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I know I've said this before, but you know what annoys me about the documentary? It doesn't provide new insights into the guys' careers. Yes, we get more of their opinions now, but it's not much different from what they've said in lives, concerts, posts, etc.
We've already discussed how disappointing it was that they didn't focus more on the early years of the band. However, I thought there would be a bit more about everything that happened during COVID. The fact that they not only had a huge tour planned but also planned to enlist after that. It's a shame they didn't address a bit more of their feelings and how they reacted to it all, especially since they kept working during those two years. Even though there are DVDs of those moments, like the online concert, they never really delved into what it meant to them as artists.
Something else that I think they should have included, and that would have been interesting to see, is how the agency planned everything. How they looked for a way to make many of the things that the group could do in 2020 and 2021, in particular, possible. Obviously, not everything in detail, but some of it.
Now the documentary is about to end, and I feel like I haven't learned anything new about them. Nothing we didn't already know, at least. The documentary looks like it was made by a fan who could only cut and paste clips, commentary, and parts of the original content together to make a video out of it all. HYBE and Disney+ missed a valuable opportunity to show something more… real. Raw.
The documentary also reminded me why I don't usually like interviews with the guys in magazines or publications. Not just because the interviewers ask superficial or repetitive questions, but because they are very guarded in what they say. Sometimes too much. That's why I really appreciated the interview Namjoon gave for a Spanish newspaper. Although I must admit that their interviews with Weverse Magazine are usually good as well.
The documentary is not bad, although my complaints might say otherwise; I just expected more, especially after reading the book. I really enjoyed hearing the guys' opinions on a lot of things, and that they themselves told us how they were feeling at X moment and so on.
Something I also found interesting is how, especially in the last two episodes, they talked with a lot of uncertainty about their future as a group. I'd love to see them really talk about why they decided to renew their contracts as a group at the end, particularly. Because that uncertainty about their future as a group went on for a while, especially for some of the members. And that uncertainty ended, I think, in September? At least, that's when I noticed it.
Having said all that, in the last few days, I have particularly remembered that their culture is different, not only the culture of their country but also the culture of the industry they mainly belong to or grew up in. And that, although BTS, in many ways, disassociated themselves from it, at their core, they are still part of it. They and their agency/company. And I guess that's something that won't change.
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Hello!! I was just wondering about something...we don't really have a understanding of Elvis' personality, yeah we have books, videos and articles about the people they were around him but I'm talking about REALLY getting a hold of what personality he had is what's been circling my mind lately.
I don't know why, I've been really interested in personalities recently lol specifically Elvis'😅
Hi, sweetie! Yours is a good question to keep in mind, really. I like to wonder on this topic too. I guess Elvis' personality is very difficult to summarize because of the way his actions contradicted themselves in the messages they give. He was mainly a good person, as we all know, but also incoherent and even scary at times. It's frustrating trying to describe him because nothing seems to fit well-enough to describe how intense he was.
One thing we know for sure is how dual Elvis was - and we all are, no doubt, but Elvis's duality was very prominent, very much like changing one thing into the complete opposite in no time, as if there was no middle ground, just this or that.
The way I see it, EP was like a whole universe with all it's wonders and scary truths put together at once; like white and black, the good and bad, fire and rain, light and dark, a desert weather and a harsh winter in just one little space. He could be a spontaneous, extroverted open person, very sweet, generous, peaceful, attentive, warm, easy-going, friendly, supportive, affectionate, loyal, very wise, meditative, spiritually fervent believer in God, family-oriented, just an ingenuous little boy with a soothing peaceful and loving energy that could calm the most anxious of hearts that approached him, without even meaning to, and yet at the same extent he could also be shy, a loner, mean (here and there, both in words and actions), freezing cold, selfish, a loner, unreasonable, hot-tempered, promiscuous, sly, hopeless and lost, a control freak and a reckless disturbed man with such intense energy people could be afraid of doing something that could unleash the beast in him (that's why very, very little of his friends or family were brave enough to go against any thing Elvis would say/do or with his way of thinking), and then again he would turn into something else... He would look so confident, so strong and self-assured, a very powerful entity, but around the ones he trusted just enough he still let himself be vulnerable, acting just like a baby, begging for someone to take care of him, to show him patience, understanding, to make him feel safe, to hold him and never let go.
With the little knowledge we have about EP, we could use those and many adjectives to describe his personality but we can't summarize Elvis Presley better than to simply say he was human. Elvis was "too much of everything"... overwhelming, in a good and a little bad way too. The way he was such a good person, the way through his friends, family, co-workers and fans' memories Elvis sounds like one of the best people one could ever have the pleasure of meeting in this life, his moments of irrational and hurtful actions (towards people and himself) confuses us when we try to understand what Elvis was really about. I bet it was very confusing to understand him even for his family, lovers and friends, so it wouldn't be easy for us to understand him when we not really met him in person.
The King's personality is so intriguing! That's why there's books with analysis in both scientific medical and social fields, psychologists and psychiatrists wrote after studying Elvis' behavior patterns and what they tells us about him. Much beyond the stories their friends and general acquaintances told and how they portrayed EP in those many books and interviews we read/saw over the years, I think those psychological studies are the best way to go in depth about Elvis' personality. Even so I don't believe one single book can do all the accurate, proper work on it, one of those books I can mention now is "The Inner Elvis - A Psychological Biography Of Elvis Aaron Presley" by Peter O. Whitmer Ph.D. - I haven't read the book myself because I want to finish the friends and family books, the most important ones at least, before going deeper into Elvis' personality analysis but I've read parts of it and it's interesting. I would recommend you, if you haven't yet, to read this book.
Anyhow, I think we'll never have an accurate picture of Elvis Presley as a person, friend. One: Because people in general are difficult to understand. We contradict ourselves all the time, according to the situations we face. And two: Because nobody, for the best they can be at reading people, can really tell us what goes on inside another one's heart and mind.
I guess being such a mystery is another wonder of Elvis. Another thing we can be sure of about him is that he was even not close to be a boring person.
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Fuck it, can you expand on your thoughts regarding What Can We Know About Thunderman?
One of the funniest and most horrible things I've ever read partially because like 60% of it is just pages and pages of Alan Moore stating industry facts and names with the serial numbers filed off, and if you have enough comic book brainworms to be reading Thunderman in the first place there will probably be at least one or a dozen references here and there that will spring out of nowhere and hit you like a punch in the gut (the one I remember was the Jack Cole one). A lot of the stuff in Thunderman that reads as absurd funny parody or metaphors too stupid to be real are actual industry facts that Moore has knowledge of, and even the stuff that isn't you can trace a direct line of what exactly it's referring to or who exactly this is referencing.
This is a story in part about how horrible it is to be a sicko with comic book brain worms that is mainly understandable if you're exactly that kind of person. Besides all the references to real-life people and events, most of the modern stuff he's making up are still just as incisive and accurate because literally nothing changed, not even in regards to the movie paradigm ("At last he has attained a semblance to a religious figure. Can we stop now?"). Much of this is Moore dunking on Certain Industry Guys he probably knew and interacted with and indirectly bullseyeing on more recent guys, because a lot of these guys are the same. There are your extremes like the one con-goer here who is pretty much just Max Landis verbatim, but there's also so much that's brutally on-point for industry practices and writers ("What if we had Thunderman do something, and then something happened?") that you can fill in your own names.
It's also an incredibly personal and tragic piece because the core story of it, in between vivid descriptions of Greg Land's office space porn oceans and self-destructive daydreams and rolling catastrophes, is about a guy who deeply loves his art form, deeply loves the creators and artists who gave him so much for so little in his life, and deals with so much horrible toxic bullshit that the only way he finds to live, the only way he finds to not be complicit in the pigsty, is to leave it all behind and work the poison out of his system forever. Like he very openly talks about the protagonist leaving it all behind to go write the next big novel and writing that note, and the non-superhero ideas that will come after, as something that nobody is going to care about, but that he has to do. I don't think I could fully appreciate the sequence where he quits his job at comics and walks out of the office feeling better than ever, until I myself got fired from an incredibly stressful job that made a thing I love (video editing) into the bane of my existence, and no amount of money worries in the world could make me not feel at that moment like I was walking home to the sunniest day of the year.
It wasn't only how much better life was without comics that had startled him, but also how the comics business looked, viewed from outside. How small it was; how cruel and how ridiculous. All the warped personalities the industry either attracted, or else bent and fashioned for itself out of naïve enthusiasts who'd been expecting something else. He couldn't understand why he'd not bailed out of the business years ago, though in a way he could. Part of the answer was just plain human inertia, and part was the fact that, from the inside, comics people and their weird behaviour could seem almost normal.
