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lunarcovehq · 6 months

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M-I-C- See You Real Soon K-E-Y Why? Because We Love You. M-O-U-S-E.

TODD OFF THE PRESSES- SNOW IN PLOT DROP

Perhaps presumption or hubris alone had allowed Rohan Persaud to consider himself a beacon—a torch for wayward spirits to follow home. But Lunar Cove needed more light, he had, by now, decided, and emerging from the shadows of the New Year, the witch had resolved that light was the very thing on which he would focus in 2024. Maybe, then, he could strive to follow it himself toward brighter days, toward celebrations of the mundane, toward genuine friendship, toward love, toward happiness, and most of all, toward forgiveness, a true letting go of anger, of fear, and of bitterness. He was only having intermittent success at this endeavor, but as he sat that night at his dining table, surrounded by candlelight, casting flickering orange slats on a faded Mickey Mouse hat, he tried, even now, to focus on this resolution. He could forgive Todd Miller for taking up residence temporarily in his body; it was, after all, not the guy’s fault. And being bound to a Halloween costume for eternity was a more hellish fate than anyone deserved. At the very least, Rohan supposed, he could try to undo those bindings rather than add the ghost to the array of other haunted objects sitting on his shelves. He might not be able to free Todd from this earth, but he could let him experience the adventure that was the astral plane. The raising of spirits was not a complicated matter. But this spell was. It was new. It was different. It was unpracticed, foolish, reckless in all its good intentions, as though he could really simply order Todd to be free the way he had ordered the Crackling Man to freeze and do no harm that Halloween night. But Rohan had found it in his own research, hidden in a dusty old book, an untying of undead knots. But such tethers were strong, he was realizing, stronger still surrounding an object worn at a death itself. It was not until Bustopher yowled, it was not until he could smell the familiar hint of ashes at his nostrils, a tell-tale sign of a more a vile ghost always watching, it was not until he felt a rush with which he was too familiar and strove to never attempt again that Rohan wished he had approached Poppy first. Everything was quiet. He stumbled through his apartment, overwhelmed, landing in the coat closet he had fashioned into a mirrored psychomanteum to see, in the dark, that his eyes were blackened. Bells chimed somewhere in his apartment, a telltale sign of a door opening on its own. And all at once, standing there was another young man, frazzled, wide-eyed: Todd Miller himself, back from the dead.

Hot off the presses- Rohan Persaud, a Lunar Cove coven member, used dark magic without having any of the coven members consent to bring Todd Miller back from the dead. As you all know by now, dark magic requires a cost and, for a coven member to bring the dead back to life, a life must be paid in return. You won't know when or how, but at some point, one of the existing coven members will die. Leaving the coven will not exempt you from this fate. New members who join the coven will also be safe. This will ONLY affect current members who were in the coven at the time of the spell.

REMINDERS

In anticipation of our next event, we will be dropping plot drops like these every other week or every week.

These plot drops are completely optional for your character to react to, but will be dropping crucial tidbits that will be building up to the event to come. We also hope this new series of plot drops will inspire starters and different threads to be had between your characters.

Calling All Witches: Your magic has temporarily gone out once again. For the next 24 hours, you will be unable to perform any spells or magic and will be unsure why. Poppy Reed, the supreme, will need to deliberate Rohan's fate with our new Coven advisor, Royce Van Doren III. If you are part of the coven, be prepared. A meeting will likely be held to decide/announce Rohan's fate (plot drop for this to come).

Calling The Council: A member of the dead has been brought back to life. In turn, the accord #1, no killing of any supernatural creatures or humans unless proven without a reasonable doubt of being in an act of self defense, will be broken. A meeting will be held to discuss (plot drop for this to come).

For everyone else: Your characters may or may not be directly affected if they happen to have interacted with Todd in the past or have interacted with Rohan. For now, we ask that your characters are unaware of what happened until informed as such IC, though a plot drop will occur in a week where it will become public knowledge so please hold off on having your characters find out till then. The other species aren't affected as of yet given that their lives are not on the line or at risk, but feel free to react and interact with threads as they unfold.

If you have any questions on the above please feel free to reach out.

Last by not least, we hope you have fun!

(Also, shoutout to Ted who wrote the top two paragraphs - the unbold part - of this plot drop. You're an MVP and we look forward to seeing how this plot you brought to us plays out).

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thesinglesjukebox · 6 years

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CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS - DOESN'T MATTER

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Coming very close to being Christine and the Queens of 2018...

