#newlydeads

[thebandcalledsparklefarts]

The Newlydeads December 20, 2003

[twistedappletree]

i don’t want to be obscene,

i don’t want to tell what he’s done

but derrick is a loaded gun.

[thevideodungeon]

The Newlydeads (1988)

A movie about a transvestite who gets murdered in a fit of gay panic, and returns as a vengeful spirit. And given that premise, it's not as problematic as you might expect, but also doesn't really have that much else to offer either. As a supernatural slasher it's largely a series of spirit appears, murders someone, delivers some threatening dialogue, repeat until convenient revelation that allows them to defeat said spirit.

4/10

[glukheia]

Listen/purchase: Bare your Teeth by Ashbury Heights

[iz1331]

When you think about it, Betelgeuse has probably been providing or helping Lydia with ghost hauntings for Ghost House and making sure Lydia won't be lacking of "clients" and content for her show.

Beej supporting his wifey even from the Afterlife. The Juice even "hired" a whole department of shrinkers (shrink heads?) to manage all the newlydeads wanting Betelgeuse's professional haunting expertise!

From someone who just stays in his grave, sitting on his ratty couch, in his robe, and searching for potential clients from reading the obituary, probably taking up jobs whenever he feels like it because his profession as a bio-exorcist is uniquely his own and definitely not into the whole bureaucracy crap he did when he was Juno's assistant all those centuries ago, a real loose cannon...

To someone who has his own employees, a huge ass office, and mainstreaming his services where the newlydeads and other ghosts were now demanding his work 24/7!

All those centuries of his bio-exorcist schtick before meeting the Deetz-Maitlands, Lydia especially, and he changed his whole work ethic maybe around the same time he found out about Lydia's new career as a ghost haunting show host and exorcist (maybe not exorcist, but she talks to them and makes the arrangements for both living and dead to coexist).

I won't be surprised if in one of Lydia's visits to the haunted houses, Betelgeuse is there and just watches her work. Maybe make himself appear for a split-second to scare or just "say" hello to Lydia, lol. Betelgeuse is such a sucker for her, so obsessed loyal to Lydia that he didn't even try to make another alive person marry him. If he ever gets married (a second time), it's only gotta be with Edgar Allan Poe's daughter (I'm referring to Lydia, btw).

Anyways, basically they're work spouses. Even though one of them doesn't know it, and the other has been pining for the last 30 or so years.

[mech4n15m]

this art has the vibe of a band album ashbury heights "three cheers for the newlydeads" idk why, don't ask me. anyway @g0giro your sona mmmmm>>>>>>

[gayron]

NEVADA'S BDAYYYYYYYYYY IS TODAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG SKATTTTTTTTTSUGKNSNSNSSSKNSNKl!! WISHING HER THE BEST OF HER BDAYSS!!!

Audio credits : @medium-observation, newlydeads

[tatters-the-bat]

I don't remember if I've posted this so I'm gonna do so again and use it as an excuse to loredump :3

This is the main cast of one of my OUs, Ectopolis, the city of ghosts!

Ectopolis is in Earth's atmosphere, but is only visible and tangible to ghosts. "Newlydead" souls flock to the city due to the presence of The Pool, a large, mysterious collection of colorful ectoplasm that souls use to shape their new ghost forms! It's also where they go to if their ghost form is ever destroyed. There are other settlements and stuff like floating islands all across the atmosphere, but Ectopolis is the biggest, mostly because of the Pool being such a central thing to the ghost world.

Sometimes, on the surface of the Pool, powerful splotches of high-energy plasm form, known as Hyperplasm. Very few ghosts have ever formed from these, and the few that did have no memory of their previous life. One of the most prominent is the namesake, Hyper, who is the mayor of the city now!

He and his crew here basically just work to ensure that new ghosts learn how things work and that nothing threatens the spectral plane - sometimes, rogue souls will corrupt and become monstrous Specters roaming the atmosphere, so part of the group's job is to make sure those specters are dealt with so they don't hurt anyone.

Character info below cut!!

