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writer59january13 · 1 year

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The finis sing touches touché

Knead dull brows knitted;

belief system I cogitate gearing thee ordinary bipedal hominid

acquiesces to deck the halls of the mountain (dew) king with boughs

of sister golden haired sprinkling angel dust

from cremated remains

in bleak midwinter unwittingly interweaving pagan rituals

tacitly accepted yet quietly jeered

as anathema to march of the kings,

who instilled obedience or death which layman forswore, whence his loss

of life or limb as mass of cries neared resounding like tortured souls

self flagellating their inherent

joy to the world,

whereby unsuspecting cynics among

the madding crowd paired amidst common everyday folk

beckoning ad lib lip-synced first noel extemporaneously grafting customs

taught when reared as just a little drummer

boy/girl pipsqueak, since straying from mainstream religious

parameters scared the silent night

with unimaginable ogres

on the warpath to smite mortal

man/woman with flaming torches

angering unfriendly beasts tiered

inside the city state panning labyrinth

ready for total mortal kombat while shepherds watched their flock –

as the latter veered away from getting fleeced

such as this writer,

who might be lambasted for verging on the brink

of being sacrilegious and/or weird

after forking over a tidy sum a million bucks? Not by a far stretch.

Please keep on the que tee i.e. hush

regarding this soupy poetic fabrication

bravely bursting buttucks amucks

thus haint wise to mess wit me lest cha wanna split high knee a fate worse than death with hen whoopsy tipsy daisy excuse employing faux pas impairment via this Gypsy.

Diabolical harassing lurked poised – ready to strike yours truly, when he obliviously frolicked, during his boyhood carefree before the onset of self loathing.

Drunk with knowledge

whither hearing, vis (ideally, liberal commentators I adore), asper "NON FAKE") news, more than weather, latest sports score or reading, (yes of course out loud applying index finger de rigueur of right hand as pointer)

poetically mentioned once before

ditto via select publications

(oh...alright TIME Magazine, The Nation,

and/or Mother Jones) all of which boar like a mellow red bull at four

after midnight, nonetheless, who decrees

(hmm... maybe ludicrous

to ask Jeeves courtesy deplore able basketcase, but inquisitiveness persists

what body electric discriminates furthermore

freedom of what gets published, or determines permissible broadcasts

made by Federal Communications Commission

allowing, enabling, and providing galore

of choice morsels pollinating mass media buzzfeeding popular culture

additionally permitting opinions

shared by hardcore investigative journalists, putting life and limb at risk

nonetheless inherent within constitution delimiter

i.e. bureau to censor radical, subversive, more

treasonous than Socialism with Iron Maiden on tour must serve as kickstarter

to stifle: tyranny, mutiny, anarchy, et cetera and shore

up defenses (perhaps in guise of a reinforced wall) toward those who ignore

codas defining complex edifice of government

trumpeting defiance, uncivil disobedience, insouciance, et cetera in an attempt to restore

totalitarianism stripping away inalienable rights of life, liberty and pursuit

of happiness endowed by a smoothbore!

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wild-hyacinths · 5 years

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welp, here it is. my magnum opus. 15 playlists of 25 songs each, after working on them on-and-off for nearly a year and a half. sorted alphabetically because whatever i had in mind when i picked that order for the gif is long gone.

huge hugs to @sazandorable for helping me out with some of the details, and just generally being awesome and patient and supportive <3

for any playlist, if you can listen to the songs in order/without shuffle, please do so! i worked very hard to get smooth transitions between songs and have each playlist be coherent from one end to another. also, have some random and nonexhaustive notes on music genres under the cut.

beholding - bit weird to start with this one; every other playlist has its own dominant style(s), but the beholding ended up stealing from each. which i guess is less weird and more weirdly fitting, in retrospect.

buried - mostly americana to get that southern gothic vibe going, seeing as the buried focuses on that geographical area. and also bc its aesthetic is like that. occasionally disrupted by flashes of electronica.

corruption - mostly trip hop to reflect the trance of the swarm, plus synthpop for invasion and experimental rock for buzzing and crawling.

dark - folk rock to fit the slow treacle of the dark, with some alternative rock and darkwave (no, really) for when it’s less everlasting darkness and more boogieman.

