#the bald black quartet

[soulaanshere]

You know the drill, honey

NSFW link below🩷

You were just so needy. You’ve been wanting to ride him for so long; you begged him for this. Let’s hope you can keep up🩷

#any and all of your faves #especially #the bald black quartet #soulaanshere #soulaansblurbs #so needy #aran x reader #aot onyankopon #connie x black!reader #hobie brown #my men my men #tanaka ryunosuke x reader

[sopheadraws]

I haven't played my violin in a year. Apparently I'll do anything for Star Trek.

[VD: A four minute video clip from Star Trek: The Next Generation of a string quartet. Data - an android with white skin, brown hair, and a yellow and black uniform - plays first violin; a young, white woman with black hair and a red and black uniform plays second violin; an old, white man with white hair and a yellow and black uniform plays viola; and a young, white man with brown hair and a red and black uniform plays cello. The scene periodically cuts to the audience where Sarek - an alien with light skin, gray hair, pointed ears, and a gray shawl - is crying and Jean-Luc Picard - a white, bald, middle-aged man with a red and black uniform - looks concerned. The video's original audio is replaced with a mediocre recording of "Mamma Mia" by ABBA on the violin. /end VD]

@readytospock

#music #mamma mia! #musicals #star trek #star trek tng #data star trek #jean luc picard #sarek #perrin #video #video edit #my edit #described #philosophie of mind

[maythevoidnotscreamback]

Scars of Sailor Moon 90's anime: What if

To be clear, it’s been a while since I’ve seen it and that was when they were dubbed and cut for English speaking kids’ daytime TV so shit might be missing, because the episode wasn’t aired, or remembered wrong because it wasn’t ‘appropriate’ for kids and thus cut in a way to make it 'appropriate'.

Now, is there anyone else who wonders what physical scars the Senshi, Tux and episodic victims might have if magical healing weren't involved? Does anyone else wonder if there might be various civilian group gatherings to show support not only for the Senshi themselves but for those who got attacked and subsequently saved? How they know it's all legit due to the similar scars, because some of them were attacked in a different way for the same thing (the Daimons vs Eudial's gun in S; The Amazon Trio vs The Amazoness Quartet in SS; Regular vs True Starseeds in Stars) and it shows on the people who were brave enough to show off what the baddie of the season had left behind on their bodies. Do the Heroes know about them or not? How would their various scars differ from all the regular victims due to various factors?

Read more to find out my ideas on how they'd look.

For 1st S: the girls and M have port-wine stains from the SilMil of their death wounds. Don't think Jed could've left scars with how he gathered energy but Neph could've left marks on his victims since they personally handled his cursed items. Those transformed by Zoi and Kun might have trace characteristics of their monster forms; and the Black Homing Crystal or their personal Nijizuishou could be tattooed on their body, or a tattoo or scarred outline (bald-spot/different colored fur for Rhett Butler (the cat)) of their 'Great Demon' that is believed they were just born with like port-wine stains because of the 'reset' in the finale, to differentiate between Zoi's and Kun's victims.

In R 1st half, girls and M have extra port-wine stains that look like actual scars but realize they're what they died to, wounds she died with (black where the rose vines restrained her and lichtenburg figures all over and outlining a hand on her throat) in Usa's case, when they remember. And leafed vine patterns on those grabbed by Cardians but Usa's and Mamo's are colored blue and pink respectively since they were drained personally by the reluctant Makai Tree. In R 2nd half, well they were mostly trying to take over locations more than gather energy so... maybe... Black Crystallized skin for those who were actually touched? Or nothing other than mental scars, due to the nature of their origin, and thus a simple outline of the Black Moon on the back of their necks? Dunno. ChibiUsa, at least, could have stretch marks due to being unnaturally aged by Wiseman.

In S, it's the shape of the Pure Heart Crystal literally over their heart where it came out, not the center of the chest as is seen in the anime. So, in the event one of the victims had that rare condition where their heart/organs are reversed that's where it can be seen. And if it came out the back, like what happened with Ami, then that's where it is. One can tell how one 'lost' their Pure Heart, whether it was a Daimon or the Gun, due to the size of the scar. If Daimon then it's the size of a Toonie coin but from the Gun it's the size of a closed fist. Minako's looks doubled because she handled her own Pure Heart and did so manically before collapsing. Haruka and Michiru could either have outlines of their Treasures surrounding their Pure Hearts or it's a detailed scar of their Treasures, no Pure Heart to be seen. Chibi's has a shadowy hand-print surrounding hers due to Mistress9 personally taking it while the scar itself looks gold due to Mamo acting as her life support while it was gone. Usa's looks prismatic, like it's literally embedded in her chest when it's not, due to her Pure Heart being exposed thrice, when the extraction was interrupted, when it succeeded and when she forced it out to save Hotaru.

In SS, the Dream Mirror scar is two closed hand spans across in width and fingertip to heel in height. It's the border of the Mirror and the extra scars that go with them that one can tell whether one was attacked during the Trio's time or the Quartet's. Stylized borders and 'shackles' around the wrists and ankles (blue waves for Fish, red flames for Tiger, gray tornadoes for Hawk) denote which of the Trio attacked while solid colored borders and the colored Stone (yellow for Cere, blue for Palla, green for Jun, red for Ves) on the opposite side of the Mirror scar denote which of the Quartet. Usa's is different in that black Aces make up her Mirror's border and 'shackles' due to Mr. Magic Pierrot being the one to 'attack' her. Not to mention the black lines betraying how it had been shattered and the unknown, probably never to be discovered, damage to her brain/memories/personality due to said shattering, what with dreams being products of our brains and all. Because I'm of the opinion that if one's heart can stop due to your Pure Heart being taken then one can become brain dead if your Dream Mirror is shattered. Why else would Fish be so devastated, because dreams can change and evolve or disappear when or if they are fulfilled, when her Mirror is destroyed? Chibi's Mirror is different in that her border is black but the surface itself is a shiny gold instead of everyone else's silver while the 'stone' looks like Zirconia's winged eye. Mamo's eye, the one Nehelania's piece of Mirror pierced, could be bordered by a gold ring if not making him hetero-chromatic in turning the blue itself gold. Usa could have scars on her legs, soles of her feet, due to traveling through/over vines on her way to rescue her family.

As for Stars, those who didn't have True Starseeds could have a 'tattoo' of that flower that contains said Starseeds at the border of their hairline on their forehead. Only the part that hovered there, not the full thing. And those who did have True Starseeds, that hunk of hair that the flower hovered over has taken on the color of said Starseed and is resistant to dyes or regrowing back the original hair color. Some of the women, and poor Mamo, has to weather the comments on their weird choice of color fad since... well, gold on raven, navy blue on blonde, green on brunette and red on ravenette seems... weird, right? Color your whole head, or at least in a Peek-a-boo style, if you're gonna be dying it such a different color at all, jeez! At least for the others they're close, or complimentary, to their original color, if still weird it's only that space of hair that's been colored a bit differently.

#sailor moon #sailor senshi #tuxedo mask #scars can be beautiful #what if

[kathyprior4200]

Meet the 2P characters of HH/HB

Property of Helluva Scribe/Kathy Prior 42

Reverse Locations:

 Haven Hotel (Opposite Hazbin Hotel)

Holy Halo City (Opposite Pentagram City)

E.L.F. Headquarters (Opposite I.M.P. Headquarters)

Humility Halo (opposite Pride Ring)

Charity Halo (opposite Greed Ring)

Chasity Halo (opposite Lust Ring)

Kindness Halo (opposite Envy Ring)

Temperance Halo (opposite Gluttony Ring)

Patience Halo (opposite Wrath Ring)

Diligence Halo (Opposite Sloth Ring)

Woo-Hoo Land (opposite Loo-Loo Land)

 Currency: souls (Hell) spirits (Heaven)

    Haven Hotel:

 2P Charlie Magne/Charlie Morningstar – Coercea Eveningstar (has a crush on Adam the Exorcist, teal suit, black hair, sharp fangs, violent, evil, prideful)

 2P Angel Dust – Devil Grit (dark fur, hates sex, straight)

 2P Alastor – Stalaro (blue and white, cowardly, sad, loves dubstep and sex, Techno Angel, loves sweets and tea)

 2P Vaggie – Phalla (loves men and hates to fight)

 2P Niffty – Klutzy (lazy, rude, gluttonous, lesbian, water/ice powers)

 2P Husk – Core (white cat, friendly)

