#joyride 2013

[small-sinclair]

Little Lady

Young!Rusty Nail x college fem!reader

Rusty is the same age as reader (think 20-25).

I'll write a part 3 and that's going to be smutty/fluffy. Not profread!

Welcomed readers: @sketchy-rosewitch, @fluffy-little-demon, @poir0t-houck, @waxxl0ver, @crumb, @ninakuli, @whimsyvixen, @roadkillerx, @hope4rain19, @vicl0v3

Part 2 to Little Lady

He drove the through your college a couple times, and every time he saw you.

You would smile, wave, and he would pull over and hop out the cab to see you if he had time or if he didn’t have blood on his hands. Rusty would smile brightly and put out his cigarette so you didn’t smell like it. Someone as beautiful and young like you shouldn’t smell like smoke and dried blood. Mostly, he just liked seeing you, his little lady, and hearing how school was.

At first, he didn’t care about your schooling and your dreams, but he had a change of heart when you showed off your fashion designs in your sketch book one day. And the way you lit up about you passing a hard test? He want to bottle it up and put it in his pocket. Everything from your laughter to your smile made him want you more. But it was the way you said his name when you saw him and he slowed down; so nice and light… Rusty would run every red light to hear you whisper his name. Even on those cold and lonely nights, he hears your voice and sees your eyes in the stars.

When he looks down at the reflection of his victim’s blood, he could see you by his side with your eyes closed.

And you couldn’t help but look forward to seeing the young truck driver. He was always so nice to you, and he would bring you sweet treats from a place he’s been or a sweatshirt. His hands were rough and callous already for being in his young twenties, but you couldn’t help but ache to hold his hand. Whatever was in the glimmer of his eyes and light in his voice, you almost felt at home with him.

When he came to town and drove on the main road pass your class, he came in a different truck. A faded, one-seated, red pickup truck with rust around the rims. The back window had a large crack from the passenger side to the center, and there was a bumper sized dent on the tailgate on the driver side. He was parked on the side of the road as you came out of the building, snow gathering to the side of the walkway.

He was leaning against the side with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. Smoke curled around his head like a broken halo as he blew up into the air. When his eyes landed on you, he quickly put the cigarette out with his boot and straightened himself up as if he was about to meet a queen.

“Afternoon, little lady,” he greeted with a big smile. His eyes sparkled in the fading sunlight. “It’s a bit late, ya know? With winter and all, sun goes down.”

You hugged your coat closer and your backpack, that hung from your hip with a star key chain he gave you, came tighter. “There’s supposed to be a winter storm tonight, too,” you hummed. You looked at him up and down. “Where’s your truck?”

He gave a soft grin and chuckled. “Got the next two weeks off, doll.” He looked down the road then back at you. “Decided to visit you for the weekend if that’s okay?”

He earned a little laugh from you as you stepped closer to him. “I don’t mind, Rusty. Besides, I feel better seeing you now; it wasn’t the best day.”

He lifted a brow. “Wanna talk about it?”

“No. Just want to go home, really,” you answered, a tried smile forming on your lips. “I’m tired, Rusty.”

Your defeated voice my his heart ache for a moment. He licked his lips quickly then asked, “Do you want me to drive you home?”

You thought for a moment. How well did you really know him? Sure, he would stop sometimes, pull over, and have you hop in for a drive or to take you to the diner off campus if it was really late. You yeah, he would hang out with you, talk to you, let you sleep on his should when you got sleepy, and listen to your week like you would for him. But he never really told you much about his life. He knows about your family and your golf fish, Larry, but you don’t even know if he has a house or a shed!

You didn’t know if you should let him take you home, but it is getting darker and colder…

You came from your thoughts when a sudden blast of cold wind hits your back. Before you could even bundle up, Rusty took you in his arms and hid your face in his chest as the wind picked up. He lowered his head and closed his eyes as snow hit his body, and he shivered as it went down his shirt. He remembered what his aching arms are for when he shields your from the blast of snow and wind as he tucked your head under his chin. He was cold, yes; but he felt your warmth and smelt your sweet cherry scent in the cold air. You are worth getting cold for.

When the wind died down for a moment, he already made his mind up. “I’m taking you home,” he says in the fabric of your winter hat. “It’s too damn cold for ya ta’walk.” Without you protesting or even thinking about having a say, he pushes you to his truck and got you in.

You slid from the driver side to the passenger side easily as he followed in. He started the engine and turned the heater up. He leaned back in his seat then glanced at you. The light snow in his hair and on his eye lashes made him look like a wolf hunting in the winter. If that’s the case, then you might as well be the rabbit.

As the heat circled the truck, he buckled up, looked both ways, and pulled out into the road. “Wanna get food first before I drop you off?”

You buckled yourself up at the stoplight. “I have food in the slow cooker,” you glanced at him then at the snow coming down. “Bet you hadn’t had a good home meal in a while, huh?”

Rusty’s thumb taped on the wheel in thought. “It’s been a while, yeah,” the truck moved forward, “you don’t mind, do you?”

“It’ll be nice not to eat by myself tonight,” you answered. “Besides, I have beef and noodles cooking. Larry can’t have that.”

“Gotta keep that fish happy,” he answered. “But if we fed him gold fish crackers…”

“Cannibalism.”

He snorted out a laugh. “It’s crackers!”

“In the shape of a fish, Rusty!” You protested, giving him an offended look before laughing to yourself.

The snow flakes were starting to fall fast and grew bigger. Rusty glances at you then the road. His smile was warm and serene. “Whatever you say, doll.”

***********

After a missed turn and a quick stop for gas and soda, he parked in front of your apartment. it wasn't too big, only being three stories tall, but it wasn't too small, either. It was close to campus, but it was still far from your college class rooms.

"I live in the basement," you said, pointed at a window that was ground level. "It's a studio, so it's small."

Rusty shrugged as he closed the car door. "Big enough for two people, right?"

"Big enough for two people plus a fish," you answered. "I live on the quiet side of college. Nothing happens around here besides hearing the train at night."

Rusty closed the door tight and followed you down the five steps to the basement. Across from your apartment was the laundry room; no neighbors to say hello or to bother you. As much as Rusty was glad that he got you all to himself, he didn't like that you were alone when you came back from a long day. Come to think of it, he doesn't remember you telling him about your friends. He only knew that your family was three hours away and hardly visit.

When you opened the door to your apartment, he could help but marvel at your room. You apartment was lit by soft yellow and white Christmas tree lights, giving it a warm feeling, and it was clean. You had a couch with pillows, a little coffee table, and a bookshelf in a corner by the kitchen. To the left, your bed was neatly made with stuffed animals and fluffy pillows, and his sweatshirt you stole laid with your p.j. pants. There was a desk with a photo of your family, and Larry's fish bowl was on the dresser. He had a little castle and a dragon skull in the tank and Larry was a fat fish that swam peacefully and carelessly around. When he looked up, he saw printed pictures of you and him taped to the wall, but one photo of him by his truck was in a little circle frame that said "Bless the 18 Wheeler" at the bottom. When he looked closer, he could make out faded lips on his face; your lips.

He looked back at you as you entered the kitchen and pulled down some bowls and cups. "You didn't have to put me in a frame, y/n."

"I know," you answered as you fixed him a bowl of noodles from your slow cooker. "But I did. You're the first person I see in the morning." You exited the kitchen and placed the bowls on the coffee table. "I think you look cute in that photo, too."

"Cute?" He asked. "I ain't cute."

You rolled your eyes as you patted the seat next to you on the couch for him to join you. "I know, I know. You're a big, strong, tough truck driver."

He hung his jacket on the back of your computer chair then sat next to you. His dark brown plaid he normally wears was warn and still dirty. Rusty took the bowl and started eating. "Don't you forget it," he said with a mouthful of noodles. His eyes rolled back at the taste and he started wolfing down his meal. It's been so long since Rusty had a good meal like this. He's so used to gas station food and microwaved food that he forgot was a home meal tasted like. Best of all, it was made by your hands and love.

You ate with him and felt happy. You and Larry weren't alone tonight during the snow storm. Some was with you to keep you warm for the weekend.

"Are you staying the night?" You asked as you brought him another bowl.

He looked out the window at the big snowflakes and watched how fast they were falling. "You sure? I don't wanna intrude."

