#deadlight ((joel))

[sapphires-and-silver-linings]

Not to get ahead of myself, but I’m itching to branch out in my writing when I finally finish chapter 5 of Half-Life.

No promises I’ll stick to what wins, but I would like to know what y’all think.

I think I might be wanting to write again after such a nasty block and life circumstances. Here’s hoping I can be a bit more productive this year 😮‍💨

[welcometojoelsvoid]

How do your ocs drive? - Alts

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Classic - He isn't terrible but doesn't like driving. He doesn't even have a license and doesn't trust himself to drive. Besides, he can teleport so why would he even need a car??

Jojo - This man does not fear death. Do not get in a car with him. Doesn't have a lisence but who cares? It's the apocalypse and the world is in ruin :)

J - Is afraid of cars and thinks they're too loud. Gets car sick. Doesn't know jackshit about cars.

Cappy - Decent driver, doesn't have a lisence tho. You will never see her in car. She thinks they're tacky.

Voidkeeper - Doesn't drive and doesn't care.

Badger - Is the only one with a license and is a good driver. Gets slight road rage on a bad day. Listens to heavy metal. If you're in a car with Badger don't expect a conversation.

None of the dark alts even know what a car is, except Grinny (she said they taste bad tho).

[underground-monarch]

Imagining the Last Lifers as Warrior Cats because I got bored at 3.30am

Grian - Redwing; small sandy brown/gingery tabby, amber eyes

Martyn - Shadowear; cream and black colourpoint, green eyes

Jimmy - Sandfur; pale ginger tabby, brown eyes

Mumbo - Dustfoot; big dark grey tuxedo, amber eyes

Impulse - Yelloweye; very pale ginger tabby, yellow eyes

Scar - Crystalclaw; pale grey solid, purpleish-blue eyes

Joel - Darkclaw; black solid, amber eyes

Lizzie - Rosewing; pale pinkish-cream tabby, blue eyes

Ren - Dogtail; long-haired dark brown tabby, brown eyes

BigB - Nightfur; dark blue-grey solid, dark blue eyes

Cleo - Deadlight; calico (ginger, black and white), green eyes

Scott - Blueshine; light blue-grey solid with white paws, green-blue eyes

Pearl - Greenfoot; light brown tabby, green eyes

Bdubs - Mosspelt; fluffy tortoiseshell, green eyes

Etho - Silverclaw; light grey solid with white paws and belly, 1 blue eye and 1 reddish blind eye

Skizz - Stoneheart; grey and black tabby, amber eyes

Tango - Firetail; slim dark ginger tabby, yellow eyes

[daggerzine]

The Well Wishers- Blue Sky Sun (self released)

After a few albums of moodier shoegaze (under the name Deadlights) Bay Area resident Jeff Shelton had gotten the itch again to crank out some good, old-fashioned hooky power pop and here tis. The Well Wishers umpteenth record (actually 13th).

I think Shelton just locks himself in his home studio and doesn’t come out until each record is finished. His wife and kids don’t see him, but hey, their loss is our gain (and apparently got a lot of inspiration for these songs while riding his bike down the California coast during the pandemic).

Blue Sky Sun is yet another sunny pop record with big hooks and rousing choruses. Shelton has been tweaking and perfecting this stuff since his days in the Spinning Jennies back in the 90’s so each new Well Wishers record has a slight tweak here, a little elbow grease there and plenty of shine all over. I’m thinking that this is my favorite WW’s record since A View From Above.

Cuts like “Idiot Smile,” “Any Way At All,” “Radicalized,” the almost tender “Serenade,” the title track (and the cover of GBV’s “Game of Pricks”) would make my Well Wishers best of mix tape.

This is music for throwing the top down on the convertible and drowning out the car next to you that’s crankin’ some Billy Joel (and if you don’t have a convertible then rolling the crank widows down on the battered Chevette will work too).

Do it!

www.thewellwishers.bandcamp.com

www.facebook.com/thewellwishersband

[anythingstephenking]

You See Dead People

Let’s have some fun with kids that see dead people! A skill that isn’t exclusive to Haley Joel Osment, ok? Mentioned somewhat defended-ly a few times throughout Later, yes this is like the Sixth Sense. No it is not the same. Deal with it.

I’m a fan of King’s Hard Case Crime books. I do think Joyland was my fav, but The Colorado Kid was great too. Sometimes you want to dig into 1,200 pages of conflict; sometimes you just want a fun story with teenagers and some spooky shit. Get a man that can do both ladies, and Mr. King sure can.

Not to make this all about me, but I often do. The wild thing about Later to me was the casual first-person storytelling that was more stream of conscious than coherent. Lots of pauses halfway through sentences (with notes made in parens). It is the exact same way I write this blog. “Blah blah blah (side note: 80’s reference, lol).” Since Later is in the perspective of a boy aged 6 thru 15, I really should be embarrassed. But because I am an insane person, I thought “hey look, Steve’s writing like me! I write like Stephen King. I am awesome!” Suck on that Baby Boomers, you gave us all the trophies and now we think we’re the bees knees.

It’s different than “standard King”, but more than 70 novels deep, dude can write in any narrative style that he chooses. 

In Later we follow Jamie, a snazzy young man who lives in the big apple with his mom and sometimes sees people after they’ve died. He can converse with them, and turns out dead people can’t lie? They also know they’re dead, so no Bruce Willis types here. See, I told you it was different from the Sixth Sense. 

I got through this is just 2 nights time; I was truly loving the story. Jamie and his mom Tia were fleshed out enough characters that you were rooting for; there was a baddie who was up to no good. The deadlights showed up, and there is a Ritual of Chud! Jamie fights the evil in 2013, which just happens to be in the ballpark of when Pennwise would have returned after the giant spider nonsense. Maybe we just got IT Part Duex.

THEN literally in the last 5 pages this story just goes BONKERS. Like WTF off-the-rails (my opinions are mine alone). Spoilers, but Jamie learns (by asking questions to unable-to-lie dead folks) that his UNCLE is his FATHER. His mother’s brother is his dad. Like. Huh.

There’s this whole passage about how incest really isn’t that big a deal for birth defects - I literally never want that to be a part of my Google history so I’ll take it at face value. But like. What. His dad could have been Danny Torrence. His dad could have been fucking Pennywise for all I care, why the uncle? There’s literally no hint to this ever being a possibility. Brick dropped. Then the book is over? Ok.

Are we left to believe Jamie’s powers are due to his familiar relationship (gross), an unrelated gene mutation, a kiss from god himself? Who knows. Jamie’s just like “that’s how I found out my uncle is my dad. It’s ok, I had webbed fingers as a baby but other that that I am fine. The End.” Don’t ever let that kid sign up for Ancestry.com, his family tree will look like the fucking Targaryen’s. 

Me: “What? Why? How? Huh? No.”

Truly the craziest out-of-left-field ending I have experienced in a long time. Remember when King told us to stop reading when Roland got to the tower? Stop reading this guy at Chapter 67 and skip the incest.

7/10

First Line: I was coming home from school with my mother.

Last Line: Later.

[welcometojoelsvoid]

Classic - dark blue and red

Jojo - pink and grey

J - green and yellow

Cappy - purple and blue

The Voidkeeper- dark green

Lotus - magenta and purple

Badger - black and greyish blue

Deadlight - white

Grinny - dirty red

Does anyone have a color they associate with their OCs?

Like Sophia Cousland is Blue

Gillan Mahariel is Brown

Tara is Orange

Mari is Red

Evelyn is Purple

Moira is Green

Stephen is Yellow