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the jerma bug doctor thing is so cardinal jones core

currently doing the gruelling task of cleaning out my storage :(

#mine #ramoi voss #rebecca bickett #cardinal jones #maximilian quinn #richard bickett

revising my childhood and i’ve realised that british kids tv contained lots of real sets??? in the form of puppets and mascots, (bagpuss, rosie and jim, get squiggling, the herbs, tweenies, brum) or like miniature models and stop motion (Bob the Builder, Thomas the Tank Engine, Noddy, The Magic Roundabout, Clangers, Postman Pat, Fireman Sam, Brambly Hedge)

and then they lost the fucking plot in the 2000s and came out with Bits and Bobs, Numberjacks, Jakers!, Boobah etc etc what where they on????

Point of the matter being that prior to the saturday morning cartoons cardinal was really into postman pat (3+yrs old), Thomas the tank engine (5+yrs) and fireman sam (8yrs) and then road runner and danger mouse happened and he got a lot less interested in whimsical stories about small towns, and a lot more interested in blowing shit up and running around and such it remained.

also keith’s stepdad had zero rules regarding media regulation so at keith’s house it was a complete free for all.

So consequently Jordie was watching slashers and playing fps games (didn’t help that keith was getting suspended for lowkey shanking people with broken plastic forks) and generally getting bad influences left right and centre.

then while he could watch pretty much whatever he wanted, on the rare occasion that jordie was at the jones’s house he’d get to see noddy and bob the builder and brambly hedge just bc of timing and stuff (1990s childhood as opposed to 1980s. there’s a ten year age difference between jordie and keith if i remember correctly)

and Mary Jones would give him some carrot sticks and chocolate nesquik and stand and watch him from the kitchen, wearing her apron and fretting. and she knows that something’s up because she’s never met a child in her life that eats carrot sticks without complaining.

Summer’s around every now and again. she’ll start up a small game with jordie and kick him a football and mary yells at them to go play outside (outside being a car park) and everyone joins in. there’s not much to do anyway

And keith would never admit the slight crush that he has on summer because how dare a girl be better than him at football.

indigo is nowhere to be found most of the time. cardinal misses her and he feels like he’s the only one that does. She lives in the nuclear shadow of her childhood ballet career. Brings her own packed lunch to christmas dinner. has three consecutive boyfriends all called Tony.

anyway to the point, the numberjacks is genuinely a horrifying show and i don’t know how they thought that was okay, especially the brain game bit and the puzzler

today is cardinals birthday yay or whatever (46)

feel kind of guilty bc i’m too tired to do anything for it but i don’t care anymore. it was worse last year bc i was actually busy breaking down and forgot all about it lmao.

so it’s an improvement

#cardinal jones

wild times in the spare change fandom

(there is canonically rpf, the landscape of which changed over the course of the band’s existence, the original popular pairing of which was Bridie x Cardinal with Ishani x Leon as a secondary pairing. They’re obviously not “canon” but with none of them having public statements out regarding their sexualities I understand where they’re drawing the chemistry from, similarly in a meta way, in some delusional future in which i am famous, I would also understand the context in which someone would want to ship that. There was slash fic at this time but the gay ships got more popular the longer the band existed and there were more interviews to pull from and the four of them just got more comfortable joking with each other about stuff like that.

I’d like to go on a small tangent about Leon because in a bizarre turn of events he has slowly marinated some flavour while i wasn’t looking and now I have things to say about him. I think he gets treated similarly to the way that Hozier is treated. “WHY DOES HE DRIVE THE GOLF CART LIKE THAT IM CRYINGGGGGGG 😭😭😭”

especially the way that people lose their minds over those angelic back lit live photos

Though with Hozier ppl are like ‘shout out to hozier for inventing love’, (talking about his lyricism) but that doesn’t happen with Leon because he doesn’t write the lyrics to the songs — although Vivian thinks that he should. Instead it’s about the things that he says in interviews and the weird existential poetic shit that he says far too offhandedly for comfort. He ended up getting banned from talking in interviews bc he kept turning simple questions into anxious musings about the universe and no one knew how to move on from it.

