#velvet goldmine adjacent

[gayalienwilde]

[happylandfill23]

hey babes x

welcome to my lovely little dumpster that may or may not be on fire hope ya have a great stay! here's a lil about me woohoo

☆ i'm ember aka the evil bisexual alien from pluto. or something. use whatever pronouns 4 me idc go wild

☆ i luv making art!! my art tag is styrofoamm if ya wanna check it out <3

☆ FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 don't forget to do your daily click! and here are palestinian blogs that have reached out to me

☆ more about me under the cut xoxo

where can u find me??? other than the bog. ofc

☆ my other blogs! -- @styrofoamm (art blog), @ask-cyberdevils (oc ask blog), @murdocniccalsreactionimages (exactly what it sounds like), and cyberdevils' blogs totally not mine - @gu1t4rf41ry (pixie), @acexofxspades (ace), and @shags-shags (shags)

☆ youtube (i post song covers n art-related stuff mainly. but i also just kind of do whatever y'know a bit like this blog but probably slightly less annoying probably)

☆ spotify (self explanitory. js playlists no original music btw lol)

for a more comprehensive list/info on my tagging system, here's my links page from my custom blog setup :] (there's fun stuff in there!!)

i have a lot of interests. yay

☆ damon albarn's numerous projects (gorillaz, blur, the good the bad & the queen, solo music, etc) as well as jamie hewlett's numerous projects (gorillaz once again, tank girl, phoo action/get the freebies, the 16s even tho there's not much content of it i just think they're neat dot jpeg, etc)

☆ manic street preachers!!!!!!!!!!!!!

☆ more britpop/britpop-adjacent stuff (elastica!!!!!!, suede, pulp, lush, oasis, the stone roses, etc etc)

☆ other music too (bikini kill, nine inch nails, björk, fiona apple, skinny puppy, einstürzende neubauten, joy division, siouxsie and the banshees, david bowie, MF DOOM, mars argo, nirvana, julie, my chemical romance, poppy, radiohead, and i'm going to stop now. sorry there's so many jesus fuck)

☆ the mighty boosh!!!!!! (vince noir ily. my special little princess)

☆ scott pilgrim :] (the comics, the movie, and the series! especially the series actually. never played the video game tho)

☆ um i luv comic stuff. and i plan on making comics in the future. i like a lot of comic stuff (tank girl, scott pilgrim as i mentioned b4, heartstopper, the st. hell series, nimona, the junji ito collection, etc) i also like reading books in general (some faves r the bell jar, solitaire, the spirit bares its teeth, and no longer human)

☆ daria/beavis and butthead

☆ i like movies too. woohoo (tank girl, rocky horror picture show, scott pilgrim again lol, velvet goldmine, american psycho, the machinist, perfect blue, nimona, labyrinth, corpse bride, atomic blonde, and other stuff too i'm avoiding saying 'etc' again bcuz i've said it a lot)

☆ moomin! as u can tell from my moomin cookie dividers yippee hooray (ily moomin shop i hope i go again soon <3) ← how did the text gwt that small holy shit

☆ skins uk <3 (my fav is gen 1 :] my fav character is probably cassie but i luv maxxie n jal)

☆ collecting objects such as records/cds (maybe i'll show off my respective collections of those sometime), buttons, soda can tabs, cool rocks, small broken pieces of things that used to be something such as zippers or little fake rhinestones or perhaps the tops of acorns

☆ goin 2 concerts!! in order (4 the most part) i've seen (not counting th openers) -- taylor swift (oh yeah ember lore i was super into her as a kid), depeche mode (2x), the rolling stones, queen w/ adam lambert, gorillaz, julie (2x), foo fighters, bikini kill, fontaines d.c., and paul mccartney!! my next stops r hopefully deftones, poppy, and/or pixies

ok that's enough interests 4 now figure everything else out on yr own lmao

currently reading: the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde :)

currently watching: the day of the jackal, limmy's show!, the mighty boosh

currently listening to on perpetual loop: ana's song (open fire) by silverchair, for tomorrow by blur, revolving doors by gorillaz

spotify playlist of my current faves (hopefully i'll remember to update it regularly lmao)

that's all!

thanks 4 stoppin by lol i hope i haven't scared u off yet with my strange demeanor xx

divider here!

