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nvvermore · 4 years ago

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I Get Found to Get Lost

Vesper learns part of the truth, and withholds parts of his own [Part of Songbird vs Rattlesnake]

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cw: references to child abuse/neglect

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Vesper swings open the door— a little too hard— to the quirky little magic shop. Pandora’s Box.

He’d been directed to the obscure place by some locals, who knew exactly where to send him when he asked where to find Amaryllis Leroux. Or maybe it wasn’t so obscure a place around here, but compared to what he’d seen in Zadith it was a little… lacking. Cozy is probably a nicer descriptor.

He pokes around, waiting for Asra Alnazar— the apparent owner of the shop— eyes scanning over the shelves and displays of all the various magical necessities. It’s not very long until a mop of white curls pops out from behind a curtain that divides the room. He assumes this is the magician he’s looking for.

“Welcome,” Asra greets him with a warm smile. “Is there anything in particular that brings you in today?” Vesper studies him for a moment; his relaxed posture, his messy hair and rumbled clothing. Nonchalant as ever, he takes a step forward and props his elbows on the glass counter.

“Yea, actually. I’m here to discuss your apprentice.”

Vesper catches some vague emotion flash across Asra’s face for a split-second before he’s smiling again. “If you’re looking for Amaryllis, they aren’t here right now.”

“Oh, I already found them. Didn’t go well, so I’m here to see you.” Vesper jabs a finger in the other magician’s direction. “You see, I happen to be Amaryllis’s older brother. I know it’s been a few years, but you think they’d have some level of recognition. So I was quite surprised when I ran into them and received absolutely none.”

“I’m sorry, I couldn’t tell you why they wouldn’t recognize you.” Asra shrugs with his arms folded in front of him. He leans back against the wall, looking down on Vesper.

Vesper stands up straight. “Ah, but I think you can tell me. I’ve heard murmurs of some sort of ‘incident’ they were involved in, why don’t you start with that?”

“How am I even supposed to believe you’re who you say you are? I don’t think Amaryllis is any of your business.”

Vesper pulls out a photo then, and slides it across the glass countertop to Asra. He’d expected such suspicion, after hearing all about the magician and the apprentice he was so overprotective of. So, he made sure to come with proof. Asra takes it with a frown, glare full of suspicion.

The photo was a family portrait. Taken when Amaryllis was sixteen and Vesper was nineteen, and the two were almost unrecognizable. The vicomte and vicomtesse stood on each side, and in front of each of them stood Verdell and Lottie. Dressed in fine silk skirts and standing front and center as the eldest child, Vesper certainly didn’t recognize the woman with his eyes and hollow smile staring back at him.

Amaryllis was posed in front of him— as he stood on a stool to mitigate the height difference— standing out from the rest of the bunch. Their eyes cast to the ground, lips drawn into a frow. They looked uncomfortable, their posture stiff and straight as a board. When this was taken, their discomfort was amusing, he had thought they deserved to feel that way. Now, all he felt was sick shame.

Vesper watches as Asra eyes the photo, expression softening as he runs his thumb over the image of Amaryllis. He then looks Vesper up and down a few times, but he seems to understand quick enough.

But he hasn’t dropped his guard yet. “Then, why has it taken you so long to come looking for them? I don’t know much, but I’m sure wherever you come from isn’t that far away.”

“You’re right, Chevaisé is only a few hours out from Vesuvia by carriage.” When Vesper speaks the name of his— and Amaryllis’s— hometown, Asra’s eyes widen. “And I didn’t come looking for them, I thought they might be dead. I was only planning on passing through Vesuvia, I came across them purely by chance.”

Asra is back to frowning, and Vesper starts to think he’s just bound to offend him. “Well, I still don’t know what to tell you if they turned you away. It’s not like I make decisions for them.”

“Really? Cause that’s not what I heard,” Vesper baits, and to his amusement Asra takes it. His posture stiffens and drops his arms to his sides, hands curled into fists.

“I think you should leave,” he states firmly, but calmly.

“I think you should tell me what happened to them.”

“What’s going on here?” Vesper spins around at the sounding of a new voice, too caught up in the tension between he and Asra to have noticed the shop door opening and closing. Amaryllis stands there, a girl peeking out from behind them, both with arms full of bags from the market. When their eyes land on Vesper, they look sorely unimpressed. “Oh, it’s you.”

“You don’t seem too surprised.” Amaryllis makes their way into the shop properly, setting the bags down on the counter and sliping behind it. The girl follows suit, and proceeds to unpack the bags.

“I expected you to keep harassing me—“

“I’m not harassing you—“

“What is this?” Amaryllis’s fingers dance over the photo in Asra’s hand, and they grab it just before Asra can pull it away.

“Amie,” he warns, but Amaryllis brushes him off with a wave of their hand.

They only seem to glance at the photo for a second before suddenly, they’re holding their head and sinking to the ground.

