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saunter-vaguely-into-a-bookshop · 6 years

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@palejehan tagged me in this and I actually have free time (I don’t, I’m procrastinating really badly help) so here goes

Nickname: I don’t have one

Gender/Pronouns: she/her

Height: 5'5"

Time: 5:35pm

Birthday: mid-January

Favourite Bands: Kaleo, Kodaline, Alt-J, Wyvern Lingo, Of Monsters and Men, Florence and the Machine, Queen and many more.

Favourite Solo Artists: Amanda Palmer, Banks, Hayley Kiyoko, Lorde, Laura Marling and more whose names I can’t remember. Basically the entirety of the Dark & Stormy spotify playlist as well.

Song stuck in my head: Bottom of the River by Delta Rae

Last Movie I watched: Infinity War

Last Show I watched: A documentary on Islamic science from the 9th-12th century

Why I created my blog: I was bored and my friend said it was a good idea about 5-6 years ago now

Other blogs: @tinylittlestudyblr, a langblr for resources and one I reblog knitting patterns to.

AO3: I don’t really want to share my name - haven’t posted anything yet and eh

Do you get asks: Only occasionally, but they’re very much appreciated

Idea for my URL: So I like Good Omens, and I ship Crowley and Aziraphale and my URL is a combo of references to the two with a hint of innuendo (I think). I’ve never changed it

I follow: An absolute wild collection of people I know (a small few), meme people, artists and a surprising number of witchy blogs. Also a shit ton of studyblrs cos I like to guilt-trip myself when I’m not working (like now).

Followers: Some friends, a lot of people I don’t know and haven’t interacted with (cheers lads, hope ye-re sufficiently entertained) and all bots are blocked. Call me suspicious and you would be absolutely correct.

Average sleep: Not enough. 6 hours when I have to get up, anything up to 14 otherwise (I had glandular fever recently so I’m tired all the time.)

Lucky number: 8, 16, 21. 37 cos it keeps turning up in my life.

Instruments: Piano, mediocre ukulele, voice. If you mean instruments of violence then a bow (cos guess who’s an irl archer yaaas)(still can’t believe my weird sports)

What are you wearing: A t-shirt that is suspiciously Homestuck but not explicitly (Jade reference I think???), my physics society hoodie and “boy” tracksuit pants

Dream job: Ideally I’d spin, sew, knit, weave etc. for a living but otherwise tattoo artist. I mean astrophysicist wouldn’t be bad considering my halfway-there qualification I suppose. OR going pro in roller derby or archery, I’d love that.

Dream trip: On a boat with a sturdy bike and a dog, and minimal packing. I need to go back to Iceland at some stage.

Significant other: Never had one

Last Book I Read: Literally? Statistical Physics by F. Mandl. For pleasure, The Martian.

What Kind of Mythical Creature are you: Dragon, or alternatively sea-witch.

Top Three Fictional Universes: Discworld by far, then the Adventure Zone balance universe and then Night Vale.

I feel awkward tagging people I don’t know in any major way so knock yerselves out

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moonlightbewitched · 5 years

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Kirk Hammett: Can I just say one thing? What Black Sabbath was to that time era and to movies like Black Sabbath and all those crazy Hammer and early ‘70s horror films, I think the modern equivalent is Ghost and movies like The Conjuring and The Nun and Annabelle. I think Ghost is connected to all these great modern horror movies that are coming out. I might be just totally full of it, but that parallel that I’m drawing really is cool because I love this band, I love those movies and it’s a way of like bringing ‘em all together and celebrating all I love which is, you know, the dark!

Tobias Forge: I guess that would be very natural, and quite logical to think that. Going further, if we parallel-compare the horror genre with metal, not only are they alike, but they are also alike because you have the creators of what instigated the horror genre that eventually led to a myriad of filmmakers essentially paying tribute to a lot of those older films. Same way that metal was created by people originally playing blues and funk music who then stumbled into making metal, and then all the metal bands that came after that are in a way, unfortunately dogmatically, sometimes just paying tribute to other bands.

