#talk box

[wanderinstar]

Beck, Bogert & Appice ~ Superstition Santa Monica, 1973

[rastronomicals]

11:54 PM EDT April 24, 2024:

L7 - "Talk Box" From the album Hungry for Stink (July 12, 1994)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Riot Grrrl, could be, maybe.

[the-water-nixie]

GPB? 🧐

So... this one is barely started. It's a KimChay AU based on the 90s romcom Grosse Pointe Blank, which is a dark comedy about a guy who leaves his high school sweetheart on prom night and becomes an assassin. Then he returns for the 10 year reunion because he has a job offer to kill someone in his hometown. Basically it's assassin Kim and his high school sweetheart Chay who he wants to get back with once he sees him again. Fun, romance, murder! 😁

[rodpower78]

Peter Frampton

[chasedbybuildings]

Me: well, this seems interesting in a David Lynch sort of way...

OH MY GOD HE PUT A TUBE IN HIS MOUTH...

[fuzzkaizer]

BMC electronic - SHEET MOUTH - Jerry’s Sound Blower - Jerry Bacchi talking machine

cred: avito.ru/yalta/muzykalnye_instrumenty/bmc_electronic_talking_machine_sheet_mouthguitar_1877744520

[psychterminal]

Eagles (Joe Walsh) - Rocky Mountain Way / Live At The Capital Center March 1977 /// Talk Box & Slide guitar solos!!! 

[mead-iocre]

Khelif advances to the semi-finals and is now guaranteed a medal in Paris!

[tipsywench]

This wonderful fan account on instagram Imane_Khalif_10 has been translating interviews and this is the funniest one so far (edit: apparently she's deleted her account or switched to a different name)

Imane Khelif, patron goddess of punching the shit out of bullies

[hijinks-n-lowjinks]

there are tears in my eyes

[freshthoughts2020]

[fairsweetlonging]

truth serum / system reveal au where shen qingqiu gets hit with an uncloaking spell that reveals the system in the reflection of his eyes every time it pops up.

during one of his missions, in the treasure hoard of some dragon-like creature, he finds a golden, oval shaped hand mirror, its gaudy style more victorian based than anything (airplane you hack!), that doesn't seem to do anything when he looks into it. but when he does, it reveals the system's screen in his eyes.

he doesn't notice this, of course, because he can't see it, and the system, surprisingly, stays quiet.

the peak lords think he's cursed.

maybe mu qingfang is the first to notice, during the mandatory post mission check-up, when shen qingqiu is scrolling through his most recently accumulated points and mu qingfang can see the strange vividly-blue lines reflected in his pupils. it's gone when shen qingqiu blinks, like it was nothing but a trick of the light.

it comes out when yue qingyuan is visiting and, just as he's done laying out the plans for a new mission, shen qingqiu's eyes glaze over and a bright blue box takes over the whole of his iris. shen qingqiu goes quiet; the thing in his eyes moves, shifts, pulses for a second, like static worms crawling all over his pupils. then he blinks, and it's gone, and shen qingqiu accepts the mission that yue qingyuan was almost sure he would decline.

maybe there is an intervention, when the peak lords corner shen qingqiu at qian cao peak and try to figure out what's wrong, subjecting him to all kinds of treatments and curse-finding spells that turn up empty, they can't find anything.

of course, the silencing threat is still very much up and running. at first shen qingqiu was kind of confused by the whole ordeal, but when the peak lords start describing a "strange blue box", he realizes, with sickening suddenty, that they're describing the system. and he can't say anything.

this only makes everything worse, because their fellow peak lord now keeps evading every question and acts like he doesn't understand. liu qingge points right at his face and asks, "that blue box, what is it?" and shen qingqiu laughs nervously and starts talking about how bright the weather is and surely it's the sky and nothing to worry about!