"I don't mind. Besides," you nodded at his truck. "You're already snowed in, the motels are probly full with other travelers, and the roads were already covered in black ice when you came down," swallowed a spoonful of noodles. "I feel safer with you here than driving in this weather. I have plenty of blankets and pillows for you to use, too."

Rusty acted like he was thinking, but he already had his mind made up. he was going to stay no matter if you said no or didn't ask. He was going to have you for himself tonight even if you like it or not. This is what he was looking forward to ever since he laid eyes on you, but why did he feel disgusted with himself when he looked at your sweet smile? Why did he feel sick when his lustful desires took over and his mind raced with images of you pinned to the bed, begging him to stop fucking you so rough? His stomach turned when his own actions and sinful wishes took over; he couldn't do that to you. He realizes that now. All he want so do is hold his little lady tonight and keep her warm through the winter storm.

"Alright," he said in a low voice. "I'll stay with you, little lady."

[adalwolfgang]

Photo aesthetic of what it would be like being the s/o to Rusty Nail

[callmeblake]

I just found the facebook post where Frank calls joyriding 'joyriders' from August 6th, 2013.

The vid is gone, but a version of the blogpost and the tumblr post still exist (although the embed IN the tumblr post is gone).

[coryphefishh]

I get the thing with how Jack couldn't fit on the door with Rose in Titanic.

...But Bioware needs to explain why my SWTOR companions can't fit on the speeders with me. It's been literally ten years.

There's ROOM FOR BOTH OF THEM!

[jealousmartini]

KPOP DR INTRODUCTION

Old opening intro:

" Don't freak out! We are O.M.G! "

New opening intro:

" 6 friends and a dream! We are O.M.G "

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[ # 000 :: O.M.G's ORIGIN STORY ] small print

O.M.G, is an originally animated six-member girl group created in late 2013 by Lucia Martinez, or better known as "Keisha" from her character in O.M.G, under her youtube channel "Envious Martini" accompanied by her 5 other girlfriends for fun. They would post a lot of vlogs, grwm (get ready with me's), mukbangs, reaction/commentary, and livestreams, of course, none of these posts were ever serious. And a lot of their videos would be clipped to be used as memes that would instantly catch fire, and their faces would soon be very recognisable. In fact It wouldnt even take long for O.M.G to earn a lot of attention from Korean and Western K-POP fans when "Molly (claimed song!! playboi carti)", which is a scrap unreleased track by the way, would randomly go viral at 2.3 million views on youtube and Envious martini would begin to grow a humble following of 430K followers for their music, art and shitposts.

All music production, concepts, and choreography were created by Keisha with the help of the 5 girls behind the scenes. For example, in order for Keisha to be able to animate the choreography, the girls would make dance routines together, figuring out positions and record it for Keisha to take as reference. This also went for vocals and rapping. All girls played their parts accordingly to how they felt comfortable and were suitable to each member. And then it would be in mid-June of 2014 that the girls would decide to bring Keisha's art to life and replace the characters of O.M.G with themselves.

And in 2015, after being invited to many interviews and talk shows and entering many survival shows and competitions, it would be one competition show in particular, held by JYP which O.M.G would win, where they would officially be adopted under JYP entertainment and debut as a JYP girl group in the same year. But it wasn't until 2016 after much debate surrounding the group that O.M.G. was finally recognised and accepted as a KPOP group.

[ # 001 :: ALBUMS ]

[ disclaimer!! claimed songs are highlighted, and said songs most likely sound slightly different in my dr because of personal taste.]

Core genres :: KPOP, EDM, JERSEY CLUB, POP-ROCK, SYNTH, ELECTRO-POP, CONTEMPORARY R&B

Core aesthetics/concepts :: GIRL CRUSH, Chaotic academia core, Y2K, Girl-next-door

Themes :: Teenage years/Nostalgia, Self discovery, Love/self love, Random stuff

(2013) Mini album 1 :: Superstitious

Tracklist :: "track no.1", "track no.2", "track no.3"

(2014) Mini album 2 :: Lawfully Wedded Wives

Tracklist :: "What's your number", "Molly", "Greedy hearts", "girls never die", "heaven sent", "kinda miss you rn"

(2015) Debut Album :: Oh My Gosh

Tracklist :: "OMG", "Magnetic", "Ditto", "Lucky girl syndrome", "Dalla Dalla", "Woo! Ah!", "ETA"

Debut song :: Ditto

(2016) 1st Single :: Princess Sickness

(2017) 2nd Album :: New Region

Tracklist :: "La di da", "Supernova", "Crush", "life on Mars" , "JOYRIDE",

(2017) 3rd Album :: GINXED

Tracklist :: "Girls on wings", "LOOP", "Serotonin", "WOW", "Bitternes, the disease", "Yes, and?", "Charmed", "LOVE DIVE", "Accendio"

(2019) 4th Album :: Hopscotch

Tracklist :: "Six of em", "1 on 1", "Now what", "Super mario", "Jersey Girls", "Sir mix a lot", more to come...

(2019) 5th Album :: Joyride

Tracklist :: "Insidious", "It's my turn now", "Trance", "met her on the internet", more to come...

(2021) 6th Album :: TOTALLY MAXED OUT

Tracklist :: "I'm your magical girl", more to more...

[ # 002 :: SOLO PROJECTS ]

(2019) Debut Solo Single :: "Make way"

(2021) 1st Solo mini Collection :: Come again?

Tracklist :: "It's my turn now", "He ate my heart", "WTF?"

(2023) 4th Solo Single :: "My Chemical Romance feat. Megan the Stallion"

(2024) 5th Solo Single :: "ABCD feat. NAYEON"

(2024) 6th Solo Single :: "Boohoo"

(2024) 7th Solo Single :: "New Woman feat. CHAE KYUNG"

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[ # 000 :: BASIC INFO ]

Date of DR :: ??/04/2017

Name :: Lucia R. Martinez

korean birthname :: Hwang Chae-Kyung

adopted name :: Lovely adopted surname

nicknames :: Kyu, Kyungie, Keish/Keesh, Chae-Bae, Vivi

Stage name :: Keisha/Kyu

Title names :: THAT girl, Mother Rabbit, Millionaire Maknae, KPOP's Princess, KPOP's Darling, KPOP's first Black Idol, KPOP'S secret ACE, KPOP's curly head, KPOP's BEYONCE

Positions :: Producer, Main/lead singer, main dancer, sub rapper, visuals, maknae, center maybe??

Date of birth : 20 / 06 / 1997

Age :: 19

Hobbies :: Music production, drawing, dancing, singing, baking, gaming

Languages :: English, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Mandarin Chinese

Ethnicity :: half puerto rican, half korean

Representative animal :: red panda / puppy / Bunny (I can't choose rn guys)

Representative colour :: orange

Representative dessert :: cookies and brownies

Fanbase name :: charmings

Training period :: ?? months

Company :: JYP

Group representative colours :: Blue and Pink

Brands :: Vivian Westwood, Diesel, Juicy Couture

[ # 001 :: FUN FACTS ]

She is older than Jungkook by 4 months. He knows this but still chooses to not use honorifics sometimes.

She is close friends with NAYEON, Sana, Chaeyoung, YOONGI, JIMIN, JUNGKOOK, Namjoon, J-hope, TAEHYUNG, Jin, BANGCHAN, Felix, Hyunjin, YUNA, Jennie, Jisoo, Tsuyu, WONYOUNG, YUJIN,

No one knows this yet but she has a crush on 6 of the idols listed and 2 of the highlighted names are part of the six, the other 4 are not

The red panda is her animal representative because there was a video circulating of her dressed up as a mascot for her highschool as a red panda and break-dancing

Speaking of dancing, she has mastered multiple dancing styles like house, vogue, street dancing, belly dancing, Jazz, Latin, Club, Jersey and Freestyle. She's got her own signature groove 💃🏾 🕺

She is the first kpop idol to be the ambassador for Vivian Westwood, Juicy Couture and Diesel

[ # 002 :: CONTROVERSIES AND SCANDALS ]

Next post...

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[the-writer-in-the-winter-forest]

The Universe Next-door

Summary: While on his "Search for a New Anchor Being" montage, Wade comes across Wolverine and Storm variants who rain on his parade.