 2P Valentino – Valentine

 2P Vox – Nil

 2P Velvet - Ashen

 Lucius and Lilian – Coercea’s angel parents, counterparts of Lucifer and Lilith

 2P Travis – Sivart

 2P Egg Bois – Hatchlings

 2P Baxter – Baker (the artist/animal lover, uses science for good)

 2p Crymini – Joymaxi the Heavencat popstar

 2P Mimzy (miserable and flimsy) – Jueva (joyful/strong)

 2P Sir Pentious – Bold Egull (bald eagle angel) (originally Anguis/snake)

 2P Cherri Bomb – Berri Blossom

 2P Razzle and Dazzle – Pub and Chub (Coercea’s rocker cherub lackeys, creepy babies)

 2P Katie Killjoy – Catie Carejoy

 2P Tom Trench – Ron Wrench

 2P Helsa von Eldritch – Seraphia (fiery angel princess bird)

 2P Seviathan von Eldritch – Enochsera (fiery prince)

 2P Rosie – Violeta

 2P Roo – Moo (cow, instead of and kangaroo trash-loving, hungry, Australian demon) likes vegetables and being proper

 2P Molly – Holly

 2P Fat Nuggets – Thin Tenders (Devil Grit’s boar)

 2P Adam and Lute – (Eva and Harp white anti-exorcists)

   Heavenly Boss: (in order of appearance)

 2P Blitzo – Docile

 2P Moxxie – Tirred

 2P Millie – Timmid

 2P Loona – Sunna

   2P Eddie – Ellie

  0 0 0

 “Savior Family”

 Mrs. Mayberry (good alternate universe)

 2P Jarold – James

 2P Ralphie – Ralph

 2P Martha – Mary

  0 0 0

  “Woo-Hoo Land”

 2P Octavia – Quartet

 2P Robo Fizz – Bio Rizz

 2P Wally Wackford – Sully Serious

 2P Fizzaroli – Rizzafoli

 2P Queef - Feeuq

 Additional characters: Azrael, Samael, Flora, Veronica (good Verosika) and Lord Menadel

  0 0 0

 “Autumn Intact”

 2P Verosika - Veronica

 Kiva Perdera

 Kiva Perdera’s cherubs

 2P Vortex – Portal

 0 0 0

  “D.I.A.B.L.O.”

 2P Lyle Lipton – Kyle Kipton

 2P Loopty Goopty – Straight Nate

 2P Cletus (C.H.E.R.U.B.) – Erebos (D.I.A.B.L.O)

 2P Collin (C.H.E.R.U.B.) – Devvin (D.I.A.B.L.O)

 2P Keenie (C.H.E.R.U.B.) – Dammna (D.I.A.B.L.O)

 2P Deerie – Doe-Doe

 0 0 0

  “Sowing Sun Festival”

 2P Striker – Soother

 2P Joe – Max

 2P Lin – Min

 2P Sallie May – Polly Pax (deaf, expert in sign language)

 Lord Menadel

 2P Billie May, Willie May, Tillie May, and Killie May (Millie’s siblings) – Polly Pax, Molly Pax, Holly Pax, Jolly Pax, Dolly Pax ( “Tolly” Timmid’s siblings)

 0 0 0

 “Lying Inductees”

 2P Agent One (D.H.O.R.K.S.) – Agent Negative One (C.H.A.R.M.E.R.S.)

 2P Agent Two (D.H.O.R.K.S.) – Agent Negative Two (C.H.A.R.M.E.R.S)

 0 0 0

  “Uri’s”

 2P Asmodeus/Ozzie – Archangel Uriel-Uri

    0 0 0

 Future/other characters:

 2P Barbie Wire – Holly Dove

 2P Cash Buckzo/Blitzo’s Father – Deferent

 2P Tilla/Blitzo’s Mother – Allie

 2P Joe and Lin – Max and Min

 2P Andrealphus – Damabiah (65th duck-like angel of the 72 angels, opposite of Andrealphus, representing sun and summer)

 2P Crimson Knolastname - Turquoise

 2P “Rosa” Knolastname/Moxxie’s Mother – Teal

 2P Chaz Turman – Zach (letters mixed)

 Additional characters: Azrael, Samael, Flora, Veronica (good Verosika), Jesus Christ, Mother Mary, Archangel Michael, Archangel Raphael, Archangel Gabriel, Archangel Uriel, Archangel Jophiel, Archangel Zadkiel, Archangel Metatron, Archangel Sandalphon, Archangel Chamuel, Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Lord Menadel etc.

#2phazbinhotel #2phelluvaboss

[mywifeleftme]

84: Yonatan Gat & Gal Lazer // Physical Copy

Physical Copy Yonatan Gat & Gal Lazer 2015, Joyful Noise (Bandcamp)

I have been pretty thoroughly on something each time I’ve seen Yonatan Gat, the Tel Aviv-born guitar matador who has become a cult figure due to his smoldering small combo stage shows. Gat and his typical trio or quartet like to set up in the middle of the venue, upending the usual artist-on-stage, plebes-on-the-floor dichotomy. Multiple times I’ve seen audience members helping hold up a cymbal stand that won’t stay upright, or gaping at Gat’s fretboard from over the guitarist’s shoulder, privileged to be the second head of a virtuoso. Gat’s music is loud, loose, and incantatory, predominantly instrumental punk/psych/passport rock rave-ups, occasionally interrupted by Gat’s drowsily romantic vocal interludes.

The first few times I saw him I was just starting to experiment with MDMA and acid, and I would spend the sets torn between my desire to lose myself in the music, and to write every liquid thought sloshing in my head. As a result, I “watched” a lot of the show through my phone’s notes app, standing next to the band trying to write as improvisationally as they played. I’ve just opened up one of those documents for the first time in years, from a Toronto gig accompanied by the dream trio of Gal Lazer on drums (AKA Gladys Lazer), Sergio Sayeg on bass (AKA Sessa), and Thor Harris on percussion and vibes. What follows are some excerpts from ten pages of very stoned responses, lightly edited for embarrassment.

The drummer’s so close it feels as though I could ghost through his back, talk to his array of golden plates easily as I tell my own hand to close round the throat of a flower, the handle of a watering can.

Check the bassist too, in his immaculate linen suit. When I saw him a year ago he wore the exact same outfit. It’s hard to imagine him ever taking it off— the white cloth just turns translucent as he soaps himself in the shower, becomes opaque again in the tumble-dry that fluffs his hair. White, on that note, seems to have the fashion diktat for the tour, undoubtedly conceived of by the singer under the influence of whatever sun rises in his brain that incinerates embarrassment, and a modicum of choice hash.

I’m one to talk: I’m so high my right buttock is trembling to the music of its own accord.

(If I were as gorgeous as the balding Shireborn playing vibes, I wouldn’t care about the black leather fanny pack marring my aesthetic either.)

The guitarist holds the neck upright, the way you do when a tough part in Guitar Hero hits, but for him, it’s like when you want to talk to someone with your mouth to their ear, while the foot traffic splits unnoticed around you.

Most times this part of the show is just jerking off— do you remember Richie Sambora? He was in Bon Jovi and played like Joe Perry sealed under a film of cellophane, like mushrooms priced to move. That guy jerks off; this deserves the longer word in Latin. There’s a drum solo too and people clap, and for the first time ever, not merely because it’s over. My carrier informs me my new plan has begun, with a whole new block of data to bore through. The singer does his sexy thing in a language made foreign by layers of mystic reverb. He introduces the players in long bars of well-meant fuzz.

"Shireborn" Thor Harris: Perhaps more dwarfkin?

And so on! Anyway, at the show I’d sworn up and down not to buy any merch (was broke!), but as the rolling waves of instant nostalgia about the like ephemerality of experience continued to smash me in the face like a toddler trying to wade into the ocean, I became fixed on the title of this little Steve Albini-produced single: Physical Copy. An answered prayer, something designed to last! Jump-cut to 2023 and I can’t find the fucking thing for this review, so I’m streaming it and still remember everything fine without the tactile reminder. It’s good, but don’t shop on drugs and be careful what you write is I guess the message of this post, oi vey.

84/365

Encore

if my ears are not ringing am I hearing at all? tinnitus is the air thick with angels.

I part their unseen ranks like a curtain of plankton, eardrums resounding to their pitchy carols.

I don’t know if it’s true this tingling is the last time I'll ever hear this sound; if it is, let’s say the tone was burnt up reentering the world from the silence of memory.

