#and by satanic I mean Ghost

[your-local-cryptid87]

My sister and I in the car

My sister: Do you care if I play the music?

Me: yeah go ahead

My sister: *plays Christian music*

[gh0st-with-thee-m0st]

Friendly reminder that everyone engaging in ship discourse within the Ghost fan base is a loser and the block button is free. Secure your peace of mind and never forget: it ain't that fucking serious.

[ramblingoak]

Well I was born an original sinner

I was borne from original sin

[darlingghoulette]

It’s really telling on me as a person that I can say “I wanna fuck that old man” and my friends don’t know who I’m talking about as there are constantly so many hot old men on rotation in my brain going around like a sushi conveyor belt

[onedaughterofman]

I was placed upon this earth burdened with a glorious purpose (sexualize old men).

[styona]

Nihil: *kisses a random girl in the audience*

Imperator: *leaves after seeing it*

Nihil:

[homosekularnost]

truly still so funny to me that early ghost has the reputation of being darker and more serious when the last two albums were like. narratively cohesive projects which used very specific culturally relevant imagery to criticize the institutions that hallow them & then the first two albums are just like. "the creed of constantinople but EVIL" and "saying cum but in latin"

[journey-to-the-attic]

Vague idea for an AU I had, in a Nightbringger situation so the brothers are still new to being demons, and Ik's a ghost tethered to the House of Lamentation. So when they bring the HoL down the Devildom, what Diavolo doesn't know is that he accidentally brought Ik down with it

Sometimes the brothers feel watched but they put it down to just bein uncomfy with being demons. Then stuff starts moving without any of them remembering moving it, but it's cups being moved back before they can fall off tables, or beds being made, or being propped back up on the couch properly before they can fall off in their sleep. Secretly little ghost Ik is keeping them company and trying to take care of them 🥺

ohohho this i like!! imagine being ik in this situation - first you find out the ghosts ARE real and you're stuck being one, then you're alone in this massive mansion for like five years, and then suddenly you find out hell's real too and now there are seven demons living with you who don't even know you're there (yet)

i imagine ik gets used to calling the house of lamentation her own, so at first when they start modifying the place she's like D: NO!! THE NICE BLUE CURTAINS!! I LIKED THOSE!!! but she's very relieved that they can finally get the place dusted and clean though. also they keep the big piano (her favourite part) so it's not all bad

she's not powerful enough a spirit to be fully corporeal, so she can only very briefly muster the strength to touch and move things. mostly she uses this to be helpful around the house, but occasionally she'll let herself be selfish and save up energy to have a play about on the piano

maybe living with seven super powerful demons ends up increasing her own strength too, so over time she starts being more tangible? she can touch and hold things for longer, occasionally she'll be able to appear in the reflection of a mirror, and once in a while one of the brothers will hear her speaking. ik's super excited by this!! meanwhile the brothers are TERRIFIED

[sentientpaperbag]

Also, Ghost?

Oh boy. Ok lemme explain Ghost, sorry, this is about to be a looooooooooong post lmao but this is my current fixation so:

Ghost is a band. A band with fictional characters, and kind of a story.

The frontman is currently Papa Emeritus IV, or Copia. He's my favorite:

this is him.

Before him, there were three other Papas:

This is the first Papa, or Primo as the fans call him. He debuted around 2010

He is a very grumpy, very old looking man. He was the frontman until the next Papa took over in 2012

--

This is Papa II, or Secondo:

This Papa has his fans, a lot of people do think he's hot. He is also an old looking, grumpy looking individual but he's also been seen without the corpse paint

He kinda looks like Pitbull.

Anyway, the next is Terzo. The third Papa.

He's apparently a few months younger than Secondo but he doesn't look it. Also I learned recently that he's like 4'9 to make of that what you will lmao. He was Papa from 2015 to 2017-18 when he was forcibly removed from stage. I think it was because he started to make it about himself instead of the cause (which since this is a Satanic band, they're trying to spread the word of Satan i guess??)

After that, the current Papa, Papa Emeritus IV or Copia, became Papa. But before he was that, he was Cardinal Copia, and he looked like this:

Now when I first found out about this band, I thought these were all different people, but it turned out, they're all the same guy, and you can kinda tell in some of the pictures that he's wearing a mask. He had several made for the different characters.

This is the man behind the mask, and the band, he's the singer and songwriter. His name's Tobias Forge:

He's a dude from Sweden who came up with this elaborate storyline and band and honestly it's super neat. He kept his real appearance hidden for a while but ultimately due to some drama he finally came forward. He seems like a really cool guy from what I've seen

FUN FACT: Today's his birthday actually :D

But back to the storyline of Ghost, so there's one other Papa aside from the four current frontmen, and he's actually NOT played by Tobias.

Papa Nihil:

Primo, Secondo, and Terzo are his sons (and it's heavily implied that Copia is his son as well)

He's kind of the head Papa of all Papas, kind of a more Pope-like Pope I guess? He's a very grumpy man who doesn't like Copia and really didn't like that Copia got to become Papa, despite Copia being a fun character that the fanbase has ended up loving tremendously.

Also Papa Nihil is dead. Sometimes at concerts they bring his "dead body" out and revive it so he can have a saxophone solo in the instrumental song Miasma.