I come from a death metal underground, and it’s basically full of horror name dropping! I know that a lot of classic films made back in the ‘60s and ‘70s, especially in the ‘70s, were inspired by previous horror/thriller makers. Obviously Hitchcock influenced others, Terrance Fisher…

KH: …Tod Browning…

TF: Absolutely! Fast forward to the ‘80s, and especially in the ‘90s and the 2000s. I think a lot of contemporary filmmakers who grew up in the VHS digital violence era, such as myself, caused the genre in its totality to maybe suffer from being too much of a homage. All the time there’s weird, eclectic little references, and then you sort of outsmart yourself and the whole project by just making it too true to the genre in a way. Whereas I think a lot of the groundbreaking films were made by people who didn’t necessarily do a whole lot of horror films, but were filmmakers in general. Stanley Kubrick is the classic example of that with The Shining.

KH: I was actually watching it myself (again, I’ve seen it many, many times) about a month ago. The most interesting thing with The Shining [movie] is that Stephen King doesn’t like it. And you know, I totally get that because having read the book and seen the movie more times than I read the book, they’re two different entities. But they totally somehow relate in the weirdest way, they both hold their own ground as artistic statements. Yeah, you’re getting a different story with the movie, but it’s shot so well and is so creepy [that] it touches on the atmosphere, environment and range of emotions Stephen King was shooting for, I believe. And it doesn’t follow the plot, it goes somewhere completely different with a completely different end, but it’s a great fucking movie and Jack Nicholson is just amazing in it. I mean, it goes without saying.

TF: One thing that I think is for me another key to not only that film but Kubrick’s films in general, [is that] as a good filmmaker, I think you need to pay attention to everything from dialogue to special effects to realism. Angles, details.

That makes me put him on a pedestal, whereas I think this is the problem a little bit with the horror film genre horror, it came to be a mass producing sort of genre, where a lot of the filmmakers are not necessarily interested in [that].

KH: And it’s the writing…

TF: There’re so many things…

KH: The costuming. It’s just crazy.

TF: Yes. The entire craft. And obviously he was -as everyone remotely interested in film knows – he [Kubrick] was a stickler for details, and I very much admire that. Where you have a lot of films, especially in the horror genre, that are entertaining but a filmmaker who maybe technically can make a film but is more interested in the special effects, or the nudity. And you see them phoning in a lot of the things “in between,” especially dialogue and the credibility of the character. Whereas Kubrick was so spot on.

KH: I think that point of the filmmaker as an artist not always embedded in making an obvious horror movie is so key. My attention lately has been gone to that book and movie Lord of the Flies, because I have two young boys and somehow or another we got on the subject of that book. I was telling them how I read it when I was ten years old and [how] it’s really an important book for them to read because it shows the importance of culture, social norms, rules and regulations, what it means to live in a civilized society and what happens when all that just disappears. How things tend to turn to savagery. I realized that when I saw that film I was about ten or eleven, [and] it scared the living shit out of me as much as any horror movie I’d seen at that point. Especially the whole thing with Piggy and the monster. It was intense. So I would have to say, Lord of the Flies, the original one from ’63, [the] black and white version is intense and a real suspenseful horror film in disguise. It’s not even in disguise, it is a horror film to me.

TF: Especially if you see it as a kid, it’s terrifying just because…

KH: …because you think, “Oh, that can happen to me!”

TF: It definitely touches upon…

KH: …parenting!

TF: I know, going to camp, being at school.

KH: Adulthood, you know?

TF: Ironically that film, even though I’ve seen the old film, the remake of it came right about when I was about ten, in maybe ’89? That was the first one I saw, and then I saw the older one because it was on TV not very far in time after that. And it’s one of those films I don’t want to see again, because it made me feel so bad. I have a lot of those.

KH: Yeah, there’s a few films that I feel that [about] way too. Another unintentional horror film that scared the living hell out of me when I was a kid, [was] Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs. An intense film. Almost, almost a slasher film. You know, predates that whole genre, but the violence in that film hits on such a deep emotional level that, yeah, that’s one I won’t watch again.

TF: Can I just throw in there a film I wanted to flag that genuinely made me fucking squirm, was a film from the ‘70s called Alice, Sweet Alice.

KH: Oh, I remember that one, yeah!

TF: It was an American film and I guess technically it’s a little bit of a slasher, but as [with] many films that I like, they don’t contain a ton of motives. It’s set outside New York, New Jersey maybe, mid-‘70s. Weather’s shit all the time. The environment is kinda like, uggh. And it’s just one of those films that also makes me… I like it. I like my memory of it. But I don’t want to see it again because it’s like so creepy. It smells.

