#Leslie Anne Levine

[omg-snakes]

Leslie Anne Levine is very much enjoying the nice fall weather.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

If you think about it, it's pretty gutsy/insane that The Decemberists decided to open their very first LP with a song narrated from the point of view of a dead baby rotting in a ditch.

[inkshine]

I think Leslie Ann Levine should meet the ghost children from The Hazards of Love and become friends with them

[rosewaterandivy]

Summersong Request-athon!

Hi y’all and happy first day of summer! Inspired by @bettyfrommars Pick Your Poison blurbs and enabled by @powderblueblood who assured me that this wasn’t an insane idea, I’ve decided to open up requests inspired by the discography of one of my most beloved bands, The Decemberists.

18+ONLY

Aside from picking Steve or Eddie and a song title, you really won’t have much idea of what you’re getting because we’re are doing this based on pure vibes, baby!

You don’t need to be familiar with The Decemberists’ work, but if you are curious, I’ve linked their albums below. And if you are so inclined, check out the rules below!

1. Select Steve or Eddie

Yes, this does include AU options. Pretty much anything I’ve written is free game including the Back Burner list. If selecting an AU, please specify which one. For example: carpenter!Steve or EBY Eddie, etc.

2. Select a song title

Scroll through the albums listed below and follow the links if you’d like to listen, or you can choose a song at random based purely on its title - whatever strikes your fancy!

3. Submit your request in an ask using the following format: Character + Song Title.

4. Based on your choices, the resulting blurb will either be angst, fluff, or smut, with a slight possibility of monsterfucking if you select a specific AU (iykyk) but ultimately up to my discretion. So please keep that in mind if you decide to play along!

Anon requests will not be eligible for the smut option.

The window for requests will be open from today, June 20 to the official end of summer on September 22.

If you have additional questions, don’t hesitate to drop me a line! 💜

Album Choices

*Click the link to access the album on Spotify*

Her Majesty The Decemberists

Shanty for the Arethusa

Billy Liar

Los Angeles, I’m Yours

The Gymnast, High Above the Ground

The Bachelor and the Bride

Song for Myla Goldberg

The Soldiering Life

Red Right Ankle

The Chimbley Sweep

I Was Meant For the Stage

As I Rise

Castaways and Cutouts

Leslie Anne Levine

Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect

July, July!

A Cautionary Song

Odalisque

Cocoon

Grace Cathedral Hill

The Legionnaire’s Lament

Clementine

California One / Youth and Beauty Brigade

Picaresque

The Infanta

We Both Go Down Together

Eli, The Barrow Boy

The Sporting Life

The Bagman’s Gambit

From My Own True Love (Lost At Sea)

16 Military Wives

The Engine Driver

On the Bus Mall

The Mariner’s Revenge Song

Of Angels and Angles

The Crane Wife

The Crane Wife 3

The Island: Come And See/The Landlord’s Daughter/You’ll Not Feel The Drowning

Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)

O Valencia!

The Perfect Crime #2

When The War Came

Shankill Butchers

Summersong

The Crane Wife 1 & 2

Sons & Daughters

Culling Of The Fold

Hazards of Love

Prelude

The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won’t Wrestle The Thistles Undone)

A Bower Scene

Won’t Want For Love (Margaret In The Taiga)

The Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All)

The Queen’s Approach

Isn’t It A Lovely Night?

The Wanting Comes In Waves / Repaid

An Interlude

The Rake’s Song

The Abduction of Margaret

The Queen’s Rebuke / The Crossing

Annan Water

Margaret in Captivity

The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)

The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise)

The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)

The King is Dead

Don’t Carry It All

Calamity Song

Rise To Me

Rox In The Box

January Hymn

Down By The Water

All Arise!

