Ever the creative polymath, David Bowie had a fascinating acting career that ran parallel to his music career. His roles were legion: The Man Who Fell to Earth’s Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien who went looking for water for his home planet and found sex, booze, and a chambermaid instead; Nikola Tesla in The Prestige; and even Lord Royal Highness in SpongeBob — because why not? He even parodied his own untouchable coolness in Extras and Zoolander. But perhaps his most notable role came in 1986 when he slipped into Jareth the Goblin King’s oversized hair and ultra-tight pants for Labyrinth.
(via 10 Things You Didn’t Know About David Bowie’s ‘Labyrinth’)
Well, I competed, wholeheartedly, in my office's Halloween costume contest this year... and I lost.
This. I was Withered Chica. How did this lose? Against a girl in a black lolita dress with platforms and a white mask with blood tears? Against an OC??
So, any comfort scenarios you can link me to? Or, if you're bolder, could someone write my scenario?
If you want more details, read below ~
(warning; a bit whiny, which I try not to do, sorry)
I'm known by most as being a sweet, reserved, and devout worker; but also with a reputation for going all-out on dress-up days. Especially for Halloween. 🎃 I have for years.
Like always, I stayed up late and worked for weeks on my costume; compiling clothes & props and painting into the midnight hours. Was hard work, but it's always worth it when I step into my building and everyone flinches. My colleagues said I was a shoo-in to win Scariest Costume. In the office & out in the parade, I walked robotically everywhere. I had a sound box tucked away so I could make her groans & jumpscare noises. And mind you, I live in Florida! ☀️ I did all this, without eating anything after a light breakfast, and barely sipping any water through my under-mask's mouth slots. (Yes I had a 2nd mask on, of Nightmare Chica, for its second row of teeth!) But I didn't complain about it. I relished in it~
It's a personal thrill of mine. Performing in costume, either using my hip-long hair or hiding it in a net, especially to scare. ^^ I scare because I care, lol. (Monsters Inc/University scenarios are great too)
This time, I thought I had it in the bag. For years, the judges wouldn't choose me because my costumes, while very scary to my coworkers, were too obscure for the judges. I thought, surely, Chica would be scary *and* recognizable. And some of them did know what I was from. But alas~ 💔
I went back to my office desk sad, tearing up behind my mask. No one in my office has ever seen me cry, and thanks to my double mask, no one would. Several of them gave me sympathies, which I appreciated, but I kept my thanks short. I'm the nice level-headed trainer, and yes, there have been close moments before, but they couldn't see me like this. It was foolish to cry, I know, but I was hurt, and I never make a fuss or ask for anything. I just wanted.. Thankfully, everyone was excused to leave work early if they wished. So, I took my time peeling off my costume in the restroom as most everyone left. To the few left behind, I tried to excuse my flushed face and shiny eyes on the 1pm high hot sun. I stuck around just a little more, to finish a job. A half hour later, I was the 2nd to last one out. Drove home, listening to my Toon Patrol & The Duke playlists. Once home, I got myself a poké dinner, chugged bottles of water, took a pill for my aching head, and retired for a nap. X3 Imagining comfort scenarios, and passed out in minutes.
So, after all that, if I could be linked to a comfort fic for my situation, 😌 it would be much appreciated. Yes, I'm feeling better, but it'd still be nice, ya know? 👏 And I do enjoy reading new x reader scenarios.
Here are links to most of the questions/imagines I’ve answered before. This page is updated constantly and I hope it helps you find what your interested in.
I hope this works
Asks list
Skeleton Nicknames If your lost
Clarification on Syrup and Berry
Mutt Vs Syrup
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House Next door (or other fanfiction) Specific asks
Thoughts on MC? (As of Hnd Chapter 56, Falling 10, M.A.G.E 5, RTSTZA 5)
HND mc saying “I love you, would you be my boyfriend” (Chapter 55)
The skeletons are just like family to MC (Reaction at chapter 56)
Swimming pool
Pets genders
where the Pets came from
Pet’s bathroom explained
Doomfanger liking MC more then Edge or Red
What if reader met Berry and Edge First (not Blue and Papyrus)
Where is HND set?
Spending time with the skeletons
HND play Among Us
HND in Hogwarts houses
HND Biggest Fear
HND Skeletons jobs
HND house blueprints
HND Kings court if an order was to kiss
HND kings court ordered to twerk
Finding out about Orange and Syrup’s writing
God and Goddess high school dating sim in HND
Snipers gift to reader in HND chapter 54
Skeletons rooms
HND brothers interacting with each other
What would make the HND skeletons cry or get them really angry
Random Headcanons
RTSTZA Syrups reaction
RTSTZA have the skeletons encountered any other humans
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Royal s/o Saga
Skeletons Meet their Royal S/o
Orange and Syrup elaboration
Syrup getting closer to S/o
Princess and the Pauper
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Parent Saga
Skeletons find out they’ve got a human pregnant
S/o goes into labor early
Child's first word is dad
Taking care of small children
Child is kidnapped
Teaching the kids to deal with bullies
Skeletons as uncles
HT and UF as husbands and dads
Shy Child Trilogy PART 1, PART 2, PART 3
Their child wants them to train them
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SFW
Headcanons for Undyne and Alphys
Would the Skeletons let a human boss them around?
