#americas hardcore fest

[drugstorecowboi]

End of an era. Thanks for everything AHC. It’s been a wild ride these last few years🫡

[mostlymaudlin]

Twenty Questions for Fic Writers 💫

thank you @decaflondonfog for the tag !! ill tag @sillyunicorn @starwarned @urban-sith @tea-brigade

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

98!! (woah) plus an unrevealed t&n fest fic, so 99. wow i need to do something rly crazy for 100 lol. what if i do a ridiculous crossover of all my fandoms and everyone in the fandom tags will hate me. 

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

544,914. (again. woagh)

3. What fandoms do you write for?

mostly all for the game and simon snow series, have dabbled in & posted even less for check please, captain america, and one direction! i feel like i’m missing something but regardless my fixations are hardcore, so all except like 4k of that posted wc is for either aftg or ss hahahha

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

all are andreil! boyfriend privileges (4k, T) / Trigger (62k, E) / flashes of intimacy (10k, t) / Would you still love me if I was a worm? (6k, T) / Inside Thoughts (1k,T)

man this is long, rest is going under the cut lol

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

not very often, but i wish i did. i am stricken with a combination of being really awkward when people are nice to me & being bad at interacting with anyone in ways i fear could be perceived as ingenuine. im not sure if that makes sense LMAO. and sometimes when i put a story out, i kind of feel like i’ve said my piece — i’ve put so much into it that i don’t really know what else to say!

anyway, i always reply to questions, because that’s got clear social boundaries hahaha, and i DO love talking abt my stories!! and sometimes i’ll reply to comments that really get me thinking. but yeah, i know i reply less than i could, and i want to like double down on the fact that i am endlessly grateful for everyone who has ever left a comment on my work <3

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

i have killed simon snow twice lmfao. i’d actually classify icarus as rather hopeful — it’s about grief & healing. but legacies is just fucked up lmfao

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

oh man, i write a lot of happy endings haha. i feel like even when my story is tonally darker (rare), it still has a happy or at least hopeful ending. this is probably not the correct answer, but i think sing of the moon has a really vividly happy ending. like — the sun rises for the first time in the whole fic! amazing. or maybe my high school au, We Can Live Forever, which is just the happiest thing i’ve ever written. 

8. Do you get hate on fics?

not really, thankfully! people are smartasses sometimes but overall ive been lucky. there have been a couple of fics where ive winced before hitting post, but it usually ends up fine

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

yessss. i guess i mostly write tender smut, bc i write tender things in general. i think my smut tends to be rather exploratory/playful as well? intentionally sloppy and awkward choreography hahaha

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

sort of LOL. once upon a time i was betaing @tea-brigade's medieval snowbaz au, Reliquary of an Arsonist, and there’s this part where three highway bandits mug simon and baz and then get blasted by simon’s chosen one magic. i am sick in the head so im in the google doc like “lol what if its kandreil.” and then i was like… what if it was kandreil….. and so i wrote Reliquary of a Bandit

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

i don’t think so

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

yes!!! and i’m really thankful for everyone who has done so <3333 shoutout to russian aftg translators, yall go HARD

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

i recently collaborated with @thewholelemon on our episode of Star Trek: Redemption, Heart-Shaped Box. by which i mean: i wrote the outline & a few scenes, got really overwhelmed, and jenny turned it into something worth reading! 

i also wrote Good Boy in the snowbaz stoner verse with @starwarned, which was rly fun — we sat in the google doc for like, 5 hours trading back and forth on POVs as we wrote pure porn together LOL. it’s funny to think about this, because lauren knows like everything abt me now but we did not know each other as well back then!!! and we were just like “yeah lets write porn together” hahahahha 

14. What’s your all-time favourite ship?

right now it is deeefinitely andreil… they are everything to me for reasons i just cannot possibly be brief about LOL so ill just leave it at that

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

i have a postcanon snowbaz time travel/time loop wip that i was going to try to write for COBB this year but i fucked up the deadlines then the brainrot was like “guess that means more andreil !”. i did SO MUCH research for it and i think it’s rather clever and smutty and fun bc they are yeeted back to watford era! but it’s also dealing with snowbaz, who are in their late 20s and are like in a relationship low point/actively fighting when they end up in the loop… so they are dealing with that tension at the same time as they are trying to get out of the loop. and also fucking around watford to fulfill fantasies HAHAHA

16. What are your writing strengths?

characterization is the thing i care most about! and i think that’s the draw of fanfic in particular to me — i love getting such a grasp on a character that i can translate them into endless situations while still making them feel true to self. i rarely let myself publish anything until i can read through the whole thing without any he would not fucking say that moments hahahha. this is of course pertaining to my own interpretations of the characters, which is the only thing i care abt lmfao

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

i rely a lot on body language because im always writing abt reticent fuckers who cant use their words. but i think i sometimes overcompensate, or describe actions that don't actually fit the scene. i've seen this described as "cheek-biting" -- like, throwing in action during a conversation just to delay the pacing/further the tone, but when you really look at it, it's not necessary. (cheek-biting being like, "character bites at their cheek" in the middle of a tense conversation)

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

i don’t really know any other languages! i think i’ve put a little bit of french in neil/kevin/baz POVs before, but my french knowledge is elementary at best. love the idea of it though.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

one direction babyyyyyyyy !! i wrote quite a bit of it in like 2012-2015 but published very little. there’s 1 on my ao3, some lost somewhere on fanfiction.net (i dont rmr my username lol), and tons in my folders from my old laptop lol.

