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The Wishing on Space Hardware playlist v1.1

My post-canon Iron-Blooded Orphans fanfic series can be found at Ao3 via all good web browsers (probably the bad ones too). Full spoilers for both seasons of the anime come as standard.

And this is a playlist of songs that I associate with each of the stories in the series. I posted this once before but recently realised I never updated that post to add in full, finished links. So here it is again.

Wishing on Space Hardware – A New England [Kirsty MacColl]

I saw two shooting stars last night / I wished on them, but they were only satellites / It's wrong to wish on space hardware / I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care

I couldn't tell you the exact sequence of reasoning through which I came to associate this song with Iron-Blooded Orphans. But I did and it gave me an absolutely killer series title.

Arc #1: Moving on or standing still

A Handful of Rusted Petals – Embers [Skinny Lister]

Long is the distance, hard is the mile / That drags me away from our innocent smile / Where wild is the welcome, the company right / Far from the rattle and roar of the fight

I like Skinny Lister a lot and thought this fit the bittersweet themes of these vignettes rather well.

The Grandmaster – The Game [The Levellers]

The clock ticked past the final hour / Which of the men had lost? and what was the cost? / The glasses now were empty and gone / To wash away the shame, and take away the pain

While not 100% on the money, this song seems to capture the feel of the Elion vs McGillis conflict, from Elion’s side at least.

To Catch a Falling Star – Get Better [Frank Turner]

So try and get better and don't ever accept less / Take a plain black marker and write this on your chest / Draw a line underneath all of this unhappiness / Come on now, let's fix this mess / We could get better because we're not dead yet

Gender flip the lyrics and this is basically Yamagi and Shino in this fic to a T.

Fragments of You/Pieces of Me – Injuries [Skinny Lister]

On the advice of my heart I flew / Into the burning sun / And for the life of me I can’t / Find me a way to return

Because sometimes life is at once fundamentally difficult and nevertheless glorious.

Arc #2: Monsters out of the past

Let Sleeping Angels Lie – Call You Friend [Oysterband]

So many times we’ve disagreed / Don’t count the cost there’s a greater need / We sit and watch each other bleed / That’s why I call you friend

Eugene and Shino’s relationship in a nutshell.

Between Family – The Power of Unity [Masaru Yokoyama]

(With full apologies to Mr Yokoyama. I tried to come up with an actual song but using this track is much funnier. Plus, you know. Smut. I don’t tend to spend much time putting lyrics to that.)

I can picture the polyamorous numpties to this far, far too well.

The Ares Affair – Everybody Knows [Leonard Cohen]

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded / Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed / Everybody knows the war is over / Everybody knows the good guys lost

The point where WoSH swerves hard from ‘fix-it’ to ‘consequences of fixing it’.

The Haunting of Takaki Uno – Don’t Dim Your Light For Anyone [Thea Gilmore]

The world is fierce, it's hard as nails / When you do good but goodness fails / You crawl the road that others run / Don't dim your light for anyone

I find Takaki tricky to write because his voice isn’t quite as distinct as Yamagi or Ride, but I know exactly what I want to capture through him.

Arc #3: The pressure of ghosts

Frozen Sunlight – Apparition #12 [Thea Gilmore]

And I smelled the ghosts of the ashes and the orchids / I've got promises tattooed to the insides of my eyelids / And I'll be watching when the Richter reaches ten / I bled by these weapons, babe, and now I'm one of them

Two Thea Gilmore songs in a row, I know, but they have very different tones and this is on point for my interpretation of Azee.

Of Obsessions and Erotemes – A Good Song Never Dies [Saint Motel]

There was a moment, a hole opened in the sky / A chance to join their pantheon / For all the times they never heard your battle cry / Now even angels sing along

I only encountered this song recently but I can see Iverson to it, so now it’s their villain theme.

Revolution for Beginners and Polyamory for Dumbasses – Modern Way [The Kaiser Chiefs]

Hold on to the basics / But we can't change all our tactics / There's no point sitting / Going crazy on your own

Had originally penciled in ‘Truth Is’ by the Levellers for this, but I think ‘Modern Way’ is more applicable to the whole.

Under a Crescent Moon – Son of the Left Hand [Duke Special]

In dying light my shadow calls / I watch his fingers stalk the walls / And now in hollow down I stumble on / The rubble of my babylon

Goes harder than perhaps the tone of the fic strictly requires, but honestly? I think that’s probably earned by the situation.

