#College & Electric Youth - A Real Hero

[fallimentiquotidiani]

Real human being

And a real hero

Back against the wall and odds

With the strength of a will and a cause

Your pursuits are called outstanding

You're emotionally complex

Against the grain of dystopic claims

Not the thoughts your actions entertain

And you have proved to be

A real human being and a real hero

Real human being and a real hero

Real human being and a real hero

Real human being and a real hero

Real human being

A pilot on a cold, cold morn'

155 people on board

All safe and all rescued

From the slowly sinking ship

Water warmer than his head so cool

In that tight bind knew what to do

And you have proved to be

A real human being and a real hero

Real human being and a real hero

Real human being and a real hero

Real human being and a real hero

Real human being

Real human being

Real human being

[risartblog]

A real human being, and a real hero

[yamnbananas]

Drive 2011

[existingandscared]

I’ve been wanting to do like a, “some of my favorite songs that I think fit certain bat-fam members” ,or at least the ones that I made playlists based on, for a WHILE now, so I’m finally doing it.

⬛⬛⬛⬛

Bruce:

from now on (from the greatest showman)

Soft sounds from another planet (Japanese breakfast)

Little soldiers (crane wives)

Remember to remember me (isak danielson)

🔵🔵🔵🔵

Dick:

A real hero (college, Electric Youth)

Dance And Cry ( mother mother)

Painkillers (Rainbow kitten surprise)

Cigarettes (david kushner)

🟥🟥🟥🟥

Jason:

Holy Smokes (Anna bates)

Weep (mother mother)

Should have known better (sufjan Stevens)

Welcome home, son (radical face)

🟡🟡🟡🟡

Tim:

Surviver’s Guilt (coma cinema)

Claude’s girl (marika hackman)

I'll die anyway (girl in red)

The mute (radical face)

🟩🟩🟩🟩

Damian:

Devil town (cavetown)

I am not a robot (MARINA)

The tree (Blitzen trapper, Alela Diane)

I’m so sorry (imagine dragons)

[elliespuns]

Ellie & Joel song list

First, let me say that "She Is the Sunlight" by Trading Yesterday is one of my most beloved songs and nothing compares to it. It is so Joel to Ellie.

Joel's POV:

Trading Yesterday - Fall Into You Oh, my child How I have longed For you to come home To where you belong All of your life if you could just see All of my joy when you are here with me

The Paper Kites - Arms My heart's no good 'Cause it's split in two What can I give that is all for you These arms are all I have But I'll hold you like I do love you

Novo Amor - Anchor And I hear your ship is comin' in Your tears a sea for me to swim And I hear a storm is comin' in My dear, is it all we've ever been?

Yaeow - Everything to Me There's so much that i don't know and can't explain Like why the seasons turn and leaves are bound to change What's the meaning of existence It doesn't matter anyway 'Cause you mean everything to me You mean everything to me

Ellie's POV:

Red - Hymn For the Missing Thought you were beside me But I reached and you were gone Sometimes I hear you calling From some lost and distant shore I hear you crying softly for the way it was before

College ft. Electric Youth - A Real Hero Against the grain of dystopic claims Not the thoughts your actions entertain And you have proved to be A real human being and a real hero

Lists - Haven Lea Out of sight, though never far from our thoughts In my heart, you're on the shore With the waves at your feet, the wind in your hair And in my dreams, you're with the birds As they take to the skies and their song fills the air

Novo Amor - Carry You Let it lead your love away I never strayed Let it bury you away In all your blame, in all your pain I will carry you always

Both POVs:

Bear's Den - Above the Clouds of Pompeii You were a god in my eyes Above the clouds, above the skies You were a god in my eyes You were a god

The Hope Arsenal - Dreams That Were Always Meant to Be The forest in summertime And fires when it’s cold Spending time with you Never gets old

These are the most important songs that I connect to Ellie and Joel. Yes, I love these characters so much it physically pains me.