20. Favourite fic you’ve written?

hmmmmm. im gonna cheat bc i cant pick a single favorite. i always say i think No Turning Back is some of my best writing from a craft standpoint, and it also includes my favorite type of conflict (andrew self-destructing lol). however, i reread both that fic & We Can Live Forever on a plane trip recently after not having touched either for 6+ months — and the solidness of We Can Live Forever actually surprised me, especially because i wrote the majority of that fic while i was stoned and also view it as just exceedingly silly. the world of it is just very rich, and also very very different from the typical character backstories, and i’m very proud of how much that reread played with my heartstrings.  

ok last one — there are several installments of my flashes of intimacy series that i come back to a lot, because i’m proud of what they each accomplish in 500 words. especially because i often turn to those when im trying to express my own emotions lol. specifically, my favorites are picking fights, i don’t mind, swimming lessons, and practicing gratitude.

that was such a bullshit and cocky way to answer this lmfaooooo. but tbh i am my own biggest fan and that is by design — i write stuff so that i can reread it months later and have it be perfectly catered to my tastes. i love all my fics <3

[bubblesandgutz]

Every Record I Own - Day 815: Nomeansno Sex Mad

My first introduction to Nomeansno was hearing Sex Mad's "Dad" on a punk rock radio show on Oahu's Radio Free Hawaii station sometime around 1991 or 1992. The song's straightforward fury and harrowing depiction of domestic abuse carried the musical power and lyrical urgency that was like a drug to my young teenage mind. But I wouldn't actually hear the rest of Sex Mad until my college buddy dropped this LP on my doorstep a decade later.

The first two tracks off Sex Mad---the title track and the aforementioned "Dad"---sound like classic early North American hardcore. But that one-two-punch opening sequence was a Trojan Horse. By track three we have "Obsessed," a twisted and puzzling instrumental song that's like a punk version of Rush's "YYZ" (side note: I wouldn't actually hear Rush until sometime around 1997, and I distinctly remember thinking "this sounds like an arena rock version of Nomeansno"). Then there's the a cappella shout-fest "No Fgcnuik." These aren't exactly the kinds of departures that your average liberty-spiked punk wants to hear. Side one wraps up with "Love Thang" and "Dead Bob," both of which deconstruct hardcore's rage with syncopated rhythms, jarring shifts in song structures, and a general musical aptitude that one could only imagine both intrigued and puzzled the punks back in 1986.

Things get even weirder (and WAY cooler) on Side 2. "Self Pity" is the kind of protracted, exploratory, slow-build jam that completely avoids the three-chord, top-speed formula of hardcore. Instead, a low, menacing bass riff and nimble drum pattern drive the song, with brief explosions of guitar hinting at some inevitable climax. We keep getting teased with a big pay-off, and there are a few moments of thrashy release, but you get the overall sense that the ultimate moment is just on the horizon. And then it arrives, and it's not some big mosh part or circle pit anthem. It's guitarist Andy Kerr sending a signal through some sort of delay effect and tweaking the knobs into a swirling storm of chaos. Thirteen years later, Botch would do something similar on "Transitions From Persona To Object" without ever having heard "Self Pity."

Side 2 continues on in its strange journey with "Long Days." This is another track that almost owes more to prog rock than punk. Rob Wright plays a dexterous bass line on an infinite loop while John Wright keeps teasing us with various fragmented drum patterns. Rob sings a mournful melody on top of all of it. Andy appears to have not shown up to the studio that day. There are a few moments where John finally locks into a four-on-the-floor drumbeat and it's completely gratifying, but the overall intention of the song seems to be all about depriving the audience of what they want.

That vibe continues on "Metronome." Another looping bass line. Another song where John spends more time hinting at a beat rather than playing the full kit. Andy is back from his coffee break to provide vocals, but when the song actually lays into the bass riff it's so satisfying that the band apparently decided to leave guitar out of the mix entirely. There's hardly any guitar on Side 2 until the closer "Revenge," where Rob ditches the bass. We get angular guitar riffs for the verses and triumphant chords for the chorus. It's big and epic, but hardly the kind of straightforward blitzkrieg that kicked off the album.

The punks must have been completely perplexed, but maybe the punks were actually bored by the old formulas at that point. After all, Sex Mad gave Nomeansno their first hint of success. The band got signed to Alternative Tentacles, providing massive exposure across North America, and the band was invited on their first tour of Europe, where they would close out the decade as one of the top drawing punk acts on the continent---just behind Fugazi and Bad Religion. By 1986, the first batch of North American hardcore bands were dying out or crossing over into metal territories. Up in British Columbia, Nomeansno were charting a path that would now qualify as "post-hardcore," taking the urgency and DIY spirit of hardcore but expanding its parameters with a broader emotional spectrum and a larger arsenal of musical influences under their belt.

[vvatchword]

NaNoWriMo has become my only motivation for movement to the point that I'm not sure I'm going to be able to recover afterward. I need to stop NaNoing to do life things, but this is a book that's very important to me, and it feels like I'm actually PROGRESSING at it. And I mean. Progressing WELL.

Also, I feel like my skills went up a notch. I don't know what happened. It may be the complete loosing of my inhibitions after losing so much. I feel like I've grown incrementally sharper, and it's a good feeling.

After this, I will absolutely tackle Saya, I swear to fucking CHRIST. I'm not going to let it stop there. I will tackle it with my current superpower (sheerest apathetic self-destruction; body reduced to mere tool to complete task)

Also I'm going to read a whole lot of books. All the fucking books. I have to read about nine metric tons about sailors, marine salvage, architects and architecture, gnosticism, Russian Jews, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Irish, the Lakota, gay men, sign language, how jails worked and were constructed, deep-sea construction, and the treatment of deaf children in east-coast America, ALL OF WHICH come from very specific points in time (see: late 1800s to 1970) before I will even halfway understand shit. I'm not mentioning at least 100 other things here, including ways that elements intersect and fractal out. I may have to do a hardcore read-fest. Just stop work to read everything. And find out I still don't know enough and read even more. There's a point I have to give up and say, this is good enough for these purposes, but fucking jesus fuck. I know so little it hurts me sometimes.