“Damn it,” Asra whispers, kneeling down to support Amaryllis. The girl stops what she’s doing and rushes over too, and together she and Asra get Amaryllis back on their feet. It’s like they’ve done this before, movements urgent but not panicked.

“I’m fine, it’s not that bad.” Amaryllis standing, but still holding their head in their hands.

“I’ve got them Asra,” the girl says, leading Amaryllis towards the stairs.

“Thanks, Lie, I’ll be up in a minute.” With a sigh, Asra turns back to Vesper. “Fine, I’ll explain.”

“Yea, you better. What the hell was that?”

Asra runs his hands through his hair, then takes a deep breath. “Amaryllis and I have been friends for years now. Together, we were apprentices of the magician who previously owned this shop.” He pauses. “Around a year ago, there was an accident. They can’t remember anything from before then, and get headaches that vary in pain and intensity when they get reminders of the past. I’ve tried everything, and nothing has been able to make them remember.”

Vesper feels a mixture of grief and sick satisfaction at the news. “So they really meant it, when they said they didn’t know me, huh? That’s… disheartening.”

“Isn’t it?” Asra is misty eyed when Vesper glances back up at him.

“They don’t remember you either?”

The pained look Asra gives him is all the answer he needs.

“I’m sorry I didn’t find my way here sooner.” And he is sorry. He’s been so sorry for years, and now what is he supposed to apologize for? If Amaryllis doesn’t remember, what good would it do anyone to bring up something that… just doesn’t need to exist anymore?

And perhaps it could stay that way. Forgotten. Along with every other misfortune they were forced to endure growing up. All the things Vesper wishes he had known to protect them from, instead of being jealous it didn’t look like it was happening to them too.

For a few minutes, neither of them have anything to say. And Vesper doesn’t know what else he’s supposed to say, so instead of trying he turns to leave.

“Wait,” Asra calls out. “I’d like to invite you back tomorrow. But,” he levels Vesper with a very serious look, “I need you to tell me the truth too. Why would they run away from their entire family?”

“I can’t tell you why, because I don’t know. The details aren’t mine to tell, but our parents were bad people. Amaryllis was right to run while they still could.” Asra nods, slowly taking in what he’s said.

“Is there anything else that’s important for me to know?”

He could come clean here. He should.

“No.”

He doesn’t.

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diarrheaofthekeyboard · 4 years ago

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Jumping at Shadows

7.25.2020

Peter Green died today and I spent a considerable amount of the morning listening to “Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac - Live at the BBC”. I never met the man but his music greatly affected me 25 years ago.

The first time I heard of Peter Green was in the book to Aerosmith’s “Pandora’s Box”. I was a massive Aerosmith fan in high school and I think my parents may have given it to me for my birthday. A few years later I was working at a record store and I don’t think the BBC set made it to the sales floor. I bought it as soon as I saw it.

Halfway through my freshman year I sold most of my high school CD collection. I was still beholden to Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Pink Floyd and some others. But nearly every hair metal record was sold to fund albums by God Street Wine, The Jayhawks, Uncle Tupelo, Gov’t Mule, and other 90s bands I had been newly exposed to. I was also getting albums from my friend Doug, who was pointing me towards the British Invasion and British Prog, with Zappa and The Fugs being the only outliers.

When Live at the BBC appeared it was a big moment in my musical development. Here was something I was being introduced to from all sides. It was marketed to me by a guitar magazine, it was an influence of my biggest influence in high school (Aerosmith) and it was a bonding point with a big brother figure.

Discovering Peter Green may also be the first instance of “pulling back the wool” on classic rock for me. He shatters the idea that if something is good, it will be popular.

Guitarists know Peter Green. Or more specifically, Boomers, Gen X-ers, and older Millennials who play guitar know Peter Green. But nobody else does. In popular music, there’s maybe 3 songs people know, and none know he wrote them. “Black Magic Woman” by Santana, “Green Malanashi” by Judas Priest, and “Oh Well” by Fleetwood Mac, as played by Lindsey Buckingham. If you’re a second or third generation classic rock kid from the burbs hearing the same songs every day at the same time from the same top 100 playlist that’s been played for the past 30 years, you’re never going to hear about Peter Green. You get Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page. Maybe if you’re lucky you’ll hear Jeff Beck. When Fleetwood Mac comes up, you’ll hear the Buckingham/Nicks version and never anything from the previous band, not even an acknowledgement they existed.

So here’s this 2 disc set that just kills. It explains everything Aerosmith was doing in the mid-70s and kicks the Stones blues covers in the teeth. It’s also the album that started me on the “Clapton is not God” argument, that really crystallized for me a few years later when I saw “The Last Waltz”.

I spent a lot of time learning some of these songs. Particularly “Rattlesnake Shake”, “Sandy Mary”, “Oh Well” and “Albatross”. The first and last were important because “Pandora’s Box” has a third rate cover of “Rattlesnake Shake”, and they really think it’s good. “Albatross” was the inspiration for “Boogie Man”, which is the last song on “Get A Grip”. “Sandy Mary” is just a cool song. We’ll get to “Oh Well” in a moment.

