#they are so sun bleached flies coded. to me

[pheedraws]

THE MORE IT HURTS, THE LESS IT SHOWS

[likethexan]

RIP Helen of Sparta you would have loved Ethel Cain

[hechose]

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[ahappydnp]

i have an idea for an edit i can't get out of my heaaddd but i dont have the talent time or willpower to do ittt i just want to upload it directly from my brain mind pleaaaseee

EDIT: okay there's no way i could do it justice but i want this to exist so brain dump + very very rough draft vibe explanation under the cut on the off chance someone sees the vision and wants to actually make this edit 😭 pls

okay hear me out!! sun bleached flies by ethel cain fading into the sun bleached flies x dancing on my own mashup symbolizing WAD to TIT

sun bleached flies is sooo dan coded to me (and not just because of the religious trauma) but like these lyrics specifically give me WAD energy: "But in the end, if I bend under the weight that they gave me Then this heart would break and fall as twice as far" "But I still feel like they all know, and that's why I can never go back home" And I spend my life watching it go by from the sidelines And God, I've tried, but I think it's about time I put up a fight" "But I always knew that in the end no one was coming to save me"

him still in the middle of processing his trauma not only with himself, but with his audience. "that's why i can never go back home" (to us)

EXCEPT THEN he let go and came back after phil convinced him. and they created TIT ;____;

"So I met him there and told him I believe Singing if it's meant to be then it'll be I forgive it all as it comes back to me"

okay here is a short and very shittily put together version i made to try and visualize it and also there's only the TIT trailer footage so far so like...imagine having actual footage next week and not having to use the same clip 3 times in a row so the eye blink will line up with "i forgive it all"

BUT LIKE!!!! do you get it!!!! it was meant to be!!!! the world of dan and phil was meant to be!!!! he forgives it all as it comes back!!!! cleansing and new era and healing and all that jazz!!!

idk man someone more talented and patient than me pls make this a reality when the film comes out 😭

[cathyy222]

Ethel Cain X Supernatural never fails to get me.

Dean is so Crush and Thoroughfare coded

Sam is so Knuckle Velvet and House in Nebraska coded

Castiel is so Punish and Sun bleached flies coded

The edits have me sobbing ESPECIALLY the destiel ones damn

The Winchesters embody the whole Preachers Daughter album tbh🙏🏼

[threestargirls]

my yellowjackets character ranking: (spoilers ahead!!!)

1. Nat - an obvious decision, i think. she managed to stay the most level-headed and empathetic during everything we’ve seen in the wilderness. she also seems to be the most…. sane, even after everything descended into insanity. her storyline is so sad my shaylaaaaaaa

2. Lottie - probably controversial. she’s a horrendous person and i know this, but i connect with her character on such a deep level for some reason. i love her insanity and i hope she gets more insane. she was neglected and felt out of place her entire life, and then when she finally felt a purpose, she latched onto it so tightly that she ended up harming people around her. overall obsessed with her, she’d be first if not for the thing with travis/akilah

3. Jackie - jackie taylor they could NEVER make me hate you. definitely had the most realistic reaction to the crash, as well as overall being the most sane up until her death. she was a good friend and a good person. snackie we will never forget you

4. Travis - perhaps a controversial opinion. it’s hard for me to get past the misogyny in season 1, but i’m honestly SO intrigued by his character and i wish we were seeing more of him this season. his death and how he spiraled was so sad. and him and his duck… OHHH MY SHAYLA

5. Mari - an absolute icon and a diva. she kinda pissed me off in season 2(?i think) because of the lottie/nat hunt thingy and how hard she was glazing lottie, but i love her so much now. absolutely hilarious and the comedic relief we all needed

6. Misty - i love you so much misty! so much hate from the fandom, but i’m truly so in love with her character. especially adult her!! she would be higher if not for the transmitter/crystal situations.

7. Van - i think as a teenager, van was definitely the most connected to the outside world. an overall positive person and also a necessary comedic relief. such a loving and realistic character. and taivan my beloved <3 honestly, van would be higher if not for how she treated javi’s death.

