

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I felt nauseous. Everyone had came now and it was all so loud: Alex and his wife came over with his daughter, Kylie who was now crying, Lennon wanted to talk to me in private and asked me why I was being “weird” and talking to grandma and grandpa the whole time instead of being with him and the cousins, it all felt too much. When I saw my dad in the kitchen, I begged him to let me sit at the adult table with him and Mom.

“Dad, please let me sit with you at the table! I’m 14 now and I won’t interrupt or anything I pro-”

“You can sit wherever you want, Summer. You’re not a toddler and I don’t want you to be miserable”.

I sat beside my parents at the table, trying to ignore Lennon’s eye roll. Alex looked confused when I sat there. He was 24, older than me by 9 years, older than Rose by 10 but he still liked to joke that I was the favorite grandchild since I was the first girl. Uncle John didn’t make a face or anything but I wondered if he was annoyed at me when I didn’t talk to Rose since he saw the way I jumped back. Uncle John was a lot different than my dad: he and his wife were more Catholic than us, especially since my parents took a step back from the church after we practically shunned when they found out my parents were pressing charges against Jake, John didn’t like the fact that my parents switched churches since both sides of my family had been going there for years, there was a lot more tension in my dad’s relationship with John since my uncle wanted an answer and my dad wouldn’t tell him that I was Jake’s victim. My grandparents knew because I was the one who told them. 

“You look pretty Summer, but you don’t need all that on your face.” John said. It sounded a bit condescending I wasn’t going to say anything. My uncle had been blunt my whole life, he said what he thought, spoke his truth, and never went back on it. 

“It doesn’t matter what Summer needs, if she likes it, she likes it.” My dad said, passively. He and John had hardly spoken the whole night which never happened when I was younger. They used to be best friends but that changed, just like everything else. 

“I’m just saying she looks different. Especially now that she dyed her hair, got all pierced and started dressing like she’s in a Madonna video.”

“Well, you can’t expect her to stay the same forever. Can you?” My dad and John had been going back and forth. 

I knew looked different now. My roots were starting to show through the brunette dye. I started dressing differently, I got my nose pierced after begging my mom and dad to let me, and I got a double lobe piercing yesterday. I wondered if this was really about me and my clothes though. My mom had asked me if I wanted to help her get some stuff out of the car, which was her way of trying to distract me from whatever passive-aggressive shit was going on with John and my dad.

“Mom, I can take off my makeup if that will make them stop arguing.”

“No, Summer, you don’t have to change anything if you don’t want to. Your dad and John are just going through something right now but it doesn’t matter right now. We were planning on leaving soon anyway now that the gift exchange was over. None of us want to hear your dad and John argue, especially not tonight.”

I could tell that John didn’t know what to give me Lennon so we just got $10 which I wasn’t made about at all, Mary had gotten me a set of watercolors and a Kate Bush cassette, Christina had gotten me a pair of baby blue and white New Balances, and my grandparents had gotten me a Precious Moments angel figurine and my grandma had crocheted me a butterfly plushie that I was obsessed with. I was glad when my parents started to announce that we were leaving. Lennon didn’t seem thrilled because he started asking Mom and Dad if he could sleep over at John’s house which my uncle had already said yes to but my parents had made some excuse.

I wondered if this was how family gatherings with my dad’s side would be from now on. I didn’t want to sit through this passive tension between my parents and John, I didn’t want Lennon and Rose to gossip about me like they did tonight, I wanted everything to be normal but I wondered if it would ever be again. 

@jackvaginal @sadlonelyyogurt @blowflygrls @cusineverreallyknown

[socgf]

matt dillon might be the coolest person ever

[beatleswings]

THE BEATLES, BILLY J KRAMER AND THE DAKOTAS, CILLA BLACK and THE SEARCHERS on THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS. December 15, 1963.

[minniemcgoo]

Hey did you know that NINA CRIED POWER

[rolloroberson]

John Lennon - It’s So Hard

[intheblueskyyy]

[nothingneverno]

Etsy Shop

[natthatcat17]

I need friends who are obsessed with the same things as me

[greensparty]

Remembering Jeff Beck 1944-2023

Guitar legend Jeff Beck has died at 78. I am not using the word “legend” lightly. Whenever you see a list of the greatest guitarists of all time, Beck usually shows up in the Top 10. When Wayne and Garth were on the cover of Guitar World in 1992, they did their Top 10 Guitarists and as they listed Beck they said “He has the greatest haircut of all time. It’s that layered shag look”. 