A spin on the scene from Deadpool Vol 5 #15 (2013)

Pairing: Storm x Wolverine

Word Count: 980

No Warnings/ Pretty Tame

A/N: Is the humor forced and bad? Mayhaps, but I gave it a try. Please be merciful upon me.

If Wade had known that jumping from one universe to the next in search of a new anchor being would take this much time and painful effort, he would have packed snacks. What situation can't be improved with snacks? This one could use a protein bar or something. Low blood sugar is a bitch! It’s only when the TemPad opens another gate that Wade's nostrils are filled with the oh-so-sweet smell of breakfast foods. 

“Huh, so does the X-Mansion look the same in every universe, or did the studio just not want to pay for another location? I guess it is all about location, location, location.” That might work to his advantage. Besides much of the layout remaining the same, only a few noticeable differences were noticeable: a painting and chachi here and there, different light fixtures, and rugs. 

Wade looks around the halls curiously. “Now, which door leads to the Blackbird? No, no, stay focused. Note to self, though, find universe with easily accessible Blackbird.”

A joyride would have to wait for now; Wade starts to follow where that oh-so-delectable smell came from. A systems crash is now becoming a controlled systems crash. Students move around the dining room, gathering food on their plates and searching for friends to sit and eat with. 

“I don’t think they'll mind if I help myself.”

The dining room went silent as all eyes focused on the strangely dressed visitor helping himself to a large stack of pancakes. Students murmured amongst themselves in disbelief. This couldn't be a new teacher.

“Be not afraid, you beautiful freaks of nature. Don't mind me. I’m just grabbing a quick shnack; then I have to grab another shnack who happens to be one of your hairy custodians, and no, I’m not talking about that hairy blue guy with the glasses. The sofa in the foyer is covered in hair.” He leans into his plate of pancakes. “That hair shall not taint you, my sweet, sweet flapjacks.” 

After a bit of bribery, which entailed kidnapping their history professor, which would guarantee them no more homework, Wade makes his way to the second floor, down the hall, takes a right, and it’s three doors down. 

“Oh my gosh.” He squeals. “I love that band.”

Wade does grant the courtesy of knocking on the door three times before bursting in unannounced. The curtains are closed, the room smells faintly of cigars, clothes lay askew on the floor, and an unmistakable lump lies curled up in bed, buried deep under the covers.

“Oh my. He does sleep like an animal. Hairy and nude.” Wade's body shutters with excitement before skipping over to the curtains. “Ding, dong, my Wolvie is dead. Rub your eyes, get out of bed.” With one motion, the room is flooded with sunlight. “Ooooh, what a beautiful morning!” The lump under the covers only stirs slightly. “Huh, I thought I could summon him with singing. Maybe if I tell him, he can host the Oscars again.”

Wade walks over to the lump, placing a firm smack on his ass before laying down next to him. “You must be like me and need your eight hours of beauty sleep, cuz let’s be honest, it isn't just diet, exercise, and good mental health that keeps thyself oh so lovely. “ No response is given. “Alright,” Wade sighs heavily, getting up from the bed. “Time to get dressed for school.”  Before Wade can feed the impulse to stick a sword up his target's ass, he suddenly feels a tiny droplet of water on his forehead. It would have been of little concern until heavy rain began to fill the room. "Guess ol Charlie needs to fix his pipes."

Wade is pulled from his ramblings when his intended target emerges from the adjoining bathroom with a towel around his waist and slicked-back hair. He freezes upon seeing the uninvited guest. “You ain’t supposed to be here, bub.” He snarls, his claws extended in a flash of light. Wade's eyes widen as he ever so slowly turns his head back towards the bed.

The body under the blankets pulls itself out to reveal a very unpleasant morning-faced, dark-skinned woman with shockingly short, white, spiked hair. “Huh,” Wade looks curiously at the woman. “Gotta admit I love the hair. If it wasn't for the rain, I was gonna assume that the studio just gender and ethnicity bent another Wolverine.” He stares off into the distance, seemingly addressing no one. “Wierd move, guys.”

The weather Goddess sneers at Wade. “Do you know what happens to-”

“Yes, I know what happens to a toad when it’s struck by lightning.” Wade groans. “Man, Bryan Singer did not do you justice. Unless you’re from the new timeline, then Simon Kinberg really did you dirty. And apparently, this fuckin fanfic writer likes callbacks like some musical theater putz.” 

Her smile then turns wicked. “Then you should know what happens next.”

Wade doesn't get a word out before his body receives an agonizing jolt of blazing hot electricity through its system. This was undoubtedly a first for him, and this amount of voltage bleeding through him is a record.

He raises his trembling hand to speak, only to fall straight back onto the floor with a loud thud. “There is a nice tingly feeling all over now.” Wade whispers weakly. "Got it. This one's not up for grabs." He says to Storm. Wade manages enough movement to activate the TemPad and slip through the gateway before the angered Wolverine can stab him through his corneas. Thankfully, he doesn't fall far and lands on something soft. In one quick motion, he returns to a seated position, trying to shake out the remainder of the body tingles. “Well,” He huffs, finally getting back up. That’s certainly a rarity in the fanbase. But those two are getting freaky? Tsk, that girl should know better.”

*Wink*

[schnuron]

2024's albums I like [December 7th, 2024]

It's hard to keep up listening to music that's up-to-date or looking at the new releases in music websites such as Bandcamp, Bleep, Pitchfork, etc.

I'm picky when it comes to choosing the albums I like to listen to. Metal and rock don't excite me so much in 2013 as I keep growing up as a Millennial. Darkwave, ambient and some electronic music are my current obsession. Even though, I'm passable about the rock music, I'm not very enthusiastic of it.

I haven't mentioned the other albums here, but I don't think the ones from Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Coldplay or Glass Animals were the best albums they did. If you enjoy and like those albums, that's okay.

If I have something new to post a thread about the newest albums in December, I'll do it. You guys are welcome to share yours.

I wanted to post this thread a little a bit early before this year ends. These are the ones I've been listening to in 2024:

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Darkwave: Dead Astronauts - Ghosts <3 Feyleux - Midnight Hearts Filmmaker - Grim Encoders (Dark Electro / EBM) NECRO - Into Oblivion Night in Athens - Wasted Reflektions Profit Prison - Gilt Sixth June - Stay! <3 Soror Dolorosa - Mond Sydney Valette - The Healer Electronic music: Erika de Casier - Still Charli XCX - BRAT Bat For Lashes - The Dream of Delphi Skee Mask - Resort Uboa - Impossible Light Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate Fennesz - Mosaic (ambient) Old Amica - For alltid (ambient) alva noto - HYbr:ID III (ambient) The Green Kingdom - Arcadian (ambient) / Horizons (ambient)

Other: 070 Shake - Petrichor Arooj Aftab - Night Reign Cigarettes After Sex - X's FLO - Access All Areas Nessa Barrett - AFTERCARE The Cure - Songs of a Lost World Ulver - Liminal Animals Wrong Organ - Mouthwashing OST

Honorable mentions / the albums that were okay: (G)I-DLE - 2 

Allie X - Girl with No Face (Synthpop)

Ariana Grande - eternal sunshine 

Arooj Aftab - Night Reign 

Artemas - pretty 

Artemas - yustyna

Astrid S - Joyride 

BUNT. - Levi Don't Do  

Bad Omens - CONCRETE JUNGLE [THE OST]

Bill Ryder-Jones - Iechyd Da 

Black Nail Cabaret - Chrysanthemum (Darkwave)

Blisspoint - DOG 

Blue Oyster Cult - Ghost Stories 

Bolis Pupul - Letter to Yu

Bring Me The Horizon - Post Human: NeX GEn 

Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project

C Z A R I N A - Empire 

Calignosia - Malpaís 

Carlita - Sentimental  

Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn into You: Everasking Edition 

Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She (Electronic/Goth Rock)

Clan Of Xymox - Exodus (Darkwave / Goth Rock)

Disintegration - Shiver in a Weak Light (Post-punk / Synthpop) 

Donny Benet - Infinite Desires (Italo-Disco / Synthpop)

Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism

Echoberyl - Through the Chaos (Darkwave) 

Elbow - Audio Vertigo 

Embedded Figures - 6 Lovers EP (Darkwave) 

