I’m very proud of myself for reaching a point in my art skill that I can use it for evil <33 (can make awful unhinged mini comics with it)
Drew Muzan from memory, it shows lmao-. He chewed on one of the bottles of sunscreen btw, Trying to get that sweet, sweet sunlight immunity. He thought perhaps if he absorbed some, he’d be able to produce it himself, not how SPF works but that’s ok <33
It was meant to resemble that pic of Toby fox covered in shower foam but with high-spf sunscreen but that didn’t work out lol, so you get this.
Pic I was referencing & Kokushipony under cut.
(I haven’t tried to draw ponies seriously since I was like 7— 😭😭)
starter for: @lucianaortiz
location: luciana's house
It had been a few days since Marco had been released now. He'd spent the vast majority of that time either locked away in Juan's apartment, where he was currently staying, by himself, or over at his grandparents' so he could spend time with them and Gabriela. He hadn't ventured out much, not feeling up to dealing with all the stares and whispers he knew his return to the town would garner. But there was one person he knew would kill him if he stayed away any longer, so Marco got onto his bike and headed for Briar Ridge Hills. He parked the motorcycle in Luci's driveway and made his way up to the front door, steeling himself for the tongue lashing he would probably receive for staying away this long as he reached up and pressed the doorbell.
If he was being completely honest, Cameron was still getting used to not only cooking but also shopping for himself. Back in New York, he could afford to hire people to do that kind of stuff for him, so he why waste his very limited time? But while Paradise Point was keeping him busy, it was nowhere near how frantic he was back in New York and a lot of times it felt like Cam had nothing but time. So he was making an effort to focus on day to day activities he hadn’t done in years.
He was planning on making homemade chicken alfredo for his dinner tonight and was picking up the groceries needed to do so. He was eyeing the ready made alfredo sauces, trying to convince himself not to cheat and buy them instead of making the sauce himself, when his cart accidentally bumped into someone else’s. “Shit, I’m so-” he stopped mid sentence when he finally turned to see who it was. “Luciana,” he said, a flirty grin immediately coming to his lips upon recognizing his neighbor. “Sorry about that. I promise I didn’t intentionally bump into your cart, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little bit happy it was you.”
" I MISS SIMONE . " the sigh that followed the confession filtered through the air as dasom leaned against luci , letting her head fall against her shoulder . they were sitting poolside on dasom's balcony, overlooking the city . the warm weather had prompted her to invite her friend over for a few hours of sunbathing and maybe a little swimming . " i invited her over too , but she said she had to go to the studio ... with tristan . " she frowned a little bit . " as you can probably tell , she's not too happy about that . " / @lucisaphira
“You think they got Henny here?” Silas muses aloud, trying to discern if someone thought to put his favorite alcoholic beverage on a menu anywhere to go with the oonce oonce music the DJs that were on deck and on point were playing.
Phoebe Green's "Maniac" is THE Trick song because the lyrics are them hear me out
You play girls like a man, (Nick)
but your eyes are like a child (either of them, but especially Nick's eyes are sad and puppy all the time)
(Especially in this scene)
Your face is cool and calm, but your hair is wrecked and wild (very obviously nick)
You hide behind your metaphors and pray that no one sees the fare behind your poker face: (consider Troy's "you stayed at the ranch because you love me" and children of violence speech)
Your dark and twisted needs (Nick's drug addiction, Troy's mommy issues, his experiments)
The girls all think you love them, but they make you feel sick (possibly Troy's not being straight and toxic Madison thing)
You smile and whisper in their ear but drop them just as quick (far fetched but Nick staying when Luciana left)
The bottles 'round the back all contain the hearts of lovers (Troy killing Mike, I don't believe they had anything besides friendship but still)
Lipstick stains on the pillow and lies under the covers (I literally don't believe in Nick and Luci)
Let me in, wear me out
Let me in, wear me out
Let me in, wear me out
Let me in, wear me out
(the push and pull Nick and Troy have going on, constantly pointing guns @ eachother)
Your fragile heart and your paper skin (Troy ft. trauma, basement, spoon, and hammer)
Such a beautiful boy filled with so much sin (LITERALLY TROY. and also Nick, but especially Troy, self-explanatory)
Your reflection is your very worst enemy ("you and me are more alike than you think," -Troy @ Nick
"you share the same self-destruction," -Alicia @ Nick
"maybe I'm as sick as he is." "He's a murderer." "Just don't forget what he is" - Nick @ Alicia/Madison)
Behind the glass is an angel, but the devil's beneath (the scene where Troy warns Nick of the horde (with the broken window) and overall the lines of who the 'bad guy' is being blurred(who is behind and who beneath the glass = angel/devil)
You smile at the moon even though it's haunting you (Nick's insomnia/sleeplessness)
You wonder if it ever feels as lonely as you do (literally Troy.)