desolation - goes from industrial metal and hardcore electronic for destruction (and jude), to blues rock and shoegaze for loss (and agnes).

end - a lot of folk rock, a bit of gothic rock. overall elegiac. calm and to the point, because let’s face it, we all end up there someday.

extinction - some oldies, because "the world is always ending”, laid on top of a post modern melting pot, because, well. future. a mess to fit a new entity that’s got everyone confused and scared. (also yes vera lynn’s “we’ll meet again” is a reference to dr strangelove. i have no regrets.)

flesh - initially i was hoping to lean into the religious/blasphemous overtone that’s present in about 85% of the flesh statements, but that got scrapped along the way. now half of it is ridiculously and unapologetically gleeful, with enough dark cabaret to give the stranger a run for its money, and the other half is alternative rock and, uh. hangry.

hunt - alternative rock shifting into experimental rock shifting into experimental electronic. goes absolutely feral now and again. makes me wanna go running into the night, which, hey! point.

lonely - mostly shoegaze, trip hop, dream pop. stare at a fixed point and disconnect from everything and everyone.

slaughter - industrial rock and metal, with the occasional electronica spikes. a focused frenzy, i guess. mellows out towards the end.

spiral - experimental electronic, art pop, electronic rock, and any combination thereof. psychedelic and dissonant.

stranger - dark cabaret. obviously. and then a bit of synthpop thrown in.

vast - post-rock and electronica for that sense of an infinite expanse surrounding you on every side, and some art rock giving voice to the limitless.

web - post-punk and gothic, since the spider is ever so charming, and some alternative rock for when it shows its chelicerae.

#the magnus archives #tma #fanmix #god i can't believe they're finally done??#aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #im ridiculously proud of these ngl

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notjanine · 4 years

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2020 in books!

the only kind of new year’s resolution i made as a naive baby last january was to try to read 40 books for the year. (i read 37 in 2019, for context.) well, with all of my commuting time eliminated and an increased need for immersive escapism, i ended up surpassing that goal three times over lmao (thanks library ebooks!)

idk how to summarize my year in books in a way that makes sense but

(f) = fiction, (nf) = nonfiction, (p) = poetry.

books that rewired my fucking brain:

braiding sweetgrass by robin wall kimmerer (nf)- GOD?!?!?! good. dr. k is right. ostensibly a book about plants, but actually a book about shut up and go outside. consumerism and capitalism are doing their damnedest to fuck you up, but you can just choose to value different things. take care of yourself by taking care of your environment. etc etc.

wasp by richard jones (nf)- lissen. when i got this book, my wasp-phobia was so severe that i had to put it away face down on a high shelf because there are wasps on the cover and i couldn’t bear to RISK even GLIMPSING them. now i am like... a wasp evangelist. (also due to the bugs 101 course on coursera it’s so good.)

wag by zazie todd (nf)- i have a dog, but i am NOT a Dog Person (i.e. i love my dog, but please keep yours away from me, thanks.) this book helped me understand my little guy better, plus it gives actionable tasks and activities to do with and for your pup! plus, y’know, learning about things you’re scared of helps to lessen that fear. i’d recommend this to anyone who has, wants, or regularly interacts with a dog.

a closed and common orbit by becky chambers (f)- is this series complete fluff? absolutely. am i fundamentally different after reading this one? maybe.

the best we could do by thi bui (nf)- this is so far outside of my personal experience but somehow still made me come to peace with my relationship with my mom?? and it’s barely even about that?? idk. this is probably objectively the best book i’ve read this year.

books that were just fun as hell:

mexican gothic by silvia moreno-garcia (f)- this book made me YELL out loud

death on the nile by agatha christie (f)- i grew up on agatha christie shows, but never actually read her before this year! she really was That Bitch. read this before the movie comes out

cosmoknights by hannah templer (f)- i read this in one sitting through the worst headache i’ve had in years. it is a goddamn DELIGHT. this book has everything: spaceships. mech suits. fighting the patriarchy. a perfect otp. fun art in bright colors with clean lines. onomatopoetic WAPs from before the song gave that hilarious context. 800 lesbians. this is an antidepressant in graphic novel form.

