#anti dead ladies club

[la-pheacienne]

I get that it's frustrating to be a Daenerys fan in fandom scratching about the loss of slaver culture and only one Stark, but what does dead ladies club has to do with it? At all?

Oh that's an interesting question nonnie. Nonnie is talking about that post here that I tagged as "anti dead ladies club I guess?".

I will explain. I have no problem with the characters included in Dead Ladies Club, nor with the general idea of the person who created Dead Ladies Club per se, it was a pretty valid commentary on the way GRRM created his fictional world. May I remind you nonnie that Dead Ladies Club was a meta commentary on GRRM's carelessness/indifference towards certain female characters. That's all it was, and that's all it should be.

What happened though is that the fandom blew this idea out of proportion, rebranded it as the sole feminist interpretation of the story, then, following a perverse fandom metastasis, it was as if the very soul of these Dead Ladies got transferred to specific female characters that share certain (very few) characteristics with these Dead Ladies. And this was necessary because no reader can seriously read the books only for Dead Ladies, they are barely there in the story, and we don't know anything about them. So the transfer to more active female characters was necessary. That's how we ended up with Sansa stans and then Alicent stans.

All these peculiar fandom tendencies have in common is this : their hatred for the actual female protagonists of the story Dany, Arya, and later Rhaenyra. The ones the author of the story specifically created to tell the story of women suffering because of misogyny and violence and hatred and trying to break free. Any aspiring feminist should either focus on these characters or abandon the books, both solutions are valid. Not caring about them/actively hating them though? What are you even doing then reading this story? You can definitely go read something else.

Unfortunately, internalised misogyny got the best of what remained of the Dead Ladies Club fanbase, now transferred to Sansa and Alicent. Instead of just pointing out some gaps in GRRM story and juxtapose them with male representation, which was the initial idea, this new and very dangerous fandom cancer has one single goal : to shit on female characters that somehow were stronger/more willful than the rest of them and were active players in their own arc.

That's why Lyanna Stark has been excluded from this club by the enlightened fandom, despite the fact that she was literally the first female character mentioned there, if I remember correctly. Why? Because people finally realised that Lyanna wasn't a poor rape victim, instead she eloped with the man she loved to escape from her imminent forced marriage to a horrible man she had no esteem for. She was willful and strong, and she wanted to choose how she lived her life. That's why she doesn't belong to our Golden Pantheon of Reverenced Victims.

Because that's what Dead Ladies Club is today. From a commentary on the author's indifference towards some of his characters it became a reverence of "soft femininity" which, in this context, is code for submissiveness, agreeableness, conformism and conservatism, all the traits that our two female protagonists do not possess.

Of course you can tell me that not all Dead Ladies Club "stans"/ Sansa stans/ Alicent stans hate Dany and Arya. Well maybe not, there are millions of people on this planet. Do you personally know one? I don't.

So if I want to be exact I should have tagged it as "anti dead ladies club stans" + anti Sansa stans + anti Alicent stans.

I hope I answered your question.

[my-cursed-brain]

Songs that I associate with twst characters:

- Riddle: Top of My School by Katherine Lynn-Rose

- Ace: Don't Stop Me Now by Queen

- Deuce: Punk Tactics by Joey Valence and Brae

- Cater: Ladies Night by 11 Acorn Lane

- Trey: So sorry but I don't have a song for him :(

- Leona: ANTI-HERO by SEKAI NO OWARI

- Ruggie: You're Gonna Go Far, Kid by The Offspring

- Jack: I don't have a song for him either :(

- Azul: Sibyl by wotaku (There's an amazing animatic for this on YouTube and you should absolutely watch it. Yes it's for Twst.)

- Floyd: The Trouble by Club Danger

- Jade: Puppet Boy by DEVO

- Kalim: On Top Of The World by Imagine Dragons

- Jamil: Trust in Me from The Jungle Book

- Vil: All That Glitters by Earl

- Rook: Love Me Dead by Ludo (listen nothing I put here will sound sane so just don't think too hard about it.)

- Epel: Mama's Broken Heart by Miranda Lambert

- Idia: Game Over by Falling In Reverse

- Ortho: iRobot by Jon Bellion (I have so many songs that fit Ortho but this one makes me the most emotional.)

- Malleus: Tie between two songs. Epoch by Savlonic (remixed by The Living Tombstone) and Wish That You Were Here by Florence + The Machine

- Lilia: Baby Mine from Dumbo

- Silver: Once Upon a December from Anastasia

- Sebek: Warriors by Imagine Dragons

- Chenya: Cheshire Kitten by S. J. Tucker

- Crewel: Gimmie! Gimmie! Gimmie! by ABBA (Idk why but he has ABBA vibes to me.)

[envirae]

my very first love — profiles two: bts fan club/enhypen!

more details about the characters below!

masterlist // high school musical enthusiasts

nishimura riki

Although you’d never guess it due to the people he hangs around, sophomore Nishimura Riki is one of the most anti-social people you’ll ever meet. Since childhood, he’s spent almost all of his time dancing and may arguably be the best dancer at HYBE. Due to his shyness, he was only really able to make friends when he joined enha last year. He doesn’t condone the way his hyung's, but he also can’t really be bothered enough to care.

lee heeseung

The original heartbreaker, Heeseung is the main one at fault for the team's reputation and for converting all his members to be just like him. Ever since he started high school, girls kinda just flocked to him and he just went with it. It was a lot for him to deal with so he ended up breaking up with his first girlfriend, Huh Yunjin. Since then, he hasn’t put a label on any of his relationships, nor has he really been able to feel any genuine feelings for a girl.

park jay

By far the most ruthless heartbreaker in the group, Jay truly has no filter when speaking. He’ll look you dead in the eyes and say something to shatter your heart, and not even realize he did anything wrong. Aside from that, he’s managed to stay incredibly committed to dance (apparently, it’s the only thing he can commit to) and has decided to take over as choreographer for his junior season.

sim jake

Known for his “golden retriever” personality, Jake has always been a ladies' man. He’s living his best life in his junior year of high school, going to countless parties and dates, all while managing to stay at the top of his class. He’s the “it” boy and he knows it.

park sunghoon

Sunghoon has been popular with the ladies ever since middle school, where he impressed girls with his figure skating talents. When he eventually gave up figure skating in favor of dance, his loyal fans never stopped supporting him. He’s good at dealing with lots of attention, but only his real friends get to see the goofy side of him.

kim sunoo

As a junior at hybe arts, Sunoo has always attracted girls with his kindhearted persona and sweet way with words, but none of them seem to see the heartless side of him. He uses his innocent reputation to his advantage, and the ladies are none the wiser. Despite his attitude towards romance, he really is one of the sweetest people on the team and truly cares about all his teammates, even if he likes to tease them.

yang jungwon

Despite only being a sophomore, the team collectively decided to vote Jungwon as dance captain this year after he showed incredible leadership during last year’s regionals. Since the start of middle school, he's gained a lot of female attention, and after reaching high school, he joined his hyung’s in being one of HYBE’s biggest heartbreakers

current taglist (open!): @haknom @kjrcrz @lalalalawon @123-678h @k25vi

[sadly-never-after]

Music in the EAH Universe and who listens to them Part 6.

This is just an excuse to try to make music puns and share music I think the characters would listen to. (Some of these are even canon by the books!) I don't even like a majority of these musicians but I am fully convinced of my choices here. I marked in colours the one that are canonically part of the EAH Universe.

Since Tumblr only allows 100 inline links for a post I have to make different parts.

Part 1 (Alistair, Apple, Ashlynn, Blondie, Briar, Bunny)

Part 2 (Cupid, Cedar, Cerise, Chase, Courtly, Daring)

Part 3 (Darling, Dexter, Duchess, Farrah, Faybelle, Ginger)

Part 4 (Holly, Hopper, Humphrey, Hunter, Jillian, Justine)

Part 5 (Kitty, Lizzie, Maddie, Meeshell, Melody, Nina)

Part 6 (Poppy, Ramona, Raven, Rosabella, Sparrow, Tucker)

(❀❛ ֊ ❛„)♡-ˋˏ✄┈┈┈┈☁︎‎‎‧₊˚ Poppy O'Hair (❀❛ ֊ ❛„)♡-ˋˏ✄┈┈┈┈☁︎‎‎‧₊˚

Mayhem! in the Ballroom (Emperor's New Clothes, Victorious, She Had The World)

Lady Yaga (Born this way, Alejandro, Bad Romance)

Katy Fairy (Firework, Part of Me, Roar)

April Vineyard (Girlfriend, Sk8er Boi (if you guys listen to the entire song instead of only the first verses you'll understand), I Fell In Love With The Devil)

Truelove (Raspberry, Tongue Tied, Schoolboy)

·:¨༺ ♱🐺♱ ༻¨:· Ramona Badwolf ·:¨༺ ♱🐺♱ ༻¨:·

Rabbit Hole (Jennifer's Body, Credit In The Straight World, Northern Star)

Corset Suffocation (Feels Blind, Rebel Girl, Alien She)

Incandescence (Bring Me To Life, Everybody's Fool, Sweet Sacrifice)

Fall Out Book (Centuries, I Don't Care, Fake Out)

Writtin Park (Bleed It Out, Burning in the Skies, Runaway)

⋆˖⁺‧₊☽🔮☾₊‧⁺˖⋆ Raven Queen ⋆˖⁺‧₊☽🔮☾₊‧⁺˖⋆

Taylor Quick (Anti-Hero, Enchanted, You're On Your Own Kid)

Royale (Royals, 400 Lux, Ladder Song)

Lady Yaga (Bloody Mary, Monster, Government Hooker)

I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY CURSED ME (Mad IQs, New Invention, Absinthe)

Spellannah Joffe (Die Your Daughter, Nobody Wants Me Tonight, My Dog Died)

༉‧₊˚🕯️🥀❀༉‧₊˚. Rosabella Beauty ༉‧₊˚🕯️🥀❀༉‧₊˚.

Penelorepe Scott (Rät, Dead girls, American Healthcare)

Bob Dalan-a-Dale (Blowin' in the wind, The Times They Are A-Changing, A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall)

Joan Bard (We Shall Overcome, Diamonds & Rust, Girl of Constant Sorrow)

Mirra Simone (Sinnerman, Mississippi Goddam, Revolution)

Sam Book (A Change is gonna come, Mean Old World, Jesus gave me water)

🎸⋆⭒˚｡⋆♪ °˖➴જ⁀➴ Sparrow Hood 🎸⋆⭒˚｡⋆♪ °˖➴જ⁀➴

Knight Chloe (Too Close, Hooves, Michelle)

Black Rebel Carriage Club (Beat the Devil's Tattoo, American X, Weapon of Choice)

Wolf Killer Kids (Hang Me Up To Dry, First, Robbers)

The Legacy Keys (Lonely Boy, Weight of love, Little Black Submarines)

Prince Ferdinand (Take Me Out, Love Illumination, Lazy Boy)

Wands N' Roses (Paradise City, Sympathy for the devil, Sweet Child O' Mine)

He gets an extra one because the Knight Chloe ones are all very shippy.

