#he's one cool cat

[alpacahat67]

Okay, I posted about Diamond Dogs at 7 in the morning and... I feel as if it wasn't my best writing. So... okay here's my Actual thoughts on Diamond Dogs.

Note that I haven't listened to all of Bowie's discography yet so go easy on me.

Generally, my thoughts about Diamond Dogs are mixed. I feel as if it has a lot of good material, both music and story-wise, but... side two is... not the best for a Bowie album, save for Big Brother which is literally in my top 10 Bowie songs. I might just have to read 1984 to appreciate it though, lol. It's really astonishing that this album turned out so objectively good and well received by critics IMO and honestly? Yeah I get it.

At first I really didn't like Diamond Dogs. I thought a lot of the songs just... they weren't my cup of tea, and I still am not a fan of Sweet Thing personally and I think the snare in Candidate is FAR too loud (typical percussion critique comment, sorry, but like seriously do you know what moongel is man buy a sticky hand from a coin machine that works just as well). And that was the extent of my opinions. Of course, I'm less partial to soul as a genre, and as it seems Bowie was playing around with soul in this era of his career, it makes sense as to why I didn't quite like some of the more soul-heavy songs.

Then I relistened to Diamond Dogs. And, boy, I really like the album now. It's not as good as The Man Who Sold The World or Station to Station in my books, but it's really good. Mainly, I enjoy the storyline of Diamond Dogs, but mostly side one. I need to read 1984 so I'm left with an incomplete understanding of side two, which is mostly an homage to 1984 (not like Bowie could turn it into a musical, lmaooo.)

I really like Halloween Jack! He's up there in my favorite Bowie characters! I feel as if he had a lot of potential that he didn't live up to because he was brought into the story so soon and then never mentioned again, and also the fact that he didn't exist as a stage character for long and was quickly replaced by the Soul Man. Furthermore, I love the worldbuilding of Hunger City and the gang of the Diamond Dogs that we get in the first half of the album. I really wish the entire album was solely that concept! Bowie seemed to have so many plans that were probably born from spite when his request to adapt 1984 into a musical was declined and I wish he got to put those ideas to good use. Rebel Rebel ends off side one and is a... really good song, yes, it ends off the half well, but... many critics bring up how it doesn't further the story provided in side one and I have to agree. It could be about Halloween Jack as he's mentioned to have a "hussy" with him and... if it's from his POV then it's probably about her. But that's the only correlation I really see. And to be fair, sometimes songs don't have to fit into an album's story, sometimes a guy can just write a funny little song. So it doesn't take away from my enjoyment of side one of Diamond Dogs

The second half of the album, side two, somehow, doesn't feel as... refined. Maybe because Bowie, realistically, might have had to leave that part as simplistic because again no rights to 1984. I feel as if someone more well-versed in the original media could comment further on this. I don't know I just... I wasn't interested in this half of the album. Until We Are The Dead and Big Brother came on but.

I don't know. It's not a bad album by any means, it just has some rough spots, and I greatly prefer one half to the other. It comes down to it not being my cup of tea more than anything. David Bowie's music is great about that though because he has changed his focus so much that like, he has a song for EVERYONE.

I'm very impressed by Diamond Dogs nonetheless, because you'd think it'd be a bad album because it was kind of a rebuilding period? Prior to this album, Bowie had fired all of his backing band from his Ziggy Stardust tour, and the documentary Cracked Actor came out around the same time as Diamond Dogs revealing Bowie's struggle with a cocaine addiction that had worsened during this time. It's also a more experimental period as he was clearly transitioning out of glam rock. I'd liken it to Hunky Dory, just in reverse. Where Hunky Dory was sort of like a precursor to Ziggy and kinda like Bowie playing around with the concept of glam rock while still maintaining some of that folk music he was doing previously, Diamond Dogs is Bowie playing around with soul while still maintaining some of that glam rock he was doing previously. A gateway between Ziggy to the Duke. Y'know?

TL;DR, Paul Trynka calls Diamond Dogs "a beautiful mess" and I agree. It is a mess, but because Bowie seemed to be able to write a hit song in his sleep, it wasn't BAD by any means. I really like it... even though there's some other albums I enjoy more.

I also think it's very fun that punks in rollerblades was a concept for the album before punk existed. He predicted punk. Also that audio glitch in Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family that Bowie kept in lol.

[emacrow]

Um.. Superman.. what that thing stuck on your cape?

Clark's brain short circuit for a moment as he just got back of flying at great speed in the middle of deep space to thrown one of Lex's giants bombs destroy the city and come back in record time.

He turn a bit to look at his cape to see a tiny humanoid starlight dust covered child with white hair, glowing full green that look like white specks stars were implanted themselves into his big ol eyes, nawing on a handful of stardust with inhumanly sharp itsy bitsy fangs.