Dan was grateful he'd escaped in time, though he'd admit that even that escape was qualified. Removing himself from the comics field was one thing, stopping thinking about comics was another. Constantly, he'd find his mind alighting on some decomposing gobbet from the mental garbage-tip of trivia that his career had left him with, when that was the last thing he wanted to be thinking of. He probably should have anticipated some sort of reaction - thirty-something years in any field would leave you with a lot of baggage, and especially an enterprise almost designed to be obsessional, like comics -
His fantasy that he could be a proper literary author, living miles from anywhere and shunning interviews like Salinger or Pynchon, had congealed over this last few months from idle dream to psychological necessity. He'd put his farewell dossier together, and it was published without eliciting much in the way of a reaction or response, but the important thing for Dan was that he'd written it. His lip was better and he could speak normally again, since, for some reason, having quit the comics world, he was no longer trying to eat himself alive. Dan was committed, now, to his new life, and there could be no vacillating. Change or die, those were his options.
And putting aside the fact that "Dan" is killed by the Vince Coletta stand-in and the story itself ends in a much bleaker and more horrible note, to me that feels like Moore being very honest, as depressing as it may be, that nothing else he ever does is gonna get the kind of buzz and following and money and praise that he did for his corporate superhero droppings, and he still doesn't regret one bit what he left behind, and he's going to make the weird magic lizard stories he actually wants to do until he dies and try to not think about superheroes ever again even though he will obviously never fully succeed. Not just because it won't leave him alone, but because it's a part of his life. He loves stories, he loves art, he loves comics, and if not now, he very clearly deeply loved superheroes once, and maybe he still does if he can put aside the sheer nightmare bullshit toxicity attached to them that he's dealt with. I'd even point to a recent occasion he did try just that, with the character of Captain Universe, who accomplishes maybe the only real heroic act in LOEG: Tempest when he stops an atomic bomb from leveling England and ends the story with his big heartfelt wedding.
LOEG is the dead last place you'd expect Moore to place a heartfelt send-off to his superhero work, and much of it gets obscured by that asylum sequence where he savages existing IP capes and the farcical elements of the team and other criticisms at the genre, but it's there, and it's maybe the only story that has a happy ending in the book even. With Captain Universe, a character who has no real history, Moore is able to put all feelings for superhero IP and the big two aside and do this platonic ideal of a superhero and the creative possibilities and hopeful fantasy of a superhero. He's willing to poke holes in the guy and ruthlessly make fun of his shitty allies and villains, but LOEG affords Captain Universe an almost shocking degree of dignity (plus the existence of the canceled Superverse, which was going to be a LOEG-esque project with superheroes done with Rick Veitch tying in to The Show, showing Moore had plans to try writing superheroes again on his own terms even after everything). I think Thunderman in large part is about conciliating these feelings with a large degree of autobiography.
That's one emotional core of the story, but mainly I remember Thunderman for being really fucking funny. The EC Comics hearing. The porn ocean odyssey. Stan Lee Stan Lee-ing so hard he nearly gets killed by gangsters over it and one chapter detailing his transition from person to Character. Marvel was all along a CIA conspiracy to promote radiation poisoning. The chapter that's entirely dedicated to Moore stopping the story to riff and review the Superman movies. This books swings widly and it's an incredibly entertaining read.
And maybe the most horrible thing about Thunderman isn't in the way it's protagonist meets it's end or in the final chapter or even *gestures broadly at all of it*, it might just be the chapter before Alan Moore drops his Superman movie reviews, because with it comes the realization that yes, Alan Moore has been to Reddit, and has looked enough into reddit superhero discourse to be able to plausibly imitate it, which means he probably has sat through at least one argument about him too many. The stand-out of that chapter is the bit where he's riffing on Cavill's mustache fiasco and the DCEU, but it also includes some bits that now read as pretty perfect bullseye jabs at the MCU's current state of affairs.
#replies tag#superheroes#alan moore#illuminations#what can we know about thunderman#comic books#superhero comics
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Masterpost: Stranger Things Theories (Mainly Byler)
Hi everyone!! I've been missing making theories and the energy of summer 2022 (and just any stranger things release era for that matter), so I thought I'd compile my theories and important posts into one big master post! Enjoy, and feel free to share :) I can't wait to make more theories and analyses once we get more content.
Will's First Lie and First I Love You: Musical Symbolism Analysis
This one is a personal favourite of mine--I really recommend you check it out. The Stranger Things soundtrack is more than just pretty synthwave songs...it is integral to the story and the repetition and remixing of certain soundtracks really shows the amount of love and care that has gone into the show. This post describes the connection between the songs "The First Lie," "The First I love You," and "Being Different."
Flashbacks in Stranger Things: When, Why, and How They Are Used (Long Analysis)
This analysis applies a lot of key writing skills to a byler-focused analysis, with an emphasis on the varying use of flashback as a literary device across the show. From my analysis, you'll see that the way flashbacks have been used across Stranger Things, and particularly season 4, tell an interesting story about the more "real" relationships in the show.
Destruction: Byler's Repeating Musical Motif (With Video!)
I feel like this post is kind of underrated, but it's such an important musical symbolism moment, much like "The First Lie..Love You...Being Different" connection! It's yet another repeating musical motif that actually spans THREE seasons of the show and started in season one. Give it a read (and a watch!)
Comparing David Harbour and Noah Schnapp's Interviews About ST5
There are quite a few striking similarities between the way Noah and David have spoken about the end of Stranger Things. Check them out here!
Interpreting the Surfer Boy Pizza Scene: Leading Up to Breakup
This analysis looks at the scene between Mike and El at surfer boy pizza and argues that if it was leading up to an "I love you" or them getting back together, there needed to be more emotional buildup to that during El's time at the Nina project or Mike's on the road.
Will Byers Has the Power Vecna Needs to Deal with What He Hates Most: Time Itself
Ooooh, I love this one too! This theory looks at the pretty much inevitable relationship between Will and Vecna, and how time could play a key role in that.
Parallels Between El and Will Feeling Different
A short one, but this is a key parallel between how El and Will both feel different, and how Mike responds to that.
Significance of "A Book of Letters"
Why it's important that Will specifically mentions El having "a book of letters" from Mike.
Willel: I'd Get Him to Swap Our Places
My thoughts on willel and the potential significance of "Running Up That Hill" to their connection
"You're The Heart" and "Her Heart Stopped"
A little analysis of the connection between Mike's failed monologue and Max's heart stopping.
Brenner and Mike: Superhero Discussion Parallels
I feel like this topic is underrated in the fandom generally, but it deserves more attention as it's probably one of the most outright parallels that we have...lol...it's literally spoonfed to us. Give it a read :)
My Fan Expo Audio of Finn Talking About Mike's Pocket
Just a fun little addition! Fan Expo was such a fun experience :)
Thoughts on Response to Finn's Acting From GA and Implications for Byler
"Finn is expressionless during Melvin scenes!" yeah...maybe because that's the point? LOL
Me Roasting Mike's Arc if Taken At Face Value
Just....LOL. It's just funny.
Endgame Ships Not Needing to Say "I Love You"
What do the seemingly endgame ships have in common? They show, not tell their love for each other.
I hope you enjoy reading my posts! <3
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pls pls pls i need some flashspruce headcanons, idc what they're abt i just NEED
i've been on the verge of insanity lately
this is so real and honestly your insanity brought back mine so thank you
i feel like part of the reason i've kinda fell off my eqg soapbox is bc i felt like i've said all i've ever wanted to say abt them, but i don't think i have actually! if you do not mind me repeating myself occasionally:
between flashspruce, flash has the most experience with boys despite having realised his attraction to them later than timber did. this is mainly because flash is surrounded by more boys because high school, the maths is pretty simple
timber, on the other hand, had a more complicated relationship with sexuality because his gender was doing all sorts of funny things. he had an idea that he was pan (of course, he didn't have the words for it yet) but he was never sure if he was romantically interested in boys or just admired them so obsessively he wanted to be one. as timber grew into his teen years he realised it was both lol
timber hides this with his confidence but flash can see right through it because he's dealt with boys like this before when they've hit on him previously (though they're never quite as cute as timber is. pretty privilege i tell ya)
when they're friends, they have this specific dynamic that idk how to explain (the closest i can think of is hyung-dongsaeng in korean culture), but essentially it's this feeling of wanting to dote on your friends that are younger than you (even if it's just by months). that's how flash treats timber in the early stages – flash finds out he's older than timber by a few months and now he cannot think outside of timber = baby
timber loves the mane 7 but if flash is tagging along with their hangouts (which is usually the case, timber only rarely hangs out with them as a group by himself), he's very clingy and has his arm hooked with flash's. flash finds it adorable, especially when timber refuses to let go in public
i see 2 ways in which they can go from friends to lovers; either it's very natural and it doesn't feel like anything's changed, OR they've reached a breaking point where they're just seconds away from devouring each other. sunset says that sometimes flash looks at timber like he will leave bite marks on the guy if he doesn't stop whatever he's doing (existing). both are good i'd say
timber has always filmed little candids of flash when they start being friends, mainly on his phone but whenever they're out by themselves, he brings his fancy camera out. flash doesn't know this, mainly because timber doesn't show him out of embarrassment, but you can really tell the person who filmed the videos loves their muse
flash sends over lyric docs whenever he feels like it and usually these are without any context, literally no "hello" or "how are you", just [text].doc and timber's like ???. but then timber reads them and is like sad™. timber's never admitted to this, and it'll take him a while to do so, but there have been certain lines in flash's lyrics that had him crying. how many chances do you get in life where your muse considers you their muse too?
