The White of Noon - STRFKR
Heartbeats - Grum
Sit Next to Me - Foster The People
Open Arms - Gary Go
Sleeper - Kye Kye
3 Ways - AQUA STONE THROW
Friends - Brijs, Dandelion
People - Kye Kye
You’re The One For Me - Great Good Fine Okay
Wolf Runner - Eyes on the Shore
I Wish - Eisley
Stars Like Dust - The Lonely Forest
Pneumonia - Me Like Bees
Death as a Fetish - STRFKR (feat. Mattress)
Meet Me in the Woods - Lord Huron
David - Noah Gundersen
Fool For Love - Lord Huron
Show Me The Way - Penguin Prison
A great mix of music this time around. STRFKR and Lord Huron seem to be my obsessions of the late winter, thanks to @marshofsleep for sending the latter (as well as many other great songs, David among them) my way with her amazing mix - take a listen!
Speaking of which, I posted a monster of a fic for the Soul Eater Resbang event, which I’m still pretty proud of - if you’re interested you can check the first part out here and the second part here.
the noise in the night is gonna get a little louder, baby
resbang 2017 fanmix for the Wayward Souls series: Acts I & 2
[Act 1: pacts]
[Act 2: allies]
Spirited away by the supernatural, Wes Evans has been missing for five years. Soul, teamed up with huntress Maka Albarn, has been trying to track him down, but a routine job turns devastating when his partner dies. Soul makes a desperate deal to bring her back, but the price is high and the stakes are even higher with both new and old enemies on the rise – the both of them will need the help of many allies, both human and otherwise, to save Wes, and each other. [Supernatural Series AU]
Pairing: Soul/Maka, various minor pairings
Rating: M
Warnings: Violence, Blood, Gore, Language, Minor Character Death, Dream-world suicide, PTSD, Psychologically distressing situations
@jaded-envy has written a monster of a Supernatural AU this year, and I hope that these tunes will make the experience that much more gritty, bloody, spooky, and badass. Find more about it here and here.
@thefishywitchy was another great partner in crime, and you can check out their badass artworks here.
I also did a slew of other artwork, including the cover art for this mix. You can find all that here.
Anyway, pretty proud of this one. Vague southern-gothic vibes, rock, blues, harmonicas, ghosts, shrieking strings, rib-shaking bass riffs, and ripping the jaws of death apart to live another day.
listen to it on: [8tracks] [youtube]
playtime: 1:43:56
tracklist:
the cannibals / nick cave & warren ellis
the sole regret / darren korb
psychotic girl / the black keys
satin in a coffin / modest mouse
nothin / alison krauss & robert plant
david / noah gundersen
in dreams / ben howard
meet me in the woods / lord huron
the breach / dustin tebbutt
intro / alt-j
the hand that feeds [daniel battenhouse remix] / nine inch nails
faith of jevel / darren korb
an angry blade / iron and wine
the world ender / lord huron
devil song / the lovebirds
crate of gold / alberta cross
butter on cane / sin ropas
judge jury and executioner / atoms for peace
demon seed / nine inch nails
clogger / 16 horsepower
hell or high water / the rescues
lay my head down / band of skulls
fire escape / half moon run
tomorrow / daughter
horse head fiddle / 16 horsepower
them shoes / patrick sweany
i go to the barn because i like the / band of horses
by @jaded-envy
with @thefishywitchy
and @marshofsleep
Spirited away by the supernatural, Wes Evans has been missing for five years. Soul, teamed up with huntress Maka Albarn, has been trying to track him down, but a routine job turns devastating when his partner dies. Soul makes a desperate deal to bring her back, but the price is high and the stakes are even higher with both new and old enemies on the rise – the both of them will need the help of many allies, both human and otherwise, to save Wes, and each other. [Supernatural Series AU]
Pairing: Soul/Maka, various minor pairings
Rating: M
Warnings: Violence, Blood, Gore, Language, Minor Character Death, Dream-world suicide, PTSD, Psychologically distressing situations
Check out @thefishywitchy‘s BADASS art: here
Check out @jaded-envy‘s posts here and here
Soooo I did a thing or 12.
Hi, I was lucky enough to be one of the artists for @jaded-envy‘s resbang. I guess the secret theme this year was cards, because a bunch of us resbangers had similar ideas rofl. Kind of an inspirational mash up between card captor sakura and these tarot summoning cards from FF type-0. Everything apart from the card frames and sigils was done in Photoshop CS6; frames and sigils were lined in SAI.
