#and not ban for fucking songs as if I sell them

[dontcryminecraft]

red team purgatory day one

half of red team isn't here, nobody knows how to actually PLAY MINECRAFT, and the only person remotely good at pvp here is philza. Carre carries everyone and is off doing his own thing. Even IF the other half of the team is there, the only person i can accurately gauge the ability of is WILBUR, and i have zero faith in his skills lol. Everyone is realizing how much they're going to have to stream, and some will have to change their schedules in order to play effectively. Charlie doesn't stream for 5 hours, but he has to be here for all of this, and it becomes VERY CLEAR, VERY QUICKLY, WHY HE DOESN'T. His voice is dead and he is unravelling at the seams. He hates it here more than anyone. only half of his breakdown is a joke. They're drying. Cellbit and Slime had ENOUGH and just beat each other with sticks. They're devolving and screaming about how much they hate this and they're manic and their arms feel numb and tingly and badboyhalo keeps killing them and they keep dying and life hates them. Jaiden told badboyhalo to kill himself. In a fit of rage they declared that they no longer care about the eggs and they'd rather just go home. They're planning on logging in on Monday only to build a house and start Egg Island Survival LetsPlay where they make an Emerald Empire and only respond in Villiager Hrmms. now they're sing/screaming as their base burns around them, and i can't tell what they're supposed to be singing but they kept repeating "say something I'm giving up on you" and someone started playing the Living TombStone FNAF song. Phil got a globe and gifted everyone a fidget toy to spin and they're just sitting and spinning. Baghera just realized that Phil already had all the saplings they need and she wasted her time, so Phil took off his armor so the two can could fight. Baghera lost even though she had a diamond sword, so Phil just let her kill him so she can be happy. Corpses scatter across their yard. They're killing each other. I started typing this with 20 minutes left and I'm witnessing the longest fucking 20 minutes of my life how is there still 7-whatever minutes left??? CELLBIT JUST CONFESSED TO THE MURDERS AND THEY'RE CONFESSING TO THEIR SINS NOW???? I CAN'T TELL IF CHARLIE'S CONFESSION ABOUT JUANAFLIPPA AND THE CODE IS CANON???? Charlie suggests a cannibalism arc and everyone wants to go absolutely FERAL and cellbit it trying to act normal about that idea and kinda fails at it. And it all ends with everyone being banned to enforce the 5-hour rule. We're Free...for today. And despite this, they don't want to change teams and they're actually looking forward to suffering with friends :) ...nevermind they're planning on selling wilbur to get a better advantage.

[honeekyuu]

squeeze. [sakusa kiyoomi x reader] satin black intros.

place of (homosexual) business

masterlist.

[playlist]. satin black || vibes

a/n. im completely totally normal about this au. completely normal.

warnings: me.

✗ !!! minors do not interact !!! ✗

✗ !!! ignore timestamps !!! ✗

satin black moved into its current location about three weeks ago, and theyve tortured brews abridged ever since

they were at a smaller location for 3 years prior, but they outgrew it when each of them independently went a little viral online for their work

everyone has a license to both pierce and tattoo, but iwa/akaashi stick to tattooing and suna sticks to piercing

akaashi’s the only one who went to art school

iwa taught himself on youtube

suna and sakusa taught themselves by practicing on each other – all of suna’s tattoos are by sakusa and all of sakusa’s piercings are by suna exclusively

it went a little like this the first time around: "i can do this. i dont need instructions-" "ARE YOU FUCKING SURE ABOUT THAT!!!!"

akaashi specializes in black and grey tattoos and iwa does color; sakusa does both but prefers black and grey

iwa’s best known for watercolor style art and akaashi’s best known for geometric art 

sakusa’s best known for japanese style art

suna's keeps trying to sell people on new and strange places to get pierced. this is dangerous and sakusa has banned him from doing it 8 times already.

hes actually so good at his job, hes just an idiot

theyre total assholes who chain smoke in the shop and swear at each other from across the room

the shop motto is "make them horny until they come back" and boy does it work

every single one of their clients transferred across the city with them when they moved

sakusa doesn't actually take new clients anymore, he just keeps up with regulars. he's very adamant about this

he is most often found in his office, which is also his private studio

the shop playlist consists of music added by sakusa, suna, and iwa -- they tried to get akaashi in on it but he got apple music just to spite them and wears his headphones when he works

suna can and WILL add the most unhinged shit to the playlist. there is a near-daily incident where sakusa tries to skip past suna's songs but suna keeps going back to them just to be annoying

this results in the shop being filled with the nonstop sound of skipping songs and sakusa screaming at him from his office

iwa usually joins in too because he has a short temper

akaashi always has to put his gun down and dissociate, because he can feel himself about to fuck up his lines with how hard his eye is twitching

akaashi has the least tattoos but that’s really not saying much; they have a board in sakusa’s office with the running count for each of them

everyone who comes in for the first time always sees two tattoo artists: iwa, who sits in the corner chain smoking and frowning and generally looking like he could kill you; and akaashi, who is generally polite and looks way less scary than iwa.

and they always choose akaashi, because he looks nice

he is not fucking nice. he is mean as shit. iwaizumi is the nicest one in that shop.

iwa so often is the type to roughly grumble "oh, yeah we can take a break -- this placement always hurts like a bitch. i need a smoke anyway" (hes already smoking).

akaashi keiji is the type to whisper "oh, did that hurt? pussy." and go in even more.

he is mean as shit and everyone makes this mistake.

sakusa and suna met in high school -- they would skip class together and sit behind the school smoking and blasting bass boosted music

theres something about running from campus security every day that bonds two people into brotherhood

theyre like,,,, fucking carbon copies of each other, these two -- two tall as fuck, tatted up, pierced up dudes with matching judgmental expressions and chipped black nail polish, standing outside the shop smoking, talking shit, and glaring at anyone who comes out of the stupid ass 3-in-1 shop next door

they met iwa and akaashi during their apprenticeship. they really didnt get along at first, but it takes a very unique combination of crazy to be able to open the kind of tattoo shop sakusa wanted.

and he had his combination of crazy right there in front of him.

iwa’s the most normal one and just wants to be akaashi’s friend. thats all he wants. he wants to make his silly little money and be akaashis silly little friend. 

iwa is the only one akaashi trusts for literally anything related to the shop but he wont ever say that

it's so painfully obvious that suna named their group chat. sakusa stopped trying to change it back years ago.

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@mollyrolls @nectardaddy @onlytendoguesses @scinclaitnoir @marsoverthestars

@bookskeepers @choerry-picking @siheez @introvertsince2003 @eggyrocks

@atrashsith @beckixwsm @kakeru-eem @atsumusc0ck @seroh

@reignsaway @a-little-pebbl @bakingcuriosity @dondoncool @corvid007

@asthmaticcchoeee @liliumaraneae @savemebrazilhinata @whydoyoucare866

she put my hand up on her throat and told me // squeeze that shiiii-

squeeze [ghostemane].

[pep-rambles]

Lucifer is a Swiftie headcanons because I kin this man so much I am projecting my other hyperfixations on him

But also I mean c'mon,

Look at him

yes there is RadioApple in this

-It probably started from Charlie. When she was in high school (post emo phase obviously) she may have enjoyed Taylor Swift (maybe Fearless got her through her senior year because I can't stop projecting) Lucifer started listening to try and have something to bond with his daughter about. But about the time Charlie kind of lost interest is about the time Lucifer doubled down on his obsession.

-He has been to basically almost every Eras concert, usually in really good seats because many a swiftie has offered to sell their soul for tickets. He said keep your soul just let him tag along.

-He is definitely an Evermore stan mostly because of relating too hard to the divorce narrative of it.

-Speaking of, Charlie has threatened to lock him out of his Spotify after catching him on the floor crying to “Champaign Problems” on repeat too many times. She never would but most definitely tried to ban him from listening to it for a month.

-She then caught him crying to “You’re Loosing Me”

-Angel Dust is most definitely  Beyhive (killer bee probably) and though initially joking that they are rivals the two men bond over their love for the two queens of pop, recommending songs and videos to each other.