stiff by mary roach (nf)- ms. roach is like the 4th most represented author on my bookshelf because she 1. stays writing about shit i’m interested in and 2. manages to talk about gross and ridiculous things without resorting to sensationalism. it takes skill to write a hilarious book about corpses.

black sun by rebecca roanhorse (f)- excellent sexual tension between a horny siren pirate and a hot doomed... monk, kinda? set in the pre-columbian gulf of mexico with magic and shit.

cuisine chinoise by zao dao (? n/f)- this graphic novel about chinese food history/mythology is BEAUTIFUL.

the color of magic by terry pratchett (f)- you’d think a hardcore douglas adams stan would have gotten to this sooner, but no, i had to date a nerdy white boy to get here. it’s fun though! i’m not gonna read them all, but this one was good. bonus: contains one (1) great himbo.

gideon the ninth by tamsyn muir (f)- like 500 pages of action and mystery and jokes and space necromancy. harrow the ninth gets a special mention bc it has a meme reference that took me out so hard i had to close the book, lie down, and groan for an entire minute before continuing.

other minds by peter godfrey-smith (nf)- i love octopuses. on one tma bonus ep, jonny sims says that if a creature can choose to do evil, then it’s a Person. octopuses are People. but anyway frfr this has an explanation of the evolution of consciousness that is cool af. (this one is much better than the other recent popsci octo book which i will not name out of politeness.)

the perfect predator by steffanie strathdee and thomas patterson (nf)- i read this bc my microbiology prof recommended it and it’s cool as heck! it’s got adventure, drama, mystery, Science-with-a-capital-S. i’m biased bc i’m a bit of a microbes nerd, but i had a blast with this. (but only bc we know going in that everything works out okay; if i hadn’t known that, i would have been TOO stressed!)

books that were a little less fun but still very readable:

my sister, the serial killer by oyinkan braithwaite (f)- i couldn’t find this as funny as other people bc i, too, have a beautiful sister who’s an insufferable narcissist, so it hits a little too close to home, but. it is a wild ride.

piranesi by susanna clarke (f)- idek what to say! i went into this one blind just bc it had a cool cover and title, so i guess i’d recommend that for other people too.

the sixth world series by rebecca roanhorse (f)- monster hunting! a post-apocalyptic take that doesn’t feel tired.

the shades of magic trilogy by v.e. schwab (f)- easy escapism. some ideas feel a little first draft-y, but idk, it’s also a pretty simple premise (which isn’t a bad thing). it’s a decent urban fantasy set in ~georgian?-era london. very actiony. suffers from a bit of i’m-not-like-other-girls disease, but i didn’t even notice until book two or three, so.

the only good indians by stephen graham jones (f)- starts off a little ??? (and reeks of being Written By A Man) but picks up. the pacing’s great and there’s just a super fucking cool monster.

robopocalypse by daniel h. wilson (f)- this reads like a tv miniseries so much that i can’t believe it isn’t one yet.

confessions of the fox by jordy rosenberg (f)- not my usual cup of tea, fiction-wise, but still compelling. a fresh take on the white-male-english-professor-self-insert? but not insufferable. gets weird!

spinning silver by naomi novik (f)- rumplestilstkin, but make it interesting! a great, richly-told fairy tale, but like, large scale. good to read on a cold day while you’re wrapped up in a blanket with some hot tea.

interior chinatown by charles yu (f)- compulsively readable. a couple things bugged me, but not enough to make me dislike it. a fun companion piece to how to live safely in a science fictional universe. i like this guy’s style.

cannibalism by bill schutt (nf)- COOL. mostly covers the animal kingdom (fun), spends too much time on the donner party (less fun), ends with a SPICY take on prions that i cannot get out of my head!!!

buzz, sting, bite by anne sverdrup-thygeson (nf)- BUGS! broad but not overwhelming, neither dumbed down nor overly scientific, short enough to finish in a day or two. recommend this to literally everyone.

books that made me want to read everything else in the author’s ouevre:

the time invariance of snow by e. lily yu (f)- this FUCKS but it’s too short!!!

