#florence jacques

[septemberlikestea]

dang girl you got the whole squad uncomfortable.

deceive inc turned 1 year old yesterday and i did a meme redraw of all the agents :o)

this is who theyre looking at. yu-mis haircut sucks so bad.

[diioonysus]

men's fashion + art

[arutai]

Florence Morin by Michael Jacques

[bourbon-ontherocks]

Et l'on n'y peut rien

L'ART DU CRIME + JEAN-JACQUES GOLDMAN

for @ficuscircus

[odettecarotte]

"What would Jacques Lacan say about my fear of topping? I wonder. Or another psychoanalyst -- I'm not picky, any vapid degradation will do."

Florence Ashley, Gender/Fucking

👑💖👑

[presslakay]

Sept des neuf membres du CEP prêtent serment sur fond de crise persistante

Alors que la crise multidimensionnelle persiste en Haïti et que les autorités concernées n’ont toujours pas trouvé les bonnes formules pour y remédier, un Conseil Électoral Provisoire de sept membres sur neuf a été installé, ce vendredi 18 octobre 2024, pour entreprendre les démarches visant à organiser les élections dans le pays. Malgré le fait que la nouvelle structure électorale mise sur pied…

[poesiecritique]

REBOTA REBOTA, Y EN TU CARA EXPLOTA, performance de Agnès Maéeus et Quim Tarrida, avec Agnés Matéus, 1h15, 2018 - et vu en 2024 au Théâtre de la Bastille, Paris.

Commençons par dire que ce spectacle, vu en 2024 a été crée il y a 6 ans, à Genève (selon le site théâtre contemporain). En septembre 2018, quelle était la place du féminisme dans nos discours, dominants et dominés ? C'était un an après, à deux semaines près, qu'Alyssa Milano propose de partager, suite à la révélation de l'affaire Weinstein, sous le hashtag #metoo, les violences sexistes et sexuelles subies par les femmes par des hommes. Cette création a aussi lieu dans un contexte espagnol où la prise en charge des violences sexistes et sexuelles aurait permis une baisse du nombre de féminicides selon les médias généralistes nationaux et internationaux. Dans un bref entretien, Agnés Mattéus conteste cette prise en charge effective quand, en 2017, le travail sur la pièce commence - tandis que certaines sociologues féministes, dont par exemple Gloria Casas Vila, critiquent davantage un effet de comptage (quel meurtre est effectivement compté comme féminicide ?), permettant de donner alors l'impression que le nombre de féminicides décroît alors qu'il n'en est rien. En 2023, certains médias généralistes soulignent une ré-augementation des chiffres espagnols de féminicides, se réalignant sur ceux de 2008, soulignant que dans la moitié de ces meurtres, les plaintes avaient été déposées contre les agresseurs, devenus meurtriers et/ou que les agresseurs étaient récidivistes, parfois déjà meurtriers. Si ce type de média souligne cette inversion, on peut donc supposer qu'il ne s'agit que de la partie emergée d'un iceberg bien fat, bien réel, bien patriarcal, et qu'en dessous grouille une bouillie dégueu mais bien organisée du féminicide - à l'instar de l'inceste, comme le montre par exemple Dorothée Dussy dans Le berceau des dominations.

Dire également que je m'interroge sur le travail de collaboration entre Quim Tarrida et Agnés Matéus. Dans le même entretien, qu'elle et il donne au théâtre de la Bastille, la langue française, que parle Agnés Matéus et que ne parle pas Quim Tarrida, donne le primat à Agnés Matteus. Mais j'avoue avoir eu ce réflexe de me demander ce qu'un homme pouvait bien avoir à faire dans la mise en scène d'une femme parlant de féminicides, dont la plus part sont commis par des hommes. Et si tous les hommes ne sont pas des meutriers, des violeurs, etc, la quasi-totalité des hommes de son âge et de sa nationalité (Quim Tarrida est né en 1967) ont été socialisés dans un monde où la masculinité était valorisée, et hiérarchiquement instaurée supérieure au genre féminin. Si l'on comprend que le travail naît d'une précédente collaboration sur les violences policières, et que ce travail précédent naît d'une rencontre lors de leurs engagements militants, malgré tout : comment s'articulent les regards, différemment socialisés, de Agnés Matteus et Quim Tarrida pour aboutir à REBOTA REBOTA, Y EN TU CARA EXPLOTA, notamment sur le corps de Agnés Mattéus ? Cela pourrait informer ma lecture, mais je n'y ai pas accès, pas directement, seulement par supposition critique (car, d'expérience, fréquenter un milieu politisé, quand il ne s'agit pas directement de cercles féministes engagés, ne permet pas une déconstruction du regard, d'un regard dominant)

Et maintenant, décrivons ce que propose Ca rebondit ça rebondit et ça t'éclate en pleine face. Cela sera moins qu'une description linéaire et exhaustive, ne m'arrêtant que sur certains tableaux et détails qui m'ont paru particulièrement signifiants. Dire peut-être cela, d'abord : REBOTA REBOTA, Y EN TU CARA EXPLOTA est une succession de tableaux au centre desquels se trouve Agnés Matéus.

L'âge. La pièce commence par Agés Matéus dansant masquée, d'un masque de clown horrifique. Ainsi, c'est son corps que l'on voit et regarde. En 2024, le corps de Agnés Matéus, serré dans son pantalon strassé or, son ventre rebondi, a peine dénudé au dessus du nombril donne l'image d'un corps butch, ou d'un corps vieilli, ne répondant plus aux standards patriarcaux d'une certaine minceur. Qu'en est-il de son corps d'il y a 7 ans ? A-t-il changé, et comment ? Vieilli pour sûr, Agnés Matéus dans le texte, et dans les possibles endroits d'improvisation le signale, insiste sur la question de l'âge. Si je suis particulièrement sensible à cette question d'âge, dans les rapports de genre, c'est qu'elle me concerne : les regards changent, le crédit à la parole dans certains contextes aussi. Qu'est ce que faire tourner une pièce pendant 6 ans ? Qu'est-ce qu'expérimenter les changements physiques ? D'autant qu'est soulignée l'énergie de Agnés Matéus, qui tient l'heure quinze que dure Ca rebondit quasi seule sur scène. Mais là aussi, des questions se posent, techniques : quelle place de repos permettent les interludes filmés ? Sont-ils là pour leur qualité intrinsèque, de séquences filmées introduisant un autre rythme à la pièce, et/ou sont-ils présents pour permettre que Agnés Matéus tienne ? Cette question peut se poser, mais pas de la même manière, en fonction de la catégorie d'âge à laquelle l'acteur.ice appartient, car les contingences et les nécessités ne sont pas les mêmes, et donc ne disent, in fine, pas les mêmes choses sur les questions posées par la pièce elle-même. Ici, les premières séquences filmées m'ont moins conduit à regarder les états de délabrements de certaines scènes urbaines qu'à penser au délabrement, en cours mais encore à venir, du corps de Agnés Matéus. Et ces figurations de ruines, par leurs lents travellings dont on sait qu'ils vont, à un moment ou à un autre, figurer une morte, ne m'ont par renvoyées en tant que tel au corps de la performeuse. C'était un autre espace, un autre temps qui se raccorde à l'âge seulement par le comptage, le listage qui vient à la fin de la pièce des femmes mortes, dont l'âge à chaque fois est indiqué. Aucun âge n'est épargné, pas davantage les petites filles que les grand-mères, les jeunes femmes ou les femmes dans la fleur de l'âge. Aucune. Alors, cette question de l'âge se pose pour moi à nouveau dans l'espace où justement d'autres âges que celui de la performeuse, son âge réel, aurait pu être figuré : dans les séquences filmées. Pas d'enfants, pas de jeunes filles, toujours des mortes anonymisées, sans visage, dont on voit qu'il peut s'agir du corps de la performeuse - dont l'âge, là, varie encore par l'absence du visage.

