#coathangers

[omegaremix]

Omega Radio for May 21, 2015; #111.

Big Band “Options”

Cheatahs “Signs To Lorelei”

Suuns “2020″

Deerhunter “Pensacola”, “Coronado”

New Canyons “Life Support”

Amen Dunes “1985″, “Lower Mind”

Moonsicles “Pacifica”

Suuns & Jerusalem In My Heart “2amoutu I7tirakan”

Lillies, The “…And David Seaman Will Be Very Disappointed About That”

Majesty Crush “Horse”

Hammock “Dissonance”

Tender Age “Lowers”

Baba Naga “Odmience”

Nothing “Vertigo Flowers”

Lovebyrd “Shot From The Sun”

Maff “Act 1″

Turbo Fruits “Favorite Girl”

Beverleys, The “Hoodwink”

Julie Ruin, The “I Decide”

Chastity “Manning Hill”

Angry Angles “You Fell In”

Coughs “Starchitect”

Lost Sounds “I Get Nervous”

Leggy “Kick The Habit”

Weaves “One More”

Coathangers “Squeeky Tiki”

Coves “You’re Evil”

Dilly Dally “Snakehead”

Dead Mantra, The “Mexico”

Rats On Rafts “Some Velvet Morning”

Digital Leather “Ruby Queen”

Deluxe indie, garage, and shoegaze.

[empty-pringles-can]

Glad to see target is stocked for college with the most important back to school essential

[alexaloraetheris]

I am HOWLING!

One coathanger: *snaps instantly*

This abolute treasure of a man: How about TWO coathangers?

[egophiliac]

Wait, the tsun event has a whole bit dedicated to Malleus bragging about what kitchen appliances he knows how to use? Twst EN just got the milk culinary crucible, which means at the same time Malleus is showing off, the entirety of the EN players are learning Leona doesn't know how to use a microwave. The timing really just makes it feel like Malleus is flexing on Leona XD

it's in Mal's card story rather than in the event proper, but yep! after teaching his tsum proper microwave usage, he takes it on a tour and very proudly shows off his extensive knowledge of household appliances. (except when he thinks his tsum fell into the washing machine and doesn't know how to unlock the lid, so he just. explodes it instead. hashtag just diasomnia things. 🤷)

I do think he and Leona should get into a fight about who has done a better job of learning how to use kitchen tools! Leona has the advantage of having grown up in the modern world, but Malleus has the motivation to actually do literally anything. who will win

[characterarc]

I just had to make this after seeing the original, sadly my GFX/SFX skills are not good enough to accomplish my vision (lengthening the scream, adding a doppler effect to it, make the freeze frame look like regular footage, things of that nature)

[kibbles-bits]

it's ok since he can't feel sad right

Read more of the au HERE

[quiltofstars]

Brocchi's Cluster, also known as the Coathanger // Harald Becher

This is not a true star cluster, but instead an asterism. These stars are unrelated to each other and are at different distances, ranging from about 200 to 2000 light years away.

[marlynnofmany]

Seeing Faces

It’s rare when we get a shipment to deliver that’s not packaged somehow — either in Earth-standard boxes, another world’s version of shipping crates, or a livestock pen of some kind. Even that bunch of alien trees had been thoroughly wrapped at the bottom. But this collection of machinery parts didn’t have so much as a layer of cling-wrap on it. I guess the owners figured these things were sturdy enough not to need it.

They were probably right. The metal chunks were heavy. I tried to guess what they were made for as Blip and Blop muscled the biggest ones onto a hover sled, clearing the way for Paint and me to gather up the smaller pieces. Captain Sunlight bid the customer farewell and shut the cargo bay door.

“I think these look like vertebrae,” I said to Paint. “Greasy vertebra. Ew. I’m going to need a new shirt.” The offworld engine oil of whatever didn’t seem acidic at least, so that was nice. I sighed about the black smears.

“Strange vertebrae,” Paint said, juggling her own armload of odd shapes that didn’t seem to be rubbing off on her orange scales. Not that I was jealous or anything. “There would need to be a dual spinal cord.” She tapped a claw on one of the holes.

“Hm, yeah. There are probably animals like that,” I said. “Or robots, as the case may be.”

Ahead of us, Captain Sunlight opened the door to the appropriate storage hold, then headed off on captainly business. It was impressive how different a vibe she gave off compared to Paint, for all their physical similarities. Both were little lizardy people, but one strode with her lemon-yellow head held high, every inch the authority figure, while the other was Paint. She somehow bounced when she walked, even when weighted down by unwieldy metal things.

“I’ll bet these stack really well,” Paint said. “They look like they interlock. We could probably build a spinal column without them falling over.”

