tagged by @sophelstien, thank you!💜💜💜
the NO-SKIP albums: a tag game 🎶
rules: share the albums that you can listen to nonstop. those lightning in a bottle-albums that scratch ur brain just right. every single track, an absolute banger. u could not skip one if u tried. no notes. stunning, show-stopping, immaculate. ur no-skip albums. 🔎 bonus & optional (but imo, v fun) rules:1) add a track rec for us to listen to! AND2) share ur favorite line(s) from that track! 👀
tagging @waitingforgalois, @avantguardisme, @frogndtoad, @oranges-and-pears, @phosphorusandpetra, @cardwrecks, @swordatsunset, @gideonthefirst, @owldude, and YOU
🎧 album info/track recs/my favorite lines under the cut!! ↓↓↓
🌊 hideaway / the weepies (2008)
track rec: little bird ↳brush your gray wings in my head / say what you said / say it again / they tell me I'm crazy / but you told me / I'm golden
📼 in rainbows / radiohead (2007)
track rec: weird fishes/arpeggi ↳I'd be crazy not to follow / follow where you lead / your eyes / they turn me / turn me into phantoms / I follow to the edge / of the earth / and fall off / yeah, everybody leaves / if they get the chance / and this is my chance
🌉 narrow stairs / death cab for cutie (2008)
track rec: bixby canyon bridge ↳and then it started getting dark / I trudged back to where the car was parked / no closer to any kind of truth / as I must assume was the case for you
🚗 sam's town / the killers (2006)
track rec: bones ↳we took a backroad in my car / down to the ocean / it's only water and sand / and in the ocean we'll hold hands / but I don't really like you / apologetically dressed in the best / put on a heartbeat glide / without an answer / the thunder speaks for the sky
🕕 I forget where we were / ben howard (2014)
track rec: conrad ↳oh, I loved you with the good and the careless in me / but it all goes back
🔥 heretic pride / tmg (2008)
track rec: autoclave ↳when I try to open up to you, I get completely lost / houses swallowed by the earth, windows thick with frost / and I reach deep down within, but the pathways twist and turn / and there's no light anywhere, and nothing left to burn / and I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam / and no emotion that's worth having could call my heart its home
🌹 violet street / local natives (2019)
track rec: when am I gonna lose you? ↳I remember you closing the shutters / and laying down by my side / and the light that was still slipping through / it was painting your body in stripes
🚪 retired from sad, new career in business / mitski (2013)
track rec: goodbye, my danish sweetheart ↳there's some kind of burning inside me / it's kept me from falling apart / and I'm sure that you've seen what it's done to my heart / but it's kept me from falling apart / now here I lay as I wonder about you / would you just tell me what I'm meant to do? / 'cause I've waited and watered my heart 'til it grew / you can see how it's blossomed for you
🚀 how to: friend, love, freefall / rks (2018)
track rec: mission to mars ↳we changed the format completely, cut the filler for meat / it's just blood on your TV making killings for free / the ticket lines are past the sign down at the end of the street / meet and greet, VIPs go a million a piece / we delayed the show for entry and so expired on the lease / now we're gonna re-release it, t.b.d / change the title to: fuck you / it's what you want it to be / when you know it only pay to make nice / pack your shit and standby, please / your friends are trying to leave and get high
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July 2012. In a triumph for LGBT Representation, perennial hack and noted transphobe James Robinson establishes that the new, young Alan Scott (Green Lantern) of the New 52 Earth 2 is gay — and celebrates by burning Alan's boyfriend to death literally seconds after Alan proposes, so Alan can feel bad.
August 2020. In a triumph for LGBT Representation, writer James Tynion IV establishes that Earth-0 Alan Scott is gay by revealing that the guy standing next to him at the beginning of his first appearance in ALL-AMERICAN COMICS #16 (July 1940), killed in the train wreck that led to Alan discovering the Green Flame and becoming the Golden Age Green Lantern, was Alan's boyfriend. (Don't worry, he still dies horribly, so Alan can feel bad!)
December 2023. In a triumph for LGBT Representation, writer Tim Sheridan and artist Cian Tormey launch a new six-issue miniseries that celebrates Alan Scott's coming out by delving into the decades of official blackmail and murdered lovers that kept the original Green Lantern miserable and closeted for almost 85 years, so Alan can feel bad!
Look, it's fine that DC wants to establish that Alan Scott is gay. He wouldn't have been my first thought among the original JSA (short list: Charles McNider, Terry Sloane, Ted Knight, Al Pratt), but I can see it. However, DC's approach to it has been nothing short of ghoulish, and this new miniseries looks to be even worse.
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The Union of Soviet Super Soldiers (USSS):
It's 1976 or 1977. At least 12 years since the avengers were founded in the US. The Soviet Union is desperate to create their own superhero team to rival the avengers. They've tried to create figures like the Red Guardian, or the Crimson Dynamo or Titanium Man before, but it always fails. But perhaps it's because they never assembled a proper team? That's the logic that leads to the creation of the Union of Soviet Super Soldiers (Or USSS for short) in 1976 or 1977.
Founded in July 1976, the original team consists of:
Red Guardian III (Vladimir Ivanov): I already have a whole note on him. But he's the team leader, and one of the members of the team most devoted to Communism.
Vanguard (Nikolai Krylenko): He's a real comics character. I'm pretty sure you can find info on him through a Marvel Wiki or through Google (that's how I learned of him).
The Winter Witch (Katerina Obolensky): Abandoned as a child in the snowy mountains of Siberia, Katerina Obolensky learned to be one with the ice and snow. Nobody is sure if she's a mutant or some kind of demigod, but she is definitely powerful. Capable of controlling the ice, snow and winds at a single thought. She can generate winds, blizzards, avalanches, etc. When in her natural element she is a god amongst men. But when she's far separated from any form of cold, she becomes weak and frail.
The Gift-Bringer (Adrian Abel): Adrian Abel is a mutant. Born with the uncanny ability to control poison and even generate it (they can turn their whole body into poison dust or into liquid poison, for instance), they were considered a threat to others and sent off to an elite mutant training facility in Russia. There, they learned how to control their powers and make themselves less dangerous to others. Worst comes to worst, they were at least given a containment suit to prevent them from accidentally killing anyone with their poison.
Considering how powerful they are, it's only natural Adrian was recruited to the USSS. They're both powerful and extremely volatile, however. So they possibly be the most dangerous person on the team. So they require extreme protective measures to ensure they don't accidentally poison the people they're trying to help.
PS: Adrian is the only character not originally from the USSR. They're East German. I realized the German word for poison is gift due to google translate, and so I couldn't resist this bit of humour.
Crimson Dynamo (Dmitri Bukharin): Same as Vanguard. The Crimson Dynamo (including this version of him) is a real comics character who can find out more about through Google or a Marvel Wiki or something.
If you're wondering where in the timeline of comics this is supposed to be, it's shortly after Darkstar defects to the US to join The Champions. And she will join this team eventually, if someone (either me or literally anyone else) takes this idea past the concept stage.
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my dog really should be a huge meme at this point but he's the most unphotogenic animal I've ever had in my life, I have less than 10 good pictures of him and he's like 14 years old.
Look at this thing. How am I supposed to photograph an organism that makes faces like this. What IS This.
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