#vinyl record #music review #yonatan gat #tel aviv #gal lazer #gladys lazer #joyful noise #instrumental music #guitar solo #this is so stupid #mdma #'10s music

[odysseywritings]

The New Milky Way - The Giants

A massive ship ten times their own size closely followed the intrepid quartet, shrugging off rocks with ease. Unlike the smaller crew's rocket shuttle, the titan ship looked like a metallic yellow cloud with blue bands spiraling around it, and a red spot below the equator.

The ship had a blue, black eyed helmsman guiding the ship with intent focus. Only his head was visible as his body was a swirling storm of energy.

"Have you found them yet, Neposei," asked someone is a flat tone.

"Not yet, Umman" the sailor growled as his stormy body flared wildly. "But a hunter knows his prey as it bleeds away. Not rocks or stars will stop me from getting revenge! I'll capture them before long!"

"Understood. I shall tell Juniera. She will be most pleased."

The speaker was a pale, bald humanoid with her head and chest tilted to the right side and extra limbs extending at the top, making her vision lowered and askew. Black rings circled evenly around her body from neck to ankle or wrist. She walked around the walls and ceilings of the ship with ease as she traversed the myriad of silver and white tubes and discs running throughout the ship.

Umman reached the heart of the ship with two figures silhouetted before her, and she bowed with one limb and stretched out the others in a groveling pose.

"Oh, magnanimous Juniera," she fawned. "Neposei is on the trail. It will not be long before the ship is under your thumb."

"Excellent work," a thunderous voice boomed.

The speaker towered the already large Umman and Neposei. The being was immense vertically and horizontally, with thick features across a rosy face while wearing a glistening golden dress and red circular crown that shined like armor. All of this mass was supported by a dented, golden throne.

"Satronus, how are we on fuel? We mustn't waste too much on this absurd chase."

Opposite her was the much smaller but still massive orange merchant. A dazzling rainbow assortment of gem rings covered his long fingers, wrists, ankles, ears, nose, and waist. He smiled as his golden teeth shined brilliantly and turned to the queen.

"Even better than you think, your highness," he grinned widely while his eyes changed little. "I'm predicting we can catch these cretins and bounce back from our losses with an impressive net gain. The market is looking good as ever for their materials and selling the stock to the right men will make me- make us lavish in luxury!"

"A splendid bonus!" She inhaled and bellowed out. "Neposei! Presume course! Spare no expense!"

The captain sailed on in pure tunnel vision. This mysterious ship plotted its course unbeknownst to the ragtag drifters.

#wip: the new milky way #sci fi #science fiction #writeblr #creative writing #mywriting #njm

[steamworksandshadows]

Extremely Large Pile of Halloween Music Recs, 2020 Update!

(Reorganized a bit, and with a whole bunch more songs.)

Classical

Come Little Children - Erutan (ethereal classical)

Transylvanian Lullaby - Erutan (ethereal classical)

Transylvanian Lullaby - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (orchestral classical)

A History of Horror (album) - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra 

Double Trouble - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (classical)

Carnival of the Animals: Aquarium - Camille Saint-Saens (eerie classical)

Danse Macabre - Camille Saint Saens (dark classical ballet)

Uranus, the Magician - Gustav Holst (orchestral classical)

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice - Paul Dukas (orchestral classical)

Night on Bald Mountain - Modest Mussorgsky (orchestral classical about witches)

In the Hall of the Mountain King - Edvard Grieg (classical)

Dies Irae - Mozart (threatening choral/orchestral classical)

Don Giovanni, a cenar teco - Mozart (growly baritone/bass opera - the bit where Don Giovanni gets dragged to hell, both in the supernatural religious sense and in the modern internet slang sense)

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Bach (classical pipe organ)

String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor (III) - Shostakovich (classical string quartet)

Dance of the Knights - Sergei Prokofiev (classical)

Flowering Vines - Unwoman (ominous cello waltz)

The Carny of Mr Dark - Deathwatch Beetle Repairman (goth pipe organ)

Castlevania organ medley - Ulla Olsson (pipe organ)

This Is Halloween - Vitamin String Quartet (classical string quartet)

Vitamin String Quartet Performs The Nightmare Before Christmas (album)

The Vampire Masquerade - Peter Gundry (classical)

Waltz of the Bone King - Peter Gundry (classical)

Masquerade Suite: Waltz - Aram Khatchaturian (dark classical waltz)

The Comedians, Op. 26: Waltz - Kabalevsky (uneasy classical waltz)

Grim Grinning Ghosts - Myuu (instrumental piano)

Rock, alternative, rockabilly

Haunted - Ashcan Orchid (folk rock)

The Last Steampunk Waltz - Ghostfire (rock waltz)

Bad Moon Rising - Rasputina (cello metal)

In the Hall of the Mountain King - Apocalyptica (metal cello)

Get Your Kicks on Route 666 - Exdevils (metal)

Shoot The Zombies - Andrew Huang / Songs To Wear Pants To (sing-along folk)

Something Wicked That Way Went - Vernian Process (circus rock)

Dark Carnivale - Frenchy and the Punk (indie rock)

Come Alive (War Of The Roses) - Janelle Monae (rock)

Gallows - Coco Rosie (goth indie/alternative)

My Favorite Things - Youn Sun Nah (creepy vocal)

Annabel Lee - Psyche Corporation (electronic alternative)

The Devil Wears a Suit - Kate Miller-Heidke (alternative)

Toxic - Yael Naim (neo-folk)

Crazy For You - Venus de Vilo (indie rock)

Witchy Woman - The Eagles (classic rock)

Goodnight Moon - Shivaree (alternative)

Bela Lugosi’s Dead - Nouvelle Vague (alternative)

Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) - Concrete Blonde (alternative)

Tombstone - Suzanne Vega (alternative)

Off With Your Head - Mz Ann Thropik (alternative)

Poison Apple - Charlene Kaye (rock)

This Is The Night - Harry Potter soundtrack (rock)

Look Out Young Son - Grand Ole Party (rock)

Painkiller - Birdeatsbaby (rock)

Haunted - Frantic Flintstones (rockabilly)

Freaked Out and Psyched Out - Frantic Flintstones (album)

Zombie Riot - Batmobile (rockabilly)

Alice in psycholand - Nekromantix (rockabilly)

She’s My Witch - The Radiacs (rockabilly)

Werewolf - Southern Culture on the Skids (rockabilly)

Human Fly - The Cramps (rockabilly)

Munster Beat! - Martinibomb and The Coconut Monkeyrocket (‘60s pop remix?)

Circus punk, dark cabaret

Charmed, I’m Sure - Circus Contraption (dark circus cabaret)

We’re All Mad - Circus Contraption (dark circus cabaret)

Pink Elephants on Parade - Circus Contraption (dark cabaret)

The Last Waltz - The Magnificent Seven (dark cabaret waltz)

Tango de la Muerte - The Magnificent Seven (rock tango)

Bloody Bones - Beats Antique (dark circus waltz)

Monster Tango - Mucca Pazza (circus punk marching band)

Rumanian Dance No. 1 - Mucca Pazza (circus punk marching band)

Mr. Spider Goes Home to Spiderland - Mucca Pazza (circus punk marching band)

The Trouble - Birdeatsbaby (dark cabaret)

Theatre Noir - Robyn Cage (dark cabaret) (music video)

Jekyll and Hyde - Theoretics (hip-hop)

Lament for a Toy Factory - Dr. Steel (circus rock)

Bogeyman Boogie - Dr. Steel (circus rock)

Circus Apocalypse - Vermillion Lies (dark cabaret)

When You’re Evil - Voltaire (dark cabaret)

BRAINS! - Voltaire (dark cabaret)

Careless Whisper (cover) - Unwoman (electronic cabaret)

Katrinah Josephina - Universal Hall Pass (a capella)

Buried in Water - Dead Man’s Bones (dark waltz)

Metropolitan Waltz - Orpheum Bell (folk waltz)

The Buccaneers’ Waltz - GurdyBird (electronic folk?)

