Americaās Sweetheart and Grammy nominated pop star Evan Buckley finds himself in need of an emergency drummer less than a week before his World Tour. Luckily for him, several of his crew know just the guy: technical death drummer Tommy Kinard.
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Extras
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B-Sides
Alt POVs and other snippets requested on tumblr.
General popstar!au tag
If you go back far enough you will be able to see all 10 months of me blabbing about the fic on tumblr before I started posting.
CONTAINS SPOILERS
Phorid
Graphic for my beloved fake technical death metal band.
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BVCK METAL
Metal playlist by the lovely @setmeatopthepyre! Complete w/ many notes about why which song was chosen.
Phorid Logo
The logo for Tommy's metal band! Also made by @setmeatopthepyre.
Title Header
Title header used for Chapter 2! By the also lovely @trombonechurchill.
Tommy Fanart
Absolutely incredible art of Tommy in his Phorid merch by the wonderful @pluralityofaxes!
Dag Fanart
More phenomenal art from @pluralityofaxes, this time of my favorite dead son Dag Ahlstrƶm.
collapse Playlist
A wonderful playlist by @geddyqueer about some musical stuff re: Phorid, specifically for their song collapse.
Tommy Fanart
Amazing fanart of Tommy playing the drums by @chimneyz!
Birgit Fanart
Very cute Birgit fanart by @peppermintquartz!
borealis Album Cover
A fantastic Phorid album/cassette cover by @pluralityofaxes!
Tommy Fanart
Another spectacular Tommy by @pluralityofaxes!
Buck Fanart
Beautiful stickerbook Buck by @pluralityofaxes!
Speculative Stuff
Thrilled to announce that people are interested in playing in the Popstar!au sandbox. None of these are 'canon' to the universe. Some are fanworks about my OCs.
pickup sticks
A drabble by @corporatebanana about Dag/Tommy.
Dag/Tommy
Ficlet?Snippet? By @pluralityofaxes also about Dag/Tommy.
Polyphorid
A lovely Phorid gifset/edit by @tommykinard!
Meet Phorid
Another lovely gifset/edit by @tommykinard!
Side Fic
A snippet by @peppermintquartz of Chimney and Hen talking about Buck and Tommy.
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A lot of American politics seems to boil down to asking āHey, can we have that cool thing other countries have?ā and then the government says NO that would be TOO EXPENSIVE!!! and then the news breaks that another fifteen billion dollars has been spent on the Machine That Murders People Horribly instead.
I've thought about doing one of those amtrak train trips, but I'm hampered every time by the fact that I first must travel to a different city to even fucking get on it.
EVERY SINGLE TIME I WANNA MAKE A STUPID JOKE ABOUT SOMEONE SAYING SOMETHING IN ENGLISH INSTEAD OF SWEDISH OR VICE VERSA, I LOOK IT UP AND THE WORDS ARE FUNCTIONALLY IDENTICAL.
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āIt [The Lord of the Rings] is finished, if still partly unrevised, and is, I suppose, in a condition which a reader could read, if he did not wilt at the sight of itā¦now I look at it, the magnitude of the disaster is apparent to me. My work has escaped from my control, and I have produced a monster: an immensely long, complex, rather bitter, and very terrifying romance, quite unfit for children (if fit for anybody); and it is not really a sequel to The Hobbit, but to The Silmarillion.ā
ā J.R.R. Tolkien to Sir Stanley Unwin, 24 February 1950. Reprinted inĀ The Fall of Gondolin
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starting the countdown until gaylors start saying that Adam Sandler officiating Taylor's wedding (sorry if this is how you found out) is actually proof that it's a sham because it's a reference to I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007), in which Sandler and Kevin James play heterosexual men who enter a mutually beneficial fake gay marriage, a dynamic that Taylor is inverting as a queer woman pretending to be straight while cleverly flagging the obvious farce to those with the eyes to see
I saw this video about a doctor who performed an MRI on a 5 year old and discovered she essentially had ābrain damageā from excessive iPad use, as the white matter in her brain couldnāt form properly due to an understimulated environment.
Hmm itās almost like thereās supposed to be adult figures responsible for monitoring her screen time and making sure she develops properly⦠certainly this isnāt the result of neglect at the hands of her parentsā¦
āThis 5 year old is brain damaged by excessive iPad useā
Translation: This 5 year old is developmentally impaired by neglectful parents who used an iPad as a stand-in for social and environmental stimulation / interaction for hours at a time during critical early stages of child development. The iPad is the cop-out.
āChildren donāt have the strength to hold pencils anymore because they only use screens.ā
Translation: Parents arenāt making the conscious effort to help their children develop necessary skills and letting iPads raise them.
When are people going to realize the iPads and whatnot are the instruments through which the neglect is happening through and not the cause? How the fuck do you let your child have such a severe lack of physical strength in their hands that they canāt hold a pencil properly?
People will see a study suggesting children with higher screen times have poorer or negative developmental outcomes and immediately say itās the screens causing this, and not the more likely fact that higher screen time = less engagement time with their environment, physical exercise, parents, family, and their peers, all of which are NECESSARY for a healthy upbringing as a social species.
Itās like saying a dog who was kept in a cage all its life and left with atrophied muscles was damaged by the cage, and not by the fact its owners were too lazy to play or walk their dog in order for its muscles to build properly. The cage is the instrument of neglect and the owners are the perpetrators, in the same way parents are the perpetrators and weaponizing screen time as an excuse and painting themselves as helpless bystanders.