-Angel is a Reputation Stan though 

-After one of Lucifer’s many tiffs with Alastor,  Charlie is expressing her frustration asking her dad why can’t they just get along and Lucifer explains that he doesn’t trust Alastor because “I think his ever-present grin is a little troubling” and is a little upset when she doesn’t get it 

-One day, Luci is sitting in the Lobby doing his work while listening to Taylor on shuffle. He’s casually minding his own business jamming out to one of her poppier love songs and Alastor wanders in commenting on the “Obnoxious trite little diddy” Lucifer doesn't even hesitate to take the bait

L: HOW DARE YOU! SHE IS A TALENTED GODDESS!! A DOWNRIGHT MUSICAL CHAMELEON! You are such a snob Alastor! Good music didn't stop getting made after your tiny little lifetime.

A: I never said it did but it's certainly not this frivolous noise!

L: Oh, you uninformed uncultured cur! She is a fucking poet!

He then proceeds to play examples for Alastor of her most creative and heart wrenching lyrics (he absolutely makes Al sit through all 10 minutes and 13 seconds of ATW) 

After all that though Lucifer will never get Alastor to admit that he finds T.S. musically talented (or that Lucifer did in fact catch Al tapping his foot a couple times)

        -Alastor does come to Lucifer, after a bit of research, admitting that though he does not find her music enjoyable, he respects her business cunning. Luci figures that's good enough. For now. 

-because I bet my non-existent Eras tour tickets that Lilith was a hater. I’ll leave it at that.

-OP works at Barnes & Noble and let me tell you there are about 80 different Taylor Swift magazines that even my swiftie ass thinks is excessive but Lucifer has every single one

-including the Taylor Swift paper dolls magazine (yes this is a real thing). He probably gets a few because he convinces Charlie to use them as a team building activity.

-He has at least 3 copies of each of the covers for the 2023 TIME Person of the Year magazine. 

-Also all cardigans. On a casual day he definitely lounges in them and has a set rotation of when to wear each one (and I am totally not gonna draw that nope)

-Well, it seems Lucifer is no longer crying to the depressing break-up songs on repeat but now he seems to be angrily listening to “Gorgeous” on repeat. Charlie asks him about it and he goes full denial mode “No no Charlie I'm not thinking of anyone specific, I've just been really into this song lately.” Everyone else in the hotel, besides Alastor, has already figured out what's going on

Alastor: If I have to hear that obnoxious noise one more time I will reduce that tiny maniac’s room to rubble as well as the abode of whatever sad sack is making him play it.

Angel: *knowing smirk* I'm gonna hold ya to that one, Antlers. 

-Al may very well hear it one more time if Lucifer uses it as his confession song (I don't fully commit to this headcanon, I just think it's funny) 

-Anyway boy’s probably in his Reputation stan Era b/c LWYMMD is like his long overdue big F-YOU to Heaven song 

btw this is NOT gonna end at these headcanons I am running with this idea like scissors.

@nunalastor

@julsiemagne

@nose-nippin-fun (I know you're not a swiftie but we talked about this so idk if you care I can un-tag you if you want)

[world0fmadness]

NEVER FADE AWAY

pelle “ dead ” ohlin x musician! reader | øystein “ euronymous ” aarseth x musician! reader

♡ general dating headcanons for pelle and euronymous with a musician partner!

୨୧ such a sweet anon, i hope you like this <3

♡ requested by anon | related hc available here, here and here | view my metal masterlist here

reading music recommendations: never fade away by pt adamczyk - i really want to stay at your house by rosa walton

PELLE “ DEAD ” OHLIN

♡ pelle really likes sharing lyrics with you!

୨୧ if you show him lyrics you’ve thought up, he might not be a man of many words but he gives the best and most genuine advice, always staying true to his options and thoughts

“ i like this one… the play on words, it’s good… ” ( if your songs tell really weird of fucked up stories through the lyrics, he’s so into it, give him the lore, all of it )

♡ as we all know, pelle wasn’t the most open to listening to many other genres outside of metal…

୨୧ but i think with you being his partner, he’d be much more open to it, just for you! he might not be the biggest fan if you make pop music or something along those lines but he won’t be as disregarding towards it as he usually is! he’ll try his absolute hardest to see the best in it

♡ but pelle would probably be obsessed if you made ambient music!

୨୧ he just thinks it’s such an intriguing genre and loves the different sounds you use in the music, he’s an especially big fan if you use sounds of the forest in your music

♡ however, no matter the genre of music you make, pelle will be making a patch of your stage name and putting it on his jacket alongside all his other patches!

୨୧ it’s his way of supporting you, he doesn’t think he’s not the best with words so he tries to show you love and support through other means

♡ he’d really like watching you get ready for a concert!

୨୧ he’ll watch you from the side, staying quiet as his blue eyes follow your movements around the room, studying your ritual! he likes how much thought you put into things before a concert, i think he’d relate to it quite a bit and like to help you with any preparations needed

♡ if you ever asked for his help on making a unique outfit for a concert, he’d be very awkward about it but he would offer to help make you one!

୨୧ if you agree to his help, he puts a lot of thought into it, trying to make the best he’s ever made for you, he’d be blushing so red and giving a tiny smile as you praise his work on it and tell him how much you love the outfit :(

♡ if you need some album artwork, he definitely wouldn’t mind drawing something for you!

୨୧ he’s actually kind of honoured that you want to use his art… it definitely makes him a little red in the cheeks which he quickly attempts to cover with his long blonde hair…

ØYSTEIN “ EURONYMOUS ” AARSETH

♡ i mentioned once in a comment that euronymous is the number one hater to every relationship that isn’t his own…

୨୧ and it’s true! because it would take so much convincing for him to sell someone else’s partners records in helvete, there’s only a 1% chance he will, especially if they’re not a black metal musician

♡ but his partner’s records? oh yeah, they go up on the shelf the second you guys start dating, no matter what genre of music you make!

୨୧ if anyone questions it or mocks him for being whipped, he’ll threaten them with a lifetime ban from his store and their jokes will quickly come to a halt as they release just how serious he is…

♡ euronymous is another guy who absolutely will not miss one of your concerts!

୨୧ he’s the dude going around the place telling everyone who will listen that you’re his girlfriend, pointing over to you on stage as he says it as if they don’t get that already

“ that’s my girlfriend, y’know? so fucking talented, ain’t she? ” ( they better only respond with a yes otherwise he’d stink eye them and call them a not so nice name )

♡ euronymous celebrates every new magazine feature or album release with you in helvete, throwing you a party with all of your friends and favourite drinks

୨୧ he’s just always so proud of you, keeping his arm thrown around you with a drink in his free hand and telling you how amazing you are, how proud of you he is

♡ similar to faust, if you ever wanted some guitar in your music and didn’t play yourself, he’d be all over that!

୨୧ he’d be so secretly over the moon about it, trying so hard to hide the huge smile that comes across his face as you bring up the idea to him

♡ euronymous is definitely the type of guy to be smug as hell around your wannabe groupies!

୨୧ well, he’s smug at first but if they start seriously trying to make moves on you in front of him, he’ll get so pissed off and he will absolutely argue with them, no matter their gender

♡ if you don’t really have much merchandise, euronymous would absolutely make cute little button pins for you and sell them in helvete!

୨୧ he has a couple of them on his leather jacket too, of course…

[hollow-keys]

The Devil's Chord is basically:

"Let's go visit Mr Wifebeater and Co, who are obviously the most important musicians of all time, and act like they were all totally cool people even decades after Mr Wifebeater's wifebeating became public knowledge."

"Oh no, the world went into a nuclear winter without music we have to save it by finding the right chord to banish the evil demon music thief!"

"BTW the music demon is a nonbinary drag queen called Maestro (I'm gonna assume they don't know that's a gendered word lmao) who was safely prevented from destroying the world by the Catholic church banning the chord that summoned them. Please do not think about the subtext of that."

"Also this random washed up musician somehow found out about the summoning chord and played it. Don't ask how no one else tried playing it out of curiosity when it was apparently already public knowledge or how the church knew it was evil without playing it."

