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[mansionfaraway]

The Hanged Man // a hetaoni: flr playlist (1/3)

Sacrifice, uncertainty, absence

Inspired by lsunnyc's absolutely outstanding continuation to HetaOni (Final Loop and Recovery) and finaloop's categorizations for FLR's core ideas.

This is primarily an homage to Sunny's and Tomoyoshi's work. More than only lyrics, I feel like these songs evoke, for me, certain vibes for FLR's specific versions of the characters. While there's certainly a chronological structure through this playlist that does follow FLR's narrative, there's also the intent of calling up the general atmosphere of each phase. Special thanks to finaloop for letting me use their tags!

YouTube Link: (x)

i. florence + the machine // blinding (x)

ii. daughter // smother (x)

iii. regina spektor // blue lips (x)

iv. émilie simon // le vieil amant (x)

v. hozier // in the woods somewhere (x)

vi. blue foundation // eyes on fire (x)

vii. daughter // home (x)

viii. sigur rós // varúð (x)

ix. daughter // lifeforms (x)

x. hiroyuki sawano // vogel im käfig (x)

xi. missio // bottom of the deep blue sea (x)

xii. of monsters and men // silhouettes (x)

The Hanged Man / The Tower / The Sun

[mansionfaraway]

The Sun // a hetaoni: flr playlist (3/3)

Truth, vitality, hope

Inspired by lsunnyc's absolutely outstanding continuation to HetaOni (Final Loop and Recovery) and finaloop's categorizations for FLR's core ideas.

Last part of my trio of playlist's for FLR. Although The Tower has a very strong, chronological foundation, The Sun playlists represent not necessarily a narrative progression, but a symbolical one. FLR can't simply carry its nuclear message without the existence of The Sun: a card that resembles the hardships of healing, and the importance of treasuring those rare speckles of peace. It's very telling that time itself serves as FLR's main problem, but also as its solution. And that's only because hope, always hope, conduces the whole story and its characters.

YouTube Link: (x)

i. max richter // on the nature of daylight (x)

ii. sufjan stevens // visions of gideon (x)

iii. sigur rós // ára bátur (x)

iv. billie eilish // ocean eyes (x)

v. sigur rós // untitled #3 (samskeyti) (x)

vi. bon iver // beach baby (x)

vii. sigur rós // andvari (x)

viii. coldplay // atlas (x)

ix. of monsters and men // little talks (acoustic) (x)

x. m83 // wait (x)

xi. jon brion // little person (x)

xii. florence + the machine // cosmic love (x)

The Hanged Man / The Tower / The Sun

[betty-bourgeoisie]

@finaloop you are the funniest person here

America showing up to a world meeting in these shoes

[mansionfaraway]

The Tower // a hetaoni: flr playlist (2/3)

Disaster, upheaval, trauma

Inspired by lsunnyc's absolutely outstanding continuation to HetaOni (Final Loop and Recovery) and finaloop's categorizations for FLR's core ideas.

Second part of my trio of playlist's for FLR. The Tower playlist is a very special one, since it essentially follows a more clear and progressive narrative path than the other two: it seeks to embody change, inner contradictions and search for oneself. I also tried to follow finaloop's substeps for The Tower, organized by circles (pain, fear, hate). You can find the corresponding cards for each cycle here. The final section of this playlist serves both as a transition to the next card as well as a condensation for the conflicting thoughts that characterize The Tower.

YouTube Link: (x)

i. iamx // volatile times (x)

ii. daughter // landfill (x)

iii. agnel obel // broken sleep (x)

iv. david o'dowda // poor wayfaring stranger (x)

v. ex:re // the dazzler (x)

vi. kaleo // way down we go (x)

vii. ben howard // black flies (x)

viii. florence + the machine // daffodil (x)

ix. of monsters and men // destroyer (x)

x. sigur rós // varðeldur (x)

xi. of monsters and men // yellow light (x)

xii. of monsters and men // lonely weather (x)