A small yet floating crown that look similar to one of Nasa pictures of far out space.

Did he just accidentally abducted an royal alien child/teen?

[thecmaly]

really? right in front of my karaage?

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more windbreaker comics

[ironinkpen]

The dynamic in Rise between the rest of the team and Leo is. so fucking funny. Because like you've got these three extremely talented individuals who all seem like perfectly reasonable people at first glance, right, but then if you squint hard enough you realize they're actually all batshit insane (affectionate) and the clown boy standing behind them is secretly their common sense.

Clown boy will occasionally put himself and the others in danger to Prove Himself or Prove Someone Wrong (see Minotaur Maze and the movie) but like otherwise... i think people forget Leo's overwhelmingly the voice of reason in most situations?

Raph, Mikey, and Donnie are all incredibly powerful boys with very specific skill sets. They are also, as a direct result of this, the WORST decision-makers on god's green earth lmao. When presented with a problem, Raph will smash, Donnie will blow shit up, and Mikey will razzmatazz. They will all run straight toward death with the same oblivious enthusiasm of a dog about to run straight into a screen door. None of them realize this and all of them think they are Extremely Good At Problem-Solving.

And the guy cursed with the common sense to realize this is literally the LAST person anyone would expect.

When you look closely, the entirety of Rise is actually a chronicle of Leo trying to find new and creative ways to keep this team of superpowered fools alive while simultaneously white-knuckling his Cool Fun Guy persona so the others don't realize he's secretly the Boring Responsible One. Haha, you know what would be Cool and Fun, guys? Not going after the Spine Breaking Bandit lol. Getting home before the sun goes up lol. Evacuating that civilian lol. Not telling the guy dangling me off a roof "you won't, no balls" lol.

The sacred struggle of every iteration of Leonardo is thanklessly wrangling the most trigger-happy siblings in the world, and Rise Leo has not escaped it. He just does an occasional shenanigan to avoid detection and his brothers fall for it every time.

[jhonnyhotbody]

A success

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 106

Dan absolutely despised his parole at first, but honestly this is a blast. Sure, he’s stuck in the form of a cat, a kitten even, but he’d found an absolutely wonderful companion. Partner. Ally? Baby Chaos Lord? He’d work on it. 

Klarion is just happy to have found such a great familiar, he even named them Teekl II, which is a great name thank you very much hero-babies! So now he has two Teekl familiars, and Teekl II always gets so gleeful whenever they successfully pull a prank! He even has his own fire magic which is so fun! 

Danny is not happy to get thrown into another world, stuck as a kitten. He’s also not pleased to have found a sick baby liminal, but fine. If this is what he’s supposed to deal with then he’ll deal with it! Even if he has to be a familiar for a teeny tiny bit of time. It’s fine, and the dude has a pocket he can peek out of on his coat. 

Jason has no idea where this kitten came from but the Pit is being surprisingly chill about it. Something about a baby? Whatever, he’s made the furball a little matching outfit and they like to sit in his pockets and peer out. No idea how Cat Hood is making the shadows all spooky now or why the eyes went from blue to green, but whatever. 

Ellie is utterly delighted in this situation. She was just wandering, but now she’s a lil fluffy kitten, and ended up landing on this kid’s head. This magic kid’s head! He even has a talking tiger friend too! So cool! She’s definitely sticking with him! This will be so fun!

Billy was worried about making sure the kitten got food, she’s so tiny! Mr Tawny is a big help though, and apparently she’s his familiar now that he’s given her a mortal name? He doesn’t fully understand but apparently she’s connected to his magic now, if the shouts from the gods are anything to go by. Look, an electric cat is cool. Pakhet is amazing, and Fawcet thinks it’s adorable that Marvel has a kitten clinging to his shoulder

[bluerosefox]

That Good Ol' Fenton Charm

Hmmmm

Single dad Danny (to deaged Ellie and Dan) meets his neighbor Selina Kyle after one of her cats get into their apartment and he finds his kids playing with it.

Cue meet cute where Selina at first is just flirting like always but Danny charms her (aka being a bit dense but somehow adorkable, its charming)

[himbionn]

SHAKES HIM LOVINGLY

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[chiricat]

ahahaa what that’s so silly… imagine that… you and i… uhhhhhhhhh

[royaldoge7370]

DSaFTOBER DAY 1: COOL CAT

Aw shit, here we go again

Prompts made by Static-dropz!

[bruciemilf]

@the spider verse crew BEGGING for a felicia hardy adaptation but like this strictly

[puppyeared]

meow

[eloscore]

[feralwetcat]

Leave my boy (Violet) alone! Hes just trying to get his stepkids (literal birds) to like him! (Not bite him)

[drakkonyan]

rats in the sewers when they get lost

[royaltea000]

[jttw oc] cursed to be an obligate carnivore, ate his entire family one particularly bad winter