#c: kane

[void-botanist]

❛ i don’t want to understand, i want you to stay. ❜

give me an angst prompt <3

I was feeling inspired so it's time for best friend arguments. Context: Kane said he had some family stuff to take care of and then fully disappeared for like five years. Trixie did not appreciate that.

Trixie dug her fingers into the end of the bed as she sat there watching Kane pace back and forth in front of her. He pressed his hands over his face for a few circuits, then gathered them in front of his lips like he was saying a prayer to whatever deity gave him enough patience to answer her, and then finally said, “You don’t understand what that means.” “I don’t want to understand,” she said. “I want you to stay.” He paused to look her straight in the eye. “I can’t, Trixie.” She crossed her arms. “Then take me with you.” He looked at her like she’d said something actually bonkers, like that she was going to take a sacred vow of no vaping. “You can look at me like that all you want. Those are your two options. You stay here, or you take me with you, or we’re not friends anymore.” “I’ll stay in touch this time,” he said. “No, you won’t. Even if you do everything right, with your shit ass luck you’ll bust your head and be in bed for another five years. But be honest. You’re not gonna try that hard once you get caught up in the work. It’s too much trouble. So take me with you and let me help.” He scowled hard. “They don’t like outsiders up there.” “So? What are they gonna do, shoot me with their polar bear murder rifles? That’s a waste of ammo.” “I just...I need you to stay here.” “So tell me why. For real.”

Author's note: I don't know why. but at least some of the reason is "I can't let you meet my family this will be so embarrassing for me"

[screamiingsiilence]

@thursdaygrl liked for a starter from here

"i know it might be out of your comfort zone but i'm desperate and you look just like the model that i was supposed to photograph."

[aroaceleovaldez]

Jason, Alabaster, Nico, and Anubis riordanverse dogboy convention

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage 5x7 "The Real Fake Car Job"

[sapphicomics]

the question: all along the watchtower #5

[scenesandscreens]

9 (2009)

Director - Shane Acker, Cinematography - Kevin R. Adams

"We had such potential. Such promise. But we squandered our gifts, our intelligence. Our blind pursuit of technology only sped us quicker to our doom. Our world is ending. But life must go on."

[verytheoristjellyfish]

MADE WITH @hazzymayy ART DO NOT STEAL OR I'LL HUNT YOU DOWN!/J THANK YOU TO HAZZY MAYY FOR LETTING ME USE THEIR BEAUTIFUL ART!! ^^

[batfamilycentral]

Batwoman in Outsiders #1-5 (2024), art by Robert Carey.

[mr-harryshumjr]

I actually don't have a middle name, so that definitely wouldn't work. We could use my Chinese name but that would require teaching everyone Cantonese. You're an athlete, so you go by your last name a lot anyway, that might be the way to go.

I think that could be the way. I was thinking initials but that still wouldn't work. And me and Harry S share a middle name too so middle names wouldn't work.

[ibrithir-was-here]

Are there any Vampire Harker Power Couple in any books or comics or anywhere?

None that I can think of in traditional media/publishing :(

But there's plenty of good stuff here on Tumblr!

They're not vampires in it but you've got the excellent excellent @lxgentlefolkcomic where the Harkers and the rest of the Crew of Light are continuing to battle eldritch beings after Dracula /whilst/ being in love and in character

@see-arcane has some excellent Vampire Harkers stuff on their Substack

And the above and me and several other authors have made a Bad End AU thats got Vampire Harker Power Couple called "Blood of My Blood" thats just about to wrap up if you want to check it out!

(Since it is a collab AU that's been written between November of 2023 and now there's a lot of chapters but they're of varying lengths. Think of it as a written out television series with like, three seasons 😅 )

Edit: Also not vampires but ghosts--the amazing @theholmwoodfoundation Podcast! Only one episode out so far but they're already nailing the Jonmina dynamic 👌

[void-botanist]

Wrapped Scenelets No. 58: hero's return

I'm writing scenelets for (most of) my Spotify Wrapped top 100 songs. Here's number 58, World of Mortals by Instrumental Core and Really Slow Motion.

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The carved-stone benches outside the Glass Palace were both comfier and harder than they looked, but they were also hot, and Kane wasn’t sure how long he could keep sitting there. But if he got up, all of his nervous energy would turn into pacing, which would ruin the drama of him waiting here. Maybe he’d just stand up—

“Kane?”

