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swordarmsaxelegs · 8 months

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Hi :) I was tagged by @macleod to be a part of this chain. Here's my top 5 songs on repeat (in no particular order)

Shinedown - What a Shame

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Shinedown is one of my favourite bands of all time and this song is from my favourite album that they released. It was hard to narrow it down to just one song of theirs to include in this list, so I thought about a recent playlist I've been listening to and decided that this the one I have been most likely to loop out of all of them.

Shinedown is pretty mainstream among metal/alt-rock fans, but if you're not familiar with them or even if you're not usually a fan of those genres then I recommend checking them out. Some of their songs on this album kind of border country territory. I have also listened to some of their more recent post-grunge stuff and think it's a bit pop-y, so I'm sure there's something everyone would enjoy.

Vansire - Metamodernity

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I don't have much to say about this one. A girl I had a crush on once used this song as background noise in her Instagram story. I'm not sure anymore if I like this song because of her or if I like her because of this song. All I can say is that there was a couple of months where I would only listen to this.

Tom Cardy - Level Clear!

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I haven't been able to get enough of this song since Mr. Cardy posted it four months ago and it is embarrassing. If you're not familiar with his work, Tom makes silly musical videos for Tik Tok and YouTube. I love his videos, he's very creative and entertaining, but this song has no right to go this hard.

Allie X - Old Habits Die Hard

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I could probably list Allie X as a top 5 artist on repeat. She was my introduction to the synth pop genre and I think her music is consistently great. I picked this song specifically because it's a lot of fun and one that I'm always excited to hear when it comes on shuffle. As for an album I would recommend, most of her songs that I listen to come from Collxtion, No 1. This song in particular appears on two albums, but I haven't personally listened to the newer version of the song. I'm sure it's great, though.

System of a Down - Aerials

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I am very sorry to include this one in the list, but it would be wrong of me not to. One time I was listening to this song so much that it started to become a problem for me. I would try to sleep and this song would be on loop in my brain. I tried learning all of the lyrics so I could sing it to myself because I read that songs get stuck in your head because your brain likes to see things through to the end, but then that just made it worse. I didn't even play this video before sharing it here because I'm scared that if I do it will happen again. This is absolutely one of my all time favourite songs and also I would like to start a conspiracy that System of a Down songs are so weird because they're trying to lock us into a trance.

As a bonus, I was thinking of including Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box because there was a period where I would listen to that song a lot, but I figured everybody on Tumblr can probably say the same thing and I had to limit this to only five songs.

I haven't been very talkative on here since I came back a few years ago, so I don't have anybody to tag in this. If you see this post and think it would be fun to participate then feel free to share your own top 5 and tag me in it :) Maybe it could turn out to be a way to make some new friends on here :D

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cheesybadgers · 2 years

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Thanks for the tag @acrossthesestars 😘

So the rules are to list three fics: your most popular and then two hidden gems!

My most popular: It depends which platform we’re talking about, because my AO3 and Tumblr stats vary quite a bit. On Tumblr, it’s Healing Hands (Horacio Carrillo x Female reader) but on AO3 it’s You Can Try To Lie (Javier Peña x Steve Murphy). Interestingly, whilst I’m proud of both fics and had fun writing them, neither are my personal favourites, so make of that what you will about the concept of popularity 😂

My first hidden gem: I’m going to have to say Old Habits Die Hard (Javier Peña x Horacio Carrillo) purely because it’s a rarepair, but this is based more on Tumblr than AO3. I think I’ve thrown everything including the kitchen sink at this passion project by this point lolol (and I promise it will be finished one day, hopefully sooner rather than later). Such a huge learning curve and definitely the biggest writing challenge I’ve set myself to date, but also the most rewarding ❤️

My second hidden gem: Last Christmas whilst I was in my Maurice Compte feelings and had re-watched There is a New World Somewhere, I wrote In Another Life (Esteban x Female reader). I feel like about ten people have watched this film lol, so it’s pretty niche but I like the way it turned out and it mirrored how I was feeling about the festive season at the time.

No pressure tags: @massivecolorspygiant, @fromthedeskoftheraven, @obiknights, @e-dubbc11, @ejunkiet and anyone else who wants to play!

#Tag games #Fan Fiction #Fan Fic #Narcos #Horacio Carrillo x reader #Javier Peña x Steve Murphy #Javier Peña x Horacio Carrillo #There is a New World Somewhere #Esteban x reader

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