#shrouds

ft. Ignihyde

Context: Crowley forced a bunch of them to have a picture and call it a family potrait... The reason is to be unknown but what everyone can gather through conversation and overheard conversation is that, The headmaster wants to keep up appearances earances and picked the closest group of students in a dorm

Other dorms: Heartslabyul, Savanaclaw, Octavinelle, Scarabia, Pomefiore, Ignihyde, Diasomnia

Commentary:

Started with Christ vs Warhol. They were amazing, really good energy, I danced through the set despite not having enough space to move.

Next one was Shrouds.

The first part of their set was really good, but we walked out when after like 3 original songs they started playing covers. The bare minimum would be to bring mostly your own material when you are playing a big international festival, isn't it? It's taking the piss.

These guys will be great, but they need to put a bit more creativity in. I dunno. Rent a little house somewhere remote, lock themselves in for a week and just jam. The fuck they have been doing for 12 years?

Next one was Lucas Lanthier. It was packed, but basically everyone still danced through it. Out of all these bands, I was least expecting a mini pit to form, but there was something about 5 meters from me.

Lucas is not easy to take good photos of, I do apologise.

Next we attempted to see Diavol Strâin, but unfortunately Moritzbastei was packed, and we got turned away. It's like a little claustrophobic maze, so no wonder.

Bit sad about it, but at least we got to stop for some food before heading back to Täubchenthal.

Next one up was Fangs on Fur. They were amazing, really good energy as well. We were knackered by this point, so chosen to go to the upstairs bit, I was sitting down for half of it, but powered through.

SUBLIME CINEMA # 707 - THE SHROUDS

Shrouds doesn't suck, but it also does. An aggressively mid film that has evocative imagery and interesting plot devices and yet still manages to make nothing happen at all.

I get it. The Shrouds is a low budget movie whose production had to be split between multiple countries to even fund the project. But also, I counter, it would have made a much better stageplay. Mainly because nothing happens, or if it does it all happens offscreen.

It felt dry, sapped of energy, and the weird pervert filmmaker scenes you expect from Cronenberg were disjointed and far between. To be brief (and I never am) it lacked the pizzazz. It was mid!

The cast was great (guy pierce in a cardigan!!!) and the concepts were good but the movie does nothing with either. I begin to fix the movie in my head, Snyder flick style, but stop myself. Too mid to even do that.

Second to last prompt for this year's Drawtober, let's goooo! Also I'll probably post the last one right away tomorrow, since the end date for that one is Halloween, and I'm not sure if I'll have time to proofread and then post it next week. :u

Anyways, the prompt is just ghost! I decided to try doing a new spin on bedsheet ghosts. Essentially they're ghosts of people/animals who eventually deteriorate into rotting sheets that can't do much else but moan, having lost what's left of their memories and sense of self in the process. It's important to help ghosts move on from the mortal realm before this happens!! Or otherwise just forcibly exorcise them. :P

You can read my written portion of the prompt on AO3 now! Please feel free to leave a comment. I have comments restricted due to AO3 having a major bot problem at the moment (mainly bots that "advertise" for AI generators... by accusing writers of using a particular AI by name. Yeah, I don't have the spoons to deal with that!!). So uh, now's a good time to sign up for an account if you haven't already? Otherwise you can always leave kudos on it too, and I certainly don't mind kudos! Or views/hits for that matter.