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chaosincurate · 7 months

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The Bigotry and other evils of The Monster Mash By Bobby "Boris" Pickett

I've been listening to a lot of Bobby "Boris" Pickett lately, and I gotta say, the Monster Mash lore is fascinating, yet despicable, like a good true crime story. There is a lot of very compelling lore to the universe of The Monster Mash, but be warned, it is quite revolting and will likely irreparably damage your perception of Bobby "Boris" Pickett. No longer can I view him, as billion's of others around the world do, as a relatively noble entertainer, worthy of his success.

For those who are unshaken by such a warning, you may proceed, albeit with some caution, but for those who don't think they can take such a painful, earth-shattering revelation, turn back now. There is no shame in knowing your limits.

So the first awful act occurs in the hit song Monster Mash from the 1962 album The Original Monster Mash, it is established that Bobby "Boris" Pickett is not the creator of the dance, but the creator of the monster (Igor) that made the mash, which was actually plagiarised from Dracula's Transylvania Twist: "What ever happened to my Transylvania Twist? // (Its now the mash)".

Considering the fact that Dracula was reported to be "part of the band" at the end of Monster Mash (no doubt as an inferior form of hush money), you may believe that Drac and Bobby "Boris" Pickett are on good terms. There is still tension, albeit one-way, present on next track Rabian - The Fiendage Idol however, as Dracula politely asks the famous thief for a favour: to give his friend Rabian an opportunity to show his worth and hopefully collaborate. Bobby "Boris" Pickett responds with his soon-to-be characteristic egotistical response, lamenting that since he had a hit record and "made all this bread" his monsters have been asking for favours from their selfish master. He then hits Drac with another "bl**d-s*cker" slur as he relents and gives Rabian a chance. After being impressed he threatens to gentrify Rabians image and condescendingly sends him away with a "don't call us we'll call you". Horrific behavior.

What ever happened to my Transylvania Twist?

(Its now the mash)

Blood Bank Blues is performed by unproblematic king Dracula, so it is relatively controversy-free to begin with, as he simply opens up about the challenges of vampirism, but Bobby "Boris" Pickett refuses to give up his spotlight for even a single song, so he does make an appearance in which he threatens to singe Dracula's wings. Dracula, who is rightfully upset but still displaying his famous composure, shares with the world via Bobby "Boris" Pickett's own album, that "[Bobby] "Boris" [Pickett] put a stake in my girl's heart", which, given his blatant racism towards vampires throughout the record is undoubtedly a hate crime.

Then the album explores another aspect of Bobby "Boris" Pickett's cruelty, as he forces Igor into work in Graveyard Shift. It isn't clear whether Igor (or any other monster that is confirmed to be working for Bobby "Boris" Pickett in this song) is getting paid, but given they are in a band with a very successful hit song and Igor expresses anxiety around the idea, it isn't much of a stretch to assume that this is at least some form of exploitation.

Next song Skully Gully is frankly hard for me to dissect. I feel as though there is some skelephobia here, but I'm honestly not well educated enough on this topic to expose it. If there are any skeletons reading this, I'd love to hear your perspective on this song if you'd be willing to share.

More monsterism follows as the album reaches Wolfbane, a song in which Bobby "Boris" Pickett spouts every anti-werewolf stereotype going, from the notion that werewolfs only want to "chew people up", to the infantilising idea that they just want to play but can't keep themselves from getting carried away. Not just that though, he ridicules the features of werewolves and depicts them as ugly and undesirable, criticizes their clothes for not being "continental", and makes the assumption that a werewolf is related to the only other werewolf he is known to have interacted with at this point, Rabian. And while we are on the topic of Rabian, this song surely retrospectively casts some light on Bobby "Boris" Pickett's treatment of him in his eponymous song. It felt like there was something off about that, and I think this is why.

