#generational discord

[bugjizmsquawk]

This is a growing playlist and mostly an attempt to get back into the habit of writing regularly. I don't know if I will find an audience but it would thrill me to stumble into a community of feverish writers who happen to be into the darker realms of music/art/fashion.

I accept that compared to most everyone here I am ancient and might be susceptible to being labeled "out of touch". Certainly youth Culture confuses and baffles me but only in the sense that I perceive it as a challenge albeit a highly distracted one. There are certain things that I will never bother trying to understand because the generational divide is just too vast. Now, Generation X were born roughly from 1965 to 1980 which means they were too young to be trad Goths or Punks but might have caught the death throes of Punk if they were precocious and unruly. They existed for certain in various contingents across the globe with their precious Ari Up sticker collections and Barking Metaphor 7 " pile. The difference between them and most of you was that their music consumption was mostly deliberate. The key songs were purchased or exchanged or perhaps heard in clubs or on very specific radio programs.

St. Nicholas lounging (poetically) in his lair.

Survival is not guaranteed let alone any type of recognition for your talent or your pain or your ideas. Most people are not recognized for anything they have done, said, thought, or preserved. We are not useful in this way and our lives remain a series of meaningless gestures that do not impact the structured lives of the general taint who are busy suffering anonymously for no cause and no care. Of course, in our minds we are all blisteringly important and exciting and vital which means we are terribly delusional and histrionic to a fault.

That one friend who introduced you to all the music as she gazes outward at something only she can see.

The key is to reach the destitute, the desperate, the scarred and scared in such a way that they feel obligated to fuel our fancies with their hard won dinero. Get them to pay us for something they did not even know they needed until it was too late to back down. Yet we fail because we haven't talent enough to rise above the mediocre and risible which means we do not actualize our aspirations. Subsequently, we have nothing to sell them and cannot even reflect their fragmented desires back at them.

Fortune smiles upon the very few who demonstrate a viable service that others are mesmerized by and this service provides a Satanic demon-stration that becomes impossible to ignore or withstand. Fast music, fast food, fast fashion all whipped up to feed the relentless, churning appetite of the perpetually bored and restless.

Do not listen to those who insist that you can do anything you set your mind to because this is one of the most pernicious lies and should not be heeded. You simply cannot be a popstar or a professional athlete or a nuclear physicist just because you really want to. Only incredibly special individuals are able to do the type of things the rest of us can merely gawk at. Or, perhaps it is different today where Fame does not carry the same meaning it did in previous eras. Music does seem extremely easy to make these days but that just might be because everyone has access to technology that requires very little musicality to operate.

The Piano may be decrepit but its Music still Haunts Me.

Nobody has to spend years becoming proficient on an instrument or even forgo a serious study by simply jumping up on a stage caterwauling, making a tremendous racket. That was thing in 1976, natch. But the refuse of those times are relegated to the dustbins of history but that does not mean they were not important at the time. I was not there but there was everywhere for a while--people just didn't know it because they couldn't see it. Still, each lousy town had its share of Teenaged jerks whose ideologies and hair and fashion gave the regulars stuff frights. Certain places produced more of these creatures and some of these began to express the venom musically. Anger, violence, smashing every pretty thing for the sheer thrill of it until some others, inspired by the Victorian age and 19th century poets and bondage and lace and the Church started drinking absinthe and masquerading about in clubs and bedrooms so that an entire way of existing developed into a military existence. Gothic interludes became an expression of severity and tyranny which ultimately led to massive hairspray bills and a seeming dearth of good humour. Why smile? Laughing is for imbeciles?

Broken Nostalgia for the Innocence of Hard Drug consumption via Stiv

The 1980s are so distant from you. I was your age in 1987 which is as far removed from you as 1950 was from me back then. Of course technology has accelerated everything so a fair comparison is categorically impossible. Still, I don't expect any child of this age to fully comprehend a Time so distant from them in every conceivable way. It is always a miracle when I read a playlist or something similar from a younger sort of person that seems to reflect a keen awareness of post-punk, new wave, goth, etc. They are the rarest ones who I cherish even though they remain mostly spectres tormenting my imagination. Admittedly they are always difficult to fully apprehend and impossible to decipher. Mystery is their preferred state and they aren't in my town presently so I go on begging.