Could Humans do Magic?
Explosion scare
Who would be a Food Judge for a cooking contest
Younger brothers first words
Secretly drawing them
How do the skeletons react to you Singing for your food
What would make the boy's Soul glow?
You’re Oblivious
Sans’ personalities cooking skills
You’re ashamed of your Freckles
Orange and honey food
What does Sniper cook?
S/o is already married PART 1, PART 2
Love Triangle PART 1, PART 2
Cracking bones PART 1, PART 2
Wrong number
Ecto-bodies PART 1, PART 2
Feelings on food trucks
Protective of skeletons brother
S/o unaffected by the cold
Who would like entertainment venues?
Snippets of Syrup trapping Orange in his sleep
5’1” human physically picking up skeleton
Blue and Red & Berry and Orange Friendship Headcanons
Absentmindedly speak a pun
How they help you through grief
S/o acts as a parental figure towards their own siblings
Sans’ personalities worried about messes attracting bugs
Prank wars
Do the skeletons like hotels or similar things?
S/o is an introvert
Meeting S/o through Frisk/Chara
Clumsy S/o
Crush thinks they might be gay
Glued to skeletons in public
Favourite tastes in food (Sweet, savory, ect.)
Curvy S/o wears tight clothing
Red with a super affectionate S/o
S/o makes Red is favourite food to help him after a stressful day at work
s/o is desperate to make Syrup happy
S/o spoils the skeletons
Skeletons befriending a goofy human that tends to stare blankly in random intervals
Ghost Mc headcanons
S/o giggles at everything, even when gravely hurt
S/o dyes their hair but someone says it looks bad
S/o already has a partner but that partner is cheating on them
S/o is basically a walking pharmacy
Timeline reset/reload before Skeleton met S/o
Skeletons pretending to be prompts for halloween
Skeletons Feelings on halloween
#/10 how good are the skeletons at carving pumpkins
S/o making skeletons favourite food from scratch
S/o has two very protective guard dogs
S/o is a secret dragon
Walking in on brother and their s/o being cute
s/o having Asperger's/sensory overload?
S/o with a huge scar on their neck from trauma
Vintage Wardrobe
Lovey dovey drunk
Where the skeletons prefer to live
City slicker S/o prefers small villages
Overprotective brother
High fives
UF S/o is a professional chef
S/o thinks they are heavy because of something the skeletons said
Combo attacks
Trusting towards humans
How the skeletons met their respective Undyne and Alphys
card games, computer online/mmos/ mmorpg games, and board games popularity
S/o asks do you want to have a bad time?
S/o who acts like Underfell Papyrus
Doomfanger gets attached to your cats
S/o makes their own custom prosthetics
Who likes Spongebob Squarepants
Do compliments and praise go to the skeletons head
Who is comfortable walking around without a shirt
Walking past a sleeping skeleton
Positivity to cheer up depressed friend
Glomp tackle Friend
Human bossing them around
Can humans use magic
S/o gives amazing cuddles
NM, Ink, Dream, Error and Fresh crushing on the enemy
uploading Lord Royal Highness' introduction from Atlantis Squarepantis because there are so few high-quality clips online!! and i think David Bowie's performance is hilarious 😂💖
definitely going to have to do a back-to-back watch of this and Yellow Submarine, because LRH is clearly supposed to be the Chief Blue Meanie...everything from the design, to the soft yet pompous voice, to the army of lookalike troops, to the Atlantean architecture...LRH even completely snaps later on!!!
The Impact Of The Intergalactic - David Bowie Opinion Essay - by Beck S.
This is an essay I wrote about the span of David Bowie's career. I wrote it for a summer school course I took last year (August 2021) for a course called History of Rock & Roll.
My teacher gave nice feedback after he marked it, talking about how it was an "Excellent paper. It charts Bowie's progress throughout his career well, and includes significant detail. I could really feel the passion you have about him throughout. In fact, there is *too much* detail! The paper was supposed to be 3 pages max, double-spaced. Still, this is a good problem to have; better too much than too little."
So...enjoy!!
From his early works like Hunky Dory, to Black Tie White Noise in the 1990’s and stretching over to Blackstar as his final album, David Bowie has rarely had a bad album or song- in my opinion. His career has had ups and downs, his musical creations ranging in the way he would pitch his voice and what instruments he would use, the people he would produce with, and the wild things he would say. Charting David Bowie’s development over time is in fact an interesting journey.