an unkindness of ghosts by rivers solomon (f)- okay this book is SO good and so well-written and interesting and blah blah blah all the good things, but... the whole time, i was just like?? why???? why is this what you’re choosing to write about??? (i did also read the deep and blood is another word for hunger after this one, and i did like them both, especially the latter, but i think they can do better! like i think they could write a perfect book and i am gonna be *eyes emoji* until then.)

the space between worlds by micaiah johnson (f)- a fine debut novel, but i want to see her do something a little more... idk, refined? i think she overreaches here, like it’s a little... idk looper? this is how you lose the time war? there’s a better comparison, but i can’t think of it, but you get the idea. and then halfway through it shifts gears to mad max. there’s something weird about one of the central relationships, like it’s not complex enough to take as long to resolve as it does. idk idk. there are just a lot of little nitpicky things. it’s not bad! but i think she can do better and i look forward to finding out.

postcolonial love poem by natalie diaz (p)- thinky! like i tried to read this before bed, but it’s not the sort of thing to parse out while you’re falling asleep, it requires more attention than that.

books that Learned Me Somethin:

smoke gets in your eyes by caitlin doughty (nf)- i am a self-professed death obsessed weirdo, fascinated by death and mourning, but i didn’t know all that much about what happens to a body between the dying and the funeral! this book isn’t big, but it covers a lot and doughty’s writing style is engaging and honest. it’s very memorable.

queer by meg-john barker and julia scheele (nf)- i’m gonna be totally honest and say Queer Theory is above my intellectual pay grade, but this book takes you by the hand and explains the basics.

vitamania by catherine price (nf)- LMAO my fellow americans, never take a supplement. this book is great and well-researched, but normal folks don’t need to read it, just listen to season two of the dream podcast, which definitely cribbed from this.

vegetable kingdom by bryant terry (nf)- this is a fine cookbook, my favorite of his that i’ve read so far. gets a special mention bc i had a religious experience just reading one of his kohlrabi recipes. absolutely gutted that i didn’t have an opportunity to try it this year, since the pandemic put the kibosh on all family bbqs.

the best american food writing 2020 edited by j. kenji lopez-alt (nf)- this really is just a great collection.

are prisons obsolete? by angela y. davis (nf)- yes.

i moved to los angeles to work in animation by natalie nourigat (nf)- before reading this, i had basically zero knowledge of how the animation industry works. now i know like three things.

the secret lives of bats by merlin tuttle (nf)- BATS! okay this book is more about the adventures of being a bat scientist than it actually is about bats, but there are bats in there. insectivorous bats basically shit glitter, you should know this.

books from valuable perspectives:

hood feminism by mikki kendall (nf)- a breakdown of who’s getting left out of feminist spaces, why that’s happening, and why it shouldn’t be happening.

all you can ever know by nicole chung (nf)- a (transracial) adoptee’s take on adoption and learning more about her birth family. the personal storytelling of this one really stuck with me.

motherhood so white by nefertiti austin (nf)- a single-mom-by-choice’s take on the foster system/adoption process. walks you through some things i always wondered about and some things i wouldn’t even have thought about.

this place by kateri akiwenzie-damm et al (? n/f)- i, like a lot of non- native americans, only know that history in broad strokes. getting this many highly specific stories in one dense and beautiful book felt like a lucky find. and taking that perspective into the future in the context of that history is v good.

empty by susan burton (nf)- eating disorder stories are important to me bc i care about food so much. this one is so relatable- not in its specificity, but rather its generality. it’s easy to empathize with her perspective because it’s like, Oh, i don’t have that exact problem, but i struggle with different problems in a very similar way. (feels like the opposite of roxane gay’s hunger, in a way.)

obit by victoria chang (p)- this exploration of grief is... woof.

short story collections are hard to evaluate bc you’ll never read one where every single story hits but i generally enjoyed these:

a thousand beginnings and endings edited by ellen oh and elsie chapman (f)

how long til black future month? by n.k. jemisin (f)

her body and other parties by carmen maria machado (f)

books i revisited:

the broken earth trilogy by n.k. jemisin (f)- i read the series backwards this time and like... i can’t really find any faults in these books, man. they’re just the best.

everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too by jomny sun (f... but is it really?)- half of this book’s sales are from me buying it for other people bc it’s the only way i know how to say i love you. i reread it every time just to make sure it still feels right and it always does.

