#90's acid house

[possible-streetwear]

[randomvarious]

Today's compilation:

Out Patients 2 2001 Future Jazz / Acid Jazz / 2-step / Deep House

Oh my goodness, folks. Last week I made a post about UK drum n bass label Hospital Records' foray into stuff that they weren't typically known for with a 2000 release of theirs called Out Patients, but today I'm back with Out Patients 2, which came out the following year, and actually turns out to be on a whole different plane. I mean, I thoroughly enjoyed a lot of the stuff that was on the first installment of this series, but this near-exclusive crop of 11 songs here is just incredible—everything is a flat-out banger.

Now, while both of the first two volumes in this series are primarily comprised of future jazz joints, the secondary genres are a bit different. Out Patients provided a bunch of broken beat and a couple drum n bass tracks, but for this one, Hospital gives us some acid jazz, stuff with 2-step breaks��which they'd successfully utilize in their dnb output as well, as they played an integral role in the whole liquid dnb wave—and a couple fantastic pieces of deep house too.

And the deep house tune that happens to close out this whole shebang, "Shinobi," by Japan's Jazztronik, really just might be one of the greatest pieces of deep house that I've ever heard in my damn life. This is, like, a deep house track with different movements, you guys: a long, tribal open; followed by an extremely smooth section with a funky bassline, bleepy and snaky synth work, and leading flute improv; a little Brazilian breakdown; and then a tribal closing. Such a sublimely varied excursion that I can't believe Jazztronik didn't actually first save for one of his own releases.

But I'm really not even sure that "Shinobi" is actually my favorite track overall on here anyway, because what Hospital's founders, London Elektricity (who also operate under the alias of Future Homosapiens), managed to cook up with their remix of UK acid jazzers Izit's 1993 tune, "Bird of Paradise," is the one song on this comp that *really* left my jaw scraping the floor 😮. This is just such a totally unrelenting, 8-plus-minute barrage of fierce, uptempo, and transcendent acid jazz-dance glory that's already a certified bop in the early going before Nicola Bright-Thomas even opens her mouth. And when she gets to doing her Brazilian-inspired scatting, this thing hits a different level, but then it manages to climb even higher in the second half with an absolutely deadly combination of peppery flute and ring-dinging hi-hats added to it all too. And unlike everything else on this album, this one wasn't actually an exclusive when it appeared on here; Hospital sublabel Galactic Disco put it out on a 12-inch in 1998. And would you believe me if I then told you that that release only has a 3.64/5 rating on Discogs with this unreal stunner on it?! That's not a good rating at all by Discogs' standards! What are people even thinking?!?

Really blown away by this whole thing here. Another dispatch that especially excels at music that its premier dnb label is not really known for releasing in the first place. Some other labels of a future jazz-and-lounge-type bent could only hope to ever put out something that sounds as consistently good as this 😤🥺.

Landslide - "Hear My People" Pulcinella - "A'Bboss" Swell Session - "Speak" Audiomontage - "Come With Me" London Elektricity - "Unreality" Les Gammas - "Fez" Solid Roots - "Samba Sun" Izit vs. Future Homosapiens - "Bird of Paradise" Danny Byrd - "Changes (Yukihiro Fukutomi Remix)" Future Homosapiens - "Talkbox" Jazztronik - "Shinobi"

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X-Mix-3 (Enter: Digital Reality!) by Richie Hawtin & John Acquaviva !K7 1994 Acid House / Techno

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[mark303solo]

(MarkSolo)

[vorpalfae]

Hi I’m 🔮༉‧₊˚🕸 Katie ਏਓ ∙ 🕷‧₊˚𖦹

my interests include: my interests include horror, dragons, elves, vampires, werewolves, faeries, sirens, skulls, alice: madness returns, skyrim, the legend of zelda, animal crossing, lord of the rings, game of thrones, house of the dragon, harry potter, anything fantasy related. halloween anime, twilight, twin peaks, ginger snaps, jennifer’s body, queen of the damned, charmed, buffy the vampire slayer, sabrina the teenage witch, supernatural, texas chainsaw massacre, silent hill, the shining, the crow, the munsters, oddities and anything macabre or strange, teeth, anatomy, video games, many forms of art, books, writing, comics, guitar, gloomy and rainy days, seahorses, jellyfish, and marine life in general, wolves, bats, sci-fi, goth and ethereal music, 90’s grunge, nu metal, mythology, abandoned houses, hiking, graveyards, flora & fauna, morbid science, 90’s fashion, witchy things, the colors purple & periwinkle, gothic architecture, kurt cobain/nirvana, alice in chains, mazzy star, the band HIM, korn, slipknot, acid bath, type o negative, evanescence, lana del rey, killswitch engage, rob zombie, deftones, the birthday massacre, mushroomhead, the cure, diva destruction, lacuna coil, cradle of filth, switchblade symphony, swords and other fantasy weaponry, crystals, potions, mushroom foraging, cosplay, psychology, true crime, lilies, orchids, poppies, cannabis, foggy forests, the pacific northwest, washington state, salem massachusetts, & so sooo much more✨

