#Lyrics are from white winter hymnal by the fleet foxes

[tiptoeing-the-fractures]

"I was following the pack all swallowed in their coats...."

@werothepine .... thanks for dragging me into hakushuu with you <3

[cloudabserk]

hikaru and yoshiki from the summer hikaru died, with the lyrics from white winter hymnal by fleet foxes.

click to see clearly! | song link: yt tumblr

[theshypinkflower]

I feel like that one episode of fairly odd parents when Veronica is typing to Trixie. That's how I feel whenever I type something out for you 😭. Anyways, I wanted to ask you about - Is there specific songs you personally think goes with each tpof / btd characters + your fanon / ocs? I think we all can agree that Sal's whole entire thing is the song Bitches love me by MSI but I wanna hear from your opinions :)

Dude I lost the progress for this ask the moment the internet cut out so I had to redo it 😭😭😭😭😭

Me to my fans <3 (since apparently I’m trixie)

I tried keeping this HC more revolved around what they’d actually listen to, but some of the songs are based off lyric content relating to them. Btw I looked at other playlist for some inspo and WHO IS PUTTING DADDY AF BY SLAYYTER ON A CELIA PLAYLIST. I think she’d rather die than listen to a song that calls a man daddy. Anyways here you go, tried making it accurate as possible

Strade:

Megalomaniac (KMFDM)

Stand The Pain (And One)

Amerika (Rammenstein)

California Girls (Katy Perry)

Dead Man’s Party (Oingo Boingo)

Bro seriously gets down to anything energetic

Ren/Fox:

Horror of Our Love (Ludo)

Love Me Dead (Ludo)

Caramelldansen (Caramella Girls)

(I couldn’t copy the song name)

Sano:

Eyes Without A Face (Billy Idol)

Waltz No.2 (Dmitri Shostakovich)

Clair De Lune (Claude Debussy)

Serenade For Strings In E Major, Op. 22, B. 52 II Tempo di valse (Antonin Dvorak)

Akira:

DotA (Basshunter)

Little Kandi Raver (S3RL)

Fer Sure (The Medic Droid)

Scene Girlz (Brokencyde)

Kiss Me Again (Roy Bee)

Cyclone (T-Pain)

Any and all pitbull songs

Lawrence:

Ten hour rain noises to fall asleep to

White Winter Hymnal (Fleet Foxes)

How To Completely Disappear (Radiohead)

Ode To My Family (The Cranberries)

Helplessness Blues (Fleet Foxes)

Never Love An Anchor (The Crane Wives)

Vincent:

I Was Made For Lovin’ You (Kiss)

Highway To Hell (AC/DC)

Fuck Away The Pain (Divide The Day)

Black Betty (Ram Jam)

She Keeps Me Up (Nickelback)

Rire:

No One Lives Forever (Oingo Boingo)

Sympathy For The Devil (Rolling Stones)

Puppet Boy (DEVO)

Lacrimosa (Mozart)

Cain:

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (The Platters)

End of The World (Skeeter Davis)

The Wonder Of You (Elvis Presley)

Stupid Cupid (Connie Francis)

Derek:

Seven Minutes In Even (Mindless Self Indulgence)

Pigskin (Hollywood Undead)

Flashing Lights (Kanye West)

3 S’s (Mindless Self Indulgence)

Everywhere I Go (Hollywood Undead, look I know it’s overused BUT IT FITS)

Bottoms Up (Trey Songz)

Celia:

Criminal (Fiona Apple)

Paper Bag (Fiona Apple)

Johanna (Suki Waterhouse)

Only Happy When It Rains (Garbage)

Rattlesnake (Kabaret Sybarit)

Mason:

Knockin on Hevaen’s Door (Bob Dylan)

Hangman (Tia Blake)

Flightless Bird, American Mouth (Iron & Wine

Clay Pigeons (Micheal Cera)

FEATURING A LITTLE BONUS!!! (I was gonna do all my TPOF ocs but this has taken me forever so…have Sal. I’m sorry no kangaroo or rhino or desert gang, I was originally going to do them but I lost them in when this didn’t save the first time)

Sal:

Tainted Love (Soft Cell)

Enjoy The Silence (Depeche Mode)

Shout (Tears For Fears)

Salvatore (Lana Del Rey, you know why it’s on this list)

Angel Eyes (ABBA)

[fuck-you-upmusicbracket]

White Winter Hymnal (Fleet Foxes)

I was following the pack/All swallowed in their coats/With scarves of red tied 'round their throats/To keep their little heads/From fallin' in the snow/And I turned 'round and there you go/And, Michael, you would fall/And turn the white snow red as strawberries/In the summertime

"In spite of the song lyrics supposedly having no real meaning, it has a lot of emotion and soul to it. It feels somber? Like it feels like it's about the loss of innocence and youth. And the lyrics provide a surprisingly strong yet vague visual. Like a powerful memory from a very long time ago. And the visuals and animation of the music video just go with it so well. I just can't even aah!!!"

