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coffee-or-hot-cocoa · 1 year

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Songs I listen to about Skittlescript’s Isekai’ed to the West and Triad au Playlist

hahaha lol checkout @skittlescripts’s isekai to the west au, here’s some songs that remind me of the au and some scenarios imagined would make the daydreams better, special thanks to the works of @semisolidmind, @rennsdeaddoves, @thesexydancingcrepe, @rainyriu, @ritzhasmonkeybrain and @theweepingegg

this is for the Sun WuKong and Six-Eared Macaque simps out there

problem - ariana grande - reader starting to have feelings for Sun Wukong

dear future husband - meghan trainor - reader saying what marriage be like

right there - ariana grande - how macaque feels in triad au

the guy that i'd kinda be into - be more chill the musical - reader describing the monkie she likes

bad romance - lady gaga - macaque’s feelings for reader in triad au

one last time - ariana grande - Wukong trying to understand his emotions

la on a saturday night - hearts & colors - macaque’s monologue song in triad au

a whole new world - aladdin - Wukong and reader just ridding his cloud to Flower Fruit mountain

symphony - clean bandit - Macaque when he finally accepts he’s inlove

rhythm of the tambourine - hunchback of notredame the musical - Triad au

made you look - meghan trainor - reader’s themesong in triad au

title - meghan trainor - Wukong in triad au trying to get a date

not fall in love with you - rwby soundtrack - works both for the Isekai and triad au

kiss the girl - the little mermaid - Sandy making sure his OTP is cannon

there's nothing holding me back - shawn mendes - triad au wukong in general

stutter - mariana's trench - wukong’s 5 stages of grief about having a crush

troublemaker - olly murrs - wukong’s themesong

still into you - paramore - if Isekai to the west had a crossover with Triad au

millennium parade - belle - a reader song for triad au

light switch - charlie puth - wukong’s crush in triad au

i wanna be your slave - maneskin - wukong in a more hornii mood for reader

she's kinda hot - 5 seconds of summer - Isekai to the west chapter 3 song

teeth - 5 seconds of summer - triad au wukong’s song during a meeting

marry you - bruno mars - wukong trying to convince reader that they get married

paper rings - taylor swift - wukong finally getting a date with reader in triad au

teenage dirtbag - wheatus - macaque’s angst about having a crush on reader

my heart's a stereo - maroon 5 - Macaque starting to fall inlove in isekai au

hips don't lie - shakira - reader meets wukong for the first time in triad au

voodoo doll - 5 seconds of summer - wukong before he realises he likes reader

she looks so perfect - 5 seconds of summer - both monkey’s admiring reader

love me like you do - ellie goulding - wukong and reader in isekai

love me harder - ariana grande - reader’s feelings with wukong

girlfriend - avril lavinge - macaque's song when he’s jealous in isekai

everytime we touch - cascada - wukong simping for reader in triad au

teenage dream - katy perry - reader realising her crush in isekai au

ET - katy perry - reader and wukong’s relationship in a nutshell for isekai

lucky strike - maroon 5 - wukong vs macaque in isekai au

levitating - dua lipa - reader in isekai au

the story of the phantom - goosebumps the musical - macaque in isekai au

take me to church - hozier - wukong having a crush angst in isekai

can't hold us - macklemore - a sun wukong song in isekai

bad reputation - joan jett - how heaven feels about reader and wukong together

guy.exe - superfruit - reader describing her type of guy in triad au

super mario hyadain - wukong vs macaque for reader in isekai au

play with fire - sam tinnesz - macaque and reader first impressions

positions - ariana grande - wukong and reader relationship song in isekai au

34 + 35 - ariana grande - wukong and reader song in triad au

dinero - trinidad cardona - reader’s alter ego song in triad au

no roots - alice merton - isekai to the west in a nutshell

sway - micheal buble - triad wukong takes reader out dancing

helpless - hamilton - triad wukong being lovesick and lovey dovey, while MK witnesses his mentor being cringe

call me by your name - lil nas x - triad wukong themesong

dead girl walking - heathers - wukong and reader having some spicy fun just after wukong is banished by tripitaka

i wanna dance with somebody - whitney houston - reader during the triad au before having a relationship

fairytale - alexander rybak - reader angst on having feeling for wukong in isekai

why don't you do right - who framed roger rabbit - triad wukong meets reader’s alter ego for the first time

La seine and i - a monster in paris - reader performing in triad au

blues in the night - queen tyr'ahnee cover - reader having feelings for triad wukong angst

the great pretender - the platters - reader’s emotional stability during isekai

boys - charlie xcx - reader thinking about wukong in isekai

you will be okay - helluva boss - reader’s song for ao lie and her kids in isekai

no matter what - book of life - reader choosing to be with wukong instead of going home in isekai

Someone you like - girl and the dreamcatcher - triad wukong pining for reader

Ang huling el bimbo - eraserheads - slow dancing in the kitchen in triad au

Something just like this - cold play - macaque pining for reader in triad

Love story of a certain bakeneko - vocaloid

Ahh, it’s a wonderful cat’s life - vocaloid

The wolf that fell inlove with little red ridding hood - rin and len kagamine

Magic mirror - rin and len kagamine

Dance with me tonight - olly murs - a date night song with macaque in triad

La la dee - cody simpson - triad wukong describing his feelings for reader

Perfect - ed sheeran - wukong’s feelings for reader near the end of the journey to the west

Shape of you - ed sheeran - triad wukong being a simp for his wife reader

Seniorita - camila cabello - triad wukong flirting with reader

My oh my - camila cabello - reader’s accepting her feelings for wukong in triad

Uwu - chevy - Wukong’s feelings when he realises he wants to be with reader in isekai au

Canterella - vocaloid - triad wukong and reader on a mission

Je t’aime - kelly sweet - wukong descrining his love for reader in isekai

You’ll be in my heart - tarzan - reader just being happy with her family

Strangers like me - tarzan - wukong being curious aboutreader’s life before the journey to the west

A million dreams - the greatest showman - wukong’s song when he marries reader in isekai

One kiss - descendants - wukong when reader because of magic shenannigans needs to wake-up with true loves kiss

Secret garden - undertale - flowerfell au fansong - triad wukong and reader angst

So she dances - josh groban - triad wukong describing reader to MK

Beautiful ghosts - taylor swift - macaque’s song about reader in isekai

Slow dance with you - adventure time - macaque’s song regarding his pinning for reader

Tightrope - the greatest showman - reader’s conflicting emotions about staying with wukong or going home

Thinking out loud - ed sheeran - wukong pining for reader in isekai

Work form home - fifth harmony - reader flirting with triad wukong

Criminal - britney spears - triad wukong and reader’s relationship in a nutshell

Do it for her - steven universe - triad wukong training isekai wukong to protect reader

Back to life - bumblebee movie - reader and wukong’s wedding song in isekai

I love you to much - book of life - macaque pinning for reader in isekai

Death of a bachelor - panic! At the disco - triad wukong pinning for reader

I’m in love with a monster - fifth harmony - triad reader tells isekai reader on her feelings for triad wukong

Black magic - little mix - reader is jealous that triad wukong is flirting to get info

Animals - maroon 5 - wukong being in heat and wants to mate with reader

I’m a lady - meghan trainor - the jttw crew finds out about reader being isekai’ed to help them

Who i am - the score - macaque introducing himself to the reader in isekai after kidnapping her

Rewrite the stars - the greatest showman - triad wukong and reader fall inlove

Buwan - juan karlos - wukong serenading reader during their first date in isekai

Bad little boy - adventure time - reader and wukong’s dynamic

Monster - adventure time - Wukong angst about reader’s mortality in isekai

Hey soul sister - train - triad wukong being a simp while being cringe

Crush - tessa violet - reader pinning for triad wukong

Would you be so kind - dodie - reader pinning for wukong in isekai

I do adore - mindy gledhill - triad wukong and reader cuddling

Despair - leo - reader pinning for wukong and vice versa in isekai but angsting of it being unrequited

Save me - bruno martini - macaque and wukong paniking because their falling for reader in isekai au

Can’t sleep love - pentatonix - reader talking to sandy about her crush on wukong in isekai

Suki kirai - rin and len kagamine - reader being in denial about being inlove with triad wukong

Someday - disney’s zombies - wukong and reader in general for isekai

Boop - rwby soundtrack - wukong trying to show off and impress reader after he accepts that he loves her

Little miss perfect - owl house fandom - reader angst on wanting to focus on the journey to the west but the dilemma of falling inlove complicates things for her once the journey is done

Ordinary - owl house fandom - reader questioning wukong why he’s inlove with her in isekai au

One more night - maroon 5 - triad wukong wanting reader to stay longer in bed cuddling

You’re the one that i want - grease - triad macaque romantic feelings for reader

If i can’t i love her - beauty and the beast - wukong being in denial for being inlove with reader in isekai au

Evermore - beauty and the beast - wukong angst when reader is presented with the option of returning to her original home

Love like you - steven universe - wukong wondering why reader loves him in isekai

If i could tell her - dear evan hansen - triad macaque hiding his feelings for reader

Only us - dear evan hansen - set during the time wukong is banished from the journey to the west

Your text - sundial - triad wukong trying to get reader’s number

Glad you came - the wanted - triad Wukong meets reader for the first time

Castle on a hill - ed sheeran - wukong reminises his life before the journey to the west and meeting reader

I won’t say i’m in love - hercules - reader being in denial about being inlove with wukong in isekai au

Circus - britney spears - another themesong for reader in triad au

love story - taylor swift - how wukong tells his kids on how he met their mother in isekai au

you belong with me - taylor swift - how triad macaque feels when he sees reader with triad wukong

burn for you - bridgerton musical - wukong pining for reader, but not wanting to confess in isekai au

#lmk au #lmk x reader #lmk sun wukong #triad au #isekai'ed to the west #sun wukong x reader #lmk macaque #macaque x reader

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accidentalshifter · 2 months

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[March 10, 2024: Now Entering Mystic Falls, Part One]

⚜️ TW: My Mikaelsons are a ✨️ problem ✨️ and don't play nice at all. Death, sex, blood, violence, manipulation, and dark themes will probably be present. I don't condone any of the actions taken by these vampires, I'm just recording them. For science. Also warning, I am TLDRing yet again.

Shifting Notes:

This is my first [awake, lucid] shift where I'm taking charge of the situation/piloting my DR-self (Zoey) like a Gundam mech suit. Using the Taglock Method, I've been able to focus on the specifics of where I'm going and when. I don't think it's foolproof, though. We'll see... For weeks now, I've been going through the source material of TVD. I figured that Mystic Falls would be the best place to start. After all, the Webb* estate is there. Hopefully, there'll be clues there, too.

Astrological timing: It was a new moon in Pisces. Saturn and Neptune was on either side of the moon in the same sign. Pisces is known as a natural dreamer. Saturn and Neptune solidify the dream. An excellent time for shifting.

*In my DR, the Webb estate is a property owned by my DR-self's family.

⚜️ In order to connect with my DR-self and pop into the TVD/Originals-verse, I decided to wear my hair up in a bun like Zoey Webb. I also added in a wooden chopstick just like her, both for connection & the added bonus of having a stabby little stake handy on my person. Can't be too careful. I learned from my [asleep] minishifts that the best time to jump into my DR-self is when she's busy or distracted so I tried focusing my inner-vision on a moment where she was as soon as I put on the taglock. (See: Taglock Method)

⚜️ The first thing that drifted into my mind was the song "No Roots" by Alice Merton & the blurred images of trees. Sustaining my focused trance, I put on the song and began listening to it in my CR. As soon as I did, the images crystallized, becoming much clearer than before. Zoey is sitting in a Greyhound bus, jamming out to music (she has ear buds in) while green forest flies past her outside the window. I begin to synchronize my CR self's movements to Zoey's. Suddenly, I'm in her body. Seeing everything from 1st person perspective.

Observation: I'm the exact opposite of Z. I am usually more reserved on public transit & don't listen to music while I'm traveling. I pay attention to my surroundings.

⚜️ The bus is empty save for a mother & her two children who're being A LOT and crying. A young dude with a skateboard and a man sitting more towards the front seats of the bus. He carries a briefcase with him. I'm in the back of the bus (something my DR-self & I have in common, I usually pick the back). At the climax of the song, I hear the muffled voice of the bus driver announcing to those onboard that we've officially entered Mystic Falls. "This is our last stop on the line. Please remember to take your stuff with you when you leave. You won't be able to recover your valuables if you forget them here. Last stop, Mystic Falls." The bus driver reiterates again for good measure.

⚜️ My DR-self takes out one ear bud to half listen to the end of what the bus driver was saying & then gets bored, continuing to jam out more to the end of the song. But out of the corner of our eyes, we see the stressed mom giving us a disapproving glare. We give her a little rueful, embarrassed smile. Before we can tone things down, however, we spot the "Welcome to Mystic Falls" sign from our side of the window. We in it now. There's no turning back for our stuff if we leave it here. As if making a huge point to underline that, "No Roots" ends.

⚜️ I feel something vibrate in my pocket. It's my cell phone alerting me to a text message from an "Angie." I would've opened the text, but Zoey's body overrides my influence, rolls her eyes, and ignores the message. She puts the cell phone back in her pant's pocket. RIP Angie, lolol. The bus driver announces again, "Now entering our lovely historic downtown Mystic Falls!". Then, he goes on to elaborate about how this cozy town has 'still retained its rustic charm throughout the decades it's been around'. He sounds like he wants to be a tour guide instead of a Greyhound driver...

⚜️ From outside my window, I see the huge, brick clocktower rising up before me on the horizon. I see old houses with wrap-around porches, white pillared entrances, and large sprawling yards. Eventually, that melts into storefronts and the Mystic Falls Square. It's a regular day here. As regular as any day in Mystic Falls can be. People are going about their business; walking through the Square, bustling around the storefronts. There's no town event being held here. But since MF is always commemorating something, I don't doubt there's a party happening somewhere. As the bus drives past the Mystic Grill, my DR-self (and I) peer at it from out our side of the window. Her with curiosity, me with...uh. Well, mixed feelings, to be honest. I notice a woman walking into the Grill just as the bus drives past it. It's no one I recognize from the show.

⚜️ The bus driver announces out loud again: "Last stop! Please, take all items with you & enjoy your stay in beautiful Mystic Falls, the homeliest town in all of Virginia!". When the bus finally comes to a complete stop, people start gathering their things & moving toward the exit. Since I'm in the back, sitting behind everyone, I have to wait for the others to go before me. It gives me (my CR-self) enough time to feel mild anxiety about disembarking because the moment I do, I'm sure the TVD drama will begin. As soon as the mom with her loud children make it to the front of the bus, I see my DR-self (Z) reach for a military canvas bag that's been sitting next to her on the empty seat. It looks beaten up, like it has seen way better days. There's hand-stitched, cloth patches on some parts of it where I'm guessing Zoey tried her best to repair it from being damaged. Also, I notice that the bag is all the items she has with her besides the ear buds & cell phone.

⚜️ My DR-self pauses as if she can feel my anxiety just before the exit, peering up at the LED destination sign that said "Mystic Falls" in loud, bright yellow. Both my DR/CR-self takes a synchronized deep breath and steel ourselves. 'Whelp, there's no turning back,' I hear my DR-self whisper under her breath. I respond back mentally with a 'Yup, we in it' despite knowing that "Z" probably can't hear me. I'm just a passenger inside her head and have *some* control over what she does. But not total control...

⚜️ The place the Greyhound drops everyone off at is behind the police station across the street from the Grill. There's a parking lot in the back of the police station, it's nearly full with cars. I get anxious again and nearly lose my connection with my DR-self. After a few calming breaths, however, I'm able to synch again with her. When I do, Z checks her cell phone & goes into her Google Mail. An email from "Nathaniel Pogue" is sitting there up on the top of the list. It looks like it's been read before. It's flagged as important. I influence Zoey to read the email again just so I can be a snoop. But also because it's starred. I only ever star things in my email when I need to remember not to forget an appointment...

⚜️ Bing, bing, bing! I'm right. The email was starred because it details a 3 pm meeting at Mathewson Realty where (Z) will be signing paperwork pertaining to the Webb estates. Apparently, today is the day she'll be signing the dotted line on the Deed of Ownership for all of William's properties and picking up the keys from Mr. Pogue. I notice on the phone that the time is already 3 pm. Great! My DR & CR self are both running late for our first scenario in Mystic Falls! Cue: us running (like a female anime protagonist late for her first day of high-school with toast in her mouth trope) towards Mystic Falls Square.

I hope being late for appointments isn't my "thing" in Mystic Falls. 😅 Anyways, y'all. I'll be posting [Part Two] of this shift ASAP. If you're still reading this, I appreciate that you got this far haha!

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elisysd · 7 months

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8. I've got memories and travel like gypsies in the night

Masterlist - Previously - Next

Chapter soundtrack: No roots - Alice Merton

She was playing with her red bracelet as her mom and dad were watching her with a puzzled look. It was early Saturday morning. Way too early for Charles who had not even eaten his breakfast yet. Julia had gathered him and his wife in the kitchen, saying that she had something important to tell them. Lyanna had a soft smile playing on her lips and a reassuring hand on her husband's thigh, as if she knew what was about to happen and Charles hated it. He hated not knowing things, especially when it was about his daughter.

Julia went to pour herself a glass of orange juice and stood still in the middle of the kitchen, it was a bad idea, she could feel it. She knew her mom wouldn’t care and would not make a big deal out of it, but her dad? He had always been overly protective of her and she didn’t know how he would react to the news. The fake news, but a news nonetheless. She took a deep breath before starting to speak.

“I have something to tell you.”

“That we guessed it, darling.” said Lyanna and Julia gulped, looking everywhere but to her parents.

“Okay… I don’t know how to say it.”

“You are not pregnant, are you?”

“Dad! Oh my God, no!” whined the girl, rolling her eyes as her mother gave a slight slap behind her husband’s head.

“So what is it?” he asked.

“I… I met someone. A guy.”

She expected questions to fuse but her announcement was met with utter silence. She looked at her mom who had a bright smile on her face and she could almost swear that there were tears in her eyes. Her eyes, then, met her dad’s. He had an emotionless expression and she didn’t know if she had to be scared or relieved.

“Dad? Are you okay?”

“Who is he? Do I know him? Does he treat you right? When do I meet him and why didn’t he introduce himself to me before asking you out?” he finally let out in one breath.

“Oh my gosh… Charles. She is twenty-three, she doesn’t need to ask for your approval! Lyanna sighed, giving an apologetic look to her daughter.

“Maybe she didn’t but that guy should have! Who does he think he is? Does he really think he can take my princess away from me without showing me his worth?”

“Dad, I love you. But, it’s not the eighteenth century anymore. I can date whoever I want.”

“Does he work in the paddock? Is he from Skoda?” he kept asking.

“See! That’s exactly why I didn’t want to tell you!”

“Princess, I just want to know you’re safe!”

“But can’t you just trust me?”

“Ju’...”

“Stop it! Both of you. This conversation is not going anywhere, you are both too stubborn to talk about it calmly.” stood up Lyanna putting both of her hands on the kitchen island while staring at them, shutting them both.

Charles felt small under the hardened gaze of his wife and groaned.

“You are not going to prevent me from investigating. And if he is from your team, I’ll know it fast enough.”

Julia sighed as Lyanna was pinching the bridge of her nose and Charles left the room.

“I love dad. Really, with all my heart but… Can’t you tell him that behaving like a medieval man is not cute. It never has been.”

“His middle name is not Perceval for nothing… but don’t worry, he’ll get used to it. I’m just happy for you my Ju’. I don’t care who that boy is, I just care about seeing you happy. Deep down, your dad feels the same.”

“It must be very deep then.” Julia concluded, making her mom laugh.

Needless to say that her late flight for Casablanca, for the upcoming Grand Prix, was uncomfortable as her dad kept staring at her whenever she was on her phone. It even came to a point when he decided to sit right next to her when the whole private jet was empty and there were enough seats left for him to go anywhere but right next to her. She feigned sleeping for a few hours and when they landed, she pretended to have a late meeting with the team to talk about the first upgrades for the Skoda.

After a lot of talks they finally decided to upgrade the front wing in hopes to achieve better aerodynamics, especially in corner exits. Julia was also working on the rear wing, trying to give it more weight to help the car balance. It was not something she had discussed with the team yet, not after her last encounter with Wilhelm. She’d rather have everything ready before going to him. Especially since she was not supposed to be working on upgrades without the approval of the team.

It ended up being a slight progress for Skoda. It was still nowhere near they wanted to be, but it was an improvement compared to the first three races. At least they managed to reduce the gap with Toyota and both drivers finished the race without any technical issues. It was a clean race, even if they ended up in the last positions.

The garage was happy, the whole team congratulated each member and she could see Wilhelm slightly smiling. It was different from what she had always known. Her dad was never satisfied if he was not winning a race. He was not a racing driver to end up second place. And it was what he had always taught her. If you want to make it far, give yourself your all, don’t settle for less than what you want to achieve. Work hard and improve harder. But she found the atmosphere cute. When Niels finally finished his cool down lap and came back, she ran to congratulate him and hugged him. After everything he had been through, she was really happy for him. When looking at the leaderboard, she couldn’t help but search for the prancing horse and her heart ached when she saw one of the red cars barely making it into the points as the other one had to DNF after a mistake that sent the driver in a wall earlier.

She didn’t see her dad lurking near the garage. Casa’s GP was one to forget for Charles and he wanted nothing more but to leave the track with his daughter and go to a nice restaurant to think about something else. He wasn’t expecting to see her in the arms of Niels. They seemed close. Way too close for Charles’ liking. As Niels was making his way out of the garage, Charles saw that as an opportunity to intercept him and ask him a few questions. Unrelated to racing of course.

“Niels? Hey, do you have a minute to talk?” he asked as the Skoda driver looked up to him with surprise.

“Well, yeah! For sure!”

He was enthusiastic. Charles Leclerc wanted to talk to him, in private. Normally when another team principal was asking to talk to you, it was not to make small talk. Niels could feel his heart rate increasing and almost jumping out of his chest. They found a quiet spot, near the trash area, between Ferrari and Mercedes facilities.

“I wanted to talk to you about something important.”

“Sure. I’m listening.”

“I think you need to ask me something.”

It threw Niels off his feet. He didn’t understand what he was supposed to say. He looked at the man in front of him and waited.

“It’s about Julia.”

“Oh.” Niels sighed. “She is a great girl.”

“She is. She is hard working, she is loyal, she is smart, she is my daughter and my princess. You understand, right?”

“I… I guess?”

“Perfect. So when were you about to ask for my permission to date her?”

Niels choked on the water he was drinking. He was expecting a lot of things coming from Ferrari’s Team Principal but certainly not to accuse him of dating his daughter.

“Julia and I are friends,” he explained.

“I saw you hug her.”

“Friends hug all the time, at least that’s what I do with mine. If you want a hug, mister Leclerc you just need to ask! But there is absolutely nothing between Julia and I.”

He could see Charles’ face looking at him in disbelief and he chuckled.

“But if it’s not you, who is my daughter dating?”

Niels came back to the garage after the conversation with his cheeks hurting from all the laughing. He couldn’t believe his ears and couldn’t wait to tell Julia the conversation he just had with her dad. He knew that she was often working late and was not surprised to see her alone in the back of the garage, between two sets of medium tyres, her headphones on and scribbling down on her notebook.

“Julia! You never guessed what just happened!”

She put away her stuff as he plopped down to face her, a cheeky grin on his face. He proceeded to tell her in detail his meeting with her dad and when it was over, Julia’s cheeks were as red as the Ferraris. She was mortified. She was twenty-three and her dad still managed to make her uncomfortable as if she were still a little girl.

“I’m so sorry, Niels. I promise I’ll talk to him so he’ll never bother you again.”

“Don’t worry, I’m not embarrassed or mad. It’s pretty funny actually.”

“I don’t find it funny, it’s embarassing!”

“It’s funny to me. Because, no offense Julia you are a really pretty girl and all, but if you let me choose between your father and you, I’d choose your father.”

It took a few seconds for Julia to register what her friend was implying but when she finally understood a gentle smile brightened her face.

“You…” she didn’t want to say the word, scared to overstep a boundary.

“I’m gay. You can say it. You are the only one to know around here. I’ve never said it to anyone because… you know. Times change but some topics still have a hard time to be accepted and I’m not sure F1 is ready to have a gay driver.”

“I promise you your secret is safe with me. I’m a bit emotional, sorry I wasn’t expecting you to tell me something like this. I’m glad you trust me with such a big part of you. Thank you.”

He smiled at her before extanding his hand towards her. She took it and they left the garage. They were talking and laughing and Julia didn’t notice Ethan that was waiting near the Skoda garage.

“Hey, Joolsie. Do you have a minute to talk?

Niels looked at Julia, searching for a sign of awkwardness from her side but she was relaxed and smiled at him before telling Niels that she would meet him tomorrow. She waved at him as she was following Ethan along the track.

“What’s up?” she asked as he stopped abruptly.

He took his phone out of his pocket and opened Instagram on her public profile page.

“What do you want to do with it? Because if I hit this follow button, people will notice it and it won’t be long until someone connects the dots and says that your dad is Charles Leclerc. I’m just asking if you are ready for that and for all the attention you will get. We don’t have to do it now, if you don’t feel like it.” he explained.

“I thought this through. Again and again. I don't know if I’ll ever be ready but I guess I have to, at some point.”

He nodded and hit the follow button.

“You might want to deactivate your notifications for the next few days and weeks.” he warned her, before leaving her alone, in the middle of the track.

As Ethan told her, the next few days were a lot to handle. She had witnessed her number of followers rising up and slowly, the fact that Charles Lelcerc’s daughter worked in the paddock for Skoda was whispered everywhere. No matter where she went, there was always someone who was staring at her more than necessary or someone to introduce themselves to her. At first, when she had her mom on the phone, she didn’t understand why Julia had decided to open her socials when she had alway been very against it as she didn’t want people to find out about her lineage. When Julia explained that she thought she could share her experience as being a woman in the motorsport world, that maybe she could inspire young girls, she knew that her mom was only half convinced. But truth be told, even if she was now public, she didn’t post as much. Not that she was using Instagram a lot before. But still, she liked posting stories about her work, pictures of the tracks and facts about racing. And people seemed to like that. She even had some brands coming to her to ask her if she wanted to represent them, to which Julia had politely declined.

