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chocojae · 2 years

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pairing ▸ boyfriend! jaehyun x gender neutral reader genre ▸ fluff | crack word count ▸ 788. warnings ▸ profanity

YOU ROLLED TO THE OTHER SIDE OF BED, EYES WIDE OPEN AND HEART BEATING ALOUD.

The constant rustling of the bushes seemed to echo in the tense room, and it only made you jump out of fear.

It would be an utter lie to say you are not scared to the bones. Because you are.

Funny how your stupid ass is admitting it now because just three hours ago you remembered fishing out your laptop from the bag and courageously watching a horror film to shoo your boredom away.

A loud thud against the wall made you flinch, and the sound of muffled footsteps following soon after only made you shoot open your eyes. Hey, wait! Did someone just stack up the ladder against your dorm’s wall and was climbing up?

Several scenarios ran through your head. Could it be a killer who’s going to murder you because killing was his hobby? Or could it be a haunted doll who has a butcher’s knife in her left hand and a creepy smile — whatever be it, it was clear you were in danger.

So, with every little ounce of courage left in your body, you pushed the blanket off yourself and took the heavy ass book from your side table, approaching the window carefully and angling the book to smack the stranger.

Soon your eyes caught a well built figure releasing a sigh. You couldn’t make out who it was due to how dark it was — and because of your tinted window, of course. But the second the window slid open, you hit the stranger with all your might.

“Oh shit—”

As you were about to close the window and lock it, the stranger’s voice caught your attention. Holy shit, it was your boyfriend. Your eyes widened and you abandoned the book in your hand to help your boyfriend crawl in.

He was groaning and hissing in pain. All of a sudden guilt rushed through you. Though you were trying to protect yourself (and ignoring the fact that a book isn’t even close to being suitable for self defense) you accidentally hit your boyfriend, your freaking boyfriend.

“Hey, are you okay?”

Jaehyun didn’t reply, looking at you with his squinted eyes. Maybe he was judging you? Maybe he was thinking of beating the shit out of you? You didn’t know. “I know that,” He pauses, gulping. “I ate your pizza without your permission but hey that’s mean.”

“I am serious.” You gently shove his hand off his face. “Did it hurt?”

“Not really, but yes—“

“Oh my god! I am so sorry. I thought you were someone who came to kill me so I smacked you—“

“You didn’t even let me finish, babe.” He chuckles and runs a hand through his hair. “No, it didn’t hurt when you smacked me with a book but yes,” He passes you a silly grin. “It did hurt when I fell from heaven.” You couldn’t help but let out a small giggle at his dorkiness.

“But, things aside— why in the world are you here literally at 3 in the morning?” Jaehyun doesn’t say anything, opting to flop on your bed instead. You follow him soon after, facing him as he stared at you intimately.

“I missed you.” He finally says, dimples flashing. A comfortable silence takes over the room as you stare into his beautiful orbs. It almost turned into a staring contest before he once again spoke.

“I still don’t get it though, why are you awake when you are usually sleeping at this hour? Also, pretty disappointed you didn’t lock your window.” You fake a cough, cheeks turning pink from embarrassment.

“I— um, was watching a movie since I couldn’t sleep. I genuinely thought I would be worn out after watching the movie and will fall asleep but oh, well.” You sigh, earning a deep chuckle from the man beside you.

“I bet it was a thriller movie, right?”

“More like a horror.” Jaehyun nods at your answer. “Finally understood why you threw that book of yours in my handsome face.” You mumbled a quiet sorry before laughing along with him.

“Since both of us can’t sleep, how about we snuggle up?” You suggest, watching his eyes twinkle up in amusement as you embrace his torso, leaning in close enough to get stiff of his cologne. It didn’t take him long to hug you back.

“Goodnight. Hope you dream of me.” Though you couldn’t see him, you were sure a stupid grin would be adoring his face.

“Lord, I hate you.” You whispered sweetly, leaning in to press a kiss on his jaw.

“Love you too.”

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eggsideblog · 8 months

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Eggman has to pee while traveling and there's no toilets around for miles. Needing to go asap, he stops the Egg Mobile when he spots some bushes. He jumps out and goes behind them and doesn't expect me to follow

When he hears me coming up behind him, he turns around and smirks, asking if I've come to help him pee. He's not surprised with how I've held it for him multiple times by now. But he doesn't expect me to approach and immediately start pressing down on his bladder

He groans deeply at the firm pressure on his already achy bladder from how long he'd been holding it in to find the right spot. "Ugh fuck, I didn't mean just yet, I-I need to get out of my bodysuit first!" But I just pull him against me and push harder with a cheeky smirk on my face

"Please- you can help but I just need to get it off first..." He whines from the sensitivity of his full and heavy bladder. It's cute how he squirms pathetically and his legs tremble as he can't even begin to remove his bodysuit with this position and how I'm grabbing onto him

It's his mistake for not just having a zipper on his bodysuit! Having to literally take his bodysuit that had full body coverage off by pulling it down to the legs to pee due to the lack of zipper takes way too long and he's been holding it for too long, he needs to pee right now!

"Oohhh careful, you're gonna make me piss myself..." He grits his teeth and sucks in a deep breath as he tries to hold it as hard as he can but his bladder feels like it's about to burst at this point but I don't stop massaging it when he warns me because that's the goal!

The rubbing makes it ache and throb so hard, threatening to leak any second. He whines worriedly, saying he needs to get the bodysuit off because he's running out of time. I can keep doing this to him once he's taken it off! But I keep pressing on his poor overfull bladder relentlessly

I remind him that he said he needed to go really bad and I'm just helping him. Finally, a little trickle dribbles out the tip and his eyes widen and then squeeze shut. The floodgates open and it all comes squirting out uncontrollably, full force with his bodysuit still on

"Argh, fuck you! I told you, now I'm making a mess!" He's blushing and flustered and furious that I'd make him wreck his clothes here and now but he can't stay mad for long because I've still got him in a hug and keep rubbing and pushing down on his bladder

"Aahhh, feels so good..." He moans deeply as he gives in. The pleasurable pressure of how sensitive it is combined with the relief of the release at last is so intense and has him panting and sighing from the overwhelming satisfaction getting him all worked up and aroused

Pushing down on it makes him piss even harder, it squirts out in a thick hot burst, drips all down the legs of the bodysuit, and pools in the crotch area as it easily soaks through the thin fabric of his underwear. It gets him weak in the knees, they'd buckle without my support!

He worries briefly again when he realizes someone could look over and see him pissing himself now, or even just walking past the bush and hearing the gushing and his moans would immediately make it obvious what's happening but he just can't stop and it feels great

When he's finally emptied his bladder, he feels so much lighter and so much relief! But then his focus goes back to the fact that his bodysuit is full of piss. "Damn it, look what you've done! How am I supposed to go back out there like this?" He doesn't have anything to change into!

He takes off his bodysuit and it's so drenched inside, it spills when he pulls it down to his ankles. But there's a huge dark wet patch on his underwear that's absolutely soaked from the copious amounts of piss he just unloaded into them but he can't take those off

He has to rush back into his Egg Mobile in just his wet underwear and he's grumpy about spoiling the seat cushion and having to ask Orbot and Cubot to clean it. He blushes when I just giggle and say he looked so cute pissing himself and that he knows he liked it lol 💜

#I'm baaack lol #ns4w #piss kink #watersp0rts #piss play #omorashi

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ai-luni · 2 years

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nsfw hcs for merrick? i absolutely l o v e your writing, its so crisp i am literally crushing it up and snorting it like coke rn. also my boy is so underappreciated🥲

HE IS!! YES!! Merrick is so underappreciated. I need edits of him, I need fics of him. Genuinely his voice does things to me, I’m so obsessed with how scratchy his voice is.

It’s actually embarrassing how much I listen to the ghost’s voice lines. @lylesx got me so addicted to Rorke’s voiceline video and I kid you not, it’s an experience. Now that’s what I snort like coke.

And I’m so glad somebody asked because this has been plaguing my mind forever. Most childish gambino songs remind me of Rorke. Les, heartbeat, me and your mama, the redbone x bonfire mashup.

Thomas Merrick NSFW Headcanons

Now, let’s begin.

Save a ghost, ride a cowboy. This man can be damn rowdy if you want him to be.

He’s hot headed, loves a good bar, a good game of pool, like a true yeehaw blooded american. So if you get him to wear a cowboy hat, you’re really in for it.

Merrick is steadily approaching his older years now and having been around the block a couple times now, I think he’d definitely prefer a partner who knows what they want. That doesn’t mean you have to be experienced, he's just a little over the shyness of it all now. The man does not beat around the bush, he wouldn’t be a commander today if he wasn’t assertive.

Merrick’s not opposed to one night stands but he’s also started to make jokes that he’s ‘over his prime’. Unless you completely took charge and played all of your cards correctly, I don’t think he’d take home a woman in their 20’s.

The whole ‘innocent young girl’ act just wouldn’t work on him, period. He would love the idea of having a daughter one day, even if he had to do it as a single father. I’m certain you can find the correlation there yourself.

(On a different note, Merrick as a father - to a daughter especially - is incredibly protective. He’ll scare off any potential date until they find one he likes, he’ll be proactive if anyone was making fun of them in class and the house has many security systems built in. Not to mention the fact he’s a petty officer, so if his child doesn't do their chores on any given day, they’ll never live it down).

Merrick’s favourite thing to this date is shower sex. Warm water, a hot woman and all the time in the world. What more could he ever ask for?

