#i was excited DX

[ary11y]

Fun fact 90% of the time when we know the day a song from CJ is gonna be released I get a dream/nightmare about it the night before the release because of how my mind is flooded with guesses as to what the song will be

I remembered it happened on FIF, WWPH (Memento mori specifically I think, I think I was afraid I wouldn't like it because I'm not a fan of the original so I dreamt the music video and cover for Memento mori sucked) and, more recently (yesterday), the next cover (I dreamt that it was a remake of his two wuv cover but for some reason I couldn't focus on paying attention to the song and lyrics)

[t-u-i-t-c]

"As a kid, you were always coming up with ideas for games by yourself. Even though all you wanted was someone to play games with... So, here I am." "What are you talking about?"

[randomness-for-life]

Before leaving work last Monday, I overheard my coworker say today "I'm sooo excited to watch Eurovision today 💅💅" and I was so TORN and CONFLICTED

I did not confront him, a Swiftie, about how he should NOT watch Eurovision cause Israel's competing, and the ESC banned Palestinian flags from being shown (just as they did in 2019, quickly moving the cameras away from Iceland - btw Hatari my beloved!!). And I regret not confronting him about that, even tho it might've been rough

I was also very tempted to go up to him and tell him how I've been hyper fixated with Eurovision for the last five years and even wrote a full on 15 page essay on it for my previous history class

But I'm glad I didn't do that. As someone who's been obsessed with Eurovision, I will say for all the fans out there one more time:

DO NOT WATCH, SUPPORT, OR EVEN INTERACT WITH EUROVISION!!! ESPECIALLY FOR TONIGHT’S FINALE

The lives of Palestine and Gaza are far FAR more important than a European song competition and that should not be hard to comprehend.

On that note, here's also some ways to support the Palestinian people:

Donate to: CARE For Gaza

Donate to: GoFundMe for displaced families in Gaza

Click for free to provide funds for Gaza: Arab.org

[genderqueer-karma]

Hello, hope you're having a good night! What songs would you recommend for someone that wants to get into Malice Mizer? I've known about them for years but never got around to listening to them. Album recs also work! Thanks in advance^^

okay honestly i’m really excited to answer this because i rarely get to give people recs!! so, i’m gonna do this by organizing based on my personal perception of the genre of each era. hopefully you enjoy what you hear/see!! (<- vibrating because they get to discuss their strongest hyperfixation of the past 2 years)

(under the cut)

if you tend to like goth/darkwave/posipunk/similar or related genres, or just generally more rock-focused music:

tetsu era is the way to go! their first album memoire/memoire dx has songs i’d argue fit very well into these genres! for more specific recs:

SADNESS~ I know the reason for her sadness~ - the most emblematic of the goth genre! (not technically from memoire, but the compilation it’s most commonly associated with, brain trash, was technically a multi-band project iirc)

miwaku no rouma - less “goth” and honestly a bit more “dance-y” but still a song i love and will love forever

kioku to sora - an incredible song that i love very deeply. also has a version with the band's third vocalist, klaha!

baroque - honestly, just iconic! baroque is THEE song of tetsu’s era as vocalist. the twin guitar version of für elise in the bridge?? magnificent 🤌

(i’d also look for the other, less known songs of the era, like 16 no solitude, portugal, and lafflesia!)

if you tend to like songs with a classical music influence but with more of a pop sound:

gackt era is 1000% the way to go! their second album (and gackt's first with them) voyage ~sans retour~ has many tracks of this variety:

madrigal - actually my favorite mm song, period. the bittersweet tone of the violin throughout makes me sick to my stomach its so good. i play viola and its the song by them i most want to learn to play!