[ldrskul]

a real human being

[hplovecraftmuseum]

Lovecraft's last major original tale was THE HAUNTER of the DARK. It was written in response to a story by his youthful correspondent friend and fiction- writer hopeful, Robert Bloch. Bloch had shown the youthful audacity of killing off a fictional version of H. P. Lovecraft himself in his tale, THE SHAMBLER FROM THE STARS! Lovecraft decided to return the favor by murdering a fictional stand-in for Bloch. The Robert Bloch stand-in would be called 'Robert Harrison Blake'. Our hero would become a young artist and writer specializing in fanciful and supernatural subjects. In essence 'Blake' would return to Providence, RI. location of the Lovecraft character's death featured in Bloch's own story. In Lovecraft's 'retaliation tale' Bloch/Blake would rent lodgings in the very house the REAL H. P. Lovecraft himself was living in at the time! Lovecraft's actual Westward facing study window would become the model for the same window 'Blake' would be sitting at when he meets his death in the HAUNTER story. In the final scene the Robert Blake protagonist would link minds with a monstrous creature hiding out in the steeple of an abandoned church. That church was based on an actual Catholic church in the traditionally Italian section of Providence called, Federal Hill. The monster that links minds with Blake is apparently hoping to invade his body and use it for his own purposes. We are not told exactly what he/it had in mind once the invasion was completed, but we can be sure he wasn't coming to our world just to play tiddlywinks! The vision of a winged monster/ demon coming strait at the viewer in the same manner Blake must have witnessed the horror at the end is rather remarkably reflected in a painting by the noted writer and artist William Blake (Nov. 25, 1757 - August 12, 1827) Blake was known for his mystical and religious works and, THE RED DRAGON AND THE WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE SUN, was one of his most famous paintings. Comparing the Blake origional with the 2 illustrations featured on the front and rear covers of the landmark publication 'H. P. L' certainly gives evidence to my contention that Lovecraft's tale was influenced by Blake's painting. Of course HPL chose to change Bloch's name to Blake, but he could easily have called him Robert Brown, Blackstone, Bains, Baker, etc. Robert Bloch, William Blake. Well, I've been accused of stretching things in interpretations of Lovecraft before? By the way, notice the lightning bolts rising up around the creature in the Blake origional below left. The same thing is featured in the ink work by illustrator, Herb Arnold, to its right. The ink rendering of the same final scene of Lovecraft's THE HAUNTER OF THE DARK was the creation of Robert Kline. (Bottom below) However, there was no moon featured in the night sky of Lovecraft's HAUNTER OF THE DARK tale as there is in Mr Kline's illustration. The winged, Haunter creature had to depend on a nearly lightless night sky before he could risk traveling across the distance from the steeple at Federal Hill to the residence of Blake to the East on College Hill. On that stormy night there is an electrical failure and the only light that can be provided to ward off the creature are the candles being held by those citizens and priests of Providence who somehow sense that something Evil is about to be exalted. If it were not for a sudden and fortuitous thunderbolt striking the creature (an avatar of Nyarlathotep!) In mid air the world as we know it might not be here right now! (Exhibit 379)

[teachmehowtodokiaye]

URL SONG GAME TIME!!

Thank you @girljudasiscariot for tagging me <3

T - True Faith – New Order

E - Enjoy the Silence – Depeche Mode

A - A Real Hero – Electric Youth, College

C - Class of 2013 – Mitski

H - Hey I Don't Work Here – Tom Cardy

M - Me and Your Mama – Childish Gambino

E - Exit Music (For A Film) – Radiohead

H - Head Over Heels – Tears For Fears

O - Oh No! – MARINA

W - Why Can't I Be You? – The Cure

T - Tongues & Teeth – The Crane Wives

O - Off To The Races – Lana del Rey

D - Duvet – bôa

O - Oh Klaloma – Jack Stauber

K - Killshot – Magdalena Bay

I - In The Woods Somewhere – Hozier

A - A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Connecticut – Have A Nice Life

Y - You're Gonna Go Far, Kid – The Offspring

E - Everlong – Foo Fighters

This was incredibly tough for some reason lol

[aurora-daily]

Music recommended and/or mentioned by AURORA!

