Whatever Comes To Mind

A documentation of thoughts. I mainly think about The Amazing Devil, but have been known to have the occasional thought about Doctor Who, Extreme Metal, and fantasy in general.

[thegulliblesceptic]

Intro post time:

Hiii, my name is thegulliblesceptic, but i am cool with being called gullible, sceptic, or even the if youre feeling adventurous. Anything really

Pronouns: whatever you imagine me as

Age: student

Music: The Amazing Devil (most of my posts will be about this) and extreme metal (very few of my posts will be about this)

Fandoms: any nerdy sci-fi/fantasy

Hobbies: reading, writing, embroidery

Feel free to fill my inbox with random asks

I might visit your blog and shamelessly like a bunch of stuff in sequence

[escabye-deactivated20190922]

when ur mutuals are mutual with each other 

pro: squad con: i saw this post like 18 times today

[skingrad]

[tad-my-dear-heart]

as promised, i finally finished writing the first song fic!

if i’m being honest, it was darker than i intended to write it, so make sure to look at the tags.

but all that being said, hope you enjoy and let me know how you like it!

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: The Amazing Devil (Band) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: Escape, Implied/Referenced Abuse, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Physical Abuse, Medieval Fantasy Series: Part 1 of the amazing devil song fics Summary:

a girl finally musters up the courage to escape the cycle of abuse she’d been imprisoned in.

[bookswebothdrowned]

Farewell Wanderlust would save me from Vecna

[thegulliblesceptic]

Every now and again i get likes for a bunch of my posts in a row from some blog i dont recognise. Then i smile like. Someone has been visiting #the amazing devil again

[thegulliblesceptic]

I have seen people argue that the inclusion of Lobo was pointless, and i have seen people argue that the inclusion of Kara was pointless. On this very website. The effort people make to dislike something will never cease to amaze me

[thegulliblesceptic]

Recently found out Madeleine Hyland was in the band Dexys (formerly Dexys Midnight Runners), (the band that did Come on Eileen), for a short bit from 2011 to 2014

She features on tracks 7 - 8 from the album One Day I'm Going to Soar. Links below

More Madeleine i didnt know about: yay!

[chimaerakitten]

Sometimes you can tell when a fandom has been starved for new input for too long because you can make an objectively mid text post like “hey guys, I like a scene in this show” and it gets 600 notes.

[somecunttookmyurl]

i can tell i’m sleep deprived bc i just made myself cry about tutankhamun and i have, like, negative interest in the kid

[somecunttookmyurl]

have now made the rest of the discord cry about this little boy who had multi-coloured ducks sewn onto a tunic that he loved so much he wore it to a Very Important Event because he was EIGHT and have you SEEN my DUCKS

[somecunttookmyurl]

sorry no i’m not done i’m gonna make you all cry some more i’m bringing you down with me

there was once a little boy.

he is born disabled. his body hurts, and he can’t walk properly the way the other children do. he doesn’t understand why. he’s a little boy. but he plays with wooden boats and pulls toys on a string.

somebody makes him a tunic. they sew ducks onto it in red and green and yellow and blue. the bright colours of a child.

the little boy is eight years old, and he’s going to be king now. there’s a big ceremony about it. he doesn’t really fully understand what’s going on, because he’s eight, but he wears the tunic with the brightly coloured ducks for the occasion because he loves it. look at his ducks! aren’t they great?

he is a child. the adults around him manipulate and coax him to gain more power for themselves. he still plays with toys.

as a teenager, not yet an adult, he fathers children. they do not survive. he’s not even old enough to have full agency in his job and is still being manipulated, but he had babies and they died.

he does not make it to his twenties. at eighteen or nineteen years old he dies, and is buried. his babies, so tiny, are buried with him.

and so is his tunic with the little ducks that he loved so much he kept it long after it no longer fit.

there was once a little boy.

[somecunttookmyurl]

yeah i think that like. especially with historical figures in your mind people who were kings and queens or important nobles were adults. even if you know how old they were it doesn’t really click. it doesn’t seem real

but then you get something like a little tunic with brightly coloured ducks on it and it hits you like a fucking truck that this really was a little kid and no matter how far removed you are a little kid is still a little kid. their brains didn’t develop any quicker back then. he was just as developed/mature mentally as any 8 year old now. he had cartoonish animals on his clothes and he played with toy boats and probably terrorised the local cat population.

tutankhamun was a child and he didn’t make it to adulthood because he was unfortunate enough to be a very important child

his dad died when he was 8. he saw his own babies die when he was still just a boy himself.

but he had brightly coloured little ducks on his favourite shirt, and he kept it.