8. Taissa - scares the absolute SHIT out of me. that being said, her storyline is so interesting to me and hopefully we see more in the next episode, which i’m thinking we will. would also be higher if not for her haunting my dreams (and the simone situation)

9. Coach Scott - also extremely sane and we love him for that. his monologue when he was on trial made me so sad. this man deserved SO much better. honestly, despite loving his character, i wasn’t all that interested by him, which is why he’s at nine.

10. Akilah - why did we just abandon the lottie/vision plot line?! am i just watching this show with my eyes closed?! but i love akilah so much. with what lottie’s putting her through, she’s holding up so well. i think she’s incredibly brave and also has a LETHAL facecard. now that i’m thinking about it maybe she should be higher…

11. Laura Lee - honestly, she’s only this high because i’m obsessed with her lottie plotline and obsessed with how her religion seems to consume her (and dare i say blind her). her death episode is still my favorite episode in the whole show, and i think she was incredibly brave to try and save everyone. also very sun bleached flies coded

12. Crystal/Kristen - such a fun and sweet character, and i genuinley enjoyed her bond with misty so much. deserved so much better than what happened to her. i’m also very curious what happened to her body…. honestly though, the only thing i found that interesting about her was her death and how her kindness led to her demise

13. Javi - MY SHAYLAAAAAA. javi you deserved the world and more and i am so sorry you sweet boy that these hungry lesbians ate you (and your OWN BROTHER) but also overall while he always made me frown or go “aw!”, he wasn’t that interesting. i feel guilty saying that lmao

14. Melissa - literally the least interesting possible person we could have pushed to the front, and it was just for her to be obsessed with shauna too. i did however enjoy her adult self humbling shauna

15. Robin - has had like almost zero screen time but i love how she always looks on the verge of tears. very relatable

16. Shauna - i understand her, i just don’t like her. i find her character incredibly interesting and she lowkey carries the adult plotline. her expressing her grief with rage is so realistic and honestly, i feel her. i just dislike her she pisses me off endlessly despite her being interesting. love content and theories surrounding her though…. bonus points because i love melanie and sophie

17. Britt - girl who are you😭 her laughing in the background when they were gonna get rescued actually made me like her even though she has like no screentime. something about her giggling made me like her

18. Gen - oh girl sit DOWN. like zero screen time and that combined with the pushing natalie and telling her to stfu was my last straw. absolutely beautiful though

[dyke-will-graham]

Long Live Abigail Hobbs!

In honor of our best girl I’m sharing my favorite Abigail Hobbs coded songs because she’s quite literally the ghost haunting me. No one deserved her.

Killer- Phoebe Bridgers

“Sometimes I think I’m a killer. I scared you in your house, I even scared myself talking about Dahmer on your couch.”

“I am sick of the chase, but I’m hungry for blood. And there’s nothing I can do.”

Family Tree- Ethel Cain

“I’m just a child but I’m not above violence.”

“Christ forgive these bones in hiding and oh and the bones I’m about to leave.”

Sun-Bleached Flies - Ethel Cain

“God loves you but not enough to save you.”

“But I always knew that in the end no one was coming to save me so I just prayed, and I keep praying and praying. If it’s meant to be then it will be.”

Strangers- Ethel Cain

“I tried to be good, am I no good? With my memory restricted to a Polaroid in evidence.”

“Found you just to tell you I made it real far. And I never blamed you for loving me the way that you did.”

“Am I turning in your stomach? Am I making you feel sick?”

Bite the Hand- Boygenius

“Who do you think you are? Who do you think I am? Maybe I’m afraid of you?”

“I can’t love you how you want me to.”

Vienna (in Memoriam) - the army, the navy

Enough said.

Smother - Daughter

“In the darkness I will meet my creators and they will all tell me I’m a suffocator.”

“Sometimes I wish I had stayed in my mother, never to come out.”

Im Right Here - Theodore Shapiro

The humming and melody feel like what Abigail’s life with Will might have been had they been in WolfTrap instead.

House Song- Searows

“Something is rotten inside me, I have to find it and cut it out.”

Hard Times- Ethel Cain

“Tell me a story about how it ends where you’re still the good guy I make pretend cause I hate this story where happiness ends and dies with you.”

“I thought good guys got to be happy? I’m not happy. I am poison in the water and unhappy. A little girl who needs her daddy real bad.”

“I’m tired of you still tied to me.”

