#nocturnalia

[nugothrhythms]

"Ruined Gold" by New Orleans, Louisiana-based gothic rock act Missing off of their 2024 album Nocturnalia

[neptunalea]

poetic prose novella | 8k words into first draft | tw: suicide drug use

> NOCTURNALIA is the story of V--., a young woman with no past and no one to turn to. Her boyfriend Corey just drove into a lamppost and they don’t know if it was suicide or just an accident. But he’s back from the dead, haunting her, trying to get her to die with him. 

Just as she’s about to pull the plug on life, her guardian angel, Alua, arrives on the scene. Alua is determined to keep V--. alive by showing her the drug-addled underbelly of the City of Collioppius. Surely partying hard enough will show Alua that life is worth living, even without her undead harp-playing boyfriend. 

She sleeps all day and stays up all night. She is a part-time go-go dancer. Join V--. as she drops acid, fucks capital-g God, and sprints down the line between life and death at top speed. 

> Part One:

I.

I am the anti-fae of the power plants. I eat iron and lurk under street lights like a bad smell. I wear black, white and gold. I flicker in and out of parties, alt-dimensions where time doesn’t go straight. I dig out raves and basement shows. I slide through those chaotic spheres like a shadow, pressing my lips to the forehead of anyone who buys me a gram. Sometimes I’m a go-go dancer, half-specter, half-naked. When you see me in my panties and virgin skin, it’s only for a second. Then I disappear into the crowd.

 II.

I’ve been anti-fae for six weeks now, but nighttime still holds novelty. I’ve been using it to indulge my deepest sadnesses; each one is a mass of velvety despair in my gut. Gunmetal-heavy, they anchor me to the world. My eyes are forgetting the sting of sunlight, my mind the concrete-eating anxiety of interacting with baristas and bank tellers.

To be seen by people is my great anxiety.

This is one of the main reasons I took so well to nighttime. At three in the morning, no one asks if I’d heard any good music lately, or if I’m planning to go to the grocery store that afternoon. I can hold my marbles of sadness inside me and treasure them like a dragon on a mountain of gold.

I’m in Corey’s apartment on the living room couch. The lights are off. Through the window, I watch the dark parts of the vacant lot across the street. (Maybe something inside them watches me, too.) It’s filled with debris; the City has summoned me here with nothing but a tire iron and a fire pit. The way someone might put words in the mouth of God, I imagine what this place might tell me if it could speak. I will find you in the dark. I will pick you out like a bug in my hair. I will find you nocturnal. 

tagging nobody bc nobody is on this taglist, lemme know if you wanna be on it <3 

[music-addiction-disorder]

”Spell of the Night” is about “Bäckahästen” (roughly translated into the horse of the stream) – a creature that can be interpreted as a spirit of the water stream and also as a beautiful but fickle horse that’ll lure children onto his back so that he can drag them down under the water into certain death.

- Spell Of The Night NOCTURNALIA (Ex-Nocturnal) III: Winter (2019) The Sign Records Sweden

Band: Dennis Skoglund - Drums Linus Ekermo - Vocals Martin Ericsson - Bass Kalle Elfvin - Guitar Linus Lundgren - Guitar

The idea behind Nocturnalia saw its first light in late 2011 when founding members Kalle Elfvin and Dennis Skoglund started to write material which eventually became their first 7” single “Until the morning light” followed by 12” single “Night rainbow” and their first full length album ”s/t” (2013), released by local label Gaphals records. After some touring around Europe and a couple of line up changes they evolved musically into something more complex and introspective. They entered the studio to record their sophomore album “Above below within” (2015), also released by Gaphals records.After the second album they decided to take a short hiatus from song-writing and touring in favor of other musical and creative projects - Drummer Dennis Skoglund was a member of the rock band Night for a couple of years and occasionally a live musician in dark ambient/folk music acts Forndom and Draugurinn. Guitarist Linus Lundgren is also a member of occult rock pioneers Year of the Goat and singer Linus Ekermo is the bass player in label mates Oblivious.In early 2018 they started to write new material and later that year they recorded their third full length album “III: Winter”, to be released by The Sign Records in November 2019.

- necro69mancer -

[neptunalea]

wip playlist tag

thanks @asablehart. 

Rules: list five songs that most encapsulate your wip/the most essential songs on your wip playlist.

tonight we are playlisting nocturnalia. tw: drug and sex mentions.

