#smithing clans

[hiddenremnant]

(core) laven fans celebrating like "past!lavi and past!allen were besties! this is amazing!" and hoshino coming in with a "past!lavi is actually cross" like a nuclear bomb exploding, in which "cross and lavi are the same person" would be world war 3

[primatechnosynthpop]

New kitties on the rock + some of their friends and enemies (mostly enemies)

[ID summarized from alt text: drawings of several New Kids on the Rock characters as cats, specifically as though they were in the Warriors series.]

[omegaremix]

Summer 2000 Mixtape.

Bustah Rhymes f. Raekwon & Ghostface Killah & Roc Marciano “The Heist”

Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz “This Cold World”

Phat Kat “Dedication To The Suckers”

Aboriginals, The “Number Theory”

De La Soul f. Redman “Oooh”

Royce Da 5’9” “Boom”

Guiro f. DJ Spinna “Solevision”

Dilated Peoples “Work The Angles” RMX

Slum Village “Raise It Up”

Kool G Rap & RZA “Cakes”

Ruff Ryders f. Snoop Dogg & Scarface & Jadakiss & Yung Wun “World War III”

Planet Asia & Talib Kweli “Don’t Let Up”

Yak Ballz “Nasty Or Nice”

M.O.P. “Ante Up”

Slum Village “Climax (Girl Shit)”

Mack 10 f. E-40 “Can’t Stop”

Big L “Holdin’ It Down”

Barber Shop Emcees “Money, Music, And Women”

Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes “Aspirations”

Galt McDermott “Ripped Apart By Metal Explosions”

Les McCann “Valarta”

Richard “Groove” Holmes “Onsaya Joy”

Bob James “Caribbean Nights”

Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes “Expansions”

Steve Davis “It’s All Because She’s Gone”

Mahavishnu Orchestra “Resolution”

Randy Crawford “Street Life”

Earth, Wind & Fire “Brazilian Rhyme (Beijo Interlude)”

Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes “Colors Of The Rainbow”

Andreas Ammer & FM Einheit Sensation Death

Damage Manual “Sunset Gun”

Apoptygma Berzerk “Eclipse”

Front Line Assembly “Fatalist” (Rhys Fulber RMX)

Subconscious label Wild Planet

Caspar Brotzmann & FM Einheit Merry Christmas

Assemblage 23 “Bi-Polar”

Invisible label Drug Test Volume I

Andreas Ammer & FM Einheit Deutsche Krieger

Christoph De Babalon If You’re Into It I’m Out Of It

DJ Rap “It’s Good To Be Alive” (Deep Dish RMX)

Stereolab “Metronomic Underground” (Wagon Christ RMX)

Primal Scream “Kill All Hippies”

Squarepusher “Tequila Fish”

Hanin Elias In Flames 1994-1999

Underworld “Bruce Lee”

Genaside “The Genaside Will Not Be Televised”

Kraftwerk “Expo 2000”

Squarepusher “Central Line”

southpacific Constance

Harry Pussy Ride A Dove

Relapse Records label Japanese / American Noise Treaty

[thedarkcoven]

1000 Follower Celebration!!!

For my 1000 follower celebration I will be doing a fun game/requests! You can do “would I rather” with characters, pick from diffrent characters (example:Bucky Barnes or Steve Rogers lol), headcannons of characters, etc. I WILL BE DOING BOTH NSFW AND SFW <3 Characters: Kylo Ren/Ben Solo General Hux Poe Dameron Din Djarin Frankie Morales Jacques Le Gris Caleb Smith (Ex Machina) Nathan Bateman Officer Ronald (The Dead Dont Die) Commander Mills (65 film) Bill Weasley Sam Fortner (The Patient) Thomas McGregor (Peter Rabbit) Clan Techie (Dredd 2012) Moon Boys (Steven Grant, Marc Spector, Jake Lockley) Blue Jones Duke Leto Atredies II Miguel O’Hara Santiago Garcia Bucky Barnes Charles Blackwood Lee Bodecker Jefferson (Once Upon a Time) Chase (The Covenant) -You can request a character 