[dangerouscommiesubversive]

@giraffeter asked about the WenZhou ghosts WIP file! This one is fun and I love it a lot--I actually posted a little snippet from it a couple of months ago.

The basic thing is, I love ghost stories, and I have a still in-progress series of MDZS fics in a modern-with-cultivation setting that are all about ghosts and the hunting thereof, so naturally I've been thinking about ghost stuff a lot over the past. Year or so. Good lord, have I been working on the series that long? Anyway, I also rewatched Word of Honor not long ago because I wanted my partner to see it, and they loved it as much as I do and we spent a lot time talking about it, and all of this naturally led to the idea that I should do a WoH ghost story in a setting sort of adjacent to the MDZS ones. Unlike those stories, this one doesn't have any ghost hunters--Zishu's just a mundane hitman attempting a short and eventually fatal retirement, who finds himself unexpected tangled up in the affairs of an extremely strange nightclub singer with very cold hands.

Here's the scene of them actually meeting, after an initial very alarming encounter in which Wen Kexing singled him out of the crowd while performing:

After “Mack the Knife,” the singer didn’t linger near Zishu, instead making his way back up to the stage for a final song

(There was a boy, a very strange enchanted boy…)

before taking a bow and disappearing along with his backing band. No encores for this performance, apparently. This was something of a relief to Zishu, who’d been uneasy ever since the singer had first approached his table, but just as he was signaling to the one server on duty that he was ready to pay, a shadow fell over him and the singer himself pulled out the other chair and sat down. Before Zishu could say a word, he’d signaled to the server himself, accepting an empty wine glass from the harried woman and pouring for himself from Zishu’s bottle without so much as asking.

“I’m sorry,” Zishu said, as mildly as he could, “I don’t think we’ve been introduced.”

The singer took a sip of wine, eyebrows rising, and then said, “We haven’t been, but I have strong feeling that we should be, and my intuition is never wrong about things like that.” He reached across the table with the hand that didn’t hold his wine glass, red nails gleaming in the light. “Wen Kexing.”

Eyeing him suspiciously, Zishu took the proferred hand and was shocked for a moment by how cold it was, although he didn’t comment. “Zhou…Xu.”

“Boss, oh my god.” Zishu very nearly jumped. The drummer from the stage, a young woman in mostly purple, had materialized at Wen Kexing’s elbow, her eyebrows and mouth drawn down into a scowl. “I look away for two seconds and you’re just, just bothering random alcoholics, I can’t let you out of my sight.”

Zishu snorted. “Excuse me?”

“Wasn’t talking to you, Mister Two-Bottles. Boss, come on—”

Despite the young woman’s tugging at his arm, Wen Kexing would not be moved, one hand coming up to his chest like a dowager clutching a pearl necklace. “Bullied! By my own baby sister! And don’t be rude, A-Xu isn’t a ‘random alcoholic,’” the air quotes made more than usually vivid by those long red nails, “we’re very dear friends.”

Zishu felt his eyebrows shoot up at the affectionate address, and then higher at what came after it. “Are we? I don’t remember that.”

“Of course we are, my intuitions are never wrong, wasn’t I just telling you that?”

“You did tell me that. I don't recall agreeing.”

“Well, why would you? We’ve only just met. But we’re going to be the closest of friends, I’d stake my life on it.”

And here is Wen Kexing's truly wild set list, which is a very satisfying-to-me combination of jazz and blues classics and more modern songs that I think sound good, or would sound good, when sung in a sort of smokey, sexy torch song style:

"Ill Wind," composer Harold Arlen

"Hot Ones," Shudder To Think, originally performed on the soundtrack for Velvet Goldmine

"Why Don't You Do Right," probable composer Kansas Joe McCoy, notable recordings including Peggy Lee, Sinead O'Connor, and Amy Irving singing as Jessica Rabbit

"I Get a Kick out of You," composer Cole Porter--WKX is, of course, singing the original lyrics, the ones that reference drug use

"Glory Box," Portishead

"Undisclosed Desires," Muse

"Fell in Love with a Girl," The White Stripes, although WKX switches "girl" for "boy" and thus is more performing the Joss Stone version