[postpunkindustrial]

Meat Beat Manifesto - Mindstream single

I think I saw this kicking around somewhere and decided I needed to post this.

Here is the is remix CD for the song Mindstream from Meat Beat Manifesto's excellent album Satyricon. Along with Meat Beat's version you get an Aphex Twin remix that he did for cash and essentially sounds like an early 90's Aphex Twin song, a remix by House Music legends DHS and Orbital giving the full Acid Trance 4 on the dance floor.

This will be a hard pass for 90% of you but for the 10% this appeals to, Live it up.

You can get it from my Google Drive HERE

[allmoshnobrain]

here you can find links to all my writing, but you can also search for it using this tag. requests are currently OPEN.

i'm no longer doing taglists for my fics but i did create a side blog to reblog all my writing, so if you follow it you can set notifications on for whenever i reblog something there!

Who I write for:

• Metal bands: Dave Mustaine, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, Jason Newsted, Cliff Burton, Cronos (Venom).

• Supernatural*: Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester

• COD: Simon "Ghost" Riley, John Price

*i'm seeing the show again after many years, so for now i'll only be taking requests set up to the end of season 4! i'll update this as i progress on my rewatch 💗

coming soon (wips): acid queen, part 2 (cronos x reader) | jason newsted x reader smut (requested)

multichapter stories and aus

✧ 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫 | +18 | Dave Mustaine x female!OC x James Hetfield | masterlist | ao3 link | fic's playlist | bonus content/fic lore

Eleanore (better known as Nore) was only 18 years old when she moved out of her house. She chose to live with her cousin, Cliff, in the same house where his band was staying - and got involved with all of them much more than she had ever expected to get involved with someone...

✧ Dave Mustaine

𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐥 𝐦𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 (+18) | au in progress | older!Dave Mustaine x reader

✧ James Hetfield

𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 (+18) | au in progress | 80s!James Hetfield x reader

✧ Jason Newsted

𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 (+18) | in progress | older!Jason Newsted x small town!reader

𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭 (+18) | in progress | 80s!Jason Newsted x reader

works with a plot and over 1k words

Cronos (Venom):

✧ 𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐝 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧 | cronos gets impressed when you outdrink him at a party

Dave Mustaine:

✧ 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐛��𝐨𝐨𝐝 (+18) | Vampire!Dave Mustaine x reader

Dean Winchester:

✧ 𝖔𝖋 𝖑𝖔𝖛𝖊 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖍𝖚𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖌 | Dean Winchester x hunter!reader

✧ Kinktober 2024: gun play

James Hetfield:

✧ 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 (+18) | early 90s!James Hetfield x wife!reader

headcanon lists or works with less than 1k words

James Hetfield:

✧ How would dating early 80's James Hetfield be like?

James Hetfield x Reader x Jason Newsted:

✧ Kinktober 2024: caught in the act + voyeurism

Simon 'Ghost' Riley:

✧ You're a short girl, and sometimes that messes with your confidence. Your boyfriend doesn't seem to care at all, though.

✧ After a bad date leaves you with a twisted ankle, your quiet but protective roommate steps in to help.

[th3-0bjectivist]

Dear listener, if you’ve never heard of Aphex Twin before, cling fast to your genitals. Because, like a 2500-volt shock straight to the testes, you’re going to find this musical entry quite shocking! Before you smash play on the music video above, I will immediately attempt to dissuade you from viewing if 1. You are the faint-of-heart type 2. You have a medical condition that is triggered by strobe lights. I don’t want you to have a series of elaborate seizures. Go figure; you’re my fuckin’ audience. I don’t want to kill my audience on Tumblr just so it’s clear. At least, not this week. For the rest that remain; if you've never seen an AT video before, the time for your distressing and traumatic cult initiation is NOW. Smash play on the track above; it's Come to Daddy from the 1997 album of the same name.