Seriously though, he’s been a SEAL since he was 17. The man has spent his entire life tossed between aircrafts, navy carriers, land bases and raid sites. The most luxurious thing to him is a long, hot shower.

When he’s home alone, he’ll get himself off in the shower (also because it feels more private to him and it’s an easy clean up overall). Water running down his spine, palmed braised on the tiled wall. He’ll let his head hang forward, eyelids clamped. If an incredibly undignified noise wants to leave his mouth, then is the only time he’ll let it slip.

However, he’ll have you in any position imaginable that could fit in that shower. His absolute favourite is having a shower with a glass door facing the mirror above the vanity. He’ll press your chest up to the glass and watch as you struggle to find a comfortable way to rest your head. Eventually he’ll give in and yank your wet hair back to your chin and sit against the glass, leaving your throat on complete display just for him. Then there's your ass slapping against him, your curved spine shiny and wet. It’s not the best position to get the most of him in you and you’ll likely cramp up quicker, but if you can handle it, it’s the quickest position to get Merrick to finish.

Circling back to the daughter thing: man has a breeding kink. He’ll take any chance he can to ask if he can make you a mummy.

There was one time you were riding him, holding his hands out by his head. The sight of you alone taking what you need from him was enough to keep him hard long after release but then you started to talk to him. Tease him the best way you know how.

“You wanna be a father hmm? I’m gonna make you a father” He’ll groan like he was in pain and you’ll feel it, his dick deep inside you just as restless as his hands were. “What will your kids call you? Dad, daddy, papa?”

When he’s out on a mission, if he’s not thinking about the view of you in the shower, it’s your voice in his ear getting him off. And when you’re with him, then wrap your arms around his neck, let your hands roam his chest and whisper in his ear for only him to hear about how good of a father he’s going to be. He will follow you around like a lost puppy.

You did it to him around the ghosts once and they kicked up a storm. What nasty, dirty thing could you have possibly said to make him completely melt in your hand like that.

If it’s not a “mummy” kind of day, he’ll say “yes ma’am.” In or outside the bedroom, he’ll say “yes ma’am” and absolutely loves it when you run the show. He’s also an avid user of “that’s my woman” when you are doing something helpful or badass.

I don’t know about you but I am absolutely whipped for this man’s voice. He would be absolutely smitten if he found out what his voice did to you. Also another thing that should be talked about more here is that Merrick can speak spanish.

So if you’re being cruel and teasing him, he’ll send it back ten fold (He’s a massive tease and would love a witty woman). He’ll whisper right back into your ear, telling you what he wants to do to you, how hot you look in that outfit and sprinkle in anything in Spanish, until you're a shameless, moaning mess in public.

Merrick isn’t opposed to public sex depending on the situation. Mission are an absolute no and it’d be very unlikely he’d let go all the way when hiding out in a safe house.

(If you were with the ghosts hiding at a safehouse, he’d honestly see it as a game of ‘who can last the longest’. Both of you so so stubborn that the game has only ever ended the lot of you going back into combat or with Rorke or even Elias saying they’ll clear the room just so he can fuck you already. The both of you get so tense and strict just because you’re holding out on each other and the others find it very. very. annoying).

If you were at a bar or restaurant or cinema or even another ghost’s house, however, it’s fair game (granted you can actually find a spot you won’t get caught).

It all started in a movie once, only two other seats were filled out and both were on the other side of the room. You grabbed his hand, stuck it between your legs and started to grind against it. He may have given you the most unamused look but even when you finished, he wouldn’t let go of your pussy until the film was done.

He can be quite loud in the bedroom. Most of the time, however, he’ll only grunt and groan. He’s gonna be really worked up or angry to get a yell out.

He finds the maintenance of his beard quite an intimate thing and as much as a middle aged man can, he gets quite giddy when you trim it for him.

Having you sit on his lap in the bathroom with a comfortable silence. His hands instinctively roaming your back as you giggle. His smile makes it harder for you to be precise that eventually you hold his head still by the jaw. He wouldn’t be able to take his eyes off you as concentrated on getting this right for him. He didn’t seem to care as much as you did and just brought you into a kiss.

Usually if things escalate like that, you’d have to finish trimming his beard later in the night.

Like mentioned before, Merrick’s been a SEAL for all of his adult life. He’s been a ghost since his early 20’s and has become most of his identity. Seeing you in his ghost mask could then draw two responses out of him depending on how he’s feeling.

On some days, he’d hate to see you wear the mask, see you be associated with any of the violence that that mask has seen.

On other days and more commonly however, seeing you wear his mask does something to him. Seeing you let this mask that has become a symbol of him wrap your face, so willing to be one with him. He wouldn’t make love to you in it but it would definitely instigate the evening.

Besides he’s always thought the mask looked cool and you looking hot in it only confirms it. And then if the mask continued to smell like your perfume, even for a few days afterwards, he would be the happiest man alive.

#cod #call of duty #call of duty ghosts #thomas merrick #thomas merrick x reader #merrick #merrick x reader #thomas merrick x you

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jimmyjrsmusoems · 2 years

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Soooo :D which bobs burgers characters do you think are potentially Swifties 👀👀? Gimme a list 🤌

you!!!!!! this is the best ask ever!!!!!! i put...an embarrassing amount of thought into this but i had so much fun doing it lol. thank you!!!!

okay i am going to sort these into categories :

definitely a swiftie

not a swiftie but respects taylor as an artist / likes a few songs

absolutely not a swiftie

definitely a swiftie :

TINA!!!! (definitely loves every album, but probably favors speak now and lover)

jocelyn (really favors pop taylor - 1989, lover, reputation, midnights, etc)

teddy (exclusively listens to debut until tina shows him the rest of her discography, really resonates with red tv)

gayle (discovered taylor through the movie "cats" like @airborneashes said lol)

susmita (probably favors folklore / evermore taylor but reputation is in her top 3 albums)

courtney (discovered taylor through midnights but quickly becomes obsessed with everything she's ever done)

becky krespe (a 1989 girlie through and through)

chloe barbash (has gone to every single tour, hosts listening parties when new albums are released, goes all out for her eras tour outfit)

mr. frond (literally had a religious experience the first time he listened to folklore)

ms. selbo (listened to high infidelity while she was stealing her ex's dog)

felix fischoeder (loves midnights, did not get eras tour tickets but fought in the ticketmaster trenches)

not a swiftie but respects taylor as an artist / likes a few songs :

boblin (they only know who she is because of tina and they don't listen to all of her music, but sometimes one of them will catch the other whistling shake it off or something lol)

gene (respects taylor heavily as an artist, she's just not his fave! he would absolutely lose his mind watching the reputation stadium tour movie with tina though)

logan bush (probably listened to her once to impress a girl, turns out he really resonates with reputation, makes his friends listen to getaway car just to prove that she's "not that bad")

tammy (loves welcome to new york, only listens to her with jocelyn though)

zeke and jimmy jr. (they listen to her at a sleepover just to see why tina likes her so much, they end up listening to at least four albums in one sitting, zeke is so moved by would've, could've, should've that he gets peter pescadero to restart the women's issues club with him)

mr. branca (his favorite song is karma)

darryl (thinks that taylor is hot, loses his mind every time don't blame me comes on)

absolutely not a swiftie :

louise (would go to her concert though, just for tina)

rudy (he just...doesn't seem like he would get her)

alex papasian (doesn't know who taylor swift is)

calvin fischoeder (bought a ton of tickets for the eras tour, but only so it would sell out and felix couldn't go)

edith (very judgmental about all of taylor's relationships, heard a snippet of dress once and nearly had a heart attack)

jimmy pesto (sided with k*nye)

#genuinely worried about my mental state after this one ngl #i had to take a lap around my apartment halfway through because i was like. overwhelmed by how much i care about these two topics LMAO #if there is one thing i am gonna do it is mash my two special interests together tho #taylor #bob's burgers #ask

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onlytenstarsinthesky · 1 year

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ok so i just finished heartstopper s2 and I AM CRYING AND I DONT KNOW IF IM HAPPY OR SAD AND I THINK IM SO FUCKING HAPPY. i need to talk abt every single part of this so if you don’t want spoilers don’t click for more (and if you haven’t seen it yet GO WATCH NOW U WILL NOT REGRET)

ok first of all TAOELLE what the fuck i LOVE them so much and tao learning more abt himself and digging deep into his own life. and can we not forget abt how much of a STUPID he was when he asks elle out like we love you tao (and i mean stupid in the kindest possible way, tao means so much to me as a character)

and ELLE oh my god. first of all she’s so fucking talented like of course she was gonna get into lambert there was no question. and NAOMI AND FELIX ugh they are just the best

and then nick and charlie!!!!!!!!!!! they were the best this season, and joe and kit have also matured so much as actors, i can see it! i DIED at the end of the ep where charlie sees the hickey i was literally rolling on the floor laughing and then nicks reaction the next episode was priceless. and nick being SUCH a a good boyfriend i love him so much. he is the best

and the series portrays everything about mental health so well and sensitively and also without beating around the bush, alice oseman and euros lyn and everyone are absolute rockstars

and now i need to talk about isaac—alice was not kidding when they said they had big asexual plans for isaac. it meant so much to see that on a screen, i’ve never seen asexuality portrayed in a show like this. and isaac learning abt it from that artist and then getting the book from the library tobie really did such a fucking great job

and new characters!!! SAHAR!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love her so much she really is a beautiful human

and the SONGS. colors of you got screen time this season!! and we can be anything!!!! and the pretty girl lie!!!!!!!!!! if you can’t tell i fucking love baby queen!! and then at the end there was seven by taylor swift!! i cried when i heard it and there was no going back from that, it’s literally my fav song!! and it fit tara and darcy so well for the end