Another person who was really happy about Julia not hiding her identity anymore, was her dad. He felt a little bit better now that he didn’t have to act as if she was a complete stranger or to be careful to not be seen if he wanted to talk to her. He could finally let her in his world. And he didn’t waste much time as he invited her, a Thursday evening after an intense day of interviews, to eat with his team so he could introduce her properly to his two drivers. The first one to come to her was Elijah Martinez. He was in a team for a few years and Julia knew that he was Ferrari’s first driver. The car was built to suit his driving style and the strategies were always trying to favor him. According to her dad, he had what it took to be World Champion and the whole Italy was counting on him.

Elijah was intimidating. He had this magnetic force that attracted people around him like magnets and made Julia feel small. He was very introverted and was known to not talk a lot. But he was good, great even, able to achieve miracles in the worst track conditions. She remembered his maiden win in Suzuka, 4 years ago under drought and with a wet track. Amazing to witness. He nodded towards her, before being dragged by a media representative of the team.

“Princess, I want you to meet Martin, it’s his rookie year at Ferrari.” explained Charles with a big smile as he patted the young man’s shoulder.

“I know you. You were at Skoda last year! Congratulations for the promotion I guess, it must have been a huge change.” She said, a welcoming smile on her face.

Martin stuttered a bit. He knew Julia, he had the occasion to cross her path a few times even if she never really paid attention to him. He had always thought she was beautiful from afar, but up close? He stuttered a little bit as her hand fitted in his. Her hazel eyes were sparkling as her dimples, the same as her dad’s he noticed, were showing as she smiled. He thought it was the cutest thing he had ever seen and wanted to see that smile as often as possible.

As for Julia, the first thing she noticed was his green eyes. As green as a forest. Dark and mysterious with a glimpse of playfulness in them that she found adorable. His hair was slightly falling on them and he pushed a few strands away as he shook her hand. She felt his sweaty and hot palm against hers and an electric jolt running down her arm.

“I’ve heard a lot about you.” He told her.

“Good things I hope.”

“Amazing, yeah.”

She couldn’t help but feel herself blushing. Soon, they took place to eat and Julia was surprised how easy she fitted inside the team, how welcomed she was. She was sitting next to Martin and the conversation flowed easily between them. She felt at ease, for the first time since a long time. For once she didn’t have to hide who she was or to lie, she could be unapologetically herself. And it felt good. They talked about racing, their favorite tracks and Julia didn’t know how long talking about Monaco’s corners that she knew by heart. It was Martin’s favorite city track. He playfully made her promise that when it would be time for the race, she would show him her favorite places in the city and Julia enthusiastically agreed.

“Martin, beware not to flirt too much with my daughter, she has a boyfriend.” Charles joked, winking to his driver.

“Really? I didn’t know. Sorry if I overstepped.”

“No, it’s fine you didn’t, don’t worry.” she reassured him.

“Well, at least that’s what she says because I’m investigating and so far I don’t know who the poor boy is. They are sneaky. But it won’t stop me from finding out.”

Julie glared at her dad who raised his glass to her with a playful grin. The rest of the evening went by fast and soon, it was time for Julia to go back to her hotel. She started to feel tired and she needed to feel rested for the practice sessions the next day. As she stood up and went to hug her dad goodbye, Martin did the same and went with her outside.

“I don’t have anything else to do, right now. Do you want me to take you back to your hotel?”

“If it doesn't bother you, it would be nice. Thanks.”

They kept talking about their lives until they reached the hotel. As Julia was about to step out of the car, Martin took out his phone.

“Is it okay if I ask for you number? I had a nice time and wouldn’t be against hanging out with you again. If it doesn’t bother you or your boyfriend, I don’t want to create any problems between you two.”

“I would like that.” She smiled at him, putting her number in his contacts and took the opportunity to follow him on his social media as he did the same. She wished him a good night and good luck for tomorrow and left the Ferrari.

She was about to leave the car, when a blond silhouette caught her attention. Ethan was leaving the hotel when his gaze found hers. Nonchalantly his feet carried him to the Ferrari, expecting to see Charles. He was a bit thrown off when he noticed Martin in the driver’s seat and not the Team Principal.

“Martin…” he greeted him a bit coldly.

“Hey Verstappen. How do you feel about the upcoming race?” asked Martin with a smile, unbothered by Ethan’s attitude.

“Great. I’ll have a special someone watching me so… it can’t go wrong.”

“Oh? Nice, when loved ones are there it always makes the race special.”

“Yeah. I guess. What about you? Istanbul is not a city track, compared to Casa. You don’t have to worry about making out with a wall.”

Julia nervously laughed as she could feel the tension emanating from Ethan, she said her goodbye to Martin and left, closely followed by Ethan.

“Can we talk?” he asked as she was heading to the elevator and slipped past the opening as he did the same.

“Let’s go to my room.” she simply answered looking at the numbers going up.

In the peace and quiet of her room, she sat on the bed as Ethan leaned against her door frame.

“I just wanted us to be clear about one thing. I know we didn’t really talk about it, but it’s best if we remain exclusive and don’t flirt with other people while we are dating.”

“You didn’t even have to tell me. It was obvious to me.”

“Good. Glad to see that we are on the same understanding level…”

“Perfect.” she said.

“I was about to go for a late night pastry. I know I’m not supposed to but I hate my physio meal plan. Care to join me? I could use some company.”

“Why not? I just need to take a shower, I’ve been out all day.”

“ You don’t need to make yourself pretty for me, Joolsie.” he teased her.

“Believe me I don’t. You don’t deserve to see me at my best.”

She snatched a hoodie and some sweatpants before locking the door behind her. As he was hearing the water from the bathroom, Ethan decided to look around and to go through her stuff. He soon found a notebook, half opened on her desk under a pile of documents. It was her drawing book. Inside, he could see drawings of cars, often red ones of course, but also race tracks and landscapes. As he was turning the pages he soon found her most recent one. It was a pretty drawing of the Istanbul track and he was sure she had drawn it from her room which had a beautiful view on the first corner. He snapped a picture from her window, letting her notebook appear in the frame and posted it.

She came back a few minutes later, her hair in a messy bun on top of her head and asked him if he was ready to go. The night was starting to fall and they wandered in the Istanbul street as Julia was taking a few pictures to send to her brother. They finally stopped for ice-creams and Ethan teased her lightly as she asked for a vanilla one.

“You are so boring. Only boring people take vanilla! Come on Joolsie, try something spicier! Like, pistachio strawberry?”

“I’m perfectly fine with vanilla! It’s my go to ice cream whenever we are out with my dad.” she explained, thanking the lady.

They debated over what was the best ice cream flavor until they found a bench, in a park, where they decided to stop to eat.

“So? You said you had a special someone coming to the race? Is your dad coming?” she asked him.

“No, he will try to be there for the European ones. He doesn’t know which one yet. I’m hoping for Zandvoort, because it’s our home race. It would be nice to have him there. If he doesn’t come, there is still Monaco, but it’s not the same.”

He shook his head trying to not think about how he missed his dad and how he wished he would be there more often. Of course, Max was always watching his races and was never missing on calling him right after to analyze it, pointing out Ethan’s mistakes and giving him useful pieces of advice. Ethan was thankful for that, but sometimes he just wished his dad would tell him how proud he was of him. It made him angry to see that Charles was usually the one who told him that he raced well and that he should be proud of him. It angered him and hurt him right after usually. Because Charles was not supposed the one who should give him this kind of talk. Ethan wanted his dad to act more like a dad and less like a coach, but every time he wanted to tell him, words were failing him.

“So, are you doing okay with all the attention you are getting lately?” he asked to avoid thinking about his dad.

“It’s fine. I mean, people are staring a lot more at me now, but it’s manageable. A part of me is relieved that I don’t have to hide anymore to see my dad and all in all, no one seems to care much about it in the paddock. So, I can’t really complain.

“I mean, have you seen the number of nepobabies here in F1? Me, Romy, her teammate… You are just another one on a very long list.”

“I didn’t make it as far, just to only be considered like my dad’s daughter. I went through a lot of interviews to get this position. I deserve it.” she replied harshly.

“Of course. I’ve never said the opposite. I was just stating a fact, Joolsie, calm down. I didn’t mean to offend you. You’ve always been a hard-worker, even I can recognise that.”

“How nice of you…” she sarcastically commented.

There was a pause. As they ate their ice-cream, she snapped a picture of the vanilla and the cookie dough ice creams before uploading them on her story. They after all had a soft launch to prepare. Soon, it was time for them to head back to the hotel and when they finally said goodbye to each other, Julia looked at her phone and felt a lump in her throat when she read her mother’s text.

Are you dating Ethan? I could recognise your notebook and your way to draw everywhere, darling.

Author's note: This chapter marks the introduction of one of my favourite character and I hope you'll like him as much as me. Also, it seems that the secret is out hahaha. What do you think will happen next? Let me know your theories, I love to read them.

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ihavepointysticks · 10 months

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Music Shuffle!

i was tagged by @cordellwinchesterwalker to put my library on shuffle and show my top 10 🥰 (These are actually the first 10 that started playing when i did a shuffle)

1) short skirt/long jacket - cake

2) gangsta's paradise - coolio

3) life in the fast lane - the eagles

4) sugar we're going down - fob

5) first - cold war kids

6) no roots - alice merton

7) the coast of marseille - keith sykes

8) seven nights in eire - reckless kelly

9) kashmir - led zeppelin

10) odessa - the stone coyotes

yeah, so my music tastes are pretty much all over the place

tagging (no pressure tag): @supamerchant, @zmediaoutlet, @juststartingtobebrothersagain,

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readingandsiamese · 3 years

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Hi everyone! I've been compiling a list of songs for @shepherds-of-haven , an awesome creation that belongs to Lena Nguyen. I picked the songs either thanks to the lyrics or just the overall vibe.

I've seen at least two other SoH playlists. One was a Blade List by Aersidhe on Spotify. If Aersidhe or the other person who made the Blade/Halek playlist had it on theirs when I saw them, I put an asterisk. I can't take credit for those!

Please, give me a shout out if you made the Blade/Halek playlist or know who did and I'll credit you/them, too! I can't find it now...

Many of the songs are general ShoH, but I start off with a Chapter 7 playlist. I don't talk spoilers, but the songs could clue you in a bit.

Some of them might have a bit of inappropriate language or content.

Feel free to comment and also to suggest more!

Chapter 7 Vibes

Game of Survival by Ruelle

(Such a good song for action.)

Who's in the shadows? Who's ready to play?

Are we the hunters? Or are we the prey?

The Hunter by Sam Tinnesz

Cold sweat running down your spine,

No don't try to run cause you know it's time.

Not coming for an ounce of your gold,

I'm coming for your soul.

Monsters by Ruelle

One misstep, you're mine.

And you better stay clever if you wanna survive.

Heart Of The Darkness by Sam Tinnesz

Golden eyes, watching our every move.

Losing time without the sun or moon.

Shadows, they can't even touch the ground.

The staircase is spiraling deeper down...

Shepherds Vibes

Legends Never Die by Against the Current

They never lose hope when everything's cold

And the fighting's near.

It's deep in their bones, they'll run into smoke

When the fire is fierce.

Soldiers by Otherwise

We are the ones who will never be broken

With our final breath, we'll fight to the death

Running with the Wolves by Aurora

There is nowhere for you to hide,

The hunter's moon is shining.

I'm running with the wolves tonight.

We're Gonna Make It by Sam Tinnesz

We've seen the worst that this world has.

We've lost ourselves along the path.

But I think that we can get it back,

It'll just take time.

MC Vibes

(Songs that could fit various MC types.)

Ghost Towns by Radical Face

I've seen more places than I can name

And over time they all start to look the same.

Wise Enough by Lamb*

I had a dream that all of time was running dry.

And life was like a comet falling from the sky.

I woke so frightened in the dawning, oh, so clear. How precious is the time we have here...

Fire by Barns Courtney

Lonely shadows following me, Lonely ghosts come calling. Lonely voices talking to me,

Now I'm gone, now I'm gone, now I'm gone.

Brighter than Gold by Louis II

Burn on I'm shining so bright, lit up like a diamond in the dead of the night.

There's fire deep in my soul, I'ma rise up like the legends of old.

The image takes its shape.

When the Truth Hunts You Down by Sam Tinnesz

(If your MC didn't tell everyone...?)

With every step you take, closer,

The past will show its face.

You can't hide from your mistakes.

No Roots by Alice Merton

(Also could be an Ayla song.)

I build a home and wait for someone to tear it down.

Then pack it up in boxes, head for the next town running.

'Cause I've got memories and travel like gypsies in the night.

Man or a Monster by Sam Tinnesz

(For an angsty MC…)

In your hands,

There's a touch that can heal.

But in those same hands,

Is there the power to kill?

Romance Options...

Blade Vibes

Power over Me by Dermot Kennedy*

Everything I hold dear resides in those eyes.

You got that power over me, my, my.

The only one I know, the only one on my mind,

you got that power over me.

What have I Done by Dermot Kennedy*

I never thought I needed saving, I was right where I should be.

Good God, I know it's dangerous, but it's you that I need. I'm in love this time. I'm in love this time. What have I done?

In Need by Gert Taberner

No, I can't quite conceive what all of this means. I might be wrong but, darling, can't you see?

This bond between us seems so special to me. Some kind of clear unspoken chemistry.

Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls

And all I can taste is this moment.

And all I can breathe is your life.

And sooner or later, it's over,

I just don't wanna miss you tonight.

War of Hearts by Ruelle*

(I like the regular and acoustic. And the covers with guys singing, seriously good. It also fits Chase.)

