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fortressofserenity · 2 months

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Not Goth enough

I think when it comes to creating a Goth character in fiction, the fashion sense and association with creepiness often comes first before the musical association. I think this is what Kai Decadence brought up when it comes to Goth characters, but if I were to add my take it's like how their spookiness is always played up but it's unfortunately easy to forget that Goth is also the name of a music (sub)genre in punk rock and linked to a musical subculture.

I suppose it would be really rare to find Goth characters who are into Goth music (the Goth music canon often consists of the Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus and Sisters of Mercy), let alone outside of Goth orientated stories such as Writhe and Shine. I have to bring up these four as they are foundational to the Goth subculture in a way Depeche Mode isn't, that the Cure is one of the few true Goth bands to get any real airplay speaking from personal experience.

It's kind of easy to lump what seems dark and eerie into Goth, but as a musical genre and subculture it doesn't always revolve around it. The earliest Goth bands have their origins in punk rock in some way or another, Bauhaus's David J was part of Jack Plug and the Sockettes, both the Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees started out as punk bands. Even Joy Division started out as the punkier Warsaw, which should tell you about Goth's roots in punk rock. It's that easy to forget that Goth has anything to do with punk rock.

I feel this is a problem with the way a good number of Goth characters are portrayed in fiction that sometimes influences people's misconceptions of Gothdom, even I myself was susceptible to it at one point. Somebody who likes horror isn't necessarily affiliated with the Goth subculture, someone like Hirohiko Araki may enjoy horror films but isn't that deeply into Goth music in any way and he actually listens to Prince more.

Goth is something else altogether by then, it's not merely a love of spooky things but it's its own thing. To put it this way, just because it has anthropomorphic animals doesn't mean it's furry. Plenty of people anthropomorphise animals but have little to no involvement in furry fandom themselves, dressing in animal fancy dress doesn't necessarily make you a furry either. Furry is something else altogether, as evidenced by the existence of fursonas.

Most people who anthropomorphise animals don't have fursonas, so to me a fursona's a big indicator that somebody is a furry. I might be getting off-topic here but this is to give you an idea that Goth is its own thing, separate from horror fandom in other regards. Somebody may like horror films but have no real interest in Goth music themselves, it's easy to get into misconceptions about Goth because we don't really understand the scene from the inside out.

Kai Decadence said that liking Goth music is a big indicator of being Goth, or at least having an idea of what it actually is like. If somebody listens to Goth music, they may not always be Goth themselves (let alone for life), but they know what it actually is contrary to what others think and expect Goth to be.

#goth #goth scene #goth subculture #goth music #gothic rock #trad goth #deathrock #gothgoth #80s goth #bauhaus #siouxsie and the banshees #the cure #sisters of mercy #punk #punk rock #joy division

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titaniasthings · 1 year

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Ginny Weasleys Style Evolution ; )

Ginny the Teenage Witch

We’re starting off in her teen Hogwarts era around mid to late nineties. The Weasleys are a low-income family, so I see her in lots of long lasting denim, maybe her brothers old jeans cut up into shorts. She’s wears lots of sweaters knitted by her mom and Charlie’s old Gryffindor jumper. She’s very over-sized and very casual, although still made to fit her because she’s short and doesn’t wanna look like she’s drowning in her brother’s clothes.

Star Athlete Era

She’s in her 20’s, a quidditch superstar, dating Witch Weekly’s Hottest Wizard of the Year, and making good money. Now is the time she gets to explore her style. She’s still dealing with the trauma from the war. I think she grows grungier, punkier as she gets older. She ditches the warm oranges and yellows for a more greens, black, and harsh reds. She’s sporting sunglasses to hide from incessant reporters. She doesn’t totally lose sporty aesthetic but it’s fine-tuned to fit her newer, edgier style.

Mama Bear Weasley

After all her kids are born and her playing career is winding down, her look gets a little more sophisticated. She’s in her thirties and forties now. We can see her bring back silhouettes from her comfier teen years, but maintaining the darker color scheme. She doesn’t fall victim to the “older women must be frumpy” propaganda. It’s all outfits that go with her Chic Lob and curtain bangs. Her clothes are partially curated by Luna. Lily is definitely stealing out of her closet still. It’s all together a practical, yet personable wardrobe. Perfect for chilling in her lakeside cottage or Sunday dinners

That’s all! This was fun! My Pinterest is probably a wreck right now but it was worth it. Let me know what you think!

#ginny weasley #harry potter #style #fashion #sweater weather #she dresses leagues better than me #gimme her clothes

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writingmochi · 8 months

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an honest review of the name chapter: freefall purely from musical observation (not proofread)

opening remarks: okay, so, i decided to make this into a series for all ateez, txt, and enhypen albums cause (1) they're the only groups i really follow and (2) this is a multifan-account for all three groups so why not *eyes* *thumbs up* sorry for the delay (but not though cause i got time to absorb the album.) i did write updates on 4 of the songs and it's decent all that time and now... well i don't wanna spoiler it...

BUT i did write about track sequencing in kpop in relation to this album so i'll actually be doing ALTERNATE TRACKLIST SEQUENCE OF THE ALBUM AT THE END. so stay tuned for that!

concept-wise, i've been hearing chasing that feeling and reading the lyrics to see it be the exact aftermath after they left neverland, of course with the album name freefall being in reference to the song farewell, neverland, so it definitely shown in the concept. i mentioned how grungy it is even referencing the soobin fic as soobin's an alt kid and it definitely makes sense with the whole "fallen from heaven and trying to survive"

let's start!

1.growing pain: growing pains and angsty sound, growing pain is the quintessential rebel angst song. as i mentioned before in my timeline, this is the angrier version of the sound that the chaos chapter cultivates. it's more grungy than pop-punk, even punkier than pop-punk, and might even go into the heavy metal range. and tbh, this IS txt song. no other kpop group can make pop punk/rock THEIR genre (which is followed by woodz's pop-punk album). i can definitely see this being performed in a festival circuit, like lollapalooza (its origin is a rock festival tho). N WHO IS DOING VOCAL FRY? VOCAL FRY PEOPLE REPRESENT. this is kai's song for real. i love a more interpretation of the harder, grittier side of pop-punk than what is usually depicted here in kpop. the guitar power chords make it very tense and the interlude part in the middle is good with a more guitar solo part.

but, in my opinion, the mixing layering sounds so stacked that you can definitely hear which one is midi. not saying that midi doesn't produce a good song, but it definitely will sound grittier if it's played live with live instruments. they play around with some voice inflexions, trying to make it sound "imperfect" but then it doesn't make those inflexions authentic in the long haul. yet, this song definitely makes the mold and *might* be added to my driving playlist (idk which one cause i have to assess it more)

2.chasing the feeling: okay! is this the first time a kpop song doesn't have a pre-chorus? i opened genius to see it being depicted that way. i actually theorize that the start of the "chorus" is the pre-chorus part and when it comes to the chasing the feeling part where the chord change happened, that's the chorus for me. you can definitely interpret it with whatever you like. also, WE GOT A BRIDGE! but at what cost when it's the same as the other verses...

txt, once again, returns to the retro sound. but when blue hour has more influence from funk, chasing the feeling is definitely more early 80s new wave (definitely different than thursday's child when it exudes more mid to late 80s synthpop, which is the pop version of new wave, and a hint of early 90s acoustic there with the guitar strums). i appreciate that they're trying to explore genres in the retro spectrum cause it doesn't always have to be disco or funk, you can get new jack swing like what exid did or big band like what seventeen did.