flash sometimes buys timber books that he's read just so timber can also read them and then freak out the same way he did. most of the time timber's reaction is "why would you make me read this i am now clinically insane" which was exactly flash's goal
i would try to debate who would be the pathetic lover between flashspruce but there is no answer to that bc they are both equally pathetic in their own ways sorry loverboys
flash actively joins timber when he goes to get more wood just so he can see timber in a tanktop and an axe but flash will deny this every step of the way
timber can't say anything though bc man does this as well during the summer months when the flash drive are performing at bars; flash is Not about to wear leather in this weather and timber's gonna enjoy every moment of it
and yeah flash teaches timber the guitar bc what is he if not a lover of music and queer rockstars (he thinks timber could make a really cool queer rockstar if not for the fact he would steal a million of girls' hearts in one second and a smile)
these two make me want to chew a wall. dead serious
(i see your ask about flash, i will get to that soon i promise 🫡)
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PART 2
The Nordmark pod interview translated SWE-ENG
I have left out Per Nordmarks moments of reminiscence..
Please excuse things lost in translation and lack of knowledge in the English language 🙈
I also want to say that translation from spoken words to written can be quite challenging at times..
Enjoy fellow Ghostie's 👻🖤🇸🇪
T: -For my part it's very important. It was this, that was so fucking hard on that tour, i didn't get to have my days off. Days off,, you don't need them because you don't want to play, but to break the repetetiveness. On the level we are, in my regim and the way i want to do it i really feel we should do that. Mainly because we aren't 19 anymore. We are, we must keep up, we have to stay in shape to make it work. So when on the road there isn't much party and no more than to see to you're in shape and been sleeping enough. Stuff like that. A really good way to get out of shape is to get wasted drinking. It really makes you feel like shit.. It's fucking awesome a couple of days and the it's -Oh Fuck! But instead it can be really good to, it's gold when you have TWO days off, Then we always do it like this, the few times we have two days off. It doesn't happen often but when it does we always have a tour crew party. The first day so everyone get a day off after. It's very important.
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T :No people tend to think it's like travelling. Like a vacation. And it isn't', It really isn't, and i believe, when you're not in a touring band or a professional like that. I think you have a vision that being a professional musician and touring a lot ,is like, creative,, -And it isn't. It's kind of repetitive. There are creative periods..-And of course you can have creative moments when ever. And I, I come up with ideas all the time, building for the next step or figure out something new. But the "work" in itself is repetetive.
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N: Its not like, write a bunch of new songs on tour.
T: I can't do it like an obligation.
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T: I think one may do yourself a disservice.. Have you ever brought a book to read on tour and ended up not reading it? It's classical and i've done it so many times, and eventually figured out, -I won't do that. I pack lighter and simplify things. And in that same fashion i plan my days now. It's based on me,, all the time, is here to work. The, my days off now.. One thing i do, and i like really much, when i have free time, and come to cities i've been to for several times, and especially when you have mate there, then the best thing is to visit them in their home. Or, just hanging out with someone "sightseeing" with someone who knows the town. Or, have a friend flown in and make a "tourist thing" together, a side step.
Because then you'll Moon walk in the the next day and -Fuck Yeah! Let's do this!!
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One thing! I give can you a tip. Now, someone who do professional soccer or Soccer in general. Correct me if i'm wrong. But, one thing i always do, especially if i feel a bit down in the dumps for some reason. It's like, in the dressing room i put You Tube on. And put on a video with something you're sure of made you want do to what you do. You know..Like: " Let's spend the night together".. Queen live, you know, Wembley -85/-86. Like that! Something that makes you OUUHAHH !!! Then i remember my dream and how far i am. And i've thought of this when it comes to soccer or hockey, or whatever. Like -"Do you ever play a compilation of"… Well, kids of today what do they like, closest to it gotta be "Zlatan".. Because, our generation it would be "Maradona" or.. "Don't you play a compilation of his greatest goals"? -No, never.. -"Why not!! It's ga ga ga, It's that, that is the dream. Damit! Like "Iniesta" scoring the last goal, last second, and wins the whole thing. That's the whole idea with this. I believe! ( "who never played soccer").. Or Freddie Mercury Wembley -85 or -86 It's the whole idea with why i want do this. So you have to remind yourself of the of the dream.. -Then i'm back on track.
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N: Did you ever doubt if you ended up in the right place?
T: Eh, ahh,, In connection to being part of "Crash Diet" (or the Crash Diet that we were part of, that was something different than it became later) my world opened up. I grew up with, with very melodic music like . Ehh, i went, it was a mix and came from a mixed, but everything have always came out of rock. But A lot of Pop radio and all that it was in the eighties, and like, the legacy of the seventies eem, Then it was my brothers music. He listened to everything from Hard Rock, Ee. to punk and synth, and a lot of stuff. And then there was my moms sixties influence. So when i had been digging around in death metal and black metal in almost ten years,, -Yes when i was 22 i'd been doing death metal since i was 12. So for ten years nurturing a dream. If I'll be completely honest with my dream for Repugnant it was to,, It was "old school death", but i thought i somewhere, it would be possible to make it a "thing" or something. I thought, if [Tobias mentions a couple of band names, can't hear what i says] can do it. Or Pestilence or the fuck, others. I thougt we'd be signed with Road Runner going on tour supporting Slayer. Like, i wanted to become a real band. There were so many bands before us that had made it.. And i couldn't understand why we were ..But we was so extremely out of date, we didn't work in the era we where in, in the end of the nineties. So, in the beginning of the twenties, i was about 20 then, it started to show up a lot of "rock stuff" Both in Sweden, it was sort of rock, its hard, to without sounding harsh but i don't mean anything by it, but like action rock, easy rock and all that. In 2000-02 And there was the strikes and Frans Ferdinand and all that happened. So i went like, -The fuck, wait! Like i also want to play melodic music too. Because i have it im me. Eh mm.. And it was like tricky in the beginning. I met David Hellman, or Dave Leppard. Ehm..and he also wanted to play rock eeh.. and then it showed he wanted to do sleezy rock, While i was more like…My sleeze taste, i definitely don't mind the seventies glam rock, and i like Guns 'n' roses, but, but Aeeh, and Skidrow will do, But then There are a lot of stuff definitely! don't like. And he really wanted to go all in on Poison, Some of Stryper and a lot of other stuff and shit that i absolutely didn't like. So i felt in someway that i can't do this. This is not. And on top of that, it was his band and i .. Nope, fuck it!.And then i strarted a pretty long experimental phase of not really finding my way home..
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N: Asking about Onkel Konkel..
T : No, it was only three gigs
N: How did that happen?
T: Thomas the drummer from Repugnant, and at the time also Crash Diet and Subvision. Thomas was one of my best buddies and we played in several bands together. I remember it something like this -Thomas, you right me if i'm wrong. Because i might be. But i recall it something like this. Bengtsson, all ours Bengtsson from Cafe 44, came up to him like -"Du you want to play in Onkel Konkel". And he told me this story. And i , what the hell .. I also want in. So, well, Thomas told them i said that -"So you can come to the next rehearsal" And they probably just done one before. And then Bengtsson had put together a band for Håkan. Who then would act in these three gigs that were booked
N: And that was the only gigs..?
T: Yes, the only gig before that was in Hultsfred -93
N: Was there a gig before "Sondtrack of our lives".. bc one of the gigs were on " Nalen"
T: Yes, its very possible Soundtrack played the day before or after..
N: I've heard somewere you're in to horror movies. Old horror movies.?
T: Yes, Yeah
N:,Have you been inspired by film music aswell?
T: Very much, absolutely. And, well i don't know how to elaborate that, umm, To me, besides me liking, i'm interested in cinematic in general. But i got stuck early, for different reasons, for different horror movies. Once again I'll have to explain it by me having a pretty liberal upbringing. A very liberal home where there weren't any actual rules, more like guide lines. But you know it was the eighties,, And it worked with just a note from my mom to show at the video store. And then i could rent anything i wanted.
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T: I'm VERY afraid of the dark. Regretfully i am, and i was so early on.
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T: But if one should try looking at it with a " the glass is half full"l perspective. It's probably all about having a vivid imagination. And the critical thought in it all would be one watching to much and that it started it all, but I'm not sure .. There were a heck of a lot of delusions long before horror movies was a thing. Like, read "All the creatures of the woods" That people have made up totally uninfluenced by horror movies. So i believe one have a relatively elastic mind. And just aswell as one can come up with a funny joke or something, one also have the possibility to go down the dark corridor, make it something creepy.
Even if realistically i understand it probably isn't something out there, in the woods…
….to be continued
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I'm ancient, 37 at least! but somehow, still not dead. Married, works in retail, I own a cat, I'll sleep 16 hours a day when I can. I read a lot, usually books about nuclear accidents, miserable graphic novels or weird stuff featuring mushrooms. (Jeff Vandermeer and China Mieville are favourites) I watch pre-code films mainly, or old talkies where the dialogue is slightly echoey and stilted. I like any old films though, and I'm a real lover of Star Trek. I think I know someone who may actually be Gul Dukat.
I take Instax photos because they look exactly how memories do in the confines of my own head. Blurry, soft focus, more the idea of something than how it really looks. Or maybe that's because I'm terrible at taking photos, and I have a really bad memory. Anyway, I can send some to you, maybe?
I like to knit and crochet, but it takes me years to finish anything. Also, I've long held the suspicion that purling is a hoax and Not Real.
I have a very scruffy garden in which I pretend to grow food. This charade takes up entirely too much of my time. I basically use it as a cover - when my astroturf-gravel-and-decking neighbours look over snootily, I say, "well my garden is messy because I grow food in it, you know. It's functional, not aesthetic, darling."
I geocache, with very limited success. The main goal of geocaching, I find, is to try and look as suspicious as you can in front of passers-by. I look a bit foreign, too, so that helps.
I play video games, especially if they're filled with moments of calm tragedy. You know: Panzer Dragoon Saga, Shadow Of The Colossus/Ico, Sable, Kentucky Route Zero, Hyper Light Drifter, the original Link's Awakening...Elden Ring, even. I like a meditative, solitary experience from my games. I rarely finish them, though. If I finish a game that means I have to say goodbye and I don't like that.
I'm really into the idea of outsider artists at the moment. I've never created a thing in my life and have no intention of ever doing so; ADHD makes sure I have absolutely no drive. But I'm fascinated with the idea of people who decide to make a holy shrine out of tinfoil, or wear a papermache head, create an alter-ego and then get booed off at Wembley for asking who's got Betamax, or write songs about how Spiderman tried to cut them out of 70 dollars and so they felt compelled to beat him with a rubber hose. You know what I mean? These people are all around us and we don't always know they're there. (There's a man who lives near me, in my dull New Town who's covered his house, the outside that is, in his own paintings. I have a terrible urge to knock on his door and ask him what's up, but my husband has implored me not to in case he murders me and uses my skull as an ashtray.)
I'm quite flippant and usually never serious. If you don't find me funny - which most people don't - then maybe I'm not for you. A lot of people on the internet are so normal, and my penpal attempts have usually fizzled out because these people want to talk about... Grad school, or buying a house, or working in an office... and I want to talk about the sad melancholy feeling when BBC1 used to close down at midnight in the 1990s... Your typical university educated office worker I ain't. I'm not exactly shoplifting from Londis though, either, don't worry.
contact: @rainy-walk
#submission#penpal#pen pal wanted#pen pals#pen pals over 20#pen pal#penpals#snail mail#letters#over 20
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Hey uh remember when I did retrospectives of Last Week Tonight episodes? Let's bring it back to 140.
Last Lee Tonight
(wherein I'm definitely showing United Passions at my next bad movie night)
Season One, Episode Six
(original air date: 6/8/2014)
Major topics covered: FIFA, Bashar al-Assad's incredible iTunes library
"And speaking of Germans losing things, it was the 70th anniversary of D-Day this week."
It's really nice to throw this show back on again, on a note unrelated to the purpose of this project. I don't talk much about myself but it's been a rough few months with work scheduling, my chronic illnesses, and my mental health. For every "I'm taking a very spontaneous and ill-thought-out trip to New York to see John Oliver WOOO!" moment, there's been at least five "why can't I catch a break"s. When I'm not being beaten down by the collective forces of capitalism, I genuinely haven't been watching much John at all, mainly in an effort to play the large backlog of video games and read the large pile of books lying around my house. I've been moderately successful there (hey y'all should give Cassette Beasts a go, it's delightful), but there's nothing like going back home, so to speak. (I hesitate to call LWT a comfort show for me, given that it's basically A Record of the Decline of the United States in Real Time, but it kinda serves that function to some degree. I am a psychopath.)
Where we last left off in... May, Jesus Christ, I'm so bad at scheduling and writing and content creation - when we last left off in May at Episode 5, things were finally starting to coalesce into the modern LWT experience. We had our first viral segment on Net Neutrality, the first time a segment was uploaded in full to the LWT YouTube, and an opening news roundup that was starting to feel more thoughtful and themed. This episode continues that theme and gives us our second big viral topic.
There is a variant on the desk-slapping here, where John doesn't do it to open the show, but does a milder version of it to get the audience to shut up so he can move on with doing the show. One of my favorite things about him is his constant desire to barrel through clapping or any audience praise of anything he's done at a given moment in time and this opener is a pretty good example of that.
We open on John calling the week disappointing because California Chrome, a horse competing for the Triple Crown, did not win the Triple Crown. You can tell this is an early episode of LWT because there is no prerequisite horse-fucking/bestiality joke, just John angrily saying "fuck that horse" about Tonalist, the horse that defeated California Chrome. All of these horses sound like indie bands from my college years. I feel like Tonalist opened when I saw MGMT live.
We then move into German Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. This gives John an opportunity to plumb one of his favorite comedic depths, making fun of the musicality, smoothness, and romanticism of the German language. A German man used his lifeline to call Chancellor Merkle, who, thankfully, did not answer, as she was busy running Germany.
This transitions into China hiding the events of Tiananmen Square from their populace, including by censoring the Internet.
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Attempts by protestors to use different trending words - and to put facts about Tiananmen Square in a sex tape - to get around that were also clamped down on, leading to this absolutely glorious screenshot of John's hypothetical romance novel:
I feel like someone on Reddit probably wrote When Spring Turns to Summer recently.
We also learn that Friends is incredibly popular with Chinese youth. I'm not really shocked by this, Friends has a weird international reach. I know multiple Korean idols who learned English partially through watching Friends. The fact that there's a Chinese replica of Central Perk? That's wild. The show edits a Friends clip to include historical facts about the massacre, and then we move to our central story.
I'm a big fan of whenever John talks about FIFA and football in general. Recently in one of her "posts relevant to my interests", @tellthemeerkatsitsfine noted that there's a strain with John and his contemporaries with them being nerds who really wanted to be jocks, and I think that dichotomy really helps John come off credibly when he talks about the deep-rooted corruption in this particular organization. The sport is something that is literally rooted into him, hardwired as something he deeply cares about... but there's the rest of it to consider.
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In my opinion, someone who deeply loves something can really be the best at describing everything wrong with it. You don't really find the grime if you're only on the surface of something. I know that critical observation of a fandom while in said fandom is in short supply these days, but I wish it was more common.
Anyways. I think FIFA's corruption and grotesqueries are pretty known in 2023, but at the time, knowledge of their fuckery wasn't as widespread. Socially, we've definitely spoken a lot more about the cost-benefit analysis of the Olympics and taxpayer-funded stadiums, which is comparative to John's opening about the issues with FIFA and claims that World Cups bring money to the areas hosting them. (Not true!) Other items I'd completely forgotten about, like FIFA Court and their boardroom looking like something out of Dr. Strangelove.
The "And Now This" is "Chris Matthews Reminds Everyone Who He Used to Work For". (Answer: Tip O'Neill.) My abiding memory of Chris Matthews is Zell Miller accusing him of beating a woman and challenging him to a duel at the 2004 Republican National Convention.
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SNL had a pretty great sketch of this where Will Forte played Miller that I can't find right now. PISTOLS AT DAAAAAAAAWN MATTHEWS!!!!
The final segment is on Bashar al-Assad's campaign of terror against Syria, rigged electioneering, and chemical warfare. More importantly, al-Assad's life history and iTunes library are discussed.
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This was also the subject of the classic Bugle episode 187, which has a chance to go far more in depth about his favorite music, like "Sexy and I Know It". (Andy Zaltzman describing Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes as a doubles tennis group is one of my favorite Bugle moments of all time incidentally.)
Right Said Fred coming out to perform an anti-Assad version of "I'm Too Sexy" gives us the first time John has had a celebrity come out basically to troll one single person, and thus almost the cornerstones of modern LWT have been established. Eagerly awaiting the first bestiality joke. Also, really love the changed lyrics, they put a hell of a lot of effort into this one. I wanna see Right Said Fred live now.