✩°｡ ⋆⸜ 🎧✮🎸⋆⭒˚｡⋆ Tucker ✩°｡ ⋆⸜ 🎧✮🎸⋆⭒˚｡⋆

Giantz (Feel Good Inc., Kids With Guns, Momentary Bliss)

The Spells (Little Girl, Is This It?, The Adults Are Talking)

The Legacy Keys (Fever, Go, Psychotic Girl)

Black Rebel Carriage Club (Red Eyes And Tears, Going Under, Restless Sinner)

Prince Ferdinand (The Dark of the Matinee, Curious, Billy Goodbye)

You are trapped on an eight-hour long road trip with these guys and you have to give one of them the aux chord.

[monsterblogging]

How Pacific Rim gives the finger to the Catholic Church

Another interesting thing that many people miss about Pacific Rim is that it has some... things to say about religion, especially the Catholic Church. It can be easy to miss because it's not all spelled out for you, but once you see it, you'll never unsee it.

First, let's take a look at Raleigh's speech from the beginning of the film:

There are things you can't fight, acts of God. You see a hurricane coming, you have to get out of the way. But when you're in a Jaeger, suddenly, you can fight the hurricane. You can win.

This speech here establishes that when you fight kaiju, you aren't just fighting monsters. You're defying God himself.

"You're reading too much into it!" some of you might say. "'Act of God' is just a legal term for massive disasters."

Ah, but I'm not reading too much into it. Because this line was originally found in the draft script, which was way more explicit in linking the Precursors with the divine.

In the draft script, the Precursors aren't just some random alien invaders. They're actually the creators of our universe, and we're just a pesky little accident that happened on the planet they want to live on.

The character of Ivo Czerny, who had drifted with a kaiju brain, was given this dialog:

I looked into the abyss. I’d been infected with the truth -- that this is the end of us. We are the vermin of the gods. There’s no point in putting up a fight…

A different character, Commander Kaz Takada, says:

We call the enemy the Precursors… I may as well tell the world the gods want us dead.

The character of Newt Gotlieb is given this dialog:

I don't care if they are the creators of the universe. I like the universe.

And I'm not a creationist.

So, Raleigh's line wasn't just a careless reference to a legal term. It was introducing the story's thesis.

In the final version of the film, we don't have all of this explicit dialog. And yet, the sentiment is still there. How do we know this? For one thing, the Precursors are modeled on Catholic clergy. Pacific Rim: Man, Machines, & Monsters, quotes Guillermo del Toro as saying:

We gave the Precursors elements of ecclesiastical royalty, dividing them into cardinals and bishops.

Fun fact: If we go to the old Art of Pacific Rim page on The Internet Archive and check the filenames, we can see that this Precursor - the one who stares up at Lady Danger as it goes 'splodey - is a Precursor Bishop.

(Screencaps from quiteunlikely.net)

Further establishing the link between the Precursors and the Catholic Church are the costumes of the BuenaKai nuns:

(Screencap from movie-screencaps.com)

A better picture of the costume can be found on PropstoreAuction. If you want to see the whole thing, go there; because I'm going to crop it because the whole thing's pretty big. Anyway, you can see that their costumes include cornettes and stoles.

(By the way, there are also kaiju monks. This isn't a girls-only club like the Netflix cartoon would have you think.)

Now, forget everything you know about Uprising or The Black, and consider all of this in the context of the anti-authority themes in Guillermo del Toro's other work. This casts the nature of the Precursors and the hivemind in a somewhat different light than many of us are used to. These aren't just scary aliens. This is a civilization built on ideals of rigid hierarchy and total dominion. And they're also essentially theocrats.

What's also really interesting is that when you take all of this together, it means that the kaiju spiritualists aren't actually wrong in regarding the kaiju as divine beings sent by the gods. They're just assholes for aligning themselves with a malefic divine.

[nerdygaymormon]

Queer Religious Songs

I was interested to see the news that a song by the drag queen Flamy Grant was top of the iTunes Christian chart. I listened to the song and really like it. 

There are many religious songs I like, but these queer ones speak to a part of me that the others don’t, they ask questions that are important. 

1983 - Church of the Poison Mind : Culture Club - A religious gay man has found love, but because of what he was taught at church, can’t resolve his own feelings about being gay. The message is if you’re living in a culture distorted by prejudice, take a chance on joy–embrace love, whatever form it takes.

1987 - It’s a Sin : Pet Shop Boys - This song is about a person’s lifelong feelings of shame and guilt, presumably for being taught that being gay is a sin. For everything I long to do, no matter when or where or who, has one thing in common, too. It’s a, it’s a, it’s a, it’s a sin.

1988 - A Little Respect : Erasure - In this song the gay singer is calling to a lover not to leave and asks the question, what religion or reason could drive a man to forsake his lover? So often the religions we’re raised in are anti-queer and people have a tough time breaking from the prejudice when they have their first romantic relationship.

1991 - Losing My Religion : R.E.M. - Lead singer Michael Stipe had declined to address his sexuality, so when “Losing My Religion” came out, people assumed Stipe was coming out as gay. Consider this the hint of the century. Consider this the slip. It stands as a classic example of queer coding in the era of “don’t-ask-don’t-tell.” The song was interpreted as the struggle of a closeted gay man coming to terms with what his religion taught about gay people.

1992 - One : U2 - Bono explained that “It’s a father-and-son story. I tried to write about someone I knew who was coming out and was afraid to tell his father. It’s a religious father and son… I have a lot of gay friends, and I’ve seen them screwed up from unloving family situations, which just are completely anti-Christian. If we know anything about God, it’s that God is love.” Knowing it’s a gay son who is talking to his unaccepting dad, the lyrics really hit hard. Did I disappoint you or leave a bad taste in your mouth? And also these words from the chorus, We’re one but we’re not the same. Well we hurt each other then we do it again. It seems eventually the son decides to draw a boundary and remove his father from his life - I can’t keep holding on to what you got, 'cause all you got is hurt. I like that the lyrics say We get to carry each other, carry each other, we are different and may not agree on everything, but we choose to help each other, it’s asking us to find ways to have our relationship work even though we’re different.

1997 - You Have Been Loved : George Michael - George Michael wrote this song about Anselmo Feleppa, who died of an AIDS-related illness in 1993. While an intense song about grief and death, it also involves a spiritual struggle. Anselmo and his mother both say that God is not dead, George counters by challenging What’s the use in pressing palms, if you [God] won’t keep such love from harm? It’s a cruel world. You’ve so much to prove.

1997 - Together Again : Janet Jackson - The album notes say “I dedicate the song ‘Together Again’ to the friends I’ve lost to AIDS.” It’s a sweet song with hopeful words. Everywhere I go, every smile I see, I know you are there smilin’ back at me.

2011 - Born This Way : Lady Gaga - Many songs hint at queer identities and acceptance by using metaphors, but not this one, it is direct. No matter gay, straight, or bi, lesbian, transgender life, I’m on the right track, baby, I was born to survive. The song is a real celebration of who we each are made to be. God makes no mistakes.

2011 - We All Try : Frank Ocean - Frank Ocean sings of losing faith in mankind as the LGBTQIA+ community struggles to find acceptance. I believe that marriage isn’t between a man and woman, but between love and love, and I believe you when you say you’ve lost all faith, but you must believe in something. He reassures the listeners and the LGBTQIA+ community that I just don’t believe we’re wicked, I know that we sin but I do believe we try.

2012 - Same Love : Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Mary Lambert - Macklemore sings against the homophobia taught at church. When I was in church, they taught me something else. If you preach hate at the service, those words aren't anointed and that Holy Water that you soak in is then poisoned. The song concludes with Mary singing I’m not crying on Sundays, which I think means not letting religious intolerance and churches harm us anymore, not subjecting ourselves to those words anymore.

2012 - Origin of Love : MIKA - Mika said this song “talks about my life, it talks about the church, it talks about falling in love and it talks about being happy and proud about falling in love with whoever you fall in love with, even if it’s a man. So in a way, this is my statement and my thank you to the man I love.“ To his partner he sings You are the sun and the light, you are the freedom I fight, God will do nothing to stop it.

Mika contrasts the goodness romance brings to his life with how the Bible introduces heterosexual relationships: Like stupid Adam and Eve, they found their love in a tree. God didn’t think they deserved it. He taught them hate, taught them pride, gave them a leaf, made them hide. Let’s push their stories aside. You know the origin is you.

2013 – Take Me to Church : Hozier - The lyrics are against church-fueled homophobia and persecution of queer people, and instead Hozier finds meaning by worshiping in the bedroom. Many queer people can identify with these lyrics: Every Sunday’s getting more bleak, a fresh poison each week. "We were born sick", you heard them say it. Hozier explained that churches undermine humanity as they teach shame about sexual orientation by saying that it is sinful or that it offends God. Hozier is an outspoken LGBTQ+ ally and the music video depicts two gay men being ripped apart by homophobic violence in Russia. It brought international attention to the anti-gay laws in Russia.

2015 - No Place in Heaven : MIKA - Mika is singing about how religion teaches there’s no place in heaven for gay people because the way we love is sinful. Father, won’t you forgive me for my sins? Father, if there’s a heaven let me in.

2016 - Son of a Preacher Man : Tom Goss - This 1968 song gets a gay update. The video tells the story of two gay teens struggling to understand their feelings for one another while operating within the confines of an evangelical church.

2016 - Trash : Tyler Glenn - In response to the Nov 2015 Policy of Exclusion by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Tyler created this video denouncing the Church’s restrictive view of same-sex relationships. The pain and anger are so raw in this video, it hurts to watch. These lyrics are an indictment, that he’d repent his days away if we wanted him to stay, but we throw him out like trash. If this is God’s church then there should be room for ALL God’s children.

2016 - Shameless : Tyler Glenn - The video has an old man in a black suit & white shirt tied up to a chair as Tyler sings You judge, but I don’t give a damn. I live a life so shameless. He lists things he does shamelessly now that once he would’ve been judged for: porn, one-night stands, alcohol. Tyler has now left the church and is not letting old men in suits make him feel shame.

2016 - G.D.M.M.L. Grls : Tyler Glenn - Despite the best efforts by this gay man to make church work, it didn’t because God Didn’t Make Me Like Girls.

2016 - Heaven : Troye Sivan feat. Betty Who - Troye sings candidly about what it’s like for a religious teenager to come out as gay. Without losing a piece of me, how do I get to heaven? Without changing a part of me, how do I get to heaven? All my time is wasted, feeling like my heart’s mistaken, oh, so if I’m losing a piece of me, maybe I don’t want heaven? Troye explains “When I first started to realise that I might be gay, I had to ask myself all these questions—these really really terrifying questions. Am I ever going to find someone? Am I ever going to be able to have a family? If there is a God, does that God hate? If there is a heaven, am I ever going to make it to heaven?” The video features footage from LGBTQ+ protests throughout history.

