#Celia and The Mutations

[odk-2]

Mony Mony

Mony Mony

Mony Mony

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1) Tommy James and The Shondells - Mony Mony (1968) Bo Gentry / Bobby Bloom / Ritchie Cordell / Tommy James from: "Mony Mony" / "One Two Three and I Fell"

Rock

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Personnel: Tommy James: Lead Vocals / Guitar Eddie Gray: Guitar / Backing Vocals Ron Rosman: Keyboards / Backing Vocals Mike Vale: Bass / Backing Vocals Peter Lucia: Drums / Percussion / Backing Vocals

Produced by Bo Gentry / Ritchie Cordell

Recorded: @ Bell Sound Studios (?) in New York City, New York USA 1968

Released: March, 1968

Roulette Records

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2) Celia and The Mutations - Mony Mony (1977) Bo Gentry / Bobby Bloom / Ritchie Cordell / Tommy James from: "Mony Mony" / "Mean to Me" (Single) "1977: The Year Punk Broke" (2019 Cherry Red Records 3-CD Box Set)

Punk

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Personnel: Celia Gollin: Lead Vocals The Mutations = The Stranglers

Produced by Andy Arthurs

Recorded: @ Olympic Studios London England UK 1977

Single Released: June 17, 1977 United Artists Records

Box Set Released July 5, 2019 Cherry Red Records

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3) Billy Idol - Mony Mony (1987) Bo Gentry / Bobby Bloom / Ritchie Cordell / Tommy James from: "Mony Mony (US 12") "Don't Stop" (EP)

Rock | Dance Rock

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Personnel: Billy Idol: Vocals Aseley Otten: Guitar Mick Smiley: Bass Frankie Banali: Drums

Stephanie Spruill: Backing Vocals

Produced by Keith Forsey

Recorded: @ Westlake Recording Studios in Hollywood, California USA 1980/1981

EP Released on October 24, 1981

Chrysalis Records

[carrymelikeimcute]

Initial Magnus Protocol Thoughts

Having completed my re-listen, I have THEORIES, and questions.

Theory 1 - Colin didn't phone Alice. He hated and feared phones as the series progressed. When Alice got the 'call' from Colin he was already in the server, and it was either an echo of him or something using him to try and lure her. (I suppose he also might have lost all hope and decided there was no point avoiding the phone, but also, I think this is creepier).

Theory 2 - Alice called herself Sam's best friend in this and all worlds (paraphrasing as can't remember the exact words) but does this foreshadow that he will meet Alice in the other world? If the other world is TMA, what was she up to in that timeline?

(Question - is there a Celia who belongs in TMP world, if so, where is she? And who is Jack's father?)

Theory 3 - The OIAR isn't eye aligned, it's web aligned. They literally use a 'web crawler' and seem to be a central controlling organisation to other entities, potentially using them as hitmen/agents to manipulate events on a level no one can quite comprehend.

(Question - how does the OIAR control entities/externals? Is it purely by providing them with victims? or is there a threat to go with that incentive?)

Theory 4 - The 'Magnus Protocol' mentioned in statements is a failsafe created by the web to prevent a similar eye-pocalypse to the one in TMA. We already know individual rituals can never succeed but perhaps the 'protocol' is used against any individuals who become touched by too many entities, like Jon was, or who stand a chance of knowing too much about the greater scheme of things. And part of the OIAR's purpose is to track these encounters and to maintain a balance. The protocol may have been used against Newton because his 'fruit of knowledge' was a threat to the web's machinations. if it could give an animal a human-like consciousness, it may have been able to elevate a human to a level where they could comprehend the web's complex plots.

Theory 5 - Teddy's new job is working for Starkwall

Theory 6 - The transportation of entities through the crack has led to some 'confused' avatars which are combinations or entities, some of which maybe be diametrically opposed, causing unique and unforeseen issues. Mr Bonzo may be one of these, combining the Stranger, the Flesh and the Corruption, hence his horrifically mutated appearance.

[ellatamara]

Celia and Rethic, two npcs from the Shadowfell the party met in the Feywild. I used them partially to advertise my homebrew class the Amalgam to my players, a martial class for characters fused with a supernatural being. Rethic is fused with a child's ghost, but sometimes he's briefly the child fused with the adult's ghost. Celia received an (un)life-saving blood transfusion that mutated her into a vampiric creature.

