#Loreena McKennit - Dante's Prayer

[windwenn]

“I did not believe because I could not see

Though you came to me in the night

When the dawn seemed forever lost

You showed me your love in the light of the stars”

[journalofanobody]

Loreena McKennit - Dante's Prayer(original-HD + lyrics)

[tockamybeloved]

Loreena McKennit - Dante's Prayer(original-HD + lyrics)

[lizzybeth1986]

Hana Lee: Character Playlist

Since Day 1 of HLAW is dedicated to her love for music, what better way to get the ball rolling than with a playlist! Hana's journey involves many varied facets and tangents, so I used those as rubric to choose my songs. Many of these focus on her emotional journey and what she loves to do. Because of her love for composing, I've included some instrumental numbers as well.

You can find the playlist here on Spotify too! (Not in the order I'd laid out here)

Self-discovery

"Unwritten" - Natasha Bedingfield

No one else, no one else

Can speak the words on your lips

Drench yourself in words unspoken

Live your life with arms wide open

Today is where your book begins

The rest is still unwritten

Resilience

"Soft to Be Strong" - MARINA

And I made myself believe

Other people wanted to hurt me

I took my bitterness and made it sweet

I took a broken heart and made it beat

Perfectionism and Letting Go

"What Else Can I Do?" - Diane Guerrero and Stephanie Beatriz (Enchanto OST)

What can you do when you are deeply, madly, truly in the moment?

(Seize the moment, keep goin')

What can you do when you know who you wanna be is imperfect?

Belonging

"Home Again" - Micheal Kiwanuka

Home again

Home again

One day I know

I'll feel home again

Born again

Born again

One day I know

I'll feel strong again

Friendship and Comfort

"Chiquitita" - ABBA

Chiquitita, you and I cry

But the sun is still in the sky and shining above you

Let me hear you sing once more like you did before

Sing a new song, Chiquitita

"Dante's Prayer" - Loreena McKennit

When the dawn seemed forever lost

You showed me your love in the light of the stars

Cast your eyes on the ocean

Cast your soul to the sea

When the dark night seems endless

Please remember me

Beauty of Nature

"The Evening Primrose" - Shanghai Restoration Project, Zhang Le (original by Li Xianglan, translation here)

我愛這夜色茫茫

I love this dark and misty night

也愛這夜鶯歌唱

And also love the nightingale’s singing

更愛那花一般的夢

I love even more of the flower-like dream

擁抱著夜來香

I embrace the night jasmine

聞著夜來香

I smell the night jasmine/evening primrose/tuberose

Loneliness and Dreams

"Her Morning Elegance" - Oren Lavie

Sun been down for days

A winter melody she plays

The thunder makes her contemplate

She hears a noise behind the gate

Perhaps a letter with a dove

Perhaps a stranger she could love

Romance

"How High The Moon" - Ella Fitzgerald

Somewhere there's music

It's where you are

Somewhere there's heaven

How near, how far

The darkest night would shine

If you would come to me soon

Until you will, how still my heart

How high the moon

Flowers/Desire

"Flower" - Johny Stimson

All I see are tulips and

I'm a hummingbird

Heavenly ambrosia in every curve

Honey dripping over my imagination

The fragrance

keeps flowing straight down to my soul

WLW

"Honey" - Kehlani

I like my girls just like I like my honey, sweet

A little selfish

I like my women like I like my money, green

A little jealous

'Cause I'm a beautiful wreck

A colorful mess, but I'm funny

Oh, I'm a heartbreak vet

With a stone-cold neck, yeah, I'm charmin'

Freedom

"Open Book" - Mikey McCleary ft. Mauli Dave

I guess my life's open book

Anyone can take a look

No secrets here to hide; this is just me

Holidays, they come and go

Feelings change, people grow

And all I know is I like being free

Instrumental Delights

"Plum Blossom in Three Movements" (classical Chinese composition)

"Comptine d’un autre été : L’Après-midi" - Yann Tiersen

"Spring Waltz" - Chopin

"Song of Joy” (a jiāngnán sīzhú - 江南丝竹 - composition)

"A Celtic Lore" - Adrien von Ziegler

Note: Big credit to @cassiopeiacorvus who introduced me to both Enchanto and "What Else Can I Do?" 😁 That was one of the most Hana songs I've ever heard!

[lowkeyed1]

🎶✨️when you get this, put 5 songs you actually listen to, then publish. Send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨️

oh god no music asks my fatal weakness 1. Grace Kelly - Mika 2. Kiss from a Rose - Seal 3. Kissing You - Des'ree 4. Dante's Prayer - Loreena McKennit 5. Take on Me (acoustic) - a-ha

[bluefire-dancer]

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"When the dark wood fell before me.

And all the paths were overgrown.

When the priests of pride say there is no other way.

