#Third Stage

[lyonface]

Black Hair/Black Eyes Ryousuke Supremacy

[simru-region]

Trainer, your Flaaffy has evolved into Ampharos!

[retromusicart]

I'm gonna take you by surprise, and make you realize, Amanda

Boston - Third Stage (MCA, 1986) - Illustration by John Salozzo, Concept by Chris Serra

While the group was dealing with their lawsuit against CBS to get out of their contract, they continued to record music through six years of, in the words of Tom Scholz, "floods and power failures". After winning their suit, they moved to MCA and compiled the recordings they made in those six years into their third album.

Tellingly, the tone of this album is much darker than their previous ones.

Image courtesy of Discogs.

[aardwolfpack]

Another lost and found song.

I heard (probably) this song on the radio in the '00s, but didn't catch the title or band (my best guesses were the Scorpions or Foreigner). It's a perfect example of the kind of rock music I would hear when I was a little kid in the '80s (I mostly remember sounds and styles rather than specific songs). This unidentified song has been at the back of my mind for fifteen or twenty years, but now I've (probably) found it.

Most people upload the album version, which suddenly cuts in at the last second of the rocket launch. The version above slowly fades in the sound effect, making it much more pleasing despite the lower audio quality. Someone somewhere must have a version with a clean opening.

[knightwolf678]

Contra wallpaper, that I, knight_wolf_678, created. Show some love for this post

[duranduratulsa]

Amanda

80's Fest Album of the day: Third Stage by Boston (1986) featuring Amanda #boston #thirdstage #amanda #braddelp #ripbraddelp #80s #80sfest #durandurantulsas5thannual80sfest

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 3: Enveloping Feelings.

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 4)

[modest-starr]

I can be your everything.

[taliabhattwrites]

Transition care is being outlawed and institutionally gatekept the world over.

Trans existence is the reactionary scapegoat du jour, a convenient symbol for regressive ideologues to rally against because we constitute a convenient effigy to burn, an existential threat to the patriarchal ideology of 'immutable', 'biological' sex upon which their 'natural order' (of male-supremacy and misogynistic exploitation) is founded.

During a cultural moment where the right's intentions to directly attack bodily autonomy and non-heterosexual, non-reproductive modes of existence are being plainly stated, where the nativist and natalist violence upon which states and their colonial orders are founded is being made most explicit, the response to this overt declaration of war on our ability to do what we will with our bodies is ... non-existent.

Feminism is being thoroughly repudiated by the left, by advocates of collectivization and queer activists alike. The "male loneliness crisis" is spoken of as our most pressing cultural issue, eliding the reactionary turn among men who are responding to deepening capitalist contradictions by demanding their patriarchal entitlement over women's labor and bodies. Trans people's existence is considered a luxury belief, established and proven healthcare is called 'experimental', and we are perceived as affluent eccentrics seeking novel forms of costuming rather than a thoroughly brutalized, impoverished, and stigmatized demographic sinking further and further into the margins.

Conservatives who rail against abortion and no-fault divorce now claim the label of "women's rights" because they also call for the eradication of transsexuality. The connections between the opposition to trans existence and the threats to women's political and economic independence are obvious, but no one is making them.

We are not organizing a robust, materialist, ideological opposition to this reactionary backlash on the basis of bodily autonomy, the emancipation of marginalized genders, or the right to exist independently from patriarchal structures such as the nuclear family.

We are arguing with each other about validity, about whether it's "biologically essentialist" to observe that society enables men to exploit women, and about whether anyone who speaks plainly about misogyny is a "TERF".

I stand here seeing things get worse for my sisters and my siblings, cis and trans and non-binary and intersex and queer and even heterosexual and more, watching us devour each other while working class men settle for dominion over their wives and families in exchange for being compliant for their bosses, and I wonder if we'll realize what must be done before it's too late.

I don't know. I don't have an answer for you.

At least, not a good one.

[n1ckelpistol]

"Last time i get in trouble for you, asshole" "Oh, come on"

[jimimn]

he's got the prettiest smile 🥺 (cr. qdeoks)

[ohnonotthehorrors]

Can we talk about how Grian and Cleo were the only victors to willingly kill themselves at the end. Can we talk about how Grian and Cleo won by defeating their best friend, their closest ally, in a battle at the very end. Can we talk about how Grian and Cleo both went out laughing. CAN WE TALK ABOUT-

[nethnad]

[slaps roof of threegado] these two can fit in so much Bickering Old Married Couple in them

[pixels-art-stuff]

Another sneak peak :D I'm having lot's of fun with the Leyendecker art style. This one is based on an advertisement. I will talk more about my process once I finish this piece and upload it.

[nanviart]

Can't afford the photocards I made my own 💛

[aroaceyunarukami]

Investigation Team icons! feel free to use if you wanna!