HYPNOS — gorehoundhammett.

⛧ fanfiction writer.

⛧ 18+ only (minors get out), I block freely.

⛧ weird guy writing weird shit.

⛧ absolutely no hate for any of the band members, especially Kirk Hammett. valid criticisms and blatant disrespect are two separate things.

enjoy your stay, throw up your horns (throw up an ‘i love you’ too).

listening to Nettles on repeat while writing. If any of you were wondering the fic was still a thing.

cant make any promises but I’m trying to write something for Christmas and it won’t be very ship-forward but it is Kirk-centric.

waiting till my man is overstimulated to ask questions like “can I put ihop syrup on it” and “could I pull you completely unmedicated?”

One of these days I will lock in and learn the lore of Ghost. Today is not that day.

I often wonder about Kirk’s relationship with being a person of colour in a band that’s not only been predominantly white for a majority of its career, with a predominantly white audience, but an audience (and about 25-50% of a band) that is mostly conservative and holds racist sentiments. Especially back in the early days, the 80s-00s, when white supremacy had yet to really consider and see people who passed as white as being “white enough” to gain some sort of proximity to whiteness.

This leads into his relationship with James and Jason as well, it doesn’t take much digging to find their own racism on full display so how does one successfully build as close of a relationship as Kirk did with the two of them without growing bitter? Now, I’m a firm believer in growth. At any age can one shed their bigoted beliefs and move on from them, especially in a world that is trying to become more inclusive and tolerant but the 80s-00s was not such a world and Kirk has always stood apart from the rest of Metallica for being more obviously “other”, whether that he in his quirkiness, his neurodiversity or his skin tone.

It takes more mental fortitude than white people can truly ever imagine to look at people who see you, maybe not even consciously, as one of the “good ones” and to not become hateful of both them and yourself. It would be very interesting to see how Kirk has viewed this, especially now that Rob is a part of the band.