#fucking. mined for that twin peaks quote

[lemonmangosorbet]

Cooper about Harry: A man who doesn’t love easily, loves too much

[banrionanuaignis]

Tag 9 people to learn more about their interests

 TAGGED BY: @alexcabotgf (ty this was so fun!!)

MUSIC

fave genre? indie or folk, and all variations of them

fave artist? simon and garfunkel, mitski, sufjan stevens, taylor swift, lana del rey, fiona apple, beach house, vampire weekend, lucy dacus, adrianne lenker, phoebe bridgers

fave song? ugh so many but atm moon song/ savior complex - phoebe bridgers, love song - ldr or sparks - coldplay

song currently stuck in your head? two sides of a smile - dave (so good)

5 fave lyrics? i have so many faves so these are gonna be the first ones i can think of off the top of my head

if you hold me without hurting me / you’ll be the first who ever did - cinnamon girl, lana del rey

there’s blood on that blade / fuck me i’m falling apart - no shade in the shadow of the cross, sufjan stevens

you don’t know what you want / but you know that you had it once / and you know that you want it back - crack baby, mitski

i’ve never been a natural, all i do is try, try, try - mirrorball, taylor swift

i am a toy that people enjoy / till all of the tricks don’t work anymore / and then they are bored of me - liability, lorde

radio or your own playlist | solo artists or bands | pop or indie | loud or silent volume I slow or fast songs | music video or lyrics video | speakers or headset | riding a bus in silence or while listening to music | driving in silence or with radio on 

BOOKS

fav book genre? female-centred adult contemporary fiction

fav writer? otessa mossfegh, megan abbott, celeste ng, gillian flynn and donna tartt are the ones ive read most of so ill say them

fav book? ugh so many, atm ill say my dark vanessa or the idiot (elif batuman)

fav book series? a song of ice and fire, and the rachel riley series by joanna nadin basically got me through my teen years

comfort book? best friends jacqueline wilson, which i read like 100 times when i was ten.

perfect book to read on a rainy day? anything by morgan matson, easy read and remind me of summer days, or any romance.

fave characters? sansa stark, camille preaker, lila cerullo, marianne sheridan (mainly cus i relate to them)

5 quotes from your fave books that you know by heart? working with what i have on hand, i just moves so none of my books are in the same country :(

he’s more myself than i am, whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same - emily bronte, wuthering heights

i wanted to know how it was going to turn out, like flipping ahead in a book. i didn't even know what kind of story it was, or what kind of role i was supposed to be playing - elif batuman, the idiot

sometimes it feels like that's all I'm doing every time i reach out - trying to haunt, to drag him back in time, asking him to tell me again what happened. make me understand it once and for all. because I'm still stuck here. i cant move on - kate elizabeth russell, my dark vanessa

because wherever i sat - on the deck of a ship or at a street café in paris or bangkok - i would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stweing in my own sour air - sylvia plath, the bell jar

my skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel - g.r.r martin, a storm of swords

hardcover or paperback | buy or rent | standalone novels or book series | ebook or physical copy | reading at night or during the day | reading at home or in nature | listening to music while reading or reading in silence | reading in order or reading the ending | reliable or unreliable narrator  | realism or fantasy | one or multiple POVS  | judging by the covers or by the summary | rereading or reading just once

TV AND MOVIES

fave tv/movie genre? drama, classic romance, dark comedy

fave movie? happy together or cabaret

comfort movie? any teen romcom, but ten things i hate about you is my number one

fave tv show? twin peaks, succession, svu, bojack horseman and doctor who will always have a place in my heart

most rewatched tv show? friends 

5 fave characters?

shelly johnson/laura palmer (narrartive twins but opposite reactions) - twin peaks

kendall roy - succession

amelie - amelie

kat stratford - 10 things i hate about you

chandler bing/ phoebe buffay - friends

tv shows or movies | short seasons (8-13 episodes) or full seasons (22 episodes or more) | one episode a week or binging  | one season or multiple seasons | one part or saga | half hour or one hour long episodes | subtitles on or off | rewatching or watching just once (rewatch movies and fave episodes, but usually only watch a show once)

im tagging anyone who wants to do this!

[xxrat--punkxx]

JUMPING ON THIS BAND WAGGON

Ok here’s my 2020, tw//mentions of suicide and abuse

(Strong start lmao) 2020 sucked ass lemmi tell ya. This year was a fucking train wreck from the start, ur hay I got character development so who cares. Well let’s start with a review, bad things first.

Yall remember when everyone was scared shields of COVID?. Lol. But that’s stating the obvious. When we went into lockdown I was first like fuck yeah summer lol, but then the threat of ‘staying home for the rest of the year’ set in, bing in my first year of sixth form I really understand the stakes of exams next year. So having to stay home for the rest of the year freaked me the fuck out. I literally couldent cope, having to do all classes online was fucking hell, they were never zoom classes either, just ‘lmao do the work and hand it in’ which was near impossible for me. I was also in the constant ‘oh no I’m so stressed but I will do NOTHING about this lmao~’. As the days turned to weeks and inevitably MONTHS, my mental health said buckle up bitches. Days were spent sitting in my room on my phone doing NOTHING, meanwhile this perpetual notion of stress played in my head yet there I sat not having the will or motion to move.

Then my parents got involved. Now THATS when shit went from pretty crummy to awful, now I was living with them constantly I was able to see who they really were with no real filter. And oh god do I have issues, I didn’t even fucking know. Every day was an argument, my mom was the worst, the MANIPULATION, the constant ‘you're tearing this family apart’ or ‘so I’m the problem?’ Or the fucking indecent playing the victim. And I all only just realised, that they have been doing this ALL MY LIFE. Dad got involved but he was just physically violent, only twice tho. The worst part was my work, admittedly yes, I didn’t do everything I was given, but I tried, I really did with what little motivation I had. But with just one ‘oh your daughter hasn’t handed in this work’ I was a ‘lazy, good for nothing failure’ to quote ‘who will never go anywhere in life’ so I’d spend the rest of the day crying while they play the victim bury saupying I was abusing their love and just using them for money. But the next day be like ‘oh I’m so proud of you you're doing so well’ having that statement being completely unrelated to the previous events. This was constant. So that’s that story. I won’t talk much about Black Lives Matter because we all know about how that went. But it really affected me, I found myself crying over the victims multiple times. And the lack of support for the movement my peers or family showed made it fucking worse. Crying was a common occurrence for me now, mental health really taking a nosedive, being too scared to call myself ‘depressed’ or ‘mentally ill’ to any extent because I know I’m faking it and just want validation. That was also constant. Fun times huh.

BUT IT GETS WORSE 🥲, then I had to go back to school, awful to fucking abhorrent now. Year two of sixth form fun right? Sure, if u take away the ‘no free time period’ or the wanting to kill mystery for literally a whole 3 weeks. That was my lowest peak. Ever. I’ve never wanted to kill myself before then, don’t like that feeling. Shocker huh. That mixed with the constant anxiety of nothing is right anymore and also needing to succeed at school all made one healthy dose of ‘.exe has stopped working’ juice. Yet I played the fool, acting happy as if nothing had happened, or was happening at least, and venting by imagining scenes in my head with fictional characters lmao. Telling myself ’u can’t kill yourself because u don’t deserve too and ur just asking for attraction’. Then midterms happened blah blah blah, stress but I’m numb to it now that whole story.

But that’s not to say there wasn’t a silver lining.

Onto the good things finally, yes the year was probably one of the worst years I’ve been through in my life it did not go without its positives. For example early this year I got into borderlands properly, I finally explored the fandom and had a look at what it was like. Albeit a slow process considering I was still predominantly on Instagram at the time, and finding a community of a fandom on there is impossible. I started browsing Pinterest or the Internet for images that would link to my favourite characters, Who were to no ones surprise is the calypso twins. Pinterest led me to artworks and artworks led me to the infamous Lazulizard. Who I cherish all my being. Three weeks later after looking at her entire tumblr blog and stalking her of pretty much all her content (sorry for that by the way) I found border-spam. By this point I didn’t have tumblr and I had no intention of getting it seeing as an ongoing war I’ve had with myself since 2012, declaring I will be the bigger man and never get tumblr, which in hindsight was an awful mindset. Seeing as tumblr is probably one of my favourite places on Earth right now. But after also stalking border spams account, again sorry, and starving her of any content she’d ever posted. I was happy that this fandom although as niche as it is was actually getting content. At the time spam and lazu were absolute gods to me. Being the sole producer of a fandom I probably wasn’t even in properly, having both impeccable writing and impeccable art like good God. I would often think ‘wow wouldn’t it be incredible if I actually got to talk to them one day’, now look at me I’m doing commissions for both of them good God. And to be short joining tumblr felt like a fever dream and it’s probably the greatest thing I could’ve done this year, my parents are wrong, talking to strangers is amazing.

Something notable of mention this year as I actually got to figure out who I am as a person, I was able to find my own style and to find my interests, specifically in what I liked in terms of clothing. I thought I was LOL 2012 goth hipster but no apparently I’m manic Pixie dream girl. Going from pink is the ugliest colour in the world to having it be the only colour I will ever wear. I made some pretty big choices this year like cutting pretty much all of my hair off and dying it for the first time. Thanks strict parents for only letting me do that one now. But like I said I went to a character Ark and you know what I like it. I also played BioShock fallout and horizon zero dawn for the first time this year starting to really feel like a proper epic gamer, good lord kill me, and falling in love with all of them almost immediately. I also figured out on a plant mum and I’m into vulture culture although my parents have to disagree with that one. Asking to buy an Horse and fox skull somehow scared them a little bit can’t seem to figure out why lmao.

So a conclusion, Fuck you 2020 you made me miss two comic cons and I will never forgive you for that shit I am SO mad. But I will give you the benefit of the doubt you did make me meet some absolutely incredible people who I consider my friends, despite going against every single Internet safety law I was ever taught as a child. But you know what who gives a flying shit I love you guys. So that’s what I wanted to say. I want to say thank you to everyone on here and everyone is following me or even interacted me with on that matter. You mean the world to me and I really fucking mean it. Are you going to be nothing but amazing ever since I walked onto this fucking hell hole. And what I go through all of this bullshit again if it means I ended up here? You know what I think I just might. So again I thank you and I hope your year didn’t go as badly as mine, and fuck it bring on whatever the fucks next!

Honourable mention of this year was The time Elisa actually complimented me and I cried a little bit and had a panic attack but you know that’s for another day

🥺💕

[bitch-banshee]

If you’re craving some teen wolf my dear. I’m still not over Issac not coming back. Could really use some action from my favorite pup. Maybe movie night? You can always take it how you’d like but you know, I’m always a perv for smut.

If you’re craving some teen wolf my dear. I’m still not over Issac not coming back. Could really use some action from my favorite pup. Maybe movie night? You can always take it how you’d like but you know, I’m always a perv for smut.

A/N: I got a bit carried away..hope you don’t mind, but Jesus..Issac can absolutely ruin my life.

Warning: SMUT. 18+ af. Issac is a rough and sly little sucker. Scenting (if that makes anyone uncomfy) and marking, biting, choking(not really, lightly)

Word count: 2147

Thank you so much for the ask babe 💖💖💖

@teenwolfechoes @terminallygenius @just-jordie-things

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Being apart of the hale pack was always interesting. Kanimas, Nogitsunes, Beasts and Ghost Riders we've all been through so much, so days like today, where we had a mandatory pack bonding is so mainstream.

"Der, are we doing a movie?" I slid up close to my alpha and he growled at me.

"Yeah, everyone's coming, even Issac" his treacherous and glorious eyebrows wiggled at me.

