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Dear listener, when I’m not posting music so underground that it’s wedged to the Earth’s lower mantle, I’m generally trying to remind you of great acts you’ve forgotten or have never heard of before. Decidedly on the latter for this post, I would like to point out no ‘music blog’ should be without at least one jam by Massive Attack. I don’t really need to sing this band’s praises, their accolades and accomplishments in the music industry are well known. But for the uninitiated, I don’t think that I can recommend an act that, past or present, manages to produce a more hypnotic or enigmatically sensory experience with electronic music. They were trend-setters all the way through the mid to late 90’s with their music simultaneously hitting it BIG at dance clubs, college campuses and the public at large all over Europe and the United States. If you happen to enjoy hip hop, post-punk, industrial, psychedelic, dub and/or dance… Massive Attack is your one-stop shop for ALL of the above. They’re also industry pioneers, having virtually invented trip-hop which was at the time dubbed ‘The Bristol Sound’, as their first album, Blue Lines, is widely considered to be the first trip-hop album made and it was recorded (at least partially) in Bristol, England. They're known for regularly including extra instrumentalists for live performances and became recognized for their collaborations with the likes of Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval, Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser, and the immortal Sinéad O'Connor when they needed a talented lady vocalist to enhance their instrumentals. The one and only piece of work this group has released in the last thirteen years is a 3-song EP, so I think it’s rather safe to assume that we won’t be seeing any more Earth-rending albums or spirited live performances from them for the foreseeable future. However, their discography is already, in two words, *a masterpiece* and I really can’t recommend you either revisit their discography or dive in for the first time. If you smash play on the track above, you’ll be immersed in Dissolved Girl from their OUTSTANDING 1998 album Mezzanine. After this musical entry, I’ve got a few weeks worth of Halloween music headed your way!

There is so much more detail I could have gone into for this post, but a lengthy group history didn’t feel appropriate for the purpose of brevity. It’s always possible you won’t or don’t like their works. But the only indefatigable way to know if you personally resonate with their tunes is to give them the old community college try, or to simply revisit their albums and start all over again. But be warned, going down the rabbit hole of their discography might leave you temporarily addicted. I would know, I tried it myself for this post. Image source: https://massiveattack.ie/info/take-it-there

#music on tumblr #massive attack #dissolved girl #mezzanine #trip hop #english band #electronic music #british hip hop #electronica #downtempo #ambient dub #dance #psychadelic #Robert “3D” Del Naja #Adrian “Tricky” Thaws #Grant “Daddy G” Marshall #the bristol sound

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GOD OKAY-- NOBODY’S DAUGHTER and by extension DISSOLVED GIRL:

what is nobody’s daughter?

JOAN: What I always wonder about: The one egg, one sperm, one zygote before it split, there might have been a consciousness. Where did it become two consciousnesses? That may be what identical twins experience: the oneness that used to be, before it became twoness. JEAN: Maybe that’s why we feel more whole together than when we’re separated. — Two of a Kind, Vogue

I marathoned the entire series in oct 2019 (hard to say if it was for the first time or not since i VIVIDLY remembered parts of hush from my childhood, but we can safely say “for the first time i remember”) while i was doing inktober and a thought that came to me was “what about twins? How does slayerness work there”, from there I had little thought experiment which did not stay little. obviously. basically the thought is that where the slayer line reads fraternal twins as 2 separate people, it fails to do this with identical twins. Which means that while everything else about them remains autonomous, the slayer spirit or whatever is stretched between the two, linking them on a deep metaphysical level that cannot be undone and has serious ramifications.

Cue Brooke’s inclusion.

Nobody’s Daughter is a series rewrite that sets out to include Brooke, Buffy’s twin and several other ocs into the series and then you know, take their existence into account in the plot and stuff.