Eminem - The Death of Slim Shady 

Erik Wollo - Solastalgia 

FLETCHER -  In Search of the Antidote 

Father John Misty - Mahashmashana

Filmmaker - Land of Hidden Variables (Darkwave-ish with noise) 

Florrie - The Lost Ones 

Four Tet - Three 

Fred again.. - USB / ten days 

Future Islands - People Who Aren't There Anymore 

GENDEMA - sassy things

Gente De Zona - Demasiado

Geordie Greep - The New Sound 

Glaring - Hope (Darkwave)

Goat - Goat 

Golden Apes - Our Ashes at the End of the Day

Greyhaven - Stereo Grief EP

Gruff Rhys - Sadness Sets Me Free

Habitants - Alma

Hainbach - Breve

Houses of Heaven - Within/Without 

Hudson Mohawke / Tyga - L'Ecstasy 

IAMTHESHADOW - To End What Never Began (Darkwave) 

Iglooghost - Tidal Memory Exo

Jacob Collier - Djesse Vol. 4 

James Woods / Shooter Jennings - Hear the Thunder Crack

Jamie xx - In Waves 

Jlin - Akoma 

John Grant - The Art of the Lie

Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 

Julia Holter - Something in the Room She Moves 

Julian Lage - Speak to Me

KMFDM - LET GO 

Kacy Hill - BUG 

Kaelan Mikla / Bardi Johannsson - The Phantom Carriage OST

Kali Uchis - Orquideas 

Kat Von D - My Side of the Mountain (Synthwave / Synthpop)

Keaton Henson - Somnambulant Cycles (Classical) 

Kelly Moran - Moves in the Field (Piano music)

Kendrick Lamar - GNX 

Kim Gordon - The Collective 

Kinoteki - Faith and the Vessel

L'Ame Immortelle - Ungelebte Leben (EBM / Synthpop)

LEATHERS - Ultraviolet 

Lo Moon - I Wish You Way More than Luck 

Locrian - End Terrain

Lucy Rose - This ain't the Way you Go Out 

MAX - LOVE IN STEREO 

Machine Girl - MG Ultra

Machine Girl - SUPER FREQ EP

Machinedrum - 3FOR82 

Male Tears - Paradisco (New Wave / Synthpop)

Mamaleek - Vida Blue

Marika Hackman - Big Sigh

Marilyn Manson - One Assassination Under God - Chapter 1 

Mark E Moon - Resist (Darkwave)

Maruja - Connla's Well EP 

Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements - Rain on the Road

Matte Blvck - Vows (Dark Electro / Darkwave?) 

Meat Beat Manifesto / Merzbow - Extinct 

Mega Drive - Memory Disc EP 

Micah Dailey-White - Micah

Molchat Doma - Belaya Polosa 

Nadine Shah - Filthy Underneath

Night Club - Masochist (Darkawave-ish / Synthwave)

Occams Laser - Headspace (Synthwave) 

Ockeroid - Crow Country OST 

Opeth - The Last Will and Testament  

Owen - The Falls of Sioux 

Patricia Taxxon - Bicycle

Paysage D'Hiver - Die Berge

Philippe Blache - Tristitiam Et Metus Tradam Portare Ventis (Dark Ambient / Darkwave-ish) 

Photay - Windswept 

Pink Milk - Night on Earth (Darkwave / Shoegaze)

Porter Robinson - SMILE! :D 

Priest - Dark Pulse (Darkwave / Synthwave)

Qual - Techsick EP 

Ravyn Lenae - Bird's Eye

Remi Wolf - Big Ideas 

Ritchot Textiles - i 

SENTRIES - Snow as a Metaphor for Death 

SINE - Luxuria 

Sabrina Carpenter - Short N Sweet

Sega Bodega - Dennis 

Selofan - Animal Mentality (Post-Punk)

Shygirl - Club Shy 

Skee Mask - D 

Slash - Orgy of the Damned

Sleeping Rabbits - Breathing Room EP

Snow Strippers - Night Killaz, Vol. 2 

Sofi Tukker - BREAD 

Soft Kill - Escape Forever 

Squarepusher - Dostrotime

St. Vincent - All Born Screaming

TR/ST - Performance (Darkwave / Synthpop)

The Black Monolith - End and Beginning are Dreams 

The Fauns - How Lost (Dream Pop / Shoegaze)

The KVB - Tremors 

The Spirit of the Beehive - You'll Have to Lose Something 

The Sweet Kill - Nowhere 

Thief - Bleed, Memory (Darkwave / Experimental) [Prophecy Productions]

Thou - Umbilical

Toby Driver - Raven, I Know that You Can Give Me Anything 

Tommy Richman - COYOTE

Tomo Akikawabaya - The Castle II (Darkwave and Minimal wave)

Tusks - Gold

Twenty One Pilots - Clancy 

Tyla - Tyla 

Tyler, The Creator - CHROMAKOPIA

ULTRA SUNN - US

Ulver - Liminal Animals 

Union of Knives - Start from the Endless

VR SEX - Hard Copy 

Vampire Weekend - Only God was Above Us

Vince Staples - Dark Times 

Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

Whores - War

Witch of the Vale - 100 Ways to Leave, Vol.1

Xiu Xiu - 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips 

ben. - subculture

ben. - subculture 

i Haxa - i Haxa

r beny - discerned in the fugue of streams 

sleepmakeswaves - It's Here, But I have no Names for it

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Ambient:

Actress - Statik 

Alora Crucible - Oak Lace Apparition

Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol. 5 (ambient) 

Black Brunswicker - A Moment of Clarity EP 

Disasterpeace - Standstill

Duncan Ritchie - Lords of Wolves OST

Faded Cloak - Wrapped in Fog and Freezing Mist 

Field Lines Cartographer - Portable Reality Generator

Jogging House - Rendezvous

Lustmord - Much Unseen Is Also Here 

Mark Van Hoen - Plan for a Miracle 

Nils Frahm - Day 

Nonkeen - All Good? 

Polypores - There Are Other Worlds

Pye Corner Audio - The Endless Echo 

SUSS - Birds & Beasts

Scanner - Alchemeia

Steve Moore - Eye of Horus

The Body / Dis Fig - Orchards of a Futile Heaven 

[maximumphilosopheranchor]

“Important writers of the British Left repeated the same Russian talking points. In The Guardian, John Pilger wrote in May 2014 that Putin “was the only leader to condemn the rise of fascism.” This was an unwise conclusion to draw from current events. Just a few days earlier, neo-Nazis had marched on the streets of Moscow without meeting condemnation from their president. A few weeks earlier, on Russian state television, a Russian anchor had claimed that Jews brought the Holocaust on themselves; and her interlocutor, Alexander Prokhanov, had agreed. Putin’s government paid the anchor-woman, and Putin himself made media appearance with Prokhanov (who also took a joyride in a Russian bomber, a rather clear expression of official support). These people were not condemned. Russia at the time was assembling the European far Right – as electoral “observers,” as soldiers in the field, and as propagators of its messages. Moscow had organized meeting of European fascists and was subsidizing France’s far Right party, the Front National.

How were opinion leaders of the Left seduced by Vladimir Putin, the global leader of the extreme Right? Russia generated tropes targeted at what cyberwar professionals call “susceptibilities”: what people seem likely to believe given their utterances and behavior. It was possible to claim that Ukraine was a Jewish construction (for one audience) and also that Ukraine was a fascist construction (for another audience). People on the Left were drawn in by stimuli on social media that spoke to their own commitments. Pilger wrote his article under the influence of a text he found on the internet, purportedly written by a physician, detailing supposed Ukrainian atrocities in Odessa – but the doctor did not exist and the event did not take place. The Guardian’s correction noted only that Pilger’s source, a fake social media page, had “subsequently been removed”: far gentler, that, than to say that the most-read article about Ukraine in that newspaper in 2014 was a translation of Russian political fiction into English.

Guardian associate editor Seumas Milne opined in January 2014 that “far-right nationalists and fascists have been at the heart of the protests” in Ukraine. This corresponded not to The Guardian’s reporting from Ukraine but to the Russian propaganda line. Milne dismissed from the record the labors about a million Ukrainian citizens to turn the rule of law against oligarchy: an odd turn for a newspaper with a left-wing tradition. Even after Putin had admitted that Russian forces were in Ukraine, Milne was claiming “the little green men” were mostly Ukrainian. At Putin’s presidential summit on foreign policy at Valdai in 2013, the Russian president had claimed that Russia and Ukraine were “one people.” Milne chaired a session of the 2014 summit, at Putin’s invitation. (..)

