#VEXED

[flowers-of-io]

Destiny + text posts part 19/?

[springstick]

Brainrot vs Brainrot: House, MD vs my major that I love (MLS)

[famina]

Haha !

[billi-ashli]

This vexes me.

what did i do now :( why are u vexed :(

[vecsed]

Recap settimana #2

🔍 Recap della settimana #2 🎮🚀 Questa settimana ci addentriamo nelle notizie più calde del mondo tech e gaming: ⚡ DeepSeek scuote il mercato dell’IA e fa tremare Nvidia 📉 🎭 Elon Musk “cheater”: tra videogiochi, boost illegali e il mito del capitalista anarchico 🔥 Le uscite del mese: da Avowed ai titoli indie più attesi, cosa giocheremo a febbraio? Non perderti il nuovo episodio della nostra rubrica settimanale! 🔥 #GamingNews #TechRecap #DeepSeek #ElonMusk #Avowed #IndieGames

Elon Musk e il “Cheating Capitalista”: Il Videogiocatore Anarchico Elon Musk si comporta nei videogiochi esattamente come un “capitalista anarchico” alla Pessoa: ignora le regole quando gli conviene, sfruttando il sistema senza sentirsi vincolato dai suoi limiti. Dopo essersi vantato di essere tra i migliori giocatori di Diablo IV e Path of Exile 2, ha ammesso di aver usato il boosting per…

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Prospero. You do look, my son, in a moved sort,

As if you were dismay'd: be cheerful, sir.

Our revels are now ended. These our actors,

As I foretold you, were all spirits and

Are melted into air, into thin air:

And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,

The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,

The solemn temples, the great globe itself,

Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve

And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,

Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff

As dreams are made on, and our little life

Is rounded with a sleep. Sir, I am vex'd;

Bear with my weakness; my old brain is troubled:

Be not disturb'd with my infirmity:

If you be pleased, retire into my cell

And there repose: a turn or two I'll walk,

To still my beating mind.

William Shakespeare: The Complete Works, The Tempest (Act IV, Scene I)

[beautyarchive]

Lucy Punch in Hot Fuzz (2007).

Lucy Punch is such a good comedy actress. Like Rik Mayall, she's good-looking but pulls ridiculous faces all the time for the comedy value. I wish Motherland was a better show because then I could watch her for hours. Her episodes of Vexed are amazing by the way. That's what I recommend.

[dopamineforthedepraved]

It’s bringing me to tears the state of this country, fuck! Bureaucracy as it is, is a flawed system, laminar flow is the way the system should be ran, like water, they should be able to overcome obstacles as a unified mass yet through some strange form of metamorphosis( the human condition) it becomes a mountain stuck in place, caving in on itself experiencing minimal change facing natural obstacles reared by its very own nature

[brumeraven]

🪔: || author bio, abstracted, vexed, devils, dolls, transformations, dehumanization, self-abandonment, psychopomps

I don't remember his name, that Devil, the man who sold the world a palliative dose of opium. I don't think any who do are in a state to speak on it any longer. It isn't as if it can be called his fault anyways. It wasn't murder; just an assisted suicide, a voluntary euthanasia of the suffering.

They'd killed the whole world. And for what? So they could be miserable. No one much saw the point in carrying on after that.

Death would have been cleaner, braver, but then it was cowardice and filth that had gotten them into the situation in the first place; no surprise it would get them out.

Humanity loved nothing more than a quick and dirty fix, one with no costs but negative externalities, so it was a surprise to no one they bought what that silver-tongued man had been selling.

Abstraction.

A sterile word for a process that was anything but.

Doll-making had been known for centuries, of course, a once-creative art form now ritualistic and formalized. Start with a person, then cut and cut and cut away until all that remains is an empty vessel, hollow it out with Flame and burn away everything that had made it a living, breathing thing.

But this was different. Abstraction was, assurances were offered, the sort of contrapositive of doll-making. Take doubt, fear, anxiety, despair, all the thoughts of if's and then's that a doll is never afforded to feel, and abscise them.

One clean cut and all of your worries could be gone.

Abstraction offered them a chance we were never given: All of the humanity and none of the overthinking; all of the benefits of dollhood while still remaining human.

