#omg crane wives reference

[romavoid]

Pretty Little Things (wilt away)

[glitter-stained]

I'm always thinking about Jason because fixation so my judgement is biaised because every song I listen to makes me think about at least one of my Jasons, but here are some songs though were definitely written for and about canon Jason Todd, and I will take no criticism (but you are definitely welcome to add your own songs):

-Take me To War, by The Crane Wives

>"But I keep snapping at Goliath hands with all of my tiny might"/ "All of the fire I swallowed, all of the sparks that went down in my guts, I am always burning out"/ "I'll be the sweetest thing to ever scare you"

The Robin -> Red Hood transition is so seamless

-Little Soldiers by the Crane Wives

> "On the broken back of all the words we spared, Like little soldiers in the trenches; It was a march we made towards ruin and despair, But we held hands all the while"

I always rant about how how Jason's character and story is centered around love, this is the song that plays in my head while I'm yapping

-Blue Lips by Regina Spektor

> "He took a step but then felt tired, He said I'll rest a little while; but when he tried to walk again, he wasn't a child"

If you ever wanna be sad about Jason's resurrection, catatonia and stolen childhood, this is the song to listen to

-The Horrors and The Wild by The Amazing Devil

"Think of all the horrors that I promised I'd bring, I promise they'll sing of every Time you passed your fingers through my hair and called me child, Witness me old man I am the Wild"

> If Under The Red Hood has one song it's this one

-The Old Witch Sleep and The Good Man Grace by The Amazing Devil

"There's a fire burning/And I'm learning to be/So much more than my tiredness/ So much more than that old witch sleep wishes/ She kisses my eyelids, and I/Breathe"

> If Red Hood: Lost Days (minus the gross bits) has one song it's this one

-Elsa's song by The Amazing Devil

>"And you'll throw some sage and lillies/ And roses where I'll rot/ Of all the flowers you picked/I knew you would forget/ Forget-me-nots"

idk who Elsa is this is about how Jason was grieved but he wasn't remembered

(Yeah I'm pretty convinced that at least either Madeline Hyland or Joey Batey read Under the Red Hood so many of their songs fit so well I restrained myself to three but there are so many)

-A Burning Hill by Mitski

>"I'm tired of wanting more, I think I'm finally worn/ For you have a way of promising things/ And I've been a forest fire"

Jason admitting loss and giving up on begging Bruce is something that can be so personal actually

-Heaven Knows by The Pretty Reckless

>"Now you're on your knees with your head hung low/ Big Man tell you where to go/ Tell them it's good, tell them okay/Don't do a goddamn thing they say"

Crime Alley united!!! Also, "tell the big guy I said hello" :))) (the God/Batman amalgam in Death in the Family is such an incredible one-liner and works so well for Jason omg)

-For the Departed by Shayfer James

>"Now I must finished what I started/I'll write a symphony for the departed/And I have no time for second chances/ So I survive on bourbon blood and backward glances"

The amount of angst, dramatics and intense devotion to his cause at the cost of his life, the literature references, everything about this song? Jason at his angstiest for sure

-Goodbye by Bo Burnham

> "If I wake up in a house that's full of smoke I'll panic/So call me up and tell me a joke/ When I'm fully irrelevant and totally broken dammit/ Call me up and tell me a joke /Oh shit/ You're really joking at a time like this"

exploded warehouse parallel aside, this song feels like not being able to heal because you're not capable of asking for what you really need, wanting to come back but feeling like you aren't allowed to because it would ruin you or the you that was shaped by other's perception of you and most importantly, begging to matter and to have mattered. So. Jason.

[boabelboo]

tell me things abt the sheaf fic pleaseeee

omg ribs ask ribs ask!!

right so before i say anything about ribs i am obligated to mention that i am actually working on chapter 3 because i feel so bad i havent updated 😭. ive been a suuper busy student (11 day intensive study trip) so that's why i haven't been art-ing and fanfic-ing as much as i would like to !!

anyway, on to the Things.

- so it was originally inspired by the song ribs by the crane wives, hence the name. i also am considering changing the long ass title to just "ribs" because that's how i refer to it anyway.

- i started writing it because i had finally let slip my not mild obsession with district nine and wanted to get some thoughts out there.

- i also reread part of tbosas for it!!!

- pip's name was originally augustine, but i changed it to be shorter because i feel that suited her more.

- my characterisation of sheaf and panlo is (vaguely) based on katniss and peeta in the first games, minus the romance ofc.