The Hanged Man / The Tower / The Sun

[finaloop]

june 3rd/4th is some kinda holiday now i guess. lmao

[finaloop]

less than 30 days until the anniversary. getting my old drafts of the later chapters back into ao3 has been a pain (it was a pain the first time also, all the particular formatting makes it tedious) but since we're less than 30 days out and im going to be posting them before or on the anniversary and no later, there's no worry about them getting deleted after 30 days anymore.

the last two chapters are 100% complete (as they have been for. a long time) and the two chapters before that have bits and pieces that still need to be written, basically as i outlined the last time i made an update like this. im just aiming for bare-bones "point a to point b" at this point and anything else is extra; i will not have the last two chapters delayed past the anniversary because the middle two don't want to cooperate. the last two chapters should more than hold together even if the foundation leading up to them is... not weak, but not as strong as it could be.

as for what happens after, i think im gonna leave this blog be for a while, though my inbox will remain open if anyone has anything interesting to add. if i do get ideas for future stuff, though, well. i'll be here. and if anyone else finds ruins i don't already have (or if i find anything) ill always reblog those.

[devintrinidad]

Thanks for the tag!

fiction or fantasy// smut or fluff BOTH// lemon or lime BOTH// sour candy or sweet candy// rock or rap// matte or gel NEITHER// candle or moonlight// boys or girls NEITHER// black or red// reading or out-side activities// home-body or adventurous// tv or laptop// jeans or sweats// long hair or short hair// colored hair or natural// bands or 1person NEITHER// music or reading// sleep or all nighter// future or past or present// thanksgiving or halloween

Tagging:

@crispyliza​ @danatooine​ @hisredhysteria​ @caffinatedstory​ @demi-pixellated​ @finaloop​ @gaffeel​ Anyone else can try this!

THANK YOU FOR TAGGING ME @minncoe I love playing this or that!!

fiction or fantasy// smut or fluff BOTH// lemon or lime BOTH// sour candy or sweet candy// rock or rap// matte or gel// candle or moonlight// boys or girls BOTH// black or red// reading or out-side activities// home-body or adventurous// tv or laptop// jeans or sweats// long hair or short hair// colored hair or natural// bands or 1person (doesnt matter)// music or reading// sleep or all nighter// future or past or present// thanksgiving or halloween

I'm tagging @alifeasvivid, @morgenlich, @lovelyledger, @maelstroem-of-love and @ whoever else wants to do this!!

[finaloop]

Snakeskins in 2022

So this reply showed up on my Snakeskins in 2021 post tonight:

Does anyone know what the ending was? Im pretty sure I saw a post Sunny made that was basically like "this all happened because of this" but I can't find it at all — @tiredkittykat

Fortunately, I've previously been able to locate and preserve a bunch of these things via digging through old blogs, so here are all of the posts related to the finale, in approximate chronological order of posting!

What killed the Rosettis? (preserved 03/2017)

The intended end of Snakeskins (preserved 12/2018)

On the Subject of Wands (partially preserved 08/2019, likely prompted the other August '19 posts)

Finale highlights, part 1 (preserved 08/2019)

Finale highlights, part 2 (preserved 08/2019)

Finale highlights, part 3 (preserved 08/2019)

If I find any other posts, I'll edit this post, or you can find them in my #snakeskins spoilers tag! And if anyone sees this and happens to think they might have more old posts in their archive, feel free to let me know via ask or message! I can do the archive digging myself, though. :)

[mansionfaraway]

YES HELLO I NEVER GOT OUT OF MY HETAONI AND FLR PHASE HELP

the absolute NEED to discuss hetaoni in 2022 is killing me

[finaloop]

a year will have gone by as of tomorrow morning when this will be posted, so i guess ill do another atdas progress report of sorts.

the expologue is officially going to be my favorite chapter now because there's no contest anymore. even the tremendous heights of the climax can't compare to the pure symbolic weight behind the final scene. the inexorability of the narrative as a source of comfort is not where i was expecting to take this. the original "ending" waa much more open ending, but the layer of tragedy intertwined with this - the refocusing of who the actual main character was - it just. ohnge.

but also a lot of other scenes that were previously finished have gotten major overhauls. the argument is much more poignant now, though i still might redo its introduction; other scenes are also better optimized.