ABBA - Thank You For The Music

Advanced Language

Agnes Obel - Falling, Catching / Riverside / Dorian / The Curse (Robert Hampson Remix)

Air - Sexy Boy

Alice Phoebe Lou and Olmo - Devil's Sweetheart

Alt J - Fitzpleasure / Hunger of The Pine / Pulsher

Amanda Delara (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)

Amanda Tenfjord (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)

And Still I Rise - Wrecking Ball

Ane Brun - A Temporary Dive / All We Want is Love / Do You Remember

Anna of the North - Lovers

Annie Lennox - No More "I Love You's"

Antônio Carlos Jobim - Samba De Uma Nota Só

A Perfect Circle - The Outsiders / Weak And Powerless / Passive / Thirteen Steps (album)

Asbjørn - The Love You Have in You / Asbjørn

Askjell - The First Goodbye / L O S T M Y C O O L / Sofia

The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows / Revolver (album)

Beck - Blue Moon

Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (Glenn Morrison’s version)

Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love

Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Sunset Village

Bjork -  Army of Me / Homogenic (album) / Human Behaviour / Hyperballad / Joga / Unravel / Violently Happy / All Is Full Of Love (Howie's Version)

The Black Keys - Lonely Boy 

Blondie - Heart Of Glass

Bob Dylan -  Emotionally Yours / Political World / Mr. Tambourine Man (live version) (mentioned as the first song she dug)

Cameron James Laing - The Way

Cats of Transistria - Good Night

Céline Dion - My Heart Will Go On (Titanic)

The Chemical Brothers -  Another World / Galvanize / Escape 700 / Hanna's Theme

Cher - Believe

Childish Gambino - This Is America

Claude Debussy, Alexis Weissenberg - Claire de Lune (mentioned as a song that impacted her as a child)

Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas

Coldplay - Fix You

College/Electric Youth - A Real Hero (mentioned as the song that got her through her teen angst)

The Cranberries - Dreams  

Crystal Castles - Air War / Celestica / Sad Eyes / Untrust Us

Daft Punk - Digital Love

Damien Rice - Cannonball /  Delicate / Volcano

Daughter - Youth

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust / Blackstar (album) / Life On Mars? / Let’s Dance

dePresno - Forever

Dido - Here with Me 

Dina Ögon - Tombola 94

DNKL - Hunt

Dolores O'Riordan - When We Were Young

Ed Sheeran- No Diggity vs. Thrift Shop (& Passenger, Kygo Remix) / I See Fire (Kygo Remix)

Edith Piaf - La Vie en Rose (mentioned as a song which makes her cry)

Edvard Grieg - Morning Mood (Morgenstemning) / Solveig’s Song

Enya - Amarantine / May It Be / Storms In Africa / Ebudae / Boadicea / Watermark / The Memory of Trees (album) 

Eric Whitacre - Lux Aurumque

EvighetenYoung (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)

Fever Ray - When I Grow Up

Fka Twigs - Water Me

Fleetwood Mac - Big Love / Landslide

Florence + The Machine - No Light, No Light / Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up)

Frankie Valli - Can’t Take My Eyes Off You

Gabrielle - 5 fine frøkner

Gaahls WYRD (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)

Gojira -  Explosia / Mouth of Kala (mentioned as a song she loves that might surprise people)

Goldmund -  Image-Autumn-Womb

Great News - Now And Them (album)

Grimes - Flesh Without Blood

HALIE (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)

Hans Zimmer - Cornfield Chase

Henry Mancini & His Orchestra And Chorus - Moon River

Howard Shore - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Main Theme (mentioned as a song that she wishes she had written)

Imogen Heap -  Headlock / Hide And Seek

Iris -  Romance is Dead / lavender and heaven (mentioned as the song she wants played at her wedding)

Japanese Breakfast - Paprika

Jenny Hval - Golden Locks / Mephisto in the Water

John Williams - Hedwig's Theme (mentioned as a song she wishes that she had made)

John Wizards - Tet Lek Schrempf

Jóhann Jóhannsson - Arrival (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) / Kangaru

Johnny Cash (mentioned as the artist she likes)

Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now

Kate Bush - Cloudbusting / Babooshka

Khold - Myr

Kimbra - Top of the World

Kishi Bashi - I Am the Antichrist to You

Kvelertak (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)

Lana Del Rey - Young and Beautiful

Leif Vollebekk - Elegy

Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat (Live) /  Suzanne (Live) /  The Partisan (mentioned as an important song which her parents listened to) /  You Want It Darker (album) / It Seemed the Better Way / Greatest Hits (album) / Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye 

