#Bugs Moran

[l-ultimo-squalo]

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) dir. Roger Corman

[scholarofgloom]

[hometownhistorychicago]

S-M-C Cartage

Site of St. Valentine's Day Massacre

The S-M-C Cartage Company warehouse at 2122 North Clark St. in Chicago was the site of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre. On February 14, 1929, seven men who worked for mob leader Bugs Moran were killed inside the warehouse in a hit presumedly ordered by Al Capone, who was never convicted for the crime.

[pilgrim1975]

'Spike' O'Donnell, first victim of the legendary 'Chicago Typewriter.'

It is September 25, 1925. On the corner of Sixty-Third and Western, one of the city’s most notorious gangsters is chatting casually with a local police officer. This is not unusual, cops and robbers often know each other professionally and/or personally. What is unusual is the car heading toward him. It arrives fast, screeches to a halt and the door opens. “Hello, Spike!” The words sound…

[robkost]

95 years ago ... February 14, 1929

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

[13leaguestories]

It's been twenty-three years since the isolated Terran planets found themselves visited by extraterrestrials and joined a much livelier galaxy. While many have seen the boon, just as many have seen nothing but grief and heartache. You are one of those people. Your greeting into this world is one marred by blood and death, and little has changed since that faithful day. If you weren't bowing the knee to your trarkran masters, then you were to the notorious criminal organization that tortured you into submission. But for the first time in over a decade, a fortuitous kind of freedom finds itself just inches away from your grasp, ready to be claimed. The question is, what will you do once you have it, and what will come of those who would see you lose it once again?

Genre: Sci-Fi | Fantasy | Adventure

Rating: Mature for dark themes, language, sexual content

Create your unique character by choosing sex, pronouns, appearance, orientation,and different attractiveness levels.

Specific traits that will change how you react to others. As well as traits that will change how specific characters see you.

Choose between 6 romances: two females, two males, and two non-binary characters.

Four different classes, along with an assortment of armor and weapons, each with its own benefits.

And many other decisions for a unique, branching experience.

Determine for yourself if you will you go down the path that leads to your own redemption and growth or stay the course?

Relive your past and how it not only led you here but how it will impact your future.

*Click the link attached to "romances" to read more about the six romances available.

Public Demo encapsulates the first three chapters.

There is no set date on the full upload of this story. At the moment the book is set to have two books. A cost has not yet been determined.

Quick Note: Similar to Throne of Ashes, this character you play, Moran, has some personalities and characteristics that are already predetermined. Let it be known, you do not trust easily and have learned to put yourself first. This, of course with redemption, can shift, but this is not automatic and is on purpose.

Any bugs can be sent to the email below or sent to Tumblr. Check the link here for some common issues that may be found such as the game not allowing you to save or a specific save error is appearing.

Public Demo | World Anvil

[fairy-writes]

Hello! For the event, what do you think about Albert (Moriarty the Patriot) and the 9th action prompt? 👀

9) Showing up to surprise their lover when they’re in a long-distance relationship

ONE GOOD SURPRISE

Reblogs and Comments are greatly appreciated!!

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Fandom(s): Moriarty the Patriot

Pairing(s): Albert James Moriarty x Gender Neutral!Reader

Prompt: 9) Showing up to surprise their lover when they’re in a long-distance relationship (Action Prompt #9)

Notes: The mentioned war in this is fictional. I don’t know exactly when MTP occurs, so I’m making this up.

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It was safe to say you were miserable.

William could tell. 

Fred could tell. 

Hell, even Moran could tell. 

The only person who couldn’t tell was the only one who wasn’t there. 

Of course, you had letters. You exchanged them as frequently as the mail system would allow. Still, you didn't get many with Albert overseas managing soldiers in the East. You kept said letters in a box by your bedside, reading them by candlelight when missing your husband got particularly bad. 

Seven months, three weeks, and seventeen days since he had been gone with no end in sight. 

