I have a Princess Tutu fst I've been working on for years, and I have over twenty songs on it but I'm still not satisfied enough to post it. Go me. But big 'songspirations' from that are Bjork's "Cvalda", Stephanie J. Block's "Something Beautiful" and Suzanne Vega's "Knight Moves" (for Rue, oddly enough).
When it comes to Hetalia's England... I can't get past Vienna Teng's "Antebellum", and I'm okay with that. Alternatively, Mika's "Kick Ass" always reminds me of America.
For Franz from Gankutsuou, who I loved RPing, my big songs were Andrew Bird's "Happy Birthday Song", Frou Frou's "The Dumbing Down of Love", and Plumb's "Phobic".
And I know there are lots more, but I can't think of them off the top of my head and it's going to bother me all niiiiiiiiight argh.
As for songs currently in my head, two of them are Jonsi's "Boy Lilikoi", which I already told you about, and Michelle Featherstone's "Stay", which has never failed to have an impact on me since this beautiful video.Oh, and also Marina's (from Marina and the Diamonds, I
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I can see Knight Moves for Rue, actually! I think Suzanne Vega is the right kind of tonal match for Tutu -- a lot of her songs have that kind of fairy-tale-with-a-twist feel to them.
I like Antebellum a lot for England! (My England playlist is pretty heavy on punk-flavored English rock. And The Kinks. I have a fuckton of The Kinks songcalls for him.)
-- oh wow, you're right, that video is gorgeous. I'm going to be transfixed by it for a while, too. And I'm going to look up that cover! I have such a thing for covers lately, I don't know why. Probably because I've been hunting down Lady Gaga covers on Youtube, for they are my secret weakness.
Disney songcalls are never a bad thing, what are you talking about.
Yeah, that's why I'm never satisfied with my Tutu fst, no matter how much I work on it. It's important to me the music doesn't go against the tone set by the series.
Punk rock reminds me of him automatically, but it's Antebellum's lyrics that get me!
I can upload the cover for you. I don't know how hard it is to find. Here!
Good, because a good chunk of my music is Disney...
That's why I drag my heels so much with FSTs, too -- I can usually get a few strong songcalls for characters/pairings/series, but making it all consistent and coherent is hard. Mith is good at it, though.
God, yeah, looking over the lyrics again reminds me why I fell for him in the first place (and sort of makes the England/America parts of my brain go "ping" and "ow," though those two impulses are usually linked when it comes to them, anyway).
I'm listening to a lot of Silly Wizard and thinking about an Angel fic I'll probably never write (that's, god help me, Lorne/Wesley). Particularly The Queen of Argyll, Isla Waters and Donald McGillavry. I just had this image one day of Wesley singing something of this ilk to himself this while washing the coffee mugs in the ridiculous old hotel office setting pre-everything going to shit and Lorne being... mystified, because unlike the horror of the karaoke experience, Wes can sort of sing, and then I have weird backstory about Wesley's asshole father ... and there's a whole story, but who knows if I'll ever get to it. It sounds less good when I describe it, BUT IN MY HEAD IT IS AWESOME.
Your mention of the The Bachelor makes me think of Emile Autumn's Marry Me which I listen to a lot when I'm writing the stifling social world of the book I'm doing with Kali.
I wrote the last two installments of my big epic with Kali listening to one Vienna Teng song on repeat for MONTHS. Harbor. This
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God, I need to get my hands on the TRON soundtrack; I've heard such consistently amazing things about it.
Heck, I think it sounds interesting, and from what I remember of Angelfic, there was kind of a depressing lack of anything involving Lorne in it, which was and is a pity. (And your and Linden's conversation about Wesley was fascinating -- I think you'd do good things with him.)
I have a few Emilie Autumn songcalls, though not for anyone I've written for a while.
I feel like I've acquired so many Vienna Teng songs from all the FSTs I've downloaded over the years, not that that's a bad thing at all. And ooh, Harbor is songcalling me right now, must go grab Mith and tell her because it's something relevant to both our interests...
Yeah so have I ever mentioned how listening to Bad Romance always makes me want to write fucked-up cyberpunk dystopian kinda-sexploitative shameless original stories with android rebellions in
Indeed! I find things like Teeth have a good rhythm too them for that stuff. Really though I need something to loop so I can like...get in a box and concentrate and she's really good for that.
In terms of general pump you up music that makes me feel like stomping around in black boots while the flags snap behind me, the PotC soundtrack is great. In terms of painful the world is too big we are too small but climb the hill anyway, the original version of Waving Flag. When I get older, I will be stronger, they'll call me freedom, just like a waving flag--
I generally have You're Gonna Go Far, Kid on continuous repeat while doing anything with Prussia. And Victory Korea is just so goddamn cheerful I find myself feeling patriotic for a foreign country.
And I admit to a shameful fondness for Do it Like a Dude and Better off as Lovers for an original thing best summed up as Space Lesbians Cold War. Je Ne T'aime Pas, too, which is a song about NO I DON'T LOVE YOU ANYMORE GO AWAY no don't leave NO GO AWAY.
YES oh god You're Gonna Go Far Kid is my forever Prussia song. FOREVER.