Lorde (mentioned as the artist she would like to collaborate with) 

Lou Bega -  Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)

Madonna - Frozen / Drowned world/Substitute for Love

Madrugada - Majesty

Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love

Massive Attack - Daydreaming /  Teardrop

Mastodon - The Hunter / High Road

Masterdon (mentioned as the artist she likes)

Matt Maltese - As the World Caves In

Max Richter - On the Nature of Daylight

Metteson - Under Your Shirt

Miki Matsubara - 真夜中のドア/ Stay With Me

Moby - Porcelain / A Seated Night

Moyka - Colder

Naaz (mentioned as the artist she likes)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ft. Kylie Minogue - Where The Wild Roses Grow

Nick Drake - Pink Moon

Nicholas Hooper - When Ginny Kissed Harry

O. Martin - Nowhere Is Home

Paolo Nutini - Everywhere

Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals

Poliça - Happy Be Fine

Prince - Sexuality

Put Your Hands Up for Neo-Tokyo - Get By

Queen - Under Pressure

Radiohead - No Surprises

RED MOON (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)

RHODES - Turning Back Around

Rockettothesky - Grizzly Man (mentioned as the first song discovered on her own)

Röyksopp & Robyn - Monument 

Robot Koch - Nitesky (feat John LaMonica)

Rudimental - Waiting All Night ft. Ella Eyre

Rusted Root - Send Me on My Way

RY X - Berlin

Sarah Brightman - Eden

SEA CHANGE - Above

Secret Garden - Windancer / Windancer

Seigmen - Monument

Sei Selina - Only When You’re Asleep

Sigur Ros - Svefn-g-englar 

Silja Dyngeland / Silja Sol - Stemning (DC#27) / Løgneren / Skrubbsår

Silvana Estrada - Lo Sagrado (album)

Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2U

Slayer (mentioned as an artist she likes)

Solå (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)Sondre Lerche - Why Would I Let You Go / Wrecking Ball (cover) / Palindromes / Sentimentalist / Lucifer / Bad Law / Patience/ I Love You Because It's True

Strange Hellos (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)

Stromae - L’enfer

Sufjan Stevens (mentioned as an artist she was excited to see at Panorama NYC festival 2016)

Susanne Sundfør - Silencer / White Foxes

Sushi x Kobe (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)

System of a Down -  Violent Pornography

Tame Impala - Let It Happen

The Prodigy -  Voodoo People / Smack My Bitch Up

The Secret Sisters - Tomorrow Will Be Kinder

Thomas Newman - American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score

Tigran Hamasyan + Arve Henriksen + Eivind Aarset + Jan Bang - Hoy, Nazan / Holy

Tool - Aenema

Underworld (mentioned as an artist she’d collaborate with) - Born Slippy / Rez / To Heal / 1992-2012 (album she would put it at a rave party as a DJ) / Born Slippy (mentioned as the song that she listened to the most when she first started driving)

Vilde Tuv - Cellevevet / Det blåser ingen vinder inni huset

Wardruna - Yggdrasil (album) / Runaljod - Ragnarok (album) / Fehu / Algir-Tognatale

WDSTCK - Flowers

Wim Mertens - Iris

Wintergatan - Sommarfågel

Woodkid - Iron

Wolf Alice - How Can I Make It Ok?

The XX - Intro

Young Dreams (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)

And overall music without words like soundtracks, movie pieces or classical music

Sources (in no particular order and some might be missing as I’ve been working on that since February 2021):

