#j.c. satan

[batteryacidisedibleenough]

Ah, the Sermons of Vivec. It's like if the Bible was a hundred times more confusing, had J.C. himself tell you straight up that the meaning of life is a pun inside a joke while also recounting his brief fling with Satan where he got pregnant to a shitton of kids.

Elder Scrolls deep lore gives me a fucking headache lmfao, and that's not even getting into all the shit Vivec says in Ehlnofex like a fucking nerd or the Lorkhan/Nirn/Numidium/Talos shit. Shor is the most convoluted bastard to ever exist actually

[justheretostalkthefandom]

RANT INCOMING!!

(No, I am not talking about all Catholics or Christians just *those* annoying ones, I love and respect all religions and find them so fucking interesting, not to mention I was raised in an all catholic household :D👍)

I hate, hate, HATE the fact that Satanism and paganism get a bad reputation because of catholic and Christian propaganda.

Like they aren’t these terrible religions drinking baby blood every full moon, you dumbasses!

And just, JUST for example these are the eleven rules of Satanism:

Like what about this screams bad person? :/

Not to mention half of em don’t even know that the upside down cross actually is.. it’s literally just saint peters??

You know, because he didn’t feel like he was worthy enough to be killed in the same way as J.C so they just flipped it upside down??

How are you gonna make a villain out of your own symbol!?

If you’re gonna hate a type of religion you don’t understand at least, AT LEAST get the right symbols, you get me?

(End of rant :D)

[doctorstrangereview]

0145: Defenders #25

Cover Date: July 1975 On-Sale Date: April 15, 1975

And thus we come to the finale of the Sons of the Serpent a.k.a. the badly dressed super racists arc. There is lots of firepower being thrown around and some surprises at the end. It's the last loop of this rollercoaster but it's a fun one.

A really creepy (but cool) image of Clea adorns the splash page along with Daimon Hellstom, his creepy chariot and our buddy Luke Cage in the Orb of Agamotto (still called the crystal). The captions let us know this isn't an image. They really are inside the Orb. I hope they have a better time than Doc did some time ago. At least we know that the hole in the air they fell into last issue wasn't a bad guy thing.

Luke gives us the standard "Where the heck are we?" attitude and Daimon lets him know that he's not in control. He's hoping Clea knows what she's doing. She does and we get one of the cooler hero entrances of the 70s.

As Val is about to be murdered on live television and Yellowjacket is still trying to find his way out from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, Doc and Nighthawk are the remaining prisoners in their cool, snake-themed bonds. Fortunately, the new arrivals are really, really strong and have precise control over satanic hellfire. Sounds like Clea knew what she was doing. The pair are soon free. We'll see if Doc has finally recovered consciousness.

Yellowjacket returns to the others and is a bit surprised to see the new arrivals. Daimon reminds them that Val is about to be executed on live TV and they need to find a way out. Doc is too weak to beam them out Scotty so they need to find out how the SOTS come and go. Using his "special" talents, Daimon finds the tunnel and the group begin their journey back to the surface.

On that surface, things are not going too well for the remaining Defenders.

Val is bound, Daredevil is unconscious and the Hulk is blind for now. The massive amount of noise wakes up Daredevil and he manages to get away. The SOTS are about to light the pyre under Val. Val's husband, still thinking she's Barbara, arrives in the nick of time and takes out the badly dressed racist with the torch.

Jack's action inspires the bystanders around to take action against the racists. One even catches himself before saying a nasty slur. The crowd attacks the racists who are very confused to be fighting a bunch of white guys. The Hulk is still angry he can't see and is lashing out wildly. The SOTS leader calls for a retreat giving an awful speech as he does. Daredevil and Jack release Val.

Back at the undersea base, the group finds a latter at the end of the tunnel and crawl up. They wind up in an office that Nighthawk finds awfully familiar. There's no explanation on how they managed to take a ladder straight up from the bottom of the Atlantic into a high-rise office. Looking around Nighthawk realizes that this is J.C. Pennywowrth's office. It belongs to his company, Richmond Enterprises. The group find their weapons and other accoutrements in a closet. There's no doubt about it. Pennyworth is behind the Sons of the Serpent. Kyle retrieves his wings and flies off to punch Pennysworth. Doc, Cage and Yellowjacket head to Val while Daimon goes back to retrieve his creepy chariot.

We have an interlude. Come with us to a lovely trailer park in California and the dashing mobile home of Tom and Linda Pritchett. The couple are relaxing at home when there's a knock at the door. Tom answers it and finds himself improbably face to face with an elf. The elf fires a gun and the interlude ends.

Kyle has reached Pennysworth's home and attacks him. He asks how he could do this to his own people. Pennysworth goes on a diatribe about how he's been trying to escape from "his own people," how Kyle isn't friends with every other white person and how his companies engage in lots of social harm (with more specifics.) Kyle asks if Pennysworth is starting a civil war to increase the company's fortunes and Pennysworth says yes.

The gang regroup at Doc's Sanctum when Nighthawk shows up with Pennysworth in tow. Once he discloses Pennysworth's role, Luke goes nuts and calls him an oreo. Val and Nighthawk manage to get Luke off of Pennysworth. The gang have the location of the main base and they all head over there. Sal gives us a lovely two page spread of the ensuing battle.

The Defenders and friends win the battle, but Nighthawk is despondent. He realizes that he has other responsibilities beyond being a playboy and winged hero. He has to actually oversee his company and not put on blinders and delegate to others.

That was a ride! The Defenders have learned to work together and reach out for help. Clea is actually helpful in this issue and coordinates the rescue of her mentor/teacher/lover that has the additional benefit of rescuing others as well. She's moved a bit closer to the more badass Clea in Doc's solo book.

There's oodles of social commentary too. Kyle/Nighthawk learns that his company does some awful stuff and he's basically stuck his head in the sand about it because it allows him to drive fancy cars, sometimes with chauffers, buy lots of fancy cloths, date hot women and be a dime-store Batman. Now he realizes that he needs to actually take control of his company and banish his willful ignorance.

We're still in the throes of Val's identity crisis. World ending emergencies keep getting in the way of her figuring out who she is and there's some progress as Barbara's husband is here.

