#so wrong it’s right

[doyoulikethisemoband]

[thisaintascenereviews]

All Time Low - Tell Me I’m Alive / The Forever Sessions, Vol 1

Out of all the pop-punk bands to pop up in the mid-00s, All Time Low is one of the few bands to have an everlasting career. These guys started off as a neon pop-punk band, but evolved into a pop-rock band in the late 00s and early 2010s, then to a more straightforward pop-punk band in the early 2010s, only to turn back into a pop-rock band by the decade’s end. Their last couple of albums have been really hard to read, because they’re seemingly at a crossroads in their career. They don’t know if they want to be a pop-rock band or a pop-punk band.

Personally, my favorite album of theirs is 2012’s Don’t Panic, although I’m sure many people would pick 2007’s debut, So Wrong, It’s Right, and that’s not a bad pick, either, considering it has their most iconic songs, but it’s an album that I think is rough in spots. Vocalist Alex Gaskarth doesn’t sound great on it, despite sounding just fine, but his voice wasn’t the powerhouse it eventually became, at least until the late 00s and early 2010s. The songwriting was still quite sharp, but it would get a lot better, both lyrically and musically speaking.

Hell, 2020’s Wake Up, Sunshine is a really solid pop-rock / pop-punk record that tried some new things, but also stayed true to their sound and felt like another return to form, even though Don’t Panic was their first return to form a decade earlier. 2023’s Tell Me I’m Alive is an album that I totally forgot about, both because I haven’t cared much about these guys in a long time, and because this album wasn’t received with open arms when it came out.

I didn’t see a lot of glowing praise for it, but I decided to go back and listen to it recently, because they just dropped a new album of some re-recorded hits, entitled The Forever Sessions, and it’s the first volume of these, but this first one has admittedly their biggest hits, and they’re from 2006 to 2009. I wanted to talk about both albums, albeit briefly, because these albums are interesting, although it’s not quite in the way they intended. Truthfully, Tell Me I’m Alive is a decent album, but it’s also nothing important or essential. You won’t get anything out of this, aside from some decent hooks and vocals, but that’s it. They really don’t know if they want to be a pop-punk or pop-rock band, and the album stays in that limbo, but it ends up not making much of an impression.

The Forever Sessions, however, is actually pretty good, despite being nothing amazing, but this is interesting, because there’s no doubt this was done to both capitalize on the emo nostalgia that’s been huge the last couple years, as well a a cash grab to fans that want to hear them perform these songs live, because they can have studio versions of these updated versions. On one hand, though, I think it’s cool to hear a new version of an old classic, because art is ever hanging and ever evolving, so there’s nothing wrong with a new interpretation of an old song or album, even when it’s clearly done for a profit.

The thing is, though, I also can’t deny when it works. They don’t do much with these songs, but if anything, they have a modern production sheen over them, so they sound better, and Gaskarth’s vocals sound a lot better. Despite their popularity kind of waning over the last decade, at least he sounds fantastic, both on here and Tell Me I’m Alive. As boring as that album is, his vocals are awesome, and you can’t deny that he’s grown into one of the vocalists in that scene. The songs stay relatively the same on The Forever Sessions, but it’s still cool hearing them in a new light, even if their new album really isn’t anything to write home about.

[blurrycow]

my email from Spotify says it’s the 15th anniversary of So Wrong It’s Right, so… HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU GORGEOUS ALBUM!! You made my boys a hit!!!!! Maria is 15 years old now… she can almost drive…

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

[hinamie]

mentor

[artistic-cocoon]

Saw someone on twt say they wanted to see Percy drawn like Yusuf Dikec and I couldn't help myself

[abracadaze]

i feel so bad for nikola tesla like imagine spending years beefing with a guy who has conned the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and you end up dying broke and starving and alone and then 100 years later another guy cons the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and he's doing it all IN YOUR NAME. he must be rolling in his grave like a fucking rotisserie chicken

[prokopetz]

I think people sometimes misunderstand why we come up with such elaborate justifications for shipping two characters together. I don't justify my ships because I feel that I need to; I justify my ships because squinting at the published canon with furrowed brow and asking myself "okay, how exactly would this work?" is my idea of a good time.

[stil-lindigo]

bite of winter.

a comic about a princess who died in the snow.

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[ween-kitchens]

im annoyed and a little pedantic so can i just say as a blanket statement

queerbaiting is when the promotion for a FICTIONAL STORY intentionally hints towards two characters having a romantic relationship, without any intention to follow through in the show, in order to get queer people watching without discouraging the homophobic enjoyers of the show

queerbaiting is NOT:

a celebrity who you think is queer because theyre gnc or they have a 'vibe'. that is a real person and they cannot queerbait

two friends of the same gender pretending to flirt with each other for fun. those are real people and they cannot queerbait

a show with two characters of the same gender who are canonically friends that YOU PERSONALLY think would be better in a relationship. that's not bating, that's shipping, and subject to opinion

there are more but those are the main examples of people misunderstanding what queerbaiting is and being mad at something that isn't actually a problem

[shepscapades]

[Set in Mid-Late Hermitcraft Season 8]

In which we learn a little something about Cub, a little something about Doc, and a little something about Xisuma.

[bluegiragi]

human.

early access + nsfw on patreon

more backstory that i wrote up for patreon heh:

Simon and Tommy had a complicated relationship as brothers. 

At a young age, Simon basically wrote himself off as a lost cause, and did the best he could to make sure at least Tommy had a chance to be a functioning human being. After all, Tommy was the gentler brother, the dreamer, the one who looked like their mother (who'd walked out on them years ago to escape their father). But Tommy got bitter, got sick of the one always being protected, being babied. He lost respect for Simon, for the way he wouldn't fight back, and in a twisted way, grew closer to his father as a way to learn how to be powerful, strong. It backfired, and Tommy got wrapped up in some bad business.

Simon's kid brother died while he was deployed. He got the news in the letter, and it broke him in a big way. In the story timeline, it was years and years ago but it still hurts like hell whenever Simon thinks about him. 

[whosbian]

[equill]

Job promotion (now what?)

Comic 1: Interrogation

Caught him lurking in the background (he was being suspicious in their defense)

Comic 2: Everywhere you go.

[sinsydia]

Sebastian being a menace Pt. 2

[hinamie]

"I'll show you every day that choosing to live was worth it"

some of my favourite scenes from @hijinks-n-lowjinks' fic things i would miss from the other side . this fic tore my heart out fr but like in a good way and i wanted to pay it homage the only way i know how <3