Oh dear, you've found the secret slime cave lair of Enforcer @ Draggian Universe where they put their awful little thoughts. Get out while you can. Established June 2024 as somewhere to put my angsty thoughts about how Falling In Reverse sucks other than the void and annoying my friends.
Enter at your own risk; this is where I put spur of the moment random nonsense, angst, and opinions to get them out of my brain. When I say slime, I mean slime. And possibly full on possession.
The 50 most recent thoughts are being shown. A curated selection of old thoughts I thought were useful, funny, and/or interesting can be found here.
Content warning for...something...this physically made my skin crawl.
I literally had him doing this to Max in my parable of the problem with FIR that also isn't not a slash fic No Escape, and played it as a moral event horizon. Sometimes I wish my characterizations weren't so accurate... Saraya, he at least pretended to mutually like. This one, he's fully mask off.
The dialogue is what really makes it skin-crawl-worthy.
description: dude is tattooing his initials onto his "girlfriend" (whom he has only known since, like, March, and shows no signs of being into it or having at any point been into him at all) in a very visible and painful place, with equipment he probably doesn't know how to use, while describing how this officially makes her his property and feminism is dead.
my mom says I'm not allowed to ideate on this matter, but someone just needs to fucking murder him already. preferably sally (the one who bad girls club was about and who falling in reverse fans have been bullying for the past 13 years)
I thought that him pretending to be horny again would be broadly harmless and better than the blatant hate speech era. Guess I was wrong. He never fails to become worse. And I REALLY hope that he's pretending to be horny and is not actually getting off on this, because I'm all for kink and such, but Dana does not look like she's enthusiastically consenting.
Good news are that my upcoming fanfics which were plotted out to include Cute!Alt!Ronnie and Arlo getting matching tattoos are not written yet, so that plot point is going to be removed because it is no longer cute.
Whether the entire notion of Cute!Ronnie is kosher is not to be discussed at this time. They're philosophical parables about how much the current version sucks. (but, like, if I ever do cross the line into apologia or otherwise being terrible, please tell me.)
I feel like I'm watching the lead-up to another Sally Watts court case in real time. Of course, maybe this time, since he's no longer young and cute, he'll get consequences for it. He's still rich and white, though, so who knows.
At least that looks pretty shallow so it'll probably fade, but girl, I don't like you, but RUN.
still, it's neat in a depressing way that my fanfic characterization concepts keep manifesting. i know him better than he knows himself. hopefully unlike in no escape, the ink in this case wasn't laced with his slime
I think that other guy is Ronnie's tattoo artist. If he's disreputable enough to let Ronnie drive his equipment without knowing what he's doing, that might explain why dude's blackout sleeves are so bad. (Competent blackout sleeves and other such cover-ups don't look like slime.)
From what I can tell, Dana Dentata (groan) has exactly one accomplishment that rendered her notable enough to get a Wikipedia page, that being suing Lil Nas X for no reason. This is a bad idea at the best of times, especially since he's only known her since around March and it has not been that long since he and Saraya broke up. It certainly is if you are doing it to someone who's known to make frivolous lawsuits. (Not that this one is frivolous.)
splendid news; while the holes in my flesh are disgusting and the notion of "careful about showering lest your nipples fall off" is fucking terrifying, I have finally progressed enough in my recovery to be able to put on pants. (As opposed to shorts.)
The discovery that if you don't bathe for long enough, you no longer feel it does explain Ronald's whole deal.
Everything looks and feels really gross. Need to get Vaseline or something to cover my nipples. Can't shower yet, or if I do, I need to have my back to it so my nipples don't fall off. Also there are still open holes so I would rather not until they seal back up. Gauze and paper tape work to cover nips after Vaseline. The absence of nerves there is weird but I still don't think it would have been worth 5,000 dollars. No lifting above 10 pounds or raising arms above head for 6 weeks so maybe I just don't get a job this summer and just do tutoring. Compression vest with zipper for 6 weeks. The one they sent me home in took, like, 5 minutes to zip in the front because it doesn't really fit.