Enormous amounts of time were wasted in Britain, the United States, and Europe in 2014 and 2015 on discussions about whether Ukraine existed and whether Russia had invaded it. That triumph of informational warfare was instructive for Russian leaders. In the invasion of Ukraine, the main Russian victories were in the minds of Europeans and Americans, not on the battlefields. Far-Right politicians spread Russia’s messages, and left-wing journalists helped to bring them to the center.”

Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

[strang3lov3]

Hello buggy! I saw your reblog about the depeche mode title and your usersame. I recognized some time ago you have an very interesting and unique music taste. So what are your all the time favorite songs from any band/singer? Would love to listen to some new stuff specifically when it's reminding me of you

Hope you're okay and have a kind festive time my friend ❤️✨

- 🫘 🤍 🐞

hi beanie baby! i've been missing ya! i thought i sent you an ask recently, maybe tumblr ate it? in any case, i've been thinking of you and it's lovely to hear from you ♡ wishing you a happy holiday season as well, gorgeous!!

this is a long list lol

Alkaline Trio - Radio, Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs, Calling all Skeletons

Alt-J - Matilda, Taro, Left Hand Free, Something Good

Amy Winehouse - In My Bed, You Sent Me Flying, He Can Only Hold Her, Addicted

Arctic Monkeys - 505, Snap Out Of It, No. 1 Party Anthem, Crying Lightning, Stop The World I Wanna Get Off With You, Too Much To Ask, Four Out Of Five

Bauhaus - All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, Kick in the Eye

Beck - Lost Cause, Gamma Ray, Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime, Que' Onda Guero, Go It Alone, Paper Tiger

Beyoncé - Don't Hurt Yourself (ft. Jack White), Heated

Blue October - Into The Ocean

Bon Iver - For Emma, Re: Stacks, Holocene

Cage The Elephant - Spiderhead, Black Madonna

The Church - Under the Milky Way, Reptile

Cocteau Twins - Sea, Swallow Me, Lorelei, Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops

Deftones - Sextape, Change, Xerces, Minerva

Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence, Policy of Truth, World In My Eyes, Dangerous, Rush, In Your Room, Higher Love, A Pain That I'm Used To, The Things You Said, Behind The Wheel, Sacred, pretty much the whole discography lol

Elliot Smith - Waltz #2, Needle In The Hay

Father John Misty - Being You, Mahashmashana, The Palace, God's Favorite Customer, The Songwriter, Pure Comedy, Strange Encounter, Bored In The USA (another one where I love his whole discography)

Fiona Apple - Valentine, Get Gone, A Mistake, Slow Like Honey

Flatsound - By Your Side, If We Could Just Pretend, You Wrote 'Don't Forget' On Your Arm, Learning To Hate You As A Self Defense Mechanism

Flight of the Conchords - whole discography.

Frank Iero - She's the Prettiest Girl at the Party, and She Can Prove It with a Solid Right Hook, Oceans, They Wanted Darkness... , Miss Me

Hole - Doll Parts, Jennifer's Body, Softer, Softest, Petals, Malibu

Hooverphonic - Mad About You, Vinegar & Salt, 2 Wicky

Imogen Heap - Headlock, Loose Ends

Interpol - Evil, Slow Hands, Obstacle 1, Stella was a diver and she was always down, The New

Kali Uchis - After The Storm (ft. Tyler, The Creator), Feel Like A Fool, Melting, Ridin' Round

Kent - 747 (We Ran Out Of Time)

The Killers - Smile Like You Mean It, All These Things That I've Done, Midnight Show, When You Were Young, For Reasons Unknown, Read My Mind, Bones, This River Is Wild, Losing Touch, Spaceman, Joyride, Out Of My Mind, Run For Cover, The Man

Lady Gaga - Venus, aRTPOP, Summerboy

Lana Del Rey - Ride, Black Beauty, Florida Kilos, Venice Bitch, How to disappear, Get Free, Cherry, another artist whose whole discography I love

LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations, X-Ray Eyes, I Can Change, All My Friends, Dance Yrself Clean, New York, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down, Sound of Silver

London After Midnight - Sacrifice

Mac DeMarco - Heart to Heart, My Kind of Woman, Moonlight on the River, Chamber OF Reflection

Mastodon - Asleep in the Deep, High Road

Mazzy Star - Look on Down From The Bridge, Quiet, The Winter Harbor, Fade Into You, Halah, Five String Seranade

Milky Chance - Cocoon, Flashed Junk Mind, Stolen Dance, Down By The River

Miami - Your Best American Girl, Class of 2013, I Bet On Losing Dogs, Francis Forever, First Love/Late Spring

Modest Mouse - King Rat, Bukowski, Dramamine, Lampshades on Fire, Missed the Boat - love the whole discography

Muse - Plug In Baby, Sunburn, Muscle Museum, Darkshines, Megalomania, Time Is Running Out

My Chemical Romance - Demolition Lovers, Early Sunsets Over Monroeville, Cemetery Drive, It’s Not a Fashion Statement, it’s a Fucking Deathwish, I Never Told You What I Do For a Living, I Don’t Love You, Cancer, Mama, Disenchanted, Summertime, The Kids From Yesterday - MCR IS ALL BANGERS

Nick Drake - Pink Moon, One of These Things First, Place To Be

Nirvana - Endless, Nameless, Something In The Way, Rape Me, Love Buzz, Heart-Shaped Box

Paramore - Idle Worship, All I Wanted, Decode, Caught In The Middle

Pixies - Gouge Away, Is She Weird, Velouria, Monkey Gone To Heaven, Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)

PJ Harvey - This Mess We’re In (ft. Thom Yorke), Down By The Water

Placebo - Come Home, Lady Of The Flowers, Bionic, Bruise Pristine, My Sweet Prince, Burger Queen, Pierrot the Clown, Follow The Cops Back Home, Space Monkey, Slackerbitch, Eyesight To The Blind, Bosco

Portishead - Roads, Sour Times, Glorybox

Prince - 17 Days, Erotic City, Little Red Corvette

Radiohead - Paranoid Android, Let Down, A Wolf At The Door, Myxomatosis, Scatterbrain, 2+2=5, Decks Dark, Talk Show Host - I love everything Radiohead.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dark Necessities, The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie, Under The Bridge

The Revivalists - Amber, Wish I Knew You, It Was A Sin, Need You

Sade - No Ordinary Love, Like A Tattoo, By Your Side, Hang On To Your Love, Still in Love with You

Salt-N-Pepa - None Of Your Business

Slowdive - When The Sun Hits

The Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonnaise, Luna, Today, Drown, 1979

The Smiths - Reel Around The Fountain, Well I Wonder, Asleep, I Know It’s Over, Frankly, Mr. Shankly - all bangers, unfortunately.

Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place, Psycho Killer, Once In A Lifetime, Burning Down The House

Violent Femmes - Color Me Once, Kiss Off, American Music

Weezer - Island In The Sun, Perfect Situation, Hash Pipe, The Blue Album, Pinkerton, The White Album, The Teal Album.