La chute. Après la danse, il y a ce moment que j'ai trouvé très beau, de la chute du corps de Agnés Matéus. La beauté terrifiante de la chute sous les coups. Encaisser les coups et se relever. Être cueillie par les coups. Ne pas répondre, ne pas frapper. En miroir négatif, les poings des hommes pauvres qui apprennent à frapper contre un sac de sable dans la moiteur de salles de sports, à Chicago ou ailleurs, en France, pour se maintenir dans une dignité - je pense à ce qu'en écrit, par exemple, Loïc Waquant, ou encore Jérôme Beauchez (mais moins, ici, et à regret ne les ayant pas (encore lu) aux sociologues ayant travaillé sur les femmes dans les sports de combat, comme Christine Mennesson ou encore Natacha Lapeyroux). L'apprentissage de la chute n'est pas corrélée à l'apprentissage du coup, j'y vois plutôt la réponse de deux précarités, l'une sociale, l'autre de genre, où celui féminin est économiquement, symboliquement plus précaire, vacillant. Mais que penser de la beauté de ces chutes ? Que penser de la beauté dans une telle performance ? Comment la beauté peut se conjuguer à l'horreur de ce qui est dit ? A l'extrême, on pense au texte de Rivette dénonçant l'abject du travelling dans Kapo. S'en détache malgré tout cette chute par ce que permet de percevoir sa répétition, dans ce que l'on perçoit par ce corps, et ce malgré ou grâce à la beauté, ce que permet la répétition c'est de percevoir précisément ce qui n'est pas figurer : la force qui pousse à terre Agnés Matéus, cette lumière qui la pousse, c'est insaisissable comme le patriarcat et au moins aussi éblouissant, ça fait cligner de l'oeil mais malgré tout, on continue à regarder, à accepter. C'est ce déplacement du corps qui chute, par la répétition de la chute, qui permet que l'on perçoive notre propre fascination, la fascination qu'impose la domination, biche en plein phare, notre stupéfaction, notre immobilité face aux coups que l'on sait, même si on ne les voit pas.

Le one-woman show. J'ai pris plaisir à ce one-woman show grinçant, en robe de mariée saupoudrée de paillettes d'or (interdites désormais), comme d'une femme sous cloche, dans une boule à neige, une boîte à musique dont la danseuse dit avec le sourire des insanités. Simple, drôle, jusqu'à et avec son craquement Frida Ka(h)lo. J'ai trouvé malin que les références connues se tissent progressivement avec celles inconnues - mon coup au cœur quand Bessette se fait invisibiliser, inconnue. J'ai trouvé pertinent le moment de réflexion sur l'arbre Kahlo qui cache la forêt des femmes : combien de fois avons-nous vu la vie d'une qui devient emblème de toutes, effaçant les spécificités de chacune, un féminisme non intersectionnel, encore que Kahlo pose la question du validisme, une intersection non négligeable. Agnés Matéus m'a fait penser à une Blanche Gardin, une Elodie Poux, une Florence Foresti. Ce sont des ressorts similaires : montrer ce qui est dit en le confrontant à la réalité. Analyse de l'écart du symbolique, du discursif et du réel pour en montrer l'absurde - et l'absurde faire rire, à tout coup, même si c'est déjà connu, même si c'est jaune.

Le lancer de couteaux. La mise en danger, réelle, m'a glacée. Je n'ai pas voulu, je ne voulais pas. La tension. Qu'en dire ? Que le spectacle est bien rôdé ? Que je n'ai jamais été au cirque (ou plutôt une seule fois) ? Que ce n'était pas une scène de cirque dont on sait que tout est maîtrisé, y compris le danger ? Que le danger venait là davantage de la peur de Agnés Matéus que du lanceur ? Que je l'ai imaginée à chaque fois défaillir de peur, et se précipiter sous le couteau pour le fuir ? Qu'à cet endroit quelque chose se renverse du rapport au danger ? Est-ce une métaphore du féminicide : le danger pris dans le sang-froid du meurtrier (n'en faisons pas un fou) est de bouger, et de provoquer, et de fuir seulement après ? Il faudrait disparaître à soi-même pour ne pas disparaître tout court, mourir ? Mais le danger passé, est-il possible de sortir de l'état de mort dans lequel il nous plonge (et qui se traduit, assez littéralement, par la tête de Matéus dans une brouette de terre) ? Il n'y a pas de résolution de cette question, car elle est irrésolvable. Insupportable ? Une dame au premier rang s'est levée pour sortir du théâtre, un peu avant la fin de la pièce, quand les noms des femmes tuées défilaient, trop vite pour qu'ils soient lisibles. Matéus et Tarrida ne donnent pas de réponses, ni au pourquoi ni au comment, il s'agit d'une performance de constats, fragmentés et parfois rendus sensibles.