2016 - Sudden Death (OMG) : Tyler Glenn - In this song, Tyler expresses the initial shock of his faith crisis. I never asked to fall from grace. Catch me I’m starting to fall! Don’t know what all this is for! Keep comin’ at me with your disrespect. You went and started a war. Now I don’t care any more. I keep on living like it’s sudden death.

2016 - Devil : Tyler Glenn - A song that highlights the conflict between religious belief and queerness. I found myself when I lost my faith and not being able to pray the gay away. The constant in his world, what he’s anchoring himself to, is that his mom still loves him, and that’s important because studies show the acceptance & love of a parent makes a huge difference when someone comes out.  

2016 - Queer Gospel : Erin McKeown - This song was written in response to the ongoing trend of "religious freedom" legislation being passed by some US states. Love us as we are. See us and we're holy. In this shall we shall ever be, wholly ourselves.

2016 - Midnight : Tyler Glenn - The Neon Trees frontman gives an emotional song about his departure from the Mormon church but not from God. The ballad is accompanied by a video that shows Glenn removing his religious garments and replacing them with a glittery jacket, which is such a powerful metaphor.

2017 - The Village : Wrabel - There are lyrics in this song of what religious people have told him, and boy do they hurt. They say, 'Don't dare, don't you even go there, cutting off your long hair. You do as you're told' Tell you, ‘Wake up, go put on your makeup, this is just a phase you're gonna outgrow.’ There’s a line in the song that hits me hard: One line in the Bible isn’t worth a life. The video is beautiful, very poignant, it breaks my heart and gives me hope. 

2017 - Pray : Sam Smith - You won’t see Sam in church, but they say they’re a child of God at heart and they’re begging God to show them a way. I'm not a saint, I'm more of a sinner. I don't wanna lose, but I fear for the winners.

2017 - HIM : Sam Smith - This is a song about a boy in Mississippi coming out and the conflict between his sexuality and his religious upbringing. He is grappling with the feeling that there’s no place in church for him because he’s gay. The “Him” being sung is used both for God and for a boy he likes. Holy Father, we need to talk. I have a secret that I can't keep. I'm not the boy that you thought you wanted. Please don't get angry, have faith in me.

2018 - Explaining Jesus : Jordy Searcy - Jordy grew up playing music with his family and in his church. In 2014, Jordy landed a spot on NBC’s The Voice. In this song, Searcy is apologizing for how poorly we have been “Explaining Jesus” to others. He begins by singing If you're gay and over 85, you've felt for your whole life, that when God made you, he just messed up. The song ends with And I'm so sorry for all the wrongs. We're broken singers with broken songs. We paint our pride and call it truth. I'm sorry no one explained Jesus to you.

2019 - Hey Jesus : Trey Pearson - Trey made headlines in 2016 when, as the lead singer of the Christian rock band Everyday Sunday, he came out as gay. Three years later and Trey has a question: Hey Jesus can you hear me now? It’s been awhile since I came out, I was wonderin’ do you love me the same? As a person who struggles to reconcile faith with sexual orientation, I find this song quite moving. 

2020 - God Loves Me Too : Brian Falduto - Brian played the gay kid in the movie School of Rock. Now as an adult, Brian is back and singing a song that no one has to earn God’s love. Brian wrote the song after visiting a church that was welcoming and accepting of queer people. I look around and see I’ve found a place where peace and love abound. I’ve waited my whole life for the truth. It is true, God loves you. It don’t matter if you’re LGBTQ.

2020 - Chasing Rainbows : Big Freedia feat. Kesha - Freedia is a gay Black man who carries a purse and uses “he” and “she” pronouns. Kesha is bi. Together they put out an uplifting song. Freedia lists the various ways she’s been put down throughout her life by schoolyard bullies, religious figures and record labels. Kesha makes clear we won’t be put down any longer when she sings You know me, bein’ free. Won’t be silent, I pray for my enemies. 

2020 - Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America : The 1975 - This song has Matty Healy pondering religious faith and love from his perspective as a queer person and describes hiding his sexual identity because of his religious beliefs. Phoebe Bridgers, who is bisexual, contributes a fragile and vulnerable verse. She sings of her love for the girl next door. Her love is unrequited as she is unable to reveal her true feelings to her neighbor.

2020 - Orphans of God : Ty Herndon & Kristin Chenoweth feat. Paul Cardall - The message of the song is that there are no orphans of God. We are all loved, we are all thought about, we are all created equally and God loves us all just the same. Ty Herndon is a country singer who came out as gay in 2014

2021 - I Know it Hurts : Paul Cardall & Tyler Glenn - This makes me think of a queer person coming to recognize their insecure place in church, how all those negative teachings were about you. I just wanted to believe, but how am I supposed to believe this about me? And then we find each other, queer believers who can understand what we’re going through, who know the hurt and the teachings and comments. For most queer people, they leave church and go on a different path. They’re not lost, a faint light at the end is guiding their way, they’re finding another way back home.

2021 - It’s a Sin : Elton John and Years & Years - This arrangement of the 1987 song by the Pet Shop Boys was recorded by the gay icons Elton John and Years & Years for the 2021 Brit Awards. The words are about a person’s lifelong feelings of shame and guilt for being taught that being gay is a sin. 

2021 - Born this Way (The Country Road Version) : Orville Peck - For the 10th anniversary of this iconic song, gay singer Orville gives it a country music makeover

2022 - Good Day (feat. Derek Webb) : Flamy Grant - Matthew Blake was a worship leader for 22 years who has become a “shame-slaying, hip-swaying, singing-songwriting drag queen” named Flamy Grant. The lyrics talks of coming back to church after having left for feeling oppressed. They’ve come back to church because despite what some say, God’s love is expansive enough for everyone. God made me good in every way, so I raise my voice to celebrate a good day. This song hit #1 on the iTunes Christian chart.

2022 - If I Was Gay : Andreas Wijv - 29 year old Swedish singer and model Andreas Wijk wrote this song and debuted it in a TikTok video where he plays it for his parents as his way of coming out. It’s a vulnerable song that many will relate to. If I was gay would I be what they say, just a stereotype? If I was gay how do I get to heaven when there’s “no church in the wild”?

2023 - Faith : Semler - Grace Semler Baldridge performs by the name Semler and is genderqueer and nonbinary. Semler grew up with a dad who was a pastor in the Episcopal Church, and sings of how the rejection of their identity by the church left them scarred. When my religion turned against me, they said my hopes and dreams were faulty. I showed these holes inside my hands, and they claimed they couldn’t see. Even as they struggled with the church, Semler kept a relationship with Jesus and found they flourished far more than they did in church, and now the thought of going back to a church is unappealing. But I don’t wanna get small to be in those rooms. After singing about their religion turning against them, we hear the lyrics Our God is good and able, and our God is flipping tables at the mess of love we made a religion that often didn’t accept their identity. This song was released in June and before Pride month was over it reached the top of the iTunes Christian music chart.

2024 - Hell Together : David Archuleta - This is a song of David’s experience at church as a gay person: Bow your head, don’t be bold. You’ll survive by doin’ what you’re told. It became too much and he worries what his mom would think if he leaves the church: All I want is to make you proud. If I would run, would I let you down? In response, she replies: “If I have to live without you. I don’t wanna live forever in someone else’s heaven. So let 'em close the gates. Oh, if they don’t like the way you’re made, then they’re not any better. If Paradise is pressurе, oh, we’ll go to hell togethеr.” A beautiful story of a mom supporting her queer child. In response to his mom, he answers that he’s worried about what’s ahead but is confident to take those steps together: You and me, that’s all we need. Blood is thicker than the pages that they read. I’m afraid (I’m afraid) of letting go, of the version that I used to know. I’m not crying, you are.

[bitter69uk]

Heartfelt gratitude to everyone who attended the Lobotomy Room film club’s presentation of Lady in a Cage (1964) on 20 July! What a roller coaster of emotions, from the opening credits of a world gone mad (unconscious wino! Couple having sex in a car! A radio announcer ranting about the need for an “anti-Satan missile”! The disturbing use of a dead dog that anticipates John Waters’ in Desperate Living (1977!) onward. Who couldn’t relate when Cornelia Hilyard (Olivia de Havilland) tries to stave off madness while trapped in her “small private elevator” by singing “Alloutte” and composing a poem in her head?

Some further thoughts: does Lady in a Cage represent the most cataclysmic 4th of July weekend captured on film? Is it one of the first-ever “home invasion” thrillers? The British Board of Film Classification was so appalled by Lady in a Cage, it didn’t receive a cinematic release in the UK at all – and in fact only became viewable here in 2000 when it was issued on video! De Havilland was only 47 years-old here and already playing matrons with broken hips! While it’s almost certainly unintentional, the central image of Cornelia in her cage-like elevator recalls Katharine Hepburn in Suddenly Last Summer (1959). Lady in a Cage represented the first time the genteel Academy Award-winning de Havilland dipped her toe into exploitation cinema, but certainly not the last. A year later came hagsploitation classic Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte, then she featured in 1970s “disaster movies” like Airport ’77 (1977) and 1978 “killer bees” film The Swarm! Ann Sothern as Sade absolutely excelled at portraying these blowzy middle-aged floozy roles – until later in the decade when Shelley Winters would increasingly monopolize them! Did you notice that in his close-ups James Caan (as Randall, leader of the juvenile delinquents) is wearing more eyebrow pencil and eyeliner than Elvis Presley? If you enjoyed Rafael Campos’ performance as switchblade flourishing Essy, search out the bizarre 1968 exploitation flick The Astro-Zombies in which he co-stars with Tura Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Satana! And what happens to Cornelia’s sexually ambiguous son Malcolm? Anyway, see you third Thursday of August for more lurid lowbrow fun!

[comshipbracket]

Antis DNI

Comship Bracket Round 1!

Round 1 is split up into 4 Segments, which are split into 4 smaller polls within them! These will be posted near-daily, with a 6-day voting time limit. Look out for your ships! Propaganda is both welcome AND encouraged, whether through the form of essays, art, fanfiction recommendations, or otherwise, All propaganda will be reblogged.