I desperately need a shower since I have fully succumbed to the slime, but I am not convinced I can get this damned thing back on afterwards, nor do I really want water to touch the Open Holes In My Torso. I guess I was expecting better results faster, or at least I thought it wouldn't look this gross. Getting the drains out was awful. Holes. In my torso. Disgusting.
frankly I have been in a horrid state for long enough that I no longer consciously feel like I haven't showered in a week, which is never a good sign
I have ideas of the horrible awful variety (if Ronald did not want me thinking about mpreg, he shouldn't have called the dog his son and had that as his essential earliest memory in his book) but I can not at present subject the world to them. I can't get into a comfortable position with me arms to either type anything long on my phone or use the laptop and dictation does not include punctuation
feeling like a hulking slime filled monstrosity but not in a cool way
I have never needed a shower more in my life but I am not medically approved to get one until Friday after my follow up
humanish version of my sona wakes up from anesthesia
"Congratulations, Mr. Enforcer, the top surgery was a success."
"Where's Ronnie?"
"Who do you think took your boobs?"
[god is a weapon Ronnie]
I would draw this if I had that many fine motor skills ATM but I don't, so if you or someone else hypothetically wanted to that would be fucking sweet
seriously if you look at the new music video he looks like he has bigger tits than his girlfriend. don't do anabolic steroids kids or if you are don't skip leg day
just realized going through yesterday's comm day timed research that if'n ya think about it, Machop kinda looks like he's got stylized top surgery scars doesn't he
assume they're stylized muscles but 'tis still neat
what really vexes me is why in earth and hell Nuzleaf has nipples, since it's an acorn tengu thing and neither of those have tits
context: got top surgery two days ago on the 23rd of may
couldn't really go to bed until midnight because that was when I could next take oxycodone and I know I can't really sleep without it
had to slime back to bathroom for more Tylenol at 1:30
mom keeps snoring; this hotel room has no door
immediately overheated. really don't want to take off the shirt I have over my drains
thermostat won't go any lower, no fan or anything
hence, awake against my will
Gyarados and Milotic are a T4T couple.
One could also interpret him as trans, given his changing his name along with the species, and going back to being a fish dude because he liked it better. Which good for him. Just stop killing people.
Gil(l) from Kim Possible is quite possibly the most Ronnie creature outside of Ronnie. Even pre-mutation, he's got similar vocal patterns, the haircut, is just about as pale, and looks like he's always wearing eyeliner. Then mutated Gill is covered in black slime in about the same areas as modern Ronnie's tattoo coverage (everywhere except his face, hands, and the bottom half of his legs).
He's driven by revenge over something that was ultimately his fault (it wouldn't have happened if he followed the schedule) and when given the chance to change, doesn't. He's cured at the end of the episode, but comes back to turn himself back into a fish because he liked it better. And for revenge. Which if you get species euphoria from that, great, but please don't kill people.
And to make things even better, he addresses Ron Stoppable as "Ronnie" and his debut episode is named "Sink Or Swim", also the name of one of the revengiest songs on TDIMIY.
Ronnie watched this stoned in high school and it became his gender goal. Unlike Ronnie Slithers, this one is definitely a coincidence because when it aired, Ronnie would be in high school or fresh out of it and his blackout sleeves were the greater part of 20 years down the line
Maybe I'll come back to it once I achieve what I want on VP or quit / get bored of any of my other sites, but it just isn't hitting what I look for. It fails to have either the parts of Neo I like or be different enough from Neo to be interesting, and it's just difficult to navigate and lacks some QOL features VP has. Like, VP's shop directory and pet central are INFINITELY better than those stupid image sidebars
I can't explain why I haven't liked Grundo's Cafe thus far, but I don't. I guess it's that it's for lack of a better word, too much like Neopets. Like, I know they claim "it's supposed to be a supplement and fan tribute, not a replacement", but straight up ripping the Neopian Times etcetera just makes me feel...weird. Also, I don't like the layout. It's cramped. I use the "top bar" i.e. 2007-2020 Neo layout on VP.
Ultimately, I don't want another Neopets. I have no nostalgia for pre-conversion Neo, and still don't especially like the genre of cool kids clubs operating competitor sites that usually have some degree of contempt towards "retail Neo" (gods I hate that term so much) while using its assets. VP I like because it reminds me of Goatlings. It's enough like Neopets to be familiar, while still feeling like it has its own identity. GC...doesn't. It feels much more like it's trying to be a Neopets replacement. Also, it's harder to navigate, the layout, as I said, is cramped and I hate the image sidebars, and the HTML5 games are just slightly off and seem laggy in comparison to both VP and the Ruffle games on OG.
