#burn in noise

[pepemoon]

Lil bro angsty so no competitive solitaire today

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

in general i would say the core of suguru’s character more than Anything else is devotion ….. even more than the need for belonging / connection. maybe. he needs something to devote himself to, wholly, something that makes him feel like he’s doing what he’s supposed to and that’s what makes him such an excellent partner too ….. once you become that priority in his life he wants to pour his everything into you. it makes him feel full on life. without any of the nausea that typically accompanies his heavy eating and so being loved by him sort of feels like living in a corner of the house that’s always doused in sunlight …. or drinking water from a well that never runs out.

[mothknight42]

i think part of what makes the guide and nadja compelling for me is that i genuinely believe, deep down, past the annoying clingyness of the guide and nadja's casually cruel unobservant nature ....... a lot of their tension comes from the fact that nadja feels threatened by the guide. hear me out (below the cut)

nadja spends a lot of the series bemoaning her lack of close female friends. she hates how everyone assumes she hates other women, she gets so excited over girls night, she has that entire arc with jenna that is both 1) a sort of healing for her own past awkward lonely self and 2) a way to connect with and HELP a fellow woman. and yet, when the guide appears - another woman! another VAMPIRE woman! someone she can commiserate with, someone who provides her an out away from the boys, someone who is actually an equal to her unlike dolly or jenna or marwa - she rejects her with swiftness.

and sure, the guide is tight laced and annoying and neurotic. and sure, a lot of the show is a meditation on friendship, and it is clear that our main vampires value friendship highly and don't want to just give it to someone like the guide (a lapdog for the council that tried to kill them, not to mention a complete outsider with shitty people skills).

but the guide loosens up by the time season 4 rolls around! she actively helps nadja with the nightclub and defers to her as mistress! we learn she was SO crazy sexy cool the other vamps forced her into eternal servitude! and as for friendship, the guide is their friend! she tries to help them (nandor's worldwide trip planning, nadja with the nightclub/dolly getting laid, fixing the sleep hypnosis for some examples), she is there for multiple antics, she pays attention to their interests (the fencing scene with laszlo is genuinely so fun) and she clearly cares for them. as much as they dismiss her and pretend not to gives a rats ass about her, they LET her stick around and LET her help and even ask for it sometimes.

so why then does nadja keep pushing her away? the guide is no more annoying than nandor or laszlo or guillermo on a bad day, and quite frankly she tends to be a lot more useful.

but THAT is the problem. the guide is useful. she is powerful in her own right (mist power / fucking around with witch magic / old and wise and experienced, more so than our main vamps). she may be a servant, but she is one with at least SOME sway and connections to the vampiric council. and nadja is terrified and jealous of that.

cause of course she is, right? nadja, the only woman for decades with a group of egotistical men, constantly fighting to have her voice heard and respected - part of her growth arc for season four is her unlocking that killer scream power! it isn't subtle! nadja jumped at the chance to leader the vampiric council, and unlike nandor has no qualms over flexing her power to keep others in line. she was ecstatic to be offered a position on the supreme worldwide vampiric council.

and then nandor constantly undermined her and made a million dumb decisions she was forced to fix. and then the supreme council put her in a useless committee where no on listened to her. and then she came home and had to deal with her family hindering her nightclub plans. nadja is constantly disempowered by the people she loves and respects the most.

and then there is the guide. sure the guide isn't at all liked - but she is respected. she is trusted with important vampiric council duties from day one of seeing her. she has interesting and unique powers. she commands all the wraiths with barely a thought. she is knowledgeable and helpful. even when our main vamp family don't like her, they respect what she knows and what she can do.

in many ways, i think the guide has the kind of unquestioned power and respect that nadja craves - and thus nadja cannot help but be petty and jealous and intimidated, whether or not she is fully conscious of that. (and i don't think she is; dolly's flight from home proved that nadja is not always in touch with her emotions, even when they are intense and impactful to others around her).

