#tamino not showing up???...biphobia. bhaalphobia.

[meredoubt]

On Repeat Playlist Tag Game

Rules: Shuffle your repeat playlist 10 times and tag 10 people.

I was tagged by the ever lovely @defira85, and I'm tagging anyone who wants to do it. Just tag me so I can see your music, I'm always looking for new songs!!!

An...interesting mix. Under the cut.

The in-my-head song, for sure. It's a song that embodies the thing I want most when I'm unwell: to just have anyone care. So it both scratches that itch, and also makes the pain worse. I'm new to Sleep Token, but I'm a big fan of this album. It will surprise no one this is on Dirge's playlist, in the context of it being to and from himself. The idea of loving someone and not knowing how to help them. I'm a huge proponent of directing songs that are about another, particularly love songs, inward.

So while I love this song in it's original context, it actually gets it's most plays in a playlist for an original story. It's about a Gorgon trans man who goes on a journey to break the curse that makes people unable to look at him. I associate this song with the moment he gets to come home. Pretty similar to it's original use. Very...hero's journey lmao.

I have a whole playlist that's songs from 1933-1969 that I have so meticulously curated lol. When I feel those Fallout and Mad Men vibes. I imagine this is from there.

I've got a playlist of songs that sound (lyrically, melodically, or vocally) like transition goals. Do not get it twisted, of course Mr. Brightside's on there. But, this song does feature on the trans guy playlist. And it's a great cover.

...listen. I like my toxic songs. I have separate playlists for two discreet relationships I'm writing that are terrible. It was going to be represented on here somewhere.

Another song for an original story. It's a modern changeling story. The fey child in our world grows into a lead guitarist. Definitely the song I most associate with him. The wild and the (comparatively) modern.

I mean. It's just one of my favourite songs. Not complicated. It's the reason I decided to pick up a guitar again. It inspired my Orpheus-themed tattoo I'll be getting. It's near and dark and dear to my heart.

It's so soft, but surprisingly it does make me think of Dirge and Astarion. Some of the lines are so reminiscent of things Dirge canonically has said, that it's very sweet, and feels true. The line about alive and free, in particular.

Not my music putting me on blast?! This is one of my go-to songs to get pumped up. It started when I still played Destiny, and I imagined this would be the introduction song for my Striker Maximus lmao. Now it's just a good song to lift to. I gotta be the hottest guy! In the rain! I will be hotter than any man. Etcetera. Anyway...goofy.

There are many reasons I love Cyberpunk 2077. One of the primary reasons is that it introduced me to Refused. That shit is marrow deep for me.