OKAY THATS ALL FOR NOW. Abigail is one of my favorite characters ever and I think her complexity should be observed more. She was a survivor and perceived in the light of those around her and never as she truly was and I mourn her daily. I think about how she deserved to go to school abroad and never want for anything but in the end was a playing pawn in a game between two men who were themselves too terrified and confused to make sense of each other much less her as an independent.

IF YOU WANT MORE HERES MY PLAYLIST FOR HER

[neallo]

do you have any songs/playlist you think fit meronia? i've been reading through your works and remembered blonde hair, black lungs by sorority noise sounded very meronia-esque to me back when i first got into this ship

hi! a) thank you for the ask! and for reading my works! :3c i hope you're enjoying <3 and b) just listened to that one and i can absolutely see what you mean!! and finally c) GOD i'm so sorry this question has taken me SO long to get to -- i kept trying to be a perfectionist about it and curate a catch-all meronia playlist, but the problem i always have is that a lot of my favorite songs for them are sort of vibe-specific, so i was fighting with myself on what works In General for them vs. what works for a particular set of visions i have of them.

i have a few fic playlists [i want to hold you (hostage)'s playlist [x] and the bury us both playlist [x] are my best two, but i also made lists for unexpected visitor [x], leap day [x], minutes to midnight [x], it's friday, i'm in love [x], and it's you and me, that's my whole world [x]). i also technically have this playlist [M N] which purports to be generalized and is four hours long, but i have not looked at it since literally march 2023, so like. not sure whether i would really endorse it now.

okay. going to get into particular artists i see pop up a lot in my own meronia playlists under the cut.

the first and foremost would probably be Ethel Cain (House in Nebraska [near-coded] & Sun Bleached Flies [mellocore] & Michelle Pfeiffer [i will die on the hill that this is one of the meronia songs ever] & Knuckle Velvet & for some fics Family Tree (both the intro & the full song later in the album) [one of the bury us both songs ever]. to a lesser degree i really like Gibson Girl & Western Nights for them too. OH AND CRUSH.)

Mitski is up there for me, too (Pink in the Night, Francis Forever, I Bet on Losing Dogs, I'm Your Man, The Frost, My Love Mine All Mine, Stay Soft, Heat Lightning, The Only Heartbreaker, Love Me More) as is Hozier (Take Me To Church, Work Song, Like Real People Do, Francesca). Taylor Swift's The Great War was the first song i ever heard that gave me brainworms about them back in the early days of my meronia disease, and i think there are some others of hers that work well for them as well (hoax, my tears ricochet, willow, Dancing With Our Hands Tied, Don't Blame Me, Gorgeous, Cruel Summer, The Archer).

okay. getting a little long-winded here. it'll be faster if i list some artists i often put on playlists for them. there are more than a few Fall Out Boy songs that suit them, though i usually end up feeling those are fic-specific, plus some by Daughter, Allie X (Tumor in particular), Hayley Williams (My Limb, recommended to me by @deelavis), Mads Buckley (i think recommended by both @/deelavis and @vorareromantic, actually), Chloe Moriondo (bodybag, recommended to me by @oloreandil), Grimes (i know. i know. but Art Angels fucked. sorry.), boygenius (and the individual members therein), Japanese Breakfast, Flower Face (spiracle, recommended to me by @paradisepoisoned).

PHEW! i think that's all i've got for you for now. hopefully you can find some bops in here :3c thanks again for the question, & happy listening!!

[inbredfawn]

This might just be a me thing, but does anyone else get (possibly unnecessarily) annoyed when they see someone calling anything with elevated religious imagery as "Ethel Cain coded" or anything related to Preacher's Daughter? For the sake of simplicity, yes obviously the character of the preacher's daughter will naturally have religious imagery with it, but I'm so disappointed that the album and character are only boiled down to the "religious" cannibalised girl

Focusing on the religious aspect, one of the biggest aspects of the album is her religious struggle with her identity. How she was spoon fed this ideology as the daughter of the preacher. How she questions God, her parents, everything she grew up with. She's the preacher's daughter, but the religious trauma isn't the only aspect of her character or the album. Most of the songs don't even focus on that

I know that art is subjective and it's obvious that everyone digested this album differently, but that can coexist with this: if your only takeaway from PD is religious trauma and cannibalism, then you didn't listen to it

