#wolves of the revolution

[earworms-daily]

Day 8: Wolves of the Revolution - The Arcadian Wild

Listen Here

Pulled and panicked, the door is locked And you're trapped inside of your own heart It's a spectator sport Just play your part Just play your part

Song Fact Book

Released 0ctober 18, 2016

My Thoughts

Another one of those haunting songs that you can just feel the story in your bones and then have to listen to over and over again until you finally get understand what the lyrics are actually saying

This one lives next to Running with the Wolves by AURORA in my mind

Have I mentioned that I really appreciate instrumentation in songs before? Yeah? Well, you're gonna hear it again because the instrumentation is beautiful in this guy. The strings, the movement, just ugh/pos it's so freaking good.

[thoughtandmood]

“Born young and wild Don't let them cut your tail Just a pinch of salt in the wound, you'll be fine One last lifeline, I'm hanging high”

-The Arcadian Wild

[enyaliang]

Watch "Wolves of the Revolution" on YouTube

[louapproves]

Every time I remember how good this song is, it's like I'm enjoying it for the first time all over again

[will80sbyers]

So much potential… All cancelled

[this-is-z-art-blog]

[ID in alt]

♪ You’re trapped inside of your own heart It's a spectator sport Just play your part ♪

DannyMay 2023: Day 17, Temper- Three times Amber Masters Ember Mclain Had It

(This is part of my & @jus-a-lil-mouse's shugo phantom au. I wonder what she's so mad about...)

[slaughter-books]

Day 30: JOMPBPC: Read In April

My April, 2023 reading wrap-up! 🩶

[speedofsoundsketches]

i know you live up in Canada or something but have you ever thought of attending the whole Sonic Revolution thing? you know, mingle, make connections, perhaps make a case or two

Oh yeah, that happened just this month aye? It did look fun and I actually moved back to Seattle from Canada!

It’s tempting but it’d be a big trip for me to make. Would be cool to have a chance to meet Tyson Hesse, even for just a brief moment. As well as just geeking it up with other fans.~

Since it’s already past for this year, I’ll consider next year when it comes back around. Just depends on if it’s feasible at the time. 🤔

Also, I’m not sure if by making a case or two, you mean talking to people about my not so positive opinions on the movies especially, which, oof. Hard enough doing that online lol especially for what’s meant to be a fun event 😅

[thecharliechip]

Some songs I listen to are just so awesome I feel the need to scream at the top of my lungs

... scream, until your lungs give out!!!

[daincrediblegg]

I may not have spoitify but I know statistically with certainty that my top song of the year was absolutely Letters From The Atlantic by The Arcadian Wild and it's aaaaaaaall Lady Terror and Francis' fault

[daisychainsandbowties]

Promiseland by MIKA

also Wander. Wonder. by The Arcadian Wild - ✌

OH PROMISELAND SLAPS.

i mean i should have known it's mika. as if my dumbass did not listen to Life in Cartoon Motion on my own crusty portable CD player until the disk fossilised

but fr of COURSE this is Beatrice

"sold my soul, broke my bones, tell me, what did i get?"

"strike me down to the ground, you know i've seen it before"

ANON. YOU SEND ME THE ARCADIAN WILD?? i love u

wander. wonder. is a Lilith song. don't we know it's star wars au Lilith. she should be wrestled away from me but alas.

"perfect, you're my poison/ i sip on you to wash down the shame/ and though i am hungover in the morning/ facedown in the carpet i feel safe"

but also wolves of the revolution by arcadian wild is on about 8 of my playlists.

"born young and wild/ don't let them cut your tail/ just a pinch of salt in the wound, you'll be fine"

[crptdkssr]

sorry but i think i should be allowed to vote in the american election just so i can withhold my vote specifically to spite pretentious liberal tumblr bloggers

[ricardian-werewolf]

This a SERIOUS nitpick, be warned, but:

“Through the glass, Nikolai saw the most recent version of his izmars’ya, his underwater fleet. On land, they looked clumsy: wide, flat, and ungainly, like someone had taken a quality piece of metal and pounded it into a winged pancake.” (King of Scars, 90).

SIGH.

LB.

Leigh.

Leigh Bardugo.

Just how much research did you do for King of scars? for the Tech? Now, I admit, I sound like a 4th grade boy obsessed with ww2 rn and therefore all the shitty stuff, but bear with me.

This is SM U-1, the first German U-boat submarine, constructed before world war one. It was deemed obsolete by the time of the war breaking out. While not doing much because of this, the idea paved the way for the wolf-packs of world war two that sunk British merchant vessels and ultimately weighed the stakes in the Battle of the Atlantic.

But!

It did not look like a flat pancake with wings. A winged pancake reminds me more of the Enterprise if you stuck it underwater. Or the millennium Falcon. Maybe it's a style choice, but that reads to me as a submarine. And Submarines have been traditionally long, designed to cut through the water. I mean, the Ravkan navy exists, though in my head, I read them as being like of the Napoleonic era, which given stuff should be correct! “The real fleet would be constructed at a hidden base on Ravka’s coast—small gunners and huge transportation ships that could carry everything from troops to aircraft. Assuming Nikolai could somehow find the money to finance the project. Not even Kirigin was rich enough to modernize an entire navy."

