#The Freaky Night Watchman

[6i]

Mos Def, 1999.

#Mos Def #Yasiin Bey #Black Star #Dante Terrell Smith #Mighty Mos Def #Hip Hop #Rap #The Freaky Night Watchman #Boogie Man #Black Dante #Dante Beze #Pretty Flaco #Flaco Bey

[keeps-ache]

hotel california playing on repeat in my head, :)

#just me hi #stuck in a strange hotel in the middle of what feels to be an endless desert during your drive #get a bit dozy and go to spend the night #and you get trapped til the end of time #or do you?? it's open-ended. i like it #i like how it's vague about who is there except for the lady (who i think is the 'pretty face'?) and the night watchman #cool beans :) #yt recced a viddy with the song but the verses were put through an AI generator for art #i love the imagery it's great #a little creepy but not over the top freaky. real nice #imagine going to stay at like a motel 6 and when you try to leave the old security guard who never moved from that weathered leather chair- #-next to the front desk tells you you can't. because you just Can't #'sorry buddy. can't help you there. you think i'd still be here if Any of us could leave? ha! anyway. i CAN get you a refund if you want' #like geez man. thanks. what am i gunna spend it on #the gas station?? #i like the little bitty bit about how they haven't had a particular wine since 1969 #like nobody's been able to request it because nothing can leave the hotel #tha's pretty neato #actually- was the lady the same person with 'lots of pretty boys' or was that a different person? #cuz he mentions 'she' a couple times and i dunno if he means the lantern-lady #why am i rambling about this song lol #the story's cool. i like it #very nice. scratches a little itchy i have. 10/10 do recommend it's a Great earworm :)

[borom1r]

okay so character asks: king einon, johnny, & corinthian (though I have barely any idea who these three are except for what I hear from you/another mutual in regards to corinthian), and just for funsies, mallick and/or rigg <33

BARKING omg. hi ok.

Einon—

First impression: The Worst (affectionate)

Impression now: The Worst, But God He Had Potential (extremely affectionate)

Favorite moment: UM. HM. probably when he’s dueling Bowen near the waterfall, bc I love how it parallels their opening duel when Einon was just a boy

Idea for a story: honestly I would just b interested to see how his life would’ve developed had Bowen grabbed him and taken him with on his dragon-hunting quest. He was fourteen years old and stupid and raised by a cruel violent man. No fourteen year old kid is an irredeemable monster.

Unpopular opinion: BFHSHFHD I think just that he HAS depth and nuance etc is fairly unpopular but also there’s like. 3 people and a shoe active in the dragonheart fandom so what do I know. everyone else seems to outright hate him tho (which like, fair)

Favorite relationship: Einon&Bowen obviously. I’m a sucker for tragic mentorships + doing everything you can to save someone only to realize you’ve done too little much too late

Favorite headcanon: hmmmmm part headcanon I guess and part just literal textual evidence within the script but he does. genuinely. regret what he’s become. it’s not a regret he allows himself to dwell on but he knows he’s not what Bowen wanted him to be and he did genuinely look up to Bowen and desire his approval.

Johnny—

First impression: you are extremely hot and extremely terrible

Impression now: he would actively make me worse but unfortunately I want to fuck him and listen to him talk abt religion and barcodes and society’s decline. I think he is tragic and interesting and fucking rancid.

Favorite moment: the entire bit with the night watchman or the ending confrontation with Sebastian

Idea for a story: I don’t really have one fbshfhhsjf I just want to listen to him talk for hours.

Unpopular opinion: I think he’s a better, stronger character for being a fucking awful person. He wouldn’t be nearly as complex if we didn’t have to grapple with the fact that he is morally bankrupt from the beginning, making that the groundwork for his intelligence and finding out about the abuse he suffered etc etc VS the other way around

Favorite relationship: ok I think we get the most interesting interactions from him and Brian, but I think my favorite is definitely Johnny/Louise. their dynamic is so interesting and the old love, the tenderness between them

Favorite headcanon: ogh idk if I have any real headcanons for him? tho I do reeeeeeeally reaaaally wish I could see the improvs all the actors did. I need to pick David’s brain about this character bc David read everything Johnny referenced and built all his theories himself like that’s all. David.

The Corinthian—

First impression: neutral, surprisingly

Impression now: That Nightmare Sure Can Transgender

Favorite moment: from the show, when he’s getting ice cream w/ Jed

Idea for a story: idk that I have one bc I’m not suuuuuuper attached to him? he’s funky but not Necessarily my favorite

Unpopular opinion: again idk that I have one??? I like him. he’s just doing what’s in his nature to do and that doesn’t make him unkind or arguably even a monster.

