#theruts

[punkrockhistory]

44 years ago today

In memory of Malcolm Owen, one of the great forgotten figures of punk rock and frontman of The Ruts, who died of a heroin overdose on this day in 1980.

Photo by Philippe Carly

[trendingvintageretro]

Rebellion Festival 2024. ‘Going Back to my Youth’

I didn’t even know the Rebellion Festival existed until last year. A chance look on a forthcoming concert website for a band, I can’t even remember who, said they were playing at the Rebellion Festival so I checked it out. Wow, that’s a spot to me, I thought and I resolved that I go this year. MNy wife and I are booked into a hotel. I have four days of tickets, she has none.  I can get her…

[radiolewes]

This weeks show is a real mix of music, from new to classic, featureing an interview with London based duo The Lyricals.

[coniferevergreencolorado]

Elk in Rut!, and the sounds of Elk calling on this first day of Fall while out viewing properties. Question: Stag and hind?...or Bull and cow??? What do you call 'em up here?

[themostrabidofcarebears]

HIIII HELLO. writer ask for my bestest friend with absolutely no ulterior motives whatsoever. 8 15 and 19 B]

hi hi hi writer answers with also no ulterior motives . certainly not to share a portion of the blind orville fic and answer some of these other asks as a tax for sharing. answers under read more B)

8. What project(s) are you currently working on?

so primarily i’m working on my multichapter bnha fic the cages we build (and how they break) better known as tcwb BUT it’s slow going so i also have side projects such as. you guessed it. oc fic B) i have the blind orville au and i’ve taken a break from the tlou orville therut au but it’s still rattling around in my head when the inspiration strikes

15. How do you come up with titles for your fics/chapters?

GREAT QUESTION they come to me in dreams and visions. umm mostly i want to like artistically suggest the same message or vibe or theme of the fic in question i would prefer that every fic title inspire the same thoughts and feelings the fic itself does!!

this also ends up being pulled from song lyrics sometimes but trust that it’s bcos of my deep unknowable relationship with music and imagination and not bcos i’m feeling lazy any song lyric title for chapter or fic either way has been carefully painstakingly selected to match the precise feeling i experienced when writing it or thinking about it or planning it

19. Give us a small teaser from one of your WIPs.

if by us you mean you and one of my wips you mean the blind orville oneshot here’s a teaser ehehehehe (from that au but from therut’s magical spirit’s perspective not one of our guys obviously)

He stirs just in time to see the wolf wrestle to his feet, gun in one hand—and in the low light it is hard to tell where he ends and where it begins, the metal of its handle so much like the silver of the hand around it—and cloth clutched in the other. Most curiously, his normally sharp eyes are still dim and lifeless, and he does not spin quite right to face the rabbit as he inches silently backward. When his head swivels—and he sways, unsteady on his feet even as he wields his weapon with such certainty—it never turns downward to see him on the ground. He barks something in question, and while the boy cannot answer she can feel his heart plummet at whatever words escape the man, head turning and jaw working and eyes—

Oh.

The wolf is blind.

His eyes do not glow because they do not see, and it occurs to her, now, that among the blood covering the ground on which they had found him was the remains of the glass that used to guard those red lights within him. She knows little of how metal creatures work, but it is not difficult to imagine a hard enough blow to his delicate man-made mechanisms throwing the sense entirely off-kilter.

The boy is dismayed at the wolf-man’s words, and he is not sure how to reassure him without his voice, she knows. What a funny pair they will be—the rabbit who cannot speak and the wolf who cannot see.

[sefasbestos]

You're Just a... #theruts #punk https://www.instagram.com/p/CI-0jJID3PD/?igshid=486g6jcqkauk

[alexadd77]

Ruts -Babylon's burning 7" 1979 Virgin The second single and my favourite Afternoon of The Ruts singles 😁 #theruts #ruts #punk #punkrock #reggae #7" #vinyl #vinylrecords #vinyljunkie #recordcover #recordcollection #recordcollector #artwork #rock #music https://www.instagram.com/p/BtBzcPrgmiY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1v2gm7cdahm9h

[antifahooligan]

One of my favourite albums. The Ruts- The Crack. #punk #reggae #reggaepunk #thecrack #theruts #rutsdc #vinyl #vinylcollection

[tinasixx]

Happy Tuesday! How’s the quarantine? Hope you’re ok! For your entertainment.... Crapnation Moods playlist updated on the @spotify 🖤 current moods of @lajentrois @tina.sixx @planetlizzdom 🖤 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/69RzfCfBtkOI6UOs95tDzt?si=JgfZ2FOZQpuGDKd06zzmrQ #crapnation #spotify #spotifyplaylist #playlist #crapnationmoods #planetsmashers #alicecooper #theundertones #manicstreetpreachers #panicshack #thediamonds #theruts #thebeatles #tommyjamesandtheshondells #theanimals #timbuk3 #kennyrogers #kennyrogersandthefirstedition #spotify #spotifyplaylist https://www.instagram.com/p/B-IxdPAgI0B/?igshid=1x0on77togr5c

[punkrockhistory]

44 years ago today

The Crack is The Ruts debut album, released on this day in 1979 featuring the singles: "Babylon's Burning" and "Something That I Said".

#punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #theruts #thecrack #history #punkrockhistory #otd

[estekelenburg]

The Ruts Babylon Is Burning b/w Society #theruts #punk #recordcollector #vinylcollectionpost #vinylcollection #45rpm (bij Bass Camp) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2XeMAyoDHA/?igshid=1rme63c9s3xvo

[radiolewes]

Si's sounds 30th sept

[rodney-die-laughing-records]

#theclash #999 #theruts #uksubs #punk #punks #punkradio #themembers #thevibrators #deadkennedys #gbh #screamingbloodymarys #chelsea #geneoctober #polystyrene #pil Listen to some great tunes on Dutchie’s show on kaoticradio.com @da_punk_dj @kaoticradio https://www.instagram.com/p/ByRtO0QCdOJ/?igshid=wamdr47oerdb

[themostrabidofcarebears]

hi cutie are you free for an interview (writer’s questions 2 18 28)

HEHEHE ALWAYS <3

2. If you had to give up your keyboard and write your stories exclusively by hand, could you do it? If you already write everything by hand, a) are you a wizard and b) pen or pencil?

i think i could write everything by hand but i would be lots slower, i go back and change individual words or add sentences a lot and being able to move around a doc helps way more w that BUT that being said when i was younger i wrote everything by hand it is possible

18. Choose a passage from your writing. Tell me about the backstory of this moment. How you came up with it, how it changed from start to end. Spicy addition: Questioner provides the passage.

since this is an audience of tad i’m choosing something you’ve read this is fromm flowers in the graveyard the therut orville oneshot u read last:

Therut’s writing is a little indelicate, so his corrections are doodled on instead. The kid fiddles with his thumbs while Orville’s eyes roam the map, and he swallows as his eyes land on the workshop.

There’s a X scratching it out, and, in any remaining space, Therut has drawn flowers.

“The workshop?” he asks, uncertainly.

“Gone,” he reports, eyes searching Orville’s face. He looks excited, but like he’s hesitant to show it given Orville’s not reacted at all. Still, he elaborates, “Um, it’s, like—like you can tell something used to be there because it’s a lot smaller than the other plots, but it’s farmland now. I asked, and the guy said they were growing flowers! You can’t see them yet, which kind of blows, but I guess it’s new growth? I don’t know what kind, he wasn’t sure.”

Flowers growing in the graveyard that is—was—the workshop. The place he was put together, where the last remnants of whoever he was before were left abandoned. He’d been so scared deep down he’d find a new make of a handy little hitman booting up between those four walls, dreading the idea of the new life that might be getting to its feet and marching loyally forward; a different kind of growth in its place, down to the dirt that surely came before that rotten little building, is such a relief he has no idea what to do with the information. It takes a second to even settle in his head and when it does, he finds himself laughing, long enough he’s out of breath and half-bent over.

Therut looks mortified. “You, uh—you good? You fucking losing it? Are we freaking out?”

He chuckles. “Flowers,” he breathes. “No, I’m—‘m good. Right as rain.”

SO this is nothing very subtle but we knew we wanted orville’s dad to not be here for a one and done final confrontation. me n gabri went back and forth with ideas for how orville gets resolution with his dad even after she decided we didn't wanna kill him in this. i knew i wanted therut involved bcos the whole story is about how their unique circumstances and similarities help them grow together and orville helps kill cane as well but i wasnt sure exactly how i wanted it to go.

i got very close to sending therut in to scout it out without asking but another one of the themes here is about how theyre able to communicate even in these circumstances where they have to read between the lines because one of them can’t articulate what they're thinking and feeling.

i almost also had both therut and orville agree to leave this stone unturned only to meet here at the ranch like spiderman pointing realizing they both wanted to be sure orvilles father wouldn’t be a problem down the line

but ultimately i think the most important thing to me was to communicate an idea that described orville and where hes at with his trauma in this au and that is pretty transparently the workshop.

i think the title which obviously is ripped from this passage lends itself to like a funeral vibe flowers in a graveyard okay people leaves flowers at graves but by the end here you come to understand it’s about new growth in the soil that was previously thought to be like dead and cursed especially by orville

like specifically in that with his amnesia and with how things go after he manipulated after not being able to remember before he kind of sees himself as like the end of whoever came before and like a walking corpse like a constant reminder he is in some ways less “alive” bcos he feels so empty and so like destined to be a killer bcos of how hes built and groomed

and then this understanding hes wrong about the workshop still standing like a monument and instead housing seeds that will bloom to be flowers is this huge like. you are capable of growth and we’re seeing now you make these decisions to foster that now making sure your father is gone to protect this new life you’re creating for yourself and your loved ones.

its not the most complicated symbolism ever but i enjoyed the challenge of being able to speak on orville’s growth and get him some form of closure without being allowed to kill his abuser B)

28. Who is the most delightful character you’ve ever written? Why?

AUGH ghis is hard because i love getting into character mindsets . maybe my oc puffball it’s cool having such a stark difference between their internal monologue which is very self deprecating and admonishing and their outward dialogue with puts others down and like finding that middle ground between ego and insecurity in a character who juxtaposes themselves in a lot of ways . but i love writing any character that thinks differently than i do and drawing them to conclusions and actions i would never think of B)

thank u for the ask my love i do it all for you <3 mwah

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[alexadd77]

Ruts - West One (Shine On Me) 7" 1980 Virgin Records. #theruts #ruts #punk #punkrock #reggae #7" #vinyl #vinylrecords #vinyljunkie #recordcover #recordcollection #recordcollector #artwork #rock #music https://www.instagram.com/p/BtB2jrHgZ82/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2a8ui6e2suqt