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Fanfiction masterlist

Hey! I'm Blackbird, She/Her, and I'm a Ghost fic-writer and artist! I write texts in Russian and then translate them into English. If you read in Russian or are ready to use an automatic translator, here is my main account with all my works. For English-speaking readers, I've made this masterlist with my translations.

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bloodonmysqueegee

The Terzo enjoyers finally get merch of him in those little blind boxes only for him to be the ugliest one

everyone is so cute and then theres just him. im playing tic tac toe on his head

blackbird5154

Terzo is such a COMMANDING BITCH!

Everyone is so cute and he is just 😾

I LOVE HIM 🥹😭

Let me lick his shoe while he's looking at me

#the band ghost #papa emeritus iii #terzo

lucifixion-pose

"A Terzo Sitting Appreciation post? Scraping the bottom of the barrel, are we?"

Shut up, person I just imagined. He loved to lounge and I loved to see it.

This one is my favorite. Look how angry he looks at his stupid penguin feet.

(In the interest of keeping this post semi-reasonable I limited it to Dead Astaire & onstage only)

lil-dragon-draws

do you guys like ghost?

ppebejef

Last year, I made this t-shirt of some of the promo art in a fit of madness (no thanks to the bleach)

#cool

ghostiekisses4eva

#him

I want to add that the photo with the fan was taken by @cowbell-ghuleh . It's not Papa, it's a tribute band.

#the band ghost #papa v perpetua #perpetua #papa emeritus v

Based on the poll results:

Perpetua rushed at Terzo in a fury, but they say emotions are a hindrance in battle. He tripped over a well-timed leg sweep and hit the ground. Terzo gallantly allowed him to get back up, after which their weapons crossed. During the brief skirmish, Terzo’s hair got sucked into a fan. Despite a minor injury, Terzo demonstrated masterful close-quarters combat skills with the kazoo and buzzed Perpetua until he lost consciousness.

Outcome: unconditional victory for Kazoo Lord.

Disclaimer: no hair was harmed in the making of this scene.

#papa emeritus iii #terzo #the band ghost #papa emeritus #papa emeritus v #perpetua #papa v perpetua

obscureaaron

Papa Emeritus III (2019)

“All those things that you desire You will find there in the fire”

blackbird5154

Meliora as a story about the Hero's Journey

I had nothing to do at work, so I decided to write an analysis of the Third's origin in the From The Pinnacle To The Pit music video from the perspective of the monomyth. I will rely on the classic work The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, who formulated this concept in 1949.

First, let's introduce a few terms.

The monomyth is an archetypal plot found in many legends and fairy tales around the world. In different settings, it is essentially the same story.

The hero's journey is the universal template of this plot. It is a sequence of steps: the hero receives a call, leaves home, undergoes trials, achieves victory, and returns with a reward (or wisdom).

The monomyth has long since moved beyond ancient fairy tales and is now used to interpret contemporary works, and is sometimes used intentionally by authors (for example, George Lucas).

In his Prologue to Meliora, Peter Bebergal writes:

Above the shining city of Meloria, dirigibles float like angels, ever watchful. Under the streets, Papa Emeritus III is gathering his new flock. He is a shepherd of black sheep, the sewers are his cathedral. Here in the darkness they follow the path of the hero’s journey, the necessary travel to the underworld to become transfigured, to become something new.

Thus, the Papa's narrative is directly related to the monomyth. Let's look at another excerpt:

Rock and roll exists in two worlds: the sacred and the profane. In the first, it harks back to a time when people worshipped their gods by wearing masks, dancing, and often in the throes of ecstatic intoxication. In the second, rock exists in the here and now, as an expression of rebellion, sex, power, and even fame. In the realm of the sacred, the ego is destroyed when the god is seen face to face. In the profane, ego is the energy that gets things done. This is the eternal spiritual conflict: the will of the gods versus human will. Those who can keep a foot in both the sacred and the profane can change the world.

Master of the Two Worlds is one of the chapters in Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces. There, the author describes the final stage of the hero's journey, in which he achieves transformation and gains the ability to move freely between two spheres of existence: the ordinary world and the transcendent world. This state is achieved through detachment from one's ego – self-sacrifice. We'll come back to this.