Around this time, the “Rumours” line-up of Fleetwood Mac got back together. Baby Boomers everywhere wet their pants buying their reunion record. I watched their entire VH1 concert and from the first note it was torturous. I never knew just how many Fleetwood Mac songs I despised, having heard them on lite-rock radio in my parents’ car for 20 years. There were 2 bright moments for me. I’ll admit that “The Chain” is undeniable. Even all those years later, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks still hated each other. Apparently they loved money more than they hated each other though, hence the reunion. But it’s a good song. Second was “Tusk”, which is kinda fun.

And then there’s “Oh Well”. The original version is a triple guitar assault of Marshall amps on 11. Sonic annihilation. Lindsey Buckingham played it solo. And it just didn’t work. Which in my 20 something mind, made it the worst fucking thing ever. Sacrilege. I would later give up on the idea of sacrilege, and most other things people cling to, but at that point I was highly offended.

Something like 15 years later, I was playing in a band with my friend Doug. He was on drums. And frankly, he was terrible. He had started playing drums because nobody else would, but he never put any time into it either. He wrote the words and I’d write the music and we’d make something that was ours, and I’d deal with the shitty drumming.

Well, Doug wanted to have some covers in the band. He really wanted McCartney’s “Let Me Roll It” but I didn’t like the song and because he wouldn’t put the time into his drumming, I passive aggressively didn’t put the time into really learning to sing and play it. So that went by the wayside. Then one day we broke into “Oh Well” and he just started singing it. It was a pretty trippy, spaced out version with lots of harmonizer, so I could try to approximate the song’s musical harmonies. I also loved the intense tremolo I would use. So it got added.

Even if I’m not a third the guitarist Buckingham is, I felt like we were honoring the song because it wasn’t intentionally sloppy. His one man version was an impossible task. There’s no way you can take the original, try to put on your best solo Pete Townshend, and think you’re gonna get away with it.

Doug hated when I would cut “Oh Well” from the set. This happened when we’d run out of time. You only get 45 minutes for a set of originals in NYC anyway. If we’re up there, I’m playing originals, not a cover. So he’d lose that argument. I think that was really the beginning of the end of our relationship because he would have temper tantrums when he didn’t get his way.

Oh well.

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omnomsauruswrites · 6 years ago

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Ripped Away (One and Done Part 3)

Pairing: Bucky x You

Summary: The ultimate misunderstanding.

Word prompt: This is for @teamcap4bucky‘s challenge. Congrats, love! My prompt was Does he have to walk around shirtless all the time?

“Y/n!” a voice yelled frantically.

You rushed outside into the desert night in your pajamas. “Williams!” you answered, running towards the private. “What is it?!”

“It’s Johnson,” she answered, grabbing your arm and dragging you towards the medical.

You swallowed and tried not quell the panic, tried not to run away. “What happened?” you asked, scrambling with her. “What happened to Brett?”

“They were ambushed,” she answered.

“Oh god…” you muttered, you pulled away.

“Y/n!” she exclaimed, grabbing your wrist. “You have to come.”

“No…” you panicked. “No….”

She tugged you into the fluorescent lighting of the medical wing. “Oh god…” you repeated over and over. “Brett...”

Tears filled your eyes, collecting on your lashes. She pushed you into a room and there he was hooked up to all sorts of machines, as doctors worked on him. “Ooooo my god,” you whispered, as the tears streaked down your face.

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You stared down into the canyon. You had told yourself that you hated the desert, despised it. But here you were, surrounded by sand and tumbleweeds. “Brett…” you whispered, as the memory flooded back to you.

You felt your chest tighten, constrict in pain. You saw only blood when you closed your eyes, saw his lifeless amber eyes. You choked out a sob and fell to your knees on the trail. “Why…” you asked to the air, to your surroundings, “WHY HIM?!!!!! WHY NOT ME??!!!”

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“Where is she?” Bucky asked FRIDAY.

“She is safe,” responded the AI.

It was the only answer that she was giving to the former assassin, as he mulled over the last few moments with y/n. What had she been so afraid of?

He hadn’t known her to run from any issue, from any confrontation. So when she did after he asked that they go public with the relationship, he had been surprised, shocked really. She had avoided him at every turn, always one step ahead except for the pool party. That was when he had been able to corner her.

“Did you ever read her file?” came a voice to his left.

His head whipped to see Sam, hanging in the doorway. “No,” he answered. “She never gave it to me.”

“You weren’t curious at all?” Sam asked.

“Of course, I was curious,” he responded, moving towards his friend. “But unlike some I don’t go digging for secrets.”

Sam chuckled, “It’s not a secret file. Everyone has access to it. Unlike yours. Actually, you can read most of it in the Post.”

“What?!” Bucky questioned, confused at the turn. She had never mentioned it.

“She never mentioned that she took down several ISIS/HYDRA base? That she had been on a revenge path for six months in 2016,” Sam explained.