OH and i almost forgot NATHAN AND YOUSSEF. MR AJAYI AND MR FAROUK. i was looking forward to their story SO MUCH leading up to the release date and i was NOT FUCKING DISAPPOINTED. they fucking delivered man. they are the SWEETEST I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

i think that’s it for now but i will be back for more talking abt heartstopper i cannot get enough of it. def a rewatch or 34

also i am not proofreading this extremely long midnight rant so have fun with the inevitable typos :)

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redactedwriting · 2 months

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hi redactedwriting it is literally 4 am when i am sending this but i have thoughts that must be released before i can sleep

it is a need of biblical proportions to top patrick but i know he's got a big dick like this basically confirmed at this point

so like i just wanna see his cock leaking and straining against some panties, tears running down his face from how long i've teased him. i'm an ioh patrick girlie (gender neutral) but i think current beartrick would be cute like this. all big and hairy and masculine reduced to nothing but whimpering, wet mess for me. maybe i could be teasing him about how big his dick is, but how useless it is trapped in his panties just to get him to beg to prove that it's not useless and he could be so good if i'd let him -🍊

hi orange anon you just murdered me.

topping patrick is so fucking…..yeah. his big ol eyes all filled with tears and his dick leaking in cotton panties, god and if it’s beartrick!! his fuckin. hairy. god his hairy tummy all sticky with sweat and precome…..his dick straining in panties and his bush popping out………..i’m so fine

HEARINF HIM BEG? him begging you to believe him when he says his dick isn’t useless. begging you to let him prove it. god jesus christ holy fuck.

#ps/yn

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tellevangeline · 7 months

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(Photo of me and my husband by @mettieostrowski on insta)

Caroline Polachek as a Sociological Phenomena and why it’s Important to Gatekeep Twinks.

So there I was (picture unrelated) waiting for the train at 10:30 PM on a Sunday so I can go take some extra estradiol from a generous friend at a gay bar, full incognito, wearing a fucking hoodie, I’m so tired I spent all day working on the flier for my new absurdist drag bingo because I and everyone I know are walking parodies of bushwick transexuals.

Train is taking forever so I have some time to kill, and I decide (d? Should I care about continuity? I am not a writer, I’m an author.)

Anyway I decided to put the recent Caroline Polachek album on, which is big for me because I have been a bit of a Caroline Polachek denier. I listened to Chairlift very casually when I was a teenager but I was far from die hard and since then I’ve kind of just thought of her as an unfortunate but all too common case of a talented musician being so aggressively HAIM-Pilled that it’s practically deafening. I say this as a dyke with love for all dykes❤️

Also the “new queen of artpop” claims coming from the exact type of 5’8 naturally dirty blonde he/they’s I’ve made it my life goal to disagree with at all times are really not helping her case for me.

Because here’s my thing. I’m a Kate Bush ride or die, surprising I know. I have I’ve always been a coward tattooed below my collarbones like the only 1% I’ll ever be a part of is her Spotify listeners.

But here’s the tea, if you’re not ready and willing to hee haw like a fucking donkey on a song that’s probably about some form of domestic abuse you just aren’t the new queen of artpop. I do make the rules and to be honest the only people in pop music right now not named lady fucking gaga who has the panache, the gaul, the unwavering commitment to pull stunts and shenanigans on that level are Ethel Cain and Lingua Ignota, especially since FKA Twigs decided she wanted to live a happy and fulfilling life (and good for her, thank you for all the good times queen)

And Caroline is simply not there, she’s too squeaky clean and widely appealing to go to those absurd and ugly places that make a Bjork.

Now my personal cocomelon/surrogate father figure Anthony Fantano the Internet’s Busiest Music Nerd did love her album, and I usually agree with his takes (mbdtf is mid you just love it because it was baby’s first concept album and you have a deep yearning to return to a time in your life where you first realized music could be art) BUT WHILE I AGREE WITH MANY OF HIS TAKES (sorry) my one glaring exception is that he never takes how cunt something is into consideration while evaluating a piece of music, and by that I do mean that he said gaga peaked at fame monster and 212 is the only good azealia banks song. He doesn’t have the tools to engage with music in a fag like manor, so when we’re dealing with music for gays, I don’t trust him.

And then last night I saw a Drag Queen named The Illustrious Pearl perform welcome to my island as a showgirl vampire wearing rhinestoned knee pads and frankly if Caroline is good enough for her she’s certainly good enough for me.

And I’m gonna be really vulnerable here, I really enjoyed the album. Like, there’s about as much art in it’s pop as cranberry in a gay bar vodka cran but it’s damn good pop and the art adds a nice little aftertaste.

I believe is definetely my favorite, those Rhythm Nation/Mortal Kombat ass synth hits always make me convulse (America Has A Problem is my favorite track off Renaissance) (it took me a whole 2 minutes to spell renaissance right) but I also like welcome to my island a lot and I at least liked everything else except for Billions which sounds like a song that was rejected from The Sensual World because Kate would never release a song that non-violent.

But it was cute. I have a meeting with a literal church upstate that is trying to book me for their pride drag show tomorrow and one of them just texted me “Brainstorming with the Holy Spirit is so exciting and so fruitful ✝️💜✝️) and I believe those synth hits on I Believe will carry me through my challenges tomorrow. Love Down.

Xoxo

-Evangeline

#caroline polachek #gay twink #bushwick #does tumblr have an algorithm now?

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earlymodernlesbian · 10 months

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i literally feel INSANE

yes let's absolutely have a conversation about incarceration of youth (and radicalization of youth) for sure, although probably it makes sense to start on the ground in your local community. this is a topic i know kind of a lot about since my mom is like one of the nation's leading experts in juvenile justice and is regularly interviewed in national media about it, in fact you may have heard her on npr a couple months ago. but AGAIN if this is the FIRST time you've ever brought this up and you aren't doing any activist work in your own community around prison abolition or reform and you aren't asking any questions about israel's incarceration of israeli youth (i tried to do some research into this topic actually and it's very difficult to find anything because almost all of the sources that come up when you search "juvenile incarceration israel prison" are about palestinians.... but i was able to find this source which has data from 2018 suggesting that israel's youth incarceration is about 10x as much as the US as measured in terms of percentage of the total prison population.... so again this seems like a topic that is definitely worth discussing!!! but maybe more so by the people who actually live there and are actually affected by this issue, and YOU can start by worrying about the youth who are incarcerated in YOUR community) ... and if you aren't doing that at all...... then you actually don't give a shit about this as a political topic, you're just using it to demonize israel

i have also seen MULTIPLE PEOPLE today post online some variation of "why is no one asking why israel has child hostages???" like it's some kind of checkmate or something and i just feel like......idk this is maybe the first time in my life that i've felt the urge that might lead a person to shake a baby???? MAYBE NO ONE IS ASKING THAT BECAUSE (a) THAT'S NOT AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF THE SITUATION, (b) EASILY AVAILABLE EXPLANATIONS CAN BE FOUND FOR EACH *PRISONER'S* CONVICTED CRIME AKA THE REASON WHY THEY HAVE BEEN INCARCERATED (compare this to the israeli hostages, whose crime was being Jewish), and (c) MULTIPLE PEOPLE ARE ASKING THIS BECAUSE YOU'RE ALL SO FUCKING STUPID

seeing the videos of the released prisoners immediately going back and waving hamas flags and wearing hamas headbands and armbands makes me feel sick to my stomach. a decade ago israel traded 1000 prisoners for 1 kidnapped soldier (the last time hamas took hostages alive as a negotiation tactic) and one of those released prisoners planned the 10/7 pogrom. they are going on television and stating that they are planning to repeat it over and over and over again until all the jews in the WORLD are eradicated. why is nobody listening to them????????????

AND ON THAT RATIO NOTE i am literally seeing people saying that the numbers negotiated over days and weeks in a deal that like 5 countries were involved in facilitating in order to convince hamas to give back the hostages....is SOMEHOW AN INDICATOR OF ISRAEL NOT VALUING PALESTINIAN LIVES??????? because more palestinians are being released than israelis??????? BABE THAT'S HAMAS!!!!!!!! do you think if hamas would have released the hostages for a single terrorist released, israel wouldn't have PREFERRED that?????? literally i can't tell if people are this stupid or this antisemitic and i almost can't decide which is worse tbh

i also just like....cannot emphasize enough how much western leftists have no understanding of israeli politics AT ALL but also just no understanding of cause and effect??? like yeah bush got reelected after 9/11.... bibi had the LOWEST fucking approval ratings prior to 10/7 and now they have skyrocketed. safety is the foundation of maslow's hierarchy of needs. everyone in israel fucking HATES netanyahu, he's literally like an israeli trump, there were daily protests in the streets prior to 10/7, when he was reelected, every single jew i know around the world was in mourning -- very similar vibe although a smaller scale to the 2016 election night. but now he has much more support than he ever had before because it is being made SO clear that jews are not welcome in leftist spaces. to be clear i still fucking hate him but that's also very isolating in its own way because it adds to the sense of no one having my back!!!! politically it doesn't feel like anyone on the left is fighting for us and no one on the right is ACTUALLY on our side or there for the right reasons.

i just keep thinking of the stage picture in fiddler on the roof when they're leaving anatevka. it's always been just us. huddled together, wearing our coats and our hats. a little bit of this and a little bit of that. soon i'll be a stranger in a strange new place.