Anyway i have six more cards planned, which will be released when jaded finishes Part III of the series, so please look forward.
You can find all of the artwork in nearly almost full res [they’re very bode]: here
You can find my spooky grit fanmix here: [the noise in the night is gonna get a little louder, baby]
Please give jaded and aer your love, they’ve worked very hard.
Testify - Hifi Sean, Crystal Waters
Cheat Codes - Nitro Fun
Folded Out - Stolen Jars
I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ - Scissor Sisters
Blueberry - Manatee Commune
Warm Foothills - alt-J
All Over - CRUISR, Bearface
Debra - Beck
Free My Mind (RAC Mix) - Katie Herzig, RAC
It’s the Chemicals - Inspired Flight
No One Has To Know - GoldFish
Jag in a Jungle - Brite Futures
You Belong Here - Leagues
Colours in the Sky - Miami Horror, Cleopold
Creature Comfort - Arcade Fire
Face to Face on High Places - School of Seven Bells
I Know What I Am - Band of Skulls
Waiting in the Shadows in the Dead of the Night - Little Comets
Show Me Love - Hundred Waters
No Roots - Alice Merton
Even If It Kills Me - Motion City Soundtrack
Until We Get There - Lucius
Flyers - BRADIO
Building a Wall - Fort Frances
Bellbottoms - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Bring Us Together - The Asteroids
Open Your Eyes - STRFKR
Let It Grow - Maximum Balloon, Karen O, Tunde Adebimpe
Young Fathers - Typhoon
Sweeter Than This - Katie Herzig
Haunted - Radical Face
Driven By Fires - Ayla Nereo
Everything Goes - Poolside
Bottom of the River - Delta Rae
Honeybee - Steam Powered Giraffes
Spring Forward - Hikes
Kings and Queens - Thirty Seconds to Mars
Memories That You Call - ODESZA, Monsoonsiren
Devil Song - The Lovebirds
Work It Out - Knox Hamilton
For the Damaged Coda - Blonde Redhead
Psychotic Girl - The Black Keys
Giving Up - Ingrid Michaelson
Secret Garden - Izzard, Soda Island, Merival
Holy Roller - Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
1937 State Park - Car Seat Headrests
Sleepyhead - Passion Pit
I Can Lift A Car - WALK THE MOON
Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson
Harper Lee - Little Green Cars
In The Moonlight - Blithe Field
Style - Nishino Kana
Lonely One - Dresses
Up All Night - Beck
Top Artists of 2017:
Pheeno
Bayonne
Sleeping At Last
Joe Garston
2017 was better than the year before it. Things I did:
Passed Step II with a pretty good score!
Been getting a good amount of interviews at excellent schools. That in itself is flattering, but practicing for them and answering questions has actually made me feel more confident in my choice of career and my suitability for it - having to lay out why I want to go into pathology, my interests in education and what I’ve done to support it, have really made me realize that hey, I’ve worked really hard and I really have done these things and I’ll continue doing good stuff when I’m in residency, so that’s been really ncie.
Started running regularly. Stopped running when things got hectic but still do go occasionally! Considering it was legitimately something that I absolutely abhorred, actually doing it has really made me feel better.
Baking! I had been doing some of it last year and enjoying it but I think I really upped my game this year. I finally made a couple of cakes that I was happy with and would actually prefer to eat over what’s in a box, and I eventually made a pie crust that didn’t taste like meh. I tried my hand at bread baking with great results, made interesting things like ras malai and tres leches, and experimented with babka and kringles. The best compliment I received was a few of the housekeepers asking my husband if they could pay for me to make them a cake for a special occasion. In general I think I can say that I’m able to make any sweet baked good one could find in a grocery store and have it taste just as good or better...even if it doesn’t look nearly as nice.
Got into Soul Eater, which has been a blessing - found a new community to connect with, made many new friends and have been bombarded by many new ideas. I feel like my creativity is back, which is really nice.
