#masque album

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

“Darkness and decay and the red death held illimitable dominion over all” from "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe – Byam Shaw // You're On Your Own, Kid – Taylor Swift

[onlyhurtforaminute]

VIRCOLAC-TITAN

[sludgewarden]

"is my costume such a disguise that you don't recognize me?"

Vincent Price - The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

[harunayuuka2060]

Che'nya: You don't have baby photos, nya? *has been hanging out with them since he went silly from a catnip* *was looking for a baby album of them*

MC: No.

Che'nya: Why? Neige was an orphan, but he still has pictures to show.

MC: Neige is beautiful. And I'm ugly.

MC: No one would be interested in taking a photo of me.

Che'nya: How about your mother, nya?

MC: ...

MC: You could say she took a photo of me once.

Che'nya: See? There's still someone-

MC: So she would recognize me and leave right away if she sees me on the street.

Che'nya: ...

Che'nya: Darn it. *takes a photo of them and sets them as his wallpaper*

MC: ...

MC: Are you going to use that to scare off someone from touching your phone?

Che'nya: No, nya! :3

Che'nya: It's so I can appreciate your cuteness every day nya! *happy grins*

MC: ...

MC: You will get nothing but nightmares.

Che'nya: Nightmares are scared of cats nya~. :3

Rook: Ami masque has found a new friend! Isn't that great, Roi du Poison?

Vil: ...

Rook: Roi du Poison?

Vil: I heard you the first time, Rook.

Rook: ...

Rook: *sly smile* Are you not liking the situation?

Vil: I am not jealous, Rook. If that's what you are trying to imply.

Rook: Non! *chuckles* I wanted to say that you might be feeling lonely.

Vil: Ha. If I wanted MC to be here, it would only take a simple text message from me.

Rook: *chuckles* Bien sûr. There's no doubt about that.

Vil: Hmph.

Vil: *looking at his unread messages*

Vil: ...

Vil: *just then, he received a reply from MC*

MC - Vil, I apologize for not replying to you. I will be at your house in less than 15 minutes.

Vil: ...

Vil - I will wait for you.

MC - Alright. See you later, Vil.

Vil: *smiles*

MC: *has arrived at Vil's house and sees him standing at the entrance, waiting for them*

MC: Vil?

Vil: You said you would arrive in less than 15 minutes.

MC: Ah, yes. I'm sorry about that. I had to bring a customer home at the last minute.

Vil: It doesn't matter. It's getting cold. We should get inside.

MC: *nods* *then faintly hears the shutter sound of a camera*

MC: *immediately turns their head to where the sound came from*

A paparazzi: !!!

A paparazzi: That ugly thing couldn't possibly hear me, right?

A paparazzi: Still, I need to move places.

MC: Good sir, do you have any legal reason why you are hiding behind the bushes?

A paparazzi: Ah- *lets out a terrified scream*

Vil: *watches MC dragged the unconscious paparazzi out of the bushes*

Vil: ...

Vil: *smiles* You've caught that paparazzi off guard.

MC: ...

MC: *holding the camera*

MC: Vil, this person has been here for a few hours now. How come you didn't notice?

Vil: No. I knew he was there all along.

MC: Huh?

Vil: It's my little punishment to you for not replying to my messages.

MC: ...

MC: Vil, you shouldn't have done that.

Vil: Why? Is it wrong for me to want you to be worried?

MC: ...

MC: I will never neglect your messages again.

Vil: Good.