June Hymn

This Is Why We Fight

Dear Avery

What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World

The Singer Addresses His Audience

Cavalry Captain

Philomena

Make You Better

Lake Song

Till The Water’s All Long Gone

The Wrong Year

Carolina Low

Better Not Wake The Baby

Anti-Summersong

Easy Come, Easy Go

Mistral

12/17/12

A Beginning Song

I’ll Be Your Girl

Once In My Life

Cutting Stone

Severed

Starwatcher

Tripping Along

Your Ghost

Everything Is Awful

Sucker’s Prayer

We All Die Young

Rusalka, Rusalka / Wild Rushes

I’ll Be Your Girl

As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again

Burial Ground

Oh No!

The Reapers

Long White Veil

William Fitzwilliam

Don’t Go to the Woods

The Black Maria

All I Want Is You

Born to the Morning

America Made Me

Tell Me What’s on Your Mind

Never Satisfied

Joan in the Garden

[storiesfabled]

updated muse list

under the cut you will find the most up-to-date muse list.

911

evan buckley

maddie buckley

charlotte buckley-diaz // rowan blanchard // buck & eddie daughter

eddie diaz

athena grant

may grant

howard han

tommy kinard

bobby nash

harper nash // er registrar // ashley benson // bobby & marcy daughter

jonah nash // firefighter // tyler blackburn // ray & margaret son

raymund nash // principal // d.w. moffett // bobby’s brother

russell nash // lawyer // jack coleman // bobby’s brother

matthew ransone // police officer // casey deidrick // lou’s son

josh russo

ashlynn wilson // college student // victoria justice // henrietta & karen daughter

henrietta wilson

karen wilson

911: lone star

nancy gillian

trevor parks

arianna reyes // maiara walsh // tk & carlos daughter

carlos reyes

gabriel reyes

gabriella ryder // troian bellisario // judd & grace daughter

grace ryder

jackson ryder // football coach & pe teacher // eric stonestreet // judd’s brother

judd ryder

weston ryder // oil tycoon // jeffrey dean morgan // judd’s brother

aubrey strand // madison davenport // owen & npc daughter

owen strand

tk strand

victoria strand // liana liberato // owen & npc daughter

paul strickland

billy tyson

billy tyson jr. // firefighter // steven r. mcqueen // billy & npc son

destinie tyson // nursing student // phoebe tonkin // billy & npc daughter

chicago fire

tricia boden // aisha dee // wallace & donna daughter

wallace boden

sylvie brett

matt casey

gabriella dawson

christopher hermann

stella kidd

patrick mcholland // hunter parrish // mouch & trudy son

rachel mcholland // anna kendrick // mouch & trudy daughter

randall ‘mouch’ mcholland

peter mills

kelly severide

leslie shay

allison shay-severide // zoe levin // kelly & leslie daughter

brian ‘otis’ zvonecek

chicago med

anna charles

daniel charles

will halstead

maggie lockwood

connor rhodes

chicago pd

kevin atwater

antonio dawson

eva dawson

hannah halstead // willa holland // jay & erin daughter

jay halstead

erin lindsay

trudy platt

adam ruzek

savannah ruzek // dianna agron // adam & kim daughter

emmaline voight // shay mitchell // adopted by hank

Hank voight

Madeline voight // police officer // charisma carpenter // hank & trudy daughter

Criminal minds

Penelope garcia

Aaron hotchner

Alexandra hotchner // ssa bau // alona tal // aaron & haley daughter

Jennifer jareau

Emily prentiss

Derek morgan

Brynnlee reid-morgan // aisha dee // derek & spencer daughter

David rossi

Rylee rossi // hayden panettiere // david & erin daughter

dallas

Ann ewing

Bobby ewing

Christopher ewing

John ross ewing

Olivia ewing // britt robertson // bobby & ann daughter

Bryan jones // history professor // colin donnell

fire country

Bode Donovan

Sharon Leone

Vince Leone

Gabriella Perez

Manny Perez

Grey’s anatomy

Teddy altman

Jackson avery

Miranda bailey

Tuck bailey-jones

Stephanie edwards

Lexie grey

Meredith grey

Zola grey-shepherd

Alex karev

Chloe montgomery-shepherd // er nurse // madelaine petsch

Arizona robbins

Mark sloan

Sofia sloan-torres

Callie torres

house

Robert chase

Lisa cuddy

Gregory house

Veronica house // hailee steinfeld // greg & lisa daughter

ncis

Anthony dinozzo jr.

