Lokifan

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 )

I found out I’m in a Pink video!!!

Wildly I didn’t post about it at the time?? 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 )

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 )

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 )

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 )

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.

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 writcraft asked, my ( top five poems )

ariadneelda asked for my ( top five (non-spoilery) reasons to watch Dark Angel )

yaycoffee asked for my ( Top 5 Items Of Clothing )

teprometo asked for my ( Top five Jossverse canon pairings )

yaycoffee asked for my ( Top five Bands/Musical Artists )