- sheaf's surname is just maize/corn in german.

that's all!! tysm <3

[sugar-omi]

not both of us in our workaholic eras omg... i have like a BILLION discussion forum posts to respond to LMFAO, but we'll get through this together... i'll even ward off your cat for you even though i can never say no to a sweet kitty...

on the topic of ward, though, seeing you respond to one of my long since forgotten swiftie asks has brought me back to my roots. and since then my music taste has branched out a bit, and i feel it's fitting to reintroduce my constant "haha this song is so baxter" agenda and truly reconnect with who i once was (the swiftie asker...)

anyways! if you haven't listened to "never love an anchor" by the crane wives yet? PLEASE DO BECAUSE THE LYRICS ARE SO ACHINGLY BAXTER THAT I KIND OF FEEL LIKE HE WAS INSPIRED BY THAT SONG. or that song was inspired by him? who knows... only kab...

*link

I HAVEEE HEARD THAT!! omg it is so baxter... the "these hands of mine were clumsy, not clever" YES YES YES THATS SUCH A GOOD REFERANCE FOR HOW HE THOUGHT HE WAS SOOO SMART LEAVING PEOPLE BEFORE THEY LEFT HIM

AND "but try as i might, i couldn't bring myself to hold you" AGAIN. A REFERANCE FOR YOUNG BAXTER BEING UNABLE TO LOVE MC BECAUSE OF ALL HIS INSECURITY AND FEAR

then "there is love that doesn't have a place to rest / but it would have buried you if it settled on your shoulders" is even better... because he knows if he had tried to love you then, he would've snuffed out the fire because his heart was heavier than his love, and his looming trauma was a large ship casting a shadow over the fishing boat you two wanted to call a relationship...

and the last verses... "there are times when i still wonder about you" BAXTER HOLDING ONTO THE SOUVINER HE GOT IN SUNSET BIRD (i think this is so much stronger if your mc picked a gift out for him)

"and you'll never see the reasons i had / for keeping my claws away when they were close enough to hurt you" BAXTER KNOWING THAT HE WAS TOO FUCKED UP TO LOVE YOU BACK THEN AND FORCING YOU AWAY EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE UPSET, MAYBE EVEN CRYING, EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE ASKING HIM TO STAY....

"i am selfish, i am broken, i am cruel / i am all the things they might have said to you" BAXTER FUCKING???? CALLING HIMSELF SUCH MEAN THINGS THAT YOUR FRIENDS MIGHT HAVE SAID ABOUT HIM AFTER HE LEFT?????

all of this is so baxter... i can reference every line back to him.... every fucking word has baxter alexander ward written deep into it... im going to lose my mind....

"so, i did the only thing that i could / and severed the rope to set you sailing from my harbor" PLEASE. MY HEART IS ON THE FLOOR. AND THE LINES AFTER "do you ever think of me and my two hands?" I WILL LITERALLY RIP MY HAIR OUT. THIS WOULD BE THE PERFECT SONG TO INSERT INTO A FIC???? please. i will sob.

[r0ttingsystem]

CANARY IN A COAL MINE, IS THAT A THE CRANE WIVES REFERENCE?! /j canary is a really nice name btw, can never go wrong with bird names! :}

- library anon

Honestly, I think it was a crane wives reference at first

As in, we heard it from them

But then looked up the meaning of the saying and we're like "omg that's so us"

Also ty :333

[sips-tea-cutely]

maki mon ami I'm really high off yakult rn and here are some songs I think you'd vibe with. idk why I thought of you for some of these but. yeah

https://youtu.be/3PuMk6e24I8 - Whisper by Burn The Ballroom. Vibes so hard to me. gives me something like royalty and also circus vibes. "His favorite days were the mornings she came with confessions of cardinal sin" "A beast in the business of selling forgiveness that eyes on a treacherous grin"

https://youtu.be/HlCkjjSddyY - The Cave by Siames. I am so so normal about this song. Why does the intrumental make me go Like That. They're troubled. they want to be together but they can't. I dsabkuijo;fjbkh "Then we walked away, just to be okay, and we're falling hard and we're crawling empty"

https://youtu.be/ekYp5LCXM_0 - Tongues and Teeth by The Crane Wives. There's something so. just so visceral about my emotions in this. "I've grown a mouth so sharp and cruel, it's all that I can give to you, my dear" "And I know that you mean so well, but I am not a vassal for your good intent"

I think I'm sending these to you mainly cause of the Scenarios that can come from the vibes. like I don't really x reader that much but your audience might like some of the scenarios. have fun have a good day mon ami

omg tongues and teeth is so swalahlahlah slay lauv u

also for reference this is my favorite song

[inkofamethyst]

June 18, 2021

lol I think I might have to factory reset my laptop :D

to be fair, this is what I get for messing around with things I don’t understand.

ugh, it’s just that it’s such a hassle I’d need to completely set up my computer all over again.

luckily, I suppose, it’s the summer and I have an alternate laptop for the time being.

