#Leslie Fish

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

There's a hyperspecific genre of song that always makes me cry; sci-fi "filk" music about spacemen who sacrifice themselves for their crew.

Ballad of a Spaceman

Some Kind of Hero

Sam Jones

Dawson's Christian

"I'm as good as dead, but there's still something I can do to save everyone else, so that has to be enough."

[fuck-you-upmusicbracket]

Some Kind of Hero (Leslie Fish)

Heir of Grief (Homestuck)

[andmaybegayer]

I downloaded a bunch of filk and I always forget just HOW obvious Leslie Fish's politics are in her music.

[aurelianpen]

Happy moon landing day!! Have some Leslie Fish singing about the moon landing and then go listen to more of her music

[maybe-not-a-chicken]

Bad news everyone Leslie fish is super transphobic

Like thinks the trans suicide rates are a bluff tactic transphobic

And for an anarchist she seems kinda down on people protesting without a permit, which seems hypocritical.

She also thinks that transphobia doesn’t exist and actually trans people are the last sexists in the western world

So yeah, sorry about that folks

[fansong-tournament]

Round 1B.28

Don't Listen

Fandom: Amanda The Adventurer

Artist: Jakeneutron

Propaganda: "Makes me dance so much. The most head bamger ever. Gives me so much energy. I don't know how much about Amanda the adventurer but it's so good"-submitter 1

"This goes hard and @/toastymarshmellow_ is a very good Amanda" -submitter 2

Eternal Loser

Fandom: Star Trek

Artist: Leslie Fish, Various Others (i think)

[quotesnquestions]

Always be kind to travellers, wandering near or far. Always be kind to travellers; you don’t know who they are.

[insertfandomrefhere]

"but your honor i'm a silly little guy!"

[homosexualhooligan]

whenever i reread the iconic Leslie Fish's K/S fics, im always so struck by the illustrations, i cant help but think that they'd make killer relief prints

from her fic 'Poses'

[epic-song-lyrics-showdown]

Epic Song Lyrics Round 1, Wave 1, Poll 8

“I remember the view / street lights in the dark blue / the moment I knew / I’d no choice but to love you”

-Abstract (Psychopomp), Hozier

“Those cries and screams - they’re not just dreams, imagination’s lies / ‘God damn the whore, the bitch that bore you killers from the skies!’”

-The Bomber, Vic Tyler and Leslie Fish

Abstract (Psychopomp)-Hozier

Time Stamp: 1:57-2:08

Propaganda:

i recently went through a breakup and this album came out a few weeks after. the first time i heard these lyrics i almost fucking bawled. its so raw to me, and so so tender and vulnerable. it has a sort of resignation to it, reluctant acceptance of the love the lyrics talk about

The Bomber-Vic Tyler and Leslie Fish

Propaganda:

Even in their own mind the pilot is not the hero

Check out the other polls in this wave here.

[specialagentartemis]

It's Captain Sisko leading a war at the edge of Federation space, his friends and family who came out here during peacetime now on the front lines. It's Captain Janeway traversing the Delta Quadrant knowing that nobody in history has ever been so far from home before. It's Captain Lovelace building an escape shuttle by cannibalizing pieces of her own station in a desperate attempt to get herself and her people back to Earth. It's Commander Minkowski launching Eiffel towards Earth so somebody on her crew will make it home alive. (It's Minkowski being appalled, distressed, disbelieving at learning that Commander Zhang gave up on getting home and gave the self-destruct order to destroy her own ship with all her crew aboard.) It's the desperation in the narrator's voice in "Sam Jones" when she shouts, "Kate! Get back inside! Someone else will go!" even as she knows there's no other way for any of them to survive this careening orbit around this nowhere sun. It's Epic: The Musical choosing to forefront Odysseus's role as Captain and leader, and to emphasize loyalty to his men and duty to his crew as his driving motivation. The duty and devotion of a Captain to their crew and the solemn desire to get them home safe is just! so!! that's where it's AT!!!