I can't help but love you, even though I try not to.

I can't help but want you, I know that I'd die without you.

I'd be the voice that urged Orpheus when her body was found. I'd be the choiceless hope in grief that drove him underground.

Talk by Hozier*

(Could fit other ROs, I just thought Blade)

I'd be the dreadful need in the devotee that made him turn around. And I'd be the immediate forgiveness in Eurydice. Imagine being loved by me!

Trouble Vibes

All Eyes on You by Smash Into Pieces

Now the whole world's watching every move,

Take your shot, don't act a fool.

All you've got and all you'll ever need

Is one bullet in the chamber.

Two by Sleeping at Last*

No, I don't want to talk about myself, tell me where it hurts.

I just want to build you up, build you up,'til you're good as new. And maybe one day I will get around to fixing myself too.

Chase Vibes

Locked by Welshly Arms

Baby, I'm still locked on you.

Got a lust, got a touch that I can't seem to lose

Baby, I'm still locked on you.

Got a curse, yeah it hurts, but I can't seem to leave.

Nobody by Hozier

And I've done everything and I've been everywhere you know. I've been fed gold by sweet fools in Abu Dhabi and I've danced real slow, the Rockettes on dodgy molly. But I've had no love like your love.

Come to my window, crawl inside,

Come to My Window by Melissa Etheridge

(From MC's POV)

Wait by the light of the moon.

Come to my window, I'll be home soon.

Red Vibes

Sanctuary by Welshly Arms

(Could also be any RO or the SoH group…)

I see your hurt, I feel your pain. All of our dirt is washed in the rain.

I've walked that road, I've felt that shame. No place is home but times, they are changin'.

This is our sanctuary. We can find shelter and peace. This is our sanctuary, you are, you are safe with me.

Something Just Like This by the Chainsmokers & Coldplay

I've been reading books of old, the legends and the myths.

Achilles and his gold, Hercules and his gifts.

Spider-Man's control and Batman with his fists.

And clearly I don't see myself upon that list.

Riel Vibes

More of You by JP Saxe

You scare me, but I'm not afraid of it.

You make me nervous, but I wanna stay in it.

I tend to complicate and find fancy ways to say,

I just want more of you.

Tallys Vibes

Without You by Ursine Vulpine & Annaca

(Most of this could fit any of the ROs, but the outro just strikes me as Tallys.)

Yeah, I don't want the world to turn without you,

And I don't want the sun to burn without you.

I don't want to live a life without you.

I will watch the world burn without you.

Ayla Vibes

Let You Love Me by Rita Ora

I think I run away sometimes, whenever I get too vulnerable. That's not your fault.

See, I wanna stay the whole night. I wanna lay with you 'til the sun's up, I wanna let you inside. Oh, heaven knows I've tried.

Briony Vibes

Every Time We Touch by Tamee Harrison

A strange kind of magic running through my brain.Feel like i'm in heaven or going insane.

'Cause everytime we touch I get this feeling. And everytime we kiss I swear I could fly.

Lavinet Vibes

Love Story by Taylor Swift

You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess,

It's a love story, baby, just say, "Yes."

Romeo, save me, they're tryin' to tell me how to feel. This love is difficult, but it's real.

Shery Vibes

I Get to Love You by Ruelle

I get to love you.

It's the best thing that I'll ever do.

I get to love you.

It's a promise I'm making to you.

Whatever may come, your heart I will choose.

Prihine Vibes

I'm Yours by Alessia Cara

I'm mad at you for being so cute

And changing my mood and altering my rude.

What's wrong with you?

Halek Vibes

Insomnia by Daya

(It's ironic if MC can't sleep bcz of Halek whereas he's conked out someplace... )

Ah, ah, 'cause I can't sleep without you

No, I don't want to dream about you

Wish I had my arms wrapped around you (insomnia)

Croelle Vibes

Bad Romance by Lady Gaga

I want your ugly, I want your disease.

I want your everything as long as it's free,

I want your love, love, love, love

I want your love.

H/C Vibes

Even if it Hurts by Sam Tinnesz

Even if it hurts, even if it makes me bleed,

I'm gonna carry you, pushing through,

With the dirt on my sleeves.

Hold On for your Life by Sam Tinnesz

Losing grip, but it's worth the risk,

To brave the cold.

No matter where you go, I'll find you.

Find you by Ruelle

(I always think of Quiial)

Just hold on, It won't be long.

I will find you here inside the dark.

I will break through, no matter where you are...

Far from Home (the Raven) by Sam Tinnesz

(Shout out to Wild Mages…)

I'm sending a raven with blood on its wings,

Hoping it reaches you in time

And you know what it means.

Instrumental

Vitamin String Quartet

Check them out. I can imagine most of their songs being played in Haven. They do pop/classic songs played like they are classical music. No lyrics, just music.

#shepherds of haven #songs #song lyrics #interactive fiction #song recs

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starrygalaxy04 · 3 years

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Songs That Remind Them of You (MLQC Headcannons)

Victor

Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Elton John)- Victor is a sucker for romantic-style music, and this song is no exception. He can't help but imagine dueting this song with you whenever it plays softly in the background while he's making your favorite caramel pudding.

Adore You (Harry Styles)- He would never admit it, but this man just wants to shower you in affection. His favorite moments are when he gets to hold you in his arms and he can just gaze at you with the insane amount of joy, admiration, love, and unfiltered affection that only you get to see. He's been searching for you for a very long time, and he's going to cherish every second of being with you.

Still the One (One Direction)- He would never admit he ever listens to this song because like hell is anyone going to find out that he listens to boy bands, but this song's lyrics strike all the right chords with him. He loves the message it sends because its the very message he will always reiterate to you when you feel like you're not enough or he could do better. Its you, its always been you.

Lucien

Dark Side (Kelly Clarkson)- This man has a hard time knowing that you love him and are blissfully unaware of the monster that lurks just below the surface. He often finds himself wondering if you would still love him if he were just Ares, or if you would leave after you found out all of the things he had done for the sake of progress. But every time you wrap your arms around him or smile at him, all those worries melt away because he feels true emotion when he looks at you.

Its Gonna Be Me (NSYNC)- He knows that anyone in this world can have you, and it would kill him if you chose anyone else besides him. So he wants to make absolutely sure that he will never even have to think about letting his beautiful butterfly go. He is forever yours, and you will be forever his, even if it takes an eternity for that to happen.

Line Without A Hook (Ricky Montgomery)- This song mainly applies after Lucien no longer remembers MC, because I feel like it accurately describes how he feels. He knows MC doesn't trust him and is purposefully being distant, but at the same time the feelings that the other him felt are slowly trickling in and before long he's wishing that he could fix whatever it was that was tearing MC up so bad inside. And he knows that as he is, he's no good for you. But that doesn't mean that he isn't going to ignore the voice of reason in his head like the other him did and try his hardest to be what he once was for you.

Kiro

Fight For This Love (Cheryl)- Kiro knows that with him being a huge pop idol that sometimes the pressure gets to you. And he wants you to know he is always there and will be there next to you to fight through the thick and thin. He always wants to be with his favorite person ever, and will do whatever it takes to make sure that you're okay and he can be there to experience everything life has to offer with you, and to assure you that you are worth it.

100% Pure Love (Crystal Waters)- True to the name of the song, everything that Kiro feels (well almost everything, if you get what I mean) comes from the purest parts of him. He always wants you to be the happiest you can, always making sure that you have a bright smile on your face. And he knows what you two have is something people could only dream of, and having you in his arms is the best thing that ever happened since he met you again at that convenience store.

Price Tag (Jessie J)- He knows that when you two are together, nothing else matters. He knows you're not with him just because he's Kiro the superstar, but because he's Kiro. The bubbly 22 year-old who has an affinity for sweets and puppies with an adventurous streak. And he knows that if you two are next to each other, you wouldn't need anything else to have a good time.

Gavin

Treasure (Bruno Mars)- Honey, you are the center of this man's universe. He had treasured you since the first day he laid eyes on you, and wanted nothing more than to be by your side. And now that he is, he is over the moon. He may not be able to shower you in lavish gifts like some of the others, but every single moment you two spend together more than makes up from it, whether its a picnic under the stars or a midnight flight.

What A Man Gotta Do (The Jonas Brothers)- This brings back some of his older memories, back from the high school days. He was so shy when it came to you, and he never even knew how to approach you the majority of the time. So he always watched from the distance, wondering what he could do to get you to notice him. The song allows him to reflect on those cringey memories with a smile, and let him enjoy the fact that you were his, even after all that had happened.

Loving You Tonight (Andrew Allen)- This man can't wait to come home and just lay in your arms, or have you lay in his arms. His favorite moments are the ones of pure domesticity, things he never saw between his mother and father when he was younger. It feels so pure and freeing, and just so right. He loves every moment of it, and wouldn't have it any other way.

Helios

Popular Monster (Falling in Reverse)- While Helios is indeed a person, Helios is somewhat of a character that Kiro is playing. Its the side of him that he can't show to the world. He has killed people to protect others, to protect you, and in that way, he's exactly as the title reads, a popular monster.

Therefore I Am (Billie Eilish)- As Helios, he knows that everything relies on technique and execution, so he has completely shut out emotional functions for the most part, except when he's around you. But because Kiro is such a good actor, its very hard to tell. He knows that he's that bitch, and is not afraid to prove it, being blunt about literally everything. But he also knows that you have the perseverance of a God, to the point that its stupid, but as you build the confidence that comes with the identity of your Evol, he sees you growing in a way that he could have never taught you as Kiro.

Cigarette Duet (Princess Chelsea)- Helios knows that he can't associate with you as much as when he was Kiro because Black Swan is a bitch, but one thing he always wants to make sure is that you haven't fallen down and devolved into bad habits. The one thing that didn't leave Helios was his ability to care specifically about you, and even thinking that you would get into a habit that would harm yourself makes his blood boil. So he always makes sure you've remained drug-free and that you see him just enough that it won't get him in trouble and can give you comfort.

Shaw

No Roots (Alice Merton)- Shaw's idea of you is something much like how Victor saw you in the beginning. Someone who thrust themselves into something way over their head and now had to deal with the consequences of it. The only reason he believed you was because he knew of things (the man has his ways) and decided to help you because he found you just interesting enough that he thought it might be fun. But he found himself envying the fact that you didn't have a past in this world, and that you were free to do whatever you pleased without a reputation preceding you. He didn't like the fact that it caused you pain, but thanks to his asshole of a father the idea sounded a little too good to him.

Sad Girl (Lana Del Rey)- Shaw often found you moping around at first, mourning the fact that you had lost everything. But in the end, he was the one who helped you get over it, getting you back to your normal self. He still catches glimpses of that depressed look in your eyes, and always makes sure to lighten up on the teasing when he does see it. He never got the chance to be a kid and grow up properly, so he couldn't fathom exactly how hard it was for you. But he still tried.

White Tee (CORPSE)- We all know Shaw would be more into the punk style, and his music taste is no exception. He likes listening to mostly emo style music, and dabbles into a little bit of everything when he feels like it. However, this song mixes together his anger at the world for giving him such a shit childhood and the fact that with you he feels like he can start fresh. Because even though everyone else falls into the same category with him, you were different, and he wanted to explore that kind of different.

#mlqc kiro #mlqc headcanon #mlqc shaw #love and producer #mr love victor #mlqc lucien #mlqc gavin #mlqc helios

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the-apocrypha · 3 years

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8 songs, 8 tags

thanks to @toast-the-unknowing for the tag!

1. your favorite song at the moment

WE AREN'T STARTING EASY ARE WE. I'm so bad at favorite songs. Um. I finally listened to Montero by Lil Nas X about two weeks ago and it is a BOP. I'm probably the last person on earth to discover this. I've also been obsessed with the last Taylor Swift album since its release, particularly coney island because Taylor + The National = *chef's kiss*.

2. a song you associate with a favorite character or ship

Well I have a whole playlist devoted to my last fic, so that's... a lot of Stucky stuff, though largely specific to the themes of the fic. Dust to Dust by The Civil Wars is a big Steve Rogers one for me, though.

3. a song that could be about you

Mmm tough one. No Roots by Alice Merton is probably pretty close, I guess? I've definitely had phases where I was like "Yes, this song is ME", but then those phases passed and so did the songs. Right now I don't really have a personal anthem, so this one is about as close as I get.

4. a song you think is overrated

As a former marching band geek from Ohio, I have a personal vendetta against Hang on Sloopy by The McCoys, and probably only other people from Ohio will understand why. FUCK this song.

5. a good song that reminds you of a specific memory

Us by Regina Spektor - a road trip in the fall, the winding roads of eastern Pennsylvania with currents of autumn leaves skittering over the road

Aimee by Pure Prairie League - playing Bullshit by the light of a lamp in the middle of the desert, dust in every imaginable crevice, coyotes barking in the distance

Hopeless Wanderer by Mumford and Sons - a 3 am trip to Denny's in a blizzard, the zenith of the midwestern living experience

6. the last song you listened to

I'm in the middle of Hadestown (yet again), so How Long?

