By one way or another, the world as we know it has ended. Nature starts reclaiming the land. There are survivors, but they have a hard task ahead of them; that of trying to rebuild after a great loss. There are no zombies, no mutant beasts here to contend with, but there is always that most human of emotions in the aftermath. Fear.
But people pay heed to the mistakes of the past and make conscious choices to not repeat them. Focus is placed on making things grow and thrive, whether it’s the flora and fauna or peoples’ physical/psychological well-being. Builders, farmers, engineers, teachers, and healers become leaders. Storytelling bonds people together through the sharing of vital information and in entertainment.
Everyone becomes a guardian of certain areas of knowledge contained in the precious resources of books. Part of the day is spent in necessary labor, but time is also set aside to unwind and share all that’s been learned with others. Strong foundations are laid for a vibrant community.
And slowly over time, with an abundance of patience and determination, the community flourishes, able to speak of its own unique achievements. And so, travelers are sent out, to learn about other communities, to listen to their stories, to offer aid if it is wanted. Eager to share what they can, they travel past technological relics to strange and distant lands. In the face of the unknown, they have chosen hope.
Welcome to Soft Apocalypse.
This compilation of downtempo instrumental songs with a low key hip hop vibe encompasses optimistic, wistful, and relaxed moods. It became evocative of a solarpunk theme to me. Enjoy!
00:00:00 Palmer’s Medic - Soft Apocalypse
00:05:24 Katuchat x Andrea - Call Me
00:08:10 Lorn - Ice
00:12:17 Katuchat - Watercolor
00:15:49 Izzard - Late Night Ramen
00:19:05 Dirty Chocolate - Flutter
00:21:43 Lorn - Conduit
00:25:17 Neotenomie - On the Grass
00:27:59 Natan Vance - Like Tears in the Rain
00:30:48 idaydream - Sugar Plum Dumpling
00:34:29 Moonkay - Waterfront
00:37:44 Katuchat - Pink Lemonade
00:41:13 Auditory Canvas - Lost and Found
00:47:39 Palmer’s Medic - 400,000
00:51:00 Katuchat x Rusty Hook - Pastel
00:54:11 Rascal - Elhae’s Joint
00:58:28 Izzard - I dreamt of you
01:01:58 Palmer’s Medic - Justin Everett
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I'm a hobby-author currently posting fics on AO3. I have a story ongoing on Wattpad as well, but have been struggling with writing that one, so only the prologue and first chapter are up.
I mostly write Eyeshield 21 HiruSena ship fics. I hope you all enjoy! Thank you for sticking with me!
Currently working on:
Silver Phoenix - Wattpad
Lightspeed Heartbeat - AO3
Arpeggio 21: The Devil’s Chorus - AO3
Beyond the Veil and into the Dark - AO3
In Your Company - AO3
Coded - AO3
The Guardian from Hell - AO3 | (To Be Posted 27/3/24)
What Lurks in the Heart - AO3 | (To Be Posted 8/5/24)
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Someone from the Meiker community here, trying to use your Dneiper Gothic game without being insensitive to you and other Ukrainians. I’m not very knowledgeable on folklore from your country - where can I find out more and read some of the stories? If not in English, then can you point me to a translation service that works well for the language? Thanks!
Greetings! And thank you so much for your view, and time, and company, and shared tones of art, and everything else, too!<з
So! The point is - I don't think there is any way to be interested and find someone's culture and ways beautifull could be insensitive in any way. The way how my culture is shared and admired in some ways across the world had deep impact on me and my self-identification, and lots of inner tones, paths, creations and retentions all along, and I don't see the right way to shut this down because of polemics of "inaproppriate" perceptions.
Art is love, and the love is creational, uniting, it's light and simple, something that goes with you along always and everywhere, and there is no correct way to feel love - maybe to express it, but to embrace love is natural and relieving alltogether. Ukrainian culture is to be shared, I feel delight when know that someone amused, find joy in my creations, and it's my personal charge - to express this correctly, but your delights are just made to be just and trusting.