“She was…” Bucky paused, she had never shown a revengeful side, never shown vengeance in anything she did. “She said she was a Captain in the Army, of an EOD unit.”

“That part is true. She was those things, but she also lost someone very important to her in 2016. The army let it go a year later, gave her a honorable discharge, swept things under the rug.”

“What things?” Bucky asked, outstretching his hand for the file that he knew Sam held.

“She lost her fiance in an ambush. She watched him die on the stretcher,” he answered, handing him the file. “But she also went on a warpath afterwards, leaving ISIS to burn.”

Bucky looked down at the file in his hand, hesitant to open pandora’s box.

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“What are you going to do?” Olivia asked, as she watched you gather weapons.

“What do you think?” you replied, picking up ammo.

“Y/n,” she cautioned, not moving from her position. “What you are doing is…. Is a suicide mission.”

“I know,” you answered simply, zipping up the bag.

“You could be court martialed.”

“I know.”

“Do you?!” Olivia shouted, cornering you. “Do you know how risky this is? Do you think this is what Brett would want? Are you thinking this through? This is vengeance. This is grief.”

“THEY RIPPED MY FUTURE AWAY FROM ME!” you yelled, slamming the gun onto the table. You whipped towards her and tried to hold back the tears. “THEY RIPPED AWAY THE ONLY THING I LOVED!”

“Y/n…” she whispered.

“They took away…,” you sobbed, picking up the gun, again. “They took away what I cared about the most. If I get a bullet in the skull, so be it.”

“This isn’t you,” she tried to argue, wanting to console you.

“My mind is made up,” you ended, walking out of the tent and into the night.

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“Jesus,” Bucky muttered, as he turned the page and saw the graphic images. “Fuck….”

Burning bodies were photographed, the first still burning in the photo. It looked like something he would have done as the Winter Soldier. “Doll, what did you do?” he whispered to himself.

He turned the page, another set of text, another graphic image. He thought his file had been explicit, but yours read very much like his did just not as thick. But in a span of six months, you had damaged ISIS/HYDRA, cutting off the head and not allowing it to grow. Buildings after buildings destroyed. Bodies after bodies piled up. You were efficient in your job and quick. Quicker than the military had ever been.

He assumed that’s why you were not court martialed. Despite going AWOL, you were able to do a lot of damage. You were able to turn the tide of the war.

He scrubbed a hand over his face, his heart heavy with your pain.

He picked up the next file: BRETT JOHNSON.

He hesitated to open it, to peer down that memory that you had never freely given him. He felt like it crossed a line, despite information on him being in the Post story.

He pushed the file away and stared at the table. “Where are you, doll?” he whispered to himself. “Where would you go?”

“Where I’m going, only worries I have is cacti and rattlesnakes.”

That ruled out Africa, Eurasia. Rattlesnakes were only found in the southwest of the U.S. and Mexico. Wait, he paused. His brain recalling part of the conversation you had with the team before you left.

“Come on, Tex.”

Tex. Tony had called you Tex, as in….

“Friday?” Bucky asked, peering up at the ceiling.

“Yes, Sergeant Barnes?” the AI inquired.

“Where’s Y/n from?”

“West Texas,” the AI answered.

“Specifically?”

“Alpine.”

You were there. You had to be. And he was going to find you. He was going to find out why you ran.

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darkwooded · 3 years ago

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Character pronouns

Nature: all pronouns except masc ones

Mika: she/her

Strangleroot: she/her

Blackheart: she/her

Mitsuki: he/they

Cora: she/her

Kiwigash: she/her (doesn't mind though :))

Queenie: she/her

Agnus: she/her (but she's a baby)

Nimue: she/her

Pandora: she/they

Lamia: she/they

Death: he/it

Styx: she/it

Lyra: she/her

Lady of the moon/Lavena: she/her

Man of the sun/Aelius: he/him

Fate: she/they

Time: its/its

Qhirema: She/her

Nepho: they/then fem terms

God of chaos/Maurin: all pronouns

Somnius/god of dreams: all pronouns

Lucy: she/her

Kieptiel: they/she

Angel: she/her

Pixiedust: she/her

Ellie: she/her or any prns

Orchid: she/her

Monika: she/her

James: he/him

Angelina: she/her

Calida: she/her

Astera: she/her

Jasmin: She/they/it

Moss: she/her

XE-17: it/he/she

Silma: it/she

Teeth: he/it

Elizabeth: she/her

Queen Alice: she/her

Emris: she/her

Bunny: she/they

Aisling: she/her

~Møther~: she/it

SiStEr: she/her

PəÞął: it/she

Dakari: he/him

Leo: he/him

Amun: she/they

Amunet: she/her

Bastet: she/her

Appel: she/her

Melanie: she/her

Ash: they/she/it

Checkmace: she/her

Rattlesnake: she/her

Bernadette: she/her

Honey: she/her

Alison: she/it

Kobold: he/him

Auburn: she/her

Sarah: she/her

Cherry: she/her

Silvertongue: she/they

Ruin: they/them

Moira: she/her

Anastasia: she/her

Isaac: he/him fem or neutral terms

Appel: she/her

Mariana: she/her

Sasha: she/her

Yevgeny: he/him

Nicolai: he/him

Alice: she/her

Ink: they/zem fem and neutral terms

Ophie: they/void. Fem, neutral terms

Iru: They/them

Zen: do not percieve/they. Masc terms

Ophelia: she/her

Vivienne: she/they

Zee: He/they/it/zey

Salem: he/him

Penelope: she/her

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Note: These are the characters I will be writing and drawing with. Some of them are just story characters so they won't be drawn. This list will also be updated as characters come and go and obviously more will be posted about them as we go along