You sigh for the umpteenth time that day, and Moran throws down his cards in frustration.

“If you’re not gonna play, then don’t play! I don’t want to play with you while you’re mopey and depressed!” He snaps, and you glare in his direction. He flinches at the frosty look and holds up his hands with a “geez, sorry.” 

Eventually, you leave Moran alone, and he bugs Fred into playing a round of poker with him and Jack. 

William finds you out in the gardens of the Moriarty estate. 

He sits beside you without a word as you read through Albert’s latest letter. It had been delivered earlier that week. It contained the usual: whatever updates he could give you, responses to your letters, how much he missed and loved you, and asked the occasional odd question when he detailed what he had been doing since his last letter. 

“I’m being insufferable, aren’t I?” You ask your younger brother-in-law, who simply hums as he watches a light breeze sway the flowers Fred worked so hard for. 

“I don’t believe you’re being insufferable. A little tiresome to deal with, maybe, but everyone understands why so they don’t mind.” He says, and you look up from the letter,

“Except for Moran. I think he’s about ready to wring my neck.” William huffs out a laugh at that. 

“Except for maybe Moran.” He agrees. 

The two of you sit in silence for a minute. But it isn’t an uncomfortable silence. Instead, it’s warm and welcoming. It was something you sorely missed from Albert. 

And something you likely wouldn’t have for a while. 

“I’m afraid I must get back to my duties. With Albert gone, his responsibilities as a Lord have fallen to me.” William says and stands. He offers you a smile that has something concealed behind it. 

What was he hiding?

You narrow your eyes, but he says nothing more, instead leaving you to your own devices as you trace the letters in Albert’s note with your thumb. 

“They’re rather beautiful, aren’t they?” Comes a familiar voice, and your heart stops. You stand shakily, turning around to see your husband standing at the entrance to the gardens. He hadn’t even changed from his uniform, his medals decorating his breast and glinting in the sunlight. His hair was mussed and tousled from the wind, and running his hand through it. You swear you could see soot from gunfire staining his cheek. He looks tired as if he had come from the docks directly here. 

He likely had.

You set the papers down inside the box of letters you had been carrying with you, all the while looking at Albert. He sets down his hat and opens his arms, and the floodgates burst open. 

You crash into your husband and knock him to the ground in a bear hug. Your arms go around his neck, and you’re kissing him desperately. He cradles your cheeks, and you can almost taste the tears streaking someone’s cheeks. Whether they’re his or yours, you can’t tell.

But that doesn’t matter. 

Seven months, three weeks, and seventeen days later, he was finally home. 

[tinyglassearl]

Au where everyone thought Mycroft and Albert were banging when they were actually not. Poor Albert would  constantly get slut-shamed when he’s still a full blown virgin. 

Everyday would basically be: 

Albert, who was up all night searching through old files for a MI6 mission: God, my knees are killing me. 

Moran: Yeah I bet your throat is too. Slut.

Albert: ?

...........................

Albert: This is the last time I am EVER riding a horse. 

Moneypenny: That’s not a very nice name to call the Director. 

Albert: ???

.......................

Albert, who’s covered in mosquito bites after a field mission: No tea for me. I’m not very thirsty. 

Jack: Sure you aren’t. I sincerely hope he used protection. 

Albert, remembering Mycroft forgot the bug repellant: Um. We forgot?

Jack:

Jack: Dear God. 

.......................

Albert, covered in bruises because he tried and failed miserably at a surprise attack on Mycroft: Ow. OW! That bastard... he didn’t have to be so rough on me. 

Louis:

Louis: I am going to kill him.

......................

Bonus! 3 years later at the reunion dinner. 

Albert:.... to be fair, it wasn’t too lonely. Mycroft kept me busy through his lovely letters. :D

William: That sounds wonderful, brother!

William, internally: *Lord Almighty, they had sex in prison*

....................

