#Murder by Death’s entire discography actually

[karinzany]

tag game: 3 books, 3 movies, and 3 songs

that changed your life or you just love.

thanks for the tag @lumochiart! I appreciate how you never forget about me when it comes to these tag games (and I will do the previous ones too!!)

About the books 📚:

Isabel Allende is my favorite author. I read "The city of beasts" when I was 13 and fell in love with her writing. It is part of a trilogy (Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar) which I absolutely reccomend if you enjoy magical realism, the literary genre that she has mastered to perfection. Her first novel, "The House of the Spirits", it's a great example of that. It's very reminiscent of "100 years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez. They both follow the story of a Latin-American family across generations, and they are so whimsical but at the same time incredibly raw when depicting reality. Although it is not considered a trilogy, "Daughter of Fortune" and "Portrait in Sepia" both include characters from "The House of the Spirits", and to this day they are my favorite books from her.

José Saramago won a Nobel Prize for a reason. "Death at Intervals" (pictured aboved), "Blindness" (which has a great film adaptation) and the sequel "Essay on Lucidity" are all amazing philosophical exercises that start with a very simple premise, respectively "what if people stopped dying?", "what if everyone turned blind?" and "what if everyone casted blank votes?". And the results are absolutely astounding. He never names his characters, nor he specifies in which country the action takes place (although we can tell it's Portugal), so that we can focus solely on the actions of the characters when faced with these dillemas. I couldn't reccomend them enough. I've read his books in Portuguese, but I'm confident the English translation does them justice.

Patrick Süskind isn't an author I know well, but "Perfume" is certainly one of the most memorable books I've ever read. The descriptions of the visuals and smells of 18th century Paris are so vivid that you feel like you're really there. You get inside the mind of the murderer, and you can understand, in a twisted way, how he can turn death into something so beautiful. And the ending of the book, my God! I couldn't forget it even if I tried. It's the culmination of his character, and it shows you what he considers to be the true meaning of love. It also has a film adaptation.

About the movies 📽️:

"The Little Mermaid" and "Barbie in the Princess and the Pauper" are self-explanatory, absolute animated classics from my childhood.

"The Secret Garden" (In Portuguese, "O Jardim Secreto", picture I took of my VHS) is based on the novel with the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I watched this movie compulsively when I was little. The songs were amazing, and it was actually scary in some parts. The ending is slightly different than the novel, and surprisingly I enjoyed the movie a lot more! Which literally never happens. So yeah, if you somehow find this specific version of the movie on the internet I definitely reccomend a watch. It holds up very well even as an adult (also much better than the live-action).

About the songs 🎶:

I don't know if you could tell, but Florence + the Machine is my favorite singer, since I was 11. She had one album that I listened on repeat. They were the only songs on my old MP3 player. To this day, I have her entire discography saved on my phone, so I can listen to it even without internet.

"Between Two Lungs" is from the first album, "Lungs", and it makes me want to run into the woods and scream my lungs out. "Shake It Out" is from the second album, "Ceremonials" (my favorite), and it is very dear to my heart, since I've sang it in two school competitions already (with 9 years in between the two).

"King" is from the fifth album, "Dance Fever", and it did things to me. "I am no mother, I am no bride, I am King." My aroace heart loved the song. Even though I know the original interpretation was an argument between two lovers, I also read it as an act of defiance to your parents, your loved ones and to the society in general that wants to shove into the role of what a woman has to be. But I don't want to be a mother or a bride. I want to take control of my own life. I want to be King. On YouTube, there's also a poem version that is equally beautiful.

I'm tagging @portgas-d-ani @lorillee @alwayshasacold @caseyd1a @tinycurlyfry @vgprincess @tevali @zhabk4 and anyone who wants to participate!

I've spent more time answering this than I thought I would, but you don't actually have to explain your choices, I did it of my own volition! You can just post the pictures >.<

#thank you again for the tag lumochiart! #this one so much fun to do #tag game

[daken-howlett]

Songs to think about Logan Howlett and cry to.

#Murder by Death’s entire discography actually #Logan howlett #wolverine #murder by death #mutants #x-men

[twinge-of-cosmicangst]

The Roy Family but as songs by The Smiths

Morrissey would hate this. All the more reason to do it.

Connor- How soon is now? from hatful of hollow

Bit angsty for Connor but it’s the Smiths so? At first this was a pick for Kendall, then when I found a better one for Kendall I listened again to see if it would fit for Shiv, but when listening to it I thought nah, it’s Connor.

I am the son and heir of nothing in particular. I AM THE THE ELDEST SON! lol, this line works for him because he is the eldest son of a very powerful man but it literally doesn’t matter he is still deemed irrelevant by his whole family.

I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does. A very relevant line for Connor, out of all his family he is the one who shows the most affection but rarely ever receives any in return.

Kendall- Still Ill from The Smiths

Yeah this one is pretty depressing, obviously. That joke isn’t funny anymore and I started something I couldn’t finish also work for him. Kendall is extremely Smiths coded.

Roman- Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me from Strangeways, here we come

Sorry.

Cheeky bonus for Roman: The boy with the thorn in his side

Shiv- I know it’s over from The Queen is dead

Ugh Shiv I love you but you are not Smiths coded, that or I just don’t understand Shiv enough brb bout to rewatch Succ for the third time. This song is what I got the most Shiv vibes from after skimming through their entire discography.

I know it’s over, refers to the end of a relationship, I think?? Can you ever be sure with the Smiths? it could be about the death of Morrissey’s pet parrot or something. But for Shiv I’m interpreting that it’s her career at Waystar as well as her parents approval that’s over, I know it’s over, and it never really began, but in my heart it was so real “Is this for real?” When Logan told her he wanted her to be his successor.

But of course, it can, as well, relate to her relationship with Tom, Sad veiled bride, please be happy

Tom- What difference does it make? from The Smiths

My basic ass was actually going to pick, There is light that never goes out, for this bitch, which could of been interpreted with either Tomgreg or Tomshiv whichever tickles your pickle, cause Tommy gives major I would die for you but it’ll be better to die with you vibes, with both of them. Although it works slightly better with Tomgreg because, Oh please don’t drop me home, because its not my home, it’s their home and I’m welcome no more, could reference how he, like Greg, has never truly been a Roy, and how Tom certainly isn’t welcome among the siblings anymore after what he did in 3x9.

Enough about the song I didn’t choose for him and on to the one I did, for while I was searching for a song for Shiv I stumbled across What difference does it make? Which fits Tom so well. Again it can be related to Tom in regards to both Tomshiv and Tomgreg, the song could be interpreted for him in that he would do an awful lot and sacrifice an awful lot for both of them, even though they probably wouldn’t do the same for him, which makes him bitter and unpleasant towards them, yet he still loves them.

Heavy words are so lightly thrown “Because you love me, even though I don’t love you” But still I’d leap in front of a flying bullet for you. This song was made for Tom’s over dramatic ass.

Oh the devil will find work for idle hands to do “Do you want to make a deal with the devil?”

Greg- Half a person from Louder than bombs

This song is apparently a bit of an obscure one, which I wasn’t aware of because I am far from a die hard fan but I’ve known this particular song for quite a while, whereas there are others on this list that I’d never heard of or listened to before. Anyway Half a person is extremely Greg coded but it’s rather hard to explain why, you just have to listen to it, you should anyway as it’s a great song and apparently relatively unknown.

Logan- Barbarianism begins at home from Meat is murder

This song relates to Logan because of the abuse his uncle inflicted on him a Ewan and the abuse he then inflicted on his own children in turn.

A bonus: Unhappy Birthday. This is not really a song for Logan but more of a song to Logan from his kids, but especially from Kendall “Pass me the fucking shotgun” Roy.

#succession #tomshiv #tomgreg #romangerri #the smiths #Connor roy #Kendall Roy #Roman roy #shiv roy #tom wambsgans #greg hirsch #cousin greg #Logan Roy

[ohimtherebabey]

my review of my chemical romance’s entire discography

I BROUGHT YOU MY BULLETS, YOU BROUGHT ME YOUR LOVE

bangers and bops only

haunted

really sad at times but still sexy

THREE CHEERS FOR SWEET REVENGE

gore fetish

catholicism is at its peak

Songs To Completely Lose Your Mind To

BLACK PARADE

definitively the best album of all time. no constructive criticism.

oh yall are INSANE insane

mama

DANGER DAYS

yes

YES

the aesthetic and the message are *chef’s kiss*

CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS

where is the album mr romance???

number three royally fucked me up. WHY would you put world is ugly AND light behind your eyes on a single ep

the sheer power of calling a song Gun. g-u-n period. full stop.

LIVING WITH GHOSTS

i would like some official studio recordings please

EEMMMMMIILLLLLYYYYYY YOURE FAR FROM HOME

guitars are too loud and i dont know what the fuck gerard is saying but i kinda really like that

MAY DEATH NEVER STOP YOU

fuck yall for this one

LIFE ON THE MURDER SCENE

i’ve never spelled murder correctly on the first try

yall ripped my heart out with desert song but put it back together with bury me in black

BLACK PARADE B-SIDES

heaven help us deserved better than she got

kill all your friends is actually really fun and sexy

EVERY SNOWFLAKE IS DIFFERENT, JUST LIKE YOU

S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W

very cute actually i respect it and i respect the yo gabba gabba hustle

DESOLATION ROW

hnnnnnnng

sexy

MAD GEAR AND THE MISSILE KID

sometimes yall blow my mind with how devoted yall are to ur art

i feel like its the late 80s/early 90s and i hate my parents AND this town

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU

eyeeee dont want a LAHT for thERE is just one thing i need i doNT caRRREE about the presents (very nasal voice) UNDERneath the christmas tree

there is a solid minute of just screaming at the end

2009 was a movie, bro

SISTER TO SLEEP

please

combine this song with bury me in black to give me an aneurysm 

NA NA NA (IN SIMLISH)

really?

honestly you could swap this out with the original and i probably wouldnt notice because gerard refuses to enunciate anyway

i like how this happened but yall still refused twilight

#i made this post instead of applying for financial aid #i could go on but these are just my initial Thots #i would love to write something real and meaningful about their discography but im shy #my chemical romance #i brought you my bullets you brought me your love #three cheers for sweet revenge #the black parade #danger days #conventional weapons #isaac.txt

[igiturr]

Ok so I decided to make a three part ficlet for this.

This one is basically how I headcanon Will's relationship with music.

Sorry if my English is kinda weird. Feel free to disagree or add more to this. I hope y'all like it!

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Will's music taste can be defined by one word: folk. He listens to other genres like country, blues and classic rock, but there's something about the simplicity of the "voice and acoustic guitar" folk music that reaches his heart. Will grew up listening to Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger and Odetta. His political views during his teenage years were probably influenced by Phil Ochs and Woody Guthrie. He appreciates raspy vocals, so different from his own voice, but so similar to his father's. They weren't very close, but at least they shared some form of closeness through music.