Beck and his axe

Beck got his start in The Yardbirds as their guitarist from 1965-66. He took over guitar duties after Eric Clapton left and when Beck left, he handed that position to Jimmy Page, who was in the band with Beck for a short time. What a legacy that band is! That was Beck with The Yardbirds during that swinging scene in Blow Up, where they performed “Train Kept A-Rollin”. Then he formed The Jeff Beck Group, which featured Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood. After that he went solo and continued his blues-rock sound for decades.

1989 album cover

I discovered him around 1985 when I saw he and Rod Stewart’s cover of Curtis Mayfield’s “People Get Ready”. What an amazing cover and Beck’s guitar truly drives that tune. The album cover for his album Jeff Beck’s Guitar Shop is one of my all time favorites too. He was also a musician who popped up on tons of soundtracks (Days of Thunder), compilations (the Stone Free album where he and Seal covered Jimi Hendrix) and playing on friend’s albums (Tina Turner, Mick Jagger, Duff McKagan and even Ozzy Osbourne’s recent album). Also needs to be added that Beck covered The Beatles’ “She’s a Woman” and “A Day in the Life”. He also covered John Lennon’s “Isolation” with Johnny Depp; performed with Paul McCartney on drums on Paul Jones’ “The Dog Presides”; jammed with Clapton, George Harrison, Jimmy Page and The Rolling Stones on “Layla” in 1984; and he performed with Ringo Starr and David Gilmour on Jan Hammer’s “Too Much to Lose”. 

The link above is Rolling Stone’s list of Jeff Beck’s greatest songs. Take a listen!

[wildestdreamcatcher]

The Nuclear Family

Summary: A look into Summer and Lennon's relationship through his perspective

TW: Mentions of grooming, trauma, crying, implied panic attacks

A/N: This story is going to be really long with 1582k words. Boarder found on this website

Everything always seemed perfect. We were like one of the families you saw on my postcards or sitcoms. The poster child for the “American Dream”. Something you only see on TV and movies. My parents were happy with each other, never really argued, and it always felt like they were sickeningly in love. Summer was always seen as the more outgoing one in the family: she made friends easily, very talkative, she was kind, and polite. I remember people at church always used to tell her that she was beautiful; it was like she had this charm over people at a young age. That’s what helped her win over the pageant judges, teachers, the priest, and everyone else around her. Everything shifted so fast when Jake’s true personality was revealed.

Jake was around a lot, my parents were best friends with him, he went to our church and Summer was obsessed with him. Everyone loved him, and some people still defended him after it came out he raped Summer and had been for years. I didn’t mean to see them like that but instead of minding my own business, as she liked to remind me; I saw him kiss her like he was in a fucking rom-com, like she hadn’t just turned 14, like she hadn’t just finished 8th grade a month ago, like he wasn’t 38 years old. I remember when I told my parents, I remember Summer screaming and crying when my parents called the police, how angry she got when she found out he even got prison time at all. She changed completely: she stayed in her room all the unless she had a summer sports practice, had to use the bathroom or get food. 

Everything changed so quickly, nothing was ever normal. We all started doing therapy: family therapy, separate therapy, and my parents were also doing couple’s therapy which might’ve been for the best seeing as how they seemed distant for a few months after what happened with Jake and the stress from the whole situation started to boil over into an otherwise happy marriage. Summer had gotten really into journaling about what happened with Jake and painting to distract herself. She’d never let anyone see them but recently I had started going through them, maybe for once I’d understand her if I did. Her room was forbidden to me: it was neatly decorated with the baby blue and white color scheme, her easels wth unfinished paintings, the shelf of Precious Moments and Barbie dolls she had recently started, the Aqua Net she had always had to replace every month and the hundreds of dollars worth of makeup on her vanity. She had posters of Madonna, Kate Bush, Stevie Nicks, Jon Bon Jovi, and Renaissance paintings covering her walls. I could only dare to step into it when she wasn’t home and pray to God she didn’t catch me going through all her shit. I’d be dead if she did. 