[toskarin]

Release: OMEN​/​CONSTANCE

Presenting OMEN/CONSTANCE - Soundtrack for Oneiric Roleplaying, the next release from Ri47 Heavy Industries

this album's been a while in the works, and I'm happy to finally have it done! following up the previous ttrpg soundtrack I wrote, NOMAD/VIRTUE, I thought it'd be interesting to make an album that focuses less on music for action sequences and more on those quieter moments that don't necessarily take place on the scale of mechanised warfare

so without further ado, here's 46 minutes of otherworldly atmospheres, unsettling revelations, and stories spun in astral silk

included in this album are ten tracks, including three experimental ambient tracks intended to lend a tense emotional atmosphere to any scene without necessarily implying a specific physical locale

while this album was assembled with gothic and eldritch horror in mind, pulling influence from survival horror classics, it also works nicely in plenty of other genres, bringing a unique otherworldly atmosphere to any table

as a bonus, two variant colours of the album art are included, whether you want to enjoy OMEN/CONSTANCE in tones of Masque Red, Royal Yellow, or Chaos Crawling

as always, thanks for listening!

[hernakedmuse]

Sorry if it’s been asked already but, what would horror bimbo wear to a concert date with Eddie?

It hasn't been asked yet and even if it has been, I love this reply. I’ll make a moodboard, but horror!bimbo would look very Danzig girl, like a vampire nymphette. Black, white, or deep red velvet little dresses and tiny articles of clothing, lace ups, poetry blouses worn as dresses that hardly pass her ass, she will wear garters up her thigh, bdsm chokers and collars, dead girl eye makeup that makes her look dreamy and sleepy. She always goes for otherworldly slut,

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She always spent the whole day of a concert preparing,

If it was a school day she would play hookey,

Eddie would hate it because he wouldnt get to see his sweet little moth, and would complain dramatically to her about it.

Hands splayed on her provocative hips before squeezing them possessively as he would bury his face in her sweet smelling neck that smelled of her lilac perfume and vanilla body powder, his mouth actually physically water. “You gonna leave me again until nighttime?” he complained.

She giggled and stroked his fluffy chocolate curls.

“Id invite you to stay, but I dont wanna bore you bear.” She always could call him that because to her he looked like a human teddy bear, a very sexy teddy bear.

He lifted his head from her neck, his doe eyes widened and pupils darkened. “Yeah? Youd let me watch you get dressed? Maybe help you wash that back…” he started kissing down the back of her neck causing her to shiver and preen against him. He was half hard thinking about it.

He spent the day getting ready with her. She ran a nice bubble bath with Vaseline vitamin e bath beads that turned the water teal, Crabtree & Evelyn rosewater bubble bath, and apricot kernel bath oil. She had to have Eddie join in her pre-concert ritual naturally, and no one was home but her. She lit lavender candles and played the Icon album Night of the Crime theyll be hearing tonight in Indianapolis.

She had Eddie joined her in the bath, she put an avocado masque on his face and hers and the Rave hair masque with a V05 hot oil treatment, She wanted him to feel pampered too, and they started kissing, he held her in his lap, she warmed his cock in the bath She felt so full like she ate a big meal, he is that big. She couldnt stop herself, felt too good, she started moving.

“Ooh fuck baby, if you dont stop that–”

“Youll what…daddy?” She put on her baby voice, the one that got small and sounded squishy and cute,

He stroked her back and she started to drool in anticipation. He took her face in his hand, turning her to face him and lick up her drool, his other hand squeezed her ample ass, “Fuck you have a perfect body for a whore.” He thrusted his hips up and she squeaked, feeling dizzy with pleasure. “Oh my fucking God!”

“Too bad youre just mine.” He laid a sloppy kiss on her shoulder and grabbed her waist before raising his hips and slamming up inside of her tight pussy, that gushed all over his cock. “Baby girl, making such a mess for daddy, what a messy baby.” He cooed.

After a steamy bath session, they got dressed. She used hot rollers for a sultry look, and slid on her french cut, black, lace panties, her puffy pussy sort of swallowed it a bit, and naturally Eddie had to have a quick taste.

She had a satin white garter with a pink rosette slid up her left thigh by his truly, her right leg adorn with a thigh high fishnet stocking, a revealing neo Victorian, lacey little slip with gaps terribly tied together by dainty bows, exposing her generous cleavage, the thin straps of her negligee falling down her shoulders, She slips into combat boots that contrast her attire, and one of Eddie’s leather jackets that was too big for her frame. She had black under eye to make her look like a haunted doll, and her lips were painted the same color as her nipples.