By the way, who is Peter Bebergal? Here's what Amazon says about him:

Peter Bebergal is the author of Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll, Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood and The Faith between Us: A Jew and a Catholic Search for the Meaning of God (with Scott Korb), and the forthcoming Strange Frequencies. He writes widely on music and books, with special emphasis on the speculative and slightly fringe.

On his Instagram, Bebergal sums it up:

I write about gods and monsters.

Music and the occult. The perfect combination for Tobias to have commissioned him to write the conceptual manifesto of Meliora.

Now let's move on to a comparison of the components of the hero myth and the plot of the music video.

1. "The Call." A boy sits at his desk, bored. Instead of listening to the teacher, he scratches a crucifix into the desk. The teacher notices this and sends him to the principal, providing him with a note. There is the symbol of Ghost on it – a conventional sign that the boy is suitable for initiation into a secret society.

Right away, we can note that the boy is bored by the everyday and seeks other, forbidden paths – his entire story begins with the rejection of standards.

2. "Meeting the Helper/Mentor." The principal favors the boy and initiates him into the Lodge. He explains the goal of his path: "What if man could harness the power of a god? In a sense, he would need god no longer."

3. "The Journey." The boy ascends in an elevator to the top of a skyscraper, symbolizing his coming of age and ascent through the levels of the secret society.

4. "The Threshold." According to Campbell, this threshold marks the boundaries of the ordinary; beyond it lies the darkness of the unknown.

The protagonist crosses the threshold with his eyes blindfolded (still spiritually "blind," an uninitiated novice), with a blade pointed at his chest (according to Masonic initiation tradition). Madam Satan commands, "give him the light," and dispels the darkness.

Speaking of her. According to The Hero with a Thousand Faces, in the darkness of the unknown one may encounter not only dangerous monsters but also seductive women. Thus, one of the components of the monomyth is the "Meeting with the Goddess." She acts as a guide, one who directs, tests, and serves as a conduit to the sublime moment of realization. And indeed, Madam gives the hero a magical drink, through which the terrifying goal of the Lodge is revealed to him.

5. The apotheosis of the hero's adventure is the descent into the abyss. This can be death, being cut into pieces, or being swallowed by a monster – classically, a whale (as in the myth of Jonah and the whale). And as if casually, in 2025 Tobias commissions an artist to create a piece where Papa bursts out of the belly of a whale, referencing the biblical story of Jonah!

Returning to the plot of the music video: the hero flees from Madam Satan, throws himself off the tower, and crashes to his death.

6. "Resurrection, Transformation, and Receiving the Reward." The leap from the skyscraper is not simply suicide. Here lies the key event of the monomyth – the refusal of the ego. The hero must undergo self-denial, sacrifice himself, in order to gain the sacred gift. In the case of our protagonist, that gift is rebirth as Papa and the taming of the forces of electricity. From the dead body emerges a spiritual entity – a Ghost – who crowns himself with the Mitre of Thunder and becomes Papa Emeritus.

7. "Return to Society to Bring the Acquired Gift to the People." Here the music video meticulously follows the monomyth: Papa appears before the crowd to share electricity with them: "The light belongs to the people."

What is this gift? "Power" means both electricity and authority. Here, Papa reveals himself as a liberator of the people from the oppression of the Lodge. Light also symbolizes spiritual awakening – an emergence from the darkness of ignorance. "Papa Emeritus III is not here to lead. His journey is your own. ‘Majesty’ is not the state that only belongs to him,” Bebergal writes. “He is merely the mask, the path into the fire where he has already been."

There is another interesting moment in the video – a second ascension in a new capacity. Essentially, the entire chronotope is expressed here through the spatial dimension of height – rises and falls accompany Papa's path.

The internet has preserved notes on the music video, most likely written by Tobias himself. Here we see a curve charting the character's rises and falls. The author literally expressed the story in a graph, where the X-axis represents time and the Y-axis represents height.

The first time, Papa ascended to the top floor of the skyscraper, following the instructions of teachers, playing by the rules. In the end, he acts as an independent, mature person – he ascends to the very top of the tower (higher than before), using his mystical power. Moreover, he is now OUTSIDE the building – outside the game. Now he plays his own game.

I also invite you to read my analysis of the mythological references in the Third's image!

blackbird5154

This comment blew my mind. Thank you for it, @side-d1shes !

eidenblorp

I hope this Papa drawing I did a while ago blesses my return to Tumblr 🙏