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February: The Engine Driver
Challenge: alternative utensil
#handlettering#song lyrics#lettering the decemberists#happy mail#iroshizuku kon-peki#what a gorgeous ink#scissors were a surprisingly satisfying writing utensil#and comfortable to grip#time lapse video under the cut
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• The Wanting Comes In Waves •
#hopefully this will post fine#i’m actually really pleased with this#Virgil Acheron#durge#bg3#the dark urge#bg3 fanart#baldur's gate 3#modern au#oc art#ocs#art#my art#the decemberists#also i did the lettering by hand because i am nothing if not a lunatic
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more calligraphy! both i and my sister (@mxmalvolio) worked on this medieval-manuscript-inspired page. i did the calligraphy, the capital letters, and the drop capital "I" as well as the outlines for the borders. she did the paintings all in the borders, all the miniatures, and the figure inside the drop cap.
for context, the text is an abridged version of "The Legionnaire's Lament", a song by the Decemberists.
behold
#finally making something of my own design instead of copying theshitpostcalligrapher's designs#calligraphy#art#the decemberists#artists on tumblr#medieval
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Author Spotlight: Bam Stroker
Today, we're bringing you a special musical guest post from Bam Stroker, author of the current club read Rusalka. Read on to learn more about the music that inspired this erotic retelling of the slavic rusalka myth!
When you think of a lady in a lake, what comes to mind? For me, it’s the haunting trickster of the Rusalka!
Rusalka/Rusalki folklore exists in a pretty far reach, and the folklore for them is fascinating. Most folks will call them the “slavic mermaid”, but that’s not quite right. These ladies do not have fish tails! They hold a history much closer to nixie and nymphs, tied to the land. Until later in time they became associated with women who met their untimely deaths. Usually, by their own doing after losing the love of a man. Where they would then become haunting spirits that would seduce, trick, and drag anyone who dared come by their dwellings to a watery grave.
I first heard about them through the song Rusalka, Rusalka/ Wild Rushes by the Decemberists. When I listened to it, I was absolutely possessed to write a story where a woman runs to the lady of the lake, and instead of death finds love. It’s a setup we all know so well by now, of the historical lesbian gets hitched to a man and runs away to escape it all. And there have been plenty of historical lesbian stories where that escape is usually of the death variety.
Rusalka is a love letter to the complex history of Rusalki, and the stories we have been told about lesbians in history. For once, they both get a fairytale happy ending.
Music is a huge inspiration to me as a writer, especially of the folk variety, and while writing Rusalka I had many different songs on loop throughout the process. The first one is that Decemberists song:
Rusalka, Rusalka / Wild Rushes
While reading the story, music is very present with Sasha singing to the lady of the lake, earning the loving nickname of “Handsome songbird” from her smitten monster. One of the songs hinted at is from the opera Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák. For any Hans Christian Anderson fans out there, you’ll notice the plot of it is very familiar.
Song to the Moon - Rusalka Opera by Antonín Dvořák
Rusalka: “Song to the Moon”
When it comes to folk songs about Rusalki, Kitka’s The Rusalka Cycle: Songs Between Worlds album truly is an amazing inspiration. I’m still on the hunt for Rusalka folk songs, so if you happen to know of any I would be so excited to hear them. In the meantime, here’s a song to set the mood of Sasha’s mad dash to the lake at the start of the story.
To the Lake - Kitka
As far as other music, the songs I had on loop while writing were folk songs from different areas of the region. Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, volume III, from The Bulgarian State Television Female Choir has got to be the most on loop music of them all though. I can almost hear them in my sleep at this point!
Here are some of those below:
Svatba (The Wedding) - Bulgarian State Television Female Choir
Solo Gousli - Stars of St. Petersburg
Kukułeczka - Mazowsze
Two Guitars - Andreyev Balalaika Ensemble
Echo of the steppes - Ukrainian Bandurist Ensemble
Whether you want to talk about monster folklore, monster fuckery, or have any monster folk songs recs, you can find Bam Stroker on their tumblr! Or if you’d like to peruse their erotic tomes, you can find them on itchio ✨💀✨
#wlw books#booklr#lgbt books#book recs#sapphic books#diverse books#fantasy#paranormal#rusalka#bam stroker#music
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I was tagged by @brendadaaedestler (thank you!) to “Spell your url with song titles and then tag as many people as there are letters.”