Wrote. A lot. More than I could ever imagine I could have written. Not only did I actually post two complete stories (!!) but I have so many more WIPs including my resbang fic, which now sits at a mind-boggling 122k+ words. How did this happen?? I’ve really learned more about what I can reasonably expect out of myself when it comes to writing, what I struggle with and need to work on, and
Speaking of resbang, that’s another one - committed to writing and posting a fic, which in itself is a big deal, but I’ve also been fortunate enough to do the thing I really love - betaing for other people! And I’ve been blessed with amazing artists and betas myself. All in all, definitely a positive.
A lot is going to change in 2018 - in March, I’ll be learning where I’ll be training at for the next four years, which will at a minimum be in another state, and will more likely be in a different region of the country altogether. I’ll begin my career as a pathologist, which is really exciting, but also be saying goodbye to many classmates and friends I’ve made - though hopefully not for long. In terms of personal goals, I hope that I can continue to push myself in terms of exercise - I try to walk every day or every other, though less so now that it’s so cold out, but I want to try getting back into gym exercises and continue running. I want to continue to bake, focusing on presentation and decorating now, and maybe get back into practicing the ukulele or crafting. Most of all I want to keep pushing myself with writing, really challenging myself on the aspects that I struggle with like description and sentence variation and actually finishing works I begin.
Cold Skin - Seven Lions, Echos
Keep Together - Hunter Hunted
Open Your Eyes - STRFKR
Dissolve - Absofacto
I Will Marry You - Mean Lady
Far Away - Mean Lady
Man on the Moon - Zella Day
Easy To Love - Ivan & Alyosha
Lonely One - Dresses
Sun Shy (Acoustic) - Dresses
Colors - Beck
Up All Night - Beck
Treasure - Company of Thieves
Bohemian Dances - The Do
Lovebug - Jonas Brothers
The Trouble - Pogo
I listened to about three hours of music a day this year, which is probably lowballing it since Youtube music doesn’t count. I think this does reflect how diverse my listening tastes can be though! Did not expect Sleeping At Last to be my highest listened to though.
No Roots - Alice Merton
Bring Us Together - The Asteroids
For the Damaged Coda - Blonde Redhead
The Lion The Beast The Beat - Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
Until We Get There - Lucius
Lost in the Zoo - Goddamn Electric Bill
Strong (RAC Remix) - London Grammar, RAC
Psychotic Girl - The Black Keys
Bottom of the River - Delta Rae
Building A Wall - Fort Frances
Let It Grow - Maximum Balloon, Karen O, Tunde Adebimpe
No One Has To Know - GoldFish
Yeah we mapped our summers on the back of our hands
and we buried all our memories, left them deep in the sand
Little this, little that
we all want, to go back
come with me, watch the sky fade to black
fade to black
Been awake for a long time
Gone away, all this time
No one has to know where we go, we go now
Sweeter Than This - Katie Herzig
I Don’t Know - Lisa Hannigan
Even If It Kills Me - Motion City Soundtrack
Waiting In The Shadows In The Dead Of Night - Little Comets
Fallss - Bayonne
Hammond (Bonus Track) - Bayonne
Powa - tUnE-yArDs
Loser - Julian Moon
See - Tycho
Proceed to Memory - Pinback
Still the One - Ingrid Michaelson
Eyes Wide Open - Tony Anderson
It Gets Better - The Preatures
Agnes - Glass Animals
Automatic - Mondo Cozmo
Hysteric - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Right Back Where We Started From - Army Navy
I’ll do dishes if you do laundry. I’ll clean the living room if you buy me a snack. I’ll pretend you’re not home when your father comes around if you let me copy your math homework. Maka and Soul are used to negotiating with each other when it comes to household chores. But when Soul ups the stakes for both of them, he may end up with more than he bargained for.
Soul’s crush on the girl he sees jogging in the park is the one thing that makes his crappy barista job tolerable. Learning how to run in order to keep up with her might just kill him though. Also featuring Black*Star as a Total Bro.
I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ - Scissor Sisters
It’s The Chemicals - Inspired Flight
New York - Urban Cone
Show Your Colors (PLS&TY Remix) - Genevieve, PLS&TY
Hardcore Days & Softcore Nights - Aqueduct
Color Decay - Junius Meyvant
Kings and Queens - Thirty Seconds To Mars
I Know What I Am - Band of Skulls
Show Me Love (Skrillex Remix) - Hundred Waters, Chance The Rapper, Robin Hannibal, Moses Sumney, Skrillex
Still The One - Orleans
Glory Box - Portishead
Devil Song - The Lovebirds