OMFG… this guy is hot AF. I was personally introduced to AT about two decades ago through one of my stoner friends who went to basement raves to dance with glow sticks. At the time, I really didn’t understand what the hell I was listening to. A lot of it just sounded like disorganized and cobbled-together noises. However, my musical tastes have evolved, and in hindsight, I can fully acknowledge that the music of soloist and Ireland-born Richard David James was simply beyond my comprehensive grasp as a young adult. He is and was a true pioneer in the music industry, having the aptitude and talent to bring a brand-new type of music to bloom in the 90’s, that being IDM (intelligent dance music). IDM, by my understanding, is derivative of breakbeat, techno, and acid house… but pushed to the very edge of experimental extremes. It is dance music (you CAN’T dance to a lot of it unless you want to have spasmodic fits, it’s honestly more proper for exercise/home environment listening) that is custom-tailored for a very discerning and clever audience, and I find that a lot of IDM sounds itself like a living, breathing entity. What AT brought to the table was a uniquely charismatic, versatile, and in some cases downright emotionally impacting experience that I cannot in good conscience declare as useless. It is the polar opposite of generic modern melodies, as AT pushed and continues to push the envelope of modern music to its most illogical boundaries. Probably my favorite feature of AT’s overall sound is the asynchronous beats, which, while not in any way traditionally mathematical or ‘correct’ in timing, is a genuine example of that tonic path that Aphex Twin and IDM as a genre have to offer. AT does whatever others are afraid to try, and the overall discography runs the gamut from shy electronic ambient to full-on head-banging badassery. Enjoy, and there will be far more music to come this year!

If you care to pursue the actual emotional range of AT’s music, click just above for one of the most (if not THE most) emotive ambient tunes I’ve absorbed in my lifetime, Rhubarb from Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994). And if you’re really, really in the mood to traumatize yourself, click here for one of the most disturbing music videos I’ve seen in my lifetime. I wanna make it clear, IF YOU CLICK ON THE IMMEDIATELY PREVIOUS LINK, I am in no way responsible for the mental damage it does to you as a result. YOU... are by your own free will and accord, willingly clicking on the link. I am merely providing you a path, in fact multiple paths, to explore Aphex Twin’s sound further. Image source: https://testpress.news/na-klassiku-aphex-twin-windowlicker-v-anglii-snyali-sotsialnuyu-reklamu-bezopasnoj-ezdy/

[possible-streetwear]

[randomvarious]

Today's compilation:

FFRR Classics Volume 3 1998 House / Ambient Techno / Groundbeat / Downtempo

Here's a terrific 12-inch that fondly looks back on the eclectic role that the UK's FFRR label played in the development and spread of electronic and dance music at the turn of the 1990s. As a division of London Records, FFRR's head of A&R was the legendary Pete Tong, who is known to have spent a whole lot of time in the party capital of the world, Ibiza. So, although it's not explicitly stated anywhere on this record itself, it seems that what you really see in these four songs is just how deeply impactful the Spanish island's sound was on the UK underground, and also how transplants and extended vacationers from the UK helped to further shape that same Ibizan sound too, which happened to yield a uniquely warm and hazy vibe that was blissfully hedonistic 😌.

And the starring track of this little release, an ambient techno jam from UK duo Orbital called "Belfast," serves as a quintessentially beautiful example of that late 80s-early 90s sound, with a pairing of operatic female vocals and a wondrously deep and aquatic beat 🥰.

But Ibiza also wasn't all parties all the time for all people either. Revelers definitely needed some R&R during the day in order to recuperate from their nights of hard partying too. So, if you wanted something to unwind to while being away from the club, you could stare at some waves while sinking yourself into a nice downtempo tune like Less Stress' hand-drum and dub-infused "Don't Dream It's Over."

And Diana Brown & Barrie K Sharpe, who helmed a brief fusion genre in London that  mixed acid jazz with a rare groove sound called groundbeat, supply a song that could've fit in on an Ibizan dancefloor too, with a funky cut called "The Masterplan."

Now, of course, Ibiza is currently a wholly different beast than it was thirty-plus years ago, and with that's come a change in its overall sound too. But if you wanna hear some of the really cool, Balearic vibe that was being spread to and from that island during some of its halcyon days, this varied 12-inch here from FFRR has some damn good nuggets on it 😋.