[somecunttookmyurl]

and he did not just keep the duckie shirt either

tutankhamun had a little pair of sandals with ducks on them. he had earrings decorated with ducks. he kept those, and other items of childhood clothing. some toys. keepsakes. things he loved, and treasured. he kept them all in a little wooden chest. the chest… was carved with ducks.

and that little duck chest, filled with things he kept from his childhood, was buried with him. maybe he was keeping them for the little babies who did not make it. maybe they just reminded him of good days and fun times.

but he was a little boy who thought ducks were just the best

[somecunttookmyurl]

WITH PLEASURE

(greyscale makes it hard but the duck head is on the right above the toe strap. always takes me a while to find it too)

[beggars-opera]

[libriamore]

Ok but this is how to teach history. This is how you get people to pay attention, to care. Find something small and make it personal, then zoom out to the wider context. History is best taught as a story, with people who lived their lives in ways that came together to create something remarkable that we still talk about today, but who were still just human at the end of the day. They kissed, argued, cried, and dreamed just like we do. And sometimes they really liked ducks.

[thegulliblesceptic]

I really like The Memory Palace (podcast by Nate DiMeo) for this exact reason

Nate finds a way to take one small fact, like ducks on a tunic, and make it personal. He fleshes out what would be one paragraph in a history textbook into a 15 min episode, and then makes you cry

I can highly reccomend. My favourite episode is Six Scenes in the life of William J. Sidis, Wonderful Boy (episode 36). About a child prodigy in the 1800s who just wanted to be left alone with his trains

The Music: Scene 1: First song is “Brand New Day” by Worm is Green. Then a little bit of Gary Numan doing “Trois Gymnopedies,” then the “Sec

[thegulliblesceptic]

"It's my way or the Gerard Way" ~ me if i was Gerard Way

[tad-my-dear-heart]

driving while listening to new york torch song is not for the weak because it's late at night and i'm hearing honking and sirens and it keeps scaring me

[thegulliblesceptic]

Back in Nov 2025 when Joey said that they were planning to release the new album in Dec i was like

"yay! I am going to abstain from TAD untill it releases so i can listen to all 4 albums in sequence!"

...

They always told me my stubbornness would be my demise

How foolish i have been

[thegulliblesceptic]

Pondering "soon"

[thegulliblesceptic]

Muttering "and beans" at every mention of the word "asbestos"

[farewell-wanderlust7]

guysssss i’m not crazy in saying that the Amazing Devil’s entire discography fits into a storyline right. right.

how i looked tryna explain this to my clueless friend

[thegulliblesceptic]

Wholeheartedly agree

[godforsakenprospero]

“More to come soon”

I’ve heard that one before, but maybe soon is really soon this time.

[thegulliblesceptic]

I know the Christmas Special is canceled, but ive been thinking about a cool way they could salvaged Ncuti's regenration

The episode starts with Billie Piper as the official 16th doctor. She is immediately thrown into some very serious external conflict while having to deal with the "ooo new body" thing.

15 minutes in stuff goes wrong and she dies/regenerates again into a new face. Boom: official 17th doctor

Stuff keeps going wrong. The Doctor keeps dying/regenerating in increasingly short intervals into increasingly ridiculous faces.

The Doctor essentially brute forces their way through the episode and dies/regenerates at least once with every obstacle. By the climax the doctor regenerates every 10 seconds

The episode ends with the regeneration of the 48th Doctor, marking the start of the 49th Doctor's era, who then gets 3 seasons of TV

[thegulliblesceptic]

They could have Ryan Reynolds be The Doctor for 30 seconds,

followed by Sandra Bullock,

followed by Nic Cage,

followed by Samual L Jackson,

followed by David Tennant again,

followed by Salma Hayek,

followed by RTD himself,

followed by David Tennant but scottish this time,

followed by Michael Sheen,

followed by David Tennant again,

followed by Arnold Schwarzenegger,

etc etc etc