I'm sure he heard my heart jump at that small piece of information. It was no secret that I adore the sweater wearing, floppy haired beta, since before he was pack. The little flip of my heart made Derek snort and i pushed him.

"I thought you were "over" your crush on him" he teased throwing up quotes. Issac had left beacon hills for a long time, but one day he just showed up at the McCall household and slithered his way back into my fucking heart.

"I'm so not ready to see him der...i-" the words got caught in my throat as someone pounded on the door. I screeched as i smelled Scott, stiles and Malia.

"My family" i pulled the door open and tackled them. "Hi! Where are Allison and Lydia and everyone else??" I skillfully avoided that name. "We all know you mean where Issac" Malia rubbed against me, scenting thoughtfully.

I nipped at her before getting wrapped up in Scott's arms. "He's coming Eve" he whispered as he scented me as well. I grumbled "I don't care" and shrugged but my pounding heart and sweating palms definitely made it hard to make that the truth.

When he finally did show up i knew. I'd know that smell just about anywhere, I'd tattooed it inside my mind and locked it away to alway be able to sense him. When he walked in my mouth nearly dried out. Long gone were the oversized sweaters, and too long shirts. Issac filled out the door frame, broad taught shoulders that pulled and stretched the fabric of his gray t-shirt. Jeans that fit well, molded over his muscled legs.

His hair had grown, not a lot, but enough that the pieces fell into his eyes, eyes that were covered by a pair of glasses that made him look sexier than sex itself. Tiny amounts of facial hair surrounded a big smile. I froze as everyone who hadn't seen him yet went over and hugged, scented, and clapped him on the back.

I tried to pull my libido to heel but God he looked so good. I caught the icy blue of his eyes as he looked over me. My blonde hair was curled softly, my bangs too long now. Erica and I could be twins, we joked about it often. Once i thought i had a handle on my smell i made slow steps toward him. "Everleigh" he breathed, the sound raspy and nearly brought me to my knees.

"Lahey, long time " I heaved a dry laugh punching him the arm. He offered his neck to let me scent him, and although I wanted to, so bad, I couldn't trust myself not to take it too far. "S'ok, you smell like us already" i shyly backed away before turning toward the kitchen.

"Is she okay, she smells a little different" Issac asked Derek and before Derek could cover his betas ass, Malia blurted "she smells like sex" to which i slammed my head on the counter.

Erica laughed and patted my back, "don't worry babe, if Boyd wasn't my mate, I'd be on him like white are rice" she laughed openly and I growled at her, which only made her laugh harder.

I'd stayed away from him, through the pack games and pizza i was always across the room from him. Catching his eyes and quickly looking away. But like a magnet i slowly found myself closer to him, until we all sat down for the movie and i was next to him.

I was sat in the seat on the edge, angled toward the tv so we wouldn't touch. It was hard to maneuver, but it's just like the universe to not give me what i want, Jackson and Ethan squished in next to Issac, pushing him closer to me. "Sorry doll" he turned trying not to touch me, but my heart had already jumped into my throat.

"S'fine, just lay on me, since those idIOTS don't know how to share" i raised my voice and Jackson stuck his tongue out at me. "I uhh, is this okay?" He'd turned further so his back was resting against my chest. I'm sure he should feel and hear this damn organ thumping right out of my chest, but as i listened, to the sounds of the room i realized that the quick patter of mine matched his.

Throughout the movie Issac had started to run his fingers over my jean clad legs, the slow descent leaving my skin hot, only for him to ascend just as slowly. Into the second movie most everyone was dozing off but my body was wired, all too aware of Issac who had slid up and his head rested in the slope of my neck. It felt like my body was on fire, there was no way I could pay attention to the movie now. Issacs nose pressed gently into my pulse and he moved it slowly. He was scenting me.

"Don't move" his breath fanned over my hot skin, his words soft so only I could hear, even with the wolves in to room. He turned even more, my arms were laid lazily over the front of his chest. I pulled them up to thread through his hair as his lips barely touched my neck.

He rubbed slowly, deliberately over my neck, ear and shoulder. Back and forth, the soft scratch of his facial hair making my blood raise.

"You're so pink, i wonder what the color would look like somewhere else" the hot words were whispered in my ear, before his nose trailed the outer shell. I stifled a mewl, my scent floating to his nose.

"C'mon" he'd risen from the couch and pulled me with him. We walked down the hall, hidden by a wall when he pushed me up against it. His mouth was on my racing pulse point, a sharp jut of his tongue making my knees wiggle.

"Do you know what it's like to watch you flitter around to everyone, smelling your scent on them knowing that it's not on me. Do you know what it's like to want someone so bad" his whisper was harsh, just like his teeth on my throat.

"Yes, Issac, i know. I wanted to scent you, but i smelled like sex, i couldn't do that to you" my voice came out choked, strained. "Eve, please, if you would've smelled me you would've known that i smelled the same. I saw you and my cock jumped in my jeans, now show me your room" he pulled his lips from my neck and pulled my face into his hands before his lips crushed against mine. It was a needy kiss, trying to get everything and nothing at the same time. To build me up and tear me to shreds.

"Dammit" i pulled away and grabbed his shirt pulling him into the room farthest from the living room. I was so thankful I'd picked this one. We were just in the door when I pushed him against it. My face smashed into his neck, rolling my tongue over his neck and he shivered. His arms circled me, they felt strong, large hands cupped my ass. "Jump." He wasn't asking and i could only comply. My legs wrapped around his waist and as soon as i was settled he slapped his hand down onto my right ass cheek.

A moan ripped from my mouth, loud, and nasty. "You like that princess, you like when I spank you? Say it" his human teeth clamped over my neck and I whimpered out. "Yes Isaac, i love it" i breathlessly said.

He carried me to my bed, dropping me unceremoniously in the middle. "Do you want this?" He looked seriously at me, his chest heaving, staring down at me pupils blown out with lust.

"Yes, yes i want this" i tugged my black tank top over my head. I flung it across the room and he was on me, lips sliding over mine. My hand wrapped around the back of his neck and the other reached for his belt. He let me struggle while he made quick work of my bra.

It was off and then he broke away from me to pull his shirt over his head. I rolled my eyes "oh my god" I pulled myself up to my knees on the bed and latched my lips to his torso. He pulled my hair back away from my face as I pulled his jeans open.

His long fingers rolled over my peaked nipples and I groaned out. His jeans fell to the floor with a soft thud and he kicked them off. "Stand up princess" he rasped to me. I stood and dropped to his knees, kissing over my hips as he peeled my jeans from my body. "Hmm you knew I was coming" he looked up at me smiling brightly before he pulled my lace panties off my heated body.

I sighed out when he slid his finger through my folds.

"Oh you definitely knew i was coming, and soon you will be too" he kissed my stomach as a finger sank into my heat. "Ungh Issac" I moaned out, my hips rolling against the pressure.

"I'm gonna teach you not to scent me baby" he added another finger and I gripped onto his shoulders. "Issac" i squealed as his fingers curled. He pumped his digits quickly, rubbing and tugging at the part of me that made me see stars.

I came, harshly, loudly and all over his fingers. He wasted no time laying me down on my bed and as i watched he slipped his fingers into his mouth.

That elicited another dirty moan from my lips.

"Shhh baby, there are people sleeping" his dry hand slid around my throat gently. I groaned and reached for the rather large tent in his boxers. "You want this baby girl, you think you deserve it, you didn't want to scent me earlier, didn't want me to smell like you" he used his hand to turn my head, leaning down and kissing behind my ear. "Issac, please, fuck me please" i pulled at his hair and shoulders.

"Okay beautiful, anything for you" he kissed me slowly, his tongue slipping into my mouth just as his length slipped through my opening. He swallowed my sigh, I'd waited for so long for this. I wanted this for so long, to be his, for him to own me. "Yes Issac, move, please" I urged him on, eyes shut rolling against him for something, anything. For everything he'd give me. He was more than compliant.

His hips snapped to mine, before he pulled all the way out. My pussy gripping p, trying to bring him back. "Ungh, everleigh" he slammed back into me.

The pace was set and I was screaming. It felt so good, he filled me so good. "Oh god, Issac yes, ungh, please" I begged, unaware of for what.

He sped up, his lips swallowing my land while pushing his own into my mouth. He pulled away to look at me. "Let me mark you, let me make you mine, please" he held my gaze, unwavering, full of certainty. "Yes" I choked out, in between a sob and my orgasm.

With gold eyes and careful placement, his teeth sunk into my neck and a feeling like no other ripped through my body. My orgasm on top of the euphoria of being tied to another for the rest of time.

My pussy clenched and milked him before i sunk my teeth into his neck as well.

He came shaking, coating me with his love. The only coherent word on his lips was my name. He collapsed on top of me, breathing deeply.

"You're mine" he licked at the mark and I shivered. "Yes, yours, let me show you how much" I turned us so i was riding his hips. Sinking further down his length.

We made love long into the morning, the sun warmed my back and I mewled, curled around Issac. "Here’s to forever, love” he kissed me softly and I smiled, eyes still closed.

Forever Finally.

[bisexualterror]

(banner not mine, simply copied from @ao3commentoftheday)

so i have a lot of bookmarks saved on google chrome (hmu if you want me to do a writing resources list or a second fic rec), and i thought might as well do a fic rec! i seperated them by fandom’s and i did my very best to tell you why i love the fic, but i think i just rambled lmao

tagging my friends who i think might b interested: @ocfairygodmother​ @phoenixwench​ @leftzonkpsychicland​ @artish-calamity​ 

minor warning, this is a long list~

Vampire Diaries:

Bits of Sunshine is my favorite Vampire Diaries fic, it has a really funny and charming OC and gives you a different perspective of the main characters and it really inspired me with my own TVD fanfic, it’s still on hiatus but it’s nearly 500k makes up for it 

The Bystander offers a unique view to OCs, where the OC is separated from the main plot for the most part but interacts with main characters that eventually pull her in

Crimson Peak is really good if you love a powerful Bonnie Bennett, it explores the magic of Expression more and her family background and OC Bennetts and it offers a interesting plot and a rare pairing of Klaus/Bonnie

The Next Chapter is a Buffy crossover fanfic, it puts Buffy in the Vampire Diaries, and though I still haven’t finished it was pretty good at meshing the two shows and exploring more of an older Buffy ~

My Paper Heart is really good if you’ve been trying to look for f/f in this fandom and haven’t found it, it not only explores the oc’s sexuality but also their supernatural identity

beneath the steady waves of fearless hope and grace is also a really good queer bennett witch oc, the oc wakes up in TVD in the body of her parallel fictional universe self I guess you could say, and it has a lot of angst like whoo boi, prepare yourself, it’s so good! 

Human is pretty good, love their oc, it hasn’t been updates in a very long while but it has 100k+ and it’s 100% worth it if you’re looking for something different

Harry Potter:

Changes Everything is really good at addressing the potential problems in the Wizarding World through the lenses of an OC, and it has Harry getting the family he fucking deserves sooner rather than later, and it goes into amazing detail and depth over the magics of the universe. also, lots of lgbt+ characters~

@nonchalantxfish ‘s Rose Petal Red is so good, like, you want Slytherins being amazing and devious, this is the fic for you! you want ocs galore?? this is for you! you want changes to the plot but with serious consequences?? this one is for YOU! Although it’s on haitus rn, it has a shit ton of words, like 500k+ and it’s 100% worth it~

The Clockwork Locket is so good guys, it’s an Marauder era fic, and it has an amazing mix of humor and mystery and romance and friendship and by the end you’ll be shipping the oc with literally everyone lmao, but overall it’s just really good if you’re looking for a Sirius/OC but still want to read about the mysteries in Hogwarts and the OC has her own plot and storyline. The second installment is still in progress but the first installment is like 270k words

Daphne Greengrass, Side Character is what it says on the tin, it’s about daphne and takes a different approach to the character with humor and wit, it’s very enjoyable, still not finished but it’s at 100k+ words

To Be a Slytherin, pretty sure everyone’s seen this one at one point, it’s a really good oc potter twin fanfic, goes into detail with magic and it’s just really good and has one of the longest word count i’ve ever seen at 1,166,349 

The Observer Effect is a MCU crossover with adult fem!Harry, it hasn’t been updating in a while, but from what I remember it’s super good and funny!