[trickstertriangle]

its.. simple really, they used to take away children from abusive parents or parents who couldn't care for their kids due to... reasons..

they weren't even called the anti children's association at first. they were just child protection services.

but as time went on, im assuming you're like me and we share the same "ability" of seeing past the 2nd dimensional barrier...

as of recent matters more and more kids with that mutation popped up, they were deemed monsters, myself included- and the child protection services became the anti childrens association, any kid, mutation or not, were to be taken away from their parent or parents. either to be slaughtered or locked away for testing... its... terrible... but im hoping any survivors of the calamity aren't part of the association...

*she kept the child close, it seemed all three euclideans standing here in the room had the mutation. interesting*

i- oh.. i-i'm sorry... i rambled for so long- y-you must be pretty horrified... s-sorry...

- Celia 🔳🔷▫️

. . .

[he appears to be lost in thought for a solid minute]

... ah. s-so... hm...

... maybe it wasn't another me...? ... no, that's absurd...

... well, it sounds like a we happy few situation, but worse somehow. er... you wouldn't know what that is...

... i don't think it was anywhere near as common for me. in fact, i... well... i didn't know about anybody else with it, but... i suppose talking about a third dimension was illegal...

... w-well, uh...

... are your legs strong enough to handle moving in the third dimension consistently yet...? you seem to struggle, but... well, you know...

[terraxtant]

CELIA CABALLERO; SOLAR FLARE CHARACTER FORM

OVERVIEW 

FULL NAME: Cecelia Nieves Caballero Roman  CURRENT ALIAS: Solar Flare NICKNAMES: Celia, Cece, Ces ADDITIONAL ALIASES: Ms. C, Ms. Caballero

BIRTHDAY: Jan 15, 1993  GENDER: Cis-Female  SEXUALITY: Heterosexual PRONOUNS:  She/Her

CITIZENSHIP: Spanish-American (Dual citizenship) SPECIES: Homo Mutatis (Mutate) AFFILIATION: The X-Men BASE OF OPERATIONS: Constance Billard Academy (former), Leopold Estate

APPEARANCE & PHYSICALITY

ETHNICITY: Spanish

ACCENT: Inland North American accent, with a slight hint of her original Spanish accent. 

DOMINANT HAND: Right 

HAIR: C.  

EYES: Yellow-Green

BODY: S 

UNUSUAL FEATURES: Her eyes glow when using her powers, but that’s it. 

STYLE: Casual and simple, she had a preference for clean cuts and comfort, she's not all too bothered about brand names or adhering to a specific style. As long as she feels good, looks good, she’s good. She does, however, have a penchant for heels, largely due to her height and wanting to appear taller and more intimidating. 

FACECLAIM: Bahar Şahin

PERSONALITY 

Freya is fairly introverted, preferring to be on her own or in the company of a very select group of people. She also does not bother pretending to be polite, and will leave or more likely move you out of her space when she does not want to interact. She tends to be rather sarcastic and somewhat cynical, not a huge believer in Professor X's “good is in everyone” approach, not unlike either of her fathers. She doesn't really believe people should be controlled or any of that world domination crap either, mostly she just can't be bothered with that. Ruling seems like a huge pain in the ass, instead, just everyone be polite and live your own lives, like does it really matter if your neighbour is blue and has a husband and a wife? How is that your problem? 

Despite having had her earlier memories locked away, and a whole host of traumatic events, Freya’s personality has largely remained the same through her life, only maturing the unruly bits with age, but her beliefs have certainly remained the same. The only real difference between childhood, pre-memory lock Freya and the current one is the loss of her spoiled daddy’s girl traits. She’s still got a bit of that, but the spoiled part has basically vanished, since the person who indulged her every whim is no longer around to do that. 

She is incredibly stubborn, and because of her powers, can occasionally display quite the god complex, however, those she loves and values, she holds above herself, not just their lives, but their opinions too, which is best seen in her relationship with Luthor Leopold, who is effectively her foster father, and will stop rewriting the world or the room when he tells her to. She is a deeply loyal and loving person, she doesn’t love a lot, but the few she does, she’s willing to do anything for. There are no moral lines she is unwilling to cross for those she loves. The world doesn't mean anything to her if her loved ones aren't in it.

