#kick iii

[weirdero]

Live laugh love Arca

[missesotericka]

Some of my favorite vinyl acquisitions from the past year plus an album I bought simply because Jesse/Doon Kanda designed the cover art.

From left to right:

1. Luna EP by Doon Kanda

2. KICK ii by Arca

3. KicK iii by Arca

4. Four-Calendar Café by Cocteau Twins

5. Trinity by Eartheater

Bonus:

Dromonia by Bracco (they have a sound reminiscent of 80s goth/post punk like Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, Joy Division, etc.)

…Really wish I had the colored vinyls for the Kick series from Urban Outfitters tbh

[pascalishere]

Love love love the album art for the KICK series so much. I have a hard time picking a fave out of the five, they’re all such dynamic interpretations of that body horroreuphoria technology art style that Arca’s all about

[trek-tracks]

Just let him save them :(

[temeyes]

he really looked like he was gonna vomit tho,,,

[delulluart]

Some Papas (including a Papa Secondo) and a Cardinal

[imaginariumwanderer]

Another meme dump (with some art, as a treat)

[kausparty]

yeah, lupon!

[gozoakarte]

tonight we're having Gale dinners 😋🍴

Full ver

[ffverr]

[thesandlorde]

II

[starry-bi-sky]

im on my hadestown bullshit again but im also still on my SVSSS bullshit too so au where Shen Yuan gets transmigrated into a nameless NPC sometime after Bingge merges the realms and becomes the demonic emperor over like, basically everyone. And Shen Yuan manages to become an immortal cultivator and has a few years to himself to explore the world he's in, conveniently avoiding Bingge the whole time. Until eventually Shen Yuan joins what is essentially a traveling theater group.

They all love the strange stories he tells, ones he claimed he learned from far away places, and eventually ask him to write one as a play so that they can share it with the world. He does one better and writes a musical and slightly xianxia-izes Hadestown so it fits with the times better.

Eventually they learn everything, the music is st up, their lines learned, and the group rents out some kind of low-class stage for a night in a town that's neither too big nor too small. One that Bingge is conveniently passing through.

The actor for Orpheus falls 'sick' the opening night, and Shen Yuan gets convinced into taking the role by his. He has the prettiest voice, and he knows Orpheus' lines and character the best! Shen Yuan agrees.

Bingge attends that night too, and sits in the far back, in a seat where nobody can see him that well.

There is nothing to prepare him for the Tale of Orpheus and Eurydice.

Not the actor, who looks distressingly, uncannily similar to Shen Qingqiu, from the sharp curve of his jaw to the sound of his voice. It's Shen Yuan's saving grace that he has just enough differences that Bingge doesn't fly to his feet immediately.

Not the character Orpheus either. Who shares a distressingly similar worldview to the one Bingge once had a long, long time ago. A young man, a boy really, with so much hope for the world around him to near the point of naivety. Who believes that there is still good in the world and the people around him.

There's nothing to prepare him for Epic III. A song the lone Orpheus sings to convince Hades to let him and Eurydice go, one that rends Bingge of his flesh and leaves him feeling raw and wanting.

Suddenly he's no longer watching the stage; he's on it, standing in Hades' place, jaded and bitter and cold and reigning over all. Having become cruel like Shen Qingqiu once was. He stands in Hades' place, tall and imposing and powerful.

And there is a shadow of the past sitting at his feet. A boy in love with the world looking up at him, stripping him down to his soul, and asking him where he's been. Bingge stands in Hades' place, and just like that, becomes a man again.

[a2zillustration]

Gottem

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[aj-lenoire]

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