Songs have the ability of translating feelings Will can't express. The pain caused by his mother's absence was soothed by Lennon's words in a ballad young Will probably listened far too often. Since they were poor, the awkward boy felt seen whenever working class hero played in his old record player. Music also brought entertainment to his lonesome life as a youngster. Always being the new kid was hard, but at least he could occasionally escape through the stories in Marty Robbins' and Johnny Cash's lyrics. Cowboys, outlaws, tall handsome strangers and boys named Sue whose tales Will knew very well, but unfortunately had no one to share with.

As a kid he had a particular fascination with murder ballads. How could those songs make criminals seem so appealing even though they were, technically, bad people? It was far beyond Will's understanding at that time.

He also listens, to a lot of country music. Like, a lot. More than he'd like to admit. He's a huge Hank Williams fan, but also knows Willie Nelson's entire discography by heart.

Whenever Will is fixing something, bathing the dogs or just chilling at home in cosy weekends, he likes to listen to progressive rock. King Crimson is his personal favourite, but he also likes Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull.

In his happiest days he'll listen to Cat Stevens all day long.

He keeps a respectable collection of LPs that include some rock bands from the 70s like The Doors, The Who and Jefferson Airplane. He remembers his father didn't like "the hippies' flowery" music very much, so he only managed to explore the more psychodelic side of rock once he was old enough to buy his own records. Whenever he's feeling detached from reality - which is more often than he'd like to be - listening to Jimi Hendrix's guitar or Jim Morrison's vocals makes the "ride" less uncomfortable.

When he was in college he listened to Jeff Buckley frequently. It was a specially weird moment in his life since he was starting to navigate relationships and friendships like he never had before. He remembers being very sad when he heard of Buckley's death. After all, his music helped Will overcome break ups and endure the journey towards adulthood.

When he met Hannibal He tried to give classical music a shot, but found it to be too… Too much for his taste. Will's a simple and rustic guy. Bach's suites and Handel's operas didn't really suit his aesthetic very much. But, surprisingly so, Will actually enjoyed Chopin's music. The etudes and nocturnes were soothing enough to calm his head in the middle of sleepless nights. Whenever the monsters of his head disturbed him in the night, he'd listen to the soft piano sounds. It was like a warm, solidary hug that made him company so he wouldn't feel so alone.

Nowadays he listens to a lot of baroque, against his will, since Abigail started to play the flute. Even if it's not his preferred genre of music, he feels a quiet happiness when he hears Abigail practicing in her room. The breathy sounds of the instrument bring him a sense of home, very new, very warm.

Last week Hannibal and Abigail performed a Bach sonata to him. Hannibal played his harpsichord as accompaniment while Abigail demonstrated her musical progress on the flute. Will couldn't help but smile the entire time as he watched the duo he loves so dearly play something specially for him.

That's what music feels to him nowadays.

It feels like home, like family

#this is just me projecting my music taste on fictional characters lol #hannibal #will graham #hannibal headcanon #abigail hobbs #hannigram #murder family #will graham headcanon #murder husbands #headcanon #ficlet #hannibal fanfiction #will graham fic #nbc hannibal

[anestheticrage]

Be me: Japanese honor student🎓, 15, with half a brain and even less of a plan. Hunting bitches by day and witches by night. Livin that dank only child✌️ life while mom n dad yeet all over the globe, leavin me plenty of time to forget not to make 2 lunches for myself #quirky 😜

no time for socialization or basic electronics skills ???📱??? when your best friends are an alien demon rabbit🐰👽 and the inexplicable Hole ™ in your brain. lmao, btw did i mention im ✨M✨A✨G✨I✨C✨A✨L✨

dreamin bout my 2D waifus again when familiar pink haired cancer patient dances through my brain passin out fliers: Kamihama Meguca Dating Service: Sponsored by Cult of the Magius. 250 stones per session 🤔

seems legit, Mr. Moneybags. wasn't spending my unwieldy sack of gemstones on anything else anyway. lets pull 💎💎💎

first up we have Redhead Radagast and her plethora of plants. 🌿☺️🦎

anndd, nearly dies immediately. 

well not off to a great start but i guess shes pretty cute at lea- oh FUCK its her girlfriend, Tsundere Poseidon😒🔱💦, and their exasperated, straight and single Sword Mom 😔🗡️🔥. fml gonna have to save up for the next pull. might as well play a few rounds with what i got tho. 

get in some good girl talk about things like school, color coded hair styles, body count, permanent soul damage, and our personal demon pacts. ya know, the usual 😚 . realize my dark backstory seems to be missing, so the girls take me to Ketchup Queen Sappho 🍅🥧 (wtf?) to molest my glowy egg stone. whatevs, more action than ive had since Kuroe 🖤 got added to the story anyway

the gang agrees it's time to hunt down the cutest rabbit pimp 🕶️🐇💵 in the city. >> say 🎵mukyuuu🎵 one more time and ill hug you so hard my backstory will pop right out, you adorable fluffy bastard. plz be my new best friend 💕

Form brand new friendship pact with Kyubae, and remember that my lil Sis 🐥 was always the best wingman for pickin up magic chicks, and kept her side of the room so spotless i forgot she existed. whoops 乁༼☯‿☯✿༽ㄏ Maybe if I find her i can stop paying these exorbitant pull fees.📵💎

speaking of which: hot damn this week's featured bachelorette is a 19 year old model and magical detective🔎 with massive levels of PTSD and self loathing 🥵💙💦 more likely to stab you or dramatically jump off a rooftoop than utter a single positive comment. wow, maybe i really COULD find true love…

... if i had MORE THAN A 1% FUCKING DRAW CHANCE. 😡 smh

hard to make much progress finding sis or winning the broken heart of a hard boiled detective amidst the never ending lover's quarrel of the Trident Vine Lesbians. 💔 Sword Mom tells them if they don't behave a monster will take them away. LOL classic mom 🤣

>>>HOLY FUCK IT DID

declare all-out war on urban legends, starting with staircases ⚔️ to reunite the dysfunctional trio, and hope that I net a way better lineup with the next 10x pull. at least sad sleuth lady came to help out. they say combat is the best way to bond wi-   and there she goes off the rooftop again 🙄 fml

alright that got way off track, we need a fresh start, away from all the loli drama. how bout a little B&E🔓🔨🤷🏻‍♀️ at the local house of worship to clear my head. ahh nothing like the unanswered prayers of the masses to get you in the mood for another wasted pull, and the 🔥 MIGHTIEST 🔥 headache you could ask for with a side of Double Cooked Pork 🐖🍜 (meh 5/10🧾)

venture forth into the spiritual unknown with your new human flamethrower🔥🌻🧡 and ask your favorite private eye to please, for the love of Eve, trade Meguca accounts with me~~~ Head through the eastern spirit portal to meet up with hologram propaganda sis and detective crush's evil ex, who joined a dating-app cult (#fuck) and also turned into the moon?🌕?(that's rough buddy)

get ambushed by Acid Horse on Wheels 🌈🐴 and vomit up my soul so hard that its time for a crossover episode. T U R F F F   W A R R R *que operatic harmonies* 💛 Blondie with the hair drills and enough attitude and guns to fill up a noble phantasm tries to ban my account permanently, but PI heartthrob denies her admin privileges. aww babe i didn't know you cared. 😭♥️

get kidnapped by my new true love and go back to her place 😏  defs enough empty rooms to house five emotionally traumatized girls and at least two ghosts hehehe👻 XD 💚🃏💜🎸 decide to form the anti-gossip brigade and recruit my blazing sunflower after getting ambushed by the witch living in my fruit loops🥣

❌outvoted 2:1 that cults are bad. mf. fiinneee one last pull to round out the team and then I'll delete the app. cmonnn Karin 🎃~

OH HELL YEAH TWO FOR ONE.

Always wanted a daughter 💜🔨🐄 with a penchant for pissing off the local Martial Arts & Books Club and drinking suspicious liquids offered by total strangers. Well if it's good enough for her AND the sexy mayadere with enough game to seduce a mermaid, might as well get in on that myself. 

#curseddrank 🤢 0/24 would not recommend to a friend, 'cept maybe Ria

win alot of cash 🤑, blow up a fountain, meet the pied piper²🎶🖕, moon cult, monochrome feathers, something about liberation✊🏻; adopt temper tantrum cow girl. aces 💜🥩

Next up!!! skydiving with DJ Hammer! Jump to apparently-not-certain death after suicidal A.I. 💚💾🗼 tells you to rescue her hostage before they run out of Radiohead albums and have to move on to Thom Yorke's solo discography. save the invisible shield kitten 💚👑😿 from happiness and get chased through the internet by the sexiest homicidal Paint Pallette 💚🎨😈 since Caravaggio. (apparently green is the color of the digital apocalypse. i’m deleting Kako from my friend's list)

that’s it, fuck this app. 250 stones 💎 per-life-threatening-experience is more than i’m willing to deal with 😓 don’t wanna mess with the perfect nuclear family anyway. we've already got: 

✔️the two emotionally traumatized moms with memory and commitment issues

✔️the adhd daughter with anger management problems and a giant hammer

✔️the psychologically abused scizophrenic cat

✔️and the eccentric aunt with crippling anxiety

#squadgoals

now that were done hoarding bitches, its time to hunt the witches. and the bitches makin the witches. btw did i mention the witches ARE the bitches! AND WERE ALL GOING TO DIE!? 📽️⁉️💀 wait fuck lets back up a second

This is Nemo📕 and Token🧪 and they have all the answers but prefer if you only ask vague questions in exchange for vague responses so they can fill in the rest by discussing their superior intellect 🧠 at length. not to mention they built that dating app, so of course everyone in my harem decides to be a FUCKING. TRAITOR.🤬

cept waifu prime ofc 🥰💙. [PTSD > brainwashing] 'yOu CaN bE tHe LeAdEr NoW'. i have been from the very beginning you traumatized Hinedere nightmare. maybe if you weren't so caught up collecting surrogate daughters you would've noticed IM👏THE👏ONLY👏 ONE👏PROGRESSING👏THE FUCKING👏PLOT✨

rescue the rest of dysfunctional found-family™ from selves before my adorable firebender burns down Disnihama🎡🔥😱 during her weekly anxiety attack. (love the makeover T B H) 

CHAPTER 8: Magical Girl Massacre🩸🗡️

   - everyone has like, the shittiest day ever

   - the new Pope really needs to be extradited from the church

   - make friends with a really pretty tree 🌺🌲✨

i swear, if i don't finish this god damn story in time to get that free pull im gonna beat the shit out of every mirror i find in that giant mansion that i haven't even had any time to even mention yet. 🖕🏚️ let alone EVERYTHING happening with the prequel [fuck you, I'm the star] girls 💗💜💙💛❤️️ and their multidimensional melodrama. We don't need that many repetitive af episodes to emphasize that Homo-ra is a shitty person. we've all seen Rebellion. 🙄

NO, I DONT CARE IF YOU WANT SAPPHO'S BACKSTORY, I ONLY HAVE 79 STONES LEFT AND IF YACHAN FINDS OUT I HAVEN'T DELETED THE APP YET IM GONNA HAVE TO GO SLEEP IN WITH SANA 😭💎💸😠

uhhhggggg where were we… Topple a cult and burn down Hotel Denoument only to realize that Sis was fused with the dating app servers this entire madokafuckin time (told ya she was the best wingman 😊). 