And later when Mycroft and Albert finally got together, everyone would be like “We KNOW”, “Like it wasn’t obvious”

confusing the hell out of Mycal as they only just banged 2 hrs ago.

[tiger-moran]

I'm actually sure now this thing was created for people who don't like Moriarty or Moran and who don't like Moriarty/Moran

Saw someone saying Sherlock & Co fans should listen to Moriarty The Devil's Game because it's "so so good"

Uh...

I mean, sure some of them might like it. I guess.

But I'm not sure why overall you'd think most fans of a Holmes and Watson and Holmes + Watson deep friendship-centred podcast would give a shit about a thing focused on Moriarty and his irritating and tedious as fuck het relationship that not only makes Holmes into a complete prick it also has Holmes and Watson hating each other to the point where Watson betrays Holmes and is not actually far off murdering him. All while making Moriarty boring and ordinary as well. Do not get me started on the travesty that is Adler in that.

Except for being Sherlock Holmes-inspired podcasts/audio dramas they're nothing like each other.

[iphigeniacomplex]

My name is Camille. I am a born transgendered woman. When I was a child I said that I was a girl but the world called me a "faggot." Under the sky of pain called psychiatry I was locked away for many years and had the requisite tortures: the terror of electroshock, my bones broken, my body drugged and raped. I was not raised as a gender but as a bug of a child to be smashed. I am nobody's victim. My body belongs to me & so does my holy brain. I am the ghost of the untapped conscience of shrinks, a lurking justice, a part of the gathering truth that is rising with a common voice out of the wake of their evil blue fire. Transsexuals are born into the book of labels. We may be genetic but we are not genetically defective sub-human creatures. By the very nature of our difference, the independence of our alien spirituality, and the passion of the power of our will, we are a threat to the ruling delusions of the mental death profession. No one has our permission to debate the validity of our existence, to define our reality, to dismiss our pain, and to name us. We name ourselves. If you could look into the collective genetic memory of your humanity you would find us in the rivers of your dreams, for we were always here, we were here when Earth was a green spirit. We were a natural occurrence in a singing world. In times of absolute horror and destruction I wish for you all the transformational creativity of an utterly beautiful madness, and I offer you the blessing of a holy human freak.

"Why A Transgendered Woman Calls for Psychiatry's Destruction" by Camille Moran, published in the Fall 1993 issue of Dendron.

[citizenscreen]

#OnThisDay in 1929, the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre happened in Chicago. It was the culmination of a gang war between arch rivals Al Capone and Bugs Moran.

[scholarofgloom]

[jennamoran]

🌂 Professor Moran? At the risk of this ask being lost in the seas of whatever the hell bug is ravaging your ask box, is there some significance to there being 24 archetypal Miraculous Arcs and how Arcs can jump off at Quest 3, 4, or 5, leading to 8*3=24 rough categories of stories? Do you, perchance, just like the number 24 a lot? Or the numbers 8 and 3?

Caught this one from the activity sidebar before it vanished!

Before Anthony Damiani made the first set of CMWGE icons for me, I was using trigrams, and coloring them to make them easier to visually reference. (The correlation to trigrams wasn't that great but I got the icons before I started really confronting that.) This gave rise to what became CMWGE's eight colors, and more generally the system's eightfold symmetry. It all spins out of the colors of XP Actions, which match Arcs/Issues/powersets.

I built an initial set of characters complete with powers before I started pulling out the Arcs from them and expanding them to complete powersets. I didn't want to make Frantic or Immortal part of a specific powerset, because, like, they were Noble-style and Imperator-style powersets at the time, and so it made sense to pull them out and have Frantic Arcs and Immortal Arcs. Pretty sure I was unable to assign de Montreal to Frantic or Immortal, giving rise to Sickly, but that part I don't remember for sure.

