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[soft-lilith]

look at my man and me, being cute in our save space 🖤🥹

@obsidianne-art / @beware-thecrow THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING MY VISION COME TRUE 😭 Please, if you think of a commission, chose her! Can't wait till my birthday so i can commission you again 🥹🖤

now i need to get back and watch Shigs play Elden Ring because I'm to dumb to play it myself 💀 #skill issue

[soft-lilith]

what’s the biggest red flag character you relate to for any reason

[billdecker]

I’ve spent nine months perfecting my 40th birthday party playlist and I think I have it. It’s split up into kinda eras/musical obsessions of my life and songs that mean a lot to me/remind me of people no longer in my life, so here we are...

Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes

I Predict a Riot - Kaiser Chiefs

Apply Some Pressure - Maximo Park

Banquet - Bloc Party

Michael - Franz Ferdinand

Mirror Kissers - The Cribs

Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand

Somebody Told Me - The Killers

Fell In Love With a Girl - The White Stripes

One Step Beyond - Madness

The Sound of the Suburbs - The Members

Jilted John - Jilted John

Anarchy in the UK - Sex Pistols

Teenage Kicks - The Undertones

Ever Fallen in Love - Buzzcocks

Going Underground - The Jam

Rock the Casbah - The Clash

Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads

It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way - The Blow Monkeys

Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears

The Look of Love - ABC

Wishing I Was Lucky - Wet Wet Wet

Breakout - Swing Out Sister

Yes Sir, I Can Boogie - Baccara

Dancing Queen - ABBA

Best of My Love - The Emotions

Got To Be Real - Cherly Lynn

Never Too Much - Luther Vandross

Boogie Wonderland - Earth, Wind & Fire

You To Me Are Everything - The Real Thing

The Snake - Al Wilson

Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield

Land of 1000 Dances - Wilson Pickett

Do I Love You - Frank Wilson

Get Ready - The Temptations

Reach Out, I’ll Be There - Four Tops

My Girl - The Temptations

I Can’t Help Myself - Four Tops

This Old Heart of Mine - The Isley Brothers

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross

I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Whitney Houston

Respectable - Mel & Kim

London Nights - London Boys

When Will I Be Famous? - Bros

Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley

You’ll Never Step Me From Loving You - Sonia

Too Many Broken Hearts - Jason Donovan

Love in the First Degree - Bananarama

Venus - Bananarama

One For Sorrow - Steps

All That She Wants - Ace of Base

Love to Hate You - Erasure

Love Shack - The B-52′s

Sweat (A La La La La Song) - Inner Circle

Baby I Love Your Way - Big Mountain

Shine - Aswad

Would I Lie To You? - Charlie & Eddie

Return of the Mack - Mark Morrison

Save Our Love - Eternal

Stay - Eternal

Naked - Louise

Maybe - Emma Bunton

Mi Chico Latino - Geri Halliwell

I Turn To You - Melanie C

Out of Your Mind - True Steppers, Dane Bowers, Victoria Beckham

I Want You Back - Mel B, Missy Elliott

Re-Rewind - Artful Dodger, Craig David

Scandalous - Mis-Teeq

Flowers - Sweet Female Attitude

I Know Where It’s At - All Saints

Never Ever - All Saints

Stay - Lisa Loeb

I Quit - Hepburn

Drop Dead Gorgeous - Republica

Trouble - Shampoo

Bitch - Meredith Brooks

You Oughta Know - Alanis Morissette

Celebrity Skin - Hole

Weak - Skunk Anansie

Don’t Speak - No Doubt

Torn - Natalie Imbruglia

I Want It That Way - Backstreet Boys

Crazy For You - Let Loose

Love Me For a Reason - Boyzone

Keep On Movin - Five

Be the First to Believe - A1

Love Here I Come - Bad Boys Inc

I’m a Man, Not a Boy - North & South

House of Love - East 17

Let’s Get Ready to Rhumble - PJ & Duncan

If I Give You My Number - PJ & Duncan

I Should Be So Lucky - Kylie Minogue

Never Too Late

Step Back in Time

Better the Devil You Know

Spinning Around

Can’t Get Blue Monday Out of My Head - Kylie, New Order

Girls & Boys - Blur

Connection - Elastica

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

Creep - Radiohead

Song 2 - Blur

Your Woman - White Town

Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve

Change - Lightning Seeds

Trash - Suede

A Girl Like You - Edwyn Collins

Disco 2000 - Pulp

Common People - Pulp

Country House - Blur

Mulder and Scully - Catatonia

World in Motion - New Order

Three Lions - Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds

Wannabe - Spice Girls

Say You’ll Be There

Who Do You Think You Are?