VP feels like another site inspired by Neopets. GC feels like it's trying to be Neopets, but without any of the parts of it I'm really attached to and a shitty layout. Nostalgia aside, it was replaced for a reason.
If you have access to Hulu and/or piracy, go watch Fright Krewe. It's excellent, incorporates some really neat and seemingly pretty accurate New Orleans voodoo lore, is just about the darkest thing I've ever seen squeezed into a Y10 rating, and (spoilers but not ones that will affect your experience) the climax features a divine snake that looks a hell of a lot like my sona.
My mom thought I'd like it and she was correct. 2 seasons, given that it's streaming first with an uncertain target audience, very unlikely it'll get more but it would sure be nice if it did.
southern hospitality is when someone smiles, holds the door for you, offers you a glass of lemonade, then votes to disenfranchise and restrict healthcare for your entire demographic. (And the first part is only if you're white)
the fact that he's Black just makes it more depressing. like, buddy, crypto bros are not your friends
Why are the people I end up seated next to on planes always disgusting? This one is an Elon Musk and crypto fanboy. Previous row mates have used the time to watch Fox News and browse the Republican party merch store.
About half of the US is probably better off dead. But it isn't the half who are going to die.
I've gotta learn to stop glancing over at other people's phone screens.
Have you gotten folks acting like you're being rude if you pick up something they hand you quickly? I've now had two different people, recently, passive aggressively complaining about me "snatching" something they handed to me in the process of business, and I wasn't aware that was apparently rude now. Like, if you are handing me a prescription you delivered me or handing back my ID after getting it scanned, do you NOT want me to get through quickly so you can serve the next customer? I assume this is some southern bullshit.
Saw two distinct Galar birds on my daily incense. Did not get to catch either of them, because the app crashed when I tried (and anything on incense vanishes if you close the app). At least Pokemon Sleep and TCG Pocket are working again?
If you can avoid it, do not install Android 14.
play gormball or get the fuck off
I had a dream last night that Kaius sent me a Jellyneo history article from November 2023 that I somehow missed about some fictional, unreleased Falling In Reverse-themed wearables.
Basically, shortly after TDIMIY's release in 2011, a staff member drew up a loosely Good Girls Bad Guys inspired outfit design for [either Shoyru or Kacheek, I don't remember], but it didn't get past the planning phase so was never released and the concept drawings were lost until JN found them. I think they had another, unrelated wearable that they tried to sneak an FIR reference into but got rejected for, but I don't remember what it was.
Anyway, this staff member was on the team uneventfully until 2023, where they drew up a Strawberry Hissi pet style (it was in about the same pose as the Halloween Hissi one that exists) and the item got datamined. And somehow, through some numerology bullshit involving cross site trade currency exchange rates and the date of May 4th, 2023, people decided this totally unrelated pet style was a Ronnie reference, so it's been called the Ronnie Hissi ever since but you can't mention it onsite. And this staff member got straight up fired over it.
Anyway, should I draw a Strawberry Hissi and/or TDIMIY themed wearable set? If I drew up one for Varwolf, it would sort of be a Raised By Wolves pun...
Apparently from a quick web search, it's legal to sell plasma, but not blood. Hence why you can't get paid for blood donations. So the vial most likely isn't real, but the last box violated US lottery law so who knows?
look Ronald we appreciate the offer but when we said we thirsted for your blood we didn't mean it literally
-- signed, the evil cabal of stinky they / thems with a master plan to destroy FIR
If you don't want to watch the announcement:
"New" FIR merch box, including among other things two pillowcases (note: there were two pillowcases on the merch store in 2018. Not sure if these are those, or if he made new ones) and most interestingly, what is claimed to be a vial of Ronnie's blood.
