#a.d. 80

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Pair of Architectural Reliefs with Elephants.

Date: A.D. 80–100

Culture: Roman

Place of origin: Western Roman Empire

Medium: Italian marble

[heavymetal]

Best 1989 ballad from this list? Others that are missing?

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"AFTER "EARTH A.D." THERE WAS NO PLACE TO GO, WE HAD TAKEN IT TO THE LIMIT."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on "Peak MISFITS" according to bassist/co-founder Jerry Only, a milestone in hardcore punk, and the end of an era -- the "Earth A.D./Wolf's Blood" era/second full-length album.

"After "Earth A.D.," there was no place to go, we had taken it to the limit. We tapped out. That was it. What "Earth A.D." did was launch the hardcore scene, the death metal scene, the thrash scene. All those other bands, SLAYER, ANTHRAX, MEGADETH, METALLICA, all those bands that came after us used that as their guiding light.”

-- JERRY ONLY, via UDiscoverMusic, "Earth A.D.": How THE MISFITS Fashioned a Lasting Hardcore Punk Classic," December 1, 2022

I've never considered this point of view before, and come to think of it, it would've been quite the task following up this album with something even more frenzied, ferocious, finalizing and fucking brutal. The album art alone, too!! It was a definite watermark in the development of extreme music, Jerry. Agreed!

Rest in festering noise, Mad Marc Rude (1954-2002), "On Earth as it is in Hell."

Sources: Facebook, www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/misfits-earth-ad-album, Artsy, Pinterest, various, etc...

[spainkitty]

So I recently discussed with a moot (hey @sillyliterature thank you so much for being interested!) that I am in fact published and am writing a YA fantasy series!

Say hello to "The Coward's Emblem".

A single lie can destroy an entire Empire… The Mekshi Empire is teetering on the edge of civil war, and the legendary Shield, the protector of the Empire, is missing. The Lances of the Sovereign, a squad of elite knights, are desperately scouring the land while a shadow, the Merciless, thought to be gone forever, is rising. A coward might be the only one who can save them all.

Below are minor spoilers in the form of commissioned art of the characters by Sabri (@itsadragon_art on instagram) + the book 1 dragons by @ketolic !

[sonic-emporium]

Feels like I'm falling

Deeper in the shadows of your

Passionate screams, deep in the night

Driving me wild, making me burn only for you

[maltrunners]

Macduff 18 Year (2002) A.D. Rattray Cask Collection

Review by: The Muskox Macduff feels like an easily-ignored distillery. There are those Deveron official bottlings, which are pretty mild and boring, and not all that much in the way of indie bottlings. Maybe there’s something special hidden out of sight. Distillery: Macduff. Bottler: AD Rattray. Region: Highlands. ABV: 58.5%. Cask strength. Age: 18 years. Distilled August 20th 2002. Bottled…

[duranduratulsa]

Watch "Babylon A.D. - The Kid Goes Wild 1989 [Official Video]" on YouTube

Album of the day: Babylon A.D. (1989) featuring The Kid Goes Wild #BabylonAD #thekidgoeswild #80s

[blueiskewl]

2,000-Year-Old Roman Mausoleum Unearthed Near London Bridge

No burial artifacts were recovered from the structure itself, but the surrounding area yielded over 80 Roman burials containing copper bracelets, coins, glass beads and a bone comb.

A "completely unique," 2,000-year-old Roman mausoleum that has emerged from the rubble of a development site in central London is the most intact ever discovered in the U.K.

The monumental tomb — of which low walls, entrance steps and interior flooring remain — is bejeweled with two mosaics composed of small red tiles, each featuring a flower enclosed in concentric circles. More than 100 coins were also strewn across the tomb's floor.

Archeologists only found the second mosaic when they dug beneath the first one. This indicates the mausoleum floor was raised at least once while it was still being used for burials, they said.

The discovery, which is nestled within the city's central Southwark area, "provides a fascinating window into the living conditions and lifestyle in this part of the city in the Roman period," Antonietta Lerz, a senior archeologist at The Museum of London Archeology (MOLA), said in a statement.

