Marvel made a mistake giving Spectacular Spider-Man a cameo in Across the Spider-Verse AND giving 90s cartoon Spider-Man a cameo in X-Men '97 within a year of each other cause now they've got everyone clamoring for them to revive TWO Spider-Man shows at the same time. Including me. Spider-Man '98 and Spectacular Spider-Man season 3 let's fuckin do it I want it I need it gimme gimme gimme.

Dustin Bates I am in your fucking walls

Apparently they finally officially released the soundtracks for seasons 3 and 4 of Rebels so between that and Starset yesterday this week is a gift from the music gods for me specifically

Also while I genuinely loved both Divisions and Horizons I will admit I was in the camp of fans who were disappointed that those albums didn't have as much metal screaming as the first two so I appreciate that Daddy Dustin was just like oh you bitches want SCREAMING? You want GROWLING? You're gonna fucking GET IT. And then spent like half the new song death growling so hard that it feels like the song is physically grabbing you and fucking you in the ass raw like a goddamn animal. Who said that.

Alright now that it's the next day. I have to stress how fucking funny it is for me that Starset as a band has existed for 11 years and I've been a fan for practically that whole time and they had not a single song with any swear words to the point that it made them stick out because most of my other favorite bands DO swear. Which is not to say the concept of swearing was foreign to them, as Dustin's old band has several songs with swearing, the book has swearing, for the latest tour they played a whole ass short film that basically turned "Fuck the New East" into a fandom catchphrase which makes zero sense to anyone not familiar with the band and its Lore. But none of that is the actual Starset music. So you just kinda take for granted that they don't say naughty words in their songs and that's just how it is. Then comes the night of May 2, 2024. I'm at work cause I work the evening shift. My shift ends at 11:30 and it's 11 so I'm wrapping things up and getting ready to leave soon and needlesss to say I'm tired as hell and ready to go to sleep. The new Starset song just dropped so I listen to that as I finish up my work for the day. It's an absolutely epic banger which is no less than I expect from these guys at this point. And then. He says. FUCK. After over a decade of not a single no-no word these guys just suddenly drop The First Official Starset Fuck Song out of nowhere. They said what's so brave and new about this world you ask? It's a world where we say FUCK now, that's what. And I'm so surprised that I actually start to laugh out loud for a second before remembering I'm still at work so I end up just making a weird awkward half-laugh sound before stopping myself because if having a new song at all didn't wake me up then THAT sure as hell did. And then I jam to the song in the car on the drive home because a song like that can only be done justice by listening to it on a car stereo that's turned up way too loud. And I'm so into it I almost don't see a possum crossing the road in front of me and I barely slow down in time to not run it over. Which kinda freaked me out at the time cause I've never come that close to hitting an animal before but now that it's in the past it's hilarious because I can honestly say I found a song so good that it almost made me kill something. Truly a moment in Starset history for me.

THEY SWORE IN A STARSET SONG

I don't know who edited Google to say that Dustin Starset is 5'8 but literally anyone who has ever stood next to him ever begs to differ

Funniest thing about Tales of the Empire so far is them showing clips of Grievous killing Nightsisters which is very clearly meant to take place at the same time as That One Clone Wars Episode That's Literally Just A Straight Half-Hour Of Grievous Killing The Nightsisters and people somehow not putting two and two together and assuming they brought him back to life or whatever.