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viktor-ghoul · 1 month ago

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Tampere ritual spoilers below!

(wrote all of this literally right after the ritual and English is not my first language so sorry if there are any spelling errors)

Morning after ritual: my feet hurt :(

Where do I even start? This was my first ever ritual. I've been a ghost fan since 2016-2017 (when Terzo was the front man) so I was literally jumping and giggling while waiting in line. Me and my friends got there an hour before the door opened. It was also my first time in Nokia areena and it was so prettyy!!

We had a solid two hours before the show started, so me and my two friends just played some silly games like naming ghost songs in alphabetical order. Seeing people talk to each other and not just stare at their phones made me really happy and I'm saying this as a person who usually doesn't like talking to people. It was really fun listening to the people cheer when someone hit Mountain's drums behind the curtain like an hour before the curtains dropped. Also, I WAS SO CLOSE TO PAPA I WAS LIKE 10-15 METERS AWAY FROM HIM!

Then the lights turned off at 20:00 and Peacefields started playing. It sounded so good I genuinely started crying!! It felt actually magical. Seeing Phantom and the ghoulettes and papa live made me so genuinely happy I don't think I'll ever be this happy ever again.

Some fun moments I remember! I think it was after cmlss, Phantom walked to the very front and pointed to one side of the crowd so they could cheer, then motioned them to stop, then pointed at the other side and did the same thingy. It was very funny seeing him shake his head and all that. (Sorry I'm bad at explaining it I can't find the words).

After Phantom was done with that, Papa came on the stage and talked a bit. He was pretty quiet still which was a bit disappointing but his jokes made it up. Also just the transition to yapping to the future is a foreign land was so smooothhh!! Phantom played the acoustic guitar during tfiafl and I swear we made eye contact. Papa was also an absolute diva and I love him. He's also much shorter than I thought.

Cirice was absolutely amazing! I don't think papa ciriced anyone though but I might have missed it. Cirrus' solo was as always, gorgeous! Phantom and Rain went up to her and like bowed to her!

They also did the thingy where Dewdrop messed around with his guitar and all the other ghouls looked so disappointed/annoyed (made me giggle).

I started crying the second time when they played darkness at the heart of my love. Just hearing the crowd sing the "when the summer dies, severing the ties, I'm with you always" was so gorgeous and beautiful I'm so glad it was a no phones concert.

For some reason I didn't think I'd feel the flames during year zero, but holy shit I FELT THEM! Phantom and Dew and Rain stomped, Umbra's and Aurora's vocals made my soul ascend.

During kiss the go goat, me and Phantom blew kisses at each other!! I'm actually so proud of him for doing so much during the ritual (that also goes for the others but Phantom is my favourite and I interacted with him the most). When the "but he's the guy you wanna do, and you know that it takes two" part played, Dew and Phantom pointed at Rain which definitely gave me fanfic and fanart ideas (someone please write I'm not that good at writing I'll sell my soul to you).

I caught some confetti during mummy dust and my father gave me the mummy buck he caught. Later when the show ended someone gave my other friend a mummy buck.

I started crying the final time when sorrow in the wind played and they did the final bows. I was so busy watching Cirrus (at that point I couldn't tell them apart that well) throw paper airplanes to the crowd that I didn't notice Mountain throwing his drumstick to my friend. I'm genuinely so happy about the ritual and we all got something!!!

After the ritual, I started handing out stickers to people and they were all so nice!! I also got a poster and the ugly one (frater imperator plushie). My little sister got the hoodie with bat wings. My feet and lower back ached so much after the show. I also lost my voice but it's not so bad. Over all, I'd give this experience a solid 666/10.

Everything I got from the ritual: