#andro is talking

[androgynousblackbox]

OKAY, so I haven't actually finished the book yet so maybe my opinion on this will change, but I honestly feel like the gringo booktubers I watch all have no idea of what to do with Tender Is The Flesh and are fundamentally wrong about it? Like, saw someone trying to say "this book tries to criticize the food we eat rather than the industry", which sounds like absolute fucking bullshit to me because a BIG portion of the fucking book is all about how the industry is treating "the meat" like fucking dogshit and how the characters themselves, the ones who work inside of the industry, are disgusted whenever anyone even attempts to say there is something good about it. There is this constant cognitive dissonance where the characters know what they are doing is inhumane and awful, that they are treating "the meat" horrible, but it's their job, what are they going to do, and at the same time they feel it crosses a line whenever someone call "the meat" human or are even beyond inhumane when someone says the meat "have a good life" because they get treated as studs. Also, like in general, I feel all of them miss the part about this author being argentine and thus how that colors their vision of how the industry works. The biggest industry in all of the argentina, the one that gave us any kind of possibility to survive in this world, was the meat industry, we actually fucking need it because we have nothing else to offer, and yet, all the powerful people who are involved with the meat industry in this work are all foreigners: a japanese man who collects skin of people and threatens his employees with skinning them alive, a gringo, that is literally called gringo, and a german man who is to utterly dettached that has no issue calling "the meat" human and also make inhumane comments about them. At that point is very obvious to me that this isn't about just criticizing an industry, but criticizing a system to whome the industries are merely a reflection of. It's not about the world, it's about a country being so set on their old ways and traditions that are literally willing to eat each other if it means having a foot in the outside world. Because otherwise we have fucking nothing. And this ALREADY fuck us over in the real world. The protagonist is literally the representation of that! He literally asks himself why he keeps working on this shit if it makes him miserable? Because he is the best at it, because he gets paid and he needs the money. CAPITALISM ALL THE WAY DOWN, BABY. Like, the meat food industry is bad, but also think about why they are bad and why the powerful people want it to be bad in the first place. Like, the books says that indigenous, immigrants and other POCs are the first humans to being eaten. The poor and elderly. Why do you all think that is?? Like, I just generally do not understand how you can read that and come out thinking "this person just wants me to be vegan and I don't like that"/"this person doesn't criticize the food industry", like I am a very fucking firm believer that vegans who spend every breath trying to make you vegan are shit and just eat whatever, but even I got that it was meant as something else than that. And how people keep saying that the ending "comes out of nowhere" when it's literally foreshadowed at the beggining at the book while doing the world building? Were you even paying attention at all at that point? Like, I literally saw someone being "I think this book overstimates how much it would take for the world to be okay with cannibalism", like THAT IS NOT THE POINT. The point is not to write "how it's a world where human meat is mandatory", but rather explore the idea in which the way we ALREADY eat each other gets taken to it's extreme. LITERALLY WHAT ALL DISTOPIA FICTION DOES?? Anyway, again, I might change my mind when I finish the work myself, but even by reading the start myself and knowing a bit about the background of this author, I just do not get any of these reviews at all.

[andr0nap-wf]

honestly my favorite part of albrechts notes is the casual mention of the fact that getting so high they get sick is part of their scientific process

[too-many-lavellans]

Jun needs relationship advice

he should get it somewhere else...

[cardhamine]

Vanny is a professional and would not be working on an endo without proper safety gear, but art is hard.

[andr0nap]

currently struggling with the logistics of dressing up a winged space centipede

this is a hell of my own creation

[fairyprince7]

they're so silly -holds them-

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[tozierbeeps]

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Ok, new blog new me or whatever

I need people to follow!

My main shit right now is The Stand (book) or the Stand 1994. I'll reblog 2020 occasionally but to be honest I couldn't even finish

So

- The Stand

- Stranger Things (elmax, jopper, byler, steveddie, ronance, lumax, and probably some I forgot)

- IT (reddie, hanbrough, Benverly ship wise for the most part though you will see some crackshipping and crossovers)

- Stephen King in general

- OFMD

- ASOIAF/Game of Thrones (braime, gendrya, theonsa MOSTLY I have a bunch of ships)

All of these are probably missing ships and I didn't even touch characters. I'm positive I'm missing fandoms too but alas

[andromedaneedsanap]

me (who is a silly, slightly traumatised goose): physically I'm here but mentally I'm sobbing because the wrap I made tastes like it has something expired in it and I dont know what but I sure as hell am going to eat it because mama didnt raise someone who wastes food

[housesofunholy]

hate living at home i cannot be trans here :/

[rhaaclaws]

do you have any voiceclaims for your ocs?

TOOK ME A WHILE TO GET TO THIS BC FINDING CERTAIN VOICECLAIMS IS HARDDDDD like I can hear them in my mind but I cant just Project that. Anyways, this got real long so its under the cut

✨ Akemi Masuwaka

I always imagined her with a higher and cuter voice and what I imagine is Yoko Oginome's voice.