Then there's Sister Imperator

this is her when she was young, she's older now obviously but they've changed her actress several times. Here's some of her different older looks:

She's basically the real brains behind the operation of the Ghost Project, and she and Papa Nihil were in a relationship when they were younger (however, he fucked that up by being a bit of a player)

It's heavily implied she's Copia's mother, hence why Nihil is implied to be his father. She is the reason Copia became Papa, it was her choice.

Other characters include the ghouls! The bandmates for concerts, they usually have masks covering their faces:

this is their current look. Very steampunk-y.

So TLDR: Ghost is a Satanic themed band made by a Swede who was super into metal growing up and made a whole fictional group of characters in the process. They have videos on their youtube that show Copia becoming Papa and stuff. They actually just released a new vid not too long ago that might be implying something is going to be happening to Papa IV soon, cuz the previous Papas were killed.

It's a lot of fun and I don't take it too seriously cuz it's clear they're having fun with this, and the fanbase seems really cool from what I've seen. I'm leaving a lot out but that's cuz there's just... so much. It's really cool tho I recommend them

Someone once said their music sometimes sounds like Scooby Doo chase music, and yeah... Yeah it does.

Some song recommendations!:

Cirice (spelled exactly like that. this song got them a grammy!)

Year Zero (very heavily Satanic inspired but good God the song goes hard)

Mary on a Cross (classic, "the Tiktok song", also the first song I heard by them)

Hunter's Moon (FUN FACT THIS SONG WAS USED IN THE END CREDITS FOR HALLOWEEN KILLS!)

Call Me Little Sunshine (this song is so good holy shit. It almost got a grammy)

Square Hammer (this one has such a cool music video to go along with it tbh)

there's more but I've made this post way too long as it is so I suggest doing some digging by looking at wikis. I'd say look around on tumblr but the Ghost fanbase is kinda horny for the Papas and ghouls so be careful (i'm not kidding the fanbase is very horny for the characters... To be fair, there's lots of sexual humor at the concerts coming directly from Papa Emeritus and the Nameless Ghouls)

oh one last thing!

Copia got to throw the first ball at an MLB game and it's really fucking funny to think about

[annyankers]

Having a shit family drama week. Full of religious misogynistic asshats laying some "woman's place in the family" bs on me. My head is spinning and all I want to do is fight them and throw up. I don't know why you laughing at stupid anon hate has healed the raging beast in my chest, but fuck if your beautiful dismissal of it hasn't fixed me. Love you. Fuck the haters. You help make this corner of the fandom livable and lovely.

I know how frustrating and helpless that can feel bruh. like the primal urge to physically attack people who’re out here actively threatening your continued safety and sanity with their bad takes while being trapped from action with yuletide peace on earth shackles is too real. i’m endlessly glad my chillbro cool buy vibes have helped soothe the dragon gnawing at the roots of your mind tree my homie.

papa love and papa bless you lil angel you. i’ll continue to both be a retarded cunt and a silly little fun time boy and lighten up this comm with my apparently next level seethingly nuclear angel takes and subpar memes lol

[reversesymmetry]

This is a Sister Imperator hate page.

[voidcat]

[calicoyo]

Listening to a cd of infestissumam while drawing that last post and after the last spng, monstrance clock, I let it sit for a couple minutes in silence. then suddenly I'm horrified to hear music start up again on it's own 💀

I thought i was haunted goddamn. It's memento mori. I had no idea memento mori was on this cuz it's UNLISTED

Goddamn it tobias, scaring the shit out of me 😭 thought it was from satan or something at first cuz I didn't recognize the song

[stillness138]

between all the mummy dust 2: electric boogaloo, the usual vague 'the church is full of greed and hypocrisy' and the cum metaphors, there was this shot. and oh how i wish tf would just full on yell about this for an entire song

[esters-notepad]

The Hebrew word "Satan" means "prosecutor". I think this is one of those things most church-goers know. I've known it for most of my life.

But apparently, that's not the end of the story. Today I learned that "Paraclete", the Greek word for the Holy Ghost, literally means "defense attorney".

[ficandkaboodle]

At least once every day, I think about Primo’s costume and Nihil’s costume and I almost want to laugh because just look at this shit

The contrast is just wild.

Primo’s costume is exactly that: It’s made with that same shiny materials as a Disney Princess dress-up outfit is. Meanwhile, Nihil’s is all extravagant and I look at that and I’m like “Yeah, that is indeed a Satanic Pope of the Satanic Church, mhm.”

And I absolutely understand why this is. I completely understand that when Tobias started Ghost, there just wasn’t enough in the budget for something too insane. I mean, Primo’s mask is a generic old man’s. They just needed enough of the costume to communicate what they were about and, for as costumey (derogatory) as it was, it did just that. Well done, Tobias and Primo.

But then. Ghost’s costuming just gets more and more intense and ornate with each passing guy until you wind up with Copia, who is essentially a blue art deco disco ball.

So you kinda just. Have to look at Primo and try to reconcile some sort of in-universe explanation as to why his father and brothers are all dripped to the devils while he’s. Like that.

Personally, I like the idea that his devotion to Satan means he doesn’t care as much about his appearance because, in his mind, obsessing over detail distracts from his message about his god.

Or, better yet, as we recognize that Primo was actually batshit insane and hated people, he probably was just asked by the satanic tailors what touches he would like done to his chasuble and he just went “Idfc we’re all trash and are gonna die anyway, just make sure it has red on or or whatever 😒”