#Kevin Wilkins

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KEVIN WILKINS (Jack Black) to MAGGIE (Janine Turner): Homecoming Queen is supposed to be a babe.

HOLY SHIT BABY JACK BLACK?!?!??!!??!?

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[weyounthevorta]

Dreamboat Job

Your temp agency just let you know that a whole office building is short staffed, and want to know which floor you’d like to fill in on. Which job are you thinking of taking?

Sanitizing lab tables in Med Research with Herbert West micromanaging you? Dusting books at the ministry of magic with Mordrid the recluse barely acknowledging you? Fielding phone calls at the detective agency with Bill Knight as your boss? Filing transcripts in the law office with Weyoun looking over your shoulder? Or perhaps making shipping labels in the basement with Rick Davenport as your supervisor.

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[n-eptunia]

i love outbreaks so much omg:(

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

Pitch for a game: A “Resident Evil Outbreak” remake in the style of Until Dawn/The Quarry/The Dark Pictures Anthology. Or better yet, a Capcom-Supermassive Games collaboration on a REO remake.

The general premise is the same. You play as eight strangers (Kevin, Mark, Jim, George, David, Cindy, Alyssa, Yoko) who must work together in order to escape from Raccoon City. Just like Until Dawn, there are 10 chapters and who survives the game will be determined by the players’ choices and a whole lot of QTEs. You can either save everyone, save a couple of them, save only one character, or worst case scenario, no one survives.

In terms of survivability, this is how I’d have it in the game:

1) Jim Chapman and Kevin Ryman are the main characters who can die the earliest (chapters 4-6). My reason is that Jim is the annoying, comic relief guy and Kevin could be axed off here since the RPD were decimated pretty early on.

2) George Hamilton, Cindy Lennox, and Mark Wilkins are the main characters who can die before the final chapters (chapters 7-8). My reason is that George and Cindy can have a “couples ending” while Mark, being an elderly Vietnam War veteran, can heroically sacrifice himself before the end.

3) Alyssa Ashcroft, David King, and Yoko Suzuki are the main characters who can only die in the final chapters (chapter 9-10). My reason is that David can be written as the mysterious badass male lead with a dark past, Yoko is the one with ties to Umbrella, and Alyssa is the closest the game has to a female lead since she’s a reporter who wants to expose Umbrella to the world.

In contrast to other Resident Evil games, this remake will feature recognizable actors in the lead roles. For example, Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron/Moon Knight) could be cast as David King.

[fallen-angel-92]

Chapter 4

Summary: She was not where she was supposed to be. Birthed from the womb of a goddess and raised as a Spartan. She must try and learn what it means to be a parent all the while trying to navigate this new world she is in.

“I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.” - Luis Miguel

Rhea could hear the little bell of the door chime as they walked through. Upon first glance Rhea was not too impressed by it, she was used to pubs back in Svartalfheim when she was an apprentice under Veijo Vorhoc. A well known dwarven blacksmith that had agreed to teach her after witnessing her stick her hand into a large pit of lava to try and get some metal ore to make her mother a gift. Her burned flesh on her right arm throbbed slightly at the memory, but quickly shook the memory away as she and Jaked walked toward the bar. Out of the corner of her eyes she could make out two distinct figures.

One of them was a large bald man, she could tell that he had been through a lot just by the alert way he was looking her way. The other was obviously a police officer, though she couldn't really make out what station he worked for. Rhea returned her attention forward toward the bartender, who was looking at her with an uneasy expression, however, he still greeted her with a kind voice,

“Hello ma'am. Is there something I can help you with?”

“Forgive me for intruding and disrupting your patrons evening, but my nephew and I are new to the city. We are wondering if you could give us directions to the Raccoon City Police Department.” Rhea replied back with a calm tone, she could feel Jake grip her hand a bit and tighten his hold slightly.

Just as she finished speaking, she could hear a male voice chime in with curiosity,” Mind if I ask what you need at the RPD?”

Turning her head to face the one that spoke, she was greeted to the sight of a rugged male with short brown hair that seemed to frame his face, his hazel colored eyes glittering with interest. Just as she was about to answer the other man she saw chimed in gruffly after taking a bite of food,” Kevin left the woman to her business. Just because you work there doesn't mean everyone wants you in their business.”

The man that was known as Kevin chimed in with a laid back tone,” Jeez Mark. I just asked her a question. Don't need to start acting like I am hitting on her.”

She watched the dark skinned male, give Kevin a glare, however, it was instantly stopped when the sound of a bell rang again causing everyone to turn to face the man who suddenly entered the bar. Rhea could sense death coming from him in thick waves, it was similar to the thick fogs of Helheim, however her thoughts were interrupted when she noticed that the bartender that she was originally talking to walked over to the new person. Rhea slowly pulled Jake closer to her, glancing down at him as he looked up at her with a hint of uncertainty before looking back over.

However, just then the sound of a ‘thud’ caused Rhea to quickly turn back over to Mark's direction just in time to see Mark leap out of his seat to his fallen companion. She then noticed that not only Mark ran over to him, but the female waitress ran over to the fallen man as well, another man. Rhea did not have a chance to get a good look at him as the sound of a scream drew her attention away from them and back back to the bartender, who seemed to have been bitten by the man. She reacted on instinct, letting go of Jake's hand as she rushed forward slamming her fist into his face sending him flying backwards back out of the door.

As soon as the man was out, the bartender that was attacked then quickly closed the door, locking it before sliding down the door onto his rear end.

“What the hell is going on!?” Another man screamed as the sound of something thudding on the window drew their attention to the glass next to the door. 

Rhea quickly turned to see a thin man with blonde colored hair, however, she didn’t bother to examine the man further as she turned to see that there were hundreds of people that seemed to be rotting trying to get in. Rhea quickly turned to Jake, rushing back over to him, picking him and placing him onto her back before turning to the other people that were still in the main area.

“We need to leave. Now,” She growled out causing most of the people that were still within the building to come alive once more. 

“Auntie! Over there,” Jake said softly to her as he pointed toward the door that was near the back.

Rhea quickly rushed to the door just in time to hear a female let out a fearful scream, running on autopilot, she rushed to the female bathroom and flung it open. Inside she could see a black haired female being dragged toward an open ventilation that was near the bottom of the wall.

“Boy,” Rhea says as she darts forward grabbing the woman's hand just as Jake quickly says,

*Vita*

Jake had managed to use the backpack to help him get a perch to allow him to shoot off an arrow at the arm. This allowed Rhea to pull the woman free, and push her out the door and back into the main area where the others were. After the door closed behind them, Rhea instantly noticed that the blonde haired waitress from before opening up the door.

“This way!” She called out standing to the side to allow the others to go through. Rhea noticed that the man Mark and the brown haired man were helping who she assumed was his partner.

The man, Kevin, rushed over to her, gently taking the young woman that she saved in the bathroom and asked with worry,” You okay, Yoko?”

The petite woman nodded her head not speaking much, before Rhea quickly cut in,” Let us go. We need to leave now.”

Kevin looked at her, nodding his head before leading the woman, Yoko, toward the door that blonde haired waitress opened. Rhea turned to look just in time to see the front door being broken open and the undead poured into the building. Rhea did not want Jake to see the end of the bartender so she quickly rushed into the door herself, closing it behind her, reaching for the dresser and pushed in front of the door. Taking two steps at a time she quickly got to the second floor where there were a total of nine people on the second floor. She scanned the survivors, noticing that there were three women and six men, Jake gently poked her in the cheek causing her to look back at him. She lifted her hand up and gently tapped him on the head.