There are some battles too and the Defenders triumph over the Sons of the Serpent. When the Defenders are actually prepared and have the element of surprise the badly dressed super-racists are no match.

The elf introduces a thread that will show up sporadically for the next 100 issues. (Yes, 100 issues.) More elves will show up and they'll have cute pink costumes! Their story ends, but who they are has never been truly resolved.

It was a satisfying conclusion.

[bandcampsnoop]

4/19/25.

Arthur Satàn is Arthur Larregle, a member of French (Bordeaux) band J.C. Satàn. "A Journey That Never Was" is his 2nd solo album for Born Bad Records.

This is a beautiful psych-pop/pop album in the vein of The Beatles or The Beach Boys. It really reminds me of everything I love about bands/artists like Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears, Once & Future Band, and Nolan Potter. It's just beautifully crafted pop music that goes in all kinds of directions.

This is our first Born Bad Records release post since June 2022. The label is an amazing repository of a diversity of styles and eras of music.

[unholybabes]

tap tap tap. is this thing on?

hi hi! it feels so weird to be posting on here after lurking. after forever dwelling in the cesspits of this app, i've finally decided to make an attempt at making some friends! especially ones into the same things as me.

a little bit about myself. my name is everette, i use he/she/it, and I'm a lesbian! i also answer to eve and evie! if it wasn't incredibly obvious, i have autism, and my hyperfixation just so happens to be everyone's favorite silly band: ghost <3

tags i plan on using :

#eve masterlist (all of my posts, archived.)

#eve makes (sims 4 content)

#eve ghosts (ghost content)

#eve rambles (unorganized, miscellaneous rambles)

#eve writes (prompts, ficlets, headcanons, anything i decide to write)

#eve answers (!! exactly what it says! i answer!!)

more may be added!

my interests ; ghost, the magnus protocol & archive, i have no mouth and i must scream, contemporary horror lit, j.c leyendecker, arcane, bg3, dbh, saw, debate, web design, the romantics, chappell roan, the romantics, ethel cain, tyler the creator, musical theater, especially cats and phantom of the opera. definitely more, but those are the basics!!

this is also an official call for literally any ghost fans. i desperately need more friends into ghost. being into a 'satanic' swedish rock band in the deep south is hard, y'all :(.

<3

[wisdomfish]

That malicious spirit [Satan] is unwearied in his efforts to do us harm.

J.C. Ryle

[myucornerorg]

So the other day I read the first volume of a manga called Magilumiere: Magical Girls Inc., which is set in a world where, kinda like MHA with superheroes, magical girls are a common sight, and being a magical girl is treated like a normal job. Basically, they function as exterminators for these monsters called kaii, and there are multiple companies, of all sizes, that employ magical girls for this purpose.

Anyway, the manga was really cool, but we all know that magical girl transformations (especially techno-magic ones like in this series) look best animated. So naturally, I looked it up to see if there was an anime adaptation. And there is - just not yet. This manga only came out in 2022 in Japan (and it's running in Shonen Jump+, no less), under the title Magilumiere Co. Ltd (Kabushiki Gaisha Majirumie in Japanese) and it only started being released in English by Viz in March of this year. And while an anime version is planned, it's not due out till Q4 of 2024. So I have to wait.

The cast and staff seem pretty good, though. The anime is being made by J.C. Staff (the studio behind many well-known animes, like Azumanga Daioh, the A Certain Magical Index franchise, Saiki K, Food Wars, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and Shakugan no Shana), alongside Studio Moe, which seems to be a pretty new studio with not that many credits. The composer, Makoto Miyazaki, also did the music for One Punch Man and Spy x Family. The script writer Shingo Nagai has also written for Symphogear (so he's no stranger to mahou shoujo). The director, Masahiro Hiraoka, doesn't seem to have much directorial experience (most of his credits on ANN are for artist work, most of which seem to be tied to Studio Moe, which as I mentioned, doesn't have very many credits), but I can overlook that. (Interestingly, a lot of his artist work has been in CG art, including CG for both HeartCatch and Suite PreCure, which makes me think the transformations and maybe attacks will involve CG, though I guess that's expected nowadays).

The cast is interesting too. The two main girls, Kana and Hiromi, are being voiced by Fairouz Ai and Yumiri Hanamori respectively. They previously appeared together in Tropical Rouge PreCure as Cures Summer and Coral respectively (and just last year reprised those roles in the movie PreCure All Stars F), although interestingly here Coral's actress is playing the energetic Hiromi, while Summer's actress is playing the much more reserved and intelligent Kana, which if you know Tropical Rouge is a complete opposite of their Cure characters. But then they have range - Fairouz is also the voice of Jolyne from JoJo and Alisa in Pokémon Concierge, while Yumiri has also played Hayasaka from Kaguya-sama (a character with a varied personality, apparently). So I'm not worried.

The two characters above are the resident programmer at and the boss of the titular Magilumiere. (Yes, the boss is a middle-aged male cosplayer. He's just weird like that). The programmer's name is Kazuo Nikoyama, and rather hilariously given his design, he's going to be voiced by Daiki Yamashita, the same actor who voices Izuku in MHA (I guess the resemblance to Izuku may not have been a coincidence 😂). As for the boss, his name is Kouji Shigemoto, and his planned actor is Rikiya Koyama (Kogorō Mori/Richard Moore in Detective Conan/Case Closed, Jōichiro in Food Wars, and Emiya in the Fate franchise).

Rounding out the currently known cast is nice-guy office worker Midorikawa, who is going to be voiced by Ryota Ohsaka (Keiji in Haikyuu, Sadao/Satan in The Devil is a Part-Timer, and the Japanese voice of Cat Noir).

Anyway, sounds like an interesting series! Unfortunately, Volume 2 of the manga doesn't come out in English until June, so I'll have to wait for that too.

[Picture source]

[jc-lambert]

Cult of Hanuman

I am starting to suspect that my mother's church from the 90s in Emporia has turned into a Murder/Suicide cult. This murder/suicide cult should be described as both, the cult of Hanuman and the cult of Kali. I suspect they have taken to killing ministers, especially those who have reported my vandalism. I have taken to writing "I'm kidnapped" and "Hail Satan" and "I said people are a problem" anywhere there is a wall if and when I have a sharpee.

