No Gender, Only Droids

Pre/post-show:

If you can get to the venue early, DO SO. Ghost fans are so fun, so nice, so excited to give you trinkets (and receive them!).

@comicalfont walked up to everyone in line and said, "Does anyone want some fanfic?" and was immediately swarmed with nerds desperately screeching YES, GIVE US THE FANFIC (I am one of those nerds). It has Ghoul cuddles AND Cardi being a bitter bitch, 10/10 💜 (Already told you this, but handing out fanfic is fucking brilliant and I am stealing that idea next Ritual :D Also it was nice meeting you)

We missed GTV by less than an hour; If you want to get on GTV they seem to go out around 1-2PM (but they also walk around inside after).

There's someone I just KNOW is going to get on GTV who, honestly, sucked ass. Fuck you, [REDACTED]. Only sucky person I met, thankfully.

Seems like there's less merch than last year? People were very excited about the Perplushie though. At one point there was a plushie on the ground and people formed a circle around it shouting "SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!" (I don't know what this child did 😔)

I peed in the parking lot. Desperate times.

Mistook a Nihil for a Terzo. Utterly humiliating. We had a nice chat though, and his girlfriend gave me a Terzo coaster-thing. Ran into them again later and she gave me a Cardinal one too :]

I had a very, very cool seat neighbor. I hope you reactivate tumblr and magically remember my name, Christopher. Your V paint/look was immaculate.

I was SO CLOSE to meeting Vanessa. I wanted to ambush her and give her a bracelet but dilly-dallied just a few too many seconds (and it was a matter of seconds 😔)

Bought a Mummy Buck with one of my last bracelets! Speaking of last bracelets: at the end of the show there were multiple people with straight-up bandoliers of them practically begging people to take some.

@the-lovely-pale-rose is indeed lovely! It was so nice meeting you :D

Show:

THEY DID PLAY FROM THE PINNACLE TO THE PIT!!! 🙌🙌🙌

The setlists are weird! They played Per Aspera every night until the 4th, so I thought it was a permanent part of the set, but I guess it's one of the rotating songs. We got Elizabeth, Pinnacle, Call Me Little Sunshine, and Satan Prayer.

Once again, I could barely see anything ;_; I was directly behind two guys who had their hands up most of the show, and a tall guy some rows ahead was perfectly positioned to block Papa when he was center stage (the ticket I sold was actually a better seat ;_; get rekt, me)

On the upside: due to The Hyperfixation™ I actually know and care about the Ghouls now, so I just did a lot of Ghoulwatching and watched V when I could. I had a perfect view of Haze, Storm, Mountain, and Phantom. Rain and Aurora were frequently in sight, I barely saw Dew or Cirrus.

Love that they do a Year Zero fakeout: I didn't realize they did it last year too, but they play what used to be the spooky intro music, then Papa came out and yapped for a bit about how happy he was that we were in "Something as unusual as a good old 'Civic Center,'" saying,

No brand name or anything. Ain't that cool? Remember back in the day when it was like 'War Memorial' or 'The Colosseum?' Good times. Well, that's me being old.

Haze is beautiful, she loves her fucking bat wings so much. During TFIAFL she was shooting everyone 😔

Storm Ghoul lost his fucking mind during Satanized and Mummy Dust. Very Creature, lunging a lot, general Threat Displaying 🥰

I love Storm Ghoul

During KTGG Storm and Aurora were boogying and bumping butts, absolutely adorable

After KTGG Papa blew everyone kisses (Thank you, Papa), then Rain pulled him aside and did some miming to indicate that no, he didn't do enough. Papa wiggled his lips a bunch, like in old cartoons when someone winds up a punch, you know? like he was charging up smooches for us, then we all got two more biiiiig kissies.

I'm ride or die for Rain now, he is so cute

Phantom: him writhe, him b e n d y

I didn't see any Mummy Thrusts 😔He did them, I just didn't see them 😔😔😔

Satanized went right into Satan Prayer, with Papa saying, "We're gonna see just how Satanized you are." He tried teaching everyone the chorus, but alas. I was the only person I saw in my section that was singing it 😔(I did my best, Papá)

Satan Prayer was a song I was disappointed to get...at first. Turns out it fucking RIPS live, actually. Similar to other older songs, they changed the key that they sing the chorus in and it makes it a LOT better, plus it's heavier than I gave it credit for.

During Umbra he yelled "Listen up, you perverts!"💜

Screaming HAIL SATAN with thousands of other people is still a transcendent experience.

At one point when he had the sparkly mask on, the lights were just right and he. He *was* Sparkling, like as a concept. Platonic ideal of Sparkles. Absolutely incredible. He.

After Rats he did a "eeeeeeeYAYAA!"

It's really cold outside and it's really cold just outside this room but it's fucking hot in here. How come? You think it's me? I think this is sort of transactional, actually. You give a little, I give a little, and so it goes, back and forth. Isn't that a nice thought? You give a little and you get a little. Eh? I can't hear you sorry. Oh you wanna do the (ararar, arfy noise)? Alright. Well. Okay, from the bottom of your hearts then, can I hear a really, like really big dog like OOUURRROOUF. (we all bark bark bark) Just one. Ruff. Ruff. Well, we've got that canine shit out of the way. I'd love to go full-on canine on y'all, but, um, you see it's uh...Thursday night, right? Eh? That's a school night. That means there's shit to do tomorrow (WE ALL BOO) If we- let's say it was a Friday, [?] there was no show tomorrow, we could go all night, even though we would be cold as fuck! But we can generate a little extra heat. How about that, Illinois? [?] Generate a little extra heat? We just heated you up, and you can figure out the rest after this is done. What you can get though, and I'm hoping that this will suffice for ya, is a kiss!

At the end of KTGG he does a classic rock outro thing going "(everyone else?) GETS A KIIIIIIIIIIISSS-AAHHH"

He didn't say security was there to protect us from him, but did mockingly ask "Do you feel safe? 😊"

I think two people were trying to get the same Mummy Buck he threw into the pit because he was watching someone and said, "You two will figure it out."

"That is the transaction I'm talking about. Shaking asses in front of each other! That's a good start! If you wanna make more assholes."

In the middle of Monstrance he very casually said, "This is a song about fucking."

✨Also✨

We got a

🙌ONE MORE TIME FOR MAMA🙌

He did a kind of pro-wrestler-voice "YEEEAAA..." then, "I'm mimicking someone. Don't mimic me."

I've inherited a few things from my dad. Oh yea, my dad. The ~saxophone guy~ *:･ﾟ✧Sax-a-ma-phooooone✧ﾟ･: * He's gone now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

He still slips into Terzo's voice sometimes.

Papa referred to Dew as a fluffer, then said something like "Well, I mean he fluffs my sword."

Then started off Square Hammer with, "Hit it, cowboy!"