Naruto:

A Holmes in Konoha is super good, an Holmes OC is reincarnated as a orphan in Konoha, it explores the Nara’s more and it’s just so good at meshing investigation, friendship and relationships, action and drama~ 

Deja vu no Justu is a time travel fic, it’s really good, have not caught up to it since it first started but it has 500k+ words written and from what I remember it was very well written, like holy shit that was good writing ~

How to Obtain a Reverse Harem in Naruto by @burntpetal16 is pretty freakin good at making me laugh, it’s a remake of their finished fanfic, Sakura, which is equally as good, it’s about an self-insert OC suddenly waking up as Sakura, and Sakura def does what it says on the tin but also there’s an air of mystery surrounding the OC and how they got in the universe who she was before

The Yondaime’s Assistant is finished at 165k+ words and it’s good, like so good, it’s an OC reincarnated into Naruto fanfic, and it’s different from a lot of other OCs in the fandom because the OC goes into the Genin Corps instead of going out into the field, the writer manages to enthrall you with paperwork basically as the OC saves people from the background, it’s also endgame poly relationship between her, Genma and Kakashi!

After the Rain is a fem!Naruto time-travel fanfic, another fic which i haven’t finished, but from what I remember it was it’s done really well and has a lot of angst and drama and action and it’s just, prepare YOSELF for HEART wrenching ANGST!! also it’s 500k+ words!

The Witcher:

The Sorceress, The Witcher, The Bard and a Girl is what it says on the tin, it’s AU and an established ot3 situation w Yen/Geralt/Jaskier and it’s just,,, family fluff, disgusting domestic with all the drama that comes with three emotionally... complicated people trying to raise a young girl who has powers, starts off in a small town

Lullaby of the Isles is more so the game/book fandom, but it’s so good that I just didn’t care about that small fact, it’s still only four chapters but all together those four chapters have 17k+, and it’s about an OC suddenly waking up as a siren, a boss monster siren to exact, right after the siren had killed someone, and it’s just really good and different

And Yet Here We Are  is a collection of more ot3 fanfic of Yen/Geralt/Jaskier, it’s basically a lot of sexy times, but also some funny situations

to grow in adversity is the only fanfic that on this list i haven’t actually read, but the premise seems interesting enough, it’s about Renfri surviving and it has Jaskier as her baby bro

Better Love is surprise! another ot3 fanfic, only this time, you get to feel the pain of an unestablished relationship, it’s basically just Yen & Jaskier bickering while Yen tries to get Jaskier to fuck Geralt. It’s v horny, with a big hunking side of angst and some fluff. Completed and waiting for me to finish the last two chapter!

Teen Wolf: 

Sonder is @musiciatee​ ‘s OC fanfic, and it’s so good??? like every update I get to read blesses my imaginary crops, cures my depression and makes my skin glow like an goddess. If you’re looking for a good POC OC in this fandom, this is it okay. 

Kerosene Hearts and Matchbox Bodies is an OC fanfic, by @thegalanerd​, it’s being reworked right now, but 100% worth the read, but like, I would recommend any of their fanfics, it’s all very good like HOLY SHET it’s good. 

Red Rover, Red Rover is a pretty damn good OC fic, it’s on hiatus but it has 73 chapters and like nearly 500k words, it’s very dramatic, angsty, slow burn, mysterious, and the OC has their own little drama to deal with outside of the main plot

The Unconventional Life of Abigail McCall is probably one everyone has read by now, but if you haven’t, give it a shot, it made me smile a lot

Doctor Who: 

Three of a Kind, The Stuff of Legends is an male OC Tyler fanfic, and by god it is so good, very angsty, lots of drama, very AU, lowkey domestic, this drama gay OC must be protecccted at all costs

London Born is another Tyler OC, but Rose and her have different dad’s and she’s a character of color and bisexual, it’s just such a good fucking story and a favorite of mine, it’s also very AU and has a lot of original stories that the OC goes on, sometimes by themselves. It’s the first in a series, but this first installment is finished so I’d suggest subscribing to the collection for the second installment~

The Blonde Girl is the first installment of an AU of Rose’s start in the Doctor’s life, starting with them meeting randomly during different parts of their life and it basically slowly weaves Rose into the Doctor’s life/past. It’s really good, haven’t finished it yet, but I liked how they changed/expanded Rose’s character. Once you finish that you’ll want to start Defender of the Earth and The Companion Connection, the other’s I haven’t read yet so I don’t know the order they go in, but they’re all like 100k+ words and the author is still regularly updating their newest installment so enjoy~

Alexander-The Seer and Changer of Time is probably the longest DW OC fic out here, and was only last updated early last, but at a word count of  1477k+, I’m sure we’ll survive. This is another fic I haven’t finished reading, but one I’d high recommend either way. If I’m remembering correctly, don’t like quote me on this, but I believe their OC was non gender conforming.

The Dread of Tomorrow and Yesterday  was sadly cut short before the author finished, but the OC is so amazing and just my hero, and a character of color, will fight everyone and probably win, and just I love this OC so much and even though it probably won’t ever be finished it’s worth the read and it’s at nearly 800k so, enjoy each word~

Sailor Moon:

Rabbit of the Moon, is literally the ONLY fic I’m rec in this fandom, mainly because it’s the only fanfic I’ve ever read in this fandom, but it’s so good, like I was just feeling nolgastic over what was my first anime, but the OC is so...scary and smart and cunning and intense af

Twilight:

Twilight'd is a really good OC, it made me laugh a lot, and it makes you love the characters more than the actual writer made you like them

A Hundred Winks of Sunshine by @tsume-yuki​ is so good, like, I don’t know how to articulate how much I love their SI!Bella, like, I don’t read these types of stories a lot, but, tbh any story made them is just worth taking the risk to read because you won’t be let down. It’s very funny and charming and so good!

GOT/ASOIAF:

How To Lose Your Dragon is not really what it says on the tin, trust me I would never read a fic that would have anyone steal Dany’s dragons, it’s just the dragons like Jon, hmm I wonder why?? kind of fic, and I really love the way the writer writes Dany 

Can beauty come out of ashes is another Dany-centric fanfic, and it’s really good so far, but I’m only on the second chapter so I can’t say much but I like the idea of the Starks and Dany becoming pack. It ignores s7-8, so we already love~

MCU:

The Scientist is a good Loki/OC fanfic, like it’s so good because the OC doesn’t put up with any shit, and is very smart and it’s just so freakin good and cute and such a fucking slow burn, like get ready for some slow burn

Just An Old Fashioned Love Song by @izhunny​ is such a good Frostiron fic, like, so fucking good, just THE FLUFF~ THE DOMESTICS??? SO GOOD!! ALSO!! ALMOST ALWAYS MAKES ME FREAKING HUNGRY!!! haven’t finished this, but I’d highly recommend it 

Code Blue by @jarvis-is-my-copilot​ likeee, I haven’t finished reading this either, haha sorry, but I really like the OCs and it’s just.....SO....GOOD!!!

The Wooden Puppet is a really good OC fanfic, very different from ur usual OC, love the way the OC interacts with the characters and I love the way it started, it’s hilarious

Archaic Kinds Of Fun is like, all of my dreams and hopes for the Avengers put into one fic with an amazing OC, like did you want the team as a family, or hell even friends??? do you want them to get fuckin therapy??? HERE YOU GO! It hasn’t been updated in a while because the author has been through a tough time, but it’s at 370k+ and it’s just really good. an inspiration to me. Bruce/OC too, which is rare, but like, it’s just so fuckin cute and the OC is super fucking close w Tony too and Loki joins in later in the fic and it adds some comic book characters but, WOO, it’s just...SO GOOD!

Lilies Say Sorry is another Loki/OC fanfic that I liked that didn’t make me concerned over the power dynamics of Loki being a, well god. It’s the first in it’s installment, still haven’t finished the second installment, shocking, I know, it’s almost like I have a habit of doing that. But I’d highly suggest reading this, it’s just so good and the DRAMA!

I Need You is a Tony/Reader, and like, I usually don’t read Reader fics, but holy shit this is so good and the Author doesn’t do Y/N to address the character, but like, it’s just really good at drawing you in and it’s good at putting the character into the movies in a fresh way. It cured my acne. Very regular updates. almost at 400k. 

Caught Hot-Rod Red Handed is a Stony fic, it’s really fucking good at making me laugh so I’d highly suggest reading this if you’re feeling low, but also don’t read this late at night, you’ll wake up ur family and make them think ur laughing in ur sleep

Life In The Fast Lane is a Fast and Furious crossover fanfic, it’s the first installment, but you don’t need to know anything about the movies to be able to read it, it’s Tony/OC, (hahha you can literally see who I favor from my recs), and it’s so good, and the OC is bisexual and I love her and more people need to read because the author writes romance and action so freaking good

ps: please leave a nice review on their fanfics if you do read and enjoy some of these, because just one nice comment can make a fanfic writers day if not week, it lets them know that real people really are reading their stuff, even if it’s just a ‘good chapter’

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King’s X - Out of the Silent Planet (from Gretchen Goes to Nebraska 1989)

Take what you’ve learned, set it free

See what you’ll see

Sometimes I wonder whether I was conscious in seventh grade. I mean, I literally was -- I’m haunted by the spectre of my English teacher, a proper Southern gentleman, picking his nose and thoughtfully examining his findings. Nevertheless, life before eighth grade took place in a viscous mental state, as though my right-handed brain was trying to think left-handed while confined inside a jello mold. Sometime during eighth grade, someone -- probably my new, kleenex-using English teacher -- added metaphorical acid or whatever disintegrates jello to my metaphorical jello mold and all the mental viscosity slurped away and my mind regained use of its dominant hand, which promptly threw into the air a prehistoric bone that turned into a spaceship: DUN-DUNNNNNNH! Everything turned sharper, quicker, clearer.

That wouldn’t happen until the fall of 1990. Before that, glurb. But in the spring semester of 1990, two sparks of nascent consciousness appeared: I started listening to the Top 40 countdown every Saturday morning, and my parents got me my very own magazine subscription from Focus on the Family.

Breakaway magazine was the FOTF empire’s new method for colonizing the minds of teenage boys. (The mysterious Brio took care of the girls.) FOTF, you’ll recall, is the evangelical nonprofit founded by Dr. James Dobson, noted child psychologist, religious ponderer, unrepentant spanker, suave complementarian, and in 2008, the doomsaying author of “Letter From 2012 In Obama’s America,” which let’s just say didn’t pan out. A mixed legacy. But his impact on my developing aesthetic was profound.

I’d get really excited whenever my parents got mail from Dr. Dobson, because his newsletters opened up my small Missouri town (population 5,280) to The World. I mean, “Piss Christ”! Somewhere out there was a motherfucking photo of a CRUCIFIX submerged in Andres Serrano’s URINE. I wasn’t a complete dope -- this was clearly supposed to offend me, but it was still pretty cool. As was The Last Temptation of Christ. Dr. Dobson’s movie critics could have said, “This movie is thoughtful and anguished for three hours and you’ll probably go to sleep,” which is what happened when I watched it a few years later. But no! Sex with Mary Magdalene! The disciples spitting bloody transubstantiated flesh out of their mouths! (Sadly, that bit didn’t make the shooting script.) This fucking thing was so lurid I knew I had to see it -- you know, so I could condemn it with authority.