Tobias fornell

Hannah gibbs // haley ramm // jethro & jenny daughter

Leroy jethro gibbs

Timothy mcgee

Jenny shepard

Private practice

Cooper freedman

Addison montgomery

Jasmine montgomery-reilly // dove cameron // addison & jake daughter 

Jake reilly

Station 19

Travis montgomery

Theo ruiz

Ben warren

Zoey warren // college student // amber riley // ben & miranda daughter

supernatural

Annabelle buckley-moore // hunter // josephine langsford // evan buckley & jess daughter

Castiel

Crowley

Bobby singer

Rufus turner

Dean winchester

Johanna winchester // danielle campbell // dean & castiel daughter

John winchester

Sam winchester

[foone]

THEORY: Colin "Liar" Meloy of The Decemberists is a furry and possible Monsterfucker, who wants to drown.

Evidence abounds.

1. The Crane Wife: the whole album and 1, 2, or 3 of the songs are about story from Japanese folklore, about a man who rescues a crane, then marries a mysterious woman who shows up shortly afterwards, then WHOOPS SHENANIGANS HAPPEN, TURNS OUT SHE'S THE CRANE.

2. The Hazards of Love. The first song (past the instrumental prelude) is "so Margaret rode out into the woods, and found a wounded fawn, and then things got magically weird"

The next song is "so Margaret is pregnant now"

3. Rusalka, Rusalka.

"so there are these river mermaid girls and they're deadly but they're also so sexy and whoops I am drowned now."

4. Leslie Anne Levine

It's their first song off their first LP, and it's about a ghost who is in love with another ghost. I'm not saying ghost-love is inherently monsterfuckery, but it's not NOT monsterfuckery.

5. Down by the Water

"The lash-flashing Leda Of Pier Nineteen"

Leda was a queen of Sparta, who was seduced by Zeus, in the form of... A swan.

Our boy has a favorite species. Nothing wrong with that.

6. Yankee Bayonet

It's another ghost-love story. Here only one of them is dead, at least.

7. Margaret in Captivity

I know I've mentioned The Hazards of Love as a whole-album reference, but I just remembered that The Rake calls Margaret "my precious captive swan". WE GET IT COLIN, YOU LIKE SWANS. JUST SHOW US YOUR FURSONA ALREADY.

8. The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)

William and Margaret are both dead. They're drowned, which is something of a theme. But their ghosts are in love, and marry (how does "till death do us part" work when you're already dead?). More ghost love, and in this case it's furry ghost love. Kinky.

9. Riverswim

This song references water (obviously) and drowning, and I wouldn't bring it up it except there's also the mention of a certain native American cannibalism spirit, one you should not name, and given his history with songs about monsters and spirits and animal spirits, I'm not certain he doesn't want to fuck it.

So yeah.

I'm not gonna tally up all the talk of drowning, but it is a constant theme. From "I don't mind" off their first EP back in 2001, to "Midlist Author" off their 2018 EP, drowning is never far from the mind of Colin Meloy.

You could make some joke about how it's ironic, given that he comes from the landlocked state of Montana, but we all know that's just "the popular myth". His real story is much weirder and more tragic.

