#music is my muse

[thisapplepielife]

Now that I've let the cat out of the bag about working on my new fic All Across the Universe, I thought it'd be funny to show you my current Spotify stats for 2024:

(Beatles songs are, on average, shorter than Petty songs. So, they've got him on number of streams, but not on minutes. We'll see how it shakes out at the end of the year. For the record, they were #3 on my wrapped last year. I just didn't share that info at the time, because I felt it gave away my secrets, haha.)

Also, I literally just opened my my Daily Mix #1 for today. And the first four songs are hilarious to me:

I can't even be mad about it. Spotify knows what's up. It gets me. I mean, I fed the algorithm and now it's feeding it back to me. But still. Thanks. I feel seen. 🤣

[caps1gal]

Hal's body hit the ground with bone crushing force. Coughing up dust he could taste coppery blood as he forced his eyes to focus.

The fiery orange sky was almost blacked out with Para demons. He caught glimpses of blue and glowing gold All of them were here fighting with everything they had.

When Darkseid finally revealed himself. Flash was the first to make contact, lightning and air boomed with the impact of his blow. Staggered the tyrant caught him by the throat.

The world slowed for Hal as he focused on Barry, realizing this had been their enemy's goal. His ring pulsed as he sent out constructs

Thick sharp bladed masses that tore through the surrounding hordes missing his friends.

The ground caved under the impact of his take off. Even as the thick cords caught Darksied’s wrists and throat. Green lantern's light was blinding pulsing around him as his eye glowed white.

Barry was not this monster's to claim.

" Hal," the Flash's relieved gasp as Omega Beams raced toward him. At the last minute a green mirror deflected perfectly aimed to hit the hand closed around his speedster making him drop his prize.

Clark caught him as Hal crashed into the invader, just the raw energy of his ring burning hot with anger a star burst of energy threw them both back into the portal.

" You're trapped here." the gritty voice informed him.

The broken ribs rubbed painfully in Hal's chest his right arm hung useless at his side he only looked with a grin " Yea, but Earth's safe. He's safe," spitting blood" I'll take that trade any day."

So I've started writing little ficlets that come to mind when I hear certain songs song and character/ ship requests are appreciated

[velvetporcelain]

mother of all men.

[dhyanshiva]

Guys she's so exquisite I can't breathe like -

[shinigamimailjeevas]

These lyrics really make me think of Theo for some reason 🤔

"I have this recurring dream, Where you knock out all my teeth and I can't stop smiling"

[g-volcano-photo]

W r e c k e d

[mama-ivy]

WIP Sneak Peek

From the short story based on Hozier’s Take Me to Church

She knew what she was doing at the time. At least, she thought she did.  She was sure that she wanted to go through with it anyway, but that was three hundred years ago.  No matter how one tries, they cannot stay stagnant over the course of three hundred years, and should she be given the chance to do it all again, she would definitely do it differently.  Her problem was that she was alone.  No one had warned her about the loneliness – only the glory of near immortality.  

She had spent the last one hundred years searching for any way to reverse the self-inflicted curse that now weighed heavily on her.  When she was young and ambitious it was easy to predict her own future and choose her path based on her bias.  She had no need for a family at that time. She had been orphaned and deserted for her entire life and so there was no question that she would trade her fertility for immortality.  Unfortunately, in her three hundred years, she had gained wisdom, which is entirely different than intelligence.  She had learned that every spell has two costs – the initial trade off paid by the caster and the long-term cost for continued use paid by the recipient.  She was both. Paying off two debts. Simultaneously.

[helengie]

(via Listen To Your Heart White Classic T-Shirt by HelenGie)

[madamemiz]

sad: falling out of a hyperfixation

tragic: watching your beloved friends and mutuals fall out of the hyperfixation while you're still in it

[iphigeniacomplex]

it’s very easy to tell the good satires and pastiches from the bad ones because the bad ones are too afraid to live within the form. like if you are doing work with fairy tales and you are refusing to look closer at the underlying logic and unspoken rules of what can seem at first to be a senseless form, you are not going to create meaningful work. to borrow a turn of phrase originally used by maria tatar, if you refuse to enter “the house of fairy tale” as anything more than a gawking tourist, you will miss the particular order to the way the table is set, the rooms that are locked vs the rooms that are simply difficult to enter, the set of the floorboards and the position of the furniture. whatever you build will then be a gilded imitation of how you believe the house of fairy tale ought to look, the table set according to your educated specifications and every door open. there can be no interrogation of themes from a writer who views the form as beneath them!

[frobby]

rhythm gamers will be like "u gotta play this song it's so fun" and the song in question gives u carpal tunnel syndrome

[coldlandangel]

Muse Dash but Kasane Teto (fan-made)

I love Teto。･:*:･(✿◕3◕)❤

[taffywabbit]

a cover of "Panic Station" by Muse, ideally suited for chases through futuristic train platforms full of loop-de-loops and hostile robots!

usually I have a really hard time doing arrangements of existing songs, but I felt unusually motivated to tackle this one and managed to see it thought to completion! (took me a while because I kept spending too much time jamming out to what I already had done instead of working on the next parts lol)

♫ made with OpenMPT! ✎ cover art by me! ► SoundCloud link: https://soundcloud.com/taffywabbit/turmoil-terminus-zone ★ original song (for comparison): https://youtu.be/vk24UKKI4yY?si=RdQkA4BAHoRX1d7P

and here's the full-size cover art, while i'm at it!

[velvetporcelain]

this song stuck in my head today.

[dhyanshiva]

Thank you Florence Welch and Hozier for existing in the industry in the same time period.

[gentil-minou]

Thinking about band au wangxian where their "gimmick" on stage is extremely sexually charged flirting like I'm talking wwx straight up grinding against lwj in the middle of his solo or they stare directly into each other's eyes everytime a song mentions love or sex

Except they haven't confirmed their relationship so like half the fans are diehard shippers screaming while the other half think it's a fake publicity stunt and point out all the bts vids where they look like they hate each other and argue constantly

Neither of them mention their relationships in interview, always redirecting questions back to the music or their advocacy and so for years it just goes on like this.

They're the most popular band in the world when suddenly they go on a long, three year hiatus.

And so everyone thinks oh gosh maybe they were together but they broke up and their tears are heard around the world.

Then they have a comeback tour and reveal all: of course, the hiatus was because they got married and adopted a son.

They drop this randomly in the middle of a set btw, Wei Wuxian just smirks at the audience and says "this is for my husband and our son" and then he winks and blows a kiss at Lan Wangji who catches it with all the seriousness in the world and presses it against his chest

Later on, the band's Instagram posts a photo of wangxian with their backs turned, each holding the hand of a little boy wearing little bunny eared headphones between them, as they all walk put of the venue