Black Waltz - Amber Asylum (electronic circus thing)

Creepy Clown Symphony - Myuu (self-explanatory)

Americana, bluegrass, blues, soul, funk

In Hell I’ll Be In Good Company - The Dead South (Americana)

Stranger - The Devil Makes Three (Americana)

First and Last Waltz - Nickel Creek (Americana)

Ghosts of Mississippi - The Steeldrivers (bluegrass)

7 Devils - The Goddamn Gallows (bluegrass, rock)

Old devils - William Elliot Whitmore (bluegrass)

Death Come Creeping - Stefan Grossman (bluegrass)

The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie - Colter Wall (Americana)

Shankill Butchers - Sarah Jarosz (Americana)

Hellhound - Shawn James (acoustic blues)

Voodoo Woman - Koko Taylor (blues)

Your Hoodoo Man - Studebaker John & The Hawks (blues)

Voodoo - The Neville Brothers (New Orleans soul)

Voodoo - Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons (soul, funk)

The Witch Queen of New Orleans - Redbone (funk)

I Put a Spell on You - Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (rock ‘n roll)

Jazz, swing

In the Hall of the Mountain King - Duke Ellington (jazz)

I Put a Spell on You - Nina Simone (slow jazz)

I Put a Spell on You - Morgan James (slow jazz)

Old Devil Moon - Frank Sinatra (jazz)

Black Magic Woman - Janice Hagan and Kenny Vehkavaara (jazz)

I’d Rather Be Burned As A Witch - Eartha Kitt (jazz)

Thriller (1930s Jazz Cover) ft. Wayne Brady - Postmodern Jukebox (swing) (alternate link)

The Devil With The Devil - Larry Clinton Orchestra (swing)

Swingin’ at the Seance - Glenn Miller (big band swing)

Spooks - Louis Armstrong (swing)

The Headless Horseman - Bing Crosby (swing)

Skeleton Jangle - Dan Levinson’s Roof Garden Jass Band (swing)

Resurrection Waltz - Lee Presson and the Nails (big band waltz)

Spooky - Puppini Sisters (Andrews Sisters-style swing)

Headless Horseman - Kay Starr (swing)

Hell (Remastered 2016) - Squirrel Nut Zippers (swing)

Ghost of Stephen Foster - Squirrel Nut Zippers (swing)

Memphis Exorcism (Remastered 2016) - Squirrel Nut Zippers (swing)

Boogie Man - Lee Presson and the Nails (swing)

Rattlin’ Bones - Preservation Hall Jazz Band (New Orleans swing)

Save My Soul - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (New Orleans swing)

Skeletons in the Closet - Louis Armstrong (swing)

Skeletons in the Closet - The Moon-Rays (swing)

The Mack - Beat Circus (swing - doesn’t seem very Halloween at first, until the tuba player gets murdered in the middle of the song. I swear it makes sense.)

Balrog Boogie - Diablo Swing Orchestra (swing)

Voodoo Mon Amour - Diablo Swing Orchestra (swing)

The House Is Haunted - Casa Loma Orchestra (swing)

Skeleton Jangle - Viva La Rocca (swing)

Two Little Men in a Flying Saucer - Ella Fitzgerald (swing)

Grim Grinning Ghosts - The Dapper Dans (barbershop)

Grim Grinning Ghosts - The Dapper Dans (in person) (barbershop)

Halloween Medley - The Cadaver Dans (barbershop)

Pop

Full Moon Tonight - Silvastone feat. Bellsaint (pop)

Demons - Hayley Kiyoko (pop)

Season of the Witch - Lana del Rey (pop)

A Little Wicked - Valerie Broussard (pop)

Halloween - Aqua (pop)

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) - violin/cello/bass cover - Simply Three (electronic pop)

Shoot The Zombies (Pink Fluffy Unicorns Remix) - Andrew Huang (happy pop)

I Put a Spell on You (no movie dialogue) - Winifred Sanderson (pop musical)

Electro-swing

Fear & Delight - The Correspondents (electro-swing)

Midnight - Caravan Palace (electro-swing) (alternate link)

Midnight - Swingrowers (different electro-swing)

Old House - Dirty Honkers (electro-swing)

Devil’s Samba - Sim Gretina (Latin-flavored electro-swing)

Devil’s Got My Soul - Victor and the Bully (rock/electro-swing)

Cuphead: Railroad Wrath (Electro-Swing Remix) - The Musical Ghost (electro-swing)

Cuphead: One Hell of a Time (Electro-Swing Remix) - The Musical Ghost (electro-swing)

Bendy and the Ink Machine: The Devil’s Swing - Fandroid (electro-swing)

Bendy and the Ink Machine: The Devil’s Swing (Glitch-Swing Remix) - The Musical Ghost (glitch-swing)

Undertale: Spider Dance (Glitch-Swing Remix) - The Musical Ghost (glitch-swing)

Undertale: Spider Dance (Sim Gretina Remix) - Sim Gretina (funk/glitch/chiptune)

Luigi’s Mansion (Remix) - Qumu Music (chiptune, electro-swing)

Undertale: Ghost Fight & Dummy (Peggy Suave Swing Remix) - Sim Gretina (electro-swing)

Electronica, EDM

Backstreet Bones: Everycorpse - Sim Gretina (uhhh…spoopy Halloween EDM remix of Backstreet Boys? If you click on nothing else, click on this one. It’s very worth it, I promise.)

Macabre Rotting Girl Feat. Kathy-chan - Sim Gretina (adorable electro)

Sim Gretina feat. Kathy chan: Let The Monsters Free (µThunder Remix) - µThunder (EDM) 

Ghost in the Machine - PrototypeRaptor (complextro)

Spooky Tune - PrototypeRaptor (complextro)

Nullifcation [Underground] (Legend of Zelda remix) - PrototypeRaptor (grimy EDM)

Grim Grinning Ghost (Remix) - The Living Tombstone (EDM)

Undertale: Megalovania (Sim Gretina Remix) - Sim Gretina (EDM)

Undertale: Spooktune (Sim Gretina Remix) - Sim Gretina (EDM)

Spooky Scary Skeletons (Remix) - The Living Tombstone (EDM)

Warren Zevon: Werewolves of London (Daheen Rmx) - Daheen (psytrance)

Interlude: Limbo - Yoshimasu Kamiya (ambient horror)

Bloodstone - Amon Tobin (atmospheric glitch)

Volk - Thom Yorke (ambient horror)

The Horror - RJD2 (instrumental hip-hop)

Crybaby - Drum & Lace (indescribable brooding atmospheric)

The Kid Who Drowned At Summer Camp - Hot Sugar (instrumental hip-hop)

The Darkest Evening of the Year - Emancipator (downtempo)

Halloween Funtime REMIXMONSTRousMASHup - Pretty Lights (EDM)

HALLOWEEN Theme Song (DJ Deville Trap Remix) - DJ Deville (trap)

The Oogie Boogie (Man) - Duke Skellington (glitch-hop)

Stranger Things Theme Song (Michael Jobity & The Foreign Machine Remix) - Michael Jobity, The Foreign Machine (synthwave - my personal favorite remix of this theme)

Stranger Things Theme Song (C418 REMIX) - C418 (synthwave)

Stranger Things (Louis Futon Flip) - Louis Futon (chillstep)

Stranger Things Theme (Slicey Remix) - Slicey (trap)

Stranger Things - Theme Song (Oscar Wylde Trap Remix) - Oscar Wylde (trap)

Ghostbusters (Kill Paris Remix) - Kill Paris (EDM, future funk - by far my favorite remix of the Ghostbusters theme)

The Ghostbusters Theme (Remix) - The Living Tombstone (EDM)

Ghostbusters Remix - Matheo (EDM)

Ghostbusters Remix - Fat Noize (dubstep)

Lady Gaga: Monster (Starfuckers Remix) - Starfuckers (EDM)

Lady Gaga: Monster (Chew Fu Remix) - Chew Fu (electro-house)

Michael Jackson: Thriller (James Egbert Remix) - James Egbert (electro-house)

Michael Jackson - Thriller [The Reflex Halloween Disco Edit] - The Reflex (moody, indescribable IDM(?))

