America’s 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 Ahlström.
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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Computer, show me a blond man playing the drums where you can't see his face but he looks enough like my OC that the picture can be edited and vaguely used for me to make a graphic.
Computer, show me a blond man playing the drums where you can't see his face but he looks enough like my OC that the picture can be edited and vaguely used for me to make a graphic.
Something that I get chills about is the fact that the oldest story told made by the oldest civilization opens with "In those days, in those distant days, in those ancient nights."
This confirms that there is a civilization older than the Sumerians that we have yet to find
Some people get existential dread from this
Me? I think it's fucking awesome it shows just how much of this world we have yet to discover and that is just fascinating
@makaeru peer review cos this made me check when the Sumerians happened and I forget how recent history is for every other continent. 7000 - 8000 years ago just isn't that long when you're in Australia, and the amount of detailed history we have access to here is wonderful and should be recognised more internationally
Source (non Aboriginal)
And a quote I picked out from a longer interview with an Aboriginal local elder about the area where he touched on the history
Source (the rest of the interview is really interesting and all transcribed, have a look if you're curious)
This is part of my Ancient Civilizations class that I teach, which does a whole week about Australia and the Torres Strait Islands because I was sick of never seeing them represented in USAmerican history contexts. With the help of @micewithknives and @acearchaeologist I've learned so many incredible things about Australia's past and it's been incredibly rewarding to share them with students.
My favorite fact about Aboriginal oral history is the fact that we pretty recently discovered that the Aboriginal myth of the 7 Sisters, an origin story for the Pleiades star cluster, accurately reflects a point TEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO when two stars in the constellation got close enough together to no longer be distinguishable by the naked eye.
The story? 6 sisters running from something that took their 7th sister.