other honorable mentions:

white is for witching by helen oyeyemi (f)- not to pit two bad bitches against each other, but this book does what akwaeke emezi’s freshwater was trying to do. it’s a little weird, a little haunted, a little of a lot of things. read this only in the dead of winter. (and with stephen rennicks’ score for the little stranger playing in the background.)

homie by danez smith (p)- there’s a lot going on here, but this just made me crack a smile a couple times in a way that no other book of poetry has ever done.

the murder of roger ackroyd and murder in mesopotamia by agatha christie (f)- That Bitch!

blues by nikki giovanni (p)- she sure has some Things To Say

the three-body problem by cixin liu (f)- interesting concepts, but... idk something’s missing? felt weirdly soulless to me. i’m probably not gonna read the sequels. but it did make some points!

the sisters of the winter wood by rena rossner (f)- i’m a slut for shapeshifting, okay. but this is a good fairy tale, it works!

parable of the sower by octavia butler (f)- i read this in march, when the pandemic was just kicking off and boy that was not the right time. def my least favorite of hers so far, but an octavia butler i don’t love is still better than a hell of a lot of other books. no idea when or if i’ll get to a good enough headspace for the sequel.

faves:

saturnino herrán by adriana zapett tapia (nf)- i got to learn new things about my mans and see some of his paintings i’ve never even seen online! GOSH.

on food and cooking by harold mcgee (nf)- yeah yeah, i’ve already mentioned this book half a dozen times on here this year, but i don’t care. this book lives off the shelf in my home bc i reference it like every other fucking day. this book is a part of me now.

#long post #final total for the year will be 120 by the end of the day!#and i had a pretty good hit rate. would probably recommend at least half #and only outright hated four

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toliveanddieinstarlight · 5 years

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Season 3, Episodes 3 and 4

Episode 3: A Day in the Strife

JESUS DELENN

For fuck's sake, Londo, can you please go at least five minutes without being the absolute worst. It’s a miracle Delenn didn’t have to immediately visit MedLab for conversational whiplash.

I really enjoy Ta’Lon as a character - the episode in which he was introduced was so weird to me, but at least we got him. Nice to see him and Sheridan getting a drink together.

Corwin has learned that Ivanova isn’t as scary as she seems and that is awesome.

Aaaaa fuck Ta'Lon you excellent dude.

Episode 4:

PASSING THROUGH GETHSEMANE

Brad Dourif is so fucking incredible. His performance just makes this episode. The religious themes here captivated me, the way it deals with forgiveness, redemption, the shouldering of one's burdens.

Lyta's throwing of some hardcore brainwashed/culty vibes, and of course Garibaldi is suspicious as hell. I mean, this is suspicious as hell.

Delenn is 0% interested in Garibaldi's position on capital punishment.

Brad Dourif played a very intense character for a while on Star Trek: Voyager that I was also fascinated with. He improves everything that he's in, and there have definitely been a handful of appearances he's made that have woefully underused him (LOOKING AT YOU, AGENTS OF SHIELD). Him telling Delenn and Lennier the story of Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane, and what it means to him really stuck with me - it's very much one of my favorite episodes.

And hey, Lennier's a Valen fanboy! God that's cute.

Ok, so A - one murder is a hell of a thing to get sentenced to a mind wipe. B - without an official station telepath, now that Talia is gone, who did the mind wipe?

I've mentioned before that B5 can get some legit guest stars - I’m sure there are some heavy-hitters that I'm just not aware of, but something I noticed in later watches is that there are 5 significant horror movie actors that show up as guest stars. First is Jeffrey Combs (who, I have to brag, I met at a horror convention several years ago and he was an absolute delight) in Eyes, playing a very intense young telepath - he's probably best known for playing Herbert West in the Re-Animator films, as well as a number of roles in Star Trek. Second is Ken Foree in GROPOS - my personal favorite film of his is Devil's Den, but I guess most people would know him from Dawn of the Dead. Third is Brad Dourif, who is fuckin CHUCKY! And the last one is Robert Englund, motherfuckin Freddy Krueger! Now, you can make a pretty good case to include Patricia Tallman (recently-reappeared resident telepath Lyta Alexander), thanks to her appearance in Dawn of the Dead remake Night of the Living Dead, but she's basically a series regular.

