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Just a message to brighten your day and a reminder that I appreciate you and love seeing you on my dash!! ♪( ´▽｀)

.____. thank you so much, lovely. honestly, i have not been doing well™️ with my social anxiety so this means a lot and i appreciate you so much <33

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Hey friends, this might be a long shot but I have two platinum seats left for the Ghost Ritual in Berlin on May 7 (I will still be there but I have two tickets left). I want to sell them (the original price was 199€) but I'll definitely make a fair price that I am open to discussing, so if anyone still wants two platinum seats right opposite the stage then please hit me up. Details via DM or discord if you are genuinely interested. Feel free to share ♡

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If I was a little gayer I’d kiss you

Wait

Oh my god

I am

MWAH 😘

let's make out sloppy bisexual style on everyone's timeline

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I just had some Secondo Thoughts based on some of your tags from a post a day or two ago (about how people claim Secondo has rage issues)

I feel like Secondo is quiet about his anger. You can tell when he is unimpressed or pissed off. Though he speaks evenly. He does not raise his voice nor explode and demean. He knows how to cut through the thickest of skins with just a few sharp retorts.

But deep down he is a sweetheart, a softie. Someone who doesn’t let rage consume him. It simply isn’t in his nature

oh god, friedrich, i somehow saved this ask as a draft to reply to later and only just saw it again burried under a ton of other drafts 💀

but yes yes yes, i think i talked about this in my general headcanons for him because i kind of never really connected to this idea of him being a choleric (which i think stems from that one interview back then about him sending his hounds after a ghoul and being rude to him lol which idk maybe he just deserved it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and maybe also just from him looking scarier in general).

i mean, apart from those satiric interviews, i see him in papaganda and i see a man who is very sophisticated and measured and as you said, he speaks evenly. on stage he is so calm, even when he reprimands the crowd surfers he does it very gentlemanly (if still firmly) and commands the crowds with eeeease. i just think he is a big control freak (he is very earth sign energy to me) and part of that means to not give away his emotions to the outside. his anger is cold and quiet and he can destroy you with one look and a well-aimed comment, as you said, but he won't use brute force or lowbrow insults, that's beneath him.

i think he stil has that italian temper, sometimes it will break out of him like a volcano, but i rather think this happens when he's hurt instead of angry. to me, he suffers from a lot of self-loathing, so he doesn't get mad on his own behalf, nothing he hasn't thought before yknow? unless you hit a very senstivie spot he's got a thick skin. but he would definitely be super protective of his loved ones and in my personal HC especially about his brothers (he and terzo argue but dear satan if someone insults the other, you'll have both sets of hands around your neck). anyway, yes, i agree with this and i love that i am not the only one who sees him like that <333

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also occasional reminder that @ibikus is my main (and also art) blog with which i like/follow and just use for the odd personal and art/aesthetic posts etc. and i also have a ghost archive blog @kisstheobscene where i reblog all my own ghost works to, in case you don't want to be on my public taglist you can just turn on post notifications for that one ♡

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Okay, so speaking of the Tarzan soundtrack. “Son of Man” and “Strangers Like Me” are so gender affirming and I vibe with them. But they’re also making me think of songs that resonate with Copia too!

Imagine Strella and Copia watching Tarzan because it’s one of his favourite movies and she catches him crying during “You’ll Be In My Heart” OAUGH

I will have to admit this point that I have not watched this movie since childhood (i do know the songs though) 😭 I definitely feel like this could be something Copia loves, just... you know, the themes of identity, connecting with animals– the way humans are so destructive to the world around them but think they're superior still? 'strella looks over and he's just vibing to the songs until You'll Be In My Heart comes on and he's sobbing against her chest 💀 (this occurs during every disney movie btw, also i bet this man is a phil collins fan, he's covered genesis after all)

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Ghost | Portugal - Source: LoudMagazine ×

📷 Jorge Botas

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my day sucked and I feel horrible both mentally and physically but I can now confirm blasting skeletá in the car fucking slaps, it’s like getting an exorcism and therapy talk at the same time

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Not to be completely insane but if we actually take this concept seriously for a moment this means the Papas are the four horsemen:

Primo is Conquest which fits the first Papa super well – he came, saw and conquered (the stage, the world of music, building the congregation)

Secondo is War and holds a sword (lol), outwardly scary-looking, was supposed to topple nations and spread the satanic panic, "mongering"

Terzo is not just cool-looking but he also has a pair of scales (kind of apt considering the themes of Meliora) and would therefore be Famine (subverting the anticapitalist themes? starving for absolution and God's grace?)

Copia is the fourth rider on the pale horse, Death (the whole Prequelle theme, really, Copia's era including the deaths of the other Papas, Sister and Nihil, his own fear of the end)

followed by Hades (Perpetua? acceptance of death/the end and what might come after)

The third rider looks cool

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tobias recording the guitars for skeletá with the rockman (the amp from boston's tom scholz) to get those clear authentic 80s sounds actually makes so much sense

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copia came to us furious. we watched him rise and break and bloom. his reign was built on pride and righteous anger and the need to prove himself to a world that had never cared enough to look. his faith felt hard-earned. a shield. a survival tactic. defensive. throwing fists while begging not to be left behind.

with v, there's none of that. he doesn't have the resentment of a person who had to fight to be seen, but rather the tentative longing of someone who never had anyone to really see him in the first place. if copia was the boy thrown into the river to sink or swim, v is the boy watching from the river bank, wide-eyed and wondering what it might be like to drown. you see it in the way they hold the stage. copia always danced like he had something to prove; like every step might be his last if he didn't make you love him, and so watching him felt like being dared to believe in him. v moves as though someone told him he was meant for great things but forgot to show him how. his faith is solid but spills out clumsy and earnest, and you can almost hear the question creeping behind his grin: "will you love me, too?"

there's a shyness to him that copia never had despite his insecurities. copia was shoved into existence. v was invited. copia carried the weight of being almost good enough… of being someone's son but nobody's favourite and aching to be more than what they decided he could be. but v holds no bitterness. there's no broken glass inside him to spit out. they share a loneliness, and they both bear the bruises of their respective neglect, but where copia's thrashed and clawed and demanded a seat at the table, v's is quiet. it's stitched into his being and soft around the edges like it's just another part of him. for v, it's not a question of survival but of acceptance. of playing the cards you're dealt but knowing there is always space for change. and maybe that's the heart of it. copia learned to fight. v learned to hope.

it's funny how the line of succession goes. louder, harder, angrier, and then suddenly, quieter, as if the church itself has finally exhaled.

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there are so many wordplays (and other types of fun lyrics-related things) in ghost songs, like the "bewitch/be with you" in the moonlight line but i feel like he really had a lot of fun with it this time around, like?

there – dare angel-he-hell excel – exhale

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Peacefield by Ghost

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Did some Perpetua X Oc in a gothic horror romance setting! (OC is from a comic I'm doing at the moment !)

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im so happy tobias forge loves the female orgasm

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the venn diagram of witch image enjoyers and marks of the evil one enjoyers is a circle

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PAPA V PERPETUA BY RYAN CHANG