Beetlejuice (Dubstep Mix) - Figure (dubstep)

The Addams Family (Figure Remix) - Figure (dubstep)

Hedwig’s Theme (KE KRA’s Trap Remix) - KE KRA (trap)

Stress - Justice (French electronic…something)

Things I thought were funny

Werewolf Bar Mitzvah - 30 Rock (parody novelty record)

A Hard Days Night of the Living Dead - The Zombeatles (zombie rock)

Schüttel deinen Speck - Peter Fox (witches’ dance video) (the track by itself)

In the Hall of the Mountain King - Portsmouth Sinfonia (experimental orchestra from the ‘70s - google them, you absolutely will not regret it)

Gangnam Busters - FAROFF (Ghostbusters/Gangnam Style mashup - annoyingly, it works far better than you think it will)

#music #music rec #halloween #halloween music #spooky music

[hellitwasyoufirstsergeant]

⭐️ if you don’t mind!! (i will get to work on yours soon!!) 🥰

I hope you like this! 🥰

Andante, andante - ABBA

Tranquilize - The Killers

Hey Brother - Vitamin String Quartet

One Woman Army - Porcelain Black

Climb Every Mountain - Peggy Wood

Night on Bald Mountain - Mussorgsky (mostly bc it gives me Halloween vibes and I will forever associate Halloween with you 🥰)

#ask game #shane simping sisters

[a-stitch-in-time-and-space]

my takeaways from what we left behind

1. the actors really understood their characters in ways that I don’t know if the writers always did. with the exception I feel of Siddig and Meaney who didn’t get to talk about their characters in depth (all Siddig really got was to say a bit about how people disliked his character to begin with + the stuff about Ezri I don’t agree with and I’d have loooved to have heard a bit about O’Brien from Meaney’s pov, his moving through his trauma, etc through his friendship with Bashir but oh weeell).

2. this became even more obvious to me when I saw the outline for the hypothetical episode the writers did. it feels like it came less from a place of character and more “what would be most surprising,” which isn’t how I write at allllll. that being said it was an outline for a first episode, so things could always reveal themselves differently in a hypothetical season

3. Andy Robinson. that’s it

4. Nana Visitor. also that’s it.

5. no hold on, on Andy, I want to personally thank him for having every one of his lines be iconic, and for constantly mentioning Julian, what a legend (also he seems like he’d be up for comin back, just saying. all that enthusiasm...)

6. Nana Visitor clearly haaaaated the “gul dukat and Kira’s mother” plotline and I feel vindicated on this also, because it felt cheap, badly written to the point of offensiveness (women forced to have sex with their oppressors being to blame is not a take I expected to see on this show)

7. I thought Nana mentioning that it would have been ineresting to see Kira start a relationship with a Cardassian (just not gul dukat), because uh yeah, hard same, esp post-dominion war. my first gut instinct was how she and damar really had a great dynamic but a. he died and b. i want kira to be with a woman, so now I have headcanons about her and Garak continuing their friendship (begun then imo) and her helping out, cos she becomes idk, main diplomat between bajor and cardassia and she through him and her work she meets this great cardassian gal...

8. everything Avery Brooks. especially Brooks basically adopting Lofton. fuck. i’m glad they were so honest about his contributions to the show, as actor, director, bringing in his culture and with that the casting of more black actors and creatives. (fully can feel the racism is still palpable in particularly that studio head guy who said that the look of beard and bald was “street” like dude... c’mon).

Also he directed the episode with Lenara and Jadzia. A true icon.

9. Rene Auberjonois talked about his obituary. Aron Eisenberg cried about how much this show meant to him. RIP to you both, the show wouldn’t have been as fantastic without all you gave to it.

10. Ira acknowledged they didn’t do enough for the lgbt+ community, although I don’t think he went far enough in that acknowledgement (he didn’t actually say “lgbt+ or queer” he just said sexual identity), probably because he doesn’t know much about the community really? which to my mind feels like, as well-meaning as he is, what’s needed is definitely a new guard of writers if he’s indicative of the more liberal of tv right now

11. the ending was perfect. i was fully prepared and half-way to tears and then that fucking quartet??? this cast is really perfect (and I haven’t even MENTIONED armin shimerman inviting the ferengi-crew to his place or how funny he was) and I’m so glad they still have so much love for each other and their work

#what we left behind #ds9 #st: ds9 #star trek #avery brooks #nana visitor #andy robinson #rene auberjonois #armin shimerman #aron eisenberg #alexander siddig #nyaaa didn't even get into the part with terry where she talked a bit about leaving #clearly it was such a shit time for her but I'm glad she and the cast still get on #colm meaney

[shadowinthecloudfilmeonline]

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No ponto crítico em Shadow in the Cloud, quando a ação se torna necessária para enfrentar as ameaças crescentes, é uma mulher solitária cercada por homens chauvinistas que, sem dúvida, está acima de todos os outros. Forçada a lutar ou fugir, ela não vai a lugar nenhum e seus gritos de batalha são: "Você verá do que sou capaz!" e "Você não entende o quão longe irei!" Rapazes, tenham medo. Não ouse contrariar uma mulher determinada, não importa seu tamanho, idade ou profissão. Eles têm uma dureza absoluta que a maioria não consegue compreender.

Essa mulher solitária é a oficial de vôo Maude Garrett, interpretada por Chloë Grace Moretz, e ela é uma garota exponencial, especialmente para uma história ambientada durante a era da Segunda Guerra Mundial de "damas", "gajas" e "vadias". As ameaças em questão são multifacetadas, desde a misoginia depreciativa a balas japonesas e, como o título do filme sugere, um mistério assustador no meio. Desprezada e maluca a cada passo, a diretora Roseanne Liang fez um filme de ação que ela define como “selvageria feminina estilística”. Caramba, ela está certa! Em uma noite tempestuosa de 1943 em uma base aérea da Nova Zelândia, Maude elaborou pedidos falsificados do alto escalão e contrabandeou uma arma de fogo para se juntar à tripulação do bombardeiro B-17 "The Fool's Errand" pouco antes da decolagem em uma missão de entrega de suprimentos para Samoa. Seus papéis insistem que a bolsa de rádio que ela carrega permanece totalmente fechada e protegida a todo custo. A presença de Maude traz à tona conversas horripilantes de insinuações balbuciantes e oposição rancorosa entre a tripulação, liderada pelo severo Capitão John Reeves (Callan Mulvey de Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice) no assento do piloto. Ela é relegada à torre de bola "sperry", enquanto o sargento Walter Quaid (Taylor John Smith de Hunter Killer) é encarregado de guardar a bolsa. Presa em seu balde de parafusos barulhento sob o ventre empoleirado se defendendo dos comandos para dores no traseiro obstinado, o clima muda quando Maude vê algumas coisas acontecendo fora do avião entre os balanços e oscilações da viagem aérea turbulenta (feito por Guns Akimbo supervisor do editor de som Nick Buckton). O primeiro são vislumbres de rastros de reconhecimento japonês que são deixados de lado pela tripulação para serem impossíveis tão longe ao sul quanto estão do ativo teatro do Pacífico. O segundo é de natureza mais animalesca quando é descrito como um grande rato alado se intrometendo na asa. Esse relatório traz risadas desdenhosas em vez de avisos acatados. Droga, cara, ouça a garota.

A equipe está cacarejando porque eles receberam PSAs do local de trabalho malucos (como um no filme recriado Tim Evans, líder de design de animação de Mukdaddy, que telegrafa o incômodo que está por vir) e cartazes por anos pedindo diligência para elevar o moral em seu trabalho manual para prevenir " gremlins ”de causar mau funcionamento. Semelhante a uma mistura entre duendes travessos e o Lobo Mau, esta era uma verdadeira tradição nascida da Segunda Guerra Mundial que mais tarde seria caracterizada e popularizada pelo autor Roald Dahl, ele próprio um ex-aviador. Tirada da lenda pela equipe de efeitos visuais de Stephen Unterfranz na WETA Digital como um bicho astuto e um pequeno adversário agourento para o deleite cinematográfico, essa é precisamente a ameaça mítica mais perigosa do que os lutadores japoneses que Maude se vê olhando. O tumulto aéreo que se segue em Shadow in the Cloud é um turbilhão turbulento impulsionado pelo coordenador de dublês da Tríplice Fronteira, Tim Wong, e orquestrado pela pulsante música eletrônica de Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper e The Black Quartet.

A ação é inteiramente centrada na provocada dama de ação de Chloë Grace Moretz e a jovem atriz precipita-se neste resfriador cinético. A câmera giratória do diretor de fotografia Kit Fraser raramente deixa o vigor feminino de sua heroína apropriadamente imperfeita. Igual à própria atriz, Maude é um indivíduo problemático com uma complexidade falha que balança o pêndulo natureza versus criação como um machado de batalha. Embora a atuação de Moretz possa estar escondida em um pequeno indie na esperança de um público mais amplo em um grande lago de fluxo, conte este papel como uma nova e valiosa adição ao cânone de ação feminina ao lado de Furiosas e Sarah Connors da história da tela. Ela é tão tenaz. Apropriadamente, Shadow in the Cloud assina como um tributo aos WASPs da Segunda Guerra Mundial, completo com imagens de arquivo compiladas por Pearl Lieberman, dando ao gênero brincadeira um nível mais alto de dignidade do que emoções puramente escapistas.