The Wolf (Siames)

I'm out of my head, of my heart and my mind/'Cause you can run, but you can't hide, I'm gonna make you mine/Out of my head, of my heart and my mind/'Cause I can feel how your flesh now is crying out for more

"The song itself gives Hunter and prey vibes, but it’s the music video that gets me really feral. It’s left ambiguous on the meaning, but I’ve chosen to interpret it as the wolf being a metaphor for unhealthy coping mechanisms (the glasses guy first seeing the wolf in his glass of alcohol, the girl first seeing the wolf while she’s smoking) that they need to stop running from and face, possibly with the support of others (the motor cycle guy saving the other two and then finally confronting the wolf). I’m probably delusional, but this is the hill I’ll die on."

The Wolf Submitted by @ginkgo-daydream

[gaystan]

most south parky lyrics from every song on my south park playlist

white winter hymnal by fleet foxes: “i was following the pack all swallowed in their coats with scarves of red wound round their throats to keep their little heads from falling in the snow and i turn round and there you go”

we’re going to be friends by the white stripes: “we walk to school all by ourselves / there’s dirt on our uniforms from chasing all the ants and worms” “we don’t notice any time pass, we don’t notice anything / we sit side by side in every class”

peng! 33 by stereolab: “curiosity was far greater than our fear / it felt so simple and so prodigious at the same time/ incredible things are happening in the world / magical things are happening in this world”

signal in the sky (let’s go) by the apples in stereo: “would you like to play a game of hide and seek now? / if you have x-ray eyes please promise not to peak now / first we count to ten and then we’ll have some fun now / or will you fly away before we count to one now?” “you know you got a lot to do / and everything depends on you / hey girls, hey girls, come out and play now! / or do you have to hurry off to save the day now?”

another brick in the wall, pt. 2 by pink floyd: “we don’t need no education, we don’t need no thought control / no dark sarcasm in the classroom / teacher leave them kids alone”

only a lad by oingo boingo: “(he’s only a lad) you really can’t blame him / (only a lad) society made him / (only a lad) he’s our responsibility / (only a lad) he really couldn’t help it / (only a lad) he didn't want to do it / (only a lad) he’s underprivileged and abused / perhaps a little bit confused”

cody’s theme by ajj: “when i was a kid my whole reality split / i was living a lie / i was a killing machine, i was a warlord / when i closed my eyes “when i was a kid i was a total dick to inanimate objects / the world beat the hell from me; i took it out on a tree”

best in the class by late of the pier: “you gotta speak your mind / you can always change up / you gotta know what’s real / you gotta hold yourself down / you should be direct / you gotta scream and shout”

back in school by mother mother: “i wanna get it but i got bad brains / i’m what they like to call a special case, i am a coma in a classroom / i got detention cause i made a face / nobody believed me that it’s stuck that way” “run, little boy / back in school, back in place / back in school, back in chains / back in school, back in my cage”

the kids aren’t alright by fall out boy: “and in the end i’d do it all again / i think you’re my best friend / don’t you know that the kids aren't al-, kids aren’t alright? / i’ll be yours, when it rains it pours / stay thirsty like before / don’t you know that the kids aren’t al-, kids aren't alright? / i’m not passive but aggressive / take note, it's not impressive”

leviathans get lonely by the weather machine: “remember when we lost that bet that in a year things would make sense? let’s go downtown and fight the government”

no children by the mountain goats: “i hope that our few remaining friends give up on trying to save us / i hope we come up with a fail safe plot to piss off the dumb few that forgave us / i hope the fences we mended fall down beneath their own weight / and i hope we hang on past the last exit / i hope it’s already too late / and i hope the junkyard a few blocks from here someday burns down / and i hope the rising black smoke carries me far away and i never come back to this town again”

born in the right country by river whyless: “i am your new king / can’t you see the teeth laid in this crown? / the past now is present / i am the inside and you’re out / i’ll tell you, baby, a secret, manufactured truth is easy to sell / when you own the factory and you own the hearts of the clientele” “but can i truly blame you? / we’re built on the dreams we feed to the poor / so that you can break through if you’ve got the right name, or you’ve got the right god, or you’re born in the right country”

the room is full of people that love you by foresight: “there’s a new park in the middle of town / we can run from the cops, and hide from the clowns / we can do drugs and diss each other’s pipe dreams, learn all about our anatomy / i once was a loyal dog / you gotta love everybody but never the hogs / i didn’t mean to make such a mess of things / i just wanted a coat and something to drink / now i drown, dead stuck in this town / always lost when i’m found / in and out of space, in and out of phase / feeling deep in the heart / it feels like tearing apart / think i’ll slowly fade away”

bite the hand by boygenius: “i can’t love you how you want me to / i can’t love you how you want me to / i can’t love you how you want me to”

ribs by lorde: “you’re the only friend i need / sharing beds like little kids / we laugh until our ribs get tough / but that will never be enough”

baby brothers by will connolly: “we’ve crossed these rivers countless times / left broken bones out on the ice / turnpike signs turned to subway lines / dolittle days, outlandos nights / but we were never done ‘cause this is an extension of more than one love / this was a long, long, long time coming / for when the bar is so high you can’t tell you’re beneath it / when you’ve got archer’s eyes but you can’t even see it / then just look, look out, look out for each other / we gotta look, look out, look out for each other / baby brother”

[rillabrooke]

25 and 50 for the ask game!

