#kruna

[godspeednpcs]

𝐊𝐑𝐔𝐍𝐀 𝐁𝐄𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍 𝐒𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐇𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐃 (tw warnings: death, mentions of murder, is angst a trigger lmao)

separation from the people that she was considering to be getting close to was both hard and easy for the banshee. positive emotions were rare for her now, but she was beginning to get to a stage of contentment at least. vincent was someone that she could check up on every now and then, hold a conversation, but he was gone. quinton was gone too, his spirit seemingly moving on faster than what she was normally used to seeing. she liked that about the boy, he was always full of hope and life.

there were only three men that she had left in her life and she didn’t really speak to any of them directly. mayar and his parter rolin were people that she watched from afar. a brother that saw the monster he had become and the person who vowed to protect him. the two elves were the only family that she had left. then finally there was bradley. the human that was intriguing to her, but that she didn’t want to drown with all of his grief. whenever she got the sense that something was going to happen to him, she quickly went to his rescue.

yet she was more of a silent and invisible guardian angel. death wasn’t really after him and nothing had caused her to scream in a while. constantly jumping from place to place meant that she didn’t have to stay long enough somewhere for someone to die. brad was safe for now, which meant that she had to travel elsewhere. the longer she was going to be in the woods across from his home, the more chance death was going to smell her. she was a curse to people and she didn’t want anything to happen to him.

something had stopped her from moving quickly, from being engulfed in a puff of smoke before her red eyes appeared somewhere else. a loud, piercing scream crawled from the pit of her stomach, through her throat, and then out her mouth. it was even louder than the first one she produced when ryder was killed. thankfully she was far from brad’s house by now, but she was still close enough that some of his windows began to crack. the smoke surrounding her took her to the source of her pain, her powers being a magnet for death. she almost hoped that it didn’t.

when kruna materialized again, she saw it. mayar was bleeding out in front of her own eyes and rolin was weeping over his soon to be corpse. “no!” she screamed loud enough that as she ran towards them, rolin seemed to suffer some necrotic damage. her grief was turning into anger again. her skin growing a deeper shade of purple, her eyes glowing a darker red. this couldn’t be happening to her, not again. “mayar!” her screams turned into mournful cries as she threw herself onto the ground next to them. her hand pressed up against the elf’s chest, trying to stop what was coming. 

the thing was that she couldn’t stop death. with all of her powers, resurrection was powerful magic that she didn’t have access to. at least not as a banshee. “not you too.” her claws dug into the ground, not wanting to hurt the only family that she had left. when mayar’s eyes were empty, when it was official and she felt death take over his body, she was angry again. the anger seeping through her bones took place where the grief she couldn’t face should have been. carnal eyes looked up at the man that was in charge of caring for her brother, of protecting him. 

she lunged at him. grabbing the moon elf by the neck and rising up from the ground until they were about thirty feet in the air, kruna shoved him up against the tree and her claws dug into his warm, sensitive skin. “you did this! you let him die.” another scream pierced out from her body and the man’s ears started to bleed. “YOU TOOK HIM FROM ME TO PROTECT HIM AND YOU FAILED!” her voice was growing darker. there was no evidence of the elf she once was, the heir to the throne, as rolin trembled in fear against her. 

the banshee could feel it. she was taking his life away slowly. just when she was on the brink of finishing the job, she heard a familiar voice around her. “kruna, stop! he didn’t do anything.” mayar. there was no other person the voice could belong to. this was her brother’s spirit. hesitantly, the woman lowered both of them down and let the elf fall to the ground. he was no longer the source of her anger. “how could you die? how dare you?!” she lunged at her brother, but he was just a spirit now. 

“please, i don’t have that much time. please, just listen.“ mayar had already changed. yet even as a spirit he seemed to have more life than kruna at the moment, there was a lightness in him that was opposite to her darkness. even though she wasn’t fully calm, she was still angry, she nodded and remained still to listen. “there’s something you don’t know about ryder’s story. this is complicated, but time doesn’t move the same for spirits. go back. go into your memories, but as yourself. you’re mad at the wrong people. please sister, let me help you.“ 

there was just anger for now and kruna was being engulfed in darkness again. yet she’d think about his words and when she was ready, she would follow mayar’s advice. maybe answers would help her come to peace with everything.

