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[TEASER] finger trapped (ripped to its seams) ➵ ji changmin

ji changmin x reader

with an unexpected reunion, you and changmin relive the memories of cheongju—and confront what could’ve been between you two.

inspired by ➵ "seasons" by wave to earth, the last five years

general genre/warnings ➵ friends to almost lovers, angst, fluff, the last five years story-telling method aka present will be told going backwards while past will be told moving forward (i hope that makes sense), missed chances, unexpected reunion, keeping secrets & lying, hurt/comfort, jealousy remains but love triumphs, tiger parents, journalist reader (u kno i had to do it), reader is a nerd and changmin is a student-athlete, kms jokes from jongseob (all /lh), finger traps aren’t efficient after all

word count ➵ est. 10-15k [now available! read here]

playlist ➵ end of beginning by djo // high school in jakarta by niki // i know it won't work by gracie abrams // no big deal (i love you) by dodie // keeping tabs by niki // no one knows by stephen sanchez & laufey // so what now by renee rapp // i wish i hated you by ariana grande // the 1 by taylor swift // seasons by wave to earth

a/n ➵ shhhhhhh.... i know that i'm still writing this but a lil motivation and accountability goes a long way SOOO !!! this is just a lil teaser for the upcoming jichang fic for the deoboyznet event <33 thank you again to my lovely @hcuyk for beta reading !!! (i've only written 1/4 please understand.) but i'm dedicating this to my lovely @sungbeam whose love for changmin is one i'll forever feel even to my ribs and @wavesmp3 who forever remains an inspiration in the way i write </3 plus, i've posted these snippets anyway so :P if ure interested in this fic, feel free to ask to be part of the taglist for this! and dont forget to always leave feedback <3

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it’s a late night on a tuesday, about to be a midnight wednesday, and you’re in a convenience store as you scout for your dinner. all hauled up in the newsroom, the idea of ordering food during a time where restaurants would still be open slipped your mind. now, you’re left to scan through the same options you’ve eaten for the past years since you started living in seoul.

the convenience clerks are familiar with you, both kim jongseob and kim jiwoo. with your constant late-night meals at the store, you’d talk to whichever one had a shift. jongseob is saving up to upgrade his setup at home to record more music. with all the stories he shares about his time in underground rap battles along with the short verses he’s performed for you, you’re positive that he’ll get signed to a label soon. as for jiwoo, this is one of the many jobs she has in order to save enough money for fashion school. you’ve seen her sketches and outfits she’s put together and you’re hoping that she’ll get accepted.

a sigh leaves you. you didn’t have a problem with eating the food here but you were craving for something new in your life in seoul. the perpetual cycle of eating takeout food and unconsciously skipping meals for work needed to be disrupted just for a moment. but you weren’t seeking michelin-star food—all you wanted was home cooked, something from home.

the spice of tteokbokki, the burn of freshly fried hotteok, and the sweetness of homemade peach iced tea—mr. kim’s convenience store had it all.

your tastebuds long for cheongju.

“planning to beat your record of spending 23 minutes on deciding what to get?”

you roll your eyes before looking to your right, seeing jongseob stocking up the drinks in the fridge. “i hate you.”

“what? i’m just saying, you’re taking a lot longer to decide today.” he chuckles before placing the last bottle of sweetened probiotic milk in the fridge. “none of the options look good to you?”

“sort of,” you hum before you scan through the aisle of packaged meals. “i think i’m craving for something different.”

“i get it. the food here can get boring, which is why i’m planning to order pizza if you want to split the costs.”

your eyebrows shoot up at jongseob’s suggestion. “really? you’d share pizza with me?”

“yeah, as long as you pay for your share.” he shoots you a smile before grabbing on a trolley carrying empty boxes. “unless… you want to pay for the whole thing.”

you bite back a smile as you shake your head. you should’ve known the guy would ask you to buy him food, but you knew that he needed the money and you at least had a stable income to keep you comfortable. “fine,” jongseob’s smile grows as you fish out your wallet from your pocket and pull out a couple of bills. “just order enough for us two.” 

“of course,” he says as soon as you hand him some money. “i’ll make sure to order the most expensive thing on the menu.”

you scoff at his joke. “just make sure to treat me to something.”

the bell by the door chimes. “sorry, can’t hear you over that! need to attend to a customer!” jongseob quickly runs away from you while dragging the trolley. that little shit just knew how to press your buttons, but you love the kid, anyway.

still, you stand in the middle of the mart and your heart longs for home.

then, you shut your eyes, and you’re transported back in front of the familiar aisle filled with bags of potato chips and sweet corn. the noisy fan along with the soft sounds of mr. kim’s korean drama fills your ears. a mix of yellow and orange hues paint every corner of the mart, including you—and you’re not alone.

your best friend stands on your right, wearing the unbuttoned school uniform polo over a tank top along with jogging pants. he’s lost in thought as he scans through the options of snacks you two can have for today’s afternoon. he starts to giggle to himself, probably from a silly thought he’ll share with you in the next second or a memory involving you, and the dips in his cheeks appear—your heart thumps in your ears.

and just like how quickly you were transported back to cheongju, your surroundings transformed into the cool-lit convenience store found in seoul. all you have left is the image of him bathed in the sunlight.

but he fades away like the ink on old receipts, never gone, because the glowing image of him warps into a different version who stands next to you in the cold mart. he’s grown a few inches taller and his hair doesn’t get in the way of his line of sight. while he wears a green sweater, you notice that he’s gained some muscles. his eyes scan through the aisle behind you filled with different brands of instant ramen.

but he bites the inside of his cheek, and his dimples appear.

it’s a tornado that brews within you, enough to uproot trees and displace buildings, all because of an unexpected reunion with changmin. why did the universe decide to bring two ex-best friends on a random tuesday night? what brings him to the convenience store at the same time you’re there? and why did it have to happen a day before the interview?

you weren’t going to commit the same mistake; keep your eyes off of him and make your way out of the store. it didn’t matter if you had an empty, growling stomach, or gave free money to jongseob. you need to leave without the distant, familiar face noticing.

your feet act fast, and you're almost certain that might’ve caught his attention, but it didn’t matter as you see jongseob standing behind the cashier with his phone out. “i just ordered the pizza. it should arrive in about… 20 to 30 minutes.”

“yeah, about that…”

“don’t tell me you’re taking your money back.”

at the sight of jongseob’s pout, you roll your eyes. “no, keep it. i just—i need to go.”

“what? why?”

you peek behind you. it seems like he didn’t recognize you, after all. “i’ve got… work!”

“but don’t you only have your interview with the bo—”

“hey!” your fingers snap at him. “you cannot—i mean, you just… just take the goddamn money.”

“but we’re supposed to share the pizza. you haven’t eaten.”

an exasperated sigh leaves you. “jongseob, just treat me next time. i can eat at home.”

and you’re ready to leave the convenience store, bid farewell to jongseob and a delicious pizza made for two, and never greet or say goodbye to the living fragment of what you last know of cheongju—

“y/n?”

and the plan failed.

when you meet his gaze, you’re able to take in the different version of him. he’s grown so much—it’s such a pain that you weren’t there to witness it. his eyes are a pool of emotions; you can’t identify them.

all it takes is one breath from you. “changmin.”

a beat passes.

“i’m just gonna… go through the storage,” jongseob points his thumb at the back of the mart, “and maybe kill myself afterwards. i don’t know.” before you can protest, he’s already gone. (and he still has your money. that fucker.)

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[leovaldiva]

✨Intro Post✨

I don’t know if there’s a certain amount of followers you have to have or knowledge and experience on tumblr you have to have/know before you make an intro post, so forgive me if i don’t have enough followers or experience.

About me 🌇

my regular name is Lydia, but i’d prefer if you called me Leo

my pronouns are They/Them/Theirs

I am a minor

i don’t know my sexuality yet, but so far i’ve liked girls, boys & non-binary people soo…

my fav colors are green and purple💚💜

i love love and want everyone to feel safe in their own homes and lives 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦

My fandoms include, but are not limited to:

the inheritance games, riordanverse, young royals, wings of fire, avatar the last air bender, a good girls guide to murder, One of us is lying (book only)

Favorite Musicians:

Taylor Swift, Conan Gray, Sabrina Carpenter, Drod, Girl in Red, Negative 25, Omar Rudberg

(I love Renee Rap and Olivia Rodrigo too but i don’t really listen to their music i just think their really hot)🩷💜

i don’t know if y’all are out here messaging people but my favorite people (so far) are:

@vintagetee13 @chengxiansbaby @autistic-katara @sparklezfallsinlovewithbooks @the-living-embodiment-of-time

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if y’all ever need anything feel free to dm me :)

my side blog:

@bandaidsdont13fixbulletholes (taylor swift)

i hope you feel as happy and safe as possible.

Love,

Leo💋

p.s.

@stop-ur-losing-me is the best swiftie blog and @riddles-n-games is the best inheritance games blog they both know EVERYTHING

[stargirlwnchstr]

I have a visual to share with y'all. Say welcome to my long ass 'The Foxes + tiktok' headcanon

@ nickythefox_es (part 1???)

Basically Nicky gets tiktok but all of the foxes show up eventually and just use his profile.

• Most of the videos are with nicky and allison, also matt and dan and occasionally neil.

• Allison and nicky learn so many dances.

• Their duet of make his pockets hurt with Mariah and Zane from the vlog squad is the first one to go v i r a l.

• Yeah most of their followers know them but some and a lot of the comments are non exy fans that just watch them because they're cool

• So many of the "what is exy" "stickball game??" "dont even bother explaining to me what is the sport they play I dont care I'm just here for neil." And related comments get a liked from creator (andrew told nicky to like them)

•The "Oh my god she's coming." "I'm so afraid of her." Audio are the twinyards and nicky shows up, he had to bribe them to be a part of that one.

• They post another version but it's Kevin that enters and Allison and Nicky talking

• So many comments thirsting over them and calling matt and dan parents

• "the real bisexual struggle is simping for matt and dan in the same tiktok." -> liked from creator nickythefox_es commented/replied: ASDGFKSSDWADKWB

• Someone makes a 'put a finger down: Neil Josten edition' and nicky drags him to do it. They both smile as they listen to the prompts and Neil obviously puts all his fingers down but they're like "put a finger down if you clapbacked/if you bad mouthed someone (bonus points if it was on national tv)" "put a finger down if you're under 6 feet" "put a finger down if you love exy" and the last one just says "put a finger down if andrew minyard." Neil does and smiles at someone off camera. Needless to say it goes viral as well. A few weeks after nicky gets verified.

• Allison becomes friends with thenavarose and wisdom sorry I dont make the rules (they're fashion tiktokers)

• They make a series of rating each of the foxes throughout the day, including one of Wymack.

• They do receive bad comments, from bitter ravens fans or just recalling their pasts and nicky sits down and makes a video telling everyone about how they do this videos for fun they dont need hate and negative comments on their videos and all that

• Then another one posted minutes after, neil comes in and nicky says "okay neil you have one minute. Rant off." And neil goes on this rant like how they already hit Rock bottom a single comment is not gonna hurt them and "do you get how insignificant and meaningless your lives must be? You took the time to write and post a comment that you thought was gonna cause an impact and failed. Also thanks for the comments though it helps nicky stay on the algorithm." NICKY SCREECHES AND THE VIDEO ENDS WITH THEM SMILING

• Allison vlogs neil and her going shopping or thrifting also cutting Neil's hair

• *neil walks into the room wearing his orange bandana* *camera moves and zooms on Andrew's face* he doesnt lip sync but the song sings "oh noo I think I'm catching feelings" andrew tells him to delete it "but it already has thousands of likes andrew"

• They post some of their work out routines per request

• One of them is the fast and "I'm spinning like a ballerina" chill of neil just running on the treadmill and doing sprints and squats and leg stuff while it cuts to allison doing a bit of everything but looking like a queen on a matching set.

• A fun one that goes viral for "vine energy" is: it's very quiet on the court and Kevin, very in the zone, throws the ball to the goal, which Andre's catches easily and almost without moving. The camera goes back to kevin as he screeches and let's himself fall on the ground. Neil is standing beside him shaking his head and looking at the goal with a smile on his face.

• They try to teach neil the dances but while filming one of them he just leaves. They post it either way.

• They're in the bus, nicky is on selfie mode and says "it is game day my dudes" he turns and shows the whole bus S C R E A M S, in the corner Wymack is covering his face.

• The iconic "they say drunk thoughts are sober words" or something like that and it cuts to a series of videos of the foxes drunk af. Example: Nicky grabbing Allison's face and saying 'Remember. Bread. Head. Leave.' And allison nodding.

• Nicky films kevin standing up and put the "do you ever wonder what is going on inside their head?" And it cuts to pictures of racquets and exy and Jeremy Knox and one that says history stuff.

• Another one that goes viral is kevin very seriously and p e r f o r m i n g, rapping Jefferson's side of the cabinet battle #1 from Hamilton then towards the end andrew stands up in front of him and with his iconic bored expression he starts rapping Hamilton's part. Behind the camera there's a soft "...oh my gOD" and kevin is shocked eyes widen open and then the camera zooms on Neil who's mouth is open in shock but GRINNING and ~impressed~

• Dan and matt do The challenge, you know the one that like has to flip them over and all that and they ace it, nicky points the camera to where andrew and neil are stating and Andrew says no.

• A few minutes later another video of the challenge is posted only this time is matt and neil.

• Nicky and allison are in full gear filming a dance video (maybe savage or captain hook) on the court and someone films them filming that and then Wymack looking at them SO disappointed cut to Wymack with nicky's phone, having confiscated it and nicky besides him "coach, it's cardio!"

• Hours spent trying trick shots

• Foxes: "get back! Move!" Ravens: "Let me in! I be the I g g y!" Trojans: "Oh my God do no let her in" Foxes: "I am trying!"

• Nicky lying down: "okay but someone needs to tell me how old is the shirtless pottery guy. I can't be part of another controversy. It's for science c'mon. *debby Ryan's*"

• Someone comments "he's eighteen. Simp away, nicky." And he makes a video with his feet swinging and smiling. Aaron gets on the frame and says "we are deeply in need of some bowls." The caption: hi @ papapots

• They are verified so obviously he gains a couple of thousands followers and he duets smiling and with a package in his arms. Text: thanks for the support (and hi new followers from sport side of tiktok hope you enjoy my pots) caption: hi @ nickthefox_es I got you aaron.

• After the package comes they duet it with nicky screaming and showing off the goods and then he moves stop show andrew eating ice cream out of one of them. Caption: AJSNEPWLDKSS THANK YOU DAX

• Allison and nicky do the "I love you!" "No you dont topper! You love the idea of me. You love being seen with me but you dont love me." But nicky is Sarah and allison is topper. Next day the obx ig page reposted it "we stan the psu foxes pogues for life." And chase stokes posts it on Twitter saying "yoo the palmetto foxes watch??? my show???" Nicky takes a screenshot and on green screen he says "hi chase!! We do! The whole team binged it. Currently we've been debating who of us is going to dress up as pogues for Halloween." A lot of voices start arguing and as nicky is gonna enter the debate the video cuts.

• Allison does the facetime *deep male voice says hey* prank on them. Neil doesnt react. Nicky doesnt look up from his phone but does the finger thing and says "get that d, allison!" Dan and renee look at each other and then at allison and she bursts out laughing.