[gringolet]

rating whether polyamory would solve famous love triangle plots

Arthur/Guinevere/Lancelot (Arthuriana): no because Mordred and Agravaine would not be let in on the mutual consent and would still try to catch Guinevere cheating

Tristan/Iseult/Mark (Tristania): absolutely not because Mark is Tristan’s uncle

Tristan/Iseult/Palomides (Tristania): absolutely yes because between Palomides and Iseult all of Tristan’s most unhelpful impulses would be balanced out

Peeta/Katniss/Gale (Hunger Games): polyamory alone cannot defeat an authoritarian dystopia

Cyrano/Roxanne/Christian (Cyrano de Bergerac): solves every problem in the first 3 acts, solves no problems in the 4th

Wesley/Buttercup/Humperdink (The Princess Bride): while Wesley would be happy living as buttercups side piece, the problem is no amount of mutual consent will fulfill prince humperdinks emotional need to be at war. so no

Orsino/Viola/Olivia (Twelfth Night): most of it yes as long as Sebastian fucks that pirate

Heathcliff/Catherine/Edgar (Wuthering Heights): Technically yes but they all have so many emotional issues that new problems would immediately arise and Catherine would still die of being stressed out by the whole thing

Mark Antony/Cleopatra/Caesar (Antony and Cleopatra): well vibes-wise they were probably all fucking in real life and clearly polyamory alone did not save the Roman Republic

Menelaos/Helen/Paris (The Iliad etc): polyamory alone CAN stop the Trojan war as long as the Greeks know Menelaos tops

Florence/The Russian/Svetlana (Chess): polyamory alone cannot stop the Cold War

The Dutchman/Sente/Erik (The Flying Dutchman): solves every interpersonal problem but would actively damn the Dutchman to wander the seas forever

Mathilde/Julien/Mme de Renal (The Red and the Black): a rare case where polyamory would make everything WORSE! Fucking two people at the same time would make poor asexual Julien even more miserable and more people would die. Mme de Renal’s guilt would be even more destructive. Mathilde would suicide bait everyone else involved.

Raoul/Christine/Erik (Phantom of the Opera): probably not but i want to say yes because its such a funny concept

Jacques/Severine/Roubaud (La Bête Humaine): no! Jacques would just sexually commit TWO murders

[nevershootamockingbird]

[ image one: black text against white background. The text reads “Tonight I am all in flames.”

image two: a color still from the movie Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (Portrait of a Lady on Fire). The still shows part of a painting that is on fire. The only visible part of the painting is the bust of a woman in a green dress. Her face has been painted over. 

image three: black text against white background. The text reads “I’m on fire, but I’m trying not to show it”

image four: a close up of a color painting. The portion of the painting that is showing is a pale hand holding a heart that is on fire against a brown background. 

image five: black text against white background. The text reads “I am a house gutted by fire”

image six: a close up of a color painting. The portion of the painting that is showing is billowing smoke that has been illuminated in shades of orange and yellow by the fire below. 

image seven: black text against white background. The text reads “there’s a fire in you alone / made of soft, satin embers,”

image eight: a close up of a color painting. The portion of the painting that is showing is a black lighthouse that is ablaze at the top, with flames engulfing the top of the tower. A rocky brown hill is in the back, with perhaps a fortress atop it. 

image nine: black text against white background. The text reads “She is a living fire, such as I have never seen;”  / end id ]

Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Henry Miller featured in “A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953″ Florence and the Machine, from “Free” Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Ich bete wieder, du Erlauchter”, Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God Arthur Rimbaud, from “Eternity” Franz Kafka, from Letters to Milena

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, written and directed by Céline Sciamma “Allegory of Charity” (detail) by Francisco de Zurbarán “The Great Fire of London” (detail) by Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg “A Lighthouse on Fire at Night” (detail) by Joseph Wright of Derby

[the-golden-comet]

✨⛵️Story/WIP Tour Tag ⛵️✨

Oh, what a fun concept! Thank you for tagging me, @theink-stainedfolk !!

I’m not sure I can convince you about the lovely landmarks in Peter Hart , but— there’s a rope around me. Oh. We don’t have a choice in this adventure, do we?

Peter: Clever. You catch on quick~!

Ahoy, mates. Captain Hart at the helm now. I’ll be your tour guide for the voyage. Please keep your arms on the deck at all times. Do not lean on the railing; if you go overboard we’re not coming to fish you out….unless you’re Benjamin.

Benjamin: HEY!! 😡

Right, let’s get started:

✨🇬🇧Port Mayor🇬🇧✨

On your left, you will notice we are passing by Port Mayor, Great Britain. A lovely fishing port run by an absolute bastard of a person. Make sure on your stop you steal a hearty handful from the Royal’s pockets, and try their regional specialty: Port Plum Pudding. Great for the season.

🌋Isle of Talon Rock🌋

Oh, this one’s a lovely sightseeing adventure! Talon Rock is an inactive volcano in the center of thick jungle. Do watch your feet for snakes; they are quite venomous here. The igneous walls of the lava tubes are home to a variety of rich gems, but make sure you vacate before high tide if you don’t want to get your clothes wet.

✨🇬🇧Portsmouth🇬🇧✨

We arrive at another port. Excellent tailor at this location; this is where I picked out most of Benjamin’s fashion.

Benjamin: I didn’t ASK for—

—You’re welcome. If you get a chance, make sure to piss in the rose garden of the sovereign that governs this port.

✨🪨Echoing Cove🪨✨

This one looks deceptive at first glance, but a trove of valuables rests deep enough inside the many underwater cave systems. You’ll have to do a little spelunking, but if you reach deep enough the treasures are ripe for the taking~

Benjamin: Peter…why do I hear voices?

—AAAAAAAND we are getting the fuck out of here~🏴‍☠️✨

✨🇬🇧Port Florence🇬🇧✨

Aye, Florence. Another posh port with a castle loaded in riches. A very prosperous port town with a king that is all too eager to throw lavish parties and get drunk off of centuries aged wine.

Benjamin: You’re one to talk, captain…

They hold a Regal Ball every year, with a dance competition. The winners take home 50 grand. Ah, a great memory indeed~

Benji: (blushing furiously)

😏

☠️🩸Bloodwater Bay🩸☠️

….Oh shite. This place. Right, well…..some more dense jungle, a thin strip of beach, the waters are red, but don’t be too alarmed…Davey tells us that’s the iron deposits that give more of that rusty hue. There’s a tall waterfall in the center……

Benjamin: …..Peter? Peeeeeeeter?

O-Oh! Well, moving right along…don’t want to linger in this wretched bay….

✨🇮🇪Gregory’s Point🇮🇪✨

Another lovely island between the mainland and Ireland. This is a developed hotspot, turned into a small port town where all are welcome. Pirates, naval officers, merchants, the like. Between the two main countries, this place has its own governance. So, you better have a good reputation if you don’t want to be murdered in your sleep ✨

Benjamin: you say that so nonchalantly, Captain

Mmmmhm. Also home to one of the best doctors this side of the equator. So, if you get wounded, make sure it happens close to Gregory’s Point.

✨🐋Giverny Gulch🐋✨

Another island made of basalt, home to a naval shipwreck. Do watch your step for broken glass, sharp rocks, reanimated corpses—

Benjamin: —I beg your pardon?

