Massive Attack released Mezzanine in 1998, an album born from inner tension and mortality. Mezzanine is critically regarded as one of best albums of all time. What Massive Attack created is masterpiece of post-punk atmosphere, sexy dub bass, and paranoia. Listening to the whole album is like tripping into an alternate dimension.
While the hit single Teardrop became commercially successful as the theme song to US TV show House, did you know the songs lyrics are actually an ode to Jeff Buckley?
The album’s greatness lives in the atmosphere of its unique sonic texture. The production is astonishing in its depth, precision, and sensual intelligence. Basslines move with animal patience and physical authority. Drums land with ritual force, measured and exact, giving each song the gait of something alive in darkness. Guitars scrape across the mixes like metal drawn over silk. Synths hover in cold halos. Voices emerge as if transmitted from the far side of memory, intimate yet spectral. Every sonic detail feels placed with the hand of a master architect. The record unfolds as an environment as much as a sequence of songs.
Massive Attack achieve a rare synthesis here. Dub pressure, post-punk abrasion, hip-hop rhythm, dream-pop haze, and cinematic sound design fuse into a singular language. The album feels luxurious, threatening, seductive, narcotic, and spiritually restless all at once. That fusion gives Mezzanine its singular power. It captures the sensation of desire moving through a technological world of longing filtered through urban decay, nostalgia, surveillance, and sleeplessness. The whole album throbs with an ominous grandeur that feels even closer to the current zeitgeist than when it was released 30 years earlier.
a/n: this is changing the dragons from not just mount, but to being able to shift into a human-like form at will...
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・In his dragon form, The Cannibal is larger than Vermithor, and three times nastier as well.
・With fire that breathed green, he seemed like an otherwordly creature to the people of Westeros.
・Once he was claimed, many came to see The Cannibal 'up close.' Crowds would form whenever you went flying; a sight that so many would tell their children, and their childrens children and so on.
・With sharp black horns that curled and protruded from the dragons head, he was terrifying.
・And you loved him.
・Many asked how you 'tamed' him. But that ... wasn't how it happened.
・Unlike many throughout history; he found you.
・And when he came snout to face with you, you did not balk. For dragons were your family's legacy. If you died by his flame, then so be it.
・The Cannibal sensed that.
・Maybe it was bravery. Maybe it was stupidity. Maybe it was the fact that you felt so alone that you did not care what may have happened.
・Your relationship with the Cannibal was different to other dragonriders and their mounts.
・You never chained him up and put him in the dragon pit.
・You gave him free range of the world. Just because you were tethered together did not mean that you owned him.
・For he was far older and experienced than you could ever be.
・The first time you saw your mount transform, you thought it was a dream. One wickedly wonderful dream.
・In his half form, he towers over you at 7.5 feet tall. With long onyx coloured hair partly braided, two glowing green eyes, pointed ears and a face so ... handsome yet scarred, menacing and well honestly a little terrifying. He looked like a death promise to those who look him in the eye.
・Some of his teeth are sharp as well, and he challenges anyone who looks in your direction.
・He's completely attached to you, because why else would he want to be around other people, other beings?
・His name? He was happy with being called Cannibal - but you told him he couldn't be out in society with it. So his 'human' name is: Vorzhul.
・The Cannibal/Vorzhul is very wary of others; as his time has been spent alone. He doesn't know how to converse with others without coming off as ... slightly crazy.
・That's one of the reasons why he becomes so attached to you. Not only because you are his bonded rider, but because he feels like his walls can come down.
・He can be quite funny at times -
・Particularly when he mind-speaks during something important.
・When you're feeling down, he reminds you that: "I'm eternally yours."
・So now you never feel lonely. Or that the world is against you. Because someone always has your back. No matter what you say or do.
・The knowledge that certain dragons can shift, is only known by certain people. High ranking people. Ones who have blood sworn not to tell another soul.
・One maester, your parents and the Hand of the King.
・Marriage is a difficult subject.
・Some shifters will allow their bonded to marry another. But not yours.
・Even if it is tried, he will turn into dragon form and eat those who come to marry you. And their families.
・So it is either, he marries you or a war will break out.
・When he's in his hybrid form, Vorzhul is able to understand English and High Valyrian. With some people he pretends not to know English and lets them talk shit until he responds.
・They usually excuse themselves (basically running away)
・When he's in his dragon form, he'll only take commands in High Valyrian though, just like every other dragon.
𝑹𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝑻𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒔
No Social Skills (The Cannibal/Vorzhul) x No Social Skills Either, That's Why We're Bonded (You)
Undying Loyalty x2
"Think they'll try us?" x "Fuck I hope so."
𝑹𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑷𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝑻𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆
Found Family
Intertwined Destinies
Legacy and Legend
𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈
Do I Wanna Know by Arctic Monkeys
I Need You by James Newton Howard
Me and the Devil by Soap&Skin
𝑁𝑆𝐹𝑊 🔞 No one under the age of 18 past this point, makes me feel weird if you read it.
・As you would think, he is completely dominant in bed. Rough; hands gripping you tight against him, teeth sinking into your skin without a second thought.
・His tongue decided it liked the taste of your skin, and started moving further and further downward. And then he pushed your legs apart and devoured you until you came three times ... in a row.
・His animalistic nature could not hold off when he was with you - the suppleness of your skin, the way you trembled underneath his grasp.
・He laughed when you finally wrestled to sit on top of him, only for him to buck you off and roll you onto your back:
"You will have to try better than that little one."
・He felt primal around you.
・Like a peace he never had, had finally found him.
・And sex was more than pleasure; it was about connecting with you. Becoming one with you.
"Just let it stay in a little longer ñuha jorrāeliarzy (my beloved)"
You whispered back, "elilla (honey), you are too big, and it hurts."
He huffed and with a frown, slowly slid himself out of you.