KH: Yeah, it smells and you can’t really get it off. I know that feeling.

KH: Okay, let’s talk about the devil for a minute. The whole thing with the devil, how I see old Beelzebub, is actually the God bot. He was actually the god Pan, the pagan god Pan that the Christians took and basically used as the model for Satan, you know, a horned person with goat’s legs [and] whatever. So that in itself kinda muddies the waters for me, because every time I see a picture of Satan, I’m like, “Cool, fucking Satan” but in the back of my mind [it’s] Pan or Bacchus. That’s why I wear Satanic shirts all the time; I’m not wearing it for the sake of Satan, I’m wearing it for the sake of Pan or Bacchus, that’s what I’m really doing. And so having said that, for me, the ultimate devil movie, the ultimate Satan movie of all time that really hit me fucking deep and I thought I was gonna burn in hell after watching it, is The Exorcist. I mean, that is like the ultimate fucking devil shit. What can I say, I was a Catholic schoolboy when I saw it. I thought he was coming for me next. I thought I was gonna be possessed because of all the bad shit I did when I was a Catholic schoolboy. I just, I thought I had a big mark on my head. For six months after seeing that film I had to sleep with the lights on.

TF: I have a few favorite cult films, The Exorcist being one. I love the fact that even though the devil is present, he/she only really appears at one moment, really. He is not this ever present sort of monster that they would’ve done in many films today, this CGI sort of person that does way too much [in the way of] interaction.

KH: You have a total point there, and horror films are totally guilty of exactly that, Satan interacting way more than is realistic.

TF: Yeah, and that’s something that I really like about The Omen as well. The Omen I, II, III, up until the ending of …III, is one of my favorite sort of series when it comes to pure satanic horror. Up until the ending, because that’s when someone [was] just like, “Wait a minute, are we selling this point that this devil is-?” No, no, no, no, no! God’s hand just came down, and that’s the ending. It’s like the biggest fucking cock-block ever!

KH: Yeah. It’s like running into a brick wall. You have a point there. But you know, I think they had to do that or else we’d be seeing The Omen 12, The Omen 13, The Omen 14…

TF: Well, there was four.

KH: I remember seeing the ad for it, but you know, by that point it’s like, Omen IV?! Ah, you know…when sequels start going up past three, usually other groups and other parties [have] come in, other different creative entities, or a studio’s trying to keep something afloat or revive it somehow.

TF: However I must throw one “four” in there that is actually my favorite of a series, and that’s actually Friday the 13th IV.

It picks you up right after number three, it starts horrifically and it has all the good components of that whole series, in my opinion. I think three is cool but Four was like that multiplied. And that’s when you had all the ingredients, Jason had his mask, he wasn’t too fucked up, and, yeah. I think that there is a four.

So OK, at this point time was starting to run away from us and we had gig stuff to get on with, so we agreed to pick up this chat in August and as we were about to get up, someone in the room asked if truth was stranger than fiction, so being good sports, we thought we’d answer that!

KH: You never know what’s gonna be true. With fiction, it’s kinda like everything is fiction in the world of fiction, but in truth, something might look true but it’s false, or something might look false and it’s true, and that’s the paradox right there. You never know what’s true until you actually break the veneer and like look. And these days, because of things like the internet, you can’t take anything at face value anymore. You cannot. It’s foolish to. It’s always good to crack the veneer [and] look a little bit deeper at what you’re actually seeing, so I would have to say that you in most cases, it’s hard to find out what the truth is. But yes, there’s been times when I’ve read or seen or found out stuff that’s been true, and no one could dream up this shit in any sort of movie or book.

TF: Just taking two examples that are currently in my head, comparing truth to fiction, especially comparing it to cinema, if you take a film like, have you seen Vice? It has nothing to do with “horror” but it’s horrific.

KH: Yeah, it’s horrific. Especially what he did to his body just to play that part.

TF: Yeah, just from a film crafting point, it’s done very well and Sam Rockwell is the best George Bush, Jr. I’ve ever seen. But imagine if that was just a made-up script. It would’ve been… you can’t make that shit up. It would’ve been a completely stupid movie! But it’s not made up, so it’s a fucking horrendous story that you need to see, it’s a fantastic film.

KH: That’s a really good point.