Many of the songs focus on her relationships, yes with God, but also Willoughby in A House In Nebraska, easily one of the most gut wrenching songs on the album. Her relationship with her parents as she goes against everything she was raised in when she runs away. The abuse she suffers in Western Nights and Hard Times, and ultimately her death in Ptolemaea-August Underground-Televangelism, because of how sheltered she was, but she doesn't blame her parents. And although it's called Preacher's Daughter (her father) she talks to her mom at the end of Strangers

Again with subjectivity, I feel as though the ending with Sun Bleached Flies and Strangers was open when it came to Ethel's faith. To me personally, it seemed as though that she made peace with the church, but didn't necessarily return to it

[purgatorygrl]

Analysis of why Sun Bleached Flies by Ethel Cain is so Arthur Morgan coded

Okaay so, this is an attempted analysis of the song Sun Bleached Flies by Ethel Cain and how for me it is so Arthur Morgan coded. It is also partly my interpretation of Arthur's story. I have not analyzed the whole song I have only put the paragraphs that I think are related to his story. I really recommend listening to the whole Preacher's Daughter album, specifically this song!!! It's quite a spiritual journey (there are also other songs on this album that are very Arthur coded but maybe I will do another analysis another time)

Sun bleached flies sitting in the windowsill

Waiting for the day they escape

They talk all about that money and how their babies are always changing

While they're breathing in the poison of the paint

For me this paragraph reflects how Arthur has been trapped in the band his whole life, waiting for the day they get the money that Dutch promises and can go with Mary to live the life he wants. Dutch is always talking about all the money they are going to get, all the plans he has and all the great things they will achieve over and over again but that never comes true. He always has to listen to Dutch talk and talk, always listening to him and never being able to contradict him, always nodding and obeying.

However, everything is getting worse and worse and little by little he sees how everything is falling apart around him and how he is further and further away from escaping.

What I wouldn't give to be in Church this Sunday

Listening to the choir, so heartfelt, all singing

God loves you, but not enough to save you

So, baby girl, good luck taking care of yourself

So I said fine, 'cause that's how my daddy raised me

God, this phrase... if you change God for Dutch you have everything, EVERYTHING. Dutch loves you but not enough to save you. Dutch loves his children, the whole gang, but at the end of the day, when things start to get bad, when he loses control, when he doesn't get what he wants, when people doubt him, he chooses someone else over his son, over his family and betrays them. And he betrays Arthur, he lets him die, he doesn't save him, he doesn't help him, he leaves him completely alone on the brink of death. And in the end Arthur is alone again, like when he was a child, like when his mother and father died. Alone, physically and emotionally.

If they strike once then you just hit 'em twice as hard

But in the end, if I bend under the weight that they gave me

Then this heart would break and fall as twice as far

Arthur knows that he has to fight, he has to fight now for what he wants to do, he is not going to let himself be defeated and he wants to try to leave this world having left the people he loves tools to continue their lives and try to be happy. So Arthur fights, fights until he can't anymore until all the weight of his life falls on him.

We all know how it goes

The more it hurts, the less it shows

I think that Arthur has carried many traumas and fears inside him all his life that few people know about, things that hurt him a lot that terrify him like the death of Eliza and Isaac. Everyone in the camp sees Arthur as a tough guy, the one who protects them, someone who doesn't hesitate to shoot or hit. I think a lot of people see him as someone without feelings or remorse but in reality he is drowning in fear and trauma, he just doesn't let it show.

And I spend my life watching it go by from the sidelines

And God, I've tried, but I think it's about time I put up a fight

He has ALWAYS listened to everything Dutch told him, he has always followed him, faithfully, he hasn't doubted him, he always had faith in him. Until it was impossible not to doubt him, until he realized that he didn't have time and that the little time he had he wanted to use to do what he wanted, what he knew he had to do. The fact that Arthur got tuberculosis is not only an important element since it is what kills him, but it is also the trigger for the beginning of the change in the world he knows and the fight between the person he was and the person he wanted to be.

