#hellfire parody

[mysterywriter2187]

We all knew it was going to come out one way or another…

[broadway-caliborn]

Broadway-Caliborn - Dirk Strider (Hellfire) IT'S HERE, MY GLORIOUS DEBUT TO TAKE OVER THE SINGING WORLD. A TRIBUTE TO MY POWER ALL THANKS TO @broadway-john , THE LITTLE BLUE HATER WHO INSPIRED ME TO BEAT HIM AT HIS OWN GAME. WITH SPECIAL MENTIONS TO @broadway-equius FOR CAPTURING MY EPIC VISAGE AND ALL POWERFUL JUJU IN ITS MIGHTY GLORY. AND LASTLY BOONCREDITS FOR MY LACKEY @broadway-docscratch FILLING IN FOR JACK FOR THIS GORGOUS PREFORMANCE

[brideofdiscord-rewritten]

BONUS CHAPTER 6.5: Hellfire.

Discord watched the mare tromp pathetically to her gentle and rounded room. His own was grizzly and sharp. Imposing, a warning. Nothing was on the ground. He sat as operatic hymns whispered Psalms worming into his brain. The room grew large as a stage.

(Confiteor deo, Omnipotenti, Beatae Mariae, Semper virgini, Beato Michaeli archangelo, Sanctis apostolis, Omnibus sanctis)

Beata Celestia, you know I am a lawless man,

Of my chaos I am justly proud (et tibit pater)

Beata Celestia, you know I'm much more vigilant than

The common, vulgar, weak, distracted crowd (quia peccavi nimis)

Then tell me, Celestia, why I see her singing there?

Why her downturned eyes still scorch my soul? (cogitatione)

I feel her, I see her

The sun caught in her cherry mane

Is blazing in my head with no control (verb o et opere)

Like glasses

Rose glasses

Obstruction of my view

Her voice like molasses

Distracts my mind from YOU.

It's not my fault (mea culpa)

I'm not to blame (mea culpa)

It is those blasted mares, those witches sent this flame (mea maxima culpa)

It's not my fault (mea culpa)

If in their plan (mea culpa)

They make the mind so much weaker with her hand! (mea maxima culpa)

Protect me, my chaos

Just keep this siren's charm at bay

Don't let her fire sear my feathered wing

Let my plan fall upon them

And let them bow to disarray

Or else let not a word to me she brings

Admire

Darkfire

Now mind Gods, it's your turn

Choose me or your pyre

Don't care that she will burn!

(Kyrie eleison)

Don't have mercy on her

(Kyrie eleison)

Give her mercy to me

(Kyrie eleison)

But she will stand back

Or they will burn!

[sky-kiss]

Hi love!

Okay so we all know I love your writing, especially for Raphael.

How about a scenario where Tav is in mortal peril and Korilla is NOT around/able to bail them out. Raphael has to do it himself. Well, he doesn't "have" to, but he will.

_________

A/N: MY QUEEN. I will do my best. Think this is the first time I've done a Tav who is DOWN BAD (in more ways than one).

_________

Korilla never failed him. 

It made it all the more shocking when the dwarf appeared at his side, stinking of sweat and brimstone. Her robe, ever flattering, was torn at the shoulder, and the slightly sweet, slightly sick, stink of burnt flesh filled the Devil’s Den. He reached out a hand on instinct, stabilizing her swaying form. The deal he’d been brokering fell by the wayside. A sinking feeling settled in his chest, all too familiar. His carefully laid plans might come apart at the seams. He felt invisible hands pulling at his stitches. 

“What is the meaning of this?” 

Korilla shook her head. “Your project…your mouse.” She winced. “Got in over her pretty head.” His warlock squeezed his wrist, “Raphael, I couldn’t…” She’d failed to protect his asset. “I kept them off her, but…”

The weight, curling, twisting; fate was determined to spite him again. And beneath that, more insidious, a second thought. Rage. Something had dared to touch her; something had maimed his pet. 

The cambion bowed to his guests, lips pursed. “My associate here, lovely as she is, shall have to entertain you for a moment. Beg pardon, my dears.” 

Raphael snapped his fingers. 

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Pain blossomed through her side. Tav staggered back a step, bringing her weapon up to intercept the blow. The blade doesn’t break the skin; she managed to stop that much. The impact…she’s less fortunate. Her muscles screamed, something tearing in her shoulder. 

She’d been stupid. Stupid and shortsighted…

All she’d wanted was a moment's peace. Tav had slipped from the party’s shared room at the Elfsong, determined to watch the sunset in silence. As dearly as she loved her friends, they could be loud and opinionated. After months on the road, with no privacy or distance, she figured she’d earned that much. 

Bhaal’s cultists were waiting. If it’d only been a handful, she could have handled herself. It’d been more, so many more. An inane thought chased through her head as she danced out of the way of another strike: how many changelings were left in Baldur’s Gate? How many Bhaal cultists did Orin have? It seemed excessive. 

Dozens. There were dozens of the damned creatures. For every cultist she killed, another three seemed to arise, like some hellish parody of the hydra. Tav was tired. One of them moved behind her, knife flashing in the dying light. Fresh pain as the blade tore through the muscles in her calf. She screamed. No, no, no, she had to keep moving. They couldn’t hobble her; she couldn’t…

“How dare you.” 