[bracketsoffear]

TMA The Musical:

Eye

Touch-Tone Telephone by Lemon Demon

Electric Eye by Judas Priest

Lonely

Waving Through A Window from Dear Evan Hansen

Invisible from MLP Equestria Girls: Forgotten Friendship

Vast

Infinitesimal by Mother Mother

Buried

Debt Collector by Jhariah

Dark

Hometown by Twenty One Pilots

Stranger

Mirror Man by Jack Stauber’s Micropop

Faceshopping by Sophie

Spiral

The Mind Electric by Miracle Musical

Slaughter

Culling of the Fold by The Decemberists

This is Why We Fight by The Decemberists

Courage Knows No Bounds by Heather Alexander

Hunt

The Mariner's Revenge Song by The Decemberists

Flesh

Body Terror Song by AJJ

End

The Ballad of Jane Doe from Ride the Cyclone

Leslie Anne Levine by The Decemberists

Dead Girls by Penelope Scott

For The Departed by Shayfer James

Extinction

Feed the Machine by Poor Man’s Poison

Countdown’s Begun by Ozzie Osborn

It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) by R.E.M

Seed Song by The Mountain Goats

Desolation

Lucky Sevens by The Mechanisms

No Children by The Mountain Goats

Corruption

Dysentery World from The Trail to Oregon

Tongues and Teeth by The Crane Wives

I Love You Like An Alcoholic by The Taxpayers

Web

Candy Store from Heathers the Musical

New Invention by I DON’T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

Wires by The Neighbourhood

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[bleghablah]

okay I pinky promise I'll stop Indie Folk Posting ™️ and honestly I may have said this on my blog already, but I wish I had the musical confidence of Colin Meloy. I adore Leslie Ann Levine, but can you imagine buying an album sight unseen for this brand new band no one has heard of, spinning it up and you're kicked in the face with "My name is Leslie Ann Levine, my mother birthed my down a dry raviiiine?"

[twinvictim]

for the music ask game: A,E,T,H,I,X !

A album you love with no skips

Lotta choices but I'll put Castaways And Cutouts by The Decemberists here, I could put a lot of their albums here too but I have a real fondness for this one. Cocoon, Leslie Anne Levine, and Grace Cathedral Hill are some favorites

E song without lyrics you're fond of

I have a whole Playlist of songs like this I really like instrumentals but Where Pathways Meet by Sun Ra is a favorite

T song that sound like sunshine

I think a lot of my music taste is more The moon perhaps or rain but Humility by Gorillaz is a good answer for this I think

H song you associate with a period of change in your life

There was a time right when I had just moved out of my parents house and lived in motels where I listened to a lot of Eminem and the album that has Hunger by Florance and the Machine, couldn't listen to that song for awhile after lol

I song/album/artist you changed your mind on

The thing coming to mind is Kill V. Maim by Grimes mostly because I did think that album was fun but then she started dating you know who and I ended up thinking it was really cringe after lmao

X song with a religious element (positively negative)

A Good Man by Semlar and really the whole EP is very....oh man

[magnoliaspringsrp]

MWM and MWF over 25 please?!

Males: A.J Saudin, Alex Landi, Avan Jogia, Charles Melton, Chase Stokes, Dacre Montgomery, Diego Boneta, Grant Gustin, Jacob Anderson, Jacob Artist, Jacob Elordi, Kieth Powers, Kiowa Gordon, Lucien Laviscount, Ncuti Gatwa, Rafael Silva, Ronen Rubinstein, Sean Teale, Aaron Tviet, Brant Daugherty, Ben Levin, Brian Michael Smith, Casey Diedrick, Chace Crawford, Charles Michael Davis, D.J Cotrona, Dan Levy, Daniel Sharman, David Castaneda, Jay Hayden, JD Pardo, Jesse Williams, Michael B Jordan, Michael Trevino, Nicholas Galitzine, Taylor Zakhar-Perez, Ryan Gosling, Theo James, Steven R. McQueen, Eric Dane, Joe Manganiello, Pedro Pascal, Sean Maguire, Torrance Coombs, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan.

