The Medusa Vegas helmet was designed as a fusion of ancient mythology and modern extravagance. It draws parallels between the captivating allure of Medusa's gaze, capable of freezing onlookers, and the magnetic neon allure of Las Vegas, a desert city renowned for captivating visitors with its dazzling entertainment and attractions.

As opposed to the welcoming lights of Vegas these snakes are meant to inspire fear and warn of the dangers of the desert that the city inhabits.

So yesterday while I was desperately trying to chill, my husband asked me a very interesting question.

Him: "Hey...if Raine can change the molecular composition of liquids with sound...couldn't they use that to kill someone?"

Me: "Huh?"

Him: "Couldn't they whistle and turn someone's blood into poison or something?"

Me:

"Honey, I...oh my god."

im rewatching the season 5, episode 5 puppet history episode, and it's so so fun to see estranged producer shane audition hosts, get excited about a season 5, and completely ignore ryan's pleas for help when ryan is tied up by a holographic professor

Six Sentence Sunday (with a new look)

Hello all! Hey look at that, a new banner. Must mean a new project. XD (Don't worry, I'm not abandoning Baz and poor voiceless Simon, I'm just getting into CORB!)

Thank you @artsyunderstudy, @alleycat0306, @youarenevertooold, @you-remind-me-of-the-babe, @cutestkilla, @shrekgogurt, @aroace-genderfluid-sheep, and @rimeswithpurple for the tags - I look forward to seeing what you're all up to!

This week's clip is context free, to keep the mystery alive for the @carryon-reverse-bang project I'm working on with a friend of mine. I'm really excited about it, though, and I will tell you that it skirts the line between full AU and canon divergence.

I've decided to flip things about this week, so since all of my snippets thus far have been angsty Baz POV, I'm offering up a little light Simon POV. Enjoy!

Near jump out of my skin when my mobile rings. It’s Penny. Hell’s bells, I was supposed to call her. “You didn’t call me,” she says as a greeting. “You were supposed to call me from the train station.” Crowley, she sounds like her mum. “I know, I’m sorry,” I say, mostly to get it out of the way. “But the train was late and there was this bloke in a three piece waiting to drive me.” “So you’re there? What’s it like?” (I signed an NDA before I came here, but she'll push it to the limit, which she knows way better than me, as she went over the contract before she let me so much as touch a pen.) (She’s studying to be a solicitor and wants to take on magickal law. That’s either brilliant or scary. Both, probably.) “It’s… um. Dark.”

(NDA's are for normals and people who don't have a Penelope in their back pocket.)

Tags and hello's below the cut!

Thank you for the tags over the past couple weeks @prettygoododds, @angelsfalling16, @fatalfangirl, @nightimedreamersworld, @ic3-que3n!

Tagging @erzbethluna, @ileadacharmedlife, @hushed-chorus, @aristocratic-otter, @whatevertheweather, @brilla-brilla-estrellita, @thewholelemon, @katmiscellanious, @raenestee, @bubble-gumhead, @bookish-bogwitch, @anxious-m3ss, @palimpsessed, @alexalexinii, @facewithoutheart, @imagineacoolusername, @messofthejess and... okay, who's left? LOL If you want tags in the future, you can either tag me or drop me a line. (If you don't want tags, LMK too!)

What’s haunting Alex Turner?

In The Bourne identity, Alex Turner spends an entire song addressing his persona head on. 

In this verse he presents a scene in which he is driving a car (an apt metaphor for leading ones life) but he can’t seem to shake this figure in the backseat who is preventing him from feeling good about himself and his decisions. These two versions of himself are like personas and  throughout the song he explores the tension between the person who he wants to present himself as and the person he knows hismelf to be. In this song Alex can’t help but try to escape the version of himself that he sees as a hinderance, he wants to ‘kiss the past goodbye’ and leave behind the things that are plaguing his ability to move forward. But that is easier said than done and arguably this struggle with his persona’s carries over into other albums. 

In the song Star treatment, Alex reflects on his past in a song dripping with nostalgia. 

And in the beginning of this verse he returns to the theme of driving this time he embodies the persona he was trying to escape and becomes the apparition. We can always argue about who exactly the ‘you’ Alex is addressing is, it could be someone close to him, the audience or (in my opinion) himself. In this song Alex is once again struggling with the person he wants to be and the person he is, this ghostly figure who can’t be forgotten and who continues to remind Alex of the parts of himself that he wants to hide or metaphorically drive away from. 