—fish and shark carcasses….oh right. Lots of sharks. Be careful of those.

Benjamin: ….Do I hear a whale?

✨🇫🇷Lorraine🇫🇷✨

We’re arriving near France! Jacques: lead us in the singing of the French National Anthem

Jacques: Oui, oui, Capitaine~! ✨

✨🎵 Allons enfant de la patrie,

Le jour de gloire est arrivé! 🎵✨

Benjamin: 😑

✨🎵….Contre nous de la tyrannie,

L'étendard sanglant est levé

L'étendard sanglant est levé

Entendez-vous dans les campagnes

Mugir ces féroces soldats?

Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras

Égorger vos fils et vos compagnes!

Aux armes, citoyens! (Formez)

Vos bataillons!

Marchons! Oui, marchons!

Qu'un sang impur

Abreuve nos sillons! 🎵✨

🏔️Arctic Archipelago🏔️

……

Benjamin: …..Peter?

…..Let’s be off…..I wish not to be here too long.

✨🏝️The Caribbean🏝️✨

Ah, much better~! A nice, warm climate. Benji, love, remind me to acquire a bottle of Ron de Barbados 🇧🇧✨

Benjamin: Trust me, Captain; you won’t forget.

We’ve reached our final stop, but we have a whole tied-up tour group of witnesses. Mmmm…Right, I got it! Men, start hauling them over the rail—

Benjamin: —PETER!!

I’m joooooking~. Start untying them and drop ‘em off at the next port. Thank you for….“choosing”….The Golden Phoenix as your cruise. I’ve been your captain, and have a magnificent stay in Barbados. Jones knows I will~

Benjamin: P-PETER!! 😣

Leaving this open because man I had a lot of fun here ✨

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[vish-the-wanderer]

CoTE opening quotes

a list of the opening quotes in classroom of the elite:

What is evil?- Whatever springs from weakness. -F W Nietzsche, The Antichrist It takes great talent and skill to conceal one's talent and skill. -La Rochefoucauld, Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with one another. -Adam Smith, An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves. -La Rochefoucauld, Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims Hell is other people. -Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit There are two kinds of lies; one concerns an accomplished fact, the other concerns a future duty. -Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile or on Education Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. -Jean de La Fontaine, Fables Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. -Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Inferno Man is condemned to be free. -Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Humanism Every man has in himself the most dangerous traitor of all. -Kierkegaard, Works of Love What people commonly call fate is their own stupidity. -Schopenhauer, Philosophical Writings Genius lives only one story above madness. -Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena Remember to keep a clear head in difficult times. -Horace, Odes (Carmina) There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. -Franz Kafka, The Zurau Aphorisms The greatest souls are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. -Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method The material has to be created. -Florence Nightingale, subsidiary notes (female nursing into military hospitals in peace and war) Every failure is a step to success. -William Whewell, Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England Adversity is the first path to truth. -G G Byron Don Juan To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions;  both dispense with the necessity of reflection. -H Poincare, Science and Hypothesis The wound is at her heart. -Vergil, Aeneid If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake. -Anonymous, Analects People, often deceived by an illusive good, desire their own ruin. -Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave. -J W V Goethe, Zahme Xenien Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. -Horace, Odes (Carmina) The worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself. -F W Nietzsche, Thus spoke Zarathustra

lmk if you'd like explanations as to how these epigraphs relate to the story

[ripempezardexerox]

Dices Merzbow, yo digo Justin Beiber

Dices Boredoms, yo digo Katy Perry

Dices Gerogerigegege, yo digo Skrillex

Dices Coil, yo digo Lady Gaga

Dices Throbbing Gristle, yo digo Black Eyed Peas

Dices Whitehouse, yo digo Taylor Swift

Dices Nurse With Wound, yo digo Bruno Mars

Dices Einstürzende Neubauten, yo digo Maroon 5

Dices Brainbombs, yo digo Drake

Dices Egor Letov, yo digo One Direction

Dices Death in June, yo digo LMFAO

Dices Current 93, yo digo Beyonce

Dices La Monte Young, yo digo Carly Rae Jepsen

Dices Moondog, yo digo Kelly Clarkson

Dices Lou Harrison, yo digo Coldplay

Dices Henry Cowell, yo digo PSY

Dices Luigi Russolo, yo digo Imagine Dragons

Dices Popol Vuh, yo digo Lana Del Ray

Dices Fishmans, yo digo Ellie Goulding

Dices Jean Jacques Perrey, yo digo P!nk

Dices Les Rallizes Dénudés, yo digo Owl City

Dices Rainbow Caroliner, yo digo Carrie Underwood

Dices Taj Mahal Travellers, yo digo Christina Aguilera

Dices Fushitsusha, yo digo Ariana Grande

Dices Peter Brötzmann, yo digo Rihanna

Dices John Cage, yo digo Jennifer Lopez

Dices Scott Walker, yo digo Ed Sheeran

Dices Unwound, yo digo Mumford & Sons

Dices Dead, yo digo Tyga

Dices Frank Zappa, yo digo Shakira

Dices Morton Feldman, yo digo Macklemore

Dices Captain Beefheart, yo digo Big Time Rush

Dices Pharoah Sanders, yo digo Akon

Dices Albert Ayler, yo digo Foster the People

Dices Ornette Coleman, yo digo The Weeknd

Dices Alice Coltrane, yo digo Panic! at the Disco

Dices Arnold Schoenberg, yo digo Florida Georgia Line

Dices Pierre Boulez, yo digo Big Sean

Dices György Ligeti, yo digo Gym Class Heroes

Dices Karlheinz Stockhausen, yo digo Miley Cyrus

Dices Nang Nang, yo digo The Lumineers

Dices Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, yo digo Jay-Z

Dices Nara Leão, yo digoCharlie Puth

Dices Basic Channel, yo digo Mac Miller

Dices Raymond Scott, yo digo Twenty One Pilots

Dices Delia Derbyshire, yo digo Harry Styles

Dices Daphne Oram, yo digo Charli XCX

Dices Noah Howard, yo digoBTS

Dices Terry Riley, yo digo Iggy Azalea

Dices Peter Sotos, yo digo John Legend

Dices Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho, yo digo OneRepublic

