Post: What So Proudly We Hailed

[labyrinth2015]

Two posting days in a row is unusual for me, but then I saw the pics from david-daily.com which mitsurudemon posted, from Archie's Independence Day concert rehearsals at Capitol Hill.



Is that our boy, over whose (lean, tousled) ramparts those broad stripes and bright stars never looked so attractive? There's that brilliant, gleeful smile we all recognize, his unfettered excitement in singing for his nation on the 4th of July.



I love his expression in this photo as he strides past the billowing flags, weapon in hand. I tell myself that's new: that mature, settled confidence, the quiet strength. Or maybe it's always been there and I needed reminding. Whatever - I say I can see it now, anyway.



The passion, though - these pictures give proof to the David Archuleta we've known from the beginning: committed to his music, full-throated and intense as this summer day.



And oh, we hail him proudly, yes we do.

Picture credits to Mei from http://david_daily.com

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Comments

[elektra180.livejournal.com]

Wow! He looks hot in those pants...

:X

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

Doesn't he just? HAIL TO THE PANTS :D

[elektra180.livejournal.com]

OH YES!
It's about as good as seeing Cook in tight pants...

*stares some more*

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

DCook in tight pants will always be welcome.

[elektra180.livejournal.com]

OH GOSH! That's some HD quality bulge there. O_O


*DEAD*

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

(I...did not realize it would post quite this large?)

[elektra180.livejournal.com]

No worries. I'm enjoying the view! 8D

[bigwhoop4u.livejournal.com]

Damn he's hottt!
So obvious that he's looking directly at Archie out in the audience and growing hard just from the eye sex that's probably going on.....

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

Um, that's got to be the largest clothed DCook package photographed anywhere?

[rhiminee-1.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhh, I love the way you word things. <333

I thought he had a bit of a runway walk going on in a few of those rehearsal pics lol. No, he's not too short for the runway! ha. pardon my insanity.

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

I think the boy is making me lose my cool and word things flowery :)

Yeah, IKWYM, he has that runway confidence, like he owns the stage/runway!

[aohatsu.livejournal.com]

I'm very much a fan of whoever his new stylist is, haha. They dress him so well! (Or if it's him, I'm a fan of whoever told him tight jeans look good.)

<333

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

I have always been a fan of the tight jeans, which he started wearing memorably since this pic:

[bigwhoop4u.livejournal.com]

Yummy!!!
Those meaty luscious thighs just make me drooool!

[be-merry.livejournal.com]

He's so pretty. ♥ Thanks for sharing these! :)

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

He is pretty. It's enough to kill a girl (or a DCook, as in your icon!).

[nrchst.livejournal.com]

He is so adorable. I want to hide him in my closet so I can get a hug whenever I want. B)

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

Isn't he just? And, aww, Arch does bring out the closet hugger in people :)

[nrchst.livejournal.com]

He's presh. That's one of the few seasons of American Idol I didn't catch much of.

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, for a non-American I watch a ridiculous amount of Idol, and American reality TV. *shakes fist ironically at US cultural imperialism, and goes back to watching The Apprentice reruns*

[honeybeemmw.livejournal.com]

I love your analysis of BB David here. I could stare at that second picture for days because of the reasons you stated. If that strength and confidence has always been there, then it seems to me that he is just now showing it. Lot of things have changed for him it seems and I am loving it.

I have to say this is the David that gives me tingles in a silly place because when he is singing that sexy confidence just reels me in and I'm gone. These pics definitely capture some of that essence.

Of course I love the rambly, awkward, adorable David we see in interviews but singing!David owns my heart. The rest is just bonus. ♥

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

IKR? That second picture - you think, "Whoa, has he always looked this strong, this confident? Look at his stride, his smile..." - and then there's the first picture, where he smiles with sheer glee and looks like he's fifteen.

And then he sings, and sets everything on fire. (It owns me too, sweetness. ♥)

[aquagirl77.livejournal.com]

mmmm, loved this. All I can say is God bless an America that produces fine specimens like these attractive young men, lol. Thanks for sharing! Brings a happy 4th to us all. ;D

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

Ah, I wanted these photos in one place :)

And yes, exactly, God Bless America (and her crop of fine young men) :D

[cincodemaygirl.livejournal.com]

You know, I'm so out of it I had no idea he was in DC, but...even if I had known, no power on this earth could make me go downtown today! I got my decade's dose of large hordes of people on Inauguration Day...

But I might try to find a cam showing it. :-D

p.s. Thanks for the pic of DCook's bulge. o.O

Edited for typo fail!

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

I bet downtown foot and road traffic is a killer rn. But if you can get live feed of it, watchwatchwatch. He is in fact singing 'the Star Spangled Banner" ♥

p.s. anytime XDDD

[silsbee329.livejournal.com]

MOST AWESOME POST. *appreciates*

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

Heh, thank you. *GRINS*

[fieryrogue.livejournal.com]

BB D, is that your cell phone in your pocket or is DCook in the front row? O_O

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

(Not staring at bbD's package, 'cause that would be just wrong :))

[fieryrogue.livejournal.com]

(It's okay, he's nineteen!)

(Okay, so it's a little wrong.)

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

It's unseemly for a chick of my vintage to be staring! Much, anyway :) YOU, otoh, with your love of Jonaii, are no doubt used to such unseemly things. ♥

[fieryrogue.livejournal.com]

LOOOOL. For a second I thought you were going to say, "You otoh are way younger so--" and I was like, "WHAT?" But yes, I've broken that staring-at-sixteen-year-olds thing way a long time ago. I realize I probably shouldn't be so blatant about it, but alas.

Like this icon of Nick Jonas'... inspiring belt buckle... *COUGH*... should probably be illegal.

Oh wait, it is illegal.

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

*FRANTIC COUGHING*

BOBBIE. THAT IS A MOST...UNSEEMLY ICON.

[fieryrogue.livejournal.com]

I KNOW. I KNOOOOW. I AM THE WORST, I KNOOOOW.

[bigwhoop4u.livejournal.com]

I'm weird, but I can't stop noticing his right hand/thumb in the last pic.
It just kinda, um, protudes outward, sorta phalic? That looooong thumb...
Idk, I'll shut up now. Thnx.

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAA, phallic Archie thumb :D

[storylandqueen.livejournal.com]

He looks so mature in these pictures, it's incredible. You're right about the quiet strength, Jay, and thank you for sharing these pictures. I suddenly feel very proud of my participation in the cookleta fandom and honored to be aware of this young man.

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

I love how he is quietly coming into his own, CL. Or maybe he's always been like this, and I just haven't seen it :)

And, awww, you're proud of him and this fandom! Well, it should be proud of you too, my dear :)

[tiinakay.livejournal.com]

Wow, thanks for these, just what I needed. He brings me such joy. It looks like he's finally growing up and it's... kinda confusing. It's like one minute he's the same old too-cute-for-words Archie and then you look at another picture and woah he got hot! I feel vaguely dirty ogling him :D

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

He brings me such joy, too! I think one of the things I love about Arch (and why I love writing him) is that sense of how he's on the cusp of adulthood and manhood and all those coming-of-age things :)

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

It's my pleasure! All hail bbD!

[rajkumari905.livejournal.com]

FA.VO.RITE.

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

I KNOOOOOW.