It was something her and Jake had developed to ensure the other was alright and didn’t stay in their head too long. As soon as she put her hand back down to her side she heard a female voice huff out,” What now? I don't know what the hell is going on, but we obviously can't stay here.``

Rhea glanced over at the woman, she had short strawberry blonde hair and she wore a red suit which was strange to her. However, another voice chimed in, a smooth male voice replied,” While I agree with you, Alyssa, please be mindful of the young man in our midst.”

This caused the woman to pause as she looked over at Rhea and Jake before grumbling under her breath just as Rhea was about to say something when Kevin quickly spoke,” Look I agree that we need to get out of here. George, do you think Bob is okay to continue onward?”

Rhea watched as the brunette looked over at the elderly man, frowning as he turned to look at Kevin and replied back,” I am unsure. I don't know what is ailing him. I have a feeling that it has something to do with what is going on here.”

While the others were speaking, Rhea began to look around, she could feel Jake let go of her and land upon his feet and went to stand next to her. It was then a soft gruff voice softly asked,” Are you two alright? You just came into town right?”

She turned to her right to see a man with dark brown hair almost black in color. She could tell from his tool set that he was some type of maintenance worker. Rhea nodded her head as she replied, “We are fine. Yes we traveled a great distance to get here.”

However, before more could be said as everyone went quiet at the sudden sound of banging down the stairs. And in that moment they knew that time was now not on their side and they needed to get out of the bar as quickly as they could. Rhea had no plans on dying nor was she going to fail Jake. She would make it out of here one way or another.

(Hope you enjoy chapter 4!)

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TOP 10 NBA ALL-TIME SMALL FORWARDS OF NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION

LeBron James - 38,450 (27.2 ppg), 10,606 (7.5 rpg), 10,371 (7.3 apg)

Larry Bird - 21,791 (24.3 ppg), 8,974 (10.0 rpg), 5,695 (6.3 apg)

Julius Erving - 30,026 (24.2 ppg), 10,525 (8.5 rpg), 5,176 (4.2 apg)

Kevin Durant - 26,764 (27.3 ppg), 6,930 (7.1 rpg), 4,250 (4.3 apg)

Elgin Baylor - 23,149 (27.4 ppg), 11,463 (13.5 rpg), 3,650 (4.3 apg)

Scottie Pippen - 18,940 (16.1 ppg), 7,494 (6.4 rpg), 6,135 (5.2 apg)

John Havlicek - 26,395 (20.8 ppg), 8,007 (6.3 rpg), 6,114 (4.8 apg)

Rick Barry - 25,279 (24.8 ppg), 6,863 (6.7 rpg), 4,952 (4.9 apg)

James Worthy - 16,320 (17.6 ppg), 4,708 (5.1 rpg), 2,791 (3.0 apg)

Dominique Wilkins - 26,668 (24.8 ppg), 7,167 (6.7 rpg), 2,677 (2.5 apg)

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Bad movie I have Did You Hear About the Morgans? 2009

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32 (Technically 36) Albums We Loved That Happened To Come Out in 2022

Cake image courtesy of Oren Ambarchi’s Shebang album art

As more music is being released than ever, it can be hard to pick out trends or even commonalities among our favorites. A post-pandemic world that saw a more full-fledged return to live music and in-person collaboration certainly influenced the records released last year, but from our eyes and ears, it was the artists that ignored physical boundaries, not taking for granted their ability to create, that put out the albums that moved us most. From “solo” records that were truly synergic to songs that work towards toppling the powers that be, innovative producers to stalwarts of indie rock, here are 32 (technically 36) albums that came out last year that we truly loved.

700 Bliss - Nothing To Declare (Hyperdub) / Moor Mother - Jazz Codes (Anti-) 

Prolific poet and musician Camae Ayewa, who records as Moor Mother, released two more albums in 2022 that explored genres new and old. On Nothing To Declare, the debut LP from 700 Bliss, her project with DJ Haram, the two make a formidable team. Haram combines clattering beats with Moor Mother’s forceful delivery and incomparable flow, as the duo traverse techno, noise, and sound collage worlds. You’ve never heard Moor Mother in front of instrumentals like this, spitting words that are equal parts deftly serious and humorous. She pays tribute to choreographer and anthropologist Katherine Dunham on “Anthology”, declaring that Dunham “danced America on stage” over DJ Haram’s hard techno beat, a melding of tenets of Black music. On “Candace Parker”, which features breakbeats from Palestinian producer Muqata’a, Moor Mother laments, “They rape our mothers while y’all just record.” There’s an urgency to Nothing to Declare, manifested in Special Interest’s Alli Logout screaming, “I’m a motherfucking agitator!” on “Capitol” and Moor Mother’s cinematic lines about guerilla warfare against billionaires and imperialist overloads on the trap-inflected “Discipline”. Yet, even 700 Bliss know that they can be tongue-in-cheek, hilariously on interlude “Easyjet”, a facetious conversation featuring two people making fun of Moor Mother’s vocal tendencies and DJ Haram’s penchant for percussive chaos. It’s a welcome break on an album whose main question appears in the final track: “How much more can we take?”

Jazz Codes is Moor Mother’s second solo album for Anti-, a companion piece to last year’s great Black Encyclopedia of the Air. Like Nothing to Declare, it’s chock full of collaborators, but this time, Moor Mother plays the role of ethnomusicologist, juxtaposing rap, singing, and scholarly spoken word interludes to explore the history of jazz and its descendants. “Dance through the trials of my father,” Moor Mother raps on opener “UMZANSI”, where Mary Lattimore’s harp trickles below horns and footwork-esque drums. Interpolating free jazz and quiet storm R&B and referencing boom bap and juke, Jazz Codes, like the genre it’s named after, reveals new truths after every listen. Moor Mother’s “MEDITATION RAG” is somewhat of a mission statement, her wish to embed herself in “Sun Ra halo, CHAI Congo, Mississippi to East Texas,” in efforts to reclaim the Black music referenced on both this album and Nothing to Declare. Fatboi Sharif groans, “You took the blues away from me” on “BLUES AWAY”; the album’s thematic climax, “THOMAS STANLEY JAZZCODES OUTRO”, places the academic Stanley over an instrumental from Irreversible Entanglements. Jazz should become code for sex again, he posits, rendering something that was once abstract to be again physical and tangible. - Jordan Mainzer

Bartees Strange - Farm to Table (4AD) 

Bartees Strange has had an exciting few years, and Farm to Table, the follow up to his excellent debut, only adds to the thrill of his ascent. Strange bends indie rock to fit the album’s vision, from the bright horns on “Heavy Heart” to the electronic flourishes of “Cosigns” and “Wretched” and even the mingling of home audio clips and the gentle fingerpicked guitar of “Black Gold”. Lyrically, the album wrestles with duality: of celebration and grief, home and touring, the comfort of family and the unknown of charting your own path. Strange takes what worked so well on Live Forever and digs deeper, continuing to show off his ability to world-build, which really is all you could want from an innovative artist. - Lauren Lederman

Beyoncé - Renaissance (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia)

“Renaissance, purportedly the first installment of a trilogy of albums, celebrates Black and LGBTQ+ music and the judgement-free zones they honor. Representative of Beyoncé’s state of mind during the pandemic, it exemplifies her self-love and desire to break free in a time of isolation. And of course, it’s full of braggadocio and skill with the research and credentials to back it up.”

Read the rest of our review here.

Binker & Moses - Feeding the Machine (Gearbox)

“For their new album Feeding the Machine, the saxophone and drums duo of Binker Golding and Moses Boyd brought their live partner to the studio to add tape loops and electronics to the ingredient list. The result is a major sonic shift, feeding their improvisations through machines, Luthert’s modular synthesis reordering acoustic tracks and drums in a way that’s so distorted it doesn’t even sound acoustic. From the opening moments of ‘Asynchronous Intervals', though you recognize Golding’s saxophone, echoing loops clue you into the sea change. This is different, and it’s here to stay.”