I did not watch horror movies in high school. I was a hugely scared baby as a teen and didn't really start seeing any significant horror movies until I was in college, so there was no way I was recognizing any of these folks when I was first watching. Either way, it's been very fun for me to see these actors that I really enjoy in horror doing cool things in a show I love.

#babylon 5 #babylon 5 spoilers #londo mollari #delenn #john sheridan #brother theo #susan ivanova #david corwin #g'kar

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kitsoa · 4 years

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I'm still waiting for a trailer for it to really sink in the Kingdom Hearts tv series exists. I'm curious over what the series will be? Retelling of KH1? Seems most likely. Not that it's nessecary for newcomers to enjoy. Everybody and their grandma (literally) knows about KH. I know people who don't even play video games but religiously watch YouTube walkthroughs of the games because they enjoy KH. It's like how Detective Pikachu didn't even need Pokemon in the title. Everybody knows pokemon. -

might be why I also like the idea I read about the series taking place post KH3 with the leads being Mickey, Donald and Goofy revisiting all the Disney Worlds Sora's been to. We'd get all the Disney goodness, some possible FF cameos and maybe apperences from Riku and others. But that's just if it's an original work. I'd also love good retellings of the games if done right. I only want the characters/lore/fight scenes to be given justice/respect. Whoah. How does this fit into your meta theory?- KH is a videogame, a novel series, a manga, a mobile game and now a cartoon. KH is covering all it's bases in media. All we need is for Normura to dig his claws into the series and put in even more reality confusing elements. It's like Sora's traveling through all this different levels of media until he gets closer to reality itself (lol when we all first thought it was going to be live action. Now that'd be unsettling).

Let me level with you. I... don’t know how to hype responsibly. So to be frank, I not only believe the rumors (I was watching them unfold and I am no stranger to following leak and speculation scenes for fun) I am... ecstatic about the idea. Scared excited. But man, I’m a dreamer first and foremost. I’ll live with the disappointment when it finally lets me down. Could it be hot garbage? Totally, but a lot of my initial fears have been soothed by the rumor mill. My list was basically: no live-action, animation please, gimme some square involvement folks. And based on the reports we have that covered. I am okay with a little new vision coming into the fray because I will always give it a chance as long as the creative philosophy is guided properly. I think there’s some level of quality control on both sides of the agreement. And as long as the Disney+ folks understand that this is essentially Disney’s break into the anime market, then we can trust they will at least aim in the right direction. But I’ll be very clear-- I’m almost 100% sure this will be a retelling and any suggestion otherwise is laughable. Here is why: 1. This was D+ idea-- (the ‘mysterious 3rd project’ pitched to Nomura that he mentioned in his interview is almost certainly this meaning it wasn’t a part of the original plan) They aren’t anywhere near Nomura’s thought process of stories to tell within the timeline. 2. D+ has an insanely large and average consumer base-- barrier of entry cannot be high. There is no way you can engagingly infodump any of the lore or series of events in a way that doesn’t make executives and producers nervous. I know it’s different for everyone but from my perspective KH is rather still niche to the larger public. It’s well known in the gaming sphere as an icon but even to Disney fans it is either entirely new or simply elusive to attempt an understanding. I mean, it’s basically introduced to people as a meme because of this lack of general understanding. This isn’t lost to a network with their fingers on the pulse. 3. D+ approved of the KH brand-- harder to explain but basically, the identity and success of KH is most definitely the aspect that ensured the survival of a tv series into development. That identity comes almost exclusively from Sora, the keyblade, and world-hopping shenanigans. Keyword being Sora. The only story that fits the franchise identity is the first story. 4. Evidence has Disney VO cast returning and also a current casting-- meaning we have Disney characters serving an important role (as they do in kh1) and the need for original characters. While this might suggest a brand new story idea, both of these points together wouldn’t make sense. Sora hangs with the Disney crowd. No one else. Coupled with the above points I’m almost certain our boy is getting recasted. This would bother people (and believe me I adore HJO) but consider that HJO cannot do young Sora in a believable way anymore. KH fans can tolerate it, but not a grander audience. If it’s just a child-voice match then that’s all the better but new creative visions require new, marketable talent. (Think of the FF7R recast drama). ----- I personally want nothing more than for it to be a retelling. Mainly because it’s just a charming story with an interesting world and great characters. I like seeing how it would translate and what would have to be changed to make it more palatable to the medium. That and I think cinematics and great character acting can recontextualize an entire work in wondrous ways. If anything, a retelling almost certainly adds to that experience regardless of other shortcomings. To tie things into a meta reading, I would not put it past Nomura to take advantage of the series to slip in something to the hardcore base. Mind you, not something required for understanding, but something simply meant to imply what is to come. A little trippy thing or subplot that merely confounds the average viewers into a dead end but spins the heads of theoriest like me. If he’s simply acting as an advisor, then, of course, he can get away with something small. The first thing on my mind was the “KH3 Loop” Theory. The idea that Sora is experiencing his entire journey from the beginning, over and over again. The beginning of KH3 where we are playing as KH1 Sora and it’s got this double meaning of ‘seven hearts to save’. It’s hard to explain, but a retelling of the story is a great way to allude that this story has happened multiple times, with multiple variations. Be it due to how a player plays the game, or the manner in which the story is consumed (cutscene movie, manga, tv show)-- it has occurred countless times and Sora is simply a plaything of fate.