25. white winter hymnal - fleet foxes

and michael, you would fall and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime

50. heard them stirring - fleet foxes

it's an instrumental with oohing and ahhing, but according to google, this is a lyric: whaaaa

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send me a number 1-100 and i'll tell you my favorite lyric from the corresponding song on spotify wrapped

[helmetkeeper]

hello! :3 may we request a playlist for enid sinclair and wednesday from the wednesday netflix series? we’re trying to make a joint playlist and it’s been difficult :’>

uhh, we like chappell roan! i really like her songs and wenny tolerates them- we’ve dubbed ‘our song’ as red wine supernova :)) also taste, by sabrina carpenter. we both like those. wednesday likes a bit of mother mother and the amazing devil, i also like those two bands. maybe bloody mary by lady gaga? oh and wednesday likes classical music, esp cello, but i don’t know if that would really fit.

hopefully that’s enough info ^^’ thank you so much! /gen,nf

hello!! i feel like i fell off somewhere near the middle XD, but i hope y'all like some of these regardless!

order: song ; artist (extra artists) [notes]

dividers by @/saradika and @/paradoxproductions

Talk Too Much ; Reneé Rapp

Born Again Teen ; Lucius

Suburban Blues ; The Aces

Touching Yourself ; The Japanese House [this one's a bit raunchy just from the title being a main lyric lmao]

Addictions ; Lucy Dacus

Honey ; Samia

boys, bugs and men ; Paris Paloma

Pink Light ; MUNA

Burn Alive ; The Last Dinner Party

Bloodline / Difficult Things ; Orla Gartland

Crush ; Ethel Cain

Drain Me! ; Towa Bird

Dream Girl Evil ; Florence + The Machine

girlfriend ; hemlocke springs [one of my favs <3]

heavun ; hemlocke springs

Strohmann ; Riki

Never Ending Song ; Conan Gray

16 ; Caroline Kingsbury

Hounds Of Love ; Kate Bush

GO! ; Santigold (Karen O)

Champagne Coast ; Blood Orange

Opening ; Dora Jar

Gender Is Boring ; She/Her/Hers

Milk Crates ; Pigeon Pit

I Listened ; Apes of the State

Nonbinary Fantasy Trash Babe ; Qfolk

I Forgot ; The Moldy Peaches

Armchair Anarchism ; Not Half Bad

Gender School Dropout ; Ankle Grease

Not at All ; Chad Hates George

Turpan Tango ; Zhen Chen (Jiaju Shen) (Feifei Yang)

Quadro per un giglio ; Aiezza Pasquale [title translates to "Framework for a lily" for me]

Down The Rabbit Hole ; Anna Phoebe (Nicholas Holland)

Stranded ; Antoinette Costa (Kevin Olusola) (Tara Kamangar)

Peculiar ; Chance's End

Give Me Everything - Stripped Down ; Archer Marsh

Espresso ; Vitamin String Quartet

Good Luck, Babe! ; Vitamin String Quartet

Die With A Smile ; Amber Tide

Come Inside Of My Heart ; IV Of Spades

She Knows My Name ; The Family Crest

Looking Out for You ; Joy Again

Dark Red ; Steve Lacy

COUNT THOSE FREAKS ; Whitey [this one's a nice surprise, IMO]

Insomniac ; Memo Boy (Chakra Efendi)

I Don't Wanna Be Your Friend ; Eyedress

Romantic Lover ; Eyedress

Like or Like Like ; Miniature Tigers

Hunnybee ; Unknown Mortal Orchestra

White Winter Hymnal ; Fleet Foxes

High School Poem ; The Knife

Don't Delete The Kisses ; Wolf Alice

Glory Box ; Portishead

Lullaby ; The Cure

Far From Any Road ; The Handsome Family

Eyes on Fire ; Blue Foundation

Into Dust ; Mazzy Star

Sleeping Sun ; Nightwish

Harsh Realm ; Widowspeak

NUMB ; SPIDER GANG [i've been listening to this for the past hour heeeeelp]

[oneunexpected]

Hi, everybody! In case you missed it, I'm doing a chapter-by-chapter playlist for each book in the series in honor of @prophecyofgray's #TUC20 event. Sorry for getting this one out late, as I was gone this weekend and couldn't work on it.

Click here to check it out on Spotify, with my explanations for why I chose each song below! If you missed my playlist for Gregor the Overlander, check it out here.

1 - White Winter Hymnal by Fleet Foxes - This is one of my favorite songs ever <3 It is a beautiful piece of music, but the lyrics are darker on a closer read — the kids are running through the snow wearing red scarves, and when one named Michael falls, he turns the snow “red as strawberries in the summertime;” some people take this to imply his head fell off a la the story of the “Red Ribbon Girl.” I don’t think it means Michael’s head fell off, personally. I think the narrator is just struck by how red his scarf is against the snow, or perhaps he is bleeding. But regardless, this is a song about loss of innocence that uses running through snow to convey that, and it’s often co-opted as a Christmas song (fuck pentatonix christmas music all my friends hate pentatonix christmas music). I felt it was a good fit for Gregor, who is the one who’s lost his innocence, and Boots, who is in this book Gregor’s Michael. And also just because this chapter also depicts an idyllic white winter scene where something more sinister is occurring if you look closer.

