#Cathartic Entertainment

[senorboombastic]

Listening Post – February 2024

Words: Andy Hughes Eagle-eyed readers might’ve spotted the lack of a ‘Listening Post’ at the start of the year. We’ve been a bit busy launching a podcast you see – ’60 Minutes or less’ – live now, featuring interesting chats with Joe Casey (Protomartyr) and Paul Hanley (The Fall)! That doesn’t mean we’ve had our ears closed to new music, mind. Alongside our bumper playlist for the year…

[palpietine-1]

I was thinking about Glass Onion, as one does, and the one thing that baffled me is why Andi received a box.

Miles killed her. There was no reason to send a box with a stupid puzzle. He knew she wouldn't be able to open it anyway.

My only explanation is that he ordered the box to be sent to Andi's address way early (maybe even before the trial) and he just didn't think about cancelling his order. If he had cancelled the order, Helen would have never gotten the invitation, so she would have never seeked out help to take revenge. And then his scheme would have never been revealed!

(except if Duke connected the dots but who knows)

But no! He had to be stupid and forget about it!

Gosh I love this movie.

[akkivee]

another piece of relevant information i think you all need to know from the hypster magazine is that hitoya recently published a book!!!!

the book itself is irrelevant tho, he held a book talk and signing event and all hundred or so seats sold out since y’know, the hypmic boys are technically idols in their universe and everyone wants to see drb participants, but bc of that a bunch of tickets had been scalped and only a handful showed up so hitoya got on the phone and called a bunch of people and got the scalpers arrested, some of which were in the crowd, and there was cheering, the audience clapped and obama was there—

[auroral-melody]

Please give your Lucifer and Dream a pair of cats!

*clears throat and answers another 2 year old ask*

well i actually have an au in which lucifer gets an emotional support cat named Lysander ("it's lysander, mazikeen. not lysie, not fluffy. lysander.") it's a tabby american forest cat

i never really thought about giving one to dream but after a moment's thought i decided a quick sketch was enough

[warmrainonawinterday]

Forget "I have the blood of Akasha in me".

If Lestat had really wanted to deal psychic damage to Armand he could have mentioned that another vampire whose blood he has flowing through his veins is Marius.

[pepperpixel]

Some art of Tori from @misfitmccoward ‘s Naruto fic Plasticity! Because!! It’s such a good fucking fic…! I had to do fanart for it!! honestly after I first read it I was so fucking hype about it that I was almost like “omg.. I have to do an animatic or something for this. it’s SO GOOD” but. My ability to do animatics has kinda flushed down the drain recently ghghg- But! Still!! I had to at least draw some fanart for it…!

[ghostdnfie]

'i have a right to crash out. i actually need to crash out more' PLEASE DO.

[kate-apologist]

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[positivelyapunovexponent-good]

It is only 9AM and today is already wretched.

Woke up at 5:50AM, exhausted. Stomach hurts. Tried for an hour to fall back asleep but couldn't. And of course, the mystery bone that appeared on the porch of the house is still there. The bone materialized two days ago. Probably a chicken bone. Neatly arranged on our porch railing. At least I hope it's a chicken bone. That's probably the least unsettling type of bone it could be.

My housemates say they didn't put it there and I believe them. We don't even eat chicken generally. Or... other things that could have produced a bone of those dimensions. So who else? Raccoons? The Planks*? A serial killer? (a chicken serial killer???)

The night before last the bone was moved from one side of the porch to the other. Still neatly placed. Roughly parallel to the wood grain.

The bone is attracting yellowjackets. I do not like yellowjackets. Well this is untrue- I like yellowjackets quite a lot actually. They're fun to learn about. They're important to the ecosystem. But I am wildly spheksophobic and I cannot leave the house while they are There. On the bone. On the porch. Right. By. The Door.

I am trapped and it is a problem. I am missing a math TA meeting. It's an optional TA meeting, but I feel bad because the professor is bringing food. Probably food I can't eat. My stomach hurts. But it's a nice thought and I feel impolite.