#kingdom hearts #kh series #kh meta #Anonymous

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aur-ochs · 7 years

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What exactly is Abrahamic tech? I’m not religious (i didn’t learn about god or Buddha or the Bible until I was 16) and a lot of things on your blog confuse me honestly. And when I googled it...I just got more confused. So I’m hoping maybe you could help me out and simplify what it is that you do/believe in? Thanks so much in advance and if this question is totally lame you don’t have to answer it.

Yeah no worries! It’s hard for a lot of people to process that there’s a huge swath of magick that uses christian/jewish sources, it seems to be completely the opposite of what we’re taught. “Abrahamic” basically just means sources that trace back to the God of Abraham; christianity, judaism, islam, and to some extent gnosticism. Basically, the family tree of monotheism that began in the middle east. Abrahamic magick is just magick that draws its power from the authority of the abrahamic god, and is more or less split into ceremonialism, which is very strict ritualistic high magick stuff, and folk magick, which involves stuff like using psalms as spells and invoking saints as minor deities.

There’s a massive array of magick that utilizes abrahamic religion and it’s all extremely effective in my and my friends’ experience. A lot of people are turned off by it because of the allergy to christianity that a lot of occultists have, but honestly getting over that and just accepting that this stuff works has improved my practice tenfold.

It would take a very long time to explain the many many types of folk magick and ceremonial magick that utilize the mythos of abrahamic religion, but the thing that really needs to be understood is that religion and magick have always gone hand-in-hand. Where there’s a religion, there’s a system of magick that works within that religion. Ancient judaism had its own variety of spells and charms and amulets just like the folk christian practices that came later on. There was even a fair bit of overlap between early christianity and greek polytheism in the regions where they mingled, and even that weird little syncretism had its own catalogue of rituals and spells, namely the PGM.

I don’t actually believe in the christian god and I didn’t revert to catholicism by starting to do bible magick, and I didn’t need to in order to use this stuff. I think that’s what scares a lot of people away from it, they think they need to repent their demonic ways to even touch a bible again after spending so long being occultists. If all you wanna do is experiment with solomonic techniques or try out some psalms, you absolutely do not need to start going to church and bathing in holy water. I mean, it helps if you wanna be really hardcore about it, and I definitely know some people who are extremely powerful magickians due to their faith, but don’t be intimidated by abrahamic tech just because it’s next door to jesus.

#asks #this wasn't a dumb question at all don't worry <3 #Anonymous

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Is there a place for Christianity in heavy music?

Metal has at all times been prided itself in giving outsiders a place to really feel secure. It’s additionally made a identify for itself as being anti-religious. From the early days of Black Sabbath (Tommy Iommi was raised a Catholic), via to Venom and Motley Crue, and naturally black metallic: Taake, Rotting Christ and Behemoth, are simply a few to have raised a few eyebrows with their deeply anti-religious rhetoric. Heavy metallic has given many an escape from religious doctrine.