But I always knew that in the end no one was coming to save me

So I just prayed and I keep praying and praying and praying

If it's meant to be then it will be

So I met him there and told him I believe

Singing if it's meant to be then it'll be

I forgive it all as it comes back to me (back to me)

He was meant to die and he knew it. He knew there wasn't much else to do. No one came to look for him on that hill as he died, he was there alone, wishing he had made other choices, wishing he had lived the life he wanted deep down, praying and praying but mostly fighting.

The chorus is an angelic part of the song, really. It's the fact that in the end everything he's been doing all his life will come back to him somehow, everything has a consequence and he tries to fix that, but in the end he doesn't have enough time to be able to fix it and in the end it all comes back to him and he pays for his "sins".

I'm still praying for that house in Nebraska

By the highway, out on the edge of town

Dancing with the windows open

I can't let go when something's broken

It's all I know and it's all I want now

And in the end, when he was dying, he still wanted that house with Mary, that dream of having a family that he never had, he wanted to be with her, to sort out his life and be able to run away and live a life of peace and happiness with those he loved the most, to stop being the man he had to be and become the one he wanted. But even though he always had the windows open to leave, to escape, he didn't do it, because it was all he had and it was all he knew.

[butterscotch-goat]

we all know how it goes

OCs from left to right:

Martha (she/her), Grace (she/her), and Eli (they/he)

happy all hallows' day :3 BEFORE YOU SAY ANYTHING i KNOW jesus isnt a saint bc in christian lore hes already god JUST SGFSHHMFD. anyway

ramlbing,,,,,

the line "we all know how it goes" is from "Sun Bleached Flies" by Ethel Cain and feels ESPESCIALLY grace-coded to me for a couple reasons. if i stick with the plan i have now, the first time readers will see grace is when she's already at the gallows, THEN we get everything leading up to that point from grace's pov. so i mean,, ltierally,, the readers will know how it goes and are just waiting for tragedy to strike. BUT ALSO it gives me aster-recognizing-what-happened-to-grace-bc-its-lowkey-happening-to-her vibes. aster, unlike anyone else in the cast, can TELL how it all went down just by how martha talks about and glorifies grace. AND ALSO its grace-coded bc "we all know how it goes" like how it goes in the biblke or aoemthing YOU KNO WHATI MEAN??? anyway. martha's eyes r closed because shes blinded by her love for grace and accidentally causing her downfall and eli is looking away bc they feel like he shoulda dones sometihg but they DIDNT and also bc of. the denial of ever knowing grace after grace died. womp womp.

btw just wanna clarify here that martha and grace did love each other genuinely and were happy in their relationship. grace did not feel pressured or like she had to be with martha or she wouldnt have anyone else. JUST WANNA CLARIFY bc i can get too excited about the charles & aster parallels and god knows those two are. they sure are. alright. BUT YEAHG martha and grace love each other frfr PROMISE

[pheedraws]

i am unwell !!

[thoroughfxre]

did you see them ?!   that was DELLA QUINN, the winner of the EIGHTY-SEVENTH hunger games. they’re back for the 92nd games as a MENTOR, and you know they’re one of my favourites!  the TWENTY-ONE year old brought such honour to DISTRICT 3 when they won their games with CALUCLATION & HIDING.  they’re known all over panem for being so THOUGHTFUL despite being so COMPLIANT. they remind me of picking at the redness of the skin after a sunburn, cracked mirror showing two delineated halves, a practiced, dazzling smile and when i think of them, i think of SUN BLEACHED FLIES by ethel cain.

⁰⁰¹ DOSSIER. ⁰⁰² PINTEREST. ⁰⁰³ PLAYLIST.

PART #001 : the basics.

full   name.   della quinn   nickname(s).   the sunlit girl age.   twenty-one birthdate.   december twenty-seventh gender.   cis-woman  pronouns.   she/her   orientation.   pansexual language(s) spoken.   english home. district three faceclaim.  bailey bass height.   5ft5in   hair.   long, spirally light brown hair   eyes.   light green distinct   feature(s).   permanent golden eyeliner + light, spiralled tattooed on her arms to reflect sunrays. golden streaks in her curls.