I nearly said, "Who am I even writing this for," but the answer is ME because ABSOLUTELY NO ONE GIVES A FUCK about the kind of historical fiction I want to imbibe in so clearly I need to WRITE IT MYSELF

what sucks about it is that no one will notice this, though. It is so completely for myself that if I get other readers it will be a miracle of fucking god

godDAMN i can't wait until I can use THC again holy shit

[transmissionsfromthebattlefield]

They Might Call In The National Guard On Your Ass

I watched Punishment Park a few days ago. A cinema vérité pseudodocumentary from 1971(!), it takes place in an alternate United States where hippies, Commie sympathizers, and anti-war protestors who don't want fifteen to twenty years in prison are shipped off to Punishment Park, where they have three days to run fifty three miles through the desert to an American flag. If they reach it in time, they get to walk free, or so they are told.

It's a gritty, chilling, masterfully put together work of alternative history and it's also kind of a misery fest. The absurdity of the concept leaves room for some degree of reaction to the extremity of it, and maybe in a different context I would be able to crack a smile at lanky seventies youths running towards nothing with awful posture through a desert in record-breaking heat. But you have to understand that I have been put through the ringer of having regurgitated radical politik parroted at me over and over and over. It gives certain people a thrill to wallow in that misery. But it just doesn't thrill me to have people try to insert a microchip in my head repeating slogans of Everything is Awful and Will Never Get Better.

You would think I would relate to one of the girls who gets interrogated at the Punishment Park, who is blonde, 19, and writes (kind of awful) songs about the Pigs and Tricky Dick and all that. She talks about how she dropped out of college because after the Kent State massacre, she realized that it wouldn't matter if she wore a stars-and-stripes cheerleader uniform and rah-rahed America all day; even if she was just a spectator, the National Guard would just shoot her anyway. She didn't feel safe being out in the open.

This allure of the "underground" was in full swing during that era of the Weathermen and is even more common today where we long for a time when the revolution wasn't televised. It seems people love this movie because of these tendencies. When your face is in the light, it's scary. You retreat to the womb, or in this case the commune, and you feel safer but you also isolate yourself. You surround yourself with hardcore ideals that present plain fact but with no room for changing those facts substantially. You preach upheaval but get so caught up in the concept of it that you mentally can't go about ever making it happen, because doing so would make you like the world better, and you can't have that when you live off of the world being against you. It's addicting. We need the truth, especially now, but we're all individuals with our own individual lived experiences. The real world isn't a colorless, lifeless desert plateau. There's color and water and food and little creatures crawling in the ground.

Different strokes for different folks, but why did Ken Russell have to die before he could direct a hilarious and extremely Ken Russell remake or take of this? These are the thoughts that go through my bored, weird, college girl head.

[cr3eks]

on my way out the door to america’s hardcore fest when my mom who i was with 12 hours ago texts me saying she just tested positive for covid 👍🏼😀 FUUUCK

[kikiskramz]

Kaospilot (2001-2005)

Kaospilot was an Emoviolence, Anarchist-Skramz, and Noise band from Oslo, Norway. Formed from 2001 to 2005, the quintet band included Kristoffer Rødseth (Vocals), Øystein Rånes (Guitar), Petter Ringstad (guitar), Anders Simonsen (Bass), and Mads Hornsletten (Drums).

Kaospilot mainly focused on questioning systematic ways of thinking and behaving that are taken for granted but should be reconsidered. Although Kaospilot sang about philosophy and several political subjects, they didn't see themselves as a political or revolutionary band. They were based on certain paradigms from certain philosophers to help make their texts more understandable. Furthermore, Kristoffer Rødseth wrote about subjects that engaged him, such as the 'systematic and brutal repression by the American defense institution School of the Americas,' 'Latin American liberation groups fighting for human rights and freedom,' and other topics like Human Trafficking and the capitalism of Antidepressants. They tried to make their music more challenging and push the boundaries as far as possible.

Although Kaospilot shares the name with the Danish School, Kaospiloterne, they have nothing to do with the school and were unaware of it when they named their band.

With the following they had, they toured in Europe, the USA, and Japan. Kaospilot only performed at DIY independent places with close contact with the audience.

There are no articles or interviews where the band states their breakup, but following the breakup, both Kristoffer Rødseth and Anders Simonsen formed a new band in 2010 called Soul Mountain to explore new musical fields.

Kaospilot produced 2 albums, 1 single, 2 splits, and 1 compilation. They debuted with their first single, 'For Your Safety' (2001). Subsequently, a split with Neil Perry (2002), their first album titled 'Kaospilot' (2003), a split with Van Johnson (2004), and their final album, 'Shadows' (recorded in 2005, released in 2009).

You can still listen to Kaospilot on Spotify (Kaospilot, Shadows).

Kaospilot - Process is set (Performed at Chop Fest) (via Youtube) Source:

[ronniekingofficial]