Interestingly, this nostalgia is carried forward into the song Jet Skis on the Moat. 

Here Alex is looking back at the last 30 years of his life and trying to process how any of it happened. Former versions of himself appear before him like ghosts, he sees his AM/rockstar persona, with his abrasive confidence and his quick witted charm, and remembers how much that version of himself was exposed to the glare of celebrity culture. Then he juxtaposes that apparition with this younger version that appears once the show is really over, the one who is vulnerable and childlike and innocent. I feel like he’s having a conversation with his inner child and this contact allows him to realise that he doesn’t have to pretend to be all of the things that his AM/rockstar persona wanted to be. 

These three songs create an interesting timeline, with The Bourne Identity (2016), Star Treatment (2018) and Jet Skis on the Moat (2022) all touching on themes of the past, regret, fame, driving, personas and haunting. What is also interesting is how the way he has written about these ideas has changed over time. Where The Bourne Identity is a song about self loathing and wanting desperately to rid yourself of your bad qualities, Star Treatment is a restrospective song in which Alex conciously becomes the apparition in order to understand himself and Jet Skis is a moment in which Alex meets this ghost and doesn’t try and struggle against himself. Throughout his creative process he finally reaches a point where sees the ghost that has been haunting him without malice and instead with compassion. 

Chris Evans x GQ

haven’t written or drawn much in the past few months, but i was missing it more than i thought i would and finally near a store, so here i am, i guess. — arthur morgan

i don't think people are talking enough about how insane that stage is

Okay so I'm gonna let it to the smart ones to make full in depth analysis but I'm just gonna say:

HIS LITTLES SNORES, THE SOUND EFFECTS, THE ALICE IN WONDERLAND REFERENCES, HIM NOT BEING INTERESTED ON ANYONE BUT. HIS. MALE. DATE. ALL THE GAYS, HIM BEING EXPOSED ON AN INTIMATE SETTING ON A BED WITH AN UNINTERESTED LOOKING BLONDE GIRL AND A HIDDEN GUY WE CAN BARELY SEE BEHIND HIM, THE PRETTY INTIMATE DATE IN THE DARK WITH PROBABLY THE SAME GUY OR AT LEAST A SIMILAR LOOKING ONE FROM THE ONE IN THE GALLERY WHERE THEY ARE EATING PASTA WITH SAUCE (THAT A CERTAIN SOMEONE HAS APPARENTLY BEEN OBSESSED WITH LATELY) AND IT ALSO KINDA LOOKING LIKE A THE LADY AND THE TRAMP REFERENCE, EVERYONE THEN BEING SHOCKED THAT HE IS YET WITH ANOTHER GIRL AND ALL OF IT BEING FOR THE PUBLIC ON THE SPOTLIGHT AND WITH EVERYONE WATCHING ON THE THEATER BC THEY. ARE. IN. A. FUCKING. THEATER. (HELLO??? CINEMA??). HIM MARRYING THE QUEER COUPLE BC YOU CAN'T TELL ME THEY AREN'T QUEER, THAT COUPLE ALSO PROBABLY REPRESENTING US AND THEN THEM SAYING “WHAT THE FUCK” WHEN THE STORM STARTED, THE FUCKING STORM, HIM FALLING FROM THE SKY BEING YET ANOTHER REFERENCE, ALL THE CUTE LITTLE PICTURES OF HIM SLEEPING WHERE THE GUYS ARE MOSTLY HIDDEN AND HE IS ALWAYS THE LITTLE SPOON. SO MUCH LOUIS BLUE. HIS BABYGIRLISM.

HIM SEEMING RELAXED AT THE END BC EVEN THOUGH HE IS FALLING IN THE MIDDLE OF A STORM AND IT MIGHT SEEM DANGEROUS HE KNOWS HE IS GOING TO BE OKAY.

Anyway, i loved this music video.

here are some of my favorite stills:

"one megapixel of light" - georgenotfound about a scuffed flashlight

Lets treat them like gentlemen; like princesses

it wasn't on my wrapped because it came out last week but it will be next year

adrien tell ur mom to leave me alone !

best friend with social anxiety

ricky's winged eyeliner is so cool