Many of them, are currently in attendance of 12 Step meetings located in my mother's family's neighborhood. Currently: there are Seelies from Emporia working in tandem with the ostracized Baptist Community. It was my mother's people who ostracized them.

Why are they located anywhere in Wichita? Where is my mother? Who is allowing them to be located anywhere near myself? Why are they not yet dead or incarserated?

Every store, every building in the Delano is owned either by step-family: or Spaniards. A few of them, are a form of man that has been heavily bred into humanity which has kept a few facial traits of bonobo. Their people are near emancipation: however they are still slave driven on levels of religion.

In no way is Denis allowed near anyone named Jesus, Hey Zues, or any form of J.C. be it John Crilly, or Jessica Clark. It will always become a command. Infact: the name "Denis" traditionally means they are not to sit or live near, or even breathe the same air as a "Lambert" or any other Franco-Gallonic name for that matter. To do so: means to criminally trespass upon Christian Territory and turf. For Denis to be called a "Christian" he would have to give me his ford mustang, pistol and change his name. Wouldn't he? It might be a good idea to let that a-hole and his people allow me to speak to a judge and police: who are truly more so my friends and family than they. This is how and why these people have kidnapping charges.

They're trying to be my friends. It could never work.

Because my ass, would rather change my name and buy a pistol than be called a Christian if it's going to require I continue to speak English, utilize the roman phonetic or numeral systems, eat pork, or continue to comingle with a bunch of inbred retards many of whom are sub-human slave races.

Remind the courts and the people: the way in which I have been designated as "F.T.P." are in ways that involve sex, sodomy, and children. Such a job is a pre-requisite to see my weenie, which has been put on blue light special. Remind these people, that when practicing Wicca one must abide within the law perfectly. So when and where you have a bunch of people dancing naked in the woods celebrating the Goddess Divine: most of them are law enforcement officers liberating themselves from the oppression of churches who have managed to drill them into corporate contract and/or enslavement.

Those people, are truly the primary reason I refuse to keep any form of Christian company. Anyone stupid enough to sit next to someone born with international and federal contract better learn to stay 100% within federal and international codes of conduct. What could be described as peace treaty. Otherwise: they get slapped with liability lawsuits while being corrected by utmost authority in ways that are worse than a tongue lashing.

The people of Emporia: I would not even suggest such correction.

I would suggest euthanization, or perhaps just have an Airforce General pulled out of retirement to attend a convention on base. Perhaps he could line them all up on stage and put a bullet in the legs of each of them infront of a large crowd. Perhaps he could sit in an easy chair with a vibrator and a television and have each of these Emporians stand between he and the television: then kill them for disrupting his retirement.

It is much more that military officers life long job to protect me and my beliefs and my values and my person than it is some

GODDAMN FUCKING MONKEY ASS COFFEE ADDICTED CHRISTIAN INCARNATION OF HANUMAN.

[flowergirlmiwa]

[Have an ask that's meant for you to talk or ramble about your ocs if you'd like, since I didn't know you had any but I'd love to know more :> 🧡💛🤍🩷❤️ ]

oh like as a sequel to this one? i forgot about that! i didnt talk about very much in here so i guess i'll start building out the story a little more

in 2006 i started writing a new story literally just to goof around while bored at my dad's while he didn't have internet. i just wrote some scattered 'adventures' of a pretty nondescript kid who engages with topics i had interest in at the time, like being in a rock band and being a pro wrestler. this wasn't even really anything until the next year, i returned to my dad's and remembered the story, deciding to expand upon it. after that it became A Thing and i expanded somewhat on the world and characters, also grounding the tone from full-on cartoon to reasonably serious. i say somewhat expanded because this was still just me screwing around writing whatever i felt like with no forethought, so the characterization didn't exactly get much better.

characters!

Miles - main character dude. later on he developed an obsession with his image and by association the image of his band, Dr. Love. but yeah literally nothing to say besides he wears glasses and is… idk, lightly autistic? basically both a standin for me as well as being basically nothing. with the power of a "science machine" and some weird potions he got in the mail he can transform into the buff pro wrestler alter ego and face off against The Undertaker

Eddie - main character's best friend who is depressed and stressed out for the part of the series that has a grounded tone. he's the bassist for the band Dr. Love and lives in the shadow of Miles, both as part of the band as in their school life. i mentioned they were just regular kids going to school right? yeah they have a rock band that releases professional albums and is implied to tour. it's that kind of universe i guess

Teegah - named after my grandmother's elderly cat at the time (Teeger aka Tiger), Teegah is Miles' pet parrot who was transformed from a cat in the first chapter at his own request so he could speak to the others. despite being a parrot he's just treated like another member of the squad and is the drummer (!) for the band Dr. Love. he has a sardonic attitude inspired by salem the cat from sabrina the teenage witch and quips at the others

J.C. - a girl with practically no lines that exists to be Miles' girlfriend in later chapters. it's telling that i genuinely spent a good chunk of it accidentally calling her "Rose", which is the name of Yamachi's superfluous girlfriend as i described last time. that's a totally separate series (at this point). anyway her name doesn't stand for anything, but i did give her the last name Flowers long before scott pilgrim was released so points for me! i said points so me so they're for me!!!!!!

Third - this is apparently a nickname derived from his birth date, November 3. not the weirdest thing but it throws me for some reason (and i wrote it). anyway Third is introduced as a spy for rival rock band Twisted Brother (twenty guesses what their name is a takeoff of) and sows dissent in Dr. Love as the band's second guitarist (do bands run by teenagers need two guitarists?). long story short he ends up double-doublecrossing and joins the crew as a friend and real new band member. his cocky attitude and good looks makes him act as a rival to Miles at first

so what's the plot of this one? uhh, there isn't a plot?

unlike the last thing i talked about there wasn't an overarching plot about stopping satan by running into the center of the world or whatever it was mostly about the tribulations these kids faced as part of being in a popular rock band

eventually i lost a bunch of chapters to a hard drive crash and it kinda bummed me out so i officially cancelled the series. shortly after this, i started work on a new series, inspired by both this and the prior work… but that's a whole rabbit hole we can get into another time… for now just imagine a parrot playing drums with its little feet like a cartoon. thank you goodnight

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Looking Forward to Christ’s Return by J.C. Ryle

Let me entreat all right-hearted readers to look onward and forward to the day of Christ’s second coming. A time draws near when Satan shall be bound, and Christ’s saints shall be changed

–when sin shall no more vex us, and the sight of sinners shall no more sadden our minds–when believers shall at length attend on God without distraction, and love Him with a perfect heart. For that day let us wait, and watch, and pray. It cannot be very far off. The night is far spent. The day is at hand. Surely if our hearts are right, we ought often to cry, “Come quickly–come Lord Jesus!