Segment 1 - Bottom Left

Poll 1: SunMari (Sunny x Omori), Omori VS God's Hand (Master Hand x Lady Palutena), Super Smash Brothers

Poll 2: SlyCoop (Slider x Cooper), Cyberchase VS King's Throne (The Bard King x Noise), Roleslaying with Roman

Poll 3: Ragnvarde (Ragnvaldr x Le'Garde), Fear & Hunger VS Licoivlis (Licorice x Ivlis), Funamusea

Poll 4: AquaRuby (Aqua Hoshino x Ruby Hoshino), Oshi no Ko VS ShizuShiho (Shizuku Hinomori x Shiho Hinomori), Project SEKAI

Segment 2 - Top Right

Poll 1: Kaeluc (Kaeya Alberich x Diluc Ragnvindr), Genshin Impact VS Aineta (Shouta Aizawa x Minoru Mineta), My Hero Academia

Poll 2: Hitachiincest (Kaoru Hitachiin x Hikaru Hitachiin), Ouran High School Host Club VS Sebaciel (Sebastian Michaelis x Ciel Phantomhive), Black Butler

Poll 3: Enabler (Ruby Rose x Yang Xiao Long), RWBY VS BruDami (Bruce Wayne x Damian Wayne), DC

Poll 4: Hayniss (Haymitch Abernathy x Katniss Everdeen), The Hunger Games VS SeymourxTwoey (Seymour Krelborn x Audrey II), Little Shop of Horrors

Segment 3 - Top Left

Poll 1: KomaSugi (Komaru Naegi x Kotoko Utsugi), Danganronpa VS DirkRose (Dirk Strider x Rose Lalonde), Homestuck

Poll 2: Polymatsu (All 6 Matsuno Siblings), Osomatsu-san VS Wincest (Sam Winchester x Dean Winchester), Supernatural

Poll 3: RagamuffinxLenore (Ragamuffin x Lenore), Lenore The Cute Little Dead Girl VS Kalvey (Captain Kaldena x Harvey), Octopath Traveler

Poll 4: Yugicest (Amane Yugi x Tsukasa Yugi), Toilet-bound Hanako-kun VS AngemonXTK (Angemon x Takeru "T.K." Takaishi), Digimon

Segment 4 - Bottom Right

Poll 1: Billdip (Bill Cipher x Dipper Pines), Gravity Falls VS Stapis (Steven Universe x Lapis Lazuli), Steven Universe

Poll 2: DecadeZi-O (Tsukasa Kadoya x Sougo Tokiwa), Kamen Rider VS Tabloidshipping (Seto Kaiba x Mokuba Kaiba), Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters

Poll 3: SatouShio (Satou Matsuzaka x Shio Koube), Happy Sugar Life VS YukiSaku (Yukito Tsukishiro x Sakura Kinomoto), Cardcaptor Sakura

Poll 4: Bwen (Ben Tennyson x Gwen Tennyson), Ben 10 VS Gregray (Gregory Edgeworth x Raymond Shields), Ace Attorney

This is the line-up for round 1, let's see who you all vote for to move forward into Round 2! Remember, propaganda is encouraged! Have fun voting, everyone! Our inbox is also open for propaganda - Mod Satou

[maxwell-grant]

any thoughts on the game awards street fighter trailer?

Not too many but a few, the game's got a loooot of content to cover and I'll stick with mostly some character impressions

Dee Jay! I have never been happier to see Dee Jay! ...I've never usually been happy to see Dee Jay, granted, but this redesign is really all that was needed for me to unreservedly love the dude, it does away with the biggest problem with him that was his basic and kinda-racist design (the new art style also helps a lot). It's such an upgrade in terms of his style and vibe and conveying the kickboxing DJ concept. He looks like someone I'd find at Mongaguá beach if I went down there tomorrow, drumming away and living his best life. I'm so happy for this dude.

I like that they opened the trailer with him, with a club party and him dancing along with the protagonist. LOVE the music notes on his new Super, love his new animations and that camera autograph victory pose, love the sparkles and ways they've incorporated his old moves (he's got a Sonic Boom fakeout and, as obnoxious as that's gonna be to deal with, it's a pretty brilliant choice and one that fits him superbly)

Love that the new minigames, I mean of course they brought the basketball parry, and I'm sure the car destruction's gonna be real fun as always, but I'm surprised they dug back that far and brought some things we haven't seen since Street Fighter 1.

I think it's really remarkable that, for the trailer shown at The Game Awards of all things, they chose to focus on the return of, arguably the least popular of the New Challengers, and three new characters. Everyone assumed it was a dead giveaway that this was gonna be the Cammy trailer and the fact that it wasn't, and that people still absolutely loved it without complaints, man, what a testament to how confident these guys are in what they're doing. I have never seen a Street Fighter title be this brazen in it's new faces in the trailer period, I've never seen one where EVERY new character or return of an old character, without exception is incredibly popular and well-received.

I'm not too big on Manon? I do like her but she's probably my least favorite as of yet, feels a little more gimmicky than the others and I kinda wonder if she wasn't some SFV concept that they held off on (in fact I'm pretty sure I remember seeing some characters like her on the drafts for Kolin and Menat). She's definitely filling a much-needed niche as the agile pseudo-grappler and, those months of dance training I took for music theater definitely give me a greater appreciation for her animations and pose work.

She's been compared with Abel a lot but I kinda feel like she's a response to Shermie? Definitely with her alt costume. Capcom and SNK riff on each other all the time and I do wonder if someone in the SF6 dev team saw that KOF XV Shermie trailer a couple years back that got the biggest viewcount of all the characters and thought to themselves, hey why don't we have our own sexy French fashionista grappler lady, and that's how Manon was born.

Oh GOD, Marisa, the standout of the trailer to me. I was hooked from the design alone but that trailer, good God, what a character. Everyone thought she'd be a grappler but no, she's just a tank, absolute beast mode woman who just bulldozes through whatever puny shit you do to repaint the pavement with your face. I get stupid looking at this character, what a glorious addition to the Giants Club of Street Fighter characters.

SHE LIFTS LIONS LIKE KITTIES, living the dream.

She might have some ties to the Illuminati characters? I’m curious if she’s gonna be a villain or anti-hero or on the “just here to fight good” alignment, I’m cool with all of these.

She’s Zangief-size and built for it and we’ve NEVER seen a female character be depicted like this in a fighting game. Every other “big girl” people point to in these games is pretty much always some fitness model with, at best, muscle definition in the arms but a typically thin stomach and torso, identically-attractive to all the other female characters but slightly more ripped.

You never see women characters built the way Marisa is, You just don’t see muscular women depicted often (if at all) outside of either someone’s fetish or someone’s punchline. Fighting games have a marginally better track record with body type diversity than other game genres but still an incredibly, painfully limited one when it comes to women, who are given like two body types to work with and no one would be able to tell 80% of them apart in either type if they switched acessories.

I am supremely glad over the fact that this is a SF6 character just now making her debut, because if Marisa had debuted at any prior installment in the series I do not think she would have been allowed to be this way. If she was in the 2/Alpha/3 titles, there is no way she'd have been given such an unapologetically burly design, and if she was a IV/V character, she'd be most certainly some kind of awful joke they’d have to rework later.

I love that Marisa is a bruiser, that she’s got an rowdy attitude and might even be a villain, but that she’s not fucking Abigail (...I mean maybe she IS fucking Abigail, I don’t know her life, if anyone could do it it’s her but why would anyone want that tho), that she’s allowed to be so cool. I have nothing but praise for this character so far and I really wanna see how her story unfolds and also I NEED TO PLAY THIS.

I main Big Lads in fighting games and I main all the Big Lads in Street Fighter and now I need to main The Big Lass, I need to land that glorious counter of hers ASAP, I need to Sparta Kick my way through matches, this character has my playstyle written over her and I need this game to be out now damnit

I’m sure he was a nice guy and obviously not saying he was the sole cause of everything, but every step of this development process I’ve been thanking my stars that Ono quit the team, we are so unbelievably lucky

While I was holding out some hopes that Capcom would make the final boss a woman this time around (especially with all the new characters being so great that this wouldn’t be a worrying prospect), I was also very curious for JP and I’m really excited with how he’s turned out.

He definitely feels like they took their time connecting a whole lot of separate design ideas and undercurrents into a single character to carry them. He is a rich fighting dandy, a modern equivalent to Dudley and Eagle (Eagle in particular since he was the first weapon user in the series). Some have brought up comparisons between him and Rugal Bernstein, which makes a lot of sense as a character to emulate if you’re doing a Final Boss who’s supposed to be like Bison but different, a next evolution of Bison and his power, since that’s kinda what Rugal was, the next evolution of the Fighting Game Final Boss after Bison and Geese.

Like Ed and Falke, he’s another new character who wields Psycho Power and has mysterious connections to Bison, except he doesn’t suck. He’s got a fantasy wizard vibe and his single-letter name and style seems to imply some sort of connection to G, another powerful fighting wizard dressing and behaving like authority figure, and by far the standout character of V.

G was also said to be the Final Boss of SFV, a position I do think he was qualified for but never really fulfilled because, I don’t think he was supposed to be that entirely, I think they retroactively made him the Boss when Necalli proved to be a dud and the story mode revolved around Bison but they still needed someone who could be the V Boss for assorted reasons.

I think JP is kind of them taking that idea, of G as a Final Boss and important character in the storyline, and sort of doing it right this time around, as he also follows that theme of succession they’ve been doing with these bosses: Emperor/King (Sagat) - Dictator (Bison) - Cult Leader Messiah (Gill) - C.E.O (Seth) - President (G) - N.G.O Oligarch (JP)

He hits such an absurd amount of my aesthetic and conceptual tastes that I, almost don’t believe he’s real? He’s Bison 2 + Eagle + Rugal + G. He’s a Russian supervillain with a dapper red suit vest, gloves reminiscent of black claws, a wonderful mustache and beard combo, and he fights with a cane. He’s got a killer design I absolutely need to take a crack at cosplaying after the game is out.

He has a cat, a detail deemed important enough to go in his bio. He’s voiced by Wally Wingert and Tomokazu Sugita, two people I could watch in anything. He’s got a sick fighting style summoning portals and claws and spike energy spires and one of the most murderous supers in the game yet.

He’s Christopher Lee as a Street Fighter final boss. Can you blame me for thinking more and more that this game is made for me?

[la-pheacienne]

Can somebody explain to me how the so-called """"""feminists"""""""" of the fandom have made it their life's purpose to continuously hate on the TWO FEMALE KEY PLAYERS of A song of ice and fire, and rebrand that as feminism?

Like, we're talking about the two main female heroines of the story, a story that became popular precisely for having these two female characters, the exiled teen sex slave and the orphan little girl that suffocates from society's expectations. If you call yourself a """"""feminist""""""" and a member of asoiaf fandom and you hate/don't care for these characters, guess what you're certainly not.

How did we come to this? What happened to this fandom? It feels like a nuclear catastrophe going through the tags. All I see is an army of people who joined the fandom because the TV show got really popular, then started repeating the same slogans again and again without giving one fuck about the actual story being told. The five players, the five outcasts, the dwarf, the bastard, the cripple, the exiled sex slave and the non-conforming lady, these are the heroes of the story. These characters. This is why the story became popular. I don't understand how this horrible mutation happened in this fandom, I will never get over this.

[hydralisk98]

Why we celebrate Halloween / Samhain like a silly parade of costumes and candy trickery

Hey fellow nerts, guess what time it is?

It’s "Helluva Boss" talkshow time on here, the thing you were awaiting for by far it seems. Sorry for the delays.

Anyway, you may need some context here:

I commissioned a Etsy email letter impersonating Stolas (real or fake correlation, at this point I don’t care.) to provide some comfort reading to myself, my family, my friends and you online observers over my passions.

And from said letter he asked a interesting question worth researching over. About the why / how we came to celebrate this Holiday like a silly pride parade with candies & costumes.