Highlights:

Orbital - "Belfast" Diana Brown & Barrie K. Sharpe - "The Masterplan (Ext Version)" Less Stress - "Don't Dream It's Over"

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Cœur Atomique by Cœur Atomique FAX +49-69/450464 1993 Ambient Techno / Ambient House / Ambient / Experimental / Experimental Techno / House / Techno / Acid Techno

[ginagloria16]

Those happy 90's years! I need two turntables and a mixer (I don't work with CD's dammit) I would never push any other music, Acid House forever!

[fullgrownpalace]

Hi! I just wanted to say I adore the way you draw Ma'am! She's really pretty in your style ^^

Question wise though, do you have any headcanons or anything like that for her or any of the other characters?

I wish I hadn’t accidentally privately responded to a previous question about my headcanons for her, because it was a LONG LIST, but I’ll try and list a few!

This’ll be long so it’s all shoved under the cut, minus some more private HC’s-

Full Grown/Ma’am

• She’s a huge sweets fan, and once Big Deal gets better at cooking and baking, she has a habit of stealing away muffins or cookies, much to the exasperation and chitterings of him.

• I give her battle scars beneath her suit!

• She has some sort of connection to Reggie which royally pisses her off for A WHILE, especially as Endless tries to push for their friendship. In comes my mentor!AU where a greater looming evil forces them to call a truce and they eventually become like family.

• She’s the original leader/Queen of Endless before Bad Things happened and shunted her into the volcanic stasis until Reggie revives her.

• She’s the original creation of Endless. She was made by a very, very lonely little girl who desperately needed a friend and was scared of growing up, who got whisked away to Endless at its most baby state. Full Grown bloomed into life just about the same age as the girl who created her, and she ages alongside her until the girl grows away from Endless and finally stops coming to Endless. Ma’am stops aging from there.

• She likes wrestling, obviously, but she also likes hockey. She likes the fighting lol

• Big Deal’s affections scare her and make her anxious, she’s scared of niceness and affection in *general*, so she acts up, acts out, lashing out and thrashing and acting petulant in her denial to try and create distance. It doesn’t work.

• She can play a few musical instruments! Namely the piano and guitar, but a few others too.

• She can speak a few different languages, mostly because one of my favorite Matt Berry songs has French in it and I said she can.

• Her music tastes are very wide and varying but she favors acid jazz, psychedelic rock, and hypno-pop.

• Ma’am is OLD, lmao. She clearly is themed around astro-retro futurism of the 50s and 60s, between her house, her theme song, her aesthetic, so I like to put the height of her leadership around those eras.

• She /likes/ entertaining guests. Beneath all her bristle and coldness and axe-crazy mania, when she’s not putting out her icy, angry exterior, she *likes* having guests and being able to entertain. We see her even say that she likes having guests when Brown Roger comes around (poor Brown Roger lol)

• She likes roller skating

• She’s got a closet full of unique clothes, but after Bad Things and her stasis in the volcano, she sticks to wearing her Endless suit because her clothes feel too personal and vulnerable for a long time.

• She’s a hopeless romantic at heart, though terribly scorned, so she hides it beneath briars and thorns and chaos. She loves chick flicks and romance novels and she values loyalty and respect.

• Her and modern technology are Not Friends. Her range in technology goes up until the late 80s/early 90s, and I KNOW the show is technically supposed to take place in that era but that completely bypassed me back in 2019 when I started making my AUs, which take place 2015 and above, so modern technology makes her curse and sneer and growl in frustration.

• She just really likes food. Big Deal has to learn fast how to cook and bake properly for her because she gets very cranky when she’s hungry and she eats A Lot.

• She’s like a giant lizard cat. She’s very bendy and flexible, likes climbing trees and crawling around searching for shiny things, and she likes basking under the sun, even if she complains about being around others the whole time (she’ll also grab Big Deal and curl around him because he’s a little furnace, much to his flustered-ness)

• She’s genderfluid and queer. She doesn’t care about earth terms, she’s a shapeshifting alien queen in a different dimension, human customs and opinions don’t really matter when it comes to who *she* is.

• She and Big Deal manage to cross over onto earth at some point and she creates earth human forms for them.

• I technically have a full name for her but thatsss a bit private and will only be revealed if I talk to you for a while hdhfjd

I have a lot more but for the sake of saving time, I just have those for now for her.

Reggie

• CHAOS GIRL- she maintains her chaotic, bright, colorful nature even into adulthood. I really like focusing on her and her friends growing up into young adults because like.. self projection and also because this show is *about* growing up, and it’s SO interesting exploring that facet and seeing how their personalities, ESPECIALLY Reggie’s, grow and flux, yet how they still stay true to themselves.