It's too bad that it's box exclusive, because if I could get a vial of Ronnie's blood by itself, I'd consider it. I doubt it's real just given logistics and sanitation, but if it were...
walk into a DNA testing place with "hey, here's some blood I found. tell me this man's entire ancestry and when he's going to die."
of course, that's "do you want to get infected with ronnie slime because that's how you get infected with ronnie slime", but like i'm pretty sure i already am and have metabolized it into a fundamental part of myself so
Watched a couple dubbed episodes of Witch Watch with my mom. It's very genre standard shoujo that seems to be trying to evoke campy 90s dubs, which is interesting.
Anyway, a throwaway line from one of their nominally-yokai-but-actually-just-guys-with-superpowers characters actually introduced a really interesting worldbuilding concept, that I'm writing down here so I remember it. Namely, their technically supposed to be a tengu guy mentioned that he used to have wings but they were "lost over the generations".
That's actually really neat. It's not a thing I would have thought of because, well, folks with horns, tails, etcetera are cool, but it makes perfect fantasy-spec-bio sense for critters living among humans. Most likely, being able to pass as human (but keeping your superpowers) by way of having smaller horns, wings, etcetera would actually be beneficial, so unless there's shapeshifting involved or an active effort to maintain them, they would probably disappear over time. I don't write anything urban fantasy enough to include that concept, and I love me some visible nonhumanity (I don't really like wearing things on my head, but I'd fucking love to have horns), but that's a fascinating concept worldbuilding-wise. No idea if the series is any good, but that by itself is neat.
New Falling In Reverse song is definitely a song. Text and video reviews of it below.
https://draggianuniverse.neocities.org/musicscene/fir_misc
https://draggianuniverse.neocities.org/musicscene/podcast
It's about the best that a new FIR song in 2025 could conceivably bee. Seeing as Ronnie can no longer sing, that's not good.
hey it's me (feels slimey. thoroughly disturbed at what he just witnessed)
My sweet darling boy got me a graduation present. I guess I can't be mad about that. I'm just mad at the subs for being right, and Marilyn Manson (although he is also terrible and if anything worse) for reducing himself to this. Review and SAASP video are coming later today.
DO NOT STREAM IT. Port here > https://files.catbox.moe/thxqfb.mp4
kill, eat, and replace not necessarily in that order (don't do cannibalism kids)
father I crave violence (specifically I would like to kill and eat Ronald in order to absorb his powers and also just to get rid of him)
Speaking of Ronald, he's gotten himself in trouble again. Either he behaved inappropriately with someone over Snapchat DMs, or she got catfished by someone claiming to be him. I consider the latter to be more likely, but it sucks for her and the guy who did it sucks regardless. It's not really important, but the fans are using it to claim (with no evidence of which I know) that there will be a new Falling In Reverse song tomorrow. Which would make sense given the upcoming summer festivals, but I'm betting maybe 70/30 that it doesn't exist. Ronald no longer being physically capable of singing is its own issue. If it does actually exist, I will of course write a review and record a video about it. Would be kind of nice, I guess, for the boy to have gotten me a graduation gift...
I was hoping (for a certain value thereof) that I would encounter Popular Monster (2024), since I want to scan all the FIR liner notes (that is useful lore that no one else has archived) and it is both recent and sucks, so getting sold seemed plausible. But I guess anyone who bought the damned thing was probably at a point where musical quality didn't matter. So I will have to purchase There's No Sympathy For The Dead and the FIR albums for my museum collection myself. Used so no royalties will go to Ronald, of course. Because that shit needs to be scanned; it's vital to producing the best Ronnie resource on the web.
I've never sat down to fully assess Slipknot because as much as I like them, their "scene canon" relevance is debatable at best (and there's kind of a lot of them), but I think I might eventually end up doing it just via used CDs. Went back to McKay's for probably the last foreseeable time (unless gods forbid, I end up driving for 3 days to get up northeast for my postbac) and found four (4!) Slipknot discs I did not previously have. They're one that I will buy even at full used CD store prices because they are consistent enough in style and quality as to be one of the bands with whom I am confident I can pull out any song / album and have a good time.
Also acquired a stack of weird miscellaneous hardcore / metal adjacent nonsense from the "very scratched" 99 cents or less CD section. Other genre artists they had were Sleeping With Sirens but as discussed, I don't like most of their output enough to pay full album price, and...Aiden. Who are relevant. They're pretty DIYLF adjacent sound-wise. I would probably like them, but NOPE. (If you want to know why they are not getting assessed until everybody is dead, Google "emo sex cult".)