even worse, during the intervention the system thought it was a good idea to start talking to him, so now even the peak lords who hadn't seen it and who might have been persuaded by light tricks and reflections, get a first row view that no, that definitely isn't a trick of the light.

they try to do the whole thing of "are you in danger, blink twice" but shen qingqiu can't even do that because it's still a direct admittance!

maybe eventually he starts saying vague confirmations that don't actually confirm anything, like "this master hears what you're saying", or maybe he goes with a classic "this master can neither confirm nor deny that." but the system starts warning him for that too and eventually he stops saying anything, which worries the others more.

luckily mu qingfang catches on that every time they ask a direct question about the box or shen qingqiu says anything vaguely confirming, it appears. it doesn't appear when they ask about curses or demons, so it must not see that as a threat.

for a little extra angst: maybe the peak lords keep pressuring him for answers, and at some point shen qingqiu gets fed up and snaps out something like, "why don't you understand that i'm not allowed to answer that!" the system counts this as a direct admittance, threatening it's existence. so it punishes. shen qingqiu has a qi deviation so bad it lasts two weeks and takes two people every day to cleanse his meridians. the system doesn't appear in that time. it doesn't appear for a long while after that, either. the peak lords stop asking, mainly because shen qingqiu will instantly leave the room if they do. they don't stop searching for a cure, though.

shang qinghua returns from a business trip and catches on the second someone mentions a blue box and forced silencing.

[rastronomicals]

6:55 AM EST February 4, 2024:

L7 - "Talk Box" From the album Hungry for Stink (July 12, 1994)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Riot Grrrl, could be, maybe.

[the-water-nixie]

Trick or treat, Nixie!🎃🍫🖤🧡

Here is little snippet of the Theerapanyakuls vampire AU I tried to have finished by Halloween. Alas, I lost steam and it will have to wait until after nanowrimo.

Happy Halloween! 🎃🖤🧛🏻‍♀️

As soon as the lovely-eyed boy is a safe distance away from him, Kim takes a deep breath in, allowing himself the luxury of his sense of smell once again. Kim knows he’s attractive to humans, but the boy had been far too prone to blushing. The warmth and sweet scent of him almost had Kim’s teeth popping—an embarrassing problem Kim hasn’t had an occurrence of in decades. 

Just in case he runs into him again soon, Kim drains two drug dealers and a pimp before going in search of Kinn. 

Kim gives the compound a disgusted look—the ostentatious skyscraper lighting up the night sky. For creatures of the dark, his family sure cleaved to their artificial light. He normally avoided the building at all costs, but knew if he were to find the lovely boy’s brother as promised, and possibly save him from a terrible fate, he was exactly where he needed to be. 

Unless, of course, it was already too late. He had been in the presence of Kinn the last time Kim had seen him, so that was not only a possibility, but a likelihood. 

His brother Kinn, much like the other members of the family, hunted anywhere and killed indiscriminately. No part of the city was out of bounds, no human off limits. Tankhun, of course, had special feeders that stayed with him inside the residence at all times. He’d had the same two for several years now. The longest stretch where he hadn’t accidentally—or not so accidentally—killed one by getting overzealous while drinking from them. The only feeder he’d lost in almost a decade hadn’t been killed. Well, hadn’t been killed in the traditional sense. Instead he’d been turned by their cousin Vegas. An insult Tankhun hasn’t stopped ranting about in all the years since. 

Kim was different. Kim liked to hunt among the dregs of society—drug dealers, perverts, abusers, murderers. He revelled in their fear, the light leaving their eyes. He made sure they knew they brought their grisly deaths upon themselves. They deserved every second of pain as they thrashed and drowned in their own blood, their throats ripped open and their very essence stolen away. 

They were creatures not unlike he was. Ah, if only there was an even bigger fish. Someone who could swim in and show Kim the same fate, the same awful, deserved end. 

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

while we wait.

may i offer you all a pubby?? lil bby barns?

[the-paradigm-web]

Talk box..