Random notes:
Lee will continue sexualizing one (1) older man damn it: light blue and dark blue checked shirt, black tie, and black jacket? I know I've said red is John's color but light blue is a very close second, 10/10
I feel like I made up for not doing these for two months by writing about five year's worth of unnecessary analysis of this damn episode. Hopefully you enjoyed it!
It was amazing seeing an ESPN ad for something not handegg-related. -groan-
LWT YouTube is still a bit confused, as we did get the two major topics as their own videos... and then 1 minute of the FIFA section as its own minisode. I really would love to know the logic behind why there specific jokes were isolated like this in the beginning of the show's airing.
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My sausage, if anyone cares, is the Korean idol industry. It's an absolute cataclysmic nightmare and yet there's a lot there personally that changed me and a lot that I love out of it. It's complicated. Fuck SM Entertainment.
A reminder that John's LMFAO fandom has endured for a decade longer than the band itself lasted:
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#john oliver#last week tonight#last week tonight with john oliver#last lee tonight#fifa world cup#seriously debating tagging zell miller in case anyone has that snl clip#zell miller#the bugle#the bugle podcast#andy zaltzman#Youtube
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Welcome to the Cult of Quietus!
This is a Cult of the Lamb AU written by @itsbaku! It will involve a comic series, but if I am unable to continue it in comic format for any reason, I will proceed to write it out. I hope to get at least two chapters/pages out monthly.
This au differs from the main story in several ways, but mainly that the Lamb is my own fan oc: Quietus!
I don't wanna spoil too much, but he's a wonderful soul with a goal to liberate himself and to fulfill his goal of slaying the bishops. Why does he look like that? Why does he want to slay the bishops? We'll, I'm sure we'll learn.
WARNING!
This comic will include gore, occasional/possible crude language, and possible uncomfortable imagery. If any of this bothers you, I do not recommend reading the au!
It is also very much spoiler for most of the story of the og game. I recommend playing the game first or watching a video explaining the lore.
About The Author!
@itsbaku is a non-binary individual who loves Cult of the Lamb and many other things. They strive to achieve their dreams of writing books and turning those books into films. They enjoy drawing art of their own ocs and of their favorite characters from media. They are also a huge fan of dragons.
Chapters-
None at the moment!
Notable Characters-
Quietus: The Main Lamb, The Satanic Anarchist, Quietus himself! He's a genderless lamb with a tendency to come off as aloof when he just sucks at understanding people immediately. Truthfully, he's a kind and empathetic soul at heart. However, he can get violent if you choose to stand in his way.
Narinder/The One Who Waits: The Classic Black Cat of Death himself. He's the god of death, but he's hoping his vessel will set him free. A kinder god in this au, but he's manipulative and cruel.
The Bishops, Leshy, Heket, Kallamar, and Shamura: The Chaos, The Hunger, The Sickness, and The Psyche. While Leshy and Kallamar are definitely more kind in this au, Heket and Shamura force them to be more cruel and authoritative with their ruling. The Bishops are cruel, and they hate the slightest bit of change. Anything they don't like is reason to go to the extreme. Desenter? Murder them. It's simple, but cruel.
Lucifer: A black rabbit who is Quietus' best friend! She's kind and compassionate, and helps him out in his worst moments.
Beelzebub: A bee who's great at cooking and is a great help around the cult!
Desmodus: A bat who's a ex-priest who helps Quietus with the religious aspects of the cult, and also has a huge crush on Quietus.
Ask Box?
You can ask any of the characters any questions that you please! No inappropriate questions though, that's not ok. You can also ask about the characters or anything au related!
It's always open(unless I say it isn't), so don't be shy and drop an ask! I don't bite!
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I hope you enjoy my au, as I've been working on it for a while. Please feel welcomed, in this cult we are friends.
#cult of the lamb#cult of the lamb au#cult of the lamb fanfic#cotl#cotl au#cotl fanfic#Cult of Quietus
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Meet the Mun
ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴍᴀᴅᴇ ʏ��ᴜ ᴘɪᴄᴋ ᴜᴘ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴜʀʀᴇɴᴛ ᴍᴜꜱᴇ(ꜱ) ʏᴏᴜ ʜᴀᴠᴇ?
Erm.. Let's see... Just skip to a muse lol.
Rosie, a friend suggested her some twenty years ago for this elite comic book RP guild. She's the only one I kept from that time. I never heard of her before that & when I read her I remember saying 'she's such an angsty little shit. I love her.'. Her background is like casebook 'what happens if you have a poor support system' in a way.
Ryouta (daken/fang canonly), well he's that guilty pleasure villain everyone enjoys reading about for me I suppose. In another way I get curious about nurture vs nature. Which is something intertwined with his chara i think. (it's a dark past) What inspired me to write him, well he had a slow progression away from his villainess nature you could say. And I am a sucker for growth. It was his appearance's in All New Wolverine that made me go 'oh i'm going to write him'.
Somnus somehow turns stabby villains into teddy bears and i thought it was hilarious.
Bobby, well I wanted a silly gay polyamorous muse & I had been itching to write him for awhile but at the same time wanted to write with a Bobby more so held off. Gave in about a year back i think?
Malicia, well she's pretty AU of one of my favourite comic charas growing up. And well I'm a tad nervous writing her main verse so I just did something with a twist for fun.
TJ I've written a few times over the years. Normally when a friend has me going 'Hell yeah!'. One time I believe a friend was making a Blink (the bestie). This time around I started talking to a few friends about her & then got to talking with Armin about her relationship with her dad. A similar thing happened with Billy. I ended up bringing him back after talking with a friend who writes his twin Tommy. As for originally, I sadly do not recall.
Cloud, well as I said i'm a sucker for growth & his story is full of it. I also enjoy picking apart ways people display or write PTSD & show how it can be displayed in society or be a danger creatively. I also have PTSD, which can range on my reactions to things depending on my environment. So in a way it's one of the ways I learn about myself. Though his mental state has more of a twist to it as he has the lifestream & Jenova influences. Which can come across as confusing as it can seem similar to different forms of DID.
I also have a disability involving memory and memory issues brought on from trauma. So it kinda pulled me in more, I normally don't write muses that are popular to write or I lose the want to write them quickly. Which is not the case with Cloud, he's my rule or norm breaker. (might be why I'm not writing Tifa or Zack tho I'll be honest)
ɪꜱ ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ ᴀɴʏᴛʜɪɴɢ ʏᴏᴜ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴡʀɪᴛᴇ?
Erm *nibbles pen* flat out don't like? Random bits of rage filling arguments. Thought that's mostly when Anons do it. Mainly for the fact it doesn't go anywhere. I prefer my angst long lasting & with the ability to have a back & forth.
ɪꜱ ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ ᴀɴʏᴛʜɪɴɢ ʏᴏᴜ ʀᴇᴀʟʟʏ ᴇɴᴊᴏʏ ᴡʀɪᴛɪɴɢ?
There's a lot of things. Slow burns. Small bits of seriousness that leads to progression of a relationship (friendship or ship). Crack seriousness (threads where you have to squint to see the crack), Smut (picky with that), Angsty pain, healthy ships, snarky *jazz hands* ships, Silly friend/fam moments. etc...
ʜᴏᴡ ᴅᴏ ʏᴏᴜ ᴄᴏᴍᴇ ᴜᴘ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʜᴇᴀᴅᴄᴀɴᴏɴꜱ?
^_^; So I have the habit, of writing detailed notes & accumulate data (websites, youtube videos, games/comics what have you). I normally write detailed dossiers but lately they turn into 10+ page essays so I've been slapping on wiki pages. Clouds is mostly how his mental state is, how it works & alters along with a lot of lore on locations and Materia to help myself & it's mostly jumbled quick notes with no flow. yeah i just went 'i'll put this over here for later'.
But I basically bury myself within a segment of lore to work it through my head a few times. Then I try to see if I can make it fit into how I feel I'd like to write the muse. Comics can be a bit tricky because there's no mainline writer or books get canceled, one writer makes what another put in place meaningless.
ᴅᴏ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡʀɪᴛᴇ ɪɴ ꜱɪʟᴇɴᴄᴇ ᴏʀ ᴅᴏ ʏᴏᴜ ᴘʟᴀʏ ᴍᴜꜱɪᴄ?
Both! it really depends on my mood, if i'm into the music if my muse wants to jam so on so forth...
ᴅᴏ ʏᴏᴜ ᴘʟᴀɴ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʀᴇᴘʟɪᴇꜱ ᴏʀ ᴡɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇᴍ?
Both! It depends. For close connections or like someone that might be someone mine knows I can ask peeps questions to get an idea of a same flow or idea going. Other times I'll wing it entirely while some i'll just give a brief info dump and ask if someone down for it. Then there's plotting while the thread is being written just to throw out ideas or okay things. There's also the excitement of eating popcorn just because I'm wondering if it'll turn tortuously cute or like a thriller in the next few goes depending on what's going on. xD
ᴅᴏ ʏᴏᴜ ᴇɴᴊᴏʏ ꜱʜɪᴘᴘɪɴɢ?