“We probably could,” I agreed. “But I don’t want to be the one responsible for bending one of the flanges because we wanted to test it out.”

“Hm. Yep yep yep. But I maintain that we could.”

“We could.”

The two of us entered the storage hold to find Blip and Blop racing to see who could unload the sled faster. It’s not that the Frillian twins were overly competitive, but they were twins. They’d apparently hatched at the same time, and had been in a low-key competition to see who was better at life ever since. But they smiled while they did it.

“Done!” Blip declared, setting down a lump of metal big enough for Paint to hide behind. She raised her hands in triumph, fins fluttering.

“Doesn’t count,” Blop said as he put down his own piece. “You didn’t line them up right. Mine are tidier.”

They squabbled about this while Paint and I unloaded our metal chunks nearby. I had to kneel to keep from dropping the things. It would be just my luck if they did warp on impact, or bounce off each other and whack me in the shin.

The Frillians took their debate out the door before I finished. They’d already moved on to who could steer the hoversled with the minimum of touching.

“Ha,” Paint said. “They do stack.”

I turned to see only one of the things set on top of another, with Paint ready to catch it if it slid. She took it down before I could say anything.

I just nodded and arranged my own into a reasonable huddle, then wiped my hands on my shirt. It was only when I moved toward the door, with a look back at the big pieces, that I got a good look at the one that Blop had set on its side.

This was the logical place to put it, not sticking out past the rest, but the thing that caught my attention was the shape when seen from this angle. Those two holes could have been eyes, and the flanges were shaped like stubby arms. There were even a couple slots in the middle like nostrils.

I burst out laughing.

“What?” Paint demanded.

“It looks like Zhee!” I said, pointing. “Big bug eyes and everything!”

“What does?” Paint asked. She came to stand next to me, following my arm, but just looked confused. “Where are the eyes?”

“These!” I said, stepping closer and pointing at the holes. “And those are the arms. Isn’t it perfect?”

Paint cocked her head as if slightly tilted vision could unlock the answers. “Arms?”

I repeated myself, but she still looked lost, so I found a notepad and pencil in a storage cupboard —reliable even when the batteries all run out — and sketched what I saw.

“Ohh, I get what you mean now,” Paint said when I showed her. “Those parts are lifted like pincher arms, and those are roughly the same proportion as Mesmer eyes.”

“Yeah, it’s uncanny,” I said.

Paint took the notepad to study it closer. “How did you even notice that?”

“It was pretty easy,” I told her. “It just jumped out at me when I looked from the right direction. Like seeing faces in clouds, you know?”

Paint’s blank expression said that she didn’t know.

“Do you not do that? Find patterns of familiar shapes in random things?”

“No?” she replied. “Is that a thing I’m supposed to be doing?”

“You don’t have to! It’s just something that everybody does on Earth, ever since we’re kids. It’s probably from a long history of watching for camouflaged predators in the bushes. You’ve got camouflage on your planet, right? You must.”

“Yeah, sure,” Paint said easily. “But I guess not that much. I’ve never seen a face in a cloud; that sounds terrifying.”

“Not really; it’s more like feeling smart for spotting something. Well,” I amended. “It could be a little unsettling if you see a skull or something. But that’s rare. There are whole systems of divination about this sort of thing.”

Paint looked like she was about to ask a million questions, but right then the sound of familiar clicking footsteps tapped down the hall.

“Zhee!” Paint called, whirling with the notebook in her hand. “Zhee, look what Robin saw!”

Zhee came into view looking just as eyecatching and purple as usual, halting at the doorway while Paint eagerly explained the conversation we’d just had. Quickly and enthusiastically. With lots of waving the sketch around, and pointing back at the machine part.

I felt like apologizing as he stared with an unreadable alien expression. His antennae weren’t even moving; I couldn’t tell what he thought of it all.

Finally Paint finished talking. “She says it’s probably because her species watches for predators in the bushes. Isn’t that amazing?”

Zhee made a point of looking slowly from the sketch to the metal thing, then to me. I braced myself for judgement.

Instead, Zhee raised his pincher arms into the same pose and declared, “I am the danger that lurks in the bushes.” Then he slunk out of sight, many legs scuttling in a quickstep way that he knew darn well I found creepy.

Paint blinked at the empty doorway, still holding the notebook.

“Aw, man,” I said. “He’s picking things up from Trrili.”

Paint immediately closed the notebook. “We definitely shouldn’t show her.”

“Agreed!” I said.

After a moment of thought, Paint tore the page out and handed it to me, then took the notebook back to the cupboard. I pocketed it with a final glance at the metal vertebra that looked remarkably like a cartoonish Mesmer squaring up for battle.

