#(lyrics are from Nine Inch Nails' Burn btw)

[akirenhell]

This thing inside of me, it screams the loudest sound, sometimes I think I could...

GORE WARNING:

BURN...

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Felt like drawing Mucky during the first few steps of what I imagined his "ghoulification" would look like.

AKA A painful process of body horror.

[positivelyamazonian]

My Lartis playlist (III) - Love & Lust

Ok, so.... maybe it’s time to release the third part of my Lartis playlist. I’ve been doubting a little because looks like first part was very appreciated, when it comes to sadness and loss every TRAOD fan can relate; but truth be told second part arose less enthusiasm, maybe because the thing went more personal. I’m afraid it’s gonna happen more or less the same with this third part, but, anyway, here it goes. 

This time I focus on love and lust and, most often, in both. Because I understand the potential romance/relationship between Lara and Kurtis needs to have these two aspects. I don’t want their relationship based only in love, without the lust, because then it’d be some kind of Twilight romance, on a teen-ish relationship, and we’re talking of two adults who were already wishing to fuck each other in the airlock cutscene in TRAOD - and if you think otherwise, you’re lying.

But also, a relationship based just in lust is as much as unsatisfactory to me. I don’t like making everything about sex between them. Again, in TRAOD we can already sense they care for each other, which is touching in both cases considering they’re loners, merciless killers and they have just meet each other. So yeah, love must be present also in there.

All these songs remind me, more of less, this headcanon of mine, and have me inspired more than once to write more than one passage of my fanfics, or simply, were sounding while I was writing.

Nightwish - Come Cover Me (Wishmaster)

Nightwish was my first metal band and I’ve very fond memories of it. Unlike Epica and Within Temptation, their lyrics speak about lust and erotica more than often, but they’ve this tasteful mix with love I really enjoy in Lartis. Come Cover Me, a song as romantic as passionate, with erotic vibes, is probably the one which best represents what I mean.

Come cover me with you For the thrill ‘till you will take me in Come comfort me in you Young love must live twice only for us...

Damn, it’s perfect. Also the famous single Wish I Had An Angel will be perfect too, though this song is more lust and less love, honestly. The moans... and sighs... no comment.

I'm in love with my lust Burning angel wings to dust I wish I had your angel tonight...

Also, Tarja forever, bitches.

Samael -  High Above (Reign Of Light)

I discovered Samael thanks to a friend and after seeing many Wacken live shows in YouTube, I fell totally in love with this band. It’s something different, some techno-metal or whatever the hell it’s called, it’s harsh, and rough, and intense, so it speaks a lot of of lust to me. 

Their albums Reign Of Light and Eternal are, simply, flawless. Other albums are harder to listen to me. Among all their songs, High Above is the most perfect to me. I can perfectly picture a sexual relationship in the rythms and vibes of this song, but again, the lyrics are so perfectly tasteful... a must to listen.

While our souls fly high above Our bodies play their favorite games We climb, we climb towards the light Crawling on each other's skin Crawling on each other's skin...

Mmmmm. Yesss. Smooth.

This song was sounding when I wrote Mr. Vance Renner, btw.

Nine Inch Nails - Closer (The Downward Spiral)

Ok, not my band, not my style either, but this one is... legendary. It was needed. It was compulsory. Closer - originally Closer To God, ha! - is one of the most erotic and sensous songs ever written. I remember it was an iconic song back in the good days of the Sani (the KTEB forum) so it had to be here.

This song, despite the crudeness of its lyrics - which normally are NOT my cup of tea, but in this case I will let them pass - fits perfectly my idea of the rough, intense sex I picture for my OTP. Also, please, the rythms of the song... that bass is absolutely insane. Not to mention Trent Reznor’s voice. That guy gets you pregnant with his voice.

Through every forest, above the trees Within my stomach, scraped off my knees I drink the honey inside your hive You are the reason I stay alive

And again, it’s not just about the fucking. There are feelings, very intense and passionate, behind this frenetic coitus, and I love that mix.

Qntal - Entre Moi Et Mon Ami (Tristan Und Isolde)

Then he drew himself to me,

And I did not draw back;

Three times at least he kissed me,

And I returned them back;

Now that did not tire me.

Then how glad we should have been

Had that night lasted a century...

I was doubting if including this song, because it’s totally different from the previous ones, but... as I sometimes used it to inspire myself for writing, in the end I’ll include it. Entre Moi Et Mon Ami (”Me And My Friend”) is a Middle-Ages French poem written in Occitaine language which speaks about two lovers meeting secretly to enjoy their love. As it’s a very old romance, composed in a time where it was forbidden to speak openly about sex, it’s hard to find the erotic vibes on it, looking more like just a romance poem of two people kissing in a meadow. 

But if you know something about trobadours and minstrels, you’ll realize these songs spoke also about sex, but in a very veiled way. Qntal, nowadays reborn as Helium Vola, is an amazing, fascinating “band” who makes music out of Middle-Ages textes (Carmina Burana, Omnis Mundi Creatura, etc...) with a tasteful combination of electronics and operistic voices. It’s called electro-medieval for a reason, and I simply love it. Also, they went far, of course, than the original trobadour who might have written this poem, because the sighs and athmosphere of the song evokes, again, more just than mere kissing.

I love this uncertainty, this... smooth je ne sais quoi. And gosh I know this look totally out of style in this post, but I love this kind of music too. It’s more than music. It’s experimental.

Anyway, I will stop here. I think I bored you enough with this issue. Of course there are more songs that will perfectly fit here but... let’s leave this at this point. I hope you can enjoy some of them at least.