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dustedmagazine · 5 months
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Onyon — Last Days on Earth (Trouble in Mind)
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Photo by Paul Günther
About a year ago, Trouble in Mind reissued Onyon’s German cassette debut, the self-titled Onyon, which I called “antic without being over-caffeinated and sharp without aiming for mechanical precision. The whole enterprise feels like a rickety wind-up toy, charming, improbable and flailing wildly.”Now the Leipzig post-punk foursome is back with new material, just as spiked and chaotic but with the engine running a little hotter.
The band’s profligate use of synths gives Onyon a wobbly sci-fi aura, a futurism too desolate to really evoke Devo, but skeletal and dystopic enough to make a nod towards Kleenex/LiliPUT.The opening cut “Alien Alien” staggers out of the gate with dissonance, the guitar notes veering from side to side like a concussed quarterback. The synths, too, vibrate like mirages, coming in and out of focus. The drums, though, brook no uncertainty, flailing at the upbeats with a manic flair, while the chant-along verse (in English) rattles determinedly through its paces.You notice, particularly, the growl of bass on this cut, which grounds the whole experience in the gut.It’s an eerie, surreal pile of wiry scrap metal, this song, but it moves and swaggers.
“Egg Machine,” likewise starts in noise guitars, their tortured yowl coalescing in a kind of serrated jangle.“I stare at the egg machine,” the singer snarls, sounding none too happy about it, a bash and clatter pushing her onwards.There are two singers in this band, and, no idea which one this is, but she has a guttural, belligerent kind of delivery that reminds me of Ana da Silva.
Those are the singles, but the rest of the album is equally worthy.I like the stark brutality of “I Would Like to Eat the Newspaper,” its pummeling drum beat met by crashing guitar chords and spook house keyboards.It’s ferocious and unearthly at once, the rhythm section grounded and physical, the keyboards disembodied.The final cut bristles with zinging guitar scrambles, shudders with tactile bass.It rattles and careens and shouts in rhythm, and yes, it seems to be about the dice gameYahtzhee!Why wouldn’t it be?
A lot of punk bands are playing with synths and electric keyboards these days, and there are lots of ways to do it.Onyon does it by abstracting out any pop ingratiation and making the sounds as sharp and warlike as everything else, only undead, too.
Jennifer Kelly
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illuteridae · 9 months
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my friend the alien likes maury
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THE DEMON HAS RISEN!!! SOON THE ETERNAL FLAME WILL BURN THE WORLD AND NOTHING WILL EVER BE HOW IT WAS BEFORE!!!
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puppetmaster13u · 2 months
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Prompt 218
“Moom, there’s yellow-eyed creeps fighting ninjas outside the window again!” 
Danny sighed, taking a deep breath- in for ten, out for eight- as he set the pot he was cleaning back in the sink. Dan- currently six- came running in from the living room of the apartment, where he was watching TV. Or he should have been if not for the bullshit outside. 
He sighed again, picking up baby Ellie- currently closer to two- out of her highchair (even if she could just float out) and let his oldest drag him to the window. Sure enough, another fight was happening, with no vigilante in sight stopping it. Look, he knew most people didn’t live here, but it was still rude. 
“Jordan, remember how I told you how violence isn’t always the answer?” Danny asked sweetly, Dan’s expression shifting to a wicked grin as he opened the window. “Feel free to practice tossing some fireballs while I clean up your sister, yeah?” 
Ah, the sweet sound of surprised cursing and startled ecto-signatures. Maybe they’d be polite enough to take their spar elsewhere. 
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lottalovin · 2 years
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krikzilla · 2 months
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PONYO ZORO OH MY WORDDD😭💫💖
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Ponyo Zoro indeed!
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dragonbonez · 10 months
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And what’s the first thing I do after finishing finals? Indulge in a little meme redraw of my favorites. 💚💛
Honestly Aang is going to be right there with Toph for these mugshots. The guy went to prison and made friends with all the other prisoners like it was nothing! That and I’m sure whatever they did was probably Toph’s idea and worth it.