Spice Up You Life

Stop

Old Before I Die - Robbie Williams

Rock DJ

Millennium

No Regrets

Angels

Babe - Take That

Once You’ve Tasted Love

It Only Takes a Minute

I Found Heaven

Could It Be Magic

Everything Changes

Pray

Relight My Fire

Two Can Play That Game - Bobby Brown

I Luv U Baby - The Original

Don’t Give Me Your Life - Alex Party

Never Let Her Slip Away - Undercover

When I’m Good and Ready - Sybil

Ride on Time - Black Box

The Rhythm of the Night - Corona

No Limit - 2 Unlimited

Get A Way - Maxx

The Key The Secret - Urban Cookie Collective

U Sure Do - Strike

I Breathe Again - Adam Rickitt

Spaceman - Babylon Zoo

Red Alert - Basement Jaxx

Feel It - The Tamperer, Maya

Freed From Desire - Gala

Mr Vain - Culture beat

What Is Love? - Haddaway

Gypsy Woman - Crystal Waters

Finally - CeCe Peniston

Free - Ultra Nate

Dreamer - Livin Joy

Let Me Be Your Fantasy - Baby D

I’m Alive - Stretch n Vern

Set You Free - N-Trance

disco tits - Tove Lo

Coconuts - Kim Petras

Outside - George Michael

It’s a Sin - Pet Shop Boys

Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Gimme Gimme Gimme - ABBA

Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler

Let’s Dance - David Bowie

Temptation - Heaven 17

Gold - Spandau Ballet

Karma Chameleon - Culture Club

Club Tropicana - Wham

I’m Still Standing - Elton John

Uptown Girl - Billy Joel

Young at Heart - The Bluebells

Come On Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners

I Could Be So Good For You - Dennis Waterman

Amarillo - Tony Christie

Delilah - Tom Jones

The Best - Tina Turner

All Around the World - Lisa Stansfield

The Time of My Life - Billy Medley, Jennifer Warnes

Especially For You - Kylie, Jason

Perfect Moment - Martine McCutcheon

Chains - Tina Arena

A Design For Life - Manic Street Preachers

Yes - McAlmont & Butler

I Do This All The Time - Self Esteem

Zombie - The Cranberries

This Charming Man - The Smiths

Paranoid Android - Radiohead

The Wonder of You - Elvis Presley

Don’t Look Back in Anger - Oasis

Baby I Love You - The Ramones

[peachesandmilktea]

a little treat for what's to come uwu <3

I’M IN CLASS RIGHT NOW TRYING SO HARD NOT TO SCREAAAAAAAM THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL I WANNA CRY 😭😭😭😭😭😭

Thank you Geri you’re the BEST I COULD DIE FOR HIM YOU DRAW HIM SO PERFECT MY HEART JUST GOES 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥 IM CURRENTLY HAVING A STROKE

[vintagegeekculture]

Who are the “Venoms Mob?”

Well, first things first: if you go to China and talk about the 5 Venoms, or the Venoms Mob, they’ll have absolutely no idea who you’re talking about there, because that’s a fandom-term among US Kung Fu cult movie fans.

In Hong Kong, the Venoms are known as director Chang Cheh’s Weapons Expert Troupe, a group of five lifelong friends, martial artists, bodybuilders, exotic weapons experts, and trained acrobats who did at least a dozen movies for manly man Kung Fu director Chang Cheh in the 1970s and 1980s. They were the real deal: they usually choreographed their own fight scenes, which often involved flips and crazy stunts due to their acrobat training, high-wire acts, and unusual and exotic weaponry not typically seen even in martial arts movies. It’s like every single one of them drank the Captain America potion. Their films tended to end in heroic sacrifices, and the Venoms, for all their athleticism and daring, tended to be identifiable people on the bottom end of the societal ladder: homeless drifters, refugees, itinerant hobos, traveling performers, or restaurant workers.

The Venoms were stars in the US, particularly among the black community who love Chinese martial arts movies, not just because of their truly breathtaking skill and choreography, but because they are how most people feel they are, secretly, deep down: rams among sheep. They are the poor, downtrodden, or average person who decides “not to take it anymore” after untold indignities. This is also why the Venoms are especially important to the black community. In fact, if you want to know how much the Venoms mean to their fans, just go up to nearly any Black Dad over 45+ and ask about the “5 Venoms.” 

Chang Cheh, Director of the Venoms

The best way to describe the director and writer of the Venoms films, Chang Cheh is that he is basically Mac from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia if he decided to make Gladiator and loved Sergio Leone and Kurasawa.

The director and writer of the Venoms movies, and maybe the most significant name in the history of Kung Fu cinema apart from Bruce Lee, Chang Cheh was towering enough that Quentin Tarantino dedicated Kill Bill Part 2 to Chang Cheh in the closing credits. It would not be inaccurate to say he invented the Kung Fu movie as we know it, with its training montages, mentor-student relationships, all cut with themes of vengeance, noble self-sacrifice, and rebellion of poor and ordinary people against unjust authority.

Chang Cheh’s life story is fascinating. His father was a warlord during the Republican Era between the World Wars, which must have made for an interesting school career day. He started as a film critic and became a screenwriter, then from being a screenwriter, became a director. I wonder if that is the reason that Chang Cheh was so fascinated by themes of masculinity and male bonding, as the arty, openly gay movie critic son of a central Asian warlord had a nearly impossible standard of masculinity to live up to.

The two Western movies that are, thematically, the closest to Chang Cheh are Gladiator and Saving Private Ryan, and if you like both of those movies, you’ll probably like him. His heroes are often James Dean-like angry young men, poor and at the outskirts of society. His movies tend to end in heroic self-sacrifice for a noble cause, and tend to have themes of vengeance, arty blood red slaughter, and a distrust of authority and government of any kind. He loves bloodshed and thinks violence is beautiful; an image that comes up often is someone in an all white outfit that gets covered in blood, an arty view of violence similar to his two biggest influences, Sergio Leone and Kurosawa. Like the Shawshank Redemption, Chang Cheh movies are essentially ensemble pieces about the friendships and close comradely bonds of brotherhood between men. Very few women of any kind have extensive speaking parts in his movies.