Just like I never found a ninth color I needed, I never needed a fourth powerset type; twenty-four combinations didn't cover everything I ever came up with perfectly but they were always close enough that it made more sense to fit what I was doing to one of those eight, three, or twenty-four than to expand them. It's similar to how even when I want to add dice to a game, I keep finding simpler diceless approaches than adding a whole new resolution system; when I wanted to make a diced system for the Far Roofs, I had to built it in from the very beginning to make that work.

*

posts this

sees tumblr's response "this post has ceased to exist."

... but it's ... here? Tho?

[omegaremix]

Autumn 2015 Mixtape:

JK Flesh Nothing Is Free

David K. Ginn “Bad Boy”

Alan Parker & Alan Hawkshaw “Difference, The”

Ethel Beatty “It’s Your Love”

Dan Deacon “Drinking Out Of Cups”

Major Mackerel “Dutty Bungle”

Shaggs, The “Who Are Parents”

Tiger “Ram Dance Hall”

DJ Bass “Take A Lick”

…And The Native Hipsters “There’s Goes Concorde Again”

Kap Bambino “Zero Life”

Dalhous “A Communion With These People”

Cobra Killer “Mund Auf Augen Zu”

Hooded Fang “Ode To Subterrania”

Quintron “Dirtbag”

G.L.O.S.S. Girls Living Outside Society’s Shit

Sylvano Santorio “Waves”

Looper “Farfisa Song”

William Onyeabor “Better Change Your Mind”

Plaitum “Let Me Hold You”

Hasil Adkins “Ha Ha Cat Walk Baby”

Killing Joke “Euphoria”

Dreamcrusher “Suicide Deluxe”

Keith Droste “When You Come Around”

Soul Vibrations “The Dump”

Dum Dum Girls “Jail La La”

DOM “Bochicha”

Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers “Roadrunner”

Kissing The Pink “Big Man Restless”

Liaisons Dangereuses “Los Ninos Del Parque”

Specials, The “A Message To You Rudy”

Alan Parker & Mike Moran “Your Smile”

Phil Western “Endless”

Bug, The ft. Spaceape “At War With Time”

Ojeda Penn “Happiness Is Having You Near”

Vatican Shadow “Enter Paradise”

Bobbi Humphrey “Jealousy”

Chromatics “Just Like You” (Hazy Mountains RMX)

Bug, The “Diss Me Army”

Etant Donnes ft. Alan Vega, Lydia Lunch & Genesis P-Orridge “Brutal Piss Roads”

[seeingteacupsindragons]

Aroace Louis and William as teenagers staring at Moran like, "We understand none of your behavior. We're going to study you like a bug."

[schnuron]

2024's albums I like [December 7th, 2024]

It's hard to keep up listening to music that's up-to-date or looking at the new releases in music websites such as Bandcamp, Bleep, Pitchfork, etc.

I'm picky when it comes to choosing the albums I like to listen to. Metal and rock don't excite me so much in 2013 as I keep growing up as a Millennial. Darkwave, ambient and some electronic music are my current obsession. Even though, I'm passable about the rock music, I'm not very enthusiastic of it.

I haven't mentioned the other albums here, but I don't think the ones from Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Coldplay or Glass Animals were the best albums they did. If you enjoy and like those albums, that's okay.

If I have something new to post a thread about the newest albums in December, I'll do it. You guys are welcome to share yours.

I wanted to post this thread a little a bit early before this year ends. These are the ones I've been listening to in 2024:

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Darkwave: Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She Dead Astronauts - Ghosts <3 Feyleux - Midnight Hearts Filmmaker - Grim Encoders (Dark Electro / EBM) Night in Athens - Wasted Reflektions Profit Prison - Gilt Sixth June - Stay! Sydney Valette - The Healer

Electronic music: alva noto - HYbr:ID III (ambient) Bat For Lashes - The Dream of Delphi Charli XCX - BRAT Erika de Casier - Still Fennesz - Mosaic (ambient) Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate Old Amica - For alltid (ambient) Skee Mask - Resort The Green Kingdom - Arcadian (ambient) / Horizons (ambient) Uboa - Impossible Light