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blluespirit · 2 months
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i wish that there was more time between the day of black sun and sozin's comet bc zuko's official desertion from the fire nation would have the most insane ripple effects (and it would be nice to see the gaang interacting a bit more than we got but hey i'll take what i can get)
zuko's desertion would have been essentially impossible for the fire nation to bury since it was such a big deal that he returned at all. so i imagine the smear campaign against zuko would have been craaazy. i think it would have been interesting for the gaang to try and deal with that when navigating the FN. zuko would be very recognisable i think at this point, and it would have made staying hidden much harder. would they still have chosen ember island? maybe the kids didn't recognise zuko and azula during The Beach , but with the prince of the fire nation committing treason would there be more wanted posters? would there be more talk around the island? would zuko have to remain hidden while the rest go out and get food?
i wonder if zuko deserting and very meaningly committing his loyalty to the avatar influenced other soldiers in the FN to also desert? or would it have had the opposite effect and made people feel more patriotic since zuko was banished, returned under the guise of having killed the avatar, and then left when aang announced his survival to world during the failed invasion?
SPEAKING OF THAT!! the rumours around this would be INSANE. we know what really happened, but the public don't. did zuko and the avatar plan this so that there would be an inside man during the invasion and then zuko used that chaos to escape? what really happened in ba sing se if zuko didn't kill aang, but azula thought that he did? (again: we, the audience know the truth, but the general public don't). if zuko and the avatar where working together... for how long? was iroh involved somehow since he also disappeared the same time that zuko did? did iroh get captured on purpose to be close to zuko to possibly help him if needed? did zuko break iroh out of jail or did one of the guards or was iroh alone? you could spiral on this as just an average person in the avatar world for years like. if youtube existed in atla imagine the video essays breaking down all the conspiracies
its a kids show so obviously Nothing Bad Happened BUT in the Boiling Rock, zuko getting found out as not only an imposter (already, a very bad situation), a traitor (extremely bad), AND the traitorous (ex) prince of the fire nation (devastatingly terrible) would have been... incredibly dangerous for zuko. in zuko and iroh's original wanted poster, the official translation says “Permission is granted to kill them on sight” and this was before zuko has gone right ahead and committed Treason On Purpose. the warden is not going to be nice. when the warden visits zuko in his cell he literally tells him "If these criminals found out who you are, the traitor prince who let his nation down, why they'd tear you to shreds." the boiling rock would be hell trying to survive. it also puts a lot more weight on zuko refusing to leave sokka in their first escape attempt. also ozai obviously knew that he has his son was in prison bc he... broke in to the prison bc azula was there but then zuko manages to escape with sokka (another imposter) and suki and hakoda (POWs) and chit sang (a prisoner) and two of azula's trusted friends end up in prison for treason as well i just. that is literally insane for the average person to hear about. again, THE CONSPIRACIES!!
when zuko eventually does take the throne there's a lot of conjecture around what zuko did while he was banished and moreso, what he did the second time he left, this time voluntarily. i think zuko's loyalty would be questioned a lot; by other world leaders who are understandably wary about the fire nation and its motivations, but also by its own people - some who believe that zuko is a traitor to his country and is trying to sabotage it since he helped end the war.
idk these are all just me rambling but it would been so interesting to explore the implications of zuko leaving the fire nation and how that would have impacted the gaang and how they interacted with others in their travels. there are so many fic where zuko joins the gaang early, but neither myself with the aus that I have written, nor many that ive read have explored this very much or at all.
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buttfrovski · 6 months
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did.. he wear a suit for stan's birthday?
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noctilia · 1 year
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die-auster · 5 months
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The gilded cage for the king.
I wish the golden pen to look more, well, gold.
If you feel like it you can support me on my Ko-fi.
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mothmanavenue · 2 months
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I dig till my shovel tells a secret
Swear to the earth that I will keep it
Brush off the dirt
And let my change of heart occur
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mettywiththenotes · 4 months
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I like to imagine Kudou "Got together with Yoichi in less than 2 months" is infuriated with Izuku "Miscommunication with Kacchan for 10+ years" Midoriya
He is tapping his foot waiting for those kids to talk and kiss already
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mugentakeda · 2 months
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im like sooo nowhere near figuring out how i want the azula lu ten reunion to go but i wanted to draw them reuniting anyway because i love tjem
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uwhe-arts · 4 days
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longing . . . | uwhe-arts
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autistook · 28 days
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March 2nd - The last march of the Ents
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