#Song of the Hopeless Ones

[iwouldhaveadoredyouinfinitely]

"She's puking blood! She has a fever, she can barely stay awake, she has bruises all over her body, hyung nim, she's 8! Please! Please, I'm begging you! Don't let anything happen to her! Take her to the hospital, please! Please, I'm begging you, don't let my baby...!" That was when Han Seo heard it, amidst his crying, his torn soul, Ae Ra's moans and her heavy breathing. Like the sound of a bell, deep and heartbreaking. Han Seok's voice suddenly echoed, cold, profound and dark, his fiery eyes burning his skin and heart. Saying the words that would seal his fate and that of his pup. "Fine. Okay, fine! I'll take her to the clinic!" And he began to burn to ashes. "But you're staying!" On Sunday, April 30, 2023, eleven days after turning eight years old, and after being born and living her entire life in captivity, Ae Ra would be the first to leave the basement.

Song of The Hopeless Ones, chapter 23.

[xuxudio]

Please, won't you tear me open wide?

[koifsssh]

oh! he's a hopeless romantic i don't know what to tell you!

he is so! bah! he will play you love songs on the piano regardless if you know of them, and sing such! oh! i cant with him!

he daydreams, he writes poems, oh he draws little hearts over his "i"s instead of dots...

[tiktaaliker]

also can i just say. mannnn the choice to have and until the quiet takes us dream of gentler stars as the final track in the expansion album is already giving me so many thoughts and emotions.

Just like. Comparing it to the last track of Discipline being Everyone That's Left. That song is about how things have been shit and it might continue to be shit but we made it though and we'll keep making it through.

And then with and until the quiet comes dream of gentler stars its about almost the exact opposite. Things were shit, and its done now, but there's nothing left, so the only thing we can do is face the end. The best way i can describe it is a catharsis in hopelessness. Its just.... man. Its such a good choice as the last track.

[mischiefbuckley]

go listen to golden by harry styles and tell me that buck wouldn’t be dedicating that song to eddie

[volivolition]

HI SO WE HAVE. ADDED MORE MUSIC TO THE PLAYLIST BUT WE THINK ONE SONG IN PARTICULAR IS NEAT IF YOU HAVE THE TIME TO GIVE US YOUR THOUGHTS ON IT: HARPY HARE BY YAELOKRE!

LULLABY FOUND THIS ONE LAST NIGHT AND SHE'S HAD IT ON REPEAT FOR HOURS NOW. IT'S VERY... ADDICTIVE? IT HAS A TON OF REPETITIVE LYRICS IN IT WHICH ALWAYS MAKES OUR BRAIN HAPPY. I THINK YOU'LL LIKE IT! THIS MUSICIAN'S SITTING IN THE SAME AREA OF OUR BRAIN AS SAY, HOZIER, THOUGH THEIR MUSIC ISN'T TOO TOO SIMILAR. THEY'VE BOTH GOT FOLKSY VIBES TO EM THOUGH!

THAT'S ALL! HOPE YOU LIKE THE SONG, THE OTHER FEW SONGS YAELOKRE'S PUT OUT ARE ALSO GOOD BUT THIS ONE IN PARTICULAR IS VERY. SOMETHIN' ELSE!

-BILL

!! HELLO BILL!! <33 <22 omg yayaya ive been listening to the ones y'all have added over the past few weeks, but the last three not yet!! :D ooh i LOVE folksy, it's one of my top genres (even though i never can figure out genres hgkj)

Harpy Hare! HOLY SHIT THIS IS A REALLY GOOD SONG HKGJ, i love the echoing choir (the "haah haah ha-a-ah") while the guitar strums in. the children singing it, it's so haunting (have you seen the illustrations on youtube, i LOVE the vibes as a hand-clapping game with implications behind the lyrics) <33 youre so right i love the repetition, they hit on such good notes in this, this is lovely :3 the melody dying off briefly while they angrily sing the final "TELL ME SO I SAY!" OOOH the drama and melancholy are stellar <333

ooh!!! i absolutely understand where the reasoning comes from <33 this song feels like hozier's discography had a child who got stolen by the fae and turned into a changeling hgkjg. there's a more storyteller feel to it, more mythical. hozier tends to keep a foot in the realistic side, even while poetic. this song wraps it in metaphor and implication, like it's pretending its oblivious to the ominous vibe. a shot of straight whiskey VS cream and sugar in a cup of hemlock tea.

wow does that make sense? probably not i havent slept hjgjkjg ANYWAY!! incredibly good song, i agree!! i'll have to listen to the rest of their songs when i can, i love the folklore vibes :3

[some-pers0n]

Godd I forget how great The Stereosexuals are. I love misogyny rock <33

[piperslovebot]

She lyin' to me and I'm lyin' to her

Fuck it, guess we both ain't shit

Niknate - B.A.S (Megan Thee Stallion & Kyle Richh)

-> insp.

[the-rogue-mockingjay]

h...hands.....

it's about the empathy, the compassion, the love, the gentleness...reaching out to say "you're not alone; I am here with you, and I understand your plight, because I've walked this road myself and I am living proof that there is always hope"

You are not the only one for whom the flowers weep.

[eric-the-bmo]

"Need a light?"

(very huge thanks to @sm0kebreaks for this commission of my vampire and his sire! I'm going to go insane in the tags now, i adore this with every fibre of my being [also: vers with no piercings under the readmore, bc I love that one too])

[iwouldhaveadoredyouinfinitely]

Cha Young frowned and wanted to argue, but Vincenzo thought it was pointless when the answers were there and real. Nurse Kim wasn't lying. "Seo Han Seo no longer exists in this world. He is gone. He is in heaven with his pup and his mother, and what remains of him here now is nothing but a dream. So, please, don’t awaken the one who is dreaming." There was one phrase in particular—the final one—that would linger with Vincenzo throughout the drive home. As they passed through the tall, leafy trees and left the walls and gates of the Center behind, the words would echo in the car, drifting along the road like tires and pebbles scattering in their wake: "In that way, one must imagine Seo Han Seo happy." Because that was what Vincenzo was trying to do now.

Song of The Hopeless Ones, chapter 31 (Ending).

[onceuponaneverafter]

so i might have sat down to play the piano and improvised a couple of songs from evangeline’s perspective and guys,,, you all know what we need? an OUABH musical.

the way i would write this if there was any way it could be a real thing 😩💗

[reginamillls]

I was definitely a Badlands girly, I had every song memorized and when I got spotify it was the first album I downloaded

the iconic cover art lives rent free in my brain

[r0ttingsystem]

YOURE POUTING IN UR SLEEP

IM WAKING STILL YAWNING

WERE PROVING TO EACH OTHER THAT ROMANCE IS BORING

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!