1. methamphetamine king by ginger bronson

V--. and corey don’t do meth, but boy are they about to one of these days. or they would have if corey hadn’t driven into a street lamp i guess?? i don’t really like ginger bronson as an entity but i think she had a stroke of genius with this song. 

2. never gonna come back down by bt

live fast die never. 

3. skin by grimes

is it even a playlist by zarina without grimes?? this song really gets me in the alua “sex symbol” headspace. did you know alua has a fanpage? and did you know touch is the fastest way to prove to someone that they’re not alone?

4. a long way down by øbeson

V--. sinks into the drug haze. this song really reminds me of how reality can just... glow. 

5. martyr by sevdaliza

t r a n c e n d e n c e ? V--. sees it all. 

tagging: @perditism @unholieds @semblanche @vlker

[trans-neptunian-objects]

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MINI RESEÑA: NOCTURNALIA - JOEL SANTAMARÍA - EDITORIAL ESPASA, 2021

MINI RESEÑA: NOCTURNALIA – JOEL SANTAMARÍA – EDITORIAL ESPASA, 2021

TÍTULO: NOCTURNALIA. AUTOR: JOEL SANTAMARÍA – FACEBOOK – INSTAGRAM – WEB EDITORIAL: EDITORIAL ESPASA, 2021 – WEB PÁGINAS: 269. ¿DÓNDE COMPRARLO?:  AQUÍ  – SINOPSIS – Año 280 d. C. El centurión Constante Barsemis, con su liberto Elio Rodrigo, entra en la decadente ciudad de Tarraco para visitar a su hermana Valentina. Su cuñado, el edil Julio Natal, le pide que le ayude a resolver unos…

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[canaldelmisterio]

Ya disponible el #podcast de #CanaldelMisterio con Joel Santamaria y su #Nocturnalia y también con Yolanda Robles María Toro y Juan Perdomo Dirige y presenta Nuria Mejias #Radio #Valencia https://go.ivoox.com/rf/68590210 LINK IN BIO. https://www.instagram.com/p/CNqXwl6s0Pn/?igshid=1t4mekf2a00ag

[locuradelibrosblog]

El @clubdelecturall estuvo hablando con Joel Santamaría de su novela ‘Nocturnalia’ y en breve podréis ver el encuentro en nuestro canal de YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LocuradelibrosPepaMuñoz 🖌 NOCTURNALIA @joelsantamari1 @espasaeditorial @planetadelibros. 🖌 #Nocturnalia #JoelSantamaria #EspasaEditorial 🖌 Romanos & muertos vivientes, ¿cómo es que no se le había ocurrido a nadie antes? 🖌 🖌Año 280 d. C. El centurión Constante Barsemis, con su liberto Elio Rodrigo, entra en la decadente ciudad de Tarraco para visitar a su hermana Valentina. 🖌Su cuñado, el edil Julio Natal, le pide que le ayude a resolver unos misteriosos casos en los que familias enteras han sido cruelmente masacradas; casos relacionados con otro similar que el centurión presenció tiempo atrás en la remota ciudad de Palmira. 🖌Ambos ignoran que se están adentrando en una trampa mortal. Constante y su cuñado investigarán las terribles muertes y descubrirán un mundo oculto de hechiceros y brujas que devoran carne humana y practican la nigromancia, resucitando a muertos para sus oscuros fines. 🖌 🖌Nocturnalia es un viaje bien documentado a uno de los periodos más desconocidos del Imperio Romano, el de finales del siglo III. Un periodo turbulento repleto de caos y confusión en el que proliferaban los cultos mistéricos orientales, la magia negra y la adoración a las divinidades infernales. 🖌 📖📚 #Recomendaciones2021LL #YoLeo #YoLeoEspasa #Romanos #MuertosVivientes #Roma #RecomendacionesLL #NovelaHistorica #EnMiBibliotecaLL #LocuraDeLibros #EncuentrosConEscritoresLL #ClubDeLecturaLL #EncuentrosZoomClubDeLecturaLL #Novela #leer #recomiendoleer #Bookstagram #LeerEsDeGuapas #libros #lecturas #leeressexy #encuentrosconescritores #LeyendoSiempreyenCualquierSitio #NovedadesEditoriales #feliceslecturas 📖 (en Club de Lectura LL) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMrQKHyl_0q/?igshid=11xvdj91ndc4q