Read the rest of our review here.

Death Cab For Cutie - Asphalt Meadows (Atlantic)

It’s not that I had given up on Death Cab for Cutie. The stalwart indie rock band has been cranking out albums for years, but what was it about Asphalt Meadows that struck me more than their other recent releases? A five-minute, mostly spoken word track. “Foxglove Through the Clearcut” gives us the contemplative lyrics we come to expect from Benjamin Gibbard but packaged in a way that serves the slowly unfolding story until it reaches its guitar solo crescendo. And I realize that this is the element that’s drawn me back fully into Death Cab’s orbit. The album feels a little rougher around the edges, the guitar fuzzier in moments, not afraid to get a little sharp, which feels apt after the last few years. Asphalt Meadows captures a reflection of our recent post-lockdown history and the urgency of trying to make sense of where we go next. “Now it seems more than ever there’s no hands on lever,” Gibbard sings, a fitting statement on an album that isn’t afraid to dive into the unknown of our current moment. - LL

Florist - Florist (Double Double Whammy)

“The idea of a person who has faced heartbreak or grief retreating to solitude to create art is oft-romanticized, perhaps to a fault. Emily Sprague has certainly created masterful albums by herself, whether the ambient music released under her own name or Emily Alone, a solo album released under the Florist moniker following her mother’s death and a move out west. But in June 2019, Sprague moved back to New York and rented a house in the Hudson Valley with the band’s original lineup: Jonnie Baker, Rick Spataro, and Felix Walworth. They’d spontaneously record their instruments beside their surrounding natural woods during a hot and rainy summer, the first time they’d ever recorded this way, for this long. The result is Florist’s latest self-titled record, a reinvention of sorts, and one that perhaps shows Sprague and the music listening public that great art can come out of reflecting on troubling times with a loving community by your side, too.”

Read the rest of our review here.

Immanuel Wilkins - The 7th Hand (Blue Note)

“Wilkins’ lack of fear in not just challenging the listener but purposefully bypassing their understanding is what makes The 7th Hand a monumental album. His debut Omega was just as socially conscious, a record about the Black experience in America. But The 7th Hand breaks the rules while establishing some of its own. The first track, 'Emanation', ends in the middle of a vamp. Each track from then on out relates to the next by a triple meter, going down and then back up until the free 'Lift'; if, in Biblical terms, 6 represents man and human weakness, 7 represents divine intervention, a concept represented at first by an instrument and later by the freedom of the album’s final track.”

Read the rest of our review here.

Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Recordings from the Åland Islands (International Anthem)

“Independent of its context, the album is a pleasure to listen to, one that allows you to create your own associations with the sounds. Warbling synth harmonics, birdsong, and crunchy noises like a train in the rain pervade opener ‘In Åland Air’ (which features processing from Tortoise’s John McEntire). ‘On the Other Sea’ is reminiscent of Boards of Canada’s penchant for finding eerie atonality in otherwise beatific timbres, with its wind chimes, synths, and horns. ‘Rocky Passage’ creaks along, full of noises like hearing a woodpecker on a hike, unable to spot the bird cascading up and down its tree. The synth arpeggios on ‘By Foot By Sea’ sound, of course, like the up-and-down current of waves. But I find the album even more rewarding when you do know the stories behind the songs, the way the instruments try to emulate nature. Honer’s viola leads my favorite, ‘Snåcko’, a track named for the island next to Kumlinge, as keys circle in the background, purportedly inspired by the feeling of your eyes slowly adjusting to multi-colored moss in the forest of the island.”

Read “Press Record”, out interview with Chiu and Honer.

Kevin Morby - This Is A Photograph (Dead Oceans)

“The last few years have given us a sense of perspective, perhaps even urgency when faced with the prospect of our own mortality. Yeah, it happens when you’re surrounded, whether in person or even just on the news, with so much death. For Kevin Morby, the illumination happened before the pandemic. His father collapsed at the dinner table and had to be rushed to the hospital in early 2020. Though his dad ended up okay, that night, in order to distract himself from worrying, he flipped through old family photos. He found a picture of his father, carefree and shirtless, sitting in the front yard. But it wasn’t just a photograph: It was a moment, captured, a document of hopes, moods, dreams, and fears at a point in time. Morby decided to travel to Memphis and chase some more ghosts. What resulted from that decision is This Is a Photograph, his best album yet.”

Read the rest of our review here.

Lucrecia Dalt - ¡Ay! (RVNG Intl.)

Following incredible albums like 2018′s Anticlines and 2020′s No era s​ó​lida, Berlin-based experimental musician Lucrecia Dalt released her most thematically ambitious album to date with ¡Ay!, but you wouldn’t even know it. Recalling growing up in Colombia and, generally, the music of the Latin American diaspora, ¡Ay! is also a vague sci-fi story about an alien named Preta visiting Earth and trying to figure out humanity. Cleverly, as much as Dalt sings from Preta’s perspective, she puts us in the shoes of those traversing the unknown, and we spend most of the album simply marveling at the sounds entering our ears. Beautiful and strange, opener “No tiempo” features wind instruments in lockstep with percussion and Dalt’s singing. Lina Allemano’s muted trumpet Mickey Mouses with Edith Steyer’s clarinet on “La desmesura”. “Atemporal” sports warped, circus-like drums and horns. Independent of the album’s aims and context, ¡Ay! is an undoubtedly playful expression of Dalt’s musical language. She whispers, “No obedezco a tu verdad lineal” on “El Galatzó”, winking alongside Isabel Rößler‘s double bass, flute, synthesizers, and wooden stick bongos; “I don’t obey your linear truth,” goes the line in English, like if the aliens from Arrival learned how to play bolero. - JM

Mary Halvorson - Amaryllis / Belladonna (Nonesuch)

In May, jazz composer and guitarist (and MacArthur Grant winner) Mary Halvorson released two albums that couldn’t sound more different, yet have tying threads in personnel and spirit. The first, Amaryllis, is a six-song suite for the largest ensemble for which Halvorson has ever written. Produced by Deerhoof’s John Dieterich, it features Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam O’Farrill (trumpet), as well as The Mivos String Quartet on three of the songs. “Night Shift” is slinky and sneaky, Halvorson’s arpeggiated guitar bubbling beneath a bed of bass, drum, vibes, and horns, Brennan and O’Farrill taking the song out with solos. Her and Dunston’s lines tangle with the horn section on the title track, propelled by Fujiwara’s forward-marching drums and melodies and countermelodies. The Mivos Quartet introduces “Side Effect” with string harmonics, previewing Brennan’s kickstarting vibraphones that send the band into a swaying, funky jam. Equally impressive are the songs that are groove-less and strange either partially or for their entirety, like the woozy “Anesthesia” and the squeaking, atonal “Hoodwink”.