[teenagedirtstache]

[paperkatana-art]

Eurovision 2019 (part 3)

[starsfadingbutilingeron]

i deleted this from my draft but

[satans-jackass]

I'm Croatian and you guys have no fucking idea how happy I'm for Serbia...like yeah my baby slayed...😍🇭🇷🇷🇸😍🇭🇷🇷🇸😍🇭🇷🇷🇸😍🇭🇷🇷🇸

[borisbubbles]

Eurovision 2010s: 265 - 261

265. Bonnie Tyler - “Believe in me” United Kingdom 2013

Oh man, it really speaks for how little fucks the UK give about Eurovision that they had to get Bonnie Tyler out of fucking retirement just to fill the token spot of “Brit UK entrant”. Bonnie didn’t even know what she signed up for lmfao <3 Every backstage Bonnie moment consisted of some variation of “wow this is rly busy. I didn’t know that. btw I’m bored now, can I go back to my villa in Portugal?” <3 <3

As for the song, it’s aight, I guess. It’s the same “Dona” principle of a weak song being almost sold by its talented singer, but I won’t be repeating myself here, we HAVE OTHER BITCHES TO RANK!!

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264. Marco Mengoni - “L’essenziale” Italy 2013

Is this a gender-swapped “Believe in me”?  The two songs sound ALIKE, despite being composed in two completely different genres, YOU CANNOT CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE!!!! 

It even comes down to the general unawareness of what the singer signed up for. Marco in general was just... bewildered by how much of a circus Eurovision was, like a random muggle townsperson wandering onto the set of Fantastic Beasts or summat. K that includes all the salient details about “L’Esseziale”, moving on~

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263. Elhaida Dani - “I’m alive” Albania 2015

“I am alive” has some surprising novelty: it is the ONLY Albanian Eurovision entry that didn’t win FiK!! and I‘m , thank fuck for that, because “Diell” was suuuuper boring and would’ve been out a long time ago. However, I personally... do not care much for “I’m alive” either, whoops. It’s okay? However, it also happens to be one of those overambitious songs that crams too many difficult notes in a short time frame, making it more a vocal exercise/nightmare than a legit song. Oh well. 

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262. Nevena Božović - “Kruna” Serbia 2019

Oh hey, another one of those whatever songs that presented a decent effort! I’ve already spoken of the solo blonde woman AND of the balkan ballad, two tropes i do not care about, so this ranking shouldn’t come as a shock to you by now. “Kruna” is boring, period.

However, Nevena really makes the most out of it. Her efforts are not nearly enough to push her into green and beyond, mind, but we’ve definitely seen worse than Steampunk Odette conjuring up vortexes of vapesmoke and stardust. <3

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261. Firelight - “Coming home” Malta 2014

As you can see, we are definitely in that part of the ranking where I find the songs boring, but am able to find SOME enjoyment. “Coming home” is a great example of this: The song itself is a big ball of meh (and probably shouldn’t have won MESC, because “Pin the middle” was right there!!), but the live interpretation has a few glimmers here and there; specifically, lead singers Richard and Debbie

I quite like that Richard's anxiety and nerves transform him into Cumberbatch’s Sherlock

Highly functioning sociopath... with your number; 

I quite like that they brought a fucking DULCIMER to the stage <3

I quite like Debbie feisty middle eight. Is it enough for a high spot? Well no. Not nearly enough. However, I appreciate the effort, which is more than what can be said about the songs Firelight outrank. If you’re going to be boring, at least give me small nuggets I can cling to. 

[yulidaydreamer]

Serbia passed through the semi-final by sheer singing power. Respect.

[eurovisiondoppelganger]

Nevena Bozovic, “Kruna”, Serbia 2019