PART #002 : personality.

positive traits.   thoughtful, loyal, prudent, sensitive, well-mannered negative traits.   compliant, naive, malleable, reluctant, insecure mbti.   INFJ zodiac.   capricorn tropes.  beware the quiet ones, stepford smiler, caged bird

PART #003 : the story.

you were raised on the sharp edge of survival in the heart of district three, into the hum and flicker of circuits and code -- but not by your parents. they were gone before you understood what “gone” really meant. it was your brother who taught you how to live.

he came back from the hunger games a victor, but not whole, a shell of the person he was before. angry, rebellious. he was sixteen and carved from ash and wire, slept with a weapon near his hand, flinched at small sounds, and stopped smiling altogether. you were a child, and he was a boy pretending to be a man, raising you with calloused hands and empty eyes. he let you be soft -- he taught you how to build things, like puzzles and broken radios. he shielded you from what the world demanded, he let you cry. he let you dream. he let you believe there was still a part of life untouched by the games.

you used to stare at the scar on his collarbone and wonder what part of him got left behind in the arena. only -- you don't have to wonder anymore.

because it's you now.

now, you wonder if he regrets shielding you from the ways of the world. he trained you as though he were fixing a broken machine; efficient, merciless, but not unkind. never unkind. the capitol liked your face, your tremble, your sweetness. they called you beautiful in that fragile, tragic way -- like a bird in a cage with a ribbon around its throat. they painted you in golds and silvers, turned your fear into a brand, and you let them. you needed them to love you, because if they didn’t, you wouldn’t make it home.

the arena was a sundial in the sand, twisting light and endless heat. a giant, burning timepiece where every hour brought something new: rotating shadows that sliced like blades, sandstorms that flayed skin and mirages that made you hallucinate, the weight of time pressing down on your chest like a fist. you weren’t the strongest, and you certainly weren’t the fastest. you weren’t supposed to win.

you hid most of the games, but that in itself was a feat. the arena was a machine, and machines had patterns. you counted shadow lengths, tracked solar rotations, marked safe zones. you learned where to hide from the sun, where the sentinels scanned, where the heat would kill first. you learned how to rig traps from bones and wire, how to use reflections to mislead, how to starve in silence. for the most part, you outlived them.

midway through the games, you were starving, sunburned, your lips cracked, hands shaking from dehydration. another tribute stumbled into your shelter, bleeding and begging to let him stay. he wasn’t a threat. you almost said yes, but if he stayed, he’d give you away. the beam would track his body heat, draw the sentinels, burn them both.

you told him to run. when he hesitated, you pushed him into the light and watched him burn into nothing. that was the moment something inside you went quiet.

the last tribute was fast, smart, brutal -- a girl from district 2 who never stopped hunting. the final showdown happened near the arena’s centerpiece: the massive, cracked sundial surrounded by fractured mirrors. as the sun reached its zenith, you - frantic, slow, shaking, sweating, you -- led the girl into the beam lines.

you didn’t overpower her. your heart in your throat, shifted a mirror panel just enough. timed it just right, and let the sun kill for you.

you sat there in the sand, watching your own shadow tremble against the dial, hour ticking into hour. you won.

they wrapped you in soft silks and put shimmer on your cheeks. they called you radiant, called you darling. the sunlit girl, delicate and gleaming, their golden star. they adored your tears, your stammered interviews, your grace when you smiled through the horror. and you let them mold you into exactly what they wanted.

you wore the gowns, laughed when prompted. you let stylists reshape you like clay, and you told yourself it was worth it -- so long as your brother was safe. so long as you never had to see the inside of an arena again. sometimes you still hear the buzz of the arena’s sun traps in your ears when you try to sleep. you wake up reaching for the knife you buried at the edge of your district house and you know exactly what part of your brother got left behind, because you left the same part behind, too.

as it turns out, you weren't the one destined to see the arena again. but your brother -- his name is called, the air leaves your lungs. you spent the last few years playing someone else's idea of who you are, pretending you don’t wake up every night with someone else’s blood in your mouth. and now you are his mentor

you barely speak anymore. there's too much between you -- guilt, silence, things you never said. he looks at you like he doesn't recognize what the capitol turned you into, like the girl he raised is gone. you don’t blame him -- sometimes you don't recognize yourself either.

but now, you have to save him, and you're not sure that you have what it takes. then again, did you ever?

graphic by daryyldixon.

[mrhyde-mrseek]

The Order as Music

(Some are lyrics, some are pure vibes!)

Clara

Artists: Taylor Swift, Birdy, Amanda Palmer

Songs: “Dog Days are Over” by Florence + The Machine, “Sun Bleached Flies” by Ethel Cain, “Clara Bow” by Taylor Swift,

Lyrics: “Better suck it up, baby, you'll be outta luck / Better keep the money coming or you'll never be enough / Your tears are worth buying / Your pain is enticing them” (“Out of Touch,” Addison Grace)

Watson

Artists: Billy Joel, The Beatles, Tom Odell, Sufjan Stevens

Songs: “epiphany” by Taylor Swift, “Amber Waves” by Ethel Cain, “Army Dreamers” by Kate Bush

Lyrics: “And when we're getting dirty, I forget all that is wrong / I sleep so I can see you 'cause I hate to wait so long / I sleep so I can see you, and I hate to wait so long” (“Sailor Song,” Gigi Perez)

Jonathan

Artists: Sufjan Stevens, PHILDEL, The Amazing Devil

Songs: “In the Woods Somewhere” by Hozier, “John My Beloved” by Sufjan Stevens, “Soulless Creatures” by AURORA, “Black Friday” by Tom Odell

Lyrics: “Honey, come over / The party's gone slower / And no one will tempt you / We know you got sober / There's orange juice in the kitchen / Bought for the children / It's yours if you want it / We're just glad you could visit” (“Orange Juice,” Noah Kahan)

Mina

Artists: Gabrielle Aplin, Florence + The Machine, Mitski

Songs: “Lazarus Drug” by Meg Washington, “The Bug Collector” by Haley Hendrickx, “Churchyard” by AURORA

Lyrics: “When the devil's waiting / Down by the river calling out / I wanna be the one to light up the dark in you” (“Light Up the Dark,” Gabrielle Aplin)

Adam

Artists: Hozier, Paris Paloma, Fish in a Birdcage

Songs: “creature” by half•alive, “Wedding, Funeral” by Waitress, “Butcheress” by Rabbitology

Lyrics: “Watching the figures / All the saints, but mostly sinners come and go / And some are desperate / But the others have the sense that they do belong / And I do not belong” (“notre dame,” Paris Paloma)

Peregrine

Artists: Sparkbird, Bears in Trees, AURORA, Cosmo Sheldrake

Songs: “Billions of Eyes” by Lady Lamb, “Alien Observer” by Grouper, “If You Knew” from Lizzie, “Old Code” by Chris Garneau

Lyrics: “Count up the keepsakes in the cabinets / The keyboards and the chemistry sets / Look in the attic where the blinds are drawn / You won't find me, l'm gone” (“Going Invisible 2,” The Mountain Goats)

Jekyll

Artists: The Dresden Dolls, Gang of Youths, Hozier,

Songs: “Teardrop” by Massive Attack, “Bird in the Mirror” by Agent Ribbons, “The Scientist” by Coldplay

Lyrics: “Locked in his bedroom / He saw the world / A web of answers / And cumshot girls / Tick tick tick tick tick / Tick tick tick tick tick” (Strength Through Music,” Amanda Palmer)

Hyde

Artists: Will Wood, Vermillion Lies, Shayfer James

Songs: “Strangeness and Charm” by Florence + The Machine, “Rule #34” by Fish in a Birdcage, “Amber Waves” by Ethel Cain

Lyrics: “And I am freaking out in the middle of the street / With the complete conviction of someone who's never had anything actually really bad happen to them / But I am committed now to the feeling” (“Choreomania,” Florence + The Machine)

Griffin

Artists: Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Mother Mother, Big Thief, Florence + The Machine

Songs: “Hell’s Comin’ with Me” by Poor Man’s Poison, “Unsweetened Lemonade” by Amélie Farren, “Strange Birds” by Birdy, “Going Invisible 2” by The Mountain Goats

Lyrics: “Achilles, Achilles, Achilles, jump now / You are absent of cause or excuse / So self-indulgent and self-referential / No audience could ever want you” (Achilles Come Down,” Gang of Youths)

Allan

Artists: Bon Iver, Ethel Cain, Bears in Trees, Gigi Perez

Songs: “Funeral Bell” by PHILDEL, “Bird in the Mirror” by Agent Ribbons,” “It’s Called: Freefall” by Rainbow Kitten Surprise, “In a Week (feat. Karen Crowley)” by Hozier