Just Love seeing this my Old Band Mates On Tour!!!!! #electriclady @cleopatrarecords Posted @withregram • @shawnsmash77 Total Chaos World Tour 2023 Jan 13 - Hamburg, Germany - Hafenklang Jan 14 - Düsseldorf, Germany - AK 47 Jan 15 - Brussels, Belgium - Magasin 4 Jan 18 -Bristol, England - The Exchange Jan 19 -Nottingham, England - The Old cold store with Black Flag 🏴‍☠️ Jan 20 -Belfast, Ireland - Limelight Jan 21 -Dublin, Ireland - The Academy Jan 24 - Sheffield, England - O2 Academy Jan 25 - Leeds, England - Boom Jan 26 - Glasgow, Scotland - The Garage Jan 27 - Manchester, England - O2 Ritz Jan 28 - London, England - O2 Kentish Town Jan 31 - Paris, France - Ess Pace Feb 2 - Bilbao, Spain - Kafe Antzokia Feb 3 - Barcelona, Spain - Salamandra Feb 4 - Madrid, Spain - Chango Feb 5 - Porto, Portugal - Hard Club Total Chaos Headline shows Feb 7 - Valladoid, Spain - La Kassa Feb 8 - Oviedo, Spain - Gong Galaxy Club Feb 9 - San Sebastián, Spain - Mogambos Feb 10 - Amberieu En Bugey, France -Les Tirplettes Feb 11 - La Boisserie -Du- Dore, France - No Man’s Land Feb 12 - Kortrijk, Belgium - The Pitt’s ———————————————————- Feb 14 Record New album in Holland ———————————————————- May 11 - 15 South America , Argentina, Bueno Aires with The Exploited, Conflict, D.I, The Dickies May 24 - San Diego, CA - HOB with D.I & The Dickies May 26 - Los Angeles, CA - Regent Theatre with Conflict May 28 - Santa Ana, CA - The Observatory with Conflict May 29 - PRB hang Sunday May 31 - Roseville, CA - Goldfield Trading Post June 1 - Berkeley, CA - Cornerstone June 2 - Santa Cruz, CA - The Catalyst Atrium June 3 - Palmdale, CA - Transplants Brewing June 4 - Bakersfield, CA - Temblor Brewing ———————————————————————— Total Chaos Europe Festival tour June/July June 17 - Change Your Life Second Edition; Tiki Taka Village, Francavilla Al, Italy June 23 -Ultra Chaos piknik - Żelebsko, Poland July 1st -Brnecfest – brnenec, Czech Republic July 6th - Obscene Extreme - Trutnov, Czech Republic July 8th -Rock la Mures Festival - Periam, Romania July 9th - Iieper Hardcore fest - Ypres, Belgium July 14th - Krach am Bach Festival – Prölsdorf, https://www.instagram.com/p/CnXQMgfLw9e/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[pinerpharma]

Battle cry of freedom

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[thunderdilf]

What your MK OTP says about you

(based on ships I enjoy and/or have seen in passing)

[feel free to rebagel and add—ship hate will mean insta-blockage, for whatever that’s worth! I’m using the ship names I’ve krafted, and ballparking with others. I hope they give ye a giggle. If your ship isn’t here, PLEASE add it! I just went from memory. I love y’all.]

Caged Heat (Liu/Johnny): you’re here for a good time, not a long time—you like good tiddies and the word “angorny” means something to you. There is passion in both kombat and throwing someone’s luggage off a dock. Sparks, I tells ya.

Sonya/Johnny: you appreciate pegging and Cassie Cage (who doesn’t?). You like the story of a jerk with a heart of gold showing his true colors to a woman who is NOT easily impressed—and who also tops.

Shaolin Rowdy Boys (Liu/Lao): you’re here for a good time, not a long time… literally—you crave childhood friends to unexpected lovers and secret banging in temple broom closets! You see the value of a best friend who’ll go to bat for you, even against a 10,000 year old turboprincess, or maybe you ARE that friend.

Jadetana (Jade/Kitana): Kitana bottoms for NO man, but for Jade, she’d do anything. You love that dynamic of unswerving loyalty which secretly hides deep, abiding admiration and maybe a little lust—or a lot! Who knows what freaky shit Edenian gals can get up to in their private time? You. YOU know and may The Elder Gods™ bless you for producing kontent.

Thermodynamic Equilibrium (subscorp): old guy love is just the ticket—you crave the maturity of years, but you don’t want it boring; someone is getting speared because the love is more intense with age. Kombat to lovemaking is your kryptonite.

Warring Exes (Shang Tsung/Raiden): old guy love, but make it fashion—opulence meets chastity in a clash for the ages; you want an emotional roller coaster of “what if” and “why not”, where a mortal may teach a god to love himself, and love being loved… or perhaps not. Tragedy abounds. There’s enemies to lovers and then there’s this roller coaster. Do you really want good things for Raiden? Debatable.

Faraday Cage (Johnny/Raiden): old guy love, again, but this time it’s two dads finding comfort in a time when they need it most—you REALLY just want good things for Raiden and honestly, who doesn’t? Johnny is, decidedly, a good thing and you’ve decided that nicknames like “1.21 gigawatts” and “electric slide” are acceptable forms of foreplay.��

Cassie/Raiden: Faraday Cage 2: Electric Boogaloo—you might be a spite shipper (rock on) or you just dig visible age gap (because you know that every ship including Raiden or Fujin is EXTREME age gap) and you just want Cassie and Raiden to have nice things.

Jacqueda (Jacqui/Takeda): you watched them grow over the course of X and you were smitten. You’re convinced love really can bloom on the battlefield and kombat spouses appeal to you. The idea of Jacqui throwing down with Scorpion for Takeda’s hand appeals to you as well. Same.

Liutana (Liu Kang/Kitana): all those voice lines and character endings mean something to you—in fact, you may have cried; they’ve been fiddling about since 1995, goddammit, you just want good things for them! Is that so much to ask? I say make it happen.

Royal Pain (Shao Kahn/Sindel): the term “power couple” means something OTHERWORLDLY to you—you took one look at this terrible twosome and went “get me a freak like that” but no one was sure which one you meant and that was okay with you. You’re enamored with their grisly Gomez/Morticia aesthetic. They are awful and you LOVE it. Good on you!

Windwolf (Nightwolf/Fujin): you played Aftermath. ‘Nuff said. JK I’m never done. You love the dynamic of middle-aged person and deity falling in love, which is bizarrely specific, but you’ve found your niche goddammit and you’re going to fill it. You appreciate the koncept of the “god” not always being on top of things, or put-together and the idea of a mortal comforting such a being titillates you. The way Nightwolf stands, holding his belt buckle is, you’re convinced, what sold Fujin; it’s also what sold YOU. 