If you ever have the misfortune to be in the area of Tennessee, McKay's is a delightful place to go. It's a warehouse sized purveyor of used books, CDs, comics, computer equipment, toys, and all manner of other Nerd Shit, and has only expanded since I've been going there on road trips.
finally got a slime on poppy seed pets! he's even the right shade of gray. now i can pet and feed my own little ronald
Interesting glitch I just noticed fighting a grunt: when she sent out a Kantonian Weezing (pure poison) after a Galarian one (poison / fairy), the Kanto Weezing displayed as poison / fairy too.
I wonder if it would also act like it was poison / fairy for type effectiveness purposes...
Rest of the notes / blog from last night's concert that I couldn't post because my data wasn't reliable. In chronological order.
Yeah, this is definitely the single biggest concert I've ever been to. MUCH more densely packed and in a bigger venue than FIR at Ameris Bank. (Which I'm pretty sure that BFMV, Ice Nine Kills, and Motionless In White were also bigger than but it's easier to tell at outdoor venues.)
OK I am going to be taking notes in my notes app because it is packed enough that neither my data nor venue WiFi are working reliably
cute throuple (or at least a group of 3) in matching invader zim scene gear just walked past
Unfortunately, there are at least 2 recent FIR fans present. Someone has the fucking Marlboro plagiarism shirt. Seeing as the merch store does not work, all these folks in disgusting PM2024 shirts probably saw FIR when they were in town over Labor Day weekend last year. I hope the guys got to escape and go to DragonCon.
Pretty sure the two girls sitting next to each other, one of whom has a "I ❤️ Boobs" shirt, are a couple. Aww.
There was a hefty stick where I was standing so it's my friend and gesturing prop now. And I'm high up on the lawn and spaced out so I can do that safely. Hopefully all fallen sticks were removed from the pit.
My thoughts on Sleeping With Sirens are actually the Inverse of PtV, where I don't find most of their super iconic songs that exceptional, but I like their edgier recent work vs. with PtV where I LOVE Collide With The Sky and to a lesser extent Selfish Machines but don't like their most recent album due to its lacking in edge. But both setlists include some of my faves mixed in. Like, Tally It Up Settle The Score has been a favorite since I found a terrible quality Nightcore of it ca. 2018.
This is the first concert I've ever been to that's been packed enough to blow out my data. Impressed.
Yes, I am raising my hand for "if you grew up listening to bands like ours" because I've been scene adjacent for as long as I've been intentionally seeking out music; I have every goddamned right. I'm a 90s kid in terms of cultural experience whose year of birth starts with a 2. (That is the most specificity you are ever going to get.)
There's a guy with actual Goku hair. It is literally just an array of cones coming out of his scalp. How.
Being able to function acoustically speaks well to SWS's musical chops, although I would prefer this song (With Ears To See, And Eyes To Hear) in its fully produced form.
Seriously looking like it's gonna rain on me. It had better fucking not.
Someone brought a full sized Mexican flag as a prop. Presumably they're there for PtV.
I hope everybody who works at the Exxon across the street are either fans of live music or have good soundproofing...not sure how audible things are through the parking lot, though.
Pretty sure Sleeping With Sirens' lead is also in the "voice is higher than mine before I started T" category. Want to say it was Yewchube comments on a song from ca. 2008 that were confused about his gender and drew the conclusion "androgyny is hot".
I will say that being on a hill (and having screens for folks in the back) avoids the "stuck behind someone tall" problem.
Someone has a metal shirt with a shiny Rayquaza but with metal iconography and spiky bits and I don't need more Pokemon shirts but holy shit I want that in my life
Had a brief moment of the WiFi actually working (and the end of the SWS set was their most iconic songs which when I assessed them, I didn't find that interesting) so I wandered off to do the raid at the venue gym. Would have been more thematically appropriate were it Crown Clash Nidoking but still pretty good. Named after what's tied with Hell Above for my favorite PtV song. Since I'm not waiting in merch lines, my souvenirs from this concert will be this Nidoqueen and maybe the stick I found on the ground. (It was at my lawn position so it's my friend and gesturing prop now. Good for rhythmically beating on the ground. I sure hope they cleared sticks out of the pit.)