Dilemma: Sis =🥚, Triumvirate of Trouble want 🐣. What do? vote now:

Help Hatch - IIIIIII

Not Do That - IIIII

What The Actual Fuck Is Going On - IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Lets just fight everyone until something good happens.

🔥🔫🔥🗡️🔥😱🔥🌆🔥😱🔥🛡️🔥💣🔥

Kill (???) the artist-in-chief of the italian reindeer murder police after teaching her the true meaning of Christmas 🎄 hatch 🐣lil Sis and realize she WAS your wingman all along🐰 MUKYUUUU! we're just gonna ignore how much trouble it would have saved if you'd just mentioned that. "yOu DiDnT aSk..." 

FUCK YOU SPACE BITCH. ONCE AN INCUBATOR ALWAYS AN INCUBATOR 🖕🐇🔪

anywho, somewhere along the lines we of course summoned the Antichrist ⚙️ because why not raise the stakes to max and still not kill off a single character. Madofuckinkami, can we PLEASE wrap this up. 😩💤

feathers (not the culty kind, tfm) rain from the sky, and the power of friendship and not having the Urobutcher 🔪🩸as a lead writer saves our peacefully sectioned off alternate reality 😇

TL:DR fuck cults, real life waifus DO exist, don't sell your soul to space rabbits, or your stones to megacorporations. Enjoy arc 2 on the JP server with your shitty translation patch you filthy fuckin weebs 

Yours Truly, 

- Thirsty Weeb Eroha 💗💎😘 

#magia record #magireco #pmmm #iroha tamaki #magical girls #puella magi madoka magica #magia record anime #gen urobuchi #waifus #weebs #thirsty weeb iroha #shitpost #yachiyo nanami #mitama yakumo #kaede akino #rena minami #momoko togame #sana futaba #tsuruno yui #aniplex #magia record na #i love this game so much #and im devastated that the servers are closing #yes this is how i deal with emotions #gatcha #fuck aniplex #i hope this brings a few laughs to some of you #Tsuruno is best girl #<3

[wormmomma]

tyler, the creator: the very queer discography review!!!

Im bored of writing overly long threads on twitter so i wrote a look at tyler the creators discography and why hes gay and im gay and deserved to have his dick immortalized in gold when he dies. So tyler gregory okanma is a black man born in ladera heights california. He’s also my third favorite rapper and since he discovered my favorite rapper earl sweatshirt I guess he deserves goat status for that shit too. Tyler started his career around 17 years old as the ace the creator. He did features at the time with casey veggies and the inspirations in his flow to mf doom where already apparent even back then. From ace the creator mixtape you can already hear the very digital and jazz inspired pharrell production. Funny story if you look up any of his ace stuff now you'll mostly find some really old production that in the age of tyler the creator type beats doesn't really hold u all that great. From there Tyler went on to create odd futures and his first album bastard. He quite quickly followed up bastard with godlin. Goblin, bastard, and the OF tape vol.1 all feel pretty interconnected so im gonna speed round from worst to best. So odd future tape volume one is fun and punk and really crass, it's also completely eclipsed by odd futures other releases. I love odd future and the collective's ability too be both edgy teen skate rap garbage, and a risky artistic rap collective all at the same time. In odd future's first tape it seems pretty clear that tylers description of the groups early work as a bunch of niggas joking around in a studio is very apparent for better or worse. If you wanna get high with some friends can listen to some funny edgy and downright grimey tracks over left brains booking production skip this and listen to odd future's next mixtape but come back here to listen to some funny skits and a few proto mellowhype track with domo genesis. Goblin is Tyler's attempt to do a bigger darker more sprawling version of bastard but misses the mark. I like the album and I love singles on the album. Goblin the opening track is amazing and is a great look at tylers mental state attempting to live up to his newfound fame and anxiety about his infamy. I love yonkers and tron cat. Tyler says alot at this time that he doesn't make horrorcore and he's correct but the lack of emotional honesty and his immature deflections is really going off on all cylinders. If you dont wanna hear skits like “my bitch suck dick” and lines like “im not homophobic faggot” i would probably call it his worst album. Before i talk about bastard id like to go over his use of slurs and rape in his work. Tylers consistent lyrics about violence towards women and use of the lgbtq community really don't insult me. I feel like his lyrical content is filled with a clear look of how angry and insecure tyler was about not having a father or any way of processing his angst. Did he have to sound like a incel threatening to stalk and murder women who refuse to love him for over 3 albums? No, but i really enjoy looking at his early music. He doesn't shy away from how angry, sad and desperate he was at the time. That synthesis of need for fatherly love, anger from a lack of it and deteriorating mental state honestly makes the content more palatable. Also as a black trans women id rather hear tranny an faggot bars from a male rapper making intreeating music. Tyler at the time was being honest, angry and vulnerable not like eminem and action bronson who spit these bars with all the same rap bravado and violent anger toward women with zero pathos. Bastard is amazing, it's an intimate dark album. At the time it felt like it was tapping right into where I was at the time. The amount of mental anguish on bastards opening track really hit me. I was an angry kid with a lot of angst and bipolar disease so hearing a rapper yell about that same dysfunction really meant alot to me. The flows are amazing and it was a really good look at tylers ability to build a narrative. Wolf was tyler's next album. For a while wolf was my favorite album by tyler. His look at relationships and breakups on bimmer and ifhy are amazing and are expanded on his future releases. Find your wings and treehome are also a good look at his more melodic influence. It was such a good album I actually bought the mrech for and went to see Tyler at afropunk. Also hearing an entire song about the death of his grandma really hit me, my grandfather died around the same time. Cherry bomb was bad, now moving one. Ok im  joking i've listened to it two or three times but its really not worth going back to even though tyler put his all into it. The soul features and amazing production is worth listening to but even Tyler admits he rushed the album a little and that he needed to blow people away next time. Flower boy, is one of the most important albums in hip hop. That's it. Bar none. It was my favorite release of 2018. Flower boy is about tylers newfound isolation with his fame, and how he drives cars by himself in beautiful la vistas. Its also about how he’s gay (or bisexual). There are ALOT of stupid takes on this album. There is a contingency of tyler stans that think tyler has been “playing a character” since bastard. Now I'll admit that wolf haley and dr.teecee are clearly characters; they are also artists' representations of tyler's mental state. If wolf haley has adhd and no father that means tyler also has those issues. So whether or not Tyler is playing a character he has in fact “been kissing white boys since 2004”. I also have seen an insipid article that asks if “tyler the creator should be accepted into the lgbtq community” due to his homophobia? Much more controversial and actually homophobic and transphobic people are in this community hes tyler the creator, not milo yinnaoplous. I also dont think that it occurs to the reviewer that alot of gay men are very hmophobic before they come out and that self hate is very common. Lyrics like “im not gay i just wanna dance to some marvin” also has a much deeper context now. Listening to older releases you can see how in your face tyler was about his queerness. He even said he filmed himself kissing his friend Lucas to prove he wasn't a homophobe. I'm happy Tyler grew enough to make an album not only about being attracted to men but how lonely he felt in and out of the closet. As someone who came out as bisexual at the time it came at a perfect time. Being  gay is isolating and confusing and when you do you lose alot of friends and family. Garden shed, who dat boy, and 911 are real standouts. His collaboration with kali uchis was also so fucking smooth and she a born r&b star. Tyler gained a grammy nomination off the album and said he loved the feeling of finally making popular catchy music people wanna sing the lyrics too, so he followed it with igor. Igor opens with this addendum on the back of the physical album: 

This might be fiction, this might be about igor but it is fully about tyler okanga. The album is very hard to parse and barely has any rapping. It's more of a pop experimental album with a lot of lofi synth production. Tylers production chops are full force here. Igor is melodic, sad and full of the same anger and obsession from his previous albums. Its just more mature and really gay, and i fucking love it. Tyler was dealing with a tumultuous relationship with a guy and his refusal to be with tyler exclusively. Its about a breakup. A love tragedy that only becomes more depressing after the argument on a boy is a gun, the breakup in my love is gone, and the sad slump back into needing closure in can we be friends. The album is fun to sing to, and fucking devestating. I've dealt with a lot of similar issues with love and obsession so to hear it so clearly illustrated on igor really hit me. I think the album becomes even more depressing with the unreleased track best interest, about tyler being a side nigga. This is the kind of music that's sometimes made in r&b and pop but never in rap. There was an interview where Tyler says he hated his voice which is why he edits it so evident on igor. Tyler also said he wanted to send these songs to rihanna and Justin Beiber but they didn't want them, as cool as it sounds. I'm happy tyler was able to tell his own story. I would also recommend magic wand since it's my favorite track on the album and kicks you in the face with how angry and heartbroken Tyler was at the time. 

Tyler is an artist that talks and speaks about how he feels all the time, he's also a person who feels enigmatic and mysterious somehow. I think it has to do with how constantly he's put to the side of his other hip hop contemporaries. He always seems to be making music Tom weird, controversial and experimental to be treated like asap rocky, vince staples, or the late mac miller. A fact that feels ironic since he worked with all of those artists, lil wayne, and even kanye west. I'm as big a stan for tyler as he is for Pharrell, if it wherent forever I'd never take rap seriously and would never have chosen to make my own music. As a black trans woman I find a lot of tylers work really relatable. I've been in alot of the angry hopeless situations Tyler talks about in his music. I think he's the artist who hits me the most on a personal level and yeah when i was depressed i sat in my bedroom and listened to bastard in my low moments. I like riding in the car and listening to all of flowerboy. Igor is amazing as well for almost half a decade it's been amazing growing up and hitting the same emotional beats Tyler went through5 in his work. Hearing about him coming out as gay ajd dealing with very similar backlash mad me feel less alone if im being honest. Tyler has said he wants to take a more production heavy role in the industry moving forward but he says that a lot, i think as long as he has a story to tell he's always going to make music. His music feels like a diary and I'm happy to read it and sonnet to it in all its beauty and ugliness. 

Hi my name is lua o'reilly i make music on soundcloud.com/wormmother

If you liked this review let me know and I'll do a look into earl sweatshirt.

#Tyler The Creator #wolf #bastard #rap #music #punk #reveiw #discography #queer art #queer #black art

[swynlake-spill]

God but imagine getting stuck between Jake Long and Franny Robinson at a party and they talk you ear off about Vietnam and Cambodia like you’re actually going to remember a damn thing they said.

Here is a list of things I would rather do than that. 