Arc #4: Schemes and daydreams

Eugene Sevenstark and the Hesperus Treasure – Plans [Devil and the Deep Blue Sea]

And I should find / A better way to spend my time / Than spinning grand designs / Every day with you

The story dealing with coincidence and anticlimax felt like it needed something soothing as a soundtrack.

Hope Against Hope – All This And Heaven Too [Florence + The Machine]

And I would give all this and heaven too / I would give it all if only for a moment / That I could just understand the meaning of the word you see / 'Cause I've been scrawling it forever, but it never makes sense to me at all

I listened to this a lot while writing the next story in the series, but it fits Kudelia too well not to use here.

Love, Death and Cannoli – Fire and Water [The Wandering Hearts]

All love's like fire and water / I ask myself, "Should I bother?" / When you look at me with those big brown eyes / And I know what I'll do / I've tried but it's impossible / Can't keep myself away from you

The Yamagi/Shino song as far as I’m concerned.

Fata Morgana – Belgrade [Battle Tapes]

We pretend in the darkness / We pretend the night won’t steal our youth / Singing me the sweet songs of seduction / Let me be the fool, fool, fool / Who will live and die for you

There are many ways to be seduced and become a fool for others. Also I needed a banging tune for what is, broadly, a long action sequence of a fic.

Arc #5: The end of the world

We Three Kings – Bullet [Saint Motel]

You don't stop a bullet that you set into motion / You don't stop a fire when you light an explosion / So then, why would we fight it? Already ignited / Counting down, down, down, down

This story is inevitable. Or if it isn’t, the major events are underway long before our protagonists arrive. And then there’s that one-in-a-million shot...

History of a Catastrophe – Who By Fire? [Leonard Cohen, live version]

And who by brave assent, who by accident / Who in solitude, who in this mirror / Who by his lady's command, who by his own hand / Who in mortal chains, who in power / And who shall I say is calling?

More Leonard Cohen, with this particularly beautiful version of the song, for an exploration of how terrible systems warp people’s lives.

Ragnarök in G Minor – Battlegrounds [Coco and the Butterfields]

Hey, hey, what do you say when you fall down / Hey, hey, go away from battlegrounds / And I, I feel like I'm living just to stop you winning / So carry on, carry on, carry on ‘til I'm gone

It’s that third line in the chorus. That’s the fic. (Or it will be once I’ve written this monster; the document passed 1MB a couple of weeks back, ye gods.)

A Day in the Light – Something for the Pain [She Drew the Gun]

Walls for the wind / Shelter from the rain / Something for the hunger / And something for the pain

This will be the coda to the series. And I feel this song works well for the history of IBO’s setting. A summing up, if you will.

The Ragnarök in G Minor playlist

The penultimate fic in the series, which is really the grand conclusion to the overall plot, is structured to use song lyrics as footnotes, summing up the characters whose points of view are being followed in each chapter. Here, for ease of reference, is the full list of those songs.

Wish (prologue) – A New England by Kirsty MacColl

Loser/Eugene Sevenstark – Some Kind of Hero by Felix Hagan and the Family

Oddball/Yamagi Gilmerton – Parallax by Thea Gilmore/Afterlight

Minister/Takaki Uno – Your Bones by Of Monsters and Men

Sword/Julieta Juris – Apparition #13 by Thea Gilmore

Corrupt/Earth (interlude) – Everybody Knows by Leonard Cohen

Stray/Argi Mirage – Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked by Cage the Elephant

Smith/Almandi Iverson (OC) – Fight for Me by AlicebanD

Maiden/Kudelia Aina Bernstein – Silver Lining by First Aid Kit

Devil/Kipchoge Ordsley (OC) + Mikazuki Augus – Wolf Like Me by TV On The Radio

Reconcile/Dort Colonies (interlude) – Something For The Pain by She Drew The Gun

Noble/Gaelio Bauduin – The Road You Didn’t Take by Stornaway

Terror/Embi – Appetite for Destruction by Vo Williams

Survivor/Norba Shino – Rattle and Roar by Skinny Lister

Fighter/Ride Mass – Skin and Bones by Cage the Elephant

Ally/Teiwaz (interlude) – The Game by The Levellers

Echo/Ahmed Fahim (OC) – Rage of Dust by SPYAIR

Remainder/Azee Gurumin – Try by Pink

Tool/Mackenzie Croft (OC) – Fire With Fire by AlicebanD

Friend/Chad Chaden – I’m OK by Honest Men

Grow/Mars (interlude) – Injuries by Skinny Lister

Mouse/Atra Mixta-Bernstein – Gold by The Wandering Hearts

Academic/Sri Chaifin (OC) – Mile Magnificent by molly ofgeography

Fury/Almiria Bauduin – Fall Together by Thea Gilmore

Human/Derma Altland – Weeds or Wildflowers by Parsonsfield

Remember (epilogue) – Embers by Skinny Lister

Vow (epilogue) – Get Better by Frank Turner

Commit (epilogue) – Modern Way by The Kaiser Chiefs

Run (epilogue) – A Good Song Never Dies by Saint Motel

Move (epilogue) – Battlegrounds by Coco and the Butterfields

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I'm still working on those drabbles and will most likely have one finished by next week.

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I think i'm gonna keep this blog centered around Pokémon and G:IBO content. I'm not sure if I'll link my personal blog just yet.

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I've been working on a carrd for the past two weeks-ish where you'll be able to see the profiles I've created for the characters. I have Team Gjallarhorn and character descriptions (like personality) left. I just moved to a completely new state after living in Texas since I was 4 (so my whole life basically) and I have to find a new job, I'm adjusting right now. Probably gonna take another week-and-a-half before I post and share it.

Don't pay attention to the headshots, they're pulled straight from the fan-wiki. I'll do my best to produce art like headshots and full body art. I wanna create pixel and lil animated battle sprites of everyone.

I'm not a talented artist by any means, I'm decent on a good day unfortunately 😭. If I can't do the art myself, I'll do my best to find an artist to commission.

This is the biggest project I've planned and been counting down the days till I could work on this. I'm a huge Pokémon fan, always have been since I kid, so I wanna pull out all the stops and put my 110% into this.

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these two are dark Kamina and Simon

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Why is your pfp a Snivy and Oshawott? Does it have anything to do with the story?

IT DOES!! Atra chooses Snivy as her partner while Mikazuki chooses Oshawott as his!

Atra's Snivy has a very sassy personality and very particular about the upkeep of her scales and leaves. HATES battles because her scales typically get dirty. After a while, she realizes that Atra cleans her scales and leaves so nicely, so she doesn't mind the battles anymore as long as she gets a good cleaning afterwards. Her love for Atra and her grooming sessions continue to grow throughout her evolution into Serperior. Her nature is serious.

Mika's Oshawott has a gentle personality and not much of a fighter. But he looooves attracting the attention of whoever will look at him. He thrives off the attention he gains from small children who think of him as adorable. After being partners with Mikazuki for so long, he develops a love for battles, always ready to train and spar with Mika's other Pokémon. His nature is calm.

If you were wondering why I specifically chose Snivy and Oshawott as their partners, It's cause I think it fits them them best, and I had to give Snivy to my favorite girl <3

Serperior is very regal and beautiful in appearance, like it's in charge of something just like Atra. Samurott just gives the energy of a battle ready warrior, like Mika.

I love the Grass-type startes, so Snivy is an automatic fav of mine and while I've never been a fan of the Water-type startes, Oshawott is so cute that I can't help but love it.

Thank you so much for your ask! Don't hesitate to send anymore questions.

(I'm still deciding if I wanna give their Pokémon nicknames and such haha)

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Theres something ironic about me writing a Pokemon AU using the B&W games, when I've never formally played the games.

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redrew screenshot from anime :>

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Day 12 of drawing a pokemon Black/White original with a different procreate brush!

007-Oshawott, with Water Bleed from the Water set

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My average writing experience:

"Alright I think I'm almost done actually-"

*Google doc grows second health bar and a choir starts singing in latin*

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Significant otter 🦦🦦

Thought I might share this piece on here too ^-^

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the creature

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Im so unwell about him these days….. ❤️ call me honda with the way im nmaxxing

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thinking of playing through bw again hmm

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a feel like the new generation of fanfic readers NEED to understand that clicking on a fic (interaction) does nothing. ao3 has no algorithm. your private discord discussions of fic do not reach the authors. if you do not actively engage with writers they will stop posting. this isn’t social media this is community.