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Eleganto - PWR (Extended Mix)

[4and55]

Some Norrix quality time before the next race weekend ❤️ if anyone can put a smile on Lando’s face— it’s Martin Garrix 🥰

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STMPD Recommends Black Lagoon Fanfiction: Girlycards' A Chance Encounter

So this is going to be something a smidge different than my usual reviews. The fic's under 20k words, and I decided to poke at it after girlycards reblogged my last review joking that she couldn't wait to see what I said about her fic.

I was a little reluctant to do so, not gonna lie. She writes short snippets of Balalaika and Revy being cute-ish with one another, at least as cute as those characters can be with one another being who they are; I write over-the-top explode-y cyberpunk adventures. But I decided to take it as a challenge and give one fic she poked my way a go. A Chance Encounter was that fic.

And, dear reader, it's really good! So let's talk about Balalaika and Revy and why this fic works.

The setup is right there: Lost and free from prison in NYC, Revy tries to mug Balalaika, not knowing who she is. It doesn't go well, of course - this is fucking Balalaika we're talking about - but Balalaika allows her to live, allows her to follow her to her hotel room, and in time to Roanapur. And in time, Balalaika starts to care for Revy. Simple as that. I actually don't want to spoil too much.

In that regard, it's something of an origin story, even retelling the time when Chang shot Balalaika a few times and almost sparked an intersyndicate war. Rock's nowhere to be found, and who cares? This is about two lost hyperviolent women with attachment issues figuring out how to start to attach to each other.

And it works! As Goethe would say, it succeeds in what it sets out to do and it was worth doing. It's funny, too, because BalaRevy has always felt like it would be fundamentally a toxic relationship to me, and the one fic I've tried to read where that relationship is explored - It Will Come Back - never disabused me of that notion. Like, Balalaika is Balalaika. Domination and control is her drug of choice, and someone without a private army at her back, like Revy - what can she do but struggle in the Russian's grip? I'm still hashing out the details of her romance with Celia in Bubblegum Black, but her attachment to her rusalka... well, you've seen how I write it, dear reader. I hope.

So I think what works here is that as much as Balalaika starts keeping Revy by her side initially out of pity, she also sees the woman she once was, the criminal she is now, in a warped way in Two Hands. Oh, Balalaika is still pretty cold even right up until the end of the fic, but one feels like she's getting somewhere. Compare that to It Will Come Back, which I struggled a lot more with because it felt like Balalaika never showed that key moment of intimacy and it was more one-sided pining on Revy's part (couple that with the fact that the author clearly didn't like Rock that much and I really wasn't feeling the fic because, in case you can't tell dear reader, I like playing around with Rock as a character). That mutuality was what made the fic - and the ship - feel possible for me. As such, I encourage you to read it! I think you'll like it.

Now what should I review next, hmm... Last thing I want to do is review YT2032 anytime soon, heh...

[jaxthejaguar]

my #16 Track of the Year for 2023 is...

"Fading Out (Idle Days Remix)" by Citadelle & Aramis!

the original became a spotify favorite. you know how it is -- spotify sees you add a track to your playlist, and for some reason, it decides you REALLY REALLY LIKE THAT TRACK AND WANT TO HEAR IT ALL THE TIME!! except not really, you also want to hear the other 5-10 tracks you added. anyway, i bring this up because this song is actually pretty damn good -- and then it got a DnB remix. that reinterpretation of the main synthline into a huge bassy BWAAMP BWAAMP BWAAMP. beauty turned into a dancefloor driver by the talented Idle Days. add THIS to the playlist and stuff it in spotify's face.

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495. Prinsjesdag, voor wie? Andrew Mathers

Het was een rete spannende dag gisteren. Uiteraard de hele poppenkast in Den Haag. Het was Prinsjesdag die dag, maar niet alleen voor het demissionaire kabinet, maar ook voor onze prins. Het is al enige tijd aan de gang. Hoelang? Al bijna 20 jaar. Al 20 jaar is onze André bezig met het maken van zijn eigen muziek. Was het succesvol? Zeker, al heel wat keren werd hij gevraagd in binnen- en…

[landinrris]

alex posting lando napping in too-big-for-his-own-size stmpd rcrds merch. wonder whose t-shirt that might be... https://www.instagram.com/p/C4Gjo2QNs9X/?hl=en

Britney yeah.gif

Make no mistake, it's also the same shirt Lando was wearing back in Ibiza in January 2023. A shirt which was no longer sold then.

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Supporting his boy Martin with the STMPD t shirt 😃

[f1-disaster-bi]

https://x.com/ibizalando/status/1827751255399379217

Think that is Martin (I have the same stmpd rcrds shirt) and maybe Louis on the golf cart as well.