Early on in his dreamy career, Bowie would have done nearly anything- or in fact, anyone- to grow in the music world. Hopping from band to band (like The Velvet Underground), producer to producer, doing whatever he could do to get ‘in’ in the industry. His early albums weren’t taken very highly in their times- especially with the ‘man-dress’ he wore on the British release of his The Man Who Sold The World album. Although, this dress was only the start of the androgynous appearance he would soon be known for, over the course of his 5-decade-spanning career.
The 1970’s were strange, to say the least. He married Angela Bowie at the start of the decade, then welcomed their son Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones a year later. Bowie went on to be hopped up on cocaine. David donned the look of one of his famous personas, The Thin White Duke. The same persona with slicked-back ginger hair, a white button-up under a black waistcoat and paired with black dress pants. The same Duke who called Adolf Hitler one of the first ‘rock stars’ and gave off a lot of faschist energy. He said many statements he’d later apologize for and grow as a better man from, which is good- it’s better than standing by then, or even backing himself up and supporting them. David Bowie called that period the darkest days of his life, and blamed the crazy statements on his horrid addiction and deteriorating mental state. The late 1970’s were more favorable, seeing as it gave the world what was dubbed the Berlin Trilogy alongside Brian Eno and David’s personal friend, Iggy Pop. Made up of three of his albums: Low and Heroes (both in 1977) and Lodger (1978). He moved from Los Angeles to Switzerland, then to Berlin as a further decision to escape his addiction (the reason he moved away from LA in the first place). It was in Berlin, of course, where he wrote his famous song Heroes, about two lovers, one from East Berlin and one from West.
Speaking of Berlin, David Bowie performed near the west of the Berlin Wall in 1987; he played so loud that crowds gathered on the east to listen. At this time, Bowie had no idea he would be the beginning of the city’s soon-coming unifying. After his death in 2016, the German government thanked him for bringing the wall down and unifying a divided Germany.
Music isn’t all he is known for, though it is a majority. He also starred in movies from time to time. Being the titular man in The Man Who Fell To Earth in 1976, Jareth the moody goblin king in Jim Henson’s 1986 Labyrinth film (what is most likely his most famous role), Monte the barman in the 1991 movie The Linguini Incident, cameoing as himself in Zoolander (2001), Nikola Tesla in the 2006 movie The Prestige, and even Lord Royal Highness in Spongebob Squarepants’ Atlantis Squarepantis in 2007, among a few others. David Bowie dabbled in the art of acting, and was not that bad at it. He was good enough to gain a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, too. Sometimes it bends my mind that my first introduction to my all-time favourite musician was in a Spongebob Squarepants movie, back before I knew who he was, but David Bowie was never one to shy away from foreshadowing. At least one song from many of his albums would hint at the direction he’d go in for his next release. For example, his track Queen Bitch on Hunky Dory foreshadowed his soon-coming Ziggy Stardust. And the Diamond Dogs track 1984 actually hinted at the Philadelphian soul of Young Americans, which is a more famous song of his, which he went on to perform on The Cher Show with its host.
The 1990’s were certainly an experimental time for David Bowie. But to my knowledge, I think the 1990’s was a time for everyone. He married supermodel Iman some days after performing at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, and released the album I named earlier, Black Tie White Noise. It is known to have had a prominent use of electronic instruments, as was his other 1990’s album, Earthling. The early 1990’s greeted David’s first real band since the Spiders From Mars, dubbed Tin Machine. They recorded three guitar-driven albums which received mixed reviews from the masses, but Bowie looks back at this period- as do I- with a certain fondness; “a glorious disaster” he called it, when talking to journalist Mick Brown. Tin Machine is a period I don’t listen to often, compared to his solo stuff, but I don’t press the skip button when it comes on.
Alas, the starman’s career drew to a close as the 2000s rolled in. David Bowie greeted the 2000’s with the birth of his and Iman’s daughter, the beautiful Alexandria Zahra Jones. After suffering a- strange, as it were- heart attack symptoms mid-song during a concert in 2004, he took a hiatus from his career. I say strange because given what I know, he was trying his best to stay healthy at the time. According to my special Rolling Stone edition magazine about David Bowie (released at the start of this year), he was on tour and performing in a really hot arena. But Bowie was sober, and had quit smoking. He was taking medication to lower his cholesterol, and worked out with a trainer. Bowie looked great, and yet he felt a pain in his shoulder and chest, along with a shortness for breath. A bodyguard rushed onstage to usher Bowie off of it, cutting the concert short. He only performed live once or twice after that point, but was set on never going live ever again. And he kept his word on that, unfortunately but also fortunately. Unfortunately, because David Bowie live would have been quite the experience- I wouldn’t know, personally. But fortunately, because I do not believe anyone needs a repeat of the 2004 Reality scare.