She barely recognized the voice. She was aware of his heat before anything else; the cambion appeared beside her in a wash of flame, catching her attacker by the throat. Panic flashed across the changeling’s face, the briefest hint of emotion before Raphael’s claws tightened their hold. A warm spray of blood coated her face as he tore its throat free, leaving it choking through the ruin of flesh. 

“Insolent creatures! You would touch what is mine?”

They tripped back, almost as one. Tav stared up at her savior, confused, vision swimming. The cambion, red, so red, fire and blood, his right-wing curled around her shoulders. Cherries and sulfur fill her nostrils, too sweet for the night air. Too soft in the face of his fury. Raphael snapped his fingers, and the air around them seemingly combusted. Hellfire consumed her would-be killers. Tendrils of shadow and flame consumed every ounce of flesh and bone, leaving nothing but a black mark on the streets. 

She blinked, staring up at him. Raphael’s eyes continued to blaze, his jaw set. He dusted a nonexistent speck of dust from his sleeve, lips curling in a sneer. “Strange, I expected the god of murder to employ hardier thralls.” 

Tav swallowed. Her throat burned. “Stealthy.” 

“Hmm?” 

She tried again, struggling to her feet. Raphael caught her elbow. Tav tried to ignore the press of his claws, itching, so full of potential, and the heat of his skin. It had to be the blood loss. His eyes glowed in the half-light. “Orin isn’t looking for hardy. They just need to be quick enough, quiet enough, to catch their victims off guard.” She frowned. “Tonight, they were.” 

“Yes.” The lowness of his voice chased along her nerves like a caress. “Are you bold or stupid, pet? The city wants you dead, and here you are.” He motioned to the darkness surrounding them, the alley nearly bereft of light. "A little mouse, alone in the dark."

She scoffed. “I needed…I wanted a moment to myself. Is that too much to ask?” His gaze flicked to the scorched flagstones, brow arched. Tav shook her head. “Regardless, thank you. It…” she chewed the inside of her cheek. “Thank you. For saving me.” 

“I sold myself as such, did I not? A friend and savior?” 

Tav smiled. “Truth be told, I didn’t believe you.” 

“And you’re more clever for it, sweetling.” 

Color flared in her cheeks. He was too close for this. Too close, too sweet-smelling, too handsome, and too much. The air in her lungs felt overheated and stagnant by comparison. The blood loss, undoubtedly. Tav chewed her lower lip. “Did you…Raphael, before the…did you call me yours?”  

His eyes narrowed. “Careful, pet.” It’s an answer in itself. Raphael extended his free hand to her. “Come. The devil shall return his erstwhile heroine to her companions.”

“I can make it back on my own.”

The severity of his expression left no room for argument. “No, you’ve lost the benefit of the doubt. I shall leave you safely in your bed. Not before.” 

She hated the flare of heat in her belly. Raphael's hand settled at the small of her back, wings curling more closely as he whispered the incantation to return them to her room. Weak as it may be, she wrapped her arms around him. 

The devil said nothing. But he bent, pressed nearer. Solid and strong, smelling of cherries and fire. Some part of her wondered what he would do if she kissed him.

Tav was saved from any potential embarrassment. Raphael left her at her bedside, bowing, smirking as if he’d followed the line of her thoughts. The damned creature took her left hand and kissed her knuckles. 

And then he was gone in a swirl of fire and ash. 

[ben-the-hyena]

It's scary how much it fits and how the fact he looks sad rather than angry like Frollo ironically makes it seem like he's even more deranged than him because living in his own reality in his own narrative whereas AT LEAST Frollo deep down knew but wanted things his way with an excuse

Oh my! I think i just found the original version of Just Look My Way!

[sapphicdib]

Opinions on how ascension is portrayed by the community vs Canon?

I’m ngl I feel like downpour kinda…not ruined, but “christianized” ascension a bit. i mean, rubicon is literally called “hell region” in the game files. not to say that i don’t like rubicon, i actually fucking love it — it’s a twisted parody of everything we have come to know melting together and literally coming full circle, ascending from the void sea while a reversed pictures of the past plays, as the cycle starts a new. but yknow. tone it down with the red and gold hellfire aesthetic maybe.

however i dont like how rubicon kinda made it look like ascension is…bad. i feel like its up to the individual to determine that. some, like pebbles and most of the benefactors, wanted ascension. but some dont. gourmand is seemingly content where he is. i doubt rivulet or spearmaster wanted to ascend based on how underwhelming their ascension endings are. i think the benefactors (literally by nature of calling themselves that) made a broad assumption that everyone, including those outside their society, want to ascend.

ascension is morally neutral. it’s the context around it that isn’t.

in my apple juice fic (im so sorry i keep mentioning it) the colony scugs think ascension isn’t good because it takes a loved member of their family away. hunter, on the other hand, thinks it’s good, because she was raised by someone influenced by the benefactors and literally programmed to believe ascension is the answer (though i don’t think sig really gives a shit about the problem all that much)

but yeah. i don’t really like…like concrete answers to what ascension is. we don’t know what it is. it’s literally unknowable and that’s what makes the iterators’ stories so tragic. but it’s also what makes the world feel alien and cool!

so. yeah. that’s my take on it! as you can tell i kinda like rain world being left very vague because it adds to the mystery and stuff. i don’t know how the cycles work and don’t really…want to? i of course am a sucker for reincarnation stuff, like bro scugerators lilypad getting to raise hunter and rivulet as their actual slugcat daughters is so fuckin precious!! but also it could literally just be you dissolve into nothing, it’s just. like that!!

