hey sorry this took a while. i posted the ask game at midnight last night and i went to sleep directly after lmao. anyway i absolutely love this album tysm for the ask
A One Story Town- yeah the same shit goes down//nothing turns around//its a one story town
You Got Lucky- you pout your hand on my cheek//and then turned your eyes away//if you don’t feel complete//if i don’t take you all of the way//then go
Deliver me- baby take this heart//set it free//take this chance//take this dream
Change of Heart- you were the moon and the sun//youre just a loaded gun now
Finding Out- sometimes at night//i’ve had to fight with this emptiness//its been so hard to see theres something more than this
We Stand a Chance- yeah i could be wrong//but you never know// we could stand the chance of a real love
Straight Into Darkness- i remember flying out to london//i remember the feeling at the time//out of the window of the 747//man there was nothing only black sky
The Same Old You- hey i remember you back in ‘72// with you david bowie hair and your platform shoes or alternatively we could buy a ’62 cadillac//put a fender amplifier in the back//drive straight to the heart of america//turn up to ten, let that sucker blast
Between Two Worlds-well theres a lot of talk about the danger zone//theres adventure novels about taking to the road
A Wasted Life- i know you’re walking down a lonely street//i know you can’t get out of the heat and don’t have a wasted life//i love you too much//don’t have a wasted life
Creator: @CelesteFitzgerald / @blackjackbeast
Recipient: @merelatio
Title: Distracting
Characters/Pairings:KinAtsu
Summary: Kinshiro is finally on his first date with Atsushi and is ready to savor every moment. Or, at least, that was his plan. As they walk, Kinshiro can’t help but be distracted by Atsushi’s bouncy little cowlick.
Comment: Happy Valentine’s Day, Merelatio! I was so excited when I saw that I had the honor of making a gift for you. You’re, like, the person I think of when I think of KinAtsu. I’ve read so many of your fics, and they’ve made me so happy. I hope that this gift makes you even 5% as happy as your fics have made me over the past few years :)
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It was finally happening. After years of wishing-and-hoping-and-waiting, Kinshiro was actually on a date with Atsushi. It was almost too good to be true, but every time Kinshiro started to wonder if he was dreaming, Atsushi would squeeze his hand tighter in a silent reminder that it was all very, very real. Kinshiro wanted to remember every second of it.
And he probably would be able to remember every second if it wasn’t for one teeny, tiny, bouncy problem.
Whenever Kinshiro glanced toward Atsushi, he tried to gaze into his gorgeous eyes or look at his beautiful smile, but he was always distracted by that one unruly cowlick that bobbed up and down each time Atsushi took a step. Atsushi had had it since they were children, but never before had it been that big of an issue.
Perhaps it was because they had never spent so much time in such close proximity before? Kinshiro’s heart quickened at the thought, suddenly very conscious of Atsushi’s fingers wrapped around his own.
“Kin-chan, are you okay?” Atsushi asked, pausing on the sidewalk for a moment.
After a quick peek at the cowlick that was somehow still moving even when they weren’t (curse that darn breeze), Kinshiro nodded. “Yes, I am.”
“Okay,” Atsushi said. He still had the hint of a frown on his face, but he didn’t press the issue further—which Kinshiro was grateful for. How was he supposed to explain the problem? ‘Oh, sorry At-chan, I want to enjoy our date but I’m too busy trying to resist poking your hair properly into place for once?’ No, keeping quiet was by far the better option.
They continued on their way to the ice cream shop down the street, and Kinshiro did his best to stay engaged in the conversation. He was semi-successful, and since he was in a good mood he decided to consider that a victory.
A few minutes later, they reached the ice cream shop and went inside to place their orders. The cashier told them the price, and Atsushi pulled out his wallet.
“At-chan, I can pay,” Kinshiro said, lightly touching Atsushi’s arm.
“Are you sure?” Atsushi asked, blushing as he ran his hand through his hair, and—
Boing. Just as quickly as Atsushi had pushed it down, the cowlick sprung back up once his hand had been removed.
Forcing his eyes back down to meet Atsushi’s, Kinshiro nodded and handed his card to the cashier. He hoped his cheeks weren’t as red as Atsushi’s were.
After grabbing their bowls of ice cream, they found a small table outside the shop and took a seat. They each took their first bite and sighed in satisfaction.
“This is delicious. Thank you for choosing this place, At-chan.”
Atsushi smiled again. “No, thank you for paying.”
As they continued eating and talking, Kinshiro gradually managed to stop focusing so much on the cowlick—especially during those brief moments when their hands met across the table, or when someone’s shoe just so happened to accidentally bump against the other’s. It was perfect.
—Until the wind started to pick up, rushing through their hair and their jackets. Atsushi was, of course, upwind of Kinshiro and had to bear the brunt of it, and by the time the wind had settled down the rest of his hair was just as out-of-place as that one uncooperative curl. Kinshiro couldn’t help but laugh at the sight, but he attempted to stifle it behind his hand nonetheless.