[thelaithlyworm]

Don't Knock the Rawleigh's Man

(Vincent O'Sullivan)

Don't knock the Rawleigh's Man when he opens his case and offers you mixed spices, curry powder, chilblain ointment, Ready Relief, brilliantine, don't say Not now, don't think Piss off, but remember: think of a hill called Tibi Dabo behind Barcelona and the legend that up there Satan showed J.C. just what he was missing. What he offered was not simply the vulgar things - the girls with buttocks like mounded cream or enough money in brewery shares to take a Rotarian's mind off mowing lawns for octogenarian widows, or the sort of drink we all know Vice-Chancellors drink when they drink with other Vice-Chancellors - not that but more deftly the luciferic fingers fondled buttons nostalgic with little anchors as in the Mansfield story and bits of coloured glass from old houses and variously, these; good punctuation, unattainable notes, throaty grunts at bedtime, the nape of the neck of lovely ladies caught in lamplight like the perfect compliance of the pitch in the last over when the last ball takes the intransigent wicket - yes, he did. Satan offered those things, those were the things turned down, that's how serious it was. And what was round the corner as we know was a tree already chopped waiting to be a cross and a woman at home rinsing a cloth white as she could and Joseph of Arimathea still thinking the rock he had hollowed at phenomenal expense was going to be his, forever, not Some Body Else's, for a spell... So when the bag snaps on your doorstep, flies open like leather wings and you see instead of feathers the tucked-in jars, the notched tubes, the salves the spices the lovely stuff of the flesh, ask him in, go on, in for a moment. There's no telling what else he might show you - what mountain he has in mind you may cast yourself from, what price that your hair shimmer like a diving hawk.

Another one where I should probably include Explanatory Notes.

the Rawleigh's man - Rawleigh's door-to-door salesmen are a little before my time though I remember seeing tins of their brandname salve "good for man or beast" when I was a kid.

J. C. - informal reference to Jesus Christ. poem references both his temptation in the desert before he started his preaching and also the crucifixion + resurrection, and the detail that they used Joseph of Arimathea's prebuilt tomb.

Rotarians - the Rotary Club is a social group for wealthy businessmen (in New Zealand, anyway) that usually has some kind of charitable work going on, like mowing lawns for the neighbours.

as in the Mansfield story - couldn't actually tell you which story, but he's likely talking about Katherine Mansfield.

the intransigent wicket - if I tried to explain Cricket, I would probably get it wrong.

Am really struck, in this stretch of NZ poets, just how popular that freewheeling 'ok, I'm going to allude to some classic literature to show I'm educated BUT ALSO I AM A DOWN TO EARTH WORKING MAN OF THE PEOPLE SEE MY DOWN TO EARTH SLANG' vibe was.

I'm pretty sure it didn't start in New Zealand, and I've forgotten too much of my literature degree to make a solid guess where it did except probably early 20C.

But popular? Yes, it was popular.

[christophe76460]

✝️ Notre Accusateur est vaincu !

En 519 avant J.C., le prophète Zacharie a une vision : le grand-prêtre Josué se tient devant l’Ange de l’Éternel, avec à sa droite Satan, dont le nom signifie l’Accusateur en hébreu.

Or Josué est revêtu de vêtements sales, symbolisant l’état de pécheurs du peuple qu’il représente. Satan, le diable, a beau jeu de l’accuser devant l’envoyé de Dieu.

Comment peut-il, dans cet état, venir en présence du Dieu saint et juste ?! Mais voilà que Dieu rabroue Satan, le réduit au silence…

Le livre de l’Apocalypse nous en donne la raison : Car l’Accusateur de nos frères, celui qui, jour et nuit, les a accusés devant Dieu, a été jeté hors du ciel. Mais eux, ils l’ont vaincu grâce au sacrifice de l’Agneau et grâce au témoignage qu’ils ont rendu pour lui…¹

Dieu a envoyé son Fils Jésus-Christ, qui s’est offert comme un agneau en sacrifice, pour expier notre péché. Par sa mort et sa résurrection, Jésus a vaincu l’Accusateur, il a effacé l’acte de l’accusation qu’il portait contre nous.

Pour être bénéficiaire de la victoire de Jésus, il nous faut croire en son sacrifice, et en témoigner publiquement. Alors l’Accusateur ne peut plus avoir de prise sur nous, alors, dans sa grâce, Dieu nous «revêt de vêtements de fête» et nous introduit en sa présence…

Bernard Grebille

1/ Apocalypse 12, 10-11

__________________

Lecture proposée : Livre du prophète Zacharie, chapitre 3, versets 1 à 5.

Vivre aujourd'hui, 12 août 2024

Copyright © 2024 Editions CAEF

[yes-bernie-stuff]

Notre Accusateur est vaincu ! 12/08/2024

L’Éternel dit à l’Accusateur : Que l’Éternel te réduise au silence, Accusateur ! Oui, que l’Éternel te réduise au silence… Zacharie 3.2

En 519 avant J.C., le prophète Zacharie a une vision : le grand-prêtre Josué se tient devant l’Ange de l’Éternel, avec à sa droite Satan, dont le nom signifie l’Accusateur en hébreu. Or Josué est revêtu de vêtements sales, symbolisant l’état de pécheurs du peuple qu’il représente. Satan, le diable, a beau jeu de l’accuser devant l’envoyé de Dieu. Comment peut-il, dans cet état, venir en présence du Dieu saint et juste ?! Mais voilà que Dieu rabroue Satan, le réduit au silence… Le livre de l’Apocalypse nous en donne la raison : Car l’Accusateur de nos frères, celui qui, jour et nuit, les a accusés devant Dieu, a été jeté hors du ciel. Mais eux, ils l’ont vaincu grâce au sacrifice de l’Agneau et grâce au témoignage qu’ils ont rendu pour lui…¹

Dieu a envoyé son Fils Jésus-Christ, qui s’est offert comme un agneau en sacrifice, pour expier notre péché. Par sa mort et sa résurrection, Jésus a vaincu l’Accusateur, il a effacé l’acte de l’accusation qu’il portait contre nous.