Tropes: One Bed Age Gap Best friend’s brother/dad Injury Forced Proximity (example: snowed in) Step-siblings Arranged Marriage Yandere Enemies to Lovers Professor/Student Love Potion Sex Pollen Multiversal travel (multiple characters of same actor) University AU Inexperienced/Virgin reader -You can request a trope that isn’t listed

Settings/Theme: Medieval College/Uni Modern (examle: Modern Star Wars character) Vampiric Horror/Halloween Celebrating holidays (example: cooking for thanksgiving, decorating for halloween etc) Party/Celebration Crossover (example: Scream x Moon Knight) -You can request a theme that isn’t listed

Promps: 1. “Try me/Make me/Bite me” 2. “Where do you think you’re going?” 3. “Wanna bet?” / ”Oh yeah?” 4. “I don’t want to see you with anyone else” 5. “I’ve been thinking about you all day” 6. “I like when you say my name like that... Can you do it again?” 7. “Hmmm, I thought I told you not to fall in love with me?” 8. “Kriff, you look so pretty on your knees” 9. “Come on... you’re acting like you haven’t done this before” / “Wait, what- you haven’t?” ~You can request one that isn’t listed -promp ideas from @saradika @letsmakeitwrite @itsdrippingred Forgot to add all dividers I use are by @cafekitsune​ and @saradika​

[stairnaheireann]

The Fenian Brotherhood

The Fenian Brotherhood, the Irish Republican Brotherhood’s US branch, was founded by John O’Mahony and Michael Doheny, both of whom had been “out” (participating in the Young Irelander’s rising) in 1848. Members were commonly known as “Fenians”. O’Mahony, who was a Celtic scholar, named his organisation after the Fianna, the legendary band of Irish warriors led by Fionn mac Cumhaill. The Fenian…

[helenbagheera]

Chapter 19. The End Of Sufferings

New part is already here!

"Armin," taking a few steps towards Levi, Smith froze in place and turned around. "How does this happen?"

"You will be guided only by your instincts. After waking up, you won't remember anything, so you'll need at least some rest. We can't say exactly what kind of animal it will be, because it depends on the psychological qualities of the bearer. Maybe a horse, maybe a cat, maybe something else."

"He's as much a horse as I am a prostitute,” Nile teased his friend loudly. "You'll be a sheep with bushy eyebrows."

"I say it'll be a cat!" Hanji immediately argued with Nile's conclusion.

"I never thought I'd be able to watch a man gain the power of a titan,” said Pixis, who, by the look on his face, was getting ready to see a real show.

[kethsi]

So this happened yesterday...

[gerogerigaogaigar]

Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?

The debut album by Jimi Hendrix and crew is a stunning piece of psychedelic rock. Heavy blues guitar licks are the standard fare here. It lacks the full extent of jazzy exploration that Hendrix's later albums show, but it is still an incredible album. Being the first album from an artist who was always exploring and evolving I'm confused why it is his highest rated album on the list but actually I know why, it's because Are You Experienced has all his biggest hits. The people at Rolling Stone are children after all, jingling keys gets them more excited than artistic expression ever will.

The Beatles - The White Album

Are you fucking kidding me? I honestly thought we were past the point where I would have anything bad to say about the albums on the list. I mean this is supposedly the 29th best album of all time? The White Album is an infamously bloated mess, and what's left when you pate it down still isn't their best work. Correction, the stretch of songs that includes Wild Honey Pie, The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill, While My Guitar Gently Weep, and Happiness Is A Warm Gun is actually their best work. The last of those four being one of my all time favorite Beatles songs. There are some moments of charm but this album is tedious as fuck and includes some of their absolute worst: Glass Onion, Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da, Birthday, Yer Blues, Revolution 1, and of course Revolution 9 should be stricken from reality. This list should be stricken from reality. What a fucking albatross I have wrapped around my own neck.

D'Angelo - Voodoo

My thoughts on this album are very much the same as I had for Brown Sugar. Every song is good, but the album goes on too long. There is a little more variety here and I think the production is a little richer in a way that makes it more listenable, but it is very long. The highlight is probably Left And Right for its features from Redman and Method Man. I actually wouldn't have minded more features. This album is begging for a little more hip hop influence. Either way every D'Angelo album is better than the last and he has a pretty strong starting point. I hope I don't sound too mean I really do like this album I'm just an ADHD queen who cannot focus if an album keeps the same tempo for too long.