It’s those experimental tunes that mirror Belladonna, five compositions written for Halvorson and the Mivos Quartet, representing another first for Halvorson: her first music written for a string quartet. Her parts improvised, the music is abstract and expansive, filled with contrast. On “Nodding Yellow”, the pulses of Halvorson’s electric guitar represent a stark difference with the lushness and pluckiness of the strings. She creates worlds of sound on “Moonburn” and “Flying Song”, with the expressive, upward bends of her chords. And on the stunning, 10-minute “Haunted Head”, the string parts take their turn one by one, washing over each other with varying degrees of dissonance and fluttering flourishes. A microcosm for both albums, the players are given space to take their own journey, but in tandem. - JM

Matmos - Regards​/​Uk​ł​ony dla Bogus​ł​aw Schaeffer / The Soft Pink Truth - Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This? (Thrill Jockey)

You can always count on Drew Daniel to be adventurous. Making an album constructed from washing machine noises? Check. Asking 99 musicians to contribute to an album with anything they wanted, but it had to be at 99 bmp? You bet. Making dance covers of black metal songs? Absolutely. This year, two albums he released, one with Matmos and one his ever-burgeoning solo project The Soft Pink Truth, were again based on very specific concepts, toeing the line between asking abstract, academic questions and answering them with twisted good times. For Regards​/​Uk​ł​ony dla Bogus​ł​aw Schaeffer, Matmos were given access to the entire catalog of the Polish electronic artist after whom the album was named, encouraged to do whatever they wanted with it. With some trusted collaborators in hand, they bent the existing material into something entirely new, anti-ASMR anthems for the avant garde. Rubbery vocals, drippy synths, honking horns, and mousy strings allude to the work Schaeffer did for orchestras as much as his own strange worlds. Yet, Matmos don’t want us to listen for clues. “If All Things Were Turned to Smoke / Gdyby wszystko stało się dymem” takes harp and musique concrète from Schaeffer’s 1970 composition “Heraklitiana”. As electronics from Horse Lords’ Max Eilbacher and harp from Úna Monaghan layer on top of the source material, our desire to pick apart where the text ends and the composition begins leaps out the window.

The Soft Pink Truth’s Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This? attempts to answer a much more obtuse question that was once posed by a woman at a club to one of Daniel’s DJ friends, and does so through the peaks and valleys of compositions and musical expressions of queer sexuality. The poolside funk of “Deeper” leads into the chirpy goth club music of “La Joie Devant La Mort”, Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart building off of a sentence in French by philosopher and erotica author Georges Bataille. The song, and the album in general, is fun because of, not in spite of, how unabashedly dramatic it is. Wye Oak and Flock of Dimes’ Jenn Wasner gets her diva moment on “Wanna Know”, cooing, “I just really wanna know / Is it going to get any deeper than this?” over an earworm house instrumental. Nate Wooley’s muted trumpet buoys “Moodswing”, which opens with a champagne cork pop and later falls into broken glass. It’s a reminder that with every celebration comes the potential for shards, a reminder to live fully in the moment, to go deeper when you can. - JM

MUNA - MUNA (Saddest Factory) 

MUNA has always had an uncanny ability to spur deep emotions in the compact form of a pop song, and their self-titled third release only gives them more room to expand their sound. Part of the band’s power comes from their celebration of queer joy and love, to unabashedly be themselves. If it’s heartbreak, they embrace it with a welcoming sincerity. A crush is giddy and unapologetic. “There’s nothing wrong with what I want,” vocalist Katie Gavin asserts. Their broader sound brings the band to new heights. The glitchy vocals of “Runner’s High” make the break-up song feel jagged in the way it feels to be dancing under a strobe light. The country-tinged pop of “Kind of Girl'' adds a soaring optimism to finding yourself. They’re the band that can get Phoebe Bridgers to embrace her pop side on the sparkling, joy-filled ode that’s “Silk Chiffon”. - LL

Nilufer Yanya - PAINLESS (ATO) 

“Until you fall, it’s painless,” sings Nilufer Yanya on “shameless”, and it’s a through-line you can find over and over again on PAINLESS. Yanya explores different dimensions of heartbreak on the album, and each song unfolds into its own sonic world. “L/R”’s marching drum beat pairs perfectly with the almost staccato delivery of her lyrics as she rearranges sentence structure, which then evolves into the more intimate lush vocal of “Shameless”. The album is filled with moments like these, and Yanya perfectly constructs an album where each song offers something engaging and unexpected. - LL

Nina Nastasia - Riderless Horse (Temporary Residence)

“Riderless Horse was produced by Nastasia, Steve Albini, and Greg Norman, recorded at a house in upstate New York. By the end, you realize it’s an empowering album for Nastasia; as much as she feels ‘sadness and guilt’ the process of writing and recording an acoustic album that features only her showed her how powerful she could be on her own.”

Read our preview of Nina Nastasia’s opening set for Mogwai at Metro.

NNAMDÏ - Please Have A Seat (Secretly Canadian)

The thrill of a NNAMDÏ album is that you never know what you’re going to get, but you know it’s going to work. A polymath and Chicago music scene hero, NNAMDÏ’s latest album shows an artist who’s consistently upping his game. Constantly surprising, NNAMDÏi’s skill as a musician and lyricist means you know he’ll pull off any left-field flourish: intricate math rock guitar, gentle falsetto, frenetic percussion, and even the untamed instrumentals he explored on his album KRAZY KARL all appear here. Fans know this, and Please Have a Seat is a perfect introduction to any newcomers. Pull up a seat, get to know the album, and you’ll find yourself also asking: What can’t Nnamdi do? - LL

Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, & Andreas Werliin - Ghosted / Oren Ambarchi - Shebang (Drag City)

Prolific guitarist Oren Ambarchi released two records this year, one with bassist Johan Berthling and drummer Andreas Werliin, and a solo record. Ghosted, as we wrote when interviewing the trio earlier this year, is “comprised of four numerically titled tracks that build in different ways. ‘I’ sports a Latin groove, shaky percussion, and spindly bass, Ambarchi’s guitar adopting organ-like tones. ‘II’ is lighter in timbre and more spacious and minimal, its circular rhythms increasing in volume instead of in groove. ‘III’ is the longest track on the album at over 15 minutes, a mélange of sprawling guitar drone textures. And ‘IV’ is a spritely, to-the-point slow-paced jazz tune, with melancholy swirls of guitar and deep bass.”

Shebang, Ambarchi’s solo record, features contributions from Berthling as well as Chris Abrahams, BJ Cole, Sam Dunscombe, Jim O'Rourke, Julia Reidy, and Joe Talia. Like Quixotism and Hubris, it’s a single piece divided into movements, each person recording individually as Ambarchi fit their contributions together like a puzzle, giving each player a time to shine. Though Ambarchi himself introduces the piece with gorgeous, sparkly picking, he eventually gives way to the other constant throughout, Talia’s drumming. Making space for, in order, Dunscombe’s bass clarinet, Cole’s off-kilter pedal steel, Abrahams’ inimitable piano, Berthling’s steady upright bass, Reidy’s ping-ponging 12-string guitar, and O’Rourke’s sharp modular synths, Ambarchi’s always beneath the surface. Whether contrasting Cole’s textures with rubbery synths or Abrahams’ propulsive notes with synaptic blasts, Ambarchi reminds us of the celebratory nature of collaboration, even when you’re not in the same room. - JM

Prince & The Revolution - Prince & The Revolution: Live (Remastered) (Legacy)

“Syracuse, New York, March 30th, 1985. Jim Boeheim would go on to coach many great Syracuse Orange men’s basketball teams in the Carrier Dome, but the best thing to ever appear there was on that night. Mere months after releasing Purple Rain, Prince decided to cut that album’s tour short so he could keep working on material. (If you’ve ever heard Sign O’ the Times, you know it was the right decision, not to mention Around the World in a Day and Parade.) But what a swan song he and The Revolution gave the Purple Rain tour. The remastered version of Prince & The Revolution: Live, released last month, shows the perfected live show of one of the greatest albums of all time.”

Read the rest of our review here.