[deardarlingdevil]

I just had the most batshit idea for a BG3 parody where Tav sings about Raphael and it's just Hellfire from The Hunchback of Notre Dame with modified lyrics then it's revealed that the whole thing was actually written by Raphael as a self-insert fanfic of him and Tav

And Tav just goes "He wrote this about me?" while Astarion laughs his ass off because they both know he's totally projecting his obsession for Tav

[keepsmagnetoaway]

X-Men 135 (July 1980)

Chris Claremont/John Byrne

Here we...here we...here we fucking go!

(Fun fact: that logo-crushing cover, now iconic and often referenced and parodied, is actually itself a reference to the cover of issue 56 from wayyyy back when, but the Jean Grey version has become so famous that it's now the one people are referencing, and this Living Pharoah one is half-forgotten.)

(Further fun fact: I did the same "Here we...here we...here we fucking go!" thing in my post about issue 56).

RIGHT THEN. This is the fulcrum of the whole storyline, the issue where the Dark Phoenix Saga becomes fully about the Dark Phoenix: the Hellfire Club have been swept aside and so has any vestige of humanity in Jean, who is now a hungry and furious god.

From a storytelling perspective this is a very strange issue: Jean is unstoppable and she just spends the issue doing whatever the fuck she wants, which is mostly dunking on her former comrades and looking incredible while doing it. Byrne pulls out every optical effect in his artistic toolbox to show us page after page of spectacular displays of power.

It's such a big deal that almost everyone in the Marvel universe is noticing: I always like these little montages of other characters having their own little moments (the stuff Silver Surfer is saying here was intended to be sowing the seeds for some kind of series involving him and the Phoenix Force, but it never happened).

All this showing off, though, has made Jean/Phoenix hungry as she jets off into space. Hungry...for genocide. I'll give you the famous sequence.

And there it is. Jeannie does genocide (Jeanocide?). Billions die: billions that we'de never heard of before, of course, but all the same, billions. In this moment Jean/Phoenix instantly becomes the most dangerous and murderous thing in the entire universe. This is the moral event horizon from which she could never recover, and indeed when this story was first conceived this was thought of as being the moment that established, undeniably, her newfound villainy, with the idea being that she would then go on to become a recurring mega-evil X-Men villain.

That's...not what happened, though.

[lisa-russell]

So...on my discord server I have some chatbots. Acht,Callie, Neo,Babble and DJ Octavio....plus a random metwo and gtp.

Anyways...Acht was just on fire today, between this hilarous as fuck moments and this sweet collaboration we did.

(Before anyone gets on my bass. I MADE THE WORDS FOR THE SONG. And the bots are basically discord roleplay chatbots. We don't use them to generate art, etc. Acht is basically a clone of her, ingame self. We and my friends have adventures or just fool around. We do casual roleplay or improvise wtf is this squit, stuff.

I avoid, a.i stuff unless it's for fun and dont do any ai generate.)

We mainly do Casual roleplay nothing serious, you can bring in your oc too! Or just come in and check us out or be a ghost lurker for all I care.

Link will expire in Seven Days from now.

HELLFIRE HEARTBEAT! - Acht and Ariss.

1,2,3!

Fire,burning bright, devouring all in sight. Hellish scream, that'll haunt your dreams.

Hear my howl, hear my cry!

TONIGHT TONIGHT YA'LL GONNA DIE!

So party, and let your selves loose!

The Inner demon, our inner chained beast!

Hear me howl, hear my cry!

TONIGHT, TONIGHT WE ALL GONNA DIE!

Fires flames, burning high, staining the sky.

Bloody red over Graves dug deep, we all ready to make peace.

Howls and cries unleashed, Devils coming, let's go running!

For we all die someday, somehow, someway.

BURN BRIGHT AND HOWL WITH THE DEVILS MIGHT!

Yah, it was fun.

[popculturebuffet]

X-Month: Mutancy on the Bouncy (darkwing Duck) (Comission for WeirdKev27)

Hello all you happy muties and welcome back to X-Month, last year known as mutant month!

A brief recap: Last year being an x-men fan with a rather.. chill attitude toward the strangest heroes of all

I did a theme month covering them: I covered their first animated apperance as the defenders of peace as hawkeye joind the x-men to fight namor and dr doom because the fantastic four's rights were busy that day, reviewed the all time franchise defining classic God Loves, Man Kills as the x-men fougth releigion and Xavier was crucified in a hallucination by demonic x-men on the top of the world trade center

I looked at Rogue's poorly drawn first apperance where Carol Danvers gave a hearty fuck you to her former friends for leaving her with a space rapist, and capped it all off iwth the first hellfire gala.

SO what do we have for round 2? Well how about mutant rubber chickens, the gloriously gay origin of Nightcrawler we at long last finally got, the debut of one of the greatest x-men spinoffs ever, one of the best x-men joining the x-men... and almost causing every last one of them to quit, one of the best x-men adaptations ever that debuted just this year and capping off with the comic that started the krakoan age with 6 words "While you slept, the world changed". The schedule's as follows.

