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My heart is moved by all I cannot save:
so much has been destroyed
I have to cast my lot with those
who age after age, perversely,
with no extraordinary power,
reconstitute the world.
– Adrienne Rich, excerpt of "Natural Resources," from The Dream of a Common Language, 1977
#this is not a fan blog for#adrienne rich#she was cited by both Leslie Feinberg and Janice Raymond which is. a lot.#but I keep thinking of this poem when things get bad in the world#and it helps#poetry#hope#despair#gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight#climate crisis
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pride month feeling very Lovers in a Dangerous Time (barenaked ladies cover, 1997) this year
#when you're lovers in a dangerous time sometimes you're made to feel as if you're love's a crime - mmhmm yeah#nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight; gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight - tracks
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gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight
#nimona#my art#this movie made me cry#i read the webcomic as a teenager...#it means a whole lot to me
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Chapter 7 of everywhere, everything by @lynxindisguise is up, so I have updated the playlist! I'm going to be real with you, this one made me feel feelings.
Universe 95: Musicians song lyrics and meanings behind the cut (spoilers if you haven't read the chapter!)
+ Through Me (The Flood) by Hozier
Even though this chapter takes place in the 90s, Sirius is very much a Hozier-like musician, singing political songs disguised as love songs. This song felt appropriate.
And he swims on
Turning back to shore again
Above the outer atmosphere
Of a world he's never seen
And looking down to his new home
He feels the rising of a wave and knows at once
He will not weather it
Like that man
I looked down into the depths when I met you
I couldn't measure it
Any time I'd struggled on
Against the course, out on my own
Every time, I'd burn through the world, I'd see
That the world, it burns through me
But when I'd let go (I'd let go)
+ Thinking About You by Radiohead
A classic 90s song with a dash of longing. I think this one is this universe's Remus during the years before he got with Kingsley and after whatever happened between him and Sirius fizzled out.
Been thinking about you, your records a hit
Your eyes are on my wall, your teeth are over there
But I'm still no one, and you're not a star
What do you care?
[...]
I've been thinking about you, so how can you sleep?
These people aren't your friends, they're paid to kiss your feet
They don't know what I know
Why should you care, when I'm not there?
Been thinking about you, and there's no rest
Shit, I still love you, still see you in bed
But I'm playing with myself?
What do you care when I'm not there?
+ Lover You Should Have Come Over by Jeff Buckley
I couldn't get through the playlist for this chapter without some Jeff Buckley. This is very much Sirius regretting his choices in the past.
Sometimes a man gets carried away
When he feels like should be having his fun
Much too blind to see the damage he's done
Sometimes a man must awake to find that
Really he has no one
So I'll wait for you, love
And I'll burn
Will I ever see your sweet return?
Oh, will I ever learn?
Oh-oh, lover, you should've come over
'Cause it's not too late
[...]
It's never over
My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder
+ Your Needs, My Needs by Noah Kahan
Both Sirius and Remus in this chapter seem to have different needs that keep them apart.
Oh well, who was I?
Who was I to watch you wilt?
You ain't gotta tell me what it means
Trace the outlines of your dreams
You'll always be a flower on my skin
And the pain that I am in
It's all the same
The losing touch, the waiting game
You cross that county line
I promise to be there this time, alright?
You were a work of art
That's the hardest part
Howling like dogs in the light of the moon
Holding our breath after 1:32
You asked me why I wasn't sayin' a word
I'm namin' the stars in the sky after you
+ Lovers In A Dangerous Time by Barenaked Ladies
This one for me is very much original universe Sirius and Remus. It's a cover from the 90s and also features some strings, so I felt it fit very well.
Don't the hours grow shorter as the days go by?
We never get to stop and open our eyes
One minute you're waiting for the sky to fall
And next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all
Lovers in a dangerous time
[...]
When you're lovers in a dangerous time
Sometimes you're made to feel as if your love's a crime
Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight
Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight
+ The Look You Give That Guy by The Eels
Sirius wants to be in Kingsley's shoes so bad.