Quelle Chris - DEATHFAME (Mello Music Group)

On the surface, if albums like Everything’s Fine and Guns put Detroit rapper Quelle Chris on the map, DEATHFAME seems more casually great. That’s because it’s also his most reflective, one that considers his place with in the rap game and the pros and cons of success. Throughout the record, he mourns the music industry’s exploitative tendency to capitalize on rappers’ talents after they’ve passed away. “You can keep your feast and wine / I just want my peace of mind,” he raps on the soulful and slow “Alive Ain’t Always Living”. The atonal production mirrors Chris’ unease and mixed feelings towards a career in rap as he grows older, like the music box creepiness of the title track and the metallic drums and synth loops of “Excuse My Back”. Because Chris’ delivery is laid back and his words verbose, he’s often pigeonholed with conscious rap, something he addresses on highlight “King In Black”: “Listing me next to these Yo Gabba Gabba emcess / And these old stone age-ass ‘yabba-dabba’ emcees.” (Funny enough, with his different vocal inflections, Chris reminds me of the late, great MF Doom multiple times throughout DEATHFAME, an ironic twist considering the album’s main concerns.) Still, from his words of wisdom on “So Tired You Can’t Stop Dreaming” (“If heaven’s got a ghetto, hell’s got a resort”) to his remarkable vocal about-face on depressive piano ballad “How Could You Love Something Like Me?”, Chris proves once again that with his versatility and talent, he very well shouldn’t be taken for granted while he’s still here to bless us with his rhymes. - JM

Rosalia - MOTOMAMI (Columbia)

“‘La ambición, delirio de grandez’ sings Rosalía on a cover of Justo Betancourt’s ‘Delirio de Grandeza”’ from her incredible third album MOTOMAMI. Meaning ‘Ambition, delusions of grandeur”’ in English, the phrase is appropriate for a song on an album full of similarly wild ones. To Rosalía, delusions of grandeur and ambition are one in the same, all part of a constantly transformational aesthetic. The Spanish folkloric singer-songwriter turned pop star, a woman who has been charged with appropriating Romani culture with her remixed flamenco, has actually done her research and then some. On MOTOMAMI, she fully delves into a further cultural melting pot. Jazz rubs elbows with reggaetón. Bachata, propulsive champeta, and dembow songs are triple decker sandwiched between Burial-sampling electronica, piano ballads, and deconstructed club music. When she throws in a sample of ‘Delirious’ by Vistoso Bosses and Soulja Boy at the end of ‘DELIRIO DE GRANDEZA’, you can’t imagine the original tune without it.”

Read the rest of our review here.

Sarathy Korwar - Kalak (The Leaf Label)

London-based drummer, composer, and producer Sarathy Korwar, the mind behind such inspired jazz fusion records like Day To Day and More Arriving, has released his self-described Indo-futurist manifesto, and perhaps his magnum opus. Based on a rhythm and symbol he projected on the walls during recording that was the basis for improvisation, Kalak is a percussive, circular album that puts you in a trance. With often-wordless vocals, rhythmic woodwinds, deep bass drums, and zippy synths, Korwar and his band bridge the gap between Indian classical music and Western dance. “Utopia Is A Colonial Project” is a skittering rave-up. “Back In The Day, Things Were Not Always Simpler” loops vocals from Noni-Mouse with wobbly instrumentals and shruti boxes, like an acid house drum raga. “Remember Begum Rokheya”, dedicated to the Bengali feminist author, sides Magnus Mehta’s hand-claps with saxophone lines and chanted vocals in polyrhythmic harmony, complex in structure but clear in feeling. As Kalak thumps and shuffles along, Korwar’s tablas and drumming in general constantly remind us where the music comes from. - JM

S.G. Goodman - Teeth Marks (Verve Forecast)

S.G. Goodman continues to explore the intersections of love, life, and survival in southern small towns, and does so on Teeth Marks in such vivid detail. The intimacy of her storytelling brings each track into a clear picture, the specificity working in tandem with universal feelings. It surfaces immediately in the title track through the lasting mark of a bite, sweet or sinister. One of my favorite moments of the album is around the midpoint, when the ghostly acapella of “You Were Someone I Loved” rolls seamlessly into the slinky fire of “Work Until I Die”. The latter simmers, providing a beat to groove to while damning the culture of work that only feeds a “company’s holy name”. - LL

Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems (Epitaph)

“The album is chock full of existential weight; as a Black person suffering from sometimes debilitating mental illness, Jordan thinks about death a lot, referencing both state-sanctioned violence and suicidal ideation. The idea that his music might never come out, or come out posthumously in a way that the white hegemonic music industry can profit off of it, is a frighteningly real one. It makes Diaspora Problems a difficult, but ultimately essential and especially urgent listen.”

Read the rest of our review here.

Special Interest - Endure (Rough Trade)

Shedding some of the musical ferocity of their last album, Special Interest’s Endure captures the same energy and push against capitalism and corruption with pop, disco, and house flourishes. Endure’s songs make you want to both strut and smash something, harnessing the power in both actions. Vocalist Alli Logout makes it clear on the stunning “(Herman’s) House”: “No question, the solution / Always the same conclusion / Burn it down to build it again”. - LL

Sudan Archives - Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw)

“Natural Brown Prom Queen, the incredible second album from R&B singer-songwriter and violinist Sudan Archives, is a remarkably loose affair. Brittney Denise Parks is able to achieve the same level of academic thoughtfulness she did on her stunning debut Athena while expanding her sonic personality and avoiding definition. The songs on Natural Brown Prom Queen are often brief, dense layers of sound and feeling.”

Read the rest of our review of Sudan Archives’ live stream from earlier this year.

SZA - SOS (Top Dawg Entertainment/RCA)

“Sure, there are moments of bleakness on SOS, like on ‘Used’, where SZA shares she’s essentially used to feeling used, the amount of death she’s experienced in her personal life and witnessed along with the world making her numb to exploitation. When she sings, ‘My pussy precedes me,’ on ‘Blind’, it’s a flex, but it’s also delivered with a sigh, as if this is all that there is. But the more she lets her voice soar, the closer she gets to self-acceptance, if not self-actualization. She bends around the skitter of the hi hats and the whirring synths on the subtly thrilling ‘Notice Me’. Her flow is better than it’s ever been on ‘Blind’; the pitch-shifted melisma of the title in the chorus sounds like she’s traversing the page as well as the scales, showing what she can be in one fell swoop. Most impressive is how effortlessly SZA fronts rock instrumentals, whether the pop punk bursts of ‘F2F’ or the ‘Fade Into You’-esque strumming of ‘Nobody Gets Me’.”

Read the rest of our review here.