i like how push and pull this song is. just like what the concept is with them having to chase the feeling to get the satisfaction after turning back from heaven or neverland. but, the push and pull definitely creates a stagnant rhythm and melody that, in bad way can make it boring, but in good way can make you be in a trance. i definitely think that they're playing safe with this track as when the word "chasing the feeling" is utter, that feeling can be viewed in different ways that the music can sonically create. as you know from my affinity to farewell, neverland, i love a hero's journey type of song. this one, for me, definitely is the inciting incident of our heroes as they venture into this new world. that's why, i agree with yerin @/itz-yerin, that this song is a great track to be put on after growing pain. also, i know that they're trying to push this song to be marketed in tiktok as a dance challenge but i think this will succeed more as an edit type of song (like get up by newjeans) cause even i can't imagine how they're doing the choreo to this as i haven't watch the stage (i watched the dance practice vid n the choreo has a bit vogue-ish character to it... interesting...)

also, yall definitely have to watch this song's version with soob, gyu, and hyuka only. like both gyu and soob can definitely get the parts they're singing cause they sound so good + a 3 minute song but at what cost :"")

3.back for more: as i haven't listened to the anitta ver and haven't watched the vma stage before this, this is my introduction to this song. what's with the eq fade-in for the vocal at the intro with soobin ? i think it will be bolder when the voice starts already round rather than a fade-in (like tgif by xg). this is definitely more funk/disco but also has some latin influence (which definitely shows that it is catering towards the usamerican market). lyric-wised, this is not as cringy as other english songs by kpop idols which definitely shows hybe's aspiration to push txt into the western market. i also recognize ryan tedder's voice in there (the composer of the song and vocalist for onerepublic) especially the vocal inflexions at the end of the chorus.

then, i heard the anitta versions of it and i actually liked it better. especially with the performance ver cause it feels more complete like i know it sounds more with the post-choruses and stuff, but it feels like that version was the one intended before it cut a whole 40 seconds of it. wtf why??? idk how it's been going with the general public but i like it

4.dreamer: okay muted guitar and rnb!! that wall of bass that rings in the verse combined with the piano chords gives this song a more intimate feeling. i mentioned in my previous post that this song is kinda like the ballads that bts releases and i will double down on that. i can definitely hear jimin in tyun's voice, taehyung in gyu's voice, and jungkook in yeonjun's voice. idk if this is because of the voice mixing or what but it definitely is more similar to what the mixing in bts' ballad songs is like (it reminds me of rain so much). the singing range here is also crazy from notes in their lower register until it reaches falsetto. tbh, i'm concerned at how high those falsetto are and how much it is used in the song. if they're not in good condition, the falsetto melody can make or break the performance. the studio version helps with the autotune etc but when performing live (unless there are autotune applied to the melody layer along with the vocal), i pray for their throats :")

other than that, it's a slow rnb song that joins txt's rnb roster with 20 cm!

5.deep down: i swear the more i listen to this song, the more neo-like it sound. it definitely sounds atmospherically similar to an nct 127 song, replay (pm 1:27). the sound mixing here is clear enough i can differentiate the voices (i can't find gyu and soob's voices in dreamer). other than it, the ostinato in the chorus in the percussion layers helps drive the song forward. i also hear a lot of beomgyu here which i'm happy with. also, the producer who gives the pre-chorus to soobin, let me hug you cause this song fits his timbre so much. also because this song is under 3 minutes with the 2 verse-chorus format, i think it will sound a bit better with a bridge like i can hear either tyun or kai just lets out a high note in the last chorus.

i just read that the song has some influence from the jersey club genre (known in kpop as the "newjeans" genre especially in their get up ep) and i can definitely hear the influence in the percussion. but idk man, i think kpop is making jersey club too oversaturated for my ear that it's hard for me to enjoy it. but i'm glad that txt is taking their own spin in it!

6.happily ever after: YAY WE GOT HAPPY TXT SONGS!! ever since i see the short with soob with the song, this song definitely caught my attention the most. but even if it is a happy txt song, it's more mellow than what ice cream or roller coaster sounds like. this song is yeonjun's song in the album like, "yes, boy, sing"! gosh i got such a booster with this song (and i swear you're gonna see in my alt tracklist how this song will be). this is also a jersey club song just by hearing the bass drum running in the track so i think that txt is really taking a bite out of newjeans and boynextdoor books in order to adapt their discographies to be more like the current trend. but what i like about this, this song is more of what a jersey club txt song that i was thinking. deep down, for me, is too neo-core for me to consider it a txt song

7.skipping stones: GOD I LOVE THE DISSONANCE!!! i think someone in my timeline mentioned how day6 like this song is and i agree!! i can pinpoint which era of day6 it is lol :D it's the every day6 sound around august-september releases and the dissonance reminds me of you were beautiful in the same series. i can definitely see a video on the it's live channel where they play this song (manifesting cause i wanna hear the authentic dirty guitar filter). also A WHOLE SONG WITH PRE CHORUSES AND BRIDGE AKJFBAKEF I MISS YOU SO MUCH. soobin sounds so nice here and that last chorus transition yes! i will bop my head to this song. also i think all of the txt members are trying emanate lovesong tyun so much (if not everyone, then it's jun) but i can hear how hard yeonjun is trying to hold back and blend in with the song's rock feel.

8.blue spring: oh god kai don't sing like that, you're gonna make me cry! since i've seen this performance live back in august, i could hear the intention of this being played as an encore song. it definitely comes in the same root as our summer with it being nostalgic and melancholic. i wanna say that i'm proud of what beom created cause like, tbh, this song is definitely a beomgyu sound. the mellow band sound.

i also think that because i've seen them perform this live, i like the live version better. the vocal line/layer was too clean for my liking that i can hear which parts were autotuned. i think imperfection was the right factor for me to like it and why the live ver is better than the studio ver.

9.do it like that: i think we know just how catchy this song is. i also seen this live in the concert and it's such a good time. i realized just how clear ryan tedder's voice is here too (but not as clear as back for more). what i wanna complain about is why this can be allowed in the album but not back for more with anitta?? like that is just so consistent unless it's because of business purposes. but back for more was literally one of the singles for this album release so that just rubs me the wrong way. other than that, catchy-ass song and get joe jonas out of my way cause his divorce drama is really tainting him

here it comes!