As mentioned, Hyper is the mayor and does mayor stuff; in fact, he's constantly swamped with paperwork. As a hyperplasmic ghost, he's capable of plasma shock abilities, but this is rarely seen due to him usually being too busy to be directly involved in combat.

Zest is the security guard of the Pool, usually the first person people meet when they form. He makes sure well enough that people make it to the front desk and get acclimated to their afterlife. Buuut he's also a huge flirt and slacks off near constantly.

Charles is a strong, silent janitor who in life was a successful party-bro bodybuilder. He doesn't talk much, but he never backs down from a challenge - which is what got him killed, when at a party he decided to chug a dubious shake made from everything in the fridge. He's Zest's boyfriend also! :3

Rayne is the front desk clerk of the main building where the Pool is, so she makes sure new ghosts get registered into the system and know where they should go to do whatever it is they want to do. She's bitter and sarcastic, but she opens up if you get to know her. She and Zest lovingly despise each other.

Dillon is a nervous wreck of a ghost that works the cafeteria, having died from a heart attack after receiving a letter from a famous chef that wanted to meet with him, which he has not lived down. Ghosts don't need to eat, but Dillon has succeeded in making incredible flavor profiles that bring in people all the time anyway. If only he wasn't so shy and anxiety-filled.

Emile was a veterinarian in life, specializing in reptiles. They died to a snake bite, and has gotten some reptilian traits to it in its afterlife. It's affectionately called "Dr. Snake-Eyes," "Dr. Chameleon," "Dr. Lizard-brain," etc by Zest - he hates all of those nicknames. They're a very capable ghost doctor, being a major reason that more people don't have to reform at the Pool, so it doesn't like being 'othered' by its attributes.

[askhenry1987]

man. messy divorce innit henry? that's gnarly but i hope you know that on my Tomadachi life island. you and william just started dating so hopefully that's like. idk.

love wins??? except for when it doesn't. but you know.

also can't y'all still be friends? is that the plan? or is it like. anger rage rage rage

Hopefully, we can seek help before the divorce actually goes through, I know he's forged my signature. It's the remnant making me more prone to anger, that's what caused this whole debacle.

I'm sure we'll work it out together, he just needs time to understand that I'm... volatile at the moment. The newlydead usually are emotional.

[shinigamichan]

im watching beetlejuice 2 and this shit is so ass idec thatm uch about the first movie im not a big fan but christ what is this

it’s so fucking ass bro I miss the newlydeads

[elektroblues]

tagged by @sexuallyvague to post my albums of the year thank youuuuuuwww <3

tagging @staticspxcelover @fluffonthefloor @shinybrandon @hulubalanggeneration02 @music-for-them-asses @inyourroomalbumversion @hoch-rot @tinnike

depeche mode - memento mori / electronic - electronic / fever ray - radical romantics / kidneythieves - trickstereprocess / pig - pain is god / bigod 20 - steel works! / rein - reincarnated / flesh field - voice of the echo chamber / die form - ad infinitum

bonuses: ashbury heights - three cheers for the newlydeads / spirit by dm <3 listened to it in anticipation of the new album and loved it soooooo much ily spirit everyone listen to spirit (2017)

[twistedappletree]

and i’d love to kiss you

but love won’t do

‘cause i know you’d take my heart away.

[fuckyeahfightlock]

So I spilled Polar limited edition winter 2023-24 yuzu seltzer on my laptop the other night, kept on a-writing for an hour and of course the next day the machine would not turn on. I have done All the Things (took out the battery, took out the hard drive, took out and replaced the RAM, every weird combination of button presses the internet told me to try) and I think it's just bricked.

It was a long two days without you!

I'm currently on my old (stopped using it in 2019 so it might be as old as 2015 given how long I keep laptops) machine and it is weirdly big while also being weridly small. The good news is Word [Current] saves to a cloud, so I am able to pick up where I left off with my new year's ambition to reestablish my writing habit; I even have my 42 open Chrome tabs back (bad news; this version of Chrome does not have Groups to file them in so they are all hanging loose up there and yes, it's madness--I see that now). Thismachine is still running Word 2007 because man alive, I hate change.