Pour être bénéficiaire de la victoire de Jésus, il nous faut croire en son sacrifice, et en témoigner publiquement. Alors l’Accusateur ne peut plus avoir de prise sur nous, alors, dans sa grâce, Dieu nous « revêt de vêtements de fête » et nous introduit en sa présence…

Bernard Grebille

¹ Apocalypse 12.10-11

__________________ Lecture proposée : Livre du prophète Zacharie, chapitre 3, versets 1 Il me fit voir Josué, le souverain sacrificateur, debout devant l'ange de l'Éternel, et Satan qui se tenait à sa droite pour l'accuser.

2 L'Éternel dit à Satan: Que l'Éternel te réprime, Satan! que l'Éternel te réprime, lui qui a choisi Jérusalem! N'est-ce pas là un tison arraché du feu?

3 Or Josué était couvert de vêtements sales, et il se tenait debout devant l'ange.

4 L'ange, prenant la parole, dit à ceux qui étaient devant lui: Otez-lui les vêtements sales! Puis il dit à Josué: Vois, je t'enlève ton iniquité, et je te revêts d'habits de fête.

5 Je dis: Qu'on mette sur sa tête un turban pur! Et ils mirent un turban pur sur sa tête, et ils lui mirent des vêtements. L'ange de l'Éternel était là.

[kudosmyhero]

The Defenders #25: The Serpent Sheds Its Skin

Read Date: July 06, 2023 Cover Date: July 1975 ● Writer: Steve Gerber ● Penciler: Sal Buscema ● Inker: Jack Abel ● Colorist: Petra Goldberg ● Letterer: Ray Holloway ● Editor: Len Wein ●

**HERE BE SPOILERS: Skip ahead to the fan art/podcast to avoid spoilers

● to a place… I call home! (country roads) ● o_o elf… with a gun… ● 👏👏👏

Synopsis: Son of Satan and Power Man are transported via Clea's magic and the Eye of Agamotto to the location of the captured Defenders, and free them from captivity. Meanwhile, a blind Hulk and Daredevil continue to battle the Sons of the Serpent to save Valkyrie, with the help of Jack Norriss. During the fight, the Hulk's vision returns and DD and Jack manage to battle the Serpents into retreat, and save Valkyrie.

In a California trailer park, an Elf with a Gun kills a young couple.

Meanwhile, exploring the Serpents' base, the other Defenders find a secret passage leading to the office of J.C. Pennyworth, Kyle Richmond's aide, and discover evidence that proves Pennyworth has been using the Richmonds' fortune to fund the Serpents. Confronting Pennyworth, and asking him why he'd join a white supremacist group when he's black, he explains that he was trying to "escape" his own people. After confronting Pennyworth, the group then dismantles the rest of the Sons of the Serpent. However, it is a sour victory for Nighthawk, who flies away after the battle.

(https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Defenders_Vol_1_25)

Fan Art: Luke Cage by naratani

Accompanying Podcast: ● Josh and Jamie Do Daredevil - episode 20

[lagroupie]

Interview : J.C. Satàn (FR)

J.C. Satàn au Romandie

Nous sommes le 14 mars et il est environ 20h lorsque je retrouve les J.C. Satàn au Romandie. Je me réjouis, mais comme toujours lorsque je rencontre mes groupes favoris, je suis un peu nerveuse. Pourtant, au milieu de toutes les bouteilles d’alcools forts posée sur la table des loges, la conversation démarre très vite. Au fur et à mesure de l’interview, je me rend compte que les J.C. Satàn - à travers leur sens de l’humour et leur franchise - sont avant tout dévoués à leur art et extrêmement honnêtes. Rejoignez-nous alors que nous parlons de leur vie à Bordeaux, de la recherche de leur style musical si particulier, de leur album Centaur Desire, de l’enfer, et bien plus encore.

Je me souviens de la première fois où je vous ai vus jouer, c’était en première partie de Ty Segall à l’Usine PTR. J’étais avec une amie, qui ne connaissait aucun des deux groupes. Je lui ai demandé qui elle avait préféré après le concert, et elle a répondu J.C. Satàn !

Arthur : Eh bé ! Ça commence bien cette interview en tout cas ! On enverra l’interview à Ty après ! (rires)

Pour apprendre à vous connaître un peu mieux, je voulais savoir à quoi ressemblait votre vie à Bordeaux lorsque vous n’étiez pas en train de tourner.

Arthur : Hmm… ça dépend un peu des moments, quand on a des thunes, quand on n’en n’a pas… (rires) Ca peut énormément changer. En ce moment, on n’en a pas du tout par exemple, parce qu’on ne touche quasiment plus l’argent de rien. Du coup, par la force des choses je reste vachement plus chez moi. Mais du coup je dessine, je tatoue des gens, des trucs comme ça. Je ne veux pas devenir tatoueur, ni bosser dans des salons, mais je le fais parce que cela fait bientôt 7 ans que je dessine et que je sais le faire. Je dépanne des gens qui ne veulent pas forcément aller chez des vrais tatoueurs. Mais quand on a des sous on sort souvent, on aime bien faire la fête.

Romain : On enregistre des groupes aussi.

Arthur : Oui c’est vrai, j’avais oublié ça ! (rires) Avec Dorian, on enregistre souvent des groupes. C’est vrai qu’on commence à le faire de plus en plus. Mais sinon ça se résume assez à une sorte de chômage à l’aise ! (rires) Tranquille.