I love ships ^_^ especially when ya talk hcs or just build upon things slowly. I have a weakness for slow burns ^_^;
ᴡʜᴀᴛ'ꜱ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴀʟɪᴀꜱ/ɴᴀᴍᴇ?
I'm Glow, lovely to meetcha. ^_^
ᴀɢᴇ?
My siblings went to see ET in the movie theatre when I was born.
ʙɪʀᴛʜᴅᴀʏ?
June 18th.
ꜰᴀᴠᴏʀɪᴛᴇ ᴄᴏʟᴏʀ(ꜱ)?
The shade black, any shade of purple tho normally lavander, any shade of blue, a few shades of red.
ꜰᴀᴠᴏʀɪᴛᴇ ꜱᴏɴɢ(ꜱ)?
It actually alters over time so it's hard to tell. Currently have 'let it snow' stuck in my head if that counts.
ʟᴀꜱᴛ ᴍᴏᴠɪᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜᴇᴅ?
Uh, went with a friend to see Elementals awhile back
ʟᴀꜱᴛ ꜱʜᴏᴡ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜᴇᴅ?
Murder Drones or Hazbin Hotel? Kiddo is heavily into them right now & I try to get into her fandoms
ʟᴀꜱᴛ ꜱᴏɴɢ ʏᴏᴜ ʟɪꜱᴛᴇɴᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ?
the Alexa at work has the habit of throwing on death metal when I'm there so idek.
ꜰᴀᴠᴏʀɪᴛᴇ ꜰᴏᴏᴅ?
Mmmmm, Gumbo but not that northern watered down gumbo the Cajun one where you wheeze and shove bread in your mouth after a few spoonful's. ohhhh homemade Cheesecake with pralines crushed into the bottom layer & drizzled over the top. Mongolian grill with crab & steam mixed heavily with veggies & my own sauce cocktail. Red beans & rice but not the cheap ass sausage, ya need the good stuff or it tastes wrong. Slow cooked in a way where the-- ya shouldn't ask a cook about food.
ꜰᴀᴠᴏʀɪᴛᴇ ꜱᴇᴀꜱᴏɴ?
Rainy Summers
ᴅᴏ ʏᴏᴜ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴀ ᴛᴜᴍʙʟʀ ʙᴇꜱᴛ ꜰʀɪᴇɴᴅ?
I doo~ Does it count if most of them aren't around anymore? I have a few here abouts too.
Tagged by: @lastflowerpetal
Tagging: I never know who's been tagged already, so if you wish to just tag me in it so I can take a gander. ^_^
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15 Questions 15 Mutuals
thank you for the tag, @chemicallovver! :D
1. Are you named after anyone?
nope :v but me and my siblings have names starting on the same letter, because there was one certain name my father liked
2. When was the last time you cried?
I cry all the time, so xD probably yesterday
3. Do you have kids?
lmao, obviously not
4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?
Not really, mainly because I fear people wouldn't realise I'm being sarcastic at that moment >.< and I hate being misunderstood
5. What sports do you play/have played?
I'm not sporty person and hate doing things in presence of the others, so none 🤡 I'm exercising on my own time to time, but it's mostly stuff like stretching, sit-ups, etc.
6. What's the first thing you notice about people?
I'm afraid I'm not able to answer this one D:
7. What's your eye color?
well, I've been trying to find it out for years myself xD blue?? gray?? I don't know xD
8. Scary movies or happy endings?
definitely happy endings, but keep in mind that it may mean something else for everyone
9. Any special talents?
I don't have any B|
10. Where were you born?
I live in the same polish town I was born and I'll probably die here too lol
11. What are your hobbies?
sleeping, playing video games, reading books & mangas, watching anime. I'm just regular weeb next door
12. Do you have pets?
I have doggo and cat :<
13. How tall are you?
170 cm
14. Favorite subject in school?
the more time passes since the end of my compulsory education the more I realise I hated everything about school thanks to polish education system <4
15. Dream job?
only one person knows about it, because I'm too ashamed to talk about it (and she just connected the dots xD), but my current dream job is related to my unfunfilled childhood dream of becoming video game developer. If I can achieve this goal, I'll still be able to work on video games, just not on the technical side. :^)
tagging: @szyszkasosnowa, @sunflowertea23, @drysauce, @nya-vivi, @cornmazehater and anyone, who's interested :D
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i’ve been tagged by @dagss for this catchup thingy and i’m doing it in english because i’ve also been tagged forever ago by @witchrenna and @camelliagwerm to do shorter versions of it sooooo i added the three that were missing and i’m doing it all in one go!! thank you all lovelies for tagging me and sorry for taking forever!! ✌️💖
nickname: pau (pronounced like the fourth teletubby of course)
gender: cis woman
zodiac sign: aquarius (also according to a friend who is really into astrology, she never saw someone with that much aquarius in her chart, i’m almost the aquarius blueprint and i’m very proud)
height: 1m74
time: 00h42
fave band: the national, the utlimate fave band, i owe these depressed middle aged men my life (i also really like dry the river and japanese breakfast and i have to mention keane who’s been very important in my life)
fave solo artists: maybe lorde? or perfume genius? maybe woodkid? (way more difficult to choose as you can see)
last song i listened to: alarms in the heart by dry the river
a song stuck in my head: beats by david numwami because we listened to it earlier with my little sister going to the grocery store
last movie i saw: memory by martin campbell, like 15min ago my brother in law put this on tonight, classic liam neeson kinda movie i'd say, but monica bellucci was there at her most milfboss so this part was nice
last show i saw: what we do in the shadows s4 <3
last book i read: my last attempt was dune by frank herbert but i gave up
currently reading: a memory called empire by arkady martine, reading slowly but reading it. im also this close to re-read a full 51 chapter fic.....
currently playing: the longest journey (on hold bc i can't stream it for sae to follow with me), baldur's gate 3 and redoing the runaway trilogy it seems
3 ships: full delphene x wyll brainrot at the moment, but i'm also thinking a lot about the tibanne x gale possibility or the tibanne x astarion option
when did i create my blog: this one is from summer 2017 i think? i had 2 others before this one, both deactivated
what do i post about: everything my brain latches onto, mainly games and my ocs and my screaming into the void
why did i choose my URL: because kate walker is my wife and I've been waiting years for this url to be available
do i have other blogs: one resources hoarding blog @paudotpsd
do i get asks: not really, but it happens sometimes and it's more than fine by me
following: 118
followers: 393
last thing i googled: runaway doublage fr (bc me and my sister were playing and i knew susan olivaw's french voice was my beloved françoise cadol)
average hours of sleep: at least 5h, but sometimes as much as 9h and sometimes it more fucked up
lucky number: i don't really believe in this. anyway it's 11.
instrument(s) i play: absolutely NONE but I'd love to know how to
favourite color: blue/teal
currently craving: sleep!!!
tea or coffee: both
currently working on: some baldur's gate 3 and syberia gifsets and maybe some video edits as well (also i said i'd think about writing more about my kaa fic introducing my ocs and all, i swear i'll do it)
3 fictional universes i’d like to join: syberia, star wars and pokemon
tagging anyone who wanna do it because i'm way to tired to tag... em slebby
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tagged by @eddie-rifff yay thanks!
what book are you currently reading? Actually I just finished one and I'm about to head back to the library today to renew my card and get a new one--hopefully not over 500 pages again lol
what’s your favorite movie you saw in theaters this past year? ...I don't see movies in theaters anymore whoops, we did sit down at the TV to watch the original Willow on New Year's Eve though, someone explain to me why I'd never heard of it until then
what do you usually wear? uhhhh pants. shirt. My job has conditioned me to be as boring and inconspicuous as possible and I need to change that so so so much, time to splurge this year on a new look
how tall are you? 5-foot-4, wheee
what’s your Star Sign? do you share a birthday with a celebrity or a historical event? Capricorn! I believe I share my birthday with Ted Danson and Dexter Holland of the Offspring, Ray Thomas of the Moody Blues...some more people...and Buck-Tick's Day in Question concert series always falls on that day for some reason
do you go by your name or nickname? I've been going by my own name for so long that I never actually stopped to think about an internet nickname and now I'm thinking of Squid (yes I know my avatar is an octopus I'm just really lazy and indecisive) :P
did you grow up to become what you wanted to be when you were a child? When I was a kid I wanted to be a paleontologist because I fixated on dinosaurs, I wanted to be a mangaka because I fixated on manga, I wanted to be a guitarist because I fixated on musicians...I don't know how to take fixations seriously lol
are you in a relationship? if not who is your crush if you have one? noop, single as heck. ...all my crushes are middle-aged musicians. Yeah.
