If you're right about eamk then, for Wukong, seeing the ink curse use MK's voice and form to beat them all down physicaly and verbaly must have been 😬
You get it.
Look at his face here:
And while not the same, SWK's "oh shit oh no" expression from 4x07 in response to the curse reminds me of this expression from 1x09:
Like. "Hey! Nice of you to join us bud—you know none of this would have happened without you, right?" (+ "We're just like Wukong. A fraud! A trickster! Destructive!") from the curse VS "I just wanted to be good enough, like you." from MK (MK being just like Wukong in all the wrong ways).
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look inside of me and see that I am not afraid
to walk inside the void like a kid inside a cave.
discovering the patterns of my soul and where it's placed.
i’ve been mapping many caverns but it still feels like a maze.
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reading about the “porn rock” trial for my summer class and maybe it’s hindsight or maybe it’s the fact that i find so many similarities of this with fandom purity culture but like…..the parents who formed PMRC do know they could just…..not play the “explicit” songs for their kids, right?
“i did not want my child to be exposed to that kind of music!” okay….so don’t buy that music????
“we need to think of the kids!” you do realize that these songs are very much not targeted at kids right????
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realising how much of my expansion beyond rock and metal into a wide range of genres is because:
Slipknot crossed over with the edgy/gothier end of 2000s hiphop
Disturbed are just like. The BIGGEST nerds for 80s British pop (they're not alone in that, it's a whole numetal Thing, but I think like a solid 10% of the 80s pop I listen to I first heard as a Disturbed cover)
Lady Gaga was the top 40 artist it was Okay For Edgy Alternative Teens To Like In 2007
Being an Alternative 2000s Teen was in many ways very musically stifling cause it was incumbent upon me to perform disdain for anything deemed too Pop.
I was somewhat rescued by my own gayness (when me and my gay goblin friends discovered CAMP!!!! and got semi-ironically big into Katy Perry and Rihanna and of course Gaga) but mostly I was so aggressively self-policing my music tastes and deciding what to listen to based more on my assessment of where it fitted socially than on whether I like. Liked it.
Catch 13 year old me studiously typing "punk" and "metal" into Limewire and listening to whatever came up. Catch 15 year old me assessing whether the fact that Rihanna is making music videos about murder in black lipstick means it's ok to like top 40 pop. Complicated by the fact that honestly half the biggest Alternative Teen bait acts of the 2000s were pop as hell, and that as above, numetal acts were nerdy musicians with a broad range of tastes outside metal, and it was very complicated for me. It probably took me until I was like 20 to really start to get a handle on what I personally liked musically, rather than what fit my persona (vividly remember being in a goth club when I was like 18 where they closed out the night with Leonard Cohen's Closing Time every time, and thinking like oh man am I allowed to like Leonard Cohen then? having been listening to Leonard Cohen since I was a literal infant.)
Once I let go of the sense of having to like the Right Music, I very rapidly developed very eclectic tastes and music became a really big part of my life. although my friend did recently still describe my music taste as "two genres - heavy and gay" so that 2000s alt teen is still in there big time.
I think it's a normal thing about being a kid. You're developing music taste basically from scratch and there's a world of music out there so it helps to start out with a narrow focus and build a solid few acts, albums or genres you really like and work out from there. But I do regret how much good music I missed out on first time around because even though I liked it I wrote it off for being rap or being too pop or too upbeat. But the good thing about music is that it doesn't go away! I'm still discovering a lot of music that I heard 50000 times when it was on the radio but never really listened to at the time. It's fun!
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