POWERS & ABILITIES 

Freya's most potent and notable ability is REALITY WARPING, her power is virtually limitless, bound only by her own imagination, and enables her to defy any and all laws of nature, and bend them entirely to her will. The exact range of her warping is unknown, she has been able to rewrite the entire world, which leaves open the probability of her being able to affect the greater universe. Unlike other reality warpers, Freya's wishes become reality itself, with only unique beings able to recall the world that existed beforehand. If she wishes for all flowers to be purple, all flowers in the world will become purple, and almost no one will notice the change. Her powers even extend to actually creating matter itself, an ability unseen in other Reality Warpers who essentially rearrange atoms already in existence, though like her, can defy the laws of physics. 

Her Reality Warping abilities work in conjunction with both her mutation and her affinity for magic, in particular CHAOS MAGIC, which she alone has been able to use with no harm to herself, making her one of the most powerful beings in existence. Of note, while she can use spells to further her warping, she is also capable of rewriting the world simply with her thoughts. As her primary power, it is unclear how many of her additional abilities she was born with, and which manifested as a result of something she wanted. A flaw of her power is that while she cannot be manipulated by a reality conjured by someone else, Freya can be confounded by naturally existing alternate realities, which she can view and visit freely with her power, and alterations that she herself has done or undone. The overlapping memories and visions can overwhelm her and thus cause her to lose control over the current reality. Her emotional state also heavily affects her powers, which can act both as a boost and a boone. Theoretically, at complete control of herself and her powers, Freya could completely rewrite reality as she sees fit, with no being in existence able to notice the change. 

Likely a mix of her mutation and magic, offensively, Freya tends to use ENERGY MANIPULATION, manifesting as red-pink forms of energy in whatever shape she needs; she can manipulate this energy freely as a projectile, lasso, a blast, etc. She has also displayed the following; Astral Projection, Clairvoyance, Duplication, Energy Transference, Flight, Force Field Generation, Gravity Manipulation, Illusion Conjuring, Invisibility, Location Tracking, Magical Awareness, Mechanical Manipulation, Elemental Manipulation, Necromancy, Power Manipulation, Power Bestowal, Power Absorption, Power Amplification, Power Negation, Telekinesis, Telepathy, Teleportation, Remote Teleportation, Portal Creation, Time Manipulation, Transmutation, and Witch Sight. There is no limitation to how many powers she can use at once, and can combine them as she requires. As stated before, it's likely that a majority of these abilities are not natural, and a result of her Reality Warping and Chaos Magic simply responding to what she was attempting to accomplish.

Aside from her powers, Freya is a polyglot, and can speak numerous languages, though, as per a number of her abilities, some of them she learned to speak because of her powers. That aside, she is fluent in German, French, Turkish, and English, having been taught by her parents, and in the years since has picked up Italian, Japanese, Arabic, and more.

She's also been trained in various forms of combat, but is not particularly skilled in it, and relies on her powers. She's similar when it comes to magic, she's learned plenty of spells, but relies on her existing powers and just augments them with magical energy as opposed to traditional spell-casting.

RELATIONSHIPS

FAMILY

Magnus Eckhart (biological father)

Meryem Eckhart née Kaya (mother)

Mikail Eckhart (elder brother)

Luthor Leopold (foster/adoptive father)

Damian Mirza (adoptive elder brother)

Lara Leopold (adoptive younger sister)

Freya’s relationship with her biological family is somewhat complicated, mostly by the fact that she does not remember them. Before her memories were locked away, Freya loved her family very much, particularly her elder brother, and she was very close to her father, very much a “Daddy's Girl”, however, she couldn't understand her father's behaviour towards her brother and as she started getting older, she would place herself between them and try to keep her brother safe and happy, and slowly pulled away from their father. Magnus's murder of Mikail was the final straw for Freya, and she sought to utterly destroy him, resulting in the events of M-Day. Her prior memories of her mother are more fuzzy, she could recall feeling warmth and love, but not her face. Even Freya doesn't know what happened to their mother. 

