#alissa the ghost

[altijd-november]

who wants alissa the ghost picrews?

[bstroobery]

Warning: horror

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Tag Dump 48

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25 DAY LOOKBOOK CHALLENGE | DAY SIXTEEN

Disco Fever (25 Day Challenge by @abundanceofpixels)

So as I've been going through the decades challenge I've found tons of resources for historical cc. Unfortunately, there really isn't a lot in terms of disco so I decided to make a larger collection of looks. Hope to see more disco cc in the future so I can make more groovy sims.

CC details below the cut:

Alissa Hair + Makeup: hair | eyeshadow | lipstick

Michelle Hair + Makeup: hair | eyeshadow | lipstick | blush

Alissa Look 1: jumpsuit | shoes

Michelle Look 1: top (@lynxsimz) | pants | rollerblades (@daisyxsims)

Alissa Look 2: top | pants | shoes

Michelle Look 2: top  | pants | shoes

Alissa Look 3: jumpsuit | shoes

Michelle Look 3: top | pants

Alissa Look 4: jumpsuit

Michelle Look 4: jumpsuit | shoes

CC Creators: @daisyxsims, @kindlespice, @lynxsimz, @crypticsim, @jius-sims,

@ice-creamforbreakfast @arethabee @dissiasims @ridgeport @vulrien-sims

@candysims4 @ikari-sims @trillyke, @zurkdesign, @ceeproductions,

@angelapleasant, @sentate, @gilded-ghosts

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p.s. i already sent one follow up this is so embarrassing honestly

[earlycuntsets]

8.14.02

Suprise! I'm sick again! I may look like a boatswain and smell like a corpse, but the shows are still a go for the weekend. Please try and check us out at Maxwells this Friday with The Lawndarts and The High School Sweethearts. We're very excited to be playing Maxwells and it's been a personal dream of mine ever since I was a kid going to shows there. There are some people flying out and travelling many miles to see us so keep them company and meet some new friends. Click SHOWS and get the skinny on where it's going down.

We're also trying a first this weekend for My Chem- 2 shows in one day. This Saturday we have the pleasure of playing Alissa's Basement at 6:00 and then we hop in the van to make soundcheck at The Loop as soon as we finish. Eyeball label-mates, Little Joe Gould are coming out all the way from Indiana for this show so we've decided to risk health and safety to play both shows. If you've seen the shape of us after just one set you're probably curious what we will be like at the second show - so are we. I can assure you a night of "hot male action" and "stinky boys".

Also check out our good friends in The Ghost and The Exit in our links section. We had the good fortune of seeing both bands play 2 nights last weekend and they were great. Drinking in The Ghost van outside of CBs with Jordan and T-Top was definitely a plus.

I need a shave, a new dye-job, and some decongestant so I'll leave you with the image of me sitting in my house watching Mad Monster Party, moaning, sweating, boxer-clad, and trying to hit the high notes in Headfirst For Halos. - g

flyer from notoastghost

gerard's memo about the alissa's basement show from mcr's 2002 website

recording from spaceyraygun

[weclassybouquetfun]

With no word on when precisely the sequel to The Old Guard will return to life on Netflix, let's see what the cast is doing.

- Staying in the Netflix fold is Marwan Kenzari who appears in the currently streaming GHOSTED starring Chris Evans and Ana de Armas.

Kenzari is also cast in THE RETURN, a retelling of Homer's "The Odyssey" starring Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes and Charlie Plummer. Kenzari will play Antinous.

-Matthias Schoenaerts starred in Canal+/Sky's DJANGO. Schoenaerts starred as the titular character made famous by Franco Nero. It also starred his THE DROP costar Noomi Rapace.

Next up for Schoenaerts is Terrence Malik's THE WAY OF THE WIND, which is a telling of moments in the life of Christ. But as it's a Malik film who knows if it will ever see the light of day or if Schoenaerts is in the final edit.

More THE OLD GUARD cast goings-on.

