#rocky horror's on spotify so it's easier

[six-of-ravens]

24, 26, 29? :3 for the cozy calm asks

hiiiii

sorry i'm late in answering this, wanted to wait until i was on my laptop again since it's easier to answer asks on desktop than mobile and....of course that took 2 days (:

24: How often do you listen to soundtracks?

not very often! I have the Repo! and Rocky Horror soundtracks in my spotify likes so I listen to those more often, but I don't seek out other soundtracks very often even if I really like the music.

26: 60′s, 70′s, 80′s, or 90′s?

oh geez, let's say 80s I guess, to split the difference between the 70s and 90s

29:Thoughts on honeycomb?

Have not tried it yet and that is a distinct failing in my life. I will someday and I'm certain it will be excellent!!

[doctors-star]

👀👀👀👀👀👀at those tags on the hedonism post. An essay you say?

i gotta be real with you this is just the kind of thing i think about in the kitchen at 7pm dramatically lipsyncing to rose tint my world while waiting for pasta to boil rather than a full essay with thesis statement, quotation and any kind of conclusion

BUT

(and here’s the post for context)

we can all agree, i’m sure, that the rocky horror picture show and the picture of dorian gray are both pretty queer, albeit in fairly drastically different styles. i don’t think your average cinema would play them back to back, you know. but what’s key about them both is that they’re concerned with gothic horror, murder, the public/private persona, hedonism/aestheticism, and how all of this ties into being queer. let’s a-go.

the gothic horror in both is fairly obvious, as is the murder. people die, and it’s grim. both tpodg and trhps have strong connections to other gothic horror novels, particularly frankenstein and dr jekyll and mr hyde. the scene in which dorian murders basil (should i have tagged this post for spoilers? the book’s like a hundred years old.) takes place in the perfect gothic setting: it’s dark and foggy and nothing can be seen. secrecy is key. similarly, mr hyde cavorts about london, leaping from streetlight to streetlight and hiding in the shadows (a creature of the night!). basil then gets melted by dorian’s ex, a mad scientist type a la frankenstein with secrets and poor morals. in trhps, frankenfurter is called FRANKENFURTER and literally makes a man. the comparison here seems fairly obvious. but he also flip flops between being nice and friendly and then suddenly terrible, like dr jeykll/mr hyde. so there’s this idea in both works of the protagonist being queer, and a criminal, and somehow horrible. the horror is partly due to the crime, but mostly-

-the public/private persona. the victorians, who created the gothic horror genre, were obsessed with the idea of people being secretly terrible, and this being hidden from view somehow. think of the modern obsession with serial killers being hidden amongst us by looking like normal people. dorian hides his queerness and his crimes; he looks beautiful, like the model young man, quite without sin because it does not show on his face, but in reality he is a disgusting murderer and a homosexual. this is more horrifying than his crimes - that they are hidden, and that he was trusted to be in society. both works also take place in grand houses, where the elite might live; trusted high-ups in society, to whom one might go for legal representation, or the use of a telephone when one has broken down. frankenfurter’s persona is more obvious: he’s “not much of a man by the light of day”, although there is something of the not-quite-as-it-appears about his dress. the better comparison with dorian, though, is brad: he looks like a normal american dude! he’s supposed to! the male audience is supposed to see themselves in him, to experience frankenfurter’s whole...thing through this bland, face-of-america man. and then! he fucks frankenfurter?? he’s...not straight after all??? queer people could be anyone, anywhere - your student, your fiance, your man, the man in the mirror who looks just like you. and it isn’t obvious, like it isn’t obvious with dorian - these characters are trusted by their peers, even if not consistently by the audience; they are the lens through which the audience views the stories; and then they turn out to be queer and somehow other, without even being noticed. this is essentially everything that homophobes fear and hate about queer people: that they don’t all look like frank, but might look like dorian or brad. the gothic horror concept of the persona, used to hide what is horrible and insinuate it into polite society (think dr jekyll/mr hyde again), is associated heavily with closeted queer people in both tpodg and trhps and, as the original post points out, is pretty fucked up to unpack!

