ASHGRAY
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the lesbian love story i have extrapolated from the killers’ sam’s town
Originally posted March 10th, 2023. Hot Fuss, the debut album by Las Vegas-based glamorous indie rock & roll band The KIllers, has three distinct themes: murder, being gay, and COMING OUT OF YOUR CAGE AND YOU’VE BEEN DOING JUST FINE GOTTA GOTTA BE DOWN BECAUSE YOU WANT IT ALL. But mostly murder and being gay.…
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a major hot take
Originally posted March 3rd, 2023. No one should ever write about music. Including me. Especially me. But I am going to write about music many times, probably this one time because I think I have uncovered an industry-wide conspiracy. Allow me to provide some background info in a manner that will both anger those with…
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blue titanic outtakes
Originally posted February 27th, 2023. Hello, and welcome to a bonus thread of blue Titanic screencaps I could not fit in my original post! Like James Cameron himself, I axed a lot of content and I think that’s a shame. SO! The film opens with sepia-toned flashbacks to the ship’s departure, which are probably tied…
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titanic on my blue tv: does it hold up?
Originally posted February 23rd, 2023. A terrible and whimsical fate has befallen my television: it’s blue. Quite literally, it is blue. Its hex code is #0000FF. It’s so blue I don’t know what to do. I watched The Shining recently, for reasons I might one day disclose, and… well… Anyway, Titanic is back in theaters!…
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attempting to get the whole harry styles thing
Originally posted February 17th, 2023. It used to be niche, not vibing with Harry Styles’s music. Or his acting. Or his fashion sense. Not particularly caring for the guy was one of those sexy and dangerous unpopular opinions one did not dare express on Twitter. He had a massive fanbase and critical acclaim on his…
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the seven deadly sins as season one hannah montana songs
Originally published February 10th, 2023 The thing nobody tells you about evangelical childhood is that you are simultaneously permitted to consume more and fewer media properties than your peers. And by more I don’t mean you fill the void with Veggie Tales or Adventures in Odyssey or other explicitly Christian works to which your secular…
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haunting a new house
Hi! My name is Ashton, and this, once again, is content. The first crop of posts on this blog will be familiar territory — I’m moving everything over from my old Substack, due to the platform’s laissez-faire policy re: platforming far-right extremism. New site, same me. For better or worse. If you’re just joining me,…