Roman invaders under Emperor Claudius founded London, or Londinium, around 47 A.D. and ruled the city through to the early fifth century, when dwindling military resources and incursions across the rest of the empire forced their withdrawal from Britain.

The recent excavation bears the marks of this decline. "This relatively small site in Southwark is a microcosm for the changing fortunes of Roman London — from the early phase of the site where London expands and the area has lavishly decorated Roman buildings, all the way through to the later Roman period when the settlement shrinks and it becomes a more quiet space where people remember their dead," Lerz said.

The mausoleum would have originally housed coffins and other burial artifacts, according to the statement, but none were recovered from the structure itself. However, the excavation site around the monument yielded Roman-era items belonging to more than 80 burials, including copper bracelets, glass beads, pottery and a bone comb.

Archeologists will now examine these recovered items to better understand central London's Roman past.

Only the wealthier members of society would have had access to the mausoleum, which may have been used as a family tomb or belonged to a "burial club," requiring a monthly fee to secure a future grave, according to the statement.

What remains of the structure indicates that it was a two-story building with large buttresses in the corners for support. The high walls were probably dismantled for reuse elsewhere during the medieval period. Inside, a raised platform cemented with pink mortar containing crushed bits of pottery and brick — a widely used Roman building material known as "opus signinum" — designates where the burials would have taken place around three sides of the mausoleum.

The discovery follows that of a 26 foot (eight meter) long Roman mosaic — the largest unearthed in London for more than 50 years — in February 2022. The newly excavated mausoleum will be put on public display once construction has concluded, according to the statement.

By Sascha Pare.

[musclesandhammering]

No, Sylvie didn’t “have a point” in that bar convo.

Ok. I’ve seen a lot of sylvie stans on Twitter (and ofc Twitter is the app of choice for sylvie stans lmao) claiming that, in the bar conversation in episode 5, Sylvie had the moral high ground. They say she Made Points and that she’s consistently been the one trying to preserve lives while Loki/Mobius/the TVA have been carelessly destroying them. Yeah. Let’s talk about that.

On Sylvie being right about Loki “kidnapping” people from their timelines…

First off, Loki admitted that he had an ulterior motive of bringing his friend group back together because he didn’t want to be alone. Cool! But he didn’t say he wanted to forcefully drag them from their happy lives and imprison them somewhere so they couldn’t leave just so he could hang out with them. He said they should be given a choice whether they wanted to join him in his ‘save the TVA’ quest or go back to their current lives. A choice. You know.. like what they didn’t have before.

And it’s kinda valid, when you think about it. Yes, they had/have lives on their original branches, but they also had/have lives at the TVA. Centuries worth of life there. They have friends there, they have jobs that they genuinely see as their own glorious purposes, and (in recent days) they have their own little world-saving team! They have a heroic mission! They have their friendship with Loki! And whether or not they should’ve been drafted to the TVA is irrelevant, because it happened. And those experiences are significant just like their experiences on the timeline. It was wrong for HWR to take away their memories and their choice to stay in their mundane lives, but it’s equally as wrong for Sylvie to not want to give them their memories of the TVA back or give them the choice to go back to that life, if they want to. And considering how A.D. Doug and Frank’s branch lives are going (read: not good), I’m fairly confident they’d choose to return if they had all their memories back.

And I mean, considering how the meeting with Sylvie went, if any of them had refused to come with Loki, he would have let them stay! It’s not like he was literally kidnapping them. He just wanted to give them a choice in hopes that they’d choose him. Just because Sylvie can’t imagine ever wanting to leave her life on the timeline to go back to the TVA doesn’t mean she can make that choice for others.

On Sylvie being right about just leaving everyone be and letting the TVA stay destroyed…

Like..??? This is so frustrating. This is probably my greatest source of annoyance with her throughout this entire season. She’s constantly argued in favour of inaction, despite the fact that she knows there is an emergency going on that requires immediate action. Moral discussions aside, just sitting at McDonalds and ignoring everything that’s going on isn’t feasible, because- as Loki has been trying to tell her for 4 episodes now- if the loom melts down, there won’t be a McDonalds anymore. There won’t be anything. The entire multiverse will be fettuccine 😭. 