Apparently he’d misinterpreted what direction Trixie lived in, because as soon as he was on his feet she was off to his side instead of in front of him. When he turned, though, she ran over to him, completely ignoring the flowers he had halfway lifted up toward her and smashing her hands against his cheeks.

“You asshole.” She smacked his cheeks, just enough for it to sting a little. “Six months my ass. Where have you fucking been?”

“Well, stop squishing my face and I’ll tell you.”

She eased up but didn’t move her hands. “Tell me you’re not leaving again.”

“Well—”

“Tell me, or I’m done with this conversation until you go and come back again.”

“I’m not leaving again. Not like that.”

She narrowed her eyes.

“I don’t know what you want me to say, Trix. I don’t live here.”

That got him half a grin. “Do you live anywhere, now?”

“Nope.”

Finally, she took her hands off his face, then immediately threw her arms around his neck and hugged him tight. He hugged her back almost as hard.

When she stepped back, she said, “I still haven’t forgiven you.”

“Yet,” he said, brandishing his bouquet of daisies at her.

“Yeah,” she said with a smile, snatching them from him. “Yet.”

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Scenelets wrapped taglist: @kk7-rbs

[see-arcane]

Launch is this Friday, link to come.

See you then 👁️

[bitesizedpoetry]

Sylvia Plath, aged 29, in a letter to Marvin & Kathy Kane (dated c. Friday, 22 June 1962)

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage 4x11- "The Experimental Job"

[danishphoner]

The Last Shadow Puppets: fulfilling your kinkiest fantasies

Alex Turner and Miles Kane stand on one side of the success of The Last Shadow Puppets, who played Open'er Festival. On the other, you can see multitudes of fans trying to find evidence of the so-called ‘bromance’ of their favourites. And they, as if out of spite, only provoke further fantasies of their admirers. Even during the interview, they talked to me about fulfilling their kinkiest fantasies. See what else I managed to talk to them about!

Written by Katarzyna Gawęska Originally translated by everybodytriesbeinghuman on Tumblr

Translation below

Your duet is comparable to John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry’s. Let’s start from compliments – what do you appreciate most in a teamwork?

MK: I think, it won’t be anything new, if I say, it’s thanks to Alex that our every song is so polished – no one else could make them better. Thanks to him, I am trying to push my own boundaries and, to be honest, I wouldn’t be so eager to do that without Alex. I suppose both of us could say that about our teamwork. We just understand in what creative direction each of us is heading towards. It’s difficult to explain, because we don’t need words to describe our thoughts, which melody each one is working on, which song he’s trying to make – cheerful or sad. I don’t know how it works – it’s just that sort of chemistry between us.

How is your work different from the Arctic Monkeys one or from your solo career, Miles?

MK: When I’m working solo, I’m sad, because I turn into a little frightened boy.

AT: When we are working on The Last Shadow Puppets records, we don’t know who's going to sing what. And because of that, we surely have to change our ways of writing, we don’t know everything from the get-go. It’s easier for me to write a song aimed towards myself – I’m writing a certain lyric, melody and I know I am going to sing it, so I’m already aware of my own possibilities. And the way Miles plays the guitar gets me really excited – his music takes me into a whole new world. When it disappears, this excitement is gone. It may sound like working with AM wouldn’t give me any satisfaction – I want to highlight it isn’t like that. With Miles, it’s just… different.

MK: I remember, one time Alex came up to me and said, “I want to see how you spit, while singing >>sick puppy<< in >>Bad Habits<<”. I called him a madman afterwards.

AT: Yeah…

MK: But he was right. No one else would say something like that to me, It was beautiful.

AT: You see, Kasia, I just tell Miles about my fantasies, and he tries to fulfill them, even when they are very kinky, like in that case.

Alex, you just explained, why your fans are suspecting you two of having a romance. You are very close to each other, but an artist needs a little more space and freedom to create, right?

MK: While making this record, we gave each other lots of space. EYCTE is the last song which we wrote. It was created from other unfinished pieces. It was supposed to be thousands of different tunes, but we made it into a one. Before I came into the studio, Alex sent me a demo on which he played the organs and then added different lyrics to it. That’s how it came out, and it’s a great example that Alex had a lot of space. When we played this song, I felt like I’ve never heard it before, which obviously wasn’t true. I was listening to the same thing as before but in a completely different form. And because of that, I started to feel excited again.

