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I got y’all stuffies!!

Micky, you get a stuffed monkey :3

Peter, you get a stuffed tiger!! :)

Mike, you get a stuffed bear :D

And Davy, you get a stuffed cat!! ;3

“Heyyy!! I got the monkey! I got the monkey!” Micky was actually jumping for joy when he saw which animal he got, “That makes me the true Monkee! I’m the monkeyiest of the Monkees!”

“That’s cool, Mick! Look at me! I got a tiger!” Peter giggled, playing with the paws, “Hey, Davy, you got a cat. That’s like….a short version of what I got.”

“Don’t you guys have better jokes than just calling me short all the time?” Davy retorted, hugging his cat for a while. He gave Peter a little hiss then looked away.

“Pfft, stuffies? I’m a grown man, what do I need some toy for?” Mike scoffed, looking at the thing in his hands.

“Oh, really? I can take it off your hands then, Mike, if you don’t want it…” Micky reached out a threatening hand.

Mike quickly clutched the bear possessively to his chest, “Touch it and you die!”

Micky and the others exchanged knowing smirks.

Mike looked down at his stuffie, pouting his lip some before slipping a pair of sunglasses on it.

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I knitted sweaters for each of you to help stay warm in the cold

*Gives each monkee a wonderful hand knit sweater with personalized designs for each od them*

“Cold? In July?” Davy tilted his head in confusion, just to get elbowed by Mike.

“What do you say to the nice person?” Mike gave him a murderous glare.

“Thank you!” Micky, Davy, and Peter said, hurriedly, so they didn’t get scolded again.

“You should be thankful! These are high quality right here…” Mike whistled, impressed with his sweater, “This will go right along with my hat.”

“I like how mine is all bright and colorful and fun.” Micky grinned.

“It’s sensibly made and not fast fashion.” Peter pointed out.

“But still fashionable.” Davy nodded along, “And red is just my color.”

“So again…thank you.” Mike wanted to make that clear, “You went through a lot of trouble to make this for us and we’ll treasure them always.”

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If you've seen the 1997 reunion special Hey Hey It's The Monkees, then if you want, it would be fun if the boys met their future selves.

“We’re so…old…” Peter exclaimed as the guys blinked at their older selves.

“We’re so…young!” Older!Peter went up to the younger and the two started moving their hands and heads at the same time, mirroring each other, mesmerized in the face of their other self.

“Thank God we’ve found you!!” Older!Micky went to the younger and clutched his shoulders, “Only you can stop the world from annihilation! You’ll soon meet a woman with red hair—it’s very important that you kill her!”

“What?!” Young!Micky clucked out, “Who is she?! What’s going on? What happens in the future?!”

Older!Micky burst out laughing, unable to keep a straight face for long, “Nahh I’m just kidding. How often do I have the opportunity to prank myself? Say, would you like to try my latest experiment?”

Out of nowhere, he held up a purple, fizzing drink and offered it to his younger self.

Micky shrugged and was about to take it but Young!Mike immediately charged over and swiped it from his hand, “Nope.”

“Good call.” Older!Mike nodded in approval before squinting at his younger self, “Man, I can’t believe I used to wear sideburns. Look at the size of those things!”

Young!Mike was pouring that concoction out the window when he did a double take at his older self, “I can’t believe I’m wearing a beard…maybe I should grow one.”

“You do,” Older!Mike retorted.

“Fascinating…” Young Peter and the older were still mirroring each other, now poking the other one’s nose.

“Say, are we still a hit with the ladies?” Davy asked his older self with a little smirk.

“Yes…” Davy began, “Just with a different demographic is all. I guess different isn’t the word just more…mature.”

“Do we ever get married?”

“Erm…in the real world, yes, but in this universe—it seems to be implied we all just live together forever.” Older!Davy replied.

“Aww that’s sweet.” Young!Micky smiled, “I like that…what do you mean real world?”

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baby face morales save me.... save me baby face morales....

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showverse torksmith was canon btw. they're literally seeing each other in the rorschach test

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why are they always just 0_0

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i love you peter tork

Monkees sweep at the 1967 Primetime Emmys 🌟

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Backstage in Salt Lake City on May 17, 1968. Photo by Henry Diltz.