Like I just don’t understand her logic?? Either she doesn’t believe him (despite having evidence), or she just doesn’t care because a.) she thinks they should fix the mess she made while she just chills in the 80s OR b.) she thinks “well I’ll be fine, fuck everyone else 🤪” because she has the master tempad and thinks she can just keep outrunning the destruction like she’s been doing her whole life.

Either way, though, even if the branches weren’t being spaghettified and everything was fine.. there’s still a billion kang variants on the horizon. Like does that not trouble her at all? I’m sure her reasoning would be that she’d just kill any Kangs that show up, but it’s hilarious how she’s so confident in her ability to do that considering she did nothing impressive to kill He Who Remains. He sat in a chair and offered himself up to her. She walked up and stabbed him in the chest. Like there was no battle, that was no accomplishment. But she really thinks she did something, huh? To the point that she’s willing to risk the lives of everyone in the multiverse, gambling on her ability to single-handedly take on an entire army of all-powerful dudes actually trying to win. Nonsensical behaviour.

On Sylvie just wanting to save all the innocent people…

Building on my last point. Sylvie’s whole thing about being the one that stands up for The People and does everything in the best interest of the innocents… yeah, that’s bs lol. Sylvie, I think, has convinced herself that she’s fighting to preserve lives, but in all actuality, she’s just fighting to oppose the TVA. She’s not seeking justice (at least not primarily), she’s seeking revenge. And that’s been a problem with her since the end of season 1.

She had no problem murdering 400+ minute men in violent and torturous ways (she even enjoyed doing it, and still takes pride in it), despite the fact that she knew they were innocent people brainwashed and forced to work for the TVA. She had no problem sitting back and letting the infinite number of Kangs come, even though it was inevitable that lots of innocent people would be killed by them. As long as she didn’t have to do the work to prepare for it, she was fine with that risk. Loki tried to tell her multiple times, in multiple instances, that the TVA falling apart would cause branched timelines to be destroyed and all the people on them to die, but she ignored him and didn’t believe him and refused to do anything to help over and over and over until that very thing ended up happening. As a matter of fact, she never cared at all until it effected her timeline. Then she immediately was like “there must be something we can do!!”

Anyway….. I just think it’s annoying how some people act like she’s the pro-life (not that kind of pro-life) voice of reason in all this. She’s extremely selfish (yes, more so than Loki) and perfectly willing to let innocent people die if it means she gets to keep relaxing on her branch. Much like Brad. And you know what? That doesn’t make her a villain! There’s nothing wrong with wanting a life away from the organisation that ruined your old one. But I wish folks would stop saying she was right. Cause.. no, bestie, she was not. Lol.

[vintagerpg]

Escape the Dark Castle (2017) is so goooooood. After one play, it immediately joined our regular rotation of board games. It essentially takes the idea of an adventure gamebook like Fighting Fantasy, but tears the spine off and randomizes the story. You and your friends (it’s co-op) escape the dungeon and proceed, card by card, through fifteen rooms in hope of finding a way out. In those rooms are all manner of monsters, traps, mysterious strangers and other challenges to overcome, mostly through rolling special dice. Should everyone get through the regular rooms in one piece, all that remains between the players and egress is a terrifying boss monster. Should any character die, the game is lost. Shuffle the cards, pick fifteen new ones and try again.

Items give small advantages and healing. Expansions add wrinkles (like the curses and plagues, which make things harder, or flaws, which, despite the name, are beneficial, single-use special powers). There’s even a moody dungeonsynth soundtrack on vinyl and cassette. All of that stuff enhances a game that is already great. It is exciting to play, fast paced and keeps player’s attention even when all seems lost — like Return to Dark Tower, fortunes can turn rapidly. Escape the Dark Castle is harder though — we’ve only won two times out of probably close to 30 plays [edit: our average has improved since writing this, but not by a large margin].

A huge amount of the game’s appeal rests on the shoulders of the art of Alex Crispin that decorates all the cards. He captures something of the vibe of the early 80s UK RPG scene — the art is black and white and scratchy, its subjects a mix of gross, brutish, gloomy and silly — but also feels modern and un-nostalgic (as much as the art reminds me of Fighting Fantasy, it also reminds me of Marc Rude’s art for Earth A.D. and the pointy illustrations that cover black metal records). The result is an excess of delightfully grim atmosphere. Who’d have thought dying would be so much fun?

