but you can't take the girl out of the fanmix

[mauvais_pli]

I have two words for you: КИНДРЕТ. It hit me suddenly over the last ten days or so and in the midnight space between today and yesterday it tripled in volume, but time is running out, so I'm posting as is, no proper tags or title or cover -- but then my lovely audience of three may choose their favourite illustrations to serve as covers, y/y?

Comments

[ladyamaly]

I have no idea what fandom the artwork belongs to, but it's pretty damn gorgeous. Especially the first one, that's my absolute favorite. Who's the guy?

About the fanmix: all I can say is that I'm able to enjoy it even though I have no idea what fandom the songs are supposed to relate to. But as long as there is Vienna Teng, I'm there. :D And I'll never say no to the possibility of discovering new songs.

[mauvais_pli]

Ohhhhhh, your words are music to me! XD

This is for Kindred, a russian urban fantasy book series about clannish feuding vampires and their forefather from another world who gets a bit out of control. The first guy is the protagonist on the first book and generally author's baby, Darel Ericson. He's telepathic, and belong to the clan that prises diplomacy and manipulation and is the prime advocate for not killing humans to feed (also they'll smother you with love. Basically, ikel89) Also he meets this human boy whom he obsessively and adorably befriends and eventually makes his best friend perform a super-crazy, super-dangerous ritual when his enemies turn the boy -- to make him human again. It is a case of the biggest accidental (on the author's part) HoYay EVER -- 'Rome' by Phoenix is their ship song. 'Fires' by Band of Skulls is Darel's clan's song

[ladyamaly]

Antebellum is one of my favorite songs evah. That, and Cannonball. I love Cannonball. Vienna Teng in general is totally awesome because she has a lovely voice and her lyrics are usually perfection as well.

Awww, man, that sounds so interesting! Do you think I could illegally download it in English from somewhere, because accidental HoYay+ feuding clans of vampires + hotness = CRISTA WANTS.

And I'll always want song recs, because how else will I discover new soooongs? Kay even sent me this big ass mix of with maaaaany songs a while back, and suddenly my favorite bands list gets updated with Blue October and Poets of the Fall [which I had heard off before, but I never really listened to them properly, before her.]

P.S. - Have I told you how much I love your Disco!Kit icon? Because it's lovely. He looks ready to boogie. Get jiggy with it. All groovy. You get my point. :D

[mauvais_pli]

Antebellum is justt nhhhhg. In fact, half of these songs are my current jam and I just worked my magic and make them fit the story and pairings! XD Cannonball is Damien Rice's song, though, and I would be hard-pressed to choose the better lyricist between them, wah

[ladyamaly]

PS FIRST - I was actually checking TNW before I saw your comment. I just made a post offering my services as a meta loving, number missing hooker of the nightwatch. :D

[mauvais_pli]

I am so addicted to making fanmixes >.< I'm glad you're enjoying this one! And I did hear about your crack fanmix in some detail, why don't you post to v_f or something?

Jon/Kit/Groove, my new OT3.

Translations are the worst (and the best, sometimes). But yeah, I can definitely relate to not being able to share a lot of media effortlessly.

[ladyamaly]

Of course Kay told you about my crackmix of doom. I was quite proud of it. There was absolutely nothing classy about it. I think I'll post it as soon as v_f opens again. I think I don't have the inspiration for serious fanmixes. I never tried making one. Maybe just a little, teeny tiny one for the MafiaAU, but that was a whole different story.

Imagine Jon partying haaaaaard with that awful fur coat on his shoulders. Groovy.

Some translations are brilliant, but a lot of them suuuuuck. What kinda turned me off translations for good was trying to read Good Omens in Romanian, because someone had given me the book for my birthday two years ago. I reached page 50, got annoyed, downloaded off the net and read it in English, because hooooow can you translate Good Omens? There is no good way to do it.

P.S. I kinda posted a new Meta Monday, because I was all excited about starting that one. I hope it's okay? Like, I'm all modly and stuff.

[mauvais_pli]

I'll be looking forward to seeing it in its full glory! I think all sorts of fanmixes are grand if they have that special something -- like any other fannish thing, silly or serious.

Awful fur coat? Lena doesn't agree with youYeah, I pretty much gave up trying to read translations of English books, cause it's just counter-productive. I did read my earliest favourites, like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings in Russian while I was still learning (and even before that, stuff I loved as a kid like Arthur Conan Doyle and Jane Eyre), but as soon as I was able to read an English text and understand the general drift of every sentence, if not every word, I switched over completely. The foreign languages library was one of my favourite hangouts my last few years in school