#eli rants

i like modern slipknot's music and masks but the commercialisation and vast difference between what they originally believed in vs now is just staggering like it feels as if "all the money in the world cant buy me" and various other lyrics mean fuck all now if they're selling umbrellas, belts, lighters, pool floats, led signs and bottle openers with their logos plastered onto them

please keep in mind that slipknot is my special interest and there's not a day that goes by where im not researching or listening to their music or looking through archives so i am not saying this just to be an annoying sack of shit

i doubt that anyone will really gaf about this its 3am for me and im just annoyed thinking about the various things that have happened, jay's firing, chris' firing, joey's firing, craig's depature with no real explanation and the continued perpetual moving slipknot machine that never stops

slipknot fired joey over email and didn't mention him again until he passed away and whenever band members leave or get fired there is an IMMEDIATE replacement always on standby to take their place and it stops becoming about the members after a while

i really hate saying this but i truly think that the original slipknot died with paul and the loss of the original nine members

it stops being about the actual guys themselves and instead becomes a touring fantastical liveshow like knotfest where it's an endless corporate entity designed just for money and it has no regard for any previous morals the band held

the only original members left are corey, clown, jim, mick and sid and the only 'founding' member that was there in the original lineup for mfkr is clown

yes i know that most bands sell out or quit before they become sellouts but this is just my opinion, i like a lot of modern slipknot's songs but they aren't the same as old slipknot and im not being an elitist by saying that , the difference is quite obvious

sorry for the rant but this is my blog i guess so i suppose it doesnt matter

It's a classic "the Fentons misunderstood Danny's name and registered him as Daniel" but they accidentally transe Danny's gender and Danny never corrects them. Strangely, Danny likes it.

Eventually, the Fentons figure out, but Danny says he doesn't mind and they go with it.

(note: In this Danny is kinda nb/transmasc/gender weird, gender is neutral to him and he's fine with being called whatever, although male pronouns are the ones he uses the most)

Cut to Danny being dragged by Vlad to a gala (Vlad can be good but annoying in this idc) and Vlad is proudly displaying his "godson".

Duke: Hey, Damian, did you see the kid Vlad Masters brought?

Damian: I thought father said he wouldn't go into business with Masters.

Duke: He still attends for appearances. (Shrugs) Anyway, got any twins you didn't tell us about?

Damian: Yes.

Duke: 'Cause that guy looks just like—what?

Damian: I said I have a twin you don't know about.

Damian explains to the batclan that Danny was sent on a mission (as punishment) to keep track of the Fentons, since they studied "Lazarus Water". And then they forgot about it. The last time Damian heard of Danny was right before the accident.

On Danny's side, he knows Damian will be there before he goes — he's kept track of his twin's public persona (and vigilante life). He'd been doing a great job of not interacting and keeping from being spotted, as was protocol for if two agents ended up on the same field — he knew Damian wasn't an agent anymore, but assumed the protocol still applied. He knew, the moment Duke Thomas spoke to him and then went straight toward Damian, that he'd failed that protocol.

Now, Damian was trying to convince him to leave the League.

"Daniyah, there is another way."

"I know there is another way," Danny replied, "Except I told you about it for years and you never listened." During the years away from his family, Danny had missed them, his memory softened the feeling of anger at the way his twin always moulded his ideals to whoever ruled him. "We aren't supposed to be speaking, I'm still an agent, I'm breaking protocol by being here."

They'd sneaked off to a room along with Damian's siblings, who watched attently and and silently. "You don't have to be an agent anymore."

"Yes, I do." Danny spat, "You don't seem to have realized, but some of us don't have the privilege of being the favorite. I never had the privilege of being saved."

Damian scowled, "Being saved is not a privilege."

THEY LET US USE CHAT GPT IN MY SCHOOL NOW WTF

there are a few bada writers who send hate to themselves AND pls i dont wanna call u out but yk if im talking abt u

STOP SENDING URSELF HATE ure not beeing cool ure not being funny ure just being pathetic ure making it so obvious???

STOP LYING ABT UR AGE like melody said being a minor here isnt a crime ive had wattpad at 13 but at least i didnt go in ppls dms who are adults flirting w them and talking. im sure when u get older you'll understand