Since the reversal of M-Day, she considers the Wolverines her family, Luthor appearing to her on Mount Darque Hold being her earliest memory before Professor X's mental walls started collapsing, she also has a habit of referring to him as “Professor Dad”. Since the rescue of Lara, she considers her, her younger sister and is very protective of her. She is somewhat hostile towards Damian, since he tried to kill Luthor and all, but sees him as a wayward, moron brother. They text a lot. 

FRIENDSHIPS 

Freya isn't all that close with those outside of her family, she is closed off and can seem to be a bit mean, but overall, she is polite enough with everyone at the Mansion, she does not permit external threats towards anyone at X-Mansion, though the main reason for that is that they matter to Professor Dad, thus they naturally matter to her to. Having said that, she does have actual friends amongst them and spends the most time with them at the Manors outside of her family, and will entrust one of them with looking after Lara in case she and Luthor are not around. 

Alex Mastronardi 

Lowkey bitchy besties, they judgemental as hell together. 

Rosaria Huntington 

Francesca Moreno 

Not a fan. Freya just not understand her as a person at all, nor Alex’s choice of dating her after Rose? Like, Alex, buddy, you good? You having a breakdown? The fuck is this? And she's somehow become even more annoying since she and Alex got together, Freya genuinely has to dedicate a constant amount of energy to making sure she doesn't accidentally wipe Francesca out of existence due to the latter's incessant need to be an absolute nuisance. When it comes down to it though, as another X-Man (technically), Freya will protect her from external threats. Which Francesca needs to understand means that she protects you from the US government Francesca, not the Freya!

ROMANCE

Freya hasn't had too much interest in romance in her life, she's not been single the whole time, but she's never been in a serious relationship, well, she didn't consider them serious, her exes may have. She's only ever previously gone for someone she already knew and felt certain wouldn't hurt her, whether emotionally or physically, so basically others at X-Mansion and the Leopold Estate. None lasted longer than a few months, since she's difficult to get close to and will obstruct your efforts to do so.  

Jason Lowell-Richards 

Lowkey they're just funny as a couple, she starts off hating him cause he's a) an American, strike one, and b) ex-US Army, which is worse. She finds him incredibly annoying, and threatens him nearly daily. However, she does very quickly fall into a sort of situationship vibe with him, not so much the flirting stuff (which he definitely does), but while he's technically not hers, she gets real pissy and territorial if someone shows interest in him. Absolutely denies any and all feelings of jealousy, but that ken is hers. 

While not all that nice to him, at all, he does manage to upgrade himself from nuisance to “friend” in her books fairly quickly, not long after he and his sister arrived at the Leopold Estate, Freya had a little “loss of control” episode, and usually she manages to anchor herself to reality by focusing on Luthor, but in this instance the alternate reality primarily confusing her was in which he proposed killing her, so she couldn’t trust which Luthor was hers. Jason offered himself as a focus point, since he wasn’t present in the other realities, and she was able to regain control again.

HISTORY

Freya was born in the fairly new mutant-only nation of Genosha to the President, Magnus Eckhart, and his then wife Meryem Eckhart, she was their second child, but first mutant one. Freya has been capable of using her abilities since birth, levitating herself and teleporting toys to her, it’s also possible she could use her powers from the womb, since a protective shield once stopped a bullet from hitting her non-mutant mother while pregnant with her, but it’s also possible the bullet was stopped due to a knee-jerk reaction by her father. As a powerful mutant, she was very doted upon by her father, and was being raised as a golden child, but had to watch her non-mutant elder brother be at best disregarded, and at worst, abused. Despite how their father treated him, Freya loved her brother dearly, and always placed herself between him and their father, and slowly pulled away from him due to the unfair treatment of her brother.

When Freya was 11, and Mikail 20, he convinced her to use her powers to turn him into a mutant as well, as a birthday present, however, Freya was too young and quickly lost control, the atomic structure of the citizens and the Island itself starting to fluctuate. While trying to stop it, Magneto accidentally killed Mikail, which sent Freya into a rage and triggered what later became known as M-DAY. Sobbing over her brother’s corpse, Freya whispered “no more mutants”, which subsequently erased nearly all mutants from reality, either by depowering them or removing their existence. A handful of “Omega-Level” mutants retained both their powers and memories of the previous reality, including Professor X and the Wolverine, as well as Freya herself and her father, while the nation of Genosha was turned into a floating fortress named Mount Darque Hold, the former populace turned into Sentinel-like mindless creatures which surrounded the fortress and protected Freya and her imprisoned father.