what’s something you’re good at vs something you’re bad at? Good at? I can bust my arms hyperfocusing on something until it's done. Bad at? Socializing and having anything to say in general (cringe)
dogs or cats? I own neither but they're both beautiful
If you draw/write, or create in any way, what’s your favorite picture/favorite line/favorite etc. from something you created this past year? I drew a lot of Buck-Tick fanart that I mainly posted on Twitter/Instagram, not sure which one stands out to me the most but goshdarnit I need to post here more often even if no one understands lol
what’s something you would like to create content for? uhhh probably something that's not real people if I can just get into the headspace somehow
what’s something you’re currently obsessed with? hardly anything new, except for getting nostalgic over 90s video game music and following the lives of the composers on Twitter
What’s something you were excited about that turned out to be disappointing this past year? I never get my hopes up very much anymore since hardly anything ever happens around here anyway but I'm disappointed that I keep losing my creative muse...which I guess is inevitable at that point, lol I gotta change that
what’s a hidden talent of yours? How would I even know
are you religious? not in the way my parents would've preferred lol, it's private
whats something you wish to have at this moment? I have a lot of things that I'm not even taking advantage of so I think I just need my motivation hurr hurr also a warp portal to the stores in town would be nice
tagging @bjonka @wonderous-lawnmower have fun, no pressure :P
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It can still be easy to forget names, I read loads of books and sometimes I still struggle to remember names of some characters (a brag? Not really, it may be a sign to take a break but oh well, who can stop me lol <33) so it's not ur fault Dove, it's all good!!
this is in a good way
Oh, that's good that's good, very good :DDD
Don't be, this happens a stupid amount of times so it may happen again <//333
why a hole if there is the cute soft warm fluffy nest??? ?????? ?????????
Hmmmm............. a hole, or a nest,,,, what to choose, what to choose.......
ME TOO!! The amount of time I've gotten /s and /srs mixed up has been embarrassing, especially when it completely fucks the tone I try to express to people at times, it gets very awkward. Not only that, but sometimes when idk what to use or if I even should use it, I try to reread what I've written to make sure if I need to use them or not. Even then, jm still not sure–
No words can describe how much I hated middle school. Hs is pretty good tho, very chill, very calm..... besides testing.
AAAA YOU GET IT!!!! EXACTLY!!!!!
I never have been a huge omegaverse person, but I stumbled upon a work of top!omega×bottom!alpha and alpha×alpha, and it's like a whole new world was opened to me. I'm hooked. It's so fucking good and for what reason??
No reason needed. It's amazing. So good.
HELL YEAAHHHHHHH!!!
Yes yes, as Yuuta nervously fiddles with the hem of his skirt, he hasn't even shown you yet but he can already feel how hot his face is.. and when you end up pressing up against him, practically breeding him in the dressing stall, desperately trying to stay quite as he hears people walk by and getting into nearby stalls– he cums at the thought of being caught. And especially when you keep muttering into his ear how pretty he is, how adorable he is trying to keep in his moans.. He can't help but tighten up when you suggest that others may have already heard him,, Yuuta mewling at those words. It's not his fault your making him feel so good.
Or where Toge uses the photos and videos you send of you and Yuuta fucking as jackoff material. He is so incredibly thankful how generous you are,, <333 and even when he's used them to the point where he's memorized even the smallest details, he can't stop himself from cummin so much til he's empty. Babbling to himself, maybe thinking of himself in those situations too, becoming a deliciously made blubbering mess,,
Ur mind, Dove,,, I swear 🛐🛐🛐🛐
I don't care if it's unhealthy, it's fucking amazing!!! Intoxicating!!! Addictive!!!!! It's so good!!!!!!! <3333
Uhhhh we'll see lol, I hope it looks at least somewhat decent haha
SAVING!! I'm saving this. Gonna stash this away and use it as reference. Thank you so so soooo incredibly much for taking some time to write this out <333 ur so sweet /gen
My audience will mainly be targeted towards gn!reader, but I might do male!reader from time to time. As long as people can enjoy my work tho, then thats what matters to me <333 now I have a wonderful reference on what to tag!! :DDD
-panna cotta
"brag" no, dear, a lot of books read is something you should really be proud of <3 although in your performance it sounds like a red flag and you should take a short break /hj
stoooop it's melting!!! do you see??? it's melting more and more!!! </33333 /pos /hj
most of all, I like the moment that you really think what is better: my most beautiful and lovingly made nest or some kind of hole. I mean, some unpleasant things, infections and dirt can live in the hole, and this is still the most harmless, while the most terrible thing in the nest is me.
no, of course, I think a hole is safer than the nest, but you haven't seen it.
I feel like I'm being called out </3333 /hj
I hate how similar /s and/srs are and constantly confuse them, and when people ask, I feel so embarrassed, but I just sometimes forget that sarcasm exists </3333
so understand you,,,,, I'm constantly close to stopping using them altogether, but I can't completely give up. It's hard to use them, but I'm so used to it </3
middle school was so ugh. I'm so glad I'm not in it anymore.
I'm just fed up with alpha×omega that it no longer inspires. it was cool in the beginning, I love alternative biology, but apart from various variations there are no tensions and special attraction, you know? almost the same as hetero romance, except that the setting is more interesting, but over time these works begin to repeat themselves. alpha×alpha, omega×omega and betas have become more interesting, since their dynamics are much more flexible and ambiguous and require more meaning than alpha×omega — with the exception for dom!omega, dominant omegas are always wonderful.
I love these pheromones and different worlds with different levels of influence of instincts, it's very interesting, but I've apparently become too jaded. just give me alpha & beta-to-alpha who are courting each other and want to create a pack, and omegas who are very well aware of the impact of estrus and help each other in their time, while constantly breeding each other because their mate is too seductive. the usual pleasure, which is too little; disappointing </3
'so good' SO RIGHT!!!
1. Yuuta tries to restrain himself, but it's so difficult while you tease him about his skirt and how wet he is, probably from the realization that anyone can hear him, find out how slutty he is and how he likes to fuck in public places where everyone can hear him right while you fuck him, making him drool with delight, soaking a new skirt; when you lift the fabric higher, exposing his thighs and grabbing them, whispering (or growling) so that he does not cum before you, pinching his sensitive skin, and Yuuta involuntarily whines and moans — only to immediately shut his mouth,,,,,
your hands are so tenacious when you grab his hair, unobtrusively lifting his head higher, showing the reflection an absolute mess instead of the young man who entered here some time ago; but Yuuta doesn't care so much when he can only feel his body trembling with delight, feeling like with a new push he is getting closer and closer to the edge, — but you don't let him cum, growling that he is a good boy and listens to you and he tries to be like that, but his hips involuntarily part to the side just to feel you as much as possible </3
2. Yes!!! <3333
Toge is not a pervert, — no more than ordinary person — but when he closes his eyes and hears Yuuta, who whining your name, he knows what kind of scene is happening on his mobile screen, and maybe it should worry him more than it is, but Yuuta is so sweetly moaning, crying, whispering all sorts of lovesick nonsense while you reach your orgasm; begging you to cum while you're inside him, to take advantage of him, and Toge cums simultaneously with you and the last moans of Yuuta, excitedly thanking you for it, deliriously saying how he loves you and that you are the best thing that has happened to him while you are stroking his stomach, probably so hot and soft, filled and sensitive that Toge can't help but touch his own, at times colder and absolutely not full, in a post-orgasmic haze thinking that Yuuta is damn lucky with you.
you regularly fuck him, breeding him at every opportunity, and Toge does not know if he wants to be the one who makes Yuuta cry from another orgasm, forcing his body to try to hide from another stimulation, or to feel how you push your fingers inside his mouth, forcing him to make cute moans while exposing him the body, promising to take care of him and make sure that his body will ache from orgasms </3 maybe being fucked as much as Yuuta is, only able to whine about how good you are, only squirm, knowing that he can't even say a word to you, only moaning and whimpering when it becomes too much for him </33
shdgshdghdhdhd im insane
I know, pretty breadwinner, I know; at times more sociable & brainy when resonate with another brilliant panna cotta whose big brainy brain makes me work 1205% to match <3333
I am very uncompetitive and hate to compete, but when I meet smart and brainy people, I run after them with all my mental strength <3
it's going to be amazing, panettone. I remember I once gave advice about the aesthetics of the blog and the beginning of the blog, but I think they are very pointless — even if you are not perfect now, you will become so. you'll get better. you will become more beautiful. I mean, you're already beautiful, but experience shows that it gets even better over time, and I'm very interested in how you can become even more <333 you've started, and you should already be proud of yourself.