Or near enough.

They all chose it, every last one of them. And it worked; the Abstracted run the world now, or what's left of it.

The only problem was all the toxic waste. All of that bale had to be disposed of somehow.

If it couldn't be burned away by Flame, all of it had to go somewhere. And so they just locked it all away in those same empty vessels that once might have become dolls.

After all, they wouldn't complain.

And so, they made dolls that never forgot how to say "I".

They made the Vexed.

They made me.

That, I suppose, explains everything and nothing.

After all, what am I, if not everything you wish you never had to feel again? Everything you'd cut away and make someone else's problem. Everything that belongs in neither a doll nor a person

~🪔 (with some assistance from 🍂)

[tobys-walrus-crew]

“The cat will mew” (Hamlet)

[flowers-of-io]

Destinytober - Ergo Sum, Radiolaria

Read on Ao3

—and he [wakes] in a place that is a time that he/they/he has never seen before. An emerald meadow. Flowers like blood. Sky with no ceiling, white rivers, glass plains echoing with a—

[Define: wakes. Sudden transition into alertness from a period of dormancy.]

—song on the [wind] like the sighs of a giant. Still. Everything is still when you [are] Vex, charting moments like points on a map and skipping between them without any movement at all. He breathes in—tastes salt—sees white and green and red and feels something electric trickle down from his nostrils.

[Define: wind. Perceptible movement of air.]

[Define: are. ERROR://NULL]

A Tower, it is said, never collapses twice. [He] was hardly one for Warlock wisdoms, back in the day, but he liked to [squabble] about their empty meanings, those inflated [phrases] stealing all the air out of the room but adding in nothing of value. A Titan, it is said, is a wall, a shield, a cup—

[Define: he. ERROR://NULL]

[Define: squabble. To disagree on petty matters.]

[Define: phrases. Thoughts formed and given comprehensible shape.]

—pushed past the edge of the table and shattered. Some containers can never be emptied, no matter how hard [one] tries to scrub them clean.

[Define: one. ERROR://NULL]

He breathes in and the Collective breathes with him. He breathes in and the Collective breathes within him, a great sizzling volume with no mass at all, the contents all sloshing within him like a churning river: time and thought, song and sea, plurality and personhood tangled together into a knot with no beginning or end. He breathes and thinks, what a marvel, this place, red fields and green sky, grey stone like the walls of the Tower. And the Collective marvels within him and he [is] them and he [is] him he [is] a wall a shield a cup he he he is he is he is he—

[Define: is. ERROR://NULL]

[a-very-disreputable-intj]

Lately I've been looking into Giftedness in adults, since I live in fear of becoming a Former Gifted Kid, and while my life makes a hell of lot more sense, I will likely never recover from the psychic damage delt by seeing the phrase "gifted kids are special needs/neurodivergent" for the first time.

Despite all of all my other problems, I thought that I had the Giftedness thing figured out long ago.

There's not enough Advil in the world to fix this!

[pabloalwaysdrawin]

-VEXED-

[angry-total-drama-takes]

I FUCKING LOVE EVA. IT FILLS ME WITH UNFILTERED RAGE WHEN I REMEMBER HOW SET ASIDE SHE WAS. SHE SHOULD HAVE COME BACK FOR WORLD TOUR. SHE SHOULD BE LEGALLY ALLOWED TO KILL EVERYONE. AUUGHHHHHHDG. I HOPE SHE CLOBBERS SOMEONE TO DEATH

THE SHOW TREATED HER SO POORLY SHE WAS ONLY IN ONE FREAKING SEASON!!!!! LIKE KATIE AND SADIE !!!!!!!!! THAT'S SO INSULTING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OUGGGHHH I'M SO FREAKING MAD!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[x--daughters-of-darkness--x]

VEXED ► Anti-Fetish (Megan Targett - One take vocal performance)

[thisaintascenereviews]

Top 10 Albums Of 2023… So Far! Part Three: 5 - 2

In the last part, we talked about the first half of the list, but in this last part, we're going to talk about the second half, starting with…