Tanya Tagaq - Tongues (Six Shooter) 

“You can’t have our tongues,” declares Canadian Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq on the title track to Tongues, her most fully realized album to date. Produced by Saul Williams and mixed by Gonjasufi, its uncomfortable atonal instrumentals--synth hues, pummeling drums, pulsating bass, unraveling strings--match the ferocity and intensity of Tagaq’s words. The record centers around the legacy of residential schools and the violence of colonialism in the past and the present; in context of Canadian authorities’ repeated discoveries of unmarked graves of Indigenous children at the site of these schools, Tongues is sadly prescient and ever-relevant. When Tagaq sings, “You can’t have our tongues,” she’s talking about bodily autonomy and her desire to reclaim the Inuktitut language for herself and her community. As someone who attended a residential school and was the victim of abuse, Tagaq uses Tongues as both a personal journey, touching on themes of trauma, self-love, and self-forgiveness, and a paean to the strength of the Inuk people. “Eat your morals,” she directs at white vegans who call out Indigenous people for eating meat on “In Me”. On “Colonizer”, her vocal intonations are looped as if they’re all-encompassing; “Oh, you’re guilty,” she sings sweetly, lulling the listener in before making you realize she’s talking about present-day Canadians, too. “Touch my children / And my teeth welcome your windpipe,” she shudders on industrial techno jam “Teeth Agape”, a rebuke of the contemporary day foster care system that’s essentially an extension of residential schools. And the emotional climax of Tongues is also its sweetest song, “Earth Monster”, written for her daughter Naia over 10 years ago but not recorded till now. The song reclaims the idea of monstrosity as both loving tenderly while remaining ready to fight, a concise encapsulation of Tagaq’s essential ethos. - JM

The Wonder Years - The Hum Goes On Forever (Hopeless)

There’s a reason The Wonder Years have endured and built such a devoted audience, and part of that is due to the lyrics of Dan Campbell. The Hum Goes on Forever is what happens when the pop punk genre grows with its band. Tackling new fatherhood and the world shift that is your thirties, Hum provides the familiarity of massive choruses with lyrics that continue to explore the depths of depression, love, and ultimately hope. “I’ve never been so afraid of failing at anything,” Campbell sings on “Wyatt’s Song”, a song for his son. “Well, I’m gonna go, start to dig, plant the seed, keep the birds away / Gonna grow you a place safer than this.” This theme of not just being a first-time parent but of looking towards the light in the dark runs through the entire album. It surfaces again in a lovely parallel on “Laura & the Beehive”, an ode to his grandmother and parental figures everywhere, perfectly capturing an image of unconditional love in only a few minutes. Pop punk can be a tricky genre, but there’s a reason The Wonder Years have continued to succeed. - LL

Tomberlin - i don't know who needs to hear this... (Saddle Creek)

Tomberlin’s latest album encapsulates the sound of change, of new beginnings and the constant questions that come with finding yourself. “I don’t know who needs to hear this,” she sings on the title track, “Sometimes it’s good to sing your feelings.” She displays the joy and hope that comes with self-discovery, and the delicate nature of the album’s sound reflects that. There is both a fragility and power in those moments, a gentleness we should allow ourselves, it seems to say. Tomberlin still beautifully tackles questions of the self, wrestling with relationships and the tenets of religion, but it feels lighter on IDKWNTHT, both in her voice and music. It’s less of a wrestle, perhaps, and more of a gentle contemplation. - LL

Various Artists - Summer of Soul (...Or When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) [OST] (Legacy)

“If Questlove’s documentary is one of the best and arguably the most important concert film ever made, you could argue that its soundtrack is a worthwhile bonus. But as an accessible introduction to a once forgotten moment in cultural history, its widespread potential is nothing short of powerful, its aura nothing short of awe-inducing.”

Read the rest of our review here.

Wet Leg - Wet Leg (Domino)

“In fact, most of the songs on Wet Leg are more interesting than ‘Chaise Lounge’, as cheeky as it is. ‘Wet Dream’ is an immediate highlight, a tune based on Teasdale’s experiences of her ex texting her post-breakup telling her he was dreaming of her. Call-and-response cheerleader chants and limber, four-on-the-floor drums turn into a hilarious scene poking fun at softbois. ‘You climb onto the bonnet and you’re licking the windscreen / I’ve never seen anything so obscene,’ deadpans Teasdale. Drummer Henry Holmes’ backing vocals effectively make him the male character in this absurd nightmare. ‘Piece Of Shit’ is another aesthetic outlier, relatively speaking, a scraping loud-quiet-loud jam that sees Teasdale gnash her teeth at her ex. ‘You’re like a piece of shit,’ she states, before being unexpectedly literal: ‘You either sink or float.’ And then there’s closer ‘Too Late Now’, which perhaps hints at a new direction for the band, a dream pop beauty with echoing drums and tremolo hazy guitars.”

Read the rest of our review here.

Whatever the Weather - Whatever the Weather (Ghostly International)

With albums like For You And I and Reflection, British producer Loraine James has proven to be one of the most exciting new IDM-adjacent artists of the past few years. In the spring of 2022, just in time with sudden shifts in temperature, James decided to debut her side project Whatever the Weather, emphasizing keyboard improvisation, vocal experimentation, and ambient textures over the club music she had mastered prior. Similar to the fickle nature of weather, the songs on Whatever the Weather--each titled to mirror a different literal temperature--abruptly change moods and approaches while reflecting on divergent influences. A lonely synth line and glacial techno beats comprise “0°C”, while “10°C” juxtaposes cold electric piano, layered on top of itself, with chirpy synths, almost like the sound of birds hatching after a long winter. “6°C” and “30°C” sport James’ clever emo inspiration, the twinkles on the former recalling cascading guitars on an American Football song, her vocals on the latter channeling the breathiness of Deftones’ Chino Moreno. And when the synths on “36°C” become wrapped in an overarching sense of melancholic summertime sadness, you can’t help but look back at the entirety of Whatever the Weather and remember that the outside world, like yourself, is ever-changing. -JM

[samuelyaboyy]

Had to make a introduction abut me cuz idk

My name is Sarah

My favorite shows are the muppet show, animaniacs, ghost and Molly McGee, casagrandes, the loud house, don't hug me I'm scared, sonic x, sonic boom, the letter people, Eddsworld, sesame street, Rocko's Modern Life, Ren and Stimpy, CRiTORA, Catdog, moral Orel, muppets tonight, fanboy and Chum Chum, Fred Figglehorn, cartoonmania, mandela catalogue, walten files, Fred the Show, hi hi puffy Ami yumi, your favorite martian the series, nostalgia critic, angry video game nerd and potter puppet pals

My favorite movies are the muppet movie, the muppets, muppets most wanted, adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, Fred the movie, Fred 3 the movie, Fred 2 night of the living Fred and CartoonMania: the movie

My hyperfixations are mad scientist cartoon, the rockafire explosion, goosebumps, vocaloid, utau and clone high

My favorite music artists are lemon demon, neil cicierega, your favorite martian, will wood, will wood and the tapeworms, tally hall, Bart baker, ghost and pals, your favorite martian and oingo boingo

My favorite video games are quiplash, trivia murder party, trivia murder party 2, Friday night funkin, five nights at Freddy's, Dave and Bambi, sonic the hedgehog, Omori, team fortress 2, roblox, item asylum, survive and kill the killers on area 51, my singing monsters, my muppets show and my singing monsters dawn of fire

My comfort media are inanimate insanity and peewee's playhouse

I am a bisexual, pansexual polyamorous aroace non-binary transgender genderfluid and xenogender boy

I use he/they/faun/xem/it pronouns and neopronouns

I make xenogenders

I make headcanon about characters from every media

I'm neurodivergent, autistic and ADHD

DNI if:

Homophobic

Transphobic

Ableist

Racist

Vegan

Imvu players

P3d0

Autism speaks supporters/defenders

Xenogender anti

Neopronoun anti

RCTA

Z00ph1l3

N$fw

F3t!sh ppl

Inflation and v0r3 enjoyers

Lemon Demon anti

Spam bots

Favorite characters

Muppets - Uncle deadly, Dr phil van neuter johnny Fiama sal minella marvin Suggs Mr poodlepants chip bill the bug bobo the bear lew Zealand doctor Bunsen honeydew beaker Wayne and Wanda waldo C graphic digit newsman bill the bubble guy Wilkins wontkins bobby Benson link hogthrob Constantine the frog Sam the Eagle Howard Tubman Carter Zelda rose and Mulch

Sesame Street - Count von Count, Bill the Bug and Limbo/Nobody

Bart Baker - Taylor Swift, PSY, Lorde, William, Britney spears and Adam levine

Lemon Demon - Neil Cicierega

Animaniacs - Wakko Warner

The Ghost and Molly McGee - Sharon McGee, Leah stein-torres, Pete mcgee, Libby stein-torres, jinx, Molly McGee, scratch, Darryl McGee and Ezekiel tugbottom