Dices Boyd Rice, yo digo Migos

Dices Mahmoud Ahmed, yo digo Logic

Dices Henry Flynt, yo digo Bastille

Dices Kazumoto Endo, yo digo Five Seconds of Summer

Dices David Tudor, yo digo Pentatonix

Dices Aporea, yo digo The Chainsmokers

Dices Half Japanese, yo digo Fall Out Boy

Dices Mega Banton, yo digo David Guetta

Dices Secret Chiefs 3, yo digo Greta Van Fleet

Dices Keiji Haino, yo digo Alicia Keys

Dices Ramleh, yo digo Kanye West

Dices Otomo Yoshihide, yo digo T-Pain

Dices John Zorn, yo digo Lizzo

Dices Joe Meek, yo digo WALK THE MOON

Dices Robbie Basho, yo digo Cardi B

Dices Phil Spector, yo digo EXO

Dices Faxed Head, yo digo Solange

Dices Harry Partch, yo digo Lil Nas X

Dices Wesley Willis, yo digo Disclosure

Dices Fred Frith, yo digo Sam Smith

Dices The Residents, yo digo Michael Buble

Dices Sun Ra, yo digo Paramore

Dices Sun City Girls, yo digo Linkin Park

Dices Hans Krüsi, yo digo Florence + The Machine

Dices Royal Trux, yo digo Rascal Flatts

Dices Jandek, yo digo Eminem

Dices Yat-Kha, yo digo Chance the Rapper

Dices Loren Mazzacane Connors, yo digo Mariah Carey

Dices Pärson Sound, yo digo Snoop Dogg

Dices The Dead C, yo digo Adele

Dices Comus, yo digo Shawn Mendes

Dices Cromagnon, yo digo Chris Brown

Dices Eliane Radigue, yo digo Camilla Cabello

Dices Arthur Doyle, yo digo Halsey

Dices Shizuka, yo digo The 1975

Dices The Red Krayola, yo digo Billie Eilish

Dices Henry Cow, yo digo A$AP Rocky

Dices Magma, yo digo Dua Lipa

Dices Opus Avantra, yo digo Kendrick Lamar

Dices Pan.Thy.Monium., yo digo Nicki Minaj

Dices Murmuüre, yo digo Madonna

Dices Ksiezyc, yo digo Britney Spears

Dices Gong, yo digo Post Malone

Dices Cukor Bila Smert', yo digo Jonas Brothers

Dices cLOUDDEAD, yo opino que te calles

Dices Muslimgauze, ¡¡ YO GRITO POP!!

Dices Kaoru Abe, y te parto la madre

El 92% de la juventud está escuchando Avant Garde Noise. Si eres parte de ese 8% que aun escucha música de verdad, comparte este post a tus contactos de facebook.

¡¡¡¡ No dejes que el espíritu del POP muera !!!!

[camisoledadparis]

THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … November 12

1660 – Cardinal Francesco Maria de' Medici, was born in Florence, the son of Grand duke Ferdinando II of Tuscany and Vittoria Della Rovere (d.1711).

In 1683 he was appointed to governor of Siena, a position he maintained until his death. He was the grand prior of the Sovereign Order of Malta in Pisa; Abbot commendatario of S. Galgano, Siena; Abbot commendatario of S. Stefano, Carrara, 1675.

According to a family tradition was promoted to the cardinalate at a young age in 1686. He remained in Florence, in his villa of Lappeggi, devoting himself to a life not really religious, made of amusements and love affairs with men.

He resigned the cardinalate on June 19, 1709 and was named prince of Siena. He then was forced to marry in 1709 Eleonore Luisa Gonzaga, duchess of Guastalla, daughter of Vincenzo Gonzaga, in an attempt to save the dynasty, but they did not have children.

1679 – Sweden: Lisabetha Olsdotter is convicted of abandoning her husband and children, becoming a soldier, and marrying a woman. She is accused of “mutilating” her gender and mocking God. She is executed by decapitation.

1746 – Jacques Charles (d.1823) was a French mathematician and inventor, best known for his work with the hydrogen balloon.

Jacques was the only child of his parents. Jacques' education consisted of basic arithmetic , and no science at all. Other than this almost nothing is known about his earlier years.

Late in life Jacques married a creole woman, Julie Françoise Bouchaud des Hérettes, who was 37 years younger than himself. Many historians believe that his marriage was a cover up for his homosexual relationship with the poet, Alphonse de Lamartine.

In 1785 Charles became a professor at the French Académie des Sciences without having any formal science education himself.

Without Charles's contributions, the Hindenburg would not have even existed, so that accident would not have occurred, and we wouldn't have the one-way valve, or at least until someone else came up for the idea after Charles did.

Most notably Jacques Charles is known for the Hydrogen balloon which he built with the Robert Brothers. Jacques originally got the idea for using hydrogen gas as a lifting agent after intensive study of Boyle's Law. Previous to the use of hydrogen gas, hot air was used to make balloons fly.

Charles also is known for the invention of the gas valve, which he used on his hydrogen balloons, the hydrometer, and the reflection goniometer. He improved the heilostat and the arometer. Charles also confirmed Benjamin Franklin's electrical experiments. Charles is also responsible for Charles's Law, but did not publish it. It was published by Joseph Gay-Lussac in 1802, and Joseph named it in Charles's honor, crediting an unpublished work by Jacques Charles.

Jacques Charles outlived his young wife, and later died himself April 7, 1823 in Paris.

1915 – Roland Barthes (d.1980), a French semanticist, symbolist, and philosopher, like André Gide and Marcel Proust, two of his favorite writers, was somewhat of an outsider. He was Protestant. (France is predominantly Catholic.) He was left-handed. (France is, of course, predominantly right-handed.) He was déclassé. (Barthes's father, a naval officer, died in the First World War, and his mother had to work as a bookbinder.) He was consumptive. (Barthes spent several years in sanatoria.) And he was expatriate. (Barthes spent the 1950s in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, working for cultural services.) He was also, like Proust, (if not like Gide, who saw himself as a pederast), a homosexual.

Barthes's critical writings are best understood in relation to this sexual marginality. Because Barthes sees homosexuality, and for that matter any transgressive and eccentric "perversion," as unclassifiable, he rejects the classification "inversion" as inaccurate—a notion that will come as a surprise to gays and lesbians who see themselves as "inverts."

Oddly enough, Barthes does not reject every gay male stereotype. Barthes rejects sexual inversion, but embraces "tricking" and "cruising," activities that he claims represent true sexual liberation. (Not that they did so for Barthes himself; his autobiographical texts suggest he had an unhappy love life.) Cruising, he writes, is "anti-natural, anti-repetition." It may be that Barthes is simply "protecting" his sexuality here (something he feels all writers do), or at least the macho ("phallocentric") part of his sexuality because whereas sexual inversion feminizes gay men, cruising for tricks is a rather manly (and purportedly desirable) thing to do.