[thegodwhocums]

Roman statue of Cybele

MATERIAL: Marble PERIOD: 2nd – 3rd Century A.D DIMENSIONS: 257 mm x 157 mm x 80 mm

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Escape From Midwich Valley • Disco Zombi Italia • L.A Venice Bitch 80's • Wake Up The President • 347 Midnight Demons • Le Perv • Roller Mobster • Meet Matt Stryker • Obituary • Looking For Tracy Tzu • Sexkiller On The Loose • Hang'Em All • Division Ruine • Paradise Warfare • Run, Sally, Run! • Turbo Killer • Anarchy Road • Invasion A.D

Spotify ♪ Bandcamp ♪ YouTube

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

HARDCORE PUNK VINYL WORTH MORE THAN YOUR LIFE (AND MINE).

PIC INFO: Spotlight on the original MISFITS final studio full-length album, "Earth A.D./Wolf's Blood" (released December 1983), on green [transparent] vinyl, and only 100 of these were reportedly pressed at the time. Plan 9 Records.

Probably the single greatest-looking slab of vinyl the Misfits ever unleashed, and they had the aesthetic nailed down @$!#*&% perfectly on this beast of a record. Anyway, needless to say, it's gotta be the Unholy Grail of all "Earth A.D." vinyl releases to date, and there's been A LOT of reissues in the span of forty years!

Source: www.murdercityvinyl.com/about.shtml.

[the-hottest-band-tournament]

Round one

Misfits 

Formed in: 1977

Genres: horror punk, hardcore punk, punk rock, heavy metal

Lineup: Glenn Danzig – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, drums

Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein – lead guitar, backing vocals

Jerry Only – bass, backing vocals

Arthur Googy – drums

Albums from the 80s:

Beware EP (1980)

3 Hits from Hell EP (1981)

Walk Among Us (1982)

Evilive EP (1982)

Earth A.D./Wolfs Blood (1983)

Legacy of Brutality (1985)

Misfits (1986)

Evilive (1987)

Propaganda: Iconic band inspired by b-movies! 

The Rolling Stones

Formed in: 1962

Genres: Rock, pop, blues

Lineup: Mick Jagger – lead vocals, electric piano, percussion, guitar

Keith Richards – lead guitar, vocals

Bill Wyman – bass guitar, string synthesizer

Charlie Watts – drums

Ronnie Wood – electric guitar, pedal steel, backing vocals

Albums from the 80s:

Emotional Rescue (1980)

Sucking in the Seventies (1981)

Tattoo You [1981] Still Life (1982)

Undercover (1983)

Rewind (1971-1984) (1984)

Dirty Work (1986)

Singles Collection: The London Years (1989)

Steel Wheels (1989)

Propaganda: 

[theworldofwars]

Published in the Crag & Canyon. February 19, 1916. Banff, Alberta

The first funeral ever witnessed in Banff with full military honours occurred last Sunday, when the remains of the late Private John Sterling Grindley, a member of the 103rd regiment, were conveyed to their last resting place in the Banff Cemetery.

Private Grindley was taken ill Feb. 5 with an attack of la grippe, and later removed to the Brett hospital where he could receive more careful attention. Thursday evening he was seized with heart failure and expired in a few minutes.

Deceased was a native of Scotland, aged 32 years and unmarried. He leaves a brother in Calgary, where he enlisted some months ago. He had only been in Banff a few weeks. All his male relatives are on the firing line.

The funeral was held at 2:30 Sunday afternoon from the Brett hospital to the Union church where Rev. A.D. Archibald, assisted by Rev. A.V. Grant, conducted the funeral services.

The cortege then reformed, headed by the ministers, then came the casket covered with floral wreaths on a carriage, the pall bearers, the firing party with rifles reversed and some 80 officers and men of the 103rd regiment.

At the cemetery the final obsequies were performed, the "Last Post" was sounded and three volleys fired over the grave.