"Ruby is just saur important she managed to hold off the music demon with the power of the songs in her soul (???)"

"The Doctor pulled 6/7th of the banishing chord's notes out his own ass first try somehow and Mr Wifebeater and Paul McCartney got the last one first try also."

"Musical number everybody! The End!"

Literally what the fuck was that?

Honestly the original Toymaker serial was so haunting at times with him trapping people from the real world in his domain and turning them into literal toys he would then bring back to life to use against new people who got trapped in his domain. He pit them against each other in games, promising freedom to whoever wins, dooming them to either remain his puppets and let the newcomers go free or doom the newcomers to take their place so they can escape, and that's assuming he was telling the truth. The Doctor can't beat him, only escape and leave the domain with those people trapped inside. The TARDIS team tell themselves they're not real, just puppets pretending to be real people, but it's not clear. They're tricking themselves into thinking it's clearer cut than it is to make it easier to leave them behind.

Those were such good episodes and all RTD can write is pale imitations that are insultingly stupid even for children's television. "We defeated the Toymaker with a game of catch" "We defeated his child (did I mention the Maestro is related to him?) with a musical note password we got first try." What is this?

And they're still going with the pouring salt at the edge of the universe weakened the fabric of time and let supernatural beings in thing? "I invoked a suspicion at the end of the universe where the walls of reality are thin" doesn't sell the salt thing, sorry. I can't take it seriously. If Chibnall wrote this, more of you would be hating. This is like the fucking rat saving the universe in Endgame all over again.

[bloghrexach]

✊🏽 … YES!! Macklemore — remember his ‘LGBTQ anthem”?

By: Reem Ghunaim, Strategic Leadership, from LinkedIn …

“Make it go viral! — 👉🍉 — https://lnkd.in/gJU-nmuj

Send the link to everyone you know to raise more funds for UNRWA.

📣 Let this song be our virtual protest, showing those who seek to silence us just how powerful our voices can be.

HIND'S HALL —👇🍉

Written and Produced by Macklemore

Lyrics:

The people they won’t leave

What is threatening

about divesting and wanting peace?

The problem isn’t the protests

it’s what they’re protesting

Cause it goes against

what our country is funding

Block the barricade until Palestine is free

Block the barricade until Palestine is free

When I was 7 I learned a lesson

from Cube and Eazy E

What was it again?

oh yea

fuck the police

Actors in badges

protecting property

And a system that was designed

by white supremacy

But the people are in the streets

You can pay off meta

you can’t pay off me

Politicians who serve by any means

AIPAC, CUFI and all the companies

You see we sell fear around the land of the free

But this generation here

is about to cut the strings

You can ban tik Tok

take us out the algothim

But it’s too late

we’ve seen the truth we bare witness

We’ve seen the ruble the buildings

the mothers the children

And all the men that you murdered

and then we see how they spin it

Who gets to the right to defend

and who gets the right of resistance

Has always been about dollars

and the color of your pigment

But White supremacy is finally on blast

Screaming free Palestine

until they’re home at last

We see the lies in them

Claiming it’s anti-semetic

to be anti-zionist

I’ve seen jewish brothers and sisters out there and riding

In solidarity and screaming

free Palestine with em

Organizing, unlearning

and finally cutting ties with a

State

that’s gotta rely on an apartheid system

To uphold an occupying violent

History been repeating for the last 75

The Nakba never ended,

the colonizer lied

If some kids in tents,

posted on the lawn

occupying the quad

is really against the law

And a reason to call

in the police and their squad

where does genocide land

in your definition huh?

destroying every college in Gaza and every mosque

pushing everyone into rafah and dropping bombs

The blood is on your hands Biden,

we can see it all

And fuck no

I’m not voting for you in the fall

Undecided,

you can’t twist the truth

The people out here

united

never be defeated when Freedom’s on the

horizon

Yet the music industry’s quiet

complicit in their platform of silence

What happened to the artist

what do you got to say?

If I was on a label,

you could drop me today

And be fine with it

cause the heart fed my page

I want a ceasefire

fuck a response from drake

What you willing to risk?

What you willing to give?

What if you were Gaza?

what if those were your kids?

If the west was pretending that you didn’t exist

You’d want the world to stand up

And the students finally did

Let’s get it”!! … ✊🏽

#FreePalestine … #HindsHall … #Macklemore … @hrexach

[mag200]

my expectations of taylor when it comes to saying shit abt politics have always been incredibly low, but i really did half believe that she might say/do something during her nashville gigs to voice her opposition to the drag ban/anti trans legislation stuff there.

Lizzo & hayley kiyoko both brought drag queens out to perform with them on stage during shows right before taylor's tour dates, like hayley kiyoko literally had the cops showing up to her rehearsals telling her to stop & she still stood her ground, yet taylor can't even say a few words or something. She was literally in the perfect position to say a little statement on the matter. She started out in nashville so her opinion as a semi-local girl with country music roots would hold more weight than like... ariana grande or something, but she also isn't in that scene anymore and she's one of the biggest celebrities on the planet so its unlikely she would face any real repercussions for speaking out.

I genuinely don't mind if celebrities don't really talk about their politics bc like, what do the opinions of billionaires have to do with normal people. However if you're going to pay a documentary crew to film you saying you're ready to take A Stand and then do nothing apart from sing your gay rights song and post a solitary black square, while associating yourself with shitty people of every flavour, then actually put your money where your mouth is and do it.

yeah when hayley was posting about that and she was crying and i was crying it was so so brutal but i was so proud of her for standing up for her drag performers even when they told her she couldnt. i didnt know lizzo did this too but holy shit.

all of this with taylor is hugely disappointing. i saw people saying “she cant say anything against the drag bill its unsafe for her!!!” and its like. its unsafe for all of us lol but she has so much more protection. and i dont think she HAS to do it is the thing, but man it does make it feel like her trying to rebrand as an activist back in 2019 was just to sell more copies of lover. you’re so right its like why make a whole big deal about how you’re going to Take A Stand and then just….. not. i also have always had low expectations from her in this regard bc she really did lean so hard into the good girl quiet girl narrative but when she made a point of lashing out against that i was like oh wait maybe she’s actually gonna do better… boo boo the fool is me i guess.

like i do not understand what happened. but since summer 2020 i have not been able to engage w her in the same way as before. and now with everything coming out about matty healy it is another huge fucking blow. i never blamed anyone who was done before this and i dont blame anyone who’s distancing themself from her now. i dont normally give a shit about her relationships but like how can you associate with someone so openly fucking racist? and think it wont hurt people??

all my love is going out rn to bipoc swifties. this sucks so fucking much im so sorry.

[aizenat]

Listening to Soojin’s ep, I never thought that she was that big of a selling point to me with gidle because even though she was my bias, I love Minnie and Yuqi. And even though I literally hate every gidle song that’s come out since Soojin’s departure, I put that blame on soyeon’s weak ass song writing ability (especially with the lyrics; that woman needs to be banned from using English in songs for a good five years to make up for the monstrosity that was queen card alone).

But I’m thinking Soojin’s absence from the group is a lot more bigger than I thought it’d be. Like it’s insane how good this ep is when gidle had released multiple songs since her departure and they all suck. Again, I always loved her but she was only one member right? That can’t be the reason I can’t fuck with gidle anymore right?

But I sound like a typical delulu kpoppie when I say that now that I’m faced with the reality. Soojin literally was the best part of gidle and they’re trash without her. I feel better just accepting this because now I can let go of gidle (despite being a huge fan since their debut; it’s sad to just mute them but I get zero enjoyment from any if their recent shit) and focus on supporting Soojin.

Not surprisingly, knets are probably going to hate on her for no reason. Her mv already has over a million views, so I’m hoping she at least gets enough attention to allow for her to make a few more albums. International fans are supporting her. Would be nice if international fan support was enough to keep her going because she proved with this ep that she was the star of gidle and how shitty they are without her.

[danwhobrowses]

My Highlights from AEW Revolution 2023

Another PPV has crossed the threshold as AEW Revolution enters the books. I've been adamant in avoiding spoilers for it, which is nervy since I saw it trending on tumblr, but the show had an air about it for sure.