• aaron studying to be a doctor: *two plus two is four etc sound* andrew (eating pretzels from the bag while watching a game show lying down in a bean bag) and his eiditic memory [basically not needing to study]: *three is a magic number sound*

• Nicky runs through the court and enters the lounge beside the photo wall there's a poster he shows the camera as the sounds says it "alive ahaha fuck"

• Somehow they convince all of them to show up and do the wipe it down trend that ends up with wymack throwing the towel at the mirror.

• Comment: so how many members of the team listen to girl in red or sweater weather? Nicky stands there with the color filter: 👁👄👁👉👈 caption: yes❤

• He gets neil to duet to the whole "british people be like". "Neil I'm not british." "Part of you is so just read the tweets." He does and the comments are all thirst and simping

• Comment: raise your hand if you've been victimized by neil josten. Where my fellow Simps at? (The comment gets hundreds of thousands of likes) they make a video, everyone on the team except aaron who walks out raises their hand as the sound says "welcome to simp nation" kevin rolls his eyes but raises his, says something that nicky captions "i simp over his exy skills". andrew doesn't at first, but next to him neil whispers something and after andrew says yes, neil grabs Andrew's forearm and raises it. Andrew looks away and neil smiles.

• Nicky lying down: okay but what if Jean moreau traded places with the french guy from here you know who, david.

• Comment "ugh your mind nicky" reply video: right? Big brain, many thoughts, head full all the time. But like actually the idea of david playing exy and Jean hanging out with ducks and making viral tiktoks just-

• Comment "i feel you and @ austincantdrive would make the best chaotic duo" reply: we would be too powerful together. Austin replies too: agree.

• Allison makes a sports jersey/comfy wear but make it fashion and she styles herself. Everyone on the comments d i e s for her.

• Comment "okay but what about the boys. help allison." She makes a video too with matt and nicky and at the end neil wears an orange crop top and the internet b r e a k s

• Comment "allison do you listen to girl in red?" video reply: her winking at the camera and lip syncing as sweater weather plays. The comments a lot of them liked by creator: a win for the girls (and the boys)

• Upperclassmen Back in 2003: okay but hey do we always have to be involved? Can we do normal stuff that normal people do, like, go for brunch? Us (aaron, andrew, kevin and me): what the fuck is brunch?

• Of course they do the mr blue sky trend. Nicky: drunkenly goes to flirt with a guy. Aaron: drunkenly follows to get away from kevin. Kevin: drunk on pure vodka reminds us we have practice in the morning.

• Or another one all of them. Neil: ready to insult a reporter. Dan: tries not to laugh on camera. Matt: gets ready to hug him afterwards Allison and Nicky: Filming everything. Wymack: the only one trying to stop it from happening and failing.

• Dan and matt duet their reactions to every video edit of them, smiling and saying "your parents love you guys!".

• Comment "literally what is wrong with the ravens/ravens fans?The foxes are such a nice group of people and they're doing great in the sport y'all worship just shut up you cult-y athletic hype house." video reply: "ladies and gentlemen. The volume inside of this bus is A S T R O N O M I C A L."

• comment video reply: okay so we're not gonna talk about nicky at the gym?? Bc C A K E. nicky lip syncing "I'm glad you brung it up because I've been dying to talk about this for a fucking hot minute. First of all-"

• Colin uses one of Neil's or Andrew's interviews replies as one of his sounds and nicky fanboys a lot

• Allison and nicky do the Kardashian sound compilation.

• Nicky with a picture of Erik on green screen: "hi I just wanna say if you look anything like this please contact me. Thank you." Caption: miss u baby. And Erik watches his tiktoks and he facetimes him immediately. Nicky takes a screenshot and duets his own video crying with the screenshot caption: SKALSBSKAJSL Erik comments: stop making tiktoks and answer the phone, hemmick. Nicky replies: yessir everyone below comments keyboard smashes and you got a good one. Goals. Lmao kids that's what we call bottom panic. We stan one healthy long distance relationship and after that a bunch of long distance relationship questions that he makes another video on.

• A video of Katelyn and neil chatting and it pans to the twins watching them with the *when worlds collide sound*

• He reposts a snippet of one of his interviews post game where he grabs the mic from the reporter and nicky: can I say something? Reporter: sure, go ahead. Nicky: thank you. *looks straight into the camera* all the birds died in 1986 due to Reagan killing them and replacing them with spies that are now watching us. The birds work for the bourgeoisie. Thank you." And leaves. IT GOES VIRAL INSTANTLY.

• Comment "is everyone else gonna forget that tiktok where he said he was already part of a controversy? We stan a problematic icon?" Video reply: guys I might have been part of a whole Twitter beef thing against my little hoodie and Bruce hallway but c'mon, like, c'mon you can't blame me.

• Comment "for neil: does the carpet match the drapes 👅😍?" Video reply: neil on selfie mode. "Allison gave me her phone, told me to answer this and ran away so umm." He reads the box on the screen and frowns he walks and stands next to the window, where Andrew is sitting down and is barely seen on frame. "uhmm, the internet is confusing. Our carpet is like this" he turns the phone and shows the floor (grayish carpet) and then back at him "but we don't have drapes so, technically they don't match, I dont know." Andrew's head goes up and simply says "Neil." Neil turns "what?" And the video ends.

• of course nicky and allison do the WAP dance, on the court, when they should be running drills.

[flyandfamousblackgirls]

RASHIDA RENEÉ WANTS YOU TO KNOW YOUR HISTORY by  Alexis Rene Moten (Culture Jock)

Let’s start this article with a quiz: Name a Black model from the 1990’s that isn’t Naomi Campbell or Tyra Banks?

Stumped? It’s safe to say that if the question were asked to name a White model that wasn’t Kate Moss or Cyndi Crawford, best case scenario you would’ve excelled with a list to provide. Maybe something like: Linda Evangelista, Claudia Schiffer, Christy Turlington, Shalom Harlow, Carla Bruni, Heidi Klum..you get my point.

At times, Pop Culture can be a fair-weather friend. Monday’s It-girl becomes Friday’s nobody and by Sunday there’s a new hot thing in town to get all the girls in a fuss. But as nostalgia-trends rises as capitalism’s newest enterprise, endorsed largely by social media app, Instagram, history is being retold by the agenda of it’s curator. The selective hearing of  Instagram accounts like @90scelebvibes (391K followers) and @90sanxiety (793K followers) present a facade that the past was rather beige, leaving largely out the credit due to the Black and people of color creatives that developed and inspired the trends imitated today.

Bay area based, Fashion archivist Rashida Reneé, takes on self-love to a familial level celebrating her love and the appreciation of Black designers, models and other fashion industry influencers that otherwise go forgotten in our modern culture. In fashion, as in anything else, things old become anew. However, Reneé takes on the responsibility as a trend gatekeeper, providing evidence of what fashion used to be and recognizing the faces we longed forgotten.  

Q: Name a Black model from the 1990’s that isn’t Naomi Campbell or Tyra Banks?

A: Beverly Peele,  Gail O’Neill, Iman, Kara, Young, Karen Alexander,  Louise Vyent, Roshumba, Veronica Webb, etc.

Culture Jock: What is a typical day for the most hated hoe in the city?

RR: (laughs) It’s weird, I kind of like to keep it to myself. Keep track of what I like and my thoughts. I don’t know. I'm very low-key person in real life, but when I do leave the house (pauses) I do, I promise! I just like my personal time, but when it’s time to be out I am present, as much as possible. I do what I do becauseII like giving information to people and give them links and information just so they know.

CJ: What brought you into fashion archiving?

RR: My whole archiving process was originally for myself and filling in spots of information where there it was empty of black people. Of course, there is street fashion, but in terms of online fashion, sites like Manrepeller, you didn’t see a lot of black girls doing it and the people doing it I thought were lame. Finding other black people who weren’t anti-black in those kind of spaces. I felt a lot of people were trying to make us to assimilate. Everyone was kind of like doing the same things and it was like, ‘Naomi Campbell!’ But if it were any other dark girl it didn’t matter. So, I started my own blog and then I had to stop myself from posting Naomi Campbell’s photos too. I would do one picture of Naomi Campbell a day and try to really give props to other black woman involved and black people in general. When I was younger I was familiar with the other models not just Naomi Campbell, my mom was really in it with Naomi. She worked in a beauty salon, which had magazines of all the models. Like, black hair magazines, they always listed the models so, no matter what you knew who they were. Whoever it was in the 90s, ‘this is who that is and this who that is.’ You’d see the oldest Destiny Child’s video shoots in black hair magazines. I just haven’t seen other people doing that. There are other girls now that focus more on Hip Hop in 90s and 2000s. Livejournal, fashion spot, Tumblr, people didn’t go out of their way to scan the black models or even try to name them. It’s funny, people online, they don’t even try to hide their biases. No one was really fashion blogging the way I like or how I see .

CJ:In your piece for Office Magazine you mention, from Patrick Kelley to today’s influence of Dapper Dan, American culture from its roots drips of Black influence and culture. Why do you think Black culture is so immutable and where do you see the ownership of our creations.

RR: People I mean know, it’s just like, it’s weird and odd to even talk about. Not just people referencing me or copying, I feel like I am being gaslit all the time or being told that. People love stealing from black people. People love stealing from black people. People love stealing from black people and lying about it. People hate black people but they think we are cool. I can’t even (pauses)yeah it’s very weird. The twitter thing is weird (sighs).

CJ: It is weird.

RR: (sighs) It’s not really helping them. It’s boring to live with no personality. To see someone interesting and steal from them to bolster themselves. [On social media] we have the means to share with each other, like, moments that are of shared experiences of oppression and that is even imitated. I don’t know why the copy of things are okay. It is such a multi-layered thing. Or the way the Stans talk like mainly the Black queer and Black trans talk and how all of that is now being used by everyone. Ariana Grande, ya know, icons talk like girls on the ballrooms did back in 2006. Parodying things. It helps them develop their own brand, I don’t understand their fascination with us anyway. I’m into my own shit and own culture. I like the way black people express themselves and other people use us and what we do to talk to each other or communicate and then take that to feel cool. I’ve always been,like, ‘why would someone want to be like this?’ or pretend. I don’t get it. People run out of content. I know people used to make fun of me and the things I used to be and ironically they are into it now. People need to find their own hobbies. They are bored.

CJ: The internet is complex. It’s a parody of itself.

RR: Knowing your history is important. You need to know where you came from to know where you are going. When it comes to fashion archives the question is, ‘what is it that you are looking for or trying to highlight?’ My concern is that fashion archiving is feeding into nostalgic trends, where it’s easier to mimic what was done before rather then create new moments. Do you share the same sentiments?

CJ: What is it about fashion that excites you?

RR: It’s so fun and so funny. The dolls are taking over. That’s how most things go, the things that happened come back with a hyper focus. It really is going full out now. It’s interesting to see how people are dressing now. [Fashion] is always reflective of the political climate. Think about the 80s everyone is dressing like a dickhead. Then when people got sick of dressing like a dickhead, minimalism comes in. We cycle through trends so fast, today. I remember a girl wearing a hair clips and no one was into it. Then the next week everyone was wearing them, then I see Cyndi Lauper in an interview wearing hair clips. She’s like 50-something and she’s wearing hair clips made out of Swarovski crystals. It’s so interesting. It’s funny how it happens. Now everyone is into fashion.

CJ: Who are your biggest fashion influences ?

RR: My biggest influences are Naomi Campbell and my mom. Girls I follow on the internet. My mom is from San Francisco lives her own life and is very eclectic. I get a lot from her and different taste. Foxy Brown is also very inspiring, I reference her a lot I think about her and Steven Miesel. Steven knows how to do everything. Steven can do everything. Everyone knows I am a crazy Beyoncé fan. But, I have different girls for different moods. My main inspo is Naomi and Foxy Brown. I really gravitated to Foxy because she was more into Prada and Chloe when Stella McCartney was there. Because of Foxy I love Chloe. She was very cool. Naomi is, you just aspire to that level of greatness. There is no one else. Even in her flaws she handles them so well. I can’t imagine someone else with that kind of rap sheet to not get fully canceled. I judge people by how they react to criticism. She handles it really well. I find that really inspiring.

CJ: What film or television do you think has the best fashion catalog? If you could what character's closet would you love to raid?

RR: I am so frazzled. There’s so much stuff I like. I write things down specifically, because I can never remember. I watched The Nanny last year with Fran Drescher, when I was really depressed and was like, ‘Wow this is inspiring.’ Brenda Cooper, her mind. Everyone had a look in. Pose, is another one. Everything has intentions from the main characters to the background characters. I really like the first season of costume design. It’s commitment to that era. Someone is always dressed like, Karen White or Jodi Whitley. Elektra is very dynasty, that high lady energy. I love that about the show. I love Glow, the costume designer, Beth Morgan. I love when people do era shows, specifically the 80s and they don’t try to soften it, especially in makeup or hair. They aren’t scared to embrace the ugliness, I love that. That’s what good costume design is about. High fashion is easy, but what really gets me is watching old movies and looking at the clothes.  

CJ: We are moving into a new decade of 2020. I have a feeling it may be the year of 2020 vision and final clarity. What are your aspirations for this new era and what do you hope to see from the world?

RR: I feel like the children are our future. That’s what I’m looking at, to see what the kids are into. People are more focused into what they look like and I remember if someone dressed a little bit out of fashion it was a huge deal and get talked about. But now they are embracing their weirdness and experimenting. Do you watch that Tik Tok stuff? I just want a regular life. Happy, healthy, all my kids are happy and healthy. When I move to [Los Angeles] and get hotter, hotter and I want to  become, what is that called, a wellness person? I want a Goop moment, but with Solange aesthetics. Maybe make a propaganda film to get people to stop wearing wigs.