Oh good, Nikolai's decided to read history and is doing a Ravkan version of the HMS Dreadnought from 1906. For sure, Fjerda won't jump the gun and go all Imperial German Navy on them... I bet not.

Goddamnit, now I want an au fic where Nikolai and his Nolniki are Actually in a high stakes arms race - they are. But our jump from Dreadnoughts to V1/V2 Rockets covers roughly... 30-ish years. In a matter of 3 years. “Fjerda had made huge leaps in military technology over the last year—how he did not yet know—and Ravka had to find a way to keep pace.”

Easy answer:

Militarism, and lots of money and resources. Use the brain the saints gave you, Kolya. Or have Nikolai actually be three steps ahead as himself, Leigh.

I'm tired and cranky. Excuse second worldbuilding rant. This should be a series.

[jarofstyles]

Jarofstyles Fic Rec 2023 🪽

hello my loves! Here is our updated fic rec.

[some may be repeats of last year because we reread them!]

Also check out our fic rec account, @jarofstylesrecs for some we most definitely missed!

There are so many I want to put on here and I’ll update it again, but here we are! Let me know of any fics you recommend 🩷

WATTPAD-

Bambi- vanillasoy (or @queenofgraveyards here) (ceo soft H, in my top 5)

Flower- vanillasoy (bodyguard/grumpy h x sunshine ofc)

Devil’s Due- petite_cerise (classic dark!H)

Adonis- temptress_ (dark!H and fierce OFC)

Valhalla- temptress_ (Viking!H)

Baby Blue- theasstour (artist!H and model y/n)

Lucky Penny- alisonfelix (teacher h, soft, ofc finding herself)

Informed Consent- alisonfelix (college romance, absolutely tooth rotting fluff I’m obsessed)

One Night Stand- alisonfelix (short story, pregnancy one night stand plot. A lil angsty but cute)

Ladybug- _screamingcolour (50’s au, super cute)

Pirouette- _screamingcolour (ballerina ofc, so fucking cute it hurts)

Flower Girl- sushirrrry (idk how to describe but chef’s kiss)

Celestial- sushirrrry (WIP, it hurts but it feels good, nerdy h who loves the stars)

Wildflowers- latenightgab (assholeish tattoorry, single dad)

Jezebel- latenightgab (sugar daddy ceo x dancer teacher)

Office Hours- latenightgab (lawyer and professor H x student)

Pink Slip- stillhurtingstyles (plus size! Assistant y/n x boss h)

Always - styleslegend (my OG favorite fic, nerdy h x popular y/n, old but good)

A Lifetime With You- anenglishbird (supernatural au, witchy, adore it)

Inclination- peanutboyfriend (sexuality discovery, so good)

Aerial- peanutboyfriend (aerialist h and ofc, 60’s set, another top 10 fic)

1789- everlasts (period piece, just read it. French Revolution)

Breaking The Ice- sarbearfive (hockey!H)

Sail My Ridges- @1800titz (new but soooo fucking good. Piraterry, writing is phenomenal as usual)

The Devil is a Gentleman- @1800titz (again, writing is incredible. Kink heavy, lovely, bdsm club, masks, real estate agent H- just please read it)

Sinners Place- @shroombloomm (so fucking good, preistrry, all the good drama, 10/10)

Do I Wanna Know? - @eatyourhoneyh (trust me, stripper ofc. Obsessed)

Boston- witchysunflower (hockey h, cheating plot)

Haste- htownrry (pregnancy plot but unconventional, racer h, very good)

TUMBLR-

Prosecco- @moonchildstyles (older!H)

Gravity- @moonchildstyles (camboyrry)

Aster- @moonchildstyles (tattoorry grumpy sunshine)

Èlan- @moonchildstyles (bodyguardrry that pulled my heart strings)

firemanrry- @jawllines (softest H, made of sugar and the little puppy :( )

Ballerinarry- @jawllines (enemies to lovers, obsessed)

Young American- @0nlythrowharrybeaux (tattoo artists h and y/n, so well written)

Wolves- @0nlythrowharrybeaux (Wolfrry!!!)

A Good Fit- @0nlythrowharrybeaux (trust me, read)

LVRS CLUB- @0nlythrowharrybeaux (sex club slay)

Best Friend’s Dadrry- @gurugirl (exactly what it says. So good)

The Arrangement- @gurugirl (sugar daddy h!)

The Ex- @gurugirl (trusf me again)

The whole Knockout series- @freedomfireflies (yall don’t even know how feral this series makes me…)

404- @freedomfireflies (again obsessed, nerdy enemies chefs kiss)

Silk and Rope- @cupid-styles (dom/sub dynamic, so soft)

Only Angel- @cupid-styles (tattorry, experienced h, shy y/n)

Complicated Freak- @lukesaprince (best friends Dadrry is a weakness)

Rich- @lukesaprince (older! H, age gap,)

Mutually Beneficial - @cherryjuiceblues (Dom/sub dynamics, perfection!)