premier amour - another lovely track from voyage that i actually used to have as my blog title! very poppy (in my opinion) but the classical influence is evident. like madrigal, it's quite violin heavy. as the title also suggests, it's quite romantic ^-^

uruwashiki kamen no shotaijou - i can't make a malice mizer rec list without mentioning this song. it's quite iconic and for good reason! this was the single that really gave them their first big commercial success, as far as i know. (also in the bg of a famous interview clip)

ma cherie - another song that i can't not talk about when discussing malice mizer. literally their most famous song, the one that their fan club was named for. if you ever look up clips of this song live, you'll mostly see the band having the most fun onstage. honestly just a very sweet song. this song is also the only one that's been performed by all three vocalists! (tetsu & klaha)

for songs that lean very heavily into a cathedral/classical sound:

the album bara no seidou, their last one and the only one with klaha as vocalist, has you covered!!

mayonaka ni kawashita yakusoku - first time i heard this song i nearly lost my mind. no exaggeration. the composition is genuinely beautiful, possibly even bordering on angelic. all my homies love mayonaka.

bara ni idorareta akui to higeki no makuake/seinaru toki eien no inori - goddamn what a long title, but fitting for a long song! as the opener for bara no seidou, it is a whopping 9 minutes long, but it had me hooked for all 9 minutes. (technically, bara ni... and seinaru are two separate tracks, but bara acts as an introduction for seinaru)

shiroi hada ni kuruu ai to kanashimi no rondo - to be towards the end of the album, it's quite the piece; and i don't use "piece" lightly. i have many feelings regarding shiroi, but to put it simply, you need to experience this song at least once.

tbh this list is getting long as fuck so i'm gonna do a rapid fire round of songs i like/ones i think are iconic:

tsuioku no kakera, au revoir (and the bossa version), apres midi (and the english version that i honestly can't place genre-wise), brise, gardenia, garnet, le ciel, gensou rakuen, aegen, gekka no yasoukyoku (deserves a long explanation as the song that got me into malice but i'm actually running out of space), the whole merveilles album*, really. (*half of those aren't even merveilles... oops)

[littledancingphoenix]

Just a little thing in advance~ A majority of my time will be spent in Boston on Sunday, the 19th. So, anything I post will be done from mobile. I may not be able to do any serious threads that day, so they'll most likely be drafted and put on hold until I come back some time on Monday afternoon. The next Sunday if it's an nsfw thread.

Thanks for reading! <3

[healingheartdogs]

Cardio said my echocardiogram ultrasound, exercise stress test, and week long heart monitor all showed no serious issues, my resting heart rate is fine, but that my heart rate does seem to rise very rapidly under even small amounts of stress (postural changes, taking stairs, casually walking around my house) and rises very high (160+ bpm according to the monitor) so now I get to be put on beta blockers to see if they work and if they do she said that is sufficient evidence to confirm for sure that it's POTS.

Obviously could confirm it as well with a tilt table test but those are TORTURE based off what I've heard from fellow POTSies so I am very thankful that she doesn't think that's necessary and will not be making me do one.

[justablah56]

docents back !!!!!!!!

[self-dx-culture-is]

Self dx culture is finding this blog and being excited to finally say everything you've ever thought about (this is an exaggeration)

[goatmilksoda]

Just got my "On The Spectrum" Professional Therapist Opinion :3

[tinyangrynerd]

sad dbd short story:

had a fun game with some really cool survivors.

they're all on console 😔

[coolgoodandfine]

Updated the designs! I think these are the designs I'm going to use, with maybe minor changes here and there. Feel free to use yourself. Changes under the cut!

Outside adding some gear and some clothes to their designs, I changed a couple things here and there. If you wnat to look at the old designs, you can find them here.

C-RA's saturation was cranked up, as well as light orange and purple accents to give her extra colors. I changed her pauldrons and leg guards to match, and changed the shapes on the elbows, chest, and knees. Weapons and shield styled after the shape used on the map.

MR-SN's colors were shifted from more yellow to blue, and was given more saturated accents in a dark and light blue. While we don't have much gear for him, cape was added for dramatic swooshes during storytelling.

