#moddies

[grimmijaggers]

“Thank you for an awesome subathon!”

Gio, Francisco, Sam and moddies 💕

[drkstar]

[yuli-ban]

Similar aesthetic to Anarchy in Prague, but this one definitely deserves it more. After I finish Astral Falls for NaNoWriMo, this is likely to be my next project. And after digging into the concept further, there’s definitely no commercial success in this story’s future or anything resembling it unless there is in which case fuck my tongue hard. Tally ho, to LitRPG/GamerLit we go!

artwork by @alouissever

[dangan-ronpa-imagines]

Now that requests are open!, do u allow request for ndrv3 characters?

Yooooooo! I, myself, would not mind writing for ndrv3 characters as long as i am able to get through without looking up any spoilers! Oddish and Kuma and our two new moddies, I imagine, wouldn’t mind either! ~ Mod Eri

[yuli-ban]

Recent Ideas For Rekindling Anarchie

So Anarchy in Prague is coming along well enough. But there’s something I do need to point out about it: it still seems to lack an identity. 

Yeah, just writing a rough draft of the story brought this to mind. There’s no Kamehameha, no Hogwarts, no Lightsaber for the story that helps to distinguish it from others. And while that’s perfectly fine for as long as it’s well written, I feel that it also runs the risk of making the story feel derivative. What could it be derivative of? The most obvious answer at this point would be some weird fusion of Scott Pilgrim + WataMote + FLCL. 

Something interesting has occurred in that regard, though. In regards to another story of mine, Belle Grand-Mär. 

Belle Grand-Mär is a moddie story. And as I’ve explained at other points, the moddies can be described as if you took ‘60s hippies, fused them with ‘90s ravers, added ‘80s neon and ‘90s cyberdelia, threw Harajuku fashion and hipster aesthetics on top, and blended it all up until it started glowing. It’s so diabetically colorful and bright that it’s sickening. 

And as it turns out, that is an identity. Whenever something like that appears in Anarchy in Prague, I go “that’s like something out of Belle Grand-Mär.” I’ve even started using that in reference to other things not at all related to any of my stories. And that’s when you know your story has a strong identity. When things that aren’t at all related to it begin reminding you of it.

When we say “[X] reminds me of [Y]”, that’s because [Y] has a strong identity. Example: since today’s 4/20, let’s use stoner rock and doom metal bands that sound like Black Sabbath. Just by saying ‘sounds like Black Sabbath’, you already get an idea of what they’re going to sound like— a lot of swinging bluesy riffs, plodding tempos, doomy lyrics, nihilistic psychedelia, etc. 

There really isn’t anything like that for Anarchy in Prague. There’s nothing that makes me go “this is like something out of Anarchy in Prague”. Part of me wants to reform the story until it does have a stronger identity, but another part of me wants to not worry so much about surface spectacle and instead focus on making the narrative itself actually good. I’m happy I already have such a strong identity for BGM, but I’m not working on BGM at the moment.

[yuli-ban]

Tumblr Will Know: The Moddies

Right now, Tumblr is hipster central. It’s been this way for several years now, and it will remain this way for a long, long, long time.

But soon, the moddies will begin to take over. It won’t necessarily last forever, but damn will it be glorious. 

So far, hipsterdom has given us a mixed bag of things, styles, and ideals. So the moddies have to find their own way— what works the best, and what’s the most stylish? What have the hipsters given us that the moddies will find most useful subculturally appropriate? How do they come about?

♤ Moddies are not just a subsect of hipsters. They are their own counterculture that sprung from contemporary hipsters. ♤ They began due to a number of crossing trends, with seapunk becoming the first big “proto-moddie” expression way back in 2011. ♤ The rise of EDM, vaporwave, and retrowave was the second big proto-moddie expression. This was around 2014-2016, and it soon began giving way to a disillusionment that electronic music was only ever popularly seen as “dance” music, leading to increasingly elaborate songwriting ♤ The rise of heavy rock and its fusion with jazz and swing was the third big proto-moddie expression. This was around 2017-2019, particularly as a result of Donald Trump’s (a Republican) presidency as well as an attempt to return to late ‘60s/early ‘70s hard rock/heavy metal/punk rock roots. ♤ These three would eventually fuse to create “neo-krautrock”, which was eventually renamed “neon rock” in 2020. Neon rock’s sonic and visual excesses resulted in dreamrock and dreampunk. ♤ Bernie Sanders lost to Hillary Clinton in 2016, which was far more damaging to post-hipsters and proto-moddies than Donald Trump’s victory, as it was the true signal that their political activism did not matter in the face of a political oligarchy ♤ Seapunk hair coloring began fading away, fusing with and giving way to “neonpunk”— using luminescent hairdyes that would light up in the dark. ♤ The nationwide legalization of marijuana in 2019 finally meant it was possible to get stoned anywhere. However, this led to more wanting to try “harder” hallucinogenics, particularly LSD and psilocybin ♤ John Henry Vyrd’s works detailing technism, ultraterrestrialism, metahumanism, and transhumanist bodhisattvas creates a new wave of futurism among the youth, leading to a massive surge of interest in futurology ♤ The 2020 Tokyo Olympics. ♤ Cyberdelia arises around 2019-2021 and sweeps through the mainstream. ♤ Cybernautica unexpectedly becomes a mainstream music genre. Cybernautica and its biggest subgenre, transhumanist cybernautica, is considered to be the “progressive rock” of electronic music. ♤ Between 2023-2025, high moddie. Everywhere’s cyberdelic, bright primary colors, psychedelic pixel art, neon rock, dreamrock, cybernautica, cyberdelic rap and rock, digital graffiti is being sprayed everywhere, people are casually bringing domestic robots out into the public, everyone seems to have brightly colored hair, everyone’s dressing in bright and often retrofuturistic clothes, and it’s just a crazy crazy cyberdelic time to be alive. It’s like if you took the ‘60s and early ‘70s and fused them with the ‘80s and then infused into it a massive dollop of cyberpunk.

We’re seeing the first rumblings of all this, but not everything’s in place. There’s yet to be a marijuana epidemic; no one’s created an electroswing cover to Black Sabbath’s Sabbra Cadabra and Fairies Wear Boots; luminescent hair dye is still a niche thing; it’s still too energy intensive to wear OLED clothing. But hey, we’re getting there.