• She /can/ sing a lil bit but it’s one of the few things she’s very shy about, between bullying and befriending people like Todd and Esther, and eventually Gwen, who are all so musically oriented, so she kinda just.. hides that she can kinda sing by being so overly dramatic about *badly* singing.

• She grows a steady mentorship/apprentice dynamic with Full Grown (though it depends on AU for how old she is when that mentorship starts, for my main one, she’s almost 13, for a few of my others, she’s older teens) who eventually becomes a like a very dear family member to her

• She’s a sporty girl when she hits her teens. She’s got a LOT of energy and frustration to expel and she winds up enrolling in volleyball, hockey, and rollerderby throughout her teen years to help her adrenaline junkie life and it helps with the frustrations of Having To Grow Up.

• She keeps her tooth gap, she never gets it corrected, and she’s got a very crooked and mischievous smile that lasts her whole life.

• She’s COVERED in freckles.

• She’s very shy around Conelly for a WHILE, they don’t even start dating til Reggie’s like 16.

• She’s actually very good with science, it just takes Ma’am’s mentorship to help her realize that ‘hey she actually sometimes likes learning’ and she likes astronomy, astro-physics, physics, and chemistry (she finds interest when she’s being taught magic and finds out there’s a lot of science behind potions and magic)

• She’s forever a foodie, always munching and eating SOMETHING. She’s a frequent food thief and steals snacks from Mack and Beefhouse, from Full Grown and Big Deal, and from her friends.

• She’s the championed Knight of Endless, in all essential aspects. She undergoes weapons training from Full Grown when she hits adulthood due to other threats on Endless.

• She LIKES dressing up, she LIKES dresses sometimes, she just doesn’t like dressing up the way Judy wants her to, and she doesn’t like feeling clumsy and doesn’t like feeling like she’s just playing dress up to be someone she’s not (unless it’s cosplay, she gets her friends into cosplaying with her).

• Most of her wardrobe I draw her in comes directly from my closet or from my style.

• She gets rebellious with her friends when they’re 16/17 and Todd’s older brother takes them to get ear piercings together, so she’s got two lobe piercings and industrial piercings on both ears. When she’s older, she also has a tongue piercing, because she thought it was Cool™️ and she likes to stim with it.

• In my main mentor!AU, she chops all her hair off to her shoulders directly after her 18th birthday in a fit of frustration and rage and panic. Mood.

• She also puts colored streaks in her choppy hair when she’s older, regardless of shortness or longness, she’s got green, pink, and blue streaks randomly smattered through her hair.

• She’s got severe ADHD and is possibly autistic

• She ALSO likes wrestling, so her and Full Grown cheer and snicker and snort over wrestling.

• She maintains her artistry as she grows and is quite successful with her art on the occasion. She’s the designer for Dustin’s podcast’s merch, Space Draculas. His podcast focuses on mythological legends, paranormal encounters, and supernatural beings with Todd’s older brother a few friends. Any pics of Reggie I draw wearing an alien with fangs is for this podcast of his.

• She and Judy mend their bonds over the years, and Judy is definitely the Team Mom for all her friends.

• Reggie’s first car is a Volkswagen Beetle that’s got a yellow body, but the hood, front two doors, and trunk are all different colors. The car is littered with car stickers and it has pins all in the roof from the inside, and she’s got worm on the strings tied to the rear view mirror.

• She ends up being a very good babysitter, it’s her job as a teenager, so she winds up being very good with kids.

• She curbs her dirty, messy habits as she grows older, but sometimessss she still gets down and dirty on Endless, she’s got no problems with getting muddy and dirty, covered in paint, sticky with sweat and sand, and she has to be reminded that showers are REQUIRED /more/ than twice a week.

• Full Grown regularly chews her out because she tries to enter the witch’s home with her sandy boots on. That’s like.. a YEARS long habit.

• She winds up being a rather well skilled magic user

Big Deal

• Learns much of his cooking skills from infomercials after Ma’am falls asleep, alongside with tentatively befriending Mack and Beefhouse and learning from them. They reach out to him first, with much grace and forgiveness, one day when he’s searching for recipe ingredients and they end up being well friends to him, and eventually, Ma’am as well. (She’s much more resilient and hesitant to befriend the others after everything and many of them are just as hesitant of her but Reggie growing under her mentorship helps)

• He whacks Reggie in exasperation when she tries to steal food.

• He was made by Endless to protect his Ma’am and be a tiny little plush dragon to her.