VR-LA's design I don't think I changed any? I just added his staff and clothes from his Season 1 design. Technically he also has his spell book attached like a messenger bag, but I just left it off for this.

DX-TR had some armor integrated on him. Pauldrons were styled to match the shape Austin used on the map.

E-DN's colors might have changed slightly? I forget if I did. Wasn't sure what the shapes were in her map icon. I think they're swords, but I just left it, and mirrored the shapes in her bag.

K-LB's design I changed less than I thought I would. I changed the blue I used, and changed his chest thing into a gear shape.

AS-TR I added more armor on, and slightly changed some shapes so she'd have the seven compasses/stars that are a part of Selûne's iconography (attached to pauldrons, hands, chest, and eyes).

Really happy with the changes, and I like how they all came out! I think they all stand out from each other without being too far from the designs we have for mechanites. I think last time I talked a lot about shapes and silhouettes, as well as the colors, and I think they look pretty solid now. It might be a bit until I do a full group drawing, but I've got a few ideas for some smaller ones until then.

[vaugarde]

Lone wolf turned pack wolf, but is still the only one remembered in history.

Name: Damon

He/Him

Species: Lucario

-Lived in the 5th century. During his lifetime, he witnessed not only the birth of mystery dungeons, but Dark Matter’s first onslaught to the Pokemon World.

-He was a Lucario that lived on the Air Continent. He grew up mostly in solitude, as was customary for Riolu and Lucario at the time.

-He was rather stoic. It was hard to get a read on him and most Pokemon initially thought of him as cold before getting to know him. He deeply valued the Pokemon around him.

-He was the first Pokemon ever documented to have cleared a mystery dungeon. He had seen a Caterpie wander into a forming dungeon and ran into the dungeon to save it. He decided that as long as these dungeons were infecting the land, he would diligently save each Pokemon that had found themselves trapped in the dungeon. He would use his aura to track the Pokemon and determine the floor they were on.

-Due to the scale of his task, he would enlist other Pokemon to help him. He would form groups of four to go into the dungeons, and send other Pokemon he trusted into the dungeons he couldn’t access.

-He became an inspiration to the still-budding Pokemon society. Other Pokemon decided to form their own teams to help Pokemon lost in the dungeons.

-He was not the founder of the rescue team federation. However, it was formed in his honor, and he did help with some of the structure. He was kind of flustered about the “Lucario Rank”.

-Damon was close to the Human and Mew. He was one of the few Pokemon that had avoided turning to stone and had assisted them in the battle against Dark Matter by using his aura. He served as a confidant to the pair. Mew was especially close to him, and when it was time to reincarnate, set his future form as a Riolu in his honor.

-His story is heavily dramatized in books and legends in the present day. In Rescue Team’s time, he had been dead for 100 years and was regarded as an important historical figure

[tiny-stack-of-knights]

They’re posing for a painting or something… idk they’re just bein pretty (:

As always credit to @detonatethegemapples for her lovely Crowned Magolor!

[doubtingthomasin]

prompt 30: primal

word count: 1.8k

oh god this one might be my new fave i just love the kinda silly ones

MINORS DNI

@viharker

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"This feels kind of silly. Are we gonna be running around naked?"

"Trust me, it won't feel silly for very long–what are you doing?"

Chrissy's half-covering her bare chest, her hands slippery against the coconut oil they'd put all over their skin. "I feel weird." She grimaces but laughs at the same time. "I feel like I need a shower and we haven't even started. What?"

Eddie's almost cackling already. "Why–Why are you covering up?" He takes a few steps toward her but she puts her arms up in an x-formation.

"Uh-uh, you get too close and there's no head start for me."

He fake-lunges at her and she squeaks. "Oh, I'm gonna get you either way, princess."

"Oh, really?" she asks with renewed confidence, hands on her hips as he ogles her. "Last I checked, I'm the athlete here."