Windserpent (Shang Tsung/Fujin): you played Aftermath and while you didn’t think of it at the time, you’ve seen some REALLY nice art and batted the idea around a while and then settled on “yes this is for me”. The appeal is in the danger, from both sides—a nigh-immortal soul sorcerer and a god. Perhaps you crave a redemption arc, or a corruption arc; either way, this ship has serious potential and you intend to exploit it. How Shang Tsung of you.

Honor among thieves (Erron Black/Kung Jin): you dig age gap, unironic cowboys, and the idea of a couple of people who haven’t always been on the right side of the law finding themselves and their points of strength in the Kourt of an Outworld emperor. 

Kotal/Jade: you only needed a few cutscenes to tell you that these two are MADLY in love; what we lacked in pure kontent (after all, the game didn’t CENTER on them), they made up for in passionate exchanges. You appreciate the dynamic of respect between them and pegging is NEVER off the table.

Kano/Raiden: the aesthetic of filth-meets-purity appeals to you something fierce. The dynamic is unique and you love the potential for a redemption/corruption arc(s?). 

Shang Tsung/Kano: you saw the club scene in MK95 and you went “yes they’re boning”. Whether there is actual affection or not varies with your mood. You love the idea of disaster gay and refined gay coming together to make something dastardly. 

Bi-Hanzo (Bi-Han/Scorpion): you crave old wounds and aches and angst, drowning in memories of what never could have been, and regrets of what might have been prevented. This is an angst fest and it is YOUR cup of tea; drink that shit down, my friend, no sugar, no cream. Have at it.

Sonya/Jax: team mom and dad aesthetic appeals to you on a spiritual level. Someone’s gotta be in charge of this chicken shit outfit. AMERICA.

The Storm (Fujin/Raiden): your aesthetic includes the difficulty of a mortal’s inability to truly connect with and understand immortals and immortals finding themselves and each other in that realization. These entities who have existed since the beginning of all things understand each other better than anyone else could. Shine on.

Sindel/Raiden: this is team parents aesthetic on ‘roids. You’re probably a fan of the brainwashed Sindel theory and you’re of the opinion that only the love of a god is remotely worthy of the ultimate scream queen. Honestly, you’re probably right. Body worship is on your list of goals, right alongside worthy equals in a relationship—kinky. That being said, pegging is always a possibility.

Mileena/Scorpion: your aesthetic is danger—but alongside that is “lost souls finding love” and “shared burdens of infinite AGONY”. You dig angst and the potential for star-crossed lovers, meeting each other’s eyes across the arena of kombat. The idea of Scorpion as a consort (Kahnsort?) for Mileena might also appeal to you.

Rain/Mileena: the song “hatefuck” by the Bravery is probably your jam. You know there’s little love lost between these two, but perhaps kombat will bare their souls in such a way that they find some redeeming quality in the other—and the sex is VICIOUS. That’s what you’re looking for and by The Elder Gods™ you’ve found it.

Fanblade (Kitana/Sonya): you saw MK95 and went “I can fix this”. Kombat futch meets ancient warrior princess futch—this feels like hardcore xenabrielle vibes with a side of GORE because it’s mortal kombat, let’s be real. You feel as if Kitana would be foolish not to claim Sonya as her lover after watching her snap Kano’s neck with her thighs. You would be right.

Taleena (Tanya/Mileena): rebel, rebel—we love a good usurpation, don’t we? Power struggles are hot, both politically and in bed. Your kinks include overthrowing the bourgeoisie (even though you ARE the bourgeoisie) and seizing the means of production (meaning the flesh pits, probably). 

Shaiden (Shinnok/Raiden): your motto is fight and fuck—or enemies to lovers, for the more refined shipper. Maybe you prefer enemies AND lovers. Go hard or go home, I say.

Nightwolf/Erron Black: old guy love, but make it reformed criminal. The appeal here is that, very likely, someone has to convince someone else that he really IS out of the woods, to show him his true worth, and maybe give him some time off from the violent grind of kombat life.

Kablam (Kabal/Erron Black): black dragon buddies! In the depths of mercenary work, there isn’t time for love, not really, so you want to see these two assholes find some semblance of peace and pleasure amidst illicit activities. Whether or not Kano knows depends on what kind of quickie sex appeals most to you.

Jacquass (Cassie/Jacqui): military lesbians, friends to lovers, BFFs, this ship has it all. You’re in love with the idea of a couple of people who grew up together, suffered and fought and bled together, stumbling away from a battlefield, carrying each other and finding that perhaps they can keep carrying the other, maybe forever.

Kotal/Erron: The idea of watching someone go from bad to the bone, to actually CARING about something other than himself thrills and excites you. That kind of loyalty can’t be bought, even though you keep pretending that’s all it is. Very tsundere.

Kano/Kabal: “he’s a lowlife, piece of shit scumbag; you’re gunna love ‘im.” Nuff said.

[drugstorecowboi]

COA @ The Final America’s Hardcore Fest (Day 2) 2023

🎥: Feet First Productions

[bubblesandgutz]

From reading about Botch and your tumblr, it seems like you hold pretty progressive viewpoints and I imagine the rest of the band did too? Yet, your song C Thomas Howell as the Soul Man was mocking progressive bands like Racetraitor. I apologize as I'm definitely not trying to say you guys are/were secretly conservative or anything like that, but I'm just curious what the reasoning behind the song was?

I appreciate this question as "C Thomas Howell as the Soul Man" is easily the most misunderstood song in our catalog and I welcome the opportunity to dispel some of the rumors about it. It's one of the few Botch songs where I helped write the lyrics, so I'm particularly sensitive to the way the song is interpreted. When we were writing We Are The Romans, I approached Dave V about wanting to write a song about watching people become jaded in the hardcore scene, and how becoming jaded with the music sadly often meant becoming jaded on the progressive politics that went along with it.

