so i've been listening to elysian fields way too much lately and thinking how fucked up that song is for the mechs to perform. like put death to the mechanisms out of your head (bc that basically didn't happen yet with udad) and listen.
they're immortal. they can't die. the song is all about the sweet release of death, and arguably a gentle one at that, cradled in the fields on a world were nature ceases, next to the grave of your deceased beloved. it's a beautiful song, and arguably, ulysses got their happy ending.
the mechanisms don't get that, though. most didn't even get the option of keeping mortality. they're stuck on the mortal plane, in flesh and metal, with no escape or release within reach.
their finale performance of this album is the bittersweet comfort of mortality and endings, something they're well aware they will never be granted.
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Foolish taking the time to consider the power in his hands, thinking over what the consequences will be and who he’s going to accuse. Remembering what Cellbit had said to him in Purgatory - we are not fish - and believing he understood what that implies. Talking briefly with Bad, who’s willing to take the fall. Leaving it up to chaos, returning to the room in Cellbit’s castle and flipping a coin. Saying it wouldn’t have mattered if he had used a coin or marbles or any other method, “destiny arrives all the same.” The coin landing face up, cementing Cellbit’s fate.
The Ordem Paranormal: Calamidade music in the background as he looks at the coin and deliberates: Escolha Errada - Wrong Choice.
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finally found the murderer music and it was the one acoustic song on a local punk band's album i first heard yesterday. somehow. anyway i guess it's albert time again
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torchwood is a little bit funny in the way it tries to be SO morbid and grim about death but all it really does to achieve that is to reiterate ‘there’s nothing there’ ‘it’s just darkness’ ok and?? that’s just the bog-standard atheist view of death? if there’s nothing then you’re not conscious and you’re not aware so what’s the fucking problem. an eternal afterlife is literally worse. there’s an scp about that. it’s the plot of the good place for fuck’s sake.
it’s also funny because the main show that it’s spun off from directly contradicts this later on with the existence of testimony in twice upon a time. yeah the actual ‘afterlife’ may not exist but if everybody who ever died is uploaded to a posthuman ai-heaven with the same memories and personality they had while alive, what’s the fucking difference? there are also like 3 separate digital afterlives apart from that one, say, the library archive where river ends up, missy’s nethersphere… lmao. oh no what are we ever going to do it’s so dark and cold and alone. shut up
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Kinda late but I had a ton of fun even if artblock ran up from behind me and gut stabbed me when I wasn’t looking while working on this. But it’s here alive and well! Dtiys ran by dearest moot @ladylunora wonderful art, I thank them for supplying more vampires I needed in my life.
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"John Price's song is this" "John Price's song is that" No. It isn't. You're wrong. His song is 'Man of War' by Radiohead.
End of discussion.
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