2 -  Oblivion by Grimes - Elon be damned, she had some bangers back in the day. This song is sonically dark and the lyrics are creepy and the chorus is “see you on a dark night” on repeat, and in this chapter Gregor’s on the run through dark tunnels from those that swore to hunt him for all time. It’s a good marriage.

3 - Sabotage - Angry chapter. Angry song. Gregor’s mad at the roaches and the Underlanders, Ares is mad at Gregor, they’re both angry at the world. Favorite lyric for the chapter: “I can’t stand rocking when I’m in this place / Because I feel disgraced / Because you’re all in my face.”

4 - Dark Days by the Punch Brothers - Your first track stolen from the Hunger Games soundtrack for this playlist! “Sister hide your love away / From the evil we both know … Our love will see us through these dark, dark days / Sister, ‘til it lights our way back home” makes for a good song for this chapter, where Gregor reads the Prophecy of Bane, understands what’s at stake, and decides to stay in the Underland to see it all through.

5 - Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division - This is the first chapter we get to see the ideological schism that runs straight through the heart of Vikus and Solovet’s relationship. Vikus is maybe my favorite character in the series in terms of I Like Him and Solovet’s maybe my favorite character in terms of I Want To Put Her Under A Microscope, so of course I’m fixated on their interaction over the other things in this chapter. They’re tearing apart by trying to reconcile their own outlooks on the world with their love for someone so different from themselves; this song was a natural choice.

6 - Glory and Gore by Lorde - Every line in this song reminds me of the Regalians. This chapter, we meet the Fount cousins, and that fits well with the edginess of this song which was written about belligerent teenagers. It’s also the chapter where Gregor hits the total. The red liquid in the balls disturbs Gregor, but for the Underlanders, it’s for “roughing up their minds so [they’re] ready when the kill time comes.” One of my favorite lyrics in this song is “no one ‘round here’s good at keeping their eyes closed.” That’s true for Stellovet and her non-Howard siblings, who see Luxa’s vulnerability re: Henry and weaponize, and it’s true for the other Regalians, who immediately spread word about what Gregor accomplishes, even though he’s disgusted with it.

7 - Somewhere Only We Know by Keane - This song is so sweet and lovely. It’s a little on the nose, because Ares appears out of nowhere and takes Gregor somewhere only they know, but it’s also about letting people into your heart, which is a sentiment I like for the two of them beginning to act more like proper bonds. The song is also a little wistful about times past, which pairs with the part of the chapter where Luxa, Aurora and Ares reflect on positive memories of Henry.

8 - Blackbird by the Beatles - Okay, I really wanted to use this for Ch. 15, but I became married to the idea of using a different song for it, so I’ve shoehorned it in. I don’t think it fits with the chapter well sound-wise, so sorry in advance. But this song reminds me of Twitchtip, who tried so hard her whole life to find a place in gnawer society. In terms of sound, it fits better with the second half of the chapter, when the survivors of the first quest have dinner together.

9 - Monty Got a Raw Deal by R.E.M. - Everyone’s getting a raw deal in this chapter. Gregor has his first echolocation lesson and he sucks. A grieving Nerissa implies Henry was on the right track in joining with the gnawers but admits he bungled it badly. Gregor finds out he has to kill the Bane all on his own. “Heroes don’t come easy,” the song says, and the song is right. Raw deals all around.

10 - Atlas by Coldplay - Honestly, kind of a filler song. I didn’t get much out of this chapter besides exposition for the quest. The verses are about things people desire: security, wealth, adventure, but the chorus is just “I’ll carry your world.” That’s Gregor: carrying the Underland for the Regalians’ own interests.

11 - Sail by AWOLNATION - ha ha get it they’re on a boat Really though, I chose this song not only because they’re sailing and because it’s a banger, but because it’s the chapter Ares teaches Gregor how to kill a rat, and he really can’t imagine doing it. “Maybe I’m a different breed / Maybe I’m not listening” reminded me of that.

12 - Bloom by Radiohead - This song kinda freaks me out. I once listened to it for three hours straight while writing a midterm. I like the syncopation and I thought it might fit well with Gregor’s fragmented perception while he’s raging, and because it’s a trippy track, it fits well with his little dream sequence, too. Its lyrics are about the ocean, too, so I obviously had to use it.

13 - Invisible by U2 - Okay listen I didn’t want to have to use a U2 song so early here. I was anticipating only using one this playlist. But here we are. Anyways, this song is about people outgrowing family members who have hurt them or left them a bad legacy. Howard denounces Stellovet’s behavior, and Gregor realizes Luxa joined the trip to prove she’s not like Henry.