On one hand, many were worried that some results would go to the winner they'd least prefer, and had already braced themselves to criticize it. On the other hand, there was the feeling that this could turn into a warzone, with 4 grudge-level feuds coming to a head.

For now, let's see what I enjoyed out of the show.

Spoilers for the PPV

Zero Hour

Danhausen in the Homer Simpson Moomoo

Mark Briscoe in general really

Mark Sterling announcing Ari and the Varsity Athletes

Clever nearfall to have Jay kick out of the weapons spot

Daddy 'tell me how my nipples feel' Magic, lads, give 2point0 a run at tag titles

Confirmation really on Final Burial, it is a classic buried alive match, minus Paul Bearer in cement of course

Adam Cole's promo was really good too

Main Card

For all the people who say they hate Jericho there's sure a lot who sing his theme song

Starks with the DDP energy ribs tape

'Throw Him Here' sign

Ricky has been selling the ribs really well, even between catches and landing big moves

Rock/Jericho parallels

Andretti flew at Sammy

Well-written finish as well, I do have qualms about Sammy showing up since the JAS was meant to be banned, so that should've been instant DQ, but having Ricky overcome the bat hit, block the Judas Effect and then win is good stuff

Christian Cage kept the fucking turtleneck XD

Immediately brawling, yes, it's a grudge match why would they lock up?

The old security guy happy as larry to let JB walk past him

Ooof the belt whipping, multilayered that given how Cage played the father figure to JB

JB finally hitting the Con-Chair-To, another full circle moment, because the Con-Chair-To to Adam Cole solidified his bond with Christian and led to their run that'd make him a tag champion, now it severs it

This is literally scrappy soap opera wrestling and it is great

Julia has a mask now!

Buddy and Kenny to start!

Malakai and Kenny!

Matt regretting calling out Brody instantly

Brody King doing Brody King things

Buddy's Knee cracking Nick mid-450

Brody's son getting to celebrate with the New Champions

Saraya keeping with the green aesthetic

Hayter always selling a crossbody like she's been wiped out

The match has done really well in blending the overlapping attacks

Hayter winning, granted the match could've finished more impactfully but there was more to tell, the key thing though is that everyone who was worried that Saraya would steal one and were braced to criticize AEW for it were W R O N G

Ruby swerve was good too, I know a lot didn't want it but they set it up, they got the reaction and now they only need 2 more 'outsiders' to get a Women's Blood & Guts; Tay Melo, Serena Deeb, Athena, Mercedes Martinez, there are some options there, pit them against Baker, Hayter, Shida/Riho, Willow and say Emi or Nyla and you've got a fight

Hangman's Entrance, just definitely has the right feel, and the red lighting - unlike a Fiendish guy - matches the feel of Texas Death

Again, Immediate Attack, why fucking wait?

Dude in the crowd who really wanted a selfie and got bonked for it XD

Moxley bringing out the fork, CZW energy

A fucking brick!?

Deadeye on a Barbed Wire Chair

Barbed Wire Back Rake!!!

Curb Stomp on the Brick

The finish was really good; Buckshot then a hangman choke with a chain

I also actually love the uncertain energy of the crowd, because it fits the brutality of the match

A baldfaced lie but at least gotta laugh at the attempt by Schiavone saying 'Revolution has never disappointed, ever', nobody wants to remember the end of the Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch (though the match was great)

OC and Danhausen repping the Best Friends gear

Danhausen getting to WRESTLE

But still, the tomfoolery as well

Kurt Angle homage with the straps gesturing then an Angle Slam

Satnam Singh knows his role, I know we don't see him wrestle a lot but he knows what he's doing

The Gunns winning with a Big Rig-variant against Danhausen - the guy who coined 'Ass Boys'

FTR are back, settling any doubts otherwise

MJF getting an orchestral opening, to be honest I was half expecting him to bring them all out then play his music anyway, just for that extra dickhead heel energy

And Max is in SHAPE

Bryan Danielson showing where ZSJ got his whole shtick from

MJF threw water at a kid!

Much like Reigns vs Sami, while I didn't enjoy the pace of it, it's heelery by design from Max to waste time, and he is a poser, he told us all exactly what his reign would be like and how we'd react to it so I can't be mad that this is how it's going

The Powerbomb backbreaker was clean

MJF doing the Shawn Michaels pose after stopping Bryan from skinning the cat

Doing the pinfall rolls like MJF did vs Darby but extra extra

Max using the DQ to get quickfire falls to draw level

Bryan just leans back as MJF tries to slap him XD

MJF with a running tombstone through a table outside the ring

The constant water breaks: it's storytelling, because Bryan never pauses but Max always takes a water break, because it sells how unprepared he was for the Iron Man match

The sound the crowd made by MJF's gushing, we can joke all we like about AEW using blood a lot, but Christian, Mox, Hangman, Dax (accidentally) and Bryan bled on this event and yet we still got a reaction from this blood

The moment 5 minutes remained they cranked to 11

SUPER TOMBSTONE

Schiavone strutting down the ramp with glee knowing that Sudden Death is coming

MJF kicked out of the Buisaku Knee!

Bryan tapping to the LeBell Lock!!!

Overall

Match of the Night: Texas Death Match. A difficult choice, but since the Iron Man took a while to heat up, I went with the Texas Death brutality over it and the Trios match.

Best Performance: MJF. It was a three-way tie between him, Bryan and Hangman right until he kicked out of the Buisaku Knee, but given how the World Champion played the audience multiple times and deserves credit for that.

Best Attire: Brody King, mainly the face paint. Without Jade on the card and me not getting Kenny's reference this wasn't quite a good show for unique attires

Best Spot: Texas Death Finale, I was very close to picking Buddy's Knee Lift but the brutality and perfect finale to the match has to win out.

[delusion-of-negation]

That time redbubble removed someone's art work bc "infringing on Didney IP" and "Snow White" when it was literally a pic the artist drew in their own style of Rose Red, from the German fairytale: Rose Red and Snow White. (It's a different story) (No connection to the Didney ver of Snow white btw.) And they didn't bother to appeal because they were afraid of being banned, or worse, despite it literally having no connection to Didney.

that's so fucking dumb. I can see why they were afraid, if it's their source of income or their account matters to them. I just use it for dumb jokes, so I'm not scared, but if it's your job a false dmca like this can fuck you up. I hate copyright law with a passion, I don't think you own an idea, I think the only breaches of it should be a wholesale, 100%, unchanged in any way, direct, word-for-word copying of artwork (which doesn't include if you redraw the mona lisa, reshoot a movie scene for scene, or play a song yourself, that's not a copy that's a remake, reprinting a book word-for-word, without adding pictures or a silly font or any other noticable change, or just reuploading the song and music video, that's when it should count as copyright, because your thing then becomes a replacement for the original and not its own thing) - and even then I think even what I consider valid to legally call copyright infringement, even if you profit like selling a pirated movie, should not be considered criminal or even comparable to actual theft. THAT SAID, everybody under the sun knows you can't copyright a single word (remember react? lmao), you can't copyright something too vague, etc, and that parody is allowed. and you only need to change a few specific details to make a character fair use, hence why fifty shades can exist as it is despite initially being twilight fanfic, and you most certainly can't claim wholly different characters that pre-date your movie just because they share a name. I hate false dmca shit, it doesn't matter in my case, but for small youtubers or indie artists or the like it could be life or death.

[chaotic-goodsir]

If you listen to any one song on here I highly recommend this one thanks:

Edited to add lyrics because I crave approval for my silly playlist...

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1. You Flip Me Upside Down 

(Curt pov)

I hope that I, I don't ruin this 

Getting too fucked up to remember it

You flip me upside down

And take me out of my head

You flip me upside down

I'm kinda getting into it

2. Dressed to Kill 

(Curt pov)

I've got to get you out of my mind

And back into my arms

Closer than a close shave

I wanna be shaking in the shockwave

It's on tonight and I've only got one clear shot

A little courage for the road please

(Owen pov)

And I don't need philosophy this time

They're all just words that bounce around

Until our bodies hit the ground

I'm dressed to kill

And if I don't somebody else will

Like the glass that's glued to your hand

Baby I'm gonna be your man

3. Give Me a Try 

(Owen pov)

I know sometimes I lose the plot and I cause a scene

What do you dream of on the West Coast

When my head is aching in GMT?