#characters #character list #oc pronouns #ocs #ask oc blog

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jasondemain · 5 years ago

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nomansband · 6 years ago

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Female Producers

As our discussion of solely female artists and groups slowly dwindles to an end, I feel it’s important to acknowledge the women that do the behind-the-scenes work to bring music to the surface.

DOT brought us to the end of last week’s discussion on solo female artists, Picking up where we left off I want to focus, this week, on her production of music.��

Dot began producing not too long ago, in 2014, with the creation of her own record label. Giving women a stronger voice in the music scene, Unspeakable Records, based in Los Angeles, is an “independent label for female creators”.

With over 15 artists under their belt, Unspeakable Records also supports a handful of artist development programs.

“Our mission is to give women a voice in music. We provide our artists with a platform to share their work and a supportive community to grow within. Through music releases, events, and education opportunities, we are redefining what it means to be a record label in a new era of creative industries.”

Unspeakable Records is bringing a whole new wave to the feminist music and art revolution.

Shura comes to us from England and was born to very creative parents. With her mom being an actress and dad being a filmmaker, she was inspired to start playing the guitar at the age of 13, and began recording at 16.

“While reading English Literature at University College London, she formed a band with guitarist Patrick Duncombe and collaborated with producer Hiatus (Cyrus Shahrad). Shura took a gap year after her university studies and developed her songwriting skills while working in the Amazon rainforest.”

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Shura eventually decided to take over the production of not only her own music, but the recording, directing, and producing of her own videos; like the video for her single “Touch”, above.

Imogen Heap, a personal favorite since I was young, also comes to us from England.

With a sample of her song “Hide and Seek” in a 2010 song by Jason Derulo and a recent Ariana Grande cover of her song “Goodnight and Go”, I can only hope she makes a public comeback.

Below is a mashup of Grande and Heap’s versions mashed up:

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Heap’s music has appeared in multiple films as well, including a cover of “Holding Out for a Hero” on the Shrek 2 soundtrack.

Catherine Marks aside from being a record producer, is credited with being classically trained in piano from the age of just four years old, as well as being a mixing engineer, and an audio engineer.

Being a successful producer, she has worked with many popular artists;

".....such as Foals, Manchester Orchestra, The Killers, Local Natives, Wolf Alice, Beware Of Darkness, The Big Moon, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, The Amazons, Arno, Howling Bells, Sunset Sons and Eliza Shaddad.”

With production credits starting in 2012, Marks won the 2016 MPG Awards as Breakthrough Producer of the Year, and another in 2018 as Producer of the Year.

Madame Gandhi is another artist, activist, producer, and has also been known to be a touring drummer for popular artists such as M.I.A. and Kehlani.

Gandhi brings us back to the aggressive feministic attitudes of the Riot Grrrl movement:

“Gandhi's music and activism focuses on female empowerment and Fourth-wave feminism. In 2015, she ran the London Marathon bleeding-freely on her period as a symbolic act to combat global menstrual stigma.”

In 2012, Gandhi produced the live drum accompaniment to M.I.A.’s “Bad Girls”, and in return was asked to join on M.I.A.’s tour.

More recently, in 2017, “Gandhi collaborated with female-identifying producers to release Voices Remixed. That year, she also ran the Vancouver Marathon and was the opening act for Ani DiFranco's Rise Up Tour. She toured internationally including Europe and India, and also spoke at Airbnb, Pandora Radio, Spotify, the United Nations and on college campuses.”

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Once upon a time ago, kayfabe was a sacred thing to be held as a standard in the wrestling business. Kayfabe, of course, refers to those within the industry keeping the illusion that wrestling is 100% legit and not scripted entertainment. If this illusion wasn’t kept up at all times by those within the industry, there would be severe consequences for those who broke kayfabe. Even Triple H, as a rookie, had to answer for some punishment when he broke kayfabe during the now infamous Madison Square Garden curtain call between himself, Shawn Michaels, Kevin Nash, and Scott Hall. Yet, somewhere along the way, the veil between the illusion of realness of wrestling and the truth behind the sports entertainment was severed. It is hard to pinpoint exactly when those in the industry accepted that kayfabe was pretty much dead and that everyone and their mother knew that the sport was a work (aka a farce in wrestling terminology), but since then, no one in the wrestling business even tries to hide the fact that wrestling is worked anymore. In 2017, this shift in kayfabe acceptance is more evident than ever. We now live in the age of the internet where everyone who ever has ever worked in the industry gets asked to give their honest opinion on the business on social media, in podcasts, and especially shoot interviews (which refer to interviews where wrestlers go completely off the cuff and spill the dirt about any and all going-ons within the business). Several wrestlers have given shoot interviews where they provide the most scathing of remarks, but there are just as many interviews where wrestlers have admitted some pretty strange things. The wrestling business breeds to an entire industry of stories regarding sex, money, pain, and debauchery for many wrestlers and when given a platform to riff on such topics, wrestlers tend to say some pretty damning and strange things. Here are some examples.