1. Endure the Ashleys insulting my outfit for two straight hours.

2. Wait in line at [name redacted] while Death Cab for Cutie’s entire discography plays on loop 

3. Get stuck in an Uber with Mei and Lock in the backseat as they snog the entire 20-minute ride to NTO 

4. Hand write party invites to the Robinsons, every single Robinson and therefore inflict carpal tunnel upon myself

5. Organize Simba Lyons’ desk for him-- either at the Secondary or in Town Hall

6. Be trapped alone with Hades after dark with no witnesses 

7. Attend a dinner party at Seamus’s mansion where he shows me his copious collection of cigars and then asks me which of his leather jacket suits him best

8. Be stuck on a group project with Louie Mallard with the deadline of TOMORROW

9. Forced to play truth or dare with Ting-Ting, John S, and John D (I’d start to cry out of boredom).

10. Go to Tom Harrington’s birthday party tonight in a hoodie made out of tea bags and forced to compliment Phillip Knightley on his outfit 

11. Get lectured by Ting-Ting on Twitter

12. Trust Tink Bell with my financial information  

13. Get murdered in Pride U Library by Dipper Pines and his latest demon crush

14. Let Mabel paint obscenities (and unicorns) all over my face

15. Sit at lunch with Su and her rat

16. Sit at lunch with Mei K and her ghosts 

17. Listen to Ian tell me about his latest DnD campaign 

18. Think Rose Whitman is saying hi to me so I say hi back but really she is saying hi to the person behind me and so I’m forced to go through sublimation on the spot 

19. Babysit Mason Sykes b/c somehow I’d mess that up and then Roscoe Sykes would call a hit on me 

20.  Disappoint any of the Blackwells

21. Mop the floors at the Moon Market while Jun Moon yells at me to sign yet another petition 

22. Polish every single shoe in Zapatos Riveras

23. Rank the milfs and dilfs of Swynlake 

24. Clean the bathrooms of Hatters after a Swynlake disaster has locked half the town inside

25. Spend a night at the Hauntley Inn, you know, the place run by actual vampires. 

#daily spill #no i am not tagging you #Anonymous

[dentalrecordsmusic]

The Resurrection of My Chemical Romance: MCR’s Dark Catholicism

Words by Cae Rosch

On October 31, 2019, My Chemical Romance rose from the grave.

Resurrection isn’t a new theme for them, whether it’s in the salvation narrative the band was founded on (“We’re here to save kids’ lives”) or the pervasive undead monsters and heroes throughout their body of lyrics. The Return is another step in their decades-long salvation narrative. And that salvation narrative, one in which death is intimate and impending and necessary, one in which we come alive by shouting out our sorrows and sins like a cathartic confession to rock and roll, is deeply intertwined with a darkly Catholic perspective on the world.

It’s not new to talk about MCR as, on some level, a Catholic band - there’s already great writing about this. But the band took it to a whole new level even just with the concept of The Return, and so we have to take talking about it to a whole new level too.

We know the core members of the band come from Catholic backgrounds (specifically, for the most part, Italian-American Catholic, which is uncontestedly the most melodramatic mode of modern Catholicism). And like most people from Catholic backgrounds, there’s a complex and painful relationship there. As Gerard Way has said, “I was raised Catholic, which turned me off from religion because I had a very bad experience.” Yet in the same response, he remarked that he believed in God, even if it wasn’t in quite a Catholic way.

But that’s the thing: for the sake of this discussion, it doesn’t fucking matter if anyone believes. Regardless of the belief system you grow up to have, Catholicism isn’t something you just shake off, because it’s not simply an ideology - it’s a full-body, five-sense aesthetic world. It never fully departs your subconscious. Something, however small, lingers on your soul. That’s just as true of MCR as it is of your average Catholic or former Catholic on the street. And we can see it throughout their whole body of work.

The imagery is obvious. Song titles reference the Virgin Mary revered as Our Lady of Sorrows, lyrics are addressed to nuns and set in churches and graveyards, entire photoshoots center around Gerard Way as a rock and roll priest. The underlying narrative and its accompanying implied worldview, however, are a lot more subtle. 

C.S. Lewis, though not a Catholic, was operating within a Catholic context when he wrote in Mere Christianity, “The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs.” In the salvation narrative that began as soon as the band did, MCR act as little Christs themselves. But they act within one very specific moment in Christ’s own narrative: at the moment Jesus hangs on the cross, the ninth hour, when he cries out, “Ηλει ηλει λεμα σαβαχθανι” - “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabacthani?” My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? MCR’s dark Catholicism hurts.

At the very beginning of MCR, Gerard Way thought of it as a “mission from God” despite his own troubled relationship with Catholicism. He writes, “I even firmly believed in creating MCR… The mission involved helping people and battling the forces of evil, by using word and the purifying flames produced by Marshall Halfstack amplification.” This is a saintly mission, a mission of sacrifice. It shows clearly in their early lyrics.

On their first album, the two most Catholicly obvious songs are also the two most relevant to the band’s salvation narrative. Here, in “Vampires Will Never Hurt You,” the singer embraces the necessity of sacrifice to the point of death to save a beloved from the threat of a very Catholic monster. Vampires have a relationship with Catholicism nearly as fraught as MCR’s - Catholics make excellent monsters in the Protestant culture of early vampire literature, given their literal blood-drinking, yet Catholic iconography is also the most powerful weapon against vampires. Similarly, when Way sings, “And if they get me and the sun goes down into the ground / And if they get me, take this spike to my heart and… / You put the spike in my heart,” he becomes both savior and villain. He dies to himself and becomes a monster, abandoned by God (“Someone burned the church.”) 

The only hope for others’ salvation is for him to die. Yet similar to the forsaken Christ, he still desperately cries out for his own salvation when he sings, “And someone save my soul, tonight / Please save my soul.”

“Our Lady of Sorrows,” unsurprisingly, further emphasizes the band’s drive toward sacrifice in its depiction of sainthood (“the patron saint of switchblade fights”) as an act of defiant death for the sake of salvation (“Oh, how wrong we were to think / That immortality meant never dying.”) The violent juxtaposition of that switchblade imagery with the idea of sainthood shows an intense focus on the agony of salvation - fitting, in a song named for Our Lady of Sorrows, who is depicted weeping, with seven swords that represent the seven great agonies of her life piercing her heart.

Salvation is just as painful on Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge. The album and its associated era are extremely heavy on Catholic imagery in general (see the video for “Helena” and that one priest photoshoot, you know the one).

The album’s “Interlude” is a literal prayer for the intercession of the saints (“Saints protect her now,”) and it’s immediately followed by a song directly addressed to a nun - “Thank You for the Venom.” As in “Vampires Will Never Hurt You,” the singer accepts that his sacrifice will be painful when he sings, “So give me all your poison / And give me all your pills / And give me all your hopeless hearts / And make me ill.” He takes all this onto himself to the point of violent death - “If this is what you want / Then fire at will.”

But just as the figure of Christ, forsaken on the cross, shocks us with the sudden pain of his sacrifice, the singer once again juxtaposes religious and violent imagery to force us to be aware of the complexity of the saving act - sure, his sacrifice is saving people, but it’s fucking excruciating to die. When he sings “I keep a gun in the book you gave me / Hallelujah, lock and load” in the same song as a command to “fire at will,” we can’t see him as simply accepting his sacrifice like the complacent Jesus it would be simpler to remember. Instead, he is a “little Christ” to the Jesus who calls desperately for his father as he suffers and dies. “Give me a reason to believe,” Way cries, and we feel that same desperation.

This dynamic - MCR as the abandoned, agonized martyr violently saving people - builds up through their first two albums. In the 2006 single release of “Welcome to the Black Parade” and “Heaven Help Us,” it explodes.

It’s fitting that these songs are a single and its b-side because they express the two attitudes whose tension drives MCR’s entire narrative of martyrdom and salvation. “Welcome to the Black Parade” embraces the heroic aspect of the savior, victorious through and beyond death. “Heaven Help Us” is its tortured dark side - the savior’s moment of absolute pain, isolation, and loss of faith before that victory can begin.

“Welcome to the Black Parade” is the most explicit expression of the idea of salvation, beginning almost immediately with the request: “Would you be the savior of the broken / The beaten and the damned?” With this single release, MCR becomes completely upfront about how the thematic martyrdom in their lyrics matches up with the band’s verbalized desire “to save kids’ lives.” MCR know their fan base. Their fans are the bullied kids, the depressed kids, those struggling with trauma and addiction and anxiety - everyone society calls “broken.” It’s clear who’s stepping up to be those kids’ savior.

Though “Welcome to the Black Parade” doesn’t include the kind of explicit Catholic imagery that MCR’s previous records did, lyrics like “Do or die, you’ll never make me / Because the world will never take my heart / Go and try, you’ll never break me” demonstrate a profoundly Catholic attitude toward saving hearts and souls. No matter how much pain (and there’s clearly a lot) happens in this world, the heart persists. This song is about joyous suffering enabled by a heroic savior, about a defiant march past earthly oppression and into eternal victory. That’s pretty Catholic, my friends.

“Heaven Help Us” is about the actual pain that that savior must experience for “Welcome to the Black Parade” to have its victorious end. It’s the darker side of an already dark song.

It’s no accident that “Heaven Help Us,” while just as thematically Catholic as its A-side, is far more obvious about its Catholic imagery. Catholicism knows how to show us pain in a way that’s both beautiful and shocking. When your relationship with the Church itself is alienated and painful, that imagery comes out even more. 

“Heaven Help Us” begins with a melody that eerily parallels the classic Christmas carol “O Holy Night.” But it subverts the idea of a hymn, instead almost luxuriating in sprawling religious abandonment. Its imagery is viscerally bloody - “‘Cause mostly I’ve been sprawled on these cathedral steps / While spitting out the blood and screaming / Someone save us.” The lyrics invite sacrifice (“‘Cause I’ll give you all the nails you need / Cover me in gasoline”) but also call out with the desperation of the abandoned (“And the punchline to the joke is asking / Someone save us.” 

“Heaven Help Us” is a cry born from fear and resignation to abandonment. “Would you pray for me / Or make a saint of me?” becomes horrifyingly ironic when we remember how fast the path to sainthood is for martyrs - it’s almost automatic once they’re murdered. This singer isn’t the defiant hero of “Welcome to the Black Parade.” This singer is dying, alone, prayers unanswered.

And the thing about Catholicism is that both of those figures are equally Christ. Seeds of MCR’s dark salvation narrative persist throughout their discography. Even on Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, “Save Yourself, I’ll Hold Them Back” offers salvation through sacrifice right there in the title. The release of “Welcome to the Black Parade” / “Heaven Help Us” harvests what those seeds all grow up to become - the image of Christ, forsaken. It’s the moment where the pain of fraught relationships with Catholicism crystallizes in support of the band’s mission: going forth into the world to save kids’ lives. But apparently, it wasn’t enough to leave it there.

When MCR formed, the US was a horrific place to live for a whole lot of people. The band started in 2001, and so did the shift of the Bush administration into outright pseudo-fascism. Take it from me, a young teenager of the 2000s - that was not a good time to be a depressed kid, a gay kid, a traumatized kid, any kind of religious or ethnic minority. That was a very specific cultural context, one in which MCR needed to mold themselves into the salvific figure of an alienated rock and roll “little Christ” to save a world of equally alienated kids.

They’re now reemerging in the renewed horror of the Trump administration: the Bush administration on steroids. There’s a whole lot of alienated kids who need saving. And now, at least this one savior is back.

