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spockvarietyhour · 1 year

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Don't fuck with the drummer.

#Star Wars #Star Wars Andor #bell tower drummer #drummer #Time Grappler #Time Grappler is how he's credited #Neil Bell #(neil bell in the bell tower ringing his drum)#Andor #spoilers #Bell Tower #Rix Road #starwarsedit #andoredit #GIF #my gifs #Danny watches Andor #storm trooper #stormtrooper

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chaptertwo-thepacnw · 7 months

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trick or treat, disney |1952|

#gif #trick or treat #halloween #animation #bats #belfry #bell tower #disney #1952 #donald duck

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puppetstringed · 26 days

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#night #dark #bell tower #cemetery #photography #my photo

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useless-catalanfacts · 10 months

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A slim church in Montesclado, High Pyrenees, Catalonia. Photo by SBA73 on Flickr.

Both the church square and the church’s own façade, in Sant Esteve de Montesclado, are very slim. Even so, they managed to make it fit in the steep streets of this village in Pallars.

#montesclado #farrera #catalunya #fotografia #pyrenees #travel photography #old town #village #europe #wanderlust #beautiful views #travel #traveling #western europe #bell tower #tower

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jake-04 · 4 months

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I did some research on Bauhuas for a history of rock course. The information might not be 100% accurate but I’m kinda proud of how it came out. The performance I mentioned is the 2005 Coachella Performance.

In the 70s there was a specific subset of people, known as “bat cavers”. These people would dress up in messy hair known as the “bats nest” and wear black clothes with black on white makeup. These people were also seemingly obsessed with morbid and spooky topics. Today people like this are known as “goths” and the popularity of this subculture can be attributed to the release of 1979’s “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” by post punk band, Bauhaus.

At the time of release post punk wasn’t related to goth people so much as it is today, so one can imagine the public’s shock after hearing this eerie 10 minute track about a dead actor. What made this song so special was the eerie tone of the guitar, strong drum backbeat, distortion, and the morbid theme of the lyrics. This song can be loosely placed into multiple genres, the most striking of these being the reggae genre. When compared to genres surrounding reggae, like 2-tone ska, it becomes more apparent.

This cemented what the post-punk genre would become over the next 40 years. Post release, the song was described as “gothic”, thus sparking the new genre and subset of music culture.

“Bela Lugosi’s Dead”, on the surface, is a ten minute song about a dead actor, specifically, the actor that played Count Dracula in the 1931 film “Dracula”. However, there are multiple ways to look at the lyrics. The most prominent being the description of Bela Lugosi’s burial. Apart from the repeated “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”, there are three lines that outline this exactly. The first line is “the victims have been bled.” This can be seen as the preparation for the burial where the embalmer rids the body of fluids and unnecessary items. “Red velvet lines the black box” is a reference to how Bela’s coffin was lined with red velvet. “The virginal brides file past his tomb” is his visitors walking by his tomb.

However, if you know about goth culture and its origins, there is another meaning to these lyrics. “White on white translucent black capes, back on the rack” can be seen as the commercialization of this sub-culture of people, the same can be said for the line “the victims have been bled” where the victims are the bat cavers who’ve been bled of their culture. “The bats have left the bell tower” is referring to the closing of the old goth club “The Bell Tower” in London and also about the term “bat cavers” “leaving”, or being replaced by the term “goth”.

The performance that I have linked took place at Coachella in 2005. Bauhaus was on stage, shrouded in darkness, and started with the simple drum backbeat. The entire band is dressed in gothic black clothes and the stage is barely lit once the lights come on, adding to the eerienes of the band and its music. The lights come on at the first beat of the drum to reveal Peter Murphy, the vocalist, hanging upside down as if he was a bat. Right off the bat this performance is very gothically inspired. Everyone in the crowd is excited and screaming. At one point the bassist crosses his arms over his chest as if he was Dracula rising out of his coffin. Bauhaus is an excellent example of a post punk band that really took on the gothic themes of the genre.

