#richmond virginia

[kevinmcdonaldphotos]

walking on and on

[curiouscatalog]

Local Richmond magazine from the 1980s.

From: Boys & Girls Grow Up. Richmond, Va. : Amy Crehore, Tom Campagnoli, 1981-1985.

PN6700.B69

[simplyelvis]

Elvis Presley performing at The Coliseum in Richmond, Virginia, April 10, 1972.

[katieaki]

They don’t give a damn, a shit, or a fuck!

[wandering-cemeteries]

"In memory of Abraham Shield, Stone cutter & brick layer, a native, in the county of Durham, Old England, who departed this life, Oct 9th, 1798 aged 28."

St. John's Church. Richmond, Virginia

Fall 2021

[blackstar1887]

Gabriel Prosser: Igniting Freedom and Defiance Against Slavery

[nugothrhythms]

"Solitude" by Richmond, Virginia-based experimental gothwave act Phantómódel off of 2019 album Panic Picnic

[f0restpunk]

Dark Sea Dream - Dark Sea Dream

[inshardirated]

I would like to thanks every single female on Tumblr who and continues to post their thoughts, videos, photos, and fantasies here for all your followers and stalkers. I know it’s a bit easier to post things anonymously, but you ladies post yourself , knowing that there is a risk of being mistreated, verbally abused, harassed, and emotionally scarred. That takes courage that most of the ones who do mistreat you, themselves, can’t do. So I applaud you for it and appreciate it more than I can express in words. Thank you. As I don’t really know all of you personally, I can’t say that I appreciate you, but I can appreciate your efforts and strong mentality. I am and will continue to look forward to seeing more of your posts and maybe a bit more insight into the person behind the post.

[powerlineprincess]

Virginia Pride☆2023 K.E.A Lux Hill

[kevinmcdonaldphotos]

shine on windowpane

[curiouscatalog]

Richmond, Virginia, in 1897, including an early State Library!

From: Scott, W. W. (William Wallace). Art Work of Richmond. Chicago: W.H. Parish Pub. Co., 1897

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[summercourtship]

I’m OBSESSED!! I’ve been wanting to visit the Virginia House since I first learned about it but it’s sadly hardly ever open to the public. Finally, they had an open house today so I got to scamper around the rainy grounds. 🩶🕯️🩶

[peaceloverobbie]

Welcome to the coven!

And thank you for helping me spread the fandom!

Exposing Lesser Demons 💔 😈 💙

This is the Second Coming of the Supernatural

A dark yet fun BIPOC and bi adult fantasy novella. A prequel to a massive upcoming series.

Called a "[fantasy] should read" along with Kindred and The One Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by Wealth of Geeks

My story is proof you should dust off your old dreams and follow them eagerly! The only true failures are never trying and quitting too soon. You can do it! Thank you for going for it!

Get to know me and my debut novella!

[dustedmagazine]

Outer World — Who Does the Music Love? (HHBTM)

“Outer World” has a powerful momentum, bass grinding, synths popping, guitars clanging, as Tracy Wilson’s singing surges over it. “I love the music,” she declares repeatedly, joy bubbling out of every syllable, until she asks, “Who does the music love?” It’s a hands-in-the-air, hips-on-a-swivel psychedelic bop along the lines of Os Mutantes’ “Bat Macumba,” and the best song on Outer World’s debut EP. Though, not by much, this is groovy, exuberant stuff.

It starts with the bubbly, bouncy, woo-woo space-shot of “The Drum The Beat,” a cut that hops up and down like the B-52s and buzzes and hums like switched on Stereolab. “Flower Gunpowder” runs slower, but still buoyantly, a hard, slapping beat pushing witchy new age mysticism through a Peter Max lens. It is brightly colored, playful and vibrating with spirit. “Forms of Knowing” again abuts Stereolab’s sonic world, an underlying drone of organ connecting airy vocals and puncturing, rackety percussion. “Loteria,” the one track you might not want to dance to, is a dreamlike astral projection with interleaved vocals and whooshing atmospherics.

It's all just a gas that you might be surprised about the backstory, which involves coming back from considerable adversity. In the 1990s, Tracy Wilson was the big brassy vocalist for the NJ hardcore band Dahlia Seed. Later, she served that same outsized role with the more lyrical Positive No, this time with Kenneth Close on guitar. Sadly, Wilson caught a bad case of long COVID, which destroyed her lung capacity and diminished her outsized vocal presence. Outer World grew out of Close and Wilson working with her post-pandemic voice, not as powerful now but still stirring.  It’s a testament to perseverance and struggling to do what you most value, even when your body isn’t cooperating, and it makes Wilson’s declaration, “I love the music/Who does the music love?” even more triumphant. Wilson may not be as loud as she was, but she’s a riveting presence all the same.

Jennifer Kelly