He also has THE REGIME starring Kate Winslet. Formerly titled THE PALACE, it's a look at a the impending unraveling of a dictator's rule.

THE REGIME is a limited series on HBO Max and all episodes were directed by the masterful Stephen Frears and was created and co-written by Will Tracy one of the writers of THE MENU and SUCCESSION.

-Speaking of dictators - Luca Marinelli is still at work on the adaptation of the novel M: SON OF THE CENTURY which recounts the rise of Benito Mussolini. Director Joe Wright and Marinelli have both done recent interviews about the series. Some new information? The score will have a techno bent with music supplied by The Chemical Bros.

I take it the music in the background of this video of Joe Wright's daughter (her mother is actress Haley Bennett of Cyrano and Till)dancing on set is indicative of the type of music that will pop up in the series.

Speaking of kids, Luca's wife Alissa Jung returned to the director's chair to direct her son Lenius Jung in her short "Die Mauer muss weg (The wall must fall)".

- KiKi Layne has DANDELION coming up. Unlike DON'T WORRY DARLING her scenes won't be cut because Layne plays the titular Dandelion. What is it all about? "It follows a singer-songwriter in a downward spiral as she takes a last effort gig at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota where she meets Casey, a guitarist who walked away from his dream long ago."

Casey is played by Thomas Doherty (Gossip Girl).

Layne and Doherty.

-Charlize Theron is returning to the big screen next month in FAST X, reprising her role as Cipher.

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'Here is what happens in the last ten minutes or so of All of Us Strangers. This will all be spoilers.

Adam (Andrew Scott) returns from his final reunion with his parents, who died in a car crash when he was eleven but have recently appeared to him as they were before they died, “ghosts” utterly real to his senses. He drops in on his boyfriend, Harry (Paul Mescal), who lives in the same apartment building, and, shocked by the odor emanating from Harry’s bedroom, confirms that Harry is dead, most likely owing to a drug overdose. But before Adam can leave Harry’s apartment, Harry’s “ghost” suddenly appears. Adam consoles Harry and declares his love. (“I was too scared to let you in.”)

There’s more. Upstairs in Adam’s apartment, Adam and Harry are in bed, preparing for sleep. As Adam holds and comforts Harry, we hear a pop song, “The Power of Love” (“Love is the light keeping darkness away.”). The frame recedes, until Adam and Harry shrink to a circle of light at the center of the dark screen. Stars slowly appear around them. Apotheosized – their own star flashing brightly – they join the mythological beings whose constellations shine, nightly, on us all.

Alissa Wilkinson, reviewing the film in the New York Times, advises viewers to “just feel your way through, letting it roll over you.” But everything that happens before the final minutes is, with a little effort, easy enough to understand. In fact, “solving” the film’s psychological mysteries – understanding how Adam’s ghosts arise from his grief – is the film’s central interpretive demand, and one of its pleasures. It’s the film’s conclusion – its jumble of confusing, of confused, elements – that requires the kind of willed passivity that Wilkinson recommends. Without it difficult questions arise. How did Harry die? Had he shown any inclination toward serious drug abuse? More important, whom did love save? Not Harry, who’s dead. Nor has love saved Adam from Harry’s death, or his parents’ deaths.

And how, finally, are we to take Adam’s power to summon ghosts – to revive the dead? In the film’s climax, Adam takes Harry to his childhood home, site of his encounters with his parents’ ghosts, with the intention of bringing them all together. But Harry, realizing that Adam believes his parents are alive – that grief has driven him to delusion – is shaken and horrified, and flees the scene. And it’s after witnessing Harry’s reaction that Adam agrees, finally, to stop seeing his parents, apparitions whose existence, he seems to realize, depends on him. His reversion to fantasy in “reviving” Harry, at the end, is a shocking reversal, a triumph of uncontrollable desperation. How could Andrew Haigh (screenwriter as well as director) manage to see any of this positively? It would take a Hail Mary.