Females: Adeline Rudolph, Amy Adams, Bianca Lawson, Carla Gugino, Charlize Theron, Danai Gurira, Katheryn Winnick, Lana Parrilla, Laverne Cox, Maggie Q, Alex Daddario, Amber Stevens-West, Brenda Song, Brianne Howey, Candice Patton, Cobie Smulders, Crystal Reed, Daniella Pineda, Nina Dobrev, Candice King, Kat Graham, Emily VanCamp, Hannah Simone, Julia Jones, Karla Souza, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Maiara Walsh, Meaghan Rath, Meagan Tandy, Natalie Morales, Nicola Coughlan, Parveen Kaur, Rose Leslie, Shay Mitchell, Tessa Thompson, Madelyn Cline, Amber Midthunder, Anya Taylor Joy, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Florence Pugh, Cierra Ramirez.

[omg-snakes]

[tortoisesshells]

Hello Tortie! Could you do 17, 25 and 30 for the music ask please :)

Absolutely, kind friend!

17. a song that reminds you of a good time

"Leslie Anne Levine" showed up twice, accidentally, on a road trip mix a friend burned for a long drive from college to the beach for a long weekend, and to this day, it's my "BEACH DAY!!!" song. Just ... don't mind the lyrics. there's nothing beachy about 'em.

25. the song currently stuck in your head OR the song you are listening to right now

"Goldmine", the soundtrack of many a daydream about learning how to play banjo.

30. your all-time favorite song

oh man. uh. Gun to my head, "The Mary Ellen Carter". But different gun to my head, probably "Dream a Little Dream of Me" (Fitzgerald & Armstrong, specifically.)

Music Asks

[seldnei]

Me: Hm. Most people have, like, Monster Mash on their Halloween playlist, but I have a lot of serial killers.

Z: To be fair, Mom, this is all stuff you listen to normally; I didn't know it was a Halloween playlist.

Seldnei's Halloween Playlist (meant to be played on shuffle)

Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Nirvana (unplugged) '96 Neve Campbell - clipping. [feat. Cam & China] '97 Bonnie & Clyde - Tori Amos About Her - Malcolm McLaren Polly - Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra Down By the River (Live) - Indigo Girls Possum Kingdom - Toadies Come Back Alive - Delta Rae Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) - Concrete Blonde Dragula - Rob Zombie The Horror and the Wild - The Amazing Devil Magic - Bruce Springsteen Leslie Anne Levine - The Decemberists Ghost of a Texas Ladies Man - Concrete Blonde Psycho Killer - Talking Heads

He was not wrong.

[frecht]

every time i listen to leslie anne levine on spotify it throws me off bc the mp3 of it i have on my phone (which i listen to more often) skips in the beginning and the first couple notes repeat (bc there was a scratch on my dad's cd i ripped it off of) and it feels so weird that it doesnt. like the little repetition from the scratch is part of the song to me.

[captain-saph]

💿 discography tag!! 💿

i was tagged by @helge-dopplers my beloved

rules: pick an artist or band and share your favourite song from each of their albums, then tag some mutuals!

artist: i'm doing the decemberists. i can't not do the decemberists. STRAP IN!

(note: yes i'm doing the eps too. i was in the top 0.005% of listeners this year. i have the right)

(also note: these are current faves! they change occasionally so this is mostly the jan-feb 2023 top hits)

five songs: shiny

castaways and cutouts: leslie anne levine

her majesty the decemberists: the chimbley sweep

the tain: the tain, part v

billy liar: everything i try to do, nothing seems to turn out right

picaresque: eli, the barrow boy

picaresqueties: bandit queen (w/ dt)

the crane wife (initial release): the island: come and see/the landlord's daughter/you'll not feel the drowning

the crane wife (10th anniversary edition): the perfect crime #2 - early take

always the bridesmaid: a singles series: a record year for rainfall

the hazards of love: the wanting comes in waves / repaid

the king is dead: down by the water

long live the king: i 4 u & u 4 me - home demo

we all raise our voices to the air: dracula's daughter/o valencia - live

what a terrible world, what a beautiful world: cavalry captain

florasongs: the harrowed and the haunted

i'll be your girl: severed

traveling on: down on the knuckle

...anyone still around? i hope you enjoyed my hot takes!

i don't really know who to tag so if you want to do this feel free to say saph sent you :)