We may not have any new music, but the imagery of MCR’s Return situates them firmly back in their dark Catholic milieu. They announced their return accompanied by a photo of Pasquale Rizzoli’s “Cella Magnani,” a funerary statue in which an angel draws the soul of a dead woman into the celestial blue of its mosaic backdrop. The new logo, in which the letters “MCR” are written in a medieval Protogothic script, situates us back in MCR’s familiar black-and-white color scheme. In combination with “Cella Magnani,” it also places us in the medieval mode of memento mori - an aesthetic practice beginning in medieval Catholicism in which actively remembering your death helps you prepare your soul to die in a state of grace. (Side note: “Welcome to the Black Parade” is included on a popular memento mori-themed playlist curated by a nun.)

A lot of the effectiveness of memento mori comes from the Catholic perspective on the resurrection of the dead - the idea that someday, Christ will rise again and enact ultimate, perfect justice, giving everybody (and every body) exactly what they deserve. So in light of that, MCR’s Return narrative is itself a Catholic salvation narrative. MCR might not literally mean it that way, but in their own small way, this Return lets us hope that someday real justice will come. Someday, someone we trust will come to judge everyone and not even death will stop it. 

With their return, MCR’s dark Catholicism helps us remember that this is a band bent on saving lives - our lives. For people like us, MCR has spent 18 years building up the idea of a forsaken-Christ figure that exists specifically to save our lives - and that idea rising from the grave is pretty comforting.

Cae Rosch has been listening to MCR since 2004 and cries about Our Lady of Sorrows (the religious figure and the song) at least 18 times a day. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram.

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#my chemical romance #mcr #my chem #mcrmy #gerard way #frank iero #mikey way #ray toro #catholicism #catholic #feature #cae rosch

[senpaimutual]

astrology bathroom customary greetings

Aries: you are immediately killed by a wandering scorpio and forced into a robot body by a sagittarius. on the bright side, you don’t have to use the aries bathroom anymore. you then become a ghost that can manipulate time. dope

Taurus: your legs are replaced with robot legs, you are given pokemon cards, and then you are promptly stabbed through the chest by a wandering scorpio with a jousting sword, who you kissed prior while LARPing

Gemini: you receive bees and a computer, you are assigned a pisces to fall in love with, and then you are murdered by an aquarius in a jealous rage as you eat honey that makes your brain hurt. you are also given 3D glasses

Cancer: you receive a sickle (thanks comrade), are forced to watch every romantic comedy known to man, have to physically hide your blood, and then get assigned a random DJ to fall in love with

Leo: you receive a government sanctioned fursona that is always a cat, are immediately signed up to all furry roleplaying websites, and get promptly murdered by a capricorn in juggalo makeup. you also become homies with a sagittarius

Virgo: you get some dope lipstick, a lesbian flag, and a chainsaw. you are then given an aquarius and capricorn to violently bisect, and a lovecraftian therapist wife. you also get infected with vampirism so congrats

Libra: your eyes are burned out, you can now smell blood and it smells fruity, you are forced to pass the bar exam, you get some dope plush animals, and then you’re stabbed to death with a cane by your scorpio best friend

Scorpio: you get cool new robot arm, and a magic 8 ball. you murder a bunch of people (namely, an aries, a taurus, and a libra), are then killed by the same libra you murdered come back to life, perved on by a comic writer, revived, exploded, and then revived again

Sagittarius: your muscles involuntarily flex and expand, you suddenly become very sweaty, and you are not allowed to swear anymore. you are assigned a leo bestie, and are strangled by a capricorn clown. a capriclown, if you will

Capricorn: you get converted to a religion where you are the second coming of the lord, and receive the entire discography of the insane clown posse as well as a bunch of weed and soft drinks. you are then forced to murder a leo and a sagittarius before you are ripped in two by a hot vampire virgo with a chainsaw

Aquarius: you become a harry potter kinnie, get friendzoned so frequently that you are bestowed the official government title of incel, and actually become a fucking wizard? the pisces you got cucked by starts dating a gemini and you get straight up PISSED and murder them both, then murder a virgo but UH OH they’re a vampire and they also saw you in twain????? big uh oh sisters!!! :O

Pisces: you can only speak in puns now. you are legally a sovereign ruler, and can control dreams like freddy krueger but nicer and less pedophile-y. you fall for a gemini and friendzone your beta aquarius friend who straight up Does Not Like that, and promptly murders you :(

#homestuck #astrology bathrooms #astrological bathroom #astrology #memes #starboy.exe #original #if this gets notes i'm going to murder all of you in a feral rage

[steve0discusses]

Yugioh Season Zero: Yuugi Gets a Tomagachi Pt 2

So because I spent like...weeks away from Yugioh I recently decided to kinda review what was even going on in this show, and so, as I was quickly going through my own recaps this week while putting this Season Zero episode together, I was reminded about this observation I made so innocently so long ago.

I keep making jokes with this show and then the jokes end up being real. Like it just keeps happening, so I don’t know why I bother trying to dive so far into the hypothetical thinking “Yugioh would never possibly do this” but...I’ll keep trying.

So, lets see just how dangerous a Season Zero Tomagachi can be. (v bad)

So about 3-4 days have passed since Honda left school for maternity leave despite the fact he is a 14 yo biological male and was never pregnant. I’m glad he’s here to break gender norms and I’m glad that the teacher has just accepted this.

Anzu has decided it’s time for an intervention and thinks, “if I can talk sense into Yuugi occasionally, maybe I can talk some sense into this purple haired alien that we’re also friends with?”

Miho, I swear.

(read more under the cut)

Yuugi has decided to show off his digital pet, which looks a whole lot like the Olympics mascot from 1996.

Izzy. That was the name of the Olympics mascot from 1996. I got the stuffed animal of him for my birthday and that’s the only reason I remember this weird ass 90′s fact.

I do not like the weird bangs that are Tomagachi arms, and it says a lot about the volume of Yugi’s bangs that they could have tiny arms attached to all those little bangs and it would...match up.

Now I watched a dubbed version done by English voice actors (hence why I’m getting all these names wrong) and I figured, I may as well take you on the same journey I went through watching this episode, starting with the name of Yuugi’s pet here.

Some of you, who know every single thing about Yugioh, are right now like “oh girl, do you not even see how you’re getting played all over again? Do you not realize what you JUST walked into?” and don’t worry, we’ll get there. But first, I have to go through this entire episode. Don’t worry, I’ll address the elephant in the room shaped like “the Joshua Tree” but with bangs that are hands.

(if you are too young to know about the lore behind U+Me=Us, then please look it up and listen to their entire discography and know that we were so hardcore about U+Me=Us that, for a very little while, they topped TRL over Destiny’s Child and Britney Spears)

And so they decide to do the very awkward fusion thing where you slap the butts of these Tomagachis together, but Jounouchi’s tomagachi is way too tsundere to date.

Anyway, in walks this boyman who I think gets bigger and bigger every scene he is in, like Violet Beauregarde. I mean...the door is...only so big. One of y’all brought up in the comments (I think gingerninja) that his name means “whale” in Japanese. Indeed he is.

He decides to show us his shiny golden pet, and remember this is 1999, so here’s some...1999 technology alright.

Dear lord, never draw these nips again.

Just...never again.

This is just...

How is this the only post I’ve made in months that hasn’t been flagged?

...Anyways, Kujirada’s monster, instead of going on awkward play dates, just kind of devours whoever he goes up against in a battle. It’s sort of confusing though because like...the same process for battle is the same as for this weird social network/dating scene.

Like there was absolutely no battle system until just now, when this thing started eating other people’s little monsters.

RIP Johnny and Somomo, who we knew for like all of 4 seconds. Truly one of the most devastating blows of Yugioh lore to see the death of these little monster assholes that have consumed all the time that these kids should have spent studying/actually attending school.

And then, our hero arrives and he’s a freakin mess because he hasn’t slept in 3 days.

And I was fully expecting for Honda to also lose and gain a valuable lesson in how to better use his time. I was waiting for Yuugi to pull out his little pet and go through a whole transformation sequence right here and now. But, something impossible happened.

I can’t believe the episode is already over and it was Honda that won. You heard it here first, kids, always skip school for video games, the Yugioh way.

I mean...kudos to Honda, I guess. I’m just really surprised he won something. I mean, the last time I saw him play a game he full on died by being tossed into a pit of lava and then he got turned into a robotic monkey for like 12 episodes.

Haiyama, meanwhile, did not take this very well, since he was the one from the bathroom who was being coerced into giving money to Kujirada in order for Kujirada to buy the golden pet, who just lost within a day of buying it.

As Haiyama leaves, we kind of assume that Haiyama is about to get his ass kicked in, because he’s small and cute and wears glasses, and this is Yugioh Season Zero, and those are all the things required to get your ass kicked in.

When just...everything starts to get really, really weird.

Also, this happened,

And FYI whenever I do these Season Zero episodes, I also look into the other translations on Youtube and the one I looked at seems to have also noticed that the Warehouse situation in Yugioh has gotten a little bit out of hand.

Ah, I see what you did there, random Youtube guy. I mean I love the abandoned warehouse, personally, he’s a core actor in this show. But yes, I do see how it’s turning into a little tiny bit of a meme.

Hilariously, Kujirada makes sure to run directly past Yuugi on his way to the abandoned warehouse district while carrying this girl in a sack over his back.

It is the middle of the freakin day.

So you’ve probably guessed the main twist by now, mostly because of the lack of characters, but as Tristan comes to the end of this warehouse, out steps our very large 3 Stooges boy who keels over and is...entirely covered in bloody lashes????

For your consideration--Haiyama has the yellow glasses and this face type, yes? and Kujirada has the hair? You stick the two together and remove entirely the problematic whipping sequence and you have yourself a

Of course I say this and maybe Weevil is also in S0 and Haiyama is just his own type of nut.

With a whip for some reason. OMG why does this child have a bullwhip?

Also how on EARTH did he manage to get Miho all the way up there???

So Haiyama explains, while pulling out a photo album of just tons of people in it, a comically large photo album of people that I guess he just keeps in his butt pocket, that these were all the people who were doing dirty deeds for him in exchange for money. No idea how the hell Haiyama got all that money, but he likes to blow it all on what is essentially slavery because apparently once you get money from Haiyama, you’re stuck with Haiyama for life.

Like really there is so much gang imagery in this show, it’s like a big PSA of “Don’t Join a Gang, Kids! Or Your Classmate Will Whip You With a Bullwhip Until You Pass Out In an Abandoned Warehouse” and it’s like damn Yugioh fine, I wont, damn.

But like the whole murdery photo album was certainly something because uh--there were more people in there than Kujirada so it’s like...did they die? Did all those people die? Did you in fact murder all those people, Haiyama? Did you manage to kill all those people at age 14 like you’re some sort of Bakura? Like, it’s Yugioh, so I really am just assuming they died but like...can’t add it to the death count until they outright say, right?

And then Yuugi’s timing was pretty excellent.

colorist kinda messed up on Yuugi’s teeth here. It happens. Cartoons are hella hard to make so we’ll give it a pass.

The TRAJECTORY.

Haiyama then decides to point out to Honda that Miho is essentially using Honda like he uses Kujirada and that was...kind of cathartic for me, actually. Thank you, villain, for recognizing that this whole Miho obsession thing is uhhhh kind of wrong. I guess we’ll see if the fact that Haiyama pointed this out to Honda will actually stick or if Honda will forget it by next episode.