Truth be told - long time ago I made some compilation of literature that I find expressive and personal, all of them - ukrainian authors of prose and poems, and I finded and shared it again for that specific moment of unity. I hope you shall find it in my recent posts - or you can seek at my place by tag "ask" and "ukrainian culture". With translations I cannot say that I can be of real use, and that's saddens me deeply - as there is some educational sites and books to buy, limited and strange for my sight, but I believe that there is a way, through machine translations is terrible in a bad way of word.
But! To find a language that is uniting, simple and expressive on shapes of various and bright is a task that is simple and delightful - as where is beauty and poetism, there is also music, and this is the way that I can share and express<ззз
It was a work both voracious and delightful, and I spend time that I loved deeply - but I made a brief and simple compilation of authors of music, as music is a language that is always international;зз There is no links, but shapeful and simple directions - and some revealed tones and my personal love for each of the points. I hope it can be shared, that this can be inspirational and actual and delightful for some of my beloveds and mutuals and simply everyone that can find their interest there.
So there I was gone - three columns that are touches different tones of my love and soul, something that I adore and admire deeply, and have desire to share - for a time that is long and fullfilling, too<з
Jamala - 1944
The first tones of shade and mist - a song that, I believe, is knowed and shared, as it was a winner of 2016 year on Eurovision, but this interpretation, and new gloom and sharpness and movement was admired recently - shaped in a new, current way of our year. It's a song of Jamala, named 1944 - year of tatar's deportation from Krimea - a song of young and unshaped happiness, of unshared legacy, of century of the damnations. You shall find it easily, by the lady and the creation's name - official video that was maded five years ago is a tone of dark and gloomy unity, of a soft and unraveled will, of a misty seas and ashen air - tones of our home, our love and rue.
"I did not enjoy my youth
I was not able to live in this place" - 1944
Khristyna Soloviy - Pod Oblachkom; Trimay Mene; Hto, yak ne ty?; Gore Dolom; Stezhechka; Holodno
My love and delight, Khrystyna Soloviy, is a western-ukrainian singer with tones that are both ethnical and lyrical in the most beautifull ways. Her tone are light and romantical, melodical, sensual and bird-like, as it goes so well with her delightful name (as Soloviy is a Nightinghale).
Some of her songs are of Lemky's dialect and traditional culture - which is an beautifull remind and share of our beloved, gracious Mother, some of them are "Pod Oblachkom" (a folk song of a bewitched young man, his rue and obsession with his bride - accompaned with uncertain and dark, ravishing nature of his heart) and "Gore Dolom", lemky's folk song of lonely, leaved home, and a family that goes far away - the reminder of another tragedy, of a deported kin of western highlanders. One of it's earlier versions was sung together with the next author - Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, who was direct mentor and inspirationalist of Khrystyna, and his song, "Holodno", was also covered by her as an soundrack. "Stezhechka" was also a soundtrack, which is a sung poem of Ivan Franko, author that I pointed in previous compilation.
"Hto, yak ne ty?" and "Trimay Mene" are songs of younger, but no less beautifull nature - of a love that is delightful and maddening, that is ravenous as khyzhak and sweet as a dove.
"Is that love was given by god?
Was it whispered by a devil himself?" - Pod Oblachkom
"Don't you feel it - my fright, as I am in your palm?..
..Give to me your torment, give it away with your hands -
And heal, heal yourself with my lips" - Trimay Mene
"There is that path - where she walked,
The one that took all the joy from my heart..
..After her steps I posessed ran -
Kissed them with my tears, drank from her feet.
Alike to a drowned man - that holds his last straw
My eyes grasped her sight, for a moment mere" - Stezhechka
Okean Elsy - "Misto Vesny" (together with Odyn v Kanoe); Sonce; Obiymy; Misto Mariyi; Bez Boyu; and lot's, lot's of others as I adore them endlessly>////<
Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, leader of group "Ocean Elzy" was a meaning and inspirationalist for a full generation of nowadays Ukrainian music. His voice, his poetism and visions, the delight and love to create in melodical and bird-like ukrainian had impact over perception of language, of unique music of our country, it's velvet-like, gorgeous expression, and his art itself raised and formed nowadays groups and musicians with their unique nature.