And I don't care why this apartment's so ice cold

Let London try - it'll never swallow me whole

4. Jump Into The Fog 

(Owen pov)

What a great achievement it was

To find someone that shirks such little self restraint

I'm a non-believer but

I believe in these dirty little wicked games

Snakes and ladders are banned in here, love

The climb's too rough just to slide back down again

I'm only here because I wanna twist the structure of my average day

I've made some bad decisions, I'll admit that freely

It's just that life tastes sweeter when it's wrapped in debauchery

So drop your map, drop your plans

Drop your five-step program

Because there's not an ounce of faith in this leap

5. Flowerball

(Curt pov)

I'll take the punch if you'll sell the kick

It's been a while since we tripped the light fantastic

I wanna hear guitars and symbols sing

I'm tired of deciphering her senile fax machine

Don't you get bored of them giving you nothing?

I only press pause when you press play in my stomach

Like a funeral needs an audience

Like a skeptic needs a church

It's not fun unless it hurts

6. Tormentor

(Curt pov)

A heart as cold as Oslo in the show

Between the sheets she sucker punches me

A temperament only a mother could love

She put the snipers on the rooftops and in the streets

You don't play, play well with others

You're a tormentor

7. Last Night I Dreamt...

(Owen pov)

I'm a good friend and an excellent lover

I can fool myself just like no other person can

I'm turning into a twisted man

I haven't got time for any selfless deeds

What I do for you indirectly for me

I'm a stubborn boy

There's nothing here that you can break or destroy

Last night I dreamt I died alone

Through all my talk of self-defeat

A fearful bomb ticks underneath

8. Sex and Question Marks

(Curt pov)

With low hopes and little charm

We half a cigarette and overthink where it went so wrong

You were my swiss watch

We made our moves on cue

Oh what bliss it was to have something to lose

(Owen pov)

Life was euphoric when we didn't know much

Now I'm a ghost and you've lost your spark

What happened, oh what happened to us?

9. Kamikaze Lovers

(Owen pov)

Fear, fear and coconut water

Is and will always be my favourite blend of drink

So hurry up, happy hour must have it's end

Just as our darkest hours must have it's their time to shrink

Twist your knife deep into me

We're different creatures with similar needs

It was pleasure to have met you

I know my family would approve

But if we can't be kamikaze lovers

Then I can never be, I can never be your friend

Your inseparable friend

And anyway why would I shake your hand

When I can shake your bed?

10. Be Your Shadow

(Curt pov)

Tonight we'll both go MIA

In different towns but I'm similar ways

I've tried my best, best to forget

But I can't, I can't, I can't

Tonight we'll scratch each other's face

If it's in the moment no one complains

I've tried my best to move along

But I can't, I can't, I can't

Those machine-gun eyes fire crystals into me

You're such a violent high

And I'm such a loose cannon, can't you see?

11. Firing Squad (Come on I'm English I'll Even Queue and Wait My Turn)

(Owen pov)

You pulled the ace out of the pack

Describing me as a charmless nowhere man

I wasn't stationed here to take flak

Or to be your sycophantic fan

Your eyebrows raise, were you expecting a white flag?

Is it still giving up if you want the trigger pulled back?

No thanks for the birthday cake

And the upright cigarettes that acted as the flame

Why would I watch the filters burn?

When you could take your aim and I could watch those barrels burst?

Come on, I'm English, I'll even queue and wait my turn

Too little too late

Too big a mistake

You're a firing squad, you're a firing squad

Now blow me away

12. Unexploded Bomb

(Owen POV)

Just grant me one last request

And take me out for a drive

And I'll store my eternal unrest

Between my shirts and ties

I wanna go where the action is

Cause I've seen the places to hide

Stamp that pedal to the floor now, love

We're running out of time

(Curt POV)

Just grant me one last request

And remove the disguise

I'd love in a little black dress if I had those thighs

I wanna go where the action is

Where lightning strikes twice

So throw your makeup out the window, love

We're running out of time

[metalhead-brainrot]

[Album of the day] Howling Giant / Sergeant Thunderhoof - Masamune & Muramasa

Nashville, TN (HG) | Bath, UK (ST) // 2020

[Genres] stoner rock, heavy psych, prog rock

[Themes] Two blacksmiths of Japanese legend competing to make the best samurai sword.

[FFO] concept albums, samurai media

[Thoughts] I wanted to talk about an underrated release from one of my favorite artists, Howling Giant. They're a stoner rock trio out of Nashville* whom I encountered for the first time when they opened for space rock powerhouse King Buffalo, and later saw them again alongside Elder and Ruby the Hatchet.** Their early stuff is simple riff paradise, and recent releases have seen the band doubling down on the space rock of it all.*** Sergeant Thunderhoof is a great band that I know considerably less about, but my thoughts are that if you like one, you'll like the other.

I bought this split on vinyl because it was half the price of the others at the merch stand and I'm a cheap bastard. And fortunately so, because I love what Howling Giant and Sergeant Thunderhoof achieved together. The concept behind this concept album is one of my favorites; I'd talk more about the legend itself, but I thought you'd rather read the description below to hear what the artists have to say.****

This split is Chapter 2 in a series of splits put out by Ripple Music, a stoner rock record label. These "Turned to Stone" splits are great, I've listened to all nine so far.***** They're a great way to explore some of the selects of the underground stoner scene.

Finally, the album artwork of Masamune & Muramasa is intricate and compelling, especially up close on the vinyl sleeve. This album's cover was done by Sara-Jane Swettenham, based in Bath, who has done other Sergeant Thunderhoof album covers in a similarly distinctive style. It seems she used to sell prints of her work, but her Etsy storepage doesn't appear active so I will link to her Instagram as well.

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* You can tell by the mustaches. Keep on keeping on, Nashville.

** That later show I came specifically to see Howling Giant, though of course I knew the other bands. Everyone put on an excellent show. Ruby the Hatchet in particular was fun to watch; I'd jump at the chance to catch their high-energy heavy psych in the future.

*** I'd highly recommend Black Hole Space Wizard Part I and Part II, and am also partial to their debut EP. I'm also well aware that saying "I prefer their first album" makes me a chode, no need to point it out.

**** Wikipedia link with more info for the intellectually curious.

***** I prefer 1-4, your mileage may vary. They're all good; recent ones have been more desert rock, and earlier one are more psych/prog. Turned to Stone Chapter III features Merlin, a great band best known for their album Christ Killer, a re-telling of Nick Cave's Gladiator II in stoner doom format. Christ Killer is one of my all-time favorites, and Merlin is a band that reinforces what I said in my last post: KCMO is fucking cool.

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[From the band/label]

Chapter two of Ripple's new Turned to Stone series presents the story of two legendary Japanese sword smiths, Muramasa and Masamune, as told in interconnected musical movements by spacefaring psych-metal warriors Howling Giant and their equally cosmic riff-wielding British contemporaries Sergeant Thunderhoof.

In the two pieces, Muramasa and Masamune have a contest to determine whose sword smithery is superior, each crafting a blade of masterful quality and facing off by the edge of the river.

Instead of the typical approach with two bands contributing stand-alone sides of a record, Howling Giant and Sergeant Thunderhoof wanted to write an album that was thematically cohesive. Each side features a 20-minute song assembled via sharing of melodic ideas between the two bands during the writing process, and telling the story from the perspective of one of the sword smiths.

The result is a single piece of ambitious songcraft created by two riff-prog legends leaving another impressive mark on the heavy rock landscape.

[crybabyddl]

In honor of grammy noms coming sometime this week, I’d like to once again say…

FUCK THE GRAMMYS!!!

(If you’d like to read my rant about the grammys snubbing demi lovato, along with an unintentional tangent that came from my ranting where i analyze demi’s confident, tell me you love me, dancing with the devil… the art of starting over, and holy fvck eras, that’s below here lol.)