Lyrics: “Kleptomaniacrow / Following me wherever I go / Hoping I’ll drop something so / He can add to his collection” (“Kleptomaniacrow,” Madilyn Mei)

Ichabod

Artists: Keaton Henson, Ricky Montgomery, Lady Lamb, The Crane Wives

Songs: “Ophelia” by The Lumineers, “Arboretum” by Sparkbird, “The Woods” by Cosmo Sheldrake & Erin Robinsong, “To the Headless Horseman” by The Mountain Goats

Lyrics: “Sometimes you just don't know the answer / Till someone's on their knees and asks you / ‘She would've made such a lovely bride / What a shame she's fucked in the head,’ they said” (“champagne problems,” Taylor Swift)

Edgar

Artists: Fish in a Birdcage, Ethel Cain, Tally Hall, Baby Bugs

Songs: “Amber Waves” by Ethel Cain, “My Boy Builds Coffins” by Florence + The Machine, “Preybirds (Watcher Song)” by Rabbitology

Lyrics: “I took a knife and cut out her eye / I took it home and watched it wither and die / Well, she's lucky that I didn't slip her a smile / That's why she sleeps with one eye open, oh / But that's the price she'll pay” (“Girl With One Eye,” Florence + The Machine)

Sherlock

Artists: Gregory Alan Isakov, Bon Iver, Daughter

Songs: “John My Beloved” by Sufjan Stevens, “Unsweetened Lemonade” by Amélie Farren, “Vienna” by Billy Joel

Lyrics: “And I never minded being on my own / Then something broke in me and I wanted to go home / To be where you are / But even closer to you, you seem so very far” (“Wish That You Were Here,” Florence + The Machine)

[red-doll-face]

Reading snow angel ch 9 and all I’m thinking of are the lyrics from Ethel Cains song ‘sun bleached flies’ where the lyrics are,

“But I don't mind 'cause that's how my daddy raised me

If they strike once then you just hit 'em twice as hard

But I always knew that in the end no one was coming to save me

So I just prayed and I keep praying and praying and praying”

Thats literally so Arthur coded I’m obsessed! Can’t wait for chapter 10 to see what that depraved animal of a man has in store for her.😫

Bro, nobody really is gonna save reader huh? 😔😔😔🥲🥲😭😭😭 you are stuck w this man for life, so sorry 🥴🥴🥴

He is a depraved animal, omg the amount of like beast like descriptions I give him are not on accident, he hunts with the efficiency of like a deadly predator. You might have been running away but he’s just trailing behind, waiting for you to get tired ☺️☺️☺️☺️🥰🥰🥰 he def predicted you would try to hide, and all he did was follow the very obvious tracks you left behind. I sort of imagined Arthur using the eagle eye mechanic from the game for this scene LMAO

Thank you for the song dedication, it makes me so ☺️😳😳😳😳 I love when people dedicate songs to this fic I’m sobbing rn 😭😭

Tysm for reading !! ❤️❤️❤️

[atlabeth]

american teenager by ethel cain is SO hurricane/demigods in general coded

ESPECIALLY THE PART IN THE BEGINNING

‘god loves you, but not enough to save you’

IM FROTHING AT THE MOUTH THINKING ABOUT IT

also look at what she had to say about the song on genius.com and it’s SO coded for them

it so is!!

putting too much faith in the make believe… hurricane wanting a normal life with luke so badly but she’s a demigod and they don’t get normal lives… the neighbor’s brother came home in a box…. hurricane and luke both dying. and the second verse is so luke after her death

and that line is from sun bleached flies but it is also so her it makes me sick!!!

god loves you but not enough to save you is literally hurricane and poseidon it’s sickening. so baby girl good luck taking care of yourself. he loves her but her destiny is to die. percy is the child of the prophecy that’s always how it was going to be so she was literally born to die… horrific

but in the end i bend under the weight they gave me!!! the fate she was destined to have the life of a big three kid it’s all too much!! she is just a child please give her a break!!

and she’s still praying for that house in nebraska!!! she and luke get the plain boring life together they always wanted but it takes both of them dying for them to get peace it’s awful