DEFINITELY gonna cut the dark room subplot entirely, that's going nowhere and with how sharply focused everything else is becoming it just has no place anymore and it's not like it went anywhere anyway.

i still have so much to write but i wanna try to have everything finished and published by the anniversary of the finale. its gonna be hard to get it out in time though - there's so much early shit to write even if i trim a lot of it down.

[finaloop]

so my friend (@/bonkoblin on instagram) made art of my fic, extraneous ending! they asked me to post it here because they’re not really in the hetalia fandom. i am still just... they spent so much time on it and it’s so good, it really gets across the Feelings and Emotions and <3 friend

[finaloop]

extraneous ending by finaloop

You still think about the dream, from time to time. Blue skies and green grass and a friend.

A friend who killed you. A friend who cared for you.

Your friend.

Dreamtalia, post-Erroneous Epilogue. A series of vignettes detailing Italy's rather complicated relationship with the Fauchereve.

read on ao3

[finaloop]

Snakeskins in 2021

So, I’ve been looking through a bunch of stuff because I found a bunch more old Snakeskins posts to put in my queue for archiving, but looking through it has made me realize that the Snakeskins “fandom”... might not actually be dead. Just hibernating.

Like, it’s very clear that very few people have thought about it all that much over the last several years, but as I’ve been looking through blogs and seeing the number of people who’ve posted or reblogged stuff related to Snakeskins as recently as 2020? There are WAY more out there than I was expecting.

I don’t think any of the “currently active” fans would remember me even if I were posting from my main instead of a sideblog. The TL;DR of my involvement in the Snakeskins fandom is that I made two sizeable posts about it back in the heyday: a theory post about what the “ghost” was, and a more mathematical post that attempted to calculate how long Snakeskins would be. (I’m not linking either post because I don’t want this blog to be connected to my main, but the math post in particular is relatively easy to find if you do a bit of digging around for it. I know it’s definitely findable because at least one of the "currently active” fans found and liked it at some point.)

It’s kinda... dangerous? to be open about still liking He/tal/i/a or anything related to it in [CURRENT YEAR]. It’s a very easy way to get harassed unless you curate your followers very carefully, and even then it’s still possible. (And the harassment can get incredibly intense — it’s the reason Sunny deleted her blog two years ago, and also why this is a sideblog not attached to my main.)

But honestly? I just finished rereading Snakeskins again a few weeks ago, and ever since then I’ve been working on a ~special project~ related to it for a specific anniversary coming up in just under three months.

So yeah. Just a little cry into the abyss to see if anybody’s still out there.

And if for some reason somebody finds this post and hasn’t read Snakeskins... go read. Start with everything on AO3, then jump to chapter 54 on FFN and Ctrl+F “The strange clothes” to keep going. You’re in for a ride — especially if you’re a fan of very layered and nuanced portrayals of the Nations and Nationhood in general.

(And if you’re still looking for more good fics after that... well, I have a few recommendations. Feel free to ask me for more information!)

[finaloop]

my queue is literally bone dry but yall aint getting SHIT posts from me!!! bc im working on poggers shit for Next Week because, and i cannot stress this enough,

anyway the Real ones (i.e. my followers) get an excerpt bc yall Real. this is direct from the ao3 draft or whatever bc theres a lot of special formatting tm going on

[finaloop]

spending new year's eve working on atdas. making good progress and even better connections on the most important scene. also the recontextualizations.... i was looking for a centerpiece, an emotional finale to draw everything together in parallel with the plot's finale (and with any luck at least be comparable to recovery's final scene). and, well, i think this just about wraps up everything. including a lot of the details that were not previously important beyond details, but now have symbolic weight. so far it has entirely been written to levitation by fewjar and i do not see myself changing the music any time soon.

"it all comes back to you" but also "bigger on the inside" but also "nested within itself" but also "orchestrated your own escape" but also "remembers the ending" but also "there will be no time and no lonely days and another me will take my place and drown while you stroke its cheek"

so many extremely complicated and layered thoughts and emotions but the important part was that they all mattered. all of it was real and all of it mattered. and... well. that's what recovery is all about.