[sunshinesteves]

my favorite hamilfilm moments:

groff doing the intro as kg3..."enjoy my show" klasfjskfd

everyone except burr is wearing all white in alexander hamilton...probably some metaphor in there (alex gets his brown coat at the end of the song tho)

the lil punching motion lin does at "i may have punched him"

"you punched the bursur?" *snappy finger gun* "YES"

I LOVE THE REVOLUTIONARY SET THAT IS ALL

oak's beanie

the fact that my shot is just hamilton yelling about the revolution in a bar and everyone's like "what the fuck is happening"

at "i think your pants look hot" when oak puts his leg on the bench and swooshes his cape back and anthony and daveed start CACKLING...idk if it wasn't scripted or if they just laugh at it every time. either way it's incredible

the lil woah woah woaaaahhhh encore between my shot and story of tonight

lafayette's "let's have another round tonight" is. so funny

peggy is PISSED OFF. mood

EVERYTHING about burr and angelica in schuyler sisters. renee's facial expressions. her shoving the paper at him and then pushing him away. SO GOOD

literally everything about farmer refuted. lin's smile like "w-what the fuck-" seabury moving the box to try to be in front of hamilton. them trying to push each other off the box. burr RUSHING in to stop hamilton sfjslfksf

"why so sad?" *sad face*

that one shot from the back of the stage of chris right before he turns arond and enters in right hand man

LADIES!!!

the lil grapevine "hey, hey" dance at the end of winter's ball...and also anthony's smile when he's doing it

during helpless jazzy and anthony are just chilling talking on the staircase in the back...BEST COUPLE

HAHAHA PEGGY'S DANCE AT "ONE WEEK LATER" WITH THE LETTERS

eliza saying HA right to the audience

HAMILTON'S DANCE AFTER GETTING ENGAGED AND ELIZA KINDA GETS INTO IT TOO

eliza’s face at “angelica tried to take a bite of me” alkfjaslfaj

FLOWER GIRL HERCULES MULLIGAN

all right all right that's what i'm tawwwwwkin aboutttt

alskfjaa alex is just standing facing the audience and the whole male ensemble comes up and turns him to face eliza

DEBBY RYAN FACE

PEGGY DOES THE DANCE AGAIN. ICONIC

the take a break outro plays right in between satisfied and story of tonight (reprise) for a seconds...UM

oak’s headband

this fuckin thing (best moment of the whole show no cap)

and when laurens stops, lafeyette and mulligan keep dancing and they’re like. flossing?? idk but it’s so good

anthony’s face at “on the siiiiide buuurrr” DLSKAFJ

and oak starts grinding on him while making kissy faces. incredible

leslie odom jr....god damn

idk why but lin’s face at “but every day he dismisses out of hand” is so fucking funny

THE WAY LESLIE SAYS “OK SO WE’RE DOING THIS” ALDKFJASDF HE’S SO DONE

there are so many moments where lin just smiles when like. he probably isn’t supposed to?? it’s v pure tbh...i think he was just happy to be there which. mood. 

burr just JUMPS on the ledge during guns and ships lmaoooo

DAVEED DIGGS WAS HAVING THE TIME OF HIS FUCKING LIFE

the dance daveed does at “sir he knows what to do in the trench”

when oak blows the audience a kiss and sticks his tongue out at them after his part in yorktown 

“i’m so blue” *stomps* *lights change to blue*

lafayette and mulligan reading their letters from mr laurens in the back while eliza reads alex’s...haha i’m in pain 

“i practiced the law, i practically perfected it” SWOOSH

the way alex introduces the constitution like it’s the next big tv show or something asjfklasf

jefferson waving to the audience and sauntering down the staircase

oak as madison is so funny to me just because the clothes just...look small on him. like i get that they technically do fit him he’s just a huge dude so they don’t. look like they do

AKSLFASF there’s one part where jefferson just runs over to madison and tries to put his leg up on his shoulder or something? and madison just pushes it down like “thomas. no” alsjfas iconic

hamilton sticking his hand IN BETWEEN jefferson and washington to introduce himself

daveed is just. prancing. like a pony

in cabinet battle 1 jefferson drops the mic into madison’s hand

whatever the fuck lin is doing at “whatever the hell it is you do in monticello”

how does anthony pull off playing a 9 year old boy so well akldfjasd

ELIZA BEATBOXING GO OFF PIPPA

philip finishes his rap, hugs alex aggressively, throws his hands up, then RUNS off stage. mood

angelica and eliza in take a break..........pure

JASMINE CEPHAS JONES. GOD DAMN

love how alex just has a whole ass woman in his lap

the “talk less, smile more” in room where it happened...ily lin

“i’ve no where else to turn!” LEAVES

THE TABLECLOTH THING

saklfdf jefferson literally prances (PRANCES) over to madison and puts the mic to his mouth and he just goes “...france” SO QUIETLY

hamilton holding up king louis’s head

burr walking up behind jefferson for washington on your side and jefferson’s like ????? where the fuck did you come from what

WHICH I WROTE

whatever the fuck they’re doing at “southern motherfucking democratic republicans” askfjasdkf

CHRISTOPHER JACKSON. SIR.

washington and kg3 just. lookin at each other for a sec.

“country”

ariana debose telling kg3 about adams...she starts laughing and the look he gives her....queen ily

kg3′s dancing in adams administration. why is he even there lol

maria on the side of the stage during we know

jefferson’s “whaaAAAAAA”

and also jefferson’s "my god”. daveed ily

ariana debose being the only ensemble member in an act 1 revolution coat during hurricane...there’s a metaphor there. i think

maria handing hamilton the quill for the reynolds pamphlet

jefferson’s lil dance when he’s sitting on the table klsfjasld

jefferson making it rain. king george is. there. what is happening

PHILIPPA SOO. MY QUEEN

anthony’s hands at “the ladies say my brain’s not where the resemblance stop” SIR

philip’s just yelling up at the ledge from the stage which is. so funny to me. 

EVERYTHING IS LEGAL IN NEW JERSEY

philip goes flying...but in slow motion....fuck

props to anthony for being able to sing like that while lying on his back

THE SCREAM NO

poor madison is so choked up over philip awwwww

at “to get hamilton on your side” jefferson is just shaking his head aggressively. i mean mood

how excited burr looks when hamilton makes his decision because he assumes he’ll choose him...and then the look of shock + disappointment

“as your vice president! “MMBLAAAAA” daveed WHAT was that noise

the ensemble handing burr like 7 letters from hamilton in a row

anthony playing both laurens and philip in the world was wide enough...he just kinda turns around to switch characters alsdfja

EVERYONE IN ALL WHITE AGAIN EXCEPT ELIZA, ANGELICA, BURR AND HAMILTON LIN

ik people have different opinions on the end with lin taking her hand and everything, but i heard someone say that it’s lin as himself (not hamilton) showing eliza that he’s telling her story...tears.

THE GASP OH MY GOD

that is...a lot. it was so good. FUCK–

[deathbomb]

In 2014, Sean Jewel conducted a massive interview with a gathering of Deathbomb Arc artists and label head Brian Miller. In recent years, the article has been scrubbed from the site it was originally posted at. We have gathered all of the text content for it from archival sites and recreated it below. Only one image from it has currently been found, picturing (L-R) tik///tik, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes.

No Genre, No Authenticity, No Problem: An Interview With LA Label Deathbomb Arc by Sean Jewell

Interview conducted with Los Angeles DIY label Deathbomb Arc, on the birth of clipping., the meaning of experimental music, and the curses and blessings of liking everything:

I love Seattle, but after developing a nasty case of seasonal-affected malaise last month, I did what any miserable person would do: took some work in Los Angeles, California. I later realized that the dates I’d be there included the evening of the Grammys. I began to imagine a scenario in which an award would be given to artists who take chances with music rather than make popular music, and little Los Angeles label Deathbomb Arc came to mind. I did what any self-doubting writer would do: I requested an interview. Deathbomb Arc is the label that birthed Sub Pop signees clipping., a group whose music works as much to entertain as it does to muddle and expand genre. Their 2013 release midcity did the unlikely and combined two of my great loves: electroacoustic interference music and hiphop. I wanted to understand the genesis of their sound, so I talked to label boss Brian Miller and to my surprise in one evening he’d rounded up two-thirds of the members of clipping., Jonathan Snipes, and William Hutson (Daveed Diggs was away and unavailable), rapper I.E. (Margot Padilla), noise musician Tik//Tik (Stephen Cano) and label videographer and graphic designer Cristina Bercovitz for an all-pro interview session.

I did my best to avoid the Grammys in LA. I sped up Mullholland drive, tumbled down Topanga Canyon, and watched paddle boarders surf in the sunset at Malibu. I went to Watts, talked to the daughter of Harlem Renaissance player Leo Trammel about the Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center. We agreed Los Angeles’ legacy of great musicians (Eric Dolphy, Schoolboy Q, John Cage, Ice Cube, Tyrese Gibson, Barry White just to name a few) was shamefully not its most recognized feature. I watched a girl play guitar at Watts Towers, heard her father sing, and became aggravated at the police helicopters looming overhead. I relaxed in the sun. That evening I found my way to Mid City LA and met the Deathbomb Arc crew at the home of Jonathan Snipes. We sat around the kitchen table and talked. My malaise melted and was recast as a sense of belonging.

My first exposure to clipping. was through their mixtape for No Conclusion. The group took a leak of Kanye West’s Yeezus, and the idea from their Twitter followers that Kanye might have been listening to clipping. during its making, and put together a mixtape over their favorite parts of his leaked songs (there weren’t many) that included their favorite rap music from the year prior. The person who pointed me toward clipping. mentioned to me that this label had been releasing artists music on cassette like the medium never went out of style. clipping. released an untitled cassette on Deathbomb and very few sold until their album midcity drew attention with a free online download. Midcity was also later released on cassette. I asked Brian Miller about that.

“I feel pretty out of touch with the history of its hipness. I put out the first cassette on Deathbomb in ’04 and at that point I felt late to the game.” He and Jeff Witscher (aka Rene Hell) put out work on cassette as Foot Village. He reminded me that the cassette has always been the chosen medium of the noise music genre and that it just never went away in that small corner due to its relative cheapness to produce. Brian is soft spoken and obviously cares deeply about music. He’s seen to it that his younger musicians get albums put out on cassette so they can see and hold quality, visible copies of their work. He does it to show them he cares. The idea comes up that older cars accommodate the medium, as well as the fact that it can be produced in any length cheaply. “The thing I love about cassettes is that nobody is making the argument that they sound better,” Snipes jokes. “They sound awful, so the the appeal really is all fetish or novelty.” "I have no idea what many of the younger acts I work with think about me putting their music out on cassette," Brian Miller says. "For them it’s not novelty or fetish at all, they didn't grow up with them, and acts like Signor Benedick The Moor have been completely shocked when I describe releasing music on actual physical cassette” I.E. is sitting off to my left and confirms the notion when he asks if she had an opinion about the release of her work on a certain medium: “I didn't care what the hell it came out on!”

I.E. makes painfully earnest hiphop that stems from her growing up outside of LA (in Inland Empire, hence the name). I ask her how her recent show in Seattle was. “It was terrible.” I played at The Josephine, nobody came, I just kind of played for the two dudes that lived there and the other act.” Brian Miller reminisces on bringing clipping. and Foot Village to Seattle and being well attended, but recognizes the fortune of those in their scene in LA, a place with no apprehension about putting a band on a bill because of their style. It’s this kind of availability and openness at venues (the last decade) that has given way to such a youthful music movement in LA (think Burger Records, Innovative Leisure, Deathbomb Arc).

Snipes, who is also a film score producer (Room 237, the documentary that investigates the myths behind Kubrick’s The Shining, is his best work, which he brought along Bill Hutson for) confesses his love for CDs as a music medium and his worst show in Seattle. He’s hirsute and talkative, smart, and nice. He has a lot of thoughts about music. He recalls his worst show in Seattle with his "ravesploitation" group Captain Ahab (one part of the genesis of clipping.) “I played the Baltic Room, the people who booked the show were very kind, but we got unplugged pretty soon into our set because people who were there weren't there to watch a sweaty white dude rap about buttholes.” Laughter erupts at the table. “It gave me the perspective that my idea—which to me was the most important part of that group—was totally offensive to everyone else on the bill, rappers and DJs whose craft defined them. Since then I've been on a bill or two with acts who I regarded as offensive.” Captain Ahab was a group born out of post 9-11 nationalism and moroseness of a nation, “What Captain Ahab was doing was acceptable in the circles we traveled in because everyone had gotten so conservative and boring, but here was a group of young people with no genre, making art a safe space for dangerous ideas, defending that idea at a point in America where people were questioning the way they expressed themselves,” Miller says.

“The modus operandi of Deathbomb is punk as a way of being in the world, and not a type of music,” Hutson interjects. He’s undoubtedly the dissident in the group. He towers over me in height, and he’s ruggedly good looking. There are things going on behind his piercing eyes. He doesn’t speak much, but when he does it’s profound. I’d heard of his work, but he surprised me with his in-depth knowledge of hiphop, noise, and punk. “If you listen to most punk now, it’s the most conservative, closed-minded shit you've ever heard. You can be punk now and not make punk music.”

His comment reminds me that I.E.’s work is a dead ringer for early-'80s LA punk. A self-proclaimed chola rave queen, she could be the child of Alice Bag, and her music recalls The Cholitas and X. “I do listen to that music, but I grew up on hiphop. I’m also big into Euro dance music and new wave.” The great thing about her album Most Importantly is that she reminds every hard-on about the absolutely horrid world women grow up in without a single sad face emoji. Instead she uses chip tunes, noise music, and hiphop to get her truly hilarious, truly feminist point of view through to you.

Besides I.E. and Brian Miller, everyone gathered is into theater or came from that background. Some went to UCLA, Daveed went to Brown, Christina is a well-known puppeteer in Los Angeles and has directed several videos for clipping. and other Deathbomb artists. “We studied very traditional American theater, what can you say about that? It makes you creative in a very production-driven way. It affects the way we all work together.”

“It’s also a style of art we’re all interested in, but realized soon into school that we really don’t ever want to make,” Snipes jokes. “We learned how to do all this by doing Captain Ahab (Snipes' earlier group). It took us a long time to learn how to brand things, how to package things,” Cristina adds.

Miller brings up the point that the improvisational ability members possess affects their love for their unorthodox performances and musical styles. That the training to recognize others' cues can direct you on stage—theater or musical—and take you somewhere further than just a recital of recorded work, can really bring the music to life. Snipes talks a bit about how theater relates to composing music: “What is the idea of this entire play, and does every decision you’re making support this one very simple idea. If it does not, you cut it, successful theater is based on this.” Hutson concludes, “The only other idea I would add is that what theater did for us, for Captain Ahab, and for clipping. is that we have no concern for authenticity. Lying is a performance; we lie a lot.”

“There is nothing explicitly sexist about speaking over rhythms.” William Hutson says, laughing. “You don’t have to say monstrous things about women as a rapper, they just generally do for some reason.”

I’d just brought up my theory that hiphop as a movement is incorrectly labeled as sexist. That people, rappers, as individuals can be called out for their actions or their speech, but the movement cannot. People don’t attack thespianism as a whole because the actor who plays Don Draper on Mad Men gives a sexist performance on TV, so what’s the difference with rap?

“Some people don't understand that. People do think that musicians go on stage and are the ultimate version of themselves,” Brian Miller adds.

People imprint themselves on music like no other art form. clipping.’s work especially has been regarded as more aggro than deserved (in my opinion) and Bill Hutson helps me understand why when I bring up the fact that I have feelings for abstract art (I feel as emotional at the lines of Judd and paint blotches of a Frankenthaler as I do at good music), yet I still understand the painters and sculptors of that period were not referencing me.

“But even abstract art was sold on the rugged individualism of Pollock as some cowboy. With the artist as the character and not the art,” Hutson interjects. “It’s all a bunch of bullshit to me,” he says, before shrinking back into his shoulders and staring into his wine.

Jonathan Snipes explains: “I always thought of my Captain Ahab lyrics as a sort of musical timbre. I responded to Miami Bass and Detroit Ghetto House music. I liked the drum machine sounds, the way they were programmed, the synths, and the words. The words in those songs just so happen to mostly be about women’s butts.” (Everyone at the table giggles. it makes sense, sort of.) “It wouldn’t be that type of music if we weren’t talking about women’s butts. The words you’re using can be a timbre choice. I think the same is true for clipping. I don’t feel like I’m allowed to say that, because I don’t write the words for clipping., but I would say that’s true of that band as well.”