#1 Chris Jericho Tries to Kiss The Undertaker Upon debuting the very first episode of his Talk is Jericho podcast, Chris Jericho started things off with a bang. Not just because he had Stone Cold Steve Austin on as his first guest, but because the first episode featured a strange, yet hilariously captivating, tale that helped establish Talk Is Jericho as one of the most must listen podcasts in the industry. At one point in the interview, the two were singing the praises of The Undertaker when Jericho starting telling a story of when him, Taker, and the rest of the boys were having a night out on the town during a tour in Japan right after a house show. While at a bar, Jericho (perhaps a little drunk) spent three hours trying to get Taker to allow Jericho to kiss him on the lips. To even ask a question like that once, yet alone for three hours, to a guy like The Undertaker was ballsy on Jericho’s part, but Taker kept his cool and even (reluctantly) allowed Jericho to kiss him on the cheek.

#2 Tammy Sytch and Her Sunny Days There is a perception that when people get a certain age, they tend to spill the beans about every wild story from their lives, right down to the most innate of details, to anyone who’ll listen because they are at a point in their lives where they are too old to care what people think. Based on everything that spills out of her mouth in her interviews, Sunny is long passed that stage in her life. There is a long line of shoot interviews where Sunny has been shockingly candid about what went on backstage in the glory days of her WWE career. This includes mentioning that Vince McMahon let her and Shawn Michaels fool around in his office, her brief affair with the British Bulldog, and her one night stand with Dolph Ziggler. It isn’t so much “strange” what Sunny says in these interviews, but rather strange that she is so open to telling it. Again, we get that she doesn’t care what people say or think of her in light of her comments, but it is just surprising to hear her be so blunt about her backstage liaisons.

#3 Kevin Owens Plays With Dolls Prior to coming to WWE, Kevin Owens used to wrestle under his real name, Kevin Steen, and in his spare time, he used to interview his fellow wrestlers on the indie scene with his own internet talk show, The Kevin Steen Show. In one episode, he interviewed one of his best friends and current WWE writer, Jimmy Jacobs. While shootin’ the breeze, Steen reminisced on his childhood where he used to play with his wrestling action figures. He used to cue up special entrances for his toys, especially during Stone Cold Steve Austin’s entrance, which he would throw a mug at the wall to produce Stone Cold’s glass shattering theme effect. Everyone was amused at the tale of a little kid playing with his dolls; nothing unusual about that. Until Steen dropped the bombshell at the end of his story that he was 17 years old (almost a legal adult). Jacobs was so flabbergasted that he nearly spat out his drink. Feeling a little embarrassed seeing everyone laughing at him, Steen cleaned up his story by saying he might’ve been “at least 14,” but the cat was already out the bag. What makes this story even better is knowing that if he was 17, Steen was already working the indies as a full time wrestler for a year when he was playing with his dolls.

#4 Stone Cold’s Shower Fall WWE always like to give their audiences the impression that their roster is filled with some of the toughest SOBs to ever grace a wrestling ring. This is especially true regarding someone like Stone Cold Steve Austin, who was always promoted as the biggest badass to ever stomp a mudhole and walk it dry in a WWE ring. Which is why WWE may not be quick to mention that The Rattlesnake injured himself in the shower while trying to dance to Michael Jackson music as it doesn’t sound like the makings of a tough guy. Despite his tough guy exterior, Stone Cold mentioned this himself on an episode of his podcast. He said that while on location filming episodes for his Broken Skull Challenge game show, he was taking a shower in his trailer while Michael Jackson played on his Pandora. While in the mood, he tried to do the moonwalk, but in mid-walk, he fell. Not only did he fall, but his legs got tangled, his shoulders pinned down, and he was stuck in the tiny shower. His wife called the fire department to help get him out. For all the superstars who Stone Cold toppled in WWE, it was the mighty shower which had him down for the count.