The massive world rewrite used a mix of both her mutant reality warping and was her first use of Chaos Magic, which caught the attention of the Lords of Chaos and Order of the Witch, neither were successful in penetrating the defences she set around Mount Darque Hold. A number of the Lords in Chaos were depowered by Freya, seemingly permanently, and even now cannot use any form of magic. 

While the magic users failed to enter the stronghold, the Wolverine and Professor X were successful in making it past the guards and eventually to Magneto and Freya, though a month had already passed since Freya changed the world. Luthor promised that if she changed the world back, she could leave with him, and wouldn’t ever have to see Magneto again, and if she focused with Professor X’s help, she might be able to undo her brother’s death too. She believed in him and did as asked, but she was unable to completely reverse everything, a large percentage of the Genoshan population was now deceased, and the Island itself collapsed and sank into the sea. She did actually manage to save her brother, but it was unclear in the moment and she thought she failed. In the aftermath, Professor X sealed all her memories, planning to slowly unseal them over time as her control over her powers increased, and she was taken to X-Mansion with them, and her surname changed. The Fall of Genosha remains debated to this day, while Magneto attributes it to an attack by humans.

Since waking up in X-Mansion, Freya’s only prior memory was being somewhere dark and alone, and feeling terrified until Luthor appeared, halo light included, this being her sole existing memory lead to her being rather attached to Luthor initially until she slowly acclimated to life at the school, though he still remains her favourite. She doesn’t call him dad, but did begin referring to him as “Professor Dad”, and that’s just stuck now. Freya is aware that her memories were locked up by Professor X because she lost control before, which she did not appreciate, but trusts Luthor, so didn’t fight him over it, but this is partly why she didn’t follow Professor X around like some other students (*cough* Rose and Alex *cough*), however, she did grow to like him over time though. 

During the Invasion, Freya was initially with Lara, and made her evacuate to the jet first, afterwards using her powers to evacuate as many people as possible, during which she witnessed the Professor’s death and wiped out a massive portion of the army before manually flying the jet, which was damaged by their weapons, across the northern border. Since the shock of the Professor's death, Freya's powers have been unstable, and the mental walls he had built shaking and crumbling, causing her to confuse alternate realities and her own past memories. She's tried rebuilding the walls herself, but since she built them, it's easier for her confounded self to remove them.

TRIVIA

Loves cats, her entire youtube history is just cat videos 

Massive fan of Villainess web novels and webtoons

Not a fan of social media, doesn’t understand it really, but did make a locked instagram profile and a whatsapp group chat for the Wolvie Fam after Lara joined the Mansion 

People tend to assume that she's also Wolverine's biological daughter, and they do have similar eyes, and no one thought to explain it to Lara for quite some time, so she was really confused by the whole Magento thing

Freya has an inexplicable hatred of America, both before and after her memories were locked away. During the X-Mansion days, she kept hurting all the Americans’ feelings by constantly calling it a bad country, at best, and it was really hard to get her to soften up or just keep her opinion to herself. Magnus could clarify that she actually got that from her mom, but he's off supervillaining or whatever and not in her life.

[uneasylisteningradio]

Believe December 2, 2023

listen on Mixcloud

Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night Glenda Collins - It's Hard to Believe It

DJ speaks over Cher - Believe (instrumental)

Graham Central Station - I Believe In You The Throb - Believe in Me The Vicious - I Don't Believe in Christ The Chimes - Who Do I Believe?

DJ speakls over The Living Strings - I'm a Believer

Thee Mighty Caesars - I Was Lead to Believe Hawkwind - You'd Better Believe It Rose Melberg - I Don't Believe in the Sun The Pretty Things - You Don't Believe Me Roberto Jordan - Soy Un Creyente

Tiikeri - Uskon Punkkareihin The Make-Up - R U A Believer Vivisick - 電脳一神教 (Cyber God Belief) Bobby Bland - I Don't Believe Linda Jones - Seeing Is Believing Tax Exiles - (I Don't Believe In) Miracles