But is enjoying metallic, by its very definition, a “Satanic” or anti-religious act? The Christian metalcore scene proves that it is not, however even inside this subsection of the metallic scene, some members are starting to maneuver away from the church.

Why? Does metallic make you query all the pieces? Or does it merely offer you a new neighborhood, one the place you’re free to interrupt the restraints of the puritanical values of the American South, in specific?

One band who’ve completed simply this are Gideon. Established in Alabama in 2008, the metalcore quartet embraced their Southern Baptist upbringing with their lyrical themes, sound and naturally, band identify.

The band had been picked up in 2011 by the smaller label division Strike First Records of Christian rock label, Facedown Records – becoming neatly amongst the Christian hardcore and metalcore acts throughout the label’s roster.

But after success as a Christian metallic band, they, like many who go away their houses and expertise a myriad of cultures, started to lose religion in God – they usually’ve mirrored this by throwing away the rule ebook and creating music on their very own phrases, ignoring expectations.

Their final album, 2017’s Cold, marks the start of this departure from their Christian rock roots with its extra bitter and aggressive sound. And with Out Of Control, the band have additional pushed the boundaries, with an eclectic mixture of melodic hardcore, metalcore, outlaw nation, even a little hip hop. While the band are eager to stay to their Southern roots, they’re renouncing their Christianity as soon as and for all.

Check out their model new single, Sleep, taken from the forthcoming new file, beneath:

We spoke to drummer, Jake Smelley, to search out out whether or not or not he thinks there continues to be a position for Christianity inside metallic, regardless of his new discovered secularity…

Jake Smelley: Is there a place for Christianity in heavy music?

“Music ought to be an outlet, a approach for you to specific your feelings and to specific what you’ve been going via. As I obtained older, it turned tougher to specific myself throughout the Christian metalcore style pointers, to speak about my struggles and having to jot down about one thing that I used to be, in truth, questioning.

“Growing up in the South, you discovered fast that folks don’t prefer it once you query issues, particularly issues that they’re scared to query. So I used to be put into a field, musically and personally.

“It involves a level the place you’re afraid of being your self, a concern of even popping out to speak about how you’re feeling about these greater points. Because it doesn’t simply have an effect on you. It impacts your loved ones, the individuals you’ve met, people who imagine to the core.

“Because when somebody believes in a faith so strongly, and also you query that, if somebody actually cares about you, they suppose you’re going to hell. And not solely are you going to hell, you’re a stumbling block to these round you and will trigger others to stumble or stray. You change into a downside.

“Gideon has gotten a lot of backlash currently – with individuals asking questions like “Are you taking back your Christian lyrics?” or “Do you think Christianity is stupid?”. They’ll even publish our lyrics again to us.

“Truly, Christian metalcore was there for me in a time once I wanted it and offered me an outlet. I’m grateful for it.

“But over time our relationship has modified. And I’ve modified. The music obtained me out of the place I used to be however I wasn’t totally ready for the place life was going to take me.

“To the individuals who aren’t glad, in the event you don’t like what I’m writing, I encourage you to jot down your individual music and put what you’re feeling into it.

“Christian metalcore has its place inside metallic – and it’s saved alive by these want it. That’s simply not me anymore.

“The way forward for this band will likely be what it’s at all times been – query all the pieces, search reality and keep true to who you’re. ‘Out of Control’ has introduced up a lot about the place I’m from in the south and the fences individuals arrange round themselves.

“My subsequent mission, my objective, is to the touch on issues that hold individuals caged in, that I’ve seen first hand result in substance abuse, despair. The issues that hold individuals scared.

“It’s terrible what this place can do to you, nevertheless it’s my house and my love for this place drives me to face up for individuals which can be going via their very own arduous instances. That’s what lead us thus far. This positively isn’t the tip of the story. It’s only the start.”

Gideon’s new album Out Of Control is out October 11 through Rude Records/Equal Vision Records and accessible to pre-order now.

from Heavy News https://thisisheavynews.com/is-there-a-place-for-christianity-in-heavy-music/

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