So here I am diving into such a response out of my genuine curiosity and care of all free-will gifted sapients. (not kidding over that monster club attitude)

As for most things we humans did and do in this reality, it comes down to historical traditions, games/questions and the overall social & playful core vibe of Homo Sapiens Sapiens as a species. (for most of such anyway, and no the constant is not that directly "Love" you hopeful romantics, that will be worth talking about another day...)

Turns out if I am to add to Halloween with insight from the contemporary relevance of such celebrations in the last century or so, it is a twisted way (derived from Celtic Samhain and other iron age traditions) from our ancestors to celebrate the dead, deter nefarious Hell's entities (or rather agents as I like to call each individual with free will and a sole body) from making Faustian / Mephistophelian bargains / pacts (you are doing fine enough Stolas, not everybody here are worth catering to...) or animistic tricking to encourage the respect of social etiquette guidelines (which is also worth pointing that it serves some axial age safety purposes too and ain't exclusively a anti-demons matter).

And as far as why I still decide myself to attempt disguising myself into the custom dark academia studious demon lady dress-up of my very own for this year's edition of Halloween? Well, first the Helluva Boss YouTube cartoon show trend obviously, the last few generations of young adults (mostly Gen Z but could apply to Millenials and the generation in between both to which I belong) overall tinkering alot with cultural prejudices as to celebrate pride in novel ways due to how radically right-wing and Wilsonistic-ally Fascist the status quo in the West became as of the last decade to fail at discourage deviation amongst more matters... But also because I do like to show my sympathies to other sapient phenotypes and make advantage of mundane plane's life on my very own terms (but not insulting others ofc) as well as the spiritual autistic transfeminine human I am.

Hopefully you all get a better glimpse at the human biases we have and to Stolas specifically I hope that is a enjoyable read with pertinent trivia information about this reality's human culture.

As for Octavia, I will be happy to provide her the safe-space she needs as we both learn and exercice the esoteric arts in a relatively remote rural environment. Caring is sharing and I am sure a constructive relationship is best for all parties involved here, no matter what specific reality we inhabit. Also applies for whoever polite enough to respect that mutual agreement.

The actual letter written from Etsy store indie seller "LettersFromTheWeb" at ( https://www.etsy.com/ca-fr/shop/LettersFromTheWeb ) if you are wondering:

Until we meet (again? Maybe in the flesh and bones perhaps?), farewell to you all and hoping that things get better for all of us.

[libereerie]

Thanks for all of the music suggestions. I also got various songs from the 1900's - 1940's, songs from some movies/TV shows, and hit as many genres that I could think of. Here's a still incomplete list of bands from the various playlist I put together (technically still putting together):

4 Non Blondes, A Flock Of Seagulls, A-Ha, ABBA, ABC, AC/DC, Adam & The Ants, Adam Jensen, Aerosmith, Aesthetic Perfection, AFI, Alanis Morissette, Alien Sex Fiend, All Time Low, All-American Rejects, Alphaville, Alt-J, Andy Grammer, Angels & Airwaves, Animotion, Ánne Máddji Heatta, Anti-Flag, Aphex Twin, Architects, Arlo Guthrie, Art Of Noise, Atoma, Aurora, Avicii, Avril Lavigne, Backworld, Bad Religion, Badflower, Baha Men, Barenaked Ladies, Barns Courtney, Bauhaus, Bears Den, Beartooth, Beastie Boys, Beck, Big Audio Dynamite, Bill Nelson, Billie Eilish, Billy Idol, Black M, Blackbear, Blaqk Audio, Blastoyz, Blink-182, Blockhead, Blondie, Blood Ceremony, Blue Oyster Cult, Blur, Blutengel, Bob Crosby and His Orchestra, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Bohnes, Bomfunk MC, Boney M, Bow Wow Wow, Breaking Benjamin, Brick + Mortar, Bring Me The Horizon, Britney Spears, Bronski Beat, C2C, Cab Calloway, Cage The Elephant, Cake, Camper Van Beethoven, Cannons, Caravan Palace, Carolina Liar, Casiopea, Cat Power, Cat Stevens, Chet Faker, Chromatics, Chumbawamba, Citizen Soldier, Clean Bandit, CocoRosie, Coil, Coldplay, Corky & The Juice Pigs, Cowboy Junkies, Crystal Castles, Culture Club, Current 93, Cyndi Lauper, Daði Freyr, Daft Punk, Dance With The Dead, Darude, Daughter, David Bowie, David Guetta, Days N Daze, Dead Can Dance, Dead Or Alive, Dead Poet Society, Deadmau5, Deee-Lite, Depeche Mode, Des Rocs, Descendents, Destiny's Child, Devo, Dexys Midnight Runners, Disturbed, DNCE, Dolly Parton, Dominic Fike, Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem, Dropkick Murphys, Dua Lupa, Eagles, Echo & The Bunnymen, Ed Sheeran, Egypt Central, Elderbrook, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, EMF, Eminem, Empire Of The Sun, Escape The Fate, Evanescence, Ezra Bell, Fad Gadget, Faith No More, Falco, Falling In Reverse, FAUN, Fine Young Cannibals, Fiona Apple, Fleetwood Mac, Flo Rida, Flogging Molly, Florance + The Machine, Foals, Foreign Air, Foresight, Foresight!, Forseti, Foster The People, Frank Ocean, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Franz Ferdinand, Fugazi, Fun, Gary Numan, Ghost, Glass Animals, Gloria Gaynor, Gnarls Barkly, Gnome, GOAT, Gogol Bordello, Gorillaz, Granson, Guns & Roses, Guy Lombardo, Half Alive, Hanson, Harry Styles, HEALTH, Heilung, Himalayas, Hinoi Team, Hollywood Undead, House Of Pain, Hozier, Hyukoh, I Don't Know How But They Found Me, IAMX, Icon For Hire, Icon Of Coil, Iggy Pop, In Gowan Ring, In This Moment, Information Society, Iniko, Insane Clown Posse, Irish Rovers, Iron & Wine, Jack Black, Jack White, Jamiroquai, Jane's Addiction, Jason Mraz, Jeff Buckly, Jefferson Airplane, Jim Croce, Jimmy Eat World, Joan Jetts & The Blackhearts, John Grant, John Newman, Johnny Hollow, Julian Casablancas, July Talk, Jungle, Justice, K.Flay, Kajagoogoo, Katy Perry, Kesha, Kid Kapichi, Kill Lincoln, Killing Joke, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, King Harvest, King Missile, KMFDM, KNAAN, Knife Party, Kraftwerk, Kygo, La Roux, Lady Gaga, Lana Del Rey, LCD Soundsystem, Led Zeppelin, Lesley Gore, Lil Nas X, Linkin Park, Little Dragon, Living Room, Looking Glass, Lord of the Lost, Lorde, LORN, Lou Bega, Love and Rockets, LP, Lykke Li, M, M83, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Madness, Madonna, Major Lazer, Malvina Reynolds, Maps & Atlases, Marc & The Mambas, Marina and The Diamonds, Maroon 5, Martin Garrix, Marvin Gaye, Matt Maeson, Max Cooper, Maxine Nightengale, Mazzy Star, Men At Work, Men Without Hats, Metallica, Metric, Meute, MGMT, Michael Jackson, Midnight Oil, Midnight Star, Miike Snow, Mika//Miika, Miley Cyrus, Milky Chance, Moby, Modern English, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Morgxn, Mother Mother, Mothica, Mountain Goats, Mr B the Gentalman Rhymer, MS MR, Mumford & Sons, Muse, My Bloody Valentine, My Chemical Romance

Nathan Evans, Naughty Boy, Nena, Nick Cave, Nine Inch Nails, Ninthshaft, Nirvana, Nitzer Ebb, Noah Finnce, Nothing But Thieves, Nothing More, O-Zone, Odie Leigh, Of Mice & Men, Of Monsters And Men, Oh Hellos, Ok Go, OneRepublic, Opus, Orkestra Obsolete, Orville Peck, Oslo Fagottkor, Outkast, Owl City, Palaye Royale, Panic! At The Disco, Papa Roach, Paramore, Parcels, Passenger, Patti Smith, Paul Simon, Peculiar Pretzelmen, Pet Shop Boys, Peter Bjorn and John, Peter Gabriel, Peter Gundry, Pierce The Veil, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Placebo, Poets Of The Fall, Portishead, Portugal, The Man, Powerman 5000, Primus, Prince, Professor Elemental, Pulp, Puri-Do, PVRIS, Queen, R.E.M., Radiohead, Ragina Spektor, Rainbow Kitten Suprise, Ram Jam, Ramones, Rancid, Ray Parker Jr., Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, Rihanna, Rockwell, Rolling Stones, Roxette, Royal Blood, Röyksopp, Run DMC, Russkaja, Sam Smith, Santana, Savage Garden, Shakira, Shpongle, Sia, Sidney Gish, Simple Minds, Sirenia, Sisters of Mercy, Sixx A.M., SKÁLD, Skan, Skold, Skrillex, Slaves, Slim Dusty, Snow, Soft Cell, Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows, Soundgarden, Squeeze, Stardust, Steam Powered Giraffe, Stevie Nicks, Stevie Wonder, Stone Temple Pilots, Stromae, Sub-Radio, Suzanne Vega, Swedish House Mafia, Switchfoot, System Of A Down, t.A.T.u., T.Rex, Taco, Talking Heads, Tally Hall, The 1975, The Andrews Sisters, The Archies, The Avalanches, The B-52's, The Beatles, The Bee Gees, The Black Keys, The Bouncing Souls, The Brasstones, The Chainsmokers, The Chameleons, The Chemical Brothers, The Church, The Clash, The Commodores, The Correspondents, The Courettes, The Cramps, The Cranberries, The Crystal Method, The Cure, The Dandy Warhols, The Dead Milkmen, The Dead South, The Doors, The Fixx, The Flaming Lips, The Fountains of Wayne, The Front Bottoms, The Human League, The Jackson 5, The Killers, The Kills, The Kinks, The Knack, The Knocks, The Mamas & The Papas, The Midnight, The Monkees, The Mountain Goats, The Neighbourhood, The Offspring, The Oozes, The Orion Experience, The Paper Chase, The Proclaimers, The Psychedelic Furs, The Raconteurs, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, The Rolling Stones, The Score, The Strokes, The Tear Garden, The The, The Toasters, The Tokens, The Velvet Underground, The Verve, The Weeknd, The White Stripes, The Who, TheFatRat, They Might Be Giants, They Might Be Giants (For Kids), Thomas Dolby, Three Days Grace, Throwing Snow, Tiamat, Tina Turner , Toni Basil, Tool, Tori Amos, Tove Lo, Toy Dolls, Tracy Chapman, Troye Sivan, Tubeway Army, Tummy Boy, Tunng, twenty one pilots, Twin Temple, Twisted Sister, Type O Negative, Úlfur Úlfur, Ultravox, Underworld, Vampire Weekend, Vanessa Carlton, Vashti Bunyan, Violent Femmes, VNV Nation, Vundabar, Walk The Moon, Wang Chung, Wardruna, Waterparks, Watsky, Weezer, Weird Al Yankovic, Wet Leg, Wheatus, Wheatus, Whip, Wild Cherry, Will Smith, Wintergatan, Woodkid, Woody Guthrie, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Years and Years, Yung Gravy, Yungblud

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Song Suggestions Wanted

My 16yr old (they/he) is currently in a youth residential treatment program after a psycotic break, planning to kill himself, and a stay in a psych ward. While they still can't have their phone they are now able to have a mp3 player. I'm putting together some playlists to put on the one I bought that's being delivered later today.