Barthes sees tricking and cruising as desirable in another sense as well. The trick, he writes, "is homogenous to the amorous progression; it is a virtual love, deliberately stopped short on each side, by contract." Likewise, men cruise with "the invincible idea that one will find someone with whom to be in love." Some gays (who cruise for sex, not love) will find these descriptions unrealistic. Barthes, however, feels that sentimentality, in an age such as ours in which love doesn't make too much sense, is essentially—and even nonparadoxically—insignificant.

According to Barthes, "it is Western discourse as such" —discourse that marginalizes and stereotypes gays and lesbians—" that we must now try to break apart."

1930 – Bob Crewe (d.2014) was an American songwriter, dancer, singer, manager, record producer and fine artist. He was known for producing, and co-writing with Bob Gaudio, a string of Top 10 singles for the Four Seasons.

Born in Newark in 1930 and reared in Belleville, New Jersey, Crewe demonstrated an early and apparent gift for both art and music. Although lacking in formal musical training, he gravitated to learning from many of the great 19th- and 20th-century classical romantic composers as well as giants of jazz and swing, including Stan Kenton, Harry James, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, and Tommy Dorsey. He studied for almost a year at Parsons School of Design in New York City with the intention of eventually pursuing a career in architecture.

In 1953 Crewe met and partnered professionally with Frank Slay Jr., a young pianist from Texas. Their collaboration created several hit songs (including a small record label XYZ), for which Crewe performed as the demo singer. Crewe and Slay's 1957 recording session with the Rays for their XYZ label (picked up nationally by Cameo Records) produced two big song hits. Produced by Crewe, the record's A-side, "Silhouettes", became a doo-wop anthem of the era. Climbing to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1957, "Silhouettes" displayed the flair for story-driven lyrics, innovative musical "hooks", and a final lyrical twist that were to become known as Crewe trademarks. "Daddy Cool" was the B side of that same 1957 session. His song-writing career was launched.

As a songwriter, his most successful songs included "Silhouettes" (co-written with Frank Slay); "Big Girls Don't Cry", "Walk Like a Man", "Rag Doll", "Silence Is Golden", "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)", "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" and "Bye, Bye, Baby" (all co-written with Gaudio); "Let's Hang On!" (wriiten with Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell); and "My Eyes Adored You" and "Lady Marmalade" (both co-written with Kenny Nolan). He also had hit recordings with the Rays, Diane Renay, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, Freddy Cannon, Lesley Gore, Oliver, Michael Jackson, Bobby Darin, Roberta Flack, Peabo Bryson, Patti LaBelle, and his own Bob Crewe Generation.

Since 2005 Crewe has been featured as a supporting character (played originally by Peter Gregus) in Jersey Boys, the multiple Tony Award-winning, long-running Broadway musical (later a film) based on the story of Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons that has gone on to become an international hit. Crewe is credited as the show's lyricist. He used his proceeds from the show to start a foundation supporting people with AIDS, gay rights, and bringing music and art to children in deprived communities.

Crewe was portrayed as "overtly gay" in "Jersey Boys," but his brother Dan told The New York Times he was discreet about his sexuality, particularly during the time he was working with the Four Seasons.

"Whenever he met someone, he would go into what I always called his John Wayne mode, this extreme machoism," Dan Crewe told The New York Times. He was then asked if any of the songs his brother wrote were based on a romance with another man and he demurred, "Bob was just a good story teller." But were they stories about his boyfriends, changed into stories about girlfriends?

1946 – James F. Amos is a retired United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as the 35th Commandant of the Marine Corps. As a Naval Aviator, Amos commanded the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing during the Iraq War in 2003 and 2004. He served as the 31st Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps. He is the first Marine Corps aviator to serve as commandant.

As Commandant, Amos opposed the repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding homosexuals openly serving in the U.S. military. After President Obama signed the legislation setting the conditions for repeal, Amos led the Department of Defense in carrying out the will of the nation's civilian leadership. In late November 2011, Amos stated that his opposition to gays openly serving in the military has proven unfounded and said that Marines have embraced the change, describing the repeal as a "non-event."

1970 – Craig Parker, born in Suva, Fiji, is an actor from New Zealand, known for his roles as Haldir in the films The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and The Two Towers (2002), Darken Rahl in the television series Legend of the Seeker, Stéphane Narcisse in the CW television series Reign, and Gaius Claudius Glaber in the television series Spartacus.He also serves as narrator for New Zealand documentaries. Parker starred in the TVNZ soap Shortland Street, as Guy Warner, a character that has made several return appearances, most recently involving a story where Guy ran off with his brother's wife, Toni, only to return months later as a drug addled loser who attempted to use his daughter to score drugs for him. It ultimately led to the death storyline of Toni Warner. He is the reigning champion of New Zealand's Celebrity Joker Poker.

Parker first publicly discussed being gay in an interview with New Zealand’s Sunday Herald back in 2008. Regarding his sexuality, the very private Parker told the reporter that as a gay man, he doesn’t care what people say about his sexuality and that:

It’s jut not an issue for me. I just don’t get why an actor would want to reveal their secrets, hopes and fears to a magazine or newspaper. I know what the magazine gets out of it, but not the person. If you are doing publicity to increase your self-confidence then you are really in trouble. It’s important to keep some privacy. Your friends and family are the people you reveal yourself to. They are the ones who should have real access to you. 

1976 – Tevin Campbell is an American singer, songwriter and actor. He performed gospel in his local church from an early age. Following an audition for jazz musician Bobbi Humphrey in 1988, Campbell was signed to Warner Bros. Records.

In 1989, Campbell collaborated with Quincy Jones performing lead vocals for "Tomorrow" on Jones' album Back on the Block and released his Platinum-selling debut album, T.E.V.I.N. The album included his highest-charting single to date, "Tell Me What You Want Me to Do", peaking at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100.

His double-Platinum-selling second album, I'm Ready, released in 1993, included two high-charting songs. In 1996, Campbell released his third album, Back to the World, which was not as commercially or critically successful as his first two releases. His fourth and most recent album, Tevin Campbell, was released in 1999, but performed poorly on Billboard's album charts.

Apart from music, Campbell commenced an acting career, by appearing in the sequel to Prince's Purple Rain named Graffiti Bridge and made guest appearances on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Moesha television programs, voiced fictional pop star Powerline in Disney's A Goofy Movie and was cast as Seaweed in the Broadway musical Hairspray in 2005.

Campbell earned 5 Grammy Award nominations, and he has certified sales of 4.5 million records in the United States, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.

Campbell has dealt with speculation of his sexuality for years without directly addressing anything. Campbell had long denied rumors that he was a homosexual but in 1999 was arrested after offering to perform a sexual favor on a male undercover police officer. According to a report released by the Los Angeles Police Department, Campbell, on July 8,1999, he solicited a lewd act from an undercover officer. Also following the arrest, officers recovered a substance resembling marijuana and a pipe containing possible marijuana residue.

