#IM COMING TO FIND YOU IF IT TAKES ME ALL NIGHT A WITCHHUNT FOR ANOTHER GIRL

[smallbirdbigcoat]

excellent choices!! poison ivy has such fab style i love the cramps what are your 5 favorite songs right now & why?

today i give you a poem i read recently: We will call you “Agua” like the rivers and cool jugs. We will persuade the clouds to nestle around your neck so you may sleep late. We would be happy if you slept forever. We will tend the slopes we plant, singing the songs our grandfathers taught us before we inherited their fear. We will try not to argue among ourselves. When the widow demands extra flour, we will provide it, remembering the smell of incense on the day of our Lord.

Please think of us as we are, tiny, with skins that burn easily. Please notice how we have watered the shrubs around our houses and transplanted the peppers into neat tin cans. Forgive any anger we feel towards the earth, when the rains do not come, or they come too much, and swallow our corn. It is not easy to be this small and live in your shadow.

Often while we are eating our evening meal you cross our rooms like a thief, touching first the radio and then the loom. Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash

How can we live like this? We need to wake and find our shelves intact, our children slumbering in their quilts. We need dreams the shape of lakes, with mornings in them thick as fish. Shade us as we cast and hook— but nothing else, nothing else.

Negotiations with a Volcano - Naomi Shihab Nye

that's such a beautiful poem thank you for sending it to me <33

firstly i'd probably have to say how soon is now by the smiths. the guitar in this song is just so brilliant and it rly like scratches an itch in my brain ig. its also a lot of fun to have a song you can dance to that has the lyrics "you go home and you cry and you want to die". it's a song that i listen to all the time but i feel like its still magical to me every time i hear it, like it hasn't lost all its feeling and meaning and stuff through too many listens

night of the swallow by kate bush has also been another one of my favourites lately. her vocal performance is so moving and intense and the song creates such a dramatic and exciting atmosphere that really spices up my walk home lmao.

lost in the supermarket by the clash is another song that ive literally been obsessed w recently. its rly catchy but not annoying at all, and i just like the whole idea of it. i think being lost in a supermarket is a rly interesting metaphor and has some really interesting imagery to me. suburbia is a theme that rly interests me in art as well, which is another reason that i connect w the song a lot.

a night like this by the cure is also another fave. its so dramatic and cool, and its a song thats really fun to sing along to. probably one of my favourite cure songs which is saying a lot given how brilliant literally all cure songs are imo.

lastly i have to mention my favourite song of all time, joy division's love will tear us apart. its perfect. it's been my favourite song for years, and there's one instance i remember specifically where me and my family were driving along a country road and i noticed the stars (i live in the suburbs normally) and there were so many of them bc of the lack of light pollution and it was the most beautiful thing i have ever seen in my life so i stuck my head out of the window and then love will tear us apart came up on my playlist and all i could hear was the wind and the song and it was like a magical experience. so yeah that was cool.

some honorable mentions of songs ive been obsessed w lately: she bangs the drums by the stone roses, into the valley by skids, once in a lifetime by talking heads and moonage daydream by david bowie

thank you so much for this question!! i didn't realise i had so much to say abt this lmao. what would you say are your top 5 songs rn??

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So the convent Suki ran away from was like uhh not great and framed it to the rest of the nuns as Suki got Kidnapped/Taken by a demon and Suki had a friend there, another nun, her name was Roslyn. Roslyn was very close to Suki, loved her a lot,* and refused to give up on her. Believing that Suki was taken by a demon, Bytte leaves the convent and (this is time period dependent, im still not sure when) ends up becoming a Witchhunter/Finder bc, well, witches work w demons, and she's trying to find a demon. Instead she finds a Lot of false accusations and similar horrible things, and very few Actual witches, and at this point whenever she does find a real witch, she doesnt tell anyone, and in fact helps their cover and assures theyre innocence and simply asks for their help. She manages, somehow, to track down Bytte? Who she recognizes from the time she disguised herself as a nun in her convent. Bytte was going to just ignore her and leave but she cant help but be intrigued and instead ends up discussing and bantering with Roslyn. She at some point calls Roslyn a Christian witch, and Roslyn is Offended but then Bytte pushes it and Roslyn realizes. She's not wrong...