ALTERNATE TRACKLIST SEQUENCE (based on moods and what makes sense to me)

growing pain

chasing the feeling

skipping stones

dreamer

blue spring

deep down

back for more

do it like that

happily ever after

closing remarks: one word that i'm using to describe this album: safe.

this album feels so safe for me like they are just dipping into new genres but still retracts back in uncertainty with how it will sound. even growing pain, the experimental song of the album with its grittier punk sound of pop-punk, still seems to be safe for my taste. chasing the feeling also feels safe for me like it's like they embrace the retro feel like a pic with filters instead of them wearing a costume (it relates to how alt street fashion relates to new wave song. it's a dissonance for me in that aspect). i think that feeling safe vibe definitely comes because they make a pop song, not a punk song, rnb, new wave, etc. they make pop songs influenced by the other genres and it definitely hinders me from truly being consumed by the album sonically...

i definitely agree with the people that said that this is kai's era, but i wanna argue that this is both kai and beomgyu's era. why? like have you seen the concept photos? that's just beomgyu's style. i know people aren't happy with the amount of distribution for him and soon, but i know that they're still working hard under those circumstances. anf the fact that gyu's song got green-lit to be in an album is definitely a step forward for him. beomgyu also kills it for opening chasing the feeling, like i cannot see any other member that can open the song like him. as i mentioned in with soob, gyu, and kai ver of the title track, they sound good. but, for that, i think it definitely relates more towards the politics in a business and the hierarchy of influence in big hit...

this album is middle in my tierlist cause it just can't break my top 5 man (tdc: eternity, tdc: magic, tcc: fight or escape, tdc: star, and minsode 2) and ALSO, SUCH A MISSED OPPORTUNITY TO NOT MAKE A TDC: ETERNITY LIKE COMEBACK FOR A FRIDAY THE 13TH... IN OCTOBER

final ranking:

9.deep down

8.dreamer

7.do it like that (it got overplayed so i'm tired listening to it)

6.skipping stones

5.back for more

4.happily ever after

3.chasing that feeling

2.growing pain

1.blue spring

gosh, i'm such a debby-downer let's go to the rankings

small conclusion: a 29-minute album with 10 tracks?? is the industry is healing? because we get 6 songs over 3 minutes (one of them is an eng ver, the longest ones are rock-adjacent). but then i got reminded that in rainbows by radiohead is a 10-track album with a length of over than 45 minutes, but it definitely is better than what hybe gave to the others this year (like newjeans ep under 15 minutes, boynextdoor ep with only 3 new tracks, enhypen again with the song without the bridge, fwak me)

also, i now consider my alternate tracklist the canon one!

#ignore the ramble #seriously ignore it if u can’t take people’s opinion and criticism #< my tag for all the reviews lmao

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pransesdp · 2 years

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So I know this really old but what is HONEST opinion of those horrible 10 year later designs. Im sorry but they are so terrible looking ugh!! Dx

Hmmm, lemme see if I can dig up those designs cause this’ll be a fun question to answer lol:

Danny himself; *almost* had potential to be good and I see what BH was going for with the green accents… buuuut as-is it just looks too cluttered tbh. Dunno why his neck looks like a string of piano keys either (unless that’s meant to be metal shading? Idk lol)

Sam; I love you girl… but whyyy are you basically wearing the same outfit/hairstyle you did as a 14 year old?? The long boots and purple coat are cool accessories, but without an actually cool outfit underneath to put it all together, I just ain’t feelin it 😔

Tucker; Tbh I don’t mind the new blue colors added to his design… I just don’t get the random tri-colored beanie thrown on top of it?? If BH wanted to incorporate his canon teen colors then he should’ve just put them throughout the outfit itself ngl 🤷‍♀️

Jazz; …Um, since when was Jazz some kind of Professor X-level character to need to be confined to some mechanical suit/chair like this…? .-. Poor girl just wanted to be a psychologist ffs, let her be free-

Maddie; …No, just no lol. Is Maddie going through some midlife crisis to suddenly be doning some edgy rebel teen style?? Why is she chaining ghosts by the neck when her son is half-ghost?? BH I have questions 😭

Jack; This one’s… kiiiiiinda okay, at least with the bearded/veteran ghost hunter look as a concept. Dunno why Jack would have a robot leg though? (Unless BH mentioned the reason in his video but idk I’m too lazy to hunt for it lol)

Dani; The punkish vibe of this design *could* work okay with her… buuut since I’m sure by this point Dani wouldn’t wanna be compared to Danny all the time, why would her ghost form be lowkey identical to his?

Vlad; Guess Vlad getting imprisoned for his crimes would be a fitting future fate for him… but why does it have to be by aliens, exactly? Couldn’t just some higher power ghost like Clockwork or The Observants work for that fine? They already have custody of Dark Danny, so 🤷‍♀️

Ember; The half-shaved punkier look of this design could’ve worked… but idk where the heck Ember became some Danny fan girl with a crush when she didn’t care an inch for the dude in the OG show 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️Guess BH was trying to appease the D/E shippers for more fan views or something-

Skulker; …wait, I thought this guy was pretty much a robot, why does he just look like any other aged older guy/ghost? .-. Guess it could be worse but… still, wut-

#danny phantom #dp asks #(can’t fit in more images atm but I don’t think he did any other 10 years later design after these?)#(all in all: BH wtf were these designs lmao)

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cebwrites · 8 months

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i'm in love with lami's brother

a/n: mad tsai once again fueling me to write god bless, i got this all out in like two hours i'm beat ┗( T▽T )┛ really though what i'm getting from all of this is that this "Stacy", whoever she is, can never catch a break

oc x canon, modern au, they/he law but "brother" is used a lot mildly suggestive at the end but nothing explicit word count: 1.1k

Trafalgar Lami.

Straight-A honors student, top of her class, sociable and popular in every circle she mingled with, an overall darling to be around. And also seating buddies with his brother in the fancy med school Tacchan got a scholarship for.

Kirin's interactions with her were short if not pleasant whenever the nerds were around the house to study, alone together or with other friends. He wasn't fussed about it, as much as their grandmother would complain about "letting a boy and girl be like that" what his 22 year old brother did in his own spare time was none of his business.

Plus, there was the other kid with pink hair that made Takashi flush just by leaning against him. Lami was the last thing on Kirin's mind where his baby bro was concerned.

Her gaze on him, however, didn't go unnoticed.

Coming 'round the house with the excuse that she needed complete and utter peace to study and that Takashi's place was the quietest in comparison to all her other friends, even though there was definitively more noise here if Kirin was around with company.

They were nice enough about it, although they couldn't promise that there wouldn't be the wayward thumping or laughter every now and then. Aside from buckling down for the next exam, the lot of them would hang out to unwind after the books and study guides were put away.

The boys—grown mascs nearing or in their 30s—were pleasant company, Lami had a of common ground with Alto between absolutely smoking Takashi at Mario Cart while his older brother howled in laughter. Where the couple was concerned, Lami found herself glancing at Kirin whenever they did something "mushy" as the group would tease, trying to somehow will the heat away from her ears.

It made sense, right? The goody two shoes, doe-eyed med student falling for the guy in black nail polish and leather with even punkier friends. Half her friend group threatening him if he broke her heart and the other secretly cheering on Lami's supposed "bad boy" romance. The song and dance every young adult novelist and consumer was familiar with.

Only that Kirin wasn't very inclined and every time he'd tried to be straight (ha) with his intentions something had gotten in the way.

One of those obstructions being her older brother.

College dropout and a year younger than Kirin himself, whose room was decked out in 2010s emo memorabilia when he peeked into their room once in passing, Law was prickly upon first—several—interactions but Lami reassured Kirin that her brother was sweeter than he let on, kicking them under the table as a signal not to embarrass her; to which Law replied with a surly moue and left to skulk in their room.

As Lami invited Kirin and his brother over to hang out at her place, Kirin and his motorbike being Takashi's ride home, it put the two older siblings in closer proximity to each other more often.

It was almost like Law was being intentionally antagonistic at first despite the fact that they seemingly shared a lot of the same interests, deliberately giving Kirin the cold shoulder though Lami would respond with sharp elbows to his side for being a weirdo in front of the "cool" guy she liked.

It was a month before Law finally broke the act and lightened up after a dinner with both their siblings and the addition of the Trafalgar kids' dad Corazon. Both Kirin and their dad shared the same goofy sense of humor and kept giggling and jabbing at each other all night, seeing as much released a lot of tension in Law's shoulders about this "stranger".