"Ready to put that to the test?" On the last word, he really takes off toward her, Chrissy screeching excitedly as she runs. He knows she actually has the home-field advantage, literally, as they run the hallway from the kitchen to the front room. They bound over the area rug, rush carefully over the marble tile until they make it to the carpeted parlor.

She takes off like a bullet and he won't admit it, but his smoker's lungs have a little trouble keeping up. He corners her at the other end of the room behind a couch, jumping to each side of it as she tries to escape.

"Ah, the thief has her trapped with no hope of escape," he narrates, arms out wide to catch her. She grabs a small pillow and throws it at him, which he easily ducks. "Evasion!"

"Goddamn goofball," she laughs, feinting to the left before throwing herself to the right over the couch, landing easily on her feet before running past him.

"How–" He builds up speed, chasing her up the stairs and through the halls. It's not really fair to her, he thinks; she's just running, but he's running and getting a great view of her ass every time she escapes. 

Not that he's letting her escape, of course.

"The princess just keeps cornering herself," he continues as she enters her parent's bedroom, "almost as if she wants to get caught. She must be curious as to what the thief has to offer." He wiggles his eyebrows, making her scoff and chuckle.

"You wish," she exclaims, pulling the same move as before and he catches her. But the oil does its job, making her impossible to hang on to with just his fingers. She slips past him and he growls playfully, bounding after her as she runs down the opposite hall.

"Oh, I do, princess, I do wish." He says it dramatically as they enter a guest room, her jumping up on the bed as he stalks the floor. "I wish to make you mine, to have you in every which way possible all night, all day, until you're begging me to stop."

"I will never surrender!" she cries, leaping far off the bed and out of the room, and he laughs as he follows.

"Oh, I'll take you either way, fair maiden." She runs back downstairs to the parlor, perched on the back of the couch and waiting for him to come through the doorway. But he never does.

"Eddie?"

Marble can be slippery, and she's suddenly worried enough to run back out into the main room, but he's not there either. She rolls her eyes at herself, in disbelief that she actually fell for his trick as she looks around in a circle. "Eddie! You're not playing fair!"

"Uh, what about a thief implies 'fair play,' Your Highness?"

"Good point." She says it more to herself, raising her voice after. "Then I'll just stay here."

"Oh, I'll get to you eventually," he calls, and she tries to suss out his location from the sound, but the echoes of the walls and floors make it impossible. "I move in the shadows, soundless, watching."

"You're ridiculous," she giggles, and part of her wants to forfeit but the bigger part wants to win…whatever that means.

She takes a pillow from an armchair, holding it in front of herself like a shield as she crosses the main room to the kitchen. She jumps through the doorway, looking around quickly and peeking behind the door, forehead wrinkled, resolute.

Funny enough, she doesn't feel like prey as much as she probably should, but maybe that's just the price of pretending. Since she knows there are no actual high stakes involved, there's no real reason to keep herself away.

Though he had promised he was going to be rough; that was the point to all the dramatics. It was supposed to be more freeing, more animalistic, two things which she knows all too well that he's into.

She walks softly into the dining room off the kitchen and knows she's screwed. Each long window has curtains that fall to the floor, easily concealing someone even Eddie's height. There's a linen closet in the corner, the shelves set in just enough that someone as slender as him could fit just inside the door. There are three entrance doors, all of which are open, all of which he could be standing behind.

There's no proof he's in this room, but she knows he has the mind of an expert strategist, so he is definitely in this room.

"I know you're in here." She checks the door she's standing next to, then each curtain one by one. She checks quickly under the great table filling the middle of the room. She rips open the door to the closet, but nothing. She turns around and–oh.

She forgot the wall tapestry.

He could've easily hid behind it and moved while she was searching. When she squints, she swears it's moving a bit as if it's been disturbed.

Pillow shield at the ready, she approaches slowly, eyeing the movement as her back turns to the table. It occurs to her she should've checked under it again–and it occurs to her far too late.