7. a song that makes you laugh

Most recently, the song I discovered while doing WW2 research for my last fic - Hitler Has Only Got One Ball, released in the late 1930s, which is an exquisitely graphic song about German testicles that rapidly became a popular marching song amongst Allied troops. This led to a rabbit hole on the surprisingly saucy releases of the 1930s, including Shave 'Em Dry by Lucille Bogan and My Girl's Pussy by Harry Roy. These are part of a larger music genre known as the 'dirty blues', and if you're interested in music history I can't recommend a better rabbit hole than the Great Depression experienced through the African American musician's perspective, already at the bottom of society and now forced even lower by economic downtimes. How the blues, scorned by white people and picked over by record labels in a time when they could only afford to promote a few, reliable (white) musicians, developed instead as an underground musical culture solely for and about the Black experience. The brutal honesty with which it chronicled their lives, unconcerned with the outsider's perspective. How the repeal of Prohibition ushered in the age of jazz, when white people decided they liked African American musicians again, and how the popularization of their music necessarily changed the style of it as a result, especially in a transition from rural blues to the urbanized sound of jazz as a result of major record labels forcing musicians to migrate to cities and--

Anyway. Uh. If that interests you, you should do some JSTOR searches and have a look at the history of blues.

8. a song you want your mutuals to listen to

The Sound of Silence, covered by Disturbed. This is my sixty-something year old mother's favorite song. "He has such a lovely voice," she says. "He shouldn't scream so much in his other songs."

As always, I have no real friends on this hellsite, so, I shall tag the last eight people who liked something from my feed. That's what you get for participating! @theonionpicardo, @jazzathebunny, @mklutz, @subtle-skipping, @echosera, @fiveandoh, @devildoll, @puppercut

#about me #hi i'm a slight music nerd #with terrible taste in music

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cobbbvanth · 3 years

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Thanks for the tag @jingledean!!

Rules: for every letter of your url, put the name of a song you like that starts with that letter

a - Another One Bites The Dust (Queen)

g - Girls Talk Boys (5 Seconds of Summer)

e - Ease My Mind (Ben Platt)

n - No Roots (Alice Merton)

t - This Is America (Childish Gambino)

p - Perfect Lie (Ashton Irwin)

l - Let’s Groove (Earth, Wind & Fire)

a - All Our Own (Radio Company)

n - November Rain (Guns N’ Roses)

t - Til It Shines (Bob Seger)

tags: @momosboo @reyreysistance @casslicker (if you feel like playing!)

#tag game #i would love to defend myself and promise that i do also listen to female artists but it's just kinda not true :///

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kathalliwell · 4 years

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is that [BLAKE LIVELY]? no, that’s just [KATHERINE “KAT” HALLIWELL]. [SHE/HER] is [THIRTY] years old and is an [OBSTETRICIAN]. rumor has it they’ve been in town for [6 YEARS]. on a good day, they’re [CHARMING & EASYGOING]. but watch out! they can also be [WORKAHOLIC & BOSSY]. [NO ROOTS BY ALICE MERTON] plays in my head whenever i think of her. can’t wait to see her around springhill!

Come and meet this bombshell

Kat was born in Malibu, but lived most of her young years in Los Angeles. Daughter of an american surgeon and an aspiring french actress, her parents met when her mother moved to the US to pursue an acting career, she is ten years younger than her father and saw him as a refuge and security in the jungle that was LA. She left them when Kat was ten, leaving her to be raised by her father in order to persuid better opportunities in her career, that didn’t inclued reject papers to be a mother.

Kat was raised as an only child, having been spoiled in every way. She studied at the best schools, had the best clothes, accessories and very early on she started partying, going out for drinks, having fun with friends. Getting emotionally involved was never an easy thing, so her relationships were all shallow and with no future.

At 18, she moved to New York alone, to follow in her father's footsteps and study medicine and it was there that she fell in love with the profession, even with long shifts, tiredness, but she liked the life she lived. Shifts, casual sex, no worries, just living.

At 24, she traveled to France to try to find her mother, but the results of what she found wasn’t what she expected. A cold woman, who didn’t want to be a mother and didn’t regret leaving her and she was devastated, alone on her last night in Paris.

She went to a bar and there she met him, a handsome, interesting man who could be the perfect step to make her feel good that night and that was his role, to make her forget everything for one night.

After returning to New York, Kat discovered that she was pregnant and she made the decision to proceed with her pregnancy alone, after all how to contact a stranger with whom she spent one night and say that she is pregnant? So she got the chance to continue her residency at Springhill General, she wanted to get away from the noise and run from New York, she knew it wasn't the environment she wanted to raise her son with, nor in Los Angeles with her father. Her father was born in Springhill and he always talked about how he missed the little town, and everytime they went visit, Kat never even thought about living there someday, but things change when you are not just thinking in yourself and parties. So she moved to Springhill, still five months pregnant and there gave birth to little Max.

What about now?

Now she has lived in the city for six years, and is already her home, just like Max's.

She works at Springhill General as an obstetrician and is always trying to deal with her professional life and the responsibilities of being a single mother.

She is very smiling, playful, but she can also be very bossy and stubborn when upset. It continues with her difficulty to get emotionally involved with anyone, so she always had her casual affairs, but always careful that Max never knew anything.

She is bisexual, had her first experience with a woman at the university.

She doesn’t have any contact with Max’s father and he doesn’t know about the child existance.

#springhillintro #hello let's plooot

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johannesviii · 4 years

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Top 10 Personal Favorite Hit Songs from 2017

Not a very good year for hit songs. Still better than the next one, though.

And a very satisfying #1 that launched an entire infodump about a specific band. I’m not even sorry.

Disclaimers:

Keep in mind I’m using both the year-end top 100 lists from the US and from France while making these top 10 things. There’s songs in English that charted in my country way higher than they did in their home countries, or even earlier or later, so that might get surprising at times.

Of course there will be stuff in French. We suck. I know. It’s my list. Deal with it.

My musical tastes have always been terrible and I’m not a critic, just a listener and an idiot.

I have sound to color synesthesia which justifies nothing but might explain why I have trouble describing some songs in other terms than visual ones.

2017 might not sound super distant, but it’s already distant enough to analyse what started to happen to me that year with some clarity. This is when I started to lose some of my energy and motivation. A lot, in fact. Everything suddenly felt exhausting and this whole “what’s even the point of anything” mentality started to fall on my shoulders. And you know what, at first, while making these recaps, I had no idea what started it all. Was it that super rare infection I caught in early 2018 and almost made me lose a part of a finger? Was it both my grandfathers dying in mid 2018? Was it the general state of the world? But no, I did some digging and noticed this general exhaustion actually started right during summer 2017 and I was like what the f█ck happened in summer 2017? That summer was fine?

And then it clicked. I know exactly what kickstarted my spiral into about 18 months of depression, and it’s got nothing to do with health or family. It’s something that shouldn’t have affected my life in any way, and that I kinda tried to ignore at the time, and some of you might even find me overdramatic or cringy for letting it affect my life. But yeah, as I’ve realised while making these lists, Linkin Park was actually a super important part of my life, so it makes perfect sense: what started it all was Chester Bennington killing himself. Clearly, someone who had contributed so much to convince me that life was worth living and who suddenly decided it wasn’t worth it, that had a huge impact on me, whether I wanted it or not.

Aaaand now I’m crying again. Great.

Anyway. Uh. Important albums that year! Yeah so uh. Depeche Mode made Spirit and it wasn’t good, and so I kinda lost faith they would ever make a great album again, but I did realise one of my teenage dreams and saw them in concert in the Stade de France in July 2017 (it was huge. Going home after that felt like waking up from some sort of hypnotic trance. They even played Walking In My Shoes, one of my absolute favorite songs from them, along with a video featuring a trans person going to work and I started to bawl my eyes out in the middle of the f█cking crowd). Nine Inch Nails also made Add Violence and continued to be super good, and Indochine made 13, and while it wasn’t nearly as good as Black City Parade, it was also better than La République des Météors, so I was pretty happy about that. EDIT: Forgot about Under Your Spell by The Birthday Massacre, which blew my goddamn mind, but still not as much as the next album I'm gonna talk about.

But the defining album of the year, to me, was Mike Oldfield making a sequel to my favorite album from him, with Return to Ommadawn. Of course it’s not as good as Ommadawn. But still. If Ommadawn felt like discovering a new strange country full of weird folklore and forests and mysterious buildings, Return to Ommadawn feels like going back there half a century later and seeing things in ruins and wounded people, but still trying to seek beauty and joy in a partly destroyed landscape. It makes perfect sense considering the circumstances that surround the making of this thing, and it was the only way to make a good sequel to such a legendary album.

Unelligible songs that piss me off... uh, actually there’s only Cut to the Feeling by Carly Rae Jepsen. Why wasn’t it a huge hit. Come to think of it, why hasn’t any Carly Rae song been a huge hit since Good Times. This feels unfair.

Time for some honorable mentions, then.

Feels and also Slide (Calvin Harris and a lot of other people) - Got nothing to say about either of these songs, but they’re both pretty good.

Katchi (Ofenbach) - Nice little earworm.

No Roots (Alice Merton) - Super surprised this was a hit. Good.

OK (Robin Schulz ft James Blunt) - That’s a James Blunt song in the year of our lord 2017 and it sounds actually good??

What About Us (Pink) - Really caught my attention and made me wonder if I should listen to Pink again after a long streak of mediocre Pink songs.

Congratulations (Post Malone) - I find the song mostly boring but the guest verse ending with “uh, Malone... I gotta play on my phone...” is the stuff of legends and that got a chuckle out of me every time I heard it.

Glorious (Macklemore) - I’m glad this was a hit here but at the same time it’s not my favorite song from him. The music video is adorable, though.

Fly (Odyssey) - Nothing to say about that one.

XO Tour Life (Lil Uzi Vert) - The fact that I was regularly humming this is either a sign of quality or yet another sign I was depressed as shit.

Devil in Me (Purple Disco Machine) - What a great artist name.

Symphony (Clean Bandit) - Nothing to say here either, just good sound all around.

Attention (Charlie Puth) - 2017: The Year Charlie Puth Made A Great Song.

All Stars (Martin Solveig & Alma) - The last cut. It was on the list at some point. I really like it a lot, though.

And now, the list. The stuff I genuinely love starts at #6 and things that are still on my mp3 player to this day start at #4.

10 - Chained to the Rhythm (Katy Perry)

US: #73 / FR: #10

I just love the concept of a Katy Perry song about how Katy Perry songs are happy nonsense distracting you from actual issues. What can I say, I’m a sucker for meta stuff.

9 - Water Under The Bridge (Adele)

US: #88 / FR: Not on the list

An Adele song projecting actual positive energy!? That automatically goes on the list.

8 - Praying (Kesha)

US: #67 / FR: Not on the list

You know I mostly dislike slow emotional songs regardless of how good they actually are. I will, however, make an exception for this one even though I very rarely listen to it considering how emotionally taxing it is. That’s definitely a fantastic song, though.

7 - Viens On S’aime (Slimane)

US: Not on the list / FR: #53

“Listen, we love each other, f█ck it, f█ck their words and their decorum, listen, we love each other, f█ck it, f█ck their ideas and what they’re saying”. Well said, dude, well said.

6 - There’s Nothing Holding Me Back (Shawn Mendes)

US: #23 / FR: #91

That’s a very good song for running and that is becoming increasingly rarer, so I’ll take what I can get.

5 - Paris (The Chainsmokers)

US: #42 / FR: Not on the list (that’s irony for you)

Unlike Closer this is an unrelatable song about rich young people that can afford to live in Paris just “to get away from [their] parents” but honestly that’s the only negative thing I have to say against it. It sounds fantastic.

4 - Castle On The Hill (Ed Sheeran)

US: #40 / FR: #50

We’ve now entered the realm of songs that are still on my mp3 player to this day. This is the only Ed Sheeran song I’ve ever liked, and I love it. It sounds like a lost U2 song. Maybe from a strange dimension where U2 became more fragile and emotional instead of more pretentious.

I have no idea why this guy keeps making such boring stuff when he’s got that kind of song in him. I have no clue.

3 - Something Just Like This (Coldplay & The Chainsmokers)

US: #5 / FR: #19

Hey so Coldplay is still on my lists, apparently. It’s a bit too slow, some lyrics about superheros don’t make much sense, and the drop isn’t super good, but my god, that guitar near the end makes everything worth it. Just amazing colors and textures all around.

It’s not even my favorite song on that EP! I think Miracles (Someone Special) is even better, but eh, this one is a close second.

2 - 24k Magic (Bruno Mars)

US: #16 / FR: Not on the list (#13 in 2016 but I put it on the 2017 list instead)

Am I the only one to like this more than Uptown Funk? It’s so much fun to sing along to it. And unlike Uptown Funk, it’s making me feel nostalgic for an era I actually (vaguely) knew, the super colorful and ridiculous early 90s. My s.o loves it too and when it comes up on the radio or on our playlists you can bet we’re both going PUT YOUR. PINKY. RINGS UP. TO THE. MOOOOOOOON like two idiots.

This is the song I could have put on the previous list but elected to put on this list instead since it was elligible for both years, by the way! Since 2017 was less good than 2016, I thought it would be more interesting to save such a great song for later.

It would have topped the list too, if it wasn’t for something I didn’t expect to be elligible before reading the French year-end list.

Strap yourselves in, because I had no real opportunity to talk about this band at length in the posts made for the years when it was the most relevant in my life, so this is going to be quite long.