At some point in the night, Law leaned over to joke that if she wasn't careful their dad would end up walking away with her little crush instead. Takashi nearly dropped the stack of plates meant for the sink he was carrying when he had to pull Lami away from strangling her cackling brother with the dish rag.

From then on interactions between Law and Kirin went a lot smoother - passive aggression from their rough start was replaced with mutual teasing, banter every time they met and knowing looks and introducing friend groups. Soon enough they were hanging out without the need for their baby siblings being there.

They were friends. Friends who shared and teased each other about their music taste, that could confide in each other about their queerness and gender and how confusing all of that was, about complicated family relationships and maybe even the selfishness of wanting a break from everything for a while.

So what if they sat together, it was nice being comfortable in each other's spaces. Law blew off the questioning brow raised their way when Kirin rested his chin on their shoulder to peek at the comic they were gushing over. Kirin ignored the look Takashi gave him when he shuffled on his platforms decked out in full punk gear at 10pm to catch some obscure concert with Law.

Lami had backed off at this point, taking the hint when a few weeks earlier Kirin showed up to their hangout at the arcade with his boyfriend almost if not even more affectionate with him than the husbands of the friend group. If Law had made a face or commented on Reiji's presence at any point throughout the day, Lami didn't notice.

She must have not passed on the message, though, because Law took Kirin by surprise when they asked him, leaning back in the swivel chair at their desk while the other man lay sprawled across his bed,

"Hey, are you going to make a move on my sister or not?"

Kirin's eyes peeled open one after another, sitting up on one arm to stare at them with a look of bewilderment before the dots in his brain fully connected, neither wanted to meet each other's gaze right away.

"Nah, don't think she'd like me as a boyfriend," Kirin took to fiddling with one of Law's bracelets on the nightstand while they sat on the edge of the bed in his periphery, "'sides, she's not really my type."

Law rested their weight on one hand, dangerously close to the exposed bit of Kirin's midsection underneath his crop top. The chemistry between them was electrifying.

"Yeah? Who is your type then."

Kirin chanced a look up at their eyes, though his gaze drifted almost immediately to Law's lips.

"I think you already know what my answer's going to be, Law."

One leg swung over his torso to straddle the larger man, Kirin's hands running up the length of their ripped skinny jeans on Law's thighs, Law shook their head, "Tell me what I want to hear, darling."

All Kirin could offer in the moment was a love-stupid smile.

Sorry, Lami I'm in love with your big brother xx

#cebwrites #one piece #trafalgar law #lawrin #op law #op kirin #trafalgar lami #stacy's brother #modern au

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singlesablog · 9 months

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The New Wave

“Is She Really Going Out with Him?” (1979) Joe Jackson A&M Records (Written by Joe Jackson) Highest U.S. Billboard Chart Position – No. 21

“I liked all my songs, and if I'd written a hit it was by accident. But I appreciated the enthusiasm, and something else, too: a growing feeling that I was up to something.” Joe Jackson

In the 70s, if you didn’t have Elvis Costello as a Representing Brit (and I didn't), you had Joe Jackson. An hilarious anthem to ordinary shlubs everywhere, the song could easily be mistaken for an angry young man anthem, especially seeing it was his first big single from his first ever record (Look Sharp!); we would all eventually come around to understand that his sensibility was actually high intelligence mixed with a well-defined sense of social observation and sarcasm. It is a record forever associated with the new wave in it’s pared-downness, but hearing it live on the radio I was more intrigued by the catchy but thorny style, not transporting, but deeply grounded. I always thought it was Joe Jackson asking why he wasn’t beautiful, and I still think that’s true: he has since questioned every social situation possible (including his own sexuality, coming out as bisexual sometime somewhere). Go to “Real Men” for 1982’s Night and Day to understand that there is little mystery to Jackson’s lyrics or point-of-view: he means exactly what he says, with a jab here and there, and even at that, manages to refuse to be pinned down.

“Is She Really Going Out with Him?” is considered a pivotal new wave record, recorded in ’78, released in early ’79 (to no response) and the rereleased that same year to finally get the airplay it deserved. Now I know rockers made new wave records (read: Costello) but this was never my version of it. Joe files under a rockabilly thing for me—ska, reggae, things I actually love, but like to keep a firm grip on in my mind. The truth is he is really rather singular, and his first song (reportedly still his most famous) is a reflection of him as an artist and personality, eccentric and comic, with chops. I think he is missing the accidental gene of electro bands like Depeche Mode; let’s face it, this guy is the real deal, a real musician from the beginning, and I think this was best evidenced in the LP Night and Day with the singles “Breaking Us in Two” and “Steppin’ Out”, two of the glories of the 80s, but with nowhere near the cred of his earlier, hard-rocking material. Oh, well. Like the opening of the song, “Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street / From my window I'm staring while my coffee goes cold”, nothing is ideal.

A lot of people found this song to be angry and upsetting (which is inherent in the punkier vibe) but I knew instantly he was having a laugh, with tension. It’s what makes him great, and okay, okay, what made him part of the new wave: he was helping to usher in a whole new attitude for music on the radio—the raised eyebrow.

So Viva Joe, and all songs that end with a question mark.

#new wave #80s music #music history #radio

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7, 12, 19 for Katya, Jules, Miri?

Thank you so much!!!

7. What's one way your OC has changed since you first came up with them?

Katya: She's actually changed a LOT. Her original concept was a lot punkier and a lot more in line with her alias' namesake, Bad Grief from Pathologic 2. She was going to be more openly chaotic and lean towards being a good person.

Almost immediately all of that changed LOL. I got in my first session with her and she flipped like a switch: elegant, poised, leaning into the selfish side of chaotic neutral rather than closer to chaotic good. Since I started writing her on my PBP server she's changed even more, though it's more development rather than adjustments: She was in love with her best friend. She doesn't like to be forced into doing anything. She's terrified of both her shadow magic and being aasimar. She would have been great leading the family's crime syndicate. She misses her mother almost painfully.

Jules: Considering her original ending (an incredibly brief and bad consideration LOL) was running to the Divide after winning Hoover Dam for the Legion, and her revised ending was getting crucified outside the Strip, yeah she's changed a bit! She's gotten louder, angrier; she has a chance to do better thanks to @randamhajile and her OC Lex. Does she take it? Ehh. Not always. But she has it, and sometimes it works out.

A lot of it also was Jexis asking me things about her and me pulling stuff out of thin air that sounded right and then reverse engineering why it worked LOL. My favorite thing was making her just a huge science nerd to account for my obsessive completionism in Old World Blues that run, and Jules shutting yet another part of herself down in order to gain Caesar's favor. My other favorite thing was rooting a lot of her reasoning for joining the Legion in her abandonment/daddy issues, and then thusly moving them to project onto Joshua Graham after the fall of the Legion lmao. Thanks Jex.

Miri: Honestly not much! I adjusted her name so that she goes by her middle name instead of her first (it's Nora, to be a little FO4 joke, she hates it, too normie) and I made her look and her fashion, when she's not just copying Cher, actually Chinese instead of it just being a throwaway thing. I haven't yet had the brain power to really dig into what coming from a family of Chinese descent might look like for a character from the NCR but it's certainly on my list of things to do for my Fallout girlies.

12. Is your OC self-destructive? In what ways?

Katya: She's had self-harm problems in the past and she'll drink to forget but her self-destruction mostly comes in the form of isolation and putting up barriers to people caring about her. She thinks she's dangerous and it's better for everyone not to be involved with her. Smash cut to: she has a cousin, an adoptive sister, a partner, friends-- they won't let her isolate herself anymore.