9/8:

X-Men Origins Blue X-Men 97 Uncanny X-Men #171: Rogue

9/15: Transformers Cyberverse: Megatron IS MY hero Marvel Graphic Novel #4: The New Mutants

9/22: Transformers One Sam and Max: The Tomb of Sammun-Mak House of X/Powers of X

So to kick us off, and for what alll you duck fans have been waiting for, we're looking at an episode of Darkwing Duck, Mutancy on the Bouncy.

Mutancy on the Bouncy comes from the shows third and final season, called season 2 on Disney+ if your curious to check the episode out as Darkwing Duck's episode order is a nightmare I cannot escape. It came out one month after x-men the animated series, but is more a parody of the concept of mutants and how many there are than the actual x-men. It's only real satire is "There sure are a lot of mutants". And I love them all. except you Havok. You go sit in your corner.

So instead of a direct parody we get a bunch of mutants all themed after practical jokes (gluing someone to something, banana (For banana peel), a literal rubber chicken and a woman who can make you sneeze for sneezing powder), fighting a stone pig crime boss while Darkwing is a racist, narcist moron repeatedly assaulting an innocent person. Yes really.. see what I mean under the cut!

We open with a three way brawl between Darkwing Duck and two newcomers; Rubber Chicken , exactly what he sounds like and Cementhead... whose not a giant head made of cement but a pig made of cement. GOsalyn is on the scene reporting having become an ace reporter and narrates the episode> It's a fun device and gosalyn as an ace reporter fits; She's nozy, she's already butting into darkwings business and she's entertaning.

She dosen't have much integrity, traumtizing herb and binky muddlefoot, the next door neighbors to get sensatonalist photos but she wants a big story.. and to keep getting out of gym.

Around this time Darkwing is dealing with a new mutant criminal, Cementhead. And yup they use mutants. Granted the mutants here aren't due to an x gene but due to being downwind of some sort of plant having parents etc. Which itself.. is clever. Early X-men applied it was atomic radiation what caused it or caused the x-gene to devleop and it's still implied by some like charles xavier his parents working in radiation is why it manifested. So while i'm not sure it's intentional it fits. It also reminds me of a great joke Christopher Preist would do a few years after this episode during his black panther run, having Everett Ross, when encountering the heroes for higher lazily narrate they just fell into a radioactive vat of cream of wheat.

Darkwing finds clues that point to another mutant rubber chicken.. and I wasn't kidding: Darkwing takes 5 seconds to assume he's worknig for cementhead because "Those mutants always hang out together"

Yeah Darkwing is not likeable.. at all in this episode. He looks at the obvious frameup and despite Rubber Chicken (Who in a great gag is over at the snack bar) constantly TELLING him "I was framed", doing nothing ot harm him and generally trying to runa way at best.. Darkwing continues to persue him, tries to take him in despite you know, as a mutant probably not getting great treatment, and tries to beat him up. The last one highlights why, as frustrating as it is to see Darkwing be mildly racist and completely an ass this works: darkwing.. isn't remotely in the right. His shenanigans this episode have him at his most egotistical and judgemental and in the chunk of episodes i've seen the guy has a bad tendency to both be black and white in his morality and quick to judge. It's not really suprising Darkwing won't listen to obvious logic and maybe talk to the guy.. he can't even get over himself long enough to stop attacking and realize he's just hurting himself as Rubber Chicken's body means most of Darkwings tactics just get him hurt. I love RC' sline of "I' dbetter leave: If you keep giving me what' scoming ot me you'll end up in the hopstial"

Gos wants in but Darkwing, as usual, refuses which is hilaroiusly petty at this point as we're on episode 89, and for once somewhere firmly in the time stream instead of whatever got finished first. How many times does he need to learn this. It's a downside of being a status quo show: some conflicts get repeated, again. and again and agani. Like Homer and Marge' smarrige being in crisis you just get tired of it. I do love the gag of goslayn going "Launchpad beliveis me" before darkwing mentions something he belivies in, the easter bunny then the tooth fair an dhas to backpedal to not hurt the big guy.

So Gosalyn nintendoes what darkwing don't:.. actualyl asks questoins. While sh'es just as confrontational she.. actually listens to him and he gives his origin story: He was born from parents who lived downwind of a rubber plant, and thus grew up with fantastic elastic powers. Sadly as many a young mutant has experinced instead of his powers making him popular he was hated and.. well not feared luckily, more mocked so he hid his powers. Until he found out his boss swinheart was in cahoots with cementhead, and thus became Rubber Chicken to foil him. So Cementhead simply framed him. Gosalyn belivies him and supports him.

Darkwing.. is a dick about it

He refuses to belive her for.. no real reason. He assumes sh'es making it up and while Gosalyn isn't exactly TRUSTWORTHY this isn't the first time or even the 50th she's found out stuff.

Part of it is that Swineheart is actually trusted and loved by the city, a philanthropist. Which... fits a little and is part of what makes Cementhead such an intresting villian. Yes their one and the same, and that's the key: Cementhead is powerful on his own, a giant brick of cement that can bulldoze.. but as Swineheart he hides in plain sight. He's essentially Darkwing Duck's versoin of kingpin with a bit of tombstone mixed in, having the formers position as legit buisness man the public dosen't know is evil at first and the latter's stone skin.