"The Ballad of Mack the Knife," composer Kurt Weill, German lyrics Bertolt Brecht, Marc Blitzstein translation (the one that Bobby Darin and Louis Armstrong were working from)

"Nature Boy," composer eden ahbez, originally performed by Nat King Cole

[rexaleph]

tagged by @wurdulac to do a fun throwback tumblr game!

favorite color: blues (the darkest black-adjacent ones and interesting powdery pastels especially), and deep warm yellow. many others as well tbh, i like color. bright carmine, pinks and corals, deep greens, purples, most jewel tones, many earth tones, black obviously

last song: Hot One by Shudder to Think from the Velvet Goldmine Soundtrack

currently watching: interview with the vampire (but it got emotionally difficult), hunter x hunter (got stuck again :(), started twin peaks, a handful of other animes

currently reading: got many abandoned things i want to come back to, but trying blood meridian again rn

currently craving: like... air. to shake off whatever i got going on, cold water on the face

coffee or tea: coffee, but i like tea. i went through a phase of cutting caffeine so i picked morning coffee over tea but idk that i need to live like that anymore

tagging @adfgsdf @boo-cool-robot @explainslowly @osmanthusoolong @ptactwo @sapphorb , any mutual rly!

[dykeofmisfortune]

i started this account an mcr/the used account with a bert mccracken pfp and now i'm a velvet goldmine adjacent account with a curt wild pfp..... brother this is the same car repainted

[inquisitiveheretic]

Lee would you like to share the inquisitiveheretic cinema classics? 👀

THE CLASSICS. essential films for viewing and understanding my blog. here's the shortest list not in any order:

jennifer's body (2009) self explanatory. essential 00s pop punk watch, essential horror jam for my generation

hard core logo (1996) insaneeee tragic band guy dynamics here its a pain to find but it changed me <3

metallica: some kind of monster (2004) OKAY UM its bonkers. rewired my brain forever. deeply painful to watch (cringe), hilarious without meaning to be (cringe), kind of tragic if you know a lot about metallica (hi). when pete referenced it while talking about smfs i was deeply shaken cuz thats probably the craziest thing he could have possibly said.

velvet goldmine (1998) self explanatory !!!!!

perfect blue (1997) checks all my boxes re: fame + self, also beautiful i luvvv the art style

d.e.b.s. (2004) its LESBIAN FUN and its a masterpiece

house of wax (2005) camp and brutal gore yay! paris hilton death scene slayed

american mary (2012) she did nothing wrong idgaf. femdom rape revenge feminism, body modification/mutilation, katherine isabelle of ginger snaps fame (which also deserves to be on here)

alien (1979) i love sci fi :-) ripley + the xenomorph were in love

fight club (1999) self explanatory see also: chuck palahniuk as adjacently relevant

my own private idaho (1991) :-(

blade (1998) all the best stuff about late 90s/00s horror packed into one banger movie. the soundtrackkkk

rocketman (2019) watched it like 10 times. cried. now THATS how you make a biopic

[derpylittlenico]

About the Blogger Ask Meme

tagged by inimitable, resplendent @exlibrisfangirl

Favorite Color?

I'm a sucker for jewel tones, of any kind. My hair is currently mermaid adjacent, with some magenta-pink, teal, teal-blue, blue-purple all kinda up in there. If you're interested? Unicorn was the brand I used. Semi-permanent, layers well. Very pigmented, so you can get intense color by just painting it on your hair, OR blend it in w basic bitch conditioner for a pastel variant.

Favorite Food?

It's hard to choose any one. I've had a lot of realllllly great food in my life, but? A forever fave is definitely gado gado. It's Balinese. Steamed vegetables, tempeh, rice, fried FRESH tofu, served with a flavorful, spicy peanut sauce.

Sweet/Spicy/Savory?

It...depends? Sweet & Spicy? Korean bbq wings. Yes, please. That. Just Spicy? Spicy Miso Ramen, or Thai Curry. The only one that I can't really do is Savory. I'm extremely sensitive to salt.

Last Thing I Googled?

I was double checking the og Buffy series air dates, bc I wanted to check my memory before declaring that yeah, Peter Hale totally would have been the right age demo to be super into it.

Currently Reading?