#don't read this probably #i just need to vent or i will explode #i had therapy a few days ago and i just spent the whole time talking about israel #and she said all her jewish clients (which is most of her clients) have been the same way #and everyone is expressing very similar fears #and it's this repeated feeling of being alone and not having anyone listening to us #oh meme credit to neuroticjewishgay on instagram

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Albums That I Listened to in January 2024

Last month, I made the first of what I plan to be a series of twelve posts where I share what albums I listened to in the month before then and what I thought about them.

Here are the twelve albums that I listened to this month:

Titanic Rising - Weyes Blood (2019)

When We Were That What Wept for the Sea - Colin Stetson (2023)

3D Country - Geese (2023)

Middle Cyclone - Neko Case (2009)

In Colour - Jamie xx (2015)

Atlanta Millionaires Club - Faye Webster (2019)

Color Me Country - Linda Martell (1970)

Madison - Sloppy Jane (2021)

Marquee Moon - Television (1977)

Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins (1990)

Fantasies - Metric (2009)

In My Own Time - Karen Dalton (1971)

Here's how I'd rank these albums:

Madison - I decided to give this album a listen purely out of curiosity because of how fascinated I was by the story behind how it got made. For those of you who are unaware, songwriter Haley Dahl and her band Sloppy Jane recorded this album in the Lost World Caverns in West Virginia over the course of two weeks, and for an album that was recorded in a literal cave, it's excellent. The orchestral, art pop compositions are absolutely beautiful, and Haley is a great lyricist whose ability to convey certain emotions and experiences with such visceral imagery and usage of symbolism throughout multiple tracks is something I admire and respect. Going into this album knowing that it was recorded in a cave adds to the atmosphere of the album, too. While listening, I couldn't help but imagine Haley and company playing these songs in a dark cavern in the middle of the night. I could go on about this album and how much I love it for pages, but I these posts are already kind of long as it stands, and I don't want it to be any longer. Definitely give it a listen, especially if you're as big of a Kate Bush fan as I am, because this has her influence all over it. 10/10

2. Middle Cyclone - Ever since I discovered her music last year before I started this personal challenge, Neko Case has quickly become one of my favorite artists and this album only further demonstrates to me why I've come to love her work so much. The way she blends together indie rock and country scratches an itch for me; and much like in her album preceding this one, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, Middle Cyclone demonstrates Neko's incredible lyricism, particularly her ability to convey emotional rawness and human vulnerability in such a straightforward, yet eloquently profound way. Given that this is also what I would consider Neko Case's most accessible album, I would highly recommend anyone who hasn't already listened to her work to check this album out - especially if you're a fan of artists like Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, or Adrienne Lenker who I think all owe a part of their sound and success to her. 8/10

3. In My Own Time - Karen Dalton is, in my opinion, one of the most underrated artists of the 60s and 70s and deserves more recognition than what she gets. Only the second album she ever released in her lifetime, there's something especially pleasant about her different covers of these songs (Yes, this is a covers album - Karen didn't really write or record original material). It makes me feel like I am sitting in a living room in a house on the countryside watching the snow fall in the winter or the leave rustling in the breeze in the summer. Not to mention that Karen has a beautiful alto voice. I actually like some of these covers better than their original versions. If you're looking for late sixties/early seventies folk music to listen to, I would recommend checking this album out. 9/10

4. Fantasies - Metric is a band that has been on my radar for a while now, but for some reason, I haven't gone out of my way to listen to any of their albums in full until now. All of the tracks go pretty hard, and I really like Emily Haines' voice. My favorite band Paramore cited Metric as an influence for their most recent album This Is Why, and I can definitely see where they were inspired. If any of you like Paramore or Yeah Yeah Yeahs, I would definitely give this album a listen. 7/10

5. Titanic Rising - This album sounds like walking through an antique store that is faintly playing old obscure 80s music on its loudspeakers as you gaze over the various items decorating each "room" in the store, the scent of vintage goods and old wood wafting through the air. Weyes Blood's voice reminds me of a cross between Eurhythmics' Annie Lennox and Enya, and the instrumentation and production on this album are stunningly beautiful. I was worried going into this album that I wouldn't be able to get into it because the tracks are all on the slower side in terms of tempo, but I actually found myself liking this one a lot. 9/10

6. Color Me Country - Linda Martell is an important figure in country music history who, despite her significance and the barriers she helped break down for black artists in the genre, has been oft forgotten. The first black artist in history to perform at the Grand Ole Opry, she only ever released one studio album - Color Me Country, in 1970. The album consists of pretty standard country music that was common at the time, with lyrical subject matter typical of the genre - but just because an album isn't sonically pushing the envelope, doesn't mean that it can't be good. I don't know what it was, but something lit up in me listening to this album and I really enjoyed what I heard. It makes me wonder what else she would have done had she continued her music career and released more material. Either way, this is a wonderful album from an incredible woman who deserves a lot more attention to her work. 7/10

7. 3D Country - This album sounds like a fusion between The Rolling Stones and Queen and I'm kind of living for it. It's genuinely good, fun, classic-styled rock music that doesn't take itself too seriously and has some really unique qualities to it. St. Elmo has been stuck in my head ever since I first heard it, and little embellishments like the harp on the title track really give this album its own personality. If you're somebody who primarily listens to older music who wants to try something newer or are just looking for more rock bands to get into, I recommend giving this album a try. 8/10

8. Atlanta Millionaires Club - Did you know that Faye Webster and I are the same age? I'm so used to artists either being older or younger than me that seeing someone around my age making music is both surprising and refreshing to me at the same time. This might be part of the reason why I clicked with this album a bit better than some of the other ones that I listened to this last month - Faye and I are in kind of the same place in life and due to us being the same age, and we probably share a similar perspective and experiences. It also helps that Faye is an adroit lyricist, and the chill indie rock instrumentation suits her voice well. The only issue that I have with this album is that the track Flowers near the end sounds jarring given how different it is from the rest of the album. 8/10

9. When We Were That What Wept for the Sea - This album gaslit me into thinking I have synesthesia. No really, I'm serious - I listened to this album while driving at night and I remember during the beginning of either Infliction or Passage I started smelling freshly brewed coffee. I didn't have any coffee in the car with me and I was not in an area where there would be any coffee brewing nearby. It was wild. And then after that it started smelling like the produce section of a grocery store in the beginning of the second half of the album. Anyways, this experimental ambient album by saxophonist Colin Stetson was really interesting to listen to and there are a lot of cool details scattered throughout each song. It wasn't what I was expecting at all, but it was a pleasant surprise. It would probably pair well with the flute album Andre 3000 put out last year. 8/10

10. Marquee Moon - This is a classic album that I see getting a ton of praise, so I figured I would give it a listen. It's a pretty good album, although the tracks sound a little bit samey at times. The two songs that stand out to me are Venus and the title track. 7/10

11. In Colour - The only solo album (As of right now) from The xx member Jamie xx makes for a fairly pleasant listening experience. Jamie seems to be veering slightly away from the indie rock elements of The xx's work and more into electronic and pop, incorporating some hip-hop influences along the way. The featured appearances all fit in nicely, and the album overall sounds like the chill cousin of Daft Punk's Homework. 8/10

12. Heaven or Las Vegas - Please don't take me ranking this album last as some indication that I don't like it. I actually enjoyed it - albeit think that it's overrated. The number of people that I have seen praising this album and talking about how great it is made me think that it was going to be some amazing, mind-altering experience to listen to, but it was really a series of (Super short) shoegaze-y pop tracks that are just good. I don't really get why people hype up Cocteau Twins so much. You would think that they invented sliced bread with the way some people talk about them. 7/10

So far, I've really been enjoying most of the albums that I listen to. I have a few albums in mind that I plan to listen to in full in February, but again, if anyone wants to recommend me anything, you are always welcome to leave a comment. :)

#music #albums #album ranking #sloppy jane #neko case #karen dalton #metric band #weyes blood #linda martell #geese band #faye webster #colin stetson #television band #jamie xx #cocteau twins #january

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Top Albums of 2023

Hey, how ya doing? I got sick the last week of 2023 when I intended to write this so here I am in 2024 looking back on some of my favorite long players last year.

I saw so many of my favorite acts in 2023, it was probably the best live music year ever. So much so I spent what felt like a whole morning creating a "reel" on "instagram". The fruits of which you can watch here.

Enough about live music though, this is about wonderful studio recordings, so here's what's made the long list and then we'll kick straight into the top 10 with accompanying videos.

16 - Romy - Mid Air

15- Jessie Ware - That! Feels! Good!

14- Gracie Abrams - Good Riddance

13 - Lana Del Rey - Did you know there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd?

12 - Bombay Bicycle Club - My Big Day

11 - The Bug Club - Rare Birds: Hour of Song

10 - Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy

If you haven't seen Young Fathers Glastonbury set in 2023, I recommend you do so after you've read this blog. Gutted they cancelled their brooklyn show, but I hope to catch it this year.

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9 - Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You

Caroline Polacheck is the closest we've got to Kate Bush in 2023, the detail she puts into her visuals and the choreography of her performances, its high art. The track below isn't on the album, but it was the moment I realized her brilliance.

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8 - Gorillaz - Cracker Island

This felt like an under the radar release from Gorillaz, at least here in the states. It's the first time Albarn has worked with Greg Kurstin (Adele, Mccartney, Kendrick) and you can hear his influence as it's a bit more poppy than previous releases.

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7 - Jeff Rosenstock - Hellmode

If you've read any of my blogs over the past decade you will have seen a lot of appearances from US Punk / Ska legend Jeff. The reason being; he doesn't make bad records.

