monsieur le ROCKSTAR: a rock n’ roll playlist for our brat prince ♛
❝ I was enchanted by the world of rock music – the way the singers could scream of good and evil, proclaim themselves angels or devils, and mortals would stand up and cheer. Sometimes they seemed the pure embodiment of madness.❞
1. anthem for the young and reckless by santa cruz 2. it’s so easy by guns n’ roses 3. so alive by crashdïet 4. shout at the devil by mötley crüe 5. nothin’ but a good time by poison 6. nightrain by guns n’ roses 7. wanted dead or alive by tom cruise and julianne hough 8. cum on feel the noize by quiet riot
THANK YOU SO MUCH but Really?! You love the blog’s visual identity? That is very generous of you and much appreciated.
However, a massive revamp (pun intended har har) of this blog is in the works. If I may be self-deprecative for a moment, I’ve looked at it for over 2 years, so hit the jump for a list of what assaults my eyeballs when I look at this blog now.
The logo is safe, feedback already received on that, and the content will still be what you’ve come here for ^______^ The mission statement is still “Bursting blood vessels through fanworks!” But OVERALL it needs a more harmonized style, a touch of maturity in the color scheme, bc this thing has changed me. I’m not the same person who started this thing as mainly a cloud storage for the fanart I’ve collected. It’s grown into smtg so so much richer than that *u*
Fortunately, my longest RL VC friend (can you believe she has tolerated me for 20+ years?? She is my sister from another mister) is a programmer and she is gonna hold my hand through the process.
Stuff that assaults my eyes:
The layout of the tiles,
not enough tiles,
the Like and Reblog buttons. I don’t like them as text. I think I want to make them the familiar symbols. And larger.
the color scheme… I am kind of sick of slate-grays and purples 😛
too many font colors…
the difficulty of reading the text against the individual post BGs…
the current bloodied-wall/distressed-velvet background. It’s not grunge, it’s too high-contrast, it’s an assault 😛
Could think of more, but that’s the worst of it, for now.
Now that I think of it, almost everything we do revolves around that. We go out to performances to watch people play music or act, we go to cafes to watch people argue and flirt with each other, we go to museums and galleries to watch people admire art and we look at the people depicted in the art. Louis and I both prefer portraiture to abstract art, but there is still something captivating and innately human about the pulsing color blocks of a huge Rothko or the confident brush strokes and warm sunlight suffusing Jim Monagle’s landscapes… But I’m getting off-track here.
You want to know superficially what we’re looking at, and which one of us, and why. Okay.
Louis and I greet the early evening with a good long walk, and I barely conceal my interest in people we pass by. I’ll nod at a beautiful tattooed genderfluid youth across the street, break away from Louis to drop some money in their battered guitar case as we go along. Joining up with Louis again, I’ll slip my arm around his waist where he’s stopped to watch someone closing up their jewelry shop, and find that he’s admiring their hands more than any of the gems.
In general though, I make a more obvious display that I’m looking, and Louis keeps it more to himself. He might lean over and whisper to me about someone who catches his eye. Louis appreciates the beauty of women over men, the way they’ve chosen to display – or not – their décolletage is of particular interest to him. When he takes the Little Drink, he’s almost always snaked his hand up to that tender area, subconsciously. Kneading it like a cat. It’s very arousing to see.
I’m intrigued by all ages, but older men, well, they’re my favorite.
Something about wisdom accrued over time, showing the signs of authentic living, the crow’s feet, the beards, the weathered skin, it all speaks of experience. I like to take them for a Little Drink to glimpse the depth of their souls. Am I looking for a father figure? I’ll leave that up to you to over-analyze.
This people-watching has changed over time. Vastly improved.
In the beginning, I could barely drag Louis out of the house to people-watch; he lived in a kind of terror that he would find someone’s gesture, their voice, so worthy of Life itself that I’d choose that very creature to strike down like the Devil incarnate, just to torture him. Absolutely not my intention. What he couldn’t understand at that time is that people-watching is one of the greatest pleasures we have, mortal or immortal, and not just as a buffet on parade. I tried to teach him that, but it’s something he finally absorbed when he had to set a good example for our daughter.
Back then, I steered us to derelict neighborhoods, looking for the worst among men, so that killing those kinds of people would ease his fragile conscience, but Louis’s gift is his curse in that he finds beauty to an even greater extent that I do, even in the most awful beings. The stench of rats on his breath at the time was proof enough of that.
No you are not the dumbest person in this fandom nonono! It’s visually very similar on purpose ;]
I brainstormed for this url alot, my blog was inspired by vampchronfic and vampire-chronicles-appreciation, so I wanted VC represented in the url prominently. I realized that “VC” rhymes w/ the “I want my MTV” slogan that MTV had in the 90s (and 80s), but “I-want-my-VC” didn’t quite flow right. “IWTV” had a better letter combination and here is a gif of the versions of the design process bc of reasons
The real question is, do ppl even remember that “I want my MTV” slogan? BC I DO. I guess I could change my url if I had to, but it would be tough to beat this.