I tilled the sorrows of stone"

- A shameful lyricfic drabble based on an rp with @ravenousmonstrosity

(Please forgive the mun, she's in a mood)

In the earliest hours of a new day, in the twilight in which night fights to keep his grip and morning gently, relentlessly pushes him back, a warrior woman steps into her darkened penthouse apartment after a long and frustrating evening.

Lights are unnecessary and unwanted, for the moon cast the perfect spotlight on the instrument in the centre of the room.

As if in a trance she was drawn to it. Without thought she lifted the cover off the keys and floated effortlessly onto the seat before the keyboard.

Closing her amethyst eyes she inhaled, long and deep. With her exhalation she allowed her mind to recall the dreams that had been plaguing her nightly. The dreams had caused her to recall a song she'd learned years ago. The melody, the lyrics, all felt as though they had been written just for her...and for him. The one whose shadowy figure in her visions made her heart stop and somehow thunder all at once.

The prose of the piece detailed an explanation for every vision, every heart wrenching feeling, every tug of longing, every pang of regret, all the heat of desire, all the comfort of companionship. The visions felt as real as though they were memories rather than dreams.

She knew she had to do this. The only way to gain some peace would be to allow her heart to cry out it's anguish through the song. The need to purge the overwhelming emotions was now beyond the young woman's ability to control.

Pale hands drifted to the ivory keys. Long, slim fingers nestled between the ebony bars. With another exhale she let her fingers find their way as a soft melody filled the room, and the hollow in her chest. Parting her lips, she gave voice to the lyrics that so eloquently illustrated what mere words could never convey...

"Breathe life into this feeble heart.

Lift this mortal veil of fear.

Take these crumbled hopes, etched with tears.

We'll rise above these earthly cares"

[starwroughtchild]

Character Summary- Atticus Starling

Name: Atticus Corvus Magnus Felevandriel Starling

Alias/Nicknames: Corvus

Gender: Male

Race: Roegydan/Elezen (Galdjent/Elf)

Age: Technically 135, though only aged 35 years

Zodiac: Leo

Abilities/Talents: Horsemanship (chocoboship?), melee combat, melee combat instruction, diplomacy, survival, far ranging/scouting, protection, heraldry, et al

Alignment: lawful / neutral / chaotic / good / neutral / evil / true

Religion: Religion of The First Light (old)

Sins: envy / greed / gluttony / lust / pride / sloth / wrath

Virtues: charity / chastity / diligence / humility / justice / kindness / patience

Languages: Common

Family:  Mother (deceased), Father (deceased), Two younger sisters and older brother (deceased), Wife (deceased), Two Daughters, (deceased) Cousins (very much alive)

Friends: Only a few

Sexuality: heterosexual / bisexual / pansexual / homosexual / demisexual / asexual / unsure / other

Relationship Status: single / partnered / married / widowed / open relationship / divorced / not ready for dating yet / it’s complicated

Libido: sex god / very high / high (tamped down) / average / low / very low / non-existent

Build: slender / average / athletic / muscular / curvy / other

Hair: white / blonde / brunette / red (wavy) / black / it’s complicated

Eyes: brown / blue / gray / green / black / other

Skin: pale / fair / olive / light brown / brown / dark / other

Height: 7'3" (thank you Roegydan blood)

Scars: Everywhere, long since healed.

dogs or cats || birds or bugs || snakes or spiders || coffee or tea || ice cream or cake || fruits or vegetables || sandwich or soup || magic or melee || dagger or bow || summer or winter || spring or autumn || past or future

A few songs that remind you of them:

Beloved- VNV Nation Run To the Water-LIVE May It Be-Enya

Dante's Prayer- Loreena McKennit Butterflies and Hurricanes- MUSE

Tagged by: sort of? @tea-and-conspiracy

Tagging: WHOMEVER WOULD CARE TO?

[eveninglottie]

30 questions

Rules: answer 30 questions and tag 20 blogs (lol absolutely not) you are contractually obligated to know better tagged by the ever wonderful @heysales

name/nickname: charlotte but I go by charlie on the Net

gender: female???

star sign: aquarius

height: 5′7″

birthday: 02/15

time: 12:30am

favorite bands: I mean I don’t have favorites as much as I have bands I find and listen to over and over again, right now that’s Nothing But Thieves and Sleeping with Sirens and a channel on yt called Cryo Chamber that does weird ambient mixes with titles like Songs for a Broken World and Dystopian Ambient and they have a series of videos with music for eldritch gods and Hastur is my faaaaaaave

favorite solo artists: evelynn from kda (don’t come for me)

song stuck in my head: right now it’s Unperson by Nothing But Thieves or Devil’s at Your Door by SWARM because of an animatic I saw about mollymauk and had to go walk around for a while because I Felt Things

last movie: just watched die hard with the fam

last show: the latest season of gbbo

when did i create this blog: 2015

what do i post: good question

last thing googled: I just looked up who forthright was because I saw their book on amazon and I wanted to see what fandom they wrote for 