Another movie that also summarizes Chang Cheh would be 300. Remember that Sarah Silverman bit where she said that “300 is the answer to the question, how gay is this movie on a scale of 1 to 10?” Not just because it is about an entirely male cast, or about finding fulfillment in noble self-sacrifice and heroism Alamo-style against desperate odds, but also because it’s about glorifying the male body, with tons of abs and pecs. I suppose I should mention here that Chang Cheh’s movies are profoundly homoerotic, and discussion of their homoeroticism is the major way film academics talk about these movies. How many scenes in Cheh’s movies are about dudes hanging out with their shirts off, flexing their muscles? Or about “brothers” who clasp each other on the shoulder while looking longingly into each other’s eyes in a shot-reverse shot? The only meaningful relationship in his movies are male ones. I dislike passing on cheap gossip, but by all accounts it’s actually an open secret in the Hong Kong film industry that Chang Cheh was homosexual and lived with other men. 

Yi Kuang -Screenwriter of the Venoms

The screenwriter of nearly all the Venoms movies, much like Chang Cheh, Yi Kuang had an interesting life. He was a Communist Party officer who went to Inner Mongolia, where his primary job was writing death sentences for landlords. Once idealistic, he left disillusioned with the Chinese Communist Party, and a remained a die-hard anticommunist. Evil bureaucrats tend to show up in his stories often for that reason, and a common theme of his scripts is the anger of ordinary people against distant, unapproachable authorities. There’s no understanding Venoms films without their screenwriter. Chang Cheh started as a screenwriter and wrote his movies, but Yi Kuang was his most frequent partner.

Interestingly, Yi Kuang got famous long after for writing a series of supernatural and horror novels called the Mr. Wisely books, where a traditional Chinese medicine expert fights for sites of power charged with Feng Shui. It’s interesting to see his turn to the supernatural, sorcery, and ghosts as an overreaction to his distaste for Marxist materialism. Of all the Venoms films, the one that shows his influence the strongest was the one the Venoms fight an evil human sacrifice devil cult, Masked Avengers. 

The Hero – Kuo Chui

A guy with a big smile and a body carved out of marble, Kuo Chui started as a circus acrobat before becoming a stuntman and then a leading actor. He was the Venom with the strongest and most natural screen presence, the one that was the most “movie star.” In fact, he was almost always the hero and central character of Venoms movies, usually playing the most levelheaded and strategic minded of the group.

Kuo Chui deserves some credit also for being the one Venom to actually direct a movie himself, Ninja in the Deadly Trap. This sounds like a heck of a leap, but in Hong Kong, nearly all choreographers also direct their fight scenes. It’s no surprise that a common career path in Hong Kong cinema is to go from choreographer to director (see also Chang Cheh’s ex-choreographers, Tang Chia and 36 Chambers director Liu Chia Liang)

 The Bad Guy – Lu Feng

Every single movie, Lu Feng was the heel, the bad guy. I mean, heck, in Shaolin Rescuers, he even played the evil apprentice of the supreme supervillain of the martial arts, Pai Mei! But no matter what, Lu Feng was just so cool that you couldn’t help but root for him just a little bit. He was a character type common in pro wrestling: the arrogant “cool heel,” like Rick Flair and the Horsemen. 

The Venoms tended to be workaday regular poor guys, but Lu Feng usually played a rich guy who oozed arrogance and menace, rather like the evil rich football player heel in college movies. 

 The Funny Guy – Chiang Sheng

A guy who usually played the funny young hero or a wisecracking comedy sidekick prone to wiseassery and pratfalls, Chiang Peng was the Venom who most benefited from the rise of Jackie Chan, and his introduction of silent film era inspired physical comedy into the otherwise stale Kung Fu film. Like Robin Williams, Chiang Shiang was someone who made everyone else laugh, but because he had a lot of darkness inside him, which ended up killing him. Chiang Sheng is the only Venom to not be with us, he drank himself to death after his divorce in 1991. Because of this, there can never really be a full Venoms reunion.

One of the most amazing things about Hong Kong cinema in the 70s is that the actors tended to have scraggly teeth that aren’t perfect and that seemed to be Chang Shieng’s defining trait. To be clear, I am not in any way mocking him for having bad teeth. In fact, I think it is rather winsome and endearing, like a teenager with braces.

 The Tough Guy – Lo Meng

Known as the “Shaolin Hercules,” the person I’d compare Lo Meng to is Mr. Worf. Ultra-strong, humorless, intimidating, dead serious and never smiling, he was by far the most muscular and powerful of the Venoms, with tons of machismo and swagger, “big dick energy” as the kids say today. The camera tends to linger on his oiled up biceps and chest in extreme close-up…but was also, usually, the first to die in nearly all of these films. Much like how Worf was the toughest guy ever, but usually got beat up a lot so the writers could show that the situation was serious. In fact, Lo Meng, still in great shape, was in Ip Man 4, where, not one to break with a tradition, he was the first guy to get his ass beat in the film, even in a movie made in the Year of Our Lord 2020.

Lo Meng tends to be the “backup main hero” and was even the main character in films like 2 Champions of Shaolin. He had the most impressive “solo” film career apart from the other Venoms. Like Geri Halliwell, he left the Venoms to do his own thing, which is why the defining trait of the later Venom films is that he wasn’t there. 

