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warning wwdits season 6 spoilers:

i'm obsessed with our boy Colin Robinson and the monster dancing to Latin Jazz at the end of ep 2. good stuff *chefs kiss*

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it took me bloody 2 days to do it but i came out alive. restringing and setting up a floyd rose tremolo by yourself is a fucking nightmare. but it's possible, thankfully.

r.i.p the fallen during this process (3 guitar strings and what's left of my sanity)

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you can be goth and like pink

you can be goth and enjoy the warmth of sunlight on your skin

you can be goth and not be corpsely white

you can be goth and like rap

you can be goth and work a very “ungoth” profession

you can be goth and like neon colors

you can be goth and have natural colored hair

you can be goth and wear other shades besides just black (gray, white, darker shades of colors)

you can be goth and have natural eyebrows

you can be goth and be HORRIBLE at doing your makeup, so you don’t wear any at all

you can be goth and live in a very “normal” looking house

you can be goth and buy your clothes from thrift stores, clearance sections, and Walmart

you can be goth & be Christian

you can be goth & not religious at all

goth is a FEELING. goth is about what is inside. goth is a musical genre, and literature. goth is a love for the macabre, the dark, the overlooked. but you can be goth & still enjoy very “normal” & “typical” things. some of the most “gothic” people look like your average person on the street, but encompass goth to the fullest the second you get to know them.

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some salem saberhagen drawings i did a while back because he's silly

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I will never be the same after watching this. Actually sobbing.

Lisa Frankenstein (2024)

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i keep thinking abt in lisa frankenstein when she says “u like cool movies and music and stuff, but ONLY for u. u want to be the smart one who likes cool stuff and u don’t want u girlfriend to like cool stuff. do u know how uncool that is ??!!??” which i could talk abt for hrs but i’ll just say she put a lotttttta lame ass men in their place w that

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you know what I just found out today? slayer is actually an acronym and stands for 'satan laughs as you eternally rot'. awesome.

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ah, rob zombie being a living legend as per usual. *lowers sunglasses and drives dragula off into the sunset*

common rob zombie w

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"aw, look who finally decided to come downstairs!"

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So, I saw the recent article on Loudwire regarding the Twitter uproar and criticism about Death Metal/Cannibal Corpse’s lyrics, and it got me thinking. What’s sick about music/art and making it is that we can pull apart seemingly repulsive subject matter and explore all sorts of stuff. Take a real good look at it. In a way that would not be done in real life. Artistic creation can be beautiful and a joy to consume and/or it can be about the most abhorrent and disgusting phenomena imaginable that no sane or respectable human being would actually participate in. Both are valuable and serve to fascinate and be delved into. What a lot of people outside of alternative culture don’t understand, is that not all art has to be easily accessible or attractive. 

The way I see it there are two separate realms:

Reality in which we live, where pain, suffering, and death are always possible, and individual actions/beliefs have real world impact on other beings. 

And, the creative process. In this particular situation, a realm where surreal, supernatural, macabre, and downright vile concepts can be explored through music completely victimless. No one is getting hurt, and none of what is explored is actually real. A place where the depths of death and our humanity can be discovered through pushing boundaries and vocal distortion. For those able to consume it, of course. 

If you think Cannibal Corpse/Death Metal/Metal in general is weird, triggering, and satanic? Fine. It’s not for you. Don’t listen to it. 

For those of us who do love this sort of thing, it’s invaluable. It is a gnarly horror movie for your ears. It gives us great pleasure to explore our humanity/mortality in a safe, detached way. 

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