Jules: Haha yeah :) She's like, barely clean of a raging Jet addiction (thanks to Arcade Gannon, RIP their friendship, read about it here), she has irresponsible and unsafe sex, she drinks like a fish, it's a miracle getting shot in the head was only the first time she came so close to death.

Miri: Not really, she's just kinda dumb.

19. How does your OC behave when enraged?

Katya: She's a very sharp, precision strike kind of rage. She'll be completely fine with one person, and within seconds be dragging a metaphorical knife through the target of her anger. She never takes it out on anyone but the person she's upset with; that, at least, she's got under control. Canonically she's gotten so mad at her scourge aasimar bullshit she's stormed into a temple to scream at god.

Jules: People die. Like, slaughtering Camp Forlorn Hope, launching nukes at the Long 15, people die.

Miri: She's never known rage a day in her life actually. Just terminally chill, this one.

#asks #anonymous #thank you!!!!!#katya fyodorova #jules mcallister #miranda st james

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Finding Emo

Tammy La Gorce | Aug. 14, 2005 | nytimes.com

THERE is no shortage of cultural exports from New Jersey: the ethnic clichés of "The Sopranos," the tortured grotesques of the filmmaker Todd Solondz and those grand oldies acts Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi.

Add to this list emo, or emotional punk or post-hardcore or pop-punk. That is, punk that wears its heart on its sleeve and tries a little tenderness to leaven its sonic attack. If it helps, imagine Ricky Nelson singing in the Sex Pistols.

Anybody old enough to have a full-time job can be forgiven for not noticing that New Jersey is home to break-out groups like Thursday, My Chemical Romance and Senses Fail, and that in the eyes of several national rock labels, the Garden State has become a hotbed for signing best-new-hope bands.

Turn on the Fuse network, the new generation's answer to the now-quaint MTV, and a single rotation of videos is apt to turn up a cluster of shaggy-haired New Jersey guys torturing guitars as they shriek about the bleakness of their callow lives. These bands share a sound (driving but desolate), an attitude (life's rough, man) and a history (gigs in basements, lodges and V.F.W. halls where they got their start).

Most of these bands haven't yet infiltrated the iPods of the masses, but they are sketching in the strong sense of New Jersey as a music scene the way Athens, Ga., was in the early 1980's and Seattle was in the late 1980's and early 90's. New Jersey and emo don't quite have that gravity yet, but more and more people are asking: "Where were you when Jimmy Eat World lit up the Wayne Firehouse in 2000?"

Richard Reines, who owns Drive-Thru Records, which is based in the San Fernando Valley in California, believes in the New Jersey scene; Drive-Thru's roster includes Hidden in Plain View from Stanhope and the Early November from Hammonton.

"We came back, because as label owners we couldn't be away from it," said Mr. Reines, who is from Fort Lee. He recently bought a house in Matawan and, for business reasons, now splits his time between the two states.

If you haven't heard of Senses Fail, a screamy Bergen County four-piece whose debut album, "Let It Enfold You" (Vagrant) made the top 40 last fall and has already sold more than 200,000 copies, you may have heard of My Chemical Romance, a punkier, goth-leaning band by way of Kearny and Belleville whose mainstream crossover came with last year's "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge" album (Warner) and the hit single "I'm Not O.K.."

If you haven't heard of Armor for Sleep, a West Orange-Madison-Teaneck-Maplewood collective with a video from the album "What to Do When You Are Dead" (Equal Vision) rising on Fuse, you may be familiar with Thursday, the raging New Brunswick outfit that toured with the Cure last summer. The band's "War All the Time" (Island), released in 2003, has sold 332,000 copies, advancing the theory that it, along with a couple of other New Brunswick early achievers, set the stage for a scene that has grown so hot that some hipster purists argue that it has already burned itself out.

The Big Bang

Jimmy Eat World, the band responsible for what Gabe Saporta, who leads Midtown -- a West Orange-New Brunswick heavy guitar outfit -- calls "the Jersey scene's golden moment," is not from New Jersey at all, but Arizona.

Even so, for Mr. Saporta and his peers, when Jimmy Eat World played the Wayne Firehouse -- which is still a firehouse -- that meant validation for their musical scene: though the band could have played to sold-out arenas nationwide, Jimmy Eat World swerved its bus into Wayne for a spur-of-the-moment free concert based on the pull of kindred spirits.

"It was their way of acknowledging the kids here," said Alex Saavedra, owner of the Kearny-based independent Eyeball Records. "Nobody could see anything, and it probably wasn't easy for them to get their equipment in there, but they wanted to play to kids who were doing what they did, which was owning their own scene, doing it on their own terms."

Jimmy Eat World was among the most celebrated acts tagged with the now-unfashionable emo label early on, and its sound -- moody, melodic and marked by an obsession with doomed relationships -- started filtering through New Jersey high schools and sticking to more introspective teenagers in the late 1990's.

Around the same time -- April 17, 1997, to be exact -- Saves the Day, fronted by Chris Conley, assembled in Princeton and was also quickly classified as emo. Its music, which hundreds of "confused, unhappy kids," as Mr. Conley calls them, would pay $5 to listen to on weekend nights at places like the Manville Elks Lodge and the Princeton Arts Council, resonated with locals the way that Jimmy Eat World soon resonated with a country full of sullen teenagers.

For Saves the Day, which went on to sold-out shows across the country, a contract with DreamWorks and several respectable chart runs, the build was slower than Jimmy Eat World's. But it energized a scene that every player that has emerged with a record deal since recalls with emo-appropriate love and longing.

"It was really an incredible thing that for us started 10 years ago," said Mr. Conley, who is preparing for a fall tour with Saves the Day alongside Senses Fail. "Every weekend, we'd go to a show to see a local band. We'd go to a record store in New Brunswick and pick up a flier for a show at a V.F.W. or an Elks Lodge or in somebody's basement, and it would always be the same people. After a while we created a little community -- these were the type of kids who probably didn't have a million friends in high school -- and it was a safe haven for us. There was a real sense of belonging, and that was the seed of the scene that's today. Now I get asked about New Jersey a lot.

"We were so lucky that we had those places to play, that sort of community, and a lot of bands that are in the mainstream right now owe their momentum to that."

Thursday's lead singer, Geoff Rickly, never meant to manufacture a scene when his band came together in 1997. But a cluster of key players who at the time considered his basement New Jersey's answer to CBGB's maintain that he did, anyway.

As Mr. Rickly explained: "We just wanted to have a place for people in the area to come see music. It wasn't the most original idea, but I had a house in New Brunswick I was renting with a basement, and it just grew out of that."

Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance said that road-tripping to Mr. Rickly's basement "was a way to keep the focus on music, instead of going to bars where kids couldn't get in anyway and people were only interested in getting bombed."

Mr. Saavedra, of Eyeball Records, the first label to sign Thursday, Midtown, My Chemical Romance and other bands before they leaped into the mainstream, recalled a typical Friday night in Mr. Rickly's basement: "You could fit maybe 100 people in there, and then you'd have kids in the driveway, in the backyard, kids with their ears pressed against the windows trying to listen. It was the sweatiest, smelliest thing, but it was incredible."

Mr. Rickly added: "It was a little sanctuary of a place. So many kids would show up that we'd open the storm windows so they could hear. One time we flagged down an ice cream truck for 300 kids."