The protagonist is, of course, Adam – whose story builds so strong a momentum that it may take an act of reflection to realize that its world is populated by just four people – four roles, four actors. Andrew Scott would seem to be well suited to play Adam. He specializes in stricken souls, deeply sensitive but closed off, incommunicative. Conversation with a Scott character won’t have an easy flow. He typically delays his responses, holding attention with his ink-dark eyes – then responds unexpectedly, with speech oddly accelerated, say, or oddly stressed, accompanied, perhaps, by an antic facial or bodily gesture. Scott has been able to adapt this persona to a variety of roles – to Tom Ripley at one extreme, to Hamlet at another (and apparently, in a recent London production, to every role in Uncle Vanya). He certainly has his moments here. We believe that he’s afflicted – lonely and grieving, desolate even. But often, in dramatic interaction, where some might see creativity and daring, others will see contrivance and calculation.

Whoever plays Harry has to be, believably, both charming and a good partner to Adam. Paul Mescal is a good actor and good sport. He defers to Andrew Scott’s acting rhythms and yet preserves a style of his own; they act well together – interact well together – each to the other’s benefit. But when Harry tells Adam that he’s struggled, particularly with family, as a gay man, it’s hard to see damage. Mescal’s Harry radiates personal and physical well-being. He looks like he plays rugby in the Colosseum. (In his next film Mescal stars as a Roman gladiator.) He’s comfortable in his skin the way athletes often are (in fine contrast to Scott’s repressed Adam, who can’t let go), and in fact Mescal left Irish football to pursue acting. His sex scenes with Scott are game (and sensitively filmed), though, I think, lacking in urgency. But perhaps it’s enough that Mescal, as Harry, reacts to Adam’s quirky caution and reserve with, at first, curiosity, then delight, and finally tenderness.

The most winning performance in All of Us Strangers – there seems to be consensus about this – is Claire Foy’s. As Adam’s mother, Foy introduces warmth and vitality into his sad, shadowy world. Alone with Adam in the family kitchen’s morning light, she – spontaneously and apparently all at once – draws out her guest (elicits that he��s gay), voices her own views about homosexuality, muses, makes tea, reminisces and consoles, questions and disagrees. It’s as if we’d stepped from a graveyard into a carnival. His mother’s warmth and vitality – lost to him with her death – are precisely what Adam attempts to recover in bringing her back to life; but it’s here that we, as viewers, feel the magnitude of his loss. Her vitality is subdued a bit when Adam tries to educate his mother in more up-to-date views of homosexuality. (Catechism is never fun.) But Foy holds on to the mother’s integrity – her own, unshakable love for her son, whatever the barriers that may distance them – from first to last.

Jamie Bell, another seasoned actor, is fine as Adam’s father, but the role feels too restricted and functional: he’s there, in death, to accept his gay son as he never had the chance to do in life. But he’s so kind and loving toward Adam from the start that there seems to be no resistance to overcome in winning his approval (and so free of personal idiosyncrasy otherwise that nothing else about him excites our attention). In his tête-à-tête with Adam, after Adam guides him to acknowledgment of an inward stain of homophobia (Adam is a tough confessor), he weeps and asks Adam to forgive his insensitivity. A father like this, and an act like that, are a gay son’s dream. (So I teared up.) And at their farewell – the family’s last reunion – it’s the father’s declaration of pride in his son, and then love for his son, that finishes the scene. (Anyone who’s been a child will probably tear up here.)

But not quite “finishes.” Claire Foy then does something that almost makes the scene hers. She – Adam’s mother – suddenly loses her vision (“I can’t see!”), which we know happened just before she died. She is reliving her death in other words. And yet, staring blankly as she speaks, clearly stricken, she preserves her dignity, frightening no one. (Adam, we know, was kept from her deathbed, for fear that witnessing her condition would have been too painful for him.) And finally, as the scene ends, instead of a direct good-bye she voices, dreamily, what seems to be a fond memory, already fading, of “such a kind and gentle boy.” This all happens in seconds, but the film has no richer moments. Hail to all concerned.'