The White Stripes - Blue Orchid, Ball and Biscuit, Hotel Yorba, The Union Forever, The Denial Twist

Young The Giant - I Got, Strings, Cough Syrup, Mind Over Matter, Daydreamer, Amerika, Something To Believe In, Silvertongue, Superpostion, Tightrope

[steakout-05]

i had. an idea. a while ago (and i mean probably back in mid 2023) i drew a little concept for what a Barry Steakfries plush could hypothetically look like in one of my old sketchbooks, but never really expanded on it beyond just a simple sketch. a couple days ago though, after i fixed up some holes in a couple of my old plushies, i remembered that concept and got absolutely flooded with a ton of ideas for a plushie i could possibly make for myself in the future. i quickly sketched some stuff down yesterday and here's what i made :)

this is inspired by the awesome drawings of a makeship style Barry plush by schnabel53 and the Barry plush Daisy Parker created back in 2013, as well as the Fruit Ninja Sensei plush Halfbick produced!! i love the look of plushies that are in a more standard standing pose with floppier limbs and i wanted to revisit the old idea i had and expand on it a little bit. here's some very rough and rushed sketches of the side, back and how he would hold his jetpack:

(why tf is that side profile so red lmao)

features:

little magnets on the inside of his hands that can hold stuff

embroidered facial features

his suit jacket can be taken off and replaced with other clothes

little plastic circles on the bottom of his shoes to retain their shape and make sitting him down easier

his body would be completely made out of minky or a similar soft fabric, with clothing made out of a soft material similar to material that the Spamton plush's jacket is made out of (for lack of better comparison lol). his tie would also be made out of minky with no stuffing.

his eyebrows are a separate part that slightly protrudes from his face rather than being embroidered

his jetpack handles have a wire inside and are posable, as well as having a magnet inside that Barry's hands can stick to

accessories:

the machine gun jetpack from MD and JJ

his shotgun from MD

a coin and a spin token

a mini Craig plush

important: i have absolutely no idea if i'm ever going to actually make this or not, these are just concepts. however i have been making little tests with felt and fleece to get myself used to sewing stuff again, as it has been a very long time since i made anything comparable to a plush, and i would like to see this idea realised some day and expand my creative skills. it's just not a guarantee. also since a couple days ago i have literally been obsessed with the thought of sewing into something and have been looking in my closet for any plushies that have holes that need to be sewn up just so i can practise it on some actual material, i'm going insane about it loll

further ideas that i may or may not do (depending on if i want to do them lol):

giving Barry more accessories like a couple of the gadgets from Jetpack Joyride (i'm thinking a lucky last token, air barrys or the gravity belt), revive hearts, a gun from JJ2, his pistol from AOZ and a mini supply crate, a tiny zombie t-rex for him to hold and of course: a plate of steak and fries. maybe also a little australian flag to hold :3

making a repaired suit (with visible seams for extra detail) for Barry

making a few of the Jetpack Joyride costume pieces for him, such as the DJ Barry headphones, the Sensei outfit and maybe even the maid outfit if i'm feeling ballsy enough

making concepts for Flash, Craig and Salesman Barry plushes

Flash accessories and features: the little toy remote thing from the JJ2 anniversary art, some sort of futuristic lookin tennis ball thing, a rocket jet for him to wear (like the one he wears when Barry is operating the Lil' Stomper), a small patterned pillow to sleep on and a bone for him to hold with a magnet located near his mouth. i think it'd also be cute if i were to hypothetically give him a nose that lights up but that's crossing the line of plushmaking and into adruino coding (which i have no clue how to do nor do i have the resources) if i were to actually make that lol

Craig accessories and features: a mini Barry plush, a clipboard and pen, little emotive thingies (like a sweat bead, blush, a question and exclamation mark) to stick on his face via magnets, removable gloves,

Salesman Barry accessories and features: his nametag, removable glasses, his briefcase, a mini gramophone, a clipboard, a little business card

[canonicallyanxious]

Favorite 2024 Song Finds

As per tradition these are not all released in 2024; basically though this list is for jams i listened to for the first time this year and became obsessed with

Every year i make what i call a "365 playlist" (366 for 2024, since it was a leap year) which started as a playlist i added a song a day to but nowadays functions more as a yearly snapshot in playlist form of the music i listened to and vibed with in a year. i've made one every year since 2019 and it's one of my favorite personal traditions. the one i made for 2024 can be found here (note that the year is not yet over so i'm still fine tuning, i will eventually have this pruned down to 366 songs)

Full list and notes/ramblings under the cut:

10. Walk Through Fire - Yannis & The Yaw (2024)

9. All the time / Tout le temps - The Knocks, Yelle (2024)

8. Even When The Water's Cold - !!! (2013)

7. Garden of Eden - Rachel Chinouriri (2024)

6. synthesizer - DE'WAYNE (2024) / deeply treasured rec from @parkshuppy, who introduced this song to me as "the trans anthem i heard on the radio" (also the video serves absolute cunt, i just need it to be said)

5. Steady Waves - Cross Record (2016)

4. CHIHIRO - Billie Eilish (2024) / some might be surprised this made it onto the list rather than the absolutely iconic gen z queer anthem of the ages LUNCH but this is hands down my favorite song off of an album i absolutely adore, finneas went off with that production and i can't get enough of it even now

3. Get High - Herizen (2018) / that drop in the chorus changed my whole life

2. On My Mama - Victoria Monet (2023) / at the beginning of the year when i was struggling the most with Mysterious Chronic Illness That Still Has No Name my therapist suggested i make a playlist as a low pressure way to express my feelings about it. i liked this idea so much i made 3, one of which was a playlist meant to hype myself up when i needed the confidence/energy boost, and i put this song at the very top of that list. so that probably explains why this is my most played song of the year. you can listen to the full playlist here if you want

1. Kororon - Eve (2022) / actually though i'm really genuinely surprised this song did not take the top spot on my spotify wrapped considering every time it came on this year i did put it on repeat at least 4 or 5 times but it is number one on the only list that matters so there. The music video is really wonderful, highly recommend checking it out if you like quality animation and sapphic undertones

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Featuring: a selection of catchy and upbeat vocaloid songs with unhinged lyrics (presented in order of more or less increasing unhingedery; i feel it would only be responsible to include a warning for go to daitokai for, shall we say, incredibly sexually explicit lyrics), and Kesha

Joyride - Kesha / song of the summer, i'm lowkey devastated it never became the giant hit it deserved to be

All I Need Are Things I Like - PinnochioP / i am a hatsune miku stan now what can i say

Dappou Rock - Neru / i have only one word to describe the music video for this song, and that is "bonkers"

ゴー・トゥ・大都会 [Go To Daitokai] - ニャン・トンロン [Niang Donglong] / and yet this is such a fucking bop i have it on all my playlists and i'm not even a little bit sorry

[small-sinclair]

Little Lady

Rusty Nail x fem!reader

Haven’t wrote this guy before but I wanna try it :3. It’s based off this.

Contains: I’m going to have Rusty and the reader about the same age (Rusty: 26, reader: 23). In this au, he’s just starting to kill.

Tw: light stocking, mention of murder, blood

Tag: @sketchy-rosewitch, @fluffy-little-demon, @poir0t-houck, @waxxl0ver, @crumb @ninakuli, @whimsyvixen, @roadkillerx

Part 1

When he saw you, he knew he had to have you. He knew that you were meant for him, but he wasn’t a fool. You’re smart, a perfect college girl, while he’s just a low-end truck driver. You don’t want to be anywhere near a drifter, a man that leaves for a few days, leaving you all alone. You wore a cute dress with flowers on it while he wore greased clothes and bloody boots. But when he saw your smile and heard your laughter, something inside his heart skipped.

He drove his truck along the sidewalk and came close to you, but you didn’t seem to mind. You gave him a smile when he called out, “Hey, little lady! Could you direct me to a station?”

“Yeah,” you answer, pointing down the street from your college. “Keep heading down that way and you’ll be close to the interstate. There’s a Love’s there.”

He looked at the road then back at you. He took in the sweet scent of lemon and vanilla, and he felt like he was home. There was something so bright and beautiful about you… he just didn’t know what it was.

“Thank ya kindly, miss.” He rolled up his window and started his way down the road, but his eyes drifts to his side mirrors. He wants to remember you.

************

A week past before he drives by the college again, and he sees you walking back from class. He couldn’t believe you were there. It’s like you were waiting for him… but he wasn’t going to fool himself. He just couldn’t.

Still, Rusty pulls up close to the side and rolled down his window. He admired your soft lavender dress with birds on it. He doesn’t expect you to remember him, but it doesn’t hurt to try. “Hey, little lady!” He calls out, making you jolt.

When you looked up, your eyes lit up and friendly smile formed. “Hey, again!”

“Hate to bother you but,” Rusty looks at the road as he drives slowly next to you, “but do you know a good coffee place?”

You smile and point down the road again. He sees your little charm bracelet shining in the sunlight. “Yeah! Just before you hit the interstate, pass the Love’s, there’s a coffee shop with a green roof.”

“Not Starbucks, right?”

You laugh and shake your head. “No. It’s called Luda’s Place!” you look back at him. “Great lemon bread!”

He nods and looks up at the road then back at you. “Okay… thank you, miss!”