1 - La Vie Est Belle (Indochine)

US: Not on the list / FR: #44

As you already know if you remember some of my previous lists, Indochine is a band I started to love right in the middle of the absolute worst years of my life. These guys had been around since the 80s as a super successful new wave band, then became very unpopular and went underground for about twelve years in the entire 90s, then one of them died, then every member except the singer basically rotated, and then they suddenly re-emerged in 2002-2003 with Paradize, a monster of an album, full of energy, sinister themes and weird provocative songs, and an entire generation of angsty teenagers (me included as you can guess) embraced it wholeheartedly.

And all of a sudden Indochine was the favorite French mainstream band of local young punk/goths! So many kids with the Indochine logo in highschool. Nowadays the band is mocked and well-loved in equal doses by just about everyone, but I suspect it’s just because we’ve all grown up.

Placebo, Linkin Park and Indochine were the bands that ruled my entire world in 2003/2004. My mother hated all three of them, because of course she did, but especially Indochine, because according to her it was partly their fault if I was gender non-conforming. See, she used to say, they had put all kinds of bad ideas in my head and now I was all messed up.

...Holy shit, that’s a lot of blame to put on a ridiculous new wave band who’s first hit song from 1983 is just a long nonsensical list of shitty old Bob Morane pulp novels.

But here’s the problem. Even if Indochine kept having hit song after hit song, those were never the best songs on their albums. Here I am, 31, making these top ten lists since last December, and becoming more and more frustrated to see none of my favorite modern Indochine songs are elligible. My favorite Paradize singles were Mao Boy, Popstitute and especially Marilyn (god, this song rocked my entire year alongside Placebo’s The Bitter End. 2003 was such a fantastic year for dark energetic hit songs)? Too bad, the biggest hits were J’ai demandé à la lune and Le Grand Secret. Alice & June had four fantastic singles? Too bad, none of them is elligible! Same thing for the entirety of Black City Parade. Oh, but that song I hate from La Republique des Météors is elligible, I guess!

So we’re in summer 2017, and my life is completely different now, and Indochine releases La Vie Est Belle (I’m linking the album version and not the music video because it has some violent themes in it). I’m in my car doing some errands and the local radio goes “hey new song from Indochine” and I’m like “oh shit, gotta hear this” and then two minutes later “oh wow, that is super good. Won’t be a hit though”.

And yet, it was a hit! It became huge, even! And at that point I was already loving that song even though I thought it was just a super good but tragic love song about a significant other dying too young.

And then, about a month later, the wordplay of the first line finally hit me with the force of a semitruck. It’s not a love song. It’s a song about the singer’s dead twin. Who died in 1999.

It’s such a devastating, beautiful song, and yet it’s full of energy. I. adore. it. It’s exactly the kind of song you need to continue to fight and to live and to help other people in this day and age. “Life is beautiful and cruel, it looks like us sometimes” indeed. And it’s one of the best on the album, too!

So yes, 15 years after I first fell in love with this band and after they helped me during super dark times, finally, I can put one of their songs at the top of one of these lists, hands down, no debate whatsoever.

That probably sounds ridiculous but it’s genuinely making me feel extremely emotional.

Next up: I thought music sucked that year because I was depressed but I relistened to it and no it wasn’t just me

#Johannes’ bad not good pretty terrible music lists #music #long post #eye contact tw #suicide mention tw #I can't believe I'm almost done with these lists #that was a wild ride guys

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whitherwanderer · 4 years

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ALBUM; SIF

( I’ve done this once or twice before, but it’s been a while. )

For many of us, music is a source of inspiration for our characters, so I want to know what songs inspire and/or relate to your muse! Choose between 10-15 songs, compile them into an album and tag some friends to share the beat!

Tagged by: @siegryn (You know I loved this one.💛)

Tagging: YOU.

Take these as a sort of deep dive into Sif’s character. The topmost song will be a fairly surface-level look at her, but the father down you go, the more you learn about who she really is.

SIDE A - FOOL’S GOLD

Trouble in Mind - Larkin Poe

I could behave But what's the use? So help me, Lord I gotta cut loose

No Roots - Alice Merton

I like standing still but that's just a wishful plan Ask me where I come from, I'll say a different land But I've got memories and travel like gypsies in the night

I count gates and numbers, then play the guessing game It's just the place that changes, the rest is still the same But I've got memories and travel like gypsies in the night

And a thousand times I've seen this road A thousand times

Raise Hell - Dorothy

Young blood, came to start a riot Don't care what your old man say Young blood, heaven hate a sinner But we're gonna raise hell anyway

Troublemaker - Grizfolk

Your heart is strong, yeah, your back is made of gold These lies don't work and these ties are getting old

Whiskey Fever - Dorothy

Whoa, Mama, can't you say that I'm grown? Bad habits been bustin' my bones Hell, mama's gonna swallow me whole Lord knows I gotta fill it up now Fill it up now Fill it up now

Hard Time Killing Floor - Larkin Poe

If I can get up off this hard time killin' floor Lord, I'll never get down that low no more

SIDE B - FIRE

What’s Wrong - PVRIS

Two years gone Came back as some bones and so cynical This skin don't feel like home It's all overgrown, but you'll never know

Deeper Well - Beau + Luci

Hey there mama, did you carry that load Did tell your baby ‘bout the bend in the road By the rebel yell, by the one that fell Looking for the water from a deeper well

Gallows - Shelby Merry

I know I've lived a wicked life, and I will never change my ways An unapologetic runaway until it's my last day Why is it so easy to light a match and watch? We were made of dried up timber We were made to turn to dust

Ooh, take me on down Ooh, at the gallows it was mercy I had found

We’re Alive - The Sweeplings

Oh, thy blood runs deep Thick as thieves, who are we? Oh we, bound as one Carry on where we’re from

Before I Sleep - Joy Williams

I got miles and miles to go before I sleep Before I can feel anything, before I'm free I got miles and miles to go before I sleep

Steamroller - Phoebe Bridgers

Part of me wants you But most of me needs you So I won't fall unless you ask me to

Phoenix Fire - Simon Alexander

You feel a need to burn for days bygone And I know That so would anyone So don’t let that fire go now

Don’t you let that fire go

No Place Like You - Joy Williams

Honey it's true There ain't nothing I can do 'Cause there's no place, no place like you

Canary - Joy Williams

There’s a shadow hanging heavy There’s a cold chill in my bones It’s a steep road, and I am weary It’s a long, long way from home

But I will not shut my eyes No, I will not fall silent Canary in the mine Oh, I will, honey I will I will sing I will sing

#[ the longest road ]#[ memes; sif ]

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spellboundinks · 5 years

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11/11/11 Tag

Thank you for tagging me @weathershade!!

So the rules of the game are: answer 11 questions, come up with 11 questions of your own, then tag 11 people!

1. Does writing energize or exhaust you?

Depends... Mostly exhaust but lately I’ve found it more energizing.

2. How many WIPs have you finished?

Absolutely none.

3. Give a one sentence summary of your WIP(s).

A young time elemental brings a bunch of other elementals on a road trip across their dimension to find an ancient deity who can help her fix her malfunctioning powers and restore balance to their world.

4. Are there characters from your stories you understand and relate to more than others?

Harmony and Kirt so much.

5. What colours do you associate with your characters?

I’m not sure I have a specific colour I associate with Harmony. Maybe an orange? Kirt is yellow for sure.

6. What genre do you mostly write? Are there other genres you want to write?

Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction. I think that pretty much covers all I really want to do.

7. Do you number your chapters or do you give them titles?

NUMBERS ALL THE WAY. Usually Roman numerals.

8. What do you use when you write? (Word, Pages, Scrivner, or just a pen and paper)

Google Drive. Takes up zero space on my computer and I can write 100000x faster than by hand.

9. Besides writing, is there anything you like to do?

Art!

10. What is one song you associate with your WIP(s)?

No Roots by Alice Merton.

11. Share the last piece of dialogue you wrote!

“I collect everything and anything about elementals. It started as a hobby when I was about your age but now I’m the unofficial official collector and historian. Because the whole of Caelum believes the elementals are nothing but legend and myth, this is the only library with actual facts and history about our ancestors.” A little nerdy tidbit from Nikolai Nyx!

I already did one of these earlier so I’m not particularly interested in making more questions or tagging people to play, however I will tag @jade-island-lives and @dream-weaver cuz you two are so supportive of this little wip and I thought you might want to read some of these answers!

#writing #my writing #my wips #the ichor lineage #tag game

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dykerightsmp3 · 5 years

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hey i really like your tagging system (for example: i like it when we play 1950) but um im really dumb so i was just wondering if you could explain what they all mean/represent

OH YEAH I HAVE A FULL LIST OF TAGS HERE BUT I’LL EXPLAIN

and humans loved stories (no origin)

I’m really fascinated by the idea of life’s overlap with narrative and by the fact that we, as human beings, are so obsessed with telling stories - I think it’s one of our best aspects. so I use this for anything that relates to the power of fictionalization basically

your humanity is liminal (from this interview with Carmen Marie Machado)

oh I love this one; this is basically about monstrosity, especially female monsters, and how our obsession with outward monstrosity is actually a symptom of our horror at not only the monstrosity we see around us, but also our own monstrosity.

moving higher but history keeps pulling me down (Leave My Body, Florence)

this tag actually just got changed (it used to be “i’ve turned into a monster” which just doesn’t have the same punch) but it’s essentially for anything relating to villain arcs. i haven’t finished it yet but i started a playlist for this

when a monster stopped being a monster (Kristin Cashore’s Graceling)

i use this tag for redemption arcs. this is part of one of my all time favorite book quotes; it’s from a book about the idea that anyone can change, essentially, and that your background does not dictate your future. i love redemption arcs

this love will tear me to pieces (Tear Me to Pieces, Meg Meyers)

also just changed this tag!! it used to be two tags: “crooked love in a straight line down” and “i must love you or die” but both of those felt pretty weak for the concept, tbh. this is about fucked up relationships, which i hate seeing romanticized but think are really interesting concepts in fiction; love can be poisonous and dark and that’s worth touching on. also a lot of my favorite music kind of fits this theme

my sister burns and she does not burn for you (E.Johnston’s Thousand Nights)

ah oh my god this is my favorite tag. this is about powerful women. the quote is from one of my favorite books and it’s about the idea that women do not “burn” for men; they burn for themselves, and live for themselves, and must be allowed to do so. (A Thousand Nights is all about the narrative tension between the men telling the story and the women living it and it’s fantastic and the writing is gorgeous in case you needed a book rec.)

open he says. she opens. (from Ocean Vuong’s White Christmas)

the hardest one to explain, tbh. i started this tag last semester (i mean, i started most of these tags in this past year, soooo) and it’s basically about connection with the divine? i think? a lot of it is just dramatic poetry that i love but don’t know where to put

you’ve got a nine to five so i’ll take the night shift (Night Shift, Lucy Dacus)

about five days ago this was “a love letter to my ex,” which is pretty self explanatory; i started it after breaking up with my first serious girlfriend last year, i had a playlist entitled that. this is from my favorite breakup song of all time. this tag still needs to be cleaned but i do have a playlist for it here

love was a privilege (from Maggie Stiefvater’s The Raven Cycle)

this tag is for about anything connected to feeling loveless, but it’s sort of… mostly about shitty home life things. it’s a quote from the narration of my favorite fictional character of all time and i still think about this line all the time because it just… really gets to the heart of why a bad home life can be so traumatic and painful, because it makes you feel like you’re not deserving of love.

no roots but my home was never on the ground (from No Roots, Alice Merton)

about being alone. basically. this tag is actually new but i’ve needed it for a while; i used to put a lot of these posts in love was a privilege, which isn’t quite what that tag is for; this one is more about feeling alone and like you have to take it all on yourself.

what the fuck are perfect places (from Perfect Places, Lorde)

for a while I was just using this for anything about being sad, but it’s technically supposed to be for the idea of… even if you can’t find the perfect place you belong, it’s going to be alright anyway. given the song being about that.

my thoughts will echo your name (from Enchanted, Taylor Swift)

this one isn’t that deep, it’s just cute love song stuff mostly. i thought it was poetic to use taylor swift lyrics for my three (well, used to be four) romance tags.

can’t decide if it’s a choice getting swept away (from Treacherous, Taylor Swift)

this one used to be a lyric from Fearless, which just didn’t fit at all, but it’s basically about the tension of being loved. you know that quote that’s like “If we want the rewards of being loved, we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known?” that’s what this is about

don’t read the last page (from New Year’s Day, Taylor Swift)

oh my god this is one of my favorite songs. this is basically just anything about lasting love which for me is just… whatever i find painfully romantic. i really want a wife. i have a really good playlist for it please listen to it

if a girl kisses another girl with no witness (from this poem by Natalie Wee)

this is basically just wlw concept stuff. i use it for pretty much everything. help

i like it when we play 1950 (from 1950, King Princess)

so this one is my favorite tag and i scroll through it a lot. it’s about love between people of the same gender throughout history. i think there’s something deeply, horrifically romantic about the concept of hiding love for the purpose of safety, of putting one thing out publicly but another privately and hiding love but being brave enough to love anyway.

this was something i said in my Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo review, but: I think a lot about the idea of love as something dangerous, as something that you have to fight for. And it’s only recently that I’ve decided that’s something that probably has to do with loving women. I have been very lucky, in growing up in liberal California and in the 2000s. But I received marriage rights in my country four months after realizing I liked girls, and in reading about the past and thinking about the past, I am constantly, daily, reminded how being born ten years earlier would have made everything that much more dangerous, that much more violent, that much more fearful. And there is something so woefully romantic to me about the fact that there were people who braved that climate and loved anyway and paved the path, while doing so, for me and so many others.

anyway. yeah.

the inherent politicization of tenderness (no origin)

“When we choose to love we choose to move against fear—against alienation and separation.” -Bell Hooks

I have no idea where any of these come from but this is about the idea of kindness and love as a force that destroys boundaries and exists even in the liminal space of prejudice and discrimination and fear. i guess i sort of have a playlist about it here.

voyager and the journey neverending (from this poem)

this is about the journey towards the future, and the fact that history will always matter and have a weight. what we do now will matter, will be told in stories, and that’s amazing.

um… yeah. anyway sorry for taking so long to answer this but those are the tags!!