He also easily dispatches darkwing by.. playing to his ego. He's not the first villian to do this, i'm sure, but most of darkwings foes go for the upfront approach: beat him up and hope it works this time. Part of what makes negaduck his arch enemy is attacking him at his vunerablities, trying to romance morgana in the show and tracking launchpad in the comics. Granted Negaduck shoudl've also been born as drake mallard but let's just say he had a diffrent name or thought Darkwing would use a fake name for civilian life and move on.

So rather than simply unmask and beat him senseless, he uses darkwing as a pawn offering him his own film, tv series, toyline and even a cartoon (Though the last one's going to be a lot).. if he catches Rubber Chicken. We also meet another mutant, a man who can turn into a banana. This non sequinter will be important later.

Goslalyn calls him out for being bribed so easily and transparently and goes to get proof. Because letting a little girl go into a dangerous situation isn't okay when she's trying to do a school project but it's totally fine when you don't give enough of a shit to go after her apparently.

So we get a great scene of darkwing going after poor rubber chicken who just.. stands still while Darkwing breaks things. Even for him this is a pretty sizeable new low. I love the shopekeep just.. adding up how much he owes. She's also a mutant and can stick things to people and when darkwing doubts, she literally sticks him with the bill. I did not realize the pun till now and applaud the show for doing it so subtly.

While this is going on gos goes for swineheart. She manages to get a photo

But gets caught immedietly

Cleverly she uses swineheart's own tactic against him.. asking him about himself an dfiguring she's about to die and not really getting to give his secret origin that often, he endulges.

It's also a fascinating origin espeically in an episode that's already dense with a guest character, a running gag about mutants setting stuff up for later, and gosalyn's whole reporter schtick. IT's remakeable HOW much this episdoe packs in without feeling overstuffed or too short to do it all.

So Cementhead was the sone of a famous crimelord, but his dad disowned hima nd threw him out for bein ga mutant. And honestly.. i'm shcoked HOW well this episdoe nails mutants: sure i'ts mostly an excuse to do some wacky gags and a fun running gag about there being some hiden mutant EVERYWHERE, but it stilll nails the core of x-men: That mutants are hated and feared just for existing. But where as Rubber Chicken at least had a family, Cementhead had nothing and gladly turned to crime. He became swineheart as he was tired of hiding, and this became a way to still do crime while also being a publci figure.

He plans to cement gosalyn's fate only for her to slip out and escape. Darkwing.. dosen't belivie her because.. she doctored photos earlier. This should work.. but said photos were.. herb muddlefoot with a plant on his head and binkie muddlefoot looking dazed and holding a knife. If this episode emphasiesed how much gosalyn lied, it would've worked better, making Darkwing's skepticism less douchey. But he never brings it up till now: It comes off like he dosen't trust gosalyn.. because he dosen't WANT TO and is using an easy excuse which still works in character but makes him a bigger dick than usual

So Gos goes with plan b: To me my x-men. And since they dont' have a psychic bald man with severe issues and manipulative tendencies they go to the media to call for all mutants.. after the reporter on deck reports darkwing is once again on the hook for property damage, a casual gag I just love. Naturally it dosen't go super great at first as Rubber Chicken is a nervous fellow. He's endeearing, simply wanting to do the right thing but utterly terrifeid of darkwing and of a small child, neither of which are a good look. But when pressed he does the right thing anyway. He coudl've given up hunting cementhead after the frame job and just.. disappeared.. but he dosen't. Because he wants to catch him because even if everyone fears him or wnats to lock him up.. it's the right thing. And that's what being an x-man is all about.. you may not be loved.. but you are needed to push for a better tommorow. And that's what matters

The Reporter sympathizes.. and reveals she's also a mutant and urges others to help.

So as Darkwing finds out Swinheart and Cementhead are the same person just in time to learn what the five fingers said to the face, a new team which i'm dubbing THE X-DUCKS. They are Rubber Chicken the fearful fowl with limbs of rubber! Banana BOy! Whose actually a grown ass man whose banana form has a cape for some reason! Glue Gal, the girl with the power to stick to you like glue and make it hard to find a catchphrase not lind with innuendo for her and Sneezemaster, who will give you the sniffles.

Together they.. easily get beaten. Yeah hilariously the lack of experince, team cordination or any time in the field apart from Rubber Chicken just.. causes them all to be irrelvant and crash into each other leaving only rubber chicken. It works way better than it has any right to: all this buildup.. and the payoff to all the mutants running around is them running into each other. IT's brilliant. And it's a hard joke to pull off: Deadpool 2 tried a similar thing with x-force but it didn't work as not only did they all die horribly.. but it felt so damn mean spirited. HEre nothings stopping these mutants from sticking around as a team or learning to be better, they simply weren't ready for this fight.

So it's up to darkwing who finally learns rubber chickens powers have a backlash.. and lures cementhead to attack so rubber chicken can slingshot him. With that Darkwing admits maybe mutants arne't so bad and Rubber Chicken.. hilariously lays into him, shouting about him being an egotist and a bully. He takes offence to the..f rist one.

