Diversity Win! The Man Who Blew Up Alderaan Has Gay Sex With His Subordinates

Starset really is the funniest band ever, they didn’t establish a fanbase before going off with their lore like most do, they dropped one (1) single in 2013 and then a year later, with no fame and one established song, walked up to the music scene like “hey we’re a secret society with a scifi message about a dystopian future, the only answer is to make science accessible and to fight against fascism and rock out” and then dropped the greatest cinematic rock album in history. unbelievable

so like. does anyone know if glam and gore did an actual apology or has actually changed as a person since she originally left youtube?

won't deny her skill, but i don't want to dedicate my time to someone i wouldn't want to hang out with irl, y'know? and with what happened way back when, i'm not sure she's someone i'd want to hang out with irl.

there's this element of ownership in vader's relationship with palpatine that really adds so much horror to rots for me. theres the "deal with the devil" aspect of it and people often discuss how ownership is cyclical for anakin but for me what makes it work so well is because it exists on so many levels that all coexist, you cant just boil it down to one layer. palpatine owns vader psychologically, because he is the only thing out there that vader is still capable of loving, he owns him personally because vader swore allegiance to him as his apprentice, he owns him as a state because vader is bound to the empire and the empire reserves the total control over the lives of its subject but my own humble opinion is that theyre wizards, it can and should go deeper than this. in the plagueis novel, plagueis encounters a rival apprentice called darth venamis that he fights, defeats and then keeps as a test subject (hes a fun guy) and ultimately because his meddling with death works best on force sensitive individuals, he manages to use him to figure out how to stop people from dying. once he does, kills venamis over and over again to polish that skill before finally letting him die. i know its a popular theory that palpatine sucked out padmes life force in rots to keep vader alive and i do love the dramatic irony of that but i dont think palpatine needed to even do that. its so much more grim. the thing keeping vader alive doesnt even need to be time stolen from his wife, the will of his boss is enough. theres sooo not enough delving into the mystic fuckery of it all because palpatine is not only an enthusiastic human rights violator, hes also an enthusiastic violator of all natural laws and thats a whole other layer to it because usually, the most that a person can do is harrass you in life. not palpatine tho, palpatine has the ability to harrass vader in death as well. the master apprentice contract was signed for an indeterminate amount of time, no ability to terminate and the "till death does us part" was scratched out because even death is sooo not parting this one. and i mean how normal can anyone be about a person who quite literally became your creator? replacing any other natural creator you might have had & rebuilding you around the singular purpose he has for you. like man, that just sucks. its not that vader owes palpatine his life. he doesnt owe it precisely because palpatine has already claimed it. and maybe it feels wrong to even exist because the force in gffa is self-correcting so any unnatural deviation would be under the constant pressure to erase itself but good thing that there is a guy who gets to sit above the force in the hierarchy and say "youre meant to be here because i say so and the purpose i am giving you is murder". essentially what im saying it, palpatine isnt just a person owning vader to vader, hes the only force of nature that doesnt violently recoil from his existence & it gives him the power to freely dictate everything what vader is

“It feels like we've been apart for a lifetime. . .”

masc. star sea be upon ye (2)

mayhaps once day i'll get the energy to clean this up LOL

I've been thinking this!! goblincore has a lot of overlap with punk, with the diy and overal disregard for social expectations of appearance and conduct! (fuck the grind, I'm gonna eat dirt!)

It seems fueled more by an appreciation for nature, than how punk is fueled by anti-capitalism, but a love for nature and sustainability goes hand in hand with anticapitalism! And i totally see the goth influences too, especially in the overlap between goblincore and vulture culture and momento mori. It's kind of like a little lovechild with extra dirt.

Sure, goblincore is largely about appreciation for nature, but we can't forget our trinkets! our shinies! I think the things we regard as our precious treasures: bones, sticks, dead bugs, scrap metal, Actual Trash, also feels very un-capitalist because none of these things have any monetary value, and very little social value. Perhaps this and the fashion also speaks to a reamergence of maximalism, which seems to be a huge trend at the moment in response to the late stage capitalist hellhole we're living in, but that's another post.