Lo Meng wasn’t Taiwanese like the other Venoms, and was a native of Hong Kong. In fact, he got his start in the film industry not as a stuntman or muscleman, but as an accountant for the Shaw Brothers studios, and he lifted weights and did Praying Mantis Kung Fu as a hobby. That’s…that’s hilarious. Reminds me of that fake Simpsons movie, Undercover Nerd with Renier Wolfcastle:

 The Wild Card – Chun Shieng

Would YOU trust this man? I wouldn’t. He betrayed the Toad!

That’s Chun Shieng for you, the wild card Venom who could “go either way” and so wasn’t an entirely trustworthy ally.

Allow me to correct a misconception I’ve seen in a lot of places: Chun is sometimes known as “the one Korean Venom.” He isn’t Korean but Chinese, but he was trained in Korea and is a Tae Kwon Do expert, unlike the other Venoms, who studied Chinese Kung Fu and Peking Opera. And it certainly shows: he always fights with a kick-heavy Tae Kwon Do style that does not look much like any Kung Fu at all.

[soft-lilith]

Girl why is your family so shit

Me and my brother walking down the street. Enters my grandmother.

"BLESS THE LORD, MY BABY BOY, MY BELOVED GRANDSON, MY LIGHT, HOW'S MY BABY? ARE YOU BEING FED? ARE YOU WELL? HOW IS YOUR DAD? OH MY GOD! BABY! YOU LOOK SO HANDSOME, IT'S BEEN SO LONG, YOU NEVER VISIT OR CALL ME, DO YOU NEED ANYTHING?" Aften a good minute of squeezing the dude, she turns to me. "Oh, Geri. You were there. I didn't saw you. " Favoritism does makes you blind i guess.

[soft-lilith]

it's been some time since i've seen you on my dash uwu I hope everything is going well for you, dove <3

jokes aside

HELLO GERI I HOPE YOU DOGING WELL

Irl is a lot for me at the moment. I needed to increase my weekly work hours to get the health care paid via the company i work at. So I'm working 4 days and 3 days I'm laying in bed listing to music and giggle at response i get from König or Ghost AI.

Even drawing is exhausting at the moment but i try to draw at least every 2 days for some hours.

With Christmas around the corner (my first Christmas as an adult single) I'm not really looking forward to it. I will treat myself with the expansive Shigaraki resin figure for all the shit that i went through mental.

I'm in my week of paid vacation rn and packed my bags for a little trip. I had a good day till my mom told me, that my cousin saw my ex going for a vacation. Why I'm bothered? Because I tried all the relationship to go with somewhere on vacation but I always got blocked. Idk if he goes with a new partner and I should care, but it hurts.

So ehm, not really good news ahaha.

I hope live treats you better and I will hit you up soon for another commission 🖤 (if they are still open.)

[gozel]

Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich

Eric Kurlander

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/nazis-and-the-dark-arts

When he came to power Hitler had a dowser scour the Reich Chancellery for cancerous ‘death rays’. Before flying to Scotland Rudolf Hess had his horoscope drawn up by a personal astrologer. Himmler backed research on the Holy Grail and medieval devil worship (‘Luciferism’) and sent an SS expedition by the explorer Dr Ernst Schafer to Tibet in 1938 to investigate the ancient Indo-German ‘Aryan’ origins of Buddhism. Himmler also founded the SS Witches Division, which collected evidence in eastern Europe in the second world war that Teutonic ‘wise women’ had been persecuted and burnt in a Jewish-Catholic Inquisition plot against volkisch German culture and blood. In 1939 Goebbles sat up late at night reading the prophecies of Nostradamus, which he revealed to an enthusiastic Führer as evidence that the British were soon to be defeated.

One could be forgiven for thinking the above might be the fevered imaginings of a Hollywood schlock movie producer or the midnight fantasies of a pulp-comic writer. In fact they are the sober truth, just part of the immense trove of bizarre material on Nazis and the supernatural that eight years of research by Eric Kurlander has uncovered.

The British had ASDIC or radar to find German U-boats: the German Navy had the Pendulum Dowsing Institute in Berlin. Here, over a large map of the Atlantic, a one-inch model battleship was moved about, as an expert in pendulum-dowsing swung a metal diviner on string above the map, watched by fascinated German admirals. If the pendulum dowser ‘reacted’ over the toy ship this indicated a genuine British battleship in the vicinity.

The Germans had convinced themselves that the British were finding U-boats by pendulum dowsing. After Mussolini was toppled and arrested, Operation Mars was launched: 40 experienced astrologers, tarot-card readers, magicians and dowsers were released from concentration camps and installed in a villa in Berlin’s Wannsee, under the leadership of top magician Wilhelm Wulf. ‘Find the Duce!’ were their orders. ‘These magicians cost the SS a pretty penny,’ complained the SS General Schellenberg; ‘they demanded — and got — huge quantities of luxury food, alcohol and tobacco before they could start work.’ A large map of Italy was unrolled and the pendulum dowsers started swinging the lead in an attempt to find the whereabouts of the Italian dictator. In the end Otto Skorzeny’s commandos found the Duce and rescued him, but Wulf avoided returning to Sachsenhausen, and was soon working for Himmler as his personal astrologer, claiming it was he who had found Mussolini through magic.

