#queue asks

"caspers" is my 616/canon/normal sam tag but "poltergeists" is my tag specifically about my earth 65 au sam which i have written about extensively here (and am ALWAYS willing to discuss more), so the reason a lot of posts have both tags is because at their core they are. The same person ❤️. Throughout both tags there is a strong motif of ghosts, in reference to the name Ghost Brother and also because i think its an INCREDIBLY powerful metaphor when it comes to Sam.

When it comes to character tags especially, these poetry/aesthetic tags are a way for me to sort of express how i think about something. So, for caspers, what i look for in poetry/text is themes of isolation, abandonment and being forgotten, loneliness, being seen— or in a negative context, being watched. But also being protective of your friends and family, determination and striking out on your own, inventiveness, and a lot more complicated concepts i dont feel like i can list right now. Visually, i look for glass and clear plastic and other translucent things, metal working, electricity, obscured faces and silhouettes, high contrast pieces, things that look like theyre made of scraps, and other things that just give me the Vibe, i can't always explain everything one to one.

Now when it comes to poltergeists, it's a little different. The ghost motif takes the form mostly of haunted houses. e65!Sam is a version of sam who has basically lost all hope, and even though all his family are alive, Matt and Gwen are really the only ones he has. He's just jaded to the absolute max, its like that crushing feeling you get when you look at politics sometimes and that's the dominant emotion in his life. Common motifs in poetry and images are fire, leaving before they can leave you, hostile architecture, immense violence, art that makes you feel very. , wounds, the color red, survival at any cost, teeth and dogs.

It's not even a quote this time, the tag is named after specifically what you're not supposed to do when you get stabbed. This tag is kinda complicated, just like the caspers and poltergeists tags were complicated. (hint, it also has a sister tag.) Matt is a very complex character, so i look for a lot of different things when I'm adding to this tag. In visual art: the color red, things that remind me of his radar sense, things indicating temperature, blood. In text i look for people pleasing, being overwhelmed, self isolation, cycles, rage.

In everything i look for being subject to intense loudness, references to christianity, really really complicated interpersonal relationships, intense devotion, rage again, desperation, devotion ! determination, a deep deep care for others.

Moon Knight. (2014) #4. Warren Ellis. After the first five issues they switch writers and then this run is just kind of eugh, but the first five issues are fucking amazing. And oh my god did this line stick with me. Honestly, I know you don't read marvel but Sarah I think you should read this specific issue because it's really fucking good and it influenced this tag HEAVILY.

The specific aspect of Moon Knight that i fixated on was that he specifically protects people traveling at night, thats his thing, because thats an aspect of Khonshu. And for whatever reason, that is extremely fucking compelling to me, and I took all my fixation on that and poured it into this tag, along with some poetry i thought reflected on the systems characters.

Honestly though, I feel like I've been neglecting this tag recently. I haven't read any Moon Knight in a while and I feel like I've kinda lost my grip on the systems characterizations, I think i probably need to catch up on the current run and then queue a bunch of stuff.

lumen phosphor fluor candle is my Angels in America tag! Angels in America is a screenplay by Tony Kushner and it is fucking amazing and i love it so so so fucking much, the title of the tag is taken from the introduction of the Angel (of America), as pictured below.

So, the play takes place in new york in 1980 and has multiple protagonists, but I'll mostly talk about Prior. Prior is a gay man who, at the start of the play, has recently been diagnosed with aids. When he tell his boyfriend Louis, Louis freaks the fuck out and ends up leaving him once he's hospitalized. But then Prior starts hearing voices and having visions of ghosts, specifically his ancestors (who have his same first and last name), telling him to prepare for something (the angel). The angel appears to him in a fiery blaze and tells him hes a prophet and also they sort of fuck ?? Kind of ??

The play is fucking amazing and i dont quite know how to encapsulate all it means to me, the 'lumen phosphor fluor candle' tag contains a lot of things pertaining to queerness/survival in america (now and especially in the 80s or around then), camaraderie, leftist infighting, american cities, and angels (ofc.) I will leave u with some quotes from the play.

So the name here is paraphrased from the intro to At The Bottom of Everything by Bright Eyes, which is so oh my god. I say you get two for one because I made this tag specifically to act as sort of a foil to "my echo plagiarizes", which i won't go into here, but very specifically contrasts this tag.

Birthday party is, in a very general sense, about things that make me happy and hopeful to be alive. The general theme of this tag is realistic and tired, but optimistic and pushing forward and choosing to be deeply in love with life. It's also where a lot of art about art ends up, this tag is about creativity too.

It's got a lot of very complicated but overwhelmingly positive emotions in it. Because of that and also because it's so new, I'm not sure if I can really pinpoint any specific motifs that show up again and again (maybe music, mentions of poetry, the sky??), its kinda still taking form. I'll just give you the opening to that song, but big warning for death and plane crashes.