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“April 4th, 2004. Chicago. Bottom Lounge.” by mechanical_riot on livejournal  Apr 4th 2004 in Chicago, Illinois

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*Frater Copia found crying somewhere in the ministry*

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it drives me bonkers the way people don't know how to read classic books in context anymore. i just read a review of the picture of dorian gray that said "it pains me that the homosexual subtext is just that, a subtext, rather than a fully explored part of the narrative." and now i fully want to put my head through a table. first of all, we are so lucky in the 21st century to have an entire category of books that are able to loudly and lovingly declare their queerness that we've become blind to the idea that queerness can exist in a different language than our contemporary mode of communication. second it IS a fully explored part of the narrative! dorian gray IS a textually queer story, even removed from the context of its writing. it's the story of toxic queer relationships and attraction and dangerous scandals and the intertwining of late 19th century "uranianism" and misogyny. second of all, i'm sorry that oscar wilde didn't include 15k words of graphic gay sex with ao3-style tags in his 1890 novel that was literally used to convict him of indecent behaviour. get well soon, i guess...

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One of the 5 men inside him

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I kinda love everyone freaking out about actually being able to see a band's singer sing!

Ghost makes you appreciate the little things XD

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Seeing his teeth while he sings........ is making me feel some kind of way, definitely.

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ghost world tour giveaway!

hi friends! in honor of skeletá releasing, the world tour starting and reaching a follow milestone, i figured i would do another giveaway! rules are simple, you must be following me and you must like and reblog this post to enter.

i will pay for shipping to anywhere! note: YOU MUST BE 18+ TO ENTER!

the item is the loma vista aqua blue variant of rite here rite now :)

EDIT TO ADD WHEN THE WINNER WILL BE DRAWN: june 6th 😈!

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"This is a song you may have heard us play once before, when it was called something different. It's about living in the dream, and waking up one day inside that dream and realizing it is ugly and dead. And one day, that will probably happen to all of you." - Gerard introducing "Disenchanted," 3/22/2007 (source)

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Ghost | Portugal - Source: LoudMagazine ×

📷 Jorge Botas

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2025 is Meliora’s 10th anniversary and I’m not going to be quiet about it.

Recently, I’ve been focusing a lot (…again 😅) on the cultural movements that inspired the entire Meliora era, especially Futurism.

Knowing from Bishop Necropolitus Cracoviensis II that Terzo studied the Futurist manifestos during his formative years in Krakow (most likely Marinetti’s), I like to believe that the main inspiration for Meliora’s aesthetic came from the architectural drawings of Antonio Sant’Elia. The parallels between Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Antonio Sant’Elia with Terzo and Necropolitus are quite evident:

(...) We would sit down to studying exciting Futurist manifestos, sketched the blueprints of utopian metropoles, spiked with shiny skyscrapers stabbing at the heavens belly... Wantonly swollen zeppelins would to carry our gospel of indulgence to the farthest corners of the globe to summon and enslave.

BP Necropolitus

We had stayed up all night, my friends and I, under hanging mosque lamps with domes of filigreed brass, domes starred like our spirits, shining like them with the prisoned radiance of electric hearts. (…) Alone with stokers feeding the hellish fires of great ships, alone with the black spectres who grope in the red-hot bellies of locomotives launched on their crazy courses, alone with drunkards reeling like wounded birds along the city walls.

F.T. Marinetti - Manifesto of Futurism

Easy to imagine Terzo and Necropolitus—half stoned, half dazed, and inexorably intoxicated by a party that had been going on for hours—retracing, for the hundredth time, the highlights of the Futurist Manifestos they had read over and over, fervently discussing the future and the modernity they dreamed of bringing with his papacy.

Sant’Elia was a contemporary of Marinetti, fathers of the Futurist movement, and his Manifesto for Futurist architecture shares much of Terzo’s vision for Meliora, the city he created.

Each generation will have to build its own cities. Sant’Elia said.

that, just as the ancients drew their inspiration from natural elements, we – materially and spiritually artificial – must find our inspiration in the new mechanical world we have created, and our architecture must be its most beautiful expression, its most complete synthesis, its most effective integration; (…) by architecture, I mean the effort to freely and audaciously harmonise man with his environment, that is, to make the material world a direct projection of the spiritual world; 

A. Sant’Elia - Manifesto of Futurist architecture

(...) Forged in nostalgia of steam and fire, this brave new world of ambition, vice, lust and greed - all so inherent to the enlightened modernity, was always with him through all these years.