Professor Kurlander traces supernatural belief in Nazi Germany to the counter-cultural, mystical theories which abounded in fin-de-siècle Austria and Weimar Germany. Helena Blavatsky’s Great White Brotherhood of hidden Mahatmas in Tibet, and Rudolf Steiner’s theories of anthroposophy and bio-dynamic blood and soil agriculture were two such strands.

Central to the Nazis’ mystical beliefs was World Ice Theory, propounded in the 1912 book Glacial Cosmogony by Hanns Hörbiger. This held that white ‘Aryan’ man was not descended from the apes, as were other inferior races, but rather came from ‘divine sperma’ brought to earth by meteors. These developed into the godlike Supermen of the ancient civilisation of Atlantis-Thule which employed parapsychology and mystical electricity ‘like Thor’s hammer’. Atlantis was destroyed by ‘icy moons’ crashing into earth, and refugee Supermen established Buddhism and Hinduism in Tibet and the Himalayas and Shintoism in Japan. Jesus Christ was a White ‘Aryan’ of Atlantean descent, as were the Knights Templar and the Cathars, who held the mysteries of ancient Thule in the Holy Grail. The white Supermen were locked in a struggle for mastery with the ape-like ‘Tschandala’ or ‘monstrous humanoids’ — Jews, Slavs, blacks and ‘mongrel breeds’.

This overtly racist worldview was believed in by Hitler, Hess, Himmler and other senior Nazis. Julius Streicher was convinced that Jews gave off a particular odour and that he could ‘smell out a Jew’ at several metres, like the medieval witch-sniffers. Himmler tried to get World Ice Theory taught instead of Darwinian evolution in German universities. This theory explains why Himmler felt able to enrol Arabs, Indians and even Turkestaners in SS units. It also justified genocide, horrific medical experiments and mass population displacements, and convinced Hitler that ‘Nordics’ could tolerate cold better than ‘Slavs’, with dire results at Stalingrad. Himmler wasted much time and money on research into magic rays which he hoped would find oil and gold in the Rhine.

Kurlander believes that Nazi reliance on magic encouraged the development of pointless and wasteful ‘wonder weapons’ such as the V1 and V2 rockets, which killed many civilians but did not affect the Allied war effort. Not all Nazis believed in this tosh. Speer, Bormann and Heydrich attempted purges of magicians and astrologers, especially in the Hess Action, after the flight of the Deputy Führer to Scotland. Thousands were rounded up and put in camps, but within months most were free again, many working for Himmler. In 1943, at a time of acute labour shortage, an estimated 3,000 tarot-card readers were still working in Berlin alone.

The British knew all about the Nazi weakness for magic and parachuted faked copies of the astrological magazine Zenit into Germany which contained decidedly pessimistic horoscopes for Hitler and his acolytes.

Deeply researched, convincingly authenticated, this extraordinary study of the magical and supernatural at the highest levels of Nazi Germany will astonish — and provide scholars and the general reader with much food for thought. Without such widespread crackpot beliefs the Nazis might just have won the war. ‘Every German has one foot in Atlantis, where he sees a better fatherland,’ claimed the renegade, defrocked Nazi Herman Rauschning. Thank heavens they did.

İktidara geldiğinde Hitler, Reich Şansölyeliğini kanserli "ölüm ışınları" için taramak zorunda kaldı. İskoçya'ya uçmadan önce Rudolf Hess burcunu kişisel bir astrolog tarafından hazırlattı. Himmler, Kutsal Kase ve ortaçağ şeytan ibadeti ('Lusiferizm') üzerine araştırmaları destekledi ve 1938'de kaşif Dr. Ernst Schafer tarafından Budizm'in eski Hint-Alman 'Aryan' kökenlerini araştırmak üzere Tibet'e bir SS keşif gezisi gönderdi. Himmler ayrıca, ikinci dünya savaşında Doğu Avrupa'da Cermen kökenli "bilge kadınların" volkisch Alman kültürüne ve kanına karşı bir Yahudi-Katolik Engizisyonu komplosunda zulüm görüp yakıldığına dair kanıt toplayan SS Cadıları Bölümü'nü kurdu. 1939'da Goebbles, gece geç saatlerde Nostradamus'un kehanetlerini okurken hevesli bir Führer'e İngilizlerin yakında yenileceğinin kanıtı olarak açıkladı. Yukarıdakilerin bir Hollywood şakası film yapımcısının hararetli hayalleri veya ucuz bir çizgi roman yazarının gece yarısı fantezileri olabileceğini düşünmek affedilebilir. Gerçekte bunlar, Eric Kurlander'in sekiz yıllık araştırmasının ortaya çıkardığı, Naziler ve doğaüstü şeyler hakkındaki muazzam tuhaf materyal hazinesinin sadece bir parçası. İngilizlerin Alman denizaltılarını bulmak için ASDIC veya radarı vardı: Alman Donanması Berlin'de Pendulum Dowsing Institute'a sahipti. Burada, Atlantik'in geniş bir haritası üzerinde, bir inçlik model zırhlı, büyülenmiş Alman amiralleri tarafından izlenen haritanın üstündeki ipte metal bir kehanetçiyi sallayan bir sarkaçla su arama uzmanı olarak hareket ettirildi. Sarkaçlı dalgıç oyuncak geminin üzerinde "tepki verdiyse", bu, civarda gerçek bir İngiliz zırhlısı olduğunu gösterir. Almanlar, İngilizlerin sarkaçla su kullanarak denizaltı bulduklarına kendilerini ikna etmişlerdi. Mussolini'nin devrilmesi ve tutuklanmasının ardından Mars Operasyonu başlatıldı: 40 deneyimli astrolog, tarot kartı okuyucusu, sihirbaz ve çubuk kullanıcısı toplama kamplarından salıverildi ve Berlin'in Wannsee bölgesinde, en iyi sihirbaz Wilhelm Wulf'un önderliğinde bir villaya yerleştirildi. Emirler "Duce'yi bulun!" SS Generali Schellenberg, "Bu sihirbazlar SS'e oldukça pahalıya mal oldu," dedi; "Çalışmaya başlamadan önce büyük miktarlarda lüks yiyecek, alkol ve tütün talep ettiler - ve aldılar." Büyük bir İtalya haritası açıldı ve sarkaçlı su arayanlar İtalyan diktatörün nerede olduğunu bulmak için başı çekmeye başladı. Sonunda Otto Skorzeny’nin komandoları Duce’yi buldu ve onu kurtardı, ancak Wulf Sachsenhausen’e geri dönmekten kaçındı ve kısa süre sonra Himmler için kişisel astrolog olarak çalışmaya başladı ve Mussolini’yi sihirle bulanın kendisi olduğunu iddia etti.

