#the long bright dark

[providence-park]

TRUE DETECTIVE

S1-E1 | The Long Bright Dark

[kirnet]

Song of my soul, my voice is dead; Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed Shall dry and die in

Lost Carcosa.

[sam-rothstein]

True Detective 1.01 + 1.04

[thelongnightfiles]

"Must be nice.

What?

Knowing we're not alone.

No, we're alone. God too."

Made a Liz Danvers True Detective Night Country moodboard for funsies💕💙

[icumf1rst]

el tiempo es un círculo plano

todo lo que pasó, pasará de nuevo, una y otra vez

bajo el cielo gris, una iglesia distante observa en silencio

a los pies de un angel condenado a vivir en un cuerpo de cable y metal, un ciervo yace muerto con el espiral en su estómago

un simbolo de lo inevitable 𖦹

el angel se alza como un testigo mudo del destino, y en el horizonte un tornado se forma, arrastrando consigo la repetición infinita de la violencia

el ciclo de la violencia 7 siempre va a repetirse

el numero 7, un eco del séptimo círculo del infierno de Dante, donde la violencia es castigada con aun mas violencia, donde los condenados caminan sin fin en circulos por un rio de sangre hirviendo

sabes que no hay escapatoria. 1965. hoy o mañana

entregate

totally inspired by true detective, the pillars of my soul and @mothercain 🤎 listened to perverts on repeat for seven hours in the dark while doing this, also i was on meth

[hacked-wtsdz]

After watching three seasons of True Detective, Night Country is soo fucking disappointing so far. Obviously cause Pizzolatto’s gone. Different style of intro, plot introduction through dialogue, wokeness for the sake of wokeness. You can just see how the screenwriting quality dropped to a more beginning level. The atmosphere, music, and locations are pretty good ngl but the rest is so boring. True Detective was about suspicious backwood towns, hurt children, lonely drunk detectives, and nothing ever ending. This doesn’t seem like it

[dragawayyourbones]

I NEED THAT LONE STAR ZIPPO SO BAD!!!!

[thisworldisablackhole]

Interpersonal The Long Bright Dark

🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗

FFO: POST-HARDCORE, INDIE ROCK, EMO, THRICE, BRAND NEW / LISTEN

Breaking news! An asteroid is heading straight for earth. The oceans are boiling bloody red, and the twenty dollar American Spirit that you inhaled for breakfast just funded a shiny new toy for a trigger happy soldier. Nice going, idiot. On top of that, you're 20k in debt, and your girl just left you to drive back to Washington.

I swear things used to be better than this.

Heartbreak, political outrage and nostalgia are all huddled at the very center of The Long Bright Dark—the debut full-length from St. Louis, Missouri band Interpersonal. Everything is laid out in equal measure as the band explores a diverse range of sounds from post-hardcore to shoegaze, emo and pop-punk. It's almost hard not to turn this into a track-by-track review, because in all honesty, every song on this album deserves mention, as they all culminate into this expansive putty of styles and emotions that change shape and click into place like scenes from your favourite VHS.

Funnily enough, The Long Bright Dark begins with an ending, almost as if someone forgot to rewind the tape. "Washington" nudges the band into action with a gentle intro, recounting goodbyes before the band explodes into soaring post-rock tremolos and a declaration of new beginnings. It's like walking in on the precise moment that the snake decided to start eating it's tail. Don't let the pretty guitars fool you though, because "Become Death" completely pulls the rug out from under our feet (and the wool from our eyes) with an aggressive homage to Artist In The Ambulance era Thrice, right down the pounding bass tone and strained vocals. "Spiral" then sees the band taking yet another left turn, turning suicidal ideation into a satirically cheerful pop-punk slogan ("Christine, I think I'm gonna buy a gun. Here for a good time, not a long time") which precedes a high energy bridge that almost sounds like it could have come from a secular Relient K.

This constant shifting of direction might sound jarring to some, but the band really ties these ideas together in a way that is memorable and exciting, like the melodic leads of "Out Of Time" that feel so damn triumphant and rewarding climbing out of the cynical gaze of "Alabaster". The two interlude tracks are also fantastic at enhancing the kinetic flow of emotion during the album. First we have the nostalgic warmth of "Seconds, Minutes, Hours", full of field recordings of voices and gentle synths that sound vaguely as if someone left the Final Fantasy menu theme droning away in the living room, and then "Loss", which moves the album into the closing song with an incredibly moving cello and piano performance that just completely embodies the feeling of grief.

