#songs about aliens

[familyobligation]

here’s the story behind our latest single, The Loneliest Whale 🐋🛸👽🖤✨

it’s a story in three parts

the first verse is about the loneliest whale. in the 80s, there was a scientist who picked up a weird signal on one of her machines. eventually, she realized that it was the song from a blue whale. what was weird about it was that it was at 52hz, whereas most blue whales songs are at around 20hz.

since this blue whale has such a unique signal, scientists have been able to track it over the years. and they’ve noticed that the whale is always alone — they never pick up the 52hz whale song with the song of another whale. scientists believe this is because the signals are so different. the loneliest whale can’t hear the whale song of other blue whales, and they can’t hear him.

when I learned about the loneliest whale, I immediately thought about aliens. we’re kind of in a similar boat — we’ve been sending out signals and we’ve never gotten a response. are we alone in the universe? or are we just at the wrong frequency? either way, we’re functionally alone. that’s the second verse.

the third verse brings it back to a personal level, and is about how being human is inherently lonely. no matter how well you know another person, you’ll never really know what it’s like to be them.

the short answer is that the song is about loneliness.

[zephyrins]

I want Luka to believe Till is absolutely broken and depressed but Till casually walks onto the scene and blows everyone up with the most heavy metal song ever

[starry-bi-sky]

i have been unmedicated for the entirety of spring break and thus have had little interest in writing this down, but i have been thinking about this for the entire week (as well as a dpdc clone danny au that resulted in it becoming its entirely separate batman au that includes a teenage vigilante bruce wayne, an ocarina, and me entirely incapable of making a batman au without making bruce dirt poor but we're not talking about that) and so i've finally went 'fuck it' and forcibly grabbed my laptop. I will get this done in one sitting even if it kills me.

BUT. This is about neither clone^2 danny nor about who i am calling Ocarina Batman. This is about my Danyal Al Ghul Au and more SPECIFICALLY it's me thinking about his relationship with Sam and Tucker specifically.

Tucker and Sam? Adore this asshole (affectionate) with every fiber of their being. And it is very much a reciprocated feeling, but Danny's thoughts will not be delved into much other than he would kill for them.

Tucker? The only person currently capable of getting a deep, loud, belly laugh out of Danny. Sam can get him to smile and to laugh, but it's the kind that's a chuckle-under-the-breath. The quiet, looks-down-while-huffing laughter. Snorts once with laughter and then grins stupidly.

But Tucker? Tucker can crack a slew of stupid jokes and Danny will be incapacitated for the next five minutes because he's laughing so hard that he can't breath. He lands one well-timed pun or quip and Danny will be close to tears. His laughter is their favorite sound in the whole world.

Sam is lowkey jealous of this ability, and she's gotten a belly laugh out of Danny a few times. But alas, it is Tucker who wields this power and has gotten it the most times out of the two of them.

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They're also both physically affectionate with Danny as much as possible. It started roughly around when they were 12-ish, a year since they befriended Danny, and they noticed that he sought after touch but never seemed to initiate (and was in some ways repulsed by it). They started slowly being more touchy with him. Hooking a finger around his to lead him somewhere, tapping his wrist, looping arms. Little touches, grabs, etc, to get him used to it, and once he started doing it back they started increasing it.

It's gotten to a point where he will now just. Lay on them. Like a lizard sunbathing on a rock. Leaning on their backs when they're sitting in class before the bell rings, his chin on their heads. He'll talk about anything with his arms looped around their shoulders.

If they're sitting on a couch at either of their houses, he'll lay his legs on theirs. Him and Tucker will press their feet against the other's and try and push against them (newsflash: Danny always wins, Tucker claims its the ghost strength but Danny's been winning since before his accident)

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Naturally, both Sam and Tucker know where Danny keeps his weapons on his person, and are allowed to grab them off of him if they need it. His only requirement is that they don't lose his weapons if they take it and forget to return it immediately.

They both understand how big of a thing this is from Danny, and so they do their best to treat his weapons with a lot of respect and care because they know its his way of saying he trusts them.

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Sam and Tucker are so fond of Danny it's insane. Like fr. That's their goddamn best friend, and they are so protective of him. Emotionally, physically, you name it. They will tear the head off a grown man if they need to, Danny's had scars since he arrived in Amity Park and Sam and Tucker both are going to find the person who put them there and make them pay for it.

One time, Tucker overheard a bunch of upperclass girls speaking nastily about Danny and about the rumors surrounding him, calling him names like 'freak', 'monster', etc. Danny was with him and heard it, and seemingly appeared unbothered by it, even telling Tucker that he was used to such rumors.