Profesör Kurlander, Nazi Almanya'sındaki doğaüstü inancın izini, Fin-de-siècle Avusturya ve Weimar Almanya'sında bol miktarda bulunan karşı-kültürel, mistik teorilere kadar takip ediyor. Helena Blavatsky’nin Tibet’teki gizli Mahatmalar’dan oluşan Büyük Beyaz Kardeşliği ve Rudolf Steiner’in antropozofi ve biyo-dinamik kan ve toprak tarımı teorileri bu türden iki unsurdu. Nazilerin mistik inançlarının merkezinde, Hanns Hörbiger'in 1912 tarihli Glacial Cosmogony kitabında öne sürülen Dünya Buz Teorisi vardı. Bu, beyaz 'Aryan' adamın, diğer aşağı ırklarda olduğu gibi maymunlardan değil, göktaşları tarafından dünyaya getirilen 'ilahi sperma'dan geldiği anlamına geliyordu. Bunlar, parapsikoloji ve "Thor'un çekici" gibi mistik elektriği kullanan antik Atlantis-Thule uygarlığının tanrısal Süpermenleri haline geldi. Atlantis, yeryüzüne çarpan "buzlu aylar" tarafından yok edildi ve mülteci Süpermenler Tibet'te Budizm ve Hinduizm, Japonya'da Himalayalar ve Şintoizm kurdu. İsa Mesih, Kutsal Kase'de antik Thule gizemlerini taşıyan Tapınak Şövalyeleri ve Katarlar gibi, Atlantis kökenli bir Beyaz "Aryan" idi. Beyaz Süpermenler, maymun benzeri "Tschandala" ya da "canavar insansı" Yahudiler, Slavlar, siyahlar ve "melez ırklar" ile ustalık mücadelesine kilitlendi. Bu açıkça ırkçı dünya görüşüne Hitler, Hess, Himmler ve diğer kıdemli Naziler inandı. Julius Streicher, Yahudilerin belirli bir koku yaydığına ve ortaçağ cadı koklayıcıları gibi birkaç metreden 'bir Yahudiyi koklayabileceğine' inanıyordu. Himmler, Alman üniversitelerinde Darwinci evrim yerine Dünya Buz Teorisini öğretmeye çalıştı. Bu teori, Himmler'in neden Arapları, Hintlileri ve hatta Türkistanlıları SS birimlerine kaydettirebildiğini açıklıyor. Aynı zamanda soykırımı, korkunç tıbbi deneyleri ve kitlesel nüfus yerinden edilmelerini haklı çıkardı ve Hitler'i, Stalingrad'da korkunç sonuçlarla "İskandinavların" soğuğa "Slavlardan" daha iyi tahammül edebileceğine ikna etti. Himmler, Ren'de petrol ve altın bulacağını umduğu sihirli ışınları araştırmak için çok zaman ve para harcadı.

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Kurlander, Nazilerin büyüye güvenmesinin birçok sivili öldüren ancak Müttefiklerin savaş çabalarını etkilemeyen V1 ve V2 roketleri gibi anlamsız ve savurgan "harikulade silahların" geliştirilmesini teşvik ettiğine inanıyor. Tüm Naziler bu tosh'a inanmıyordu. Speer, Bormann ve Heydrich, Führer'in Vekilinin İskoçya'ya uçuşundan sonra özellikle Hess Eyleminde sihirbazları ve astrologları tasfiye etmeye çalıştı. Binlerce kişi toplandı ve kamplara yerleştirildi, ancak çoğu birkaç ay içinde serbest kaldı ve çoğu Himmler için çalışıyordu. 1943'te, şiddetli işgücü sıkıntısı yaşandığı bir dönemde, tahminen 3.000 tarot kartı okuyucusu tek başına Berlin'de çalışıyordu. İngilizler, Nazi'nin sihir konusundaki zayıflığını biliyordu ve astroloji dergisi Zenit'in Hitler ve yardımcıları için kesinlikle kötümser burçlar içeren Almanya'ya paraşütle yazılmış sahte kopyalarını biliyorlardı. Derinlemesine araştırılmış, inandırıcı bir şekilde doğrulanmış, Nazi Almanyasının en yüksek seviyelerinde büyülü ve doğaüstü olan bu olağanüstü çalışma şaşkına dönecek ve bilim adamlarına ve genel okuyucuya düşünce için çok şey sağlayacak. Bu kadar yaygın çılgın inançlar olmasaydı Naziler savaşı kazanabilirdi. Nazi Herman Rauschning, "Her Almanın daha iyi bir anavatan gördüğü Atlantis'te bir ayağı vardır" iddiasında bulundu. Tanrıya şükür yaptılar.