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Everyone, do yourselves a favor and listen to Leslie Fish's 1989 anarchist filk album Firestorm: Songs of the Third World War.

Listen from start to finish.

The more things change, the more they stay the same...

[fuck-you-upmusicbracket]

Some Kind Of Hero (Leslie Fish)

I saw she had left on the screen “If any old shipmates should ask after Moll, Just tell them she finally died clean.”

"Old sci-fi ballad about some folks in a space station emergency, and the three people that were able to save everyone. Two of them died in the process, and the song is from the perspective of the surviving hero, insisting that they're not the real hero here - everyone should remember and respect the other two more, and why. It also has one of the most heartbreaking (but bittersweet) depictions of someone struggling with addiction that I've heard in a song."

Poll Runner: One of the first songs in this tournament I truly got attached to. This whole album slays. It's got so much worldbuilding in one song!

Heir of Grief (Homestuck)

"Dude. it's just so goddamn good. The rhythms. god. at around 4 minutes in it just goes absolutely fucking ham on the guitar and it's so goddamn good. every time I listen to it I like. whisper scream the melody out alongside and nearly give myself whiplash headbanging. God it's so good. Also--this song is in Homestuck, and it's one of four tracks that plays during the final battle flash. One of the greatest things about Homestuck's music is its use of recurring motifs--something Toby Fox carried with him when he later wrote Undertale's music. Heir of Grief is FULL of melodies and motifs from throughout the entire webcomic, and it ties them all together in this dramatic summation of it all on bold piano and KILLER electric guitar. I am obsessed."

Some Kind of Hero submitted by @shadybug

Heir of Grief submitted by @demimonde-semigoddess

[gunpowderdtim]

Carmen Miranda's Ghost - Leslie Fish & Vic Tyler

If you are looking for a whoops all bangers filk album, I'd love to introduce you to Carmen Miranda's Ghost. By Leslie Fish and Vic Tyler, we have my favorite filk album of all time - if you enjoy songs about a ghost haunting a starship, space shanties, the horrors of war, and tragic fates of young spacers, this album is for you!

please listen to it. I'm obsessed with this album.

[kivrin]

I read about Leslie Fish's fanfic Star Trek novel The Weight in an anthropological book or article about Star Trek fans - probably Enterprising Women by Camille Bacon-Smith though it might have been something else. The reference was to some conversations Chapel and Uhura have about gender discrimination in Starfleet, so I thought that more of the story would be about that. But instead it's a mirror universe / alternate history story in which Kirk encounters his alternate self in an anarchist community, and the anarchists are right about everything except trusting Kirk - first not trusting him enough when he could have saved their settlement with technology, but then trusting him too much about their options in his timeline, and the nature of Starfleet (it's not a cooperative association.)

Possibly the most surprising thing I learned is that in the 1970s Uhura's fanon first name was Upendra - it wasn't until the 80s that someone suggested Nyota.

I wasn't entirely expecting the story to be as, well, grim as it was, though I wasn't exactly expecting a happily-ever-after. It did amuse me to see some typos like "indigent" for "indignant," since fanzines were notoriously rife with such errors - which is understandable. Imagine sending drafts to betas through the mail in hard copy. (I did actually do that once or twice in the 90s.)

[barbarian15]

Leslie Fish - Black Powder and Alcohol Lyrics

Chorus:

Black powder and alcohol

When the states and the cities fall

When your back is against the wall

Black powder and alcohol

Give me charcoal to the measure two

Send the bullet where you want it to

Give me sulfer to the measure three

Make that powder gonna keep you free

Give me salt peter, measure fifteen

Sweetest shootin' that you've ever seen

Gimme water, yeast, and veggie trash

Leave it sittin' in a slurry mash

When it's ready, put it in the still

If you can't heat it then the sunlight will

Draw the alcohol away, and then

Ya put the slurry back and start again

Booze will clean your cuts or run your car

You can make it anywhere you are

Black powder in your cartridge shell

Will send the robbers runnin' clean to hell

You can make 'em if you just know how

So kids, remember what I'm tellin' you now

Again

Yah