Paula : Moi, je travaille dans un resto associatif. Du coup, quand je suis à Bordeaux j’essaie de travailler le plus possible. Sinon je reste aussi à la maison, je vois mes copines ou je vais à la salle de sport… Une vie normale quoi.

Arthur : Après, souvent on sort beaucoup. Mais comme là on tourne le weekend…

Paula : Oui, comme on joue un peu plus et qu’on a moins de sous, on reste à la maison ou on travaille. Gaspard travaille aussi.

Gaspard : Je travaille à l’opéra de Bordeaux.

Eh, ça a l’air cool !

Romain : C’est génial ! C’est un boulot, mais fantastique hein !

Gaspard : Je place les gens. Je dis « bonjour, ce sera sur votre droite. »

Arthur : Du coup, ses cheveux dépeignés là- en vrai il est pas du tout comme ça !

Romain : Il a failli être viré à cause de ses cheveux !

Paula : Ah ouais ?

Gaspard : Oui, j’ai reçu des mails et tout.

Paula : Bah, ils ont raison quand même ! (rires)

Gaspard : Du coup je suis en costard-cravate et ça fait marrer tout le monde.

Romain : Ben moi je glande la majorité du temps…

Romain : Non mais je ne fais rien de spécial. Mais pareil, j’ai une vie à peu près normale.

Paula : En plus c’est celui qui a le plus de sous ! (rires)

Arthur : Oui, il a des sous de côté de ouf ! En fait c’est un peu le prince, il s’en fout.

Romain : Je sais gérer mon argent, c’est tout !

Je voulais aussi parler de Centaur Desire, et de votre manière d’écrire. A-t-elle évolué au fil des années ? J’ai trouvé que l’album sonnait de manière plus… propre ?

Arthur : Je dirais, de plus en plus définie. Je ne dirais pas « propre ».

Paula : Mais aussi propre. Parce quand tu mets pleins d’effets sur les choses, tu as l’impression que c’est un peu plus…

Arthur : Oui, mais pour quelqu’un qui enregistre un disque, ce n’est pas du tout propre en vrai. “Propre” pour moi, c’est la grosse prod. Là, c’est pas une grosse prod, c’est du lo-fi défini je pense. C’est-à-dire qu’à l’époque au début, on enregistrait à l’arrache. On se branchait direct dans des ordis et il n’y avait même pas d’amplis ni de batterie. Donc c’était vraiment super à l’arrache, mais c’était les seuls moyens qu’on avait. Au fur et à mesure, on augmente les moyens qu’on a et on chope du matos. Après nous, on a toujours aimé produire. Produire, ça ne veut pas dire-

Romain : Surproduire. (rires)

Arthur : Nan, mais ça ne veut pas dire chercher la qualité. Ca veut dire mettre en avant des idées d’écriture. Des fois ça passe par la recherche d’un type de son, des fois ça passe par la compression- par plein d’effets à la con dans le studio. Nous, on s’est équipés petit à petit avec du matos qui a permis de définir les idées qu’on avait dans les disques d’avant, tu vois ? Donc pour moi, c’est plus préciser ce qu’on a toujours aimé faire plutôt que de le rendre propre.

Oui, je vois ce que tu veux dire. Par propre, je voulais juste dire qu’on entendait mieux chaque instrument par rapport à vos débuts par exemple.

Arthur : Oui exactement, mais il y a plein de gens qui le pensent. C’est pour ça que c’est bien de le dire. Je n’aimerais pas que les gens se mettent en tête qu’entendre mieux les instruments, ça veut dire commencer à être trop producteur- c’est pas vrai. Ce qu’on veut faire, c’est comme lorsqu’on a de la terre glaise : au début c’est quelque chose de brouillon, et on le taille de mieux en mieux. Ce qu’on fait en ce moment, c’est faire apparaître les mélodies qui sont là depuis le début dans nos disques, qu’on entendait moins parce qu’avant c’était un peu couvert par une prod à l’arrache, des trucs comme ça. C’est plus un travail de sculpteur que de balayeur.

Paula : C’est un peu comme- au début, quand on avait des idées pour des morceaux c’était un peu tout le temps la même chose. On avait des mélodies avec une base assez pop, et une construction quand même assez recherchée, et ça depuis le début. Mais au début, tu n’es pas trop capable de l’enregistrer, ni trop capable de la chanter en ce qui me concerne. Du coup, c’est enregistré un peu moins bien, avec des moyens différents de ceux d’aujourd’hui – on a des micros plus chers par exemple – et vu que tu n’es pas sûre de ta voix, tu rajoutes des effets, de la reverb, du delay, des choses comme ça. Après aujourd’hui, c’est vraiment la même chose sauf que tu évolues- tu enregistres un peu mieux, tu as de meilleurs micros. Mais à la base c’est tout le temps des mélodies et de la pop.

Arthur : Oui, super pop et super mélodique. Mais là où elle a raison c’est aussi qu’avec le temps on chante et on joue un peu mieux… c’est de la pratique. Tu commences à pouvoir faire ce que tu as dans la tête de plus en plus facilement on va dire.

Paula : Du coup tu assumes un peu plus ce que tu fais, et tu mets moins d’effets.

Arthur : C’est un grand mal du garage on va dire, le fait de souvent tomber dans les clichés avec ce genre d’effets- le fait d’essayer de constamment mettre des échos sur la voix, de la réverb. C’est devenu un espèce d’effet scolaire quoi ! Tout le monde l’a utilisé, alors que je pense que c’est quelque chose qui vient à la base de la maladresse des premiers groupes qui l’ont utilisé. Tu t’en sers pour placer ta voix de manière un peu jolie dans le mix. C’est devenu un automatisme, alors qu’il y a des gens qui ne s’en rendent pas compte, qui ont des super belles voix que t’as envie d’entendre. Derrière ces effets, ils oublient qu’ils sont en train de grandir, de s’améliorer. Cela leur permettrait de proposer autre chose. C’est pas obligé bien-sûr, mais ils peuvent proposer autre chose. Nous on a essayé d’explorer ça en tout cas.