‘You know, and I wonder sometimes if any of it really matters. In a world reclaimed by plants, would anything that I’ve done last? Soil gunking up the inside of cassette tapes and that. My single bass line, the last thing left of me, would be silently stored on the millions of records it was printed into, never to be played again. And then I wonder if I have any right to worry about it at all. I think it’s selfish in a way, to care about a legacy.’

‘Leon the question was do you have a favourite guitar that you own.’

‘Oh.’

he was mad about getting banned for a while until an alternative type culture show requested an interview with him and he and the interviewer just sat on the floor on sequinned pillows and spoke at length about that kind of philosophical stuff and the fans lost their fucking shit let me tell you. VCR’ed to death. and then there were copies made of the copies bc everyone needed their own copy. following the collapse of the band it eventually was reincarnated (2011) into who could get the most artistic generation loss coupled with super distorted and slowed spare change music something something metaphor for corruption. idk he found out about it later and was like. you know what. it was very traumatic but yeah this is comforting in a very weird way.

side note he’d be number 1 vance joy listener on spotify

anyway

There was a series of some sort that he was extremely invested in (which i haven’t invented the barest trace of a premise for yet.) and was later the appointed president of the local fan club for it, after being a loyal submitter of fanfic for the zine for several years. and oh yeah baby we’re on some trekkie type shit here. Leon Barta most prolific slash fic writer in the whole prefecture.

this is the early 90s btw. he changed mediums with the dawn of the internet. i’ll explain the way the trallum internet works later but he had a personal page that linked from the main fanclub page (think old geocities/neocities) where he posted his work. That page was later taken down as spare change began to pick up traction and someone found it and panic ensued as he didn’t remember the login to it and he was freaking out so badly that he convinced dick to call the admin people at The Internet to get it taken down from the other end (damage control now, ask questions later). neglected to mention what was actually ON the page tho

Ishani figured it out pretty quickly though and maintained her poker face honourably but broke down the end.

She knew because she was his long suffering editor and spent time in the public library with him while he built the website in the first place.

Their high school time was strange. they both identified as lesbians at that time for context and both agreed with the concept of ‘yes i am a lesbian but i do not like the concept of participating in lesbian sex. maybe I’m just lying to myself’. fast forward eeerereewwewewewweeerrrreeeupp. asexual lesbian and straight trans man. it all made sense to them in retrospect but at the time ishani spent most of her time being endlessly frustrated at anything and everything to distract from the main issue (complicated feelings too messy for her to want to deal with. Very heteronormative in that it’s a given that she’d marry a man, but that’s a deep issue in conflicts between culture and scripture and victorian colonisation and she really just wants to get through school with good grades right now. unpacks it later in her 20s but using aimless frustration as a coping mechanism with being uncomfortable never went away which is again a problem in itself) and leon had some kind of weird guilt complex over being a lesbian but writing purely about men fucking other men.

sorry side tangent

there was considerable public jealousy of bridie when she and leon announced they were together (mostly the leon fan folk who were angry they couldn’t get with him and also are fourteen and need to get some sleep bc they have school tomorrow). and then natural follow up is oh okay so cardinal x ishani.

C: oh no we’re just friends :)

I: EW no he’s gross look at him. he is like a brother to me. a gross yuck BROTHER. EW. why the fuck would i be in love with him that’s disgusting

C: :( :( man i thought you loved me :( u were literally the best guest at my wedding

I: SHIT MAN I AM SO SORRY. i do love you. you;re still objectively gross tho.

C; yeah okay fair enough

i must confess also that Leon’s entire character was originally based off the specific look that peter hook makes at 5:14 in the perfect kiss music video after playing the drums while their actual drummer is playing a keyboard with one finger like he;s trying to laser it with his eyes and their singer is going wild with a cowbell.

he’s not like that anymore tho he buys plants from the hardware store and is convinced that if he thinks too many bad vibes they will die and also keeps a sourdough starter and has to feed it and bridie refers to it as ‘the beast’

the following is a bunch of pictures that i imagine their house looks like