Battle for Dream Island - Puffball

Friday night Funkin - Meri, Beepie, Dave and Bambi

Fred Franchise - Fred Figglehorn

Jashin-Chan - Hatsune Miku

CRiTORA - Kimi canicani, Iggy digahol, Avery Darling, eggy, queen virus, dundun qwerty, Pluto Georgia, spottie Leonard and Ernie joefreckler

Adventures of Elmo in grouchland - Huxley

Channel Awesome - Nostalgia Critic/Doug Walker

Muppets 2011 - Tex Richman

Cinemassacre - Angry Video Game Nerd

Muppet Movie - Max, Doc Hopper and Snake Walker

Pokemon - Sylveon

Fred the Movie - Kevin and Judy

Peewee's Playhouse - Cool Cat, Dirty Dog, Conky 2000, Randy and Chairry

Muppets from Space - K. Edgar singer

Rockafire Explosion - Rolfe Dewolfe and Dook Larue

Cartoonmania - Lucifer Killingsworth, Rufus, Ed Ted Ned and Fred, Anne Mermaid, Roy and Professor Qwertyson

Muppets Most Wanted - Dominic badguy

ABC Muppets - Pache/Pizza

Don't hug me I'm scared - Colin and Shrignold

Muppets Tonight - Heather Locklear

Muppets Wizard of Oz - Wicked Witch of the west

Crash and Bernstein - Crash

Fraggle Rock - Large Marvin fraggle

Clone High - Topher Bus, Abe, Professor Scudsworth and Mr. butlertron wesley

Scott the Woz - Scott the Woz

Owl House - Collector

BFFS list

@elle-eedee @emishows123 @splashy900 @boogiestronic80s @nightmaremp @moshywoosh @cheezecirno

Might pin this later 👀

This was inspired by @emishows123

[aceditwrites]

The Master List (hi)

Master List:

Hi, i’m ace. I got really bored and i need an excuse to procrastinate on my personal writing projects so i decided to start an account dedicated to just writing. So like, you can request almost anything (limits below) like if you want like a platonic fic just ask! If you want the reader to be the kid or sibling of the character, i’ll do it! You can be as specific or as vague as you want, eventually i’ll get some prompts for help but for now, you gotta wing it. Also I’ll write for like any fandom even if i dont know it, i’ll try my hardest but i’d prefer if you stuck to the list below. Anyways yeah.  (also pfp is nyurei on picrew)

So basic rules, 

If youre an nsfw account dni, also i will not write smut regardless of age given i’m a minor

No incest 

I’m currently only doing x readers, that might change in the future but for now no ocs or ships

I’d prefer if you didn’t request x reader with an actual person, (ex. Instead of asking for a Maya Hawke x reader, ask for a Robin Buckley x reader)

If you know a character’s sexuality and you dont fit, dont ask (ex. Nico is gay, I will not write Nico x fem! reader)

Please specify pronouns when requesting 

Please keep in mind i’m not a professional writer 

Please use common sense and dont do something that makes me have to update the rules

Anyways, so fandoms i’ll write for

It 2017/2019: Richie Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak, Stanley Uris, Bill Denbrough, Beverly Marsh, Ben Hanscom, Mike Hanlon (specify if you want 2017 or 2019)

Percy Jackson: Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, Grover Underwood, Piper McLean, Jason Grace, Leo Valdez, Hazel Levesque, Frank Zhang, Connor Stoll, Travis Stoll, Nico Di Angelo, Will Solace

Supernatural: Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Castiel, Gabriel, Kevin Tran, Crowley, Charlie Bradbury, Rowena (does girly have a last name 💀), Jack Kline (platonic only)

South park (platonic only for everyone, they’re children): Kyle Broflovski, Stan Marsh, Eric Cartman, Kenny McCormick, Butters Scotch, Tolkien Black (or is it Token? I swear its always spelled different), Timmy, Craig Tucker, Tweek Tweak, Jimmy Valmer, Wendy Testaburger 

Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous/Chaos Theory: Darius Bowman (i’d prefer if we kept it platonic with him but romance is ok i guess), Kenji Kon, Brooklyn, Yasmina Fadoula, Sammy Guiterrez, Ben Pincus, 

Marvel: Tony Stark (platonic only, so sorry) Steve Rodger, Bucky Barnes, Natasha Romanoff, Wanda Maximoff, Peter Peter, Ned Leeds, M.J, Harley Keener, Thor Odinson, Loki Odinson, Shuri, T'Challa, Okoye

The Owl House: Luz Noceda, Willow Park, Amity Blight, Edric Blight, Emira Blight, Gus Porter, Eda Clawthorne, Lilith Clawthorn, Hooty (platonic preferred, but if you freaky like that go ahead and ask for romance, see what happens), Raine Whispers

The Umbrella Academy: Luther, Diego, Alison, Klaus, Five (would he date a kid or an adult cause-), Ben (he can be alive or yall could be ghosts), Vanya 

Dear Evan Hansen: Connor Murphy (my beloved), Evan Hansen, Jared Kleinman, Zoe Murphy, Alana Beck

Heather: Heather Chandler, Heather McNamara, Heather Duke, Veronica Sawyer, Jason Dean, Martha Dunnstock

Invincible: Mark Grayson, Debbie Grayson, Eve Wilkins, Rex Splode, Amber Bennet, William Clockwell

Idk how any of this works but uh have fun

[weyounthevorta]

Enemies & Lovers

You will have a wild and decadently hedonistic love affair with one of these men. The others, spurned and spiteful, are now out to exact vengeance on you.

[brokenpiecesshine]

Oli Sykes on Instagram, 04/05/2023.

LosT Very proud of this one. I feel like my vision for future emo & this next record has been realised. But it’s gonna get even more bonkers. Thank u for all the love. Thankyou to @zakkcervini for convincing us to go with our original instincts. @jordanfish86 for going insane on production as well as @traceybrakes & @lonelyspeck sharing their unique, magical sounds and ideas with us. On the video side, I’ve never been so impressed and inspired by a director as I was with @jensennoen I thought I was a perfectionist but geez the guy is tapped in. So much fun creating this video with him and I learnt so much. And such an incredible team, which I will credit underneath. PH2 is coming eeee 🧪👹🫀 Directors: @Jensennoen @olobersykes Producers: @phoenixvaughn + @rndevereaux + @ashhainzer Executive Producers: @frankborin + @ivannaborin Cinematographer: @justinjonesdp Production Company: @blesscode Video Commissioner: @kat_catt Production Designer: @three60s Co-Producer: @jessiexthexmess Production Coordinator: @flavor_flaim HMU Designer: @tarnovetska Casting Director: @nadiaaat & linaa_lovelyyy Dance Choreographer: @gabbyskalak Assistant to Producers: @chrislaplante_ 2nd AD: @elliotphonehome84 2nd 2nd AD: Sean Doyle Gaffer: @ocufilms Best Boy Electric: John Landry Electricians: @mylifeismundane, Sean James, Pauli Dandino Key Grip: @joseph_simpsun Best Boy Grip: Michael Kotaya Grips: @akorede.amole, Miguel Escalona, Kevin Amaya Dolly Grip: @lionlera 1st AC (A Cam): @thatguyaric 1st AC (B Cam): @kraig.bryant 2nd AC: Neil Hausey SFX Blood Technician: Cody Wilkins HMU designer: @tarnovetska On set makeup artists: @plazticpatrick @fainafx @alexromanmua @xknifeplay FX Technician: @codyjwilkins Makeup Props: @fxmuartist @bastaromina Costume Designers: @orchidsatellite & Elias Martinez Assistant Wardrobe: Sailor Gonzales Art Director: Zoe Hazlett Co-Art Director: Allison Jensen Set Dresser: Layla Kornota Art Assistant: Diane Lac Prop Master: @Sate_paige Key PA: @maximbalter Camera Van Driver: Yuri Fedorova PA Crafty: Danny Lopez Key PA Talent: Quinton Couch PA Production: Audrey Eck PA Runner: Ryan Colegrave Site Rep: Trevor Larson FSA Officer: James (Jim) Paul