The perennial, elusive Scott W.

It is true that we despise you for your youth because your lives are a perpetual circus of furious jumping. Certainly, some of you are anguished routinely and this should never be because the Young should not be burdened by a world that their elders have nearly ruined but that's the way it is. Joy is wasted on the young who are provided with the genuine treasure of experiencing phenomena for the first time. If they lack the capacity for wonderment everything they encounter will simply fail to elicit any type of response out of them. Most people are precisely this way in that they constantly look yet never see. You get old. It sneaks up on you and time moves faster as you age. I am 53. It seems like yesterday I was 17 and first getting into Skinny Puppy and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult. It still freaks me to think I am old enough to be the grandfather of most of you. What a paralyzing and preposterous proposition.

Release the Bats/The Birthday Party

Last Exit For the Lost/Fields of the Nephilim

Glass Houses/Skinny Puppy

My Heart is Empty/Nico

Siamese Twins/The Cure

Stone is Very, Very Cold/Spell

Terror Couple Kill Colonel/Bauhaus

Listen, Somewhat Awkward/David E. Williams

Lisa's Party/Legendary Pink Dots

Ignore the Machine/Alien Sex Fiend

Up Jumped the Devil/Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Avalanche/Leonard Cohen

Cut the Tree/The Wolfgang Press

Isolation/Joy Division

She Is Beyond Good and Evil/The Pop Group

Next/Scott Walker

Why'd ya do it?/Marianne Faithfull

Bird Song/Lene Lovich

You Don't Own Me/Klaus Nomi

Hungry, So Angry/Medium Medium

A Girl Doesn't Get Killed by a Make-Believe Lover Cuz It's Hot/My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult

Weathercade/The Creatures

Mr. Clarinet/The Birthday Party

Dusk of Hallows/Corpus Delicti

Celebrity Lifestyle/Swans

Teenage Whore/Hole

Rehab Doll/Green River

Death Valley '69/Sonic Youth (w/ Lydia Lunch

Greatest Gift/Scratch Acid

Human Cannonball/Butthole Surfers

Isle of Man-Version II/Ministry

Go to Hell/KMFDM

King of Negativity/Godhead

More Beautiful Than Barbie/The Jesus Lizard

Crow/The Southern Death Cult

Cannibal Queen/Sex Gang Children

Fields of Rape (Tibet Mix)/Death in June

Free Money/Patti Smith

It's Too Late/New York Dolls

Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell/The Stooges

Sister Ray/The Velvet Underground

Lucretia My Reflection/Sisters of Mercy

Helter Skelter/Siouxsie & the Banshees

Beauty of Poison 12 " Version/Specimen

Mirror People/Love and Rockets

Station to Station/David Bowie

Me and My Girl and the Cold Grey World/David E. Williams

A Forest Live France Jun '80/The Cure

Insecure Me (Extended Ver.)/Soft Cell

Not Any More/Dead Boys

Thieves Like Us 12 "/New Order

Who Makes the Nazis?/The Fall

Here Today/The Chameleons

The Spy in the Cab (Live)/Bauhaus

Voodoo Dolly/Siouxsie & the Banshees

Blood On the Wall/Skinny Puppy

Rituals of Love in the Passage of Genocide, Song of Rose/Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio

The Descent of Long Satan and Babylon/Current 93

Long Live Death/Sol Invictus

Love's Promise/Sieben

Eternal Soul/Blood Axis

White Knuckles/Scraping Foetus off the Wheel

Luxury/Fad Gadget

Womb/Einstürzende Neubauten

To Tirzah/Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio

Separated/Throbbing Gristle

Are You Out There?/Boyd Rice and Death in June

Beautiful Brownshirted Man/Rozz Williams

The Secret Germany/ROME

New Gold Dawn/Fields of the Nephilim

Skald au Satans Sol/Darkthrone

Déjà Vu/The Tear Garden

Zero Sex/Christian Death

Like a Prayer/Bigod 20

Decay/Sanctum

Bites and Bloody Kisses (Long Version)/Two Witches

Clown/Switchblade Symphony

Insane Asylum/Diamanda Galás

Some Kind of Stranger/Sisters of Mercy

Stagger Lee/Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Black Betty/Lead Belly