14 - Never Let Me Go by Florence + the Machine - Never Let Me Go is about the struggle of finding the will to keep on living. I interpret the lyrics to reflect suicidal ideation about drowning in the ocean, so be mindful of that if you wanted to read the lyrics and you’re sensitive to that, but the chorus is this choral arrangement of voices repeating “Never let me go, never let me go,” reflecting that the narrator subconsciously wants to keep living. Although clearly describing different situations, I decided I wanted to pair this with the whirlpool chapter. Twitchtip has nearly accepted her fate, embracing “the arms of the ocean,” as Florence puts it, but when Gregor goes back for her, she begs him not to let go. I think it’s an emblematic moment for a character who wants, more than anything, not to be alone.

15 - I’ll Be Home for Christmas as recorded by Bing Crosby - There’s a lot of good stuff in this chapter. Also, Pandora is eaten alive in the end, but we’re ignoring that for now. I chose this song because it’s the chapter where Gregor thinks about what a wreck his parents must be, and he wonders if Christmas has already passed. This song was originally written from the perspective of an American soldier fighting in Europe during World War II, who knows he won’t make it back for Christmas. It’s all very sad. This whole chapter is pretty sad. That’s all I got.

16 - 10 dEAThbREsT by Bon Iver - When I first began these playlists, I just had a giant list of songs that reminded me of the series. This was one I had but I anticipated using it in a later book, probably during combat, or during some tense moment between Gregor and Luxa. I love this song. It’s off-putting, it’s compelling, it keeps you on the edge of your seat, and I have no idea why the title is stylized like that because nothing Bon Iver did after their self-titled album makes much sense. Anyways, I had NO clue what to use for this chapter. No song I know captures how disturbing Pandora’s death is. But I ended up with this one, because the edginess captures Ares’ struggle and Gregor’s fear for him sufficiently. This chapter is also an important moment of bonding for Gregor and Luxa — he imagines taking her to the Overland for the first time — and for Luxa and Howard, who grieve together and finally start acting like family. I know the tone doesn't fit well with the emotion of the last few pages of this chapter, but I'm hoping the outro of this extended version suffices. The lyrics seem to deal with trying to fight the notion that you love someone. Or something. It’s all pretty esoteric. I think those can only be stretched so far to apply to Gregor and Luxa/Luxa and Howard, but I like the lyric “I’m un-orphaned in our northern lights” a lot for Luxa. She is slowly building relationships again after all she’s lost in her parents and Henry.

17 - Music for Prague 1968, Movement I: Introduction and Fanfare by Karel Husa - “oneunexpected would NEVER make me listen to a programmatic work written for symphonic band!” ENGH! Wrong! I saw this in concert when I was 17 and I was deeply, deeply disturbed, which is the point. This first movement starts sooooo eerie and then gets SCARY which is absolutely perfect for the party knowing they’re sailing directly into a trap and then for when the serpents wake up. Enjoy!

18 - Eyes on Fire by Blue Foundation - We break with our programming of stolen Hunger Games soundtrack songs to bring you a song stolen from the Twilight soundtrack. This song is chilly and the narrator is someone who has nothing left to lose and is ready to fight. It’s another song I expected to use later in the series, maybe for when Gregor and Solovet’s relationship deteriorates, but I ended up using it here because when Gregor thinks Boots is dead, he doesn’t grieve immediately — he says he feels like ice has encircled his heart, and for the first time, is resolute that he will go kill the Bane.

19 - Safe and Sound by Taylor Swift and the Civil Wars - We break with our Twilight soundtrack programming to return to the Hunger Games. This is the chapter where Gregor and the others convince Howard to return with Mareth and Andromeda, but I chose it for the conversation Ares and Gregor have. Gregor gives one last chance for Ares to bail, and when he refuses, Gregor senses they’ll never have a conversation like that again. He remembers the moment they bonded in Regalia, which is what reminded me of this song. The lyrics go, “I remember tears streaming down your face when I said, ‘I’ll never let you go’ / When all those shadows almost killed your light / I remember you said, ‘Don’t leave me here alone’ / But all that’s dead and gone and passed tonight.” The circumstances of their bonding are similar to those first three lines, but all of that fades away as Gregor realizes they’re truly bonded now.

20 - Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd - Sad song for a sad chapter, as Gregor and Ares reluctantly leave Twitchtip behind. Ares admits to Gregor that he doesn’t think it’s right that he’s still alive when Henry, Luxa and Aurora are gone. I mostly chose this song for Ares’ grief. The verse of this song reminds me a lot of Henry, and how Ares must view Henry, especially regarding the line, “Did you exchange a walk-on part in the war for a lead role in the cage?” 

21 - No Children by the Mountain Goats - YES! THE TUMBLR SONG FOR GOLDSHARD AND SNARE! “I HOPE YOU DIE! I HOPE WE BOTH DIE!”

22 - 13 (There Is a Light) by U2 - Okay I swear I didn’t want to use this song. As much as I love U2, I really don’t dig this song very much. It’s so long and meandering. But the lyrics are nice. The way I’ve been constructing these is I skim very quickly through the book and write a brief summary of each chapter and when that’s done, I assign songs to each. My note for this chapter was just “baby hitler conversation.” I ended up choosing this song for one of the verses, which goes, “I know the world is done / But you don’t have to be / I’ve got a question for the child in you before it leaves: / Are you tough enough to be kind? / Do you know your heart has its own mind? / Darkness gathers around the light / Hold on, hold on.” I really liked the fit there for Gregor in this chapter. Even after losing his baby sister, he doesn’t let the world harden him so much that he’s willing to kill a baby. He’s tough enough to be kind, he follows his heart, and he holds onto the light within himself. And that’s why he’s our protagonist.

