For a writing/fic prompt: MUSIC
Whether that’s a word that appears in your WIP, something you’d like to write in, or meta (I was thinking with regard to bucktommy and Tommy’s music taste, but honestly wherever you wanna take it) - whatever you feel like doing with it 💚
Okay so the thing is I typed out so much, like, so much about this and then tumblr refreshed and deleted everything. so. you’re not getting the original stream of consciousness that I wrote. but I remember the gist, and here it is:
Buck is canonically a ‘91 baby. same as me, and I knew and loved a lot of guys of his ilk of his flavor when I was in high school. skateboarders, sad jocks, guys with bad relationships with their parents. and they all without fail listened to blink 182. Buck is not a guy who would have been deep into any scene; he wasn’t a pop culture guy then, he isn’t now. emo would have passed him by even though we were the right age for it to grab us. but he wouldn’t have gotten into it. he probably got invited to punk shows at the knights of columbus hall or whatever and he probably had a good time. and then when he was on the road trying to find himself he probably listened to so much random music flipping through radio stations. a lot of country a lot of classic rock a lot of stadium rock that would have been right around the time the clap stomp folk revival was getting big. I don’t think he particularly cared about any of it but he did listen. and now canonically he is a guy who collects records. But what records? I think he is a guy who buys music with the hope of finding something he likes but he’s just never really sure. sometimes he sits and listens and tries to figure out why it doesn’t hit and he never quite finds the answer but the journey is fun at least.
now Tommy doesn’t have a canonical birth year but I like to stick him in ‘81 because it makes sense with the timeline and the math is easy enough. and I like to stick him in Southern California because it feels right. and so he’s a little to young and a little too sunny for the grunge wave but he is just the right age for what I like to call stinky boy music: the bands that played Woodstock ‘94 day 2, the one with the mud pit (nin and primus and blind melon) and all the bands that circled in that orbit at the same time (tool, system of a down, mr bungle—I think he had a crush on mike patton, the butthole surfers, sublime). a lot of these bands were either flirting with or explicit about their interest in queerness, mostly as a way to be countercultural, but that doesn’t make it any less real. I think he also had a love for the transgressive sad girl queens of that era- tori, fiona, girls that sang about abuse and sex in ways other people really weren’t. in MY headcanons he gets into the jangly guitar pop sad girlies (jewel, michelle branch) at the tail end of high school/his army era, but I think when asked he would say he didn’t like them he was just listening to them ironically. I think the army flattened his music taste into what other people were putting on and it wasn’t until he was taking steps to change his life that he started getting back into loving what he loved and not being ashamed of it.