both also concern themselves with hedonism and aestheticism, being doing things for the sheer damn pleasure of it. think of the fabulous parties, ostentatious fashion, the...exotic...meals, the sexuality, the art. so there’s this idea of queerness being hidden and horrible, but also something that happens when people go too far. aestheticism went beyond the bounds of polite victorian society and wound up in fashion and art and, as far as many were concerned, homosexuality; people saw it as something that had simply gone too far. a “libido that hasn’t been controlled,” if you will. hedonism and drinking and, of course, the prerequisite aesthetic gay can also be found in other works, such as bright young things and brideshead revisited. dorian does whatever he likes, just because he likes, be it drinking or taking drugs or carrying on with society youths. frank also does as he likes, by dressing against societal norms and holding wild parties and clearly not doing whatever it was he was sent here to do. dr scott is worried about “this decadence sap[ping] our will” and this loss of control leading to living just “for the thrills” - what these thrills might be is, from context, clearly sexual and probably p gay! but ultimately dorian and frank are punished for their hedonism when it all catches up to them: dorian goes fuck-ugly and shrivelled and dies, and frank is taken prisoner - “your lifestyle’s too extreme.” in bright young things, miles is arrested; in brideshead revisited, blanche gets sent down and sebastian goes spectacularly off the rails and eventually dies.

so the idea of queerness being pleasure taken too far is prominent in both works - a pleasure that is twisted until it is a horror, and then is punished. but even then, at the end of the works, what has been done cannot be undone. you cannot put the lid back on this box - people have died, lives have been forever altered, society and the audience have looked behind a fabulous curtain into a world that is a distorted, hidden mirror of their own. you can break the mirror, but i still don’t think brad and janet are going to get married, do you? the point of the superheroes sequence in trhps, which i never really got before, is to demonstrate this: the aliens are gone, but brad and janet and dr scott are still confused and “lost in space and meaning”. tpodg just leaves us with the the beautiful, damaged portrait and the horrific corpse, staining the attic - there is no neat closure. the grave is left open, with the reader peering in. things are not going to be the same - and neither are you. you went along on this journey, too. you saw the fabulous worlds that go too far, that are so beyond the societal norm that they’re wildly enjoyable, entirely risque, quite wonderfully beautiful, and dark, terrible, and dripping with blood. you are basil hallward, brad and janet, lord henry and dr scott, and you’ve changed too. there is queerness and horror amongst us, and now you know to look.

but yeah as an aesthetic homoeroticism/crime/hedonism is pretty damn cool.

[enigmatic-mystery-777]

48: what was your biggest fear as a kid? is it the same today?49: do you like buying CDs and records? what was the last one you bought?50: what’s an odd thing you collect?51: think of a person. what song do you associate with them?52: what are your favorite memes of the year so far?53: have you ever watched the rocky horror picture show? heathers? beetlejuice? pulp fiction? what do you think of them?54: who’s the last person you saw with a true look of sadness on their face? (7/?)

• My biggest fear as a kid was tied between being screamed at by my father for anything (and it took so very little to set him off even when the reason had nothing to do with me, I got the bulk of the screaming anyway...), and the ghost face guy from those scream movies. While I'm traumatized from my father and it is ongoing, I'm more frustrated and furious at him than scared, and I overcame my fear of ghostface by watching the scream movies; subsequently now my favorite horror series lmao

My biggest fear rn is not having enough money to avoid ending up homeless once my parents (who are providing me free room and board) die. None of my friends live nearby and I don't socialize cos it causes me deep discomfort trying to be verbal. (Idk asl either; tried learning it and forgot frequently cos nobody around me uses it or respects its use)

• I used to love CDs! (Never got the allure of records they have poor audio quality with the crackles n pops). Now I use spotify which is just easier (yeah yeah hiss hiss spotify is bad etc etc lol) it's been forever since I bought a CD but I think it was an Avril Lavigne one

• I don't really collect anything. I used to collect rocks that had quartz in em, but they're abundant where I live now so they lost their mystique lol

• My father, and the Taylor Swift songs "Tell Me Why" and "Mean" are my tributes to that a$$wipe

• I've spent more time on tiktok than anywhere else and can't come up with any memes lol I'm sure there have been loads of epic ones though if ya wanna share any!

