#lemme know if anyone wants to do any of these

[baldurstaint]

Minthara Voice lines

btw if any minthara fans wanted the .wav files of all of Minthara's voice lines you can now download the rar file with them here:

Unfortunately the file names aren't named by the line. I don't have the patience for that kind of detail work. but if anyone wants to download and do the work and rehost, you're more than welcome to. (also lemme know if you share, I'll link on here)

[hidesinhisarchived]

NON-FANDOM SPECIFIC: Sinking into Grief - This is ten years post-R/ENT. The friend group has long since drifted apart. Benny is deep into corporate America and has become nearly unrecognizable. Collins died eight years previously and was buried beside Angel. Maureen and Joanne are doing their own thing, although Mark isn’t sure whether they’re still together or apart. Roger has just died, fulfilling Mark’s fears and leaving him completely and utterly alone. While he’s built up quite the reputation for himself for his films, he’s never stopped living in New York because that was where Roger wanted to stay. Now that he’s gone, Mark is finally convinced to head out to California. This is where he meets insert muse here, a new neighbor and a friendly face who’s more than willing to make sure that Mark doesn’t do anything rash in his pain. ( takes place post-R/ENT, mid to late 90’s ) Positive - This is an au that starts during the events of the musical and carries on afterwards. Essentially, Mark decides to stop being ‘chickenshit’ and actually go through with getting tested for HIV. His entire world is shattered when the results come back as a positive. However, due to everything else that’s going on with Angel dying and Mimi getting sicker, Mark keeps his mouth shut about his results. He knows that if Buzzline finds out, it’ll be an automatic firing ( not that that’s too much of a tragedy ) and it’ll make it harder for him to get employment. To keep his lie quiet, Mark makes the trek outside of Alphabet City and its closely surrounding areas to find a support group. ( takes place during R/ENT and after, mid 80’s ) FANDOM SPECIFIC: Dangerous Entanglements - It’s the late 1970’s ( ‘78 - ‘79 ) or early 1980’s ( ‘80 - ‘81 ) and Mark is still full of naive hope that his dreams are just within his reach. The gang is still together and neither death nor reality has fully reached them yet. It all starts after a particularly nasty fight with Maureen that resulted in one of many temporary break ups. Collins convinces Mark to get away and go to Fire Island with him for the weekend, subtly trying to push the young filmmaker to experiment a bit. Mark eventually agrees and is dragged, camera and all, to the festivities. He stumbles into one of many parties that’s being hosted on the island. Unfortunately for him, this particular party was hosted by the infamous Sam. He catches the eye of the host and Mark soon finds himself having the wildest weekend of his life, causing him to pick up an addiction to both Sam and the cocaine. ( fandom: a/hs nyc. specific character: sam. can also involve the other characters at times, specifically theo and gino ) Hotel California - It’s the 1990’s and Mark has found himself all alone. Everyone is either dead or too busy doing their own thing to spend time like they used to. With no one to anchor him anymore, Mark finally gives in and heads to California. While he’s gotten decently famous with his documentaries, it’s still not enough to get a long term hotel room in a great hotel. As such, the filmmaker finds himself stumbling into the Hotel Cortez at three in the morning, exhausted and desperate for a place to stay for a bit. ( fandom: a/hs hotel ) Ghosts? Really? - Mark gets hired by a production company to do a documentary on the infamous Murder House. The company even goes so far as to buy the house and has Mark and his crew stay there to make it feel more “realistic.” The time period this takes place in really depends on the character(s) involved. I’m leaning a bit towards present day Mark, who would be in his early 60’s but I’m willing to shift it as needed. ( fandom: a/hs m/urder ho/use )

[totentnz]

becoming obsessed with a minor npc truly is a blessing and a curse

[darabeatha]

/  I remember once seeing two rpers (it was a d.iluc vs a k.aeya) that did a thread but it was lit their muses ic playing connect 4 and it looked so funny; it was something like this;; and they kept reblogging it back and forth until one of them eventually won

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[gooboogy]

Tagged by @esodericmania (ty!)