Your nose is always bleeding but it's fine 'cause it looks pretty (Nick constantly being covered in blood)
It doesn't scare you like it did before the angel city (Los Angeles being Nick's starting point and all (self-explanatory))
(Goofy ahh pic I know)
You maniac, you tortured artist, do you crave attention? (Troy, self-explanatory)
Your shaking hands a consequence of how much you don't mention (both of them prob. Being reluctant to talk about the past, still being affected a lot by it, though(sort of headcanon/sort of canon))
Your mind was made of magic, now its ugly and diseased (Alicia talks about how she used to look up to Nick (this land is your land) and then the drug use. Also, Nick being like his dad and suicidal. Troy being twisted like he is)
Hell is in your head, and your head's between your knees (most definitely both of them, again a headcanon but self-explanatory)
Let me in, wear me out
Let me in, wear me out
Your fragile heart and your paper skin
Such a beautiful boy filled with so much sin
Your reflection is your very worst enemy
Behind the glass is an angel, but the devil's beneath
(See the first time these appear)
You're so lonely, choked on money (not sure about this one as money doesn't play any role here)
Do you ever feel like you completely? ("You'll never feel freer or more yourself than when it's five in the morning and the sun's about to rise and you're out of your mind")
You're so quiet, eyes look tired (Nick fr)
You look like you're barely alive (them 24/7)
You're unreal, I can feel every single bone by your spine (had they gotten together properly :\ )
You're so pretty when you're spitting in the sink, but you can't think straight (Troy after getting beat up, probably)
“If Von Dutch were alive,” said Burns, who runs a website about his friend at www.vondutch.freeservers.com, “he would hate all this.”
[5.81]
Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: On February 12 of this year I predicted that "we can safely give the Charli lead single an automatic high controversy [5.00] and be done with it." History will vindicate me.
[5]
Jackie Powell: A common Charli XCX motif is her admiration and sampling of 1990s and Y2K culture, which has allowed her to write songs that are cheeky with a dash of British wit. She does this on “Von Dutch” by comparing her reputation in pop to that of a cult classic, but struggles with the extended metaphor of how she’s what Von Dutch, the LA clothing brand that has had a recent resurgence, sounds like. The concept feels incomplete. I actually prefer the song’s remix with Addison Rae and A.G. Cook. The ad-libbed scream from Rae, the added verse, and the dropping of “I’m your number one” over and over again make the remix much more compelling and zany. The original will only really bang in drag bars—a fine place for something to hit, of course, but at this point I expect Charli to be pushing her own boundaries.
[5]
Alfred Soto: Like much of her output, "Von Dutch" represents Charli XCX's fair to middling ambition to become a global pop star. Like much of that output "Von Dutch" strikes confused poses over shrieking electronics.
[3]
Hannah Jocelyn: Charli XCX said she wants to go back to 1999, but with songs like these she clearly wishes it was 2018: all the callbacks and bombast referring to when she was “the future of music” and not halfway to the headliner of an inevitable "hyperpop" nostalgia festival. I like the gloriously tinny snare, but in 2024 the bratty chant vocals sound dated (as does the album title that's just brat in lowercase). The most exciting songs on CRASH to me were “Constant Repeat” and “Move Me,” which proved she could bring her "kinda rare attitude" to heartfelt ballads. "Von Dutch" is just mindless comfort food for aging cis male gays, which is fine — I’m the lone First Two Pages of Frankenstein defender, I get it — but she can’t say she’s my Number One when on this song, she's my Number
[5]
Mark Sinker: I enjoy that Charli XCX lives in a room-sized selection-box of all of the rest of girlpop, everything constantly arriving with its conscious little tweaky echo of this or that prior item. They’re nice items, and we both like them, so why not? Maybe this feels a bit more hemmed in than is comfy, though: it has big Britney-feel, which is to say echoes of an aural highpoint that actually expressed a grim life lowpoint for Brit. As for Von Dutch, they currently have the one and only Wikipedia page with "Behind-the scenes tumult" as a cross-hed, which pleases me but also makes me anxious.