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[mask131]

The Four Horsemen: Charmed

In 2000, Charmed did a special episode about the apocalypse, "Apocalypse, Not", and obviously it had to feature the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. In this setting, the Four Horsemen are beings ranking high in the "hierarchy of evil" (because of course, as the villains, they need to be part of the Evil group). It is unclear if they are demons or sorcerers or something else, but we know that they were chosen and work directly for the "Source of All Evil", aka this show's devil or anti-god. Being a Horsemen is not a trait of nature or essence, but rather a job - according to mystical cycles, from time to time Evil has the right to prepare and try to launch the Apocalypse, and for that the Source "choses" four Horsemen whose job is to bring on the end of the world before a very specific day and hour. If they ever fail to reach this "deadline", the Source will destroy them and replace them with new Horsemen. The mention of "willing souls" replacing the Horsemen seems to indicate that they might have been humans before rising into power - maybe human warlocks, or damned souls. In this particular episode, we meet the Four Horsemen that tried to bring the Apocalypse in the year 2000. While they can appear as real horsemen, riding horses and all that, they usually take the shape of businessmen, ruling over an entire corporation dedicated to bring the end of the world - a metaphor reinforced by the "deadline" the Source imposes on them and by the fact they keep charts and graphics of each Horseman, or each Horseman's department "results" in the world. The show slightly reinvented the Horsemen imagery. Each Horseman has a specific color associated with him (the color of their tie when wearing their business-suits, and of their capes when they ride their horses), a color not always associated with their horses. No trace of their specific item (even though we see an old painting of them created for the show that represents them with weapons). And finally they all have an omega tattoo on their neck - in fact the omega is the symbol of their organization, being the last letter of the Ancient Greek alphabet and thus often associated with death and the end. War (played by Brian Thompson) is associated with the color red and rides a black horse. As his name says, he is in charge of making sure peace is taken off from the world so that war and conflicts may enter - at the time he was working on Rwanda and Chechnya. Interestingly, War seems here to be the leader of the four Horsemen, and the strongest, but he also tends to boss around and enter in conflict with his brothers, especially Strife. In the ancient painting mentionned above, War appears as a Roman soldier with his red cape and a spear in his hand - interestingly, he rides a brown horse, but one with a sort of reddish hue to it, making the beast look almost caramel-colored.   Famine (played by Jeff Ricketts) is associated with the color yellow, and rides a brown horse. Again, he is the classical Famine, working on bringing hunger and misery to the world - at the time he is mainly working on North Korea and the Appalachia. He is the calmer and the more rational of the four, often calming the hot temper of his "siblings" and preventing them from fighting each other. In the ancient painting mentionned above, he appears as actually riding a black horse, as an old, bald and bearded man wrapped in a yellow sheet/cape, vaguely Greek in feeling, and holding what seems to be a golden cauldron, turned away from the viewer... probably to symbolize that he is snatching the food away? Death (played by Patrick Kilpatrick) is associated with the color black, and rides a white horse. The show chose to mix with him the notion of pestilence, because Death's task is to spread epidemies and diseases in the world, such as cholera and smallpox. At the time he was working mainly on Central Africa and the United States. He seems to be the second-in-power in the quartet, often acting as a rival or an opposition to War, and proning much more violent, direct and destructive plans. In the ancient painting mentionned above, he appears as a muscular man dressed in what I can only describe as a "fantasy Arabian assassin/guard/killer" outfit, with a black cape and hood, and black pants and boots, nothing else. He holds a skull in one hand, a saber in another, and seems to have a skull for a face.   As for the final horseman, usually Conquest, the show decided to change him to Strife (played by Geoffrey Blake). Associated with the color green and riding a light-brown horse (Famine's horse is of a darker brown), his role is to cause riots, anarchy, street brawls, violence outbreaks and other civil unrest through the world. While his brothers seem to have larger scale domains, he was rather working on small areas: Taiwan and San Francisco. He may not be one of the leaders, but he acts as a pendant to Death, acting more as a tactician and an intellectual, proning cautiousness and trickery, where Death rather seek destruction and brutality. In the ancient painting mentionned above, he appears as the typical "Viking" archetype, with the horned helmet and a two-headed axe, riding a brown/light-brown horse. An interesting note - in the episode they try to explain why the Horsemen would try to cause the Apocalypse in the middle of the year 2000 and not on 1999 New Year's Eve, with the Y2K and all that. And apparently it is because due to miscalculations - when the monks converted the Julian calendar to the Gregorian one, they made "critical mistakes", ending up with the true Millenium ending at the date of the episode. Which is of course, left unknown. And the Horsemen have to cause the end of the world before 7:00 PM. One of the characters also mentions the two previous time the Horsemen tried to cause the Apocalypse: "Hitler" (aka World War II) and "the Cuban missile crisis" (aka, the Cold War and nuclear war). Of course, these two previous groups both failed and were destroyed as a result by their "boss".

#four horsemen #horsemen of the apocalypse #four horsemen of the apocalypse #charmed #television series #war #death #famine #strife

[this-is-a-love-story-fleabag]

The Wedding Planner (3/4)

An AU in which Fleabag is a wedding planner, and Klare and Claire have found the perfect Catholic church to get hitched in... 1589 words. Other chapters: 1, 2. Also on ao3.

"You looked great in the purple," she continued, motioning up and down his body where the vestment used to be. He'd already changed back down to his plain black shirt and trousers, which were less flamboyant but did show off his muscles in a sexy, understated kind of way.

Not that she was looking, or anything.

"You look absolutely fucking-" he started. "Oh, yes, bless you," he said to another guest.

"You're right, I do look absolutely fucking," she laughed.

"Lovely," he said, laying a hand on the small of her back and leaning close to murmur in her ear. "Absolutely fucking lovely."

The priest was resplendent in his plum robes, gracing the assembled guests with a dazzling smile as the string quartet played a slow march.

Claire processed slowly up the aisle on her father's arm, walking in step to the music. Beaming widely, Klare awaited her before the altar, the picture of happiness on seeing his bride.

They met at the head of the aisle and turned to each other, the rest of the world forgotten for a moment as they shared a silent communion. The best man and the wedding planner (who was doing double duty as maid of honour and only bridesmaid), having followed in step, parted ways, and she slid into her assigned seat at the front of the church, landing next to and slightly on top of her godmother, who was wearing a new dress and an expression of mulish displeasure.

Clearing his throat, the priest spread his arms wide to begin his consecration of the marriage.

"Love is selfish," he declared.

The wedding planner shot him a look which she hoped communicated the pressing need for the wedding ceremony not to be fucking weird.

"Romantic love consumes you, distracts you, makes you pour all of your energy into loving just one person more than everyone else in the world. It torments you! It keeps you up at night, makes you neglect your duties, makes you want to hoard all of someone else's attention for yourself."

Susurrations were permeating the congregation, guests murmuring to each other in confusion.

"Love is a catastrophe! It hits you like a freight train and leaves you burning with hurt and passion. So why on Earth do we choose it?"

He paused and focused his attention on the bride and groom.

"The Bible teaches us that God's love is infinite. Just as a parent's love for one child doesn't decrease when they have a second child, so does God's love expand to cover all the multitudes of the earth. I think that when you fall in love with one person, it multiplies your love for the entire universe."

Claire and Klare looked into each other's eyes, unspeakably soft smiles blooming on their faces.

"I think the strength that comes from the bonds of marriage opens up the rest of the world to you. I think that the capacity of human love is infinite and ever-expanding."

Relaxing back into her seat a little as things seemed to be back on track, the wedding planner took a moment to bask in the sight of him, standing illuminated by his faith. He met her eyes and graced her with one of his gentle smiles as he spoke the conclusion.

"For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is God's love."

"Come here, I've got a present for you," whispered the wedding planner to her sister, managing to snatch a quiet moment between the procession out of the church and forming a receiving line outside.

"Oh, you shouldn't have," said Claire, still a little starry-eyed and flustered after the ceremony. She opened the ornate little gift box and then pinned her sister with a disapproving frown. "You shouldn't have," she said again, in an entirely different tone of voice.

"Come on," she smirked as she took the bronze torso out of the box. "Did you really expect anything else?"

Claire nestled the statue back into the tissue paper, her mouth set into a firm line that was nonetheless twitching with suppressed, fond mirth.

"Come on," she sighed. "It's time for the receiving line."