• He purrs when he’s comfortable and happy, and so does Full Grown (though she represses it for a very long time). He also trills and chitters and chirps in feral little noises to her and she’ll make noises back.

• he looks smooth and round but he’s made up of really smooth feathers and he’ll puff up and flair out in high emotions or shock.

• He’s SO little and she’s SO big. My Ma’am is around 7’0” and he’s like.. thigh/butt level to her.

• He’s the first being to see her cry after her revival from the volcano, regardless of my AU and how long it takes for her to finally cry, he’s always the first one to see her cry.

• He’s a very enthusiastic learner and absorbs knowledge like a sponge, and he loves listening to his Ma’am talk so he’s willing to sit and listen and learn until he’s falling asleep.

• He does NOT like horror movies. He does not care for wrestling, or hockey, it all makes him cringe and fret so much, but he LOVES fantasy, adventure, romance, and music, so Full Grown introduces him to musicals and romcoms.

• he LOVES entwining his tail with his Ma’am’s tail, which, for a long time, is a very rare thing, but it grows more constant as time passes.

• he’s got little padded pawed hands! Tiny hands with little heart shaped paw pads!

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Okay these are all I can think of tonight but I WILL update this as I think of more, or feel free to message again with individual characters!

[bigshot]

1. What they smell like:  Soy sauce.

Fresh from the shower he smells like whatever soap he's been using that week, he prefers generic "clean" scents. You know, the ones with names like "Fresh Rain" or "Seascape." If he's planning to leave the house, though, he smells like strong but cheap cologne.

... and soy sauce.

2. How they sleep (sleeping position, schedule, etc):  Alone, he sleeps in something like a fetal position or just curled up like some kind of little critter. He's used to sleeping in cramped spaces and hasn't shaken the habit, he likes to hold pillows. If somebody else is joining him (namely, Brad) he's sleeping squarely in their arms.

Spamton's sleep schedule is all kinds of fucked, he'd be on the grind 24 / 7 if his body would just let him and some nights he might not get much at all. But unless he's sick or something, he's always up at the crack of dawn.

He's also prone to very vivid dreams and night terrors, the kind that have him moving a lot when he's asleep. Brad's probably been kicked a few times or seen him sleepwalk or heard him talk.

3. What music they enjoy: Alternative, pop, experimental, lounge, rock, techno, eurobeat... he's not really into any one singular genre more than another. If it played a lot on the radio in the 90's, though, he loves it.

I think he'd really enjoy Devo.

4. How much time they spend getting ready every morning: A fair amount of time, not too much but enough that people might notice. He takes the time to make sure his hair is perfectly shaped, that his face is free of scuffs, that the red on his cheeks hasn't chipped and there's nothing weird in his teeth.

Spamton is at his most presentable at the very start of his day.

5. Their favorite thing to collect: Money!!! Cash!!!! Dough!!!!! KROMER !!!!

He loves physical money, it's the one thing he'll collect and not try to sell to anyone else, and it's hard to tell if he likes it more out of greed, compulsion, or genuine interest. Maybe a little of everything?

He has a little coin album he keeps things in and a couple framed paper bills, assuming he's found any as collectors items in a city that runs solely on crypto.

6. Left or right-handed: He's ambidextrous! (But favors his right)

7. Religion (if any): It's... complicated. He's religious in that he practices something very similar to Christianity but with an unknown denomination. It's likely an amalgamation of the Angel based religion the Lightners practice and deification of the Lightners themselves or their world. It's gotten muddied now that he's essentially living with them and in their world.

Whatever it is, he still worships Angels as his sole Gods. When he isn't actively seeking to become a proper God.

9. Favorite touristy thing to do when traveling: Window shopping and touring around, he loves to see what trinkets the locals are trying to pawn off on tourists (and for what prices) and he can't pass up the opportunity to explore someplace new or interesting.

10. Favorite kind of weather: Spring or summer, bright sunshine, puffy little clouds, and the greenest grass you've ever seen. Maybe a comfortable warmth and a pleasant breeze to tie it all together.

11. A weird / obscure fear they have: Burning alive. Burning in acid. Burning in general. Trains make him kind of nervous.

12. The carnival / arcade game they always win without fail:  He's got a good eye for ring toss or dart throw style games, but he's also got a good eye for potential scams and knows a lot of the tricks carnies might be using! He's a good guy to have with you if you're looking to hit up the midway.

stolen from @armstrongstyles & encouraging ya'll to be thieves, too