• I have indeed seen Rocky Horror, Heathers, Beetlejuice, and Pulp Fiction. Didn't like the singing in Rocky Horror, was otherwise very creeped out and "wtf am I even watching" was my main thought through it but I recognize that it's iconic so, Respect. I LOVE Pulp Fiction, Beetlejuice, and Heathers, though, all very classic epics

• I don't look at people anymore (Idk why but it freaks me out now to do so), and any people I talk to is through text. So. Yeah, no, I haven't seen anyone looking sad 😂

[neon-skies95]

Tagged by @sketchesanddoodlesandthings​

So I’ll tag @artimus-maora​, @spaceferrari​, and @141-point-12​. Do what you will.

Favorite Place: My bed. It’s warm and will never harm me.

Relationship Status: Single. 

Favorite Color: Orange,

Pets: Currently deceased.

Last song I listened to: Keep on Loving you by REO Speedwagon

Favorite TV show: That’s a good question... Generally when I watch something, I rarely re-watch it. I guess Courage the Cowardly Dog then, that’s the one I re-watch the most.

First Fandom: Power Puff Girls and Barbie. That was in the old-time when I was a wee bab.

Hobbies: Playing video games, watching anime and cartoons. It used to be drawing, but that’s kind of my job now.

Books I’m currently Reading: Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Also slowly making my way through Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.

Favorite book: Phoenix: Future by Osamu Tezuka

Name: Mia

Nickname: just use shortened version of my URL, neon. the internet using my real name just feels weird.

Sign: Scorpio.

Height: 5′1″

Sexual Orientation: Asexual

Hogwarts house: Ravenclaw. 

Favorite animal: Echidnas. They don’t have boobs so they lactate out their pores. They’re the raddest.

Time right now: 10:10 am.

Average hours of sleep: fuk

Cat or dog person: Dog. If I touch a cat, my throat closes and I run the risk of dying.

Favorite fictional character from Harry Potter: Norbert

Number of blankets you sleep with: ∞

Favorite singer or band: The Protomen. u thought echidnas were the raddest thing holy shit these wonderful ppl are 10x as rad

Dream trip: Tour of Japan. Just roughly half a year to explore the whole country. Learn some shit, buy some shit. The works.

Dream job: Character design for a video game company. I’m currently a level designer and concept artist for video game courses, so I’m getting there.

When was this blog created: long-ass fucking time ago when i was young and dreamed of glory

When did your blog reach its peak: haha wat the fuk is that?

What made you decide to make a tumblr: Most of the links to my OTPs traced back to tumblr and I had some friends already on it, so I figured I’d jump on the bandwagon.

5 things you’ll find in my bag: My laptop, at least 2 different chargers, my tablet, some pencils (most broken), and headphones.

5 things you’ll find in my bedroom: There is no bedroom, only plush toys.

5 things I’ve always wanted to do in life: Sleep all day, play all night, travel the world, learn at least one new language, and be productive. Some of these things contradict the others on this list...

5 things that make me happy: Cartoons, sleeping, plush toys, the cheesiest of music, and good scenery.

5 things I’m currently into: Pokemon, Sherlock Holmes, Transformers, Metal Gear, and sleeping

5 things on my to-do list: Required reading, meetings, finish MGSV, finish Birth by Sleep, speaking of sleep...

5 things people may not know about me: I’m a huge history buff and I like to learn as much as I can about history from different points of view. There are about 4 boxes of plush toys in my permanent home and at least 1 more still in the basement. I was a��“Sherlockian” before the BBC show came out, and to this day I still prefer the Granada series. I started my love of Transformers and Pokemon roughly around the same time, and they’ve stuck ever since. Speaking of which, I have 2 other blogs: @thatcleffa (Pokemon) and @djblasterblastinrightatya (Transformers, but also just robots in general).