I mean, there is such a difference between my first blog, my last blog, my current blog and my temporary blog, it's a kind of gradation of aesthetics, and it will only get better over time. I know it. and you're going to get better and better <3
of course!!! all for you, my prettyfull one <3333
I, as a reader of gender neutral reader, very much approve <3 I once started writing gn reader and, although I have ambiguous moments now, still prefer to have them as the main audience. It's just closer to me; my people don't have to starve as much as I do. maybe I just don't get along well with male!reader & fem!reader writers, this is also a very likely reason /hj
#.spicy♡#[📂] — voice from under the bed#❖.my jewelry#✮.panna cotta <3#✉.yuuta okkotsu#✉.toge inumaki
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Interview with Patrick Torjdman
"The past is preserved in time: it is the virtual element into which we penetrate to search for the 'pure memory' that will be actualised in an 'image-remembering'" (Deleuze, 2009, p.135).
Patrick's photographic gaze is atypical, avid for memories, a traveler who, camera in hand, transcribed in images the chronicles of his wanderings.
Please share a bit of your story
-I was born in 1966 near Paris from a French jewish father and a German mother . So sometimes I was treated badly by Germans, and more often of bad jewish. Both of my parents were atheists, so I grew up against all discriminations with a high idea of justice...
At the age of 19,I traveled on sailboats in the Caribeans islands and Venezuela before heading to Florida. I had different jobs to live, such as construction worker, waiter, deliveries, framing, etc... Then I decided to study filmmaking in Boston, getting a Bachelor of Art at Emerson College.
In 1989 , I had to go back to France to do military service. I was put in a commando unit where I took pictures to keep my mental health.
Around 1991, I focused on photography and by chance, became an assistant to Louis Stettner. It was an incredible honor and privilege to work with him. As he couldn't pay me normally, I could choose one 40×50 print every month....
After two years, as I needed time to develop my own work, I left him to make freelance pictures for the French press. I mainly worked in Israel/ Palestine in color and b&w. I was trying to show the social, political, historical roots of the conflict.
At thirty, and for many reasons I will explain, I decided to quit photography for a while. It lasted 25 years...During this time, I settled down in the south of France and became an organic farmer, growing vegetables and olives trees.
I had never previously exhibited my work, so Instagram became the first place for me to share it. It inspired me to organise decent darkroom for myself.
Can you tell me how you started with photography?
Well at first,I've been writing about how I started photography and wrote uninteresting things from my point of view...
But your question helped me to go deeper in my inner self and thanks to you I realized a few things...
In fact, the beginning of my whole story is subjected to History in which I was dropped in, because of my origins. Very young, 30 years after the end of WW2, I was eager to comprehend the world and grew by reading a lot about it. In fact, I wanted to study History but knew that except becoming a teacher, I would not go any further than that, or maybe be a historian which meant nothing to me at the time. Journalists' studies didn't exist yet at the time either...
Because of a great video teacher who saw an int of something in me,saying I had an eye when I was fifteen, I started film studies later on. And when I saw, during these studies,the book of Cartier Bresson, that I started to interest me to photography. Then I realized that I could tell things without having a whole film crew and big production.This may not be very original about the Cartier Bresson syndrome that many photographers do have...but History is in all of his pictures, relating the second half of the 20th century. Then Capa, Chim, Rodgers,and Magnum were all I wanted to do.Treating History like a dear friend, relating and knowing the importance of the moment with an opened mind, no judgment. But of course with honest subjectivity...if that means something. Being a witness of part of a humanity plan in space and time. And make it beautiful in all its tragedy. That's how I felt about trying to do the job.
Which artists have influenced your aesthetic and approach?
So my first influences were humanist photographers from the 30's, but I looked also toward the surrealist movement, Kertesz, Brassaï,the russian constructivists photographers like Rodchenko, Dorothea Lange,Gary Winogrand, Stanley Greene, the Vu agency , Diane Arbus and so many others.I love looking at pictures that I would be absolutely unable to take. Real influences are completely unconscious for you should not be aware of them.If not, it's something else...and of course , Louis Stettner whom I worked for.I remember dry-mounting his posters before knowing him. He brought me the sense of the invisible , and it's never ending as a learning. We spent days in the darkroom printing his latest works absolutely unknown and stunning.One square meter prints... I realized how he influenced me in the sense where I softened my vision with his soft way of printing.His pictorialist poetry never ends to astonish me especially in his latest years of work.
I just mentioned photographers, but music, literature and cinema are also some hughes influences on me, even before starting . So I just wanted to mention it...
I grew up as a teenager and young adult reading Romain Gary for his hopeless sight of humankind, Boulgakov , Primo Levi, Varlam Chalamov, George Orwell for his essays and not only 1984...All good dark american writers like John Fante and others...which I don't remember their names now.
About cinema, I could talk about Truffaut, Polanski, Tarkovski, Coen' brothers, Jean Renoir, Luis Buñuel and so many others.
#photography#culture#art collective#art#photomagazine#bnwphotography#london#photojournalism#uk photography
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G'day! I'm just starting to write, and I'm wondering if you can give any writing tips? Your writing is amazing! Thanks.
Aloha!
Thank you so much! Not sure if you mean writing on Tumblr or writing itself, so I try to answer both.
As for writing itself, honestly, there is not that much I can tell you. I just sit down with an idea and start writing, I don't really have much of a plan most of the time. It's more like a gut feeling. I have some characters, I have their personalities in mind and play around with them in a certain scenario. Somehow, I have always had a knack for telling stories and coming up with scenarios. I'm guessing I could be much better, if my English was better (It's not my native language and I never really learned it aside from, movies, video games and partly teaching it to myself).
It always helps to know your characters, to know who they are and what makes them, them. Most of what happens in my HC's and stories, is driven by experience, things I saw and was part of, and real life people I met. (So if you read something specifically hilarious and/or strange in my works, it's probably something that really happened to me, or I witnessed once in a way. And yes I know a guy who's exactly acting the way I write Crosshair, they even look alike a bit, no not a spitting image, just some similarities like the height, the narrow serious mouth, slender). Of course, some things I write, are made up, inspired by books I read, movies I've seen or even music I listen to, or simply from a strange place in my mind. Keep your mind open, it's possible there is a lot of potential, waiting to be used.
When it comes to x Reader scenarios (HC's or Stories alike) I tend to let my own mannerisms and feelings flow in. I simply can't predict every reader and I don't want the reader part to be too bland, If I did keep it completely neutral, the Clones and other characters wouldn't have much to react to or interact with. Somehow that seems to work so far. I don't know if that would work for every writer, I can only tell you how I do it.
Have a program or person for proofreading ready, it helps a lot! I use several programs, still I get the grammar wrong sometimes (As I said, not my native language), but I think I keep improving constantly.
When you sit down and write a chapter, or a one-shot, or HC's, think about what you want this to feel like. Sad, tense, hurtful, wild, erotic, scary, fun, thoughtful...? A mix of several things? If you know the basic tone you want to have in your writing, it's easier to find a start and get into a flow at some point. Don't think too much about what others expect and focus on what you feel about what you write. When you are not sure about something, let someone else read it. Let it rest for a while, pick it up again, read it, and then decide if it feels good for you.
When you are in the middle of writing and ideas for later moments flare up in your head, write down some notes about it, so you won't forget these ideas, and you can still use them later. Happens more often than you might think.
There are so many ways of approaching writing, mine is just one of them. Some people make whole plans, with notes, research and stuff.
One thing I can tell you, that might help, is find a quiet place for yourself. For me, it's the most important thing to have my peace and quiet (sometimes with my music, selected like a writing soundtrack), to be undisturbed and focused. Depending on what I write, how long it is and how intense, I take breaks, walk my dog, do chores in my apartment, get my head clean for a moment. It always depends on how I feel that day, what I'm writing and some other factors. You'll find out what works best for you, it'll take some time, but in the end it'll be faster than you think.
Don't force anything! There will be days in which you might be desperate to write something, but the words are just not coming. That's okay, it happens to all of us. Mainly happens to me when I'm mentally or emotionally in a bad place (sometimes it's good fuel for hurt/tense writing, but not always). It will feel frustrating but still, don't force it, give yourself time to heal whatever might be off at that moment. Or write about that specific thing (not to publish just for yourself... well, you can publish it if you want) let it out onto paper/data, can help like a therapy sometimes. That block, is not a permanent thing, you'll write again.
Now, as for Tumblr and how it works to write and publish around here. Look at other people's writings, look at what they do, that's how I learned about trigger Warnings, general warnings and the "Keep Reading" function. To get the word out and share your work, it's good to have some friends to reblog the things you write, that's how people find you. Be patient. In the beginning, barely anyone would read my stuff, it came with time, when I made friends here and people started reblogging my work.
Make a Masterlist and pin it at the beginning of your blog, so every one visiting it, can see what you do and browse through the stuff you made. Of course, there are other sites where you can share your written work, that's up to you. And never forget about the tags! Make them short but understandable, peeps can be lazy when they use the search function, using shortcuts and the like.
Feel free to ask more specific questions if you have any. Good luck and have fun, writing your own stuff! ❤️👍
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