Although, in Miho’s defense, she may be too stupid to know that she’s actually using Honda. She may just be that stupid. I honestly can’t tell what her deal is at this time.

But then Haiyama decides to try and extend the great offer to Honda of being whipped and manipulated for the rest of his life in exchange for keeping Miho alive, which um. Wow Yugioh, this is a 14 year old kid. Wow, that’s some dark stuff wow, this basically serial murderer has just been hanging out in the back of their class for their what we assume is their whole lives, and NO ONE NOTICED?

Like again, this entire class is just...they gotta be plants. There’s gotta be at least 3 people in this class being made in test tubes underneath Domino by Gendo Ikari, there’s just no way they aren’t.

And what’s crazy about Zero vs the rest of Yugioh is that in Zero they just happened upon a freakin maniac. They didn’t like...search this guy out, or enter a contest that they knew was freakin cursed. No, they just wanted to play with a Tamagachi. That was it. Instead, they found out that their one classmate has been abusing their other classmate to the point of hospitalization for the past several years.

They just wanted to play with a Tomagachi.

After that, Yugi had a fun intro sequence into Yami Yugi where a beam of light expanded across his face from the middle and that was actually a very nice effect 10/10 I can’t actually cap the animation but you can trust me. For a low budget thing that this season appears to be, that was a nice low budget way to do a good effect.

(seriously, if Yuugi lived a normal life would he have ever known he was cursed? Would Pharaoh have ever woken up at all?)

Honda at this point passed out due to the constant whipping, which is very surprising because I’m so used to Tristan, who once threw Double Spike Mullet Man over his shoulders. Honda is kind of a weakling in comparison.

So, Yuugi looks down at this device with a little monster in it and is like “yo I have a great idea, lets make the monsters fight eachother” and so we got like...a Yugioh meets Pokemon aesthetic, and FYI Yuugi’s monster still has the weird hand bangs. It’s...it still looks like that.

And, turns out the kick that Jounouchi’s monster gave to Yuugi’s monster made Yuugi’s monster learn how to hate, enough to gain a new power.

...so, in the end, Yuugi spent a really long time making his monster just a very nice guy, and would have absolutely lost if Jounouchi’s tomagachi hadn’t kicked Yuugi’s tomagachi’s ass. I guess that’s symbolic.

PS never forget that these are Tomagachi’s with a 20-50 pixel screen.

and there you are, Haiyama eaten by his own Tamagachi.

Yuugi was like “and THAT’s why you don’t whip the people who are your pets. You treat your pets with love.” and it was like wtf that guy was devoured by his own Tamagachi.

And then you think about it a second later and it’s like “WTF YUUGI. Yuugi. That’s still not a very good message.” And like I figured...this is probably a translation error that they accidentally made Yugi seem like he was cool with using people so long as you’re nice about it, but it was in the other version I watched as well so I think the real desired meaning just...didn’t quite make it to the final draft. I hope.

Straight up, this episode would have scared me absolutely to death while I was still in the Tomagachi craze and feeling very guilty about not taking care of them. Like can you imagine just killing your Tamagachi over, and over when you’re 10 and then watching this episode? Like Gremlins did irreparable damage to me as a kid, can you imagine what this episode would have done?

This guy was devoured by a Tomagachi and Yuugi just watched.

Don’t worry, Miho says “momma” here so she is still about as blase towards Honda as ever.

They did pan down to show us that Haiyama is still alive after this whole event. Of course he’s...passed out so he’ll probably just end up in the hospital wing in Domino they’ve reserved for Yuugi’s classmates.

...Eaten by a tamagachi.

Now, a little bit of story time, in the process of putting these caps together, I figured well after the fact that I should, youknow, go and check on the spelling of all of these characters (because again, I watch the dub so I have no subs to tell me how things are spelled) and the sub version had omitted quite a bit of the episode, including the parts where Yuugi says his pet’s name.

...so I was like...is Yuugi’s pet named Yuutou or Yuutsu? And surprisingly enough, when I typed into Google “what is the name of Yugi’s tamagachi” ...

DAMN IT, YUGIOH.

HE REALLY DID CANONICALLY NAME HIS PET U2!

Freakin U2. SPELLED LIKE IT LOOKS LIKE.

That makes no freakin sense, whatsoever. Yuugi is the type of person who listens to weird grungy alternative from whatever local show his weird anti-establishment cousin tells him about and would just--I mean he has so many accessories and eyeliner, he does not put in his Mom’s CD of U2 and drift off, no, he puts in a burnt CD of early Radiohead while he spends 2 hours dying his bangs in the sink. There is no universe, let it be Season Zero or Season whatever where Yuugi acknowledges U2.

I can’t believe this is Canon.

I just...Wow. U2.

U2.

Y’all I am shook that Yuugi is a closet U2 fan.

FYI, I have been listening to U2 for the entire time I’ve typed this. I mean, Pride is a good jam.

Anyways, I know none of you that are too young to know 2gether looked this up when I mentioned it earlier, so here you go, one of the best worst songs ever made. In case you were wondering what I was busy doing as a young tween instead of having a Yugioh phase.

#Yugioh #ygo #Yugioh season zero #tomogatchi #yuugi muto #jounouchi #honda #anzu #miho #U2 #this episode was mad effed up wow #I mean damn that was um #that whole thing with the freakin whip just came out of nowhere huh #tw blood #tw whipping #I mean you don't really see the blood but even so it's...it's cuts youknow #2gether #U + Me = Us (calculus) #So sad that this song was lost in time youknow the kids these days they know about backstreet they might listen to N*Sync but 2gether? No.

[theradioghost]

The Mechanisms

Or, an attempted quasi-masterpost/crash course of content for the gay mythical dieselpunk space pirate band we all deserve in our lives.

The Story

A spacefaring vampire mad scientist and aspiring musican known as Dr. Carmilla once created a group of quasi-mechanical immortals to serve as her backing band. The doc has since has an “accident” with an airlock, but her creations, the Mechanisms, are still driven to perform. So, in their living starship Aurora, they travel the universe, looking for fun if possible, violence when necessary, and hopefully both at once; and performing the stories of what they’ve seen over their long lives.

These stories don’t tend to end happily.

OR, the Mechanisms were a musical cabaret act who performed scifi-genre-mashups which combined spoken-word storytelling and music in queer retellings of myths and fairy tales, in character as a band of morally questionable space pirates. And it’s great.

Crew members included:

Jonny D’Ville, captain first mate and storyteller, former murderous gunslinger with a cold mechanical heart

Ashes O’Reilly, quartermaster and firestarter from the mobster planet Mallone with a pair of mechanical lungs

Drumbot Brian, pilot, launched into space by an uncomprehending world, entirely mechanical except his heart (which now comes with “ends justify means” and “means justify ends” settings)

Gunpowder Tim, master-at-arms, who destroyed the Earth’s moon in the war against the Moon Kaiser three hundred years in the future ago and was given new eyes by the crew

Nastya Rasputina, engineer and last surviving princess (after the Revolution) of the Cyberian empire, dating the ship

Ivy Alexandria, archivist and navigator, with a mechanical brain that remembers everything except her own former life,

Baron Marius von Raum, doctor, not a baron, not a doctor

Raphaella la Cognizi, science officer, has wings, plays piano

The Toy Soldier. Exactly what it says on the tin.

The octokittens.

There may have also been a ninja at some point? I’m honestly not sure?

In late 2019, the Mechs announced that the band would be calling it quits, and they played their final two shows in January of 2020, resulting in the bittersweet and ignoble deaths of the once-immortal crew of the starship Aurora.

Music: aka, Where Can I Listen?

There are 4 main Mechanisms albums, 2 Tales To Be Told collections, and one single. You can buy the whole discography for £5+ pay-what-you-want on their Bandcamp here, which I thoroughly recommend. You can also listen to them on Spotify and on their official Youtube channel!

Tales to be Told and Tales to be Told Vol. II include the backstory songs of many of the crewmembers, as well as some of their other standalone adventures and tales, and a couple of songs tied to the other albums.

Once Upon a Time in Outer Space is Grimmsian fairy tales and nursery rhymes reinterpreted as a sci-fi tragedy about the rebellion against cruel tyrant Old King Cole, lead by Cole’s former general Snow White. Snow’s sister, the warrior Rose, was kidnapped by Cole to be cloned into his unstoppable army, and both Snow and Rose’s bride-to-be Cinders are desperate to free her and overthrow Cole. And then the Mechanisms show up... I often use Our Boy Jack as a song to introduce people to the band.

Ulysses Dies at Dawn is a cyberpunk noir retelling of the Odyssey and assorted Greek myth. In a city that covers a world, where the minds of the dead are imprisoned by the ruling Olympians to run the vast Acheron computer network, bitter war veteran Ulysses is the only one who may have found a way to escape. So, a quartet of menacing Suits have been sent to get the secret out of them -- and out of their strange underground vault -- by any means necessary.

High Noon Over Camelot, an Arthurian space western featuring trans Mordred, polyamorous and morally questionable gunslingers Arthur/Lancelot/Guinevere, Drumbot Brian as a decaying metal Merlin, slightly mad preacher-man Galahad, many good intentions, and few good results; all trapped within an abandoned space station in failing orbit around a star, all hoping to find the mysterious GRAIL in time.

The Bifrost Incident is their cosmic-horror locked-room-mystery take on Norse myth. After leaving for its three-day maiden voyage with all the high and mighty of Asgard onboard and then vanishing for 80 years, Old Lady Odin’s Ratatosk Express has finally arrived, and it’s up to Inspector Lyfrassir Edda to pick apart the black box recordings and discover what really happened. (Notably includes space revolutionary wives Loki and Sigyn, as well as a track where Jonny makes an invocation to Yog-Sothoth sound good somehow.)

and Frankenstein, a single telling the story of Victoria Frankenstein and the AI she built, and how it goes wrong.

In addition, the livestream of their final concert, Death to the Mechanisms, is viewable on their YouTube channel. Said concert also features the amazing Reesha Dyer, whose music can be found here. (As of Feb. 6, 2020, the available version of the livestream cuts out much of the second half of the show; apparently there are alternate versions coming soon.)

More Content Please?

The band’s official site contains profiles of crew members, lyrics for many of their songs, original fiction set in the Mechanisms universe, and other assorted goodies.

If you never had the chance to see them live, the TV Tropes page actually explains a lot of their live show content, as well as more about the crew and the stories.

And if that’s not enough, here’s a YT playlist of many live videos of their shows, including full performances! There’s a lot that doesn’t go on the albums (although I recommend listening to the proper recordings first). Well worth watching to see their antics in-character. (There is not, as far as I know, any full video of High Noon Over Camelot; there is a video of The Bifrost Incident, but as of writing this I don’t have a good link to it.)

& of course there’s the band’s official Twitter and Tumblr, the latter of which in particular contains many delicious and exclusive tidbits.

Related Media & Other Projects By The Crew

Having apparently survived her airlock accident, Dr. Carmilla also has her own music (and describes her musical style as “Retrospective Futuristic Visual Kei”).