Along the way Roslyn finds a malnourished vampire (Alasdair) wasting away in the daylit street and (not knowing what he is) offers for him to stay at her house. She doesnt understand when he refuses food and drink but then he tells her what he is, and that when night comes he won't be so weak, and he'll go out and hunt. And that he has no problem killing ppl. Roslyn, is, altruistic to a fault, and asks if she offers her own blood if it would save someone else. And he's like. I mean yea i guess it would, like, tonight. And she's like cool thats better than not saving anyone I'll take it! And he bites her and drinks her blood, and then, (Idk how, im still working on the lore logistics for this as well!) Demons can kind of keep tabs on their favorite humans, not super specific or anything but if, say, one you decided you liked and youre minorly invested in her staying alive, and you happen to notice that she's in pain and rapidly losing life, (Bytte. Bytte is mildly keeping tabs on Roslyn bc she likes her Spunk). And Bytte appears in her house to find a wimpass vampire b!tch draining Roslyn's blood with full intent to just kill her and is, pissed, so she slaps him off of her and was luckily just in time. Roslyn lost a lot of blood, and more than is healthy, and will need some time and rest and Fluids to recover, but she will recover. Alasdair is annoyed bc Roslyn straight up offered, so like, what the fuck. Then he recognizes Bytte, bc she has some level of Notoriety, as a semi famous vicious warlord (not sure warlord is the right term? Feels close tho) spartan warrior who was a high ranking scary soldier despite being a woman bc she was just That Terrifying, and was known for Removing People's Heads (Bytte the Beheader) who never actually died in a way that anyone witnessed she just kinda...disappeared, and she's known in the immortal/magic world. It's fairly known that shes mellowed out since her time, but its also known that shes still Terrifying. (Roslyn doesn't actually know all this about her, just that she's a bit morally corrupt and vicious and scary.) So Alasdair is annoyed, but. He's not going to fight Bytte. Bytte, is like. What the fuck. Why are you biting my human. Roslyn, weakly, from the couch/bed wherever shes laying, is like, what do you mean "my human"??? Bytte ignores this bc shes busy staring Alasdair down and being a menace. Alasdair is like well i didnt see your name on her and she literally fucking expressedly agreed to let me drink her blood so whats your excuse?? And Bytte is just like. Go get different blood, I dont want her dead and if you kill her Ill make sure you suffer. And then Roslyn protests, bc the whole entire reason she agreed to let him have her blood was so he wouldnt kill anyone else that night. And Alasdair is like. Well. What the fuck do you want from me. And Bytte, frustrated, not particularly caring for Alasdair, but recognizing that 1) for some reason, Roslyn gives a shit about him and doesnt want him dead so Bytte cant kill him herself without upsetting her 2) Roslyn doesnt want anyone else to die, and if Bytte lets that happen Roslyn will clearly be upset 3) Alasdair needs at least a little more human blood.

So she summons Headloose and has him bring human blood for Alasdair to drink that was collected without killing any humans, and Alasdair grumbles, bc its not super fresh and he has to drink it from like a bottle or smth instead of. A person. But he drinks it. And Roslyn ends up becoming his symbiont, which basically means she gives him a little blood over time to sustain him instead of all at once, and vampires with symbionts tend to have Multiple, bc the point is that its an alternative to killing humans for blood. So he has to get his shit together and find more symbionts so that Roslyn doesnt get mad at him.

Being a Symbiont makes Roslyn effectively immortal, and when she finally finds Suki again, it is..a bit awkward. its well past either of their natural lifespans, and theyve both changed and grown quite a bit, and neither ever expected to see the other again, but theyre very glad they do, and they remain good friends, each proud of the other and how theyve grown.

Bytte also remains quite fond of Roslyn, tho she'll barely admit it and shes REAL MAD about it bc Roslyn, as previously mentioned, is altruistic to a fucking Fault, with a tendencyto self-sacrifice, and seems to have very little self preservation, if any. Bytte frequently swoops in to save her ass which...Roslyn always thanks her and appreciates. But also they often argue about Bytte's...methods. Roslyn also cares greatly about Bytte, even though shes vicious and morally corrupt and crass and rude and frequently creates ethical headaches for her. But little does she realize that she too is a good influence on Bytte, contributing greatly to her mellowing out and being less likely to immediately resort to violent extremes.

*Note: That is not code for "they were in love/romantic/secret dating", i know Irl it can be/often is, especially for historical relationships, but we all love queer ocs here (and if you dont love queer ocs.....you shouldnt be following this blog lmao?) so i have no reason to use ~codes~ like "they were Very Good Friends! Wink". If they are gay lovers im just going to tell you. This is important to me to specify bc i want to recognize the significance of their relationship but i dont want the significance being mistaken for romance bc Im A Tired Aro(tm) and i also dont want to devalue their dynamic in my attempts to clarify by saying "theyre JUST friends not lovers" bc the fact that they are friends and not lovers is not JUST anything, its not lesser. This got way too long. Anyway.