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6 - Sleaford Mods - UK Grim

How do you follow 2021's career highlight Spare Ribs? With more of the same, that's how. 12 albums in to their career now and they're still gathering pace. Blistering, acerbic, hilarious as ever.

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5 - The Hives - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons

The first new music from The Hives in 11 years and they return with a literal bang. This album is as good as anything they came out with when they first charmed their way onto the scene in the early 2000's. The bellies may be podgier, Pelle's kicks aren't as high, but the riffs are as spritely as ever. Still one of the greatest live bands around.

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4 - Blur - Ballad of Darren

I always get a bit anxious about a new blur album, they don't have to release new music, they have a back catalog that guarantees them legend status already. Releasing new music risks tainting that legacy so far into their career. I needn't worry, Ballad of Darren is a beautiful record with a legitimate brand new stadium filling anthem to add to their repertoire.

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3 - Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS

Bit of a surprise this one, maybe more for me than you dear reader. I didn't get the fuss of the first album (still don't) it sounded like any one of a million young pop darlings. But GUTS is different, it's eclectic, it's beautifully written, it tears at your heart, it raises your fists, it makes you dance. It has everything really. She's the real deal. It's objectively not made for a 42 year old man, but great music is great music and I bloody love this.

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2 - Jenny Lewis - Joy'All

It was a tough call between this and Olivia, but i've given it to Jenny for the 20+ years experience she has on the young upstart. Jenny Lewis is maturing into a fine groove, she's replaced Ryan Adams as a much more palletable country-folk spot in my heart. Her songwriting continues to get better with age.

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1 - The National - First Two Pages of Frankenstein | Laugh Track

Stadium filling, Taylor Swift collaborating, David Letterman approved super band The National. It's a wild trajectory my favorite band has taken over the last few years. No longer critically acclaimed everyones favorite unheard of band, they're rightly at the upper table of indie-rock and its fully deserved. Not satisfied with releasing one beautiful record this year they follow it up soon after with the surprise Laugh Track an equally brilliant album in its own right. Most bands would kill to have one record this good in their whole career, its frankly not fair they can do two this good in a year. A joint number one for me as I can't separate them.

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There you have it, 2023 all wrapped up, full of BIG acts with a smattering of newbies thrown in for good measure and probably the most female representation I've had in an end of year list.

You can hear these and LOADS more in my 2023 playlist.

And if you like any of this and trust my judgement follow my 2024 playlist which I curate throughout the year adding newly released tracks.

Aaaaaand away...

#Instagram #Youtube #the national #jenny lewis #olivia rodrigo #best of 2023 #blur #gorillaz #new music

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Bunch of incorrect quotes because it's friday and I'm currently releasing an incredible amount of serotonin.

Brutus: You killed him.

Petra: *shrugs* He died of natural causes.

Emory: *looks at the corpse* Knife to the neck.

Brutus: I thought you said he died of natural causes.

Petra: There's nothing more natural than dying from a knife to the neck.

Devon: *nods* Yeah, what would be unnatural is if he survived.

Callista: Never forget; being 'overdressed' is a concept made up by the people who don't want you to look better than them.

Nero: You're literally wearing an expensive wedding gown covered with blood right now.

Nero: Calli, we are at Lina's funeral.

Callista: And??? It's great metaphor.

Lyme: What's that?

Claudius: The government wants to know what kind of weapons we have in the house. I'm letting them know it's privte information through a letter.

Lyme, looking over Claudius' shoulder" This just says 'fuck around and find out' in calligraphy.

Adessa, at 3 am, in the village group chat: Apparently a blue whale's anus can stretch to approximately three and a half feet, making it the second largest asshole on the planet--just behind the Victors who stepped on my rose bushes yet again.

Iris:

Odin:

Hera:

Brutus:

Misha: Morning to you too :)

Lyme: Excuse you, I'm an excellent driver.

Nero: You almost ran over Enobaria by accident.

Lyme: Oh.

Lyme: I didn't get her? Damn it!

*at a zoo*

Misha: What are they in for?

Emory: This isn't a prison.

Misha: So they can leave whenever they want to.

Emory: Well no, but-

Devon, pointing at a meerkt: I bet that one killed half a dozen.

Misha, trying to jump the fence: I'M JUST LIKE YOU LITTLE GUY!!! I'LL SET YOU FREE.

*people staring*

Emory: ...and this is why we can't have nice Victor-outings.

Nero: Is that my sweater?

Enobaria: It used to be.

Hera, looking at a broken window: I hope you have an explation for this.

Callista: I have three.

Callista: Pick your favourite.

Lyme: *choking*

Claudius: Help! I need to call 911 but the 9 button is not working.

Misha: Just turn it upside down and use the 6!

Claudius: Genius!

Lyme, stops choking momentarily: wHAT THE HELL!?

Ronan: I thought of you today.

Snow: How very nice of you.

Ronan: It reminded me to throw out the garbage.

And now my old time favourites...

Callista: I'm tired.

Nero: Well, you can do the S-word.

Callista: *gasps* You're a genius.

Nero: *realizes his mistake* Calli, no-

Nero: The S-word is sleep.

Luna: What's that?

Odin: Adessa just gave me a get well soon card.

Luna: Ah, that's sweet of her.

Odin: I'm not sick, she just thinks I can do better when it comes to politics.

Misha: On halloween we dress up as our skeletons, but every other day of the year, out skeletons dresses up like us.

Misha: Why do people who use baby changing stations always come back with the same baby?

Emory: Remind me to never let you babysit for anyone ever.

Callista: Do you care if I take the skin off this Furby?

Callista: I want to make him an outlier tribute. Once he is free of his fluffy, innocent and ignorant flesh, he may be long time lovers with insanity. He won't dare to leave me like others did.

Hera: I literally could not care less but never say anything as frightening as that ever again.

#we must be killers #incorrect quotes

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Sophia Bush and Hilarie Burton Claim ‘One Tree Hill’ Creator Threatened Their Jobs Over ‘Maxim’ Shoot

Hilarie Burton, Sophia Bush, and Bethany Joy Lenz share more about their experiences on "One Tree Hill,", especially in Season 4's "Maxim" storyline. During Monday's episode of his "Drama Queens" podcast, he reenacted the season's fourth episode, during which Brooke (Bush) photographed Rachel (Danielle Ackles) for Maxim magazine. The episode of One Tree Hill aired in October 2006, a month before Bush, Burton, and Ackles appeared on their own cover of Maxim magazine - but they didn't really want to. At the time, he explained, the show was trying to attract a more male audience by bringing in an outrageous man ("Psycho Derek," played by Matt Barr) wearing women's underwear. Sophia Bush said. "They were like, 'Maybe we should do more! Maybe we should max out the girls and tell them that if they don't fire, they are fired.' I don't. I let Brooke do this. Was trying to wrestle it down to the point. That's what you tried to force me to do. I don't want to do it. I literally said, 'If you show this cover to your co-stars' If we don't shoot together, we guarantee you will never be released for a press day, movie, event, or your charity, we will keep you here forever.' Burton later recalled being brought into the production office when producer Mark Schon told her, "Look how everybody else is on the cover of every single magazine and nobody wants you. Nobody wants you and in the end, You have someone who wants you and you're really into it. Turn your nose up? Sophia bush, then noted that he felt he had no choice but not to distribute the magazine. "At that point, I said, 'No, I don't want to do it,' and I was told I had to," he said. "It was a deep danger and a danger to be able - honestly, even have the ability to escape for the weekend, a place where at this stage, this season, I've given up opportunities that I had. It was a security threat." Additionally, the woman claimed that Shawn came on the set of a Maxim shoot and gave her an iPod that he thought was full of music - he played the trick in front of Ackles and Bush. As the women spoke earlier, they then elaborated on how they are constantly at loggerheads against each other. During the podcast, Lenz revealed that he was told that his co-star was shooting Maxim and "replaced" him with Ackles. Barton and Sophia Bush, shocked by Lenz's statement, then shared that they had been told that Lenz had been asked and denied doing so. Lenz explained that this was the beginning of being viewed differently by his bosses. In one episode, Ackles' character, Rachel, calls Lang's character Haley "a little fat girl". It must be what he thinks of me. I didn't see.' Now all of a sudden, every time I look in the mirror, I think, 'Am I fat? I think I have a little head. Is that bad? Is that abnormal?' It's so dumb, but it really stuck in my mind for a long time. From that point on, I was treated like, 'Put Joey into the middle-aged mom category. We all talk sexy with going to do. There's nothing attractive about Joey anymore because he's married and apparently, they thought I was fat and boring. That was all. I was replaced with Danielle - who I love. It was so weird." Five years after "One Tree Hill" wrapped, 18 women who worked on the show (including the four actors mentioned above) came forward in a letter to Variety, accusing the showrunner of sexual assault. Schwan never responded to the allegations. More News Avatar: The Way of Water Read the full article

#BethanyJoyLenz #OneTreeHill #SophiaBush

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My favourite hit song of 2022

I did not make a list of the best or worst hit songs of the year. If I did, you would have read it already but alas, I did not write down my thoughts on my favourite or least favourite hits that 2022 is produced. For what it’s worth, I did draft a list of what those would be, but the worst list is full of boring songs from last year. Why I didn’t do this is largely because I was focused on non-charting new releases in 2022, because they were a Hell of a lot more refreshing, but also because these lists end up slightly redundant when half of them I have probably already covered on REVIEWING THE CHARTS – where I end up reviewing UK hits, broadening my horizons to an extent not really seen in those year-end lists. Also, it felt a bit dishonest. I was listening to, let’s see here, 1990s queercore punk, twee pop, plunderphonics and depressive conscious hip hop the whole year, who am I if I go on tirades about good Justin Bieber was, even if it was a good year quality-wise for pop music? Regardless, it felt weird ending the year on just any other old episode of the chart show, so... what were my favourite hit songs of the year?

