#bedlam in goliath

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The Mars Volta is interesting because I'll really connect with a line but then thrown for a loop by the end of a phrase:

"Have you seen the living ,tired of their own shells?"

Fuck yeah I have, Cedric. It's me.

"All the nonbelievers..."

Also me.

"Torso in the well."

Aaaaaand now I'm lost.

[parasite-dolls]

Omar Rodríguez-López (2008)

[haluceongenic]

Am I waiting now?

[bizarrobrain]

"Conjugal Burns" by The Mars Volta - From "The Bedlam in Goliath" (2008)

[198d]

The Mars Volta - Ilyena (Music Video)

[scoticus]

recently passed 19 years of scrobbling so here are my top 19 albums since sept 2004

photoshopped bc de-loused was in position 18 & 29 due to having a version with an en-dash and one with a minus in the name

i've done a pretty good job of seeing these bands live (about half), some of them five times (wolf parade)

[snowsdomain]

About to become the most annoying vrchat player of all time

[aza000426]

don't mind me,

but i just recently found The Mars Volta. 😩

[a-shrieking-cloud-of-bats]

I'm All Outta Pulse But I Know You Can Resuscitate Me

[pastacatprod]

It's hard to say which of The Mars Volta's albums is my favorite, but Bedlam In Goliath is the one I listen to the most. Its production, the explosive chaos, songwriting choices...it all feels like it's barrelling towards an inevitable doom and I don't know if any of the other albums have exactly that vibe. Tourniquet Man is the only song I'd consider"mellow," but it still feels unsettled.

[whispertells]

ignore me i’m in my the mars volta phase

[return-of-a-space-cowboy]

🧚‍♀️ Anon

Coraline AU 🪡

Dio as Darling’s Husband

Johnathan as Darling’s Other Husband (It makes JoJo SO much scarier because he’s so sweet, kind, caring and loving that you don’t realize the predator he really is)

Johnathan is actually just lonely and hates what he has to do (So he devours villainous and evil individuals to ease his guilty mind)

JoJo’s true form wouldn’t be thin, instead he would be more muscular and bulky (Like a Goliath Bird Eater) with his even more massive height (He’s so big that he has a bit of a hard time squeezing through the ‘narrow’ *NORMAL* doors and his head will hit the Door Frame unless he lowers his head)

OR

Dio as the Other Husband

I haven’t read the book but I read somewhere that the Beldam had a Mother and she buried her in her backyard, and when she tried to crawl out, the Bedlam put her back in her grave, so I can picture Dio doing that to his father (But he grew tried of it so he killed him)

Dio is trying to Woo Darling into accepting him, but she’s too uncomfortable and feels creeped out that she doesn’t fall for his tricks

Darling doesn’t need an Other Husband when she has her beloved Johnathan (As he’s always been her sweet, gentle giant)

But what if after entering the door, she comes back every time she falls asleep? (And she can’t control it, but it started happening when she found that doll that looks exactly like her)

Because of it she thinks everything is a dream (But finds it weird and concerning that Jonathan is nowhere in sight)

Dio becomes frustrated as he’s never had prey like Darling before, as many women would swoon and fall to his feet for his affection (As he eats their lives up to sustain himself)

Darling becomes scared however when Dio tried to convince her to let him sew buttons in her eyes (And when she tried to stand up to him his appearance became more monstrous as his temper began to spike)

Darling finds the door and uses it to escape, only to her horror find out she’s been gone for days and Johnathan has been missing

She was horrified to find a doll of JoJo and figured out Dio took him so she must return to save her Husband

But here’s the twist, she thinks she sees JoJo when she returns to that world as she runs into his familiar arms and comforting smell, only to her horror to see Dio had attached his head to Johnathan’s body? (As he traps his Butterfly within his web with no chance of escape)

Sorry for the constant splurge, I’m currently haunted JJBA and it won’t leave me alone!

Oh boy! I've got news for you if you didn't already know. I've actually done this au before quite a few years ago. Only it was part 5 centric.

I love the idea of beldam Jonathan just being alone and clingy.

But the whole dio head on Jonathan's body at the end is just mmm... spicy.

For Jonathan I can imagine that reader isn't in a good environment, abusive even. Darling doesn't really know how to deal with their situation. That little door is their only escape and for a time that's all they need but something happens in the real world that pulls them away, something good and Jonathan noticed their distance. He tries to lul them back in but doesn't work.

So eventually Jonathan resorts to taking those who darling lives with. Perhaps there is one person he takes that wasn't abusive to darling and that leads them to try and save them.

For Dio I like the idea of darling thinking it's a dream. Darling is very distant to him despite everything he tries.

When they escape at first they think that Jonathan is at work or is out trying to look for them so they try to call him but he doesn't respond, which is strange as he usually drops everything when it has anything to do with them.

They go around asking neighbors and they tell darling he'd knocked on their door a couple of days earlier asking if they knew where darling was, they didn't and he told them he was going to go into town and file a police report. But he never ended up leaving the house after he went back in to grab the keys.

Darling goes back inside and eventually finds the doll and knows immediately what's happened.

They go back through the door and sees Jonathan standing in the kitchen (they can't see his head behind those damn archways, he'd always hit his head on them and were planning to have them removed during renovations).

They immediately run towards him and wrap their hands around him.

"Oh thank goodness you're safe" they'd say.

"Of course I'm safe, you'd think something would happen to me?" Dios voice would speak and That's when they'd look up and see what horrible form of frankensteining has happened to their husband.

[198d]

I should've posted this here. The Bedlam in Goliath Planchette USB.

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Aberinkula • Metatron • Ilyena • Wax Simulacra • Goliath • Tourniquet Man • Cavalettas • Agadez • Askepios • Ouroborous • Soothsayer • Conjugal Burns

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