Oui, je voulais en parler aussi. Et aussi sur le fait de vous définir. J’ai l’impression qu’au fil des albums, il y a toujours une ligne qui fait que vous avez votre propre style musical. On arrive à reconnaître la ligne J.C. Satàn ! (rires)

Arthur : C’est cool que tu dises ça. Ça fait du bien de l’entendre !

Paula : Oui, il y a des morceaux où les gens disent « ah oui, ça c’est vraiment du J.C. Satàn. »

Arthur : C’est mon rêve qu’on reconnaisse l’écriture du groupe.

Romain : Oui, je pense qu’on a quand même réussi à- justement, c’est pour cela qu’on a eu tendance à s’écarter de la scène garage, c’est qu’on trouvait que dans cette scène il y avait beaucoup de groupes qui avaient tendance à toujours repomper les mêmes sons. Sans vouloir les critiquer, mais je crois que nous, on n’a jamais vraiment cherché à faire cela.

Arthur : Je pense que dès le début, on a accepté le chemin qu’il y avait entre le grand écart du garage indé dans lequel on a appris à jouer ensemble, à tourner etc., et les influences musicales qu’on avait qui étaient plus mainstream, plus nineties. Des trucs à la Breeders ou Queens of the Stone Age qu’on cite souvent, qui sont moins acceptés dans le domaine du garage indépendant. On a accepté de se trouver au milieu de cela, et le milieu c’est peut-être là où ça ressemble à J.C. Satàn ! Là où il y a beaucoup de gens qui préfèrent appartenir à une scène parce que c’est plus rassurant, où à embrasser complètement autre chose parce que ça touche plus de gens, je pense qu’on a accepté de faire le chemin au milieu de tous ces trucs.

C’est intéressant ce que tu disais au sujet des groupes qui se copient entre eux. Il y a longtemps, j’avais fait une petite interview avec Mac Demarco par mail (ndlr: par ici, je commençais à peine), avant qu’il n’explose. Le son de guitare chorus qu’il utilisait n’était pas encore répandu comme aujourd’hui. Je lui ai demandé si ce son était volontaire, et il m’a répondu qu’en fait il ne savait pas vraiment ce qu’il faisait en enregistrant, mais qu’il avait trouvé ça cool. Du coup il l’avait gardé ! Maintenant suite à son succès tout le monde utilise cette guitare chorus.

Arthur : Exactement, c’est l’un des meilleurs exemples que tu puisses donner. En plus ça a suivi à fond ! Et justement, ça fait un peu hippie de dire ça mais le problème c’est que les gens se rassurent en suivant un bon exemple, alors que Mac Demarco, tout ce qu’il a fait c’est écouter ce qu’il avait dans la tête, et en écrivant le morceau il s’est dit « c’est le son qui correspond le mieux à ce que j’ai dans la tête », et tac il le met ! Le truc, c’est qu’aujourd’hui il y a largement assez de moyens et d’effets d’ordinateur pour mettre en avant les idées que tu as dans la tête et trouver des choses étonnantes. Et ce qui est un peu terrifiant, c’est de voir que les gens ne prennent pas cette peine au moment dans le monde où c’est le plus facile de le faire quoi. Il suffit de se brancher à un ordi et en 4 secondes tu as tous les sons de l’univers ! Les gens préfèrent suivre une voie qu’un mec a découvert seul.

Paula : Après, pour commencer je trouve que c’est normal. Quand tu es un peu jeune, c’est normal de suivre. Tu te dis « c’est un génie ! ».

Arthur : Mais ça me rappelle quand j’étais chez Gaspard et qu’on avait écouté ce groupe des années 90, Teenage Fanclub. Personnellement, je n’aime pas du tout ce groupe, mais je ne savais pas qu’ils étaient aussi vieux ! Et je me disais « ils ont copié les trucs des 90s », alors que le disque était de genre 89-90. En fait c’était vraiment des pionniers quoi ! (rires) Ce qui est terrifiant, c’est qu’une fois que tout le monde suit ça, malheureusement le génie qui a eu la bonne idée d’avoir ce truc propre à lui qui est unique, il n’existe plus quoi. Il appartient lui-même à la scène qu’il a engendrée, il est noyé là-dedans. C’est dommage.

Romain : Ouais, donc on a notre son J.C. Satàn, sauf qu’on a pas encore la scène autour ! (rires)

Paula : Nous on ne l’a pas fait, on ne laisse pas les autres nous copier hein !

Je voulais aussi parler de ma chanson préférée sur l’album, Complex Situation. Quelle est l’histoire derrière la chanson ?

Paula : Le texte parle d’une personne qui tue quelqu’un. Du coup, il commence à avoir des voix dans la tête. En fait, il y a une personne qui dit « Complex Situation under control », j’ai tué quelqu’un mais tout va bien. Et le refrain, c’est la voix dans la tête qui dit non, « you’re guilty ». C’est la même personne en fait. Et c’est pour cela que ça devient de plus en plus tendu, elle se rend compte qu’elle devient folle. Et à la fin, elle dit à cette voix d’arrêter de lui parler « you can’t talk to me ».

Arthur : C’est cool que tu l’aimes bien, parce que du coup ce morceau c’est vraiment un hors-piste. Comparé à la plupart de nos morceaux où il y a des solos de guitare et tout, là on voulait partir sur quelque chose où il n’y avait pas de guitare. La partie où il n’y a pas de guitare, c’est là où est le cœur du morceau. Et on voulait faire un truc un peu plus technoïde, on a fait un son de batterie plus particulier, plus écrasé. Qui a l’air plus électro je trouve. On se demandait un peu ce que les gens pouvaient en penser, mais il y a plein de gens qui l’aiment bien en réalité. Et on le joue aussi sur scène, mais ce n’était pas un morceau évident à faire pour nous. On était toujours sur des grosses guitares quoi !

Si vous deviez enregistrer un album dans un endroit pas du tout réaliste, que choisiriez-vous entre la lune, le macdo et l’enfer ?

Dorian : Il n’y a pas de son sur la lune !

Arthur : Moi je choisirais le Macdo, parce que c’est un peu l’enfer ! (rires) Ou je choisirais l’enfer, parce que l’avantage c’est que vu que dans ma tête ça n’existe pas, je pourrais en faire ce que je veux ! Je pourrais créer le studio le plus classe de la terre.