[thedemon-crowley]

what do i hear about unjustful accusations here? i have a degree in demon rights and you, good sir, are violating them

(-@alissa-the-ghost)

Oh, good, you get a union and suddenly I’m the bad guy, er…good guy?

Whatever.

Where were you people when I could’ve used your help?!

[cowboyfromh3ll]

Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman was a really good horror book i read.

Im not quite sure how to explain it without spiling anything

I started reading it as soon as I got this ask and so far I really like the writing style. Writing style is such an important aspect for me to enjoy a book. Author's like Poppy Z Brite and Alissa Nutting are my FAVORITE because their writing is so lively and the description is immaculate. I try to have a writing style that's detailed as well and doesn't feel dull.

[altijd-november]

hihhhihhhhiiii echoooo tell me bout your ocs!!!!! anything and verythign you wanna share!

HI CHAR

so i've talked about some before but my favourite characters are Seph and Alissa

seph is some sort of creature created by earth to stop the government from ruining climate even more and ugh she's everythign to me

she's so neurodivergent coded, she does not know how to act human but she meets some people and they teach her! she's only made for one purpose and once she fulfills it earth will claim her back, so much angst potential, like knowing that you have to do something, but also knowing that if you do it you will die and leave everything you've learned to love behind....

than alissa, she's a ghost. she's very silly and LOVES drama. she's just a little guy who likes to fuck with people. a random group of young teens summon her accidently and they have a little adventure. she's my favourite to just throw at situations, because she'll ruin everything and fix it wrongly and i just love her for it

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OC drabbles bc yeah

Alan

25 (7/7)

6'3

Childhood best friend of Alissa

History teacher

Soft spoken and rare to actually make angry (he's scared to ever get super angry so he tries to keep calm)

Nervous wreck, very skittish

Has several house plants to help him remember to take care of himself (doesn't always work)

Has trouble sleeping. Man runs on coffee no wonder he's jumpy

Likes to color, read, and set up terrariums

Favorite color is blue

Alissa

25 (5/25)

4'9

Childhood best friend of Alan

Works at a local cafe

Mom of 2

Loves the outdoors, specifically chose a home that was near the woods

Very superstitious

Has back problems that are not helped by her job

Hotheaded and quick to defend those she cares about

Mama bear type of mom

Likes to carve things out of wood using her claws (keeps them sharp)

Favorite color is green

Andy

5'7

22 (2/17)

Alan's boyfriend and colleague, Cynthia's best friend

Science teacher

Absolute nerd, loves sci-fi as well as science stuff in general

Loves to collect ties. Also has lots of matching socks to go with them

Cheerful, ray of sunshine

Tutors Alissa's kids on weekends every now and again

Likes to play more action oriented games that are lighthearted in nature (Mario and Splatoon would be ones he likes)

Favorite color is yellow

Cynthia

5'4 (this varies)

21 (10/30)

Alan's younger sister and Andy's best friend

Works at a store like Hot Topic but will take jobs at haunted houses during the spooky month

Very flexible. No literally, something's fucked up with her body it acts like silly putty (magic shenanigans)

Very energetic and animated. Nearly constantly moving (will puff steam when she overheats)

Also an absolute nerd. Likes edgier things than Andy but they share a lot of interests still

Sad that she can't get piercings since they can very easily fall out

Loves to prank people. Nearly got expelled from school as a kid over this

Favorite color is purple (tries to avoid)

Max

4'7

12 (10/2)

Alissa's firstborn child

Skittish similar to Alan, though more due to general anxiety and not, y'know, trauma

Artsy and really likes to draw. Their paws are big and clumsy though so it's hard

Stutters and has some trouble getting their thoughts out

Cuddlebug, still likes to sleep next to Alissa from time to time

Nervous about their birthday since they were born in an "unlucky month" (according to their mom)