They asked for music I'm into as well as stuff I know they like but going through my & their liked songs a lot of it is too angst ridden and/or depressing. (It's almost like depression runs in the family.)

So I ask ~ what songs have helped you get through hard times? He's got an eclectic music taste so any genre is welcome.

[theveryworstthing]

So over on patreon Trevor asked for my take on the Addams Family and I grew up LOVING the Addams family movies so here we are. Instead of doing a straight up style interpretation, I decided to do a full on design challenge, using the characters as bases to make a black southern gothic Addams au. I actually drew the kids first, using the character bases of Wednesday and Pugsley to create some delightful kiddos I'm calling Sunday and Blanche. I of course then redesigned Gomez and Morticia into Carlisle and Mortesha.

The Addams have a very specific high aristocratic goth aesthetic (they've got a butler and nobody really works among other things) so in this re-imagining I wanted to go with vibes that run a little more middle class/upper middle class.  I thought it would be interesting to think about what would be considered weird and off-putting in an entirely different culture, and how being a big ol' goth is way less controversial than it used to be.

I tried to keep this short (HAHAHAHAHAHA) so I didn't spin off into an essay about villain coded families, black people in the horror genre, and normalcy as it pertains to social survival, but just...bits of that are in these designs and lore. Keep that in mind.

Also I made the kids twins because they've flip flopped in age so much in different media and also twins run in my family (i'm the daughter of one). And let's face it, I'm pulling a lot of their southern gothic traits from living as a southern goth so *shrug*.

10 thousand pounds of lore incoming loooooooooool.

The Parents

From the moment he saw her he knew that there was a 50/50 chance of him either never making it out of that swamp alive or marrying the figure that was creeping out from under the distant willow tree in a black cocktail dress. The third time she found him trussed up in one of her traps, he complimented her rope work and asked if she'd like to go out sometime after his head wound stopped bleeding.

Or while it was still bleeding.

If she was into that.

Some kids and a mysteriously burnt down Piggly Wiggly later, their love is still as strong and inescapable as a bear trap in a sink hole.

Carlisle Guillermo (now Addams through marriage but I wanted to give him two first names for a name since Gomez has two last names) makes a vaguely described living practicing ‘law’ around town. A loophole king, people come to him from miles around with contracts signed in blood, fights over chunks of hair buried in their rivals’ yard, dehydrated primate hands, memories that seemed like dreams until the evidence of their happenings became too real, and other regular Legal Items asking for counsel which he is all too happy to give. For a price. Sometimes that price is a homemade pie and sometimes it’s a million dollars, depends on who you are. Whatever you’re asked to pay it’s worth that price, and if you try to scam him out of work or he just plain doesn’t like you? Well. He knows how to twist a contract better than anything at the crossroads.

And he always gets his due.

He doesn’t just serve the local (living)humans though, there are many things that need proper legal representation in this day and age. You wouldn’t believe how many city councils try to build on sacred burial grounds even after he lets them know that his ghostly clients are totally gonna haunt the FUCK out of the ensuing shitty condos and curse their families for all eternity. At least 50% of his energy goes towards dealing with real estate bullshit.

Carl is an excitable and good natured(?) man who loves his family, cigars, dancing, and his many knife-based hobbies. People find him very charming once they get past the feeling that they’re talking to a sultry gator badly disguising itself as a human. I didn’t put a ton of deep thought into designing him, mostly I wanted to make a middle aged dude who looked like he would have been voted ‘most likely to smooch the literal devil’ in high school. Tbh he probably has, but no demonic ex’s can compare to his lovely wife~

Mortesha Addams(her name was already perfect so I just tweaked it)is a woman of many talents. A self proclaimed homemaker, she prides herself on a greenhouse full of Concerning Foliage, a beautiful wasp apiary, and a coop full of what are probably chickens that she keeps for what are probably eggs. She’s also an avid creator of the outsider art that can be seen around the estate. She has taken on the family business of selling her homemade goods in a little stall by the road just outside the swamp with her mom, and makes pretty good money doing so. A surprising amount of poison gets bought in quaint southern towns.

Speaking of poison, people who come out to the edge of the swamp to buy it are usually carrying a lot of secrets around, and Mortesha knows most of them. It’s not like she pries the truth out of people, it just so happens that many nervous hellos eventually turn into the tragic backstory power hour if she’s alone with a client for long enough. She supposes that’s just how people are. Despite the fact that the Addams are very active in the community (whether the community likes it or not) she especially, as a direct descendant of the first Addams matriarch, is seen as…Well not an outsider because the community feels A Certain Way about outsiders and despite it all the Addams are their people, but maybe something like an exception. They feel like whatever weirdness they’re hiding can’t be weirder than any given Addams, so they get a little loose with their words.

This is amusing to her, since Addams’ don’t naturally keep the kind dramatic secrets that their surface level prim and proper neighbors do. It’s much more fun to openly talk about those things.

Do they have a sadly decrepit yet terrifying grandma up in the attic? Yeah, like three. They got a tv, all the creepy porcelain dolls they could want, and they’re close to family. Where do you keep your gram-grams?

Any bodies buried on the property? Yeah some, but most are thrown to the gators.

Any creeping through the balmy summer night with ill intentions? Yeah dude, everyone loves a nice family stroll.

What about dangerous forbidden love? If an adult Addams isn’t incorporeal then they’re either queer or in a torrid romance with some person/thing mysteriously drawn to that awful swamp. Sometimes both at the same time. Most times actually.

Mortesha would know.

The current head of the Addams family is just as outgoing as her husband but a lot quieter and harder to read. She never really seems to get mad about much and always has a genteel smile for everyone whether they deserve it or not. A seven foot tall human shaped “Oh, bless your heart”. A perfectly composed Lady even when she’s, oh I dunno, burning down a Piggly Wiggly. You know. A regular southern mom. Chat her up at the hair salon for 50% off a jar of wasp honey with your next purchase of a mysterious but foreboding packet of herbs.

Designing her was pretty easy because I just drew a lankier Grace Jones and called it a day. I had some problems with her outfit simply because if we were going HARD southern gothic then she’d probably be wearing a white/cream dress with a fuller skirt but I thought keeping the silhouette and the black was more important. She’s supposed to be an anti southern gothic southern gothic character anyway. A woman who looks like she has a million secrets who is actually the most open person you could meet. For better or worse. The red hair came from a coloring error that I really ended up liking (my mom had red hair her whole childhood that only darkened up in high school so I can buy that an Addams can be naturally fire engine red) and the veil was to get more of that classic Morticia silhouette in there.

The Children

Sunday and Blanche are the twin children of Carlisle and Mortesha Addams. Some say the Addams clan got their cursed homestead when a wealthy local businessman made a deal with the devil and lost, leaving his grand mansion to his least favorite maid and cutting his losses once he realized that the swamp would do everything it could to drag the house into the water and take what was owed with its horrible curse. Others say that the family has just always squatted there and no one really cares because man, fuck that particular swamp. Have you been in there? Absolute horror show.

Anyway.

Blanche is the more outgoing sibling and quite the engineer/mad scientist in the making. He started going grey at 2 weeks old but considering he was also rocking some extra fingers, toes, and a tiny tail (he takes after his dad), his parents just put it on the 'not life threatening' pile and decided not to worry about it. He's the kind of smart that teachers find utterly infuriating, less a dog eagerly learning and obeying commands and more a hyena who keeps teaching itself how to pick locks. He has a few friends in his school's robotics club (which they honestly allowed him to make so the school could contain his... creations) but mostly hangs out with his sister exploring the swamp. They find all sorts of neat things in there! wedding rings, suspiciously lumpy garbage bags, cloaked cultists who can't read private property signs, it's an adventure every day!

Blanche is all about experimentation with his creations, his look, and his tether to this mortal coil. Is lipstick a cool thing to try? Let's find out. Can he get out of a strait jacket fast enough after being pushed into the depths of the swamp by his sister? let's find out. He's not dead yet and confused local doctors can attest to the fact that he's rarely attained more than a bad bruise so he's pretty set on continuing to kiss rattlesnakes on their cute little heads and have his sister practice her knife throwing at him until that fact changes.

Blanche is very much a country goth. Cowboy boots (customized by his mom), knife, and lighter are daily accessories. He likes to wear the crusty swamp jewelry they find (the rust adds a splash of color!) and despite appearances he does try to keep himself neat. He's just got  natural Grunge Colors and a tendency to wear clothes he likes until they fall apart. Pugsley always seemed the most modernly styled to me (which might just be because little boys clothes have been the same for a long time) so I wanted Blanche to be the most purposely fashionable Addams. Everyone else is goth by nature, but he's the only one truly familiar with goth as an alternative fashion.

I got really into designing Blanche because honestly, I find Pugsley to be the most boring member of the family. And he was hard to design! I had to mess with his vibe a lot to get him looking how I wanted. I know he's supposed to evoke an " 'evil' little boy next door who's parents never reign him in", but that's just goth Dennis The Menace.  I's 2020. We can at least go queer goth Calvin.

Sunday was much easier to design. Wednesday was my favorite as a child (of course) and I really wanted to keep the spirit of her look while adding things like billowy sleeves (it gets HOT down here), big poofy twists instead of braids, and a nice tie. She's a professional after all, been running the local pet cemetery since she was 6 and the previous groundskeeper met with an unfortunate accident after telling her that tarantulas don't have souls. Her specialty is creating beautiful naturalistic animal funerals similar to those that Maquenda (https://linktr.ee/artofmaquenda) makes, and she takes pride in creating miniature dioramas of her subjects after each burial which she uses as a kind of 3D catalog for future clients.

She really wants to try out her skills on humans one day. Well. Publicly try out her skills. Lotta random bodies float into the swamp. None of them have turned down her requests for diorama models so far. Most seem downright flattered. Plus, she usually figures out which graveyard/crime scene they floated over from and gets her parents to give them a lift back. She'll even help enact terrifying revenge from beyond the grave on whoever put them there if she's not, y'know, busy.

Besides arts, crafts, and pet based funerary arrangements, Sunday is an avid lover of archery (any ranged weapon really), books where little fantasy adventure animals die dramatic deaths, and history. She is That Kid who eagerly raises her hand when asked who Christopher Columbus was and ends up being sent out of class after 15 minutes for making 'a scene'. Her favorite party trick is just picking an item in the room and talking about how it relates to either some obscure historical figure with a buck wild life or a horrible disaster. At least one charity pancake breakfast ended with children in tears after her vivid description of the Great Molasses Flood of 1919.