Her signature lilac perfume kissed her wrists, neck, and cleavage. Eddie realized the importance of getting ready for a concert.

@thepurplelovewitch

[henshin-4]

My fave BT song at the moment has to be Satan. It is SO good but so fucking underrated.

People be like "oh Dress is so good, Romance so good, oh Babel, Muma-" yes they are all great BUT SATAN!!! I never hear people talk about Satan (or almost any Arui wa Anarchy song tbh) like do y'all ever even listen to this album, other than Dada Disco? It has Satan, Keijijou Ryuusei, Baudelaire de Nemurenai, Sekai wa Yami de Michiteiru, masQue, Phantom Voltaire (also absolutely amazing and a very high fave of mine) I guess the only Arui songs I occasionally see mentioned, besides Dada Disco, are Mudai, Melancholia and Once Upon A Time. But there is more! This album is great! Like I can see that Not Found is never mentioned, it's... I mean it's not bad I guess but it's also nothing amazing... BUT THE REST OF THE ALBUM IS!!! GO LISTEN TO ARUI! LISTEN TO SATAN! LISTEN TO PHANTOM VOLTAIRE! LISTEN TO BAUDELAIRE DE NEMURENAI!

And friendly reminder, Arui tour final is even better than Arui album.

(Also let me mention Survival Dance, Uchuu Circus and Devil'N Angel so no songs feel left out. I love Arui!)

[rastronomicals]

1:53 PM EST November 10, 2024:

Kansas - “All the World” From the album Masque (September 1975)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

The thoroughly modern cover painting was actually 409 years old at the time of the album’s release

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[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Bails (of Flesh) • Rows (of Endless Waves) • Longing (The River of Ash) • Beneath the Mask* • I Wait • Outro

*samples the 1964 film adaptation of "The Masque of Red Death", a short story by Edgar Allan Poe.

Spotify ♪ Bandcamp ♪ YouTube

[great-or-terrible-beaste]

THE WIDE, CARNIVOROUS SKY & OTHER MONSTROUS GEOGRAPHIES - JOHN LANGAN

(currently unfinished, this will be updated as I continue the rest of the short stories in the book, but the ones ive read so far are listed below. i guess theres probably spoilers in here so disgres urself accordingly, tho i'll try to keep it vague)

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KIDS

Kids is a really interesting start to this book in a way I really loved. As a huge fan of that thing music albums do sometimes where they have a short little bit at the beginning as a way to prep you for the rest of the album, Kids does a similar thing here. Although in this case it's 3-ish pages about strange children eating a teacher, which in addition fo the writing being very good does really well in setting the stage for what's to come.

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HOW THE DAY RUNS DOWN

And what's to come certianly delivers. How the Day Runs Down is at it's core a zombie story. You wouldnt think that at first though given a number of things but the most important generally is the fact that the entire thing is written as a stage play. I was in general not so hot on this one at first, not for any particular reason but to be honest just for the sake of needing some time to get back into short story writing again. It really is a different mindset from most longer novels, especially the longer running trilogies etc i've been mostly reading recently. Switching from story to story so fast and with so little time to spend on each, it's jolting at times but it does still make for fun stories. It's just that sometimes you need a different perspective to remember that again.

In How the Day Runs Down's case, that came in the form of remembering the way that LITERALLY ANY OTHER ZOMBIE STORY HOLDS ITSELF. This story does, in a fraction of the time, something very interesting with the genre. This is put with the caveat that I haven't read/watched/played much zombie media and am fully open to points made about whether or not I should do that before being So harsh on other stories, but in How the Day Runs Down's defence. I have yet to hear about another zombie story that is set from the perspective of a being who's job it is to meet mortals after their deaths and guide them on to the next place, performing in and running a play that consists of everything that they have watched happen in the small area of the eastern US they preside over as well as discussing the implications of rebirth on the afterlife in very certian terms. On top of all this it's also just a really well written zombie story, even going so far as to actually give a reason why they dont call them zombies in the story. (they are reffered to as eaters mostly instead as it is "easier to not admit they're zombies") The story really loves to play in the areas of human nature in the face of it's own collapse at the hands of an unknown disease. None of the characters are really all that certian about themselves, the world around them, or how to act when confronted directly with zombies. It's a very emotionally well written take on it that I really enjoyed.