The Toy Soldier (Jessica Law) has her own Bandcamp and a mailing list here!

Raphaella (R. L. Hughes) has her own Bandcamp.

Drumbot Brian releases music as Ben Below and Phonovoltaic.

Gunpowder Tim and Brian make music with the company Softwire.

Marius has his own Bandcamp.

Raphaella and the Drumbot have released some music about sad robots under the name Overclockwork.

Jonny D’Ville (Jonny Sims) co-runs a TTRPG company, MacGuffin & Co, whose settings and scenarios I can personally highly recommend. He also writes some kind of podcast.

#my posts #radio free ilium #bobbie recommends things

[13eyond13]

Hi! Hope I’m not bothering you, but do you have any B x Misa headcanons (not in a romantic way necessarily, but more as bros)? I have this prominent mental image of Misa being hyped about having a “shinigami eye buddy” and doing cute things with Beyond like going shopping, doing each other’s makeup, murdering people together, the whole shebang. I’d be curious to hear your thoughts! :3

Hi @rmglawliet, you are most certainly never bothering me, thank you so much for wanting to hear my thoughts lmao! Yes, I do love thinking about these two together. It seems like such a shame that they never got the chance to actually meet.

B x MISA BROTP HEADCANONS:

- I love @puropoly​’s headcanon that B is a big fan of Misa’s music and modeling career! That’s such a cute idea. He fanboys hard over her when they first meet and flatters her with his intensely accurate and detailed knowledge of her entire discography and every single magazine spread and straight-to-VHS movie she’s ever featured in. This is how they first click and become BFFLs

- B and Misa both enable each other’s bad behaviours like crazy.

Misa’s like: “hmm so Light said I have to stay in hiding for the next week because it’s a matter of life or death but I miss him soooo much already and IDK WOULDN’T IT BE SO CUTE IF I JUST SPONTANEOUSLY SURPRISED HIM AT HIS SCHOOL INSTEAD??” and B’s like: “YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE, CHASE YOUR DREAMS HONEY, HE’S LUCKY TO HAVE YOU AND THE WORLD’S YOUR OYSTER!”

B’s like: “Soooo I sent L 34 texts and left him 16 voicemails last night but he still hasn’t gotten back to me yet and idk, maybe his phone is dead or I’m just being paranoid but it almost feels like he’s ghosting me, do you think it might come off as clingy if I tried him one more time?” And Misa’s like: “pffft no that just shows him you’re super sweet and romantic, here let’s use my landline and we can group dial him together!!” Yeahhh, poor impulse control to the max. Rem’s the aggravated mom-friend in the background trying and failing to be the only voice of reason, she’s definitely not a big fan

- Misa learns makeup tips from B, and B learns a billion fashion tips from Misa. They also swap and share clothes and give each other acting advice all the time. B helps Misa learn her lines for her new movies and Misa often brings B to hang out with her on the sets. He loves to lounge around in her private trailer and mooch the desserts off the craft service tables and has a lot of fun making up tons of bullshit identities and stories while schmoozing with the cast & crew

- I think they’d relate over their tragic pasts and orphan status for sure. B would probably be good at helping Misa talk out the fairly recent death of her parents, not to mention have a big mental back-catalogue of helpful coping strategies for living life with the Shinigami eyes. He would be like: “you know if you deliberately unfocus your eyes and clench your jaw and sing this annoying jingle in your head repeatedly whenever you’re looking someone in the face for the first time it’s often possible to avoid seeing their name and lifespan altogether!” Or: “sometimes baseball caps and visors can help you obscure the numbers without looking too conspicuous about it if you’re walking around in a crowd during a sunny day, plus always use an umbrella during rainy ones.” Of course they also have a ton of inside jokes about the stupider names they see when out in public, and whisper speculative conspiracy theories together about the surprisingly short lifespans they see, too

- I feel like B would be Misa’s shoulder to cry on about Light’s meanness for sure. I think he would sympathize with her and resent Light for treating Misa poorly, probably tell her she should dump the jerk more than a few times. Doesn’t matter that Misa initially stalked and blackmailed Light in order to date him, to B that’s just a totally reasonable thing to do 

- Misa probably had a way fuller social life and relatively normal home life / school life growing up compared to B’s weird isolated and tragic one, so I bet he’d love to live vicariously through her stories about her wild dating past and some of the more ordinary shit she got up to as a kid with her family and friends. B probably also often half-jokingly presses Misa for details about her bedroom life with Light, and she always gets unusually flustered and defensive about it and refuses to divulge any deets

- B also might actually hate knowing that Misa willingly halved her lifespan for the same eye curse that he was born with and always detested having, though?? Mostly he’d probably be glad to have someone else to relate to about it, but I’m sure subconsciously that would bother him a lot at times. If they ever got into a big dramatic friendship-ruining fight, it would probably be over something like that

- I think they might confusedly think they have feelings for each other sometimes because of how well they relate to and support each other? I love the idea of them awkwardly trying to kiss or something during a slightly drunk sleepover and then both immediately being like: “yuck woah no offense you’re super lovely and a fantastic kisser and everything but this feels wayyy too much like I’m making out with my brother/sister, whoooops ok bad idea let’s never speak of this again”

#beyond birthday #misa amane #bxmisa #misaxlight #lxb #rem #headcanon #ask #rmglawliet #myhc #death note #p #thx!

[love-laika]

homestuck reread: act 5

sso , as a follow up to this post (jesus christ did i really write that over two weeks ago?), i figured i ought to post my thoughts while rereading act 5 of homestuck. obviously spoilers if you still care about that at this point

when most fans talk about homestuck today, they’re really talking about act 5. its when some of the more infamous aspects (trolls, absurd time shenanigans, ridiculously meta storytelling) come in full force. i also happen to believe it’s probably the best part of the whole story (well so far, i still have to reread act 6). before jumping in, pretty much all of my previous complaints remain.

The trolls are great. That’s really all there is to say on the matter! Seeing how their session plays out is really fun, especially since unlike the kids, it is aggressively abridged. It’s so short, I’m actually curious why Hussie chose to have it be an Intermission rather than Act 5 Act 1... or well, actually given the events leading to Cascade, that might not be true. It’s a nice meta way of signifying how the A and B sessions are intimately tied.

Either way, I thought it’d be fun to examine how I feel about each troll! 

Karkat - Everyone’s favorite, really. His ridiculous screaming rants and obsession with feeling important brushes over his intense insecurity. The obsession with hiding his blood (even after Alternia is long gone), insistence on being leader, past/future self-hatred... he’s got a hell of a complex. actually, the story shines a light on how he agonizes over every mistake he’s ever made, to the point where he dissociates his actions from himself by calling past/future him a FUCKING IDIOT or whatever. He’s a good boy

Aradia - On my previous read, I never thought much of Aradia. there wasn’t really anything in particular i disliked about her, she just never stuck. which of course is dumb, and past me is stupid for glossing over her. especially after going god-tier, she’s like... i can’t even really describe it. i guess is just safe to say i like alive aradia a lot because she’s just a little bit crazy

tavros - maybe its my bias towards vriska, but i kind of don’t like tavros. you know, maybe its some sort of reflection of how i feel about myself or something about how his coward schtick is annoying to me. (his raps are fun to read aloud though)

sollux - sollux is a complete asshole (basically to the end if i remember right), but even if he’s written to be unlikeable his position as a snarky jerk fits well within the troll group. though, surprisingly after his introduction he doesn’t do very much because he never interacts with the kids. his bifurcation gimmick though, and how its basically some absurd foreshadowing for act 5 as a whole is just. its so cool.

nepeta - nepeta has always been a favorite troll of mine even though she was basically born to die and plays no real role in the alpha timeline at all. despite this, fans like myself latched onto her because she’s a catgirl duh! the anime is inescapable. nepeta’s just cute bu her death scene makes me really sad... she didn’t deserve it! and being taken out by gamzee is just cruel. i guess this is what fanfiction is for???

kanaya - you know im starting to think my thoughts on all the various trolls were warped by the Vriska Distortion Field. I didn’t give a shit about the rest because vriska is the best!!!!!!!! this time around, i really noticed vriska and kanaya’s relationship sort of blossom all the way through act 5. its kind of touching after she had a pretty rough time in her own game after the Pupa Pan incident. kanaya’s great especially her transitioning from humorless broad to snark extraordinaire. i especially like to read her speech as just the most posh and practiced british accent Because It Makes Her Sound Sophisticated When Shes Saying Really Something Dumb Like Shout Pole

terezi - terezi’s gimmick is just so... so much. the obsession with justice and law (particlarly brutal troll law) makes her just totally silly. she hangs her stuffed animals from her treehouse. the blindness, the licking, H3Y D4V3-ness is a joy to read. it also helps that her harpsichord-led music is some of the best over the entire discography.

vriska - you know how i feel about vriska. you cannot beat her in a troll-off she is simply the 8est there is

equius - i don’t like equius! hes a creep! his gimmick is that hes a sweaty space racist! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! i really don’t understand people that get attahed to him! i wish nepeta got to spend more time separate from him!

gamzee - ah yes the most important character in homestuck. i like gamzee, but 

i dont like his position with fans as the fuckin yaoiest boy to ever live when hes actually a horrorcore clown murderer

how long he remains in the story. way longer than he ever should have stayed. i understand he has to do stuff for lord english and all that, but i kind of wished he died on the meteor. oh well!

eridan - ah yes the other space racist. eridan i can actually stand though because he’s basically every shitty boy you’ve ever met. he’s totally desperate and pathetic and then when he gets rejected he gets violent. for such a silly comic, i think it stumbles into something weirdly real there. eridan’s a douche until the very end. i also give him like chavviest voice i can muster. it is a blight on the queens english and i apologize

feferi - i really noticed that feferi is a little bit deeper than i originally thought! i always just thought of her as “the nice girl” but she can be pretty devious and even cruel occasioanlly. She has an interaction with Vriska in what of the Alterniabound flashes is just so... prickly? on both sides.

ANYWAYS when we get back to the kids, I’ll admit I don’t remember a lot of the details. john goes to explore skaia and spends a lot fot ime with vriska. dave builds up a ridiculous amount of money, rose fucks shit up, and jade eventually gets to start breeding frogs after fianlly entering the game. i can’t exactly explain why, but the pacing here just feels better. maybe its variey of environments and general avoidance of pointless distractions, but its a much easier read than the earlier parts. i mean, i guess id hope so after the comic has gone on for 3 years at this point i think. Act 5, in totality is about the same length as all the previous parts combined, but goes by way faster! it kind of sucks that you know, you have to dig through a lot to get to the good parts. but man those parts are really good.

ad then we get to the buidlup to cascade, the parts in doc scratch’s room. I feel like some of the realest shit is right here. vriska’s triumph/death just kills me every time. i kind of take john’s side here on her past. at the very end, when she really starts to show remorse and to wonder who vriska really is breaks my heart. terezi’s end as well. the culmination of their friendship and rivalry coming down to a single choice. kill her, or let her go and doom everyone. its sad in a way very little else is in the story (except maybe dave and rose’s suicide mission). even knowing what happens much later, it just... its so rough yall.

i remember crying reading most of these parts. i have very specific memories of it happening. i wish it was easier to show new people some of these parts because they are just ugh... so choice. im a sucker for it. also there’s the sotry of the troll ancestors, her imperious condescension, lord english, etc etc etc.

i dont have much to say about cascade, a lot has already been said by everyone else. it is almost certainly the climax, even if the story has a ways to go, and its a triumph! It almost feels like it should be the end of the story in some ways because of how it is the culmination of everything that has happened since the very beginning.

thats all i can really say about that without getting bogged down in minutiae. Act 5 is fantastic, period. Now that Lord English is here (or rather, he already was), a new arc begins in Act 6. It’s approximately around here where I caught with the story as it was coming out! I’m really really curious about how I feel about when reading it in one go because it’s also around this time that updates got slower and slower, due to increased production time, then the exceptionally troubled development of Hiveswap.