Lando win and a few bits Norrix content. My day cannot get better

We really been absolutely blessed today.

Lando had a great weekend filled with so many sweet and cute moments. He's just been looking so relaxed after the break and so confident in himself which is fantastic to see.

And then you throw in Norrix content? Absolutely insane and amazing 🥺

[tigertrack]

yknow the way stmpd designed the twins annoys me sooo much not just cuz of those bowlcuts but also the fact knives is paper white. manga/og anime had it right when they gave different tones to their palettes while bouncing off each other

knives hair being lighter, skin being tanner, eyes being bluer. while vshs hair is more saturated, skin is paler, eyes are greener. it just added sm to their characters and doubled down on them being mirror opposites, not just focusing on their moles

[dance123-net]

Mesto, Moa Lisa - Safe and Sound

Mesto, Moa Lisa – Safe and Sound (2025) Label: STMPD RCRDS Catnum: NA Download: https://dance123.net/node/9607 Mesto_feat_Moa_Lisa_-_Safe_and_Sound-SINGLE-WEB-2025-ZzZz

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Schillist & MEDUN - Back To Love (Extended Mix) https://youtu.be/2f98L7WwtbU

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STMPD Recommends Black Lagoon Fanfiction: LowkeeWB's Apotheosis

In my first Black Lagoon fanfic review for Bullets, I said that some Lagoon fics make you think, make you cry, make you cringe, make you smile. I was thinking of some fairly specific ones when I made that comment.

Many make me cringe, of course. Were one to manifest all Black Lagoon fanfiction as physical material, there would be warehouses of Cool Ex Special Forces Original Character adventures (though there are a handful of good ones in that sub-subgenre by one particular author, I'll get to that) saturating FF.net (not AO3 so much. Different heydays of different sites, if you know what I mean). This annoys me, because rarely (again, that one exception) are these characters interesting or worthy of our time. BGC fics suffered this problem, too, so what the hell. Let's give the Super Cool OC genre a pass for now, and instead talk about a fic that is... Jesus.

I think it might be one of those very rare perfect fanfictions? One of the few that does everything it sets out to do within a reasonable amount of time (75.6K words, only). One which crackles with new, creative ideas that are all laid out one after another without too much bloat between them? One that has actual goddamn themes? Oh. Oh yeah.

In short, Apotheosis is the Black Lagoon fic I wish I knew how to write.

In essence, Apotheosis is about the last days of Roanapur as Rock knows it. Sure, the hypercriminal institution will remain, but the old powers are dying as the history of the late nineties runs its course. The 1997 financial crisis is one little knife in the side of the leviathan; Russia's ailing economy is another; Hong Kong being returned to Chinese control and hurting Triad business there is yet another. The end of history that Hiroe has alluded to Black Lagoon being about is, itself, ending.

Rock knows this. Maybe the rest of Lagoon Company does, too, but none of them want to admit it. A constant theme in this fic is whether or not Rock's addicted to the thrill of poking at the power structures of Roanapur post-Blood Trail, the kind of action he now needs that the Lagoon Company's regular work can't provide.

Anyway, along comes a job, where they ferry a mysterious client heavily implied to be Osama Bin Goddamn Laden to safety. Rock has a strange conversation with the mystery man about the nature of the end of the world, and following it, decides to cash in, handing information over to Eda in her capacity as a CIA operative. Soon, he's working as a double agent for the Agency, even though the powers that be (Chang) know very well who and why. Soon, Revy's in on his weird little plot, too. There's a trip to New York where Revy finally explains who she was to Rock and it's beautifully painful. Honestly, every part of this fic is beautifully painful. Sure, it's not a fic for fight scenes, but it's not about fight scenes. It's, well, it's about Apotheosis. The end of everything.

I wish I had more to say, because this fic has been influencing how I'm writing the quieter parts of Bubblegum Black immensely. It's almost hard to reread because I know it's so good, because I know I can't measure up to it because of the way I write with an eye towards reaching the next goofy fight scene.

But you? You, dear reader, should read the shit out of it. You should have no shame in loving this fic.

[rayd]

I need to hear this live.

[landinrris]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C7IGmFpLcB3/?igsh=MXBzZDlqY3dpbHE2Yg==

looks like martin got his shirt back from lando! i wonder what other clothing they share..

ahh yes I saw this last night and felt very normal about it. Obsessed with the idea that Martin stole it back from him during one of the times they've seen each other post-Australia. He really said, "I cannot control myself if you wear this in public again," and Lando said, "Fair."

I'm like 3/4 convinced the STMPD Records shirt Lando's worn a couple of times now is also Martin's, but that one's much more generic, so plausible deniability and all that. If Martin's stolen anything of Lando's, that's strictly confidential because he's got a brand to uphold and all that