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TECHNICOLOUR

I have a bit less to say about this one. Mostly just because it's a pretty solidly fun story about a nonexistent book providing firstly new context to Edgar Allen Poe's "Masque of the Red Death", and then context to a ritual which will supposedly summon something unknowable into the world once again. It is written from the perspective of a university professor goving a lecture to a class which is a cool way of laying it out, but I didn't necissarily find anything more of much substance on first read. This, as a note seems to be a recurring thing to an extent with Langan's work. Not that it's necissarily a bad thing, but to a point the stories tend to be more about the expressed thing on the page than anything metaporical. I dont think that's a bad thing generally, my leanings towards preferring strong metaphorical undertones are personal for sure, but there are times I wish there was a bit more substance in the story. Regardless though, it is very well written.

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THE WIDE, CARNIVOROUS SKY

ive read this one but i Am falling asleep rn + i gotta think on it more

[27thfirefly]

elaborate

feeling b along with the people who'd later found the inchtabokatables and a number of other smaller east berlin punk groups pivoted to folkpunk after the fall of the wall, most notably imo with the album die maske des roten todes, which for some reason is named after the edgar allan poe story the masque of the red death. very strange. anyway this album does have a good few songs that are covers of medieval songs but they've been... not translated but kind of. adjusted into german. like totus floreo (tempus est iocundum from the carmina burana) becoming tod des florio, which rather than being about the springtime of youth and all that is about the death of some guy called florio. in terms of the improvisational aspect you have tracks like die pest, which while probably not ENTIRELY improvisational as heard on the album does seem very rooted in just fucking around and seeing what sticks. a lot of feeling bs music was just fucking around - theyre called a funpunk band for a reason. a lot of the actual singing is also just very reminiscent of trying to sing along to something you dont quite remember the lyrics to. in any case id say this kind of stuff seems to be to be more alike to... maybe the "spirit" of medieval music than trying to straightforwardly reconstruct it. i could be speaking out of my ass though i dont know shit about medieval music

[neverhangd]

Jolly Rodger

JOLLY RODGER is a four-piece rock band of some small reputation thanks to frontman, co-founder, singer, sometimes songwriter, and networking expert Jack Rackham. Jack is joined by co-founder (ex-)girlfriend lyricist bassist Anne Bonny, guitarist Mark Read, and drummer John Silver*. Although the band hit a rough patch after the departure of Silver and the absence of Bonny, when Bonny returned to the band it steadily began to climb in popularity once more. The band continues to go strong today.

Or so Jack(ass) tells those that ask.

In reality, Anne, Mark, and Silver have long been the creative force behind the band. Though Jack sometimes contributes, it’s rarely for anything that doesn’t revolve around his vocal talents. Mark and Silver are musicals heavyweights, but have all the emotional sense of an upset teenager. Anne contributes where she can, in bass lines and lyrics for the most part. When the three come together, with or without Jack, it’s amazing!* The band is named JOLLY RODGER after both the pirate flag and to honor the memory of a now deceased mutual friend who actually brought the group together, their larger-than-life first drummer.

* Shut up, it’s my au and I’ll do as I please!