When Breakaway started, its music reviews were disguised as an advice column. Some kid (or FOTF plant) would write in asking what the fatherly columnist thought of, say, Paula Abdul’s “Opposites Attract.” Fatherly columnist would hold the music’s lyrics up to Scripture’s plumb line and discern whether we his readership should fill our ears with this tripe. Occasionally he’d mention the music. “Opposites Attract” didn’t pass the test. Its overall message was good, averred fatherly columnist, but that line about “She makes the bed/And he steals the covers” implied Paula and her boyfriend were sleeping together outside marriage, rendering the song off-limits for Christian teens. This was reasonable.

Even so, thoughts arrived like butterflies. What if Paula Abdul was supposed to be married to the Wild Pair? By quoting this troublesome line in Breakaway, wasn’t fatherly columnist soiling our minds as thoroughly as if we’d just listened to “Opposites Attract”? Which I continued to do, btw, even though it’s clearly the second worst single off the first two Abdul albums. (Since you asked, “Knocked Out.”) In fact, the sexual implications of the line only occurred to me because of fatherly columnist’s advice! After which they continued to occur to me. Daily. Again and again.

Fatherly columnist was also no fan of Depeche Mode’s “Personal Jesus.” He couldn’t understand why le Mode would be so sarcastic about the Savior of the world, and he encouraged us to call radio stations that were playing the song and breathe heavily into the phone -- “hoohoohoo hahaha hoohoohoo HA!” Either that or we could just tell the DJ how offended we were. I dialed our local radio station once when they were airing that bit of blasphemy. The DJ didn’t answer, drunk as he was on the blood of nubile goats.

I swear we’ll get back to King’s X in a second, but let the record show that two years later, Breakaway gave a hearty recommendation to the first Arrested Development album, despite some “mild profanities” and “sexual images.” While fatherly columnist was fishin’ 4 sex and cusswords, he’d presumably also heard the lines, “This government needs to be overthrown/ Brothers with their AKs and their 9mms/ Need to learn how to correctly shoot them/ Save those rounds for revolution/ Poor whites and blacks bumrushing the system.” Since he didn’t mention those lines in his review, I assumed he approved. For those following along at home, here’s the Focus on the Family scorecard. Stealing the covers outside marriage: not good. Blaspheming Gnostic Jesus: worthy of protest. Armed revolution: OK!

In my first or second issue of Breakaway, “somebody” “asked” about King’s X. The reply was the most important record review I’ve ever read in my life.

“Nobody knows about King’s X, and they’re great!” raved fatherly columnist. He knew about them: a hard rock trio from Texas who harmonized like the Beatles and were inspired by C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy. Dad had a copy of the Space Trilogy on his shelf, and it had seemed tempting yet forbidding for years. (Like spending a night on the Fixed Land, amirite?) I had to hear this music. I would find Gretchen Goes to Nebraska at the mall.

I wish I could tell you I played the opening song, “Out of the Silent Planet,” with its ethereal 12-string bass riff and its cryptic Christianese lyrics, and felt lifted to new vistas of nirvana and/or joy. I was actually a little disappointed. It’s not like I had so much money to spend on tapes, and the mall was a half hour away! For eight bucks or whatever, I wanted seismic life disruptions. I wanted “Sweet Child O’ Mine” reshaping my fear of hard rock into bliss, or Exposé’s “Tell Me Why” making me jump around the bedroom. King’s X had their moments but they were a little weird.

I told my parents as much a few months later: “They’re kind of like a cult band.” They stared at me from the breakfast nook, bewildered, as though I’d started heavy breathing “Personal Jesus” into their faces. Not an occult band, I quickly backtracked -- “their lyrics are weird and they’re maybe Christian, maybe not.” Why on earth was I throwing around words like “cult band” and “lyrics”? Had I gotten this stuff from Breakaway or Casey Kasem? Whatever. My parents seemed satisfied with this explanation, little concerned that their son was dabbling in the dark art of rock criticism.

My friends, it got worse from there. That fall, on Saturday nights after Twin Peaks, I started falling asleep on my bedroom floor while listening to college radio. (Dad, a Lutheran pastor, would be in the next room with a highball, writing the next morning’s sermon until 1 or 2 in the morning.) Lindenwood College’s Crossroads show played mostly mainstream Christian rock -- Petra, Stryper, Holy Soldier, Idle Cure, Geoff Moore, Liaison -- but sometimes they’d throw in alt-rock bands like The Choir. King’s X’s album Faith Hope Love came out in October of 1990, and at least four of its songs swiftly entered Crossroads’ rotation. Eagerly taping them off the radio, I got the same shivery music fan feeling I’ve only had a couple times since -- that affirmation of a private pleasure being embraced by the outside world. It was thrilling. (I assume this is how hardcore Metallica fans felt about the Black Album.) I heard Gretchen with new ears and expected King’s X to conquer the music world. I had no idea what that could possibly mean.

Here, in a nutshell, we find the perpetual joy and heartache of King’s X fans.

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Must-watch Super Best Friends LPs: A curated list

So, I tried to get a friend of mine into bestfriends when he was in active service and didn’t have much time to sit and watch youtube. While I think you should probably watch all of the bestfriends content, aint nobody got time for that, and there are certain LPs that are just better ones. Here’s a list of what I consider to be the best SBFP lets plays. There won’t be any ‘Matt’s toybox’ or one-offs, only full LPs.

Predator: Concrete Jungle - Originator of Jerry the Predator, the very first bestfriends OC. Also I really like the Predator so this trash game getting ripped to shreds by the anti-hype machine makes me feel good. https://youtu.be/0wF6r-JRTvQ

Eternal Darkness - The climax of the very first Shitstorm of Scariness. Genesis of the Insanity Shotgun, marking out about recognizing Metal Gear Solid voice actors, INSANITY EFFECTS and freaking out about the bathtub scare despite knowing it was coming. https://youtu.be/lYRVeFkTvCM

Silent Hill: Homecoming - First half of the Downcoming series. ‘MY HOUSE!’ ‘Why is the knife the best weapon? Just do knife combos to them, thats survival horror’ https://youtu.be/GLgN5WSiiX4

Silent Hill: Downpour - Second half of the Downcoming series. The first time I saw the guys play a game that was brand new at the time. Pat & Matt getting upset about the downturn of one of my and their favorite series. The famous Axe Throw that launched a career is in this one too I believe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5ofoIeb8wI&list=PLAD720396A1870C8E

Resident Evil 2 - Earliest recorded footage of Pat’s stand CRAZY TALK where he claims to know a thing or be an expert and is proven unequivocably wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cgbuv3cB1Q&list=PLB8826287748EFE7C

Final Fight: Streetwise - What happens when you take a classic beat em up and try to make it cool and modern with lots of Slipknot music? It ages fucking poorly that’s what. ‘I got a receipt for my Tatsu’ ‘I’d like to return this shoryureppa’, Live footage of the bestfriends souls leaving their body in The Stiff boss fight, Some actually decent writing and lines such as ‘Feeling good about potentially feeling good’ which Matt will quote for years to come. https://youtu.be/HnRNyfzKLL8

Man vs Wild - Not so much a must-watch as it’s just the boys in their element, playing shovelware, deliberately failing QTEs to laugh at how pitiful it looks when you do, making fun of people’s accents, and much more. Indicative of the bestfriends style of sort of mst3king videogames. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1NGPAOrE80&list=PL57hJfweW_2s2jyxas78kIib9M3jGduU8

Heavy Rain - The very first game played in the Sadness trilogy. ‘Oh no, I made ze bad game’, more fucking up of QTEs when it’d be funny, Detective Shelby’s PI Gumball technique after shooting thirty rounds out of a handgun without reloading, FUTURE GLASSES, and other classics. Woolie will play this himself on a livestream, many years later, which is also a good watch. https://youtu.be/Qe-SpjInztQ

Indigo Prophecy - The first game of the Sadness trilogy, though it was played later than Heavy Rain. Space kung-fu, zombie sex with a lady you barely know, your choices don’t matter!, Slagging off of David Cage intensifies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YacYbUC_FmQ&list=PL57hJfweW_2sOt01sX9TtQRkzv5RS231f

Charles Barkley’s Shut Up And Jam: Gaiden - Seems to be originally selected as a ‘ha ha, we’re playing a bad and stupid game to laugh at it’ but then discovering it’s legitimately awesome despite being frankly ridiculous. If you can’t play the game yourself, this is a very good substitute. https://youtu.be/xNc9R1zfwM0

Beyond: Two Souls - The third game of the Sadness trilogy. David Cage creeping on Ellen Paige in real life and making her be naked in his game, E MO SHUNS, having feelings but not knowing where to put them, ‘I’ll be your Stand! ORARARARARARA’, Underwater chinese ghost base. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA_VUoePgrc&list=PL57hJfweW_2ulXc25A-LxxHXMPqLOwrsf

Deadly Premonition - Swery65′s magnum opus, if only he could’ve put bicycles in the game. He totally didn’t watch Twin Peaks you guys. ‘QUIIIIIIINT!’, ‘Stinky agent’, radio fast travel stock tire screech sfx, monkey noise squirrels and a weird amount of attention paid to food. Matt named his pet cat Zach due to this game, so it’s an extra important part of the bestfriends lore. https://youtu.be/dsbfmIqP-H8

Disaster: Day of Crisis - Metal Gear Solid except the giant robots are natural disasters. Gotta get revenge on the volcano for killing my buddy. Eating watermelons while on fire. Don’t forget to take your stami-nas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Sx8gqSjkMY&list=PL57hJfweW_2t-vHWWeqjY2SKH4vaqotZ6

Yakuza 4 - My first exposure to the Yakuza game series and actually a good starting point for people that don’t know anything about it. The hype, badassery, and hilarity in all its glory. Who’s ready for a shirtless fight on top of Millennium Tower? https://youtu.be/xOKx_79BEhY

Prison Break - More shovelware where they fail stealth sequences a million times, fail QTEs because it’s hilarious, and can’t show too much violence because it’s a T-rated game. https://youtu.be/TsjGGGSZabA

Resident Evil 4 HD - Get hype for suplexing priests, El Gigante, Doctor Salvatore, Isn’t that Mexican spanish not Spanish Spanish? Commando shit and the RE movie, Oops Ashley is dead again, Pat is bad at puzzles and crazy talk activates. https://youtu.be/qsazQp4VlI0

Silent Hill 2 - Everything is illness, or else its condoms! The nurses are TOO STRONG!, the boys actually just enjoying a game and (mostly) being good at it for once.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsYYIjaNPP8&list=PL57hJfweW_2vMmw0MLZp8I16DA-Qev8ec

Resident evil Revelations 2 - Re vuh lay uh tons!, Wait how’d a non mainline resi game get this good?, MOIRA MC TAGGART MC MURPHY, another co-op LP where Matt’s actual role in the game mechanics is to point out ammo and health items that Pat missed. https://youtu.be/THfgNlcNa98

Resident Evil 3 - Jill Valentine’s not actually last escape, Crazy Talk activates several times, Shitting on Hunter-D’s, being a huge coward constantly like the hero of RE brad vickers. https://youtu.be/G5pXyRhs7FM

Ride to Hell - Legendarily bad game played by canadian losers that make fun of it constantly. Source of just SO MANY bestfriends gifs including casual priest drownings, getting shot during cutscenes, and Qui-gon chi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEw04pKaVs4&list=PL57hJfweW_2srGztN1iedcFd-BV5X1Ram