Vexed - Negative Energy

In 2021, British nu-metalcore / alternative metal Vexed released their debut LP, Culling Culture, and it was one of my favorite albums of the year. It was in my top five, actually, and that's no exception for the hotly anticipated follow-up, Negative Energy. This record is a nonstop force of nu-metal, metalcore, djent, deathcore, and alt-metal. In a way, it's the same sound that they had on their debut, but it's a tightened up version. Their vocalist is easily their biggest weapon, as she is able to employ many different styles on this record (just as she did on their debut), including deathcore / metalcore growls that are some of the best I've heard in a long time, clean vocals that are equally impressive, or Korn-esque nu-metal whisper vocals that provide a creepy and menacing sound. What's cool about this band is that I wouldn't classify them as nu-metalcore, djent, or deathcore, because they take all of these styles and do something interesting with it. The breakdowns and riffs are aplenty as well, but it's the vocals and lyrics that take center stage. They're brutal, hardhitting, and honest, dealing with things like the weaponization of Christianity, mental health, and the taboo nature of speaking out about abuse and things of that nature. This is a great record, and a more than worthy follow-up to their debut. Hell, I might enjoy this one a bit better.

Magnolia Park - Baku's Revenge (Deluxe)

In November of last year, I reviewed the new album from pop-punk / alt-rock band Magnolia Park, Baku's Revenge, and despite how much I enjoyed it, I had some issues with it. Some of the lyrics weren't very interesting, and a few songs just fell flat compared to the highlights, but going back to the album after the deluxe version was released recently (especially now that the deluxe edition feels like an actual album; the original version was only 24 minutes, and the deluxe edition is 35), I decided to cheat and put the deluxe edition here, because it's a damn good album. While I see why I wasn't originally crazy about it, as some of the issues I have with the record still stand, I've really grown on it. The vocals are utterly incredible, especially with how hooky and sticky sweet this album is. It's got some of the best hooks and melodies I've heard all year. The lyrics have grown on me, too, because there's a lot to them that's underneath the surface, versus just looking at the lyrics at face value. What really did it for me, however, were the four new songs that got added to the record. The four new songs on this record are utterly fantastic, and they make the album a lot better, so for that alone, I felt more compelled to include here, especially for how unique and interesting this band is for the pop-punk scene. I might even re-review this album and talk more about how my feelings have changed and how important this band is for the genre.

Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem - The Muppets Mayhem Soundtrack

The Muppets are one of my favorite franchises, and their new show, The Muppets Mayhem, is no exception. I reviewed the show when it came out earlier this year, despite not going into a lot of detail about it, but I also talked about its soundtrack. The whole basis for the show is that The Muppet Show's in-house band, Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem, still owe an album to a small record label, so the show is them recording the album and getting into hijinks. The album itself is the end result, and it's a fantastic collection of "originals" and covers of some timeless songs from the 1960s - 1980s. It's a fun record that doesn't feel like a product of a franchise, this case being the Muppets and/or Disney, but this is the actual Dr. Teeth and company releasing their debut album after 50 years of being a band. If you enjoy "classic rock," whatever that phrase means now, or The Muppets, you'll surely enjoy this record (and check out the show, it's worth a watch, too).

Honey Revenge - Retrovision

Being that this is most recent album on my list, I almost didn't want to put this so high, but I couldn't help it. I've been playing this album nonstop for the past week since its release. Honey Revenge is a pop-rock band that formed during the pandemic and went viral on Tik Tok, but they've only now released their debut, Retrovision, and it's a sugar-coated helping of pop-rock that would have been huge during the mid-00s / early 2010s neon pop-punk era. Bands like All Time Low, The Cab, Forever The Sickest Kids, and Every Avenue would have certainly toured with them, and if they were around then, I guarantee they would have been huge. The best part about this album is that it's really nothing special, but I mean that in the best possible way. Sometimes less is more, and this is the perfect example of that. This record is more or less a catchy pop-rock album, but it puts it focus where it needs to, including the fantastic vocals and equally fantastic hooks. It stands out on its own, and sometimes that's the best way to go. You don't need to be unique, weird, or different, but you can rely on great hooks and melodies. This record is full of them, so if you want an unhealthy dose of serotonin, I'd gladly give Retrovision a listen. I might even review this album, so I can go more in detail about it, because I have a lot to say about this record.