Well, going off on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 and then removing songs that made the 2021 year-end also as I probably would have done, this is what my list, without the #1, looks like.

#10 – “Después de la Playa” – Bad Bunny #9 – “PUFFIN ON ZOOTIEZ” – Future #8 – “Never Say Never” – Cole Swindell and Lainey Wilson #7 – “’Til You Can’t” – Cody Johnson #6 – “All Too Well” (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift #5 – “Something in the Orange” – Zach Bryan #4 – “Ghost” – Justin Bieber #3 – “I Hate U” – SZA #2 – “Running up that Hill (A Deal with God)” – Kate Bush

See why I didn’t write this up now? Since I knew I wasn’t going to, I was able to be more truthful with myself and not my capabilities – half of the list I’d already praised heavily on the weekly series, and let’s be real, I could not do “All Too Well” or Kate Bush justice if I tried. I can talk about my #1 though, surely. That #1 represents the year, right? It’s the song you think defines the year of pop music and gives you a lot to talk about... right? Well, actually, not really. The song that most defined this year in pop music is probably “Big Energy” by Latto, which goes to show how genuinely terrible 2022 could seem in terms of its trends. And as for giving me a lot to talk about, I don’t know – I’ve never tried. I listened to it out of curiosity in the early Summer and ever since then, I never even registered it as a hit. It just... meant something more, and I’ve never tried to tap into that. However, there’s no better time than the present, so I suppose I should try. My favourite hit song of 2022 was “PROVENZA” by KAROL G, and I’m going to find out why.

#1 – “PROVENZA” – KAROL G

I’m not a KAROL G fan. I’ve heard her hits this year and one of her albums, and I found all of her music incredibly charming and oddly whimsical but I can’t say I’m a big fan because I simply haven’t heard enough. I’m not a fan of any of the artists on my list except maybe SZA and even then, I still haven’t heard SOS. So since blind fandom is out of the question, what elements of a song matter in terms of an individual opinion? Well, that’s a ridiculous question with like a morbillion answers but let’s try and find some basic answers.

We can kind of push genre to the wayside but it is relevant to one of the main reasons people like music, although interestingly not one people pointed out to me: lyrics and songwriting. It’s safe to say that I don’t speak Spanish, and I know very little music theory. I did GCSE Spanish for literally a month. I’ve listened to this song many a time in the past year – though not as much as many others, we’ll get to that – and really, the only words I could ever decipher were “baby” and what I thought was “tempo” (it’s not), as well as the song title and producer Ovy on the Drums’ tag in the outro. I never looked at the lyrics, and I almost don’t want to. I’m sure that translating the lyrics would do me a load of good in understanding the song, but I gravitated to this song without understanding the lyrics and I’ve constructed some kind of narrative in terms of my relationship with the song: it’s pure comfort for me, thanks to the production, and I kept on coming back to it to feel that comfort in a year which was not particularly willing to grant me it, even if it granted me a bit more stability than the last year. This song to me encapsulated that because of how constant it feels. I’m not sure if I’d want to translate the lyrics and threaten my relationship with the song, especially since I rarely get all that emotionally connected to media, music in particular. It seems like ruining a good thing, and considering the year before and the year ahead, at least for me personality, 2022 seems like a bubble that I don’t particularly want to pop.

Speaking of things that don’t pop, let’s talk about the production and vocals, since that is what is in the file of the song itself, not all these contrived connections that are just my transposed personal issues, I’m sure. If I didn’t care so much about this song, which is a development that took months after its release in April of this year, I still think I’d like it a lot, which is kind of unusual for reggaeton (though this is closer to dancehall, really). I love the tropical sound effects, the water splashing over the simple lead melody which occasionally gets drowned out by the percussion, feeling like pebbles washed over by the sea and snaps that may as well be crabs nipping at your feet. I’m not even a person who likes beaches particularly, or really has any wish to go to some beach in Latin America, but I’d imagine this is what it sounds like, Bad Bunny ad-libs included. I don’t know if that really is Bad Bunny but it sounds just like him, and his little echoed shouts as well as his harmonised, Auto-Tune-drenched backing vocals feel like the most “tense” elements of this song opposite KAROL’s second verse. In fact, there is an odd tension to this song. It’s a typical pop song length but in part due to those strings as well as the drums finding a way to seep in and out, it feels a lot shorter and occupies a space that is strictly temporary. Hell, it even fades out by the end, which is something I usually find cheap. This even weasels its way into the songwriting: KAROL G’s performance, whilst mostly spectacular, is still a bit slippery, emphasised even more by the Auto-Tune and the really fast-paced second verse, as well as the fact that half of the final chorus eschews the percussion entirely because it – for the only time in the song – gains some velocity and comes in for the attack.

That theme of being temporary makes it even more special: it’s trying to get the best out of everything whilst you have it all, and for 2022, that’s really what defined my year. Sure, you can press replay on the song constantly, but that’s not what I did, really: according to Spotify Wrapped, there are 54 songs I listened to much more. What I did was come back to it when I just wanted something easy. It was a breeze of comfort that I absolutely acknowledge was temporary as I’d probably get back to listening to angry lesbian punk rock soon after... but for a time, the sky is clear and blue, your feet are on the sand, and everything’s okay for now.

Here’s to a good 2023. Thank you for reading, and I’ll see you on Friday for REVIEWING THE CHARTS!

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ok i am but new to the fandom and learning a bit of fob history but one thing that bamboozles me is: how was folie hated??? didn’t do well??? that boggles me because from what i seen on tumblr people seem to really love this album? did people really genuinely not like it when it first came out?

folie came out at a weird time.

2007 saw the peak of the "emo" movement (which you can argue about whether or not fob was truly emo or whatever, i literally do not care - the point is that it was the genre/movement/scene they were most heavily associated with at the time) and infinity on high (which came out that year) was basically the crown jewel of it. it was experimental, it was bold, it was a radio hit, and it was smart. it knew where fob sat in the cultural zeitgeist and both deified and rejected that. "this ain't a scene" was fob's highest charting single to date; if cork tree took them into the public eye, infinity is what cemented them there.

and it made following up with a similar hit incredibly difficult. ioh was an impossible act to follow, and the sonic landscape was changing fast. where emo basically skyrocketed into popularity after the election of bush and 9/11, the election of obama saw a similar massive shift in the cultural landscape.

folie came out in 2008, only a year after infinity on high. the band's tensions were extremely high with one another due to exhaustion from constant touring, intentionally rushing production on folie (it took about a month and a half, compared to the 6-7 months it took infinity), and just generally not having had a break in a good 8 years. it was a very savvy record, with a hugely politically-charged marketing campaign to befit the historical US election. it was also a huge sonic and lyrical departure from earlier material; the songs were less intensely, immediately personal, and more concerned with societal unrest, again because of the changing sociopolitical landscape these songs were crafted in. also take into account that the record was being consistently hamstrung by weird radioplay decisions for the singles ("i don't care" was pulled from radio early despite performing pretty well, possibly due to error), as well as an ever-changing release date (initially HEAVILY promoted to be on 11/4/2008, the same day as election day, before they changed it because they wanted people to vote instead of focusing on buying a new record. they pushed it back to 12/16/2008 before it was leaked early and then "officially" released 12/10/2008).

folie a deux came out in 2008. it was a wildly experimental album both from fall out boy standards and in the context of what was coming out at the time. folie was a slick combination of RnB, stadium glam-rock, soul, blues-rock, and a multitude of other genres, with guest features that included elvis costello, lil wayne, debbie harry, and the entire fueled by ramen gang.

for context: the hit number one song on billboard in 2008 was flo rida's "low." the number one hit song on billboard in 2009 was the black eyed peas' "boom boom pow."

it was a weird record in comparison to what was around it. it was a record focused on the ongoing changes in the social and political landscape of the US when just about everything in the top 40 was almost aggressively apolitical. inevitably it would be compared to its predecessor, infinity on high, and inevitably it wasn't going to perform as well as it, and so it was considered a bit of a failure commercially. critically, it got decent reviews, but it was so at odds with everything else that it just kind of...didn't land at first.

the first track on the album says "nobody wants to hear you sing about tragedy" (with the great irony being, of course, that this is exactly what everyone wants to hear when they attend a fall out boy show). fall out boy changes their sound and their style on every album, and on every album, people bitch and moan and complain. touring during folie era was, by all accounts, really difficult for the band, and it's what brought on the hiatus. the degree to which this was not great for them has varied, but by the time the hiatus rolled around early october of 2009, it was sorely needed.

and the fans were kind of divided on it at the time. one of my friends is a long-time fall out boy fan from their prehiatus days and she's admitted that she probably returns to folie a deux the least with the exception of "disloyal order of water buffaloes" and "what a catch, donnie." nowadays a lot of fans look back at folie as one of, if not the, best fall out boy albums, but reception was a lot more mixed at the time because of...well. it's like i said.

folie came out at a weird time.

#askin hours #anon #its wild to look at folie in the context of everything else #it was brilliant but also the number 1 hit of 2008 was flo rida's low like....#also this is why mania was such a brilliant move for them #i think they saw (correctly) the success pattern of srar-->abap and how it mirrored cork tree --> ioh #and they knew that trying to do something bigger wouldnt work cause it didnt work with folie #so they decided to just do whatever! good for them

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11 reasons why cap 4 should reintroduce Bucky Barnes as the love interest, an essay

to start this off, i am not writing this essay from a shipping place nor do i believe that this would have any influence at all over the upcoming movie. i expect nothing. this is simply something that i would personally like to see. (of course no hate to anybody who thinks differently)

here are 11 reasons why i think making Bucky into Sam Wilson's love interest in Cap 4 would be a good move for Disney.