#homestuck #ll redoes hs

[andrewrosswatson1987]

REVISIT: DR. DRE WAS SMOKING THE CHRONIC THIS DAY IN 1992

Dr. Dre released his classic solo debut, The Chronic, which came out today (December 15) in 1992, released via labels, Death Row/Interscope/Priority. For Dre it was something widely considered amongst his personal best, one of the greatest albums in his own discography, the entire genre and even generally speaking.  Only his prior work with N.W.A, like Straight Outta Compton, and future smash, 2001, compare for many. He, being who he is, handled most of the production.  Snoop Doggy Dogg, however, was prevalent throughout in the rapping stakes. This helped as Dre, as competent a rapper he is, considers himself first and foremost as a producer. He left the aforementioned N.W.A at the peak of their fame in 1991, after conversations with their lyricist, The D.O.C, and Dre’s bodyguard at the time, Suge Knight. This was regarding a financial issue with bandmate, Eazy-E, and manager, Jerry Heller.  Knight became instrumental in releasing Dre from his contract with Ruthless Records, birthing Death Row Records in the process. Singles for this album were “Nuthin’ But A G Thang”, “F*ck Wit Dre Day (And Everybody’s Celebratin’)” and “Let Me Ride”. The album sparks with “The Chronic (Intro)”, and is full of the closing of cell doors and deep, menacing g-funk.  “With notorious Compton G/D-R-E…so, if it’s must you test us/We can handle it the streets, n*gga, f*ck makin’ records” Snoop bigging up his ultimate champion.  Pops at Eazy-E and said manager, Jerry Heller, too. “F*ck Wit Dre Day (And Everybody’s Celebratin’)” is them furthering this feud; taking pops at others, too.  Farting bass is funky with somewhat pleasant smell, hazy synth lines floating ethereal above that grounded bass.  Snoop proclaims, “You tryin’ to check my homey, you better check yo’ self/’cos when you diss Dre you diss yourself, mother*cker”. Then some soulful histrionics with the female vocal.  “Let Me Ride” is funky, but lighter in tone of bass.  Grooving like sun kissed California, lowriders and all that. Synth baking in the heat.  The drums lock you in, percussive and enrapturing. The chorus, “Swing down, sweet chariot, stop and, let me ride,” more so. “Is it Dre? Is it Dre?/That’s what they say, every single mother*cking day,” Dre commenting on his fame. “The Day The N*ggaz Took Over” has that bleak, Cypress Hill bass feel they’d go on to make their own (1993 sophomore album, Black Sunday, onwards), with Dat N*gga Daz doing his Jamaican patois. “Sittin’ in my livin’ room calm and collected/Feelin’ that gotta get mine perspective” has Dre conspiring to be top dog.  RBX comes with hardcore rhymes before the chopped samples act like a brief, skyward intermission above LA riots.  The very laidback, classic strains of “Nuthin’ But A G Thang” brings the intermission in proper.  That ascending bassline like you know the gunshots will cease for at least a little while:  “Just chill ‘til the next episode”. “Never let me slip, ‘cos if I slip, then I’m slippin’/But if I got my Nina, then you know I’m straight trippin’” has Dre off the leash.  “Deez Nuuuts” starts with a throwaway skit before leaping headlong into some, at least partially, smutty raps.  The grave piano lands like stabbing intrigue.  The funk's deep, no carefree days coasting in the lowrider; even the synth waving sounds dangerously close to the ground. “Lil’ Ghetto Boy” is mournful, excellently utilising a Donny Hathaway sample (“Little Ghetto Boy”).  What sounds woodwind, aspiring for a better tomorrow, combines emphatic bass, grounded in realism.  Snoop Doggy Dogg possibly gives his most heartfelt performance in, “Murder was the case that they gave me/Dear God, I wonder can you save me”.  The hook, largely intact, goes, “Little ghetto boy, playin’ in the ghetto street/What you gonna do when you grow up and have to face responsibility”. Two questions posed, already, and there appears to be no clear cut answers to either of them.  “So, ain’t no need for your mama to trip/’cos you’s a hustlin’ ass youngster, clockin’ your grip” has Snoop reaching out to those stickup kids with words of encouragement and an arm around the shoulder.    “A N*gga Witta Gun” starts bleakly:  “You know Lucifer?  You about to meet him, mother*cker”.  This resurrects that cyclical bassline feel you’d later come to associate with, mostly, Cypress Hill.  Suitably the content revolves guns, blood and murder:  “I breaks ‘em off, but I ain’t speakin’ about between the thighs/I’m talkin’ about cockin’ a gauge in between your eyes”. The gun talk of “Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat” is actually peaceful, seeming woodwind making a comeback.  “You really don’t understand, do you?  Hey, man. Don’t you realise that, in order for us to make this thing work, we gotta get rid of the pimps, and the pushers, and the prostitutes then start all over, again, clean” gives way to a rude interruption.  Sparse arrangement with drum cymbals ringing out, jazzy with equally sparse guitar and bass. No danger of not hearing the gunshot. “The $20 Sack Pyramid” is a gameshow skit taking pops at “F*ck Compton” rapper, The Bronx’s late Tim Dog.  The D.O.C. makes a very hoarse appearance, post crushing his vocal cords in a car crash.  The wordsmith pantheon of “Lyrical Gangbang” is resounding drum, really permeating without perforating the eardrum.  Synth lines fly high; quite crudely, in fact.  The likes of like The Lady Of Rage and Kurupt really rip it up on this one. “High Powered” is a weed one. Trippy basslines and synth melody making for a hazy, discombobulating experience.  The aforementioned RBX blasts off with the classic line, “Haven’t you ever heard of a killer/I drop bombs like Hiroshima”. The smutty feel of “The Doctor’s Office” is as it says.  He’s basically bonking someone behind that door, figuratively putting a woman’s nose out of joint because her prior appointment is thrown out the window in favour of the woman quickest to get her pants down. “Stranded On Death Row” opens with triumphant organ, blaring and ready to kick off.  Booming bass heralds the beat, a busy and hectic drum pattern.  The kind to inspire wild rhymes.  You can picture Kurupt, RBX, The Lady Of Rage and Snoop conspiring in Dre’s booth to display their hardest rhymes before committing them to posterity and tape. “The Roach (The Chronic Outro)” is a reworking of P-Funk, aforementioned g-funk as it would be known.  A marijuana smoke break, in essence. Closer proper, “B*tches Ain’t Sh*t”, is conspiratorial of beat and smutty in its lyrical bent.  The former intriguing and the latter largely rather throwaway, to be totally honest.  All the tracks on The Chronic worthy highlights are “F*ck Wit Dre Day (And Everybody’s Celebratin’)”, “Let Me Ride”, “Nuthin’ But A G Thang”, “Lil’ Ghetto Boy”, “Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat”, “Lyrical Gangbang”, “High Powered” and “Stranded On Death Row”.  Eight tracks is an excellent return for a sixteen track album.  There are other, still very good tracks that maybe are too hardcore to understand if from the suburban perspective. Dr. Dre had already gained critical acclaim with N.W.A.  His albums, in whatever capacity, contributed to the energising of the West Coast hip-hop scene, with The Chronic the icing on the cake.  Eight brilliant tracks out of a sixteen total isn’t a bad return, especially as the album is littered with skits that either add to the tracks, or being instances of throwaway humour.  Dr. Dre’s The Chronic can be bought on iTunes, here.

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I first heard about the folk implosion yeaaars ago, way back in 2014 or so - I must have been 16 cos that was when I had my extremely long, extremely cringe-inducing, dinosaur jr. phase. I wanted to play guitar solos just like j mascis and I practiced with little more than that in mind for over a year and I listened to j mascis + the fog and his solo stuff and read his wikipedia article at least 7 times which I guess isn’t that impressive but I also read threads abt him on guitar fora and watched the whole hour-long premier guitar video where j shows his pedalboard and even a few months ago from today (almost turning 21) I watched the reverb.com potent pairings video for j mascis’ sound and I had multiple things to say. so I practiced how to be j mascis from dinosaur jr. for over a year and I literally sounded like a bastardised clone of j mascis for a long time as a result. so I knew dinosaur jr. repertoire by heart I knew abt side projects I evidently knew abt lou barlow #greatestinjusticeofthe1980s and I knew abt the folk implosion but what’s funny is I kind of downloaded their discography and then picked a song at random and it was burning paper which is just such a fantastic track in its own rite. and I kind of didn’t explore them beyond that for years. I tested the waters with the wrong songs, I picked like. fall into november or some stupid shit like that that I wasn’t nearly ready for at 16. then like years later I’m in my 19th year I’m reading salinger a lot I wanna stop listening to bullshit music and pretending that I’m actually following a course in uni. and I’m like k wot’s abt this folk implosion business. and I listen to dare to be surprised back to back and I was so blown away. it was the first music in a very long time that sounded adventurous, dark, uncompromisingly imaginative and actually genuine. mind I had scarcely gotten over my dinosaur jr. obsession at this point and only vaguely shifted the focus toward equally inconsequential music like death cab for cutie and arctic monkeys and minus the bear, christ almighty. so I’m digging the fuck out of this folk implosion project and I see take a look inside mentioned a lot and so I listen to it like. in the bathroom of the basement where I was sleeping back then. that’s an experience. listen to a 23 minute long avant garde middle finger in the shitter of somebody’s basement. so obviously I was super hooked. I think there was cold weather soon after that which helped. at some point I know I listened to one part lullaby enough times for it to make an impression but it simply didn’t. I still haven’t touched the new folk implosion. too scared. I definitely think early folk implosion is the weirdest and most genuine incarnation, I very much like what they did on dare to be surprised but let’s admit to ourselves that one part lullaby didn’t meet its own goals and just doesn’t say folk implosion with the same degree of self-given authority that take a look inside had, or the folk implosion EP or even the kids soundtrack, which also introduced me to good morning captain by slint combining my two greatest passions in music: aggressive, avant-garde post-rock blowouts & murder ballads centred around sinking ships. I keep trying to get girls to listen to dare to be surprised or river devotion and fucking. fall. in love. with me. already. but they don’t seem to be receptive to the messege. at least not entirely. maybe you have to have vague memories of reading original old peanuts comics in your grandmother’s house when you were 12 and you have to be a high school drop-out to listen to the folk implosion and be like “this is extremely good” but it works.