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The Futurist movement embraced all forms of art, from painting and sculpture to architecture, music, and literature. It was characterized by a burning hatred for the past, which they wished to destroy, and a glorification of machinery, new technologies (we’re talking about first 20 years of 900), dynamism, speed, modernity, and rebellion. Nothing was meant to stay still, everything had to move, transform, evolve… very much in line with what Terzo seemed to believe.

But there was a downside. The original Italian Futurism became closely tied to fascism. It also celebrated violence and war, seen as tools to “clean up” and make space for the new. Most of the founding artists died in a war (World War I) that they had glorified and willingly taken part in. And when the dictator fell, so did the Futurist movement.

The lives of these artists were brief, but they remained true to their ideals, for better or worse, from beginning to end.

Erect on the summit of the world, once again we hurl defiance to the stars!

F.T. Marinetti - Manifesto of Futurism

At this point, I’d like to explore the association between the shapes in Futurist painting and the shapes of Terzo’s face paint, slipping swiftly into Cubism and Piet Mondrian’s simplification of form as a parallel to Terzo’s geometric, minimalist design… but that’s a story for another time.

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Yes, pre-Meliora Terzo fans may have fallen for him because he was hot, funny, fascinating... But post-Meliora gave Terzo fans far more complex and deeper reasons to love him.

Loving Terzo, even though we know he was removed without a fair reason, even though we know he’s not coming back as we had hoped and we’ll even be denied his story and memory, even though he never had the chance to say goodbye to those who loved him, is understanding that sometimes the world doesn’t smile at you. Sometimes, it just devours you. Sometimes, there is no happy ending.

But we are prepared for this. That is a feeling we know well, isn’t it?

They’re trying to bury him under an inexplicable damnatio memoriae, yet we keep saying his name whenever possible, searching for any detail that reminds us of him.

Terzo is the hope that never dies. The true devotion. The ideal that survives injustice.

Killing him and erasing his memory only made him more visible, and his presence even more valuable and desired.

Loving Terzo is embracing tragedy, fear, failure, and darkness. His fans share his same strength: that faint light that reassures you that, one way or another, you’ll endure.

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happy skeleta day 💜

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Copia finishing his first album with "If you had life eternal" and Perpetua finishing his with "I am afraid of eternity, too" has me frothing from my mouth. it hits me so hard right in the existential anxiety part of my brain that i'm doing backflips right now

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Lachryma

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Nobody asked for it, but since I'm one of the many people who was affected by this situation (and I very much need to talk about it because I'm still sad), I wanted to give my five cents about the Madrid ritual getting cancelled with just 4 days' notice.

I want to first start saying that I don't blame the band for what happened, even though I felt very disappointed. Spain has gotten its share of rituals in the past, it's just that I had never been able to attend a previous one. On top of this, the Spanish concert industry is rotten quite to its very core. These last years have been absolute chaos when it comes to anything related to live music (ticket prices, venues, management, resales...). So, no, I don't trust them to fucking do their jobs and guarantee that the concerts will actually take place as planned. Furthermore, I've been to concerts in the same venue where the ritual was supposed to take place and my experience has been far from pleasant (the heat was unbearable, people in the pit was fainting and the freaking band had to ask management to give us water bottles so we wouldn't have a heatstroke).

This being said, was I heartbroken by the cancellation announcement? Fuck, yes. Did I feel some sort of resentment towards the band when I first saw the post? I'd be lying if I said no, even though it didn't cross my mind to leave some sort of heated comment (like the band's ig was Tobias' personal mailbox...... lol). So, of course I don't condone the behaviour of a part of the fandom that only blamed the band for what happened, but I do understand the anger and the frustration. Most of us are working people and we put our money and vacation days to be able to attend the concert. Again, I don't think the band is to blame and I want to believe that they really tried to find every solution possible, even adapting the show (and a show of such magnitude can't be adapted overnight, I'm sure), but I still felt somehow abandoned and, as I've said, heartbroken. And to see people both on ig and tw getting all holier-than-thou telling us basically to shut up about it... guys, we can criticise and be angry at someone or something and still be respectful and admire it. I promise.

Anyways, I needed to vent a little bit, because I've been waiting for years to attend a ritual and getting cancelled when it was within arms reach...... it hurt. But, nevertheless, I still love Ghost and I'm very excited about the new album (can't wait to yap about it). I hope everyone attending the Skeletour gets to have the time of their lives and, if there's any fellow Spanish ghestie reading this (is there any on tumblr?), be patient! I'm sure we'll get our ritual and it'll be the best fucking concert ever 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

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We have seen Secondo partying with his ladies, but what about Terzo partying with his girlies?

Look at him.

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Look at him all hyped up.

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my #1 life goal is to get a divorce before i'm 30. so chique