This might be Interpersonal's debut full length, but The Long Bright Dark is the sound of a band with a high degree of confidence in their creative choices—and the buttery smooth production to back it all up. The mix is just ace, and Lyle Schmitz's voice absolutely shines in the center, especially during moments where he lets go of restraint and allows his inner rage to surface (the entire second half of "Genocider" gives me goosebumps). The rest of the band also sounds so dynamic and fluid as they stretch between different ends of the post-hardcore spectrum. For an album that is only 29 minutes long, it sure feels a lot longer, and I can't think of any other time that has been used as a compliment. Usually this is the result of tedium, but in Interpersonal's case, the album is just so immersive that I lost track of time and felt rudely awoken by the fact that it did, in fact, have to end. Right back where we began I guess.

And now we start again.

[straycalamities]

this was supposed to be just a doodle erm

[divineandmajesticinone]

D & Leila Meier Link & Charlotte

Two sides of the same coin...

[respectthepetty]

Cir's Deep Dark Secrets

After watching episode seven of The Boy Next World, I need to talk about this pretty (black-coded) bitch.

Because are there really parallel worlds?

Or is this Cir trying to save himself?

Cir is such a dark blue that he is sometimes black, and even when he should be happy, he is still so dark.

In the beginning, he was still dark but lightening up as he was connecting to Phu.

But ever since his mom crept back into the story, he has returned to the darkness.

And it has lingered.

Cir fell asleep in this shirt at the end of episode six after getting a blowjob from Phu. Looks blue, right?

Because it is a lighter blue since he was happy.

And yet, after spending a few nights with Phu in his bed, Cir is darker.

He spent the entire day with Phu being the best Blue Boy.

He was always there, telling Phu he wasn't going anywhere, and showing him that as well.

But the darkness was always there too.

Because it's the warning that Cir keeps ignoring.

It's right there in his face, but he is avoiding it.

It's the darkness he is hiding under his blue.

And that darkness is starting to affect Phu.

It's alarming just how much Cir's dark secrets are hurting Phu.

Yet Cir just keeps ignoring the sirens.

And now he made a mistake by having sex with Phu.

He ignored the red flags, and now the darkness is eclipsing everything, so this isn't a beautiful love-making moment that Phu was expecting. No. This is bad.

Because those dark secrets have tainted something that was once so bright and light.

And those dark secrets just keep building.

But the one that is harming Phu the most is the one that started all of this.

Now that they've had sex, Phu feels immense guilt believing he is cheating another Phu out of this love. After sex, he now realizes how strong his feelings are, yet he admits he doesn't deserve this. He thinks he is a substitute, and that he is just filling in for the one Cir actually loves. This love is not his nor could it ever be his. He is the replacement Phu. And why wouldn't he think this since this is the exact lie Cir fed him.

And that's why I think this beautiful black-coded bitch is Cir trying to warn himself that time is running out before all his dark secrets that he has kept buried deep within himself will be exposed and ruin the one bright spot he ever had in his miserable existence.

Parallel worlds could very well be a possibility, but Cir's problem is himself, so if parallel worlds really are a thing, why not let another Cir live his life for a bit while he is stuck thinking about the consequences of actions? Perhaps this horrifyingly white padded cell will motivate him to come clean since he already fucked up and took Phu's virginity without being honest, which has caused Phu extreme emotional pain.

Even Jin and his big ass white lie got a little light via the car's headlights during his kiss in the dark garage with Wim, the guy who is afraid of the dark, because although Jin hasn't admitted he can read Wim's mind, he did admit that he bargained with Cir to make the date happen.

But unlike Jin, whatever light Cir had is quickly disappearing as his deep dark lies begin to overshadow every other thing that has happened between him and Phu.

And in an instant, there is a barrier between them.

So I'm hoping that beautiful black-coded bitch in Cir talks some sense into him because darkness only breeds secrets.

But light exposes them.

[hivemindscape]

im a big fan of esper powers slipping loose in harmless ways when they're happy

[spoopdeedoop]

mk and mei sleepover (gone wrong)

[theflagscene]

They might as well have called episode 11 of Mumu-Tofu Story; the ep where they admit they’re fucking.

[mooreaux]

who could have guessed that I'd be redesigning Winter Rose AGAIN

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep - A Fragmentary Passage - Depths of Darkness