#but they play in a band after work

[e1derel]

band au

[ballpitwitch]

𝐊𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐮 𝐑𝐞𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐇𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐍𝐉 - 𝟏𝟎/𝟎𝟖/𝟐𝟑

[mewtwo24]

You know idk if it's just me being oblivious af but mxtx sure does enjoy putting her protags through the trolley problem when it comes to her works huh /j

[daisyachain]

The nature of time is that (culturally) Christian Euro/Anglo colonial consumers (hereafter white ‘people’) fetishize the idea of being ‘close to nature’ or ‘primitive’ or ‘savage’ and latch on to the idea that there are groups of people in the world who are somehow bestial or who have some kind of special powers from holding animist beliefs/beliefs that acknowledge the body as opposed to the Christian belief that the body is a kind of useless appendage to a person. We see this across decades from the 19thC to today in the racist fetishization of indigenous people across the globe, particularly residents of the Americas, Australasia, and southern/eastern Africa.

White consumers use a warped conception of other cultures to live out the fantasies that the Christian soul/body stuff engenders. You keep getting told that your emotions and physical sensations are the devil’s work? You want to get in touch with those physical sensations, but you don’t want it to interfere with your worldview? Simply project them on to a convenient group of people with slightly different conventions from you. Imagine how cool it would be to be 100% physical sensation (especially those pesky violent and/or sexual urges) and no mental burden, then unleash that in a way that causes millions of deaths worldwide via the dehumanization of entire nations of people just trying to live their lives. White consumers love a Proud Warrior Race Guy.

Flash forward to the 2010s, it’s generally considered impolite to spread the same propaganda that justified the genocide and dispossession of many different groups of people. However white culture hasn’t changed that much and normal human activities still need to be explained away to maintain the veneer of white intellectualism that has been used to justify white violence for years and years. You can’t just stomp around and clap your hands and dance badly, you’ve got to project it somewhere else.

But wait! There’s a community of people considered ‘tribal’ and ‘savage’, considered violent and bestial, who were never colonized! It’s…the Norse. Fetishizing early medieval North Sea raiders can’t be cultural appropriation, see, they’re white! It’s not offensive to replace an entire culture with white (male) ideas of what’s cool if that culture is totally unassociated with colonizer stereotypes and is in fact a culture of colonizers!

And that’s my theory on why there are so many Norse-inspired folk bands/video games/tv shows/memes/literally anything in the 2010s. VSaga not counted because that manga has been running since 2003 and is actually well-researched and comes out of a culture with a similar but distinct tradition of racism. The Euro storytelling tendencies of needing some kind of violent avatar have taken on ye anciente Norseman now that people care a little bit about the gallons of blood used to sketch other ethnic stereotypes. Done and dusted. Except the other side is that the fetishization of early medieval Norse culture is literally just white supremacist 101 and a lot of artists don’t step around that nearly as carefully as they should

[transgirltrish]

today has been a very good day for me. I expected bad days, it literally hasn't even been a week since I got broken up with? it's been 5 days at most.

[honeyvenommusic]

❗️NEWGLASSANIMALSGLASSANIMALSGLASSANIMALSGLASSANIMALSGLASSANIMALSGLASSAN-

[thatsgonnaleaveamark]

whyy are concerts so expensive and not close to me ಠ╭╮ಠ

[satoruly]

enemies to lovers and its a guitarist x bassist

[yourplaceinaugust]

liking local bands is great until your sister fucks the lead singer of one of your favourite bands and then he moves across the country and then posts videos of him singing country on instagram and she gets the ick and ghosts him and now he's back in town and is playing a show with two of your other favourite bands and your sister refuses to go and you only ever go to concerts with your sister and have no one else to go to the show with and are too anxious to go alone

[dravencroft]

Let me ramble about all the best parts of yesterday's Ghost concert in Milan:

The. Costumes. Holy shit. I've seen a thousand photos and videos but let me tell you - seeing all those amazing costumes with my own eyes was priceless. The pope ensemble?? The red jacket?? The bat-wing jacket??? THE GHOULS' MASKS????? I can't breathe

Tobias is incredible on the stage. Just... his energy, his charisma, his sense of humour, the way he moves! That man is made of string and I respect that

Copia and the Ghouls kept interacting in such cute funny ways TToTT the Ghouls kept trying to jokingly steal his spotlight with their solos and he would pretend to get so pissed off, just to fist-bump them immediately after... They even had a guitar solo battle while Tobias was changing into his pope outfit...

Seeing Papa Nihil's mummified corpse being wheeled on stage and reanimated in front of 10k people just for him to put on sunglasses and whip out a saxophone and immediately die back into his casket was an Experience. I've never laughed so much at a concert.