In 2018, he has stated that he can't figure out why people are still so interested in whether or not he's gay. There has been rumors that Quincy Jones sexually assaulted him as a minor, which Campbell denied. In 2020, he threatened to file a lawsuit against Jaguar Wright for claims that he had become a sex worker.

1985 – Ben Aldridge is an English actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Thomas Wayne in the crime drama series Pennyworth and "Arsehole Guy" in the tragicomedy series Fleabag.

Having worked with the National Youth Theatre, Aldridge graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art with a bursary from the Genesis Foundation for young actors. He left early to begin filming the 2009 ITV film Compulsion alongside Ray Winstone and Parminder Nagra.

In 2008, Aldridge made his television debut in Channel 4's four-part miniseries The Devil's Whore, playing Harry Fanshawe, husband of the title character. That same year, he was featured on Screen International's "Stars of Tomorrow" list. In addition to First Light, Lewis, Toast and Vera, Aldridge also appeared as Daniel Parish in the BBC One period drama Lark Rise to Candleford. In 2011, the American network The CW cast Aldridge as the lead in the pilot Heavenly. Later on he spent time in Belgrade shooting the partially improvised romance short film In the Night for director Ivana Bobic and award-winning cinematographer Rain Li, alongside supermodel Danijela Dimitrovska.

In 2013, Aldridge starred in Almeida Theatre's production of American Psycho as Paul Owen, opposite Matt Smith as Patrick Bateman. The musical thriller featured a book by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa based on Bret Easton Ellis's cult novel, with music and lyrics by Duncan Sheik.

In September 2014, he joined BBC's original drama series Our Girl as Captain Charles James. He is currently the longest serving cast member.

In December 2014, Aldridge joined The CW's series Reign as King Antoine of Navarre.

On 27 June 2020, Aldridge came out as a member of LGBT community on his Instagram.

"The journey to pride was a long one for me. I love the LGBTQ+ community and am incredibly proud and thankful to be a part of it," Aldridge wrote.

The actor also shared some black-and-white photos from historic Pride marches along with a short video showing him kissing a man on the cheek.

1994 – Guillaume Cizeron is a French ice dancer. With his partner, Gabriella Papadakis, he is the 2018 Olympic silver medalist, a four-time World champion (2015–2016, 2018–2019), a five-time consecutive European champion (2015–2019), the 2017 and 2019 Grand Prix Final champion, and a six-time French national champion (2015–2020). They have won ten gold medals on the Grand Prix series. Earlier in their career, they won silver at the 2012 Junior Grand Prix Final and 2013 World Junior Championships.

Papadakis and Cizeron have broken world records 28 times, which is in itself a record across all figure skating disciplines since the introduction of the ISU Judging System in 2004. They are the current and historical world record holders in short/rhythm dance, free dance, and combined total. They are the first team to have broken the 90-point barrier in the rhythm dance, the 120-point and 130-point barriers in the free dance, and the first team to score above the 200-point, 210-point and 220-point barriers in the combined total score.

The pair are recognized for their graceful and balletic style. Their programs, inspired by modern dance, have been described as lyrical, and commentators have frequently acclaimed the quality of their skating skills.

Guillaume Cizeron was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. His father, Marc, is president of the Auvergne Clermont Danse sur Glace skating club.

Cizeron studied fine arts in Lyon before moving to Canada. He relocated to Montreal, Quebec, Canada from France on 14 July 2014, following his coach, Haguenauer.

On 17 May 2020, in honour of the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, he came out as gay with a post on Instagram showing him with his boyfriend. He had been out to his family and friends for a while but was convinced his doing so would help people in places that were not as open to LGBTQ people.

While Cizeron had never publicly confirmed his sexuality before recently, he says that he never felt that he was in the closet."It was quite funny, the reaction of people following this photo," he told French LGBTQ magazine Têtu.

"I would not consider myself in the closet before…So I don't really consider it coming out. Even though I have never spoken publicly about my sexual orientation, I am one of those who think that it is not something that community members should have to do."Of the boyfriend: "It's my most serious relationship so far," he said. "We live together, he is French… I will not give too much information and say too much to respect his privacy. What I can say is that he is 33 years old, and we have been together for more than 3 years."

With the pandemic affecting international travel, the ISU opted to assign the Grand Prix based primarily on geographic location, but Papadakis/Cizeron were nonetheless assigned to the 2020 Internationaux de France, necessitating traveling from Canada to France. However, the Internationaux was ultimately cancelled due to the pandemic as well. Both skaters contracted COVID-19 in July of 2019, after contact with a third individual, resulting in them being away from the ice for three weeks.

On November 11, 2020, L'Equipe reported that Papadakis/Cizeron would skip both the French and European championships for that season to focus on the World Championships in Stockholm, citing the difficulty of traveling back and forth between countries frequently.

[nasuverse-most-breedable-tourney]

The contenders have been chosen! A whopping 256 characters have been sent to me. Brackets will take awhile to be made but the tournament will start when I'm ready.