On the Brink of Nostalgia

Nowadays, people want to do more than flag an ice cream truck. They want to flag down fame.

Mr. Saavedra of Eyeball Records says he has been wading through calls from bands hoping to get in on what Mr. Way calls "the Jersey signing explosion."

"People are saying that if you break in Jersey, you break in the rest of the world," Mr. Saavedra said. "I've had bands call me from Tennessee, Colorado, asking me what part of Jersey they should move to."

Mr. Reines of Drive-Thru added: "It's not only the music, the fashion starts in New Jersey, too. Say every kid is wearing a track jacket, and other kids are wearing hoodies. In six months or a year, the rest of the country will get into it. That's what people think."

Other acts yoked to the New Jersey emo outbreak include Hidden in Plain View (Stanhope), which released its first full-length album, "Life in Dreaming," earlier this year; the Early November (Hammonton), which is releasing a triple-album this fall; the Milwaukees, a Jersey City band that will release its first full-length disc next year and is already gaining favor in Europe; and the Number 12 Looks Like You (Bergen County).

These bands' popularity has also spurred an infestation of promoters and representatives from national labels in the New Jersey suburbs. They now mingle freely among the high school upstarts originally responsible for booking the lodges, firehouses and community centers where bands played -- and, in some locations, continue to play.

Though most young bands would welcome the attention of a major CD label, the presence of the music business carries the whiff of a sellout for the original players. If anyone corrupted the underground greatness of the circuit, the band members say, corporate party-crashers would be to blame.

"It's the most unique scene in the world," Mr. Way said. "I look at it now in a very nostalgic way. I definitely miss it."

"It was my church, my way to connect," said Buddy Nielsen, leader of Senses Fail. "Everybody was there for the music, nobody was there just to buy merch. And after a show, you'd all go to a diner afterward. That was the New Jersey thing."

No Place Like Home

Among every erstwhile New Jersey hall player, and even among the label people, a sense that you can't go back again has taken hold.

"The success of these bands is really a tribute to the kids in the scene," said Rich Egan, owner of Los Angeles-based Vagrant Records. "They were fans first, and they've been so supportive of each other. Part of the reason that Jersey is producing bands is because they made a space for each other to get their sea legs. Places like the Wayne Firehouse were a way for them to get in front of a lot of other kids and play. Kids putting on hall shows is the very definition of D.I.Y. I don't think trying to turn it into the Hollywood Strip works."

Ace Enders, leader of the Early November, said: "It's a strong scene, and everybody loves it. But when every band's getting signed, something's bound to change."

Depending on who a confused, unhappy young listener or hopeful rock star asks, though, all may not be lost. "Everything happens in cycles," said Mr. Nielsen, whose hand is smothered by a cross-and-skull tattoo that reads "Jersey" beneath it. "This scene is strong enough that it will recycle itself and come again."

Mr. Conley of Saves the Day said: "There's a distinct change you can see. Whenever you catch a glimpse of success it starts to change the music. But out of the ashes of a smoldering heap of junk, people become creative again because they're so frustrated."

Mr. Saavedra, though no less hopeful, is not convinced that the junk-heap comparison holds currency yet. A 12-band show he helped stage at the Wayne Firehouse in June had him feeling as if he had entered a time machine.

"Every single band that came through here played the Wayne Firehouse," he said, "so it would be great if they started doing more shows there again."

If that doesn't happen, several members of New Jersey's own brotherhood of bands may one day resurrect the scene themselves.

At a recent Armor for Sleep show at Irving Plaza in Manhattan, the four members, who have a reputation among their fellow bands as likable kid brothers, took a break from setting up to talk about life in a touring van and home -- in their case, their parents' New Jersey homes.

"It's the perfect place to live," said the band's 21-year-old front man, Ben Jorgensen, to nods from his band mates. "It's not typically boring suburbia. Every town is busy. It's like a mini-New York, but it's really safe.

"I want to continue living there, probably forever," added Mr. Jorgensen, who is a native of West Orange. "It's great for raising a family."

A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 14, 2005, Section NJ, Page 14 of the National edition with the headline: Finding Emo.

#emo #nyt #outside

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I posted 529 times in 2021

13 posts created (2%)

516 posts reblogged (98%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 39.7 posts.

I added 61 tags in 2021

#one piece - 9 posts

#hopepunk - 8 posts

#ace - 7 posts

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Longest Tag: 139 characters

#so in many classes i didn't do the homework at home but in the first minutes fo class and just didn't do it at all depending on the teacher

My Top Posts in 2021

Thanks hopepunk community for all the beautiful posts on Tumblr.

I'm pretty sure I'm in depression, and that I've actually been in depression for 3 years now, just wouldn't see it, and a few weeks ago I discovered hopepunk. Reading all the posts warmed my heart, got me to tears sometimes, made me smile, and the best thing ? I crafted and wrote and did things I stopped to do for months or years.

After all those hopeless years, I finally have something to soothe my mind and remind me that hope keeps us alive and makes us do great things. All I need is hope for the future to finally see that I can choose from many paths. That I can still do good around me and that it'll be worth it. That kindness and hope and community are everything that capitalism and patriarchy and all those fucking bad systems fear.

Let's fight the damn depression off and start doing good around me.

So yeah, thank you hopepunk community. Your posts are appreciated.

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If you're a filthy little queer anar punk like me (or honestly, just a regular human that works too), you may like those tips and ideas and links :

Quit big social medias, they're made to be addictive so you stay on the app and it give them money. Also they rely on things that make you angry and hurt to make you stay on the app.

Instead join free open-source community-driven social medias and platforms instead (suggesting Fediverse). With a real moderation and instance made by people just like you. Double-check your instance before joining though !

Rediscover the web outside what you can get from the GAFAM with those linkrolls and search websites : • • • • •

Read this article about "laziness" and why the researcher think it actually doesn't exist. Good vibes and positivity at the end of the read guaranteed.

Do something you used to do as a kid. Play with toys, craft, climb to trees, sing out loud in your room, cook pastries, read your fav books again. For me it was crafting and I just customized the cover of my little sketchbook and it felt sooo good !

Check out this list of leftist zines !

Remember to take some time to go out. In the morning it helps a lot to start your day. And to open your windows to change the air inside.

Your friends for researches : Sci-Hub and 12ftLadder.

In you need to know that anarchy works, read this.

Learn something new with those explorable explanations. It's awesome !

Just go through the "hopepunk" hashtag here on Tumblr if you feel hopeless, hate yourself, are depressed, feel sad today... Honestly it just feel so good and I cried and smiled a lot scrolling through this and I feel so much better since I know this.

Remember to breathe slowly and unclench your body sweethearts !

Please if you have linkrolls or other awesome articles, websites etc... to share... well, share it in the comments and I'll add them ! Or reblog with your links, as you wish.

A lot of love for you all here. You're great and deserve some love and hugs !

30 notes • Posted 2021-10-18 14:46:40 GMT

What would you do if you had a basic income that could cover housing and food and basically living ?

I know a lot of us are afraid of the future. Because we live in a world where we need money just to survive, but we also know those jobs aren't the thing the world need right now.

So tell me, what kind of business/job/activity would you do if you didn't have to worry about money to survive ? Tell us everything. Go wild.

89 notes • Posted 2021-10-25 13:45:23 GMT

I feel SO much better since I've discovered "solarpunk" and then "hopepunk", a few weeks ago. I've also stopped Twitter a week ago. I got back to creative things. I wrote for the first time in months. I tried myself on a mini-fanzine. I tried to fix my old ideas notebook. I created a terrarium, took care of plants.