This next one gets ugly. Real ugly. Monster Minuet opens with what seems to be Bobby "Boris" Pickett apologetically reaching out to Dracula by giving him and his wife a warm welcome to the former's party, but things quickly spiral out of control. Natural charmer Count Dracula then compliments the "ladies in waiting", calling them "beautiful", to which an endlessly despicable Bobby "Boris" Pickett interjects referring to them as "slimy old ghouls". The discomfort continues as Bobby "Boris" Pickett asks Vampyra for "the pleasure of this minuet", which neither Vampyra nor Dracula feel very comfortable with, judging from the Countess' silence (not to mention the fact that Bobby "Boris" Pickett is reported to have tried to kill her) and Dracula's protestations.

Admittedly, Dracula didn't need to make things as tense as he did with his comment "There could hardly be any pleasure dancing with you", but his being on edge is totally justified considering the host's previous behaviour, which he was all too willing to revisit as he responds with a slur, biting back with "who asked you, f*ng-f*ce?"

The creaturism continues with Bobby "Boris" Pickett going after the fact that Dracula sleeps all day (a natural result of being biologically unable to leave the house in the daytime), and reusing his favourite ant-vampiric slur "bl**d-s*cker", and the "song" eventually ends with Bobby "Boris" Pickett referring to Countess Vampyra as a "snaggle-toothed bag of bones". A disgusting display of bigotry all round from Bobby "Boris" Pickett on this one. It's a very difficult listen.

The next song is a defiant instrumental from Dracula, the long awaited redebut of Transylvania Twist. Bobby "Boris" Pickett tries to deny its boppiness, but by the end even he has to admit "its a rocker!" It's not much, but it's good to see the true creative genius of the album get a win, despite such a powerful man trying to keep him down.

The record doesn't stay positive for long though, as Bobby "Boris" Pickett shamelessly pens a song with a thinly-veiled dancing metaphor for killing his workers, in particular Yanwish the Ghoul, as both a form of punishment for minor failings and just for sadistic fun. This is truly a whole new level of evil from Bobby "Boris" Pickett. Of course, we know that he attempted to murder Countess Vampyra in a hate crime, but this song displays such a shamelessness and lack of accountability that it terrifies anyone who cares about any of these workers.

Me & My Mummy is worth a brief mention, as Bobby "Boris" Pickett adds nuance to his character with an anthem about loving, and being attracted to those who aren't conventionally attractive. He still manages to be a bigot about it, but this is at least some growth that warrants a mention. If he keeps this progress up for a millennium he may not be a despicable person.

Unproblematic king Count Dracula returns to demonstrate true leadership credentials in contrast to Bobby "Boris" Pickett's totalitarian approach. He continues to innovate as Bobby "Boris" Pickett continues to rest on his laurels after the success of Monster Mash, with Drac flying out to Transylvania to work out a new dance, The Monster Motion. He consistently provides calm, constructive criticism as he works out the kinks of their new project. Yet another win against the odds from the hero of this story.

In the next song, The Monsters' Mash Party Frankenstein, here nicknamed "Frankie", opens the song by begging to be unchained so that he can Mash. Bobby "Boris" Pickett cruelly refuses to free him in a harrowing opening to another despicable song. It doesn't end there though, as Bobby "Boris" Pickett in the next verse greets Drac's statement of preference for his own people's dance with a condescending and hateful "Who asked you, bl**ds*cker?", the third instance of that slur in the album, and fourth anti-vampiric slur out the mouth of Bobby "Boris" Pickett by my count.

The next song is Irresistible Igor, which expresses very minor evils compared to the rest of the awful behaviour on display in this album. Bobby "Boris" Pickett takes a shot at Igor's looks, while praising his ability to break hearts, by seemingly leading women on for one night stands and then ghosting them. A cruel thing to do, for sure, but not particularly noteworthy amongst so much immorality.