W - "We Both Go Down Together" - the Decemberists
H - "Hey Lover!" - Wabie
E - "Eat Your Young" - Hozier
E - "Everything Is Simple" - Widowspeak
L - "La Fama" - Rosalía, The Weeknd
O - "On This Night of a Thousand Stars" - ALW (Evita)
F - "Flightless Bird, American Mouth" - Iron & Wine
F - "The Fruits" - Paris Paloma
I - "I Think I Need a New Heart" - the Magnetic Fields
S - "Should've Been Me" - Mitski
H - "He Doesn't Know Why" - Fleet Foxes
Tagging @consistantly-changing @devilswalkingstick @maddenedbythesstars @dying-suffering-french-stalkers @lestatslestits @bogglebabbles @shinyfire-0 @musicalyikes @when-it-rains-it-snows @aminta @tallestsilver
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Thanks for the tags!!! @attapullman and @goldenseresinretriever
Rules: pick a song for every letter of your URL and tag someone
R: Rebel Rebel by David Bowie
O: O-o-h Child by The Five Stairsteps
O: Only Happy When It Rains by Garbage
S: So Fresh, So Clean by Outkast
T: Tired of Waiting for You by The Kinks
E: Every 1's a Winner by Hot Chocolate
R: Rio by Duran Duran
F: Feeling This by Blink-182
O: Odalisque by The Decemberists
R: Remote Control by Beastie Boys
M: Mixed Bizness by Beck
E: Euro-Trash Girl by Cracker
Tagging anyone who wants to play!
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What Are We Doing?
WARNING! This show is for adults. We drink cocktails, have potty mouths and, at least, one of us was raised by wolves.
The Clockwork Cabaret is a production of Agony Aunt Studios. Featuring that darling DJ Duo, Lady Attercop and Emmett Davenport. Our theme music is made especially for us by Kyle O’Door.
This episode aired on Mad Wasp Radio, 03.03.24.
New episodes air on Mad Wasp Radio on Sundays @ 12pm GMT! Listen at www.madwaspradio.com or via TuneIn radio app!
Playlist:
Cecily Strong & The Cast of Schmigadoon! – I Need to Eat
Sarah La Puerta – Chocolate Cake
Biscuithead & the Biscuit Badgers – The Tea’s Made
The Two Man Gentlemen Band – Fancy Beer
Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three – Drinkin’ Whiskey Tonight
Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox – Drunk in Love
April Smith and the Great Picture Show – Movie Loves a Screen
Benjamin Clementine – Cornerstone
Scissor Sisters – Let’s Have a Kiki
Mystery Skulls – Amazing
Miike Snow – Genghis Khan
Electric Guest – This Head I Hold
Django Django – Default
The Drums – Money
Beirut – Santa Fe
Arcade Fire – Rebellion (Lies)
TV On the Radio – Wolf Like Me
The Decemberists – The Chimbley Sweep
The Mountain Goats – No Children
Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins – You Are What You Love
The New Pornographers – Letter From An Occupant
The Linda Lindas – Oh!
Wet Leg – Chaise Longue
Pixies – Is She Weird
X Ray Spex – I Am a Poseur
The Damned – I Feel Alright
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers – All By Myself
Check out this episode!
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predestination
Ferris Wheel at the World's Fair, Gregory Orr | A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on its Way to the Neck, Ilya Kaminsky | Certain Magical Acts, Alice Notley | Falling Up, Will Wood | Catastrophe is Next to Godliness, Franny Choi | La mano destra che sa cosa fa la sinistra (2011), Giovanni Gasparo | Moby Dick, Herman Melville | Catastrophe is Next to Godliness, Franny Choi | No Evil Stars, Lynn Crosbie | & O, bright star of disaster, I have been lit, Franny Choi | Half-Hanged Mary, Margaret Atwood | Bluets, Maggie Nelson | Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect, The Decemberists
[ID under the read more!]
[ID: An assortment of quotes and images from various sources.
