#JESUS THE SNAKE

[headlinerportugal]

All Them Witches + Jesus The Snake: o duplo antídoto perfeito para curar a ressaca do São João | Reportagem Completa

Charles Michael Parks Jr., o vocalista dos All Them Witches | mais fotos clicar aqui

A banda All Them Witches esteve no nosso país neste mês de junho para dois concertos. Realizaram-se, respetivamente, na capital lusitana no Lisboa Ao Vivo (23/06) e Porto no mítico Hard Club (24/06) na sala principal. Marcamos presença nesta segunda performance ocorrida a norte. Ambos os concertos foram organizados pela Garboyl Lives, a entidade responsável pelo SonicBlast Fest. Estes concertos tiveram lotações praticamente esgotadas.

Deste modo a banda norte-americana regressou a Portugal depois de ter atuado no Sonic Blast em Moledo em 2016 e mais recentemente em 2019 na Sala Tejo em Lisboa num evento no qual o headLiner da noite foram os suecos Ghost, banda liderada pelo vocalista Tobias Forge.

João Costa, o baterista dos Jesus The Snake | mais fotos clicar aqui

Antes de desenvolvermos um pouco mais sobre a atuação dos All Them Witches (ATW), vamos abordar a performance da banda de abertura: os Jesus The Snake. Este projeto lusitano é oriundo de Vizela com uma veia vianense nas teclas. A sua formação é composta pelo Jorge Lopes (guitarra), Gonçalo Palmas (teclas),  Rui Silva (baixo) e João Costa (bateria). A este quarteto juntou-se Kevin Pires, músico que fez parte de projetos como Astrodome e Mother Jupiter, nos teclados e sintetizadores. Agora a banda prosseguirá a cinco.

 A sua sonoridade assenta no stoner psicadélico dos anos 70 do século passado. A própria banda descreve o seu som como sendo “um rock instrumental, psicadélico e progressivo”.

Jorge Lopes dos Jesus The Snake imensamente concentrado | mais fotos clicar aqui De forma surpreendente e até inesperada os Jesus The Snake foram convidados pela organização para tocarem nas primeiras partes em ambas as metrópoles. Praticamente 2 anos depois das últimas performances. Apesar de não terem tido muito tempo, conseguiram ensaiar o suficiente para uma participação vigorosa. Recuperaram alguns temas de ‘Black Acid, Pink Rain’, álbum editado em 2019. Interpretaram, por exemplo, a faixa que dá nome a este disco, “Floyds II” e “Duna” com versões adaptadas para encaixarem no slot temporal disponível.

Ainda mostraram alguns temas fresquinhos do tipo “pãezinhos quentes”. Estas composições são bastante recentes e serão integradas num álbum novo, a ser editado a médio prazo. A banda está a preparar as gravações e mais novidades são esperadas a qualquer momento.

Rui Silva dos Jesus The Snake com garra | mais fotos clicar aqui As atuações dos ATW já não contam com o baterista Robby Staebler. A banda anunciou em abril deste ano a sua saída. Christian Powers dos Fortune Child foi o músico assegurado para esta rápida tournée europeia terminada no dia 29 de junho no festival Tons Of Rock em Oslo. O guitarrista Ben McLeod, o vocalista e baixista Charles Michael Parks Jr. e o teclista Allan Van agora são o núcleo duro deste projeto.

Esta formação rockeira, com múltiplas influências de géneros rock: do hard ao psicadélico, existe desde 2012 e tem por base a cidade de Nashville no Tennessee. Os All Them Witches têm dado muito bem conta de si com um repertório profícuo, entre LPs, EPs e álbuns ao vivo.

Ben McLeod dos All Them Witches | mais fotos clicar aqui

‘Nothing As The Ideal’ é o mais recente longa-duração, cuja edição ocorreu em 2020. Deste álbum tocaram “See You Next Fall” logo na abertura e “Enemy of My Enemy”. Outros temas significativos que os All Them Witches também interpretaram: "Diamond", "The Marriage of Coyote Woman", “Alabaster” ou “Charles William”. Fácil constatar que percorreram um pouco da sua discografia desde 2016.

