#the michigan fleet

[roach-works]

I have a Michigan Fleet question if you feel like answering! (No worries if not!) Does the fleet have some kind of official iconography like a flag or a mascot or something? A motto of some kind? I bet some boats have their own individual unofficial symbols or flags . . .

jokes on you sucker i love answering Michigan Fleet Questions!!!!

and then also:

so there you go, the fleet flag is a badly drawn seagull on top of a badly drawn jolly roger. sometimes people draw it really well but that sort of goes against the spirit of the endeavor.

it is also historically accurate and respectful to just write BOATS really big on a sheet of white paper and hang it up. sometimes kids are moved to add stars and exclamation marks. which is also respectful.

there's still an intergenerational committee to improve the fleet's flag and they have gotten exactly nowhere for 45 years. sometimes they try to get people to vote on a new flag and the most popular vote of all time was just the jolly seagull design only the seagull was shooting red laser beams out of its eyes and ass. the committee disqualified that one and became very unpopular for a decade.

[angel-bitch-boy]

How you mentally ill queers are rn:

Me: *stands on stage and taps mic* Ya'll: ????? Me: Cannibalism Ya'll: YEAH WOOOOO I AGREE WITH THAT!

[holdingup-fallingsky]

Thinking about this

[wideminded-dreamer]

this is josh who has been at the studio all day and by the time he gets home you’re all tucked up in bed ready to go to sleep but he still wants to talk to you so he crawls up in between your legs and lays his head on your stomach while you chat about your day, softly giggling together at something funny Sam said, but most importantly perfectly content to just be with each other after being apart all day

[thegrungyhippie]

a photo dump of this summer, so far

[jake-whatthefisgoingon-kiszka]

Okay I wasn’t going to say anything but then I woke up and saw all the lovely messages and now I just can’t keep my mouth shut…

Happy New Year to all you amazing, wonderful, beautiful, caring people I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know this past year.

Sometimes I still feel like a newcomer, and social anxiety never helps in making new friends, but you guys really are all so welcoming (and funny!) and that has been so refreshing to see and experience over this past year!

I’ve been in a few fandoms before, but never have I been a part of something that is so wholesome and loving and hell-bent on spreading positivity amongst the community 🥰

I don’t know where 2024 will take me this year, but I do know that I’ll always have the music in my heart and the capability now to love 💕

Sending more positive vibes for 2024 to all of you: @alwaysonthemend @cal-a-bungaa @gretavangirlie @itsafullmoon @jakekiszkasbuttsweat @jmkho @lipstickitty @nina-23-45 @psychedelicstardust-gvf @satans-helper @songbirds-sweet @thearcher-and-thefallingsky @twistedmelodies @wetkleenex-gvf @writingcold @takenbythemadness @tommie-gvf @gracev0609 @infinisonicosm @mountain-in-springtime @tearsofcaravel @ofthecaravel

And anyone else out there who sees this and needs to see a positive message, I see you, I love you, and wish you all the best of luck ✨🫶

[splickedylit]

i think. it's been too long since I drew something.

[wildbluesorbit]

The way Jake Kiszka says the word “challenge”.

That’s it. That’s the post.

Go on, get out of here.

[roach-works]

Hey Roach, coming in a bit late with a Boat Boys universe question - how is the theatre scene in New York in this future? Is Broadway still a thing?

broadway is still a thing, though any number of theaters in the original manhattan theater district have shuttered, decayed, been bought out, and refurbished. new york city remains a very crowded city with a functional upper crust, and humans remain what they are, so there's still plenty of music, dancing, acrobatics, and play performances.

as a patrician, solace king is expected to be a very educated and culturally literate patron of the arts, and personally very much enjoys keeping up with the upper crust theater scene of big-ticket musicals and operas. as he matures as a patrician and gains power, wealth, and reputation, it would be expected that he start funding particular facets of the arts scene that he favored, as well as acting as a direct patron (and sugar daddy) of an artist or even a stable of them.

patronizing athletes isn't at all unusual either, though sol had, until meeting rich merrill, not given a shit about any sport that wasn't dueling, and was young and fit enough to be a duelist himself, so he was a decade or so away from being expected to do anything with sports but watch them, play them, and bet on them.

it would be considered a bit unusual for him to bankroll an athlete at his current age and level of establishment, but everyone is going to take one look at rich's ass and correctly assume that sol is doing the extremely normal wealthy young man thing of handing his very first sidepiece whatever they want.

ANYWAY. over the last couple decades in this universe there's been a roman-led revival and modernization of classic italian opera forms, as well as a mix of new stories written in the style of classics, as well as ancient greco-roman myths and legends being adapted a bit like how Hadestown has been.

additionally, american audiences and small-scale street and renaissance fair performers have taken whole-heartedly to the lowbrow, satirical, saturday-night-live vibe of comedia del'arte, which has a somewhat updated cast of characters alongside ancient favorites.

notable american additions include Coniglietto, a rabbit-themed trickster-slave who performs a lot of acrobatics in a very skimpy amount of dark rags, and his violently humorless lord and master Signore Lupo d'Argento, who takes the stage in fine pale clothes and white face paint-- but these are the sort of scenes you'd see played out in abandoned courtyards and runoff parks, not on fine Broadway stages with a triple-digit dollar sign pinned to each seat.

[luverleaver]

It fascinates me how josh is a little gum drop full of love and light but still has the mannerisms of a frat boy

[jakesguitarsolo]

NOT ME JUST REALIZING JAKE IS IN FUCKING CHICAGO…. ONLY AN HOUR AWAY FROM ME…

[holdingup-fallingsky]

I am unfortunately thinking about that tiktok Josie posted a while ago where she tried Danny’s curl routine

[ofthecaravel]

This is everything to me actually

PLEASE DANIEL(LE) WE CANT KEEP DOING THIS

[lonestarbattleship]

USS Michigan (BB-27) in full dress during the Fleet Review on the Hudson River in New York City, on October 3, 1911.

NARA: 7583494, 19-N-61-6-26, 19-N-61-6-31

[mazzy-rockstar]

[fleetsparrow]

"Which of the societal 'thou shalt' values, if any, do you choose to slay like the lion?"

Buddy, I'm queer and autistic so that means basically all of them.