23 - One Tree Hill by U2 - Last U2 song for this book I SWEAR. But this is a song I associate with Ripred sooooo strongly. It’s a song vaguely about the cost of protesting oppressive systems, and those who do so anyways, which is a good fit for our favorite old rat, but more than anything I chose it for the chorus, “He runs like a river runs to the sea.” Since this is also the chapter Gregor says goodbye to little Pearlpelt, I like the line, “I’ll see you again when the stars fall from the sky / And the moon has turned red over One Tree Hill,” which is probably about seeing someone again in the afterlife, but I think it also works in the context of Gregor and the Bane: the next times they meet, their whole worlds will have changed.

24 - Viva La Vida by Coldplay - Along with chapter 22, I struggled the most with giving a song to this chapter. I wasn’t sold on its usage here but it’s the best I could come up with. This is the one where Nerissa gets crowned, and I related her struggle to the line, “Oh, who would ever wanna be king,” and also the allusions to hearing voices and having some sort of prescience about your fate in the chorus. Also, this is the chapter where Ares and Gregor are thrown in the dungeon, which is a dramatic change in his treatment. Until this point, Gregor has been a messianic figure to the Regalians. As the song says, “One minute I held the key / Next the walls were closed on me.” Gregor’s experiencing a similar fall from grace.

25 - All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix - You can listen to any version of this song you’d like, whether that’s the Bob Dylan original or anything else you can find, but this is the most well-known version. My favorite is — you guessed it! — a U2 cover. The song depicts a conversation between two characters, a jester and a thief. The joker is looking for “someway out of here,” and is in general very cynical. The thief, on the other hand, says, “There are many among us who feel that life is just a joke / But you and I, we’ve been through that / And that is not our fate / So let us not talk falsely now / For the hour is getting late.” It reminds me a lot of Ares and Gregor’s conversation in the dungeon. Ares encourages Gregor to sell him out and save himself, but Gregor refuses. He settles instead on just telling the truth, which is ultimately what saves them.

26 - 42 by Coldplay - This song is moody and contemplative, which is a fine fit for the unraveling of the prophecy. It deals with the loss of loved ones, with its first verse going, “Those who are dead are not dead / They’re just living in my head.” This is the chapter where Gregor finally begins to grieve for Boots, only for him to find her alive, and there’s this great, energetic tonal shift in the song that leads to the repeated lines, “You thought you might be a ghost / You didn’t get to heaven but you made it close.” After finding Boots alive, Gregor is rejuvenated from the shell of himself — the ghost — he would have been otherwise.

27 - The Morning Fog by Kate Bush - A song about having a new lease on life after a close brush with death. It’s so upbeat, so cheerful, so Bootslike that I had to include it here. I love, love, love the lyrics, “D’you know what? / I love you better now.”

BONUS TRACK - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas as performed by Frank Sinatra - I wanted to make this the song for Ch. 27 originally, but I wanted to give you an out if you didn’t want to listen to more Christmas music. It’s the first time Gregor’s family gets to have a proper Christmas, full of gifts and decorations and genuine happiness, since Gregor’s dad disappeared. But it’s also a little bit melancholy. They slip the lines “through the years we all will be together / If the fates allow” in very casually, but it makes my heart ache a little. It is especially poignant for Gregor’s family, who have almost lost each other time after time. But the last line, “And have yourself a merry little Christmas now” is a good reflection of how Gregor’s family gets to live in the moment and genuinely enjoy the holiday that year.

[cowlovely]

7 10 18 🥰

7. shuffle your (current) favorite playlist and tell me which song comes up first and your favorite lyric

“what if i forget your face” by kimiko glenn from centaurworld + “what if i can’t find the doorway back through? // and what if i do, but don’t recognize you?”

10. shuffle your daily mix 2 and tell us what song comes up and your favorite lyric!

“white winter hymnal” by fleet foxes + “and Michael, you would fall and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime”

18. what artist do you anticipate at the top of your spotify wrapped this year?

i think it might be noah kahan this year which is very exciting!! i’m gonna try my best to get murray gold towards the top as well, but i don’t think he’ll manage to overtake number one haha

[fawnsays]

“I was following the pack

All swallowed in their coats

With scarves of red tied ‘round their throats

To keep their little heads

From fallin’ in the snow

And I turned ‘round and there you go

And, ▅▅▅▅, you would fall

And turn the white snow

Red as strawberries in summertime”

[windslar]

Hi! 5, 8 and 12 for Guilly 😊 thanks!

Oh hey Ana hey! Thanks for sending these :)

(5) What character from myth or fairytale best represents them?