[bughead-in-the-comics]

Riverdale Characters: Archie’s Gang

Archibald “Archie” Andrews

Charles “Chuck” Clayton

Elizabeth “Betty” Cooper

Dilton Doiley

Forsythe Pendleton “Jughead” Jones III

Midge Klump

Veronica “Ronnie” Lodge

Reginald “Reggie” Mantle

Marmaduke “Moose” Mason

Ethel Muggs

Nancy Woods

Note: This list only includes the main members of Archie’s Riverdale gang, so relatively new characters like Kevin Keller and Toni Topaz are not here. Auxiliary characters from Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Josie and the Pussycats, and That Wilkin Boy will be included in a different post. The Blossoms are also excluded from this list since they are technically from Pembrooke, not Riverdale. Transfer students from Pine Point High will also be saved for a separate post. That’s all! ♥

[affablyevilshowdown]

Large Bracket Round 1

Large Bracket

No. No! Unless…

Patrick Bateman               (American Psycho)

Tyler Durden                      (Fight Club)

<3<                                      (Homestuck?)

Hedonist Lit

Lestat de Lioncourt          (Interview with a Vampire)

Dorian Gray                       (The Picture Of Dorian Gray)

Virtually the same person. I guess?

Discord                (My Little Pony (Friendship is Magic Gen 4))

Q                           (Star Trek)

The Doctor vs The Master 1

The Master (Delgado)     (Doctor Who)

Dr. Griffin                           (The Invisible Man)

The Doctor vs The Master 2

The Master (Crispy)         (Doctor Who)

Doc Scratch                       (Homestuck)

The Doctor vs The Master 3 (Animal Kin Edition)

The Master (Ainley)         (Doctor Who)

Doc Ock                              (Into the Spiderverse)

The Doctor vs The Master 4

The Master (Simm)          (Doctor Who)

Dr. Evil                                (Austin Powers)

The Doctor vs The Master 5

The Master (Missy)          (Doctor Who)

Heinz Doofenshmirtz       (Phineas and Ferb)

The Doctor vs The Master 6

The Master (Dhawan)     (Doctor Who)

Dr. Facilier                         (The Princess and the Frog)

This is so tremendously unfair, but hey it's the two inspirations of my favorite OC

Bill Cipher            (Gravity Falls)

Solf J Kimblee     (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Dracula was on Buffy the Vampire slayer too

Spike                     (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Dracula                (Dracula)

Entitled White Lady- Names (Since we don't have a Karen)

Helen the Distortion        (The Magnus Archives)

Lauren Mallard                 (Welcome to Nightvale)

Jennifer Check                  (Jennifer's Body)

Actual Entitled White Ladies

The Handler                       (Umbrella Academy)

Cruella De Vile                  (101 Dalmatians)

Fairy Godmother              (Shrek 2)

Fight your shadow lego self

Lego Joker           (The Lego Batman Movie)

Joker                    (Batman (2005))

*Heard over the speaker system, when you are about to have a bad time*

The Narrator      (The Stanley Parable)

Cave Johnson     (Portal)

Style Icons

Misa Amane                                     (Death Note)

Her Imperious Condescension     (Homestuck)

Nui Harime                                       (Kill la kill)

Dads

Hunson Abadeer                              (Adventure Time)

Asgore Dreemur                              (Undertale)

Mayor Richard Wilkins III             (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Can do so much better than their ex

Harley Quinn      (Birds of Prey)

Spinel                   (Stephen Universe)

An image of the self

Kevin                                                  (Welcome to Nightvale)

Frankenstein’s Creature                (Frankenstein)

Double Trouble                                (She Ra)

Entitled Creeps

Nevel Papperman             (iCarly)

Killgrave                              (Jessica Jones)

Lil Gideon                           (Gravity Falls)

Scorpion tails >:3

Tyrian Callows   (RWBY)

Scorpia                 (She Ra)

Shaped

Big Jack Horner  (Puss in Boots: The last wish)

Eggman               (Sonic)

Wheatley             (Portal)

#girlboss

GLaDOS               (Portal)

Monika                (Doki Doki Literature Club)

Jesters

Marx                     (Kirby)

Rouxls Kaard      (Deltarune)

Second career as highschool staff

Yzma                    (The Emperor’s New Groove)

Baron Draxum    (Rise Of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Just a child, no, No Ignore the destruction and the carnage. this is a baby

The Collector                    (The Owl House)

Flowey the Flower           (Undertale)

Creates an empire with his "children"

Horde Prime                                                                  (She Ra)

John Gaius, Emperor Undying, Necrolord Prime   (The Locked Tomb)

Soft and fluffy, Soft and fluffy. Sharp and pointy! Soft and fluffy..

Kyubey                (Madoka Magica)

Monokuma         (Danganronpa)

In another world they're just an ordinary hero, and honestly that's worse

Gentle Criminal                 (My Hero Academia)

Megamind                          (Megamind)

Goro Akechi                       (Persona 5)

Fairy tale vibes

Rumpelstiltskin   (Once Upon a Time)

Salem                   (RWBY)

Space bois!

HAL9000                             (2001: A Space Odyssey)

Marvin the Martian         (Looney tunes)

Love and Anxiety is stored in the them

Spamton              (Deltarune)

Navy Ruby           (Stephen Universe)

Jinx                       (Arcane)

One says "you're gonna die" because of how good his food is, and the other you're gonna die and become food..

Lalo Salamanca                 (Better Call Saul)

Hannibal Lecter                (Hannibal/Silence of the Lambs)

Kira ;)

Yoshikage Kira   (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Light Yagami      (Death Note)

Radio Adjacent/Death Adjacent

Alastor                 (Hazbin Hotel)

Dusknoir              (Pokémon)

Their crime is basically just being a capitalist

Mr. Grizz              (Splatoon)

Varrick                 (Legend of Korra)

Elias Bouchard   (The Magnus Archives)

Wizards

Merasmus          (Team Fortress 2)

Magolor              (Kirby)

Death gods

Hades    (Hercules)

Ryuk      (Death Note)

Abstract Fears

Michael Distortion           (The Magnus Archives)

Other Mother                   (Coraline)

Godzilla                               (Godzilla)

Royalty

King Boo                             (Luigi's Mansion games)

Queen                                 (Deltarune)

Prince Humperdinck        (The Princess Bride)

The absence of the thing they're addicted to causes Problems

Gamzee Makara               (Homestuck)

Bender                                (Futurama)

I'm calling them both pirates

Long John Silver                (Treasure Island)

Khan Noonien Singh        (Star Trek)

Mobsters?

Gustavo Fring                    (Breaking Bad)

Wilson Fisk/Kingpin         (Daredevil (Netflix))

Listen, I don't know how long it would take to actually fit these three into a category that makes sense, I'm just glad I technically only have one strict Miscellaneous vote (actually there are 6)

Oogie Boogie                    (The Nightmare before Christmas)

Roman Torchwick            (RWBY)

Medic                                  (Team Fortress 2)