Rules: Put your music on “Shuffle” List the first 10 songs

(most of my music comes from Spotify, so I’ll just use my biggest playlist and go from there)

1: Bat Out of Hell - Meatloaf

2: Live & Learn: Crush 40

3: Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler

4: Science Fiction/Double Feature - Richard O’Brien/Rocky Horror Picture Show

5: The Stand (Man or Machine) - The Protomen

6: December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons

7: The Trooper - The Protomen (it’s a cover of the original)

8: Flash - The Protomen (also a cover)

9: Opening Ceremony - Bjorn Skifs/Chess

10: Shia LaBeouf Live (Actual Cannibal Shia Labeouf) - Rob Cantor

A - Age: 21

B - Biggest fear: My home going up in flames. C - Current time: 10:45 am. Time flies. D - Drink you last had: Water. Gotta stay hydrated. E - Every day starts with: reluctance F - Favorite song:  Will of the One by The Protomen G - Ghosts, are they real: i mean, they could be H - Hometown: Michigan. That’s a state not a town, but you get the idea. I - In love with: my bed. my one true love. J - Jealous of: Those who can actually draw. Also those who can pet cats. Please stop teasing me for my inability to touch cats. It’s a dick move. K - Killed someone: ur a nosy one arent ya? L - Last time you cried: like, last week. maybe last night. M - Middle name: Frances. N - Number of siblings: 1. Younger brother. O - One wish: infinite wishes. then i can do whatever. P - Person you last called/texted: My future Dungeon Master. We’re starting a one-off campaign this Friday. Q - Questions you’re always asked: Is it Mia or Maya? (when the fuck has it ever pronounced Maya???) R - Reasons to smile: my bed. it’s waiting for me. im coming my darling, just a few more hours...! S - Song last played: Keep on Loving You - REO Speedwagon T - Time you woke up: 8:00 am. Wasn’t technically awake until 8:05 am. U - Underwear color: They have the Avengers on them. V- Vacation destination: This Spring break I’m going to LA! Mostly for business reasons, but it sounds like it’ll be a lot of fun, too! W - Worst habit: I bite the inside of my lip a lot, and I grind my teeth and generally don’t realize it until my jaw hurts or my head aches. The latter is reason for most of my dental issues.

X - X-rays you’ve had: Mouth and arms, and one time my leg.

Y - Your favorite food: I can’t really choose one because if I eat too much of one thing I get sick of it. Oreos, Nutella, and lava cake are currently at the top there.

Z - Zodiac sign: Scorpio.

1. What can’t you sleep without? I sleep a lot easier with at least one plush to hug. 2. What are your favorite kind of socks? I have one pair with cute little Pikachus all over them and another pair with cute little sheep all over them. I try not to wear them when I have to walk a lot so they don’t get holes. 3. What’s your favorite snack/meal/drink? I really like soup... like a lot. Especially if there’s a lot of noodles and meat. It’s generally my go-to if I need a pick-me-up or can’t find anything appetizing on a menu. 4. What’s your favorite kind of weather? Sunny and warm with a hint of a breeze. 5. What do you like to listen to/do to relax and feel better when you’re upset? Get something warm (like soup), and get cuddly in bed with my plushies. Also some Youtube. 6. What’s your favorite store to shop at? Book stores. 7. What color do you wear the most? Red and occasionally dark green. And a surprisingly large amount of black. 8. What’s your favorite (video/board/social/party) game to play? Pokemon.  9. Any guilty pleasures? “One Night in Bangkok”. The song is from the concept album/play Chess, and the song is about an American chess player being a douche in Bangkok. I don’t think we’re supposed to sympathize with him, but it can be pretty cringe-y. It’s very catchy and it’s terrible. 10. If you could go anywhere (in real life or in fiction), where would it be? It would be so rad to go to Destiny Islands from Kingdom Hearts. Preferably as a kid. idk, my current age on an island of kids would be weird.