Going back to goblincore's lack of regard for social expectations, there are plenty of things like diy, dressing "badly", collecting bugs, going outside and getting mucky, that are also deemed childish, things we're supposed to stop doing when we grow up. You're supposed to neaten up, become proper (which also feels like an idea rooted in capitalism).

Idk I've also been doing shit like this since i was a kid, I'll never forget the day i found a rabbit skull under my wendyhouse and took it into school in a ziplock bag for show and tell. I'm also neurodivergent, so i extra don't vibe with silly societal expectations, and really do embrace any alternative space that shares that. Actually I'd love to know how many autistics are alt for similar reasons. that's also another post. Anyway these are my observations and interpretations of goblincore. Fuck capitalism and long live the Humongous Fungus.

something I've been thinking about is how interesting it would be to see the goblincore/gremlincore/corvidcore type aesthetic to evolve into an actual subculture. obviously for starters we should change the name bc anything ending in -core just doesn't sit right with me? unless of course it becomes that "placeholder name turns true name" sorta deal but ANYWAY.

main three key elements I've noticed that tend to make up a subculture is: style/outfit presentation (the optional part), belief system, and music genre(s).

style and presentation: (like what you wear), that part is already obvious if you ever followed the aesthetic at any point. (it was trendy for a time I think, is it still trendy? bc idk if it is but that's not stopping me from loving it.) basically wearing majority earth colors like browns and greens, stuff like hobbit-esque cloths or sweaters and stuff. definitely LOTS of nature based themes or just wearing weird trinkets. gotta go for that "creature directly out of the chronicles of spider wick" type look you know?

with the clothes (and often interior design I've noticed, which my entire bedroom would probably fit the aesthetic actually) one thing I've noticed for most who are into the aesthetic is there is a LOT of DIY. also going out and collecting things you find (anything from mystery trinkets to dead bugs and sticks and rocks, which I grew up doing and would call myself a tinker bc I made stuff out of what I found very often).

belief system: I feel like, above all else, beliefs commonly held among people in this aesthetic is to respect and be in nature, as well as do not waste, reduce and reuse. a lot of environmentalist like stuff, as well as seeing and respecting the beauty of nature, from butterflies and flowers to dirt and corpses. I don't have a solid concrete answer for belief system, but hopefully that sums up my view on it.

music genre: folk/folk punk, fantasy DND type genres, and nature based lyrics and vibes. from my experience and digging around, there's less artists who catch the vibe of this aesthetic all around (bc that's not what they're trying to do), and moreso having a couple or handful of songs that fit so very well. unless of course it's a genre of music that is enheritly matching to this aesthetic.

anyway, I'm not great at explaining the music aspect of it, but I feel like if it's magical and yet sorta punk-like that can work. no limits here yet, I have a playlist on my youtube that definitely pushes the boarders but who cares? the thing has celtic woman and httyd score on it. I just think if this evolved into having music for the genre (idk if we could call it a music based genre since it didn't start that way but I mean overall having a genre of music dedicated to this aesthetic-turned-subculture) it would be really interesting to hear what comes of it.

circling back for a minute, I feel like punk comes hand-and-hand with a couple of things here, but specifically mainly eco-punk. like diy, reduce and reuse, etc. as well as the music, while not deeply punk still feels like it would have a punk undercurrent.

I also think this could parallel well with goth, with the dark romantic sorta stuff. the music and belief system having love and adoration for the strangest and darkest aspects of nature, similar to goths seeing beauty in the darkness and creepiness of the world.

if anyone actually read this I would LOVE to hear your thoughts on my little rant (suggestions for bands/musicians and similar subcultures/subculture parallels are very encouraged) bc I grew up doing pretty much everything within this aesthetic long before I knew it was a thing or maybe even before it was a thing. that isn't meant to be gate keepy. I mean that when I found out just how many other people liked and did the same things as me, it was just so cool. so I just really wanna talk to people about this and I think something like this aesthetic could easily become a subculture one day.

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