1. Fortune has a zero for a heart - defend / Against Her, whose wheel is noose and snare.
2. At the trial of God we will ask: why did you allow all this? /And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?
3. I’m so sticky with Fate that I can hardly move for fear of it. / Maybe the point is that you can always see or feel it coming. / The beginning and the unraveling at the same time.
4. Cut ties, shed the dead weight / I ain’t saying it’s fate, but there are no mistakes and
5. When the Bad Thing happened, I saw every blade. /And every year I find out what they’ve done to us, I shed another skin. / I get closer to open air; true north.
6. A painting of eight hands splayed in various poses against a black background, tangled together in string as if controlling a puppet.
7. tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.
8. O unsayable—O tender and divine unsayable, I knew you then: / you line straight to the planet’s calamitous core; you moment moment moment; / you intimate abyss I called sister for a good reason.
9. “I sleep more and more and in my dreams God says, ‘You’re done for’ and ‘It only gets worse’.”
10. fleshy marionette in the window, dancing / her awful, crooked dance. & isn’t that // what you paid for? isn’t that what you came / to see? a god, on loop, failing?
11. Well God, now that I’m up here / with maybe some time to kill / away from the daily / fingerwork, legwork, work / at the hen level, / we can continue our quarrel, / the one about free will. // Is it my choice that I’m dangling / like a turkey’s wattles from this / more than indifferent tree? / If Nature is Your alphabet, / what letter is this rope?
12. 220. Imagine someone saying, “Our fundamental situation is joyful.” Now imagine believing it. / 221. Or forget belief: imagine feeling, even if for a moment, that it were true.
13. And try one, and try two / I guess it always comes down to / Alright, it's okay / Guess it's better to turn this way. End ID.]
#paranoia inducing#tw religion#religion#woe be upon ye#long post#webweaving#web weave#please ask if you need anything tagged!! this is a very intense one and i dont mean to upset anybody#wubweaving
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@crabbycatt-noraitt-norai Thanks for the tag!!
Rules: Pick a song for each letter of your URL, and then tag that many people.
D – Dance Macabre (Ghost)
O – Own My Mind (Maneskin)
N – Not Gonna Die (Skillet)
T – The Great Shipwreck of Life (IAMX)
C – Culling of the Fold (The Decemberists)
A – A Good Song Never Dies (Saint Motel)
L – Lay All Your Love on Me (ABBA)
L – Laplace’s Angel (Will Wood and the Tapeworms)
M – Mark Chapman (Maneskin)
E – Emperor’s New Clothes (Panic!At The Disco)
A – Absolution (Ghost)
L – Lonely Dance (Set It Off)
G – Gossip (Maneskin)
E – Enchanté (Dirt Poor Robins)
R – Roaring 20s (Panic!At The Disco)
N – Neutron Star Collision (Muse)
O – Over the Hills and Far Away (but like – specifically the Nightwish cover)
N – Natural (Imagine Dragons)
Let me tell you, this game made me realise that I do not know, let alone listen to a lot of songs that start with the letter O or with the letter N because those took some serious thinking lmao
aaand 18 are definitely too many people to tag, so I’m gonna just leave the game to anyone who sees it on their dash and wants to steal it, as usual!
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thanks for tagging me, @novastellaris sorry it took me forever to get around to this.
Rules: Shuffle your ‘On Repeat’ playlist and post the first 10 tracks, then tag people!
Greg Laswell - How The Day Sounds
Enormita - Toge Toge Sadistic - 5nin Version
Twenty One Pilots - Formidable
dracodraco - through the light
BUMP OF CHICKEN - Souvenir
boygenius - Letter To An Old Poet
Wet Leg - Angelica
Mitski - Your Best American Girl
The Decemberists - Make You Better
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cheated Hearts
bonus track: BLACKSHAPE - ITIIITIATIIHYLIHYL
tagging: @shelbot2000 @tjerra14 and anyone else who is interested in participating
#beloved Zoltraak sadly didn't make the cut. sorry Evan Call#then again neither did Deathbrain's 'i wanna be here'#rip. list too short to list my faves. forever and always#(if anyone is ever interested in my older 'on repeat' and 'repeat rewind' playlists as well as the yearly round-ups lmk I have copies)#tag meme thingie#listen.