In the next song Bella's Bash, he continues to berate and slander Dracula while again taking credit for a dance that Igor stole from Dracula,

After that, he then appears to visit Dracula, who is also apparently having a party, and judgementally asks to see his dance, which it appears he has had to modify since the original was robbed, decredited and sold to widespread acclaim. To make matters worse, Bobby "Boris" Pickett chooses to judge Drac's new dance (as a wrongfully respected choreographer) in front of Dracula's own children. Then he disrespects his dance by claiming that its not accessible to people outside of his creature group and is supposedly therefore inferior, contributing to a general theme in this album of Bobby "Boris" Pickett being in favour of total cultural assimilation.

Hope they didn't bring Drac, he's no friend of mine

His jealousy is widely known

Doesn't dig my Mash he's got a dance of his own

Also, for those keeping count, there is yet another use of the bl**ds*cker slur from Bobby "Boris" Pickett in this track.

Trigger warning on this next song for non-consensual pornography. Bobby "Boris" Pickett continues to demonstrate his exploitation of his spooky subjects, and particular bullying of Dracula as the next "song" on the album Let's Fly Away appears to be a recording of Dracula making love to Vampyra, likely without their consent, with them moaning each other's names.

Thankfully, the album comes to a close now with Monster's Holiday. It starts as an act of resistance against discrimination from Santa, who presumably ignored them up until that point. To retaliate, the monsters planned to rob Santa's sleigh, but as they were about to act on it, Santa actually gave them gifts, putting an end to that particular form of discrimination. It's nice to have the album end on such a hopeful note, following such an inundation of bigotry and harm.

So basically *The Original Monster Mash* is the best concept album ever made, with complex storytelling on display, with the clearest example of subversive writing being that of the evil protagonist Bobby "Boris" Pickett. 10/10 must listen

#chaosincurate #halloween #happy halloweeeeeeen #music #music essay

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bobbiethepunkkid · 4 years

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dude do you ever think about how there’s a skeleton inside you? and we have bones and you can feel them in certain places and you can knock on them like you would a door??? idk it’s a weird feeling. fuckin bones dude.

#i feel like this should have a tw but idk what #skelephobia #???#tell me to tw if you want

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left-leggus · 4 years

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When I was 3 years old my mom used to set me in front of the tv in the mornings while she would get me dressed for daycare and usually it was old cartoons and stuff.. one morning it was the classic black and white cartoon The Skeleton Dance, which features a skeleton jumping out towards the viewer near the beginning

would u believe that watching that cartoon once at 3 years old would be enough to give a person an all-encompassing deep-seated fear of skeletons that would last until age 10 because, well,

#i love skeletons now of course #but back then just seeing a picture of one inspired sheer terror #i had a lot of skeleton related nightmares #skelephobia

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cannondisabledcharacters · 1 year

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Today’s disabled character of the day is Samira from Samira og Skjelettene, who has skelephobia

Requested by Anon

[Image Description: Drawing of a girl with dark brown hair in dreadlocks and brown eyes. She's frowning with some teeth poking out. She is wearing a white long-sleeved t-shirt with red stars, yellow trousers, light grey shoes, white socks, and a grey backpack with a heart-shaped metal keychain.]

#skelephobia character #Samira og Skjelettene #phobia character #disabled character of the day

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sunny-adorkable · 4 years

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Postscript- The Witch In The Wood The road that's in front of me Is darker than I can see And I need A light to shine my way But the fire's warm and welcoming Should I Push on through the mud, or should I take her hand and forever stay

#videos #music #postscript #witch in the woods #my gifs #my gifsets #tw: skelephobia #this video and song are underappreciated

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silverhawk · 6 years

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the fear of skeletons is called skelephobia

#i thought it'd have a weird name but it doesnt its just skelephobia #barking #ok 2 rb /

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ratsoh-writes · 2 years

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A friend goes to Dove's house to give her a gift she made herself. She greets the guard dogs and Tempest happily but when she looks at skeleman, she's transfixed. Guess what, the girl has moderate skelephobia. Her legs were shaking so badly she couldn't stand up. Mafiafell, mafiatale, mafiaswap and underlust, 'cause lust boys are always close to the mafias