They were accosted by Klare as soon as they emerged, blinking into the sunlight.

"You did a wonderful job!" he exclaimed, effusively kissing his new sister-in-law on both cheeks.

"Yes, you actually did," said Claire, sounding mildly surprised. "That priest was a bit weird," she added in an undertone. "I wish he'd- oh!" she said quickly as the priest walked up to shake her hand. "Lovely service, Father, thank you so much."

"Thank you. You were wonderful, both of you. Thanks so much for choosing my church for this, it was an honour to be able to marry you."

He clapped Klare on the shoulder and moved on to take the wedding planner's hand, stroking his thumb over hers and holding on for a moment longer than was strictly appropriate.

"Father," she greeted him. "That ceremony was really something."

"Thanks, I- oh, hi!" he broke off as a parishioner approached. "God bless you," he said politely, waving the man off and taking his place in line beside the wedding party.

"You looked great in the purple," she continued, motioning up and down his body where the vestment used to be. He'd already changed back down to his plain black shirt and trousers, which were less flamboyant but did show off his muscles in a sexy, understated kind of way.

Not that she was looking, or anything.

"You look absolutely fucking-" he started. "Oh, yes, bless you," he said to another guest.

"You're right, I do look absolutely fucking," she laughed.

"Lovely," he said, laying a hand on the small of her back and leaning close to murmur in her ear. "Absolutely fucking lovely."

"I completely agree," said a wry, amused voice. A stylish older woman grasped the wedding planner by the shoulders and gave her a firm kiss on the lips.

"Belinda," she responded, kissing her back. "I hope you liked the ceremony."

"Beautiful, absolutely beautiful," said Belinda, making very sincere eye contact. "I must book you to plan my funeral for me."

The wedding planner let out a laugh. "That's a terrible investment. You'll outlive us all."

"I'll see you at dinner." Belinda grinned at her fondly and kissed her again, giving a courteous nod to the priest as she walked away.

"Was that... is she your...?" he managed, shifting uncomfortably on his feet.

"No, but she is the best woman in business."

"Ah. Difficult to resist."

"Impossible."

The crowd had thinned out a great deal, with only a few stragglers remaining, waiting to accompany the bride and groom over the road to a sleek glass-and-chrome hotel for the reception.

"We're heading to the reception venue, can you deal with the...?" said Claire to her sister, pausing expectantly.

"Don't worry about it," said the wedding planner. "I'm on it."

The priest was engaged in friendly conversation with Klare's parents, and jumped a little when his elbow was grabbed. "Stay behind for a minute," she murmured. "I might need your help with this next bit."

"I hope you don't need my spiritual guidance," he responded, waving goodbye to the Korhonens and following her inside, "because I think I've used up my one good speech today."

"No, just a bit of brute and manly strength if required."

"Ah, listen, about earlier, I really can't-"

"Not that kind of manly strength. Just come on."

She dragged him into an alcove near the door, checking the time on her phone.

"Any minute now."

"What are we-"

"Shh!" She put a hand over his mouth to muffle his protests, and they waited in silence as the seconds ticked by, listening for the creak of the old wooden door. Just as the priest began to entertain the idea of licking her hand in the name of revenge, a set of footsteps shuffled to the entrance and the doors were flung wide open.

A balding man with dark, curly hair strode in, reeking of whisky and waving his arms in the air. "Stop the wedding!" he bellowed, his words echoing in the empty church. "I object! I object!"

He paused after a moment, noticing the lack of a wedding in progress, and this was when the wedding planner stepped out of the alcove.

"You! I should have known you'd fuck this up," he hissed, jabbing a finger into her shoulder. "Where's the fucking wedding at?"

"Sorry, Martin, I might have accidentally given Jake the wrong time," she replied, the picture of innocence.

"Fuck you!" he screamed, jabbing her again. "This is all your fault!"

Calmly, she grabbed him by the arm and pulled it up behind his back into a half nelson, his reactions slurred by alcohol, leaving him only able to flail and jerk as she hustled him out the door.

"If you could just deal with the other one," she said to the priest, who was looking as though he wanted to help.

"The other one?" he said, walking outside behind her. "Oh, hello Jake."

Jake did not need much dealing with, trailing mutely behind his father as they were firmly ejected from the premises and sent on their way with a strongly hinted threat of police involvement and/or physical violence if they didn't stay away.

She stared after them, eyes narrowed, until they were out of sight, then before she could turn back to the priest, she found herself gripped by his strong arms and slammed against the stone wall of the church exterior.

"That was the hottest fucking thing I've ever seen," he growled, and crashed his lips into hers.

"I did request some manly strength," she purred, threading her arms around his neck and kissing him back.

"I don't think you need it," he said, cradling her cheek with fevered reverence and trailing his lips over her jawline.

She scraped her nails over the back of his neck and down his shoulders, the thin fabric of his shirt doing little to dull the sensation, and tipped back her head, baring her throat to him. "Oh, I need it."

#fleabag #my fics #the wedding planner #fleabag/priest

[playlists-in-fall]

-orchestral/classical music for spooky season

-quick note: I’m way to lazy to write out the full names of some of these songs, but I tried to get the point across

toccata and fugue in d minor-bach

romanian folk dances, sz 56: iii-bartók

symphony no 5, op 67: allegro con brio-beethoven

moonlight sonata-beethoven

black blade-thomas bergersen

concerto grosso no 1: prelude-bloch

piano duet/victor’s piano solo-danny elfman

the planets: mars-holst

night on bald mountain-mussorgsky

mercedes lullaby-javier navarrete

pan’s labyrinth lullaby-javier navarrete

white witch-nick phoenix

prelude in c# minor (op 3 no 2)-rachmaninoff

little red riding hood-rachmaninoff

danse macabre-saint saëns

symphony no 5, op 47: ii & iv-shostakovich

string quartet no 8, op 110-shostakovich

a knife in the dark-howard shore

violin concerto in d minor, op 47: i-sibelius

the rite of spring, part 1: ii-stravinsky

the kraken-hans zimmer

#playlist #music #spooky #dark #stravinsky #pirates of the carribean #sibelius #howard shore #hans zimmer #lord of the rings #shostakovich #rachmaninoff #rachmaninov #two steps feom hell #pan’s labyrinth #mussorgsky #holst #corpse bride #ernest bloch #gustav holst #piano #beethoven #ludwig van beethoven #bela bartok #béla bartók #bach #johann sebastian bach #classical music #aesthetic #halloween

[dragons-bones]

FFXIV Write Entry #12: Boom (or Bust)

Prompt: fingers crossed | Master Post | On AO3

All characters here are used with permission! Keltgeim Eyristyrwyn belongs to @tehjai/ @keltgeim, Starling Nightsong belongs to @wanderedaimlessly, and A’khebica Ginwa belongs to @chaemera/ @aethericgeometry!

Aetherophysics Departmental Testing Site: The Range was a small island in the Indigo Deep, somewhere to the south and west of Vylbrand. It was roughly a square malm in size, its shape generously described as oblong, and numerous testing sites for spells, explosives, and ordnance has been set up across the space. In the very center of the tiny spit of land was the main building, where the aether batteries that powered various sensors and other devices were stored deep under the surface. The southeastern portion of the island was dedicated to live five artillery tests by the various squadrons of the Crimson Fleet, though today no Lominsan ships sailed nearby. The Range was otherwise empty, too, save for a quartet of figures at Test Site #9.

Keltgeim stared at the large shell in bemusement as A’khebica puttered around the piece of ammunition, setting up aetheric sensors. “Why is it we got tapped fer this test and not one o’ the powder monkeys in the fleet?” Kelt said. “I thought this beast was the brainchild of someone outta the Bloodbrine squadron?”

Starling shrugged.

Synnove finished scribbling in her notebook, snapping it shut and tucking it back into one of her myriad hip pouches. “Three words for you,” she said, holding up her hand, three fingers extended. “Powdered. Aether. Crystals.”

Both Keltgeim and Starling turned to stare at her. The most obvious expression on their faces was unadulterated horror, but there was also a gleam of interest in their eyes.

“The base for this thing to ignite is inert ceruleum, not black powder,” Kelt said slowly.

“That is correct,” Synnove drawled. “Khebi can tell you the exact ratios; there’s still some black powder present, but yes, it’s mostly inert ceruleum as the fuel with a specific mix of powdered aether crystals of assorted aspects to act as the oxidizer. That’s where the Guild came in, since we manage the stock of crystals for the city and Maelstrom. And, of course,” she gestured around them, “we have the Range.”