Buzzcocks - I Believe Rex Garvin & The Mighty Cravers - Believe It Or Not Every Mother's Son - I Believe in You Drake Tungsten - I Can't Believe That Kurt Cobain is Dead Carpenters - Reason To Believe Kirsty MacColl - Hard To Believe

Dr Sure's Unusual Practice - I Don't Know What to Believe Little Milton - Believe in Me Disturbed - I Don't Believe (feat. Josi Munns) McKinney's Cotton Pickers - Do You Believe In Love At Sight ? Värttinä - Uskottu Ei Uupuvani

Celia and the Mutations - You Better Believe Me The Halo Benders - I Can't Believe It's True Durchzug - Alles was ich glaube

Joshua Ray Walker - Believe

[lovelywingsart]

I realized I forgot to keep up with Art Fight on here too SALKSJDK-

Well, since the event is over, I'm just gonna make some big posts for the last few! These are the rest of the 'Biomes' as I've come to call them!

Ender and Ashlynn for xFroggiii (revenge)

Mutated Emma for mewolandia

Mutated Camelia for Sisart

Maximus for MrTodd (featuring my Adalwulf!)

Mairi for seratonin

Sherbet for xfroggiii (revenge)

Yin Yang redesigns for Wicked-Creations (revenge)

Celia for atlas-martyn

Wolfdash and Rosekit for Boz

//I do actually plan on offering these as commission types, though Im not 100% sure on pricing yet...//

[hitchell-mope]

Side by side by side by Uma and her imaginary party guests

Uma (sharply): I mean when you've got friends like mine

(Her expression softens)

Uma (gentler): I mean, when you've got friends like mine

(She starts making her way though the guests)

Isn't it warm?

Isn't it rosy?

Side by side...

Maddie: She's such a sweetheart

(Doug and Hadie give her a quizzical look)

Uma: by side

Maddie (confused): Isn't she a sweetheart?

Uma: Ports in a storm

Comfy and cozy

Side by side...

Carlos: She never loses her cool(.)

Uma: by side

Jay: I envy that(.)

Uma: Everything shines

How sweet!

Side by side...

Lonnie (lying through her teeth): We're just so fond of her

Uma: by side

Parallel lines

Who meet

The guests (raising their glasses to Uma): Love her!

Can't get enough of her!

Uma: Everyone winks

Nobody's nosy

Side by side...

Morgana: She feels exactly the way I do...

Uma: by side

Morgana: about everything

Uma (cosying up to Gil and Doug): You bring the drinks

And I'll bring the posy-

Side by side...

Hadie (dryly): She's always there when you need her

Uma: by side

Anthony (sardonically): That's class(.)

Uma (throwing her arms around Gil and Doug): One is lonely and two is boring

Think what you can keep ignoring

Side...

Ben: She's my “best friend”.

Uma: by side...

(Doug looks offended)

Ben (apologetically amending his statement): second-best!

Uma: by side

The guests: Pal and pinch-hitter

Plus a perfect babysitter!

Year after year

Older and older...

Evie (clearly being magically forced to say what she’s saying): It's amazing. We've gotten older every year and she seems to stay exactly the same

(Jane plays the slide whistle)

The guests: Sharing a tear

Lending a shoulder

Diego: You know what comes to my mind when I see her? The Chrysler building. Isn't that weird?

The guests: Always in fun

No strain

Celia: Sometimes I catch her looking and looking- I just look right back

The guests: Permanent sun

No rain

We're so crazy, she's so sane

Everyone blends

Like a good whiskey

Freddie: A person like Uma doesn't have the good things and she doesn't have the bad things, but she doesn't have the good things

The guests: Intimate friends

But nothing that's risky

Persey: Let me make her a drink. She's the only person I know I feel should drink more

Uma (enjoying herself too much to realise the spell is mutating out of Mal’s control): One's impossible, two is dreary

Three is company, safe and cheery

The guests: Side...

Mal (aside to Ben): She always looks like she's keeping score

The guests: by side

Mal (calling over to Uma): Who's winning, cousin?

The guests: By side

Uma (jumping up onto the piano): Here is the church

Here is the steeple

Open the doors

And see all the crazy, married people

(Ned lifts Uma off the piano and spins her around as the guests form concentric circles of dancing around them)

The guests: What would we do without you?

How would we ever get through?