“Can You Dig It started off as a chart, I mean, the basic signature chord change I wrote in college and didn’t knew what to do with it, and then a couple years later — and I’d always wondered what to do with it — and the a couple of years later, I just… I was daydreaming on the subject of esoteric reading I’d been doing and the lyric just popped out. And I was sitting int he dressing room… I was not in front of the microphone, and suddenly it just all fell out of me on paper, and I said, ‘Oh, here it is!’ and I circled it, and it matches the chords and everything, and that was that.” - Peter Tork, interviewed by Jack Garrett, 2004 “I wrote a set of chords once [in college] and thought, 'Gosh, this is great.’ I couldn’t think of anything to do with them. A couple years later I wrote 'Can You Dig It,’ to those chords. They were… let’s see: D-minor to B-flat major 7th to an E diminished 9th chord. That’s a really interesting way to set it up to the V chord. Or to look at it another way: we’re in A — Arab scale, which is— I don’t want to get too heavy. But it’s an unusual scale in Western music, in pop music. And it worked fine for me. I was just really glad. It just fell out of my hands again. It really felt good.” - Peter Tork, Shanley On Music, 2014 “‘Can You Dig It’ is about the Tao. The hook line I wrote in my dressing room on the set [of the television series in 1967]. The chords for the chorus I’d written in college, and [they] had just stuck with me. I hadn’t been able to do a thing with them until I was sittin’ there, just writin’ on a scrap of paper with ideas, and I wrote, 'Can you dig it?/Do you know/Would you care to let it show?’ Those three as a triplet — as opposed to a couplet. I just looked at them and [went], 'Wow!’ I grabbed a pencil and circled those three. They were part of a quatrain. I said, ‘Wait a minute. No, this works best as a little three-line chorus.’” - Peter Tork, Head box set liner notes “When I recorded ‘Can You Dig It,’ the guitar solo originally ran about three or four minutes all by itself. We cut that back to a minute and a half. Bob Rafelson took a pair of scissors and snipped off the end of it. He didn’t ask me to shorten it, which I would have been glad to do. He just chopped it off. Son of a bitch! I have a lot of gripes about that, but that’s neither here nor there.” - Peter Tork, Blitz!, May/June 1980 ("Can You Dig It" (demo) | You can watch Peter perform the song live during The Monkees' 1987 tour.)

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Peber doodle while reminiscing brrrr

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I hate him .

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Micky Dolenz and Michael Nesmith during filming of the Monkees' movie Head in 1968.

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Peter Tork at Monterey Pop Festival, June 1967.

“I don’t know that [David] Crosby was talking about drugs when he was talking about my innocence. I am absolutely of the optimistic believer in the better angels of our nature type of guy, and I absolutely was then. Being that way, you tend to overlook the harder realities. The British have this expression, gobsmacked, which is a great expression — it’s like being hit with a big wet fish. As reality hit me, I was gobsmacked at every turn, and years and years later, now, as we’re talking, I think I’ve had my education and I’m not stupid about the way things are, but I still believe in the sunnier angels of our nature. I’ve just become less sanguine about how we were going to fix the world by tomorrow. That’s clearly not going to happen, because too many people have too much of a stake in what’s wrong with the world, as far as I’m concerned, and I believe it’s all fear. I don’t believe anybody, given the full choice — except for sociopaths — would prefer to be operating on a basis of greed and acquisition, because everybody knows that the actual possession of things themselves does not generate any longterm satisfaction. Everybody knows this, and yet people keep chasing the carrot, even though they sort of know that it’s tied to their own heads and they’ll never get it, they still keep chasing it because they don’t know how to.” - Peter Tork, 2007 interview, published by Rolling Stone in 2019

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favorite pics of peter with fans

is anyone else seeing this . is anyone else .

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strawberry fields forever

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Peter being the token blonde character always gets his colors and fonts to be naturally golden or ‘lighter’ than everyone else. Davy and Mike usually get darker colors (probably cause of the darker hair color) associated with them, and Micky is associated with light colors for his personality similarly to Peter.

Peter has the golden hair and very passive personality (in the tv show or in real life, you choose if there’s a difference), so he’s always associated with a very light tinted color scheme.

I want dark Peter fanarts. I want his name associated with a dark purple or a blue-black. I want a grey peter from Head, or a dark peter from Peter Tork and the devil. Whether in the tv show or in real life history, there are moments that could be associated outside his ‘golden retriever peace loving hippie’ persona. He was mad, he was exhausted, frustrated, annoyed, older, hornier, all of the above. I need him to be associated with darker shades once in a while PLEASE.