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“In the past I lay out on the land Stretched my legs felt my chest expand If we could flow together someday Then we will float away”

Heather’s Top 25 50 Songs of 2018!

guts — alex winston // sweet dreams — mark hadley // africa — toto // go to war — nothing more // smallest light — ingrid michaelson // my friends — oh wonder // knocking on heaven’s door — raign // rememberance — balmorhea // hazy shade of winter — hidden citizens // time after time — joseph william morgan // live in the moment — portugal. the man // killmonger — ludwig goransson // daddy issues — the neighbourhood // no roots — alice merton // run for your life — k.flay // play with fire — sam tinnesz // the sailor song — autoheart // warrior — steve james // IV. sweatpants — childish gambino // hello — via audio // daddy — emeli sande // paradise valley — honey and the sting // attila the king — nick glennie-smith // foolish — lauren shippen // experience — ludovico einaudi // singing in the rain — through juniper vale // hello stranger — barbara lewis // end credits suite — nicholas britell // ahead by a century — the tragically hip // achilles come down — gang of youths // without you — leslie odom jr. // natural — imagine dragons // sky full of song — florence & the machine // broken people — logic & rag’n’bone man // flesh and bone — black math // nina cried power— hozier // kol nidrey — the yuval ron ensemble // stronger — the score // rise like a phoenix — conchita wurst // heroes — mans zelmerlow // cut to the feeling — carly rae jepson // the greatest show — hugh jackman // the plains/bitter dancer — fleet foxes // always starting over — idina menzel // if i could turn back time — cher // new rules — dua lipa // fernando — cher // it’s quiet uptown — kelly clarkson // movement — hozier // seasons of love — rent cast

short version | long version

so, fun fact. if you start a playlist in january and add a song every time you really love it or find yourself listening to it a lot, by december you find yourself with... a very, very large playlist. 261 songs, 17 hours and 17 minutes large to be precise. which hey, last year the mix was 262 so that’s a pretty spot on average.

i sort of prefer the long one, but i mean, hey. there’s large playlists, and then there’s listing all 261 songs. so i broke it down into a moderately more digestible abridged version with only 50 songs. if you want the original playlist, the link is there. have fun. til then though, here’s my 50 most played.

i. guts || alex winston i know you're a liar, throw me into the fire man i should have known, i should have known god damn you're a liar, threw me into the fire

This song is one of those where the catchy jingle sort of hides that the meat of it is relatively dark. It’s a gorgeous song, one that I listened to for most of January, and off and on throughout the rest of the year. Alex Winston’s voice is like a dream. ii. sweet dreams || mark hadley ft. dresage Hold your head up Keep your head up, movin' on

This song I actually listened to a lot at the tale end of 2017, because it was released as part of the Wrinkle In Time trailer and it was absolutely gorgeous. This year, I found it on a Stranger Things fanvid and it’s been on my Stranger Things mix ever since.

iii. africa || toto I hear the drums echoing tonight But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation She's coming in, 12:30 flight The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation

Speaking of songs that are on my Stranger Things playlist... I’m kind of at a loss as to why this got so freaking popular this year. I mean, it is a truly dope song and I’m super fond of it but like. Was it Stranger Things? Did it just become that anthem of the year? For me, it was that I wrote fanfiction to it and also we played it on loop while we were playing beer liquor pong on vacation. It was... super surreal. iv. go to war || nothing more Hush, my baby, make no sound Maybe we can wait each other out It's a cold war Let's go to war So, this song I actually heard driving home from my friend Alex’s after marathoning a few episodes of The Flash and it just hit me super hard. I mean, it’s a great song for my kind of ships, but also, it’s just a great song. v. smallest light || ingrid michaelson Just because you don't see us Doesn't mean that we don't exist Sometimes the smallest light Shines so bright I think I originally found this song on the Watercast playlist on spotify? And I really liked it, because I like most of the songs on that playlist, but like. I was driving to work one day and like, just got hit with the biggest plot bunny for Will and El as siblings. And like, I just had that bunny and this song percolating in my head for the rest of the day, and the song just kind of stuck with me. This song is Will and El’s anthem. vi. my friends || oh wonder Can I beat within your heart? Can I bleed within your love? Oh my friends

Okay, so like show of hands- who here has read We Were Liars? This is a mostly hypothetical question because I’m not sure anyone actually pays attention to these anymore but I like them, so fuck it. Point is, I was listening to the watercast playlist a lot while reading that book and this song was playing when we made certain discoveries that most of us had already guessed, and it made me cry. vii. knocking on heaven’s door || raign It's gettin' dark, too dark to see I feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door

This fanvid happened around the time I was writing that Will and El as siblings fic and I basically played it and the video that inspired the next song on the list on repeat until I finished. This cover is lovely and haunting and just, such a freaking earworm.

viii. remembrance || balmorhea instrumental Yeah, this is the video. I actually used this song in a fanvid of my own a couple years ago, when I got to make a fanvid for @iki-teru‘s fantastic Yuffie-centric fic All Through the Circling Years which... I can no longer find, so maybe it was taken down? Either way, I loved the song immensely before, but that fanvid with Hopper is so fucking tragic and beautiful. ix. hazy shade of winter || hidden citizens Seasons change with the scenery Weaving time in a tapestry Won't you stop and remember me

There... are a lot of songs on here that are also on my Stranger Things playlist. And I’m a sucker for haunting covers. x. time after time || joseph william morgan If you fall I will catch you, I will be waiting Time after time This is the last of the Stranger Things songs. Well, at least the last of the ones that aren’t Harringrove related. Another fanvid that caught me off guard, because just. Damn. There are so many beautiful fanvids for this fandom, it kills me dead. xi. live in the moment || portugal. the man Come back Sunday morning With that soul to sell When you're gone Goodbye, so long, farewell Not 100% sure where I first heard this one, but it stayed with me for a good portion of the spring and summer. I discovered their song feel it still around this time last year too, so clearly they’re just a real good jam for when you want to feel the sun on your back. xii. killmonger || ludwig goransson instrumental

There are a couple songs from the Black Panther soundtrack on the longer version of this mix, three from the score and one, maybe two from the credits. I freaking loved that movie so damn much, but it’s soundtrack blew my goddamn mind. It is literally all I listened to for weeks, and this song in particular fucked me right the hell up. Just listen to the flutes and the bass. Just, damn. Killmonger, you’ve got the best theme in the entire movie. xiii. daddy issues || the neighbourhood I'd do whatever I could do I'd run away and hide with you I love that you got daddy issues And I do too And heeeere it is. This was the first song that I associated with Harringrove for uh, very obvious reasons. Definitely had this and a few others on repeat whenever I had to write sexy scenes for the boys. xiv. no roots || alice merton I like digging holes and hiding things inside them When I'll grow old, I hope I won't forget to find them 'Cause I've got memories and travel like gypsies in the night

This song hits the same part of me that fell absolutely in love with Guts when I first heard it. Alice Merton’s voice is just fantastic. xv. run for your life || k.flay Bite off the venomous head Follow the chemical scent Look for the hole in the fence Take everything you demand

I got to see K.Flay in concert sometime late last year, and even though I didn’t know her very well (I told my friend that I’d see K.Flay with him if he saw Glass Animals with me) her music was sweet enough that I could appreciate the concert even knowing none of the songs. Let me tell you though, I fucking wish she’d played this song then because holy fuck. xvi. play with fire || sam tinnesz Insane, inside the danger gets me high Can't help myself got secrets I can't tell I love the smell of gasoline I light the match to taste the heat Kuroshitsuji is something I haven’t really thought about in like half a decade. And then I ended up seeing this vid while I was waiting for my connecting plane to arrive so I could go see my family. I only saw the damn thing because it was made by the same person who did this one, which I hunted down because I was reading Yuri On Ice fic on the plane and the point is: pingvi is amazing and all of their vids are a goddamn delight. xvii. the sailor song || autoheart I was your sailor, your demon Your lover, your overbearing best friend Hoping for some attention

So, while I was down visiting my family sometime during the spring, I had a brief dizzying spiral where I fell head over face into the Pacific Rim fandom, because Uprising quite emphatically fucked me up. Anyway, because of this I spent the night after I saw it scrolling through fanart and reading half a decade old fanfiction while my brother was trying to make me pay attention to him. And yeah, that’s how I found this art and listened to this song for like the rest of the fucking year. xviii. warrior || steve james I got my head high, my chest out, my eyes open wide I got no fear, got no doubt and, god, I feel alive I'm not stopping for ya, I'm a fucking warrior

My brother showed me a bunch of fanvids on my first day down there, but my favorite was this one, because I’d recently watched Little Witch Academia and this was so freaking cute and all kinds of lovely. xix. iv. sweatpants || childish gambino Rich kid, asshole: paint me as a villain

Another thing that happened to me that week was the discovery of lipgallagher’s fantastic harringrove fic (shoot the lights out, hide) till its bright out. Which is all kinds of great and lead me to this song and the realization that Donald Glover does music? xx. hello || via audio How could it be Someone could find me Too scary to say hello to This was one of the songs on Damien’s fanmix from The Bright Sessions. And because The Bright Sessions suckerpunched me with feelings, I spent like a month straight listening to that mix and getting into that garbage man’s headspace. It was wonderful. xxi. daddy || emeli sande He's out your system yeah it took you a while You got your family back and you got your smile And you promised your sister that you'd never go back again I spent the better half of this year shipping Harringrove and Mark/Damien, which are both ships that are... well, not exactly the healthiest of relationships. Mark/Damien fucking ruined me. Listening to the last bit of The Bright Sessions was basically physically painful because like, okay. Logically I know that Damien is a garbage person. But also, he’s got a shitty power that would lead to some pretty interesting moral dilemmas even if you were a normal nice person (cough cough Mark), and like. They’re both so fucked up and Damien is so in love with Mark even if he’s not entirely sure how to be a fucking person and I have never had a pairing come after me as hard as this one did. Like it really came after me. Anyway, this was my true Damien/Mark anthem, because it’s fucking perfect and awful and fantastic and I just want them back in my life, guys.

xxii. paradise valley || honey and the sting In the past I lay out on the land Stretched my legs felt my chest expand If we could flow together someday Then we will float away

This here is my most played track of 2018. I first heard it during the special two hour episode of Wolf 359 and the whole end of that episode just blew my mind. So I immediately went to spotify, found it, and have basically listened to it all year since then. It helps that Nick loves it too, so every once in a while he’ll be playing it, which reminds me why I love it and just. It’s so soulful and beautiful.

xxiii. attila the king || nick glennie-smith instrumental

Yeah, I literally have no idea how this made it to the top 50 much less the top five, but apparently it did. It is really good writing music, but still.

xxiv. foolish || lauren shippen The impossible happens every day No matter what you do it won’t go away Don’t ask for more But then what are you waiting for

This was my year for podcasts - in one year I fell in love with Wolf 359, The Bright Sessions, and EOS 10 all over again when it came back for its third season. Near the end of the series though, The Bright Sessions did a musical episode! I listened to it in my car on my way to work and basically spent the entire freaking time smiling like an idiot. Truly my favorite episode. xxv. experience || ludovico einaudi instrumental

The Sense8 finale came out in June and it was absolutely wonderful. This song was playing during the last scene of the series and I fucking cried my eyes out. The song itself is fucking gorgeous, but what’s more is it made that last scene so much more than it would have been if they’d chosen any other song. It truly was, and forgive the corniness, a fucking experience. xxvi. singing in the rain || through juniper I'm singin' in the rain Just singin' in the rain What a glorious feeling I'm happy again I went through a phase in June-July where I checked out a bunch of old movies from the library. The first one was Philadelphia, because it was mentioned in the musical episode of The Bright Sessions and I just really wanted to watch it? But I also picked up Singing In The Rain, because I’d never seen it before and just, damn. I watched it before work and it was raining that day and the drive to work was the most fun because I just listened to different covers of the song and sang my heart out, and I was just so damn happy. It was dumb, and nice, and it probably going to be one of my happiest memories that I take with me into the new year. xxvii. hello stranger || barbara lewis Hello, stranger (ooh) It seems so good to see you back again How long has it been? (ooh, seems like a mighty long time)

I also watched Moonlight sometime in late June. It was one of those quiet nights where nothing really seems good enough, where you feel just a little bit empty inside and nothing is helping. So I watched the movie and read @notbecauseofvictories‘s A Cornstalk Fiddle on my back porch afterwards and the movie combined with the fic and the music turned that quiet empty night into something just as quiet, but a million times more full. Another good memory from 2018 that’ll stay with me for awhile.

xxviii. end credits suite | nicholas britell instrumental From the end credits of Moonlight - I played both this and Hello Stranger on repeat while I finished up the fic I mentioned above.

xxix. ahead by a century | the tragically hip No dress rehearsal This is our life

I watched Anne With An E. I was sad a lot at the time, and got to a part early on in the second season that kind of lead me into an uncomfortable headspace so I actually still haven’t finished it? But it was really nice for awhile, and I hope to go back and finish it sometime.

xxx. achilles come down | gang of youths Just humour us, Achilles, Achilles, come down Won’t you get up off, get up off the roof?

