#[2.5/5]

[gothlisteningclub]

Welcome to the goth listening club! I'll post a new album every day. To participate, listen to the album sometime throughout the course of your day, then come back and give it a rating! The idea is for us all to try out new goth music and connect with other goths, so feel free to reblog with your thoughts, start discussions in the replies, and share your own favorite goth music!

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[billysjoel]

just watched pan's labyrinth for the first time and i... im sorry, i didn't really like it :(

[oceanic-recollection]

Do Sideways have over-exaggerated smiles?

<FDM> from the pictures we've seen, it looks like they do, yeah.

<FDM> guess it must be, since my mouth's stuck like this...

[jesusofortenau]

Rating: 2.5/5

This one was hard to rate. His face and nose are broader than those of other Jesus I have covered so far, and his hair and beard look weird to me. But his nipples, chest and legs are rather nice, so he has that going for him.

Inscription reads:

"Ich bin die Auferstehung und das Leben. Wer an mich glaubt wird leben obgleich er gestorben ist.

Joh. 11,25"

[ciggslug]

mcdonalds original

midrange strength, lots of smoke

2.5/5

[dreamofyouandi]

lifeboxd

paced back and forth in my living room while half-watching the rangers lose and desperately trying to keep up with the utterly schizophrenic state of mets offseason news

2.5/5 i can still taste my cream soda from earlier and that’s nice i guess

[slownights]

earthlings by sayaka murata

read: october 15, 2024 | rating: 2.5/5

“magical powers. i have to summon my magical powers. the power of darkness, the power of wind—any magical power will do, but i need something. i have to use my magical powers on my whole body before my heart feels anything.”

when it comes to literature, i’m not particularly squeamish, but i struggle to describe this book as anything but bizarre and grotesque. having quite liked murata’s convenience store woman, i started off enjoying this too, imagining it to be another exploration of an ‘outsider’ of society. and while i suppose it is, it takes such a revolting turn that i wouldn’t in good conscience recommend anybody to read this. i just did not get it.

[ill-try-to-do-book-reviews]

Gorgeous Gruesome Faces

Linda Cheng

RATING: 🕯🕯🔥 (2.5/5)

This book, being all of 400 pages, took me nearly a week to get through. It is not my cup of tea. I acknowledge, however, that the level of not-my-cup-of-teaness that it is has clouded my ability to judge how well-written everything is. If the synopsis sounds fun to you, then I do fully encourage you to check this book out. It is just not my personal style.

SUMMARY: After a shocking scandal that abruptly ended her teen popstar career, eighteen-year-old Sunny Lee spends her days longing for her former life and cyberstalking her ex-BFF and groupmate, Candie. The two were once inseparable, but that was then—before the tragedy and heartache they left in their wake.

In the here and now, Sunny is surprised to discover that Candie is attending a new K-pop workshop in her hometown. Candie might be there chasing stardom, but Sunny can’t resist the chance to join her and finally confront their traumatic history. Because she still can’t figure out what happened that horrible night when Mina, the third in their tight-knit trio, jumped to her death. Or if the dark and otherworldly secrets she and Candie were keeping had something to do with it . . .

But the workshop doesn’t bring the answers Sunny had hoped for, nor a happy reunion with Candie. Instead, Sunny finds herself haunted by ghostly visions while strange injuries start happening to her competitors—followed by even stranger mutilations to their bodies. In her race to survive, Sunny will have to expose just who is behind the carnage—and if Candie is out for blood once more—in Linda Cheng’s spellbinding sapphic thriller that will have readers screaming and swooning for more.

MY DETAILED REVIEW (SPOILER WARNING): I wanted so badly to like this book. I'm not usually one for paranormal horror, but I was very interested in the premise and decided to check it out. I nearly DNF'd it several times, and it had sat at 94% completion for the past 3 days until I finally forced myself to finish it today for the sake of this review.