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

I'm willing to bet most everyone already knows this is the album that defined East coast hip hop. I've talked about the features before: sparse beats punctuated by haunted piano loops, intense focus on virtuosic flow and rhyming. What Enter The Wu-Tang brings us that no other album can is the entire Wu-Tang Clan all at once. From the slums of Shaolin the Wu-Tang Clan strikes again the RZA, the GZA, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Inspecta Deck, Raekwon The Chef, U-God, Ghostface Killah, and the Method Man. Also Masta Killa and 4th disciple but they aren't listed in the opening of the song Method Man for some reason. The cast of rappers is huge and they all seem to share an incredible delight for the kung-fu kayfabe badass personae that infects the album. And with so many distinct voices on the record it is constantly dynamic, almost manic, in its pace. Plus Enter The Wu-Tang is just full of iconic songs, over half the album is certified hits. No other hip hop record bombards you so constantly with such a huge collection of raw talent.

Patti Smith - Horses

Patti Smith marries art rock poetry with punk rock vulgarity in a way that both makes apparent her role as an early punk artist and leaves her standing somewhere outside of punk itself. Both of the nine minute tracks, Bird land and Horses, take us through a surreal melange of avante garde and 50s rock and roll. The violent cover of The Who's My Generation takes the song and tears it to shreds ending on Smith saying "We created it, let's take it over". And of course there's the lesbian punk anthem Gloria which is a near complete rewrite of a Van Morrison song with the sexual aggression turned up to eleven. All of the covers and musical quoting make the album feel like a quilt made of all the things that influenced Smith's poetry and music. It's the desire to rebel and the feeling of salt of the earth country folk and the musings of a poet all wrapped into one package.

Carole King - Tapestry

Carole King was one of the most prolific and influential songwriters of the 60s so when she sat down to record her own album she brought a decade of experience with her. Tapestry was technically her second solo album, but her debut was poorly produced and didn't showcase her talents well. Tapestry fixes this. It is a time machine to the heyday of 60s pop rock with a fine veneer of nostalgia. Tapestry consists almost entirely of new songs with the exception of Will You Love Me Tomorrow?, and (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman which King gets to record for the first time in her own voice. The combination of tin pan alley arrangements and Kings unadorned and powerful voice make Tapestry a standout album in the world of 70s adult contemporary.

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Whoa really? I was super certain they were gonna put this at number one. Well at a much more modest twenty four here's the most overrated album of all time. Okay yeah I'm gonna trash this album just for fun but it is good, really good. It's just that the praise heaped on it is totally undeserved. So first the good. Sgt. Pepper's is a fantastically jaunty psychedelic tinged album with incredible variety that genuinely shows off each individual member of the group at their best. What it isn't, though, is new or innovative or something that every other band was rushing to copy. It definitely helped bring psychedelic music farther into the mainstream but they were at least a year behind. You know what fuck the negativity I'm doing a 180. The little psychedelic elements, heavy use of sitar, vocal distortion, and the general air of goofing off make Sgt. Pepper's a delightful and easy listen. The wilder ends of the album, the vaudeville Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! The showtimey bounce of When I'm Sixty-Four or the orchestral freak out on A Day In The Life are kinda what make it. The Beatles manage to seemingly get lost in weird bullshit only to reign it back in. It's a fun album and I've already written too much about these fuckers so bye.

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

They were a bunch of classically trained and beat poet types backed up by avant garde singer Nico and managed by Andy Warhol. The Velvet Underground were basically destined to do what they did. Their debut record strikes a weird tense balance between psychedelic rock and minimalist drone as well as being one of many origin points for punk (take a shot every time I say something was an influence on punk music and you'll die). No part of this album isn't a stand out moment from the very beginning where Sunday Morning fakes you out into thinking this will be a normal psychedelic album to the nearly eight minutes of discordant violin on European Son that closes out the album. Nico's vocals add a surreal icy flair to the tracks she sings on and the production is so raw that it feels like the album is deteriorating as you listen.