It has honestly lost all its credibility for me since Demi Lovato wasn’t nominated for pop vocal album for Tell Me You Love Me, OR for a best performance for Anyone. Not to mention, the amount of hype and build up they created around Demi all those years only to snub them TWICE. Like I’m sorry but Demi is one of the very few actual vocalists left in this day and age, and is someone who actually cares about music, how it’s made, and is genuine about why it’s being made.

The HOLY FVCK album is in the top 3 of their discography and it was barred from promotion FOUR (4) DAYS after its release. Physical copies of the album were literally banned from being sold in stores in the UK. Demi said in an interview that they knew HF wouldn’t be a mainstream success. They don’t make music for the money, fame, or commercial reasons. They almost DIED, they have no time for the insincere bs that comes with promoting music or selling your brand as an artist. They’re simply making music to make music because they are talented and have a gift that needs to be shared. Notice how most of the grammy noms are songs and albums that have been the most commercially successful? Yeah, Demi doesn’t fit that mold and I’m glad they don’t. I’d rather have a “flop” album that was made with genuine feelings and heart than a grammy winning album that was made to get on the charts.

Demi has said that confident was their attempt to get a grammy nom and sure enough, that’s the one album of theirs that got a grammy nomination. It wasn’t fully genuine, and while being a lovatic during the confident era was one of the most fun and memorable times of my life, and the album is without a doubt INCREDIBLE, it’s extremely noticeable that it wasn’t as Demi as an album like HOLY FVCK. What I mean by “Demi” is that there’s a certain… metaphorical wall between the music they’re putting out and the listener. With Confident, while I love the album with all my heart and listened to it nonstop until TMYLM came out, there’s a palpable separation between the art, the artist, and the listener. When I think about the Confident era, it just feels like Demi was so disconnected from the music. Yeah, they were SUPER active with the fans on social media, but when you look back, you can see what was promo and what wasn’t. We recently learned the kind of stuff they don’t like doing, like going to red carpets and the Future Now Tour outfits, which makes the disconnect more obvious. Plus, now that it’s been a few years, along with taking into account the things Demi’s said about their previous albums and their respective eras, it’s easier to see the degrees of separation that existed.

With TMYLM, of course Sorry Not Sorry had a lot of commercial success, and the documentary Simply Complicated coincided with the album’s release. It was an incredibly effective tactic created by Demi’s (old) (and awful) team, I won’t lie. And with this era, we also saw a more vulnerable Demi. They’d split from Wilmer in 2016. It made for an emotional life on the Future Now Tour, (a joint tour with nick jonas set up by demi’s management. It was basically the Confident album tour.) and TMYLM was the product of it. So to recap, Demi relapsed with their ED after their breakup with Wilmer, was on tour with Nick Jonas who she had unreciprocated feelings for, and she began dating again. They were connected to Bomba, Luke Rockhold, Neymar Jr., Lauren “Kittenz” Abedini, Kehlani, and of course was famously caught setting the perfect thirst trap for Mr. Henry Cavill. (Although I personally don’t believe Demi dated Neymar or Kehlani. Neymar was a not-so-sneaky link. As for Kehlani, they were just on tour together and shared a kiss. Maybe they hooked up tho.) All of this struggle and romance allowed for some really intense songwriting. That’s why we have so many scrapped songs from the TMYLM era. (Also bc it is believed that it was going to be a living album that had droplets during and after the TMYLM tour, but that didn’t happen bc they relapsed with alcohol & substances.) Anyway, from the album AND the discarded masterpieces, it’s obvious that Demi was feeling A LOT of strong feelings. Navigating loss, rejection, casual sex, new love, relapsing, being controlled, etc. It allowed that wall between a masterfully calculated, commercially successful album and its listeners/enjoyers to fall. While it still isn’t akin to watching Demi write a song in front of you, it’s definitely a glimpse into what their life was like during 2016-2017. At the start of tour, you can tell the wall goes back up a little bc it has to be promoted and the show has to be captivating so that people show up bc these days, talent isn’t enough to be successful, and everyone knows Demi has more than enough talent. But the wall comes back down as they get more comfortable, but it goes back up once April hits, when Demi starts the European leg of the TMYLM Tour. It’s there where they relapsed with alcohol, which led to them eventually relapsing with drugs. People had assumptions, especially when they wore sunglasses to that one show, but it wasn’t until June that Demi revealed they were no longer sober, and even then, it seemed like it was only alcohol that Demi had picked up again. I don’t remember when they relapsed with drugs, but I do think it was a bit after, like after Demi left Europe. I think it might’ve been in May when Demi picked drugs up again. Anyway that’s not the importance of any of this. I kinda got sidetracked. Whatever. Anyway, tmylm was more genuine than confident but the pressure for the album to be successful was what created that separation that can still be felt there.

With dwtdtaoso, you can feel a lot of authenticity within the album itself. Not just the songs, but just like the stops in between the songs and just holding the physical album. But again, there was the pressure of a comeback album, a new manager, a sense of having to prove that they were back and better than before. The album was also made and came out during covid so that messed EVERYTHING up. Literally 2020 was set to be demi’s year with the success of Anyone at the Grammys, the acclaim of their national anthem at the Super Bowl, and a clean slate to start this new chapter, it was looking so great. Then the buzz single I Love Me came out and it wasn’t exactly what fans were expecting, but we supported it like crazy and it’s honestly a cute bop in my eyes and for Demi, someone who was healing and getting back on their feet, it was fitting for them. Anyway, then covid and m*x happened so the soulful, petty, r&b-influenced, and collaboration-heavy album was scrapped. Or maybe, it was scrapped after Commander In Chief. Idk. Anyway, we got Demi’s droplet era in lieu of an album, with collabs up the wazoo. I can’t speak on how genuine this era was bc Demi wasn’t even Demi during the droplet era. They were still figuring out their sobriety, they were dating and engaged to a psychopath, they were in their activist era on social media, and they were struggling with their ED. Anyway, go to 2021 with the alphabet album and i love it. I love that album so much, and even tho demi has said it felt like they were making the album for everyone else to show they were okay, it still was very genuine bc all the songs can be connected to parts of demi’s life. Anyone was written 4 days before the od, dwtd is obviously about addiction and relapsing, icu was about the aftermath and how it affected their sister, taoso was about starting over and not letting a partner define them, lonely people was about the bittnerness that comes after a breakup and trying to turn it into something positive, twydlam is about demi’s ed and how being in a relationship can trigger than, especially bc it was rumored that wilmer would try not to be seen with demi when they were heavier, and it made them feel like crap and question everything ofc, melon cake is word for word about their ed experience with their old manager, mhln was written by ariana and since she and demi are friends, she knew it was fitting for demi’s situation with maxipad, wops actually had lyrics leaked somehow in 2020 so we knew it was coming and demi was basically reflecting on how they lost sight of what really matters bc of being a celebrity, their sobriety, etc. carefully is literally about learning to trust someone and letting someone into your life after being hurt in the past, tkolia is about demi’s journey of acceptance with their sexuality and imagining themself with someone new and what they would preface their relationship with, easy is about losing a lover and trying to mourn, 15 minutes is a genius song about maxipad and how he overstayed his welcome in demi’s heart and took them for granted and how he’s going back to the streets where he belongs. mgamb is about surrounding yourself with good friends after a breakup bc nobody understands you better than your besties so focus on the fun and friendship. California sober is about being california sober and that is what demi tried doing. Mad world is a cover about how society is fucked up and the world makes you feel like you’re doing everything wrong and it feels like you’re in a spinning state that you cant escape and everyone’s watching you try to get out and criticizing you for not being able to navigate it all at the snap of your fingers. Butterfly is about demi’s birth father and how they learned to accept his passing and their strained relationship. Good place is about being in a good place even if it took a lot of bad times in bad places to get there. It all ties into what demi was going through during their hiatus and up until the release of the album.