[7]
Katherine St. Asaph: Once again, the nostalgia is miscalibrated: Von Dutch was trendy in the mid-2000s, while this sounds like the late 2000s. Specifically, it sounds like every song from the late 2000s I would have given a [7] or higher.
[7]
Will Adams: I whole-heartedly support pop stars honoring the advancements made by the likes of Luciana in support of the essential micro-genre of Obnoxious Banger.
[7]
Kat Stevens: I'm down for the Bodyrox ft Luciana revival! Is there a Fedde Le Grand remix?
[6]
Andrew Karpan: Pop music tells us to want to have it all, a maximalist vision that typically gets bigger as it goes on. Counterintuitively, part of the mesmerizing appeal of Charli’s records is the fact that there is no distance left for her to run and that her sound has become the sound of pop going nowhere but the present, busily manufacturing its cult appeal now for future observers to wax nostalgic about. “Von Dutch” is the most literalized version of that idea from her yet: a squeaky saran-wrapped PC Music-affiliated beat with a middle-aged pulse that never drops but simply hangs, like a foggily-heard echo of itself, like the memory of a club night experienced from the outside while nervously waiting in line in the cold.
[7]
Jeffrey Brister: It’s perhaps a bit unfair to compare everything Charli has made recently to the transcendent Pop 2 ("Backseat" 4evr), but when I hear something as dull as this, I can’t help but pine for its melodramatic maximalism. The sounds are just so monochromatic, pulling from a desaturated set of Charli tics like grinding revving synths and choppy autotuned vocal snippets, all snapping together like a “build your own Charli song” kit in nothing but gray tones.
[4]
Kayla Beardslee: Why does this sound so bad?
[2]
Nortey Dowuona: That last Earl album was good. This Charli single is good. Some people just never live up to your expectations because they are not you. Unlike Charli, I don't think it's because of jealousy, just curiosity and frustration. Charli and Earl were never meant to be Method Man or Robyn -- they had different tastes and trajectories, and slumming it as a major-label balance name isn’t the worst fate. You could be Tyga. Or Rita Ora.
[9]
Taylor Alatorre: It's caked in an air of sweaty desperation dressed up as devil-may-care hedonism, which helps rather than hurts because of how unflinchingly skeletal the beat is, showing off its shotgun scaffolding to all who will see. She's not trying to hide anything about how she's trying to hide something. Never mind that the phrase "cult classic but I still pop" could be used to describe everything from the MC5 to DMB -- it wouldn't have suited their milieux, but it's quintessentially XCX. It may be the line Charli was put on this earth to sing, even if through half-gritted teeth.
[7]
Leah Isobel: The curse of being Charli XCX is that she is an asymptote: she can approach pop stardom, but she's far too self-conscious to allow herself to actually embrace it. As a result, the curse of being a Charli XCX fan is that she becomes more obnoxious and exhausting every time she reaches a new career milestone. After scoring her first big worldwide hit, she spent her social capital yelling at Germans and collaborating with Iggy Azalea. Number 1 Angel and Pop 2 cemented her as a serious artist with conceptual depth and longevity while simultaneously sending her spiraling into stan Twitter hell, from whence she shall never return. She wears a T-shirt denouncing critics -- which I am not mad at, please drag me mom yas! -- and then logs on with hot takes about Pop Music And Stardom, as a critic does. She sees herself as above mass-market pandering and yet also below it, both superior to the culture and bitter at her inability to assimilate into it. (Gay people love her because she's relatable.) Hence, "Von Dutch." Its corkscrewing mania has the serrated simplicity that characterizes her riffs on punk music; it feels like a cousin to the unfairly maligned Sucker. But where Sucker balanced its brattier impulses with good-natured melodicism and emotional directness, "Von Dutch" is all needling cynicism and overdriven id. The song has a nominal verse/chorus structure but no big dynamic or melodic changes, no particular idea beyond "I'm lovable and awesome; look at my chart placements." The need to serve as a pop single also keeps "Von Dutch" from entering the realm of the dumb-brilliant dance music that so clearly inspired it; it's too much of a branding exercise, too interested in flattering its audience for getting it. And yet in its grating repetition, I still hear her insecurity beneath the synth buzzsaws. No one who's convinced that they're actually Living That Life would say it so directly, with such barely concealed desperation. The curse of being Charli XCX is that, deep down, she is still convinced that she is unlovable. The curse of being a Charli XCX fan is that I love her because she's relatable.