I walked downstairs for breakfast and saw Aria and Kai sitting beside Summer at the table again. One would think it would be a bad idea to have the on and off again boyfriend of your daughter’s best friend always to be around but somehow: Aria and Kai always acted normal when they were here. They didn’t argue or try to make out in Summer’s bedroom and Summer never seemed like she was a third wheel or anything. They had become their own trio ever since Aria became Summer’s only friend and started dating Kai who was friends with Summer too but he had started to distance himself from Jude ever since Jude started getting into drugs and spending all of this time with Mindy. Aria was always here even if Kai wasn’t. She even spent all of Christmas break with us last year. I missed when Summer would always hang out with Roxanne or the girls she used to be friends with at church. They were always nice to me or tried to include me in their plans, they used to take me to the arcade with them all the time but that was back when Summer liked me. When Roxanne and Summer were inseparable, when the people at our all church still liked us and didn’t practically shun us. I just sat there at the table, dreading the car ride to school with the 3 of them. 

I sat there in Summer’s blue Camaro she got for her 16th birthday. I knew she had been saving up for it with her shifts as a waitress and with the money from the dinner, my parents, and both of my grandparents all gave her, she was able to get it for her birthday. I just tried to drown out the conversations the 3 were having with the Duran Duran album in my Walkman. 

When I walked into the school, I noticed Trevor Halton couldn’t keep his eyes off of Summer while she just smiled sadly at him. I read in her diary that they had been dating each other secretly for 5 or 6 months but they split a few weeks ago. She didn’t think she was ready to be in a relationship, no matter how happy she was. I wondered why she would deny herself of that happiness she could’ve had, she ranted about how nice of a guy Trevor was so why would she sabotage that for herself? She caught me staring at her and rolled her eyes, taking books out of her locker. 

Summer and I promised Mom and Dad we would be nicer to each other but she made it so fucking hard. When I got in her car after school, she said she take me to get food and go to the arcade after school. We used to hang out a lot before everything that happened with Jake and younger me would’ve been so thrilled for her to hang out with me. I used to think it would be so cool to have my older sister hang out with me all the time and drive me everywhere but now I just nodded and looked at her skeptically. 

“Why are you being nice to me right now?” I asked her.

“I think I’ve been too harsh on you! Everything has been so hard lately and I don’t want to make this any harder.” She sounded sincere. 

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I actually had fun with Summer with the arcade: she beat my high scores, won us a bunch of gaming tokens and prizes, and taught me all the hacks she learned to beat the games. She bought me dinner and let me into her life a little bit. It felt odd that she was telling me things I’d already known from reading her diary, like I was intruding on something I shouldn’t have known. She was about to leave, I noticed Summer looked nervous when she saw this man get out of his car and he looked just like Jake. The only difference was that his eye color was different. It scared Summer, she started tearing up a little bit, and when she tried to hold the steering wheel when she got into the car her knuckles were white. 

“Summer, I-” 

“Just drop it! Just fucking drop it, Lennon!!” She yelled at me like it was my fault all of this happened. We didn’t talk at all in the car and she just walked into her bedroom, slamming the door. I could hear her cries coming from her bedroom since our rooms were in the same hall. 

When I saw her in the kitchen again after our parents went to bed, I started asking questions. 

“What happened back there, Summer? Jake’s in prison and he’s going to be in there for at least another year!” I tried to sound confronting but she just sounded angry. 

“Do you not fucking get it, Lennon! I thought I was over everything but I’m not! I wanted that to be Jake. I keep having these fantasies in my head that everything wasn’t as fucked as everyone made it seemed, that everything will go back to fucking normal when he gets out of prison and I know-”

“This sounds ridiculous, Summer! Jake was so fucking awful, he ruined everything. This is so delusion! We went through of all your outbursts, all of your meltdowns, the therapy appointments, all of this shit for this not to happen!!” We whisper-yelled at each other in the kitchen, both praying to God Mom and Dad didn’t wake up. I couldn’t understand why she would practically profess love to the man who ruined our lives!