Someone had left a roll of no-residue marking tape on a box nearby. I grabbed a strip and stuck it onto the metal, with the ends curved up.

Now the thing had a goofy grin that possibly no one would recognize. But if there were any humans on the receiving end of this delivery, they ought to get a good laugh out of it.

~~~

The ongoing backstory adventures of the main character from this book. More to come! And I am currently drafting a sequel!

[s0ckh3adstudios]

ok but Kingleader as a ship is so funny to me for so many reasons because Kinger HAD a wife and then she got abstracted and he was probably like very upset but Caine was sad for like 10 minutes until he realized Oh Shit Kinger's Available and he has an Opening. as my friend put it

while Kinger is oblivious for a good amount of time

and everything we talked about was just hysterical like how do you expect them to kiss. one doesn't have a mouth and the other is a mouth. they resort to hand holding. Caine seeing a royal piece of wood and doing that cartoony 'awooga' reaction and Kinger is just standing there with his eye twitching. if Kinger showed up wearing a bowtie Caine would FAINT. Bubble isn't a fan of them and it wants its seat at that little diner back but KINGER HAS TAKEN IT.

Caine decides to marry the guy and EVERYONE IN THE CIRCUS HAS TO COME. but in order to get there it can't NOT be an adventure, they have to get through a dangerous obstacle course just to reach the wedding. nobody really wants to go except for maybe Ragatha who thinks it's sweet. Jax does NOT want to be here. he's not a romance fan (aroace swagger most definitely) and the wedding consists of mostly Caine's extremely long wedding speech which is actually just an elaborate slideshow featuring a Kinger fancam and many supposedly "attractive" pictures which are blurry and covered in heart and star emojis. and to each one Kinger is just "awww stop it"

Kinger also had a speech but it took him half an hour to realize he forgot it and kept everyone waiting

[wings-of-flying]

i am sooooo so fucking glad you see the unrequited fnc vision bc. i've been saying this for so long but gillion does not love chip!! not in the traditionally romantic way at least. and from there you can spin a lot of different narratives. chip is alloro and is head over heels for gillion and it gets messy, chip is alloro and likes gillion/has a small crush on him (maybe he's his gay/bi awakening and it's a Big Deal) but the more time they spend together the more those feelings make way for a genuine non-romantic connection, chip is aro/arospec and the compallo gets him and he likes gillion so much that he mistakes it for attraction and it gets messy, and so on and so forth. it can end with a queerplatonic situation, it can end with a painful rejection and a long path of acceptance on chip's side, it can end with a mutual agreement that what they have does not have to be defined and that they might love each other in different ways, but the only thing matters is that they Love Each Other!!!!

additionally, i also love thinking about aro gillion trying to make sense of his own feelings and the feelings he gets when chip confesses and why he turns him down when obviously he likes him very much and isn't that supposed to be why people enter relationships??? he doesn't know about this shit, he doesn't know why he can't seem to stand the idea of "dating" anyone when he knows that he loves so passionately. and he feels guilty and confused and lost and goddd!!!! i just love them, so much

fr. them not being 'in' love, but still loving each other, is so important to me

[omegaremix]

Omega Radio for April 20, 2019; #192.

Cold Showers “Faith”

Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile “Over Everything”

bed. “Guys”

Starcrawler “Let Her Be”

Stella Donnelly “Old Man”

Broken Bells “Shelter”

Shonen Knife “Dizzy”

Rose Ette “Thunder”

Better Oblivion Community Center “Don’t Know What I Was In For”

Channels “To The New Mandarins”

David Vassalotti “The Light”

Pure Bathing Culture “All Night”

Carina Frantzen “Blacklist”

Hookworms “Negative Space”

Julia Jacklin “Body”

Deerhunter “Plains”

Tongues “She Sings For Me”

Coathangers, The “F The NRA”

Girls On Grass “Down At The Bottom”

Titus Andronicus “(I Blame) Society”

Lost Under Heaven “Post Millennial Tension”

Sleaford Mods “Into The Payzone”

Fontaines D.C. “Roy’s Tune”

Teen Body “Dream”

Jenny Lewis “Heads Gonna’ Roll”

Mountain Movers, The “The Other Side Of Today”

Deluxe indie, top-shelf, standard, and other sounds.

[alyimoss]

bringing this banger back

[iamdangerace]

The Coathangers, Stranger Danger and Fuck The NRA from The Devil You Know (2019).

[higherentity]

[robthepensioner]

Window of a long-abandoned building in the middle of nowhere, Knott End. I did not expect to see a coathanger in there.

[kibbles-bits]

He forgot he's not supposed to do that in front of her.

Read more of the AU HERE