Oh um update, I also wanna learn to play The Glacier House by (guess who~) The Crane Wives.  I already know the majority of the chords anyway,,, so.   At this point I might as well say that I want to just cover their entire discography (...don’t tempt me).  

You know, it was only a matter of time before I returned to Western/folksy/country-esque music.  I’ve been listening to songs from the Undeadwood OST almost continuously since I watched the series (...I could’ve sworn that I’d watched it during the summer after my senior year, but it apparently didn’t even air until the fall of my first semester in college??  I tried to search for a mention of it on this blog because I’m sure I must’ve said something about it, but as we all know, the search capabilities are a little lacking on this site, unfortunately), so.

Anyway I saw this summer dating challenge on tiktok and while I don’t intend to go on any dates anytime soon (more on that in a future entry), I actually really liked the idea of it!  So, from what I recall, the challenges are as follows: on a weekly basis, you are to get out of the house four times a week, compliment someone five times a week, and take yourself on a solo date once a week.  Now, with the cicadas out and about, I definitely don’t think I’ll be doing the going out four times a week part, at least not right now, and I think five compliments is a little high for me at this point.  However, I think it could be a cool thing to keep in mind for when the semester starts back up!  I’ve already talked about how much I loved taking myself out to the movies last semester back when I was on campus, so committing to a once weekly or biweekly thing should be fun and manageable for sure!

So, Manifest is being cancelled (found out on r/scifi which is basically a hive mind on what is good vs. bad science fiction entertainment, and they don’t really permit a lot of nuanced opinions there) which like,, I mean on one hand I know in my mind that S3 ended on a cliffhanger, but idk on the other hand, it was just okay.  Like, I, of course, wanted my Lost fanfic theory to be true (even though I knew it wasn’t), but I felt like a lot of the character decisions were just... not good??  I don’t often agree with the folks on r/scifi, but I think I agree and understand how you can tell if a show is story-focused (essentially, has an ending in mind) or drama-focused (essentially, makes the most twists and turns to keep the show running as long as possible): if a character is faced with a decision and they make one that almost exclusively raises the drama, then the show is probably less story-driven and more drama-driven.

Many in the r/scifi thread referred to the show as a “diet Lost,” one of many that have popped up since Lost went off the air.  I basically agree.  Idk, I guess it’ll be interesting to see whether the next show on NBC that my dad and I pick up will star Josh Dallas too lol (we stuck through all the seasons of Once Upon A Time, so).  I sort of just wish that US shows were run more similarly to UK shows: they know from the start how many seasons they want to run.  Spinoffs and such can certainly happen to continue the story, but at least the audience and network know how long it’ll be up for.

Oh!  Apparently Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist has also been cancelled, wow!  So I’m running low on all my shows omg.  (Not really.  I have an extensive To Watch list on Netflix.)

Did my ukulele practice today (for two hours)!  I feel almost the exact same way I did after accidental two hour sax sessions: exhausted physically and mentally.  Chord changes are hard!  Strumming patterns are very hard!!  I tried some Crane Wives songs (honestly, that’s what pushed me into the extra hour) which was definitely cool.  I’m on my way to getting almost all of Tongues and Teeth down (at 0.6x speed, without singing, not memorized, still glancing at my fingers for every chord change (especially G), mostly disregarding strumming patterns... but hey!  It’s only day two :P).  I tried the second day in my tutorial series that I’m watching and worked on a single chord change (Am to G) for literally half an hour with a metronome.  It’s definitely something I’ll be returning to tomorrow.

My fingertips hurt.  Sort of like how my jaw and neck/back would be sore after an extra-long sax session.  I think I’m going to have to place a daily practice upper limit of an hour with a lower limit of fifteen minutes.  That feels reasonable.

Alrighty.  Today I’m thankful for... honestly I’m thankful for... I am thankful for~~ for... oh, well, I suppose I’m thankful that I have an extra work laptop that I can use while I fix my own.

K.  I need to get actual sleep tonight, so I’ll catch y’all later!