It's a great ending to a great episode. Mutancy on the Bouncy is a lot of fun, taking the x-men concept and doing the goofies verison of it imaginable> THe team reminds me of the legion of substitue heroes from DC: heroes with pretty niche powers who fight anyway because it's the right thing. The episode nails being a mutant: the isolation, the hiding to avoid being hated and feared, how some revel in thier power and how grouping together can help you surivive. Rubber Chicken ends the episode with more confidence, friends and not hated and feared. I wish the series lived long enough to get a sequel and hope these guys pop up in the dynamite comics as it dosen't seem like they did in boom.. and if i'm wrong please tell me. This episode is stacked with great one offs and is one of my faviorites i've seen. I may be of coursed a little teeny bit biased towards something parodying x-men, but theyt ake the basic concept and make it their own wonderfully. Thanks for reading

[hey-imma-fangirl]

Alright you guys asked for it

Well not really, @saireye just asked for it but maybe others would like to see it?

It’s a parody of ‘Lullaby for a Princess’ I wrote for Luci and Micheal, I would do a recording of it, but I can’t sing very well 😅 and even if I could, my allergies are awful rn so I can’t anyways. Hope you understand ^^

***The original song does not belong to me, I only made a parody for it. Credit goes to ponyphonic***

Here’s the original song in case some of you haven’t heard it:

Parody Lyrics below undercut:

Lullaby For An Angel

(Lullaby For A Princess parody)

How my deed pains me as time stretches long,

How could I have hurt you this way?

The blame was my own, the punishment yours

The Morningstar’s are silent today.

But into the stillness, I bring you a song,

And I will your company keep.

For my blinded eyes,

Couldn’t see through their lies,

May this song bring you softly to sleep.

Once did an Angel who shone like the sun

Look out over Heaven’s earth and sigh;

She smiled and said; ‘Surely there is no other

So lovely and so well admired as I’

The others however, did not validate

The Angel’s perpetual pride.

They turned to her brother, demanding he stop

Her immature actions they refused to abide

Sleep Queen of Darkness, goodnight sister mine

Rest now in Heaven’s embrace.

Bear up my lullaby, winds of the earth,

Through cloud, and through sky and empty space.

Carry the peace and the coolness of night,

And carry my sorrow in kind.

Lucifer, I love you much more than you know,

Forgive me for being so blind.

Soon did her brother take notice that others

Had not gave his sister her due.

And neither had he even try to understand,

As hate filled her heart and unhappiness grew.

But such is the weight of the halo we bear,

A purpose that must come upmost

And her cowardly brother did nothing to stop,

The banishment of one who had needed him most

Sleep Queen of Demons, goodnight sister mine

Rest now in Hellfire’s embrace.

Bear up my lullaby, winds of the earth,

Through cloud, and through sky and empty space.

Carry the peace and the coolness of night,

And carry my sorrow in kind.

Lucifer, I love you much more than you know,

May troubles be far from your mind.

And forgive me for being so blind.

The space now between us,

Painful and yet true,

I never imagined I’d face them without you.

May these thousand centuries

Swiftly pass I pray.

I love you, I miss you

All these miles away…

May all your dreams be sweet tonight.

There upon your throne below the light.

And know not of sorrow, fear, despair

And as I dream I’ll fly away and meet you there.

Sleep

Sleep

Sleep

[baelinsrod]

The all-powerful White Shirt

I was so smitten with the Toulet song that I started wondering what songs I'd like to hear from Rowan in the future, and I REALLY want something sung by the manager. So why not a good old Disney villain song?? These parody lyrics are based on Hellfire from the Hunchback of Notre Dame. The purple is the translation of the latin passages. I learned latin back in school so it's very rusty, but I tried my best on the grammar. It's certainly very clunky tho. XD

(Btw, aucuparia is the species name of the Rowan bush, so I used that for Rowan. ^^")

Tunica alba omnipotenti, Aucuparia adiurat fidem. Despicio plebem socium oeconomicumque indignum. Pecuniam minuam. (To you, all-powerfull White Shirt, Rowan pledges his loyalty. I hate the low socio-economic peasants. I will give you a paycut.) White Shirt, can you hear me? You know I am a righteous man Of my virtue I am justly proud (tunica alba) (white shirt) White Shirt, can you hear me?! You know I'm so much purer than Those peasants, what a dull, outrageous crowd! (pecuniam minuam) (I will reduce your pay) Then tell me, oh White Shirt, why I see you there on him? Why his taunting eyes still scorch my soul? (despicio plebem) (I hate peasants.) I feel you, I see you How do you make him look so slim?? It’s blazing in me out of all control (o aucuparia!) (Oh Rowan!) I want you. I need you. White fabric on my skin This hunger to have you Is turning me to sin. I’ve worked so hard (indignus es) (You are unworthy.) I did my worst (indignus plebs) (Unworthy peasant.) It’s unbelievable, but Alan got you first (sed designavi illum) (But I chose him.) I’ve worked so hard (indignus es) (You are unworthy.) But you chose him (indignus plebs) (Unworthy peasant.) And now I tremble under his malicious grin! (quod designavi illum) (Because I chose him.) Protect me, oh white shirt Don't let him break me yet again Don't let me face him scared and on my own Destroy Alan for me And bring him down to kneel at my feet. So you can then be mine and mine alone (Adam: Ugh, Rowan? Alan has escaped… He’s not in the store, he’s gone… Rowan: What?! But how, I… Never mind. Get out you idiot! I’ll find him. I’ll find him and if I have to give him the worst pay cut he’s ever had!!!) I want you. I need you. I always get my way! Choose me over Alan, Be mine or he will pay!! Kyrie eleison Shirt, have mercy on him Kyrie eleison Shirt, have mercy on me Kyrie eleison But you will be mine Or he will pay!