"Bez Boyu" and "Obiymy" was earlier works, more striking, rough but sensual, while "Misto Vesny" was the song that was written in a duet with "Odyn v Kanoe" right before invasion in 2022. It was the song in which they professed their love to their hometown, glorious and ancient city of Lviv, with gorgeous, simple and poetical tones in the video. The stone guardians of the city of Lions, the Cavyarnya's with delicate filizhanka's of coffee (ukrainian noblemans was also one of the earlier promoters of turkish kahve into Europe, and Lviv have personal, unique culture of that delight), the delicate architecture builded on invisible river (as Lviv vas also builded over river named Poltva, fully covering it with it's shape) - all of that is one tone of personal, nowaday's culture of western Ukraine.
After invasion there was "Misto Nadiyi", sacred to city of Mariupol and it's unbending warriors, a hymn of prideful sun. Not so long ago Okean Elsy also sang their old song, "Obiymy", standing at the ruins of Palac Prazy, in my dear homeland - Kharkiv.
"Why can't we forget about our downpours?
Maybe for a heroes we were too delicate
The walls and lions won't allow us to
Scatter the ashes in which those dreams are still burn
Those dreams in which I am once again
Walking with you, at our dear Lviv,
There is a smell of a spring, of the sun that is burning down
Of the water, too, from river that has long been gone" - Misto Vesny
"Who are you? As you took my life and didn't return
Who are you? You drank my blood and fall asleep inebriate
Your eyes are calling, desiring me, they lead me to yourself,
Who are you? And whoever you are -
I shall not give up without a fight" - Bez Boyu
"None of warships gunpower
Can ever destroy my dream
As my heart shall never give away my faith
And shall stand for the end of the days
Glorious city of Mary
As long as over prideful Azov sun shall rize" - Misto Mariyi
There is another place that I'd endlessly reccomend for everyone that has desire to hear ukrainian music and see the most melodical creators of our people - the ukrainian "Golos" (Voice), that beside creation of artistic and poetical nature was also platform of recreation of national craft over the years. It has a very delicate and loving touch to the ukrainian language and folk details, of high and proudful image of nowadays creators - most of the most beautiful and astonishing singers, like Khrystyna Soloviy or Odyn v Kanoe, came out of that project.
The most personal and beautifull for me are duet and trio of Alexander Klimenko - "Tvoi Grihy" and "Dumy moyi, dumy moyi" - the first was work of Tina Karol, judge of the show and current ambassador of Ukraine, interpreted and sung together with her, the second - poem of Taras Shevchenko.
The true folk elements can be found, for example, in "Zasvit Vstaly Kozachenky", old traditional warrior's song that was sung by Cossack Siromaha, and, of course, "Plyne Kacha" sung by Inna Ishenko.
Oh - and my personal favorite that I listened without ends currently, "Ptashechka" by Vivienne Mort, which doesn't really touches any of this columns but, just gorgeous o////o
"The wind, that goes by your hand
Is a sin, that you did not yet forgive
So turn to me, as I embrace pain
Of your eyes, so deeply lonely,
of your lone depth eyes.
Now I am embraced, dissolved by your eyes
You - are my madness,
my love and delight at the same time." - Tvoi Grihy
"Oh, don't scowl over me, mother of mine
Don't scowl when there happens a woeful time
As I am mysef never knew how I shall die..
..How can I not be miserable? How can I not be?
You, my son, once was beared under my heart,
You laid over it" - Plyne Kacha
"No one heard my song. Nobody heard.
My soul was full - of love, unknown for you
And it was soul, not me, that was revealed.
And only sky had heard the song, my One.
I never had that ache before - it hadn't sing that way, for no one else.
My One… I am by myself all day
Asked for will all day, for freedom from you, or freedom of being yours
And you can't know how much I love you.
You go to your bed and I will stay in mine, breathless until morning comes,
Until that morning and until that dawn I am myself,
Without you I am all by myself, myself, myself, myselfmyselfmyself
Myself I am a moonless star" - Ptashechka
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