If we're talking Greek mythology, Guilly would be best represented by Hermes. As the protector of travelers, it only makes sense that this globetrotter would be repped by the god with winged sandals who can easily travel between mortal and divine worlds. Hermes is also regarded as "the divine trickster" which matches up well with Guilly's happy-go-lucky and oftentimes goofy personality.

In terms of fairytales, Alice from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is basically Guilly whenever he sets foot in a new place. Although he's a young adult, he's never lost his childlike curiosity and his courage to try new things no matter how scary they may be. He's driven to complete this globetrotter challenge by his sense of adventure. But he's beginning to learn the more he travels, the more he yearns for a place where he can plant his roots.

(8) If your OC were to live in some other time period, which era would they be best suited for?

Any time period would be good as long as commercial air travel is possible. There would be no way Guilly would be able to travel so freely to all the places he's visited if it hadn't been for airplanes.

Although, it would be cool to go way back in time and live to experience the ancient empire of Selvadorada. Just as long as his head is spared from being thrown off the pulpit as an offering to the gods.

(12) What is their character theme song and why? If it has lyrics, which line best fits them?

I decided to sort-of not answer the question and instead make a 12-song playlist to commemorate Guilly's adventures (including the last round in Evergreen Harbor).

White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes

Alaska - Maggie Rogers

Island In The Sun - Weezer

Riptide - Vance Joy

Gooey - Glass Animals

Live in the Moment - Portugal. The Man

Mountain Sound - Of Monsters and Men

As We Ran - The National Parks

UN DIA (ONE DAY) - J Balvin, Dua Lipa, Bad Bunny, Tainy

Party - Bad Bunny, Rauw Alejandro

Feels Like Summer - Childish Gambino

Walking On A Dream - Empire of the Sun

[boatemlag]

[ID: A Mementos Mission manga scan of the Protagonist standing in the crosswalk in Shibuya looking up at the sky. The speech bubble has been edited to have him say the lyrics to White Winter Hymnal by the Fleet Foxes, "I was following the pack all swallowed in their coats with scarves of red tied round their throats to keep their little heads from fallin' in the snow, and I turn round and there you go. And michael you would fall and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summer time." /end ID]

[ladyfl4me]

How about..... the fleet foxes?

barely know them. i’ve heard their name before and i’ve heard i should see memphis but they never really stuck

First song youtube took me to: Mykonos

First Impression: huh

Do I like it?: yeah it’s got a good energy. i can’t really relate to the lyrics but it’s fun musically

Would I listen to more from them?: probably, yeah, it autoplayed white winter hymnal and blue ridge mountains while i was typing this up, and i’m kinda vibing to it

Rate (from what I heard): 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10

[redeyye]

10, 20, and 30 for the wrapped game!!

10 - crop circles by odie leigh. i fucking love this song. the thing i really like is the guitar line tbh but i also love the shift to "here i am, i'm crying out for change" from "i don't think I've changed / and I'm too scared to stay the same"

20 - white winter hymnal by fleet foxes :) there are not a lot of profound lyrics in this one. the best part is the harmonies bc of course it is.

30 - johnny can't decide from tick tick boom. this song makes me insane. its the refrain!! the "johnny has no guide / johnny wants to hide" that keeps coming back...

[truitt-story]

winter is coming: songs for house briar

And I was catching my breath Staring out an open window Catching my death And I couldn't be sure I had a feeling so peculiar That this pain would be for Evermore

1. hibernation by random forest

I wanted to start this playlist off with a vibey instrumental song. I like this one because it starts off pretty bare and grows. The opening notes even sound, to me, like the wind! You can imagine walking across an empty snowy landscape and then you slowly get closer to the castle-- this is just the movie I am imagining in my mind. Because even though Winterfell seems icy and barren, there is a lot that goes on behind closed doors!

2. fine line by harry styles

I just thought this song flowed so well from the previous one that it had to go here. It was mostly chosen for the vibes (specifically the Bon Iver vibes... ask me about the Bon Iver-ification of Harry Styles...) but I think there is like a restrained anger/sadness going on here that just feels right for the Briars.

3. o come, o come emmanuel cover by the henningsons

Is it hokey to put a Christmas song on here? Perhaps. But the vibes are once again here and it really makes me feel like gathering around a fire in the dead of winter. And it’s a hymn about waiting and I think this particular version is both hopeful and fearful-- without knowing anything about the Starks, I do think that fits the Briars’ story of getting involved with the Knightleys! Like it’s supposed to be a good thing, but there’s an element of uncertainty...

4. nfwmb by hozier

Had to put a Hozier on it. Is it even a vibey atmospheric playlist if there’s no Hozier? This song in particular is very low and moody, it sounds like a murmur, and it’s about being super devoted to someone, wanting to stick with them and protect them but also maybe be hurt by them. I think looking at this from a family POV... two of the Briars are suspects in this which is interesting in a family that seems so close with one another. And some of the lyrics are just so haunting and gorgeous... 

If I was born as a blackthorn tree I'd wanna be felled by you Held by you Fuel the pyre of your enemies

like I’m sorry WHAT?!?!?!