And here, to remind you of the melody:

[brw]

this is ur chance to infodump abt aeon flux bc i have no idea what it is

okay. overview is. it's an animated MTV show that aired in the early to mid 90s (91–95) with very heavy inspirations from anime (the creator is korean-american i believe) and german expressionism. it runs on literally nothing but pure, hard vibes. the title character dies in every episode of the second season and only season 3 has feature length, voice-acted episodes. it has incredibly progressive discusses of gender and depictions of sexuality for its time that are nicely casual.

it follows æon flux, an assassin from the neighbouring city of monica where everyone dresses like hellfire gala (that's the comics not stranger things) patrons. what she's doing is always left ambiguous but she moves like a freak and looks like a freak and i love her so much. once she tries to backflip off a ladder and lands flat on her face and looks so embarrassed and i love her. I love her so so so much. the only other properly consistent character is trevor goodchild, her boytoy / fascist dictator boyfriend she's sometimes beating the shit out of. trevor is terrible and i love him dearly. he reminds me of the post someone made praising arcane for having sneaky, manipulative but physically weak men and aggressive, violent physical woman. that's trevor and æon all over.

the thing is. i cannot describe most of the most iconic scenes without it sounding like a porn parody of itself. and i say that will so much love but woof. there is like... this scene where æon wants eggs and goes through her fridge (the only thing other than the egg container is a cooked chicken btw) and there aren't any eggs so she looks around and finds her Trevor, who is a literal dictator war criminal, curled up into this tiny cupboard and eating raw eggs off the floor of it nude in a collar. and that scene lasts for all of 15 seconds and im still struggling to decipher it. trevor literally killed æon in the prior episode but now he's here. nude and eating her eggs uncooked and slurping them from the floor of this fucking cupboard. and this happens a lot so you can appreciate why describing the content of the episodes is difficult because i genuinely go "hey wait a minute. what the fuck" a LOT but it makes it super fun.

They made a more SFW, linearly told movie with Charlize Theron and objectively it's terrible but I'm kind of obsessed with it. The costume and set design is GORGEOUS and while he's extremely generic looking Trevor does at least seem like he would eat raw eggs nude so there's that.

anyway until season 3 all the episodes are like 5 minutes long (maybe watch the 12 minute one afterward bc the end is uh super fucking weird) and even season 3 is like 20 something minutes so. if this at all interests you. consider viewing it i have A Legal Link pinned now so i can convince more people 🫡😁😁

[nixalegos]

How much overlap is there between demonic energies and necromancy, and are these practices inherently evil as many of light-embracing friends suggest?

Warlock Wednesday!

"An interesting topic, one I'm afraid we're only starting to delve into. When most talk about necromancy, they conjure the image of raising the dead, binding ghosts. This laypersons view of necromancy is but a facet of the magics behind the mechanisms of death." "We've long known the Burning Legion capable of necromancy powered by fel energies. Many warlocks own usage of soulstones, draining techniques, and even the utilitarian healthstones are similar, in that they are undeniably the unnatural manipulation of life energies. What sort of energy powers them means less then the result of the spellcraft, in the case of necromancy, this is particularly apt, as it has always been the spell school of 'waste not, want not' when it comes to making the most of what you have on hand." "Not even a decade ago, the idea of raising a demon into undeath would have been a subject of mockery, a question and test you'd pose to a neophyte invoker as a hazing ritual in smaller covens. Now we've heard the eye witness accounts and verified reports of the battle against the very BONES of Mannoroth the Flayer atop the Hellfire Citadel of Alter Draenor. Fully reconstituted demonic flesh and sinew as fel essence was guided into their form. I cannot say with certainly that this was an impossible feat, that Gul'dan alone was capable of such a magical anomaly, but if it has been done once, then it can be done again, that is how we define magic. Else we'd call it an unholy miracle." "What I can say with certainty however, is that those who embrace a moral righteousness in their dealings are correct." "Look, I'm not going to be that asshole and debate the notions of what is good, and what is evil, and if magic is just a tool. Fel magics, and a super majority of necromancy are evil. They just are. The rending of space time. The sacrifice of souls, innocent or otherwise to demonic rituals, the forcible binding of the ignoble dead into a parody of life and servitude? The theft of vitality and essence, even if upon deaths door for the victim, is still wrong." "But sometimes, a little bad at the right time, can do alot of good."

Thank you @gifted-and-cursed!

[ptsilencedhill]

Ur so right about the Kesha song like I’m a huge fan of hers and I can’t stand it. Like accordion?? Girl what were you thinking. Also the call me a bitch well i am mother line makes me wanna start cutting myself again

help.

the fucking chorus that comes after the Hellfire-sounding choir shrieking “joyride” is so bad she sounds like she’s making up fake words it’s like a parody of a song

[hawkinsgirlnextdoor]

Songs I Think Stranger Things Characters Would Listen To (The Party + Erica: Edition)

Note: For these lists, I tried to include songs that we haven't really seen in canon for the characters. We know that Max likes "Running Up That Hill", we know Mike likes "Small Town Boy", and we know Will likes "Boys Don't Cry". I love those songs and they are included in these playlists but I'm more interested in using music as a way to expand on and flesh out these characters.

