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Speaking of favourite Christmas music - I’ve put some faves below the cut, and I’d be curious about yours! My housemate K loves Christmas pop like Mariah Carey and Wham! But I tend to go for the earnest and slightly weird, or the comedy stuff.

Vienna Teng, Tim Minchin, and musicals )
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I wanna post about my favourite Christmas music and ask about yours, but I think this needs to be a post of its own:

Fuse ODG just released a reply to Band Aid, which I think might become a new fave. It’s making an important political point, about the damage done by the image of Africans as starving victims and Africa as this place of inherent famine and poverty rather than somewhere for tourism, business, joy; about how far things have come. But mostly I just like its groove and its celebration of Ghanaian culture and independence. My dad’s an academic who specialises in Ghanaian history and took me when I was ten; I’ve grown up around Ghanaian art, fashion and music a lot more than most white British kids so this made me really happy even beyond the shining optimism for Ghana (and Africa, and black people) more broadly.

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I found out I’m in a Pink video!!!

Wildly I didn’t post about it at the time?? [personal profile] oracne posted this Pink video and I watched it, and halfway through went !!! wait that’s me!!!



(Warning: the video does have some upsetting images - swastikas & the KKK etc, a gun and then kids running through a school. Briefly but I wanted to mention it!)

It has a bunch of imagery of protests, and fighting for our rights - in a delightfully intersectional way - and at 2:42 there’s an image of BWithTheT. I’m the furthest on the right, with long bi-coloured hair (pink at the top, then purple & blue) in a lilac t-shirt. You can’t tell in the video but it says SISTERS NOT CIS TERFS.

I was there with one of my best friends - sadly you can’t see her, but you can blurrily see her sign - STOP CONSULTING BIGOTS ON TRANS RIGHTS. At 2:54 I’m not there but the rest of B With The T is, including a QUEER SOLIDARITY sign <3

We were there, at the head of London’s 2019 Pride march, as part of 4 community groups to demonstrate solidarity with trans people.

details about that time we led the London Pride march )
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Once again my intentions to post more on DW (or the social internet in general) have fallen by the wayside, lol.

Something I’ve been thinking about: it’s interesting to be 33, and have aged to the point where young stars (Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish) feel so young. Like, I definitely still like and appreciate them, but they’re so clearly very young. Which I think is def used as a selling point, right, like the sincerity and authenticity etc. And man I’m so aware of it with both of them.

having the auntie reaction )
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[personal profile] musesfool asked for my top five songs that remind me of characters. (More days available over here if you'd like to ask a question.)

Soooo many answers to this lol. In no particular order…

songs under the cut )
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I’ve somehow never done this meme, I think, but I love reading other people’s and get good recs out of it, so here we go!

fannishness this year )
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GUYS. I didn’t tell you about the Beatles night.

So a month or so ago it was the fiftieth anniversary of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The next night was Friday and a Hackney club planned a Sgt Pepper night, with DJs playing Beatles (and etc) tracks and a live band doing the whole album.

I went with my friends Violet and the Dark Lady and we were SUPER EXCITED. I love the Beatles and the Dark Lady is a superfan, as are her parents - she was almost named Rita because of the song (and Rita Hayworth). So I got this genuine 60s Sgt-Pepper-style jacket in pure white, and the Dark Lady did incredibly elaborate Twiggy eye make-up, and Violet got out her mod boots. We predrank and had pizza at theirs and headed to the club.

When we arrived the booths were full of late-middle-aged people, and the dancefloor had clumps of young people who’d dressed up like us. We got drinks and listened to Beatles tracks like Come Together, which I fucking adore, and talked about being feminist John Lennon fans and how your favourite Beatle changes as you age. It was great. We also noticed the guy who played Lord Percy on Blackadder in a booth.

Eventually the live band came on. first bad sign )
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So I have a question: what songs do you guys associate with fandom? Not just with a particular character, pairing or canon (although obviously that can end up fitting the bill) but with fandom itself as a place, experience, or group of people.

Here are my three to start, in ascending order of soppiness. Feel free to be more sarcastic in your own selections :D

my people, my partners, my plan )



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ETA: OH! DUH!



Stories of tortures used by debauchers
Lurid, licentious and vile
Make me smile
All books can be indecent books
Though recent books are bolder
For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder
I could tell you stories about Peter Pan
And the Wizard of Oz, there's a dirty old man!
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Stolen from - well, everyone, basically - here’s the username music meme! This has ended up way more dominated by guitar music than I expected, actually, I always forget how much I actually love indie rock.

L – Lover I Don’t Have To Love by Bright Eyes
O – Odds Are by the Barenaked Ladies. I would legit love this as a first-dance song at my wedding!
K -- Kiss You Off by the Scissor Sisters
I – I Knew Prufrock Before He Got Famous by Frank Turner; I feel like such a London scene kid for how much I love this but I dooooo.
F -- The Future Freaks Me Out by Motion City Soundtrack. The references are slightly dated but the truth, it burns.
A – Anyway You Choose To Give It by the Black Ghosts. In my head this is a bit of a sub song :)
N – Nancy Boy by Placebo ♥

Youtube of the songs - including a Bettie Serveert cover I love of the Bright Eyes - under the cut )
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Here are my answers to the non-fannish Top Fives you guys gave me! Sorry it’s so beyond late. Skip the first one if you don’t want to see me being embarrassingly consumerist.

[livejournal.com profile] inglevine requested my top five fashion designers, but due to my ignorance I’m instead going to do my my top five labels )

[profile] twillery asked for my top five writing instruments )

[livejournal.com profile] twillery asked for my top five sweet things to eat )

[livejournal.com profile] deathlydragon suggested my top five Eurovision predictions but since that’s now tragically out of date I’ll do my top five Eurovision songs this year )
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So I did the top five meme A MILLION YEARS AGO and I'm trying to actually make answers happen. Comment as you like; disagreement and discussion and squee are all beloved.

[personal profile] writcraft asked for ‘Top five quotes from pretty much anywhere that inspire you’. It was an interesting exerise - “quotes that inspire me” are a very different beat from “favourite quotes”. And like. “Inspirational quotes” always seem a bit weird to me… like, what is it, and who, are they meant to be inspiring? So I went for stuff I find personally helpful or hopeful )

Okay, this was harder than I can possibly explain, but I have listed, as [livejournal.com profile] writcraft asked, my top five poems )

[livejournal.com profile] ariadneelda asked for my top five (non-spoilery) reasons to watch Dark Angel )

[livejournal.com profile] yaycoffee asked for my Top 5 Items Of Clothing )

[livejournal.com profile] teprometo asked for my Top five Jossverse canon pairings )

[livejournal.com profile] yaycoffee asked for my Top five Bands/Musical Artists )

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