Prefers doing basic crafts over wood carving. Would rather carve foam anyways

Favorite color is Teal

Iggy

4'6

8 (2/12)

Alissa's younger adopted daughter

Mostly nonverbal and sensitive to sounds. Can chirp or sign to communicate

Has the ability to see and interact with spirits

Absolutely obsessed with a show called "Kuroji the Brave" about a bunny hero

Nervous around Alan at first but bonds with him over Kuroji

Likes to draw with Max

Feels a duty to protect her new family and will go along with Alissa's superstitions to help

Keeps a journal on information she gathers on ghosts

Favorite color is red

Bonus character:

Jas

5'5

13 (4/18)

Ghostly friend of Iggy's

Girl who lived in the woods and guided Iggy. Only one she would attempt to speak to

Helped Iggy run away even after her passing

Liked to play tricks on people, though was more careful with Iggy

Taught her survival skills to help her tough it out in the wilderness until she was safe

Acts as Iggy's guardian, helps her recognize what people are feeling when she has trouble with it

Will move things around to spook people because she thinks it's funny

Favorite color is orange

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25 DAY LOOKBOOK CHALLENGE | DAY TWENTY-TWO

Flight Attendant (25 Day Challenge by @abundanceofpixels)

There needs to be more flight attendant CC.

CC Details:

Outfit: suit | scarf | hat

Alissa: hair | shoes| tights

Michelle: hair | shoes

CC Creators: @coloresurbanos, @antosims, @serenity-cc, @rustys-cc

@gilded-ghosts, @houseofabsurdities @sentate @nightcrawler-sims

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The 50 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2022 (by Loudwire)

Venom Prison, 'Erebos'

Release Date: Feb. 4

Venom Prison are a cocktail of extremity and on Erebos they begin to border on progressive, navigating some really surprising stylistic turns on an album where taking the listener on a journey doesn’t feel like hyperbolic schlock self-hype.

Rather than cramming a a handful of different styles into each track, the U.K. group gives each song here a remarkably strong identity, shifting from adrenalized straightforward death metal to industrial-tinged passages, melodic tremolo picking, bone-snapping grooves, ethereal clean singing and dreamy clean-toned sections.

Erebos is without a doubt Venom Prison’s finest moment yet.

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Dorothy, 'Gifts From the Holy Ghost'

Release Date: April 22

Dorothy’s debut album Rockisdead was badass, fuzzy garage rock from front to back and its follow-up 28 Days in the Valley was a laid-back desert rock trip, but her third and most recent record Gifts From the Holy Ghost is by far her most absolute solid release yet. Her vocals sound as powerful as ever and are crystal clear thanks to the superior production — which still allows the instrumentation to sound authentic and stripped-back.

Dorothy recruited some outside musicians to lend their talents to the album, including former Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Jason Hook, Breaking Benjamin’s Keith Wallen and Trevor Lukather, resulting in a guitar-driven, gut-punching body of work all around. It’s full of swampy riffs for the southern rock fans, high intensity for the alternative fans and, of course, a tearjerker of a ballad for those looking for something a bit more tender. If you haven’t listened to this album yet, get to it.

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Halestorm, 'Back From the Dead'

Release Date: May 6

It’s not a Halestorm album if it doesn’t start off with an absolute powerhouse of a scream from Lzzy Hale, and that’s exactly how their latest sonic journey Back From the Dead begins.

If 2018’s Vicious was the band’s time to experiment with different sounds and take a break from the ordinary, this record is their triumphant return to the mighty sound they’re known and loved for. As usual, the rockers celebrate their beloved genre on songs such as “The Steeple,” and Hale passionately sings about being a unique breed of woman that has a mischievous streak and won’t shut up just because society wants her to (“Wicked Ways,” “Strange Girl” and “Bombshell”).

What sets this album apart from the rest of Halestorm’s discography is that, like most other albums that have come out in the last two years, it was affected by the pandemic — but so much so that Hale actually underwent an existential crisis about whether she even wanted to create rock ’n’ roll anymore.

