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And now I want to make an OC called Page Manson who is a combination of Jimmy Page and Marilyn Manson who is the embodiment of my theory that the two are similar...

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Okay, so someone asked me to talk about my theory that Marilyn Manson is the 1990s/2000s version of Jimmy Page, so I'm about to explain that.

While this is far from the most unique trait they both share, both Manson and Page were extremely popular during the peak of their career, but in the current day, they are often denounced as abusers and are considered untouchable to many parts of the music world and music fandoms online.

To get into the more specific details, though, I see both Manson and Page as people who made a career out of having a very dark and extreme persona, especially with regards to sex and drugs. Manson leans a little more on violence for his image than Page does, but they both make use of the occult for their image, especially in a way that furthers the popular perception of rock music as demonic.

Manson is a LaVeyan Satanist and Page was interested in the works of Aleister Crowley. They both seem to genuinely hold these beliefs, but they also make occult imagery a part of their persona as a musician. I can't think of many other musicians who genuinely hold beliefs like that.

They also both strike me as people who, when given the opportunity to influence people around them (especially ones younger than themself), they take that opportunity to build a cult of personality about themselves and their image. They both seem controlling of the people around them, but not in the way that someone who INSISTS on having control is controlling; rather, they use their charisma to get people to GIVE them control.

This is obviously much more about them as people than as musicians, as I don't actually see the music as being all that similar. However, I do find the ways these two people used their fame to be similar, as well as the kind of darkness they brought to their respective bodies of work.

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Someone on deviantART accused me of lying about smoking weed recently. One of my blinkies says "I'm gonna smoke weed" and they commented "No you don't".

I told them they were an asshole and that it was absurd of them to think I lie about doing weed, because if I lied about doing drugs, i would make blinkies about cocaine and heroin, not the softball drugs I actually do.

Who the fuck accuses a 32 year old Californian of lying about weed. For fuck's sake.

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And our favorite ukulele is intersex because it's a baritone ukulele, which is an uncommon but recognized type of ukulele that is larger and lower-pitched than other ukuleles. So it's a ukulele and it was made as a ukulele but it's a different kind of ukulele than others. It's arguably a little bit trans as well because we string it with guitar strings.

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Shoutout to our electric bass that functions as a guitar in all our music and is effectively the instrument equivalent of a transgender person in that it plays the role of something it was not made as.

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I think, after recovering from top surgery and being able to resume maximum drug use, we're going to switch from smoking weed all the time to having one or two edible gummies throughout the day to maintain our anxiety and using kratom to manage our pain.

I can't believe so many people fucking advocate for weed as a harmless drug when it's literally the one that makes me the least functional. I was much more productive on fucking diphenhydramine than on weed. What the actual fuck.

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I'm one of our old Syd Barrett factives from a time long before we (voluntarily) did drugs. It's amazing to see how much we have and have not become like him over the years. I'm grateful for what we have in common with him and grateful for what we don't.