“I don’t know why the fuck I bother trying to get you to understand me! It was stupid for me to waste my money and time on you today because you’re always going to make everything about you!” 

Summer walked away to her bedroom. It didn’t make sense as to why she wanted to be apart of my life now when she couldn't fucking stand me anyway. She was the one who barely interacted with me for a year, she hardly talked to anyone for that matter. Even when we all got together for Christmas, she just distanced herself from everyone except for Mom and Dad. Nothing seemed to please Summer or make her happy no matter how hard anyone tried. All I could do was go back to bed and pray that Summer would leave for college pretty soon.

@sadlonelyyogurt @blowflygrls @cusineverreallyknown

[jtophat]

My Ponyboy Curtis playlist because I love it, I listen to it quite frequently even when I’m not writing stuff involving him, and want to share it.

Fast Car- Tracy Chapman

Imagine- John Lennon

Dark Days- Punch Brothers

Mama Tried- Grateful Dead (The song is originally by Merle Haggard but I listen to the Grateful Dead version)

East Side of Sorrow- Zach Bryan

hope ur okay- Olivia Rodrigo

Renegades- X-Ambassadors

Everybody Wants To Rule The World- Tears For Fears

Boy In The Bubble- Alec Benjamin

Uptown Girl- Billy Joel

Everybody Knows- Sigrid

Friends In Low Places- Garth Brooks

Winter’s Come and Gone- Charles Wesley Godwin (Song originally by Gillian Welch but I feel like this version fits Ponyboy better)

teenage dream- Olivia Rodrigo

Youth- Daughter

Teenage Dirtbag- Wheatus

Friend of the Devil- Grateful Dead

You’re On Your Own Kid- Taylor Swift

Here Comes The Sun- The Beatles

Tomorrow Will Be Kinder- The Secret Sisters

My reason/analysis for each song is below:

Fast Car- I think the desperation for a better life but the cycle of how life can drag you down and make you live the same lives as the people is something that can relate to Pony. I feel like, deep down, he probably has a fear that things may not work out for him as well as people hope and that he may end up living the same kind of life as the rest of the people in his neighborhood which is why I also think it’s a great song to choose to have as the opener for the playlist. I know Luke Combs has a cover of this song and that it may be the more masculine take on it but I feel like the way Tracy Chapman sings it just has so much heart that it really works for Ponyboy. And plus, Tracy Chapman is my favorite artist so I had to go with her version.

Imagine- I think the song has a bit of a daydreamy kind of vibe that can represent how Ponyboy is described as having his head in the clouds. The song is also a call for peace and unity among people and asks them to imagine a world where what divides them no longer exists which is something that I can see Ponyboy longing for.

Dark Days- The song is about how love getting people through difficult times which is something that I think really works for the Curtis brothers because no matter what they love each other and will do whatever they can to help each other, especially after their parents die.

Mama Tried- I think the song works really well for the vibe of the gang as a whole even if it’s something that may directly relate to Ponyboy. And even if Ponyboy doesn’t get into much trouble I’m sure that he gets into more than his mother would have wanted for him (especially after goes on the run for Bob’s murder)

East Side of Sorrow- I think there is so much about the song that relate to so many people in the story but I’ll try to keep my analysis limited to Ponyboy. I think while when song talks about fighting a war that you don’t even know what your fighting for works well for the metaphorical war between the Greasers and the Socs in the books. It’s been going on long before Pony and will continue long after him and no matter what he will never fully understand it even though he too participates in it. “I lost friends in the August heat” I feel really relates to Johnny and Dally’s death, because it was probably about that time that the book takes place. And when the song talks about losing someone in the waiting room and that the doctor did all the could it really brings home the point about Johnny’s death. The song then mentions walking around the Tulsa streets while feeling fucked up which represent Pony’s depression after the death of Johnny and Dally and how he was aimlessly going through life. I also like how the song specifically refers to the east, and of course the Greasers live on the East side of Tulsa. The song then also talks about the sunrise as a symbol of optimism for the future and the sun imagery really works for Ponyboy. After all, sunrises can’t really be that different than sunsets for him.

hope ur okay- I feel like this is how Ponyboy will look back on the people he knew in Tulsa once he finally moves away. I also like how the song references a towhead blonde which is also similar to how Ponyboy describes Dally.