Endless fic. Nerve pain flare ups in my hands make holding my books unpleasant, sadly. So, I tend to consume fic via primarily podfic. I have too many reccs for this ask, so I'll save that for if anyone asks.

I do read text versions too, but holding my phone can sometimes be a lot when my hands are hurty, so. Before my hands got really bad, though, I was reading my hefty anniversary edition of "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman.

Last Series?

I. Don't want to just say "idk, fic" again, so I'm just gonna use this section to shamelessly recc "The Protector of the Small" series by Tamora Pierce.

Last Movie?

Thor: Love & Thunder.

I was up, wanted to watch something, and am not the type to pan a movie based on movie bros' Strong Opinions tm tm. It was...I mean? Not as good as the last one, but not exactly the world ending failure people were crying about. Christian Bale was a lot, though. A Lot. I'll give them that... they weren't wrong there.

Last Song?

Baby's On Fire (cover) as performed in the movie Velvet Goldmine. It fuckin slaps. It is my entire jam, because I am glam rock trash.

Song Stuck In My Head?

thankfully??? Not a one. I have a brain that hyperfixates. When I let that happen for songs, it will play it on repeat while I'm trying to sleep. So, yeah. I have methods for preventing that.

Something I Want?

For my body to slow its roll on the inflammation train. Ig this is what makes Hashimoto's vs a non autoimmune thyroid disorder ""fun."" When a flare up kicks off, everything goes hog wild. All at once. Like a symphony orchestra of discomfort.

Dream Trip?

Reykjavik, please and thank you. Or the Laplands in Finland. I've been to Bali a few times, and I love it. Costa Rica was beautiful, too. But, like? I just want to be somewhere with polar nights, bc I am weird like that, ig.

Currently Working On?

Self care. I've been doing the caretaker of a caretaker thing for a bit, and my spoons are limited.

Time?

2:38 am (lordT. To bed with me)

So, like. To the tagging others bit...

Sorry babes for being my only tags for a response, but I think everyone else I know has done this or been tagged? No pressure to reply, obvs. I just didn't want to let this die on my doorstep

@ceiaofsilence @worldtravellingfly @laternenfisch

[spock-buys-houses]

Todd Haynes did a scene in Velvet Goldmine about an adjacent concept circa 1998

[queen-mabs-revenge]

sometimes its just a ladytron kinda morning

[lostjulys]

on music mode...just watched this old 2002 mcr concert and god it's. incredible. i doubt you have any works/books on it but do you have any that are at least on creating? doesn't even have to be music but god just watching that made me feel all pumped and encourages me to get better at guitar (it's not necessary, just really excited :]])

oh FUCK. fuck. stuff about creating. stuff about creating that is vaguely adjacent to mychem. fuck i am digging around in my brain there are piles of clutter everywhere.

if u want like. mychem adjacent stuff.. then like.. baz luhrmann's romeo + juliet. velvet goldmine. my own private idaho. the tv show we are lady parts. cabaret. chicago. jennifer's body. (<- literally none of thse are fucking books but. whaddevverrr <3) but u r an mcr blog u probably knew all that already </3

if u want books and stuff specifically, try the beat poets, maybe- i won't recommend anyone specific, but. y'know. you can poke around w/ them. (this is partially bc i am chickening out i don't want More Discourse... beat poetry is like. one of the areas where u gotta like. idk. be aware of what you're consuming- allen ginsberg was shitty but he wrote some brilliant stuff. same w/ jack kerouac. same w/ a whole lot of other ones 😭 like, there's some wonderful writing and you shouldn't let anything spoil it for u, but just. yknow. grain of salt.) ALSO also also while we're at it u should look up andrea gibson on yt they're a slam poet who writes a lot of stuff abt transness and self-creation and stuff like that >:))

also also allso i don't wanna dig thru transcripts right now but!! if u have time. u should check out the podcast alice isn't dead.