#5 Bret Hart Farted In Bam Bam Bigelow’s Face The finals of the 1993 King of the Ring tournament saw the technical wizard that is Bret “The Hitman” Hart go over the human wrecking ball that is Bam Bam Bigelow to win the crowd in a now classic contest. Bigelow talked about the match in a shoot interview of the match and he had some fond words to say. He spoke about the match as one of the best matches of his career and expressed nothing but love for The Excellence of Execution. The interview just seemed like the average run-of-the-mill interview where a wrestler praises his former opponent and comrade. That is until Bigelow shockingly admitted that Hart farted in his face right at the conclusion of the match. The match’s finish saw Hart win by rolling up Bigelow with a victory pin, but as soon as he sat on top of Bigelow, Hart farted. Bigelow said in the moment, he couldn’t help but holler at Hart “Aw, son of a b*tch!” when he got a whiff of the smell.

#6 Good Ol’ JR Is A Big Ol’ Meanie Several wrestlers have praised commentator Jim Ross as being one of the nicest guys to ever step foot in the industry. To the surprise of many, Rikishi actually once attested to the contrary. In one shoot interview, he admitted that he always believed that Jim Ross always had it out for “our guys.” No, Rikishi was not alluding to Samoan people or minorities in general, but of heavyset people. This in itself is a strange thing to confess because, let’s be honest, Jim Ross was never exactly what we’d call “slim” himself. In any case, Rikishi believes this to be true and he believes that to be the reason why JR would mistreat Rikishi throughout his time in WWE. Rikishi cited Bubba Ray Dudley as another big man who JR had it out for, but Bubba never backed up Rikishi’s claims. In fact, no one has backed up Rikishi’s claims and no other big wrestlers have shared the same sentiment towards JR.

#7 Perry Saturn, Raven, and D—–os Boy, it’s stories like this that remind us just how different the wrestling industry is today compared to how it was 20 years ago. While we’re not trying to say that current wrestlers are complete squares, we are saying that only in the 90s would there be a story of a wrestler attaching a dildo to his head while in a room with a stripper. For some context, as Perry Saturn himself explained in a YouShoot interview, he used to hire strippers with his former on-screen Flock member, Raven, just for laughs and bring them to a hotel. One night during one of these stripper-laden escapades, the two got bored and came up with a uniquely bright idea. They bought a slip-n-slide from a store, set it up in the hotel hallway, had one of the strippers naked at the other end with her legs spread open, Saturn attaches a strap-on dildo to his head, and Raven chucks Saturn down the slide with the intention of his dildo hitting the woman’s, well, bullseye. Unsurprisingly, they all got kicked out by hotel security after that.

#8 Brian Pillman’s Bowel Movement While this story was told by Jim Ross rather than the late wrestler himself, we can almost guarantee that Brian Pillman was proud enough of this accomplishment that he would be raving about this today if he were alive. While sharing stories for the sake of the Brian Pillman: Loose Cannon documentary, JR told the story from his WCW days when Pillman approached Ross and told him that they needed to go someplace private so that Pillman could show him something important. Pillman took Ross to the shower area, swung the stall door open, and unveiled what Ross would call “the longest uninterrupted piece of human waste known to man” sitting in the commode. JR swore up and down that it had to be at least 18 inches long. Apparently, Pillman was so proud of his glorious bowel movement that he had a ring crew member guard the stall throughout the afternoon and all day, Pillman would bring guys in to show them his “masterpiece” and brag about what he had done.

#9 “Hard Left” Teddy Hart Teddy Hart has always managed to be one of the sharp tongued members of the Hart family and perhaps the most controversial wrestler working today. Since controversy tends to breed controversy. Controversy seemed to be the word of the day during his interview on the Best Friends talk show, hosted by indie tag team and best friends Chuck Taylor and Trent Barreta. In the interview, he made some absurd proclamations and even more absurd transitions into his stories. One second, he’d be talking about spending his stint in rehab with Razor Ramon. The next, he’d talk about getting Batista to buy him an omelette. In the same breathe, he’d talk about the Hart family gym right before casually saying he sells weed. All while a room full of a dozen wrestlers listen on in stunned silence. Both the content of the interview and the delivery of Hart himself make this one of the strangest, most shocking shoot interviews to ever grace the internet. They don’t call him “Hard Left” Teddy Hart for nothing. As Taylor said himself, Hart’s stories feel like they’re going in a linear path, and then they go left someplace crazy.

#10 Homicide Almost Pees On CM Punk Prior to hitting the mainstream wrestling scene, CM Punk and Samoa Joe earned critical acclaim on the indie scene following a trilogy of classic matches over the Ring of Honor World Championship that took place in 2004. The two talked about the inner workings of their matches in a Straight Shootin’ interview that same year, but the two also managed to talk about some crazy road stories as well. One of the long and hilarious stories focused on an insane night on the town with a few of their wrestler friends, most of which were sloppy drunk. One of their friends happened to be Impact Wrestling and ROH alum, Homicide. At the end of their story, Punk mentioned that while all of the wrestlers were crashed out in the same room, Punk just happened to wake up in the middle of the night, for no particular reason, and he awoke to see a drunk Homicide undoing his belt and ready to let a stream flow. A startled Punk arose to tell Homicide he wasn’t in the bathroom and at the realization, Homicide staggered away. Punk still had to shuffle Homicide into the bathroom and amazingly enough, Punk heard no pee. Homicide just passed out by the toilet.