Eddie's arms close around her so suddenly she only gasps, his lips hot on her ear. "Gotcha."

She throws the pillow back into his face with a hah! as she tries to escape. But he's too close and succeeds in grabbing a fistful of her strawberry hair, yanking her back to his chest and making her scream. "Sorry, princess. That was a miss."

She groans melodramatically, pretending to faint against his chest as he devours her neck. "Unhand me, you brute, you fiend, you…ruffian!"

He laughs, overjoyed at how much she's getting into the act. "Not until I take what's mine!"

He spins her around, picks her up, and lays her on the bare table, the polished wood sliding easily against her oiled skin. He kisses her deeply, pushing the nearest chairs further away before his hands race up her thighs, one diving between her legs to stroke.

"Oh, I will be soiled," she whimpers, legs shaking as he abuses her clit. "No one will take me as their wife."

"Then you will be mine forever," he pants, sucking her nipples to hard points before rolling them between his fingers. He has to talk louder as her volume increases, his fingers finding their way inside her cunt. "I'll teach you my ways, and we'll thieve and pillage our whole lives long."

"You'll shame me forever, you'll…oh, Eddie." She can't keep the act going once she's about to come, hands clinging to his shoulders as she breaks against his fingers. He removes them while she's still pulsing, replacing them with his cock and making her wail.

"You okay?"

"Don't stop!" He obeys, his hands gripping her thighs as he gives her a few hard thrusts. He then holds her waist as he starts railing her, loud cries falling from her mouth echoed by his howls. He pulls her off the table after a moment, turning her around and bending her over, her cheek pressed against the table as he enters her roughly from behind.

"I've got you now, princess," he growls as he leans in, pushing her thighs against the table's smooth edge. "You'll never get me out." 

He slams into her at a punishing pace, groaning into her shoulder as he pulverizes her cunt, dragging one of her legs up onto the table to open her wider.  She can feel him in her guts, he's pounding so hard, his cock hitting as deep as possible. He pushes scream after scream out of her, leaning up to grab her hair again, arching her back toward him as he continues with a curse. "Jesus Christ!"

He picks her up again, folding up her legs and pressing her knees into the area rug below, pushing her shoulders down toward the floor. She arches her back again, moaning helplessly as he speeds up again. "You've always wanted this, haven't you, princess? You've just been waiting for a man like me to come along and fuck you raw."

"Uh-huh," she whines, nails digging into the pile for purchase, but it's not enough. He drags her back a little more, spreading her legs a wider, arching her back further with his hands, and fucking down into her. Her sounds are strangled as he pulls her back on every stroke, until she lets out the loudest scream he's ever heard her make.

He pulls out, flips her over, folds her in half, and lays into her again. She cries out against his lips, lost in the feel of being ravaged like this in the middle of her least favorite room in the house. Of everything she's done with Eddie so far, this is the experience that feels the most like rebellion.

"You're doing so good, Your Highness, taking my huge cock so well in your tight little pussy."

"I love you, I love you." She repeats it over and over, her mind unable to focus on anything else as he wears away at her. Making her his, just like he swore he would.

"I love you, baby," he groans, breathless as her nails dig deep into his back, raking down as he chases his end inside her. He comes so hard his body snaps, his forehead pressing against her shoulder as he fills her with a few more harsh thrusts.

They lay there for a moment, Eddie halfway on top of her, hearing her heartbeat return to normal. His favorite sound in the world. "That does it." With aching arms, he crawls up to look her in the eye, catching her smile as he plants a firm kiss on her soft lips. "I'm keeping you."

She giggles as he rolls them over, her head resting on his chest. "I think I'll let you."

[missrandomdreamer]

So im totally not saying this song made me make an OC for Buggy from one piece

most certainly not

also totally not saying said oc might get inspiration from little nemo adventures in slumberland

[vivedotpng]

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