10 songs currently on repeat:

1. Movies - Weyes Blood

2. Ciao Ciao - 0dezenne

3. Reality - Vladimir Cosma, Richard Sanderson

4. Requiem - Agar Agar

5. Slow Dance - luxury elite

6. WE'RE ALL ALONE - Masayoshi Takanaka

7. Sospetto - Franco Micalizzi

8. Audrey Horne - Golden Retriever

9. Drift - Ratatat

10. Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Dreams Academy

If you would like, I tag @brostriders @davespwite @child-of-crows @amazingakita @swawsn @doki-deku @sociallyanxiousdragon @uncannycory @barkingsoloud @raisedbyheathens @samglyph and anyone else who wants to!

[languor-em]

I HATE ASTEL!!! I HATE THEM SO MUCH!!!

[raksh-writes]

WIP themes tag

In the latest episode of the long saga of me being super late in doing these lovely tag games, I’ve been tagged by @iced-ginger-tea thank youuu! ^^

rules: bold the themes that appear in your WIP (& italicize those that are loosely covered).

Gonna do these for my VegasPete Sugar Daddy AU ^^ So:

addiction | beauty | betrayal | change vs. tradition | chaos vs. order | circle of life | coming of age | communication | convention vs. rebellion | corruption | courage | crime and law | dangers of ignorance | darkness and light | death | desire to escape | dreams | displacement | empowerment | facing darkness | facing reality | faith vs. doubt | fall from grace | fame and fortune | family | fate | fear | fear of failure | free will | friendship | fulfillment | good vs. bad | government | greed | guilt and forgiveness | hard work | heroism | hierarchy | honesty | hope | identity crisis | immortality | independence | individual vs. society | inner vs. outer strength | innocence | injustice | isolation | knowledge vs. ignorance | life | loneliness | lost love | love | man vs. nature | manipulation | materialism | motherhood | nature | nature vs. nurture | oppression | optimism | peer pressure | poverty | power | power of words | prejudice | pride | progress | quest | racism | rebirth | relationships | religion | responsibility | revenge | sacrifice | secrets | self-awareness | self-preservation | self-reliance | sexuality | social class structure | survival | technology | temptation and destruction | time | totalitarianism | weakness | vanity | war | wealth | wisdom of experience | youth

Oof, this actually wasn’t all that easy, ngl, but also super fun to consider and get the gears going ^^

No-pressure tagging: @fleet-off @roxannes-love-letters @theflowergirl @livingbythewords @msmischief101 @howlingmusketeers @oenothera5 and anyone who’d like to do it too! ^^

[donuts4evry1]

School is just around the corner, but I... sort of want to make a post explaining the differences between commonly misidentified jellyfish.

While their Japanese names is a lot simpler to differentiate- but the English names are more misleading. And it makes me sad.

But um!! This is a teachable moment- and one that the Ite! characters would be perfect for using :). I’ve actually got two possibilities up rn ^-^.

First idea: The “Crown” Jellyfish, with the Cephea cephea and Atolla sp. I’d be using Kiseki and Masaru to demonstrate the differences :)

Second idea: The “Fried Egg” Jellyfish, with the Phacellophora sp. and Cotylorhiza tuberculata I’d be using Rankou and Helios to demonstrate the differences :)

[theninaproject]

ok a little bit of (maybe bullshit) costume analysis here for your consideration: the triangle pocket on Mike’s shirt here... reminded me of the triangle symbol used on the pink triangle pride flag. (not to mention the fact the muppet poster behind him has a rainbow on it already lmao)

(the first flag pic is taken from footage of one of the ACT UP protests of the 80s)

EDIT: now that there’s confirmation from Finn that this outfit was handmade for Mike this season... I’m gonna post this again lol.

[tw for the Keep Reading section: contains references to/images of gay men in N*zi concentration camps and discusses the persecution of gay men. nothing graphic, but i wanted to put a warning just in case...]