Thanks for reading! 🖤

#goth aesthetic #bauhuas #bela lugosi #dracula #post punk #reggae #peter murphy #bat cat #bell tower #bela lugosi’s dead #goth #vampire aesthetic #goth music #gothgoth #trad goth #80s goth

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smoosey · 4 months

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Last Lines Challenge

Thank you so much for the tag, @bluemaskedkarma ❤️

I should be finishing up my Bingo fills, but my last few days of work were kind of rough, so instead 😇 I am working on my longfic, giving Rebel / Purge Trooper Cody the sweetest, kindest flashback I can manage:

A memory comes to Cody then – a morning, peaceful and bright, the man he loves warm in his arms. The stillness of daybreak, and how he laid with the soothing tide of their breathing in a quiet room. The scent of Obi-Wan's skin, the softness of the fine hairs at the nape of his neck. The slant of early morning sunlight brightening his lover's eyelashes. Under Cody's attention, Obi-Wan had woken with a fond curve to his lips, and turned. "It's early, still," he'd rasped, half-awake, "and we've nowhere to be. Sleep, darling. I'll be here when you wake." And Cody remembers wishing that he could live forever in that golden moment. He remembers pressing a kiss to Obi-Wan's lips, slow and easy, and the contented hum he'd gotten in return, the hand against his jaw while they kissed again and again languidly in the sunlight. He'd been gentled to sleep with Obi-Wan's breath in his mouth, safe and held and cherished.

Tags for @tenderjock (pacix au? 👀) @picktheonesthatlast @ooboowoonkoonooboo @ferretrade @meebles @itsgoldleaf and absolutely anyone else who would like to participate!!

I know it's a rough time of year for a lot of us, so please know there's absolutely pressure! But anything you'd love to share, I'd love to read ❤️

#I really appreciated the tag thank you so much!!#last line challenge #smoosey writing #codywan #bell tower

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mim70 · 9 months

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Kazan, Tatarstan

#travel #travelphotography #Leica #kazancity #kazan #tatarstan #church #bell tower #landscape #street

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g63heavenonearth · 2 months

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Allegheny Cemetery 2812-28

#cemetery #graveyard #winter #trees #alleghenycemetery #heavenonearth #pittsburgh #bell tower

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pitchblackespresso · 5 months

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Bellchime trail from Pokemon HG/SS, 2020

#pokemon #johto #bellchime trail #meganium #bell tower #gen4 #heartgold #soulsilver #my art #old art

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sherrylephotography · 11 months

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@sherrylephotography 5/6/23 Segovia Spain

Cathedral de Segovia and the Bell tower.

Our tour guide gave a very impressive tour. It makes a difference when your tour guide is enthusiastic and enjoys giving the tour. 160 steps up to the top of the tower. It is broken up into different levels so you don't climb all of them at once. Bell ringer was a full time job and passed down to others in their family. Because at that time he let the towns people know what time of day it was, and if there was an emergency and so forth. The Bell ringer also could communicate with other towns by ringing the bell. This tower dates back to 1614.

#original photographer on tumblr #Cathedral fe Segovia #Spain #sherrylephotography #my photography #bell Tower #gimp #vacation spain

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scotianostra · 7 months

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St. Giles, High Street, Edinburgh. 1904.

A rare picture of the clock on St Giles "Cathedral2 on The Royal Mile.

The first clock on the spire was installed 1552 but had fallen into disrepair. In 1585 it was replaced by one which came from the Abbey Church of Lindores in Fife at the cost £55. It had two faces with ‘twa hands’. It was built to strike the hours, relieving the bellman of that duty. The clock was set from the time shown on a sundial erected on the south wall of the Church

In 1721 the clock mechanism was replaced by one from a London firm of clockmakers, much to the annoyance of the Edinburgh clockmakers. This clock was repaired and the minute hand inserted in 1797 by the Edinburgh Clockmaker Thomas Reid.

In 1912, the firm of James Ritchie and son, installed a non-dial chiming clock which functions to this day. This clock has no faces for it was felt that the faces destroyed the appearance of the steeple. The hours and quarters are struck on the three bells still in the steeple – the great bell, originally cast in 1460 strikes the hours, and two small bells dating from 1706 and 1728 strike the quarters. The old clock was given to the Museum of Edinburgh, where its mechanism can still be seen.

#scotland #scottish #history #edinburgh #StGiles #The High Kirk of Edinburgh #Bell Tower #Clock Tower #Crown Spire

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postcardsfromwanderings · 8 months

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