“Aurora feirer Grieg” on NRK 2018, i-D interview “city guide: bergen with aurora”, INDIE mag interview “BLESSING OUR EARS WITH AURORA’S DEBUT ALBUM” 2016, Records In My Life (interview 2016), 2014 interview for GAFFA, Auto-Tune Interview for DIFFUS 2019, Aurora guest programs Rage 2019, NRK radio show “AURORA Up Close” 2017, “Like A Bird In The Night: Clash Meets Aurora” 2019 interview, Spotify Greenroom Wrapped 2021 With AURORA and Sub Urban, Mixtape with the songs for Kzradio, #TBT Mixtape for Billboard, 2016 Artist Survey: AURORA for Under the Radar, Records In My Life (2019 Interview), Nordic Playlist #83, Nine Songs: AURORA for The Line of Best Fit 2019, NPR’s Guest DJ: AURORA On Her Love Of Heavy Metal And Leonard Cohen 2016, IG story from March 2020, IG story from September 2021, Interview - Panorama NYC 2016, Tweet from 2016, Spotify's music & talk show 10 Songs That Made Me 2021, Playlist for Weibo 2022, Interview for NRK 2014, Interview with Jamie Taylor 2016, Playful Playlist for i-D 2022, Midnight Mixtape for Deezer 2021, Daydreaming playlist for HIGHJINKX 2021, ChillDaBeats #038 2021, AURORA’s official SoundCloud channel, NRK P3 - Plateprat (record talk) 2017

Special thanks to Amroth for the support and additional resources provided! 🖤

[definitelynotaraccoon]

SPELL OUT YOUR URL WITH SONG TITLES - THEN TAG AS MANY PEOPLE AS THERE ARE LETTERS IN THE URL

Tagged by: @revenantinflames "You saw how many letters were in my url yet punished me anyway. Jerk."

D - Don’t Stop Me Now - Queen E - Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears F - Final Countdown - Europe I - In My Life - The Beatles (his personal favorite here) N - Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley (has no idea about the meme) I - I Shot The Sheriff - Bob Marley and Eric Clapton  Either is good. T - Take On Me - a-ha E - Escape - Rupert Holmes (that disgusting human ‘probably a euphemism’ song) L - Lonesome Loser - Little River Band Y - You Gotta Fight for Your Right to Party - Beastie Boys N - New Moon on Monday - Duran Duran O - O Superman · Laurie Anderson (listens in private, will tell you it’s stupid.) T - Tokyo - Bruce Cockburn  A - All the Young Dudes - Mott The Hoople R - Rocky Raccoon - The Beatles (Nope. No resemblance. Fool got shot. Shut up.) A - A Real Hero - College & Electric Youth (hasn’t heard but would be a Ryan Gosl-er) C - Call Me - Blondie C - Come On Eileen · Dexys Midnight Runners O - Out Of Touch - Hall & Oates O - Oh! You Pretty Things - Bowie N - No Use in Crying - Rolling Stones

"...Maybe Stark (@overclocks) is right. Maybe I do got a music problem that needs expanding..."

"Psssh, nah. I have exceptional tastes with everything. I'm not tagging too many morons in this, I'm feeling merciful. Plus, you cannot beat my musical choices."

"...but I am tagging you, Danvers, (@paragonrising) as payback for your usual flarking paperwork!"

Additional losers to tag: @blackjack-ohare, @spiderz0mbie, @beatfreesmysoul, @galestrings

[signalwatch]

PodCast 237: "Drive" (2011) - A Neo-Noir PodCast w/ SGHarms and Ryan

Watched:  03/01/2023

Format:  BluRay

Viewing: Third

Decade:  2010's

Director:  Nicolas Winding Refn

For more ways to listen

Steven and Ryan will give you an hour and twenty-two minutes. For that time, you're theirs as they talk a fairly divisive bit of neo-noir from a curious inflection point in cinema. Join us as we put the pedal to the metal and get under the hood of a cult favorite that dares to ask if you can really hammer home an idea, and is Albert Brooks just a cut up?

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Music:

Nightcall - Kavinsky

A Real Hero - College w/ Electric Youth

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[wedgeantill]

Tagged by @natures-marvel

PROMPT: 5 favorite songs at the moment

A Real Hero - Electric Youth, College Thunder without rain - BrainStorm (Prāta Vētra) Never Gonna Stop You - Andrew Britton Believer - Imagine Dragons Идём на восток! - Ногу Свело!