The initial idea came to me after talking with a friend whose band played Goleta Fest---a hardcore festival in Southern California thrown by the Ebullition Records / HeartattaCk fanzine camp. I loved that whole scene earlier on in the '90s, though by '99 it felt like the groundbreaking acts of that community had been replaced by a bunch of new bands that weren't offering up many new ideas. Maybe I was just getting older and was a bit more discerning and harder to impress, but it felt less rebellious and more like there was a certain set of sonic rules that had to be adhered to.

My friend's report on the festival didn't do much to revitalize my interest in that scene. He said every band kinda sounded the same, and every band did the standard thing where they spent a couple minutes before every song talking about what the lyrics were about, and it was always one of the same handful of topics: veganism / animal liberation, anti-capitalism, LGTBQ rights, combatting the patriarchy, etc.... all great things to support and talk about, but not presented with any fresh perspectives, and never really transformed into compelling (or even intelligible) lyrics. It was sad and frustrating, because this scene had done so much for me as a queer kid. So much of my worldview was built around ideas I'd encountered in punk music, but everything was starting to feel very rank-and-file and formulaic, and I saw that as detriment to both the artistic integrity of the scene and to the progressive idealism that went with it.

So my idea was to address it in a song. I wanted to talk about how the formula was going stagnant, and how the cynicism surrounding a tired, played-out sound could easily morph into cynicism towards the radical politics that went along with it. If there's a fault to be had with the lyrics, it's that it points out the problem without really proposing a solution or alternative, so it winds up sounding like it's advocating for the exact kind of cynicism it was meant to combat.

Dave and I worked on the lyrics together, me with Goleta Fest in the back of my mind, and Dave, as he would later mention in an interview, with Racetraitor as his inspiration. We'd played a show with Racetraitor in Chicago a few years earlier and in many ways they were a fitting muse for the song's theme. They were a metallic hardcore band with indecipherable, cryptic lyrics, but they spent as much time playing their songs as they did talking about their lyrics, which were centered on racial disparities in America. Racetraitor were by no means a bad band, and their political stance was admirable. But we'd seen Los Crudos on the same tour, and they had been an ideal example of a band that was smart and inspiring with their between song dialogue and just straight up incendiary with their music. In stark contrast, Racetraitor's set the night we played with them was musically clunky and their banter was more confusing than inspirational. In many ways, they epitomized the whole "great message / self-sabotaging delivery" thing that was at the heart of "C. Thomas Howell as the Soul Man," but my gripe was never with specific bands. It was always about the larger pattern of the scene falling into a rut.

In Seattle, a lot of hardcore kids interpreted the song as being about the local political straight edge band Trial, which was a huge disappointment to me as those guys were friends of ours. And we would later cross paths with Racetraitor's singer, Mani, who was a super sweet dude who had a lengthy conversation with Dave about "C. Thomas Howell." But again, the song was never intended to be about a specific band, and it certainly wasn't meant to criticize their politics.

If I have any other regrets surrounding the song, it's the title. The placeholder title while we were writing the album had been "Tapping Song," since it had the finger-trapping section in the latter half of the song. Then it turned into "Taps." Then it turned into "C. Thomas Howell Stars in Taps." Then someone realized that C. Thomas Howell hadn't even been in the movie Taps; we'd had him confused with Timothy Hutton. So in our typically convoluted and absurdist song-naming tradition, we asked, "well, what movie was C. Thomas Howell in?" And there was our title.

At the time we were making We Are The Romans, I thought there was something strangely apt about naming this song after a movie that had attempted to take a really important stance on a tough subject (race in America) and completely blown it. That's what the song was about after all... well-intentioned politics that were undermined by mediocre art. If you've never seen Soul Man, consider yourself lucky. It hasn't aged well. Even in 1999, it felt like the plot, which involved Howell taking a bunch of tanning pills to pass himself off as African-American in order to get into college, had missed the mark and done a disservice to its supposed aims. But the bummer is that once the Racetraitor stuff was brought up, it seemed like the title was somehow a reference to their band, which wasn't the case.

TL;DR: "C. Thomas Howell as the Soul Man" isn't about Racetraitor and it wasn't meant to be a swipe at bands with radical politics. It was about mediocrity and stagnation, and the disappointment in watching people toss out their idealism when they get tired of their record collection.

[miserybegins]

Hi Mack,how are u ? Sorry to bother you with this ask but you were saying earlier u went to riot fest twice before and you're the only one i know i could ask for it then. I'm from latin america and i'm not sure MCR will come here so i was thinking about going to US to see them at riot fest or aftershock, I was at the aftershock facebook page and saw some rude coments (1/2)

from some guys when they announced MCR and i saw some photos of the festival too and it seems is a little hardcore festival. How I'm going by myself i got kinda scared to go to aftershock, from your experience at riot do you think riot is a little 'lighter' festival ? i couldn't find much on the internet

im ok! im really happy about getting tickets but im a little disenchanted (no pun intended) with the whole ticketing system and prices...

riot fest is for all intents and purposes a rock festival. i don’t know anything about aftershock so i can’t really say if it’s “lighter” or whatever honestly. but i can say that it is SO much fun and you really cultivate your own experience. see the bands that you want to see or camp out at the stage all day for mcr. i’m sure plenty of people think they’re too cool for mcr but they definitely wouldn’t give you shit or anything for wearing an mcr shirt. like if that’s what you’re worried about. they’re headlining, tons of us will be there and we’re a great community that looks out for each other.

[ao3feed-stucky]

by StuckySituation

Based on Bottom Bucky Fest 2019 prompt: "Steve is a stripper, hired to work for Bucky's sister's bachelorette party. Bucky has to go pick him up. Bonus points for awkwardness. Double bonus points for naked awkwardness."

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Bucky frowns at the message and calls Jenny back. “You sent me the wrong address.”