Maybe I should make an excuse. How should the email go? "dear professor I'm sorry I couldn't make it to the meeting there's a BUG on a BONE and I do not know how it got there. The bone, I mean. The bug presumably flew sincerely Svet PS the bug is a yellowjacket** that's why it can fly

PPS Did you know adult yellowjackets primarily consume plant sugars? It's actually the larvae that need the protein in meat. It's a sweet, that the yellowjacket is on the bone specifically in effort to feed its own. I hope it gets enough protein. Still scared of it though

PPPS Yellowjackets are in fact the most eusocial of all wasp species! That's why they're so aggressive, they have something bigger than themselves to protect. unlike me I'm just scared for my own skin. And I'm not aggressive at all in fact I'm rather passive and pathetic. I wish I was more like a yellowjacket "

yeahh maybe I should not write an email it sounds daft when I put it in words. The yellowjacket is minding its own business. I should just be able to leave. But I can't make myself get through the front door. Stupid brain. Stupid bone. Why is the bone where it shouldn't be??

so- guess I'll just watch the bone in hopes the yellowjacket is kind enough to give me an opening to leave before my class starts at 11AM :/. Hope the chicken serial killer menacing the house doesn't get me first. Because I do fit the victim profile, given that I'm being rather chicken right now

*I named all the squirrels in our yard Max Plank because he's my favorite physicist. Collectively they're The Planks, naturally

**actually scientifically yellowjackets are order Hymenoptera while bug scientifically only refers to order Hemiptera so it would be inaccurate to call the yellowjacket a bug even for alliterative reasons, which is another reason I probably shouldn't send the above email. Can't have the math professor I work for knowing I don't have my insect orders straight. what a mortifying thought

[appendingfic]

Book, OG Movie: *Miss Honey discloses her trauma at her own pace as a reflection of the deepening of her bond with Matilda* Musical: *Her trauma is played out as a sideplot, a sideshow, as entertainment for another character*

[4x18hawkeye]

just rewatched "life time" ohhhh my god

[senorboombastic]

This One Song… USA Nails on Feel Worse

Tell you what – we love hearing from artists when things go right. We equally love hearing from artists when things go dreadfully wrong. A song that was a piece of piss, written in 20 minutes? Or years in the making and a bastard to write? Whether it’s a song that came together through great duress or one that was smashed out in a short amount of time, we’re getting the lowdown from some of our…

[iridescentis]

im struggling to write wwy atm bc i really want to write angst but we're not quite there yet and im impatient

idk what it is about being tired i just want to traumatise these characters

[96theater]

prev reminds me one of my favorite relationships in anything is sigurd, deirdre, arvis, julius, julia and seliph from fe4. the drama. i want someone to revive staff arvis, deirdre, julius and sigurd and make them all attend a family function together like it would be so fucking awful. i want to see sigurd trying to drown arvis in the punch bowl while deirdre and her kids try and fail to restrain him. i want julius to awkwardly apologize for the whole child sacrifices thing. it would be so horrible and i would eat up every second of it

[tojisun]

something about price slapping your pussy after fucking it all bruised and sensitive makes me dizzy. thinking about the heavy and consistent slaps on your cunt; the way he’s bullying it with a quiet tut.

“what a desperate cunt y’have,” he murmurs after a wet gush, your squirt and slick spreading to your pelvis and thighs with each smacks. “need to keep ‘er entertained, don’t i? always needy — it doesn’t even need t’be my cock.”

he sighs in faux disappointment. “such a greedy girl.”

you gurgle your replies, unable to properly speak with the searing pain and blistering pleasure blending into something so cathartic, your toes are curled at your peaking euphoria.

bloating.

the orgasm is close. closecloseclose—

john’s hands still, roughened palm gently falling to the meat of your thigh instead. he leans close, eyes crinkled as he smiles down at you.

“no cummin’ yet, kid,” he croons, breathless.

fuck. him.

[starshine-shimmyshufflesmile]

And over in this corner we have

Daniel

"took one look at all his fellow human beings and said: oh yeah fuck you all Ima absolutely slit every one your throats if it means I get what I want and I will dedicate a decade plus and either become that horrific monster or die trying"

Molloy.

Ain't nobody in the VC more a inhuman selfish monster than my darling boy :D

The insane thing is like. Sybelle and Benjamin chose to be serial killers forever. And they love it.

They're more culpable than someone like Lestat or Claudia or even Louis. There is never a whiff of regret there. Anne help