It doesn't feel that hot, but it is like 100℅ humidity so I am very sweaty. I wish this venue had the conical cups for complementary water because I don't want to pay another 8 dollars for a can.
I moved positions so now I have two sticks. Excellent. I can beat them against each other.
Sleeping With Sirens concluded and is exactly what I expected it to be, which was still pretty great. They didn't play all of my most favoritest songs but it was a reasonable assortment.
wholesome text interactions with my emo friends
it is not only 57℅ humidity
Okay I think maybe I will get another canned water because I am feeling a dehydration headache coming on and I care about PtV
It's not that hot, it's just unpleasantly damp. Must admit, moving up north might be nice until I think about having to actually do things when it snows. Guess I'll find out this fall since I am fleeing to the frozen wastes to live in a cave, be nonbinary, and eat people. Following the example of our Lord and savior Kyurem.
If you didn't want discussion of southern weather in your concert live blog you should have told PtV to go to an indoor venue. Although, heat and dampness aside, I think this is way more pleasant than this many people indoors would be.
Kudos to this venue for actually having recycling bins. Anywhere that sells cans should have them, but you'd be surprised.
Need to sell their own rental lawn chairs because otherwise you'd have Ronald in the mosh pit coming up with a steel chair
There are exactly 4 songs on the PtV setlist I really like, but I REALLY like-like them. Honestly good news since they're spaced out such that after Bulls In The Bronx I can use the bathroom and be covered before the others.
What is a Joe Biden "I did that" sticker on the underside of a public toilet seat even supposed to communicate? I don't think he had anything to do with the lack of toilet paper, and that's the only thing I can think of. (Also, it's Republicans who refused to vote on lowering gas prices...)
Not sure why I didn't download I'd Rather Die Than Be Famous when I initially assessed PtV; it's pretty good. I should do that and put it into my phone library. It can hang with some of PtV's other harder songs that I like.
Ultimately I'm more of a metal / post-hardcore fan than I am emo, musically speaking. Hence that it's really only PtV's hardest / edgiest songs that do it for me, bit when they do it for me, they sure do. Hell Above my beloved.
Probably not a band I'd want to see more than once since I don't like their new work, really, but I'm glad to be checking them off since they're an important step in my journey and can claim some of my all time favorite songs.
Someone with massive impractical platform boots has taken them off for standing and jumping and such on the hill. Can't blame them.
Maybe I should listen back through A Flair For The Dramatic; Yeah Boy and Doll Face is also good and PtV was a pretty early assessment. Still assured in their new work not doing it for me, but perhaps the very first is worth a closer look.
Yeah, Daisy Grenade are PtV's new small beans. Their lead just referred to them as "my new favorite band" in very dad mode.
Emergency Contact (new PtV) has really nice lyrics. I wish they were in a more interesting song. Kind of evocative of my Escape the Fate opinions. I think I Am Human and Chemical Warfare are their weakest albums and don't play to Craig's strengths, but their lyrics and theming are excellent. And of course, it turns out Mabbitt was just honing his metallic skills with Dead Rabbitts to come back triumphantly with Out Of The Shadows. Hopefully PtV gets some of their harder stuff back, since I would be totally down for if they did.
What's the collective noun for emos?
If I could pick a song to walk out to for graduation (for me personally) King For A Day would be pretty high on the list. This is probably the closest I'm gonna get.
Ronnie needs to hurry up and die so I can see my mostest favoritest personal anthems live with someone who can do them justice. (Which he no longer can. He can't even hit the high note on Watch The World Burn [2023] anymore.)
The Exxon across the street is doing banging business, as are the shirt scalpers. There are also scalpers for cold water / beer / Gatorade, which is pretty clever. I actually have to respect that.
Okay, this venue is just massive. Capacity of roughly 20,000. Comparable genre concerts have been Fall Out Boy, Good Charlotte, and motherfucking Warped Tour. I perceive PtV as being about the same level of relevance as my other faves. Evidently they are bigger than I thought they were. I know they are a big canon name. Didn't know they were that big.
For contrast, Ameris Bank is 12,000, and FIR was NOWHERE near capacity. And didn't kill local cell towers and completely stop traffic for quite a ways back. The entire population of the city I'm doing my postbac in could fit in this venue, easily. Since it was roughly 17,000 as of the 2021 Canada census.