Brooke herself is more of the Slayer side of the Slayer and Girl conversation in macro that she and Buffy represent. Brooke is loud, physical, straightforward to the point of seeming rude at times, proud and bad at losing, an ex-soccer star who fell into drugs and Demon Crime™ when the watcher systems failed her when they were first called. Her style of fighting is more physical and violent. Slayers need a weapon? She has one. Herself. No stakes required. She’s also at what could easily be the lowest point of her life when we meet her in Miss World, having just got out of inpatient rehab after flirting with a drug problem and unable to really do much with herself after having always having a Plan.

She and Buffy aren’t opposites, they’re complimentary. Symbiosis and all that shit.

OTHER PROPOSED OCS: Kat Farwell — the heir of one of the oldest, most powerful and evil families in Sunnydale, her family was in league the Mayor and has ties to Wolfram & Hart. The family is part of a cult that worships one of the Old Ones, an Old One (of creation/life & death) and is generally involved in horrific things, very Silent Hill. Kat is part of a generations long plan/goal to bring their god forth into the world. Kat sees a lot of weird ass shit pm all the time. She’s a good person generally but forced into doing evil things to keep domino effects and such from happening. Even when she’s full blown Old One she’s not super evil more like iffy. The only other surviving art club member with Saoirse.

Saoirse Moran — Girl from Ireland who’s family moved to Sunnydale because of work stuff or similar. Is psychic and precognitive in a less specific way than the PTB seer is, closer to the more classical concept. The only other surviving art club member with Kat. Foresees that she’ll be turned into a vampire by Angel at first meeting and comes to terms with it over time and makes sure it goes through as it’s a critical point that will allow her to be there for a lot of very important things she’ll be needed for in the future. Is in active communication with her soul/ghost as a vampire and they team up on shit. Capable of a lot of weird ass and esoteric magic and shit because she’s just following w/ the voices in her head she’s channeling info from.

Sydeny — Australian Super Warlock. Not his real name. About as ethical as a dark magics guy can be. Very punk, like dyed mohawk, tats and plaid punk. Takes Brooke under his wing. Has absolutely had sex with her. He and Brooke started up a demon parts chop shop to take care of the corpses she makes on patrols which he then sold for profit.

Beck — Fairly similar to comic!Beck. Used in a ritual to house a fire elemental at a very young age, was found in the ashes of the ritual and returned to her parents but is unable to control her new powers and burns down the house killing them. This is a pattern for years as she’s moved from home to home to institute to institute, burned out buildings and bodies until she lands in Mosiac Wellness Center at about 14 and has been making progress with her pyrokentics and mental illness since then. Eventually comes to live at the Hellhouse as part of her attempt to reintegrate into society. Spike may become her legal guardian since she’s judged not able to handle things herself even as an adult.

Dr. Inez Price — Brooke’s therapist. A no nonsense witch from the 1900s who might seem mean but dang it she gives a care. Possibly married to a Vampire and has magic made kids.

Charlotte Worth — faith’s new watcher that Gwendolyn impersonates, she’s just Emma frost but a watcher/necromancer

ONE’S I’M A LIL IFFY ON NOW BUT IDK MAYBE I’LL STILL USE THEM??:

Mateo Torres — half demon that Brooke meets at either Mosiac or SDHS and becomes her best friend. Very stable and kind and not easily annoyed. He loves dance and music, wrangles Brooke into being his dance partner since half demon and slayer and forms a band with her and beck bc of her music therapy shit. Has a crush on Buffy from fairly early on but never pushes it, is fully in love with her by S4 but again doesn’t push things since he’s not interested in being a rebound or anything like that. Likely begins dating her tho at the end of S4 or in S5 tho bc Fuck Riley.

Maria / Myarazsta’shuatl — minor old one or insanity demon rank or two below that Dr. Nyth / Ny’thachamp — minor old one or fear demon rank or two below that

Kozrar Torres — Mateo’s dad. A [Strang] demon. Huge as fuck, built like a brick house and has a pretty chill attitude. Owns a gym.