1. on the Chinese film market - and why it's an irrelevant argument against the inclusion of homosexual themes in Cap 4

the Chinese film market is something that has been blamed for a lack of diversity in Hollywood films a lot lately. many people claim that this market with a lot of buying power has been responsible for the lack of gay and black representation in particular within Hollywood films.

and we have certainly seen Hollywood treating it as such, going so far as to cut gay scenes from movies for their Chinese releases, and vastly minimising John Boyega's (a black actor's) presence in the Chinese poster of Star Wars The Force Awakens.

[image ID: on the left is an image of the American poster for Star Wars The Force Awakens, featuring John Boyega prominently on the right-hand side. And on the right is the Chinese poster for the same movie, in which John Boyega is barely visible.]

so we know at the very least that Disney believes this through their own actions and efforts to self-censor for the different markets.

but Captain America 4 is a black-led movie, don't you forget. and Disney can't minimise Sam Wilson/Anthony Mackie in the movie or the poster because it's his movie and his poster. and no amount of creativity in the editing room can change that (thank God!).

so if by their own argument the film is already going to be either banned, panned or slammed in China... then what do they have to fear from making it a gay movie too?

2. oh, the queerbaiting

queerbaiting is an unusual cultural idea. and sometimes i find myself thinking that the term is far too easily used, but then all of a sudden i will stumble upon a movie or show that is so quintessentially cruel and overt in it's... well... queerbaiting that i will start to wonder what the hell kind of a bizarre relationship all these straight people seem to have with their friends. take Troy and Abed from Community or John and Sherlock from Sherlock as the perfect examples of this. (in which my reaction to the show's creators saying the show wasn't gay was to ask so then why did you make it so gay?!)

i felt that Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes in tfatws were getting quite close to this level of queerbaiting.

there was the field scene, the couple's counselling scene, the boat scene, the couple's counselling scene, Bucky going with Sam to face Karli when she told Sam to come alone, the couple's counselling scene, ALL the staring scenes, Sam checking out Bucky's ass here as they said goodbye, the "i would move in with him but" hidden scene, "Uncle Bucky" showing up at the cookout scene, the romantic walking off together into the sunset together ending scene, and the couple's counselling scene. did i forget anything? but i mean seriously, the couple's counselling scene!!! that thing they did with their legs and their crotches while staring deep into each other's eyes, would any straight guy willingly do that? do straight guys crotch-snuggle now?

[image ID: an image of Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes during the therapy scene with the quote, "Isn't anybody going to drag me into impromptu couple's therapy and slot my legs firmly between theirs before staring deeply into my eyes?"]

(yeah i stole this image from a buzzfeed article on the fan reactions to the couple's therapy scene. but given that they stole 80% of the content of that article from fandom tumblr, i think it's pretty even-steven.)

there's also the fact that people started talking about bisexual Bucky Barnes a lot after the tiger pictures line, and the lead writer Malcom Spellman responded to the talk of Bucky's bisexuality with "just keep watching". well we watched, Malcolm. but it's beginning to feel like you were just jerking us around.

3. the writing

seriously though, what else is Bucky Barnes doing right now in the MCU? his only remaining connection to anything going on right now is through Sam. there is literally nothing else established that's left for him to do that doesn't involve Sam. he moved to Louisiana to be closer to Sam (canonically), he hangs out with Sam's family (canonically), and Steve is presumably gone and is definitely not coming back for more adventures.

he has no villains or loose ends left. he has no other superheroes that he appears to be in contact with. he has no girlfriend or potential love interest, or even other friends or family. he is living in a tent that he has secretly set up in Sam's backyard and is mysteriously appearing from the bushes when it's time for dinner like a stray cat.

in my opinion there is no other meaningful and pre-established progression for Bucky's character that wouldn't just feel cheap.

plus, i don't think the general audience would be all that surprised if they kissed. i think a LOT of people picked up on all that tension. i think a lot of straight people picked up on all that tension too.

4. the chemistry between the actors & the chemistry between the characters

the original pitch for tfatws was essentially just this, it was the chemistry between Sebastian Stan and Anthony Mackie and their respective MCU characters of Bucky Barnes and Sam Wilson.

now obviously Anthony and Sebastian are simply friends, and i wouldn't mean to imply anything more. but they are also not their characters.

Sam and Bucky's scenes together before tfatws were both limited and short, and yet audiences still fell in love with the dynamic between the two characters.

in interviews, these two actors are constantly slipping into character and flirting with each other and frankly it's adorable. plus it's really entertaining. i'd love to see that dynamic, unfiltered, in a movie.

because believe it or not the flirting is actually even more open in their interviews than it was in tfatws. and i'm leaving some links as proof.

this here is known as the "married" compilation

and here's a "lucky dip" selection of interviews - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,

and here's Anthony trying to get Seb to take his jacket off.

i'm just saying, why not let their chemistry shine? these two are so talented and so entertaining, especially when you put them in a room together. and can you imagine how absolutely hilarious and brilliant it would be to watch them navigate being a couple?

(and for those who bring up the "friends would be uncomfortable pretending to be dating" argument, i'm not here asking for a sex scene or anything. i don't think anyone would expect them to show any more intimacy (physical or emotional) while playing a couple than what they've already shown together in say... tfatws or in their own interviews. not that i actually expect anything regardless.)

5. if they were a man and a woman they would've gotten together in tfatws

i have no more to add here. just that... yeah, they would've.

6. and i'm not talking about the comics here, i'm talking about the MCU.

i understand fully that none of what i'm saying here falls in line with these characters from the comics. but the mcu itself doesn't fall much in line with the comics either, and these two characters especially are very different from their comics counterparts.

i'm not asking for these two to get together in the comics. tbh i don't think that it would work.

but the mcu Sam and Bucky are different and closer than their comics counterparts. they've got different histories, different backstories, and a very different dynamic. please rest assured that i am only talking about them in the mcu.

7. Bucky Barnes is believably bisexual. and Sam Wilson has never been proven to be straight in the mcu, nor has he had a love interest.

(now please continue to keep in mind that these points only stand for the mcu versions of Bucky Barnes and Sam Wilson, and not at all for their comics counterparts.)

Sam Wilson has never had a love interest, which is crazy because have you seen that man! he has had two blink and you'll miss it moments of verbal expression of attraction to women, both in TWS. and that's the extent of it, through his entire history in the mcu.

Bucky Barnes has had a number of surface-level female love interests, but none of them even came close to the level of connection and chemistry that Bucky shares with Sam.

and i'm sorry SarahBucky fans, but i just don't think there's very much to their relationship either. i love Sarah, i really do. but it's Sam who shares all the meaningful moments and history and chemistry with Bucky. and i don't see what making her into a love interest would do for Sarah's character either, what would that add to her story?

[Picture ID: Bucky at the cookout with Sam, Sarah, Cass and AJ. Bucky and Sam are looking at each other and smiling.]

and also there is the whole tiger pictures thing... again. which does strongly suggest that Bucky is bisexual whether this was intentional on behalf of the writers or not.

8. it's representation... AND it feels natural

marvel hasn't had a lot of queer representation that's been noticeably present in the MCU at the time of writing this.

there have been a lot of failures so far, from the bisexual erasure of Valkyrie in Thor Ragnarok to the wlw erasure in Black Panther.

there was queerbaiting almost identical to the bisexual Bucky baiting for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2. when asked if he had considered featuring a gay hero in gotg2, director James Gunn stated that "We might have already done that. I say, watch the movie." after the movie's release audiences were understandably confused about the lack of queer representation. To which the director followed up his comments with, "But we don't really know who's gay and who's not. It could be any of them."

there is also Loki, considered by most fans after the airing of his six episode series on Disney+ to be both a poor attempt at both genderfluid representation and bisexual representation. with both attempts being summed up fairly well by the term "blink-and-you'll-miss-it". (also it's just terribly written and Loki doesn't wear any interesting clothes! fanficcers are a Goddamn blessing in this hard time!)

and let us not forget that Andrew Garfield was apparently FIRED for pushing for a bisexual spiderman. a bisexual spiderman within an interracial mlm relationship no less.

so for all these failures, marvel, why not allow us queer fans this? two brilliant and heroic men in a loving interracial relationship. two heroes that we can look up to.

now, one of the biggest detractions from the argument for representation is the idea of "forced diversity". and some poorly written characters certainly do end up feeling forced into the narrative. take Iceman in the comics for example, with Jean Grey just straight up suddenly telling him he's gay. like, marvel, sweetie, that's not how this works! and i don't know a lot of queer people who thought much of that "representation".

but the crux of the "forced diversity" argument is almost always that it feels unnatural within the story, right? and i don't think that anyone could say that about MCU Sam and Bucky ending up together, given these characters' existing chemistry and their history. they've both played characters in gay relationships before so we know that it's not outside of either actor's wheelhouse. and y'all know that Anthony and Seb can act, people. if it's in the script i believe that they'll make it seem like the most natural thing on earth.