Tucker was so furious that hacked into the school system later that night and tanked those girls grades. They were kicked out of their clubs and had to go to mandatory tutoring for the rest of the year. He made sure to leave some way of letting them know it was him who did it.

And Sam doesn't like using her money for things, doesn't like abusing that wealth. So instead, whenever her parents talk bad about Danny, she causes a media incident that has her parents scrambling to deal with. She does something wild, outrageous by her parents' standards.

She heard some boys on the basketball team making fun of Danny once, similar to those girls had. She kicks up a fuss about something eco-unfriendly at school and forcibly holds a protest on the same day of the big home basketball game, forcing them to cancel the event and reschedule to a visiting school.

She anonymously donates money so that there's new uniforms for the team but oops! Looks like she "forgot" to donate enough money for them to get uniforms for all the team members, and strangely enough those boys in particular didn't get them! Looks like they'll have to wait until more money gets donated for the basketball team to get their new, nice uniforms. The old ones look so ratty in comparison, right?

And since the football team gets most of the sport money, that might just take awhile. And if (and when) they kick up a fuss? oops! Off the basketball team you go, :) such unsportsman-like behavior is unfit for the team.

(The only good thing about how corrupt the school system is is that she can use it to her advantage too.)

The both of them know that Danny suspects them for the sudden misfortune falling on these people, but he doesn't call them out on it. He's kinder than he used to be, but not kind enough to vouch for people who speak badly of him. Sometimes, he might just congratulate them on not getting caught.

Because Danny is their wonderful, hurt friend with a "slightly" Blue and Orange Moral code, and enough scars that people have been calling him a criminal (and worse) since he arrived in Amity Park when he was ten. And they'll be damned if he gets hurt anymore.

[rexscanonwife]

Uhm uh uh...I have no excuse for this 😔 PPG self insert who is secretly an alien! I imagine her intro episode would have her having a little romance with the professor when he comes into a bookstore she works at/owns and the girls being (rightfully, given the prof's dating history) suspicious of her. Wacky capers ensue where they try to prove that she's up to no good, only to find that she genuinely is just chilling and wants to live a normal life on earth!

Well, normal as she can, now that she knows this family! I think she'd fit right in 😉

Taglist♡: @crushes-georg @changeling-selfship @me-myself-and-my-fos @tiny-cloud-of-flowers @sunstar-of-the-north @dearly-beeloved @adoredbyalatus @squips-ship @cherry-bomb-ships @miutonium

[chavisory]

Dear fellow XPhiles, in case you missed the most delightful thing to happen on the internet this week... A friend mobilized the bird site to track down the songwriters of the previously unreleased, uncredited song playing in the bar in "Dreamland II" on a whim, thus solving a 25-year-old mystery.

Now we may see the song released this week.

[heynhay]

so stay with me, hold my hand, there's no need to be brave

[bloodysparklez]

oh god, my god.

[purrfectlycontent]

i don’t recommend rewatching alien stage because you just notice more things like the fact that ivan wiped away till’s tears after the karaoke fiasco

[shakingparadigm]

do you guys think Till is aware of Ivan's feelings and chooses not to reciprocate, is a little aware that there's something more between them, or is just completely fucking dense

I know the second one is probably the most accurate, but I'm personally leaning towards the last because. look at these man they fucking take me out. like he's not even LOOKING

[nottoonedin]

Drunk & Party and Love & Peace lyrics ENG translations!

[marchenmusika]

ITS SO IVANTILLOVER I CANT DO THIS ANYMORE I AM OUT

[familyobligation]

this one’s about whales, aliens, and the inherent loneliness of the human condition 🐋🛸👽🖤✨

[nobylite]

so i try to save face, then i rest my case the judge pulls me aside, says "c'est la vie" "let your darker side come out to feed"

[starrspice]

Y/N please

He's trying to work on the escape pod

He can't do that if you keep kissing him every 5 minutes

Stranded AU by

@paper-lilypie

@honiegoo

And me!

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

We talk a lot about songs of all time but “Highwayman” by The Highwaymen truly is something else

[statementlou]

in the context of an interview with someone who is deep in what the fans say and think and was like yeah fuck it I’m asking about that stuff, like stuff we don’t hear usually, from did you leak your own music to so how about that getting choked to detail about his label and a dozen other fan things, all the shit we chatter and speculate about, and about Zayn and Liam, it stands out even more glaringly than usual that talking about larry openly is simply. Not. On the table... and as usual its the silence that truly screams like. honestly. this is not normal