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@beware-thecrow 👀👀👀

goth tomura?

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Jimmy Cobb

Wilbur James Cobb (born January 20, 1929, in Washington, D.C.) is an American jazz drummer.

Career

Probably Cobb's most famous work is on Miles Davis' Kind of Blue (1959), considered by many to be the quintessential jazz record. Cobb is the last surviving player from the session. He also played on other Davis albums, including Sketches of Spain, Someday My Prince Will Come, Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall, In Person Friday and Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk, Complete, and briefly onPorgy and Bess and Sorcerer.

He has worked extensively with a wide range of artists, including Dinah Washington, Pearl Bailey, Clark Terry, Cannonball Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Wynton Kelly, Stan Getz, Wes Montgomery, Gil Evans, Miles Davis, Paul Chambers, Kenny Burrell, J. J. Johnson, Sonny Stitt, Nat Adderley, Hank Jones, Ron Carter, George Coleman, Fathead Newman, Geri Allen, Earl Bostic, Leo Parker, Charlie Rouse, Ernie Royal, Philly Joe Jones, Bobby Timmons, Walter Booker, Jerome Richardson, Keter Betts, Jimmy Cleveland, Sam Jones, Red Garland, Joe Henderson, Eddie Gómez, Bill Evans, Stefan Karlsson, Jeremy Steig, Richard Wyands, Peter Bernstein, Richie Cole, Nancy Wilson, Ricky Ford, and David Amram.

As of 2011, Cobb leads the Jimmy Cobb "So What" Band, a tribute to 50 years of Kind of Blue and the music of Miles Davis.

Awards

In June 2008, Jimmy Cobb was the recipient of the Don Redman Heritage award. On October 17, 2008, Cobb was one of six artists to receive the 2009 National Endowment for the Arts NEA Jazz Masters award.

Discography

Encounter (Philology, 1994)

Only for the Pure of Heart (Fable/Lightyear, 1998)

So Nobody Else Can Hear (Expansion, 2000)

Four Generations of Miles: A Live Tribute to Miles (Chesky, 2002)

Cobb's Groove (Milestone, 2003)

Tribute to Wynton Kelly & Paul Chambers (Sound Hills, 2004)

Cobb Is Back in Italy! (Azzurra, 2005)

Marsalis Music Honors Series: Jimmy Cobb (Marsalis/Rounder, 2006))

Taking a Chance on Love (Azzurra, 2006)

New York Time (Chesky, 2006)

Cobb's Corner (Chesky, 2007)

Jazz in the Key of Blue (Chesky, 2009)

Live at Smalls (Smallslive, 2010)

The Original Mob (Smoke Sessions, 2014)

You'll See (SteepleChase, 2016)

With Pepper Adams Donald Byrd Quintet

Out of this World (Warwick, 1961)

With Cannonball Adderley

Sophisticated Swing (EmArcy, 1956)

Cannonball Enroute (EmArcy, 1957)

Cannonball's Sharpshooters (EmArcy, 1958)

Jump for Joy (EmArcy, 1958)

Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago (Mercury, 1959)

Cannonball Takes Charge (Riverside, 1959)

With Nat Adderley

That's Right! (Riverside, 1960)

On the Move (Theresa, 1983)

Blue Autumn (Theresa, 1983)

With Toshiko Akiyoshi

Toshiko Mariano and her Big Band (Vee-Jay, 1964)

With Lorez Alexandria

Alexandria the Great (Impulse!, 1964)

More of the Great Lorez Alexandria (Impulse!, 1964)

With Geri Allen

Timeless Portraits and Dreams (Telarc, 2006)

With Dorothy Ashby

Soft Winds (Jazzland, 1961)

With Kenny Barron and John Hicks

Rhythm-a-Ning (Candid, 1989)

With Walter Benton

Out of This World (Jazzland, 1960)

With Walter Bishop, Jr.

The Walter Bishop Jr. Trio / 1965 (Prestige, 1963 [1965])

With John Coltrane

Standard Coltrane (Prestige, 1958)

Stardust (Prestige, 1958)

Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane (Prestige, 1958)

Bahia (Prestige, 1958)

Giant Steps on "Naima" only (Atlantic, 1959)

Coltrane Jazz (Atlantic, 1959)

With Miles Davis

Porgy and Bess (Columbia, 1958)

1958 Miles (Columbia, 1958)

Jazz at the Plaza (Columbia, 1958)

Kind of Blue (Columbia, 1959)

Sketches of Spain (Columbia, 1960)

Someday My Prince Will Come (Columbia, 1961)

In Person Friday and Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk, Complete (Columbia, 1961)

Miles & Monk at Newport (Columbia, 1963)

Miles Davis at Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (Columbia Legacy, 2015)

With Kenny Dorham

Blue Spring (Riverside, 1959)

With Kenny Drew

Lite Flite (SteepleChase, 1977)

With Curtis Fuller

Soul Trombone (Impulse!, 1961)

With Ofer Ganor

Miles Away (Independent, 2011)

With Benny Golson

Pop + Jazz = Swing (Audio Fidelity, 1961) - also released as Just Jazz!