Renegades- I feel like this song really works for Johnny and Pony running away from Tulsa. Even though it’s a bit optimistic for the events in the book, I still feel like it also works for their friendship too.

Everybody Wants To Rule The World- I feel like Ponyboy would really dig the instrumentals of the song and the references to well, people wanting to rule the world works for the story in an odd way that I can’t quite explain. But the vibe of it just really works

Boy In The Bubble- I feel like the beginning of the song is really reminiscent of how Ponyboy and the rest of the gang will get jumped by Socs but in the end where it discusses the home life of the person who attacked the singer represents Ponyboy gaining an understanding of how things are rough all over Tulsa and that even Socs have problems

Uptown Girl- I feel like once Ponyboy starts liking girls (if he does even like girls because I’m not entirely convinced that boy is straight) he would mainly have a thing for Soc girls. The song is about a lower class boy wanting to get with an upper class girl which is what I can see for Ponyboy in the future.

Everybody Knows- The Greasers have the cards stacked against them and everybody knows this, especially Ponyboy.

Friends In Low Places- I was debating between this and Heathens but this won because it’s country (I feel like the gang would really like country music) and the friends in low places is an obvious reference to the gang. I also think that in a way it shows how Ponyboy is out of place in his classes because he’s a Greaser and there are a lot of Socs in them.

Winter’s Come and Gone- I love the outdoorsy vibe of the song and think that Pony would too. I also like the lyrics “so long now I’ve been out in the rain in snow” because I think it can work as a really interesting way of portraying the gangs struggles and how Ponyboy doesn’t feel like he entirely fits in.

teenage dream- Ponyboy really hates it when people refer to him as being a kid which is a sentiment that I think this song shares. I also think it has a slight desperation to be taken seriously which is something that I also think that Ponyboy relates to.

Youth- It only loosely relates but has lyrics like “if you’re still breathing your the lucky ones” which in a way works because it shows that even things are tough, as long as you’re still alive you’re pretty lucky. Because, as we see in the novel, Greasers tend to die young so those of them who still able to keep on living are pretty lucky.

Teenage Dirtbag- I feel like the title of song is probably a bit about how Ponyboy feels about himself. I also think that song relates a bit to teen who are bit more into counter culture/ may get into a bit more trouble which I think works really well with Ponyboy.

Friend of the Devil- From the title alone I think it works. Ponyboy is friends with a lot of troubled people, and some of them, like Dally, some people probably consider a bit devilish. The song as a whole may not perfectly work with Ponyboy but I feel like the vibe of it does

You’re On Your Own Kid- I feel like this is really a Ponyboy in twenty years looking back at his life/childhood kind of song. And also shows how at the end of the day, and even though the gang wants to help him, the only person who is truly looking out for him is himself. He’s not like the rest of the gang. He’s on his own.

Here Comes The Sun- The song has a really optimistic tone has promises of a better future. It also has a lot of sun imagery

Tomorrow Will Be Kinder: The song is hopeful for a future that is better than the present. I think that is the kind of sentiment that Ponyboy holds onto throughout life, especially during his childhood. I think if he doesn’t develop that kind of outlook he will probably be depressed for most of his life.

Some my analysis for this stuff is better than others and not all songs directly relate to Ponyboy, or even the gang/Greasers, but I think the vibe for each song works.

[leanstooneside]

Being rendered helpless (PANOPTICON)

• Rita Ora's thumb (Encounter for aftercare following multiple organ transplant)

• Florence Welch's thumb (Laceration with foreign body of right ring finger with damage to nail)

• Winona Ryder's thumb (Secondary lacrimal gland atrophy)

• Lucy Hale's thumb (Failure in dosage during unspecified surgical and medical care)

• Conan O'Brien's thumb (Influenza due to other identified influenza virus with otitis media)

• Tyra Banks's thumb (Malignant neoplasm of overlapping sites of other and unspecified parts of mouth)

• AnnaSophia Robb's thumb (Laceration of extensor muscle, fascia and tendon of left middle finger at forearm level)