[gayalienwilde]

Guess who just got Placebo tickets :^)

[awsugar]

tomorrow’s weekly stream will be around 10pm est and this time it’s an mcr-adjacent movie (which i’m trying to do every other week. last time was velvet goldmine). i’ve chosen phantom of the paradise because tbp is my favorite album of all time and since i heard that gerard drew inspiration from this movie i’ve wanted to watch it. i hope some of you will join! we have a lot of fun on the streams :)

[decaynow]

there’s nothing really prompting me to say this but i really need society to understand more trans narratives than just “ive always been trans i just didnt have the word for it” or whatever. that’s fine and good if that’s how you felt but like some of us did think we were cis until we werent. like i was very sure in being a girl until i was like. huh. not identifying with womanhood really. and for me being otherkin also factors in like i really don’t know if thinking i was a wolf as a kid was just me misdirecting feelings of transness i could have had but like. it doesn’t really matter to me figuring out what came first, feeling like i wasn’t human or feeling like i wasn’t a girl. i think really, it’s just both. i try to figure out “would i still be otherkin if i wasn’t trans?” because i’m wondering if it’s a product of already not identifying with my body, but really, what matters is just knowing i AM trans and AM otherkin. whichever came first feels so irrelevant now. but yeah i didn’t always know i was trans, y’know? i believed i was a girl for a good like 12-13 years. and even when i decided to be genderfluid i didn’t really act fluid (although that was due to pressure from my family and ex bf to be feminine) but when i finally was able to experiment with gender i found i was not fluid. essentially my gender is fluid now but it’s also not but like. my genders are Catboy, Femboy, wolf, man-adjacent Thing, and demon. And Frank Iero and Gerard Way. And Velvet Goldmine. That’s it those are my genders

edit: HOW COULD I FORGET MY GENDER/SEXUALITY OF PETE WENTZ AND PATRICK STUMP AS WELL IM SO SORRY

[symbieote]

Xfiles theme plays every time I think about David Bowie performing 20th century boy with placebo in 1999 at the BRIT awards ...but a year earlier in 1998 placebo appeared in feature film velvet goldmine as the fictional band the flaming creatures and performed said song... and velvet goldmine was originally set to be a Bowie biopic but was rewritten from the ground up to be about a fictionalised account of glam rock with names changes and collaged characters due to how Bowie disapproved of the project and would not allow his music or name to be used... leading to the back up vocals in satellite of love being the only appearance of Bowie whatsoever in the film...

And yet...??????? Who was responsible for this obviously VG adjacent performance... db collabed with placebo and was allegedly a mentor figure.....who decided on the song... the artists??? The organisers????

[ghostcat3000]

Movie asks: 6. A film you wish you hadn’t watched? 12. A movie that holds a special place in your heart? 18. What’s your favourite biopic?

from the Film Ask Meme

6.  A film you wish you hadn’t watched?

I wish I hadn't seen those fifteen minutes of the Transformers movie that was inexplicably playing in my hospital room after giving birth to my son. The mother in the next bed over was watching it and it was more hellish than my newborn gum-chomping on my bits. It made me want to unfasten my own head, as if it was a Barbie Doll’s and throw it in the East River. I was actively looking for something to sabotage the television with. Those are fifteen minutes I will never get back.

Answered another way here.

12.  A movie that holds a special place in your heart?

My mom's an odd, inconsistent sort. She's quite conservative but she never policed what I listened to or watched, almost as if she trusted me to understand that fiction is fiction and not always meant for life. I say almost, not facetiously, but legitimately, because I'm still not sure it wasn't a kind of benign neglect. Anywho, one year I heard about this movie called Velvet Goldmine that was going to be all about glam rock and Bowie and fandom. I told her I wanted to see it and we went together and I remember thinking at one point, there's a whole lot going on here that isn't really friendly to mom-adjacent viewing, and yet... we found so many things to talk about afterwards. For me, it was Christian Bale yelling joyfully at his parents, THAT'S ME! and this movie made me feel that way too, THAT'S ME and there we were, me telling my mom who I was and her listening.

18.  What’s your favourite biopic?

Daniel Day Lewis' twinkly-eyed ferociousness in My Left Foot has certainly earned it a place in my Biopic best-of. It's a film where the central performance outshines the subject but nevertheless, what a performance! A rare Best Actor Oscar for the actual role and not whatever happened the year or years prior.

Answered another way here.

Thank you, @fatherjerusalem!

[gayalienwilde]

Horrible start of the day, immediatly fixed when I walked into a shop and they were playing "Band of gold" and I found a mug I had been looking for for sooo long. I'm counting this as Velvet Goldmine saving the day once more lol

the mug in question 🍓