He brings up a point I’d been dying to talk about. The lyrical choices on clipping.’s midcity are massive in terms of word placement. It’s clear that Daveed Diggs’ lyrics weren’t written into a cell phone that evening and recorded once, never to be edited. His story rhymes and raps are deliciously grotesque poetry about lost lovers, affection for the city, and blind loyalty to the street, that are as visually stimulating as they are precisely spit. I read that they'd been choosy about his phrasing. “Rappers don’t have editors," Hutson says, “except for Daveed, he’s been amazed that we have opinions, and will ask us which line or word is better, but that certainly is not how rap music gets written anywhere else.” The amazing thing about clipping.’s experimental hiphop is also the fact that Daveed seems to stand alone while rhyming, as the electro-acoustic interference and noise he raps over is not necessarily providing him with a rhythm, many times he is the rhythm, and the noise is the lead, but before I get to lost in my love for minimalism, the maximalist at the table speaks up.

tik///tik (Steven Cano) has been a noise-music fixture around Los Angeles for years. If there is a true noise music maker at the table it’s him. I’m surprised though, to learn that the vocals and vocal samples in his music are his own. Miller regards him as the most soulful musician of the group because of his earnestness, and I’m surprised at his personality in person. He's congenial, almost diminutive. He speaks quietly for having made such noisy music over the years. My favorite works of his Jewel Play, and Every Hex Is A Hearthache wrap his pop vocals in visqueen and duct tape and toss the kidnapped, dead idea of pop into a chilly slough. “I might push the volume, but there’s always something in the middle of that maelstrom of sounds going around in my music. There’ll be a horrible torch song right in the middle of my songs, and that’s what I’m worried about,” he says, quietly, almost unsure of himself.

If you hear his music you might be as shocked as me that he’s making pop tunes. His inspirations:

“I relate to Miami Freestyle, I used to steal my brothers N.W.A., I listened to LL Cool J, that’s kind of what attracted me to Captain Ahab (Snipes’ early group) originally because I like that Miami ‘booty’ sound.”

Brian says: “The first time he really struck me was on his tracks during ‘The Fruit Will Rot Vol. 3’; everyone else delivered really harsh noise for that compilation. Steven turned in these tracks that could have used vocal samples from pop acts from the '60s or something, but they weren’t, they’re actually Steven singing. I’ve never heard anything else like it." Then he sums up tik///tik in a single sentence, putting it in a way I'd never thought of: "How many people out there are like ‘Gee, I sure wish there was a group that bridged the gap between my harsh noise records and my soul collection?”

Steven's reply: “It’s part of the LA thing, though. I’m fine sitting between all these people. I’ve been on tour with them. Nothing is weird to me. To me I.E. has written the noisiest punk-rock track ever. Genre doesn’t exist.”

Speaking of LA acts going way back, and The Fruit Will Rot Vol.3 gives me the chance to ask Bill Hutson of what I’d heard was the genesis of clipping, his early work as a noise act called Beach Balls.

“It was a joke about all of the LA harsh noise acts at that time, people were ripping off one artist known as Pedestrian Deposit. Everyone’s music was coming out as blasts of harsh noise between ambient music cuts. I made the joke that I was going to do that in my band Beach Balls, but with harsh noise and rap a cappellas. It was just an attempt to re-format what everyone was doing by ripping off one guy. But instead of copying we’d switch out one of the genres for something I related to.”

The DNA of clipping. can be traced all the way back to that mixtape in which Bill uses a click track and a Ying Yang Twins sample to make a song called “Case Sensitivity” that takes the juvenile "whisper song" and turns it into an ominous hiphop adventure. Snipes recalls begging Hutson to form a band after seeing LA group Death Set play distorted radio-rap songs inbetween songs in their set. “I told him for years someone needed to do this as a band, combine noise and rap, and eventually I convinced him we should do it as a remix project. The first one we worked on was using an Insane Clown Posse a cappella.”

Hutson: “The reason I did all that, and I made all these songs that never came out, was because I was uncomfortable with the degree to which…it was a joke about taking these power electronic songs that are either explicitly or implicitly white-supremacist music, and I would beat match them with like Lil Wayne rapping over them. Because they were in the same tempo, and it was like, ‘these are two sounds I like and how do I deal with the fact that some of the music I like is really fucked up and I don’t agree with it’…” He goes on to rant about acts whose white-supremacist values seem to have been forgotten (or more likely not even researched) because their bands make for good buzz media.

Miller: “The idea was of negotiating between all the different types of music, and being able to touch base with them, but the culture at that time was not ok with us mixing those things. We mash things together so much that people don’t realize we love all these genres. You really have to listen to hear those things in there, the soul singing, Trina samples, J Mascis. We met because I once put out a very abstract tribute to Cash Money records, and I knew of Bill’s music, then wrote to him and found out we lived near each other. It was cool for us, but at the time it literally got me hate mail from people who thought we shouldn’t combine certain music and rap. Bill just happened to be into experimental music and hiphop like me.”

Hutson: “Very specifically, Cash Money records. When I was a kid I wanted to be a Cash Money Millionaire, and in 1998 I switched to wanting to be a No Limit Soldier,” he laughs.

As Brian points out, these things may sound like nothing weird at all now, but in ‘02 looked like a pretty defiant (read: punk) stance toward the standards of craven scenesters. Brian also previously put out a tribute compilation to No Limit records as well that asked bands to write songs around the idea of No Limit records. The DIY to stardom aspect of those labels are what inspired Deathbomb. Also the question of what it means to be a white person from suburban LA who loves southern gangster rap. The exploration, the experiment, was the point.

“Call it mysoginist, but those Southern labels supported more female acts at that time than any other label, I can name more female rappers from New Orleans than I can from any other city.” Earlier I mistakenly referred to Percy Miller (aka Master P, head of No Limit) as Patrick Miller, and Bill Hutson corrected me as soon as it came out of my mouth. I apologized. Dude is serious about his rap and hiphop.

What's the point of any music?

It would be taking advantage of the privilege of having so many experimental, electro-acoustic interference, musique concrète geeks in the same room to not ask: What is the point ? What is the point of music with little rhythm, few words, unrecognizable instruments? I look to the very intelligent members of this very noisy label for help.

“I might be the wrong person to answer that,” Steven Cano (aka tik///tik) says “when I’m making my music I feel like I’m Selena in the middle of everything. For me it’s another version of pop music, and that’s how I attack it. It doesn’t mean I don’t listen to other noise artists, but that’s how I know how to make music, that’s where it comes from”

“I love the sounds, personally. I find them exciting, and for me that’s all there needs to be is that the sounds are pleasing to my ears.” Jonathan Snipes says.

“What’s the point of any music?” Bill Hutson says, then crosses his legs and looks away and laughs.

But from I.E. comes something poignant as usual:

“The first time I heard these guys was over The Smell speakers and the hair stood up on my arms. I never knew what noise music was, but I kind of made it, and then when I was starting to become an artist I had the same feelings as these guys, like maybe everyone was a white supremacist or something, and being part of a group meant just getting together and collectively hating things. I tried to hang with punkers, because where I grew up hiphop was the music of gangsters, and though hiphop was my whole life, I didn’t want to be a gangster. Then I met these guys and they had this funky way of liking everything and playing it loud. I didn’t know what noise was but I saw tik///tik, and Beach Balls, and I just felt awesome. I felt so happy that there were people who didn’t discount anything or put things in a box”.

The conversation drifts and I let it. Most of these people haven't sat in the same room together in some time, and combined they have decades of experience making art. Clearly we have music in common, but just like I love to talk about Seattle, they love to talk about LA.

Hutson: “There’s also sort of an assumption—and you see this a lot when you play places that aren’t big cities or you interact with people who like noise but aren’t from big cities—there’s an idea that you’re making an extreme kind of music because you don’t like the music that the guys who picked on you in high school listened to. There’s an assumption that if you like noise that you dislike other things, like because you make this music you don’t like Mandy Moore, but the opposite is true in LA; you can do both.”

Snipes: “There’s so many weird nested little music scenes here that you’re not just part of the 'music scene' there’s a place for you here no matter what you do."

Brian Miller: “What’s been hard to find outside of LA is a scene of people who don’t play music that sounds the same, where the people are related by more abstract concepts and will share the same bill. There is a place for lots of acts who are not appropriate bar-rock acts.”

Hutson: “I’m interested in the character of underground LA music. For instance, what are you doing making music for a very small group of people in the city that produces mainstream culture for most of the world? You can’t be sanctimonious about it, either, because no one here is actually proud of LA. This is a city that when you leave and tell someone where you’re from they have no problem telling you how much they fuckin' hate it. Then they go home turn on their TV and look at my fuckin' city”.

Snipes: “I love LA for that reason. I’m scared of civic pride anyway. It’s like nationalism to me. I love a lot of cities, but I love Los Angeles because we don’t have that. Being from LA is neutral in a weird way, because we’re all at odds with our environment.”

Hutson: “Talking to Sub Pop and playing in Seattle at the Silver Jubilee I couldn’t believe how much un-ironic pride there was in something so simple as a little record label. The whole city stopped, you guys flew a Sub Pop flag from the Space Needle! I saw the mayor walking around the concert in a Sub Pop T-shirt. I just couldn't imagine that happening in LA. Could you imagine a street fair and our landmarks flying flags because we’re proud we made Transformers 3 this year? I love the sincere pride in a cultural product from the city. I told everyone that while I was there.”

This is the genesis of Deathbomb’s latest group project, True Neutral Crew, a trio consisting of Brian Miller, Daveed Diggs, and I.E. that seeks to make music from a truly neutral standpoint. Their original idea for their #Monsanto EP was an album written from Monsanto's point of view. Thankfully, being truly neutral, they made what came out—a smartly written, well-rhymed noise-rap record. But the very structure of the group is representative of their isolation, their lack of an option to have an opinion about. Their refusal to participate in a broken system.

We talked a bit about the "instruments" that Deathbomb artists use. Tik///Tik used a flower electronics brand synth called a little boy blue. The designer, Jessica Rylan, is well respected in the group (indeed, in noise-music circles in general), she did graduate work at Stanford, and she’s now at MIT, but has spent time on tour with Deathbomb happily repairing the gear they smashed, and playing music with them. Christina Bercovitz filmed clipping.'s videos with a Betamax camcorder, and a mini DV recorder after finding the Betamax camcorder in Jonathan's dad’s attic. Their ideas for a dirtier, noisier visual aesthetic are from talking to Hutson and Diggs about BET Uncut, a show that Daveed and Bill stayed up late watching in high school. All the videos from that era were prior to HDTV or any really clear video. I’m surprised to find, however that for all the noises one can find on their collective records, no one is really a gear head. I’m looking around the apartment and see only records and turntables. Jonathan does mention that since clipping. has become associated with Sub Pop they've had access to more resources than every before.

I ask Brian what the future holds, since clipping. is now signed to Sub Pop, and how he feels about them leaving Deathbomb Arc.

Miller: “I’m not afraid to stand up for what I want. I’ve known Jonathan long enough that I’m not embarrassed to ask for what I care about, but I’ve also been invested in his music for over a decade now, so I want to see amazing things happen for him. I have asked if they could do another album on Deathbomb Arc, as well.”

Snipes: “It’s in our contract, the contract is pretty exclusive, like any record contract, but initially it was that we would make music exclusively for Sub Pop, unless it was for a film, because they knew that Bill and I had done a film score together and I had done film scores on my own. And then we were like, we should be able to do a record for Brian, and they said okay. Sub Pop has given us absolutely everything we’ve asked for. I’ve yet to hear anyone say anything bad about them.”

Sub Pop actually found out about clipping. because Miller emailed someone in the label's IT department looking for a place to book a show. He shared midcity and it made such an impression that they got signed. I ask Snipes if he has a plan for the new music.

“Nah.” Everyone laughs uproariously.

“We probably can’t talk too much about it. It’s basically done. It exists, we love it, and if you turn that recorder off we’ll play you a track downstairs.”

I’ve never shut a recorder off faster in my life. I found my way downstairs into clipping.'s studio and started eying gear. I sat down at the back of the small narrow space while Jonathan and Bill decided what to play. In the end, I got to hear two tracks. “They’re too novel,” argued Bill. “They’re all novel,” laughed Jonathan. Jonathan Snipes, Cristina Bercovitz, Bill Hutson, Margot Padilla, Stephen Cano, Brian Miller

What I heard first might take me some time to process. It felt open, concise, like Jay Z's early work, but drugged and thugged, as if that same work had been produced by DJ Screw. The second track I heard absolutely blew my mind. The curatorial genius of Brian Miller, the film score experience of Jonathan Snipes, the distinct taste and unrelenting dedication to sound of William Hutson, and the writing and rapping abilities of Daveed Diggs came through like a rejuvenating force. What began as “harsh noise”—perhaps the harshest particular noise I can think of—becomes a gorgeous heavenly chord when matched with other harsh (very common) noises up the scale. Like I.E. said, the hair stood up on my arms, things were way out of the box, nothing (not even the noises we're ungrateful we hear) had been discounted, I felt like I belonged. Everyone in the room listened like they were investigating the music. I felt the electronic warmth of the wall of modular synths, MIDI controllers, drum machines and every kind of keyboard you can name. The noise drove through the room, mingled with the flesh, and even Bill and Jonathan enjoyed what they had made. When it was over I.E. looked me dead in the eye and offered to sell me weed, I laughed, because music is my shit, and talking to the folks at Deathbomb Arc already had me high as one can get.

For a good primer with what's going on over at Deathbomb Arc, pick up their new compilation called EVIL. Sales from it go to supporting anti-debt charity rolling jubilee and it features ridiculous spitters like Signor Benedick The Moor and VIPER VENOM, plus gorgeous noise from Sissy Cobb and Dreamcrusher.

[finnyboywolfhard]

The 4:11 Train pt5

summary:Train Number 9547 boarded at 4:11. A girl got on the train to escape her parents pressure. A boy got on the train to escape his superstar reputation. It was a train ride to remember.

part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 6

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Haverford

“What are you’re biggest dreams Finn?”

“My biggest dreams?” Asked curiously, almost asking if she was serious. She shook her head gently and looked into his eyes.

He thought for a little bit before deciding to speak up.

“I want to become the biggest meme.”

       She laughed loudly and for a little while. She couldn’t believe he actually said that to her.

“I can’t believe you! That was so funny! I was trying to have a serious moment.”

“I know, I know I’m sorry. But it would honestly be pretty great to be the best meme.”

“I guess you’re right. But now seriously, what is your dream?”

“I really want to fall in love. I see all of these couples who are so madly in love, and I just wonder what it feels like.”

       What he said was one of his biggest dreams, but his biggest dream of all was to be normal. Even for just one day, and so far he was living his dream. He was finally known to someone as just Finn, not THE Finn Wolfhard.

“What about you? What’s your biggest dream?”

“I want to win an Oscar. Cheesy and predictable I know, but I just imagine the feeling of walking across that stage and accepting the small metal trophy and it’s almost euphoric. I don’t know who I’d thank other than my aunt. She’s the only one who believes in my dream.”

“That’s not true, I believe in it now too.”

       She smiled at him and for just the briefest second her eyes sparkled. She put her hands together and crinkled her nose out of happiness.

“Thanks Finn, that really means a lot. Now I have my speech, do you want to hear it?”

       He looked at her excitedly, telling her he wanted to hear more.