Tagging: @itscooltoskate, @kenobismullet, @paradisoinfernale98, @renjall, @starynighty

[punk-chicken-radio]

college and electric youth - a real hero

-ax and TOS

[malcolm-reeds-pineapple]

Shout out to songs that make me feel like I am driving down the coast with all my windows down at sunset after a blisteringly hot day I spent at the skate park. Gotta be one of my favourite genres fr

If I’m not painting a picture, allow me to share some songs with you

Rapp Snitch Knishes (Live Instrumental Version) - MF DOOM

Arcade Dreams - Timecop1983

Everywhere - Fleetwood Mac

White Night - Forum

Dreams - Fleetwood Mac

Take it Easy - The Eagles

A Real Hero - College+Electric Youth

An Ending - Brian Eno

Falls - Odesza

The Best Thing - Electric Youth

Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes

Forever Young - Alphaville

84’ Dreamin - Com Truise

Daisuke - El Huervo

Where The Streets Have No Name - U2

Dance Hall Days - Wang Chung

Listen To The Music - Doobie Brothers

Ramblin’ Man - Allman Brothers band

Won’t Be Fooled Again - The Who

Roam - B-52s

These are all the same genre In My Heart

[elliespuns]

What songs do you associate with Joel and Ellie's relationship the most lyric-wise? I understand that there are so many songs to choose from lol, but the ones I can think of, especially from their respective POVs, are: "She is The Sunlight" by Trading Yesterday (Joel's POV), "The Story" from Brandi Carlile (Ellie's POV) and "Love You Blind" by BAILEN (a mix of both POVs depending on the verse). What about you?

First, let me say that "She Is the Sunlight" by Trading Yesterday is one of my most beloved songs. This is so Joel to Ellie. I worry I might not connect it to anything else from now on. Thank you for making me see this song this way.

Joel's POV:

Trading Yesterday - Fall Into You Oh, my child How I have longed For you to come home To where you belong All of your life if you could just see All of my joy when you are here with me

The Paper Kites - Arms My heart's no good 'Cause it's split in two What can I give that is all for you These arms are all I have But I'll hold you like I do love you

Red - Pieces Then I'll see your face I know I'm finally yours I find everything I thought I lost before You call my name I come to you in pieces So you can make me whole

Tyler Brown Williams - Never Stop My heart is yours You can have it all You showed me how Without looking down It's okay to fall

Ellie's POV:

Red - Hymn For the Missing Thought you were beside me But I reached and you were gone Sometimes I hear you calling From some lost and distant shore I hear you crying softly for the way it was before

College ft. Electric Youth - A Real Hero Against the grain of dystopic claims Not the thoughts your actions entertain And you have proved to be A real human being and a real hero

Lists - Haven Lea Out of sight, though never far from our thoughts. In my heart, you're on the shore With the waves at your feet, the wind in your hair And in my dreams, you're with the birds As they take to the skies and their song fills the air

Both POVs:

The Hope Arsenal - Dreams That Were Always Meant to Be The forest in summertime And fires when it's cold Spending time with you Never gets old

Okay, these are the most important songs that I connect to Ellie and Joel. I just love them so much it physically pains me (in a good way). Thank you for sharing your music, means a lot!

[goddesspharo]

13 & 18 for your year-end meme!

[ask me about my fic writing year in review]

13. What fic was the easiest to write?

It's a toss up between two of the. put it in a zip-lock bag (The Bear) felt heavy but surprisingly easy to write in the sense that it sort of flew out of me. I don't know why, but I really glommed onto the idea of Mikey as a Kurt Cobain-ish tragic figure and it sort of cracked open after that. (I thought a lot about the Montage of Heck documentary while writing this.) The other one that has been surprisingly easy to write is the one that I'm currently writing, can't fake what you can't break up with (Top Gun: Maverick). I feel very...on top of it, which let's face it is VERY rare when I'm writing something with multiple chapters (or...at all?), but I know exactly where it's going and I'm having a blast writing it. Hopefully I will finish it before 2023 draws to a close, but I would be thrilled to bring this kind of writing clarity into the new year!

18. What was the hardest fic to title?

against the grain of dystopic claims (Top Gun: Maverick) and I still hate the title LOL! It feels clunky in a way that it didn't feel when I slapped it on there. Don't rack your brain at 2am trying to come up with a title that has a whiff of dystopia in it, kids. The funny thing is that I'm almost positive that I wasn't even listening to College & Electric Youth's "A Real Hero" (which is where the lyric comes from) at any point during the writing process of this fic. (But also that song is SUCH a blast from the past.)