S. A. Ravens

Roamer of the Written Planes

[likeastormofficial-blog]

Playing one of our first shows in Europe this March in Vienna with Black Veil Brides! \m/

[joshfxckingdxn]

Some of my favorite pictures from that night 8.21.2015

[chronic-metal]

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[likeastormofficial-blog]

“Brilliantly executed…” - Metal Hammer 

Our video for “Love The Way You Hate Me” recently cracked 3 million (!) views! Thanks so much! Have you seen it already? Let us know what you think!

[argonauticae]

[jean-paul-fartre]

plaidadder:

argonauticae:

argonauticae:

im putting together a couple of scottish folk mixes bc that’s what i do and im honestly curious if anyone in my country has ever been unequivocally happy about anything ever

scottish trad music genres:

Everyone I Love Is Dead

The English Have Stolen All My Sheep

You Want To Be My Boyfriend? First You Must Answer These Riddles Three

The Protestants Have Stolen All My Sheep

I Love You A Lot But You’ve Left Me And It’s Raining [fiddle solo]

The Sea Is Treacherous, Just Like The English

One Time Bonnie Prince Charlie Punched Me In The Face And It Was Awesome

The Fairies Have Stolen All My Sheep

We have of course the traditional Irish music genres to go with them:

* Everyone I Love Is An Allegorical Representation of Ireland

* The English Stole My Farm And Put Sheep On It

* You Were My Boyfriend But Now You Won’t Even Come To The Window To Look Upon Me And Our Dead Infant Child (In The Rain)

* Whack Fol Too La Roo Umptytiddly Good They’ve Stopped Listening Now Let’s Talk About Revolution

* Something In Irish, I Think It’s About Fairies, Or Maybe A Cow

oooo can I add to this? don’t forget Appalachian folk balladry, the American cousin of Scottish and Irish traditional music and just as uplifting as its Anglo-Saxon highland forbears!!!

genres include:

I Left Everyone I Love Back Home In The Holler To Be With This Guy Who Doesn’t Wear Shoes Or Have Teeth But He Plays A Mean Jug

The English Told Us Not To Move West Yet, We Ignored Them, My Entire Family Was Killed

You Were My Boyfriend But You Tied A Sack Of Rocks To My Petticoats And Threw Me In The Creek (And My Baby Too)

Mama Loves All 14 Of Us A Lot But She’s Weary Of Our Shit And Now She’s Dyin’ (Gather Round)

The McCleans Stole A Firewood Log From Our Pile So We Won’t Rest Until The Last Of Their Male Kin Is Laid In The Cold Ground

We Knew The River Would Rise But We Still Didn’t Fix The Levee 

The River Rose, The Levee Broke, Everyone Died, It Was Just As We Reckoned (dulcimer twang-a-lang) 

When The Rebels Come A-Marchin’ I’m A Southern Man And I Feed Their Horses My Best, When The Yankees Come A-Marchin’ I’m A Northern Man And I Feed Their Horses What The Rebels Left

The Tennessee Valley Authority Killed All My Sheep Somehow

[shredsandpatches]

Don’t forget that old standby “The Mine Collapsed and Everyone Died”!

I think someone needs to put in a word for the English folk tradition though:

I Met a Girl and We Went Hunting (It Was a Metaphor for Sex)

I Met a Girl and We Caught Some Birds (It Was a Metaphor for Sex)

I Met a Girl and We Found Her Lost Pet (It Was a Metaphor for Sex)

I Met a Girl By Staying At Her Parents’ House and She Made My Bed (It Was an Especially Thinly-Veiled Metaphor for Sex)

I Am a Girl and I Regret Engaging In Metaphors for Sex Because Now I’m Pregnant

I Met a Girl and Bribed Her Into Sex But She Stole My Horse and Ran Away With It

I Met a Girl At an Inn and We Had Non-Metaphorical Sex But She Stole My Stuff The Next Morning and Now I Have Syphilis

Your Fiance Died Either at Trafalgar or Waterloo, Let’s Get Married, I’m Glad You Said No Because I’m Really Him In Disguise

Lord Nelson Sure Was Awesome

The Press-Gang Dragged Off All the Important Men in My Life (And Now They Are Dead)

Farm Laborers Are The Salt of the Earth And Are Never Grindingly Poor

Begging Is a Completely Viable Career Option With Flexible Hours and Unlimited Access to Alcohol

[tanaudel]

Not forgetting Australia:

I tried to go to Sydney but halfway there I spent all my money on beer and now I have to go back to work.

I used to live in merry England but now I live in Australia.

I used to live in fair Ireland but now I live in Australia.

I met a pretty girl and now I live in Australia.

Don’t do what I did or you’ll end up in Australia.

Australia is a really long way away.

We’ve run out of beer and have to drink wine and this whole situation has been badly mismanaged.

I learned this song about somewhere exotic but now it’s about Australia.

I robbed a bank and now I am dead.

I committed a crime and am being punished for it. Tell my mother.

My dog died and now I am sad.

My dog is doing something unspeakable on top of the food and now I am hungry.

I went over to someone else’s war and all my mates are dead and now I have no legs.

I stole a sheep and now I am dead.

Come a-dancing my blanket with me. This is not a metaphor for anything.

[hollyblack]

This makes me so happy.

[akiraravens]

xD

[missdarcy87]

You guys! Ice Like Fire is $9.42 on Amazon right now for preorder! 

[akiraravens]

eeeee!!! :D #cantwait

[akiraravens]

Who wants cherries? ;)

[redqueenofbookland]

The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don’t write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid’s burnt socks lying on the road. You pick the smallest manageable part of the big thing, and you work off the resonance.

Richard Price (via redqueenofbookland)

This is so important.

[ultrafacts]

A nonprofit group is taking a novel approach to helping the homeless in San Francisco with a new bus that allows them to take a shower.

The former public transit bus has been outfitted with two full private bathrooms and offers hot showers, clean toilets, shampoo, soap and towels free of charge. The founder of the nonprofit Lava Mae mobile shower bus (Doniece Sandoval) said she wanted to return a sense of dignity to those living on the streets.

Source

[bando--grand-scamyon]

THAT’S WHAT’S UP!!!

[akiraravens]

One of the eeriest, but also coolest, places I've been so far - the ossuary in Kutná Hora, CZ

[writerswritecompany]

Soap for Writer’s Block

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

“It’s a bar of soap, not magic. Try vodka.”

[akiraravens]

xD

[words-and-coffee]

“Why don’t you stop reading and focus on the real world?”

[akiraravens]

Taking part in some demon calling in Prague ;D

[akiraravens]

What else? xD

[darthmarr-deactivated20150320]

[akiraravens]

this is so relaxing

[escapekit]

Huskies on water

Russian photographer Fox Grom on his recent walk with his dogs has captured a beautiful series of photos. He discovered a frozen lake covered with rainwater that created the illusion of the dogs walking on water. The end results are stunning, the way the water blends with the sky is unlike anything I’ve ever seen. 

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[sarahreesbrennan]

Announcing an APPEARANCE!

APRIL 12, EVENT WITH R.L. STINE, KIERAN SCOTT, HOLLY BLACK, PAIGE McKENZIE and ALYSSA SHEINMEL.

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Books of Wonder, 18 West 18th street

In which we tell terrifying tales! 

Maybe I will tell about Tell the Wind and Fire. Maybe I just stare awestruck at R.L. Stine. Isn’t it FANCY? I’m going to be creepy, you guys. I can feel it in my bones.

I’m also going to have PRIZES! Just sayin’. Okay I hope to see you there! I have bought a thematic outfit. I won’t say any more. YOU’LL SEE.