“Hello, wow, I really didn’t expect this. I want to thank all of the cast and crew who worked on this with me,but there’s two people I really want to thank. The only two people who believed in my dream. Thank you to my aunt Renee who took me in at 18 and helped me get where I needed to go. And thank you to the boy who I met on the train. Thank you for listening to me ramble and for listening and accepting my dreams. You have heard this speech before but none the less thank you. Have a great night everybody.”

       She finished her speech and laughed. She buried her face in her hands and laughed quietly into them. She couldn’t believe she just said those words to the boy sitting in front of her.

       He watched her and smiled at her as she said her speech and his eyes followed her when she became embarrassed. He thought it was adorable, and he was honored that he was going to get mentioned in her Oscar speech. He started laughing and reached over and gently lay a hand on her shoulder.

       She looked at him with bright eyes, and even brighter cheeks. His touch made her smile, and her smile made him smile. For that one instant they were very happy, and then they got even happier because she said.

“I want to fall in love too Finn.”

 Bryn Mawr

"What are some of your favorite things?"

       She looked at the boy carefully examining his features after he asked the question. He was a very attractive guy. Nice, sharp features. His dark curly hair and dark eyes contrasted his pale skin. His teeth were beautifully shrouded by his plump lips. She really liked the way he looked. She was quite zoned out, but was snapped back into reality by remembering his question.

"That's a pretty broad question, I have a lot of favorite things. But I can go through a list in my head."

       She smiled while rolling her eyes at the vast question set in front of her.

"To start, my favorite color is black because it goes with everything. My favorite movie is Rain Man, obviously. My favorite book is The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Nighttime. My favorite food is chicken nuggets. My favorite thing I own is my camera. My favorite word is magnificent, I don't know why I just love it. Umm I don't know what else. Oh! My favorite song is City Boy by some band called Calpurnia."

       Finn took in a sharp inhale of breath. He started to panic a little, because it turns out she did know him.

"But I can't say they're my favorite band because that's literally the only song I know by them. They seem like they'd have good music though."

"They do, I've heard quite a few of their songs."

       Technically he wasn't lying. But he was just thankful that she didn't know anymore about them.

       He talked about his favorites and they bonded a lot. They smiled and laughed, and talked very deeply. The people watching around them thought they had been friends for years. They had so much good energy around them and they felt at peace with one another.

       She loved to watch him talk. He was a very dynamic talker. He would go from excited to serious to slightly confused in a span of a minute. And she loved that about him.

       He loved the way she listened. She was a very active listener. She would change her emotions based off of what he said and she would always respond when necessary. And he loved that about her.

       It was the perfect scenario, truly perfect.

Rosemont

The girl looked at the boy with a new sense of companionship. Their similarities came in mass numbers and he understood all of her obscure references.

The boy looked at the girl with a new sense of adoration. He saw this person who was just like him, but also independently their own person.

"Okay, so let me get this straight, you've seen the statistics rap by Timothèe 'Timmy-Tim' Chalamet. I knew fangirls watched it, but teenage boys? This is new to me."

The girl said with a sly smile and light laugh. She thought about the first time she had watched it with her good friend Jaqueline. Jacky made her watch it after they watched 'Call Me By Your Name'. She instantly fell in love with the silly man.

The boy remembered going down a deep hole with his good friend Sadie when she became obsessed with Timothèe. He remembered thinking about how now this guy is a heartthrob. He also thought about how a whole bunch of fangirls out there, thought the same thing about him.

"Funny story, I watched this my friend Jacky after we watched Call Me By Your Name. She joked about he went from rapping about statistics to fucking a peach in the span of like 5 years. It really made me laugh. You kinda look like him, ya know?"

"I do? I don't know if I should take that as a compliment or...?"

The boy brushed his hand over his curls laying his hand in the nape of his neck.

"Take it as a huge compliment, Timothèe is my biggest celebrity crush."

She said it with a small smile, as pink spread across her cheeks. She just told him she was attracted to him. It felt good to her however to say something so confidently.

The boy thought to himself for a few seconds. She's just as attracted to me as I am to her, but he didn't know how to show that he felt the same way.

"Anyway," the girl said abruptly,"Jacky is my best friend. She moved to Chicago for school which makes me pretty sad, I miss her a lot. We talked for hours about our futures. We also could go hours just quoting vines to each other. We have variety I guess."

"Jacky sounds like she'd get along with my friend Josh. He really liked vine. He even made some of his own."

"Any that I might know?"

How could Finn approach this, yeah he made one of the most recited vines of all time and was a huge viner, or he could say,

"No, probably not."

"That's alright."

The girl in that exact moment got a text from her ex, James. She pushed her phone away with a roll of the eyes.

The boy saw her annoyance and let his curiosity take over.

Villanova

"Who's James?"

The girl sighed and began to fiddle with her hands. She tucked a small strand of hair behind her ear. Where could she begin about that boy who destroyed her?

"He's the biggest asshole you could ever meet. He ruined my life."

"What did he do?"

The girl took in a deep breath thinking about it all.

"We only dated for a few months. We had been really good friends for a while and one night he got drunk, and decided that it would be fun to make out with me, as his way of telling me he was interested. After that night, we began dating. Things were all good until one night he flipped out at me because I said I wasn't interested in some fling. I wanted it to mean something. He got really angry and broke up with me, which I was sad but I was also kinda okay with it."

The girl noticed tears slowly trickling down her face. She knew she had to tell him the rest but something was stopping her.

"Hey, Y/N. If you don't want to tell me the rest you don't have to. Okay? You can stop if you'd like. I promise to you that whatever he did was absolutely terrible and you didn't deserve it. I've never been in a relationship but I can promise you that not every guy is like him. I'm not like him."

The girl thought about how the next day at school people turned away from her. They all had heard that she told him to kill himself and that he'd never be happy in a relationship. Which wasn't even close to the truth. That's what he said to her. Everyone began to despise her because of it, even though it wasn't true.

She also thought about how caring and gentle Finn had just been with her. She thought about how nice he would be in a relationship. She imagined herself wrapped up in his arms and having their eyes lock right before a kiss. She imagined how he would always ask if she was alright and how he would never show her anything but love.

The boy thought about how nice it would be to be with her. He thought about how it would feel to lay next to her watching a movie. He imagined walking through the streets with their hands interlaced. He imagined what being in love with her would be like. He imagined that he would fulfill his two biggest dreams.

The girl looked at him gently and smiled, telling him a silent thanks.

The boy looked at her adoringly, telling her that he is right here to listen.

[potter-imagines]

Being Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Daughter...

Lin would cry the day you were born but he would also brag a lot.

He’d shower you with gifts but he was also careful not to overdo it

Chances are, (depending on your age and whatever year you’d picture this for) you’d be friends with a lot of the Hamilton cast/ and or their kids

There’s no doubt about it you’d be a freestyling genius much like him and musically talented.

And Lin would be so proud of this

Lin’s heart would melt every time you called him ‘dad’

He is probably one of the most caring, sweetest, and involved father out there.

And if your mother wasn’t in the picture, Lin would be sure to work to fill in her shoes.

He would attend all your school events and extra curriculars too.

On mother’s day he would plan a brunch inviting his sister and mother over making sure you knew you weren’t alone when it came to the amount of females in your life.

Whenever he goes to Richard Rodgers Theatre or goes to work for whatever project he’s working on he is constantly pulling his phone out to show his fellow coworkers pictures of you

He can’t help it

But one thing is for sure, Lin would make sure you knew how strong of a woman you were. Being a strong activist for equal rights Lin knew how easy it was for girls in today’s society to feel weak and defeated by the powerful and he never wanted you to experience that. So he would make post-it notes and stick them in your lunchbox, on your mirror, and anywhere he could find with sayings such as…

“I am woman hear me roar!” “Though she be but little, she is fierce!” “A strong woman looks fear in the eye and gives it but a wink.” “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.”

And because your father is one of the most encouraging and inspiring figures in the world, not only in tweets but reality as well, he excels at giving the best, most needed pep talks when you’re down in the dumps.

Lin had you speaking Spanish as soon as you said your first word

Lin would practically document your entire life. He liked taping you and taking pictures while you were doing casual activities such as coloring, singing, dancing, playing with your dolls, running around the house, etc.

Tobillo basically being your best friend

That dog follows you wherever you go

Lin has thousands of videos from when you were learning to walk, practically waddling around and Tobillo was right on your heel the entire time following you.

The whole Hamilton cast would be obsessed with you

Especially Phillipa

That girl loved you as if you were her own

And if you were old enough, you would join the Schuyler Sisters in their inbetween shows closet talk.

Sleep overs at Jasmine and Anthony’s while your dad is out of town

And they would absolutely LOVE having you over

You made them want to have kids that much more and Anthony loved taking you to the movies and Jasmine loved taking you out shopping

Speaking of shopping, Renee, Jasmine, and Phillipa are always spoiling you with the newest trends and what nots.

The Hamilton cast would be like another family to you

Always running around backstage with Groffsauce, who usually was assign babysitting duty.

The Schuyler sisters- as well as Leslie teaching you how to harmonize

Daveed loved helping you with your freestyling

You and him always got in heated battles- in good spirits of course

Playing childish games during intermission and between shows with Oak, Daveed, and Anthony.

Trying to braid your dad’s hair during his Hamilton days

Let’s be real, Lin would dedicate Dear Theodosia to you

And during Stay Alive (reprise) and It’s Quiet Uptown he had genuine tears pinching at his eyes as he fathomed the thought of losing you

But Lin would always run to you and spin you around every night after shows

The two of you would walk hand and hand together home and Lin would sing you to sleep every night

He’d love making you breakfast and basking in that domestic life

I could see him making some of the best pancakes in the world

And one morning when you were little, you convinced him to let you have a sip of his coffee

“Daddy, what’s that black stuff in there.” “It’s called coffee, bebé.” “Can I try some?” “Uh, I don’t think so, Y/n. You wouldn’t like it.” “Please, papi.” “Oh alright.”

Like he predicted, you hated it. The liquid burned your throat and young little you cried at the bitterness for at least a minute which broke Lin’s heart.

Lin would be the type of parent that would love to show you off to family and friends but when it came to posting pictures of you on social media, he usually made sure your face was covered, just to keep an element of privacy in his life.

But he does love tweeting stories about you or cute things that you do

Your childhood years would be a little hectic. Lin probably wouldn’t be around as much as he wants with filming, acting, composing and all but he would make an effort of a lifetime to be as involved as possible.

By your late teens you had already seen much of the world but that didn’t mean you were bored by any mean. Adventure was in your soul.

Lin would spend a lot of time with you during his time working with the film Moana. He liked to come to you to find inspiration.

Family trips to Disney World and Land

Lin is constantly trying to help you with his homework

“You know I was a teacher.”

Coming to him when you start learning about the American Revolution

“Well I mean you came to right person. I did write an entire musical about this stuff. Just use the album for a reference, it’s mostly accurate.”

Walking into your house one day after school infuriated as you set your pop quiz on the Schuyler Sisters in front of him, a large 9/10 circled with red pen.

“And I quote, I’m the oldest and the wittiest… My father has no sons… dad you cost me a perfect score! Why did you lie in the lyrics, I thought you said I could trust them!” “I’m sorry I forgot they had other siblings!”

Similar to your father, you swore like a sailor

Which also meant you were constantly getting scolded and death glares from your father who claims “He didn’t raise you to speak like that.” Even though you both know he did.

But honestly I could see Lin being into girl drama. Like when he picks you up from school and sees an annoyed look on your face he’d just shake his head and say,

“Spill the tea, honey. I’m ready!”

And on your bad days after dropping you off at home after school, Lin would drive to the nearest DQ and Chick-Fil-A and movie store returning home with gifts in toll.

He was one of the only people in the world you trusted enough to tell everything too

Dad jokes, so many dad jokes.

“Dad I’m thirsty. Do we have any-“ “Hi thirsty nice to meet you I’m Lin-Manuel.”

Being very close with your grandparents

Your grandpa teaching you how to cook

Your grandma would spoil you tbh

Girl talk with your Aunt Luz

Your dad would be really big on making sure you knew and understood the importance of equality and treating others with respect. 

Weekly meals at their place where your grandpa is also telling tales

“You know pequeño, when your father was your age I couldn’t get him to shut up!” “Papi-“ “He was always doing his rapping, talking fast and never making sense but he had passion just like yourself so don’t you ever give up on yourself carino. If your father did he would not be where he is today- and neither would you.” “Thank you abuelo.”

And when you finally do make it, doing whatever or being wherever that may be, you’ll have Lin’s as well as the rest of your families support because Lin knows exactly what it feels like to have millions of people doubt you and laugh at you for doing the unexpected so his support will never run out.

When Lin finds out you have a passion for writing and composing, he immediately takes you with him for a daddy daughter date to the studio.

He pretends to be out of ideas for a song and you play along knowing it would be a lot less painful to take the easy path.

“Well there are a few different projects I’ve been working on lately. They aren’t too good… pretty shitty-“ “Y/n.” “Sorry… but uh, you can have a look I suppose.”

Becoming a co writer beside your dad on his next project

Going on walks and hikes together with Tobillo

But for real though Lin would be insanely protective over you

Like when it comes to you Lin always needs to know where you are and constantly has eyes on you

When you got your first boyfriend/girlfriend Lin would FLIP

You’d suddenly become a player in the game ’21 questions’ or more like 101 questions when it came to your dad

He demanded meeting your significant other and no matter the gender, he held his strong demeanor and hardly cracked a smile- well until he saw how happy you looked in their presence.

But eventually he’d come to term with it. Although he would always see you as his little girl, he knew you had to spread your wings and he was not about to hold you back from doing so.

And when you finally land a lead role on an upcoming Broadway show, Lin is ecstatic.

Every day he calls you to ask how rehearsals are going partly because he’s interested and excited for you but also because he remembers his restless days and nights where he’d come home so stressed he’d forget to eat for days. He didn’t want to see you go through the hardships he did.

Ironically enough the new production is held, opening night, in the same old theater you grew up in, Richard Rodgers. Home sweet home. 

And on opening night you can guarantee your father is sitting front row with four bouquets of various flowers surrounded by all your family and friends as well as a handful of the original and new Hamilton cast.

And he would cry. A lot.

But he would also be that dad that right before the show starts, as the lights are dimming, he stands up and shouts,

“Go Y/n!”

His proud dad tweets would be never ending that night

After the production he was sure to be the first backstage and the first to hug you.

“You did it, you did it! I’m so proud of you, mi ángel. Congratulations!”

You’d be lying to yourself if you said your dad didn’t have a surprise party planned for after the play because he did.

Not to be a downer but there would be days where Lin would cry himself to sleep thinking he hasn’t done enough, or given you the life you deserve. He worked himself far too hard to make sure you had everything you could ever need and knew you were loved, but sometimes he couldn’t help but fear the worst.

Although at times he can be overbearing, you wouldn’t want it anyway else.

This was so fun to write oh my lord, hope you enjoyed!

-Daizy xx

[ghulehofdarkness-blog]

Chicago Reveals Two Murderesses Who Beat The Rap Inside of a Struggle For Fame

Chicago - 4 Stars (Fantastic)

Allow me to get correct to it: The musical "Chicago" is totally anything it had been cracked up for being.