JOLLY RODGER serves as opening act for the Flying Gang, a much more famous rock band in the same genre. The tour is called the Queen Anne’s Revenge Tour, actually named for Anne. When Silver left JR, he joined TFG as their new drummer and ended up telling them a little bit about Anne from his own perspective. The conversation quickly became an impromptu songwriting session, ending with a new song for a new concept album called Queen Anne’s Revenge. In a twist of fate, Anne broke up with the band she’d co-founded the same day the album dropped. Anne went to ask Silver if she could crash at his since she was now, effectively, homeless. In a bid to keep her in work, Silver got Anne to agree to do the inevitable album tour, even going so far as to get her to agree to sing a few solo songs. That was huge. TGF’s record label was meanwhile contacting JR to get them signed on for that very same tour. Neither exactly knew what the other was up to until it was too late and worlds collided. It’s a very strange situation to be in.

Anne’s not handling her new fame well, and has come to resent Silver for telling the world her story before she could even tell it herself. She’s distanced herself from Mark, her self-admitted best friend, out of fear for his life. Jack believes to this day Anne was unfaithful with Mark, something that became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Anne and Mark only got together in the time between Anne leaving Jack and Anne leaving the band, a nebulous few weeks before Anne snapped and fucked off for Silver’s.

In applicable verses, this timeline is slightly altered, and represents the rise, fall, and recent reappearance of Red Death.

In my quest to find the perfect excuse for a spy story without having to tie Anne into an alphabet institution, I found a loophole that made me giggle in the persona of Red Death. Red Death is a singularly extraordinary individual, at once an expert hacker with extensive knowledge of several alphabet institutions, an enigmatic figure passing through high security spots without a trace, a brutal assassin, and a literary reference to Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of Red Death”. Naturally, Red Death is a shared identity between a few people. By name, Mark Read and Anne Bonny. (Jack was never involved as more than an alibi, actually innocent in it all.) You can imagine what the new visibility on Anne is doing to her career as Red Death.

[ardent-fox]

✨ Tag Game Master Post ✨

Hi, all! Catching up on these two games I was tagged in during the holidays 💖

First up, thank you to the lovely @lupeloto for creating and tagging me in this fun Tag Game! 🥰

📺 Favorite tv show? At the moment, Our Flag Means Death (shields self from tomatoes being thrown at her 😁)

🕴️ Favorite character? Oof, this is difficult. Gonna have to go with my precious baby boy, Stede

💋 Favorite relationship in the show? Blackbonnet (shocking, I know)

👯‍♂️ Fav sibling relationship in the show? No blood relations but the entire crew is chosen family, so… all of them?

🎨 Favorite art form? Music, with a heavy focus on lyrics/words

⚡️ A talent you wish you had? Being able to draw would be cool

☀️ What is one thing that can always make your day better? My toddler nephew saying the most hilarious things, he's barely 3 and already the funniest person I know

🎬 Favorite fictional character of all time? Atticus Finch (any works he appears in besides To Kill a Mockingbird do not count)

🌅 Dream place to travel to? Thailand or Ireland (either "land" would do, get it? 🧍‍♀️ ...I'll see myself out)

🎈 You’re planning a huge party, what’s the theme? The Masque of the Red Death, get fancy and spooky, bitches 🎭💀

🍕 Favorite pizza topping of all time? All kinds of cheese and extra mushrooms

🥂 You can pick ONE celebrity to have dinner with… Who? Andrew Garfield, {Marge Simpson voice} I just think he's neat

🎥 Favorite movie that you kinda know is bad but you still love? Rocky Horror Picture Show 👄

👖 How would you describe your style? The "I gained a substantial amount of weight in the past 5 years and haven't bought anything new since, so I now wear whatever I can fit into and lots of dresses and skirts cause pants are uncomfortable and shopping for them is a nightmare" style 😬

🖤 Finally, something making you smile this week? My mom's reaction to a present she really wanted, seeing her that touched was soul ascending ✨

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Next, I got tagged by @deedala, @tanktopgallavich, @suzy-queued and @lupeloto to complete this round of Weekly Tag Wednesday, thank you my darlings! 💙