Other: 070 Shake - Petrichor Cigarettes After Sex - X's FLO - Access All Areas Nessa Barrett - AFTERCARE The Cure - Songs of a Lost World Wrong Organ - Mouthwashing OST

Honorable mentions / the albums that were okay: (G)I-DLE - 2 

Allie X - Girl with No Face (Synthpop)

Ariana Grande - eternal sunshine 

Arooj Aftab - Night Reign 

Artemas - pretty 

Artemas - yustyna

Astrid S - Joyride 

BUNT. - Levi Don't Do  

Bad Omens - CONCRETE JUNGLE [THE OST]

Bill Ryder-Jones - Iechyd Da 

Black Nail Cabaret - Chrysanthemum (Darkwave)

Blisspoint - DOG 

Blue Oyster Cult - Ghost Stories 

Bolis Pupul - Letter to Yu

Bring Me The Horizon - Post Human: NeX GEn 

Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project

C Z A R I N A - Empire 

Calignosia - Malpaís 

Carlita - Sentimental  

Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn into You: Everasking Edition 

Clan Of Xymox - Exodus (Darkwave / Goth Rock)

Disintegration - Shiver in a Weak Light (Post-punk / Synthpop) 

Donny Benet - Infinite Desires (Italo-Disco / Synthpop)

Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism

Echoberyl - Through the Chaos (Darkwave) 

Elbow - Audio Vertigo 

Embedded Figures - 6 Lovers EP (Darkwave) 

Eminem - The Death of Slim Shady 

Erik Wollo - Solastalgia 

FLETCHER -  In Search of the Antidote 

Father John Misty - Mahashmashana

Filmmaker - Land of Hidden Variables (Darkwave-ish with noise) 

Florrie - The Lost Ones 

Four Tet - Three 

Fred again.. - USB / ten days 

Future Islands - People Who Aren't There Anymore 

GENDEMA - sassy things

Gente De Zona - Demasiado

Geordie Greep - The New Sound 

Glaring - Hope (Darkwave)

Goat - Goat 

Golden Apes - Our Ashes at the End of the Day

Greyhaven - Stereo Grief EP

Gruff Rhys - Sadness Sets Me Free

Habitants - Alma

Hainbach - Breve

Houses of Heaven - Within/Without 

Hudson Mohawke / Tyga - L'Ecstasy 

IAMTHESHADOW - To End What Never Began (Darkwave) 

Iglooghost - Tidal Memory Exo

Jacob Collier - Djesse Vol. 4 

James Woods / Shooter Jennings - Hear the Thunder Crack

Jamie xx - In Waves 

Jlin - Akoma 

John Grant - The Art of the Lie

Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 

Julia Holter - Something in the Room She Moves 

Julian Lage - Speak to Me

KMFDM - LET GO 

Kacy Hill - BUG 

Kaelan Mikla / Bardi Johannsson - The Phantom Carriage OST

Kali Uchis - Orquideas 

Kat Von D - My Side of the Mountain (Synthwave / Synthpop)

Keaton Henson - Somnambulant Cycles (Classical) 

Kelly Moran - Moves in the Field (Piano music)

Kendrick Lamar - GNX 

Kim Gordon - The Collective 

Kinoteki - Faith and the Vessel

L'Ame Immortelle - Ungelebte Leben (EBM / Synthpop)

LEATHERS - Ultraviolet 

Lo Moon - I Wish You Way More than Luck 

Locrian - End Terrain

Lucy Rose - This ain't the Way you Go Out 

MAX - LOVE IN STEREO 

Machine Girl - MG Ultra

Machine Girl - SUPER FREQ EP

Machinedrum - 3FOR82 

Male Tears - Paradisco (New Wave / Synthpop)

Mamaleek - Vida Blue

Marika Hackman - Big Sigh

Marilyn Manson - One Assassination Under God - Chapter 1 

Mark E Moon - Resist (Darkwave)

Maruja - Connla's Well EP 

Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements - Rain on the Road

Matte Blvck - Vows (Dark Electro / Darkwave?) 