I feel better. So much better. I'm in depression, I'm pretty sure of that, and I got a psychiatrist appointment in a month.

But thanks solarpunk and hopepunk. And thanks me for getting outta Twitter and limiting myself to Mastodon, Artfol and Tumblr. I have much more hope and positivie vibes in my life now, and it feels so good.

I have hope for the future now. I don't know where I go. I still don't know what kind of job I could do. But at least I got hope and music and craft to keep me alive now.

129 notes • Posted 2021-10-10 12:00:38 GMT

Write for yourself. Draw for yourself. Craft for yourself. Sing for yourself. Dance for yourself. Do anything creative for yourself, if it makes you happy.

I know it's hard sometimes because we want to share our stories and crafts with the world, and we end up having expectations and want to please the world, and eventually loose the happiness of creating.

Take that back. Create for yourself. Show it to the world if you want to. Some people may love it and follow you. And that's awesome ! But the only expectation you need to have is please yourself first. Do what makes you happy.

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Double Dragon The Movie: Inside Not Out

(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve's Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.)

I have never watched the entire Double Dragon film from 1994, the infamously bad video game "adaption," until recently. I say adaption as the movie has nothing to do with the game – a game I remember playing in the arcades. Since the film is terrible, it probably makes the game look better.

Many things that make the film bad – the acting, the effects, the script. But one of the strangest things is that the movie has an enormous amount of "plot" that has nothing to do with the game. Does a film about "two guys beat up a gang to rescue someone" need a post-apocalyptic LA, gang politics, magical amulets, and the like? It's a story where everything is grafted on.

None of this worked, as you may guess.

I started thinking about how others might approach a property like Double Dragon's beat-them up. I was thinking specifically about some Hong Kong b-movies studios, indie studios, and the like. The plot was a significant problem of the movie, so how might someone with a fresher, "punkier" sense make such a movie?

The original game has no plot except "beat people up until you save the victim." Some versions add a few simple elements – the martial arts the heroes practice, their enemies (The Black Warriors), being in a post-war New York, and the heroes' hope to save their kidnapped mutual love interest. Not a lot to go on, right?

So let me ask, what if you ran with this paltry lore instead of piling on extra elements. Don't add things on, but go deeper into what you have from the limited lore. Indulge me for a moment.

First, two brothers practicing a strange martial art and with a potential romantic rivalry? With the right actors, that's a core dynamic right there! We have two talented martial artists with a great burden – and a petty rivalry eating away at them? How do they evolve and grow as they battle their way through post-war New York? There's a story!

Now lets' take the Inevitable Kidnapped Interest, Marian. Rescue-the-girl tropes are sexist and overdone, so let's shake it up. Marian let herself be kidnapped to infiltrate the Black Guardians, all arranged by the heroes' master. Only the master got himself killed before he let them in on his plan to take down the Guardians. Now Marian has to pull a Die Hard from the inside to help the two occasionally bickering heroes defeat the bad guys and get her the hell out.

So we've got a Martial Arts Die Hard with arguing brothers? What about the setting?

We've got post-war (indeed post-nuke) New York. So let's toss in some politics, just not the egregious ones of the film. Several martial arts groups have worked to bring the city back, and some of the gangs would be up for it – except the Black Guardians want to rule. So our heroes have a chance to unite the gangs to fight for the city, and battling the Black Guardians can do it. That was their master's plan all along . . .

There you go, you've got a film. There's an epic journey across a devastated New York, with the city's future on the line. Two likable badasses with a weak spot for arguing, trying to save the city and their love interest while fulfilling their masters' last wish. A put-upon and clever female lead operating from the inside, trying to corral her would-be rescuers. Gang politics as an excuse for epic fights – and of course, it must end in all the gangs attacking the Black Guardians in a kind of Helm's Deep of epic action.

You didn't have to add on tons of unrelated stuff. Just extrapolate and go deeper with what you have. It's still two guys battling to rescue a girl in a post-War gang-infested New York. You add some depth to make it mean more.

Less isn't always more. But a few things with depth can make a movie or book or whatever far better than many elements with no depth.

Steven Savage

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#video games #video game #double dragon #writing

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This one is actually more like an au I have on my head but like, souda goes on an internship for like 5 months to work on nasa or somewhere like that (cuz he’s the ultimate mechanic haha) so like when he comes back he just has this one bag that is full of presents for gundham, each place he has been in he bought him something, some of them are what the sellers would tell him were occult things and others just wouldn’t make sense at all, and gundham is just super overwhelmed

I also sent the last entry but this part wouldn’t fit in so, souda also comes back with a haircut (I have a long shoulder mullet on mind) also kinda tan and maybe with a tongue piercing and gundham just can’t function for the day haha

Giving me those long distance Soudam feels my dude.

They video call like every night but Soda still misses Gundham so bad (and Gundham misses him too). Every time Soda sees anything that looks even a little occult it makes him think of Gundham and he just immediately buys it. And at first he’s just buying stuff for Gundham, but then one day he sees a t-shirt that looks like something Gundham would wear and he buys it for himself so he can pretend he’s wearing his BFs clothes (He wishes he had thought to bring some of Gundham’s clothes).

It’s not the same as when he actually gets to wear Gundham’s stuff, but it still helps him feel less lonely, so next time he’s out and he sees some pentagram earrings or something he buys them for himself (maybe he’ll still give them to Gundham when he gets home, maybe).

One night while they’re video calling Gundham notices the earrings and says he likes them, and really likes how they look on Soda (its for the same reason Soda likes them, it looks like he’s wearing something of Gundham’s) and that’s the last straw, Soda just keeps buying stuff Gundham might like for himself to wear.

I feel like America also has a much bigger punk scene than Japan, so I could totally see Soda getting into that and getting some more piercings (after Soda shows Gundham his tongue piercing, Gundham dreams about it almost every night lol), and maybe even a tattoo (just a small one, he definitely cried while getting it done but he will never admit it). I like to think the hair cut happens closer to the end of the trip and Soda isn’t too sure about it so he hides it with his beanie as much as he can whenever he calls Gundham.

Basically, when Soda comes back he’s looking a lot more punk than when he left and Gundham is just like ‘Thank you god, for making my hot punk bf even hotter and punkier’ and he makes sure to reacquaint himself with every part of Soda’s body as soon as possible to see exactly what’s changed.

After making up for all the lost time, Soda rolls out of bed and is like ‘Oh I got you some presents btw’ and just pulls out a whole suitcase that is filled exclusively with things for Gundham. He’s really embarrassed but Gundham slowly goes through every last thing, asking about where Soda got them and making sure he knows he loves every last gift as he does. By the end of it he’s gotten really quiet cus he’s trying not to cry (Soda’s the crybaby after all) and he just gets up and holds Soda close to him for a long time (Soda holds him back, he is definitely crying).

Eventually they let go and Gundham thanks Soda again for all the gifts and reassures them that no, they aren’t stupid and yes, he really does love them, and they just put on a movie and spend the rest of the night holding each other.

They’re like way more physically affectionate for the next while and it’s all very sappy. Soda keeps his new more punk look, and Gundham loves his shitty haircut.

#Soudam #replies #anon #Soudam ramblings #fluff

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Hello! What kind of music do you think Kakashi will listen to? Or do you think him getting into it at all? Thanks! :)

Hello!