Parasite Eve - It’s time for Aya Breakowski to GET HOT. It’s a squaresoft game all right, dogs with sniper rifles, finishing downloading arcana heart, and the heroest of hero cops willingly lighting on fire to give you a gun. https://youtu.be/dHY5ZBSHzyw

Danganronpa - Ultra Despair Girls - First recorded instance of being incredibly hype and getting into the cool pop art aesthetic, komaeda memes, and then all hype leaving our body, and out of context shouting KILL THOSE SHIT KIDS! https://youtu.be/qYtYp4oWBhU

Life is Strange - Liam’s rivalry with another wimpy boy, Hotdogman: Who is he?, You sacrificed everyone for your Ship? Are you Griffith?, and rewinding time to fuck with people for kicks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XZ7-wFLnfI&list=PL57hJfweW_2u1mKS5UFNgx-voVAvTlkT9

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain - Built-up hype from over one thousand years of waiting is collectively released. Psycho Mantis is OP, let the legend come back to life, GREATEST SOLDIER IN THE WORLD BIG BOSS, D-dog is the cutest and bestest of boys, and famously awkward jeep ride. https://youtu.be/505vXWYkxcw

Afro Samurai - Perhaps the shovelest of ware ever played on the channel. It’s very short, only 3 parts, about 90 minutes of gameplay, something that everyone should be super hype about but ends up being the most shitted on game since perhaps one of the Sadness games. https://youtu.be/wIXqEulMTIo

Resident Evil Zero HD - Get hyped for Oven Man mk2, math puzzles, getting pissed off at Eliminators, Rebecca! God dammit Rebecca! I love youuuuu rebeccaaaaaa, Leech Man, and playing dress-up. https://youtu.be/Mhnthhluh70

Metal Wolf Chaos - Giant robots and engrish, more than your body can handle! AMERICA!!!! Richard Hawke! OK, Lets PARTEEEEEEEY! Tons of references they’ll be using until the end of time https://youtu.be/Mhnthhluh70

Naruto: The Broken Bond - ‘Wait, this game is actually good?’ and then three parts later oops no its not. Second instance of being super hyped at first and then all joy slowly being sucked out of the boys’ body. Do your rasengan, even when you’re not playing as Naruto! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo92m-rfeHA&list=PL57hJfweW_2uIIqa3HTcbsvM5LO1ObM_5

The Punisher - Rice cookers, My family-family-family!, guessing Frank’s one-liners, violent safety PSAs, and interrogating the boat https://youtu.be/wznGw9fJNCc

Disaster Report - ‘Is this Disaster day of crisis’ sequel?’, The honeycomb-caisonne method, press triangle to HEY!, be mean to your waifu, and abandon your friends like a hero would do. https://youtu.be/UYiwWU8EZcU

Final Fantasy X - Matt talks about Lulu’s boobs a lot, BLEETSBOLL, Wakka the racist, kimahri push, Finding all the memes possible, Hype Cactaur!, ‘I’ll pay you to fuck off, okay?’, and punting a boss over the horizon. A long watch and the boys are kinda bad at the game but good for the patient. https://youtu.be/qpZeMkthdZ8

Omikron: The Nomad Soul - The secret first entry of the Sadness Trilogy, ‘Get in the slider!’, Blackface Boyz, The real final boss is david cage!, getting trapped in bug purgatory, yes this is how you should honor the memory David Bowie by playing this game, Using the power of all three bestfriends to beat the game, and having no consequences for failure right up until THE MOST CONSEQUENCES. https://youtu.be/691RrF9pnaU

Silent Hill 3 -  No talking during the cut scenes, beef jerky, a detective does a Jerry Seinfeld on Silent Hill by accident, and ‘It’s a metaphor for dicks/childbirth!‘

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4wERZf6bns&list=PL57hJfweW_2v34HsPK-4Hfqmkb22zjBWC

Tony Hawk’s Underground - Woolie lives the skateboarder life he never could for real. ‘Won’t they notice that it’s not Eric Sparrow on the video when they see a clearly black man doing that jump?’, Eric Sparrow is basically up there with Griffith for villains the bestfriends hate the most, and ‘I can do a grind all day’ https://youtu.be/3HLPS_nwHG8

Parasite Eve 2 - More of Breakowski and getting HOT, ‘This is basically a survival horror game’, The dog from Independance Day must survive or else you’re on the bad ending! https://youtu.be/JedQqaXdWLc

LA Noire - The big one, the one I always suggest for new bestfriends watchers as being emblematic of their style and sense of humor and weaknesses as players. Woolie can’t navigate this map, ‘Sometimes you’ve gotta shake the tree and see what falls out’, Shotgun man wrecks your shit!, making noises to go along with the faces that the characters are making, ‘Pedophilia? That’s a free pass in my town sir’, Stealing the worst possible cars because they thought it’d be cool, forgetting the controls for every single fistfight sequence, Cole Phelps super cop!, and LP Funsies. https://youtu.be/-bPqjD_zg5g

Policenauts - Kojima’s game from when he was allowed to work on things besides Metal Gear. It’s definitely white blood and not anything sexual, SHOOTINGU SEQUENCE, Holy crap our main character is a bigoted piece of shit!, Figure out the bomb puzzle!, We’re definitely not Riggs and Murtagh to the point where Woolie says ‘I’m gettin too old for this shit’ about 70 times, and the uncomfortable truth of cloning. https://youtu.be/kWcecAHiOys

Dead Space 2- Notable mostly for me as Dead Space 2 was the first bestfriends video I ever saw back when they were on Machinima, so I was quoting Space Rave and asking Matt if he needed a blankey to fight the monsters. https://youtu.be/1QzY-TjFGFI

Resident Evil 7 - We hate the molded as an enemy type, OOOH GOD DAMMIT JACK, He fucking exploded into goo!, What was your plan?, I can’t shoot the granny, We definitely used a pump action shotgun in world war 2 (Actually yes we did, Matt), Shadow puzzles, that part of a lady is where all the wasps shoot out, and What that guy doesn’t look like Chris Redfield who is this impostor?! https://youtu.be/SyAZ2-nijDE

Def Jam: Fight for NY - The introduction of Woolie’s OC: Rage beats up rappers, steals their girlfriends, and doesn’t understand intimacy, The full might of Matt’s hatred for Bless is brought out, and they talk about the Aki engine’s contributions to humanity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lry0SYYkvas&list=PL57hJfweW_2tWHTvp2ESXbzp1-jh6YJMQ

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Riverdale Season 5 Episode 1 Review – Chapter 77: Climax

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This RIVERDALE review contains spoilers.

Riverdale Season 5 Episode 1

“Clearly our last two weeks of high school are going to be fraught…”

Friends, on this day we find this country starting a new chapter, one that is full of hope and excitement for the future.

I am of course referring to the airing of Riverdale‘s season premiere, a somewhat wheel-spinning, melodramatic affair that feels more like the closing pages of a book than the start of another story.

And that’s because it is precisely that. This episode was a leftover from last year, filmed but not completed production until the pandemic lockdown was over. As such it thrusts us into the start of the endgame of last season’s storylines — namely the fallout of the Betty and Archie kiss, Mr. Lodge’s illness and how he is using vigilantism to cope with it, the mysterious (and suitably anachronistic videotapes) arriving at the doorsteps of Riverdale residents, and the gang prepping for their imminent post-high school lives.

There’s a lot to be told here until the show finishes telling this specific story. Writers Ace Hasan and Greg Murray handle this arguably thankless task with aplomb, squeezing out the necessary exposition needed to push the plot points towards their approaching conclusion while shoehorning in a (now unfortunate) Katy Keene tie-in. To be fair, it’s a solid episode. Just one that, through no fault of its own, doesn’t really work as a season premiere.

That minor gripe aside, there’s a lot to enjoy here. First and foremost are Archie’s struggles. It was wise for the showrunners to make the character realize that he is a bit of a rudderless dolt. Addressing this most obvious of character flaws makes our oft-shirtless protagonist that much more of a likable guy. He’s discovered that while he has some options — running the gym is his best bet — he also needs to clear his head, and getting out of Riverdale would help with that greatly.

Now that the Navy isn’t an option, and he’s questioning his whole life. This results in his destroying his relationship with Veronica by telling her about his illicit kiss with Betty. One, it should be mentioned, that made Betty feel super uncomfortable…although that could’ve just been the terrible song Archie wrote for her.

The deception is enough to blow apart the pair’s “endgame” status…at least until after the upcoming time jump and their old flame is inevitably rekindled. (Even though we know that Veronica will be married to the jerky Chad Gekko, another Katy Keene character climbing aboard the Riverdale express). Much drama will ensue, but in the show’s now, they are done. What’s the over/under until we see Veronica performing “Bittersweet Symphony” at La Bonne Nuit?

Elsewhere, the Choni ship (I am in my forties and just wrote those words!) is threaten by the ghost of the greatest thing to ever happen on Riverdale: The Blossom family’s Maple Syrup Blood Feud. It’s not that Toni’s Nana has an issue with her granddaughter’s sexuality — although she kinda does — but more that Toni is dating a sworn enemy of the Lopez family. As much as I love me some Shakespeareian motifs, these characters regularly deal with serial killers and cult members. So the family drama here isn’t really very compelling, you know?

The most interesting thing happening on Riverdale right now is also its most frustrating, the saga of The Auteur. Betty didn’t tell Jughead about Archie’s shitty song or the kiss because in her mind, it wasn’t that big of a deal. Just a sort of awkward thing that happened in the moment that isn’t worth blowing up her life over. Adult decision making at its finest! Whether or not this choice impacts her relationship with Jughead, and I bet it does, will be revealed soon. Right now though they are doing what they love the most, investigating a mystery. One that really needs to ramp up the excitement and fast.

David seems to be too obvious of a choice to be the identity of the Auteur. It also goes against the show’s habit of making the protagonist someone we already know. Episodes from last season have shown us Charles and Chip plotting together for a yet to be revealed reason. To a lesser degree, Evelyn Evernever is a possibility too. But this episode raises the most intriguing potential suspect yet.

Jellybean Jones.

Think about it. She is a cipher of a character, one who would have had access to Jughead’s stories and knows about almost every aspect of his life. Perhaps she is making these videos because she is scared about him going away to school. Maybe they are some sort of bizarre revenge plot cooked up by Jellybean and Gladys Jones against Jughead and FP? By making Jellybean the auteur this creates more drama for the ever-complicated Jughead and gives him a personal tragedy that mirrors what Betty experienced with her father. I truly feel that Jellybean being at David’s film fest/rave by herself (we never see her friends she is supposedly with) is much more than a red herring. Time will tell. But we need to see some clarity on what the motives behind these tapes are, ASAP.

And so Riverdale is back. While we are watching the blending of the programs fourth and fifth seasons unfold due to real-life production concerns, it remains the most welcome of escapes.

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Riverdale Rundown

• This episode was filmed before production on the series was shut down due to Covid-19. As such, the next few installments will cover the gang’s final weeks at Riverdale High before jumping ahead seven years — which will occur in what was originally intended to be last year’s season finale. And you thought Doctor Who was timey wimey.

• The above explanation also explains why a character from a cancelled CW series — K.O. Kelly from Katy Keene — plays such a crucial role in tonight’s proceedings.

• Speaking of Katy Keene, that show took place during the time period that Riverdale is about to jump ahead to — one in which Hiram Lodge has completely recovered from his mystery disease.

• Did anyone else find Archie’s constant referring to K.O. as bro endearing? And OF COURSE these two characters were given a shirtless workout montage/steam room scene. Besides, what’s an episode of Riverdale without plenty of gratuitous objectification?