Holy Fvck is what I consider to be their most genuine album bc it’s honestly the first time we’re given a glimpse into Demi’s anger. It also talks about grief, being in the public eye, and addressing and/or overcoming trauma. If you know enough about Demi, you can connect each song to a theme in Demi’s life that explains what the song is about, just like I did for dwtdtaoso. I’m tired so maybe I’ll edit this post and add that in at some point, but I also feel like if you get it you get it and if you feel unsure about any of it, you dont get it. And that’s ok. But i love holy fvck and i love being able to scream it in the car when im feeling intense feelings and dont really want to cry about them. So i just belt it out to demi’s music

[a-catgirl-cafe]

'Rich Men North of Richmond' is one big dog-whistle, not an anti-establishment anthem

"An overnight sensation" TikToker Oliver Anthony's sound and artistry can't be denied, but a few more things become undeniable as you dive into the lyrics of his break-out song. The elephant in the room is the title itself, but I would like to start with the first verse.

“I’ve been selling my soul Working all-day Overtime hours, bullshit pay So I can sit out here And waste my life away…”

Because this is what first falls into your ears and when I first heard it I was totally with it. The emotion and soul he sings these words with as well as the sentiment itself was something I was instantly in accord with.

If the message and tone stayed here, this would be a totally different review and I'd probably be an Oliver Anthony fan right now. But that's not how it went.

For a while I was paying more attention to the sound of his voice and instrument, which are captivating and stirring. I appreciate the old-school sound, the authenticity is a fresh contrast to the artificiality of mainstream music and contemporary country music specifically.

One line started to pull out the political analyst in me. He seemed to be blaming inflation on taxes? Oh, well. He's an artist not an economist. That doesn't detract much from his overall message…but the next line made me wonder, what is his message anyway?

He lost me completely in verse two which takes a decidedly reactionary turn with its first two lines:

“I wish politicians would look out for miners And not just minors on an island somewhere”

I had flashbacks to all the times people who were "definitely not racist, but…" wanted to "take care of our own" before we did anything for those people. It's such a trope and I really don't have to explain it. The only thing in Anthony's favour are the words "not just", implying we can walk and chew gum at the same time, and that's the weak defence my mind rushed to before concluding: if that's what you really meant, just drop these lines — they just make you look bad.

Also, just what are your plans for making miners lives better? What if we invested in more solar and banned coal-burning energy and did job training to get them better, safer work, perhaps in solar energy? Maybe establish a Universal Basic Income to catch people who fall between the cracks. Which brings me to the part where it all fell apart for me.

He pleads with us that there are people on the street who have nothing to eat. True enough. Thanks to gentrification more and more people are being priced out of their neighborhoods and becoming unhoused. Corporations are buying up property across the country at an alarming rate and hiking the prices, making housing unaffordable for more and more people.

And while food insecurity is bad enough in urban communities it's actually worse in rural areas were the job market is crap, transportation is needlessly difficult and even people who are starving can't qualify for assistance. Wait — that's not what we're talking about? The fat people are eating all their food? Really? That's your take? Social media told me this was an "anti-establishment" song and that's your take?

Yes, would-be working-class hero Oliver Anthony is warning us that the obese are "milking welfare".

I guess we found out that "people like me and people like you" doesn't include minors on islands and fat people on financial assistance. Neat.

He is under the false assumption that unfortunately many people accept, that obesity is a personal moral failing. That it's due to overindulgence or a lack of discipline. and we now KNOW that's bullshit. It's been disproved. There are many reasons people can't lose weight and you can't look at someone and know if they are working hard enough on themselves to "earn" welfare. And you can't know what someone's regular diet is based on a single purchase they made. And it's none of our fucking business anyway.

I'd love it if Americas stopped eating so much damn meat. We have too much protein in our diets, it's making us sick, it's torturing animals, destroying the environment. Until someone dies and make you Food Lord, let the fatty enjoy their treat in the relative peace they can find in our ever-worsening capitalist dystopia.

Also, in my opinion there is no such thing as "milking welfare" unless you are committing actual fraud or are a corporation getting corporate welfare which shouldn't be a thing and pales in comparison to anything the poor are taking. Take everything you qualify for. Money is fake, our labour is exploited. The poor don't set the policies, the rich do. The poor don't decide what is offered to us for free. If we did, we'd get hot meals. The fact that food-stamps cover fudge rounds and not a hot meal is because the rich have decided it's better for them and their interests.

Anyway, everything I've gone into so far is nothing compared to the elephant in the room I alluded to from the start, the title itself.

"Rich men north of Richmond". It's a nice turn-of-phrase. It's catchy, sounds good and it's a poetic way to refer to politicians in our nation's capital which, referencing a map, is north of, and in relative close proximity to the city of Richmond, capital of the commonwealth of Virginia and…former capital of…the Confederate States of America.

As a former neo-confederate, Civil War history buff and reenactor, this aspect was the first thing that hit me when I saw the title and it stuck with me as I listened to the track in full. And the more I thought about the song in its entirety, the more the dog-whistle interpretation made sense and the less the innocent artistic explanation made sense.

A user on Genius.com commented on these lines of the song and how the song can be seen through the lens of the pseudohistorical "Lost Cause" narrative of the Civil War in which the North as aggressor, ruined the (slave) economy of the South, taking "total control" from the government in Richmond. The lines that go:

“Lord, it's a damn shame what the world's gotten to For people like me and people like you Wish I could just wake up and it not be true But it is, oh, it is”

can be seen as a lament at the way the war ended, which the narrator blames for his current economic condition.

This insight does clarify some of the songs more (intentionally?) vague lines, for example "people like me and people like you" would then be a wink-and-a-nudge reference to white southerners. That seems to me to be the target audience and message of the song.

That's my opinion, I will include the links to the lyrics from Genius.com and I will include the annotations about the "Lost Cause" interpretation below. Read that and also read the lyrics in full and all the other annotations on the Genius.com page and make up your own mind.

Even if you don't ultimately come to the same conclusions, I hope you will see there are enough red-flags that concern is rational and valid and that Oliver Anthony should be viewed with caution and we should not be surprised if he turns out to be overtly problematic and reactionary.

Full lyrics with user-created annotations via Genius Lost Cause interpretation: "These rich men north of Richmond"

There are two viable explanations of the lyric. With Washington, DC being directly north of Richmond, Virginia, the lyric calls out leaders in both parties for presiding over an economic system that makes the rich richer on the backs of the rest of us. Seen another way, it is a not-so-subtle reference to the Civil War, when Richmond, VA, the capital of the slave states in rebellion, sat just below the Confederacy’s northern border and just south of Washington, DC. Richmond, the largest city in Virginia by far at the time, effectively formed the northernmost edge of the Confederacy. So, everything to the north of Richmond was enemy territory to the slave states. After the war, the defeated South adopted the “Lost Cause” narrative, which explained the loss in terms of a resource-rich North as the aggressor against a pastoral “Old South” whose enslaved humans were generally contented and well cared for.

"Lord knows they all just wanna have total control"

This continues the “Lost Cause” narrative of the title line. In the former slave states' Lost Cause explanation of the Civil War, it was not slavery but, instead, freedom that inspired the South’s rebellion against the United States. Preeminent historian of the Civil War James M. McPherson explains: "The theme of liberty, not slavery, as the cause for which the South fought became a mantra in the writings of old Confederates and has been taken up by neo-Confederates in our own time." While contemporaneous rhetoric of Confederate leaders made clear that the preservation of slavery is what provoked the Southern states to rebellion, the Lost Cause myth, developed after the South’s defeat, sought to revise history to insist that the North’s desire for control caused the war.

[naruchankavaii]

Drama club.

Hello to anyone who reads this! You’re about to proceed to my super whiny post, beware of saltiness and drama!

But seariously.

To tell the story short - it's about video reediting/reposting and all that kind of stuff, so, I’m putting it under a cut, for people who’re interested in what I’m about to say.