Who would I complain to for hours?

Who'd bring me the flowers

When I have the flu?

Who'd finish yesterday's stew?

Who'd take the kids to the zoo?

The boys: Who is so cool, and who is so deep

The girls: And who would keep you company when I want to sleep?

Persey: How would we ever get through?

The guests: What would we do without you?

(Everyone takes a shot and gasps four times)

The guests (dancing like they’re the gangs from West Side Story): What would we do without you-oo?

How would we ever get through-oo?

Should there be some marital tension

It's her intervention that starts us anew

Who could we open up to-oo

Secrets we keep from guess who-oo?

Who is so safe, and who is so sound?

Evie (standing up from the crowd): You never need an analyst with Uma around(.)

(She’s pulled back down to everyone’s level)

The guests: How would we ever get through?

What would we do without you?

(The party dissolved into a chaos of drinking, dancing and pranks on and led by the birthday girl)

Uma (playing darts with the boys): here we go.

(Everyone gasps four times again. Ben and Facillier meet with Mal over at the piano)

Ben: the spells getting away from you isn’t it?

Mal: a little bit yes but it’s nothing I can’t handle.

Ben: if it comes to that you’ll make sure to tell me right?

Mal: of course.

Facillier: me too.

Mal: yes. Now go. Have fun.

(The fun and games are still going on. Now with added innuendo aimed at Ben, Doug, Jay, Carlos and Gil. Much to Mal, Evie, Jane and Lonnie’s irritation. Uma takes a very powerful shot of vodka and gasps four times)

Uma: oh god.

(The party goes on with Odie playing on the saxophone. Everybody gasps four times again)

The guests: What would we do without you-oo?

How would we ever get through-oo?

Who sends anniversary wishes?

Who helps with the dishes

And never says boo?

Who changes subjects on cue?

Who cheers us up when we're blue?

(Uma’s dancing with Doug)

Evie (looking Uma straight in the eye with murderous intent as she sharpens two butcher’s knives): Who is a flirt, but never a threat

Gil (leading Uma away from Doug for her own sake): Reminds me of my birthdays when I always forget?

The guests: How would we ever get through?

What would we do without you?

(The party once more dissolves into fun and fancy chaos the everyone gasps four times once again))

The guests: What would we do without you?

How would we ever get -

How would we ever get -

How would we ever get -

How would we ever get -

through?

What would we do without you?

Uma (standing on top of a balcony railing): Just what you usually do

The guests: Right!

(Uma lets herself fall off the balcony and gets caught by her guests)

The guests: You who sit with us

You who share with us

You who fit with us

You who bear with us

(They set Uma down and the boys twirl her around with them)

Ben: You-hoo,

Doug: you-hoo

Gil: You-hoo,

Ned: You-hoo

(Uma’s standing on the piano and conducting them like a choirmaster)

Uma: Okay now! Ev-‘ry-bo-dy!

(She lounges on the piano as Ned feeds her beignets and whipped cream)

The guests (performing the kick line from the end of Shrek): Isn't it warm?

Isn't it rosy?

Side by side!

Ports in a storm

Comfy and cozy

Side by side!

Everything shines

How sweet

Side by side!

Parallel lines

Who meet

Side by side!

(Mal and Doug pull Uma into the crowd)

The guests (dancing around Uma again): Year after year

Older and older

Side by side!

Sharing a tear

And lending a shoulder

Side by side!

Two's impossible, two is gloomy

Give another number to me

Side by side by side by side

(Uma’s lifted up above the guests in a Busby Berkeley number)

By side by side by side by side

By side by side by side by side

By side by side!

[arklypurple]

30 27 19 for the ask game :)

30: A song that reminds you of yourself

hm. Celia Inside by The Cardigans. dont wo11y about it :)

27: A song that breaks your heart

absolutely The fish song by underscores. it's about the Golden Bangus, a mutant fish that was discovered in a town, became the town's main like. thing. and died because of stress, never being able to pass on it's mutation, making it one of a kind.