🌌 Andros Stellar*

His voiceclaim is Courtney Love but specifically in the Hole song Teenage Whore. I chose Love's voice because of the raspiness and just Raw emotion in it. I do prefer to use examples from her songs though bc of the vocal fry + it's more accurate to my vision

☢ Ayumu Van Halen

He's my cool guy and of courseeee i had to give him Spider One's voice from Powerman 5000. They've got a pretty deep voice and Spider One's is perfecttt for it

🧤 Chimera Reznor

While on the higher pitch spectrum, their actual voice [not augmented by its stand] is still very broken and often cracks. Her voiceclaim is Jessicka of Jack Off Jill

🔂 Dani Navarro

im. in love with her but listen he is THE most californian person ever man it's almost too much. he's a surfer and a bassist and also born and raised in Los Angeles. literally the closest I can get to is this vid and even then, she always says “dude”, “bro”, or “man” at the end of a sentence with a vocal fry. love and joy

🗡 Darling Nikki

Literally, the hardest one to pin down because their entire character is based on the fact that she is a mirror to people to get them to trust her easier. So the voice is more of a Ranged thing than a set one. I once had them appear in my dream though and I'm so mad i can't exactly send that as an example. But her voice ranges from Damiano David of Måneskin to Meryl Streep's performance as Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada. They usually speak with a very breathy tone, almost whispering in your ear, but with some rasp. For screams though she sounds like the song Nakedness Of Need by Pharmakon. Aaaaand if you're about to get eaten [or are lucky enough to be part of her polycule] they sound like Machine Screw by Type O Negative [which does not have a definitive credit]

🌹 Beatrice Franco

While a very minor character, she's Nikki's mother and I cannot leave her out of this. She sounds like Myss Keta <3

👻 Jing Kalachuchi

They have a small but permanent echo to their voice. It's a voice that is very light and airy, as if a ghost was trying to talk to you. For this, as much as I dislike this person, I think she'd sound like Grimes in the song Oblivion. She doesn't speak much though and often forgets she can't communicate with living people the same way they do with spirits.

🕶 Mariqueen Westwood

My loveeee <3 Her voice often cracks and sounds like its about to give out but she loves to be loud soooo it doesn't matter much to her. For this the best example would be Patti Smith's voice in the live version of My Generation

⌨ NikitA Nakamoto

I can't exactly say what they sound like because 99% of the time they are using a voice augmentor. The closest I can really get to is Viktor from League Of Legends, but you can just imagine a 90s techno DJ and it'd fit ngl

💄 Sayoko Kawakubo

She sounds like Sade 100%. She has a very very smooth voice that is so perfect for her more quiet personality in contrast to her past job as a supermodel

🦠 Sheri Moon Teese

I already had her voice picked out from the beginning and it's Jennifer Tilly's performance as Violet in Bound (1996). It has a very sultry voice that is a joy to listen to [especially to her wife <3]

⛓ Steele [Jäger Wolfgang Heinekein]

This is such an Obvious choice but 💔Peter Steele's voice with a rasp and a heavy ” German “ accent [she's from 1700s Prussia, kinda hard to put that in modern accents]. I can't really get an accurate voice esp since thon's voice is more androgynous in a complicated way to explain but bear with me man

Thierry Itō [can't get the emoji to work on my PC so ill edit this on my phone later]

Probably one of my favorite voiceclaims: Patricia Morrison of The Gun Club, Sisters Of Mercy, and The Damned. They have this smooth and comforting voice and it's really helpful considering they are a therapist. You could listen to anything they say and you just want to hear it until you fall asleep because of how soothing it is.

🍸 Valentino Schiaparelli

Also a favorite of mine, his voice sounds like Prince's. From everything about the pitch, the mannerisms, the dramatics, it just fits him perfectly and most importantly: oh my god he needs to have some slay going for him

👑 Phthonus “The Prince” Morrissey

They've got one of the most recognizable voices imo, and it's that of Jinx from League Of Legends/Arcane. I think it really matches their appearance and the mask they put around others

📐 Guccio Piranesi

He has the voice and wavering of Peter Garrett of Midnight Oil, specifically in the song Beds Are Burning. But he's got a really fun way of talking that I can't just leave out when speaking. He constantly repeats his sentences in different ways to get one point across, so much to the point where he ends up overexplaining and overcomplicating the message so it's hard to understand what he's saying.

While this isn't everyone, the rest I either do not have enough confidence to set down a specific voice, or I haven't developed their character enough yet.

[androgynousblackbox]

It's kinda funny to me when people treat Alastor as a eternally good manipulator who is always in perfect control of everything and can outsmart everyone with his wits, when, let's be honest, the guy is canonically kind of a fucking idiot with a ego too big for his own good. He gets offended, like a petulant child, when he is told that no, everyone wasn't constantly wondering and theorizing about where the fuck his ass was. He lets Mimzy to be at the hotel despite knowing full well she comes to him when there's problem because "I can handle it." Until it's pretty fucking obvious that no, he can't without the hotel going to shit. But only after Husk, who also knows Mimzy and her ways, already warned him about it. Oh, but he is a lowzy soul under his control, so who cares what he thinks, right? Alastor knows better! Even when he doesn't! He even has to scare the fuck out of Husk for the audacity of reminding him that he is not all powerful, again, like a petulant child.

I mean, he is an overlord. A mortal soul that knows is vulnerable to angelic weapons, that can permanently die when attacked. So what does he do? He goes to fight the fucking leader of the exterminators with the absolute confidence that "well, I move well and he doesn't, so clearly I am the better match and I am going to win", so of course he gets his ass handed back to him and then he has the fucking gall of being surprised.

That is why the idea of Alastor losing at his own game is a lot more appealing to me than he winning anything or being this master manipulator that has all the cards. Because he wants to win, he wants to be the guy who always win no matter what, that can do everything he wants, that is entitled to it even, but he is consistently shown that he isn't and his ego can't fucking take that. That is interesting.

Anyway, point being is that I would like to see more people taking advantage of this side of him. I don't know who is that brilliant 5D master chess player some of you are calling Alastor, but the Alastor I know is good but not that good and defeat looks good on him.

[mxalmighty]

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[andr0nap-wf]

the fact that loid can bulletjump should not be as funny to me as it is

old man got moves

[dead-teef]

imagine arguing with a transman on how he presents his avatar on imvu because you got corrected. grow up.

[morgana-pendragon]

i will be questioning my granddad about this

[andr0nap]

my angel vash design inspiration board for those curious

definitely got a theme going on here lol