Francisca Torres — Mateo’s mom. A potential slayer who aged out and was annoyed that so much of her life had been dedicated to training for something that never came and in a rebellious move started to spend more time in demonic spaces in the same vein as Willy’s and Carnitas and looking for work that put any of that potential training to use. She met Mateo’s father a [strang] demon (might just use that name bc it’s from the comics so semi-canon and means I don’t have to think of 1 myself but also gives me TONS of room) who she danced with and was utterly charmed by him and they hit it off. A whirlwind romance led to a loving marriage. Decides to teach the scoobies and Joyce some combat stuff.

Heidi Williams — girl Brooke saves from a vampire at a party. Attaches herself to Brooke, basically becomes her Pike. They start dating but it’s all very Woof bc of the timing and drugs.

THEORETICAL FICS IN THE SERIES ASSUMING I CAN FUCKING GET THIS SHIT WRITTEN:

(yes all the titles are Hole songs and yes they’re VERY RELEVANT to the THEMES OF THE STORY)

(also Dawn is here from day 1)

Miss World: I'm miss world, watch me break and watch me burn / No one is listening my friends, yeah / I made my bed I lie in it / I made my bed I die in it

Buffy is working her ass off to stay in denial land. Brooke just wants to be allowed out of the house without a chaperone. Someone still ends up dead in a puddle.

Jennifer’s Body: He said, "I'm your lover, I'm your friend / I'm purity, hit me again" / With a bullet, number one, kill the family, save the son / Himself / Himself

Angelus time. Protecting Buffy from her psycho ex and his loser pals sends brooke back into bad habits and off the deep end in more ways than one. Kendra survives because I say so.

She Walks On Me: Hold you close like we both died / My ever-present suicide / My stupid fuck, my blushing bride / Oh tear my heart out, tear my heart out

Buffy’s back from her depression job in LA and Brooke’s out of Mosaic Wellness Center again. Things are weird and awkward and made only more so when Brooke and Faith start sucking face and Angel’s around being even more broody than before. Ends with stabbings and comas and snakes.

Good Sister / Bad Sister (subject to change bc of possible plot changes): Good sister, bad sister / Better burn that dress, sister /Scar tissue, blood blister /Suck up on the dregs, sister

Philosophical differences about demons get between the sisters. Also Adam and Walsh are there. Brooke is anti-establishment, Buffy hasn’t taken those 101 classes yet. Saorise has left the cast and is in Dissolved Girl at this point.

Burn Black: Now you complain and say you want the keys / Over my dead body, baby, that's where they'll be / Forget the knots around your neck / You say you remember, baby, you forget

People all seem to finally have their shit together. Naturally that means everything has to fall apart on a new and utterly spectacular level. Twins fuckin’ Die.

Violet: When they get what they want, they never want it again / When they get what they want, they never want it again / Go on, take everything, take everything, I want you to /Go on, take everything, take everything, I dare you to

The afterlife and post death experiences of the girls are very different. Brooke steps up to take care of Buffy while she struggles to get used to being back. Also everyone is falling apart.

Heaven Tonight: Here comes the sun in the form of a girl / She's the finest sweetest thing in the world / Take you to heaven tonight

Twin sisters and their pet vampire have to get their friends to be Actual Helpful while they run the biggest sleepover this side of the apocalypse. Spike might live. Saorise cameos.

What is Dissolved Girl?

Dissolved Girl is the ATS companion series to Nobody’s Daughter that follows the lives of Saoirse, Angel and Faith, then later Kat when she joins their cast in s4. Naturally it’s all dark and moody and shit. Deals with things like fate, destiny, mirrors and cycles and the facets of identity. Very much just in development/notes world only atm for obvious reasons.

(yes again all song titles and yes all relevant to the season Vibes)

Season 1: Pull Out The Pin Season 2: Cover Me (Björk) Season 3: How Soon Is Now? Season 4: Space Oddity Season 5: Karma Police

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