• Archie really did himself no favors by neglecting to mention to Veronica how Betty shut him down after his attempt to woo her. Communication is the key to a solid, healthy relationship, fam!

• Ashleigh Murray’s Josie McCoy was a main character on Katy Keene, yet as of this writing it is unclear if she will return to Riverdale or not this season. (And for the record, Archieverse showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa hasn’t permanently shut the door on some sort of Katy Keene revival either).

• The cancelled fifth season of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina would have been a major crossover with Riverdale. Although we were denied that magic, if the above official key art is to be believed, it does seem that we will be getting some major supernatural happenings is season. Afterlife with Archie anyone?

• Archie’s scars from his bear attack really come and go, don’t they?

• Kett Turton returns tonight as David, the owner of the Blue Velvet video store. His perfect recreation of David Lynch’s cadence and mannerisms combined with the costume department seemingly raiding the Twin Peaks mastermind’s wardrobe is a perfect illustration of how Riverdale commits to its goofiness 100%.

• I’m not sure, but I think the Black Hood movie being shown in room 317 is a very subtle reference to the Miss Saigon song that also takes place in that location.

• In a nice callback, some of the tickling videos like the ones Kevin and Fangs made are being shown at the film party/rave. (Along with snippets of exploitation/art flicks clearly inspired by the works of Kenneth Anger and Herschell Gordon Lewis).

• “You had me at snuff film.” Here’s hoping Kevin Keller never changes.

• Cheryl is at her most Cheryl tonight, melodramatically spewing lines like “perhaps your camera will capture the sublime tragedy of my life” with an effortlessness that would make Bette Davis proud.

• Putting Fizzle Rocks in the punchbowl, classic Reggie Mantle.

• Further evidence of how this show is, to quote The Tragically Hip, chronologically fucked up, the songs played at the prom were Sixpence None the Richer’s “Kiss Me,” BoDeans’ “Closer to Free” (itself the theme song to another popular teen show, Party of Five), Collective Soul’s “The World I Know,” Mazzy Star’s timeless “Fade Into You,” and Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer.” Would any of these songs actually be played at a prom taking place in whatever year in the 2010’s this series is set in? Your guess is as good as mine.

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Izuru Kamakura and Hajime Hinata - Twins!AU

Well, for those of you who have been following me for while, you know I am just a sucker for Hajime and Izuru Twins!AU. So, I have some headcannons.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Twins!AU:

You see that DR Plot we all know? Now, chuck it out the window and say it with me: Fuck it. Hajime and Izuru are twins, and Hope's Peak Academy is just a elite high school, but it is a public high school. There is no Reserve Course and Main Course. It's just a normal high school.

Disclaimer: This AU is not my idea. I just have some headcannons, and I actually have no idea who started the AU (but I guess you can look it up if you really want to know). But, if my headcannons sound close to another person's headcannons you have seen, it means I agree with them on that. I didn't steal anything from them, because it's there idea, not mine, I made headcannons based off what they said. I mean, I found some pretty good headcannons out there, so go check the out. 

- Contrary to popular belief, Hajime is actually the older sibling. Everyone thinks Izuru is the older sibling because of how mature and manly he looks and to be fair it doesn't really help how Hajime doesn't normally bring that up in conversations too often, so often people mistake Izuru as the older sibling. But, Hajime is the older sibling and Izuru isn't afraid to hide that fact from anyone if they ask.

- Izuru and Hajime were really indistinguishable when they were little. Seriously, even there own parents mixed them up from time to time, now how they managed to the two boys straight is because of there eyes. Hajime has green eyes, and Izuru has red eyes. 

- Hajime and Izuru were very close when they were little. Enough that Izuru would often cling to Hajime even if it was for no particular reason. Izuru did rely on a lot Hajime when he was little. And Hajime didn't seem to mind that all that much. But as the two got older, Izuru seemed to be protecting Hajime more then clinging to him.

- Izuru was the one out of the twins that was fawned the most, because of his eyes, his intelligence, and how amazing he was at everything. People thought he was a super genius born into the wrong family. Which at first didn't bug Hajime at first. In fact Hajime was very proud of Izuru for achieving such a feat. But as time went on, it did start to get to him. It got to the point when Hajime has self-esteem problems and depression from it.

- The reason why Hajime and Izuru have different last names was because there parents got divorced when Izuru and Hajime were about 8 to 10, Hajime and Izuru don't remember exactly when. Hajime took on his mother's last name and Izuru kept his father's last name, which also explains how the two where raised very differently. As Izuru is much more of a nerd and a loner than Hajime is because of how their father raised Izuru. Hajime did have much more freedom then Izuru and was much more of a nice guy then Izuru.

- Izuru did go through an quote on quote, "Emo phase" is the best way to describe it. But really he just wanted to grow his hair out of dye his hair black which actually suited him better according to basically everyone. So, he kept his new look. 

- They actually found each other again in a way you wouldn't expect: A Party. Yes, you heard me right, a party. Izuru and Hajime were both teenagers at the time, the party  they both attended for some friends of theirs (*cough, cough* Chiaki Nanami *cough, cough*). Izuru was the one who figured it out that Hajime was at that party first, after he was talking with the host of the party and they mentioned it to Izuru. And the reunion wasn't too big, it was more of a hug, and a "I missed you bro." and exchange of numbers. Hajime and Izuru then did get back together because their father died in a car accident, which Izuru is still somewhat sensitive about.

 - Izuru and Hajime both bring out a side of each other you don't normally see. Hajime does bring out a much more soft side of Izuru that Izuru has tried to hide. And Izuru brings out a more playful and honest of side of Hajime. 

- Becuase Izuru is so smart, he often is bored and often very rarely puts any effort into anything. Which often leads to Izuru being very mopey and sad all the time. Hajime does do something about this, so Hajime tries to get Izuru to things that interest him, or make things a little bit more fun. Hajime once hide all of the haircombs in the house and basically begged Izuru to help him find them. And Izuru did, they were all in a tree. Izuru firgured out Hajime did it, but he did have some fun with this task as Hajime was freaking out over this And that was amusing.

- About Hajime's whole jealously over Izuru, Hajime does get over it and moves on. But that was long before he even found Izuru again. But when Izuru found out about his problem Izuru did tease Hajime about it but Izuru did try and comfort his older brother about it.

- Hajime and Izuru also are tricksters. Hajime is the one more of a trickster than Izuru, but they both have done some pretty good pranks on their friends. But, they don't do it too ofte it's a once in a while thing for Hajime, Izuru, on the other hand is unpredictable how he will do it.

- Izuru actually really looks out for Hajime. Even though he doesn't show it, Izuru very much cares for Hajime. As, Izuru does appreciate that Hajime does try to make his life a little bit more interesting. 

- Izuru and Hajime do fight with one another, but normally it doesn't get too serious. It usually either is resolved quickly and forgotten about or the debate gets very heated, Izuru normally wins the arguments, until it gets personal. Then Hajime has a better chance of winning.

[zoetropia]

Zoetropia’s Top 10 Albums of 2018

Well, here we are, later than usual but I couldn’t let myself not do it. I didn’t do any music writing this year so this thing is going to be longer than usual, with a lot more extensive honorable mention section than normal. That means I’ll probably lose most of you until you get to the top 10 but oh well. I listened to 163 2018 releases by the time of this writing. These are my favorite.

HONORABLE MENTIONS (in no order)

Yo La Tengo - There’s a Riot Going On: Solid, but solid for YLT is career-best material for most other acts. This band has been around for 34 years and they’re still this inventive, playful, and relevant. Incredible.

Mount Eerie - Now Only: Incredibly powerful (how could it not be?) but it’s more Mark Kozelek than Phil E. this time around.

Foxing - Nearer My God: A swelling, generous Emo magnum opus and its reach extends ever so slightly beyond its grasp by the end. But those first 5 tracks are an absurd collection of excellent songs.

Mitski - Be the Cowboy: Mitski goes full art rock in a very fine of collection of songs that show her range but struggle to cohere.

Phosphorescent - C’est La Vie: Matthew Houck and his band can still cut a lovely and rousing tune, and this album finds him growing up, settling down, and accepting the weight of the rest of his days. But yet, I miss his anger and rebellion. Some might say losing your rage is a sign of maturity. I don’t know if I agree.

Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams:  Bursting at the seams with pretty much every style of rock that’s possible, but ultimately too shaggy to be a Great album. Still, there’s so much to like in this album, and it’s not afraid to give you more and more of it.

Joey Purp - Quarterthing: Wild, ranging, but most of all fun. Joey Purp finds himself stretching across styles, beats, rhymes, and samples but always sounds like himself. Maybe the most exhilarating rap release of the year.

Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs: And way out on the outer edges of what rap can be, we have Earl using his extensive powers of wordplay to explore his psyche and fill out the sketches of production that loop samples filled with tape hiss and record pops. It’s a rap record that feels both tossed off and intricate. In a word, effortless.

IDLES - Joy as an act of resistance.: A bit of a sophomore slump for one of my favorite new acts. Maybe they rushed to get the new record out to capitalize on the word of mouth of their bracing debut and a new record is always easier to publicize over a reissue. Still, there are some great, pummeling punk tunes here, and welcome additions to the set of one of the more raucous and rowdy live acts I’ve seen in a while.

Daughters - You Won’t Get What You Want: Brutal and uncompromisingly dark, this is one of the most frightening records I’ve listened to this year (I don’t listen to too much metal). Isolation, alienation, apocalypse, terror, despair. All the good stuff is in here! And while the unrelenting bleakness is part of its “appeal”, I just wish it wasn’t so one note.

The Sueves - R.I.P. Clearance Event: A relentless garage rock record, pumping up and speeding up some of your fairly groovy rock n roll to maximum distortion and maximum speed. They’re loud, they’re snotty, and if they’d leave Chicago, I’d love to see them in a tiny, sweaty venue soon.

Mastersystem - Dance Music: We miss you, Scott.

THE TOP 10

10. Superchunk - What a Time to Be Alive: Superchunk continue to justify their existence after their hiatus with their tightest and angriest collection of songs maybe ever. Always good to have the vets show the kids that they can rock just as hard, and be just as mad at the direction of the world.

9. Darlingside - Extralife: An absolutely gorgeous folk record, filled with beautiful male vocal harmonies and just the right amount of flowing instrumentation to build worlds of warmth. It’s thankfully free of fast strumming and floor stomping and sparingly uses the one-trick of a rousing crescendo in every song to explore more nuanced song structures. But when the trick is pulled out, it’s perfect.

8. Courtney Marie Andrews - May Your Kindness Remain: I love Kacey Musgraves and I was a big fan of her record this year, but this is my favorite country record of this year in a walk. The songwriting is strong and simple, foregrounding Andrews’ powerful voice and sad, longing words, and her strong backing band fills the space in just enough to color in the emotion.

7. Typhoon - Offerings: An enormously ambitious indie rock opera about life, death, art, and memory. Vividly detailed, intelligent, and impeccably orchestrated, this is the kind of record that’s aimed right at what I love. Oh, and it also quotes 8 1/2 so it was never not going to be on this list.

6. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!: Never ones to shut up and play the hits, Parquet Courts goes full political with this one. Full of righteous ideological anger and the best and most varied songs of any of their releases, Wide Awake! tackles collectivism, environmentalism, economic inequality, violence in America, and how to stay aware, stay sane, find love and companionship, remain peaceful, and take care of yourself and others in a crumbling world. I can’t think of a record that captures this sociopolitical era more completely. And fuck Tom Brady.

5. Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy (Face to Face): Will Toledo’s ongoing deep dive through his psyche takes a backwards turn as he remakes one of the more beloved of his “Bandcamp” albums with a full band this time. And these songs are worth the rework, as they are some of the brightest, heartbreaking, insightful, and detailed that Toledo has written in his young career. The new production doesn’t give them too much shine but instead fills out of enough of the sound to let them speak for themselves. Plus he did it all in a way that still fit the concept of the record. Pretty impressive.

4. Saba - Care For Me: Where Quarterthing is wild and Some Rap Songs is experimental, Care For Me is focused. It’s a sad, angry record about grief, loneliness, and depression. Saba’s flow seems to need to erupt out of him at times, culminating in the astonishing climax of PROM/KING as he describes the moment he found out about the murder of his cousin. It’s powerful, devastating music, and easily my favorite rap release this year.

3. Jon Hopkins - Singularity: It’s been 5 years since Jon Hopkins’ last LP and immediately upon listening to this new record, the time just seems to disappear. This is an album that could have taken a decade to make, or could have just appeared in the sleepless work of one night. As all of Hopkins’ work, it is precise and detailed, intricately textured and arranged. And as much as we know that every song on this album was worked over and perfected note-by-note, it still somehow feels organic and natural. Astounding.

2. Low - Double Negative: Despite being one of the figureheads of the genre, it really felt like Low had exhausted all the possibilities of “slowcore”. While they’ve never made a bad album, the formula of slowcore seemed to be inhibiting them more than anything, and it being 25 years into their career, it would be forgivable for Low to just continue making, say, Ones and Sixes over and over again. This is not what they did. This is easily best album Low has ever released. They twist and warp and distort their sound into shapes that are at once gorgeous, ominous, foreboding, isolating, and expansive. It is a remarkably cohesive album united around a sound that ebbs and flows, builds and decays, resolves and dissolves constantly and consistently. This is the undisputed masterpiece of Low’s career and I hope they keep getting better.

1. Beach House - 7: Similar to Low, it also seemed like Beach House had exhausted the possibilities of their brand of widescreen dream pop. To my mind, Bloom was the album they were working to all along and after that, they seemed a bit lost. Depression Cherry and Thank Your Lucky Stars had some nice tunes, but they were records that made it seem like the band didn’t know what to do now that they’ve reached their destination. And the two records made at the same time definitely didn’t help counter the impression that they lost their focus. But 3 years later, Beach House returned with their (duh) seventh album, and it’s the most focused statement of their career. It’s swirling and immersive, dialing up their shoegaze influence to build every song to an enveloping world of sound. It’s the perfect album to crank up my headphones and get lost in and Beach House is the perfect band to deliver that kind of album. It mines all the peaks of their previous records and melds them into one massive record that so consistently aims at my musical pleasure center that it seems a bit unfair to all other acts. I’m so glad that they found they way back, and that the way still points upward.

[77live]

i got ttagged by @homosexualhufflepuff thänks u

1. LAST TEXT SENT: "yeah” to my mom 2. LIST 3 FAVORITE COLORS: black white and uhhhh like crimson maybe? 3. WHAT TIME DID YOU WAKE UP TODAY: at about noon 4.WHAT WERE YOU DOING LAST NIGHT AT MIDNIGHT: probably sleeping lmao 5. NAME SOMETHING YOU CANT WAIT FOR: summer, its may but its like still snowing sometimes  6. LAST TIME YOU SAW YOUR MOTHER: last night before she went to bed 7. WHAT IS ONE THING YOU WISH YOU CHANGE ABOUT YOUR LIFE: i wish i wasnt so fucking anxious in social situations 8. WHATS GETTING ON YOUR NERVS RN: i dont think ive eaten since yesterday morning so im feeling a bit shitty because of that 9. RELATIONSHIP STATUS: uhhhhhh i dont even know lmao 10. FAVORITE TV SHOW: twin peaks definitely but i dont really have the energy for tv shows 11. FIRST BEST FRIEND: this one guy who i bonded with over zelda when we were like 11, i miss him 12. LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW: slowdive - souvlaki 13. 3 FEARS: deep water, social situations, situations in general lmao 14. 4 TURN ON’S: a music taste that matches mine, c o l l a r b o n e s, glasses, being artistic 15. 4 TURN OFF’S: closed mindedness, being an asshole in general? idk 16. SEXUAL ORIENTATION: sex or gender doesnt really matter a whole lot to me 17. MY SENIOR QUOTE IN MY YEARBOOK: this is like an american thing and im not american 18. FIRST THING I NOTICE IN A NEW PERSON: uuuuuuuhhhhhhh no idea sorry 19. SHOE SIZE: 42 20. EYE COLOR: no idea like dark greyish maybe 21. HAIR COLOR: dirty blond/brown 22. FAVORITE CLOTHING ITEM: no idea  23. WHAT COLOR UNDERWEAR I’M WEARING RIGHT NOW: black 24. ULTIMATE BIAS: idk what this means  25. ULTIMATE BIAS GROUP: or this im sorry aaaaaa 26. FAVORITE SEASON: summer 27. HOW MUCH TIME I SPENT ON DESIGNING MY BLOG PAGE: no fucking clue i dont even know what it looks like tbh 28. THE REASON I JOINED TUMBLR: i dont remember at all 29. LAST BOOK I READ: peter hooks memoir about joy division  30. DO I EVER GET “GOOD MORNING” OR “GOODNIGHT” TEXTS?: yeah kind of 31. WHEN DID I LAST HOLD HANDS?: yesterday morning i think :))) 32. HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE ME TO GET READY IN THE MORNING?: 20 or so minutes, i want to sleep for as long as possible so ive gotten pretty good at getting ready fast 33. HAVE I SHAVED MY LEGS IN THE PAST 3 DAYS?: no but maybe i should, they look pretty bad 34. WHERE AM I RIGHT NOW?: my bed  35. DO I LIKE MUSIC LOUD OR LOW: idk relatively low i think 36. 3 THINGS I LOVE: art, sleeping, my friends 37. HOW I FEEL RIGHT NOW: hungry and im a bit shaky  38. SOMETHING I REALLY, REALLY WANT: just happiness i guess whatever thats gonna take 39. 3 THINGS THAT UPSET ME: the state the world is in, idk what else im really bad at this sorry 40. WHAT I FIND ATTRACTIVE IN OTHER PEOPLE: i already answered this in the question about turn ons pretty much but collarbones and hands are hot 41. 3 HABITS I HAVE: checking my phone way too often, procrastinating a lot, being way too shy 42. SOMETHING I FANTASIZE ABOUT: like the future and stuff? life in general 43. MY OTPs: never been into that stuff so none 44. SOMETHING IM TALENTED AT: lmao i have no fucking clue 45. THE BLOG I GIVE MOST NOTES TO: idk 46. THE LAST PERSON THAT RE-BLOGGED FROM ME: idk 47. DO I SMOKE/DRINK?: very occasionally 48. MY FAVORITE FOOD: idk i really like eating but i dont really have a favorite food 49. MY FAVORITE DESSERT: same here i really like desserts but i dont have a favorite 50. WHAT I DID YESTERDAY: nothing too special 51. NUMBER OF KIDS I WANT: idk i would have to learn to take care of myself first lmao 52. NUMBER OF SIBLINGS I HAVE: just one 53. SOMETHING THATS CONSTANTLY ON MY MIND: school and other things that are stressing me out 54. LAST PERSON I MESSAGED ON TUMBLR: @homosexualhufflepuff 55. CAN I DRIVE: no cars are scary 56. WHAT STATE OR PART OF THE WORLD DO I LIVE IN: sweden but im finnish  57. AM I IN SCHOOL?: yeAH 58. DO I GET GROSSED OUT EASILY?: yeah i think so 59. SOMEWHERE I WOULD LIKE TO VISIT FOR A WEEK: maybe like japan or some country in europe 60. I’LL LOVE YOU IF…: if u listen to the same music as me 61. LAST SHOW I BINGE-WATCHED: stranger things probably 62. WHAT WORDS UPSET ME THE MOST: i dont really get annoyed by specific words but i dont like when people use really big words for no reason other than trying to seem like theyre better than everyone else 63. WHAT WORDS MAKE ME FEEL THE BEST ABOUT MYSELF: jsut compliments in general 64. A WISH THAT I’VE WISHED FOR REPEATEDLY ON 11:11: dont think ive done that more than like once and i dont remember what i wished for 65. WHO I WOULD SWITCH LIVES WITH FOR A DAY: i dont think i would want to do that 66. MY FAVORITE ICE CREAM: maybe mint or lemon flavor?? idk i like most ice creams 67. ALLERGIES: cats and pollen 68. SEXIEST PERSON TO COME TO YOUR MIND IMMEDIATELY: david bowie lol 69. MY CHILDHOOD CAREER CHOICE: i dont remember  70. ONE OF MY INSECURITIES: lol theres way too many to pick just one 71. HOW MANY BLOGS AM I FOLLOWING: 69 lmao 72. HOW MANY TABS/DIFFERENT WINDOWS ATM: just 4 rn 73. COKE OR PEPSI: i rarely drink soda so i dont even remember what pepsi tastes like so maybe pepsi to see what its like 74. TEA OR COFFEE: coffee, baby 75. MOVIE OR BOOK: if this is between a book and its movie adaptation then the book any day of the week, otherwise it really depends  76. A SENSE I WOULD BE WILLING TO LOSE: none of them?? i feel like this question was worded a bit poorly 77. QUOTE I LIVE BY: idk im just winging it 78. TYPE OF ACCESSORIES I WEAR THE MOST: i dont really wear any accessories ever 79. LAST AWKWARD SITUATION I FOUND MYSELF IN: uhhhh it wasnt that awkward but a couple days ago i just didnt really know waht to do or say bc i was meeting a lot of new people and im very bad at that kind of stuff 80. WHAT TIME IS IT RIGHT NOW: 1 pm 81. A SONG THAT’S MADE ME CRY: theres so many but the last song that made me cry would b 4th of july by sufjan stevens 82: FIRST SONG I EVER SANG AT KARAOKE: idk sorry 

this was honestly a bit of a chore so im not gonna tag anyone but if u see this and think it looks fun do it!!!!!

[donnerpartyofone]

internethistory

This new Archie show seems like an idea someone would pitch in a movie or tv show to make fun of movies or tv shows. "Archie, Jughead, Betty, and Veronica, but get this:  darker and edgier, with a Twin Peaks-esque murder mystery. Oh yeah, and they fuck."

now there’s something i forgot to mention--and this is going to sound incredibly naive of me i bet, but hey, i can only speak from my own narrow little world view, and as i said i never really read these comics--i get the impression that archie has this special place in our culture as this kind of secret erotica. i mean it’s easy to talk about this in terms of pin-up artists dan decarlo’s contributions, but i think that even in later decades, archie comics got people really heated up. a male friend of mine explained to me that, while the books are essentially G-rated, they describe very vividly the relentless roiling sexual frustration of adolescence. like even though nobody bangs, the stories are constantly about different pairings of characters trying frantically to get each other alone under the flimsiest pretext, no matter what kind of complicated machinations needed to go off without a hitch, and then of course the plan is usually foiled just at the moment of satisfaction, the jealous rival discovers the smooching couple or the devious plot to spy on girls or get laid is humiliatingly revealed. my friend noted that this constant escalation of sexual desperation was as erotically potent as anything with actual nudity in it could be, and over the years, i’ve heard similar things from other readers. my favorite piece of evidence is this quote from a danny trejo interview: “My son’s 22, he’s producing a film. At 22, I was in San Quentin jacking off to a Betty and Veronica comic book.” i mean i get that he would probably RATHER have had actual porno, but it was a revelation to me that archie comics are such obvious and effective default spank mags for prisoners and teenagers, who i guess have a lot in common when it comes to the availability of sex and erotica.