I'm nothing like what I'd like to be
I'm nothing much I know it's true
I lack the style and the pedigree
And my chances are so few
That look you give that guy
I wanna see
Looking right at me
If I could be that guy
Instead of me
I'd give you all I got
I never thought that I could be so bold
To even say these thoughts aloud
But if, let's say, it won't work out
You know where I can be found
+ Paper Thin Motel by Matt Maltese
I included this cover to honour everyone's new favourite thruple. May Sirius, Kingsley and Remus be happy for many moons.
The walls of this hotel are paper-thin
Last night I heard you making love to him
The struggle mouth to mouth and limb to limb
The grunt of unity when he came in
I stood there with my ear against the wall
I was not seized by jealousy at all
In fact a burden lifted from my soul
I heard that love was out of my control
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For the ask game -- Til It Bleeds Daylight. And now PLEASE tell me -- did you grab that title from the U2 song, or from the Bruce Cockburn original? i HAVE TO KNOW, OK? 💕💕💕💕
Hi honey 🥰🥰 I gotta say I LOVE this question! I wasn’t even aware of the lyric being featured on a U2 song, I had to Google that 😂 So yes, from the Bruce Cockburn original!! I just really liked the lyric “You gotta kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight” but that was too long for the fic banner 😂 so, Till It Bleeds Daylight it is!
Since I’ve already posted part of this fic there’s very little I can say about it that wouldn’t be spoilery, but I will say that this is definitely one of the more challenging fics for me yet - I’m very much a one-shot kinda girl, never written anything above 10k(ish), and also very few fics with as much plot, but I’m really enjoying working on it so far!!
Thank you so much for asking, I hope you’re having a wonderful day 💕💕💕💕
Ask me about my WIP’s
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no offense but we gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight
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“Nothing worth havin’ comes without some kinda fight,
Gotta kick at the darkness ‘til it bleeds daylight.”
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Every brick you hurled, I’ll use to build this world
is going to be my new personal mantra
#every time i listen i find something else new that i love#why is this all so good#its going to go along with the other song lyrics ive been storing in my heart from bruce cockburn and leonard cohen#the collection is now#there's a crack in everything its how the light gets in#you gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight#there's a blaze of light in every word#every brick you hurled i'll use to build this world#maybe there's a bit of a theme here
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Gotta kick at the darkness ‘til it bleeds daylight (for the fanfic title ask)
Oh i would wanna do like, a fic about Lup and Taako growing up with this title. The whole journey of them being passed around from relative to relative, eventually staying with their aunt and then deciding to go travel with caravans after that fell through. The two of them working hard together to scrape up every little bit of magic and money they can while out on the road, eventually getting skilled enough to try out for the IPRE
#yay questions#ask me things#taz#taako#lup#this title just feels very#'we're gonna make it and fuck anyone who thinks otherwise'#which is a big young twins feel#Anonymous
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Cause-and-effect assumes history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone, an earthquake breaking centuries of tension. Sometimes one person inspires a movement, or her words do decades later; sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do; sometimes those millions are stirred by the same outrage or the same ideal, and change comes upon us like a change of weather. All that these transformations have in common is that they begin in the imagination, in hope. To hope is to gamble. It's to bet on the future, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.
Rebecca Solnit, "Hope in the Dark," first published 2004
#rebecca solnit#hope in the dark#hope#despair#resistance#books#gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight
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Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight,
Gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight...
from “Lovers in a Dangerous Time,” by Bruce Cockburn, covered by Barenaked Ladies
#music#bruce cockburn#barenaked ladies#lovers in a dangerous time#1990s#1980s#canadian#encouragement
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Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight. Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.
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3 16 and 22 <3
Hi Bea! <3
3. What was the last song you listened to?
This is one of three songs I have not been able to stop listening to over the past two days. My little brother played it in the car this weekend and it took over my brain. (It's also giving pre-hospital confession hatefuck)
16. Want any tattoos? What of?
Gosh yes!! I want so many but I have none yet so it feels like the first one should be important, you know? There are a couple lyrics I really want, including love me til my heart stops, love me til i'm dead and gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight. I would love to get a moon of some sort, also Bugs Bunny and the fat pony from the What's Opera Doc? episode (see below the cut) of the cartoon. My sister @paintedgray and I have a tattoo we want to get together, but I'm not going to explain it right now because it would take a while haha.