Of course, her love for the music prevailed, and thanks to that rediscovery, we have a new set of songs from a band that’s been recharged and refreshed.

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Arch Enemy, 'Deceivers'

Release Date: Aug. 12

In the world of metal, Arch Enemy is the gift that keeps on giving. Deceivers is mega hit after mega hit, boasting the full power of an Alissa White-Gluz-fronted Arch Enemy. The guitar work is rip-roaring, the arrangements are built for maximum impact, and White-Gluz’s clean vocals on “Handshake With Hell” are flawlessly executed.

No wonder Deceivers became Arch Enemy’s highest charting album in their home country of Sweden, along with hitting No. 1 in Finland and Switzerland. Angela Gossow’s shoes were once believed to be impossible to fill, but after three incredible albums with Alissa White-Gluz, it’s the former Agonist singer who now seems irreplaceable, and Deceiversmay be her finest work with the band yet.

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◈   TAG NINE PEOPLE YOU’D LIKE TO KNOW BETTER!

[ creen's back at it again ]

favourite colour(s): yellow 💛

favourite flavour(s): sweet, but different types. either fruity sweet like strawberries or cherries, or chocolate

favourite genre(s): i love horror, but i hate being scared lol- a few years ago i really got into analogue horror (Local 58, The Mandela Catalogue, etc.), but i get so stressed out watching them. the same goes with games and movies, i love the aesthetic but my anxiety keeps be from playing or watching more often. books i find easier to engage with, so a lot of what i've been reading lastly is gnarly

favourite music: it's hard for me to narrow it down because my music taste is pretty all over the place, so i'll drop what i've been listening to lately: SZA, Deftones, Freddie Dredd, Bring Me The Horizon, Ghost, Kendrick Lamar

favourite movie(s): The VVitch

favourite series: hhhh i don't know if this counts but Juni Ito's short story collections, Animal Crossing bc i am an infant, and Fallout (obv)

last song: Sleepwalking (Live at the Royal Albert Hall) - Bring Me The Horizon

last series: Bones, but i have a bad habit of rewatching the first few seasons of shows, so i haven't gotten around to finishing it yet

last movie: Twilight, i needed some background noise and the soundtrack fucks

currently reading: i finished Fluids by May Leitz in one sitting, so i'm back to reading Tender Is The Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica and Tampa by Alissa Nutting

currently watching: i'm rewatching Nip/Tuck for the podcast my friends and i host, and it's just as bad as i remembered lmao

currently working on: for work, i'm running our volunteer training tomorrow evening, so i'm finalizing all my notes. for fun i have a power point party coming up in a few weeks so i'm putting together my presentation

tagged by: @meadowlarksabove thanks bestie :))

tagging: @wolf-at-worlds-end @that-kid-from-vault-101 @cajunspoons @cheatdeaths

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Works Cited

Schildkraut, Joseph J., and Alissa J. Hirshfeld. “Mind and Mood in Modern Art I: Miró and ‘Melancolie.’” Creativity Research Journal, vol. 8, no. 2, Apr. 1995, p. 139. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1207/s15326934crj0802_3.

Schröder, J., Berger, T., Meyer, B. et al. Attitudes Towards Internet Interventions Among Psychotherapists and Individuals with Mild to Moderate Depression Symptoms. Cogn Ther Res 41, 745–756 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-017-9850-0.

Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Kollwitz, Käthe. An Der Kirchenmauer (At the Church Wall). 1893, The Benton Museum of Art.

Rand, Ellen Emmet. The Mountaineer. 1917, Benton Museum of Art.

Picasso, Pablo. The Old Guitarist. 1903-04. Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection. 

Steiner, John. “Mourning in Hamlet: Turning Ancestral Ghosts into Ancestors.” International Journal of Psychoanalysis, vol. 104, no. 6, Dec. 2023, pp. 1025–41. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2023.2222808.