“Uh, no I didn’t. I double checked it with the guy before I sent it to you.”

“It’s my address, duh.”

“What? No way.” She laughs. “Unless you’ve suddenly turned into a blonde hunk who goes by the stripper alias Captain America and is literally a walking wet dream, then nope. My cousin assured me he’s legit.”

“...a blonde hunk?”

“Yeah. His actual name is Grant Buchanan, or who knows, that might be a fake alias as well-”

Bucky hangs up. He turns the sound off and rubs his temples. He stares at his phone while hardcore ignoring Jenny’s calls and messages, all the while thinking what the fucking hell in the name of the jesus fucking christ.

Words: 2074, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of Stripper!Steve AUs

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers

Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern: No Powers, Fluff, Humor, Friends to Lovers, Bucky "what the hell is oversharing?" Barnes, No respect for healthy boundaries, Mutual Pining, Bottom Bucky Barnes, Top Steve Rogers, i don't think it's explicit enough to be rated explicit but let me know if you disagree, Oblivious Steve Rogers, Obvious Bucky Barnes, Post-Serum Steve Rogers, Stripper Steve, Phone Sex Operator Bucky, Roommates

[marcoshassanlevy]

Screamo, emo’s slightly more ferocious outgrowth, might not be quite as big as it was around the turn of the millennium, but the subgenre still thrives in the underground; young artists still find power in its mathy arrangements and throat-destroying scream-a-longs. As it turns out, some of the most exciting bands playing this type of music at the moment come from Latin America and/or feature predominantly Latinx members.

These groups, hailing from countries like Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, and even the U.S., share the strong work ethic and DIY principles that helped older generations of bands establish a distinct circuit for themselves. Throughout the mid ‘00s, many different post-hardcore and screamo scenes operated in the Americas, with bands releasing records on small labels as well as split releases, and in some cases, occasionally touring Europe and the U.S. These included bands such as Arse Moreira, Te Lloraría Un Puto Río, Non Plus Ultra, and Zarathustra Has Been Killed In The ‘70s from Mexico; Asamblea Internacional del Fuego. Amber, Teoría De Un Sueño Muerto, and Leidan from Chile; Árboles En Llamas, Arde Hollywood, Agitamares, and Los Años Mueren from Argentina; and Angkor Wat y Fútbol Peruano 97 from Perú.

After this relative heyday, some of the bands above have broken up, with members moving on to post-rock, powerviolence, and even indie folk—see Apocalipsis, Richard Harrison, and Garcya. However —as documented by outlets such as the blog El Basurero Del Emo— these scenes never really disappeared, “There have always been bands playing this kind of music,” says Joliette’s Azael González, who also played in Te Lloraría Un Puto Río, among other projects. “And it’s always been a global thing, all connected throughout the world. There has been a resurgence of this kind of music in the U.S. and Europe as well; there are more bands involved in the scene right now.”

Indeed, a new generation of bands making discordant music have emerged in many Latin American countries and communities, keeping the tradition alive. González thinks this new renaissance is due to the younger generation being more open-minded about genre and subgenre conventions. “I don’t think many bands today are screamo, per se. I think they take elements from that sound and mutate it into something else,” he says. “I also think that the perspective younger people are bringing into the music is very healthy. It’s like everything that you get passionate about: you find something that moves you and you surround yourself to it, even if you don’t know why it speaks to you.”

By adding musical elements from other genres and keeping things raging with heart and guts, this new generation of bands is capturing the imagination of an ever expanding pubic. Here are ten groups worth checking out.

Zeta

Although they call Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela their hometown, Zeta’s closest thing to a place to call their own is the road: they’re almost always on tour. Founded in 2003, the quartet makes spiky, passionate post-hardcore—think At the Drive-In meets Saetia—with the occasional non-standard element to keep things interesting. (Most notably, they incorporate Afro-Caribbean percussion.) Their willingness to experiment—and to play anywhere—has helped them land some notable gigs, like Gainesville, FL’s Fest. For those intimidated by their large recording output, their latest, Mochima (2019), is a further refinement of their sound, making it a great place to start.

Vientre

One of the signature aspects of this Cali, Colombia outfit is their use of melodic guitar lines against vocals that oscillate between all-out screaming and vaguely alternative rock-inspired singing; in fact, it’s not unusual for the guitars to go without distortion for many of the tracks. This doesn’t mean they’re not full of fire, though. They work at a prodigious pace—they’ve put out two full-lengths in the past two years, 2017’s Las Huellas Que Dejamos and 2018’s Semillas (a new EP, Fronteras, is expected to drop before 2019 is over). Their dedication to uniting scenes can be seen through their constant networking and touring, which has resulted in trips to Mexico and the U.S.

Nossara

This five-piece San José, Costa Rica band describes their sound as melodic hardcore, a term that has been associated with everything from Adolescents to Comeback Kid, something that leaves a lot of room for interpretation. Having said that, for Nossara, it means bridging the gap between the more commercial sounds of post-hardcore and the harsher side of emo, as heard on 2017’s Pacífico (2017) and 2019’s Sobre La Brevedad de La Vida. They also incorporate the united-we-scream attitude of classic hardcore, placing them in the same neighborhood as bands like Blacklisted.

Joliette

Since 2011, this quartet from Puebla, Mexico has refused to stop even for a second to take a break, a quality that carries through in their music. With a few transcontinental tours under their belt, Joliette has spent their time in Puebla in the studio, resulting in albums, EPs, and splits with the likes of Frameworks, Life In Vacuum, and LYED. Their latest full-length album, 2019’s Luz Devora, finds them at their most artistically ambitious, featuring to-the-point tracks like “Vacío” and “Pudre Infante” as well as longer, more atmospheric fare like “Defenestra.” Through and through, Joliette have kept their music complicated and heavy without going sacrificing gut-churning intensity, and there are no signs they’re stopping any time soon.