So. uh. yeah. A few.
22. How much sleep did you get last night?
God, not enough. I didn't get back into town until after 10pm and by the time I got home and into bed and read a bit of bedtime fic it was well after midnight. I had to get up at 7:40am for work. RIP me. I need a good eight hours to function.
♡ asks ♡
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muse playlists / post 3 - 5 songs that remind you of your muse.
rules : repost, don’t reblog.
THIS SONG HAS NO TITLE by elton john.
i. tune me in to the wild side of life / i'm an innocent young child sharp as a knife / take me to the garrets where the artists have died
ii. if i was an artist who paints with his eyes / i'd study my subject and silently cry
FLAMBOYANT by pet shop boys.
i. it all takes courage you know it / just crossing the street / well, it's almost heroic / you're so flamboyant
ii. you live in a world of excess / where more is more and less is much less
SLAVE TO LOVE by bryan ferry.
i. you're running with me / don't touch the ground / we're the restless-hearted / not the chained and bound
ii. can you help me? / i’m a slave to love
LOVERS IN A DANGEROUS TIME by bruce cockburn.
i. when you're lovers in a dangerous time / sometimes you're made to feel as if your love's a crime / but nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight
NEW YORK’S NOT MY HOME by jim croce.
i. well, things were spinning round me / and all my thoughts were cloudy / and i had begun to doubt all the things that were me
ii. it’s been so long that i have felt fine / that's the reason that i gotta get out of here / don't you know that i gotta get out of here / cause new york's not my home
( for the interested: perry’s playlist in full. )
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OTP Song Meme
I was tagged by @honekitteh! :D
What songs you associate with a couple (romantic or otherwise) of your choice?
I’m the type who inevitably compiles whole playlists for my characters, so I love this one and yes, I have character and pairing songs for daaaays.
A few particular highlights for Maia/Theron, loosely mapping the development of their relationship from Forged Alliances through the expansion storylines:
Vienna Teng, “Hope on Fire”
Gotta fight, gotta strike, 'cause there's no turning away
From what you don't want to know
Gotta see, gotta be, if they're all going astray
Don't let them take you in tow
You're a one-man shift in the weather
You're the woman who just won't sell
Climbing up and ringing the bell
Ooh, you're gonna make your mark this time
Ooh, you're gonna set your hope on fire
These are two people who are no strangers to the whole galaxy-saving biz by the time they actually meet. Theron in particular is pretty jaded, but though they take very different approaches on the surface, they turn out to share a lot of the same values and motivations.
Barenaked Ladies, “Lovers in a Dangerous Time”
Don't the hours grow shorter as the days go by
You never get to stop and open your eyes
One minute you're waiting for the sky to fall
The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all
Two people with next to no idea how to actually have a relationship, trying to figure it out while, you know, running an interstellar war against an invading empire. There’s a reason I used this one as the title of my Theron/Maia minific collection on AO3.
Also, “gotta kick at the darkness ‘til it bleeds daylight” is just... such a Theron kind of a line.
Vienna Teng, “The Atheist Christmas Carol”
It's the season of scars and of wounds in the heart
Of feeling the full weight of our burdens
It's the season of bowing our heads in the wind
And knowing we are not alone in fear
Not alone in the dark
Don't forget
Don't forget I love, I love, I love you
Coming out of the other side of the trauma parade that was the Fractured Alliances arc, into forgiveness and healing.
There’s a lot of Vienna Teng on my Maia playlist.
Jackson Browne, “Sky Blue and Black”
And I'd have fought the world for you
If I thought that you wanted me to
Or put aside what was true or untrue
If I'd known that's what you needed
What you needed me to do
But the moment has passed by me now
To have put away my pride and just come through for you somehow
If you ever need holding
Call my name, I'll be there
If you ever need holding
And no holding back, I'll see you through
Sky blue and black
The other post-Nathema Theron/Maia song.
#swtor#theron shan#oc: maia sunder#the adventures of jedi knight and disaster spy#music#tag meme#honekitteh#thanks for the tag!#just in time for#theron thursday
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