A verdade é que apesar de ser a noite de ressaca da festa mais importante da Cidade Invicta, o São João, o Hard Club não só encheu para receber os All Them Witches, como vibrou ao longo de todo o concerto. É verdade que a performance, praticamente imaculada da banda, contribuiu e muito para que essa entrega do público se fizesse sentir. Há que destacar aqueles solos divinos de Ben McLeod que fizeram estremecer, por várias vezes, as fundações da sala principal e os corações de todos nós. Que bela forma de curar a ressaca!

Allan Van, o teclista dos All Them Witches | mais fotos clicar aqui A promotora Garboyl Lives com toda a certeza, proporcionará mais momentos incríveis nos próximos meses como estes vividos nesta noite portuense. Um dos momentos áureos será, pois claro, o SonicBlast Fest marcado para os dias 8, 9 e 10 de Agosto 2024 na Praia da Duna do Caldeirões em Âncora.

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All Them Witches ao vivo no Hard Club | mais fotos clicar aqui

Texto: Edgar Silva (com texto genérico de apoio) e Jorge Resende Fotografia: Jorge Resende

[sunderwight]

actually it's kind of wild that aziraphale left for heaven to try and save humanity and the human audience of the show has just been like "0/10 terrible decision go back to your demon partner" about it

aziraphale: I shall bravely sacrifice everything that makes me happy because I have a duty to protect the world

the world: boo no

[stopiwanttotalkaboutcheese]

listen i think that coriolanus snow deserves to live an empty life filled with hate and despair after what he did to sejanus and lucy gray but LISTEN sejanus ONE HUNDRED PERCENT had a crush on him in that movie. god fucking damn. "i came to district twelve for you" are you KIDDING ME

[bathroomtrapped]

my sister told me to caption this 'two lovely men' without any context so heres two lovely christian saw men 👍🏻

[tapeworrmart]

Eye to eye 🐍🐾

[weepingwidar]

Larissa de Jesus Negron (Puerto Rican, 1994) - Time to Accept Reality (2021)

[youryurigoddess]

On love and sacrifices

There’s so much more to this scapegoating business and big sacrifices referenced in the Good Omens narrative than the literal goats. And they’re only getting bigger, louder, final.

But let’s take it slow and start with the beginning, quite literally — i.e., with the Good Omens 2 title sequence. As we follow Aziraphale and Crowley on their journey, the universe warps and their usual left and right side positioning switches during the magic show (not accidentally an act of trust and sacrifice required both from the angel and the demon). They stay so throughout the next scene, which is their little dance in the air, and after they seemingly get settled on the A. Z. Fell and Co.’s roof and back to normal, the flipped sky in the background suggests that something’s not quite right yet. In the central part of the shot looms a large, humanlike shadow of the Elephant Trunk Nebula.

The nebula is a part of a constellation called Cepheus, after an Ethiopian king from the Greek mythology who agreed to sacrifice his only daughter in order to appease the gods and end a local calamity started by her mother and his wife, Cassiopeia (talk about generational responsibility). With time and a delightfully ironic twist of fate, the name of said daughter, Andromeda, became more famous than that of her father. Although she was chained up to a rock and offered to the sea serpent Cetus, the girl was spotted by the warrior Perseus, casually flying over the sea — either on the back of the Pegasus or thanks to a pair of winged sandals — after his victory over Medusa. He fell in love on the spot, defeated the serpent (with the help of a magical sword or Medusa’s severed head, depending on the varying sources), and freed the princess. That’s not exactly where their story ends, but we won’t be getting into the rest here.

Not surprisingly, Neil has mentioned two parallel child sacrifice stories from the biblical context back in August. The first is one of the big ones — The Binding of Isaac. God's command to sacrifice Isaac, his only son, was a test of Abraham's faith. The angel of the Lord intervenes and provides a ram to be sacrificed in the boy’s place.

The second one isn’t nearly as popular, but you might have heard a variant of it in fairy tales or as the Law of Surprise invoked in The Witcher saga. In exchange for Israel’s victory over its enemies in battle, Jephthah had rashly promised God to repay the debt with the first thing seen on his return back home. The victorious warrior didn’t suspect to see his only child moving innocently "to meet him with timbrels and with dances" though. In horror, Jephthah covered his eyes with his cloak, but to no avail: ultimately, he was forced to honor his vow to God, and the girl was sacrificed. As grisly as it might look like in the Old Master’s paintings, it’s important to remember that human sacrifices weren’t limited to physical offerings only — Jephthah’s daughter might have been offered to God in the sense of officially shunning her family and dedicating her life to service instead, probably sequestered in a temple somewhere.