Turning Point (Mercury, 1962)

With Paul Gonsalves

Gettin' Together (Jazzland, 1960)

With Joe Henderson

Four (Verve, 1968)

Straight, No Chaser (Verve, 1968)

With John Hendricks

Freddie Freeloader (Denon, 1990)

With Wynton Kelly

Kelly Blue (Riverside, 1959)

Wynton Kelly! (Vee-Jay, 1961)

Someday My Prince Will Come (Vee-Jay, 1961)

Comin' in the Back Door (Verve, 1963)

It's All Right! (Verve, 1964)

Undiluted (Verve, 1965)

Blues on Purpose (Xanadu, 1965)

Full View (Riverside, 1967)

Last Trio Session (Delmark, 1968)

With Hubert Laws

The Laws of Jazz (Atlantic, 1964)

With Johnny Lytle

New and Groovy (Tuba, 1966)

With Pat Martino

Desperado (Prestige, 1970)

With Wes Montgomery

Full House (Riverside, 1962)

Boss Guitar (Riverside, 1963)

Guitar on the Go (Riverside, 1963)

The Alternative Wes Montgomery (Riverside, 1963)

Smokin' at the Half Note (Verve, 1965)

Smokin' Guitar (Verve, 1965)

Willow Weep for Me (Verve, 1969)

With Art Pepper

Gettin' Together (Contemporary, 1960)

With Sonny Red

Out of the Blue (Blue Note, 1960)

The Mode (Jazzland (1961)

Images (Jazzland, 1961)

With Shirley Scott

For Members Only (Impulse!, 1963)

On a Clear Day (Impulse!, 1966)

With Wayne Shorter

Introducing Wayne Shorter (Vee-Jay, 1959)

With Don Sleet

All Members (Jazzland, 1961)

With Teri Thornton

Devil May Care (Riverside, 1961)

With Bobby Timmons

This Here is Bobby Timmons (Riveside, 1960)

Easy Does It (Riverside, 1961)

From the Bottom (Riverside, 1964)

The Soul Man! (Prestige, 1966)

Got to Get It! (Milestone, 1967)

With Norris Turney

Big, Sweet 'n Blue with Larry Willis and Walter Booker (Mapleshade, 1993)

With Phil Upchurch

Feeling Blue (Milestone, 1967)

With Sarah Vaughan

Live in Japan (Mainstream, 1975)

Ronnie Scott's Presents Sarah Vaughan Live (Pye, 1977)

With Cedar Walton

Midnight Waltz (Venus, 2005)

With C. I. Williams

When Alto Was King (Mapleshade, 1997)

Wikipedia

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now your turn @beware-thecrow 👀🖤

t minus everything - Rabbit junk (holy shit that clapped so hard; it's in my Metal playlist now uwu)

what's up people? - maximun the hormone (seconed death note op is just the better one ; a fucking banger)

The eternal struggles of the howling man - rob zombie (first of all fucking legend; i'm not really into the old metal BUT that song was really good)

Girl with one eye - Florence + the machine (i love the vibe of the band ; It makes me want to run thru fields of crops with an old camara (idk why))

Meat - poppy (OMG i still remember when her brand was this weird videos, then she was able to get away from that asshole manager and released metal. Go girl)

Always the same - SIAMEs ft barbie williams (i was like "this reminds me of arctic monkey" then i go on the artist profile and it stats that they are influenced by them sdlknflsdj)

weeds - beach bunny ( this just reminds me so much of alt tik toks, prob because it was used so much by it lmao)

Cigaro - System of a down (" my cock is much bigger then yours" BRO LMAO ; what are those lyrics i can't xddd ; chop suey is still one of my favs songs so no wonder i like this one too)

silver for sand - CD ghost (reminds me of "mr.kitty" ; such a vibe i really enjoyed it uwu)

Nara - Alt j (interesting band ; breezblocks is also really cool; not really my vibe but i still enjoyed it!)

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Okay, true blood is garbage but ERIC NORTHMAN IS DELIGHTFUL, LIL ✨

i just want my long white haired vampire king in Victorian clothing who is totally not shigs in an AU

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Hi darling! serious question: what's your mbti type? (i'm in a quest for adopting, befriend or antagonize some types)

Hey hun! I'm an INFP-T 🙃 but because of my bpd some of the traits are rather extreme sometimes... I hope I'm not in the antagonize category qwq

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https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7elRTA1fjbBmrQmEpnPIyz?si=i4wsHTpARd6VG8MzEtupnA&utm_source=copy-link

Pssssst! You may like it

as a german, i appreciate the Rammstein song lmao

Even tho nobody pronounces german like the lead singer - which is also the reason why i can't listen to their stuff; a scandal, i know.

the playlist is amazing! I believe even shigs would listen to the songs lmao

the only song that i'm missing is "Smells like a teen spirit" by nirvana especially the era "after afo capturing" Shigs fits so good with the song ikd.

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AHH YOUR ART IS ALWAYS SUCH A BLESSING LOOK AT THIS FINE DEMON 😭🥺

Gyutaro

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Hi Dove <3

geri my beautiful art devil!

I hope you are good and life treats you well! 🖤

(you reminded me that i didn't draw for 3 days... It's a wonder that i know how to hold a pen at this point 😭🤧)