[5]
Isabel Cole: I don't know that I'll ever stop feeling about Charli XCX like she's my brilliant daughter who dropped out of med school to pursue a career as a wedding DJ: of course, honey, I just want you to be happy, but are you sure this is what you want? You don't want to, like, try? At all? This is the kind of gleefully, knowingly brainless fun Charli can do in her sleep, propulsive without ever really going anywhere because the point is just to drive. She's not living up to her potential, but much like a boring mom who doesn't "get" her daughter's life of Top 40 hits in mid-budget venues and weeknights spent doing ketamine with her friends, I am unsophisticated enough to enjoy it when she does songs that are songs, and this one does make me feel like I'm walking through the opening credits of my life when it plays.
[7]
Ian Mathers: I like it when the synths go THWOOM and/or VOORP.
[7]
Well, the EDM genre is very vast. I find it difficult to differentiate between house, trance and electronic music, so I put this list out there for you all to see. These are my favorite songs in the above category. Hope you guys enjoy them. This list does not depict ranking because I feel all these songs are amazing. Again, I may have missed out on few great songs and this list is based on the songs that I have heard.
Monolink - Return To Oz (ARTBAT Remix) (Edit)
VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec486jU2Jn0
CamelPhat, Cristoph - Breathe (Official Video) ft. Jem Cooke
VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKRcqtNSP-4
CamelPhat, Yannis - Hypercolour (ARTBAT Remix) [Audio]
VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYtRWMpESyw
Tiësto & KSHMR feat. Vassy - Secrets (Official Music Video)
VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr1nN__-2Po
Skrillex & Diplo - "Mind" feat. Kai (Official Video)
VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDrTbLXHKu8
Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike vs W&W & Moguai - Arcade Mammoth (Official Music Video)
VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qq7kNjg-KY
Dimitri Vegas, Martin Garrix, Like Mike - Tremor (Official Music Video)
VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vMh9f41pqE
Samual James - Magnasanti
VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq6MMngho34
Martin Garrix & Jay Hardway - Spotless
VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHXyw-KoLCE
Hardwell & Joey Dale feat. Luciana - Arcadia (Official Music Video)
INVIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d5ZxZdEUvA
CamelPhat x ARTBAT - For A Feeling (ft. Rhodes)
VIDVIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQoAFRnn3Jg
David Guetta - She Wolf (Falling To Pieces) ft. Sia (Official Video)
VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVzljDmoPVs
Snoop Dogg - 'Sweat' Snoop Dogg vs David Guetta (Remix)
VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnEXrbAQyIo
DVBBS & Tony Junior - Immortal (Original Mix)
VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R06ch5QYYA
Koven - Never Have I Felt This [NCS Release]
VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7fuHEEmEjs
Vicetone - Harmony [Monstercat Release] - New Artist Week Pt. 2
VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmYRJJg60F8
Hardwell & W&W - Jumper (Original Mix)
VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCjvvuy-gas
Tiësto vs Diplo - C'Mon
VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gujB7A5ycew
Skrillex - Bangarang (Ft. Sirah)
VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJVmu6yttiw
what exactly are you asking me to do ? / from luciana
❛ I'm asking you to go out with him. ❜ it was quite the elaborate plan, as he'd posed it to look. nikolai had always been keenly aware of when the lenses turned towards him, when the flash was readied like a gun and the trigger was only one scandalous story away. he could see the stories being printed the next day, the big bolded headline and their tortured faces split with a thunder-like crack. the glass of champagne sparkled just as his eyes did—
but there was that line knitted between his brows, the one that suggested the end of their little game of illusions. nikolai rubbed the spot above his brow with his head bent down, as though in deep thought, and he was, weighing the ramifications of his idea. ingenuity came at a cost, and today it was the heavy weight that sank inside his ribs and descended into his stomach. it is with that analysis that revelations were made: where he realised how comfortable he'd gotten in this arrangement, how he'd morphed a future out of the patterns of present, how the lines were always there but they'd blurred in his eyes. because that was the thing about illusions, they were just that.
nikolai turned his head just slightly to spot the paparazzi's black camera peeking from underneath the table in the furthest corner of the restaurant. the story was sizzling behind his beady little eyes already. he looked at luciana again, pitying the confusion contorting across her face. ❛ you should accept his dinner invite. I know john wants to pull one over me, it's been a long time coming. besides, I think it's about time we gave them all something to talk about. ❜
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