TF: And [in] that way, I think that the truth is definitely stranger and more horrific than fiction. Speaking of horror, I was thinking about this just today because today we are in Manchester. I took a train up from London to here, and when I was about 12 there was this horrific story that I read about that completely blew my mind, that I’m sure a lot of people especially in England remember and that was the murder of James Bulger, the little two-year-old. I think he was at the time. Four? The four-year-old at the time. And just being close to train tracks, going through England, thinking about him, it’s one of the worst things I can ever imagine. It’s heartbreaking, horrible. And even though there has been a film made about the subject, I haven’t dared to see [it] because I just can’t find myself doing it. I guess that says something about the truth being so horrifying, and to also realize that it was two kids that did this. That just makes me cry for the world and humanity, and that’s way worse than any horror film that I’ve ever seen.

As I already said a few times, to be continued!

Thanks everyone, Kirk

#ghost #the band ghost #ghost bc #tobias forge #tobias as tobias #kirk hammett #interview #text

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his-lost-horn · 7 years

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unifyingspark: But oh gosh that little tiny in Cyclonus’s arms when she’s all painted and decked out, maybe at a rare formal function that Galvatron orders Cyclonus to attend with the babies to show them off. Gorgeous Cyclonus with his baby, in a crown his mate wove of things to protect her and keep her aura clean, painted with crimson shiny paint to match her optic and claws, dripping in jewels from conquered worlds of black and red. Just gorgeous and delicate and perfect. (Now /that/ I’d like to commission shitssssss). His darling little baby could not be cuter.

unifyingspark: Galvatron giving one of his speeches (and he is a fantastic public speaker). Jealous glances at Cyclonus, the cherished mate and bad tempered right-hand of the Empire. Then he can read mouths and sees someone lean towards the helm of another and say, ‘doesn’t matter how hard they try, he and his sparkling will always be hideous, what does Lord Galvatron see in him? He still has his birthing scar on his chest from budding, why polish your armor and leave that front and center? Primus pity that femme, awful thing, she sends a chill down your spinal struts, doesn’t she?’

unifyingspark: ‘Maybe he’s one of those weird bots who thinks its attractive to reproduce like a disgusting organic’

unifyingspark: ‘The little mechling is very handsome but a beastformer, did you know?’

unifyingspark: ‘Maybe Galvatron will have other offspring though I could bow to a beastformer, times have changed. Careful, the right-hand is looking at us.’

unifyingspark: ‘No he has a trained military stare, he looks broadly so it seems like he’s looking at you, he’s not trust me. Everyone in power learns to look into a crowd like that. He’ll go back to his ship, Camadal told me he’s afraid someone will try to hurt his babies so he moves about constantly. Coward.’

unifyingspark: ‘The femme moves abnormally.’

unifyingspark: ‘Twitchy.’

unifyingspark: ‘He’s looking, I swear, we should move further into the crowd.’

unifyingspark: // and then the after dinner meet-and-greet turns into "Little ones, would you like to have fun with Papa?"

unifyingspark: Cyclonus being a gossip favorite is prolly normal, I bet another reason he never wants to go to any of these things esp when the children are small, just sucks.

vxtum: Oh my god.. That is going to hit Cyclonus something cold - suddenly New Cybertron isn't so new after all

vxtum: Memories of his youth flooding back full-force

vxtum: But this time, he's got a horrific temper

vxtum: And he has no issues gutting people, even in the middle of Galvatron's speech

unifyingspark: LMAO really in the middle of the speech

unifyingspark: Oh god please, Galvatron would be trailing off watching Cyclonus slide into the crowd like water in a stream

vxtum: Watching Cyclonus on a hunt, having passed Tetta to Scourge, kissing her helm and murmuring that he will be back shortly.

unifyingspark: But Galvatron won't punish that kinda thinking -.- as insane as it is since he has a beastformer in his family and a little son with a beastmode, he doesn't make the links Cyclonus does... Galvatron longs for the old world. He means no malice, and if Cyclonus pushes him (and well Cyclonus has power, he can prune and lay down the law with an equal hand, he can help shape things to run the way he wants)... I know he'll protect his babies

unifyingspark: but oh god you know how scared shitless most everyone must be of Cyclonus, he must love when he catches someone who needs to die in one of those meetings

unifyingspark: standing in the back, silent, watching, waiting, hoping someone is fucking stupid enough to reveal themselves

unifyingspark: and sure as shit, always an idiot in Cyclonus' sight

vxtum: Galvatron smirking from the stage, watching Cyclonus track two or three of a group always making a point to keep distance between him, "Would seem someone has upset Lieutenant Cyclonus tonight. How.. /ordinary/. Run, you fools. He is just going to kill you." and then goes back to his speech

unifyingspark: Scourge hissing at him as he starts, "Cyclonus must you?"

