To Me RPF Is So Damn Satisfying Because It Has A Lot Of Real In It. In This Fandom, We Have Cleveland

To me RPF is so damn satisfying because it has a lot of real in it. In this fandom, we have Cleveland videos 🤤 . Those things happened and they were hot and I love you all for celebrating them.

But we can't lose sight of the people at the center of this conversation. I don't want to see them being harassed. They made art that we love and the art is ours forever now. They don't owe us anything.

The best thing about being in music fandom is that it's a really complex type of art we're being given. Do Milex songs talk to each other? I think so. But I also think that the songs live their own life after being released into the world.

Jeff Tweedy of Wilco (who wrote my favorite book about creativity, How to Write One Song) wrote about this beautifully in the song What Light:

And if the whole world's singing your songs

And all you're paintings have been hung

Just remember what was yours is everyone's from now on

And that's not wrong or right

But you can struggle with it all you like

You'll only get uptight

It's a beautifully brave thing, putting bits of yourself in your art and then singing things you'd never say out loud to audiences of thousands.

One of the reasons I love writing/reading fanfic is that it gives me space to process feelings and learn things and then say things I've never been able to say out loud in my real life. But I get to share my creations behind a username.

Fiction is fun

Milex for me isn’t about being sure they are or have been an actual couple. I honestly don’t know if they have ever breached the plutonic/romantic boundary, and it’s none of my business. Would I be delighted to find out that they were in love and happy? Of course I would! That would be beyond wonderful!! But until that happens, I’m here for other things.

I do feel strongly about all this, though please don’t take that as a suggestion that everyone must (or even should) feel the same way. I know and respect that a lot of you feel very differently about this. I love that about this community. And I truly value how fun, funny, passionate, clever, loving, open, and welcoming this community has been over the last year since I’ve been involved. 🥰😘

We are all on tumblr, as far a as I can tell, to explore and share what makes us tick. So, milex, for me is a:

a) feel good hormone hit - their obvious and pure love for each other is so lovely and heart bursting. Their passion for what they do together, and clear appreciation of what they each bring to the team is just so life-affirming.

B) a beautiful rabbit hole to explore music, identity, culture and ideas that are often new to me. Last night I finally watched In The Mood for Love and it was great. I’m so glad that I have been promoted to engage with something I wouldn’t otherwise have.

C) sexy AF… of course Alex & Miles themselves are extremely attractive, but it’s mostly down to the excellent writers here and on Ao3. But I prefer my erotica with established characters that i am familiar with, avoiding time consuming context explainations before getting to explore the sexy parts of their story. So it’s a lovely short cut to explore feelings of desire, sexuality, love and all the rest. perhaps this is delusional, but I honestly feel I have somehow unconsciously separated the real people from the characters in fics. Either way, it’s very difficult to imagine how I’d never meet either of them, so I feel fine about that.

Even if you hate this, I hope we can still be mutuals. If not, I’m fine with that too.

"We're not Yes"

Consistently the funniest man in music.

✨Jarvis Cocker in SPIN magazine March 1996. On the cover of this issue it has the legendary Tori Amos. Scanned from a family members copy of the issue✨

Gotta set aside time to think about this.

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scrungliest little guy [gender neutral] contest

This is the submission poll for the Hot & Vintage Scrungliest Little Guy Contest. To be counted in the bracket, your submission must (1) be

Welcome to the SCRUNGLY LITTLE GUYS CONTEST! we are currently collecting submissions for the SCRUNGLIEST and VINTAGEST guys [gender neutral] from 1910-1970. if you have a scrungly little guy [gender neutral] in mind, please fill out the submission sheet above. Only submissions sent in through the above form are counted.

To be counted in the bracket, your submission must (1) be an actor or actress from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema, i.e. acting in feature films between 1910-1970, and (2) can be convincingly argued to possess a scrungly little guy quality. This will be a limited tournament with only 64 spots (or, if we don't get enough submissions to reach that, 32). Inclusion is entirely subjective for this contest; that means your guy will only be allowed to compete if you can absolutely convince me they have the true scrungle quality™ in your submission. Conventional hotties or those who are only minimally scrungly will be looked askance at.

This contest is smaller and stricter than the two previous tournaments have been, mostly because I have limited time to do additional research on all the scrungly little guys I'm sure you're about to submit. Please knock my socks off with the scrungliness and send me some very silly wet guys.

This submissions page closes 7/31/2024.

Let's get Pulp into the next bracket. It should have been Hardcore, but that ship has sailed. 😭

The 90s MV Melee - round 2 match 17

Voter-submitted propaganda:

Common People -

"I can do his dumb little dance. How can you not like Jarvis in a shopping trolley jail"

Losing My Religion -

"that’s me in the corner (sad clown noises)"

Masterlist

Just gonna leave some Milex/TLSP and Jarvis Cocker smut I wrote over here.

Um, is that certain age 22 for anyone else or was that just me?