The little rattlesnake is attached with a magnet. The questionable Latin is a pun on my legal name and "year of the snake" for 2025. The Dying Is Your Latest Fashion snake is the Dying Is Your Latest Fashion snake, and it's rainbow because it's gay.
Per chatter from folks around me, apparently in the event of lightning we're just being sequestered in the event hall until it clears up, whenever that is.
Why. Didn't. They feed us.
I probably could have gotten a bio major cord, but I didn't because I was never informed of where to do that.
I stuck the Silverstein bag under my gown for my phone, power bank, earplugs, etcetera because they're not gonna know given how baggy this thing is. (Trying not to get dysphoric about it.)
being in "DO NOT WITNESS ME" mode on probably one of the worst days of my life to be like that
paparazzi fuck off
please tell me I didn't just hear thunder
I got a maximum of 4 hours of sleep, my phone did not charge last night apparently (I don't think either my cable or the USB ports on the charging station I've had for the past 4 years are healthy), and not only is the dining hall closed, there is no food at the building graduation is in. So I'm just not getting to eat today until at least noon, I guess. Also, apparently my subconscious is capable of producing plausible and extremely realistic-sounding opinion pieces about the probability of a rightward shift everywhere hence my not being safe anywhere. Look, I need a teaching license to be useful for immigration so it's still my best exit strategy.
Happy graduation. I hate (within a reasonable margin of statistical error) everything.
It feels like an actual crime that not only is the dining Hall closed, they didn't have donuts or anything in the lobby.
Can the people exaggeratedly performing crying slash laughing behind me please stop. Look, we're all hungry and tired. No one wants to hear you putting on a show of whining about it. Whine over text like I'm doing.
It took two hours to get back, a good hour of which was just getting out of the venue. If my dad wasn't able to drive, I wouldn't have gone, because getting an Uber for that is an actual nightmare scenario.
And I need to be at graduation in 6 hours. Fuuuuuck.
Sure I'm not the only one from class of 25 who'll be a slime tomorrow morning. At least unlike some others I won't be hung over.
Traffic is fully stopped basically for 2 full miles around the venue, and the interstate is closed. You are too powerful. Please calm down.
I just want to go to taco bell and then collapse...
ugh, I have to line up at 8 for graduation
The Exxon across the street is doing banging business, as are the shirt scalpers. There are also scalpers for cold water / beer / Gatorade, which is pretty clever. I actually have to respect that.
This is the first concert I've ever been to that was packed enough to kill my data. The Live Nation monopoly WiFi is struggling. I'm impressed. So I am not going to be live blogging vs. posting my notes when I get out.
WiFi briefly blinked back in. I have my other notes in a document. Yes, I take notes on concerts in between singing along and such because I find it to be a way to focus my experience.
Sleeping With Sirens' lead's voice apparently still hasn't dropped and he sounds just as girly live. I think he might be even higher pitched than Max.
Think Sleeping With Sirens is about to come on. Glad there are screens because otherwise I wouldn't be able to see. At least at the top of the lawn, folks are spacing out and I can sit down.
Per my mother, the only way out is through staff parking.
hopefully it doesn't rain on me while I'm here concerting; looks like it might and the only part that's covered is the pit. Also umbrellas are explicitly forbidden. Because people would use them in the pit to hit each other.
Someone is smoking weed, in explicit violation of venue rules. You are in public. No one who is just here to have a fun time at a concert consented to smell you.
You can tell PtV is more emo than metal because there's a line to the WOMEN's restroom.
Also, the men's room stalls...literally do not have anything to close them. Where there would be a latch there's just empty door.
Token FIR shirt (every show I've been to recently there has been exactly one) spotted. See / hear / speak no evil with a ca. 2022 Ronnie. First step to that is don't listen to FIR...
This veggie burger was 18 dollars and there is nothing on it except its patty and cheese.
I do find it humorous that even this massive Live Nation monopolized venue can't manage its ivy. #TheVineThatAteTheSouth
Theme is 90% by Enforcer; the rest is thoughts.page default. Part of the Thoughts Webring. Kick ass, take names, fuck Ronnie Radke (not literally).