Meat Beat Manifesto / Merzbow - Extinct 

Mega Drive - Memory Disc EP 

Micah Dailey-White - Micah

Molchat Doma - Belaya Polosa 

Nadine Shah - Filthy Underneath

Night Club - Masochist (Darkawave-ish / Synthwave)

Occams Laser - Headspace (Synthwave) 

Ockeroid - Crow Country OST 

Opeth - The Last Will and Testament  

Owen - The Falls of Sioux 

Patricia Taxxon - Bicycle

Paysage D'Hiver - Die Berge

Philippe Blache - Tristitiam Et Metus Tradam Portare Ventis (Dark Ambient / Darkwave-ish) 

Photay - Windswept 

Pink Milk - Night on Earth (Darkwave / Shoegaze)

Porter Robinson - SMILE! :D 

Priest - Dark Pulse (Darkwave / Synthwave)

Qual - Techsick EP 

Ravyn Lenae - Bird's Eye

Remi Wolf - Big Ideas 

Ritchot Textiles - i 

SENTRIES - Snow as a Metaphor for Death 

SINE - Luxuria 

Sabrina Carpenter - Short N Sweet

Sega Bodega - Dennis 

Selofan - Animal Mentality (Post-Punk)

Shygirl - Club Shy 

Skee Mask - D 

Slash - Orgy of the Damned

Sleeping Rabbits - Breathing Room EP

Snow Strippers - Night Killaz, Vol. 2 

Sofi Tukker - BREAD 

Soft Kill - Escape Forever 

Squarepusher - Dostrotime

St. Vincent - All Born Screaming

TR/ST - Performance (Darkwave / Synthpop)

The Black Monolith - End and Beginning are Dreams 

The Fauns - How Lost (Dream Pop / Shoegaze)

The KVB - Tremors 

The Spirit of the Beehive - You'll Have to Lose Something 

The Sweet Kill - Nowhere 

Thief - Bleed, Memory (Darkwave / Experimental) [Prophecy Productions]

Thou - Umbilical

Toby Driver - Raven, I Know that You Can Give Me Anything 

Tommy Richman - COYOTE

Tomo Akikawabaya - The Castle II (Darkwave and Minimal wave)

Tusks - Gold

Twenty One Pilots - Clancy 

Tyla - Tyla 

Tyler, The Creator - CHROMAKOPIA

ULTRA SUNN - US

Ulver - Liminal Animals 

Union of Knives - Start from the Endless

VR SEX - Hard Copy 

Vampire Weekend - Only God was Above Us

Vince Staples - Dark Times 

Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

Whores - War

Witch of the Vale - 100 Ways to Leave, Vol.1

Xiu Xiu - 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips 

ben. - subculture

ben. - subculture 

i Haxa - i Haxa

r beny - discerned in the fugue of streams 

sleepmakeswaves - It's Here, But I have no Names for it

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Ambient:

Actress - Statik 

Alora Crucible - Oak Lace Apparition

Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol. 5 (ambient) 

Black Brunswicker - A Moment of Clarity EP 

Disasterpeace - Standstill

Duncan Ritchie - Lords of Wolves OST

Faded Cloak - Wrapped in Fog and Freezing Mist 

Field Lines Cartographer - Portable Reality Generator

Jogging House - Rendezvous

Lustmord - Much Unseen Is Also Here 

Mark Van Hoen - Plan for a Miracle 

Nils Frahm - Day 

Nonkeen - All Good? 

Polypores - There Are Other Worlds

Pye Corner Audio - The Endless Echo 

SUSS - Birds & Beasts

Scanner - Alchemeia

Steve Moore - Eye of Horus

The Body / Dis Fig - Orchards of a Futile Heaven