I am actually not too fond of speaking of his final years. Nobody really likes to speak of the last years of their idols’ life before their death, so it’s no surprise. Blackstar was David Bowie’s 25th and final album, recorded entirely in secret in New York alongside his long-time producer, Tony Visconti. The album's central theme lyrically is mortality, and seeing as Bowie was undergoing chemotherapy for his cancer at the time, I see it as his way of coping with his incoming death. His producer Tony Visconti called him a ‘canny bastard’, when he realized Bowie was essentially writing a farewell album. Every song on the album is what is considered a swan song, a swan song in question being a phrase for a final gesture of some sort before retirement or death. In this case, death. Over the course of recording the album, David Bowie’s chemotherapy had actually been working and he had an eerie optimism while recording. But by the time they shot the two music videos Blackstar and Lazarus, where he showed off the definite passage of time and cruelty of chemotherapy through sparse and gray hair with sagging skin, he knew his condition was terminal and that this would be a battle he would lose. Blackstar wasn’t the first album to have been made by a musician succumbing to a fatal illness, but in my opinion it is in fact the most beautiful. It’s jazzy, and elegant, showing how at peace he had become with dying.
Blackstar the album was released on January 8th, 2016. Also known as David Bowie’s 69th birthday. Two days later, David Bowie died at his Lafayette Street home on January 10th after living with liver cancer for up to 18 months. Beforehand, he had let it be known he did not want a funeral nor a burial, but rather that his body be cremated and the ashes to be scattered in Bali by his loved ones. His wish was received, and planet Earth was very much bluer and quieter without his colour and wonderful noise.
As I said earlier on, David Bowie’s career came with ups and downs. His mysteriously close relationship with Mick Jagger, his cross with famous underage groupie Lori Maddox, the births of his two talented children, his faschist bender in the 70’s, and final bang of Blackstar in his final year on earth. Through the highs and lows, his career and his music meant a lot to the quote-unquote misfits and freaks of the world, myself included. David Bowie turned and faced the strange, shouted “you’re not alone!” To those who felt the loneliest, he surely spent his career helping those who needed to be themselves, feel more freer and braver in doing so, no matter what they may be when they are themselves. He never went boring, he never went stale, he sang what he wanted and dressed how he pleased, and kept to his word on how much more to life there is when you’re just that; yourself. A year after David Bowie’s untimely passing, his son Duncan Jones accepted an award for British album of the year that was won by Blackstar at the 37th annual Brit Awards. When he accepted it, he made a speech about his father that I will leave here, and never forget. Seeing as it perfectly encapsulates David Bowie’ legacy, and the true meaning of his extraordinary career.
“I lost my dad last year, but I also became a dad. And, uhm, I was spending a lot of time- after getting over the shock- of trying to work out what would I want my son to know about his granddad? And I think it would be the same thing that most of my dad's fans have taken over the last 50 years. That he’s always been there supporting people who think they’re a little bit weird or a little bit strange, a little bit different, and he’s always been there for them. So...this award is for all the kooks, and all the people who make the kooks. Thanks, Brits, and thanks to his fans.” - Duncan Z. H. Jones (February 22 2017, at The O2 Arena in London.)
The poprock God himself, is een legende onder de muziekliefhebbers en is dan natuurlijk ook wereldberoemd. Deze man heeft iedereen door de voordeur zien passeren: van Prince tot Lou Reed en Elton John. Hij heeft heel de muziekwereld van zijn tijd gezien en beïnvloed. Maar mijn favoriete aspect van zijn muziek is dat hij nooit eentonig is. Hij wandelde over randjes in zijn muziek van wat in die tijd sociaal geaccepteerd werd en toch deed hij het allemaal succesvol. Dat is een teken van echt talent...
Waarom deze song?
Ik heb dit nummer van David Bowie gekozen omdat het mijn favoriete nummer van hem is. Ik vind dat de instrumenten “in The background” een zeer krachtige rol spelen in deze setting en verder kan ik me ook vinden in de betekenis achter de tekst. Hij zingt namelijk over het feit dat jongeren moeten genieten van hun leven en uitkijken naar de toekomst en tegelijk deze niet hoeven te vrezen. In deze tijd van de pandemie is dit een zeer belangrijke boodschap.
you never get a second chance to make a first impression.
“The rise and fall of ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars” was een van de eerste lp’s die ik had gekregen van mijn ouders. Deze heeft dan ook sentimentele waarde voor mij elke keer dat ik hem afspeel.
Wist je dat?
In 2007, deed David Bowie een “voice over” voor een personage in de wereldberoemde cartoon reeks van Nickelodeon, SpongeBob SquarePants.
Het personage genaamd, Lord Royal Highness, zong niet maar gaf Spongebob wel eeuwige wijsheid in de woorden van: ”Art is what happens when you learn to dream.”