Achilles Agravain Altera Altera the Santa Amakusa Shirou Amor Anastasia Andromeda Anne Bonny & Mary Read Antonio Salieri Aoko Aozaki Arash Archimedes Arcueid Arjuna Arjuna Alter Artoria Artoria Alter Artoria Caster Artoria Lancer Artoria Lancer Alter Asclepius Ashiya Douman Asterios Astolfo Asvatthaman Atalanta Atalanta Alter Angra Mainyu Avicebron Baobhan Sith Barghest Bartholomew Roberts Bazett BB Bedivere Beowulf Bhima Billy the Kid Blackbeard Boudica Bradamante Britomart Byrnhild Caenis Calamity Jane Carmilla Ceil Circe Charlemagne Charlotte Corday Chen Gong Chevalier d'Eon Cleopatra Constantine XI Cu Cu (Alter) Cu (Caster) David Daybit Demon King Nobunaga Diarmuid Dioscuri Dobrynya Nikitich Dorothea Coyett Durga Duryodhana Dust of Osiris Edmond Dantes Emiya Enkidu Ereshkigal Europa Fergus mac Roich Fionn mac Cumhaill Fiore Forvedge First Hassan Florence Nightingale Francesca Prelati Francis Drake Fujimaru Ritsuka Fuma Kotaro Gareth Gawain Georgios Gilgamesh Gilgamesh Caster Goetia Goredolf Gorgon Hassan of Serenity Hassan of the Hundred Faces Hildr Hector Henry Jekyll & Hyde Hephaestion Hercules Hippolyta Huang Feihu Huyan Zhuo Ibuki Douji Iskandar Ishtar Ivan the Terrible Izumo no Okuni Jacques de Molay Jacques de Molay Foreigner Jalter Jason Jeanne d'Arc Jinako Carigiri Jing Ke Kadoc Kama Karna Kato Danzo Katsushika Hokusai Kiara Kiichi Hogen Kijyo Koyo Kintoki Kirei Kiritsugu Kirschtaria Wodime Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg Kishinami Hakuno Koyanskaya Kriemhild Kukulkan Lanling Wang Leonardo da Vinci Leysritt Locusta Luviagelita Edelfelt Mandricardo Mash Mata Hari Medea Medusa Meltryllis Mephistopheles Merlin Merlin Prototype Mikiya Kokutou Miss Crane Miyamoto Musashi Miyamoto Iori Mordred Mori Nagayoshi Moriarty (Archer) Moriarty (Ruler) Mozart Muniere Murasaki Shikibu Mysterious Heroine XX Nagkura Shinpachi Neco Arc Nero Nezha Noah Noel Aizome Night of Wallachia Nitocris Nitocris Alter Nrvnqsr Chaos Oberon Oda Kippoushi Oda Nobunaga Odysseus Okada Izo Okita Souji Ortlinde Osakabehime Ozymandias Passionlip Patxi Penthesilea Percival Perseus Phantom of the Opera Proto Arthur Ptolemy Qin Liangyu Queen Himiko Queen Medb Queen of Sheba Quetzalcoatl Quetzalcoatl Samba Raikou Rama Richard the Lionheart Riesbyfe Stridberg Rin Tohsaka Roa Robin Hood Romani Saber (Fate/Samurai Remnant) Saint Martha Saito Hajime Sakamoto Ryouma and Oryo Salome Sasaki Kojiro Scandinavia Peperoncino Scathach Scheherazade Sei Shonagon Semiramis Shakespeare Sherlock Holmes Shi Huang Di Shiki Tohno Shiki Ryougi Shirou Emiya Shuten Douji Sieg Siegfried Sigurd Sisigou Kairi Skadi Souichirou Kuzuki Spartacus Suse Ritsuka Suzuka Gozen Taiga Fujimura Taigong Wang Taira-no-Kagekiyo Takao Dayu Takasugi Shinsaku Takechi Zuizan Tamamo Cat Tamamo no Mae Tenochtitlan Theseus Thrud Tiamat Tomoe Gozen Touko Aozaki Tristan Ushiwakamaru Van Gogh Vlad III Vlov Arkhangel Vritra Watanabe-no-Tsuna Waver Xiang Yu Xuanzang Sanzang Yamanami Keisuke Yan Qing Yang Guifei Yu Mei-ren Yui Shousetsu Zenobia Zeus

[timetocrybois]

Hello music lovers! I’m in a Sonic mood (thank you Sonic Prime) and I would like to know if anyone has any Sonic like/inspired/makes you think of him type music

Under this is my current playlist I’d like to add to:

Where Evil Grows - The Poppy Family & Terry Jacks

Hey Runner! - The Arcadian Wild

Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra

Running In the 90's - Max Coveri

GAS GAS GAS - Manuel

Get'cha Head In the Game - High School Musical

Shut Up and Drive - Rihanna

Holding Out for a Hero - Bonnie Tyler

Don’t Stop Me Now - Queen

Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy- Queen

Flash - Queen

The Hero - Queen

Favorite Son - Green Day

Amy - Green Day

Stab you in the Heart - Green Day

Dog Days Are Over - Florence + the Machine

Kiss with a Fist - Florence + the Machine

Live & Learn - Crush 40

Knight of the Wind - Crush 40

Sonic Boom - Crush 40

His World - Crush 40

Escape From the City - Jun Senoue & Ted Poley, Tony Harnell

Super Sonic Racing - Richard Jacques

Lights, Camera, Action! - Tee Lopes

Gotta Go Fast (Sonic X Theme) - NateWantsToBattle

Fist Bump - Douglas Robb of Hoobastank

[rafaeltheraven]

I'm bored in the train and I've had various songs from The New Sound in my head for the past week so I'm just going to ramble into the void a bit.

There's a "genre" of music I call "women music". It feels like a pretty denigrating title but I don't intend it as such, I just can't come up with a better one. It involves artists like Fiona Apple, Florence and the Machine, Wende Snijders and probably more I don't know. A type of introspective, slightly experimental music that to me feels unmistakably feminine, but not in a fun poppy way like for example Taylor Swift. I can certainly emphasize with the music, I love a lot of it, but it always feels like I'll never fully understand it. There's some essence, some experience I don't have which permeates the music and makes it in some way alien.

Discussing this with a friend a few years ago (after having seen Wende live), we wondered whether such music exists for the masculine. In some ways, most music is that way we pontificated. A lot of music is made for the male perspective for various reasons, but it doesn't feel masculine in the same way "women music" feels feminine. I've considered perhaps Bowie's Station to Station would count, but it's themes are quite universal.

The New Sound feels like the answer to this question. To me, there's something quite unmistakably masculine about the album, in all the terrible ways that implies.

The album really feels like it was made for me. Being a 25 year old single man who grew up on Jacques Brel and musicals and developed a love for Prog, Zappa and latin music, Greep seems eerily similar to me. I can certainly emphasize extremely with the characters depicted here. Though I've never gone to a sex worker (my nightmare was long distance), the desperation that permeates As If Walz and the Magician is deeply known to me. Someone on Reddit asked whether the album was inspired by Disco Elysium (for which they got rightly clowned), but I think the album and the relationship between Dora and Harry just come from very similar, dark places.

People keep calling it an incel album, but it's clearly not right? I mean, the character(s) clearly have sex. They're not celebate. I feel like the term incel has kind of dilluted into just meaning any bad man who has issues with women, but the inability to have sex feels like a major part of the definition to me. Andrew Tate isn't an incel, he's just a misogynist cunt.

It is, however, a sadboy album. A term I feel like we've sadly forgotten. I think it's much more interesting to view in that lens. Sadboys have something pitiable about them. They're not as outwardly misogynist, not as directly aggressive, they're just sad. I know I can be something of a sadboy myself.

internet-sentences has posted (at least as I see it) at length about the danger of this. It's also what femitist bob comes from. I try to catch myself whenever these feelings arrive, but they arrive nonetheless.

Not that women (or nonbinary folk) can't feel this way of course, but it seems to me, again, undeniably masculine. And Greep has really tapped into that well.

Anyway, the instrumentals fucking slap and the lyrics make me feel things. I look forward to being in my 30s together with Greep and seeing what unknown feelings he'll put on display then.