Social-wise, while Wednesday is the girl that people ask to smile because they think she'd, "look so pretty", Sunday is rarely asked anything at all. People just kind of assume from her quiet nature (in between horrible history facts) that she's angry all the time and that she hates everyone. This is untrue. She hates some people but she's ambivalent to most everyone else and even downright friendly if you bother to talk to her like a person instead of a terrifying cryptid. Like, she IS a terrifying cryptid but she's also a little girl.  

That’s about it for now. One day I might do the other family members but for now I’m happy with the four I’ve redesigned. Making an au! Lurch in a family that doesn’t do butlers could be interesting. Over on patreon I put forth that he could just be Motesha’s mute little brother (similar bone structure) but Amy Crook had the nice idea of quote: “ a mysterious "cousin" that "helps around the house" whose origins are both long in the past and faintly unsettling. He's good for lifting heavy things, like that tank of propane you're about to throw into the burning Piggly Wiggly... “ which i now consider canon. Who's kid is he? How old is he? Not important. Anyone willing to commit arson with you is family.

Annnnyway.  This challenge was a lot of fun! I love indulging in AU’s.

[beholdthemem]

In a world where things do not go quite as wrong, I feel like Erica ends up getting invited back to play with the Hellfire Club on more than one occasion, much to Lucas's chagrin. She's a good player, a skilled tactician, and seems to have better luck on high stakes rolls than anyone else.

She's also the only member who absolutely refuses to be impressed by Eddie in any capacity, and unbeknownst to the others, that's half the reason he keeps inviting her back. Like, the Lord of Hellfire persona is one hundred percent meant to awe/perhaps-slightly-intimidate both his friends and his freshmen, and theoretically the fact that it means nothing to this kid should be annoying- but in practice he finds her anti-authority streak both really funny, and highly relatable. He's been mouthing off to people trying to intimidate him since he was still short enough to get beaten up for it. Erica Sinclair looking him dead in the eye from the nearly-two-foot height difference between them and calling him a long haired freak to his face is almost enough to make him nostalgic. Eleven year old Eddie would've done the same thing.

So Erica keeps coming back because she's the only person bold enough to check him, and that's funny until he remembers that her calling out things his other minions wouldn't acknowledge doesn't just apply to D&D.

They're setting up for a session one evening, Mike and Jeff BOTH running late, which puts them behind schedule a little bit. Traditionally, this lack of punctuality would have Eddie royally pissed off. Gareth's been waiting on the start of one of his usual tirades promising dire consequences for late PCs- but tonight Eddie seems... oddly unbothered. He hasn't even mentioned it.

It's possible he's just trying to psych them all out. Lulling the party into a false sense of security by feigning indifference before busting out some truly horrifying encounters mid-session does sound like an Eddie move. But if the peace is an act, it's a pretty convincing one. He's setting his notes up behind the board, seemingly unaware of the club members waiting for the other shoe to drop, and humming something absentmindedly to himself.

Gareth squints, trying to place the melody. He's overheard Eddie humming that song a lot lately, and while it's definitely familiar, he can't quite remember what it is. He's pretty sure it's Sabbath, but whichever song it is, it's not on any of their setlists for CC.

It's at this point that Sinclair's younger sister abruptly looks up from her character sheet with an eye roll worthy of the greats and asks:

"The cheerleader AGAIN?"

Eddie goes still.

"What cheerleader?" Henderson asks, nonplussed. It sounds like nonsense, except that Gareth can tell from the way Eddie's staring down the deeply unimpressed middle schooler across the table that it definitely means something to him, and that he wasn't aware anyone else knew about it.

"The cheerleader who keeps finding excuses to come see him," she points at Eddie, who is now shooting her the kind of silencing glare that would melt anyone else's head. "God knows why. Doesn't she have any hobbies? It feels like any time I'm here a minute before the session or spend two seconds coming back to grab something after it's over, I'm risking walking in on you two doing that dumb thing where you each pretend you're not staring at each other-"

"Who?" Sinclair asks, looking torn between stopping his sister from provoking the DM into a preemptive Total Party Kill and figuring out what the fuck she's talking about.

"I don't know," the kid makes a face like expecting her to remember the names of people she doesn't particularly know or care about is asking far too much of her. "Blonde? Short? Used to date your loser friend?"

"Which loser friend?" Henderson asks, intrigued, and Gareth can SEE Eddie deciding which character is going to be first to die after Lady Applejack. Violently.

"The annoying one from the basketball team," Sinclair the Younger clarifies dismissively, and Gareth feels his jaw drop as he suddenly understands exactly who she's talking about.

"Chrissy?" Sinclair asks, sounding almost as flabbergasted as Gareth feels right now. She can't be serious. "Are you talking about Chrissy Cunningham?"

"Don't know," his sister rolls her eyes again. "Don't care. All I know is that every time she comes by to see him, he'll be humming that same stupid song over and over again afterwards until I'm ready to blow my brains out. EVERY time. You know you can mix it up a little, right?"

This last comment is directed at Eddie, and is followed by the kind of silence that occurs when people are too afraid to breathe. Gareth carefully makes sure to be looking at his character sheet and nothing else.

"You know," Eddie says finally in a voice as cold as the grave and promising suffering. "Harassing your DM tends to end in permanent death for your character."

"Take your best fucking shot," Erica says sweetly.

Jeff and Wheeler suddenly crash in through the door at the same time, talking over one another as they both try to apologize for being late. Eddie turns his attention to them, and everyone present for the previous discussion abruptly busies themself with any possible distraction.

As Gareth sorts through his dice for whichever set seems most likely to keep him alive during what's looking to be a very brief and bloody campaign, the name of the song Eddie's apparently had in his head on repeat abruptly hits him, and he goes into a brief coughing fit trying to stifle surprised laughter.

Eddie's been humming Sabbra Cadabra.

[jeeperso]

D&D Quotes Without Context

Ravenloft Edition, Har-Akir arc, part 4

Jonni: “Hellllloooo, Snek lady.”

“Yeah… we just need some tomb stuff so we can go home/and or be betrayed at the last minute.”

Jonni: “Guys, I think it’s super important we spend the night in her sexy home.” Gorbash opens his mouth to object but pauses. "Eh, it worked out last time.”

“I have never left a woman upset. Husbands, yes, but never a lady.”

“Apparently I picked the wrong profession. No, no Jonni, being awesome is it’s own reward.”

“I was gonna say championing Justice must be lonely, but I appear to be wrong.”

"Tell me, what has the Necromancer sent you after in the tomb of the Scarab King?” Jonni: “Book of weird shit.” The Naga's features harden. "That book may have more weird shit than you are prepared for.” Gorbash: “... Unfortunately we live a life where we have to take weird shit as it comes, whether we're prepared or not.”

“Is it weirder than herding a captive team of cheerleaders into Grandmother Winter’s dancing hut to escape a labyrinth of madness?”

"The book is known by many names to many people, but you would know it as the book of vile darkness.” “How much of it is weird sex stuff? By volume. I’m guessing 30, 40 percent?” "More than you think, less than you hope.”

"Crud, the way Nima described it I thought it was a book of the dead, dangerous but nothing on the scale of the book of vile darkness. Every treasure hunter I've met has said to avoid it at all cost, there is no known means to destroy it.” “Give me three cheese pizzas and a privy, I’ll take care of it.” "Already been tried on the dammed thing, Jonni. Didn't work. They even tried one with anchovies on the pizza and it was still undamaged.” “They try taco night and the dwarf rave?” "Both kinds of dwarf rave." "You are not using the Book of vile darkness as toiler paper. Do you WANT a haunted vagina? Cause that's how you get one.”

Poom falls into a bath on purpose.

Nyx has a bath after resting up, getting the filth of the road off herself and cooling down felt great. "If only there were places like this every 5 miles in the desert.” Poom: "I think there's a universal rule that things can never be that easy.” Gorbash: “Sadly that's very true.”

“Imma still look inside and see if there’s a way to get fire ork off our ass.”

“Thanks for the sexy times!” "So.. thats two snake women now…" “With wildly different anatomies.” “No, that’s a snake woman. The other was a woman with a snake theme.” "... I want to ask whats the difference... but I don’t WANT to know whats the difference. “ “It’s like the difference between ghost pirates and pirate ghosts.”

“And today's gift from the Desert is…” “HPV with our luck.”

“Sweeet! Imma name him Feather Bob!”

"Noooo! Not a giant space hamster." Nyx sits down and starts rocking back and forth. "These chubby cheeks are a nightmare inside.”

OOC: The flying level in the portal runners side scrolling beat-em up is gonna be sweet.

It’s way too early for the sun to start rising. The sun is rising way too fast to be natural, its coming up from the north and not the east, and you are pretty sure the sun does not have a face. ".... That's not a sun…." "As long as it's not a space station.”

GM OOC: What’s the carts max speed anyway? OOC: I dunno, you gave it to us. And it’s haunted. GM OOC: Oh right, the tiefling kid is in there right? OOC: And didn’t we say it had ghost raccoons?

"You . kicked. it. in. the. testicles!” "We don't even know if it had sex organs.”

“My ass is amazing. It was voted Golarion’s ass.”

Okay, so Nyx manages to rummage through your things and finds a nice big brown tarp to hide your collective dumb asses. OOC: Poom will have you know she has a very smart ass. Nyarlathotep: "Thank you.”

“So that’s two things following us trying to kill us.” "Lucky us. We have an anti-fan-club.”

Jonni: “To be fair, we’re only assuming it would be hard. We haven’t tried killing it yet.” Edmund: ”It is a giant. angry. Sun….Correction. It is a small. angry. sun. but bigger than us." Poom:”Maybe with an army of tigers.” Gorbash: “That would be nice to have just in general.”

Nyx glares at the real sun to see if she can make it go back down for even a few minutes. Her cute, red face is ineffective. Gorbash: “That one is just trying to kill us with heat stroke and dehydration.” Edmund: "It plays the slow game.”

“Circle birds?”

Poom OOC: Rolls a 1 on a Perception check. Poom watches a spider tumble down the side of a dune.

OOC: No lie, in champions I had a ninja following the group. He crit failed his stealth role and the PCs saw him hiding behind a lamp post. "Is that a ninja? No. If it was a ninja, we'd never see it. So it cant be a ninja. So we can safely ignore it.”

OOC: Marshal on the Griffin fighting the angry sun in a scene worthy of being spray painted on someone's van.

GM OOC: Riddles.com, because I'm not the fucking Riddler.