Envision a chanteuse named Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who kills both equally her husband and her sister when she finds them in mattress with each other.

Think about a bored wife named Roxie Hart (Renee Zellweger) who's got an affair using a guy she thinks could make her a star only to learn she has actually been had Cinema and is so mad she kills him.

Picture them both in jail awaiting trial for murder While using the eventual prospect of Demise row. Their only out is to build enough of a stir in the press to become well known and wished-for by an insatiable general public in Chicago through the Roaring Twenties with its booze, nightclubs and all that jazz.

Now you've got a musical prescription for Chicago.

Incorporate in Matron Mama Morton (Queen Latifah) who guidelines the jail with an iron hand which will only be greased with cash, and Billy Flynn (Richard Gere), a pretty, slick lawyer who often receives his consumer acquitted even though generating them into even even larger stars in jail than about the stage, and you've got the substances for a fantastic story.

A superb Forged of singers and dancers underneath the route of Rob Marshall brought Chicago collectively in a brilliant Skilled, entertaining romp that created thirteen Oscar nominations and gained six in addition to 30 wins and fifty two nominations from other award teams.

Successful Oscars in the Academy Awards have been Catherine Zeta-Jones for Very best Supporting Actress, Chicago for Greatest Photograph, Ideal Seem, Greatest Modifying, Finest Costume Style and Most effective Art Direction.

Oscar nominations went to Renee Zellweger for Best Actress, John C. Reilly (as Roxie's partner Amos) for Very best Supporting Actor, Queen Latifah as Very best Supporting Actress, Rob Marshall as Ideal Director, Ideal Cinematography, Finest Primary Song "I Go forward" and Very best Composing.

Observing Chicago made me know how excellent Catherine Zeta-Jones is being a signer and dancer. Zeta-Jones is this kind of basic splendor that it's simple to get trapped just thinking about her.

Whilst I have never been a major enthusiast of Renee Zellweger, Most likely as a consequence of her prior roles, I'm now.

Although Zeta-Jones experienced prior practical experience Zellweger evidently experienced no singing and dancing teaching ahead of this film.

Even Richard Gere shocked me. I haven't thought of Gere as much of the actor, never thoughts a singer or dancer. He took tap dance classes for 3 months to prepare for your element, and apparently received the position Practically by default after John Travolta was presented the part a number of moments.

Soon after Chicago became Miramax's maximum grossing movie building $171 million within the domestic box Office environment, Travolta evidently deeply regretted declining the aspect.

I however requested myself how Chicago might have been so great. Slightly research exposed that Chicago might have been well known with the individuals who did not get essential sections as individuals who did.

Along with Travolta, Kevin Spacey, John Cusack and Hugh Jackman were thought of for your section.

Auditioning for Catherine Zeta-Jones' section as Velma Kelly were none in addition to Angelina Jolie and Madonna.

Auditioning for Renee Zellweger's role as Roxie Hart and Several other components within the movie had been Goldie Hawn, Kathy Bates, Rosie O'Donnell, Nicole Kidman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kristin Chenoweth, Cameron Diaz, Whoopi Goldberg and Britney Spears.

Director Rob Marshall needed Catherine Zeta-Jones to dress in her all-natural long hair during the movie, but she insisted about the shorter bob, conveying that she didn't want her hair to drop above her face and provides individuals a rationale to doubt that she did the entire dancing herself.

Evidently Zeta-Jones was at first approached to Engage in the position of Roxie Hart but wouldn't as she understood the character of Velma Kelly sang "All of that Jazz" and she or he planned to Participate in that position so she could sing that track.

Charlize Theron was originally picked to Engage in the purpose of Roxie Hart when Yet another director was concerned but lost out when Rob Marshall took more than as director. The casting of Renee Zellweger proved to get an extremely wise selection.

Chicago is based on the reserve by Bob Fosse, the Engage in by Maurine Dallas Watkins plus the screenplay by Bill Condon.

Considerably of the dialog inside the film is sweet, and amusing. Below are a few reveals through the courtroom, and in the event the Girls on Dying row are retelling their misfortune:

Velma Kelly: Indeed, it can be.

Assistant District Attorney Martin Harrison: I submit this as Exhibit X - Roxie Hart's diary!

Billy Flynn: I item! My shopper has not held a diary! And also if she did, This may be . . . invasion of privateness, and violation of the fourth amendment, and . . . and illegal look for without a warrant!

Roxie Hart: Yeah, And he or she broke the lock!

Billy Flynn: Miss out on Kelly, did you produce a deal with Assistant D. A. Harrison to drop all expenses towards you in Trade for the testimony?

Velma Kelly: Why, certain. I am not a whole fool.

Liz: You know the way some folks have those practices that get you down? Like Bernie. Bernie appreciated to chew gum. No, not chew. POP. So I occur house from work a person night time and I'm true irritated, and I'm seeking a very little sympathy. And there's Bernie, lying around the sofa, ingesting a beer and chewin'. No, not chewin', POPPIN'. So I reported "In case you pop that gum one more time . . ." And he did. So I took the shotgun from the wall and fired two warning shots . . . into his head.

June: I'm standin' from the kitchen, carving up a rooster for meal, minding my own business enterprise, when in storms my spouse, Wilbur, within a jealous rage. "You've been screwing the milkman," he explained. He was outrageous, and he saved on screaming, "You have been screwing the milkman." And afterwards he ran into my knife . . . he bumped into my knife ten moments.

There's nothing not to like about Chicago. If you like musicals, you might enjoy Chicago.

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[c-jacksonn]

Simply Love

day two ─ femslash

pairing ; pippa x reader

summary ; you and pippa just have a beautiful moment, definitely worth notifying lin about.

words ; 1457

warnings ; gay!pippa?

note ; this is for day two of the write-a-thon! i’m really excited for this one, seeing as i’ve never written for pippa before!

masterlist || write-a-thon tag || write-a-thon schedule

You couldn’t even begin to contain the excitement that coursed through your mind and sped up your heart as you stood in the elevator, bouncing on the balls of your feet and gripping a coffee cup in your hand. The biggest smile was on your face, making your cheeks hurt. Strands of hair had fallen from the confines of your beanie, lying delicately across your face.

When the elevator doors dinged and opened, you immediately screeched to see your three favorite girls standing in front of you. “Oh my God!”

They brought you into the tightest group hug, not even giving you a chance to put down your coffee, and you all squealed at each other. If anyone were to’ve walked by, they would think you four insane, but when the Schuyler Sisters meet up after not seeing each other for a good year, screeching is an inevitable variable.

When you pulled away, you took a second to look around the hotel suite. It was elegant; anything less wouldn’t have met the standards of Lin-Manuel Miranda ─ the one who booked this room for you four. Taking off your beanie and jacket and placing them on one of the beds, you smiled at the girls and joined in on the conversation.

“I can’t believe we’re all together again,” Jazzy, the one who played Peggy and Maria, smiled, laughing a little afterward and making her curls bounce.

“I know! We need to put our hair in buns and check out the bathroom acoustics,” Pippa, who played Eliza, commented, flailing her hands giddily.

“Oh my gosh, Pippa, definitely. Lemme get the hair bands,” Renee smiled, turning around and looking through her suitcase.

Pippa and Jazzy turned to you, smiling just as wide as you, “All of the Schuyler sisters.”

You smiled, walking into Pippa’s embrace and squeezing the girl. She giggled, squeezing you back and kissing your cheek softly ─ something you all decided would be the signature “thing” to your friendship. You kissed her cheek in reply, pulling away and walking over to Jazzy. She welcomed you with open arms, squealing softly into your ear. “I am so happy to see you, y/n! It’s been way too long.”

“I feel like that’s an understatement,” you laughed, pulling away from her embrace.

Renee popped back up, holding up three hair bands and letting each of you pick your color. Once the buns were in your hair, and more catch-up conversation ensued, you all walked into the bathroom and sat down in the gigantic tub.

You, Pippa, and Renee sat upright against the side of it, and Jaz laid across your laps. You were all giggling at your positions, and then Renee decided to start singing Satisfied. You were the backup vocals for most of it, letting Pippa, Jaz, and Renee take the raps. You felt it was only fair, seeing as you were only an understudy and they were the ones that stopped the whole show.

Once Satisfied was over, Helpless began thanks to Jaz, and then you were singing all of the songs on the Hamilton soundtrack. It felt like heaven, everything falling back into place as your head fell onto Pippa’s shoulder while you sang out a final note to Burn.

The bathroom choir ended when you all decided you were too tired to continue, so you all climbed out of the tub and headed to the beds. You climbed in with Pippa, Jaz with Renee, then you turned off the lights. There were idle, whispered conversations about things you were going to do tomorrow, but other than that, the atmosphere was perfect to go to sleep with.

When you woke up the next morning, Pippa’s arm was draped over your waist and her face was buried in your neck. You smiled, feeling your heart race just in the slightest. Naturally, it seemed, your body relaxed into the sleeping girl behind you, the warmth alone almost lulling you back to sleep.

Your mind began to wander to what mornings with Pippa would be like, just the two of you. Tea and kisses, softly laughing at stories you told each other, getting caught in trances by just listening to each other. Your mind also reminded your heart of the suppressed feelings you harbored for Phillipa Soo, which made your cheeks heat up and your heart to race once more.

Your eyes opened as you scanned the room, turning ever so slightly to see if Renee and Jaz were still asleep. To your surprise, their bed was made and nothing looked as if they had been sleeping in it at all. That also made you take notice to the fact that you and Pippa were alone in a hotel suite. Alone.

Pippa stirred slightly behind you, inhaling deeply and situating herself a little. Her arm was still draped around your waist, but now her face was hidden against the nape of your neck. “G’Morning,” Pippa mumbled tiredly.

“Mornin’ Pip,” you replied, your voice hoarse with sleep.

You guessed she did it without realizing, but in response, instead of using words, she used her lips and pressed a sweet kiss to the back of your neck. Your eyes widened substantially, but you didn’t want to startle Pippa, so you just pretended to not act as flustered as you were in that current moment.

It took a few moments, but soon Pippa shot up and looked down at your beet red face with eyes full of shock. “Oh my God,” she whispered, mouth slightly ajar, “I just– I didn’t– I kissed your neck, didn’t I?”

“Yeah?” You replied, unsure about how to react. Your heart was soaring with happiness, but your brain was trying to keep you rational, telling you that her surprise most likely meant rejection.

“I’m so sorry! I didn’t realize what  I was doing before I did it and–”

You sat up, cupping her face with your hands and smiling sweetly at her. “Pip, it’s okay, I promise. It was an a-accident,” your voice faltered with the word accident and you hoped Pippa didn’t catch it. You weren’t sure you were ready for that conversation yet.

Her brown eyes scanned your face, searching for any signs of hurt ─ because God did hearing you say that what she had just done was an accident sting. After a moment of her eyes darting all around, she finally whispered, “It wasn’t.”

“What?” You whispered incredulously.

“The kiss… it wasn’t an accident. I did it on purpose, because, you know, I really like you… in that way,” she looked down, taking her head out of your hands and holding them in her own.

You couldn’t seem to think of anything adequate enough to fit the situation at hand, and your silence seemed to convey the wrong things to Pippa. “I-I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have─”

“No,” you said, shaking your head harshly, “no. Don’t you dare apologize. I just can’t… I don’t know what to say… because, I, like– I mean, I– I like you back?” Your statement came out as if you were questioning your feelings, but in reality, you were gaging Pippa’s reaction.

It took her a second, but then she finally registered what had just passed your lips and her entire face lit up. “Really? You’re not just being nice to me, are you y/n?”

“No! No, nothing like that! I really, really do like you back that way,” you smiled, laughing softly.

Pippa wasted no time rushing forward and capturing your lips with her own. The kiss was soft, sweet, and passionate ─ like Pippa had been waiting forever and a half to have this moment. Just as she pushed you down onto the mattress to get a better position to kiss you, the door opened and two gasps filled the room.

Your and Pippa’s heads immediately snapped to the direction of the intruders ─ none other than Renee and Jaz stood there, smiling widely. In a split second, they went from shocked to squealing, “Finally!”

You began to shake your head, laughing and turning away. Pippa mimicked your actions, falling down on the bed beside you and hiding her face in your chest.

“My new OTP,” Jazzy joked.

“Oh yeah, definitely. Wait─ what’s an OTP again?”

You couldn’t help but let out a loud bark of laughter at that one. “Renee, you need to search Urban Dictionary sometime. You’re turning into Lin ─ we don’t need another Old Man Miranda.”

Everyone laughed at that.

“Oh we have to tell Lin! I’ll facetime him now!”

Needless to say, the rest of your day was filled with squealing, from both girls and boys, and kisses from the one and only Phillipa Soo, the girl of your dreams.

[shiinohana-blog]

Tag 9 people you want to get to know better -I’ll tag who I want!-

Tagged by: @zxtsubo​ //thank you so much~<3

Tagging: @lavenderreaper​, @sengokujidai​, @kodokuuta​, @cherrrydonuts​, @survivorguilt​, and anyone else who would like to do this <3 

This is long and I apologize~!

1. How old are you? I am twenty-five~<3

2. What’s your current job? I currently work as a personal assistant for a private tax and financial investment firm. I am also going to be starting school next month online for Information Technologies and Advanced Multimedia.

3. What are you talented at? I don’t really pay attention to what I do honestly? xD I have been told however that I draw well, have a way with words when people are upset or there is a point to get across, and that I am good with computers.

4. What is a big goal you are working toward (or have already achieved)? I would love to finally be able to finish school. Every time I’ve gone and attempted to go back to college, I’ve always ended up getting horribly sick and having to withdraw. This time, it’s online so I should be able to handle it even if I get sick. <3

5. What’s your aesthetic? Anything with eyes? It likely sounds odd but I adore eyes. For colors, I enjoy a true monochromatic scale with a dash of one or two colors. The contrast is super pleasing to me. Mm, I also have a fondness for horror and monsters? They’re so cute~<3

6. Do you collect anything? Not much anymore? I used to collect Pokemon cards like a dork~<3 But I mean, I do have various little knickknacks lying around. Plush toys, ornamental folding fans, figures, video games, game systems. . .- Oh! I know something I collect! I have a bunch of occult stuff <333

7. What’s a topic you always talk about? Anything that is mutually loved by myself and the person I’m speaking with. Generally the conversations I hold shift as the interest changes so there’s really not just one topic I will speak about. That being said, the current one if I had to pick one is my precious little baby dragon that I brought home last night~<3 8. What’s a pet peeve of yours?

I loathe hypocrisy and dishonesty. This isn’t just a pet peeve but it’s also the fastest way to get me to not associate with a person outside of work or a role-play. I’ve always been the type of person to be forefront and direct; it was a type of respect my parents taught me. If I have a problem with someone, I will always approach it civilly and discuss how I can work to either not be bothered by something or how we can move past it as a collective. I do not like when people feel the need to talk around someone, whether it be myself or someone else, and I especially hate it when they go on their soapboxes and claim that they don’t do that very behavior. 

9. Good advice to give?

Enjoy the small things no matter how trivial or stupid they may seem. Take the time to stop and lay in the grass, listen to the sound of snow falling in the middle of the woods, enjoy a simple cup of tea or a song you really like. It might not seem like much now but the stress and the world just melt away. Those small things add up to be some of the best memories you can have sometimes. So, no matter what it is, just take the time for yourself and for those little things that you like. They matter.