5. white winter hymnal by fleet foxes

Sorry this is also very topical but it’s literally perfect. I wanted some choral-type songs on here, I don’t know if this has anything to do with GOT canon but I just picture like a giant children’s choir in Winterfell singing ominous songs about winter idk if they put me in charge of Game of Thrones I would do that. Anyway this song is about contrasts: stillness and war, red and white, beauty and destruction. “Turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime” are you KIDDING. Literally haunting and so perfect and vibey.

6. the wolves by watchhouse

Also topical! But also fitting! So I think this song is about America actually but I just think wolves as a metaphor are soooo great and I really wanted to include this song. My understanding is that wolves kind of represent this repressed inner anxiety and guilt and frustration with your society that you don’t know how to express. And I don’t know a lot about GOT as we have established but I think that’s really interesting in conversation with the direwolf thing so yeah.

7. north by sleeping at last

So I was kind of conflicted on including this one because it’s so #soft and I just didn’t know if it fit the vibe (even though again... topical... THE NORTH). I think we can talk about the soft side of House Briar, though. This is a family that is very tight-knit and loving, which makes what happened at the wedding all the more heartbreaking and scary. So I wanted a little testament to curling up by the fire with people you love. Before shit hits the fan and all.

8. collar of fur by fionn regan

Gonna be honest I’ve listened to this song so many times that it’s probably been added to my “on repeat” and I still don’t really know what it’s about. But it kind of reminds me of Aurora and it seems to be about performance and beauty in the eyes of others? And “crown of light” is making me think of like angels and stuff. And yeah this one is also kind of just for vibes. 

9. all i want by kodaline

Another song that starts slow and REALLY kicks into gear, with a restrained pain and anger. What I’m saying is that this song has a lot in common with Fine Line! But WOW the bridge really takes it away. And I think it has a theme of loneliness too, which is often associated with winter. I just think this is a song you scream at the rolling frozen landscape what do you think.

10. evermore by taylor swift feat. bon iver

This song is so WINTERY. And it’s about feeling kind of adrift and lost and reaching for someone who helps you feel grounded. I think contrast is a big theme in this playlist so it feels right to end on a duet. And I like that the song isn’t totally resolved by the end but it ends on a hopeful note. And man this is just a gorgeoussss song. 

ok that’s all thankssss <3

[tameila]

March Week Four Albums.

March 21st: Ledges, Noah Gundersen

familiarity: chose because tiktok A+ rec but recognized his voice as I started to listen and realized I knew a song from another album, “David”

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: Boathouse, Isaiah, Ledges

standout lyric: “If blessed are the meek then I'm cursed”

March 22nd: Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes

familiarity: when winter hits, i do not celebrate christmas. i celebrate white winter hymnal season. i did a listen through of this album once many years ago, but it felt like time to give it another chance!

favorite(s) before listen: White Winter Hymnal, Quiet Houses

favorite(s) after listen: White Winter Hymnal, Quiet Houses, Sun It Rises, Your Protector, Blue Ridge Mountains

March 23rd: Details, Frou Frou

familiarity: an integral part of my late middle school to early high school personality. recommended by an anon!

favorite(s) before listen: Let Go, It’s Good To Be in Love, Psychobabble, Must Be Dreaming

favorite(s) after listen: Let Go, It’s Good To Be in Love, Psychobabble, Must Be Dreaming, Only Got One, Shh, The Dumbing Down of Love

standout lyric: “Music is worthless unless it can / Make a complete stranger / Break down and cry”

March 24th: Just As I Am, Bill Withers

familiarity: I wouldn’t have recognized him by name but I recognized “ain’t no sunshine”. recommended by @jabletown​!

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: Ain’t No Sunshine, Harlem, Do It Good, and I’m Her Daddy (if only because it felt all too relevant to my current TSAR undertaking lmao)

standout lyric: “Don't worry about it / Just do what you do / And do it good”

March 25th: A Badly Broken Code, Dessa

familiarity: recommended by @catalists​!

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: Children’s Work**, The Crow, Alibi

standout lyric: “But I won't pretend I don't remember / How unusual we were / The little mystic and his handler / All some children do is work”

March 26th: Celtic Woman, Celtic Woman

familiarity: I had a friend in middle school/high school who loved Celtic Woman, so I have been vaguely familiar with their music for some years

favorite(s) before listen: Siúil a Rún

favorite(s) after listen: Siúil a Rún, Orinoco Flow, The Butterfly, The Soft Goodbye, The Ashoken Farewell/The Contradiction

March 27th: Page Avenue, Story of the Year

familiarity: Classic middle school years. I was at my sister’s when “Anthem of Our Dying Day” came on her shuffle, and I knew I just had to do this album as soon as possible

favorite(s) before listen: Sidewalks**, Until the Day I Die, Anthem of Our Dying Day, Razorblades, Burning Years

favorite(s) after listen: Sidewalks**, Until the Day I Die, Anthem of Our Dying Day, Razorblades, Burning Years, Swallow the Knife, Divide and Conquer, Falling Down

standout lyric: gotta give it to “sidewalks / running away from the streets we knew” because it was the title and subtitle of my tumblr when i first joined back in high school..still slaps...[nods tearfully] still slaps tho