Dorian : Tu l’appellerais « L’Enfer ». (rires) Hyper ringard.

Paula : Avec l’ingé son lucifer là, méga ringard !

Gaspard : Sur la lune, c’est quand même là où ce serait le plus joli. Tu peux te faire un studio là-bas.

Arthur : Mais la lune, on sait comment c’est. L’enfer, tu ne sais pas. Je suis curieux, je préfèrerais un endroit où je ne saurais pas ce que ça va donner !

Paula : Pas au Macdo, c’est sûr.

Arthur : Le Macdo c’est moche. Il faut être à l’aise dans l’endroit où t’enregistres. La prochaine fois qu’on enregistre, j’aimerais bien aller dans un endroit classe, cosy. Je choisis quand même l’enfer, mais je trouve ça cliché !

Enfin, si vous pouviez donner un conseil aux jeunes J.C. Satàn d’il y a 8 ans, que leur diriez-vous ?

Arthur : Je lui dirais « ne change rien du tout, t’es super ». (rires) Je suis désolé, mais je suis hyper fier de la manière dont on évolue ! Même si on aurait pu tenter des choses où aller plus vite là où on est avec ce qu’on a fait, je trouve quand même important qu’on ne se soit pas précipités. Là où on est aujourd’hui, c’est que parce qu’on est partis d’être nuls, en aspirant à devenir les meilleurs possibles. Et de la manière la plus naturelle qui soit, c’est-à-dire en trimant, en tournant comme des fous, en rencontrant plein de gens et en se faisant des potes. Et on est quasiment redevables qu’à nous-mêmes et à quelques personnes qui ont misé sur nous.

Paula : Il n’y en a pas eu beaucoup !

Arthur : Je dirais aux J.C. Satàn : Soyez patients. Arrêtez de croire qu’il faut brûler des étapes, parce que c’est pas vrai.

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ATTN: John Barrasso

Kevin:

Hey, are you alive? The entire whole of the United States has gone batshit insane. What's life doing in Montana? I might have to take the to the Grand Tetons. You know the Gun-Zalez family in Wyoming? Teresa Zellner is sort of my cousin. I am an heir of the mineral claims of Kenneth Zellner (11% owner)

Currently the entire global government system which is well armed, is drafting gunpowder almost entirely off my family's mineral claims without any real supervision which is truly stripmining the whole of Wyoming anywhere there are geysers and such: which is disruptive to the ecosystem of the Luinstra Monsters that Kansas had in the 1800s. I had no idea those creatures were real or would pop up. They are all truly local voodoo stories that nobody has really paid attention to. That: or I am just hallucinating. They all seem to be in protest. The word frog here: does not exactly always translate to "The French".

Kristen: all your financial credit is being drained by non-human creatures of an amphibious nature. You will have to spread your legs for one of these guys. They are your frog prince, give them all a big fat lickery kiss. This is why Wichita drained the swamp and built plazas on top of it. However you still have a problem: they can still pop up from underground when it rains and floods.

Don't be racist Kristen.

Spread your legs bitch and give the wild catfish injuns your grandfather warned you of a kiss...

They are outbreeding instead of inbreeding...

they have to breed their way back into humanity...

I said: KISS IT KRISTEN...

Kiss both my ass & the Satan Spawn from the Swamps of Wichita.

Kevin, Liam, Sharon, whomever can you sneak me a pistol or the resource to purchase one? If I gave you a 1936 penny, would you be willing to sell on ebay for 2 thousand dollars off the Gambino Economy? It's truly a Gatsby hack to do that which almost always requires connection to Silicon Valley as well as a few banks. It happens all the time: usually it's just someone trying to ditch millions of dirty ill-gotten money and calling in a favor to the mafia .I have already put in a request with the Russian government for a liaison as well as resource to arm myself.

This might require a friend from Chicago to pop up. Liam Hamiltion, ostracized royalty from Estonia. I met him when he was a "little boy being naughty". I am under corporate contract with his mother and grandmother to cannibalize him if he is caught not being perfectly good. Which also means I might have to buy him something for Christmas to keep the credit that my initials are "J.C.". It's a VooDoo Jesus thing. As a potential American Terrorist Task Force without resource and no money, I would be forced to manipulate the global orders until he is knighted or a tyrant king or something: which could potentially kill him and his friends and this and that, so it's better to just poof some money together.

Right? I've reported all the dope I have seen as well as various thefts and racketeering as well as a few little known species both terrestrial and non-terrestrial, too extra terrestrial. Most of them are known species to the government which so much as one report to a human usually results in the ostracism and/or execution of a human, namely those working in Democratic or Republican governments.

I.E. I have snitched in ways that should glean a reward while also snitching in ways that kill the authority over the situation. The result was supposed to be a few hundred million in the bank. However that couldn't really be done without someone landing a felony somehow somewhere.

So...

Can someone please pick me up?

Can someone please connect me to such an account?

Does anyone want to sit in the lap of luxury for at least a month and order in? (perhaps at Home 2) 

Infact: why don't we get drunk with some famous types and sit here and discuss movie rights and this and that and put together another story board or twenty. VooDoo Nannies and their victims are usually good at that. I mean shit if Liam has been sitting there being perfectly well behaved: then Liam should be given a psycho-awesome job somewhere with the Los Angeles crews. He could describe his psychological trauma and it be put together as a mother goose movie or something. That man was tormented by the worst witches in Chicago Society and their fag friends. He was perfectly raised by a kidnapped Boadicean and her lesbian moms as well as a rigid Estonian family. So he deserves a 20 million dollar a year job just sitting there getting drunk and talking smack. Right? (Gatsby Demographic)

Liam...

make someone gimme a pistol. I could use a Mauser. Go steal Estonian Gramma Russian Nagonyat or Mauser. I have nigger voodoo babies I need to go Joo-Joo & Gris Gris. Don't make me have to throw voodoo niggers at you Liam. They might decide to smoke crack, play with your weenie, and pop up later with strange alien creatures of earth origin demanding a section 8 voucher child support and alimony out of your ass for their entire tribe: which would be thousands of amphibians born within 10 years.