#gregorian chanting

[jbk405]

Whaddya mean "remember"? I still have Sev in my playlist!

[mysteryequationart]

Dies Irae

[canisalbus]

Oh my gosh, I can totally see Machete with a small cactus. I feel like if he had one it would be very dear to him and probably the most colorful thing he owns.

[neo--queen--serenity]

The Black Butler revival will, of course, in this day and age, be the complete embodiment of pro-ship vs. anti-ship discourse, given the subject matter.

But for those of you who are watching this for the first time in 2024 (which includes myself!), there are certain things about the show you simply must understand, for the sake of media literacy.

The first is that Black Butler is supernatural gothic romanticism at its core. This genre alone should tell you that the relationships integral to the plot will be complex, messy, and toxic, by default. That is not only a huge part of this genre’s appeal, but very much the point of the story.

The themes are dark, the terrible things that happen to the main characters are dark, and therefore the relationships at the forefront (and in the background) will reflect that.

The gothic genre has been alluringly popular for over a century (longer, if you know your history) because audiences are entranced by the macabre, the tainted antiheroes, the monsters who live inside us all. It’s popular for a reason.

That being said, understand that whether you, the viewer, ship Sebastian and Ciel or not is irrelevant. Their bond doesn’t need to be understood as romantic or sexual, but it sure as hell isn’t normal. It isn’t healthy. And the audience knows that. That’s the draw. It’s what makes them compelling to watch.

Ciel and Sebastian’s relationship mirrors many gothic novels, poems, and penny dreadfuls written in the Victorian Era (the very same time period in which Kuroshitsuji takes place). The Victorian folks who read these tales for the first time ate that shit up, because it was tantalizing. It was shocking. It was inappropriate, and monstrous, and violent, and erotic, and went against societal norms. But that was the point.

A huge part of gothic romanticism is the blatant sexualization of the relationship between the “monstrous” characters and their human counterparts in the story. Sex itself doesn’t need to take place for their bond to be sexually charged. The forbidden nature of their relationship—which typically involves layers of social taboos, moral ambiguity, or simple infatuation—is what makes their interactions erotic. Sexual contact rarely ever actually happens in these stories. It’s the taboo nature of their bond that creates the tension.

One of the many reasons audiences love this genre is the constant question of morality in its themes. Who, between them, is the real monster? Could the human character have ever been saved? This genre is often associated with tragedy, because the bond forged between the characters in these stories are destined to end in death and destruction. The reader knows it can’t end any other way. How can it?

But an integral element of these gothic tales is the catharsis that comes with this tragedy. The corrupted human often gets what they want in the end, even if it’s at the cost of their own life. Whether they regret their choice to foster this monstrous relationship varies on the story, but it doesn’t change the trajectory of their descent.

Sebastian and Ciel’s relationship is the whole plot of Black Butler. Their closeness bears a grotesque ick factor, but it is deliberate. It is a constant reminder of how unnatrual their bond truly is. Rationalizing or watering down how abnormal they are about each other misses the point entirely. They will never have a normal, healthy relationship, and that’s what moves the plot forward.

That’s why you’re watching it.

[weirdlookindog]

Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) - Gregorian chant, 1959

[icedb1ackcoffee]

Corrupted by Design CH 1 | Feyd-Rautha x Reader

After generations of pillaging and destroying their ecosystem, you are assigned by the Emperor to work on with the Harkonnens to improve their planet’s agriculture as Imperial Ecologist. However, Giedi Prime is far from welcoming, and you must fight to survive the horrors you endure at the hands of the Harkonnens. When you catch the eye of the Baron’s youngest nephew, and most prized possession, you step into a world complicated by politics and revenge.

Tags: Unbeta'd, AFAB Reader, multiple OCs, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, enemy to friends to lovers/enemy lovers, slow burn, fake science, blood, violence, gore, body horror, cannibalism, uncle/nephew incest (implied), eventual smut, etc.

A/N: I’ve never read the books, so this is a combination of the Villeneuve films, the Dune Wiki, and a heavy dose of just making shit up lol. I try my best to make Reader as nondescript as possible, but there are mentions of having periods and body hair in later chapters. As a warning up front, this will not have a Happily Ever After ending, but maybe more like Happy For Now?

Please mind the tags; this is very dark, but that comes with the territory.

Chapter One: Like Meat (Spoiled)

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When you first arrived at Giedi Prime, nothing could have adequately prepared you for the shock the harsh environment brought. 

Approaching the planet, dark, heavy clouds of pollution choked its atmosphere, seen even from your descent into the atmosphere. Any hope you’d had on your mission here began to wither as you saw the goliath manufacturing plants and landfills that scarred the horizon on all sides. Even the advanced Sardakaur technology on this ship couldn’t soften the harsh winds. Could this be the reason why they accepted you— a last-ditch effort to salvage whatever was left of this godforsaken planet…?

When you landed, you rose unsteadily to your feet and grabbed your luggage. Two large bags and one satchel tied at your waist. The rest unloaded off the ship, full of your tools and plants. Your entire life packed away, always ready for the next move. An escort accompanied you off ship, the rest staying inside. Not that you would blame them; if it was not required of you, you would not leave, either.

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[houghtonlib]

Music a millennium old

Fragment of a missal, a book containing the texts for celebrating Mass, from approximately 1000 CE. The smaller text is a passage of Gregorian chant with neumes, an early form of musical notation.

MS Typ 773

Houghton Library, Harvard University

[violadagoomba]

Put your [Guidonian] hands in the air!

[rileys17]

‘A Violent Dog’

started my attempt at producing this on an ipad, wanted to share the buildup point of the song so far :)

this is where i want to start posting my music from now on :))

[gothiccharmschool]

Sooo speaking of this ...

[pierrotsloop]

midwinter is heinous but also. Wishing everyone a very happy tolkien/berserk/medieval epic poetry/WW1 movies/dungeon synth/ethereal wave/freak folk/darkwave/illuminated manuscript/dostoyevsky/bulgakov/gregorian chant/long wandering walks through the fog/doing your makeup weird/hot tea season

[eruscreaminginthedistance]

DO NOT give this girl the aux her autistic ass won't turn off the Oblivion soundtrack

[useless-catalanfacts]

The traditional music and performance of El cant de la sibil·la (The Sibyl's Song) has gone further than the walls of the churches where it has been sang for centuries and has inspired many modern Mallorcan singers and musicians such as Maria del Mar Bonet or, more recently, Júlia Colom (in this video you can see a snipet of her performing the role of Sibyl in Valldemossa, Mallorca). Júlia is a singer-songwriter who makes both urban music and songs based on traditional Mallorcan music.

Video posted by Alex Sobron Jewellery, who made the golden fingertips.

Find out more about the Sibyl's Song in this post.

[creativitycache]

Alright apparently I’m now outnumbered in my small office for not carrying anything defensive like pepper spray, a taser, or a metal baton every day.

[eddiepeaches]

there is an unassuming middle aged man in my office building who works as a graphic designer (?) and has truly The Most eclectic music taste...one day it's classical piano, the next day it's some extended EDM remix of a top 40 hit, today we have been hearing gregorian chants emanating down the hall. lowkey obsessed w him tbh

[laniusbignaturals]

FNV Storyboarding like. This is Joshua’s illegitimate daughter she’s a vicious childkilling blind woman who wrenches herself out of the colonial narrative structure her family has been embroiled in for decades at the cost of her soul, her anger itself as much a facet of her dehumanization as it is her only way out. And this is Edward’s illegitimate daughter. Her titties are pierced. She’s a bitch and a sugar baby👸🏾💎✨🐷💍