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Everyone is posting albums from high school that influenced their lives. I'm gonna one up you and post MOVIES instead... Let's take a time machine back to the years 1990-1994 and peer into the brainscape of young Guy Slimey: (Writing this list made me realize just how entrenched VHS culture has always been in my life. Back in the pre-internet days, when you would see an ad some guy posted in the back of GOREZONE or something and you'd send him an envelope and he'd send you a xeroxed list of a thousand different movies, hong kong action shit and weird porn and Ed Wood-type stuff, and all you'd have to do was send a couple of blank tapes and a fiver and maybe a movie or two to trade, and that's how you found out about good movies.)

1. BLUE VELVET - I saved up good money from my job at Hardee's just to buy this movie on VHS from the local Suncoast Pictures. I probably exposed my younger siblings to this masterpiece fifty or sixty times over the span of three years. That's good brothering!

2. HARDWARE - Still my favorite low-budget sci-fi movie. Hazy and grimy and psychedelic and hilarious. I had read an interview with Richard Stanley in Fangoria magazine and was intrigued when it finally hit Cinemax. The movie that turned me on to both PIL and Ministry. Teenage Me jerked off to the sex scene in this movie more times than I've drawn breath.

3. DESIRE & HELL AT SUNSET MOTEL - Twin Peaks happened when I was in high school, and of course I was obsessed with it. So when this movie turned up in the cable guide described as "Lynchian" and had THE Sherilyn Fenn listed as a cast member, I knew I had to see it. It's fucking terrible, but it was the first time I was ever exposed to Paul Bartel, who was a major influence later in my life.

4. RESERVOIR DOGS - The first "art" film I ever saw in a theater. It didn't screen in Topeka, where I grew up, so I actually had to convince someone to drive me to Lawrence and see it at Liberty Hall with me. I felt pretty smart being the only guy in school who knew about Quentin Tarantino. Of course, now every fratboy in America has one of his posters up in their room, so what the fuck.

5. DEAD ALIVE - The first movie I ever tripped acid to. That lawn mower scene has been seared into my brain forever. Between this and MEET THE FEEBLES, Peter Jackson was my favorite director for a while. Now he's basically movie kryptonite for me.

6. THE CROW - Fuck yeah, The Crow. I used to be able to quote this movie by heart. The first time I completely, unashamedly, openly loved a movie that was total fucking garbage.

7. DRUGSTORE COWBOY - Another late-night Cinemax mainstay. They used to do a thing called "Vanguard Cinema" where they would screen blocks of contemporary foreign and independent movies. so this was usually sandwiched between stuff like TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN! and THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE, AND HER LOVER. Touchstone for several future loves: William Burroughs, loud vintage shirts, and needle drugs.

8. RE-ANIMATOR - A friend of mine-- who later went upriver for chopping a dude up with an axe-- loaned me a vhs of "underground" vampire movies he'd ordered from one of those old tape-trading lists (I'm pretty sure one of them was DARKNESS, that rad super-8 gorefest shot in Wichita, KS), and whoever made him the tape had accidentally copied over RE-ANIMATOR. The last fifteen minutes or so popped up at the end of the tape, about when the intestines burst to life and begin choking Dr. West in the morgue. Another trip to Suncoast! I've owned more versions of this movie on various formats than any other flick in my collection, except for maybe RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD.

9. HEATHERS - I don't even need to explain this one. Still one of my favorite movies. My daughter discovered this one independent of my influence. Great taste runs in the family.

10. AKIRA - Back in those days the best way to get this movie was to order it from the back of a fanzine or hope that someone at the comic store would sell you a VHS boot. A buddy of mine-- who later got his ass shot off in the Middle East-- gifted me a fifth-or-sixth generation copy, along with a dub of Queensryche's OPERATION MINDCRIME. That was the most metal summer of my life.

Runner Ups on this list: Blade Runner, Liquid Sky, Hard Boiled, Parents, True Romance, and Vampire's Kiss, of course.

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Feb. 11/12, 2018: Idaho-Washington-Home

After spending the night in Missoula, MT, Danielle and I spent the morning in our hotel with Danielle doing a homework assignment, and I doing some research and editing. In a couple hours we were ready to hit the road, and we began the trek west. Although we didn't have any stringent plans we did have a few potential stops in mind for the return journey. One of which was a small town we'd passed over/through on our way through the Idaho Panhandle. The town, Wallace, had looked at quick glance like something straight out of a museum with its old buildings and we were intrigued. The second stop we had in mind was courtesy of my father; a fan of the cult-classic Twin Peaks, he wanted us to stop at the towns the show was filmed in, North Bend and Snoqualmie, WA. More than just stop, my father asked, if we had the time, to grab him some cherry pie from a diner that was featured on the show.

Thus, with these two destinations in mind, we headed west along the I95, making great time as we sped along the open roads, through the mountains and into the Idaho Panhandle. Our first stop, Wallace, ID, was a trip. The town has quite a rich history of mining, prostitution, standing up to the federal government when it tried to bulldoze the town to make way for the I95, and is self proclaimed the Centre of the Universe. I encourage you to read the Wikipedia Page on Wallace by clicking here; it's quite interesting. When we arrived in Wallace, on the Sunday morning, the town was dead. There was hardly any people around, and very few vehicles driving by. This made for a bit of an eerie experience walking among the old buildings as the streets sat still. While in Montana and Idaho Danielle and I had continually seen huckleberry products advertised, and Wallace too had a diner advertising huckleberry shakes. Tempted, we entered the eclectic diner with license plates covering the walls and a jukebox in the corner, and order a large huckleberry shake for USD$5.00. As Vincent would say, "I don't know if it's worth five dollars, but it's pretty fucking good." That said, it was probably worth it just for being able to quote the Pulp Fiction line for the rest of the drive. Anyway, after grabbing the skate, which was made in an old-fashioned, antique shake machine, we hit the road and ate our left over pizza which was still partially frozen from being left in the car the night before.

After leaving the Panhandle and passing through the mountains and back into Washington, the drive became somewhat boring, with straight, endless stretches of highway cutting through the plains. The only upside was averaging 130km/h and thus making great time. Our second stop to end the monotony was where the I95 meets the Columbia River near Vantage, WA. The great river cutting its way through a gorge was a sight to behold, and we couldn't not pull off the highway to take a few photos.

After spending a few minutes shooting at the river, we continued West and over the Cascades into North Bend, where we grabbed dinner at Twede's Cafe (the one from Twin Peaks), as well as the pie, and then drove a few minutes to check out Snoqualmie falls. On the way to the falls, we did have to stop to shoot a couple horses in their field with the fiery sunset shining bright on the mountains behind them. Arriving at the falls, Danielle and I were impressed. Together and apart we've seen our fair share of waterfalls, and in a sense have become spoiled. We're not often impressed by waterfalls, but were by Snoqualmie. We spent maybe fifteen minutes at the falls and then headed north towards the Canada-USA border. We spent the night at a rest-stop close to Bellingham along the I5, where I had once stayed before one or two years before. It was a cold, uncomfortable night in the Civic, but nothing to complain about given the great trip we'd had so far.

The next day we crossed back into Canada, and took the ferry back to Victoria. We finished off our adventure by catching a beautiful sunset at one of my favourite beaches in Victoria along Beach Drive. Overall, the trip was an amazing impromptu adventure that didn't cost us a whole lot of money. February can be a dismal month and I think both Danielle and I really appreciated the little break.

People in this blog: Danielle's Instagram.

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I’ll Give You the Sun.

Hello! So I’ll be doing more of these occasionally, it consist mainly of quotes/extracts from my favourite books or quotes from books that I’ve read that I really liked. I’ll probably have small little notes on why the quotes mean something to me. And every book I “review” is always a suggestion to those who haven’t read it yet! 

So this is currently my favourite book so far. Its by up-and-coming-but-totally-awesome author Jandy Nelson (she has another book called The Sky Is Everywhere which is also in my top 10 but that’s for later :-))  I read it last year (2016) because a friend of mine suggested it. Its basically a story involving two fraternal twins, Noah and Jude who used to be very close until something happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways. Noah’s story is set in the past while Jade’s is set a few years after that. It has LGBTQ elements and broken-boy-syndrome, something that I am particularly akin to. What really sucked me into the story was the way that Nelson could weave in and out of the two very different characters in two different timestamps and the effect is miraculous. There are so many layers to this story, its like some of the things mentioned en passant in Noah’s story plays a major role somewhere in the near future AKA Jude’s story. I’m not gonna talk a lot about the book -- you guys have  to read it! Anyway, here are the quotes:

1) “I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.”

    “So damn much,” he says back, only it comes out, “Dude.” When my eyes ran over these lines, I screamed. I’ve seen these lines everywhere. I’ve seen them edited onto pictures or somewhere on tumblr. At first I thought it was from a movie or something so I never really paid attention to it but once I saw it was from this book my heart made so many somersaults I thought I was in a circus. If you’ve read the book, you know why this quote is my number one. It gave me so many feels :’)

2) Dearest, I have gone mad. I do not want to eat or drink, or I will lose the taste of you in my mouth, do not want to open my eyes if not to see you, do not want to breathe any air that you have not breathed, that has not been inside your body, deep inside your beautiful body. I aspire to be achieve this kind of wanting and desperation when I miss someone and I want someone to be like this when they miss me. That’s literally why I love this.

3)  “...I’m fucking terrified of you. I can’t seem to keep you out like I can everybody else. I think you could devastate me.” The use of the phrase “devastate me” piques my interest because I normally use the sentence “he makes me sad” when describing the significant other in my life, something that my friends never really understood (he’s supposed to make you happy, not sad!). But the use of the word devastate elevates the feeling, showing that that significant person is making the persona scared that if she were to reciprocate her feelings for him, then she’d somehow end up being depressed. I love it.

4) “I’m crazy about you,” he says breathlessly, the bedlam in his face at an all time peak. 

5) That’s how I came to trust him. You can see love. It looks like this face. To me, it has always looked like this crazy, mismatched face. Extracts 4 and 5 got me feeling some type of way because you know how in most books they make out the hero to be some cute/handsome/stunning guy but in this one, with the way Nelson describes the guy, doesn’t look like he’ll be winning any competitions. But when Jude falls in love with him, it wasn’t his face that was the centre of attention. And that’s something I’ve always fought for. Read the book to find out!!

6) Love, I think and think and think and think and don’t say. Don’t say it. Don’t say it. Don’t tell him you love him. But I do. I love him more than anything. I close my eyes and drown in colour, open them and drown in light because billions and billions of buckets of light are being emptied on our heads from above. After I finished this book I wrote the sentence “Don’t tell him you love him” for months on my wrist. The urgency in the tone speaks to me on so many levels because I understood that feeling, how you just wanna burst out your love for that person but you can’t. And the phrasing and complexity of the last sentence in which the persona drowns in colour and then in light still amazes me to this day. 7)  Meeting your soulmate is like walking into a house you’ve been in before -- you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall, the books on the shelves, the contents of the drawers. You could find your way in the dark if you had to.

Just, wow. I’ve never thought of it like that. So that’s it! Well, I’ve picked out the ones that weren’t too confusing if you’ve never read the book. I loved this book so much and I seriously recommend it. I don’t normally read YA but this one just had my heart from the start. The layers in the story, the relatable characters and just, everything about it. I’m sorry if you have read it and don’t find it as spectacular as I did. I hope this post has given you some enlightenment on what kind of books I read and how I read them. There’s many more to come! Thank you for reading!

Love, milolys.