19: A song that makes you think about life

100% honest Dreams of Our Generation from rhythm heaven fever

[singles-bar]

[odk-2]

Celia and The Mutations - Mony Mony (1977) ("The Mutations" = The Stranglers) Bo Gentry / Bobby Bloom / Ritchie Cordell / Tommy James Tommy James and The Shondells Cover from: "Mony Mony" / "Mean to Me"          "Happening, Alive and Nasty:          The EMI Punk Singles Collection" (2007 Compilation)

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Tommy James and The Shondells - Mony Mony (1968): https://tmblr.co/ZoHQpk1m4lvgU

Billy Idol - Mony Mony (1981): https://tmblr.co/ZoHQpk1m4ng9O

[urbanenemy]

CELIA AND THE MUTATIONS - Mony Mony 7" (1977/UK)

[habbitar]

CELIA AND THE MUTATIONS 

[perfektblau]

My idea of Derek, Celia, and Mason in the Fallout AU

Derek- the raider named Scorpion (or Radscorpion). raider raider raider. 'nuff said

Celia- rich businesswomen. owns trading businesses. lives in a well preserved, fortified prewar mansion that's guarded by protectron and automatrons. owns messed up furniture like the feral ghoul chair or an enslaved person footstool. of course she has a torture dungeon and body count is enormous. will make people eat fancy lad snack cakes in front of her.

Mason- wastlanders give him a corny nickname, such as the Yao guai man because of his size and strength. Rumor has it that he's a human mutated with a yao guai (not true. he's just huge) Lives in an isolated hut he made for himself in one of the very few places in the post-apocalyptic world with greenery. Loves to hunt but he's tired of ghouls and mutated animals. He wants smarter prey so he kidnaps vault dwellers and wastelander. Gives them survival items similar to one in tpof, but with a radaway included.

[onceuponamirror]

okay, once i got over all my initial feelings about ~shippy~ things (again, just need a min to revel in the utterly dumb joy of having a fun show and slow burn couple to dive into) from the latest nd ep, i also started thinking about the layered writing going on, why nancy does the things she does, is pulling away from people and being self destructive, etc.

per the latter, it’s fairly obvious. it’s laid out in the episode, with nancy projecting guilt onto morally unsound ghosts as a motivator. superstition says that mirrors attract ghosts---metaphorically, storytelling wise, it’s because we use them as reflections for the strongest emotions, ones that purportedly motivate them to linger. nancy is obviously feeling guilt, not just for recanting her testimony but also for the deal with the devil it caused.

but nancy is also a character who doesn’t have a strong inner moral compass. this is a flaw obvi, and it’s a realistic one! she is ruthless at times, she is headstrong and tunnel-visioned (like all my fav heroines, lmao), and that allows her to solve puzzles and find clues easily, but at the cost of foreseeing the implications or emotional fallout. 

i’ve noticed that often times, she is written as asking other characters, repeatedly, “am i bad person?” it comes up a lot, actually. it’s why she trusts george, nick, and ace in particular ways (bess, lbr, not the paradigm) to relay her actions back through a moral filter. it’s also why she is so stuck on inherited traits---for all she knows, it’s nature not nurture, and thus inescapable for her to become just like the people she and her friends are trying to bring to justice. (though carson has done a lot of morally dubious things as well lmao)

the takeaway for me from this episode, even beyond all the sexual tension and angst and v i b e s, was nancy deciding that if the ghosts were morally gray and capable of change, then so was she. when she said that about celia, she was talking about herself---nancy thinks of herself as calculating and ruthless, and she’s said it as that, and has a fairly low opinion of herself when it comes to self-worth and ethics. but, in her mind, if she can motivate celia to change, then she herself is not unworthy of all of those things. celia is no longer the inevitable person she will become. etc.

it’s also why she’s making poor relationship decisions (gil, you suck) and constantly looking for activities and mysteries to distract herself, as well as shutting down against her pre-prescribed moral compasses---ace (and nick) in particular. 

of course, all of this analysis assumes that this is actually deliberate writing---fandom wise, nothing feels worse than analyzing a show that mutates week to week and has no continuity or plotted character arcs (ahem, comma, ahem)---so i hope i’m not driving on empty here. but so far, this show feels like it’s got some lovely character explorations happening underneath a campy, dramatic cw ghost show. so. anyway. these are my midnight thoughts because i have poor sleep habits!!

[flam3thrower]

. . . do you know what it’s like to be so filled up with anger that you feel like you’re tainting yourself?

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