#oddfoxesverse

(in-universe) this is a photograph of dan and hela taken by james while on a silk milk tour in early 1979 (when he was briefly a drum tech for the band) the night before their second anniversary as a couple (and roughly eight years before they married); in 2025, james finds the old photograph while going through some stuff in the attic/drum room at his house and sends it to dan through the post and dan puts it in a slate frame and on top of hela's ashes on his mantelpiece.

fear is a song written by abel in the odd foxes/untoward verse which is about being aromantic + bisexual (without really knowing at the time that he's aromantic); it appears on their debut 1982 album light & shadow.

Meet Odd Foxes' labelmate pals, Wilderness - a band who've been around for roughly about as long as Foxes have and came up in the scene around the same time. They come into the Fox Drama™️ during the 1985 Wall Jumping Tour and Abel, specifically, gets, er, entangled with Tim.

vocalist, lyricist, synths dude, + bassist for catatonik • OCD struggler • twin #2 chill photographer • patience of a saint • footie mad • doting single dad to debbie secretly a mischief gremlin • divorced DV survivor • empathetic "blokey bloke" unintentional doormat • uses music as an escape • paternal to all family + mates part-time videographer • biromantic + bisexual | protagonist face claim: bernard sumner | one-shots | playlists | cain's general tag

SHIP GLANCES: if you want an idea of some of my OC ships, i used this chart to lay it out in a visual way (you might have to open the images in a new tab to see tiny writing)

Frank's last Christmas with James (before the inevitable). setting: Frank & James' house in Shoreditch, London, December 25th 2022 characters involved: Frank & James warnings: none that i can think of

DANCIN' TO THE DRUM IN MY HEAD | this is a (hopefully coherent) character ref sheet for james

give me a try | this is a (hopefully coherent) character ref sheet for frank