Then Copia appeared again and said "did you see my daddy-o? well, back to ME now!"

At the end Copia came out for the encore and he was wearing his sparkly blue jacket and he said "what, you're expecting more songs? why? do ya think this is a show jacket? nope, it's my PAJAMAS and I'm about to go to BED and you should too because it's a SCHOOL NIGHT. shoo. shoo. go home. what? one more song? two more songs? THREE more songs? whelp, three it is!"

He was trying so hard to speak Italian, bless his soul ;o; he said "bellissimo", "magnifico", "sì" (and went on for a while about how "sì" sounds so much better than "no" and had us scream it a few times lol), and for some reason "due" (the number two. but only that.)

"Are you warm enough down there? Yeah? Because things are about to get HOT" *picks up a pair of huge granny underwear someone had thrown on stage, flings it at the nearest Ghoul, and wipes his hand on his trousers*

[toastsnaffler]

happy flat fuck friday I feel likr I've been run over by a steamroller <3

[starzwithapen]

what r solar's thoughts on brozone... the brozone brothers.... them.... 😈.

WAANXN TY FOR ASKING ABOUT SOLAR IM SO NORMAL ABOUT MY OCS . twirls my hair . I WROTE SO MUCH IM SO SORRY

Solar does not like them upon first meeting purely on the basis that there must've been a reason Clay got upset if he thought about them too long right? And she thinks Viva REALLY needs to do background checks before just letting anyone in- but he warms up to them ^w^

I think she'd get along most with Branch surprisingly- I'd assume they'd spend more time together when Viva and Poppy hang out, and he's familiar enough that it doesn't have Solar on edge, and she actually really admires him [don't tell anyone but Branch reminds Solar of his sister sometimes, and he finds that a little comforting]

Solar likes Bruce but is lowkey intimidated by him LMAO mostly because he was closest to Clay and the one Clay spoke of the most so Solar's like "oh my god this is the equivalent of meeting their parents since they dont have parents . I have to Impress Bruce constantly . Does Bruce think Im weird . If Bruce thinks I'm weird ill throw myself off a cliff . "

I dont think Solar spends much time with Floyd- Floyd doesn't initiate in fear of making her uncomfortable, and Solar would rather eat a car battery than initiate any interaction. Floyd's pretty okay in her book, and everyone's reaction to Floyd's hair being positive makes him feel better about his own hair

SOLAR DOES NOT LIKE JOHN DORY . number 1 reason Clay did not speak of him fondly so he's been on Solar's hitlist since before he even met him . Number 2 reason he also reminds her of her sister but in a Bad way and Solar doesnt wanna think too hard about that. I think they'd have a bit of a heart warming moment when Solar first reunites with his sister and their relationship kinda improves from there

[cr4yolaas]

omg im i just wanna say im so in love w ur writing omg... im reading blue spring and im BAWLING my eyes out ૮ ◞ ﻌ ◟ ა it feels so soft, bittersweet and just so comforting even when the story gets a bit sad ૮꒰ ྀི >⸝⸝⸝< ྀི꒱ა y/n is so well written and i love her story and i can see myself in her so much, maybe that's why it's so comforting ｡°(°.◜ᯅ◝°)°｡

u said in some notes that you were "self-projecting", i hope ur okay ꒰ᐢ. .ᐢ꒱

anyway thank u so much for this i'll keep on reading it !! love ur work, i'll make sure to check your past and future posts ૮ ․ ․ ྀིა ♡

hi !! this means sm to me, tysm ♪(๑ᴖ◡ᴖ๑)♪ i’m doing okay now but yn is definitely a character that embodies the burnout i tend to feel, as i’m a musician and someone who’s a perfectionist when it comes to my grades (which is a horrible combo, bc marching band schedules combined with ap courses is deadly) so i’m glad to hear that u like how she’s written !!

[watermel0ns-dumb-cringe]

Princess and the War Crimes is the silliest working title for a musical/play ive heard today helpe/pos

[boimgfrog]

I like drawing my ocs honestly...if no one else got me I know cute boy in a skirt, Hannah Montana kpop idol, beat-em-up bisexual butch, and SoundCloud rapper got me...yes they are all in love and dating

[scottishoctopus]

The monkees? Who are they, sir Jones?

"Maccus tells me that they're some sort of famous musical band nae sailin' on the seas of course but residin' on land- uh." Jones bluntly answers with a tiny shrug.

"One time we brought on a newcomah ontah the ship and he believed---naw he was convinced Ah was one of the singahs in that band simply because we share the same name. The laddie isn' abroad the ship any longah."