Quiet Fear

This L.A. quartet wear their roots on their sleeves and their lyrics; they sing entirely in Spanish, to particularly intense results on records like 2016’s Delirio, 2018’s Melodías A La Luna Muerta, and 2017’s split EP with Joliette side project Aves. Their screamy brand of hardcore uses clean guitars to sharp effect, and their jazzy arrangements up the jitter factor considerably. There’s a definite influence from the noisier corners of the Dischord Records discography—and they’ve got some of the finest screams in the business, something that has helped Quiet Fear land a spot at this year’s Fest.

Anhedonia

Perhaps there’s something in Cali, Colombia’s water. Like scenemates Vientre, Anhedonia’s music have a hint of ‘90s alt-melodicism. And there’s also real underlying sense of drama in Anhedonia’s music, something borrowed from the early ‘00s screamo scene. Their lone release so far, 2018’s Estar Rotos Nos Hace Indestructibles, features guitars that switch from melodic lines to power chords in an almost unpredictable fashion, lending the whole thing an epic feel. It’s just a matter of time until this young band ventures outside their scene and embarks on an international tour of their own.

AMBR

For contemporary artists practicing screamo, elements of math rock are useful tools used to make the music more exciting. Of all the bands on this list, Mexico City’s AMBR is probably the one that is closest to crossing over to this subgenre. There’s plenty of high-speed virtuosic runs in most of their music, making everything sound more nervous and exhilarating. Yet they are definitely a screamo band—their remarkable use of vocals, ranging from raw to melodic, makes their album Rompes/Quemas, as well as their EP Hey Joi, some of the catchiest, most challenging music to hit the worldwide screamo scene.

Finlandia/Singapur

Although this Quito, Ecuador trio is immediately recognizable as a screamo band, there’s plenty here to indicate they’re intent on expanding that sound. Their guitar work is some of the busiest and most inventive in the game, while their song structures are everything but common yet completely mesmerizing. Founded in 2014, this trio has done a little touring over the years but have not dropped a proper release so far—Facebook updates from 2018 suggest they are working on an LP. For a taste of their magic, check out Singles and 19 Junio 1955, and don’t miss out on their split with Quito post-rockers Escape From The Machinery.

El Incendio Más Largo Del Mundo

Hailing from Medellín, Colombia, El Incendio Más Largo Del Mundo are one of the most extreme bands currently operating in the screamo business. While their songs don’t qualify as skramz or emoviolence in the fast-and-loose sense, it’s extreme in a very specific and satisfactory way: vocalist Angelo Franco has a wide ranging arsenal of voices, from throat-shredding wails to harsher guttural cries and black metal-like screeches. The band’s music mutates seamlessly throughout—from thrashy riffs to math rock-like fragmented time signature to melodic motives—resulting in music that keeps listeners constantly hooked, and always guessing. Their 2018 debut album, Condenadxs, is a highlight of the recent wave of Latinx emotional hardcore.

Satón

Probably the newest band on this list, this trio from Mexico State know how to keep a listener waiting in suspense until their songs explode into shouts and distortion, a trick borrowed from ’90s underground heroes like Still-Life and Policy of 3. Tapping into post-rock as well as classic screamo, Satón demonstrate their use of dynamics and patience can pay off big time—just listen to their debut album Lleno de Hienas . From the desperate cry of (internal) war on “Transitorio” to the tension-filled slow burner “IV,” the range and inventiveness displayed here is second to none.

-Marcos Hassan

November 14, 2019 at 11:01 am

[cutegirlsaremyfavorite]

I went to watch Kiki’s Delivery Service today for Ghibli Fest and it was an adventure. I mean the movie is great but there was an amazing series of events that lead up to it. First of all, I was driving there and the highway was blocked by the police who were fighting a small flock of geese. Apparently they needed a fleet made up of 2 police vans, a pickup truck, a fire truck, and later on another police bike to combat the flock of geese. This also took a full 30 minutes and I was in front of the line of cars waiting for the highway finally open up. Honestly it was fantastic to watch them struggle. After that I went to go buy my ticket and I had this free ticket code but it’s not really a gift card. The cashier struggled very much with dealing with it because he’s never seen it before. I ended up talking to another employee and the truth came out, the cashier was in fact the new guy. The other employee and I, as well as the manager eventually, ended up laughing about it. I know it’s pretty rude to make fun of the new guy but he was just so flustered about the whole thing.

After that I went to go eat but because of everything that has already happened I was too late to eat at the place I wanted to. So I ate at Chipotle and it reminded me of why I never eat at Chipotle, the food was downright disappointing. BUT I did sit next to a white couple talking media politics and it was entertaining how excited they got about saying the same things in different ways and agreeing with each other about everything.

After Chipotle I went to get a milkshake for dessert and because it was a slow day and I was talking to the employee they gave me extra. That was cool. But the cherry on top of the whole adventure was when I went back to the theatre and sat in my seat. There was a brand new super nerd couple sitting behind me and they were in the process of y’know figuring things out but they also talked very loud. So the guy was a hardcore American nerd and the girl was a super weaboo but neither of them had solid overlapping interests. So when the girl was talking about her interests, notably the persona series, the guy was trying very hard to act cool and understand the things she’s talking about when he doesn’t and it’s obvious that he doesn’t. And when the guy was talking about his interests, mainly Star Wars and the Avengers, she was just like “Oh that’s cool I guess”. They also talked about cosplaying because a con ad came up and she was talking about doing a Naruto cosplay but the guy was talking about a Captain America one.

I wasn’t intentionally eavesdropping but both of those couples were just that loud. Also the weaboo girl had the most stereotypical nerdy girl voice. Imagine the voice of a white girl, super nerd, thick AF glasses, and braces and you probably got her voice spot on. Anyways, today was an entertaining adventure.