Ok, let me start with explaining the situation. One person used to download and cut clips from my and my friend’s editing studio on YouTube, the Blooming Cherry Blossom Studio and from some other popular editors on the site, and used them in their videos made with program like VivaStudio or something like that, which is probably for phones?.. Well, basically, it made it obvious that they couldn't make such effects, not to tell about my friends' and my own clips I saw there. The usual on YouTube. And so, as usual, I asked them to delete it, to which they responded with a rude form of a "no", calling us and the character names, and so on. They blocked me and BCBS, so I couldn't communicate with them anymore. So I added those videos in a special playlist I have for the people that maybe want to subscribe them or already are. The usual, too. Now, that's what happened about two years ago, since then, they deleted those videos (but there are still some with other editors' amvs on their channel, just not BCBS's anymore), and instead just started copying our (the studio’s, mine, and my friends’) videos. Like, literally, we upload our video, and the same day, or a few days later, they upload a video with the same script to it, with the same song, and attempt to copy our effects. I was kinda bothered by that, since I'm really greedy, when it comes to my stuff, but I've never done anything about that, y'know. It's still their clips, and it won't take away my works from me, right? But lately, I uploaded our NaruSaku collab on my channel, and it got 18 dislikes at once, all from USA, where this person is from, and on that same day, they upload a sign up with this same song, with the same theme for a NaruHina MEP. Now, I know I don't have proofs that it was them (update from the future: actually, I have now. The video I put this rant with got that same amount of dislikes minutes ago), but I know that they hate Sakura and love NaruHina which was their first problem with us. Well, being in a NaruSaku fandom, I'm pretty used to hate, and like no other, I know how jealous fangirls and boys can get over a character, and Naruto and Sakura having sex is pretty provocative for many NaruHina fans, which is understandable. Yet, never have I ever got so many dislikes at once, really. Even though, I must say, it's kinda irrelevant, because I got a SUPER positive feedback too, like lots of beautiful comments from beautiful people I know or don't know, and it's just amazing, so I don't give a flying fuck about those dislikes, to be honest. It's not about the dislikes, it's about people. If we keep talking about that person, they also created playlist called "Garbage of YouTube" or something like that, and put a good amount of my videos there (also others and plus the stolen ones, to make it look like it was all stolen), motivating people to "go flag them". Now, don't get me wrong, I understand there's no way you can flag a video unless it really has clips/music that belong to someone else, and only that someone else can flag it, so it doesn't worry me, but... garbage? Really? They tried to justify it with it being the same as me putting THEIR videos with stolen clips in the playlist I created just for that, for stolen videos. Telling me I'm wrong for putting it there for people to see it. And it's the same as to put someone's actual works they worked hard on in one place, called "garbage".

Now, let me explain it a little better. I created this playlist not to spread hate. Not to be unfounded, let me show you something:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCrG8QGIwoiMdZWpOxuiaxg/videos All or almost all videos are made out of stolen clips. Has 6thsd subscribers and 3m views.

https://www.youtube.com/user/QTNatalie21/videos 17thsd subscibers and 12m views.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfHTfpxngI3XOQ8d3tTSj4w/videos 12thsd and 4m.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqh3gXcrdS8&t=22s 50thsd views and 1thsd likes.

And I only checked the first 40 on the list I have, and you know how many channels are there at the moment? 120.

Me and my friends already had such problems before, but this person actually is getting subscribers and supporters, unlike the others I’ve dealt with before. And all of them were disrespectful, playing victims like I don’t see if the content is stolen, denying the words they have said, and so on.

You see, what I do is more than just a hobby to me. I'm actually trying to become a freelancer at this point, and it hurts me to see all these people getting support for stealing content, while I work hard to get to where I am. Don't I have a right to complain?

I’m honestly tired of fighting for justice, when pretty much everyone doesn’t give a shit. It’s not a drawing, it’s not a song, it’s not literature, so it doesn’t deserve a protection, it seems. But I have to pay for songs/animation/cinema material to upload my work.

My point is video editors aren't treated as a part of art community, like artists, writers and singers, I mean, I understand that it's not actually creating, it’s editing, but it takes a lot of effort. It's the same as designing, if you ask me, but people don't respect it, don't value it as much. They repost it, without giving a credit, steal clips and not even get called out on this, but God forbid me creating a playlist of stolen material, out of despair. Because I don't have any other solution. If YouTube actually PROTECTED editors, there wouldn't be any reason for me to even talk to these people, but I'm left we what I have.

So, yes, I will do it. I will dislike videos, I will put them on the playlists, and I don't care how childish I may look. If that's what gonna help me, I will.

I needed to let it all out, sorry for the rant.

[nevertheless-moving]

Not 400 game, but another song(s) for the Obi Wan popstar au

- Mumford & Sons: Broken Crown

- RAIGN: Don't Let Me Go, Knocking on Heaven's Door

- Kesha: Praying

- Ursine Vulpine: Wicked Game

(I had Broken Crown in mind, and then I was looking at my playlist and getting Feels)

Once Obi-Wan really gets into songwriting he just starts absolutely pouring out everything he’s seen/felt/heard and summarily repressed in his whole 2 (two) lives. Which is...a lot. The real angsty stuff gets buried in a datafolder (we’ll come back to that later). The less personal/more vague stuff is what he brings to song writing sessions with teenage Anakin to get turned into Queens Greatest Hits in Space/ Space Elton John Bangers. This, plus various shenanigans in which BK sells the fuck out, fund his early anti-Sidious stuff.

Later people realize that all those advertisement jingles were for sustainable companies with good workplace benefits—nothing associated with the trade federation. ALSO, someone in the Hutt Empire hacked the Former Slave Refugee Resettlement Program servers to figure out where they’re getting their money from. Turns out that having the Hutt Clans explicitly ban one artist’s music has the opposite effect of what was initially intended. Remember when those Keanu Reeves posts were going around and everyone was like ‘wait the guy from Bill and Tedd and the Matrix has just been anonymously donating ALL of his money? like ALL of it?’ 

Yeah a few ill-gotten financial records leak, tracing funding back to one random accountant’s office, whose only high income client is from a random agent’s office, and THEIR only high income client is—you guessed it— THE MAN—THE MYTH—THE LEGEND—BK. Someone does a bunch of math. A little over 8 years into his second life, BK skyrockets from ‘talented money-grabbing artist with weird cult following, most famous for trashy viral hit 8 years ago’, to pHiLaNtHrOpIsT TOO GOOD FOR THIS GALAXY—donates AT LEAST 50% of his proceeds to ONE CHARITY—wait what’s that—ANOTHER 5% is accounted for by this ANTI-CORRUPTION WATCHDOG ORGANIZATION??AGENT SAYS THAT BK HAS A DAY JOB?? also his music is AWESOME and NOT CRINGE! THIS GUY!! WHO EVEN!

*clears throat*

Anyway, BK is really popular. Then Palpatine is defeated in epic duel and now Obi-Wan Kenobi is also famous as ‘savior of the galaxy.’ Ben is just kind-of sweating because he didn’t really want to get revealed before, and now he really, really doesn’t, because it would be such a hassle.

But there are a lot of clones in need of resettlement, and slavery still exists, and the Separatist movement is still happening but needs to be facilitated peacefully, and the big duel with Sidious did a lot of property damage—

money can’t fix everything. but. it can fix a lot of things.

So Knight Kenobi (no do NOT make me a Master for defeating a Sith Consparicy, I would like ONE life event NOT marked by the Sith) and Senior Padawan Skywalker (no you are NOT knighting him. Yes, of course, he’s brilliant and powerful and has brought balance to the force but he is NINETEEN-YEARS OLD I am KEEPING him fuck OFF) sit down in secret and Obi-Wan revisits his angst folder, now that Anakin’s older.

Anakin: “Um, Master? Do you want to...talk about any of this stuff?”

Obi-Wan: “Not really. I wrote a lot of this when I was younger, you know?”

Anakin: “...okay...that...yeah okay, I get that, let’s make an angst album, sure.”

(Obi-Wan is fine! the Sith are defeated, the Jedi live, everything he’s worked obsessively for his whole second life is done! He’s Great! He’s not finally resting enough that his mind is beginning to process trauma from his first go-around! He’s Wonderful!) 

Obi-Wan (internally): maybe this will make my ‘fans’ less obsessed with me? If I show them I’m deeply flawed, in pain, and in need of serious emotional help?

(Gold, Imagine Dragons), (Broken Crown, Mumford and Sons), (Fix You, Coldplay), (Hurt, Nine Inch Nails)

Authors Note: It does not have this affect.