The development of Candie and Sunny's relationship is not one that I liked very much. I was super excited for more queer horror - but the queerness isn't very... involved in the story, I suppose? It's horror with queer characters, but it doesn't seem like queer horror to me I suppose.

I wasn't aware that this was part of a series (or intended to be) when I chose it, and based off of the ending, I see where the author has set up for a series, but I will not be checking it out. Given how much I disliked the way the workshop was written, I don't think I'd fair very well with the two of them on a roadtrip.

I can't really explain it, but this book just felt so flat and bland to me. It had all the makings of a story that I'd love, in a subgenre I don't check out very often, but everything just fell short for me. I probably couldn't even explain to you what happened at the workshop except for the end where it was revealed to be a cult, and I was going to list off one of the severe student injuries here but I can't recall any of them with any level of certainty.

All in all, getting through this book felt like a chore. I only got so far in originally because I thought that it just had a slow start - I've read books that I ended up loving that started slow and I had to force myself through until things got good - if my memory serves, namely The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay. Unfortunately, this was not one such situation.

I hope that someone else can find this book and love it much more than I could.

[spinebuster]

🦐

emoji for a playlist!

somebody that i used to know, glee cast

gosk, blawan

cool people, chloe x halle

dolla sign slime, lil nas x ft meg thee stallion

infatuation, SOPHIE

[wrestlingatthemovies]

The Company of Wolves

A highly stylized gothic retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood fairly tale about a girl why becomes the prey of a wolf on whilst visiting her grandmother.

World of Sport veteran Leon Arras appearance as the father of a boy who'll go to any lengths to woo the young heroin.

Featured Wrestler:

Leon Arras/Brian Glover as Amarous Boy's Father

Wrestle Rating:

2.5 out of 5 werewolves

A very stylish movie with lots of very artistic flourishes and the inclusion of werewolves instead of the traditional wolves is a nice addition. However, it's fairly dull and plodding. The Man From Paris steals every scene he's in as ever but its a relatively small role so alone isn't enough to entice people to watch.

[thebisexualmandalorian]

I made beef stew tonight! It's incredibly good.

I glanced at a few recipes and listened to what the spirits had to say, and came up with this recipe:

Ingredients:

1.5 lb cubed stew beef 4 whole carrots, peeled and chopped into 1 inch pieces 3 sweet potatoes, peeled and cubed  1 lb button mushrooms, halved Olive oil

2 cups red wine ¾ cup balsamic vinegar ½ cup worcestershire sauce 48 oz beef broth 2 Tbsp minced garlic

⅓ cup flour

Salt, pepper, thyme, oregano, Cholula hot sauce to taste

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 450F.  Oil the bottom of a roasting pan, and lay out the beef, carrots, sweet potatoes, and mushrooms.  Roast for 40ish minutes, turning as needed to brown all sides.

Put everything in a large stock pot, then pour red wine into hot roasting pan, scrape off browned bits, and then pour into stock pot as well.  Add other liquids and garlic.  Whisk in flour.  Season with salt, pepper, thyme, oregano, and hot sauce to taste.  Cook, stirring occasionally, for about 2 hours, until sweet potatoes are cooked through.

Serve hot.

[gothlisteningclub]

#18 Pitch After Dark - Dark and Severe

listening links: bandcamp / youtube / spotify / apple music

[dragon-spaghetti]

Shhhhh,, even heroes need naps 💖

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[lowkeyren]

the whole 2.5 was a wild ride ngl

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Honda Rafaga 2.5 S, 1993. A sports saloon sold through Honda's Verno dealership network powered by a longitudinally mounted 2.5 litre 5 cylinder engine driving the front wheels (very Audi-like). The Rafaga (Spanish for "gust" or "blustery") only survived for one generation.

[kroosluvr]

spare bento [ you are here! / part 2 / part 3 ]

"... well, was there anything about the bento you didn't like? so i can fix it for next time?" "there won't BE a next time."