and what is the only thing she has over the guide, her special something the guide can never have? her family, and her ability to connect with people. so of course she uses this against the guide. of course she shuts the guide out and makes her feel small and rejects her over and over ...... because secretly she feels LESSER than the guide, and thus wants to make the guide feel lesser.

it is about power, it is about control, it is about nadja never feeling like she has a purpose and meeting someone who has had a purpose for centuries and used it to become smart and powerful in ways she only dreams of.

and of course, the tragedy of it all is that the grass is always greener. the guide would trade it all for a family of her own - for close friends and companions who care about her, who like her, hell, who just acknowledge her! her 'purpose' is a punishment, quite literally! and of course, she doesn't see herself as particularly cool or powerful, so the idea that nadja's rejection of her is stemming from jealousy never crosses her mind. she is a lackey, an overworked servant, a lonely woman desperate for connection surrounded by literal ghosts.

the guide and nadja are of course very fun to look at through a toxic yuri/clingy woman and uncaring object of her affections lens but i definitely think it is deeper than that and, quite frankly, more compelling.

[joehills]

I got a vocal solo and gave away a vacuum-sealed teddy bear!

My friends record a song every New Years and this year it was a cover of Burning Down the House!

Listen for my vocal solo starting at around 2:50 and keep an eye out for the vacuum-sealed giant teddy bear at around 3:43!

[flazio8fimoz]

TW FOR ANYONE WHO HATES THIS PAIRING PLEASE DO NOT INTERACT. i have gone wild beyond any alright point, so i've made a literal spicyshadow/burningmilk video T-T

btw any feedback on this shitty video is welcome, as well as...your rate of this. YES IK THE BOUNCING IS SHITTY PLEASE FORGIVE ME *mysteriosly dissappears*

[shinynymphia]

I've been seeing people head-canon Capsaicin Cookie as being related to Burning Spice Cookie, and since I head-canon that Capsaicin Cookie is a descendant of Pitaya Dragon Cookie and Fire Spirit Cookie, I thought this would be funny.

[wisteria-whump]

whumpee getting hurt in a completely preventable situation after caretaker warned them and they didn't listen

[babysfirsthaze]

Caitvi highschool!band!au where Caitlyn is a pretty rich bassist who winds up at a public school and decides music is the only extracurricular worth her time and local/low income drummer Vi who loves music class bc it's the only time she has access 2 a fucking decent drum kit and they have 2 perform tg and it's a slow burn and Cait falls first Vi falls harder and it's loosely based on my highschool experiences/crushes....???? How r we feeling Caitvi nation

[dumbvoiceinyourhead]

Lou bringing Fabian to Make Some Noise

I can’t be the only one that can imagine Fabian saying this?!

[frostytherobot]

literally one of the episodes of all time

[coffeewithcutcaffeine]

[inportant-spam-rsvp]

Forgive me for asking this but can you share some Noise angst pics please? I wanna see him be comforted by his loving wife.

This took me a while because of my current employment journey.

The story for this is Noise is getting a bit roughed during a long shoot, prolly pre-Doise. Noisette fixes him up just enough to send him right back out in 5 minutes, but she really doesn't want to...

Show must go on.

[peachdoxie]

Greaaat. Something's fucked with the electricity in my house. Several electronic devices freaked out earlier tonight and gave error codes, and now half the lights upstairs aren't getting enough electricity to work. They're very dim and my air filter is barely working. My mom tried resetting the breaker, which worked for about five minutes before the lights went down again. Gonna be a super bother to deal with tomorrow, ugh.

[skyheld]

gatt becoming a martyr for a revolution was not on my bingo card for 2025 but here we are

[wander-wren]

i’ve talked about this before but does anyone else ever think about the little hints of who ronan was before niall’s death—friendlier, gentler, better-behaved—and how, from his perspective, everyone who knew him is disappointed with the ronan they have now. they want the old him back. they would never say it in those words, but they do. even gansey, in a way.

i can’t even….articulate it better than that. there’s a whole essay here, probably. it just breaks my heart

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

ok this one is More controversial i think .