Could You Live With Just a Taste- @frioamor (Dom/sub, smut is mind blowing)

Love’s Divine- @atlafan (nanny!h omg)

Peaches & Cream- @atlafan (anything they write tbh)

You’re Someone I Just Want Around- @adashofniallandasprinkleoflunacy & @sunflowervolvimp3 (I put this every year bc I reread it every single year. I’m obsessed. My Roman Empire. I’ve never heard ‘like real people do’ the same since.)

Please You- @adorebeaa (again just trust me)?

Wolfrry- @adorebeaa (please I’m obsessed w this and the smut is incredible)

The Dark King- @shroombloomm (so so so so so good, dark obviously but I love it)

Achilles Heel- @angelisverba (I’m obsessed w their writing and plugrry but this smut is mind blowing)

[foone]

A world of friends

In the late 2030s, a research lab discovers how to travel to alternate earths. And what's even better, they've figured out how to best monetize it too: tourism.

See it turns out there's not a lot of variation. There's a nearly infinite number of earths, but it's not like you're traveling to an alien planet or Narnia. They're all pretty... Earthy.

And they turn that into a positive: all earths are similar, but the small differences are what counts. And they're always searching for worlds with interesting divergences from our own, as potential destinations.

Spend a weekend with Netflix on the world where Walter Disney became a little-known architect, and the face of children's media is completely different. Visit the world where the US Revolution failed, and most of the Americas remains part of the commonwealth.

Safari through the world where humans died out or never evolved, see the megafauna we weren't around to extinct.

The world where the planet's population is 97% Christian but they're also nudists because they associate nudity with the innocence of the Garden of Eden.

And if you're looking for a challenge, visit the world's where climate change has already melted the ice caps, the world's where the cold war went hot, the world where the first world war is also the last one, and it's still ongoing.

There's just one minor problem with their plan of setting up an industry to portal people to other worlds:

Someone else is already using it.

Their interdimensional tech relies on creating wormholes using a complex arrangement of superconducting magnets and there's a characteristic burst of neutrinos when the event horizon forms.

They have to monitor them to properly "aim" the wormhole, but their early work is thrown off by seeing spurious emissions coming from outside their facility, which they later realize are exactly matching their technology.

They're just seeing the wormholes from the other end.

They partner with a government agency, explaining their discovery, and express worry that the country (and the world!) may be getting infiltrated by an off world power.

They build sensors in major cities, and triangulate where the off-worlders are appearing, and follow them.

They seem harmless enough. Often skittish, taking lots of pictures, asking odd questions... These aren't security agents or an invading force.

They're just tourists. They're from another world's interdimensional tourism business. One that set up before ours.

But why are they here? What's so odd about our world among the trillions they have access to that makes them come here with cameras fully loaded with film and memory cards?

The security agents pour over surveillance tapes of them wandering around random cities, and finally spot (no pun intended) why they're here.

It's dogs.

The tourists are skittish around seeing people walking their dogs, they're taking pictures of corgis and greyhounds, they're visiting petstores and ignoring the cats and iguanas and tropical fish to go look at the most boring mutts, eyes full of wonder and fear and excitement...

One of the tourists is picked up by the security services, but hits their panic button and vanishes before they can be questioned. They leave behind a Daguerre Inc 2090 DSLR camera full of slightly blurry photos of dogs, and a pamphlet that fell out of their bag in the scuffle

The pamphlet is for this interdimensional vacation, and describes the weirdness of our world: The strange universe where humans somehow befriended wild wolves and let them into their homes and lives.

The pamphlet plays up the scariness of canines, showing Tibetan mastiffs and angry pitbulls biting into meat. Police dogs with titanium teeth replacements. There's very few pictures of chihuahuas and corgis and poodles.

So the next time you're at an animal rescue or a petting zoo, and you see someone looking on in fear and wonder at the amazing sight of a golden retriever puppy, their camera shutter clicking away...

Maybe ask them who the president is. And what year we landed on the moon.

And don't be too surprised if they answer "You mean the Prime Minister? It's still Thiers, right? I haven't been reading the papers much recently. And 1956, unless you're one of those pedantics who say it only counts if it was successful, in which case 1958"

(reposted from a twitter thread from 2022)

[femmefatalevibe]

Essential Feminist Texts Booklist

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

A Vindication of The Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by Bell Hooks

Feminism is For Everybody: Passionate Politics by Bell Hooks

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution by  Shulamith Firestone 

Sexual Politics by Kate Millett

Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner 

Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape by Jessica Valenti

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez 

Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit

The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women by Alicia Malone

Girlhood by Melissa Febos

The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel

Is This Normal?: Judgment-Free Straight Talk about Your Body by  Dr. Jolene Brighten

Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski, Ph.D

The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism by Dr. Jennifer Gunter

The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women by Anushay Hossain 

Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn 

The Turnaway Study: The Cost of Denying Women Access to Abortion by Diana Greene Foster, Ph.D

Regretting Motherhood: A Study by Orna Donath