“EYCTE” is also your album’s title. Did you give your fans what they were expecting?

AT: Definitely! We hid it behind a red curtain, and underneath is everything they desired.

And what were your expectations for this record?

MK: We tried to bring something fresh into our work. We wanted to make this album different from the previous one. In some way, we got over with it and decided to not force things. It’s just me and Alex, that’s how we are and we don’t wanna change. And I think it turned out very well.

Your album cover turned out very well as well. When people see it, they want to give it a listen.

AT: I think when an artist decides to put something on the album cover or its booklet, they do it in order to show the listeners exactly what they’re gonna get from it. Actually, I don’t really know why I just said that, because it’s pretty obvious. Sorry, I’ll stop binding my time. Let’s say I made six albums, maybe five of them succeeded. The photography on the cover is a dancing Tina Turner. I’ve discovered it a few years ago and immediately thought it would fit perfectly, especially after changing the background to gold. There is a lot of grace in this picture, which is an element in TLSP’s music. It’s a dynamic portrait, which reflects our work brilliantly. As you may have noticed, it’s hard for me to describe some spectrums. Right now, I don’t know how to explain the fact that this cover is an amazing picture. The emotions you start to feel when you see it. Well, you’ve mentioned it by yourself, and I’m very glad you’ve noticed something so wonderful. I can only hope that more people will follow your thinking, and this cover picture will eventually make them listen to it. And yeah, maybe the sounds won’t disappoint them, either.

When I am listening to your tunes, I feel relaxed and calm. Then it hits me and I start wondering how it had come, if the lyrics are so aggressive and sexual. What does going from one extreme to another bring to your work?

AT: Another interesting thing you’ve noticed! It’s incredible that someone gets what’s happening inside my head! I’m telling you how it is. I very often find myself thinking that if the lyric drags on the right and the music on the left, then if we make both of those elements function we’ll create a balance. None of the elements will lean too much on it’s side, because it will be balanced by the opposite. Despite that I won’t generalize and in the “Bad Habits” case it’s the other way around – everything is dragged to the one side. I mean, there are some bows, which create a totally different impression of what our band is like. Not all the time everything has to be black and white – grays in our music are also very welcome. Personally, I’d rather listen for the rest of my life to what you’ve mentioned: meeting extremes in any song. I love that feeling when I turn on a tune and I think I know where how it’s all gonna go, and then the creator shows that he's playing with me and that, in reality, I know nothing. I don’t like predictable tunes.

Talking about lyrics, I couldn’t resist asking. Alex, there are very little lyric-writers better than you. People describe your style as poetic yet simple. Personally, I would agree with that. But how you would describe your writing style?

AT: You ask questions, which require thinking! Maybe… No, that’s not it. Or maybe… That one not as well…

Miles, maybe you’ll try to help him?

MK: For me it’s easy. Alex’s lyrics are like attempts to cross the Nile river on a raft. That’s how surreal they seem to me.

[Laughs] I think that’s the best comparison out there.

AT: [Laughs] Miles has a talent.

MK: No need to thank!

AT: And I still don’t know how to answer it. Miles handled it good, and I think that you [Miles] would describe me better than I could myself.

I’ll let go of descriptions, but I’ll ask you about the general sound of the album. Do you pay lots of attention to the technical side of making music? This album doesn’t seem modern, it’s more like…

AT: Something from the future?

I planned to say, like something from a few decades back, but your different perspective seems very interesting.

AT: [Laughs] We cut a deal then! But it’s a really fascinating situation! We were very excited that for the first record to make everything in an old-fashioned way. This time we weren’t so stubborn about making it so retro-like. We didn’t cut it off completely, but it just wasn’t as important. There are some old-fashion sounds on this record, but if you hear them on the radio, you’ll notice they sound modern. But I get your point! So remember that we still get excited over old amplifiers and such [laugh].

I know that you make new music all the time, so any plans for a new album?

AT: Oh yeah, absolutely! It’s like our… resolution. Resolution to make a new record. Now we are considering various options, we think a lot about the direction we should head to. I am working on a melodic scenario. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We won’t disappear that easily.

[chaseszombies]

Somebody had to say it