Interestingly, the main character of a big chunk of the Bible and the reason for the Second Coming happens to be THE most influential child sacrifice in the modern history. You know, a certain 33-year-old carpenter sent by his Heavenly Father to die on a cross for the sins of the mankind? Someone better call Aubrey Thyme ASAP.

Circling back to Aziraphale, he could be also seen as a representative of the concept of filial piety, since Eden willing to personally take a Fall not only for the humanity’s collective or individual transgressions, but the shortcomings of his Ineffable Parental Figure as well. Our favorite angel angel always fights for what is right and good, sure, but why would that be even a thing if God was truly omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent?

If Aziraphale’s medal is anything to go by, it looks like we might get an answer from the way it’s introducing another mythological narrative into the game, that is the story of Daedalus and Icarus. The most absorbing thing about this is the stark contrast to the recurring child sacrifice references for S3 mentioned in this post — Daedalus isn’t a father who wanted to sacrifice his son, it was his attempt to save him from imprisonment that ultimately drove Icarus to his death. The boy ignored his father’s explicit instructions, committing the grave and culturally universal sin of disobedience to one's parents that simply couldn’t go unpunished, one way or another.

But Icarus’s transgression could be seen both as high-flying ambition and striving for personal accomplishment as well as humanitarian sacrifice for knowledge and humanity’s advancement in general.

Similarly to a certain angel who left everything for what superficially seems like a work promotion, but is the ultimate act of love — both for his demon and the children they have been protecting and nurturing together for six thousand years. From the very Beginning, his white wings have been shielding everything he holds dear in this world.

[illustratus]

The Immaculate Conception by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

[incorrectquotesconaisseur]

I'm sick and tired of y'all misunderstand character dynamics, so this is a list of ACTUAL thoschei variants

- Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr - X-men franchise

- Marisa Coulter and Lord Asriel - His Dark Materials

- Catra and Adora - She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

- Coriolanus Snow and Sejanus Plinth - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

- Villanelle and Eve Polastri - Killing Eve

- Sherlock Holmes and James Moriarty - BBC Sherlock

- Jesus and Judas - YES Y'ALL KNOW I'M RIGHT STFU

[sholmeser]

ary scheffer / justus knetch / snake & ocelot

[lizzysbrain]

You guys get to see this before TikTok does

[fellowshipofthenoodles]

Reminder to everyone that uses a sand/soil mix as substrate for their reptiles to very carefully check through as you’re mixing 😐

I don’t even know if this came from the soil or sand. I’m inclined to think soil, but I genuinely do not know.

[bonefall]

clear sky’s fridged women polycule when

This man's victims need more than a polycule, they need a domestic abuse shelter

[smibberz]

WHY did they make him this slutty 😭

[yourlocalbadgerscales]

So last year I made a lil something in art class… I present to you my cool bowl! :D

I’ve forgotten what I named him, but it was something like… *clears throat*:

✨Mr Salazar Draconius Serpentius Riddle✨

Say hi to Sal, and he’ll be eternally grateful and very, very happy :)

Reblog him, and I will NOT make you his afternoon snacc :)

[allbridgesburn]

fic: all your wasteland flowers [chapter viii]

the ballad of songbirds and snakes; lucy gray baird/coriolanus snow; R, 8/11

“You didn’t give me my birthday gift,” he murmurs, hand trailing up her arm, singing through the green velvet of her dress.

She clenches her jaw, forcing herself to keep still. It’s been so long since the last time they’ve been alone together, and she’s unused to the feeling his closeness engenders. “I couldn’t think of anything I could give to a man who already has everything,” she says, breathing slowly, evenly, as if his proximity doesn’t rattle her, doesn’t set her heart racing.

He smiles teasingly, his breath hot against her forehead. “There is always more to be had.”

Insatiable creature, her husband. Always has been, Tigris said. Always will be, it seems.

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or: Lucy Gray Baird survives Coriolanus Snow. However, she's not the only one. [post-canon]

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