(+ disclaimer: i am not a historian or prominent activist, any and all of this research has been conducted by myself and is limited to what i have currently seen/read. i do not claim to be an expert. some of the information i have may be faulty, plain wrong, or now outdated. feel free to let me know if you spot anything that is incorrect, has bad sources, or is disrespectful so i can fix it!)

now, while i certainly would hope mike’s struggle with identity and his feelings would become more overt over the course of the season, if this is where they’re going to officially take mike’s character, it would make sense to have the first few episodes using mostly coding/subtext to convey Mike’s confusion  until mike feels ready to talk about it and feels he has the right words so it doesn’t feel too abrupt to general viewers not as closely following/used to decoding subtext (which would also make sense because, again, in-universe he likely doesn’t have the words to describe his feelings and experience just yet).

so, without further ado, here are some more examples of the pink triangle and how these messages and their imagery could tie into a possible arc where we see Mike struggling with his sexuality this season...

the famous SILENCE = DEATH flag here also reminded me so much of Mike likely having a ‘One Way’ or ‘This Way’ sign pointed directly towards his closet in his room back in Hawkins... aka he will have to stay silent/in the closet if he stays in Hawkins or doesn’t get away for a while to ‘find himself’. now combine this with the fact that Mike is going to Cali for spring break and therefore getting a chance to get out and far away from Hawkins (and his “closet”), that makes his upcoming arc this season even more compelling to me.. if i am onto something here.

+ since this season will likely already contain heavy themes of how, over time, the continual Lack of Access to Info, Spreading Misinfo & Cover Ups, Repression, Secrets, Lies, and Mistrust as a result of those Lies = Escalation of Tension and even Death [be it a physical or metaphorical death, of self/of relationships/trust/community/etc] what with Vecna being the new big bad or whatever, it would make sense more than ever for them to tackle this side of Mike’s character this season...

as it seems like the 2019 HBO Limited Series on Chernobyl has inspired a lot of the visuals/coloring for this season (and the Duffers even managed to snag the makeup artist from the series to work on the makeup/SFX for Vecna this season), I’d imagine this quote could apply to this season’s themes just as well: “What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all.” and these political themes are certainly still just as relevant today as they were in the 80′s.

(separating this bit from the rest since it’s a bit of a detour from the topic as it pertains to themes of this season/series as a whole, rather than relating to specifically Mike’s struggles with sexuality..)

+ [ST4 SPOILERS AHEAD] the themes of ‘going out west’: consider the lyrics from the song that plays over Mike reading his letter from El, California Dreamin’, “i’d be safe and warm if i was in LA...” (compare this to how Will described the ‘Upside Down’ as somewhere dark, empty, dangerous and cold..) and how also in the letter, one of the lines El pens is ‘I think you will love it here [in California].’ when Cali is ...

(blue text’s source: http://picturethis.museumca.org/timeline/reagan-years-1980s/gay-lesbian-rights/info)

[the potential for any ST4 SPOILERS currently leaked Ends Here.]

now, onto the triangle symbol itself. the upside down pink triangle symbol was made infamous as a piece of pink cloth that was sewn onto the uniforms of gay men in N*zi concentration camps as a way to identify them and persecute them.

the placement of these patches was located where the right breast pocket was/would be. so maybe you can see why i immediately did a double take seeing that triangle on the right-side pocket of mike’s shirt.. again, i would certainly hope they’d get more overt as the season goes along-- but i could understand using these subtle cues to the LGBT viewers at first as a way to sort of signal that ‘hey this is where we’re going with this character’

i believe this history ties in as well with a theme in ST of how the 80′s a lot of knowledge and access to information could be more easily limited/relegated to what media you were able to see or read due to there not being an easily accessible source of endless information (and misinfo alike lol) in most people’s homes like we have now. a lot of the history on the pink triangles was difficult to divulge for a long time as well, due to the ongoing persecution of the LGBT community-- so it was unsafe or just didn’t seem wise at the time for survivors, who had already been forced to endure such unspeakable trauma, to hold onto these things which would likely only serve as painful ‘reminders’ for most.

of course, this could all just be coincidence... it could just so happen that they wanted a simple shape and the one they used was a triangle, maybe the costume designer just likes that shape for pockets, or maybe it was generally a popular design in the 80′s (i’m not a fashion expert, nor was i coming of age in the 1980′s so sorry i’m not sure either way there lol)... but if it isn’t a coincidence, i could see this being a visual representation of mike’s fears of his secret being ‘found out’ while also aimlessly signaling how he desperately wants someone who is gay to notice the signals he’s giving off-- he wants someone who understands to answer his changed demeanor as the cry for help it is. it’s even harder to ask for help when you don’t currently have the words for what it is you’re struggling with, because that isn’t me saying mike consciously was thinking these things when he chose that shirt, but rather it’s a way of conveying the subtext/what mike is feeling and thinking by the designers to the audience through recognizable symbols.