I’m not 100% sure where I found this song either? My gut reaction is that it was a song I found while I was reading either The Cruel Prince or The Goblin Emperor, but I’m not sure. Good song, though.

xxxi. without you | leslie odom jr. The earth turns The sun burns But I die Without you

Oh man, I found this cover one night while I was reading, and like, I was reading, so at first I didn’t really process what I was hearing, just that it was familiar and that I liked it. And then my brain connected the dots and I looked up and saw that it was a cover by Leslie Odom Jr and immediately restarted the song and just listened.

xxxii. natural | imagine dragons Deep inside me, I'm fading to black, I'm fading Took an oath by the blood of my hand, won't break it I can taste it, the end is upon us, I swear Yeah. I like Imagine Dragons. Honestly though - this one might not have made the cut if I hadn’t heard it a few months later on an EOS 10 playlist.

xxxiii. sky full of song | florence & the machine Grab me by my ankles I've been flying for too long I couldn't hide from the thunder In the sky full of song So, a while back there was that video going around where Florence literally sang this song while a storm started up around her, and like, that was the first time I heard this song? That was the first I heard that she even came out with a new album, so I basically sat down and listened to the whole thing, but this one was still my favorite.

xxxiv. broken people | logic & rag’n’bone man Broken we ain't beaten There's no glory in defeat We won't fall into the cracks between our streets

I uh, may have watched a couple fanvids after Infinity War. This was one of them.

xxxv. flesh and bone | black math Break the truth inside of me Climbed down to hell on the devil’s tree I clutched a branch of soot and flame The thought that rose, to scorch my feet

I walk alone Beside myself Nowhere to go

This was another.

xxxvi. nina cried power | hozier It's not the song, it is the singin' It's the heaven of the human spirit ringin' It is the bringin' of the line It is the bearin' of the lie It's not the wakin', it's the risin'

So last year Take Me To Church made it to my Top 38 or whatever I had it narrowed down to, mostly because I went through a Les Mis phase. But I kind of joked on that post last year about Hozier releasing an album next year and how unlikely it was, and lo, here we have it. Maybe not a full length album, but five new beautiful songs.

xxxvii. kol nidrey | the yuval ron ensemble Nidrana lo nidrei, V'essarana lo essarei Ush'vuatana lo shevuot. Maggie Stiefvater posted this song to her blog a couple months ago and I was really fond of it. It’s incredibly beautiful.

xxxviii. stronger | the score I do this with conviction I write truths and never fiction My disease is what you fed I can't stop with my ambition

Oh look, another Marvel fanvid.

xxxix. rise like a phoenix || conchita wurst I rise up to the sky You threw me down but I'm gonna fly So honestly, basically the rest of the mix are songs from Ryan’s OR mix which is an official EOS 10 playlist. It’s phenomenal, and I basically spent all of October and some of November getting stuck on various songs in the mix. xl. heroes || mars zelmerlow Don't tell the gods I left a mess I can't undo what has been done Let's run for cover

Yup. Giving me feels and also super catchy.

xli. cut to the feeling | carly rae jepson Ah, I wanna cut through the clouds, break the ceiling I wanna dance on the roof, you and me alone I wanna cut to the feeling, oh yeah Okay, but like - why did nobody tell me that Carly Rae Jepson had other songs and they were super fucking catchy? I spent the last few days of being a waitress driving to work blaring this and the last two songs and it did fucking wonders for my mood.

xlii. the greatest show | hugh jackman Ladies and gents, this is the moment you've waited for (woah) Been searching in the dark, your sweat soaking through the floor (woah) And buried in your bones there's an ache that you can't ignore Taking your breath, stealing your mind And all that was real is left behind

Breaking news, The Greatest Showman was amazing and I cried. I fucking missed hearing Hugh Jackman sing, and like the fucking lead up, of starting the movie with this song and then ENDING it with this song, with that performance, with those fucking lines (this is the moment you’ve waited for) - was so goddamn energizing. I just could not fucking deal.

xliii. the plains/bitter dancer | fleet foxes I should have known one day you would come All of us walk so blind in the sun Midnight feeder, beggar pleader

Okay, okay. So there's this playlist called Wet Black Leaves that I listened to a lot when I started my new job, throughout rainy October and November, everything was just a little too wet and a little too cold, and this whole mix is so atmospheric and gorgeous. I absolutely adore it.

xliv. always starting over | idina menzel Am I always Starting over? In a brand new story Am I always Back at one After all I've done?

The finale of Wolf 359 fucked everyone up, right? Yeah, obviously. Okay, well the final episode of season 3 of EOS 10 also fucked me right the hell up. Like we’re talking messy crying in the car on the way to your like second or third day at the new job. Anyway, I kind of spiraled and then I went back and listened to Ryan’s mix and found this song and just wanted to kick my heart around for awhile.

xlv. if i could turn back time | cher If I could reach the stars I'd give 'em all to you Then you'd love me, love me, like you used to do If I could turn back time MESSY CRYING. But like, I also really like this song. So MESSY CRYING and also screaming all these words as loudly as I can within the relatively safe confines of my car. I guarantee you that people next to me at stop lights thought that I’d gone through a messy breakup.

xlvi. new rules | dua lipa Three: Don't be his friend You know you're gonna wake up in his bed in the morning And if you're under him, you ain't gettin' over him Okay, but also some of the Ryan songs were catchy in a not heart breaking way, unless you think about the untold story of what exactly went on between Ryan and Akmazian and fill in the blanks and break your own heart.

xlvii. fernando | cher There was something in the air that night The stars were bright, Fernando They were shining there for you and me

Cher did an entire cover album of Abba songs in like, late October, I think? And like, my little gay heart fucking exploded and I listened to Cher singing ABBA songs for like three whole weeks and it was fucking fantastic. This... was actually not my favorite of the bunch until I went into a Barnes and Noble to pick up a copy of The Wise Man’s Fear and had a completely transformative experience when I heard it playing softly over the stacks.

xlviii. it’s quiet uptown | kelly clarkson If I could spare his life If I could trade his life for mine He’d be standing here right now And you would smile, and that would be enough

And after a brief detour into delightful cher/abba combinations we’re back to tragic EOS 10 songs. Additionally, I’m sick of Hamilton songs fucking me up. I get to see it in person in 2019 and I’m going to make a fool of myself when I cry my eyes out in front of Nick and our friends.

xlix. movement | hozier So move me, baby Shake like the bough of a willow tree You do it naturally

And just when I thought we were just going to get the four songs out of Hozier in 2018, we got this gem, which I think I like more than all the others.

l. seasons of love | rent cast Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes How do you measure the life Of a woman or a man?

I will never be over this song. I will never be over this musical. Merry Christmas, guys.

#heather says what #music makes the world go round #fuck yeah fanmixes #new year's memes #2018

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1. A song you’re ashamed of liking: “Black Widow”-Iggy Azalea and Rita Ora

2. Favorite lyrics: “And just to clear the air, I ask forgiveness for the things I’ve done you blame me for.” For Good

3. Favorite band/artist: Respectively, Linkin Park and Rachel Platten

4. Top 5 favorite songs at this moment: Lonely No More- Rob Thomas, Yeah!-Usher, I Like It-Cardi B and J.Balvin, Taki Taki- Selena Gomez, No Roots-Alice Merton

5. Latest song that made you smile: Get It Faster-Jimmy Eat World (by coming up on shuffle)

6. An overrated band: Coldplay

7. An overrated song: Shallow by Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga. It’s just nice extremely overplayed

8. Latest song that made you cry: You Belong-Rachel Platten

9. Artist/band that saved your life: Rachel Platten

10. If you could see any band/artist live, who would it be? Either Rachel for the fourth (!) time or Florence and the Machine again, because her performances are incredible.

11. What song/album/band/artist always brings back memories for you? Low- T-Pain, Headstrong by Ashley Tisdale, Linkin Park, and Hilary Duff respectively

12. Saddest song you know: Lost on You-LP

13. Favorite song to sing in the shower? Still Let It Go...

14. If you played an instrument in grade school, what was it? Violin and clarinet!

15. What song would you like to have your first dance to? Only Hope- Mandy Moore

16. 5 songs to have sex to: Collide-Rachel Platten, LoveGame-Lady Gaga, Hips Don’t Lie-Shakira, Touch-a-Touch-a-Touch Me, Wild Thoughts-Rihanna and Bryson Tiller

17. One band you’d have get back together/bring back from the dead: Linkin Park. It’s not the same without Chester.

18. You’re forced to listen to only one album for the rest of your life, what album is it? Toss up between Rachel’s Wildfire and Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory

19. A song that gets you through shit: The Winner Takes It All-ABBA

20. A song to shut everything out: No More Sorrow-Linkin Park

21. A song that’s a joke between you and your friends: In the End by Linkin Park, we all tried to memorize the lyrics in high school, and I actually succeeded (and still know them).

22. A song to jam out to at 4 AM: I Love It- Icona Pop and Charli XCX

23. A song that punches you in the gut every single time: For Good from Wicked

24. A song that calms you down: Let Your Heart Hold Fast-Fort Atlantic

25. A song that makes you feel alive: Electric Twist-A Fine Frenzy

26. If you could get any lyrics tattooed, which would you choose? “And love if your wings are broken, borrow mine so yours can open too.” Stand by You- Rachel Platten

27. What band/artist would you get your kids addicted to? Queen

28. Can you play any instruments? Answered

29. If you could be a member of any band for one show, which would it be? Florence and the Machine

30. CDs or vinyl? CDs

31. 25 songs to play at your funeral? No. Just one: Leave Out All the Rest-Linkin Park

32. What are some song titles that you love? Love the Way You Lie, anything by Fall Out Boy really

33. If your life ended today, what song would you choose to represent it? I’m Just a Kid- Simple Plan

34. Can you give me a 10 song playlist on _? Mental breakdown. Control-Halsey, Gasoline-Halsey, By Myself- Linkin Park, Ship to Wreck- Florence and the Machine, Bring Me to Life- Evanescence, Imaginary- Evanescence, Human- Christina Perri, Better Off Alone-Alice Deejay, Heavy-Linkin Park, Demons- Imagine Dragons

35. A heartwrenching song: Total Eclipse of the Heart-Bonnie Tyler

36. A band or artist you’re proud of: MY GIRL BAECHEL

37. A song that has a lot of meaning to you: Ghost-Ella Henderson

38. A song that reminds you of school: You didn’t specify when, so I’ll give 3: Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em for middle school, Tik Tok-Ke$ha for high school, Starships-Nicki Minaj for college

39. A song not sung in your native language: Dragostea din Tei-O-Zone (Numa Numa)

40. An instrumental song: Pan’s Labyrinth lullaby

41. A classical song: Hall of the Mountain King-Edvard Grieg

42. A song with no percussion: Hallelujah-Jeff Buckley

43. Something you’ve heard performed live: Human-Christina Perri

44. Something you’d give ANYTHING to hear performed live: Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen

45. A song by a band/artist from your town/state/province: Perfect for You-Rachel Platten

46. A song made suddenly precious because of a special someone: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For-U2 (my mom)

47. A song made suddenly painful because of someone special: Ain’t It Fun-Paramore

48. A song that demands lip synching and a makeshift microphone: We Will Rock You-Queen

49. A song from a band/artist you met/know: None

50. A song that you would rock at karaoke: Me and My Broken Heart-Rixton

51. A song that you can’t help but dance to: Havana-Camila Cabello

52. A song that makes you want to dance on a table: Boom Boom Boom Boom-Vengaboys

53. Your 10 song stripper playlist: Relax-Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Get Low-Ying Yang Twins, Pour Some Sugar on Me- Def Leppard, Cherry Pie-Warrant, Worth It-Fifth Harmony, Toxic- Britney Spears, S&M- Rihanna, Milkshake-Kelis, Hot in Herre- Nelly, In da Club- 50 Cent

54. Favorite Disney song: Reflection-Mulan

55. A song that starts with the first letter of your name: My Immortal- Evanescence (I had to)

56. A song from an artist still alive: Identified-Vanessa Hudgens

57. A song from an artist who’s dead: Imagine- John Lennon

58. A song you love by an artist/band you hate: Crazy Train-Ozzy Osbourne

59. A song you love with a color in the title: 99 Red Balloons-Nena

60. A song you love with a number in the title: 1,2 Step-Ciara

61. A song that reminds you of someone you’d rather forget about: Teenage Dream-Katy Perry

62. A song that needs to be played loud: We’re Not Gonna Take It- Twisted Sister

63. A song that makes you think about life: Eleanor Rigby-the Beatles

64. 15 songs that get stuck in your head easily: No

65. A song that you think everyone should listen to: Wavin’ Flag-K’NAAN

66. A song that makes you want to fall in love: All of Me- John Legend

67. A song that makes you think about him/her: Girlfriend-Avril Lavigne

68. A song that you remember from your childhood: Who Let the Dogs Out- Baja Men

69. A song that reminds you of you: I believe I’m contractually obligated to say Stand by You- Rachel Platten

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