Rape Me/Nirvana

Deity/Ministry

[agentravensong]

thinking about how the extra area added on to a pacifist run of undertale, the true lab, is about alphys's past mistakes. how it ends with the story reaffirming that, despite the pain she's caused, the thing that matters is that she has now made the choice to do the right thing. she's still worthy of her friends' love.

thinking about how undertale doesn't expect the player to get a pacifist ending for the first time. how it's more likely than not that the player will kill toriel the first time they battle her, how lots of players don't initially figure out how to end undyne's fight without killing her, etc. what it expects — not even expects, really, but hopes — is that the player, if they care enough, will use their canonically acknowledged power over time to make up for those mistakes.

no matter how many neutral runs a player has done before committing to the pacifist run, the thing that matters to the characters, to the story, is that you've chosen, now, to do the right thing.

compared to alphys, the player honestly gets off lightly, in that you're the only one (other than flowey) who really remembers any harm you might have caused. and any direct guilting the game could have done about it is long past at this point. instead, as undertale often does, it makes its point via parallels: alphys caused harm, and she knows it. she has committed to being better. in doing so, she has unlocked for herself a better ending to her story. and she deserves it. she's forgiven.

those structural narrative parallels are all over undertale, if you know where to look. and that's one of the things that makes it so fuckin' good.

[viperpaws]

some silly little tiny creature emotes i made last night :3

anatomy?!? whos that!! /silly

[felonsmojis]

neutral / happy / scared / box GenLoss!Ranboo emotes

[daily-odile]

head pats...

[softness-and-shattering]

Where are all the guys sewists online?

Im having my semi-regular "I watch quite a few fun sewists but why is it always always women making dresses and skirts, where are the guys/butches making clothes I might actually want to wear??"

Theres a couple Ive found but they have like, one or two videos that are very technical and about drafting patterns, or its infrequently-posted exclusively-historical menswear (which is also fantastic; but Im not gonna be wearing that regularly or starting with it, I want inspiration for making my own clothes!)

Wheres the people making fun everyday or close-to everyday wear in chill style, being a bit chatty, saying hi to pets walking in the room, talking about their process?

Im mostly talking about youtube but I'll definitely consider other platforms.

For reference, some women sewists I watch regularly-ish include Bernadette Banner, Micarah Tewers, The Stitchery, Mariah Patty, Hazariel Costumes, Rachel...Maksy?

There is Lizard Leigh, who iirc is non-binary, I would just love if they uploaded more often 👀.

[zillychu]

YOU! Yeah, you!

Are you overwhelmed by social media? Yearning for the early 2000s internet with casual games, forums, fun graphics, and HTML customization? May I offer you a goat in these trying times?

Goatlings is a super cute, simple little pet + doll maker site I've been playing that I simply adore! I'm not sponsored for this or anything, I just really love this site and want to invite more ppl to join!

There's a handful of simple games to play, and a little explore + battle mechanic too. Think Neopets, but much more and better imo!

But the best thing is how low-key it is! There's very little FOMO. Just log in when you want, you can advance at your own pace. There are some time-limited things, but they're never out of reach, and honestly everything just continues to get better and better. New stuff is added all the time!

You can adopt cute little Goatlings and customize them and their pages!

There's also a built-in Picrew doll maker for your user icon! You collect items to build your inventory, and since this site has been around for a while, there are LOADS of items!

Did I mention there's a bunch of cute items to collect too? You can add them to your Goatlings pages as treasures!

Not only that, but users (artists and non-artists alike) are encouraged to submit ideas for everything on the site! Goats, things to add to the doll maker, items, anything! A ton of items are adapted from designs submitted by users. There are contests for them too, where everyone votes on favorites and you get prizes for winning!

There's also charity drives going on at all times, so if you like to throw money at indie game companies for their fun sites, you can do that AND help support a good cause 💕

Click here to check it out!

I do get a fun lil in-game referral bonus if you use this link, but you don't have use it. I'd be happy just seeing more friendly faces there!

(btw if you sign up, I'm Zillychu on there as well! Feel free to say hi on the site or in the official discord!)

