May we have your goth music recs please queen of the night?

I dont know if this is sarcastic but I'm gonna act like ur serious 😌

Obviously this isn't gonna be all encompassing and it's gonna be my personal musical opinion and I encourage you to form your own and also I'm mostly gonna rec you stuff I like teehee

If you want some ~trad goth~ Bauhaus, The Sisters of Mercy,Fields of the Nephilim, Clan of Xymox

People you've probably heard of: The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Depeche Mode, Marilyn Manson, Joy Division

Ministry I really like their first album but they turned more industrial if you're into that and I can't mention industrial without at least name dropping Skinny Puppy

Gothic rock HIM, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Christian Death (be warned their entire thing was shock value so n-word bomb right at the beginning of one of their more well known songs)

Personally what I like to call vampire club music so like Sextile and Boy Harsher

And then dark wave, cold wave, soviet wave stuff like Molchat Doma, Ploho, Lebanon Hanover, Cold Cave, She Past Away

And anyone else I feel falls under this giant umbrella but im too lazy to categorize them: Pink Turns Blue, Sad Lovers & Giants, Paralisis Permanente, Lust Era, This Cold Night, Dancing Plague, Forever Grey, Killing Joke etc etc etc

Love her or hate her, either way you know her.

@southparkhcsocs was kind enough to let me draw Ronnie! Congratulations on 50 parts!! Watching your art style grow and get better has been a delight!

waking up in a cabin deep in a remote pine forest as the sun is going down. or coming up? you can't tell yet. suppose that's less important when you remember this world has no pine forests, or a sun to rise and set.

instead, this world has no sky at all. instead, this world has stale air and monsters. instead, this world has a man you've only heard rumors of. suppose the rumors are true, and that man has a cabin. and that cabin doesn't smell quite right.

but when has anything ever smelled right down here

Ryoshu and Rodya friendship where they sometimes sleep in each other's room when it gets too much in theirs.

When the candlelight in Ryoshu's gets too bright and suffocating with the heat and reminds her too much of the fire her daughter died in sometimes she knocks (more of. just letting herself in lmao) on Rodya's door to literally cool off.

Sometimes when Rodya's room freezes her down to the bone to the point where that she can't sleep, and the stench and sight of her dead neighbors haunts her every senses, Ryoshu gets a quiet knock on her door, and an even more surprising, a solemnly quiet Rodya outside, asking her if she can take a quick snooze here because she doesn't wanna go out and do the night watch.

Something something the only bed worth sleeping is the one right next to you (sad). Fire and ice duo. you get me riht

i feel it's so fucking stupid and ungrateful but it still hurts a little when someone gifts me something i just don't like. i don't know. i know it's dumb and inaccurate to astrain that much meaning to a simple gift, but it feels kinda like they don't know me. i guess it feels like people don't see me, like a reminder that the person i reflect and the person i feel like are incredibly different.

/ I've noticed that at this point I'm not even writing on any blog anymore, I just come and yell about some blorbo and leave. Rinse and repeat my lieges

Idk what's going on with me rn but. Idk what to do with a bunch of my sonic ocs anymore. Specifically ruby, their parents, the cat fam, and nox. I just don't feel like I can tell their stories at all. But I don't want to retire them either. But I still feel like I'm slowly growing. Detached?

Idk what I want to do. Maybe a revamp or something? I was already considering redesigning the twins but maybe I need a complete rewrite or something. Idk when I'd get to it tho. I've been in an art rut for a bit now. Haven't felt like drawing at all and I don't feel satisfied with the one thing I tried to make recently (which, ironically, involved ruby and the twins).

Idk what to do.

the word "warrior" has skyrocketed to my most hated word in like the past 3 months i am in pain

Hahahahaha it's too big for me to upload to tumblr as one image 😅

But anyway, here's my little tribute for my one-year Sparksversary! What a wild ride it’s been... joining in on the fun in the wake of The Sparks Brothers and Annette, and right in the midst of the 2022 tour—and already there’s been so much excitement for what’s next. 

Thank you, Ron and Russell, for the many hours of brilliant and joyous music in a back catalogue that I’m still exploring, for all the wonder and laughter and happy tears to be found in the Sparks universe, for being such role models to me as an artist and as a person. 

Thank you to all the wonderful fans I’ve met, for making this community such a special place, for the way you each share your love of Sparks, for keeping me sane by having others to talk to who understand Sparks in the same way as me. 

Shout out to a bunch of people who aren't on here: my ELO friends Horace, Lasttrain929, Timeblue, Vlog, and Uno are who I have to thank for having actually heard about Sparks before their recent resurgence (and making me assume they were a British band, lol); Roachie for unwittingly introducing me to their music nearly a year earlier than I thought, via one of their rarer collaborations, and consequently making me lose my shit when I realized it later; and Demurepisces whose incessant Sparksposting got me curious enough to finally check them out on my own.

I hope my art does more justice than my words do, because I could never describe how Sparks are so much more than just a band to me. They’re past, present, and future—I’m so glad that they’re true to themselves and tireless reinventors, that I enjoy the latest albums as much as any of the earlier ones. That nothing seems impossible when it comes to Sparks: such huge achievements for them lately, and a year ago I certainly never would’ve dreamed I’ll soon be travelling halfway across the world to see them at one of their largest venues ever. All that is wrapped up in the feelings I get when listening to Sparks—all that, and I’m looking forward to so, so much more. ✨💛

To those that followed me for art... sorry but you won't be getting any for awhile

We know the lasso of lies makes any lie the user holds come true, makes people believe the lie.

What if that is how Lizzie was born?

Someone, or even Diana, says that she has a daughter while holding the lasso and because she's holding it the lie becomes 'truth'.

It would also make sense why she would even keep the lasso of lies as maybe she needs to hold it to stay tethered to reality, to stay alive. Especially since it's wrapped around her more like an accessory than equipment.

And also why she feels so disconnected from her 'mother' Diana, because Diana is a woman of truth and she was born of lies.

Plus this would also make it so Diana doesn't have to 'spend time' pregnant in the world of comics, people will believe she had already been pregnant, and also do away with any questions of who Lizzie's dad is (unless she makes the lie while holding the rope with someone, or the 'King of America' created her to burden Diana and so he is technically her father).

I hate that I'm thinking of this. I blame all the artists I like announcing their own variant covers for the Trinity special dropping in 2024. Shows how much DC really wants this to be a success + want to sell as many as possible using variant covers to point to as proof of concept (like they're doing with the WW series rn - why wait until NOW for Jim Lee to do the final piece of the triptych).

Solaris

I'd like to inform locals that bts isn't the only kpop group to exist and brazenly calling a group 'bts' and completely disregarding corrections is just ?!?????!!

happy spotify wrapped day!! i didn’t get the “my audio day” slide and i’m sad because i feel like this is the first time i’ve missed out on a slide that isn’t podcasts :-(

i can’t believe i got top 0.5% of listeners with my numbers...everyone listen to lexie liu her new singles are really good

"here's a song, this comes off... i think dressed to kill. i hope." *pause* "comes off hotter than hell!"

(it was from dressed to kill)

i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."