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Headcanons

Dante 

Dante As A Dad

If Dante Had A TikTok

Tickling Dante and Vergil 

Why Vergil Sleeps With An Eye Mask

The Sparda Twins Dying For Each Other (ANGST)

Dates With Dante Before and During A Relationship

How Nico, Nero, and Dante Would Handle Anti-Maskers

Dante and Vergil With A Delinquent Child

Dante and Vergil's Favorite Types Of Intimacy 

Kissing Dante and Vergil All Over Their Faces

Dante, Vergil, and Lady Cuddling Their Male S/O 

Dante Sleeping Over With His S/O For The First Time

Dante and Vergil Being Bridal-Carried In Public By S/O 

Dante and Vergil Joining Their S/O’s Skin Care Regime

Dante and Vergil Having Disagreements With Their S/O

Dante and Vergil With A Sympathetic Demon Hunter S/O 

Dante and Vergil With a Black!Half-Demonic!Angel-like!S/O

Dante and Vergil Falling In Love With A S/O Who Is Nero's Age

NSFW

SDT!Dante (NSFW)

Dante and Vergil: Giving Their Male S/O Oral Sex (NSFW)

Dante and Vergil: Spanking As Foreplay, Giving and Receiving (NSFW) 

Dante and Vergil Having SDT!Sex With A Devil-Triggered! AFAB! S/O (NSFW)

Vergil 

Vergil As An Uncle

Vergil As A Grandfather 

Tickling Dante and Vergil

Vergil During Thanksgiving 

Insults Vergil Have Thrown At Dante

Why Vergil Sleeps With An Eye Mask

Dante and Vergil With A Delinquent Child

Vergil Owns A Vinyl Collection: A Concept 

The Sparda Twins Dying For Each Other (ANGST)

Vergil Fighting His Power Obsessed Daughter (ANGST, TW: DEATH)

Dante and Vergil's Favorite Types Of Intimacy 

Kissing Dante and Vergil All Over Their Faces

Dante, Vergil, and Lady Cuddling Their Male S/O

Vergil and V with a S/O Who Can Summon A Persona

Dante and Vergil Being Bridal-Carried In Public By S/O

Dante and Vergil Joining Their S/O’s Skin Care Regime

Dante and Vergil Having Disagreements With Their S/O

Dante and Vergil With A Sympathetic Demon Hunter S/O

Dante and Vergil With a Black!Half-Demonic!Angel-like!S/O

Dante and Vergil When Nero And Their S/O Can't Get Along

Dante and Vergil Falling In Love With A S/O Who Is Nero's Age 

NSFW

SDT! Vergil (NSFW)

Dante and Vergil: Giving Their Male S/O Oral Sex (NSFW)

Dante and Vergil: Spanking As Foreplay, Giving and Receiving (NSFW)

What Dante, Trish, and Vergil Do When They Want To Get Intimate With Their S/O (NSFW)

Dante and Vergil Having SDT!Sex With A Devil-Triggered! AFAB! S/O (NSFW)

V 

Vergil and V with a S/O Who Can Summon A Persona

Dante, Vergil, and V

Personality Traits The DMC Boys Fall For

Dante, Vergil, and V With A Nephil! S/O

Dante, Vergil, and V With A Trans! FTM!S/O

Dante, Vergil, and V With Their Dhampir! S/O

Dante, Vergil, and V With Their FBI Agent! S/O

Dante, Vergil, and V With A Thick-Thighed S/O 

Dante, Vergil, and V With Cosplay Hobbyist! S/O

Dante, Vergil, and V With A Strong & Badass S/O

Dante, Vergil, and V With A Wonder Woman! S/O

Dante, Vergil, and V With A Badass But Lazy! S/O

Dante, Vergil, and V With Their Authorities Angel! S/O

Dante, Vergil, and V With A Part-Time Pro-Cosplayer! S/O

Dante, Vergil, and V With A Strong And Very Closed Off! S/O

Dante, Vergil, and V With A S/O With Scarlet Witch’s Powers

Dante, Vergil, and V Watching One Piece With Their Male S/O

Dante, Vergil, and V  Being “Jet-Pack Cuddled” By A Short!S/O

Dante, Vergil, and V With An Amnesiac! S/O That Still Loves Them

What Would Dante, Vergil, and V Do If Someone Made Their S/O Cry

Dante, Vergil, and V With A Physically Weak But Intellectually Badass! S/O

Dante, Vergil, and V With A S/O With Muscle Twitches Due To Antidepressants 

Dante, Vergil, and V Playing the Pocky Game

Dante, Vergil, and V Getting Their Hair Stroked

Dante, Vergil, and V Taking Care Of Stray Animals

Gifts Dante, Vergil, and V Would Give To Their S/O

Dante, Vergil, and V Taking Care Of Their Baby Daughter

Dante, Vergil, and V Going To Their Kid’s Volleyball Tournament

Dante, Vergil, and V Taking Their Children To The Amusement Park 

Dante, Vergil, V, and Nero’s Favorite Traditional Chinese and Japanese Foods and Drinks

(Dante, Vergil, and Nero On The Maury Show)

PART I

PART II

PART III

NSFW

Dante, Vergil, and V With A Virgin! S/O (NSFW)

Dante, Vergil, and V With A Thick-Thighed S/O (NSFW)  

Dante, Vergil, and V With A Friend With Benefits (NSFW)

Dante, Vergil, and V With A S/O That’s Always Horny (NSFW)

Dante, Vergil, and V With A S/O With Small Boobs (NSFW-ish)

Dante, Vergil, and V Doing The 69 Position With A Timid!S/O (NSFW)

Dante, Vergil, and V Catching Their S/O Touching Themselves (NSFW)

Dante, Vergil, and V With A S/O That Likes Being Called Kitten (NSFW)

What Dante, Trish, and Vergil Do When They Want To Get Intimate With Their S/O (NSFW)

Dante, Vergil, and V With A S/O That Blurts Out They Masturbated To The Thought Of Them (NFSW)

Nero 

Ticking Nero

Raising Nero As His Mother

Being Best Friends With Nero

Nero and Chewing Gum: A Concept

Poly! Nero, Kyrie, And Male S/O Relationship

How Nero Might Become Evil: A Pysch-Analysis

Nico And Nero’s Friendship (Knife Brother Requested!)

How Nico, Nero, and Dante Would Handle Anti-Maskers 

Nero With A Black! Half-Demonic! Angel-like! Best Friend

Dante, Vergil, V, and Nero’s Favorite Traditional Chinese and Japanese Foods and Drinks

Lady

Dante, Vergil, and Lady Cuddling Their Male S/O

Trish 

What Dante, Trish, and Vergil Do When They Want To Get Intimate With Their S/O (NSFW)

Nico 

Nico And Nero’s Friendship (Knife Brother Requested!) 

How Nico, Nero, and Dante Would Handle Anti-Maskers 

Fully Written Works 

Dante 

Stuck Thinking About You

Summary:  Dante or Vergil gets immobilized in some embarrassing or inconvenient way during a job and then (Y/N) pays them company until they can be freed. How about they have a crush on (Y/N) and they don't know it is returned until the end?

A For Apple, Or A For IKEA?

Summary: In which Vergil goes to IKEA with Dante to get a new table. But at what cost?

Don’t Leave Baby In The Corner

Summary: Dante and you talk about wanting kids or not while waiting for the pregnancy test.

Nothing Hurts When I’m With You

Summary: With Dante hurt from a demonic attack, the two of you seek shelter and each other's warm company in a cave.

草莓珍珠奶茶-Strawberry Pearl Milk Tea

Summary: You take Dante out for his first bubble tea experience.

Somebody Else’s; Nobody’s (ANGST)

Summary: Dante hates to think about you with somebody else, yet he still says no to your love. Guess he's just a coward, and now he's picturing your body with somebody else.

NSFW

Velvet Devotion (NSFW)

Summary: You don't know what you do to him. How you hold onto him in the dead of night, nails raking his skin. How he feels held by you. On velvet sheets, he finds he is worshipped with the softest of affections.

Vergil 

Of Lacking Specatcle(s)

Summary: Vergil is a lot of things. Vergil is the Dark Slayer, The Alpha and The Omega, and the eldest son of Sparda. Vergil is also….in need of glasses?

Knock-Off Ring Franchise

Summary: Vergil and Dante leave Vergil’s S/O in the shop with a TV and a strange VCR tape. Drama ensues.

Stuck Thinking About You 

Summary: Dante or Vergil gets immobilized in some embarrassing or inconvenient way during a job and then (Y/N) pays them company until they can be freed. How about they have a crush on (Y/N) and they don't know it is returned until the end? 

A For Apple, Or A For IKEA?

Summary: In which Vergil goes to IKEA with Dante to get a new table. But at what cost?

NSFW

The Passion In Rivalry (V/Reader/Vergil)(NSFW)  

Summary: Vergil separating V from himself with Yamato. Threesome with reader ensues.

Do I Want To Know, Do You Feel Held By Me?(NSFW)

Summary:  All in all, Vergil is a tempered blade. Plunged into heat and left to the cold, he is only perfected with each night you come to his room.

He Wanted War, She Wanted Peace; In Pieces, They Collide(NSFW)(ANGST)

Summary: She pursued him, the demon in a human shell. Their time together meant no good, a match to silk and feathers, devastation imminent.

V

TikTok Stardom

Summary:  V and Y/N try to survive the four attempts Dante takes to be TikTok famous, one of the TikToks surprisingly working out in the end.

TIkTok Stardom II: The Lovers Strike Back

Summary:  Dante challenges (Y/N) to make a better TikTok than him, not knowing the secret weapon has a cane, secret dance skills, and an ever-present smirk on his face.

Verona Serenade

Summary: V takes you out on a date, and it’s poetry as always.

i died, and was born in the spring; i found you, and loved you, again

Summary: After a loss, comes the regrowth of roots once thought destroyed by the tides of time. A story in which V kisses you softly and Vergil holds onto you tightly.

NSFW

O Tempter, O The Sea (NSFW)

Summary: You cry out for the sea, yet you do not expect an answer back.

~Sweet Erotic Angel Baby~ (NSFW)

Summary: There is vitality in vulnerability. Even in your soft kisses, there is something with a bite that he craves to feel.

The Passion In Rivalry (V/Reader/Vergil)(NSFW)  

Summary: Vergil separating V from himself with Yamato. Threesome with reader ensues.

Nico

Heartline Driver, Front Seat Lover

Summary: At the end of a road trip begins a new path for you and Nico. But first, you have to turn on the ignition.

Series

Devil May Grind: Magic Mike! AU

Dante/Reader

Series Summary:  From a surprise rendezvous to a male strip club on your birthday to a private dance, you end up seeing eye-to-eye rather than eye-to-groin with a cowboy stripper named Dante Sparda.

PART I- Can You Touch This?(AFAB) (NSFWish)

Summary: A shy and short homebody celebrating your birthday with friends, you end up somewhere you'd never expect: a male strip club. And what you'd also never expect is a certain red-devil/cowboy stripper to lay his special treatment on you.

Vergil 

{KEEP AN EYE OVER YONDER}

V

{KEEP AN EYE OVER YONDER}

Keeping Up With A Himbo

ALL OF THE SPARDA BOYS

Series Summary: A series of domestically fluffy snippets where the s/o of a Sparda learns just how much of a himbo their lover is.

Dante (I)- Change Of Hands

Vergil (I)- Lost In The Sauce

AWAS

Dante/Reader/Vergil (NO SPARDACEST)

Series Summary: Dante and Vergil meet a mysterious and powerful being with a painful past and an even deadlier endgame.

(AWAS Has A Separate Masterlist)

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