Name: Lyds

Location: Unknown location in Europe

Astrological Sign: Taurus squaaaad ♉

What's a TV show or movie you plan to re-watch this year? Hubby has never seen Giant, so I'll be rewatching it soon as well as some other classics like Some Like It Hot and Philadelphia Story, I'm sure I'll rewatch Frankie and Johnny for the umpteenth time as well. As far as shows go, I rewatch Our Flag Means Death at least once a month since it's my comfort show, and might do a Shameless rewatch since I've only seen the whole thing once (excluding all the Gallavich scenes)

What's a book or fic you will probably re-read this year? The entirety or The Menagerie by @crossmydna and Honeycomb by @metalheadmickey with artwork by @heymrspatel 💕

What is a song you will likely continue to play on repeat? I've been replaying One Of Your Girls by Troye Sivan for days and don't plan on stopping anytime soon, also still listening to Hozier's entire Unreal Unearth album whenever I'm chilling

What's a tasty treat you look forward to eating more of this year? Gonna steal Ri's answer here and say cinnamon buns, as well as my husband's homemade pizza rolls that I previously mentioned, as they're our favorite thing to eat while binge-watching

What's a time sink that you will continue to sink time into this year? Scrolling this beloved hellsite

Did you pick up any habits in 2023 that you plan to continue? Only unhealthy ones that I plan on ridding myself of in 2024 👋

What's your toxic trait? Inflexibility and freaking out when things don't turn out the way I've planned

What is a coping mechanism you will continue to indulge in this year? Staying in my burrow with my hyperfixations

Tell me something you like about how you look! My full, rosy lips against my smooth, pale skin

Give me at least three adjectives describing things you like about yourself. Honest, open-minded, creative 🌸

I'm out of the loop (which is about to change since I celebrated the last of the festivities today) and haven't been keeping up with the tags lately, but am still going to tag some peeps if you want to do either or both of these: @heymrspatel, @stocious, @too-schoolforcool, @xninetiestrendx, @krysmiss, @sleepyfacetoughguy, @michellemisfit, @whatwouldmickeydo, @vintagelacerosette, @metalheadmickey, @rereadanon, @francesrose3, @darlingian and anyone who sees this and wants to play! ✨

[jordaneprestrot]

New album : « CASOAR »

43 minutes - 9 tracks

Casoar

Au quotidien

Bas les masques

Vénétie et Lombardie

Sans armure et sans arme

EuroAirport

Comme des étoiles

Noël approche

Sur un navire sans capitaine

all tracks by Jordane Prestrot

available now at Lotophagus Records

[ali3nboyfriend]

if you wanna understand me as a person, here’s some required reading:

fallen london/sunless skies/sunless sea/masque of the rose (browser game, two video games w ship navigation and exploration as well as text rpg, and a visual novel in that order, all in the same setting)

the magnus archives (podcast)

the silt verses (podcast)

old gods of appalachia (podcast)

the white vault (podcast)

i don’t even listen to a lot of podcasts those ones just rewired my brain

repo! the generic opera (movie) (bad) (compels me though)

midnight mass (netflix show)

house of leaves (novel)

lord of the rings (movies, i’m working on the books i’m just a slow reader)

the shape of water (movie)

honestly basically almost any guillermo del toro film i’m not even gonna fucking lie to you he speaks to my soul. hellboy 2 was especially formative.

many shakespeare plays but specifically romeo and juliet (esp the movie adaptation w leonardo dicaprio, shit was formative), much ado about nothing (the version w david tennant and catherine tate was what made me love shakespeare in the first place), a midsummer night’s dream (have you seen the version w gwendolyn christie as titania? and they reversed oberon and titania’s roles in the play? go fucking find it and watch it), and twelfth night (admittedly i don’t remember much about this one because my aunt took me to see it when i was a kid but i remember being really Taken with the idea of someone disguising themself as a man and lol i wonder why that was logan)

gargoyles (1990s animated show)

three cheers for sweet revenge/the black parade (albums)

wolf’s rain (anime)

take all of these in and you will know me on a molecular level

[toskarin]

because of this album's eldritch theme, it actually has three different cover variants to pick from. naturally, they'll be included with the download

Masque Red

Royal Yellow

Chaos Crawling