• Minka Kelly's thumb (Acute tonsillitis, unspecified)

• Djimon Hounsou's thumb (Cyst and mucocele of nose and nasal sinus)

• Forest Whitaker's thumb (Meningococcal myocarditis)

• Jimmy Buffett's thumb (Other disorders of continuity of bone, right radius)

• Kate Bosworth's thumb (Other hyperparathyroidism)

• Kristen Bell's thumb (Solitary bone cyst, left ulna and radius)

• Matt Bomer's thumb (Laceration of other muscles, fascia and tendons at shoulder and upper arm level, unspecified arm)

• Prince Harry's thumb (Laceration without foreign body of back wall of thorax without penetration into thoracic cavity)

• Avril Lavigne's thumb (Calcification and ossification of muscle)

• Demi Lovato's thumb (Nondisplaced fracture of lateral condyle of unspecified femur)

• Carmen Electra's thumb (Salter Harris Type III physeal fracture of upper end of humerus, left arm)

• Mary-Louise Parker's thumb (Atherosclerosis of other type of bypass graft(s) of the extremities with intermittent claudication, left leg)

• Vince Vaughn's thumb (Toxic effect of contact with other venomous marine animals, assault)

• Sean Lennon's thumb (Unspecified open wound of left front wall of thorax without penetration into thoracic cavity)

• Tate Donovan's thumb (Osseous and subluxation stenosis of intervertebral foramina of abdomen and other regions)

• Jennifer Aniston's thumb (Alcohol abuse with intoxication)

• Zachary Quinto's thumb (Mooren's corneal ulcer, unspecified eye)

• Tracy Morgan's thumb (Preterm labor without delivery, unspecified trimester)

• Jenna Elfman's thumb (Inflammatory polyneuropathy, unspecified)

• Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting's thumb (Perforated corneal ulcer, unspecified eye)

• DJ AM's thumb (Kaschin-Beck disease, left knee)

• Gordon Ramsay's thumb (Unspecified injury of extensor muscle, fascia and tendon of right index finger at forearm level)

• Elle Fanning's thumb (Benign neoplasm of connective and other soft tissue of unspecified upper limb, including shoulder)

• Scott Speedman's thumb (Encounter for routine postpartum follow-up)

• Curtis Stone's thumb (Swimmer's ear, left ear)

• Uma Thurman's thumb (Altered mental status, unspecified)

• Khloe Kardashian's thumb (Retinal hemorrhage, left eye)

• Maria Menounos's thumb (Passenger in three-wheeled motor vehicle injured in collision with fixed or stationary object in nontraffic accident)

• Miranda Kerr's thumb (Other combined immunodeficiencies)

• Brooklyn Decker's thumb (Atherosclerosis of other type of bypass graft(s) of the extremities with intermittent claudication, left leg)

• Ellie Goulding's thumb (Osteonecrosis in diseases classified elsewhere, thigh)

• Bethenny Frankel's thumb (Other chronic hematogenous osteomyelitis, left humerus)

• Judi Dench's thumb (Resistance to unspecified beta lactam antibiotics)

[poltergeistsoup]

Yeees give us the fun-facts about the making of them plsss 👁️v👁️

Gorillaz

* Siggy is an amalgamation of a lot of middle aged women I’ve met who are loud and outgoing and like motorcycles— I always thought they were cool and felt safe with them. Her appearance is drawn from Jamie Lee Curtis, Sigourney Weaver, Tig Notaro, and Beth Hart

* Cello’s name “Cello Questrel” just came to my head and I liked the sound of it so much it’s the name I went with

Hagfish Slime

* When coming up with names for the three of them, I made 3 lists with a bunch of names that I felt suited each of them and asked their co-parent @plastickatz which ones she liked and she pointed out that Barb, Midge, and Kenny— like the dolls— were all included and I didn’t even realize it, so it only felt right to name them as such

Plan Z

* I fucking hate drawing Wyvern’s wings dude, so if I’m drawing him in a little outfit sans wings you know why

* Z’s character was very different at first, where they were more typically more feminine and pleasant and their cold exterior was an alter ego named Z. The former was scrapped and they just became the latter

* Daisy’s default design has not changed since her first sketch in 2016, down to the color palette of her sweater and bow-tie