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21 and (rolling dice) 2
2 - song with a number in the title: Four Simple Words, Frank Turner’s love letter to punk rock shows. it tends to be the song he closes his concerts with and it’s so much fun every single time
28 - song with a person’s name in the title: Joan in the Garden by The Decemberists, a 19 minute beauty about what i can only assume is the Second Coming of Joan of Arc to lead the revolution
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March: On the Bus Mall
Challenge: 90s flashback
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:] grabbed from @ineffable-gallimaufry <3<
spell your url with song titles and then tag as many people as there are letters!
i - i will follow you into the dark - death cab for cutie
l - liability - lorde
l - lifeforms - daughter
f - flare - homestuck ost
o - on the sea - beach house
l - like the dawn - the oh hellos
l - lovely - billie eilish
o - one fast move or im gone - jay farrar & benjamin gibbard
w - wolf - first aid kit
y - yellow light - of monsters and men
o - old gods, new angels - horizon/ophelia
u - untitled 6 - sigur ros
i - icicles - the scary jokes
n - narcoleptic - placebo
t - to be enchanted - sleeping at last
o - o valencia - the decemberists
t - two birds - regina spektor
h - half light 1 - arcade fire
e - everybodys fool - evanescence
d - doom in full bloom - american football
a - always gold - radical face
r - ribs - lorde
k - karkalicious
andddd i aint taggin all those people lmaooo add on if u want
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URL Song Tag Game
RULES: Spell your url with song titles and then tag as many people as there are letters in your url
tagged by @boba-t-butch - thanks for the opportunity to inflict my music taste on people!
tagging: feel free to do or not do this
@aliaoftheknives @breenlala @dogwoodbite @eikotheblue @genderhawk @millenniumitem @molecularhomosexual
V - Vagrant Song by Darren Korb
O - Old Friend by Mitski
I - It Takes a Lot to Know a Man by Damien Rice and Cantus Domus (the Blogothèque version)
D - Drogas by Lupe Fiasco
T - True Blue by Boygenius
O - Once In My Life by The Decemberists
N - No Plan by Hozier
E - Ego Death by Polyphia (feat. Steve Vai)
#surprisingly difficult to find songs that start with o.#there are some songs i've been listening to that i wanted to rec! but#they were not one of my allotted letters
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URL Song Game
Thanks for the tag @14carrotghoul! I had a vague memory of doing this but it was more than a year ago, and besides I have a lot of favorite songs that fit these letters. So here's another selection!
RULES: spell your url with song titles and then tag as many people as there are letters
Come On! Feel the Illinoise! - Sufjan Stevens
High Ticket Attractions - The New Pornographers
All Comes Crashing - Metric
Me and the Devil - The Fratellis
E-Pro - Beck
Lonely Boy - The Black Keys
O Valencia! - The Decemberists
Dance or Die - Janelle Monáe
I'm the Man Who Loves You - Wilco
U.R.A. Fever - The Kills
Spit it Out - Brendan Benson
Tagging @loki-is-my-kink-awakening, @wolfpup026, @tedlassc, @historicallysam, @youtastelike-sunlight, @actual-sleeping-beauty, @mirilyawrites, @heytheredeann, @nicijones, @tintagel-or-cockleshells, @leaves-of-laurelin
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Url Song Tag Game
I was tagged by @ahopefulsun n_n!
Rules: spell your url with song titles and tag as many people as the letters!
Oh gosh this is a lot okay
Make it Rain (Tom Waits)
O Valencia (The Decemberists)
Oceanographer's Choice (The Mountain Goats)
Rose K. (Rasputina)
I Know Your Name (Bee and Flower)
Savior of the Waking World (Toby Fox)
Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
First Few Desperate Hours (The Mountain Goats)
La Mer (Nine Inch Nails)
One Kind of People (Amigo the Devil)
Wait For Me (Hadestown Original Broadway Cast Recording)
End Of All Hope (Nightwish)
Riches And Wonders (The Mountain Goats)
I'll tag @dsudis @xx-vergil-xx @fishfingersandscarves and anyone else who wants to give it a go <3
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