Anyway, here's yr cautionary tale. If yr laptop gets wet, immediately back up everything, shut it down, unplug it, and turn it upside down or sideways and leave it alone to dry for at least two days. I must admit this was not the first time I spilled on my current machine, so it's likely parts have been corroding slowly over time and this was just a final-straw situation. Just because it seems dry doesn't mean it is.

Now I have to splash out for a new one. . .and replace all my stickers! Again!

(stickers on this old, ~2017 machine, since replaced with the ones on my newlydead machine)

[glukheia]

Listen/purchase: Angora Overdrive by Ashbury Heights

[zigmenthotep]

I kinda doubt that anyone cares, but just in case they do, here's my July 2023 watchlist with ratings. Reviews posted eventually on @thevideodungeon

Paranormal Prison (2021) 4/10

The Blackwell Ghost (2017) 7/10

The Blackwell Ghost 2 (2018) 2/10

The Blackwell Ghost 3 (2019) 4/10

The Blackwell Ghost 4 (2020) 5/10

The Blackwell Ghost 5 (2020) 5/10

The Blackwell Ghost 6 (2022) 4/10

The Blackwell Ghost 7 (2022) 7/10

The Fear Footage (2018) 3/10

Ghoul (2015) 5/10

Haunted Hospital (2018) 6/10

Ravenswood (2017) 5/10

Creature from Cannibal Creek (2019) 3/10

Slashlorette Party (2020) 6/10

The Haunting of Grady Farm (2019) 4/10

Bloodthirsty Cannibal Demons (1993) 3/10

Husk (2011) 5/10

Cabin Fever (2002) 5/10

Iced (1989) 5/10

The Newlydeads (1988) 4/10

Rabid (1977) 6/10

Curse of the Faceless Man (1958) 4/10

The Revenge of the Living Dead Girls (1987) 5/10

It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) 6/10

Decampitated (1998) 5/10

Zombiethon (1986) 3/10

The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959) 6/10

The Crawlers (1990) 3/10

Teenage Monster (1957) 4/10

Shocker (1989) 5/10

The Mutations (1974) 6/10

Cold Ground (2017) 6/10

Ghost Keeper (1981) 4/10

The Brain Eaters (1958) 7/10

Death Metal Zombies (1995) 4/10

Zombi 1 (1995) 7/10

TrashHouse (2005) 3/10

Zombie Island Massacre (1984) 5/10

Klown Kamp Massacre (2007) 4/10

Outpost (2008) 5/10

Not of This Earth (1957) 4/10

Rawhead Rex (1986) 6/10

Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970) 3/10

Bad Dreams (1988) 7/10

Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989) 5/10

Terror Trips (2021) 2/10

Dolly Dearest (1991) 5/10

The Flesh Eaters (1964) 6/10

Insecticidal (2005) 3/10

The Earth Dies Screaming (1964) 4/10

Zombies: The Beginning (2007) 4/10

Scream Baby Scream (1969) 4/10

[mag200]

Hi! You said you wanted music recs and I absolutely love telling ppl about the music I like so here are some of my favorite albums of all time!! I seriously hope you meant it when you said 'any genre' bc there's a good amount of variety in this list

The two that I will take absolutely any opportunity to recommend are Somewhere Under the Rainbow by The Jane Austen Argument (indie folk-ish vibes) and Splendor & Misery by clipping (experimental hip hop with an interesting storyline, I genuinely think that everyone should at least give this one a shot).

Other favs of mine include The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place by Explosions in the Sky (post-rock instrumental, I like to meditate/study to a lot of this band's stuff), Three Cheers for the Newlydeads by Ashbury Heights (indie synth rock, a friend of mine once described them as dark timeline ABBA), and Feelin' Fine by Poise & Peace (my fav local rock band that I'm obligated to shout out bc they're local and super cool X3)

I hope you like at least some of these!

i know the jane austen argument!! not very well but i've definitely listened to that album before.

i forgot about explosions in the sky but i love them, i listened to the earth is not a cold dead place sooo much in 2019 / early 2020

i added all of them to the playlist thank you so much <3