10. What are three songs you’d recommend?

Oh, this is hard one. I love so many different kinds of music? Metal, Techno/Electronic/Dubstep. Folk, Rock, Pop, K-Pop, J-Rock, German metal/rock, Orchestral/Symphonic, Jazz, and more. The only things I really don’t like are Rap/HipHop (I do sometimes make exceptions here) and Country (no exceptions >C I can’t stand Country). I have been on a techno kick however so I’ll pick three from there~<3

1. 荊の城 Ibara no Shiro - ShibayanRecords : This is honestly one of my favorite remixes/arranges of a Touhou track. The lyrics are wonderful and fitting, and Kazami Yuuka is my favorite so this gets a major bias. The overall song is long but it flows well and is always moving. Normally, I don’t like having dubstep or techno with lyrics as I find the vocal melodies can pull away from everything else going on, but in Ibara no Shiro, the vocals add to the feel instead.

2. We Are We Are - Rene Rodrigezz Feat. Robbie Wulfsong (Mike Vallas Remix) : It’s specifically this remix of the song that I enjoy the most. It draws out all of the best in the original and to me, makes it better. The bass is palpable, and the vocals are love~<333 Also that drop? Yes please. That drop kills me each and every time. To be honest though, certain tones in the drop remind me of Mortal Kombat. <3

3. Revolution - Diplo (feat. Faustix & Imanos and Kai) : Depending on who sings this song, it contains such raw emotion and soul. While there isn’t a clean, non-live version of the cover I adore the most, the original is good as well. The lyrics hold a nice amount of meaning to them and give off the feeling that while things may be hard, things do get better. If music had the power to heal, I feel this song would do well for that for those who are a fan of the genre.

[samanthasroberts]

Skinhead Executed His Best Friend After FBI Probe

Brent Luyster allegedly executed three friends and nearly blew the face off a fourth on Friday night after becoming enraged that the feds were getting involved in another case against him.”>

A neo-Nazi angry over an FBI probe executed one of his best friends and two other people at a rural Washington home Friday, cops say. On Monday, the creepy suspect sneered for TV cameras covering his court appearance.

The Vancouver-area bloodbath led cops on a manhunt for Brent Ward Luyster, a tattoo artist and swastika-inked skinhead, who has been charged in the triple homicide and held without bail, the Columbian reported.

One alleged victim, a 31-year-old mother, survived his wrath.

Breanne Leigh was discovered at a Woodland minimart around 10:30 p.m. Friday, a few miles from the crime scene. Her face was nearly blown off. Unable to speak, Leigh answered a deputys questions by writing on scraps of paper and on a tissue box, according to court papers reviewed by The Daily Beast.

When asked who shot her, Leigh scribbled, pretty sure Brent Luyster. Hes in big trouble. Fed, a probable cause affidavit says.

Leigh pointed Clark County deputies to a rural Woodland residence, where the father of her children, Zachary David Thompson, was killed.

The deputy asked Leigh how she escaped. She wrote passed out and indicated she army crawled away to flag down a vehicle for help. She was able to hitch a ride to the convenience store two miles away, the affidavit says.

Then she wrote her own question to the deputy: Had her boyfriend been shot too?

A SWAT team descended on the home just before 11 p.m. and found Thompson, 36, and Joseph Mark Lamar, 38, lying dead in the driveway. The victims had gunshot wounds to their heads at close range, the affidavit states.

The body of a third victim, 43-year-old Janell Renee Knight, was discovered inside the residence, where she lived with Lamar, prosecutors say.

Now Luyster, 35, is charged with three counts of murder in the first degree, attempted murder, and unlawful possession of a firearm, court records show.

On Monday, he was escorted into Clark County court under heightened security, handcuffed and wearing a suicide smock, the Columbian reported. As he walked to the courtroom, he flashed a smile for KOIN 6 TV cameras.

It was the day Luyster was supposed to face trial for a different violent crime: allegedly pistol-whipping his ex-girlfriend at a Longview home. In that case, he faces charges of assault, harassment, and illegal firearm possession.

Court papers in Luysters murder case reveal more about his violent past.

His ex-girlfriend told cops he had beaten her and had shot at her in May 2016, and that she has a no contact order against him, the affidavit states.

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The woman said she has a 5-year-old son with Luyster, who was reportedly trying to find her and snatch the boy, the affidavit states. Luyster allegedly directed his brother, Michael, and mother, Susan Dvorak, to track her down.

Michael Luysterwho has his own criminal record and white pride affiliationand his friends appeared at homes of the womans relatives, asking for the location of her and her son, the affidavit says.

[The woman] believed that Brent was facing his third strike and that he would not go back to prison, the affidavit states. She believed that Brent was going to find her and hurt or kill her, and take [their son].

Meanwhile, an FBI agent told Clark County authorities that Luyster is facing federal chargesfor unlawful possession of a firearmstemming from the May 2016 incident, the affidavit shows.

The ex-girlfriend has four children, two of which are in hiding from Brent Luyster, the G-man added. The agent said Dvorak allegedly contacted the womans mother and warned something would happen to her daughter if [she] did not give Brent his son, according to court papers.

Detectives also interviewed the alleged killers brother, Michael Luyster, who lives with their mother. He told police Brent Luyster and his girlfriend, Andrea Sibley, moved in with them weeks before the shooting, the affidavit says.

Michael Luyster claims Dvorak called him Friday night and demanded he come home immediately. When he arrived, Brent Luyster and his gal pal were acting tense. Dvorak ordered Michael Luyster to take Brent Luysters 12-year-old son away from the house, court papers state.

The brother told cops Brent Luyster was driving Sibleys gold Ford Explorer. (Luyster was in the vehicle Saturday afternoon when Cowlitz County deputies and state troopers arrested him without incident on Ocean Beach Highway, KGW reported.)

Dvorak provided police with more details on her sons mental state. She said Luyster was upset that the Feds were getting involved in the case from Longview and at not having seen his son in two months.

The day of the slayings, Luyster and Sibley had been home most of the day. Sibley left at one point to buy Luyster a six-pack of beer at Walmart, she said.

Dvorak admitted she told Michael Luyster to come home, telling cops Brent Luyster wanted to speak to him. After the brothers talked, Brent Luyster and Sibley left the house and didnt return, the affidavit says.

She ordered Michael Luyster to take his nephew away because she wanted things to be peaceful in the house, she told cops, according to the affidavit. Still, she denied threatening Brent Luysters ex-girlfriend or her mother.

Before Luyster was caught, the Clark County Sheriffs Office released full-body photographs of their 6-foot-tall, 200-pound suspect.

His tattooed torso includes at least four swastikas and the label skinhead across his abdomen. Scrawled across his back is a bloodthirsty call for RaHoWa, or the abbreviation for racial holy war used by white supremacists.

Indeed, the hate appears to run in Luysters family.

Luyster and his brother Robert Arlen Luyster were on the Anti-Defamation Leagues radar in 2013, when they allegedly attacked a black man at a Vancouver bar.

The attack was allegedly sparked when Brent Luyster spotted an interracial couple cuddling. Look at this white girl over here with a stupid [racial slur]; thats gross, Luyster allegedly said, according to the Columbian.

Moments later, Robert Luyster ran to the third suspects car, grabbed a pistol and loaded it with a round of ammo, prosecutors said. Then he handed the gun to Brent Luyster, who singled out a black man and threatened to shoot him, the Columbian reported.

The skinhead brothers were involved in another racially-motivated attack in 2001, when they allegedly punched, kicked, and beat a 45-year-old black man with boards. They also smashed the windows of the victims truck, according to the Columbian.

Four years later, Brent Luyster was involved in another attack on a black man. An accomplice, Jeremiah Prueitt, allegedly shot the victim in the leg, the Columbian reported.

Its unclear whether Luyster was convicted for the earlier hate crimes. Online records show he has a rap sheet as detailed as his Hitler tattoos, with felony convictions in 2005 and 2010, including for possession of stolen property.

Friends and fellow white supremacists took to Facebook to discuss their grief over Luysters latest criminal case.

But they were tight-lipped when messaged by reporters. He is a great father and the best tattoo artist there is, one friend told The Daily Beast.

Of Luyster and his victim, Zachary Thompson, another friend said, No offense, but before this they were both amazing friends and great fathers. Thats it.

Some friends posted a photo of Thompson, who has a shaved head, and Leigh with the words In Loving Memory.

In Facebook comments, one longtime friend wrote, I know he [Luyster] had to be under a lot of stress facing trumped up charges. My heart beats with sadness this day will never change the way I feel for Brent.

Another friend called the slayings unspeakable.

I cant think of any reason that would cause him [Luyster] to turn on one of his best friends, he wrote on Facebook. Losing two of my closest brothers in one day, to such a fucked up way. I have to know.

The friend later added, Theyve been my brothers for about 14 years now, since before Zach skinned up, and this will haunt me forever. I cant imagine what went through their mind.

Source: http://allofbeer.com/skinhead-executed-his-best-friend-after-fbi-probe/

from All of Beer https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/12/29/skinhead-executed-his-best-friend-after-fbi-probe/

[adambstingus]

Skinhead Executed His Best Friend After FBI Probe

Brent Luyster allegedly executed three friends and nearly blew the face off a fourth on Friday night after becoming enraged that the feds were getting involved in another case against him.”>

A neo-Nazi angry over an FBI probe executed one of his best friends and two other people at a rural Washington home Friday, cops say. On Monday, the creepy suspect sneered for TV cameras covering his court appearance.

The Vancouver-area bloodbath led cops on a manhunt for Brent Ward Luyster, a tattoo artist and swastika-inked skinhead, who has been charged in the triple homicide and held without bail, the Columbian reported.

One alleged victim, a 31-year-old mother, survived his wrath.

Breanne Leigh was discovered at a Woodland minimart around 10:30 p.m. Friday, a few miles from the crime scene. Her face was nearly blown off. Unable to speak, Leigh answered a deputys questions by writing on scraps of paper and on a tissue box, according to court papers reviewed by The Daily Beast.

When asked who shot her, Leigh scribbled, pretty sure Brent Luyster. Hes in big trouble. Fed, a probable cause affidavit says.

Leigh pointed Clark County deputies to a rural Woodland residence, where the father of her children, Zachary David Thompson, was killed.

The deputy asked Leigh how she escaped. She wrote passed out and indicated she army crawled away to flag down a vehicle for help. She was able to hitch a ride to the convenience store two miles away, the affidavit says.

Then she wrote her own question to the deputy: Had her boyfriend been shot too?

A SWAT team descended on the home just before 11 p.m. and found Thompson, 36, and Joseph Mark Lamar, 38, lying dead in the driveway. The victims had gunshot wounds to their heads at close range, the affidavit states.

The body of a third victim, 43-year-old Janell Renee Knight, was discovered inside the residence, where she lived with Lamar, prosecutors say.

Now Luyster, 35, is charged with three counts of murder in the first degree, attempted murder, and unlawful possession of a firearm, court records show.

On Monday, he was escorted into Clark County court under heightened security, handcuffed and wearing a suicide smock, the Columbian reported. As he walked to the courtroom, he flashed a smile for KOIN 6 TV cameras.

It was the day Luyster was supposed to face trial for a different violent crime: allegedly pistol-whipping his ex-girlfriend at a Longview home. In that case, he faces charges of assault, harassment, and illegal firearm possession.

Court papers in Luysters murder case reveal more about his violent past.

His ex-girlfriend told cops he had beaten her and had shot at her in May 2016, and that she has a no contact order against him, the affidavit states.

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The woman said she has a 5-year-old son with Luyster, who was reportedly trying to find her and snatch the boy, the affidavit states. Luyster allegedly directed his brother, Michael, and mother, Susan Dvorak, to track her down.

Michael Luysterwho has his own criminal record and white pride affiliationand his friends appeared at homes of the womans relatives, asking for the location of her and her son, the affidavit says.

[The woman] believed that Brent was facing his third strike and that he would not go back to prison, the affidavit states. She believed that Brent was going to find her and hurt or kill her, and take [their son].

Meanwhile, an FBI agent told Clark County authorities that Luyster is facing federal chargesfor unlawful possession of a firearmstemming from the May 2016 incident, the affidavit shows.

The ex-girlfriend has four children, two of which are in hiding from Brent Luyster, the G-man added. The agent said Dvorak allegedly contacted the womans mother and warned something would happen to her daughter if [she] did not give Brent his son, according to court papers.

Detectives also interviewed the alleged killers brother, Michael Luyster, who lives with their mother. He told police Brent Luyster and his girlfriend, Andrea Sibley, moved in with them weeks before the shooting, the affidavit says.

Michael Luyster claims Dvorak called him Friday night and demanded he come home immediately. When he arrived, Brent Luyster and his gal pal were acting tense. Dvorak ordered Michael Luyster to take Brent Luysters 12-year-old son away from the house, court papers state.

The brother told cops Brent Luyster was driving Sibleys gold Ford Explorer. (Luyster was in the vehicle Saturday afternoon when Cowlitz County deputies and state troopers arrested him without incident on Ocean Beach Highway, KGW reported.)

Dvorak provided police with more details on her sons mental state. She said Luyster was upset that the Feds were getting involved in the case from Longview and at not having seen his son in two months.

The day of the slayings, Luyster and Sibley had been home most of the day. Sibley left at one point to buy Luyster a six-pack of beer at Walmart, she said.

Dvorak admitted she told Michael Luyster to come home, telling cops Brent Luyster wanted to speak to him. After the brothers talked, Brent Luyster and Sibley left the house and didnt return, the affidavit says.

She ordered Michael Luyster to take his nephew away because she wanted things to be peaceful in the house, she told cops, according to the affidavit. Still, she denied threatening Brent Luysters ex-girlfriend or her mother.

Before Luyster was caught, the Clark County Sheriffs Office released full-body photographs of their 6-foot-tall, 200-pound suspect.

His tattooed torso includes at least four swastikas and the label skinhead across his abdomen. Scrawled across his back is a bloodthirsty call for RaHoWa, or the abbreviation for racial holy war used by white supremacists.

Indeed, the hate appears to run in Luysters family.

Luyster and his brother Robert Arlen Luyster were on the Anti-Defamation Leagues radar in 2013, when they allegedly attacked a black man at a Vancouver bar.

The attack was allegedly sparked when Brent Luyster spotted an interracial couple cuddling. Look at this white girl over here with a stupid [racial slur]; thats gross, Luyster allegedly said, according to the Columbian.

Moments later, Robert Luyster ran to the third suspects car, grabbed a pistol and loaded it with a round of ammo, prosecutors said. Then he handed the gun to Brent Luyster, who singled out a black man and threatened to shoot him, the Columbian reported.

The skinhead brothers were involved in another racially-motivated attack in 2001, when they allegedly punched, kicked, and beat a 45-year-old black man with boards. They also smashed the windows of the victims truck, according to the Columbian.

Four years later, Brent Luyster was involved in another attack on a black man. An accomplice, Jeremiah Prueitt, allegedly shot the victim in the leg, the Columbian reported.

Its unclear whether Luyster was convicted for the earlier hate crimes. Online records show he has a rap sheet as detailed as his Hitler tattoos, with felony convictions in 2005 and 2010, including for possession of stolen property.