[carmsgarms]

"Halsin is useless he can't take a hit and he's not strong"

HES NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HE'S A DRUID.

"He can't cast spells in wildshape smh what's the point"

Wild shape is a defense mechanism! You only wild shape as a last resort. Druids have a lot of spells meant to keep enemies away, you cast wall spells, field of thorns, everything you can to keep enemies away. Once in wild shape, they gain a new set of hit points. So say halsin gets down to 3 hp and he's suddenly surrounded by enemies. THAT IS WHEN YOU WILDSHAPE. Thats why wildshape only gets like 2 charges!!! Don't send him into a hoard of enemies in wildshape he's gunna get killed!

Gods. I'm tired of people saying he's useless in battle. You just think bc he's giant and can be a bear he's supposed to be a a melee attacker. He's squishy!! He's a lover not a fighter!!!

[heebiejeebiesart]

⚠️Spoilers for mlp G5 comic issue #10⚠️ (kinda not really tho)

The au that absolutely no one asked for but now exists anyway!❤️‍🩹✨️

I tried my best to imitate the official comic art style, but my art style still seeped through, the sneaky bastard!

[cellohum]

03 / kiss of death

monochrome ﹒ gothic ﹒ single muse ﹒ character template

。 。 。 introducing kiss of death, a devilish seven paged template designed for character exploration. due to its monochromatic tones, it gives a gothic and dark vibe to it. with its use of tables and drawings, it is mainly tailored towards pc use.

⸻ [ features . ]

8.5" x 11" page size.

a seven paged doc that includes a title page, character overview & appearance, personality, magic, backstory, and connections.

⸻ [ policy . ]

you may change the layout, color palette, images, etc.

you may combine this with my other docs.

you must get consent to take inspiration.

you may not combine my docs with other creators' docs.

you may not remove credits or make them hard to find.

you may not use for mass or commercial use.

you may not resell or redistribute my docs.

( faceclaim is taeyeon from girl's generation )

[nebulaquatic]

Oh god,my heart ;A;

[insomniphic]

Cover art for Lovebug!Narry’s Spotify Playlist!

WARNING: This playlist has some EXPLICIT SONGS, so if you’re not comfortable with that, please do not indulge or just block em

[whaliiwatching]

a taste of hannibal, a touch of megamind, a shot of venom (pours the whole damn bottle)

i love venom (2018) a lot, it’s my go-to movie when i’m bored or sad, i have seen it many many times. i saw it again a week or so ago with a bud and finally had the opportunity to pen down this lovely au i’ve been thinkin bout

i’ve got a much more fleshed out sketch of how this au plays out. not sure if i’ll write it yet

anyway some bullet points

noir (called, ofc, noir) arrives on earth-138 in the 1920s. his first host is robbie and they basically go through the venom movie, where noir slowly learns to love earth and humanity and all that jazz. up until the 50s or so they’re an investigative reporter and occasionally a scary vigilante superhero!

when robbie is killed (not ewaf style. i forbid it), it fucking devastates noir and he host-hops for a bit, doing fun anarchy things to keep up robbie’s legacy but also losing a few morals here and there. he can do a little murder and eat nazis as a treat

the symbiotes arrive en masse and osborn infects humans with them to turn into his fascist riot police army

through vampire-hunting-esque shenanigans, hobie and noir meet, and strike up a tenuous truce to fight the government. hobie does not like him at first, but noir very much does ;)

cue a slow burn gothic romance between a freedom fighter and a devoted monster <3

[viperpaws]

low energy emote dump i made fur personal use but also posting here !! tryna get motivation back for emotes so i can work on requests :0c

[gallwithapall]

SO SO SO YOURE FUCKING TELLING ME THIS GUY...

PLAYS T H I S GUY?!?!?!?!?

AND THIS SONG IS ABOUT THIS GUY TOO?!

Fuck...I... You have no idea how much I listened to this song when I was like 16 😭AND IT WAS ABOUT HIM!!!!!!!!!

[piningprecussionist]

they're watching something horrific, to be sure

(pants were a suggestion from my friend; they're wearing eachother's clothes here, and they said Kim would totally own pants like these- so ramona gets to wear them lol)