Starling blinked slowly. “So, this will either not work at all…”

“…or make a really big boom,” Kelt finished.

There was a moment of quiet reflection—and then the three of them exchanged matching wide, mad, delighted smiles.

Khebi scampered over to the trio, beaming. “The sensors are ready,” she chirped. “The Ironworks was very kind to share their new blast-proof cannisters with us! We should get some excellent readings without having to worry about recovering pieces.”

Synnove crossed her arms, looking away shiftily as the group began to head towards the blast shelter on the very edge of Test Site #9.

Keltgeim leaned over to mutter from the corner of her mouth, “You got Cid in a headlock and threatened to shave him bald until he shared, didn’t you?”

Synnove didn’t say anything in response, just giggled evilly. Keltgeim chortled and clapped her on the back. Starling’s ears flicked towards them both, and the white-haired miqo’te snickered into her hand as Khebi babbled enthusiastically about the upcoming test.

Once ensconced inside the bunker, the group hunkered down in front of the narrow windows that looked down onto the testing area. They’d specifically set the ordnance shell at the far end of this location, to keep them as far back from the blast as possible. Very distantly, they could see the blinking green light Khebi had placed on top of one of the permanent sensor arrays.

Synnove leaned over a control panel, flipping switches as Khebi read out the checklist.

“Aether tanks rerouted away from test site?”

“Check.”

“Primary hub sensors turned off?”

“Check.”

“Shut down of neighboring testing sites active sensor arrays?”

“Check…”

Once they finished, the rejoined Star and Kelt. Without saying anything, they all put on their goggles. While the glass in the narrow window was specially treated and reinforced, all members of the Arcanists’ Guild knew to prepare for any eventually. Practically when flying glass could be an issue.

Khebi held her finger over the button that would activate the ordnance shell. “Test number one for aetheric-ceruleum powder blend AA-01 commencing in five,” she said cheerfully.

Synnove, Starling, and Keltgeim wore identical mad scientist smiles. “Proceed, Khebi,” Synnove said.

“Five! Four! Three! Two! One!”

Khebi pushed the button.

BOOM!

~~

Synnove sat up slowly, pulling her goggles down off her face and wincing as she did. Holy Twelve, that had been a nasty shockwave. “Everyone all right?” she said.

Grunts of agreement from Star and Kelt, and a chipper, “I’m fine!” from Khebi.

Synnove pushed herself to her feet, staggering only a little bit, and went to help Khebi up. She helped the tiny miqo’te brush dust off herself—not glass, thank the gods, and it was probably a major miracle it hadn’t shattered entirely—and straighten her robes. “Well, we know it works,” Synnove said.

“You need to come look at this, Synnove.”

Synnove jerked her head towards Starling, eyebrow raised. The white-haired miqo’te and Kelt were both staring out the blast window, jaws hanging open.

Synnove’s did the same when she saw the damage.

“Uh,” came Kelt.

“Oh, dear,” Khebi said.

“That’s a really big hole,” Star said.

Test Site #9 was, effectively, gone.

The four stared at the smoking, gaping hole in the island for a few long minutes, eyes wide, and only occasionally blinking.

Finally, Synnove said, “This is the best day ever.”

Three enthusiastic Yeses! chorused back to her.

#ffxivwrite2019 #dt's writing #final fantasy xiv #ffxiv #oc: synnove greywolfe #other people's characters #keltgeim eyristyrwyn #starling nightsong #a'khebica ginwa

[cryingalexanders]

I saw Anthony Warlow in Sweeney Todd

What happened with the seance at the beginning was that some men in evening suits and a woman in black came out and gathered around a round table, and then Sweeney rose from under the tablecloth

Debra Byrne's Beggar Woman was good! She played her appropriately pitifully and the 'sailor boy' song was funny

Sweeney put on this jacket for ‘No Place Like London’ and then took it off and threw it at Anthony who just had to take it

Gina Riley's Mrs Lovett was really funny! And the back and forth between her and Warlow's Sweeney Todd was great throughout. Her voice was fine (ahem Sydney critics). 'The Worst Pies in London' was great and at the end when Mrs Lovett went “spit it out, dear” Sweeney actually spat on the floor

In 'Poor Thing' they had the Johanna actress play young Lucy. Do they usually do that? I've never noticed before

Warlow's 'My Friends' was fantastic. So was 'Epiphany'

Anthony (McCredie) wasn't the best actor tbh. His 'Johanna' was decent but he did much better in 'Kiss Me' and the 'Johanna (Quartet)'

There were a few lines between Sweeney and Lovett before 'Pirelli's Miracle Elixir' setting it up. And there was this weird emphasis on the fact that Pirelli also pulls teeth that didn't go anywhere. The ensemble were great in that scene though, the women switching to Pirelli's side when they heard that he shaved the pope. They only had one bald guy for Toby to try and sell to, it was done as a reveal where he walked up to a guy wearing a hat and started his spiel, and then the guy whips the hat off and reveals his bald head. That moment got a laugh from the audience

Judge Turpin was good but not really that complex? For a character that's so despicable he's sort of mysterious, but other actors do try to play him as feeling some genuine joy. For 'Mea Culpa' he came out holding this big bible and put it down to pick up the whip and started flogging himself and it was creepy like it should be

They gave the Beadle a family for some reason? He mentions a daughter just before 'Ladies in their Sensitivities' which was weird

When Judge Turpin came up the stairs Mrs Lovett tried to bow to him and ended up crawling on the floor it was hilarious

They kept alternating between different characters in the build up to 'Pretty Women', showing Sweeney and the Judge upstairs and having Mrs Lovett and Toby freeze downstairs and vise versa

This version of 'Pretty Women' seemed to take inspiration from the 2014 concert. Sweeney did the pass along Turpin's throat with the brush, the touch down his nose, and when Anthony came in this Turpin used Quast's "deceiving slut!"

‘A Little Priest’... really good.

In 'A Little Priest' Warlow's "Ha!" was very similar to George Hearn's version. And Riley did Emma Thompson's hand movement on "maybe six or seven at the most"

The timing on the "I prefer general" joke was really good, they got a really big laugh

They were miming during 'A Little Priest' even though they have real pie props in others parts of the show, which I think emphasises the anticipatory nature of the song. They don't actually have the pies made yet, they're just imagining it and joking with each other

This Toby was really lively. He wasn't really portrayed as slow, just energetic and excitable (and naive)

At the start of Act II the people sat at the tables with their pies holding their hands out like a seance and then Toby came out and began singing and it went into the song

The Beggar Woman had this heartbreaking distraught look on her face when Toby shooed her out of the shop in 'God That's Good'

During 'God That's Good' Sweeney seemed genuinely excited about the new chair (other versions are like that too, like the 2001 concert) and Riley sold Mrs Lovett's frustration at being torn between the shop and him

The 'Johanna (Quartet)' was really good. This Anthony and Johanna warmed up, and the Beggar Woman's parts were done well (and she didn't sound unpleasant to me or like she was interrupting. Maybe it's because I've gotten used to her part of the song though). Of course Warlow did Sweeney's parts really well, especially since this is another important song for him

'By the Sea' was really funny (during it, this guy a seat in front of us put his arm around the other, it was cute) Sweeney's reactions to Mrs Lovett were great

'The Letter' was framed with the seance once again, with one of the men writing Sweeney's letter in unison with him

'Not While I'm Around' was really good, and very touching on Toby's end. If I had one criticism of this Mrs Lovett it's that she wasn't really warm or motherly at all, which I personally feel means there's a little bit of a missing dimension to her character. When the song ended she had this creepy look on her face that showed she was formulating a way to get rid of Toby

There were blood effects for most of the deaths, with the exception of Pirelli and the Beggar Woman

After he killed the Judge, Sweeney looked exhausted and he just gripped the arm of the chair and then went into singing his "rest now" to the razor

Warlow really made me feel sorry for Sweeney! Despite the horrible things he's doing! The scene where he discovers Lucy was done really well, though his shout was really loud and it startled me

Seeing this production really made me think about all the tragedy in the Final Sequence, wow

They also remind us of the seance theme in the finale. The guys in evening suits and woman in black came back along with the other ensemble

Johanna and the Beggar Woman were friendly with each other. Before the Beggar Woman's line in the finale Johanna gave her a hand up and they smiled at each other it was cute

The applause was so loud and it went on for so long that my hands hurt lol. Anthony Warlow got a mostly standing ovation

#sweeney todd