“Have a good one!” You called, waving. You watched has his rid jolted with more speed, and you had a smile on your face. You hold your books closer to your chest and smiled. It was nice seeing him again.

************

The next week that followed, he saw you again, but a storm was coming from the north. He knew he had to haul fast to beat it, but he couldn’t help but pull up next to you once more. His eyes wondered over you light pink dress with roses sowed neatly. Your hair was put up in a braided bun, and your smile was just as bright as it was before when you saw his truck.

He slowed and pulled next to you. “Hey, little lady,” he says from his truck.

You look up then forward again. “We have got to stop meeting like this.”

Rusty shrugs. “I do agree with you on that.” He puts out his cigarette in the ash tray. “Looks like rain.”

“Heard it’s a bad one,” you answer as you walked. “You’re not driving in that, are you?”

He shrugs as he looks in his mirror to see the dark clouds behind the truck. “Have to haul metal parts, darlin’.”

“But do you really?” You asked, lifting your brow. “I saw the radar, and it’s mostly red and purple.”

He scratched his chin in thought. “I guess you’re right.” He looks down. “You know a good place to sleep?”

“Yeah,” you pointed ahead. “Two streets up, turn left. Follow that road and it’ll take you to a motel.”

He tips his hat, but he thinks. “Do you need a lift?” He asks.

You shake your head. “No, I’m good, thank you!” You flash a smile. “Hope you drive safe!”

He rolls his window up before starting down the road again. This time, when you wave goodbye, he looks almost sad. Someone as pretty as you shouldn’t be walking alone before a storm, but he didn’t want to push his luck farther in fear of freaking you out.

Besides, the whimper from the back of the van caught his attention. His eyes flicker in the mirror to see the man tied and gaged next to his whore of a wife. He smirks then hammers down. He couldn’t wait to play his game with them.

****************

It goes on like this for 2 months.

Every week, he passes by you, rolling his window down to call for you. You couldn’t help but smile at wave as he slows his semi down. Even if he has someone tied in the cab or a dead body to hide, he always made sure you never saw the blood on his hands or in the scruff of his chin. He learned that you were a fashion design major, so you wear the dresses you made. Not that he minds, of course. He also learned that your graduating soon, and it made him smile.

“Where you thinking’ of going?”

“Somewhere far from here,” you answered, looking up at him with a glimmer in your eyes. “I always wanted to travel.”

He hums as he drives slowly next to you. “I’ve been everywhere, and I’ve never seen anything quite as beautiful as you.”

You blush as you hide your face behind your sketch book. “Bet you say that to every girl.”

He shakes his head as he blew cigarette smoke away. “Nah, just you, little rabbit.” His eyes glanced behind him at the woman, who was tied and gaged, in the cab. She had tears fall from her eyes as the blood dried from her lips. “I best be on my way then.”

You look up at him then at the road. “Be here next week?”

“As always,” he promises. “You just be safe.”

“You, too!”

As he drives off, he makes a plan for himself. He knows what he has to do to get you to come with him.

[theceolacanther]

top music of the ?

the year? havent listened to too much thats released this year but i do really like berlioz’s open this wall ans kamasi washingtons fearless movement. i think fearless movement is a really good classical jazz album and i love kamasi washingtons grandiose. he got some cool ppl on it too. i think open this wall is just like a good modern jazz album nice fast beat good movement everything flows.

past few years i really like feeble little horses girl with fish i really like the noise i think its great and the lead singer is great. very shoegaze i like it. drunk is probably my favourite thundercat album its got some real solids like them changes and nine lives and friendzone and he hasnt really done anything super different or new but hes still an insane bassist. stumpwork by dry cleaning is also great its really funny and the lead singer is so great, she just kinda talks.

of the osts id have to say the pillows is my favourite theyre a great band but its a lot of nostalgia. christobel tapia de veer who did the utopia 2013 ost is stellar its very weird i like it. eva and devilman crybaby also have exvellent osts love those v much (keshas new song joyride reminds me of a song off the devilman crybaby ost)

of the bad? i think wesley willis is probably my favourite bad musician. i think the shags are funny but i dont really care for their music. captain beefheart is also very funny. barnes and barnes too

i wanna note that i dont think king missile is bad but i think theyre really funny same with dead milkmen

anyways thats my lists im sure jm forgetting some stuff

like pavement i like pavement probably my favourite 90s rock band

herbie hancock too fela cuti aswell

[abrandnewshadow]

OMG ty love the joyriding origins!!!

Here’s what “joyriding. (demo)” looked like on soundcloud on September 14th, 2013. (X)

Uploaded to the site on August 6th, 2013 with a coinciding post to the website:

8.6.13 today…

hi…so today i ended up having a very nice conversation about music and other things with Sam Coare from Kerrang! magazine. after i got off the phone i went down into my basement and wrote this song. Sam and i had talked about inspiration and creativity, and i told him i go through periods of making things and then a week later hating everything i’ve made and destroying it all. i told him i’d like to try and experiment with creating something and releasing it before i have a chance to hate myself for making it. so when i wrote this song it almost seemed like a dare…

joyriding. (demo)

i’m not sure what they said, but if it’s true i’ll bet

it’s just one more thing i’ll regret.

i hate my weaknesses, they made me who i am.

‘yea it’s cool i’ll be ok’

as i felt your pain wash over me, so i dry your eyes and hide my shakes

because i hate that look that’s on your face.

these things inside my head, they never make much sense.

so i wouldn’t hold my breath…

i hope i die before they save my soul.

‘yea it’s cool i’ll be ok’

as i felt your pain wash over me, so i dry your eyes and hide my shakes

because i hate that look that’s on your face.

don’t hang up, because i don’t have anyone left here

don’t give up, don’t hang on to anything i’ve said.

i hate my weaknesses, they made me who i am

it makes no difference, i’m insignificant.

'yea it’s cool i’ll be ok’

as i felt your pain wash over me, so i dry your eyes and hide my shakes

because i hate that look that’s on your face

and this is not the end for us.

-2013 frnkiero

(there was an embed of the song after this which is gone from soundcloud, but have a video or that picture of frank is here)

[maewvelous-comic]

Miitopia : The Golden Warriors Master Post

(Originally posted on my old art blog. You will see the watermarks of the old blog in the comic.)

Fandom : Miitopia, Gyllene Tider, Roxette Status :  Ongoing

Miitopia - The Golden Warriors is a fan comic of Miitopia crossovers with 2 Swedish bands with the same one front man, Roxette and Gyllene Tider ( pronounced “yil-le-ne-tee-der”). Based on their appearances in 2013 - 2015. Inspired from my Miitopia gameplay on Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Switch. (Including a Swedish musician, Niklas Strömstedt as the Great Sage in the gameplay and this comic.)

Even though there are new contents added in Nintendo Switch version. The comic still based on Nintendo 3DS version. It may be some additional content especially for my own headcanon. But there will be no horse...^^; The comic started on November 2017 as a quick traditional sketchy comic. Then it became a serious comic series in later chapters. The comic format changed to be digital in Karkaton arc. I usually work on this comic when I have a free time. It will be delayed sometime because of my full-time jobs or having breaks from physical/mental health. And tragically, two of the musicians, in real life and had been added to Miitopia main team, had passed away when Realm of The Fey arc was in progress. They are dear Marie Fredriksson, the lead singer of Roxette, who had fought her illness for 17 years and passed away in late 2019. And the Roxette drummer, Pelle Alsing in late 2020. Their musical legend will be remembered and this fan comic will be dedicated to them.

The joyride in Miitopia continued... *This fan comic is totally has got game’s spoilers. For those who is playing this game, please make sure that you had already beat the game.

Please DO NOT save, repost and copy my comic!!