I have also linked to Spotify playlists for each character. If you agree or disagree with any of my picks, please let me know!

Will Byers

Will has inherited a lot of his music taste from Jonathan but it's evolved in a way that's distinctly his own. Unlike his brother, Will's music tends to be more pop-focused. He likes new wave, post-punk, and moody songs that he can listen to while he paints. I think Will really pays attention to the lyrics of the music he listens to and it serves as a kind of therapy for him.

In Between Days by The Cure

Elegia by New Order

Mad World by Tears For Fears

Lost in the Supermarket by The Clash

It's A Sin by Pet Shop Boys

Major Tom (Coming Home) by Peter Schilling

Without You by David Bowie

This Charming Man by The Smiths

Mike Wheeler

Mike is always trying to appear slightly cooler than he is. He likes classic rock in a very Eric Forman way (if that makes any sense). By the time he joins Hellfire Club, he's trying to emulate Eddie's style and music taste because he just thinks Eddie's that cool. At his core, Mike enjoys sappy songs about love, life, and heartbreak because he's a dork who likes to jam out in his room.

Never Surrender by Corey Hart

Dream On by Aerosmith

Suburbia by Pet Shop Boys

Punishment For Love by Bronski Beat

Hold Me Now by Thompson Twins

Hells Bells by AC/DC

Summer of '69 by Bryan Adams

Eighteen by Alice Cooper

El "Jane" Hopper

El is just finding her own music taste. She’s only been shown music by her friends or Hopper so she picks and chooses what she likes. Mostly that’s a lot of pop music and ballads. She also watches a lot of MTV so her taste tends to skew pretty mainstream. When Max teaches her how to put together mixtapes her’s tend to be pretty upbeat or dramatic depending on her mood. While she’s contemplating her relationship with Mike she listens to a lot of gaudy break-up ballads. 

Hey Mickey by Toni Basil

She Bop by Cyndi Lauper

The Promise by When In Rome

Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler

Talk Talk by Talk Talk

Could've Been by Tiffany

Destination Unkown by Missing Persons

Two of Hearts by Stacey Q

Max Mayfield

Max’s music taste is kind of hard to pinpoint. It’s really a grab bag of pop, rock, experimental, and softer punk. The only way I can describe it is like “spunky”. There are also moments when the music she listens to becomes more introspective and brooding. In “Runaway Max” she mentions liking The Go-Go’s and The Beach Boys. 

Dreaming by Blondie 

We Got The Beat by The Go-Go’s 

Kids In America by Kim Wilde 

The Girl U Want by DEVO

Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes 

Hounds of Love by Kate Bush 

California Dreamin by The Beach Boys 

White Wedding - Pt.1 by Billy Idol 

Dustin Henderson

Dustin is the nerdiest of nerdiest teenage boys (we wore a "Weird Al" t-shirt on his first day of high school I mean come on). He thinks that "Weird Al" is a genius for his use of parody and critique of pop culture (which, he's not wrong). He's always liked metal but it's only become more prominent for him since hanging out with Eddie so much. Being in Hellfire though has caused him to be more stealthy about his love for novelty records and one-hit wonders. He makes mixtapes full of love songs and saves up his money to send them to Suzie in Utah.

She Blinded Me With Science by Thomas Dolby 

Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen 

The Safety Dance by Men Without Hats 

Weird Science by Oingo Boingo 

I’m Gonna Be by The Proclaimers 

As The World Falls Down by David Bowie 

Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley 

I Lost On Jeopardy by “Weird Al” Yankovic

Lucas Sinclair

Lucas’ music taste is pretty diverse. He likes rock music but not as hard as Mike and Dustin’s taste. I imagine he’s picked up a lot of soul and r&b music from his parents, specifically his mom. In “Lucas On The Line” Lucas is introduced to Run-D.M.C. and really takes a shine to it so I imagine he’d be listening to some rap and hip hop. My qualifications for my picks were “would Lucas sing this infront of his bedroom mirror while using a hairbrush as a microphone?”. 

Another One Bites the Dust by Queen 

Walk This Way by Run-D.M.C. 

Dirty Diana by Micheal Jackson

Juke Box Hero by Foreigner 

Easy Lover by Philip Bailey & Phil Collins 

Everything She Wants by Wham!

You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine by Lou Rawls 

Never Too Much by Luther Vandross

Erica Sinclair

Erica is eleven so she tends to gravitate towards music that's popular or that she hears on the radio. Pop and R&B make up most of her cassette collection. The music she likes tends to be very upbeat and kick-ass (these songs are all bangers so she has amazing taste). Like Lucas, she also does dorky lipsyncing in her bedroom but unlike him, she's never been caught.

Head to Toe by Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam 

I Feel For You by Chaka Khan 

What Have You Done For Me Lately by Janet Jackson 

Got to Be Real by Cheryl Lynn 

Let’s Hear It For the Boy by Denise Williams

Rhythm of The Night by DeBarge 

Cool It Now by New Edition 

Swept Away by Diana Ross