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In the darkest of nights,
The quietest of moments,
Amidst the harshest of cold winds,
Laying in the loud of the silence
The moonlight glints
The abyss grins
The shadows grow
The eyes stare
He stands petrified
Breath shallow and ragged
Eyes wide in terror
Mouth open in horror
In the past, he visits
In the present, he is
In the dark, he lies
In the pain, he lives
He hears laughing
He smells burning
He sees smiling
He feels he is hurting
A ghostly touch
Yet so painful
He cries
He begs
No one listens
Everyone laughs
They point and stare
Now they whisper and glare
The past of his
A lesson they teach
Experience he has
Pain he befriends
He remembers, words from him
He recalls, cries of his
They talk, the begging he did
They mutter, the sinful deed
Burning hot white pain
Tears streaming down his other eye
He sees, atop of him, his father
Grinning with a wild look in his eyes
Of many things, he wonders
Of his sisters crazed giggles
Of his uncle's cowardly response
Of his mother's absence
Of his father's abuse
Of his ignorance
Ignorance that caused the death of many
The losses of his
He cries
He sins
He watches
He tries
He helps
He rages
He whimpers
He wakes up
He's in another hell
And he thinks,
Only the demon of their hell
Finds it to their liking
He smiles
He's tired
He ages
He's alone
Once more
One last time
One more moment
He dreams
So, everyone's headcanoning or theorizing that Kaeya was affected by the happenings in the Chasm. But, has anyone ever wondered if Childe/Tartaglia/Ajax was affected? I mean, he has abyss energy, right? So would it be safe to assume that it's possible for him to have been affected by it?
I LOVE PAV SO MUCH IT DRIVES ME INSANE
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under the cut are a list of websites and articles i like, that perhaps may come in useful for writing reference. a lot of the sites linked are NSFW, so please be careful when you click! they’re separated into 5 sections (sex, drugs, death, technology, and culture) and a lot are archived links. happy browsing!
sex
boogie sites | article from 1998 detailing the rise of online porn
‘the fuck brief’ | a lawsuit regarding fuckingmachines.com, their use of the word ‘fuck’, and how it relates to the first amendment
the teenager and the porn star | longform article from 2006 (with a postscript) about then-18 year old pornstar sasha grey. features lots of in-depth info about the porn industry and the sets.
rubbed the wrong way: sasha grey’s porn set pet peeves | interview with sasha grey (then 22) focusing on her porn set dislikes
photos and stories from the secret world of strip clubs | anecdotes from strippers, taken from the book ‘wanting you to want me’ by bronwen parker-rhodes and emily dinsdale
peer inside japan’s secretive love hotels | photos of love hotels in japan, ranging from simple to extravagant
the vice guide to becoming a whore in 2004 | a-z by an anonymous sex worker detailing her lifestyle in the sex industry
a lap dancer answers 17 prying questions about working in a strip club | q&a with a lap dancer about her work
romance @ homedespot | offshoot of tokyo damage report, linking to the page about romance, love, and sex. there’s other links on the page to different sections.
bdsm ettiequte @ evilmonk dot org | simple website with a wealth of information on bdsm history, manners, and other readings.
drugs
candyland: the secret life of a tokyo coke baron | long read on the rise of foreign criminal activity in the japanese drug industry
death
the splat calculator | input some data and see how fast you’ll fall, as well as your impact velocity
tailstrike database | a database of ‘black box’ recordings/transcripts from plane crashes
9/11 thread on fark.com | one of the few livethreads on the internet providing live updates from 11/09/01; it stretches on for nine pages
i am pen pals with deathrow inmate richard ramirez aka the night stalker. ama. | reddit ask-me-anything thread with a person who is penpals with noted serial killer richard ramirez. features images of letters, drawings, and other paraphernalia the user was sent, as well as some talk about the man himself.
nukemap | drag the pointer to anywhere in the world, enter some data, and see what effect a nuclear bomb would have
inside stalin’s ‘cannibal island’ | in the 1930s, joseph stalin deported thousands of opponents and prisoners to a barren, isolated location that would become known as ‘cannibal island’
somethingawful 9/11 thread | often-referenced livethread from 9/11/01 on the website somethingawful dot com. has pictures, emojis, and other turn-of-the-century forum goodness. stretches for 18 pages (you need to click from the truegamer links to view) and has a retrospective thread from march 2002.