PotC is some of the best pump-it-up music ever -- Hoist the Colors still gives me chills -- and I love K'naan in general, so listening to that song always picks my mood up.
hm... when i was writing crack fic, i listened to intense k-hip hop??? yeah, i don't even....
mainly i listen to light stuff, jazz a lot. usually stuff in different languages. the best song for me, like for writing, ever, is papigo by kocani orkestar. i don't like a lot of their other stuff -- fanfare ciocarlia is more my style -- but for some reason that song clears out my mind enough to write.
and right now; songs that i'm obsessed with.... i'm obsessed with el guincho, this artist from spain. his song bombay -- so legit. and "ghetto facil" and "muerte midi" are also fab. it's good for writing anything like cheerful, or like -- with sunbursts, or organic -- it seems to have that type of earthiness within it, although it's really very complex /rambling
Ooh, these are lots of genres I'm not as familiar with! Hooray, exposure to new music~ I love Bombay, it's not much like anything else I have on my iPod, and it makes me curious about the rest of that artist's stuff.
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When it comes to Hetalia's England... I can't get past Vienna Teng's "Antebellum", and I'm okay with that. Alternatively, Mika's "Kick Ass" always reminds me of America.
For Franz from Gankutsuou, who I loved RPing, my big songs were Andrew Bird's "Happy Birthday Song", Frou Frou's "The Dumbing Down of Love", and Plumb's "Phobic".
And I know there are lots more, but I can't think of them off the top of my head and it's going to bother me all niiiiiiiiight argh.
As for songs currently in my head, two of them are Jonsi's "Boy Lilikoi", which I already told you about, and Michelle Featherstone's "Stay", which has never failed to have an impact on me since this beautiful video.Oh, and also Marina's (from Marina and the Diamonds, I ( ... )
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I like Antebellum a lot for England! (My England playlist is pretty heavy on punk-flavored English rock. And The Kinks. I have a fuckton of The Kinks songcalls for him.)
-- oh wow, you're right, that video is gorgeous. I'm going to be transfixed by it for a while, too. And I'm going to look up that cover! I have such a thing for covers lately, I don't know why. Probably because I've been hunting down Lady Gaga covers on Youtube, for they are my secret weakness.
Disney songcalls are never a bad thing, what are you talking about.
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Punk rock reminds me of him automatically, but it's Antebellum's lyrics that get me!
I can upload the cover for you. I don't know how hard it is to find. Here!
Good, because a good chunk of my music is Disney...
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God, yeah, looking over the lyrics again reminds me why I fell for him in the first place (and sort of makes the England/America parts of my brain go "ping" and "ow," though those two impulses are usually linked when it comes to them, anyway).
Thank you! I'll give it a listen~
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I'm listening to a lot of Silly Wizard and thinking about an Angel fic I'll probably never write (that's, god help me, Lorne/Wesley). Particularly The Queen of Argyll, Isla Waters and Donald McGillavry. I just had this image one day of Wesley singing something of this ilk to himself this while washing the coffee mugs in the ridiculous old hotel office setting pre-everything going to shit and Lorne being... mystified, because unlike the horror of the karaoke experience, Wes can sort of sing, and then I have weird backstory about Wesley's asshole father ... and there's a whole story, but who knows if I'll ever get to it. It sounds less good when I describe it, BUT IN MY HEAD IT IS AWESOME.
Your mention of the The Bachelor makes me think of Emile Autumn's Marry Me which I listen to a lot when I'm writing the stifling social world of the book I'm doing with Kali.
I wrote the last two installments of my big epic with Kali listening to one Vienna Teng song on repeat for MONTHS. Harbor. This ( ... )
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Heck, I think it sounds interesting, and from what I remember of Angelfic, there was kind of a depressing lack of anything involving Lorne in it, which was and is a pity. (And your and Linden's conversation about Wesley was fascinating -- I think you'd do good things with him.)
I have a few Emilie Autumn songcalls, though not for anyone I've written for a while.
I feel like I've acquired so many Vienna Teng songs from all the FSTs I've downloaded over the years, not that that's a bad thing at all. And ooh, Harbor is songcalling me right now, must go grab Mith and tell her because it's something relevant to both our interests...
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all the time
it's terrible
but in that good kind of terrible
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...well, I suppose I have now.
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(The World Cup version makes you sure you can take the hill, though.)
I generally have You're Gonna Go Far, Kid on continuous repeat while doing anything with Prussia. And Victory Korea is just so goddamn cheerful I find myself feeling patriotic for a foreign country.
And I admit to a shameful fondness for Do it Like a Dude and Better off as Lovers for an original thing best summed up as Space Lesbians Cold War. Je Ne T'aime Pas, too, which is a song about NO I DON'T LOVE YOU ANYMORE GO AWAY no don't leave NO GO AWAY.
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PotC is some of the best pump-it-up music ever -- Hoist the Colors still gives me chills -- and I love K'naan in general, so listening to that song always picks my mood up.
...Space Lesbians Cold War? Hot.
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mainly i listen to light stuff, jazz a lot. usually stuff in different languages. the best song for me, like for writing, ever, is papigo by kocani orkestar. i don't like a lot of their other stuff -- fanfare ciocarlia is more my style -- but for some reason that song clears out my mind enough to write.
and right now; songs that i'm obsessed with.... i'm obsessed with el guincho, this artist from spain. his song bombay -- so legit. and "ghetto facil" and "muerte midi" are also fab. it's good for writing anything like cheerful, or like -- with sunbursts, or organic -- it seems to have that type of earthiness within it, although it's really very complex /rambling
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