* Asami and Val started off as a separate story from Plan Z, but the story wasn’t coming together, so Val became Z’s cousin and they ended up in the Plan Z world instead

* Calvin and Ghost were the last of the group to be conceptualized and they, along with the cemented concept for Plan Z, were thought up at a hockey game. Calvin’s name was the first name that came to mind and it stuck

The B Positives

* I’ve had a few scrapped ocs named Frank cuz I like the idea of Frank as a girl’s name, and this one finally stuck around. I like the contrast of her being feminine and classy but with a name like Frank

* Juno was inspired by Suki in Fast In the Furious 2

* Each of them are meant to have design elements that allude to their “times” — Lennon is 90s grunge/skater, Juno is early 2000s goth/numetal, Rottie is modern day so he’s a little bit e-boy. Frank being several hundred years old has a lot of different styles from a lot of different eras.

[thelongstrangedrivehome2]

the nineteenth of october twenty twenty-three

T. Rex - Bang a Gong

Tom Waits - Strange Weather

David Bowie - Under Pressure (Live 2004)

John Lennon - Imagine

Gang of Four - What We All Want

Cher - Like a Rolling Stone

Lady gaga - Babylon

Dar Williams - Highway Patrolman

Thelma Houston - Piano Man

The Buzzcocks - I Don't Know What To Do With My Life

CSS - Rat is Dead

Lou Reed - I'm Waiting For The Man

Sleater-Kinney - Get Up

Neil Young - This land Is Your Land

Stevie Wonder - You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

The Dead Weather - New Pony

Space Waltz - Out On The Streets

Neko Case - People Got A Lotta Nerve

Robyn Hitchcock - Madonna Of The Wasps

The Byrds - Positively Fourth Street

David Bowie - Rock 'n' roll Suicide

Against Me! - True Trans Rebel Soul

Curtis Mayfield - Readings in Astrology

Hole - Jennifer's Body

The Hollies - Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress

The Clash - The Card Cheat

Gorillaz - Dirty Harry

Suzi Quatro - Your Mama Won't Like Me

The Cramps - Primitive

[zilabee]

One member of the Detours, I forget who, told me something like, "Of all the people who I never expected to make a decent sound, it was Lennon's lot." The comment continued: "They weren't very reliable, let people down and used to turn up without a drummer half the time, but now they're back from Germany they sound totally different."

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Brian had followed me up the staircase and promptly introduced me to his boys; they, in turn, having found out that I was an old friend of Brian's, greeted me with a genuine warmth that I shall never forget. Even in the short time that Brian had been with them, he had obviously made a great impression. They loved him.

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The more I saw of them, the more they impressed me, not simply as musicians, but as people. They were very professional for such young men [...] They were also kind, thoughtful, yet acerbic and funny; they could already play well (I was very impressed by George's abilities on the guitar) but wanted to improve, hence their professional status and lack of day-time 'real' jobs. All in all they were most impressive young men and were quite unlike any young rock'n'rollers I had previously met - even the famous ones.

They were highly focused individually and collectively; or at least three of them were. As for Pete Best, I'm not so sure. But it was difficult for him because the other three were so bloody close. It could at times be very difficult to talk to any of them seriously, when all three were together. One could only do this when they were on their own.

[...] I could not fail to see that Brian had been very lucky. He had come across four very talented young musicians who needed him just as much as he needed them. I never really received the same kind of vibe from Lee. He often made me feel uncomfortable, that I was freeloading, whereas the Beatles made me feel proud of my actions in this emerging scene.

Standing in the Wings, by Joe Flannery (with Mike Brocken)

(Lee Curtis, mentioned in that final paragraph, is Joe's brother. Joe Flannery's own singing career was ruined when his dad tried to strangle him and injured his vocal chords, so then he managed his brother instead, who took Lee Curtis as a stage name. His band the Detours later became 'Lee Curtis and the All Stars' and then Pete Best joined that band when the Beatles got rid of him, and then they got rid of Lee Curtis and it became 'Pete Best and the All Stars'. Joe claims the main reason he never joined his management company with Brian's was because Lee was homophobic and didn't want to be managed by a homosexual.)