technology
fuck you and die: an oral history of something awful | touches on turn-of-the-century internet/messageboard culture
how shock sites shaped the internet | from shock horror movies to rotten dot com - how disgust evolved for the internet age
unscathed corpse | blogspot site gathering various other ‘curious, weird, sexiest, funny, crazy and interesting’ websites
this is what campaign websites looked like in 1996 | screenshots of political websites from the 1996 election
urban desires | online zine from 1995 focusing on various interesting topics (music, sex, food, fashion etc)
the curious history of the y2k cyberbabes | details the early 00s obsession with 3d women
next year’s models | featured in the above article, this specifically focuses on webby tookay, a virtual 3d model
disinformation dot com | defunct website from 1996 that stretches into the 00s, focusing on news that isn’t reported by the mainstream media
rotten library | ‘an unforgettable collection of all that mankind swore to forget’ - rotten dot com’s library, with various information on everything from the occult to languages to art to hoaxes
textfiles dot com | archive of ascii texts on various topics
cyborg foundation | website created in 2010 to ‘help humans become cyborgs, defend the rights of cyborgs, and promote cyborg art’
404pagefound | active vintage websites, old webpages, and web 1.0
tokyo damage report | autobiographical website from an american man living in tokyo. the css seems to have failed, so it’s rather unreadable, but you might be able to find some material if you click on the many, many links.
culture
lolita history | gallery of j-fashion magazine scans
what indie sleaze was really like at the time | article on the ‘indie sleaze’ movement and subculture of the mid-00s
answer me! | magazine from 1991-94 featuring social pathologies and various topics
aids in the heartland | series of articles from the late 80s providing an on-site look at the aids crisis in rural america
how to be amuro! | fansite for japanese singer namie amuro; this section focuses on how to look and dress like the singer, providing a useful insight into the budding gyaru style of japan
hubris | an online journal that the user has been keeping since 1998
a look inside british invasion obsessed teen magazines (1965-1966) | photos of articles and comics from 16 magazine during the height of the british invasion
hippies from a to z | everything you ever wanted to know about hippies, by a hippy
s&m: brutally good indie | text-only playlist from a college radio station that ran from september 2000 to december 2001
mixing for the 80s | interesting article from 2009 on how 80s songs were mixed
video vixens tell all about the ‘wild west’ mtv days of the 80s and 90s | various models from videos for artists such as zz top, jay-z, and billy idol detail what working as a ‘video vixen’ was like
britney spears and the myth of the ‘get ready with me’ video | thinkpiece on the culture of GRWMs and how they have affected personal appearance
and you thought you were obsessed with buffy the vampire slayer…: makeup counter | fansite page detailing the cosmetic makeup used on the set of buffy the vampire slayer, as well as makeup worn by main actress sarah michelle gellar in her spare time
tooth and nails | 1997 article on the rise of urban decay, which at the time was a fledgling makeup brand making major waves in the industry
urban decay shrine | neocities website featuring various products, adverts, and other outside links relating to the ‘glory days’ of urban decay
yolk magazine, 1994-2003 | blogspot article about yolk magazine, a magazine targeted at the asian-american demographic. the blog as a whole also focuses on chinese-american visual artists and culture, and stretches back to 1861!
star1973 dot com | star was a short-lived controversial teen magazine from 1973 that circulated around la’s teenage groupie scene and glam rock.
capitol hill staffers explain dc’s complex dress codes | the world of political fashion is probably more complicated than you could have imagined
Nijimura: Whenever I'm feeling sad, stressed, or angry, I look at a picture of all of us.
KnS/GoM(+ Momoi & Haizaki): *touched*
Nijimura: And think, "if I can keep all of these little sh!ts in place and alive (especially Haizaki) and continue being in Teiko, I can do anything."
Just thinking back to "Eyewitness" and the amount of patience Philip had, putting up with Lukas' dumbfuckery. But, seriously, I love Philip Shea's character.
"You're into me, that's what's happening."
— Philip Shea
When you can’t remember that really great sentence you wrote in your head five minutes ago but you can remember that really stupid thing you did ten years ago on a random Tuesday