9. it'd be a nice change

there's been an ongoing meme lately about "Disney's first gay character", the joke being that they continually announce gay characters without really ever including gay characters in their films.

this is to the point where Disney has formed a reputation amongst queer audiences of being homophobic.

if Sam and Bucky were to become a couple, then Disney could have its first actual gay character within a gay relationship. AND have him be in the lead of his own movie, no less.

it's also worth keeping in mind that there's likely an overlap between the people who were outraged by a Sam Wilson Captain America, and the people who'd be outraged by a gay Captain America. and if they were already not seeing the film, then i don't think much is gonna change that.

queer audiences would definitely love it, and the media attention would be guaranteed to be huge. i mean, simply look at the amount of media attention mere rumours of a character's queerness gets you and multiply that by a canon confirmation of said rumours.

but i'm pretty sure that Disney already knows this.

10. and yet, in truth, it's not about the representation

in truth i've never felt that i had any trouble relating to characters of any sexual orientation, race, gender, sex, body type, etc. (although that is not to throw any shade at all on people who do wish to see themselves represented) but for me, i think it's more about the story than the packaging.

and yet, a love story is still just a story. straight or queer, monoethnic or interracial. when two characters have chemistry and history and have sacrificed for each other time and time again, and they also can't keep their hands or their eyes off each other, then i'm pretty sure that that's a love story.

straight or queer, monoethnic or interracial, it shouldn't be about these simple labels. it should be about how well written the relationship is. it should be about chemistry, and history, and sacrifice.

because i'm fucking sick of all the hollow, forced romances in media no matter the genders of the participants. i'm sick of lazily written, shallow relationships where any two people sharing the same space for any extended period of time will simply fall in love. it's boring, it's repetitive, and as a writer myself it drives me up the wall!

romance stories suck! and everyone knows that romance stories suck. between twilight, and most of the entire YA genre, and love triangles (so boring), and romance used as poorly-written throwaway subplots in Hollywood movies, the world is in agreement that the romance in western media is simply dreadful. and yet we still want love stories. it's an entire genre that sits at the heart of the human experience (<3), and yet one which so few of today's best known writers seem truly able to capture.

i don't think that i'm the only one who feels this way, either. i suspect it's actually a large part of why fandom is so romance-centred in the first place, that we're all just starving for a good love story.

(btw i think fandom has a reputation for being something that as a whole that it is not. it has this reputation for straight up demanding things and harassing people until they get their way. while unfortunately there are a few people who do this, they're fucking annoying and i swear that they're far from the majority.

in my experience fandom is mostly about writing a five thousand word story at three am while drunk off your ass because it might make someone whom you've never met smile, editing it in the cold light of day, and then posting it. expecting nothing. sometimes getting nothing. and sometimes getting someone send you kudos or a comment so heartbreakingly wonderful that it makes you smile in return.)

11. so once again, it is all about the writing.

i want to see Sam and Bucky get together in the mcu, not because they would be a gay couple but because i genuinely believe that their story has potential to be an amazing love story.

and i know the mcu isn't about the romance. it's why in my personal opinion we haven't gotten a lot of good canon romances besides Peter Quill and Gamora. and i don't think that the mcu should be all about the romance either. i fucking love the action and the fighting scenes. i love the comedy. Captain America: The Winter Soldier had no romance and it was a fucking treasure, it was an amazing spy-action-thriller and it made my little gay heart dance. Thor Ragnarok had no romance, and it was an utterly brilliant comedic spectacle action film. not every movie needs romance.

but mcu Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes were doing couple's therapy and fixing a boat and walking off into the sunset together in tfatws. they were inseparable on the battlefield. they've got a dynamic. it's beautiful, it's romantic, and it's gold.

a budding relationship between them in the next movie would be a good way to explore both characters more without the narrative feeling too stilted and separate. at the end of tfatws, both Sam and Bucky fans found that their respective fave felt somewhat underutilised and that their characters were underexplored.

now, that problem would be even more difficult to remedy in a movie, because the plotline of a movie needs to be really tight to work (giggity). and we know that the central conflict of the movie is gonna be action-based (which is good), but we still need each character's personal journey and growth to tie into the main conflict. (which is another issue that some fans found with tfatws, that these characters didn't really feel connected to the action-based plot on a more personal level.)

if Sam and Bucky are already in a relationship, however, this whole dynamic changes. first, their relationship has already been set up for nicely since TWS and through tfatws and they would officially be the best-fleshed-out couple in the mcu. but most importantly, a relationship gives them a perfect vehicle to explore both of their pasts comparatively and connect them personally to the action-based plot.

do you want to establish that Sam is a little too trusting and naïve? then establish this through his relationship with Bucky, and through showing his placing his trust in Bucky. (rather than through having him sympathise with a villain who threatened to murder his sister and his nephews).

perhaps you want to show Bucky recovering from his trauma? show us how comfortable he is with Sam. they get along, they're enjoying each other's presence, we see more of Sam's life and of his family, and then let Bucky tell Sam something that's raw and dark and honest about his life as The Winter Soldier. something about a memory, one that he only just recalled. he's opening up. and maybe what he tells Sam is even something that sets up the future action-based conflict, to ground that in something real.

you want to explore that Sam has trauma too? do this through Bucky. he tells Bucky a story about his time in the military. in the form of a flashback, he shares his own story of loss to evoke before the audience the shared theme of feeling at fault even when you're simply a helpless bystander to an act of pure destruction.

then, action sequence! and it's directly connected to Bucky's time as the Winter Soldier. explore the grief of someone whose life the Winter Soldier tore apart manifesting into a villain perpetuating the cycle of pain. establish your villain.

Later, Sam is dragged into battle against this villain for protecting Bucky. But Bucky doesn't want Sam to protect him. He feels guilt for what he can't control and he doesn't want Sam getting hurt because of him. Bucky reminds Sam that he has a family, one who needs him and who loves him. He tells him to go home.

Sam reminds Bucky that he's a part of that family. And that sure Sam's a hero and his job is to protect anyone and everyone, but that he's doing it because he wants to. It's not simply to prove that he can, or to prove that he's not a bystander (this connects to Sam's trauma here), but that he's doing it to help people.

and this gets Bucky thinking about who he is and what he's doing here. is he a hero who stands by Sam's side? or is he an ordinary man who stands aside? or perhaps, does he stand alone? what does he stand for? Maybe Sam knows. But does Bucky?

Sam and Bucky fight off the villain again, and for the first time Bucky meets this adversary face to face. And Bucky recognises this villain, and has a flashback to the genuine pain that he inflicted upon them in the form of the Winter Soldier. Bucky freezes mid-fight, he almost dies, and Sam has to save him.

Sam chews Bucky out for almost getting killed because he was afraid for him. but Bucky takes this the wrong way and goes off to fight the villain alone, or perhaps to die alone, he's not quite sure.

He puts up a half-hearted fight. He apologises for what the Winter Soldier has done, and he waits for the killing blow, when Sam swoops down and he saves him. He asks Sam why he saved him and Sam calls him a moron. And then, Sam asks him what sacrificing himself would solve. He tells him that you can't choose your past but you can choose your future (connecting to his own experience of loss and guilt and grief). And that no matter what Bucky Barnes still has a future, whether that's as the Winter Soldier or the White Wolf or just some dork with a day job. And that he has a future as a part of Sam's family too.

Sam fights the villain, and it's toe to toe. He delivers a few good blows, but receives a fair few himself. And then the villain tears off his wings, first one and then the other, in a manner reminiscent of what the Winter Soldier did to him in TWS. Through Bucky's eyes there's a flashback to highlight the parallels. Sam gets back on his feet and he fights his best fight, but is now losing.

And then the heavily injured Bucky steps up and fights by Sam's side, and only together do they take down the villain.

"So... I inspired you, huh?" Sam teases with a smile, utterly exhausted. "With my heroism and-"

"You inspired me." Bucky said, equally exhausted. "Let's leave it at that."

Together, Sam and Bucky go back to the safety and warmth of their family. Sam fixes his wings. Sam goes back to being Captain America. And Bucky... he's around, but it's unclear what he's doing.

That is, until the very end. When Sam is in a fight, and suddenly Bucky shows up and helps him out.

"What are you doing here?" Sam asks.

"I've made up my mind." Bucky says. "I'm the Winter Soldier. But now I'll save lives, Sam. Now, like you, I'll be a hero."

Sam smirks. "So does this make you my sidekick, then?"

Bucky smiles. "C'mon, at least make me a partner." He says.

"How about co-workers." Sam says (in flashback, he remembers back to the death of his last on-the-job partner).

"How about friends." Bucky says, with a wry look.

"Bucky... I don't want to see you put your dumbass self in danger." Sam says.

"Oh, and it's ok for you to go running off into danger on your own all the time?" Bucky asks.

"Yes." Sam says stubbornly. "Absolutely it is."

"Why?"

"Because I'm not a dumbass?!"

"Sam, if you think I'm not gonna be watching your back for the rest of time... then you're the biggest dumbass I know. And I don't care if you need me or not, I will be there for you."

"Because Sam, you're more than Captain America. You're more than a good soldier. You're a good man. And I think sometimes, the world forgets what the difference is."

...or something like that.

(i only spent like 15 minutes on that. you know if i were actually writing this movie i would come up with something much better. and if anyone from marvel is seeing this, yes i can come work for you. i will make the time, let's do this thing right!)

finale

at the end of the day, whether or not the mcu chooses to make Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes a couple, it's their decision. and they don't owe me anything.

i'm just some random person on the internet. who thinks that Captain America 4 should #givecaptainamericaaboyfriend

#givecaptainamericaaboyfriend #meta #analysis #captain america 4 #caatws #fatws #tfatws #captain america #cap 4 #sam wilson #bucky barnes #sambucky #marvel #mcu #mcu phase 4

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