Friends and fellow white supremacists took to Facebook to discuss their grief over Luysters latest criminal case.

But they were tight-lipped when messaged by reporters. He is a great father and the best tattoo artist there is, one friend told The Daily Beast.

Of Luyster and his victim, Zachary Thompson, another friend said, No offense, but before this they were both amazing friends and great fathers. Thats it.

Some friends posted a photo of Thompson, who has a shaved head, and Leigh with the words In Loving Memory.

In Facebook comments, one longtime friend wrote, I know he [Luyster] had to be under a lot of stress facing trumped up charges. My heart beats with sadness this day will never change the way I feel for Brent.

Another friend called the slayings unspeakable.

I cant think of any reason that would cause him [Luyster] to turn on one of his best friends, he wrote on Facebook. Losing two of my closest brothers in one day, to such a fucked up way. I have to know.

The friend later added, Theyve been my brothers for about 14 years now, since before Zach skinned up, and this will haunt me forever. I cant imagine what went through their mind.

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Skinhead Executed His Best Friend After FBI Probe

Brent Luyster allegedly executed three friends and nearly blew the face off a fourth on Friday night after becoming enraged that the feds were getting involved in another case against him.”>

A neo-Nazi angry over an FBI probe executed one of his best friends and two other people at a rural Washington home Friday, cops say. On Monday, the creepy suspect sneered for TV cameras covering his court appearance.

The Vancouver-area bloodbath led cops on a manhunt for Brent Ward Luyster, a tattoo artist and swastika-inked skinhead, who has been charged in the triple homicide and held without bail, the Columbian reported.

One alleged victim, a 31-year-old mother, survived his wrath.

Breanne Leigh was discovered at a Woodland minimart around 10:30 p.m. Friday, a few miles from the crime scene. Her face was nearly blown off. Unable to speak, Leigh answered a deputys questions by writing on scraps of paper and on a tissue box, according to court papers reviewed by The Daily Beast.

When asked who shot her, Leigh scribbled, pretty sure Brent Luyster. Hes in big trouble. Fed, a probable cause affidavit says.

Leigh pointed Clark County deputies to a rural Woodland residence, where the father of her children, Zachary David Thompson, was killed.

The deputy asked Leigh how she escaped. She wrote passed out and indicated she army crawled away to flag down a vehicle for help. She was able to hitch a ride to the convenience store two miles away, the affidavit says.

Then she wrote her own question to the deputy: Had her boyfriend been shot too?

A SWAT team descended on the home just before 11 p.m. and found Thompson, 36, and Joseph Mark Lamar, 38, lying dead in the driveway. The victims had gunshot wounds to their heads at close range, the affidavit states.

The body of a third victim, 43-year-old Janell Renee Knight, was discovered inside the residence, where she lived with Lamar, prosecutors say.

Now Luyster, 35, is charged with three counts of murder in the first degree, attempted murder, and unlawful possession of a firearm, court records show.

On Monday, he was escorted into Clark County court under heightened security, handcuffed and wearing a suicide smock, the Columbian reported. As he walked to the courtroom, he flashed a smile for KOIN 6 TV cameras.

It was the day Luyster was supposed to face trial for a different violent crime: allegedly pistol-whipping his ex-girlfriend at a Longview home. In that case, he faces charges of assault, harassment, and illegal firearm possession.

Court papers in Luysters murder case reveal more about his violent past.

His ex-girlfriend told cops he had beaten her and had shot at her in May 2016, and that she has a no contact order against him, the affidavit states.

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The woman said she has a 5-year-old son with Luyster, who was reportedly trying to find her and snatch the boy, the affidavit states. Luyster allegedly directed his brother, Michael, and mother, Susan Dvorak, to track her down.

Michael Luysterwho has his own criminal record and white pride affiliationand his friends appeared at homes of the womans relatives, asking for the location of her and her son, the affidavit says.

[The woman] believed that Brent was facing his third strike and that he would not go back to prison, the affidavit states. She believed that Brent was going to find her and hurt or kill her, and take [their son].

Meanwhile, an FBI agent told Clark County authorities that Luyster is facing federal chargesfor unlawful possession of a firearmstemming from the May 2016 incident, the affidavit shows.

The ex-girlfriend has four children, two of which are in hiding from Brent Luyster, the G-man added. The agent said Dvorak allegedly contacted the womans mother and warned something would happen to her daughter if [she] did not give Brent his son, according to court papers.

Detectives also interviewed the alleged killers brother, Michael Luyster, who lives with their mother. He told police Brent Luyster and his girlfriend, Andrea Sibley, moved in with them weeks before the shooting, the affidavit says.

Michael Luyster claims Dvorak called him Friday night and demanded he come home immediately. When he arrived, Brent Luyster and his gal pal were acting tense. Dvorak ordered Michael Luyster to take Brent Luysters 12-year-old son away from the house, court papers state.

The brother told cops Brent Luyster was driving Sibleys gold Ford Explorer. (Luyster was in the vehicle Saturday afternoon when Cowlitz County deputies and state troopers arrested him without incident on Ocean Beach Highway, KGW reported.)

Dvorak provided police with more details on her sons mental state. She said Luyster was upset that the Feds were getting involved in the case from Longview and at not having seen his son in two months.

The day of the slayings, Luyster and Sibley had been home most of the day. Sibley left at one point to buy Luyster a six-pack of beer at Walmart, she said.

Dvorak admitted she told Michael Luyster to come home, telling cops Brent Luyster wanted to speak to him. After the brothers talked, Brent Luyster and Sibley left the house and didnt return, the affidavit says.

She ordered Michael Luyster to take his nephew away because she wanted things to be peaceful in the house, she told cops, according to the affidavit. Still, she denied threatening Brent Luysters ex-girlfriend or her mother.

Before Luyster was caught, the Clark County Sheriffs Office released full-body photographs of their 6-foot-tall, 200-pound suspect.

His tattooed torso includes at least four swastikas and the label skinhead across his abdomen. Scrawled across his back is a bloodthirsty call for RaHoWa, or the abbreviation for racial holy war used by white supremacists.

Indeed, the hate appears to run in Luysters family.

Luyster and his brother Robert Arlen Luyster were on the Anti-Defamation Leagues radar in 2013, when they allegedly attacked a black man at a Vancouver bar.

The attack was allegedly sparked when Brent Luyster spotted an interracial couple cuddling. Look at this white girl over here with a stupid [racial slur]; thats gross, Luyster allegedly said, according to the Columbian.

Moments later, Robert Luyster ran to the third suspects car, grabbed a pistol and loaded it with a round of ammo, prosecutors said. Then he handed the gun to Brent Luyster, who singled out a black man and threatened to shoot him, the Columbian reported.

The skinhead brothers were involved in another racially-motivated attack in 2001, when they allegedly punched, kicked, and beat a 45-year-old black man with boards. They also smashed the windows of the victims truck, according to the Columbian.

Four years later, Brent Luyster was involved in another attack on a black man. An accomplice, Jeremiah Prueitt, allegedly shot the victim in the leg, the Columbian reported.

Its unclear whether Luyster was convicted for the earlier hate crimes. Online records show he has a rap sheet as detailed as his Hitler tattoos, with felony convictions in 2005 and 2010, including for possession of stolen property.

Friends and fellow white supremacists took to Facebook to discuss their grief over Luysters latest criminal case.

But they were tight-lipped when messaged by reporters. He is a great father and the best tattoo artist there is, one friend told The Daily Beast.

Of Luyster and his victim, Zachary Thompson, another friend said, No offense, but before this they were both amazing friends and great fathers. Thats it.

Some friends posted a photo of Thompson, who has a shaved head, and Leigh with the words In Loving Memory.

In Facebook comments, one longtime friend wrote, I know he [Luyster] had to be under a lot of stress facing trumped up charges. My heart beats with sadness this day will never change the way I feel for Brent.

Another friend called the slayings unspeakable.

I cant think of any reason that would cause him [Luyster] to turn on one of his best friends, he wrote on Facebook. Losing two of my closest brothers in one day, to such a fucked up way. I have to know.

The friend later added, Theyve been my brothers for about 14 years now, since before Zach skinned up, and this will haunt me forever. I cant imagine what went through their mind.

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Skinhead Executed His Best Friend After FBI Probe

Brent Luyster allegedly executed three friends and nearly blew the face off a fourth on Friday night after becoming enraged that the feds were getting involved in another case against him.”>

A neo-Nazi angry over an FBI probe executed one of his best friends and two other people at a rural Washington home Friday, cops say. On Monday, the creepy suspect sneered for TV cameras covering his court appearance.

The Vancouver-area bloodbath led cops on a manhunt for Brent Ward Luyster, a tattoo artist and swastika-inked skinhead, who has been charged in the triple homicide and held without bail, the Columbian reported.

One alleged victim, a 31-year-old mother, survived his wrath.

Breanne Leigh was discovered at a Woodland minimart around 10:30 p.m. Friday, a few miles from the crime scene. Her face was nearly blown off. Unable to speak, Leigh answered a deputys questions by writing on scraps of paper and on a tissue box, according to court papers reviewed by The Daily Beast.

When asked who shot her, Leigh scribbled, pretty sure Brent Luyster. Hes in big trouble. Fed, a probable cause affidavit says.

Leigh pointed Clark County deputies to a rural Woodland residence, where the father of her children, Zachary David Thompson, was killed.

The deputy asked Leigh how she escaped. She wrote passed out and indicated she army crawled away to flag down a vehicle for help. She was able to hitch a ride to the convenience store two miles away, the affidavit says.

Then she wrote her own question to the deputy: Had her boyfriend been shot too?

A SWAT team descended on the home just before 11 p.m. and found Thompson, 36, and Joseph Mark Lamar, 38, lying dead in the driveway. The victims had gunshot wounds to their heads at close range, the affidavit states.

The body of a third victim, 43-year-old Janell Renee Knight, was discovered inside the residence, where she lived with Lamar, prosecutors say.

Now Luyster, 35, is charged with three counts of murder in the first degree, attempted murder, and unlawful possession of a firearm, court records show.

On Monday, he was escorted into Clark County court under heightened security, handcuffed and wearing a suicide smock, the Columbian reported. As he walked to the courtroom, he flashed a smile for KOIN 6 TV cameras.

It was the day Luyster was supposed to face trial for a different violent crime: allegedly pistol-whipping his ex-girlfriend at a Longview home. In that case, he faces charges of assault, harassment, and illegal firearm possession.

Court papers in Luysters murder case reveal more about his violent past.

His ex-girlfriend told cops he had beaten her and had shot at her in May 2016, and that she has a no contact order against him, the affidavit states.

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The woman said she has a 5-year-old son with Luyster, who was reportedly trying to find her and snatch the boy, the affidavit states. Luyster allegedly directed his brother, Michael, and mother, Susan Dvorak, to track her down.

Michael Luysterwho has his own criminal record and white pride affiliationand his friends appeared at homes of the womans relatives, asking for the location of her and her son, the affidavit says.

[The woman] believed that Brent was facing his third strike and that he would not go back to prison, the affidavit states. She believed that Brent was going to find her and hurt or kill her, and take [their son].

Meanwhile, an FBI agent told Clark County authorities that Luyster is facing federal chargesfor unlawful possession of a firearmstemming from the May 2016 incident, the affidavit shows.

The ex-girlfriend has four children, two of which are in hiding from Brent Luyster, the G-man added. The agent said Dvorak allegedly contacted the womans mother and warned something would happen to her daughter if [she] did not give Brent his son, according to court papers.

Detectives also interviewed the alleged killers brother, Michael Luyster, who lives with their mother. He told police Brent Luyster and his girlfriend, Andrea Sibley, moved in with them weeks before the shooting, the affidavit says.

Michael Luyster claims Dvorak called him Friday night and demanded he come home immediately. When he arrived, Brent Luyster and his gal pal were acting tense. Dvorak ordered Michael Luyster to take Brent Luysters 12-year-old son away from the house, court papers state.

The brother told cops Brent Luyster was driving Sibleys gold Ford Explorer. (Luyster was in the vehicle Saturday afternoon when Cowlitz County deputies and state troopers arrested him without incident on Ocean Beach Highway, KGW reported.)

Dvorak provided police with more details on her sons mental state. She said Luyster was upset that the Feds were getting involved in the case from Longview and at not having seen his son in two months.

The day of the slayings, Luyster and Sibley had been home most of the day. Sibley left at one point to buy Luyster a six-pack of beer at Walmart, she said.

Dvorak admitted she told Michael Luyster to come home, telling cops Brent Luyster wanted to speak to him. After the brothers talked, Brent Luyster and Sibley left the house and didnt return, the affidavit says.

She ordered Michael Luyster to take his nephew away because she wanted things to be peaceful in the house, she told cops, according to the affidavit. Still, she denied threatening Brent Luysters ex-girlfriend or her mother.

Before Luyster was caught, the Clark County Sheriffs Office released full-body photographs of their 6-foot-tall, 200-pound suspect.

His tattooed torso includes at least four swastikas and the label skinhead across his abdomen. Scrawled across his back is a bloodthirsty call for RaHoWa, or the abbreviation for racial holy war used by white supremacists.

Indeed, the hate appears to run in Luysters family.

Luyster and his brother Robert Arlen Luyster were on the Anti-Defamation Leagues radar in 2013, when they allegedly attacked a black man at a Vancouver bar.

The attack was allegedly sparked when Brent Luyster spotted an interracial couple cuddling. Look at this white girl over here with a stupid [racial slur]; thats gross, Luyster allegedly said, according to the Columbian.

Moments later, Robert Luyster ran to the third suspects car, grabbed a pistol and loaded it with a round of ammo, prosecutors said. Then he handed the gun to Brent Luyster, who singled out a black man and threatened to shoot him, the Columbian reported.

The skinhead brothers were involved in another racially-motivated attack in 2001, when they allegedly punched, kicked, and beat a 45-year-old black man with boards. They also smashed the windows of the victims truck, according to the Columbian.

Four years later, Brent Luyster was involved in another attack on a black man. An accomplice, Jeremiah Prueitt, allegedly shot the victim in the leg, the Columbian reported.

Its unclear whether Luyster was convicted for the earlier hate crimes. Online records show he has a rap sheet as detailed as his Hitler tattoos, with felony convictions in 2005 and 2010, including for possession of stolen property.

Friends and fellow white supremacists took to Facebook to discuss their grief over Luysters latest criminal case.

But they were tight-lipped when messaged by reporters. He is a great father and the best tattoo artist there is, one friend told The Daily Beast.

Of Luyster and his victim, Zachary Thompson, another friend said, No offense, but before this they were both amazing friends and great fathers. Thats it.

Some friends posted a photo of Thompson, who has a shaved head, and Leigh with the words In Loving Memory.

In Facebook comments, one longtime friend wrote, I know he [Luyster] had to be under a lot of stress facing trumped up charges. My heart beats with sadness this day will never change the way I feel for Brent.

Another friend called the slayings unspeakable.

I cant think of any reason that would cause him [Luyster] to turn on one of his best friends, he wrote on Facebook. Losing two of my closest brothers in one day, to such a fucked up way. I have to know.

The friend later added, Theyve been my brothers for about 14 years now, since before Zach skinned up, and this will haunt me forever. I cant imagine what went through their mind.

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