Chapter 7 of *I WON’T HOLD YOUR HAND (I’M NOT YOUR EXCUSE TO FEEL HUMAN) is out NOW!
*an angsty, enemies to lovers, zukka slow burn, soulmate AU
something something grabbing your boyfriend by the belt loops
how can people not be obsessed with anything? no piece of media? no tv show? no favorite character? no favorite ship? no favorite singer or band?? not even games?? how does these people live with this void in their lives?
every fictional character is bisexual unless they aren’t bisexual. this is what I believe in
it really is incredible, seeing how playing one song will spark the exact hybrid emotions that i feel like its meant to generate. pete prefaces by asking the 8-ball, should we play a song from ten years ago? and the 8-ball says my reply is no. so he asks, should we play a song about ten years ago? and so they do. and from the second that beat kicks in, the crowd loses it. they know what song this is, right away. patrick starts singing and the crowd sings back at him. they know every word to this song from an album released this year. theyre not just here for hits from a decade plus ago.
its a hard song to sing. maybe for patrick he has the benefit of distance - but technically speaking, its a hard song. its at an unrelentingly high register and hes singing this in the sweltering houston heat. he nails it nonetheless. there is an incredible elation in hearing this song live in a stadium of thousands, filled to the brim with people who sing along. there is an incredible depth of sadness in hearing the chorus over and over: i spent ten years in a bit of chemical haze, and i miss the way that i felt nothing.
patrick sings these high clear words and doesnt falter. andy and pete are the rhythm section and they keep the tempo, they hold the foundations, they are unshakable and if it is a difficult song for pete to hear live he doesnt show it. hes all smiles for the crowd. and joe...oh god, joe, who listed the kintsugi kid as his favorite off of so much (for) stardust, he plays this song live for the first time alongside his band, he plays the same melody on guitar that patrick sings during the choruses and in that way they are both singing alongside each other. when the song drops into the instrumental its just joe for a minute. just the rising tones of the guitar in this painfully vulnerable song, played to a stadium of thousands.
god, but my heart. im envious of those of you who got to hear this one for the first time, but im also indescribably happy that they played this one at all. its a special song. it deserved to be heard live.
dallas got what
#not to jump on your post rn but I feel this so hard#woodlands set list has been the worst so far and I’m so :c#I love fob but how did we get hum hallelujah cut AND lose out to a secret song for a cover of take on me (which was still good but agh!)#anyway rant over still love them just a little frustrating watching the set lists come out#fob
*late one night waiting for the day of Sozins Comet, Sokka and Zuko are the last two up with the campfire going over the plan one more time*
Sokka: I think that’s it, there’s nothing more we can plan, we just have to do our best and hope that Aang shows up
Zuko: *staring blankly into the fire*
Sokka: Something wrong?
Zuko: Not really… just thinking about the people I left in the fire nation
Sokka: You mean your sister? Your mom?
Zuko: Yeah, but mostly of Mai. I betrayed her and left her behind twice now
Sokka: She saved us from Azula at the boiling rock Zuko, she still loves you, or she wouldn’t have done that. The right person is like that, no matter what you do wrong, they’ll be willing to listen.
Zuko: Like soulmates?
Sokka: Soulmates? What’s that?
Zuko: Well in the fire nation, we have this belief that there is one person meant for you. That across any time or space, no matter what happens, you will end up together because Agni decided it all long before any of us were born.
Sokka: Oh we have something like that in the water tribe, but there’s no word for it. Just a unipkaaqtuat
Zuko: An unip- what?
Sokka: It basically means “story”, I can’t remember how they go now, but you know how it is. One is from a place that hates the other, and they fall in love anyway and basically have to stop a war to be together, we heard a similar story when we were trying to get to Omashu. It’s all cliche really.
Zuko: Why do you say that? I think it’s nice to think about, that there might be someone written for us whatever the circumstances.
Sokka: *staring up at the stars* I believe in free will and science. Not fortune telling. Soulmates are stupid. I love you on purpose
Zuko:…
Zuko: what
I feel like we’re so caught up in the emotions of soul punk moment (rightly so, to be fair) that we’re forgetting to look at the ramifications of homesick at space camp. they played a song they wrote as a love letter to their first fans in the chicago scene to an audience of thousands, some of whom may not even know the song, 20 years later and got them singing along. these friends are, new friends are golden.
THIS. GOD I AM GOING TO C R Y
zuko really would just do anything for a cute boy I mean jet is like "hey let's do sword crime" and sokka is like "let's do a prison break" and zuko is just "so true king are you single"
this whole show it's gay panic
Ok listen we NEED to talk about your girlfriend. I know you’re doomed by the narrative and all, but she keeps defying the will of fate with her vain and ever more desperate attempts to save you. It’s SERIOUSLY going to rend the fabric of space-time if she keeps this up. I’m not even joking. We’re all going to end up in a closed loop of decaying reality if—it’s not cute, stop laughing!!
"hey blue what have you been drawing recently" Oh You Know
LETS HEAR IT FOR WOMEN WITH FLAT CHESTS CAN WE GET APPLAUSE FOR WOMEN WITH FLAT CHESTS
tip: you can associate fictional characters with favorite songs. but watch out
i think ‘middle of the night at a sleepover’ should be considered an altered state of consciousness