#11 Randy Orton Grabs Ken Kennedy’s Crotch If we are to take Mr. Kennedy’s words from his YouShoot interview as gospel, then Randy Orton seems to have a tendency to do some strange things for a quick laugh. The strangest part about Orton is that it appears he likes to do things for a laugh even if there are no other parties around. Kennedy told a story of one time, while the two of them were alone in the locker room, Orton would come out of the locker room nude and dip his penis into Kennedy’s boot just to amuse himself. Orton often did weird stuff like that simply to amuse himself, or at least he did so while alone with Mr. Kennedy. Things got even weirder when Kennedy and Orton were alone in a car and out of the blue, Orton grabbed Kennedy’s crotch. Orton laughed hysterically while a perplexed Kennedy could only respond by reminding Orton that “There’s no one else in the car to find that funny.” It’s not hard to see why these two had a falling out right before Kennedy was fired by WWE.

#12 Brodus Clay Was Bullied By Hornswoggle Brodus Clay is a 6-foot-7-inch mammoth weighing in at 375lbs. Hornswoggle is literally a dwarf. In no world should Brodus Clay ever feel victimized by Hornswoggle the leprechaun, but apparently, the formerly dubbed Little Bastard bullied the Funkasaurus Rex relentlessly during their time in WWE. Clay made the dubious claim in his YouShoot interview where, with the most serious of looks in his eyes with a straight face, told the interviewer “[Hornswoggle’s] a bully. He is a bully. He is a verbal assassin. He picks, he judges, he’s just an evil little guy.” To support his claims, Clay spoke on a few examples of Hornswoggle bullying Clay and even bullying The Miz, one time driving off while Miz was in a gas station and making The Awesome One walk miles up to their hotel. Clay was so fed up with Hornswoggle’s bullying antics at one point that he actually attacked him. Most fans were skeptical that such a little man could bully such a big man, but in a response interview with Hornswoggle, the little man confirmed it, admitting that Clay wasn’t wrong in his claims.

#13 Scott Hall Wants To Have S-x With Paige In the summer of 2015, Paige used to have a tendency to get overtly sexual while in the ring, going as far as to sexually mount her opponents while pinning them. During one of these 3-count victory moments, WWE Hall of Famer Scott Hall tweeted at Paige, calling her “Such a naughty girl” that he has “good mind to bend [her] over one knee and spank [her].” The majority of fans criticized Hall’s comments as being pervy, but Paige took it in stride understanding that the former Razor Ramon’s comments were meant as a joke. Hall went on to take his joke further in a YouShoot interview. When asked which WWE Diva, past or present, he would give a rimjob to, Hall did not hesitate in saying Paige. The question itself was wild enough to begin with, but for Hall to be quick to say Paige despite all the previous backlash he had in ogling her doesn’t help his case against being pervy.

#14 Mick Foley and Ron Simmons Hold Hands During S-x As Teddy Long explained in a now infamous YouShoot interview, while travelling back in his WCW days as a referee, wrestlers Mick Foley and Ron “Farooq” Simmons were his road buddies. While on the road in Texas, the trio managed to score themselves a few women to bring back to their hotel room. What the girls came to the hotel for is obvious, but what is not so obvious is what ol’ Cactus Jack did during the act. While Foley had a girl on a bed and Simmons had another girl on a different bed, Foley reached out to grab Simmons hand. He just held Simmons’ hand while having sex with a girl because, as Foley told the former WCW Champion, “I need your support.” Simmons did not know what that meant, Long didn’t know what that meant, and frankly, none of us know what Foley could have meant. All we can assume is that Foley must’ve thought Teddy Long just booked a tag team match and Foley tried to tag in Simmons while in mid-stroke.

#15 Michael Elgin Pees On a Girl Michael Elgin has become something of a Canadian sensation since arriving to the indie scene and slowly breaking his way into mainstream wrestling. In just the last few years, he’s gone from impressive rookie to Ring of Honor World Champion to the resident big hoss westerner of New Japan Pro Wrestling. Before the fame and acclaim, he did an interview on The Kevin Steen Show where he admitted to making an interesting wager with some of his buddies. Elgin was wagered that if he could convince a girl to let him urinate on her, he’d get $100. So while a woman is performing fellatio on him in the bathroom while a camera was present to capture the affair, Elgin politely asked her if he could pee on her. Surprisingly, she agrees to it and in a moment’s notice, Elgin does his deed. It seems like though she agreed, the woman didn’t actually think Elgin would actually do it. So she’s waving her arms trying to deflect the urine, screaming “No! Stop pissing on me!” Needless to say, that didn’t stop the piss from flying. When Elgin tried to show the tape to his friends minutes later as proof to get his money, the tape wouldn’t play for some reason. Lucky for Elgin, the proof came when the aforementioned woman could be angrily heard in the distance telling her friend, “Cindy, Elgin f*cking pissed on me!”

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