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Heroes of Greenhorne ★Complete!★

Introduction

A Simple Traveler

The Birth of The Warrior

The Thief

The Mage

The Great Sage

The Chef

The King

The Princess and The Noble Boy

The Rough Escort

Love Triangle

An Unexpected Intruder

Save The Princess

Happy Ever After

Epilogue 1

Wanderers Neksdor  ★Complete!★ 

The Lost Cat

The Divine Diva

The Handsome Scientist 

The Genie

Desert Town

The Laid-Back Pilgrim

Finding Genie

Underground Beast 

End of an amok 

Darkness in The Desert

The Great Pyramid 

Dead Weight

The Exploration

Pharaoh’s Curse

Wanderers Showdown

Peace in The Desert

Epilogue 2

Myth of The Fey  ★Complete!★

The Fab Fairies

New tussilago in the garden

A tail of an airheaded cat

Elven Retreat

The Princess of Sweet Land

To the Citrus Cave 

Arachno Queen

Bigg Machine in Bigg Forest

Sleepless Night

Bird of prey

Elven Ritual

Point of no return

The Power Within

Save the elves

Lotus Lake

Guardian of Elven Retreats

You really mean to us 

Farewell, Fey Land 

Epilogue 3 

Clash at Karkaton 

Walking on the ash 

Stand up and fight

Faceless Survivors

Rise and Shine 

One daring rescue

Behind the gate of hell

Hellhound

To the castle

The Haunted Painting

The Demonic Dame

The Cursed Armor

The Dragon

The Final Battle

Epilogue 4 [New!]

[mariacallous]

Even before U.S. Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira was arrested on Thursday as the leaker of dozens of classified government documents that have made their way around the internet in recent weeks, the inevitable comparisons with Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden suggested that he was the latest in a long line of mass leakers of intelligence. As one journalist reported on the most generic of similarities, “Like Manning and Snowden, Teixeira has a military or intelligence tie as a member of the Massachusetts Air Force National Guard.”

Indeed, in the last decade, a new digital generation of insider threat has emerged to challenge secrecy in the U.S. intelligence community, a phenomenon that author James Bamford has described as a “uniquely postmodern breed of whistleblower.” That’s true as far as it goes, but Teixeira should not be thought of in this vein. It would be like saying a Yugo is like a Mercedes because they both have four wheels and an engine. Sure, everyone working in the U.S. Defense Department’s sprawling intelligence apparatus is part of that bureaucracy, but that’s a tautology. It would also be correct to observe that nearly every spy in American history has had a “military or intelligence tie” as well, but that doesn’t explain much in the Teixeira case.

The real but superficial comparisons to leakers like Snowden and Manning classify Teixeira as a mass leaker on a personal crusade. But this is incorrect. Snowden and Manning leaked classified documents to journalists and activists to help bring about the kind of world they wanted to live in—one of citizen-enforced governmental transparency where states have less power. While foolish and misguided, they were ideologically motivated in taking their reckless actions.

In contrast, it seems that Teixeira simply displayed terrible judgment and was showboating his access to privileged information to increase his street cred with pals on the internet. In that sense, he was more like an irresponsible teenager who took his parents’ Ferrari out joyriding with his gearhead friends. Teixeira isn’t a “new breed” of insider threat, and he certainly isn’t a whistleblower seeking to publicize some perceived wrong.

Snowden’s mass leaks in 2013 were not the first digital challenge to the U.S. intelligence community. Three years before, then-U.S. Army Private Manning provided 500,000 classified documents to WikiLeaks, which published them to great fanfare for transparency advocates and caused much consternation in Washington. These are not isolated cases; if anything, the tempo of such mass public disclosures seems to be increasing. In March 2017, the CIA fell victim to what is known as the “Vault 7” series, in which sensitive computer tools for digital surveillance and cyber operations were given to WikiLeaks and published online.

Disgruntled former CIA software engineer Joshua Schulte was found guilty of the breach (and also of possessing child pornography, again suggesting an anemic background investigation). Although Manning, Snowden, and Schulte represent the most significant mass leakers of classified information, others have played smaller roles. For instance, National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Reality Winner printed a sensitive document from the NSA computer system and sent it to the self-described publisher of “adversarial journalism,” the Intercept, run by journalist-activists originally linked to the Snowden leaks.

Yet treating Teixeira as another in an increasingly long and embarrassing line of leakers impedes the lessons that can and should be learned from this case, which is marked by social adherence to a gaming community more than a cause. What these leakers do have in common with Teixeira is that—as far as anyone has proven—not one of them carried out the intelligence breach acting as a recruited agent on behalf of a foreign power. They are thus not “spies” in the traditional sense of the word.

Instead, they are what we have described in our academic research as self-directed insider threats: intelligence professionals who chose to betray their oath to protect classified information and did so on their own initiative. Some acted on their political or ideological beliefs, others for disgruntlement, to show off, or even to win arguments in gaming chat rooms. As the Teixeira charging documents allege, his intent was to “discuss geopolitical affairs and current and historical wars.” It was not some kind of misguided protest about U.S. domestic or foreign policy. Washington is apparently not yet prepared to understand such a vector of counterintelligence vulnerability.

To be sure, Teixeira otherwise shares much in common with leakers such as Snowden and Manning. They were all young people of junior rank (despite Snowden’s ludicrous claims that he was some kind of “senior advisor”) in sensitive positions in the U.S. intelligence community who abused their access to classified information to share it with people who had no right nor reason to know it. They were all grandiose enough to think that they wouldn’t get caught (or, if they were, would be lionized enough to avoid criminal penalties), and none of them realized the broader geopolitical or diplomatic ramifications of their actions.

In practice, whatever the motivations, the damage is just as real as if they were spies. As long-serving Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles explained in 1963, providing secrets for public consumption has the same net effect as “betraying it to the Soviets just as clearly as if he secretly handed it to them,” and it is thus reasonable to charge Teixeira under the same criminal codes as the other mass leakers. But that’s where the similarities end.

Ideologically driven betrayal is a well-trodden path in the annals of espionage, from the communism-inspired “Cambridge Five” spy ring during the Cold War to the Cuban sympathies that motivated Ana Montes, who was recently released from prison after serving 20 years for spying for Cuba. Preventing those with divided loyalties from accessing state secrets has given rise to the modern system of periodic background checks, invasive polygraph testing, and the requirement that those with security clearances document any foreign travel or meaningful foreign associations. Yet very few of these measures seek even to identify, much less prevent, self-directed insider threats such as Winner, Manning, Snowden, and the like.

Effective frameworks for personnel security and counterintelligence require understanding the varied (and often multiple) motivations for insider threats. In this case, it seems that Teixeira’s access to classified systems far exceeded his professional remit. Further, it seems clear that the counterintelligence vetting process failed to pick up some rather radical and distasteful views, but these views do not seem to be his motivation for leaking. It seems more likely that Teixeira’s narcissism, bad judgment, and arrogance got the best of him, although some of these traits can be hard to uncover in a traditional background investigation that is often more concerned with blackmailable behaviors than judgment. The U.S. intelligence community will almost certainly conduct a thorough post-mortem of the Teixeira case for lessons learned, and it may be prudent to look beyond his recklessness to discern not only how he got a clearance and why he had such unfettered system access, but also why the government was unaware that its secrets were circulating around the dark corners of the internet for months before he was arrested. The task of counterintelligence trolling of the internet for loose secrets will doubtless require new protocols and legal authorities. In the meantime, the Band-Aid of “security refresher training” will be urgently added to the schedule for the hundreds of thousands of clearance holders—the vast majority of whom already understand the responsibility that comes with a clearance.

Such a post-Teixeira study may suggest that it is time to revisit the post-9/11 collaborative framework of “need to share” and revert to the Cold War’s stricter “need to know” principle. Perhaps the Defense Department will close off intelligence as an initial career thrust for the most junior personnel in the same way that certain specialties (such as working in embassies or in special operations) requires a higher rank and more professional experience. Could the intelligence community differentiate accesses to intelligence between those who need to use the information for their jobs and, on the other hand, those who just need to keep the systems running? For instance, while Manning, Winner, and Schulte had substantive roles dealing with classified intelligence as part of their jobs, Snowden and Teixeira were essentially system administrators. Further, might access to national secrets prudently require an age minimum, just as the Constitution requires for officeholders in the Senate or presidency? After all, the prefrontal cortex responsible for judgment and restraining impulses develops well into one’s mid-to-late 20s.

Or perhaps there is simply an irreducible minimum of bad apples and poor judgment in an enormous—by international comparison—U.S. intelligence community that is comprised, after all, of people. Important decisions will need be made about insider threat protocols, and further actions need to be taken in light of this event. It does no one any good to peddle in false comparisons, such as painting Teixeira as another crusading mass leaker. Only with clarity can the intelligence community hope to learn from this unfortunate event.

This is the analysis of the authors alone and represents no official U.S. Defense Department or government position.