other blogs: a lot but mostly to save titles I like sdkvjbad

do i get asks: I dooooooo and it’s always nice people telling me about my fic and I don’t deserve it truly

why i chose my url: I was originally eveningshadowrising (from the waste land I’m SO CULTURED) but I didn’t like it and I realized I had missed an amazing opportunity for chucklottie as a username but I didn’t want to confuse people by totally switching (which is also why I haven’t changed my icon in 5 years) so we get eveninglottie, which I do like because it sounds like “yes this is the evening version of charlie a chill version who is in pjs and drinking hot chocolate”

following: 132, which I should probably go through and cull because I keep seeing people pop on my dash like “I don’t want this”

followers: 988, which is hilarious to me because I have been in the 960s-980s for like two years, no kidding, despite the fact that I usually get a new follower once every week or two I don’t know what’s going on

average hours of sleep: 8 but it feels like 4

lucky number: 42. I’m basic.

instruments: a tiny violin for me tragic life

what am i wearing: a neon yellow nasa shirt from walmart and a flannel and leggings I’m very Streamer Chic rn

dream job: to write :/ but like, get paid to do it. or honestly at this point I would pay to be able to write again SO

dream trip: scotland and then I would never leave

favorite food: uuhhhhh idk...gnocchi?

nationality: american

favorite song: maybe Dante’s Prayer by Loreena McKennit? her music makes me cry

last book read: currently reading Vengeful by ve schwab but I’ve been reading it for three months because I no longer have the ability to do anything I once loved

top three fictional universes i’d like to live in: UUGGGHHHH I’m gonna steal kel’s answer and say Howl’s Moving Castle, really just the ghibli extended universe WAIT NO I WOULD live as a borrower. I wanna live as a very small person. so either Epic or the Secret Life of Arietty slash that stuff, I was also about to say zootopia but I don’t like what that says about me so I won’t. idk why but the world from the web comic from eliza’s monsters. I still think about that book/world a lot. right now I’d like to be able to live in a universe that lets me write so maybe the sims so I could just sit at my desk all day and fill in the bubble over my head.

I tag @idrelle, @luzial, @esssteee, @salexectria, @swiftofhearts, and @evilbunnyking because I have no idea who else is active on here anymore skadvlhj

[xmaeceex]

Cast your eyes on the ocean, cast your soul to the sea.

Loreena McKennit, from the book of secrets, 'Dante's prayer', c. 1997

[dopeshitandcraftsmanship]

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Loreena McKennit - Dante's Prayer

[tockamybeloved]

Loreena McKennit - Dante's Prayer(original-HD + lyrics)

[anabelreinaart]

My #mermay contribution is a portrait of a soulless mermaid underneath the waves. "Cast your eyes to the ocean. Cast your soul to the sea. When the dark night seems endless, please, remember me." -Dante's prayer(Loreena McKennit) #videogameart #digitaldrawing #conceptart #dailydrawing #일러스트#comicart #visdev #drawdaily #gameart #fantasyart #fantasyartist #イラスト #드로잉 #스케치 #conceptartist #doodle #손그림#drawing #그림#그림스타그램#낙서#colour #instaart#art#concept#sketch#sketch_daily#illustration #mermay2019 https://www.instagram.com/p/BxS6W8bFsch/?igshid=92593fa7hsgg

[elven-haven]

Loreena McKennit - Dante's Prayer(original-HD + lyrics)

[swimmingrat]

Ten Song Tag Game

In response to @freighttraininmybrain tagging me and reminding me of Kate Bush! :D Rules: list ten songs you’re currently obsessed with and tag ten others. 

1) Starting out with Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights. I went through all the phases: “wtf am I seeing/hearing” - “I’ll watch this again” - “omg I love it” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW3gKKiTvjs

2) Followed by Loreena McKennit - Dante’s Prayer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsd2AJ_bUsc

3) and also Loreena McKennit - The Lady of Shalott because there can never be enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8mKdZPF_8E

4) Subway to Sally - Schneekönigin I have been stuck with this song for years now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY6BOGNHfJk

5) Then there’s Peter Hollens and Malukah covering - Baba Yetu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17svtURunUk

6) The Rumjacks - Down With The Ship Just: yesss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngrsi5c1pag

7) Faun - Hymn to Pan Oscar Wilde + medieval folk? yes please. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmOxyAJw16U

8) Samsas Traum - Die Zähne in der Hand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YttBCH2f3I

9) Dracula, l'Amour plus fort que la mort - L'Amour et son Contraire is currently the song of the musical I keep having stuck in my head. I circle through all of them though, over time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m40am3vstBw

10) And last but not least: Rushad Eggleston (i guess?) with - I Love Tofu! This gives me joy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klhfo6sB4N4

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As for the tagging... I dont even know ten people on Tumblr XD so I’ll have to break the rules here.

[guard-dogbiscuits]

Loreena McKennit - Dante's Prayer(original-HD + lyrics)