Favorite relationship: hmmmm him n Jed! I just like the juxtaposition of his kindness to this kid even if it’s ultimately a means to an end— it’s self-serving but he also didn’t HAVE to do what he did. idk he’s just a guy. a freaky little guy wanting to experience things

Favorite headcanon: idk that I’ve seen a lot of headcanons?? or have a lot for that matter. bfhshfhs

Mallick—

First impression: this guy. is kinda lame

Impression now: I love the Mallick that exists in my head. canon Mallick is still. kinda lame. he’s my specialist little boy tho

Favorite moment: literally all of them fbshhfjdj he’s not onscreen enough or shown with enough depth for me to pick a favorite. unfortunately his scenes are. the same all the time

Idea for a story: hmmmmm you’ve heard most of my meta for him I just love anything w him n Brit or anything w him in th fuck-off big SAW polycule

Unpopular opinion: dunno that I have one. everyone I’ve seen who likes Mallick seems to agree he is just the most specialist little guy that we all love to see

Favorite relationship: him/Brit obvs

Favorite headcanon: HM. if Brit survived, I love th idea that he starts to grow into himself n that means being Loud and Bright

Rigg—

First impression: I like him :)

Impression now: i like him! :)

Favorite moment: it’s a little scene but I love when he’s talking to Eric while they’re getting ready in 2 and Eric smiles. idk I like their friendship I wish we’d seen more on-screen

Idea for a story: HMMM idk abt STORY but I love yr Rigg/Tracy/Alison polycule which obvs got adopted into the Ridiculous Big Polycule. blessed concept

Unpopular opinion: idk that I have one??? I feel like Rigg is fairly neutral

Favorite relationship: him/Eric or him/Gibson. obvs without splitting him up from Tracy. very much a “this is my husband Daniel, and this is my husband’s boyfriend [insert name]” situation

Favorite headcanon: that he and Hoffman came together to look out for Daniel (Matthews) after 2.

#ask #TY BESTIEEEEEEE

[ncfan-1]

ncfan listens to The Magnus Archives: S1 EP002, ‘Do Not Open’

In which ncfan is reminded of a lot of things, though she can only put a name to a few of them.

No spoilers, please!

- Today’s story, again, reminds me of others I’ve heard. John is, to me, a little reminiscent of the watchman from ‘The Yellow Sign’ (a story in The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers), whom everyone around somehow failed to realize was a walking, decaying corpse for months on end. I’m also reminded a little of a couple of stories from the Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark series.

One is “Room for One More”, in which a man visiting Philadelphia sees a hearse full of people one night, with the driver beckoning him closer with “There is room for one more,” and the next day sees the driver again in the elevator, beckoning him with the same line, and just after the man refuses and gets into another elevator, the elevator the hearse driver was in malfunctions and falls all the way to the bottom of the shaft, killing everyone on board. The other is “Like Cat’s Eyes,” when a bunch of men with eyes that glow yellow like a cats jump out of a hearse, come to claim a dying man. There’s something else nagging at my memory, but I can’t quite place it right now.

(There was a hearse in ‘The Yellow Sign,’ too. Hearses seem to be a theme, today.)

- And we’ve jumped from a statement given in 2012 to a statement given in 1998. Really, trying to organize them chronologically first would have been a better way to go, man.

- The bit about John being completely nondescript and blank reminds me of something, but I can’t place what. And yes, I recognize the irony of that.

- “Inside a foreign land.” Interesting choice of preposition, there.

- The fact that John instantly knew when Joshua had spent some of the money he’d given him and could track him down with no trouble definitely hints at either something supernatural or something extraordinarily privacy-invading. Given everything else, I’m assuming the former.

- The coffin is pale yellow and warm to the touch. I was half-expecting it to have a pulse. The scratching wasn’t a surprise when it happened, though the moaning and singing was.

- I wonder if we were meant to draw any parallels to Pandora’s box.

- It finally hit me what the thing with the coffin reminds me of: Courage’s experiences carrying the Evil Package in the ‘Courage in the Big Stinkin’ City’ episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog. Though to be fair, the coffin is a bit more effectively frightening than the Evil Package. (Courage the Cowardly Dog was always more funny to me than it was scary, even if I was pretty young when I first saw it.)

- If Joshua had opened the coffin, would he have seen his own corpse? If he’d gotten the padlock unlocked and the coffin opened while he was sleepwalking, would he have crawled inside and promptly died? The world may never know!

- The detail about the box moaning in rain is really reminiscent of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

- The way Joshua just… accepts everything that’s happening is the real horror of this story, because it’s so obviously not natural.

- If someone told me John and the deliverymen were the Devil and his minions, I’d believe it, because I’ve read a lot of folktales where the Devil plays a role like this.

- I kinda figured there was something up about the flats surrounding Joshua’s when he doesn’t talk about anyone responding to the screaming when they opened the coffin, but learning that apparently John’s “forget me” field extended to the entire complex where Joshua lived is a bit freaky.

- I’m inclined to believe the story’s real, just because of what kind of series this is, but Jonathan’s assessment—starts with drug use and there being no witnesses means it’s unreliable at best—is fair.

#ncfan listens to The Magnus Archives