(here are some links to sources with more information on the pink triangles:

/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLwSF9uhNQQ&ab_channel=PoweredByRainbows%E2%84%A2

/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj-wGkcyTL8&ab_channel=UnitedStatesHolocaustMemorialMuseum

/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OxH1rqBAgw&t=747s&ab_channel=JamesSomerton 

/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o84srvQAaWk&ab_channel=CambridgeDocumentaryFilms

/ https://thereaderwiki.com/en/Pink_triangles

/ https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/the-men-with-the-pink-triangle-heinz-heger)

the pink triangle was a symbol eventually reclaimed by LGBT activists and became a more well-known symbol amongst the community and then to the general public in the late 80′s/90′s. sometimes this reclamation involved turning the triangle from upside down to right-side up, as a “reversal” of its original usage, and has since been used and adapted as such onscreen... take, for example, one of the costume designs for Dr. Frank ‘N' Furter here...

(https://forward.com/culture/352199/the-secret-jewish-history-of-the-rocky-horror-picture-show/ & https://medium.com/thinking-about-queer-art-performance/rated-r-for-resistance-c6e21611a0fa)

but again.. this could all be a massive stretch so.. just take it with a grain of salt! these are purely inferences i’ve made thru my own lens where i recognize a lot of this imagery pretty immediately so i have a bias probably lol.

+ new addition post-s4: I also found it interesting the parallel between how the Act Up organization made their own shirts for protests and how Dustin makes specific mention of how The Hellfire Club makes their own t-shirts..

[sundersaint]

Soul Crushing Soukoku Playlist

die for you - joji

young god - halsey

talk me down - troye sivan

feeling like the end - joji

coming down - halsey

W.D.Y.W.F.M? - the neighborhood

slow dancing in the dark - joji

too good - troye sivan

idfc - blackbear

you get me so high - the neighborhood

no fun - joji

fools - troye sivan

hold me down - halsey

a little death - the neighborhood

yeah right - joji

ease - troye sivan

romantic homicide - d4vd

YKWIM? - yot club

attention - joji

hot sugar - glass animals

i walk the line - halsey

do i wanna know? - artic monkeys

the quiet - troye sivan

glimpse of us - joji

hurricane - halsey

bite - troye sivan

dissolve - joji

control - halsey

happy little pill - troye sivan

leaving tonight - the neighborhood

R.I.P. - joji

[altruistic-meme]

WIP............... Friday, it seems :]

from: chapter 10 of (why is there) joy in this poison!

[soulsxng]

Wholsumvalues test! (JJ version)

[kissmefriendly]

Once I get a stylus and get back into digital art, y’all are done for. DONE FOR I say!

[areyoucereals]

life is like a capture the flag game and the ‘normies’ (white abled straights) are mad because the ‘non-normies’ (marginalised peeps) are winning and taking over the land.

[izzy-b-hands]

S W shop talk and random abt the day stuff below. no details abt the actual vid just filming talk and me whinging abt my joints lmao, but scroll by if this aint ur thing

i just finished an hour and a half of straight filming for the u kno what blog lmao

it'll be my longest one yet, and idk exactly how to go abt it yet (cut it up in davinci and post clips with the offer for the full vid if they m$g me? post the whole thing and comment that it's an example of a vaguely niche ish thing that I'd be happy to do customs for and hope someone wants to set one up????)

but im proud of myself. yesterday into today has been nicely productive counting everything including this, and while this last thing maybe isn't a traditional accomplishment to be proud of, this is a bigger step for me in that direction. My audience is small but bigger than i thought it would ever get and like.

the money is v little. but maybe if i keep trying to improve it will become more, and in the meantime im quite satisfied with the latest few comments from ppl aksndjfnf

that said tho GOD im old and things aren't working well if ever they did and like. my knees ache. we walked the beach earlier yesterday and between that and the Posing for this bit of work, I've aggravated my right knee and ankle especially, and am standing typing this waiting for the radiating pain to stop so i can walk on that leg and take a fucking shower lmao

Worth it tho, for all of it

[murasakiirohana]

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