vxtum: "Yes."

unifyingspark: Galvatron would enjoy it though, knows Cyclonus knows how to weed a garden har

unifyingspark: Near everyone hates little Tetta, I love it though it's horrible, because she's so cute and others see and feel the voidthing and are repulsed. Cyclonus must want to keep her away from that when she's small, no Carrier wants to feel his child feeling happy and thinking she's pretty because her parents told her she's pretty, then those outside their family are turning away to make a face, commenting she's hideous and creepy.

unifyingspark: Gravitas would get a little dig here and there about the beastformer shit but I think before the twins are grown Cyclonus has killed those bots (or Dinobot has as well), same with the ones who don't like mini-bots and such, that old world racism Cyclonus so hates.

vxtum: I mean, honestly. He can't and won't try to make it a thought crime to talk shit about his children, his family, and himself.. but if you're fucking stupid enough to do it in his proximity, then you're not intelligent enough to be a part of their empire.

unifyingspark: Galvy won't kill for those things either, he doesn't give a fuck what anyone is saying as long as they obey his orders and get the job done the right way.

unifyingspark: But Galvatron also lets Cyclonus do whatever the fucking fuck he wants (as always)

vxtum: Gravitas doesn't fucking care either, not when he's a teen and onward

vxtum: But he'd kill anyone who said anything about Tetta

unifyingspark: I don't think most mean it, they can't see her. They feel the Void and they're afraid, as they should be. Or whatever bad emotion, perhaps not everyone feels fear. If she didn't have a voidtaint, I bet many would think she was a cute little thing.

unifyingspark: Prolly, in the end, is good she has the taint. It makes her scarier than she is.

unifyingspark: Kind of an extra protection, I'm sure it starves trouble more than causes it

unifyingspark: Dinobot picking Gravitas up, showing him the crowd and saying loudly, "Look Prince, herd animals. What do we do with herd animals?"

vxtum: Gravitas' large optics brightened with excitement, surveying the surrounding individuals who had turned to look at them curiously, warily, and he tried to make a fierce, scary expression, baring his dentae and leaning forward, tiny servos bracing on his sire's arms. "EAT THEM! RAHH!"

unifyingspark: Dinobot snored loudly, proud of his beastformer quirks. "You are every bit as smart as your twin," He said, finding no fault in the young one. "Perhaps your Carrier will allow us to eat the idiot of the group, that is only fair..." He bent, long fingers fully encasing the boy's upper body, snug, safe. He set Gravitas down. "But you could sniff out the weakest link, you will not tolerate weakness in your pack. I am sure your Sire would appreciate you identifying a drain on his inner circle.”

unifyingspark: Scourge trying not to pass Dinobot an outright evil eye as he listens to the cranky old beastformer encourage Gravitas to sniff out weaklings for eating. I’m sure Dinobot let Gravitas eat a ton of sweets beforehand too, make sure the little one is extra jazzed up to fuck with Galvatron’s most loyal of New Cybertron. Really Dinobot wants to see if Gravitas picks out the same dickhead he wants to eat because that would make him so proud.

unifyingspark: god everything asshole about adult Gravitas is fucking Dinobot's fault *laughing

unifyingspark: Pushing instinct and wildness, yammering on about “his pack” and he being the big mech alpha wolf, rewarding individuality and selfishness and aggression, excusing bad behavior/defending him from Cyclonus’ cane, telling Gravitas he is just the most fucking special little fuck that has ever graced the universe and everything he does/thinks/wants is perfect, and then actually teaching Gravitas a shitload of very solid skills and skills most bots do not have, lost things, old world rule, survival, how to be both Cybertronian and animal and warrior--- but not enough to take away his individuality, never making it law, setting it all out and letting him pick

unifyingspark: You have the right to the universe and everything in it.

unifyingspark: Then Galvatron seals the final blow, that the mighty rule and make the laws.

#unifyingspark #[chat commentary]#[tw: long post]#au: twins

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