Hmm so I don’t see him necessarily keeping up with genres or artists or popular music, but he probably does enjoy music as a whole. I’m not exactly sure how pop culture works in the Narutoverse, but let’s assume there are musicians, since there are movies and authors.

Though i think he’s probably bad at knowing anything about current music unless there’s a particular artist he really likes and he probably doesn’t enjoy music like most people do. He’ll probably get a catchy pop song into his head but not know anything about it, where it’s from, what the lyrics are, despite the fact that literally everyone else knows what it is.

He strikes me as someone who enjoys music to wind down, relax. He’s happy to let his brain shut off and so music without lyrics is what he probably likes most. I see him really appreciating instrumental music, jazz, and classical. Contemporary classical music like Ludovico Einaudi or Yiruma (don’t be too impressed that’s about the only ones I’m familiar with lol), but yeah, just soft kind of piano pieces that he’d listen to on a rainy day. But also traditional Japanese music, something with a koto.

Otherwise, he might be into classic rock. Kinda ‘dad’ music lol. Just those kinda old timey 80s ballads you might accidentally find him singing along to when he’s drunk. He probably really loves Bon Jovi’s Wanted Dead or Alive or Dry County lmao.

Or like, old school soul music from the 50s/60s - think Sam Cooke, Etta James, Otis Redding, people like that. I think he probably has an appreciation for that kind of sound and talent, things that are easy on the ears but also soulful and meaningful.

He probably doesn’t listen to music all that often, so when he does it’s kind of a special thing, but it probably doesn’t occupy a huge amount of his brain or time even if he does enjoy it. But in modern AU, he probably listens to music, like most of us, whilst commuting or driving. And i think his taste then would probably be the same as what i’ve outlined already, but probably punkier/emo stuff. Slightly ‘younger’ than what I’ve outlined here, bands like Modest Mouse or Bon Iver. Maybe he likes metal too.

i hope that’s enough for you ^^

#kakashi #kakashi hatake #kakashi headcanons #hatake kakashi #naruto #headcanons #ask #anon #answered #pfthinks

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Dwarves - “Lick it?” Destination Bomp! Song released in 1988. Compilation released in 1995. Garage Punk / Punk Rock / Trash Rock / Psychobilly

From critic Matt Carlson:

Short of G.G. Allin, it would be hard to name a punk rock band that went further to establish a bad reputation than the Dwarves. Playing deliberately crude, high-speed punk rock dripping with bad attitude, the Dwarves -- led by vocalist Blag Dahlia and guitarist He Who Cannot Be Named -- matched their music with lyrics that celebrated all sorts of bad behavior, and their album covers almost invariably featured full-frontal nudity. Add in the band's live shows, which often lasted less than 20 minutes and occasionally included a physical assault on the audience, and you have a recipe for infamy, which the Dwarves rode to a lasting cult following via incendiary albums like Blood Guts & Pussy (1990), Thank Heaven for Little Girls (1991), and The Dwarves Must Die (2004).

You know that phrase “live fast, die young”? It’s sort of like a life code for a lot of musicians, especially punk rockers; people who want to make their indelible, outrageous mark and then disappear forever; people who live in the now and only the now. Well, the Dwarves are a band that have more than fulfilled the first half of that phrase, but they just absolutely refuse to die. They’re geezers now, but they’re still kicking around out there. And you’d think for a band who plays as insanely as they do that they’d flame out almost as soon as they’d formed, but this San Francisco group has managed to completely defy the odds...so far.

The Dwarves actually started out in Chicago though, as a group of punky psychedelic garage rock revivalists who called themselves The Suburban Nightmare. But when they migrated to San Francisco, they decided to add a lot more shock and chaos to both their sound and stage show. You could hear it all starting to come together in 1986 for their first album as the Dwarves, Horror Stories, which was punkier than their Suburban Nightmare album, but still had the psychedelic garage rock sound, too.

The same year that Horror Stories was released, drummer Sigh Moan wrote one of the band’s most notorious tunes, “Lick It?” But it wouldn’t be until 1988 that the song would appear as the a-side for the band’s first single. Then in 1990, the Dwarves were signed to Seattle grunge label Sub Pop, for whom they shed their psych-garage stylings and decided to go straight-ahead shock-punk. It was a weird pairing to have this brash set of punk rockers on a flannel-clad grunge label, and in pure Dwarves fashion, they were kicked off the label for making a fake press release that stated that their guitarist, HeWhoCannotBeNamed, was fatally stabbed in Philadelphia.

But let’s get back to “Lick It?” then, which is a brilliant tune that catches the Dwarves between their psychedelic-garage phase and their solely punk phase. While the band’s earliest work was mainly psych/garage rock revival first and punk second, “Lick It?” appears to be the inverse. And it’s more than just that. There’s a pure, greasy trashiness to it, too, as well as a countrified twanginess. It’s The Cramps meets The Stooges meets The Trashmen. It’s a piece of southern-set B-movie horror whose fast-clanging country chords drone chaotically as they drag you down to hell; it’s that part of the movie where you’re careening down an empty, unlit farm road trying to escape from a reanimated skeleton who has evil intentions, only to look over and find that that skeleton is suddenly riding shotgun with you. “Lick It?” is punk, it’s garage revival, it’s trash revival, and it’s psychobilly. It’s an eighty-plus-second whirlwind of beautiful sleaziness, ambiguously telling you to “lick it,” much like how Frankie Goes to Hollywood was controversially telling you to “suck it” some years prior. What those two bands were telling you to lick and suck though, isn’t made apparent, but you can use your imagination.

For what it’s worth, HeWhoCannotBeNamed is notorious for playing in the buff during performances while donning a luchador mask, so maybe the song’s about his exposed dingus, and when he plays the song live, that thing just freely bobs up and down as he menacingly jitters on his guitar. Doesn’t that sound like fun?

One of the Dwarves’ best tunes. Some company ran an ad with this song trying to advertise stamps once.

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youjustwaitsunshine · 4 years

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Thank you so so much @suckmyballshoney for tagging me, it feels good to post something else than silly season drama for once lmao

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normally not, when people come over I frantically try to make it look presentable at the last minute

what’s your favourite number?

8 and 36, no real reason but I just like them.

what’s your job?

still in school atm, but after my final exams (next week oof) I originally wanted to go to Ecuador to work in an orphanage for a year but that’s been postponed

can you parallel park?

Yes! I did it perfectly on my driving test and I’m so proud of that! Even my instructor was impressed! (i probably wont be able to replicate that ever again tho)

a job you’ve had which would surprise people?

I worked at our school library for three years and that isn’t that surprising but it is surprising I didn’t quit after two days because the teacher who was my “manager“ is one of the (in a bad way) weirdest people at school

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I hope so, being alone in the universe would be so fucking depressing

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I sure can and I love it

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Instant Ramen noodles but the really unhealthy kind

tattoos?

I wanted to get one after my finals but then they got postponed and idk if now is the wisest time to get one. But if I get it, it’s gonna be the origami unicorn from Blade Runner.

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walk slowly when theres no possibility to overtake (cmon blue flag), trying to finish my sentences for me (theres a reason i am saying it and not you oh my god just let me finish or i will commit a crime)

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I do NOT enjoy spiders, there’s some severe childhood trauma in there

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I really loved anything physical with tackling and stuff (my poor parents) and I still enjoy going rock climbing

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pilot! I’d still really love to get a plane license but that probably wont happen anytime soon

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