The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die

The prophetically titled Ready To Die is amazing for showing the actual range of emotion simmering under the surface of 90s hip hop kayfabe. The bravado is always undercut with lyrics that remind us that Biggie knows how far he's come and how fast it happened. He want to present badass machismo but he can't help rapping about a deep underlying depression. Even on the obligatory sex skit the kayfabe falls apart as Biggie and Lil Kim can't help but break into laughter at how stupid the bit is. Biggie's technique is also immaculate. Not only is he good at doing complex rhymes but he can sell very silly lines very well. The line "I got techniques coming out my butt cheeks / sleep on my stomache so I don't fuck up my sheets" lives rent free in my head.

Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run

A lovingly crafted blue collar opera. A street life fairytale. The sweeping highs of Americana come crashing back to earth in a fit of reality. Born To Run is desperate, romantic, dramatic. Every line, every riff, every piano fill is there to make you feel something. There's so much fear and desperation expressed in these eight songs. And they are beautifully composed. There's a true love of rock and roll and a love of the rebellious attitude it represents but with an underlying fear that rebellion isn't actually an escape. As much as I love Nebraska I have to admit this is probably Springsteen's best album. This is one of the best albums period.

[sidrial]

Pick 1 album and discuss.

If you don’t recognize any of these, listen to at least 2 first. I will add music 🎶 links in the comments.

#Alsmusiccafe

Episode 268

11 14 23

#theSmiths #ClanofXymox #Powerwolf #Iniko

[halcyon-days-no-more]

Gargoyle Negan

Like Daryl and Michonne in this universe, Negan was born a gargoyle.

[doogieofficial]

Song Of The Day

2-20-2025

[suetravelblog]

George Town Heritage Zones Penang Island Malaysia

[thedarkcoven]

OOC Thought Post

I really want some Domhnall Gleeson/Domhnall character requests because my ginger boy needs some lovin’ <3  -Kitty/Thedarkcoven

[black-plumbob]

So burnt out on making over downtownies that I'm going to play Bellagrave for a household before going back to the Albions

[homunculus-argument]

Random worldbuilding for nothing in particular: Dwarvish last names.

When dwarvish workers and artisans first came to human cities for work, humans soon noticed that all dwarves seem to have last names ending in the same suffix. Soon enough they put together that these names don't go by families, but by occupation. Blacksmith is a blacksmith, Goldsmith is a goldsmith, a mason is called Stonesmith and carpenter a Woodsmith. And a horse breeder is called a Horsesmith.

(While humans would classify dwarf horses as ponies, dwarvish languages have no separate words for "horse" and "pony" and insist that dwarf horses are called horses since the way humans say "pony" seems degoratory.)

The word that humans previously assumed meant "smith" is simply the dwarvish blanket term for "one who works with their hands to manufacture/maintain." Humans originally started referring to any random dwarf they don't know with simply the suffix in a dismissive "they all have the same names anyway" sort of way, but in dwarfish society addressing someone you don't know in this way, "hey you, Craftsman" is considered perfectly respectable.

Once more dwarf society began to pour into human lands, humans noticed two other types of last names: -Trader, and -Commander. Traders are sellers, peddlers, merchants of all sorts, and while first encountering Silktraders, Goldtraders and Spicetraders might lead one to think that they are a class above -Smiths, they are not. Any street hawker, peddler or common grocer is just as much a -Trader as a merchant of kings is.

There are dwarfish jokes about how a farmer who grows vegetables and then goes to the town to sell them is a Turnip-smith at home but a Turnip-trader in the city, but getting the suffixes mixed up is a serious offense. Calling a dwarvish doctor a "seller of healing" instead of a "crafter of healing" would imply that they do their occupation for financial profit instead of a sacred calling, and is a stab-worthy insult. And they won't stitch you up afterwards.

The -Commander class is as one would expect, for leaders and commanders. The chief of a village or head of a clan is often known as "[clan name] commander", but more often it is the title for military officers and government officials. A centurion is called Hundred-Commander, a higher officer is a Thousand-Commander. The master of a spy network is "Commander of Secrets" and the national chief accountant is "Commander of Coin".

While dwarf societies are technically speaking autocracies with a single leader, humans have yet to reach an agreement about how to translate the leader's title. Most settle for "chief", as king/queen/emperor/empress would require knowing the current ruler's gender, and dwarves consider such information a matter of extreme privacy. The official dwarvish title of the ruler is "folksmith", "one who works with their hands to make/maintain a people".