Charm: huh, most people don’t have this reaction to a short bubble gum pink skeleton. He’ll tell the kid a cute pun but ultimately leave the room. He hugs dove on the way out. She loves him

Sugar: “IS SOMETHING WRONG SWEETHEART?” It’s really rare for people to be afraid of sugar. He’s just so soft and cheery looking. Even for a skeleton. He’ll tell the little girl to sit down. She’s looking rather pale. Let him get her a water!

Snipe: he grimaces internally but doesn’t get up to leave. The other adults are out and snipe isn’t leaving dove and her friend in his home unsupervised. The kid will just have to deal. It’s not like he’s gonna get all up in her face or anything

Bruiser: he mentally rolls his eyes. People being scared of his looks is a pet peeve for him, so in this case bruiser isn’t very sympathetic. Plus dove talks about her “uncles” all the time. There’s no way this kid didn’t know about the skeletons here

Butch: he gives the little girl a toothy grin and wink. She screams and runs out the room. Butch doesn’t even try to hide his laughter *sshole

Boss: he ignores the girl in favor of fussing over dove and straightening out her outfit. Boss made them lunch too and figures if he doesn’t draw attention to the kids fears and keeps being domestic, she’ll calm down. It works and she manages a soft goodbye to him when she leaves

Ace: he playfully tells the girl there’s no need to fear him. If she’s so worried, dove could always fight him off for her. Dove also reassures her friend by hitting ace with a pillow. Ace pretends to fall on the couch and “die”. That draws some giggles out of both kids.

Slim: he ignores both kids and keeps working on whatever he was doing with his computer. Dove came in to ask if she can use his switch. Slim helps them set up the just dance then gets back to work. He’s kinda awkward around kids.

#undertale imagines #undertale headcanons #underlust #mafiatale #mafiafell #mafiaswap

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leafmilky · 2 years

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Did you know about the fear of skeletons? Skelephobia (that’s actually what it’s called). There’s also a fear of chocolate! It’s called Xocolataphobia. I wonder if Cross has it! what phobias do you know of? (Also, please correct me if I’m wrong on these! Thank you and I’m so sorry for bothering you! I love your art!☺️)

Oh! Frisk doesn't have this phobia. He is a cheerful little guy, but chara has dark phobia. After all, he was abused by his father in the dark when he was a child. Therefore, when he is sleeping, he must turn on a lamp or have someone to sleep with him. Sorry my English is not very good, thank you very much for liking my works.

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glqwberries · 4 years

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WEWCOME TO HEWW

- ninjago

- arguing about how to say "geno”

- skylander talk

- skelephobia

- plushie show off

- “would anyone like some stew”

- “pretend i said something funny”

- speen

- “haha funni joke”

- the four systems of the apocalypse

- “NoOo viNceNT- oH HEs baCK”

- bolt plush

- “how in the rock of a tiddy anus”

- talking about podcast again

- ellie joins the battle!

- sans voice

- giraffe

- ellie isnt special shes just better than other sisters

- ellie bill voice

- ink eats emmits batterey

- “get me the knife im going to stab you”

- inks siblings have all arrived

- abbadog

- emmit had to get on the fridge

- inferno lore and characters

- “FISH BOY!?”

- ink falls asleep

- trent thyroid

- catholic guilt

#ink talks #cursed crew

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xxloneblackwolfiexx-archive · 4 years

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Character study ---- Morgan Delmont.

𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 !

FULL NAME. Morgan Ambrose Delmont NICKNAME. Mor. Black wolf. Demon wolf. ( ALIASES HE’S PICKED UP OFF HUNTERS OVER THE YEARS ) GENDER. Male. HEIGHT. 6′0 AGE. 30. 17 ( IN TEENAGE VERSE WHICH IS SET A MONTH AFTER HIS ASSAULT TOOK PLACE ) ZODIAC. Aries SPOKEN LANGUAGES. English. Italian. Latin. Romanian. Partially fluent in Russian, French, and Samoan.

𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 !

HAIR COLOR. Dark Brown. EYE COLOR. Crimson Red. SKIN TONE. Pale olive. BODY TYPE. Muscular. Athletic. VOICE. Deep but at the same time honey like, with a strong Australian accent running through it. DOMINANT HAND. Left. POSTURE. Relaxed, friendly. Often crosses his arms. SCARS. Several large lacerations run down the entirety of his neck to his bum from when he was whipped during his sexual assault. One long claw like scar above his left eye. Bun scars on the back of his hands, wrists and left side of his chest. Two on his neck. A bullet wound scar on his right arm. Claw mark scars on his knees. TATTOOS. Black wolf sleeve tattoo on his left arm. Celtic red rose style tattoo on his left upper thigh. Red rose with thorns dripping with blood on the right side of his chest. Tribal green sea turtle tattoo on the back of his right leg. Clean living tattoo on his left index finger. BIRTHMARKS. None MOST NOTICEABLE FEATURE(S). His crimson red eyes and the burn scars on his hands.

𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝 !

PLACE OF BIRTH. Melbourne Australia. HOMETOWN. Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. SIBLINGS. Lupin Delmont. Cher Delmont. Priscilla Delmont. Archie Delmont. PARENTS. Noah Delmont and Monique Delmont

𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 !

OCCUPATION. Criminal defense lawyer. Paranormal researcher/ Paranormal investigator. Part time bartender when his brother is short-staffed. Supernatural researcher ( SUPERNATURAL VERSE ) CURRENT RESIDENCE. Queens, New York CLOSE FRIENDS. Richard Mayhew. ( @warrioroflondonbelow ) Jinx ( @the-wonderland-jinx ) RELATIONSHIP STATUS. Single. FINANCIAL STATUS. Getting by. DRIVER’S LICENSE. Yes. CRIMINAL RECORD. Detained for stealing. VICES. Coffee. Cigarettes. Alcohol.

𝐬𝐞𝐱 & 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 !

SEXUAL ORIENTATION. Homosexual. PREFERRED EMOTIONAL ROLE. submissive | dominant | switch PREFERRED SEXUAL ROLE. submissive | dominant | switch LIBIDO. High. TURN ON’S. Biting. Liking. Marking. Breath play. Hair pulling. Scratching. TURN OFF’S. Choking. Daddy kink. Being tied up. Spanking. LOVE LANGUAGE. Physical touch. RELATIONSHIP TENDENCIES. Protective. Cooking his partners breakfast in bed. Being their for his partner.

𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬 !

CHARACTER’S THEME SONG. ( Morgan has many so here is a mini playlist ) Breaking the habit by Linkin Park. Boulevard of Broken dreams by Green day. The animal by Disturbed. The Kill by 30 seconds to mars. Iris by Goo Goo Dolls. Feed the wolf by Breaking Benjamin. This is how you remind me by Nickelback. Monster by Imagine Dragons. HOBBIES TO PASS TIME. Painting. Drawing. Cooking. Reading. Video games. LEFT OR RIGHT BRAINED. Right brained. PHOBIAS. Pyrophobia. Skelephobia. Open water. Deep water. His mother. Dying alone. Being forgotten. SELF CONFIDENCE LEVEL. Low. VULNERABILITIES. His dairy allergy. Silver. Holy weaponry. Regretful. Self-doubting.

TAGGED BY: @itsagentzero TAGGING: @pumpcursed @vigilink @halliwellmonster @downpaths @genericmuses ( for Ben ) @timidstrcngth and anyone else who wants to do this

#/ Cursed creature with a heart of gold / ( CHARACTER STUDY )#/ Waiting black wolves laying in the snow / ( QUEUE )

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