When he noticed Kinshiro’s line of sight, Atsushi let out a small giggle himself as he got to work patting his hair back into place. “Is that better?” he asked after a moment, lowering his hands so Kinshiro could see.
Well, he had successfully returned his hair to the state it had been in before, but Kinshiro couldn’t stop staring at…it. If only he could just…
Without thinking, Kinshiro leaned out of his chair and across the table, using his index finger to push the cowlick down. Perfect.
“K-Kin-chan?”
Kinshiro gasped, not expecting Atsushi’s voice to be so close to his ears. That was when he looked down: Atsushi was staring up at him, mouth agape and eyes wide—and only a few centimeters away.
Backing away, Kinshiro rushed to sit down and cover his face with his hands. “I’m sorry,” he mumbled.
“What were you—why—what—” Atsushi kept sputtering incoherent half-sentences while he reached up to the top of his head where Kinshiro’s finger had just been.
“You…you missed…” Kinshiro tried to explain, pointing in the direction of the cowlick.
Eyes widening in comprehension, Atsushi’s fingers pinched the cowlick. “You mean this? But it’s always been like that.”
“I know,” Kinshiro said as he tried to figure out a way to explain his actions. Unfortunately, he drew a blank and said, embarrassingly, “It’s distracting.”
“…Oh,” Atsushi said, clutching his now-melting bowl of ice cream in his hands and staring at it intently. “It really looks that bad?”
“No!” Kinshiro said. “It—it just—it moves.”
“Moves?”
“When you walk, when the wind blows…all the time.”
“I see,” Atsushi said quietly, bringing his hand to his hair again. “And you don’t like it?”
Kinshiro didn’t know how to answer that. To say that he hated it wouldn’t be the truth, but he didn’t particularly love it. Either way, he needed to answer soon because Atsushi was looking more and more uncomfortable by the second, and he kept nervously pushing the cowlick down, letting it bounce back up, pushing it down again—
“Oh,” Atsushi said, shaking Kinshiro from his thoughts. Kinshiro met Atsushi’s gaze and…was surprised to find him smiling. “You do like it,” Atsushi said.
“I do?”
“That’s why you were smiling just now, wasn’t it?” Atsushi asked.
Smiling? Kinshiro wasn’t aware of when he had supposedly smiled during that exchange, but he certainly was aware of the way Atsushi continued to play with the curl of hair on his head—wrapping it around his finger, sliding it back and forth, pushing it down—
Huh. Kinshirowas smiling. “I—I guess I do like it,” he muttered, averting his eyes.
He heard Atsushi laughing from the other side of the table. “I didn’t expect you to like cowlicks so much, Kin-chan.”
“Not all of them, just yours,” Kinshiro said as he felt his face heat up, and Atsushi’s face soon looked just as warm. After all that blushing, it was a good thing they had their ice cream to cool themselves down.
Their ice cream was soon finished, but they continued to talk, their hands clasped together across the table. With newfound confidence, Kinshiro found himself occasionally reaching over to thread his fingers through Atsushi’s hair. If the feeling of the soft strands against his skin didn’t already make the action worth it, the smile it brought to Atsushi’s face certainly did.
Too soon, the sun began to set and they started the journey back to their homes. The rhythmic bounce, bounce, bounce of the curl was still distracting, but Kinshiro wasn’t complaining. In fact, he began to wonder if Atsushi was moving his head a bit more than usual as he spoke…or perhaps that was just wishful thinking.
messin’ with the kid - johnny winter (the original version is by junior wells but i really like johnnys version,, he played it live loads of times and theyre all really good)
miz dr. feelgood - beverly ‘guitar’ watkins (its kinda bluesy and has some really neat guitar in there. the whole album was pretty good too)
major tom (völlig losgelöst) - peter schilling (there is an english version but it just sounds wrong,, so here’s the original lmaoo)
molly’s lips - the vaselines (nirvana also has a really cool cover of this but the original is really great too)
i think its been about a year now. its done so much damage to my wallet.
6. Vinyl with a story behind it?
ummm… my godfather got me a queen greatest hits vinyl and tickets to a queen cover band. it was the first record i got. i also got a copy of charlie sextons pictures for pleasure. it is my dads favorite album, and its an original copy (there’s still a price tag on it that lists the price in deutche mark instead of euro so thats kinda cool). its just nice to listen to what he listened to when he was my age.
7. Best find? (Rare vinyl for dirt cheap, etc)
i went to a thrift store in april and i found a copy of “stones story”. the cover is in a shit condition, so maybe it is original. idk. its a double album and the vinyls are in great condition, and there’s a really cool booklet and a poster of mick jagger. the booklet is in dutch, since it was printed in the netherlands, so i can only partially read it. but its still really cool.
Idk whether you like ELO or if you've already heard a lot from them, but just in case, I'd recommend their A New World Record and Discovery albums if you haven't heard those! If you've already heard those then disregard this lol
i like ELO, but i haven’t rly listened to an entire album from them. ty so much for this you just saved me from a very boring afternoon!