Vikram Joseph: Some songs merely build momentum; "Doesn't Matter" climbs to 35,000 feet and holds its cruising altitude with all the poise and grace of a Concorde. Maybe from all the way up there things makes more sense; there are demons to be battled here - ghosts, the void, "the suicidal thoughts that are still in my head" - but in the resoluteness of its rhythm and the cresting, citrus-sour waves of synth, Heloise Letissier tries to find some perspective. "It doesn't matter, does it?" is less nihilism than just a coping mechanism, a deflection - the giveaway is "Uh, forget I said it," a sharply recognisable moment of trying to force feelings back into a pressurised container. In its quiet, elegant desperation, "Doesn't Matter" reminds me of R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion"; I feel that "Oh no, I've said too much / I haven't said enough" comes close to mirroring the dilemma the protagonist faces here. Like Michael Stipe, Letissier forges beauty from her personal agonies; the soaring, interweaving melodies of the last 90 seconds of this are stunning. [9]

Rebecca A. Gowns: Absolute poetry. An anthem for the times, as piercing and resonant as "Once in a Lifetime," with the musical power of Haim x10 (30 Haim sisters). So good it hurts. [10]

Eleanor Graham: In stark contrast to "Girlfriend"'s playfulness, "Doesn't Matter" sees Letissier pushed to the very edge of reason, but never losing her thrilling lightness of touch. Like Cardi B and Nabokov, she is a non-native English speaker who cracks open whole new possibilities in the language. Set against minimal synths, the muttered prayer "and if I could just push this door chalked on the wall/and if after the void there's somewhere else to fall" is utterly exhilarating. [8]

Josh Love: Between "Girlfriend" and now "Doesn't Matter" I'm definitely getting the feeling Christine's forthcoming album is going to be the one for 2018 that scratches my itch for androgynous 80's-inspired dance-pop, joining the pantheon alongside the likes of MUNA, La Roux, and The Knife/Fever Ray. The two songs are excellent complements to each other too, "Doesn't Matter" all low-slung slinky where "Girlfriend" was sparkly and spunky. [7]

Thomas Inskeep: Electro rather than electro-soul, so not as good as previous single "Girlfriend," still one of my favorites of the year. But I dig the cheerleader-chant rhythm (very "Mickey"), and Chris's vocal style gets further and further under my skin. I suspect this album's gonna be really, really fine. [7]

Alex Clifton: It's been a while since I've heard crisis sound so catchy. One of the reasons I like it is precisely the tension between the lyrics and the backing -- these are thorny topics Chris is dealing with, but that bassline just wedges itself in your head to the point that it mimics the nature of obsessive and crushing thoughts. "Rage as a fabric" is so potent: the idea of wearing rage publicly (and also how it can "unravel" you) is something we've all been grappling with over the past couple of years. If only the world could look as good as this sounds. [8]

Katherine St Asaph: I keep a mental list of short, perfect moments in songs, one of which is the little swell and snap after "strange attraction" in ABBA's "I Am the City." "Doesn't Matter" is like that couple seconds stretched to song length -- which sort of demonstrates why they should remain short moments. The bridge is great but comes a minute too late. [6]

Will Adams: Yes, the French version is once again superior, and yes, the moments when the track reaches for the delicateness I loved in Chaleur Humaine are too brief. But sweeping, existential dancepop will always get a green light from me. [7]

Josh Winters: The beauty of music as an artistic medium is how, in its greatest potential, an expression of the soul manifests as an all-encompassing transference of energy from the creator to the listener, and how this action arouses the intersection between the cerebral, the physical, and the emotional. You feel it in the way it takes over your entire being: how intrinsic rhythms can suddenly make you feel like you can sprint breathlessly until you fall to your knees, how racing thoughts can cause you to spin yourself into a frenzy, how spiritual release can lift you up from the earth and bring you closer to the divine. To be able to embody and communicate such a simple truth may have to involve a long day's journey into the night, but what one finds once you're finally coming out of the dark is as enormous and expansive as the entire universe. [10]

Jonathan Bradley: The unnatural emphases in the chorus ("if I know a-NY e-XIT") bounce against the melody, standing in counterpoint to the harsh synthetic drums stutters spitting intermittently into the mix. "Lately the only people I can stand," Chris sings, "are the unraveled ones with their hands laid bare." The rest of the lyric is filled with unsettling images of "rage as a fabric," a "ribbon-legged" woman and sunlight that comes in shards, but the synths do the real unravelling, evanescing anything earthly from the song. [8]

Dorian Sinclair: There's quite a lot to love about "Doesn't Matter," particularly if, like me, you're someone who had MUNA's About U as one of their favourite albums last year. The part of the song that sticks with me most, though, is a small and subtle thing -- during the bridge, after an entire song where the production is nothing but synth-and-drum, an acoustic piano manages to creep in right at the bottom of the mix before taking greater prominence in the final repetition of the chorus. It's a tiny, tiny detail, but something about it really takes the song to the next level for me and cements it as a favourite of the year so far. [9]

Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: I suspect that if I read the lyrics to this on their own, without the masterfully tense beat (really just a low hum of bass and a dance rhythm) or Chris' vocal performance, which balances passion and worry and yearning and a dozen more emotions even in individual syllables, it would feel like too much empty and disconnected philosophizing. But when "Doesn't Matter" hits you, it erases any of those concerns -- the way it crests in the bridge and outro, as "shards of sunlight" refract through the phrasings, is the highest philosophy of all. [10]

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