#bardic music

[kreeative-error]

Arboretum - Sparkbird || Analysis???

this has nothing to do with the yap session i just put directly into their askbox /j im so sorry sparkbird lmfaooo

anyways take this with a grain of salt i CLEARLY did not write this masterpiece im just thinking abt it now but this is my (weirdly swearing heavy) interpretation:

ARBORETUM - Sparkbird

Toeing a trench

In the mulch between

Your patch and mine - Trying to dance between not triggering either of us, and take care of us both.

I stubbed myself on a treacherous thistle

And I cried out - Wow look at that we inevitably got hurt.

If it were merely

A matter of a stray thorny bristle

A barrier screen could be laid

And I wouldn't miss you - IF IT WAS AS SIMPLE AS “YOU JUST HURT ME” EVERYTHING WOULD BE FINE AND I COULD HATE YOU BUT ITS NOT THAT SIMPLE AND I CANT

We could go the distance

Were there more disease resistance

On your part - We could have been okay, if you didnt get mad at me for my mistakes when i was trying

Nothing lasts forever

When you never

Let it start - it was never going to work because YOU NEVER FUCKING TRUSTED ME TO TRY

Every day I pass this way

I expect to find you

Waiting for me

Beneath the branches

Of the buckeye tree - I keep expecting everything to be fine, and its not fine, nothings fine.

Waving a palmetto frond

Siphoning orange juice

With a barber pole-ish wand - so palmetto fronds symbolise peace, and so im expecting peace, and its just not fucking there

Red horsechestnut?

Clever disguise - red horse chestnuts cant be eaten- but they look like chestnuts. Theyre literally a disguise, you think theyre something else and theyres just not.

I, of course, guessed, but

Said you'd never naturalize - i had a feeling things were off, but you’d never adjust

Species zag as seasons zig

Tough to keep plants in one place

Any chance they get, they diaspore

Or else transmutate - you wont adjust, it wasnt working, no matter what, you change or leave, you couldnt be yourself.

Traipsing looping garden paths

Chasing floodplain Tupelo - tupelo have poisonous berries, so basically, no matter what, we were chasing something toxic.

Tracing roots to Ponderosa - also a toxic plant

Tangling with a Strangler fig - strangler fig seems self explanatory, losing your past self in this mess (also CRANE WIVES REFERENCEE?!!!/J)

Now in an old growth Bald-cypress stand - basically a stand is a funky word for “group of trees that are similar” so i’d guess the last few trees are all in the bald-cypress stands.

Knees locked in the strand swamp - bald-cypress stands flood, sooooo….being trapped.

Black- and yellow-crowned Night Herons

Abound in colonies

Conferring on me collective memory - cant find much on this, but the vibe is “the birds remember and i fucking dont”

My eyelids flutter

Orbits fill with water

Hemlock in my hammock - also hemlock poisonous i think (thanks wof) so geez 

Limbs thrash, I spit and sputter - basically the hammock was the safe space and now theres MORE POISONOUS PLANTS THERE AND BESTIE FELL OUT

Alligator drags me under

Into the solution hole - The worst possible way to sort this, the fucking aligator, aka the pain and agony, somehow was the solution

To protect me from

Elements of fantasy

That thrive in shady reality - The delusions of everything being okay and good hiding in the toxicity of the situation

To offer respite from

The demands of gardening - taking me away from the situation, and how it was so taxing and painful on me.

To show me

Trees are just the fruit

Of an even bigger tree  - time will pass, things will heal, youll get there.

[buffbardington]

My Gideon the Ninth fansong:

"The Locked Tune"

Also available to stream on Spotify if you feel so inclined!

This is a totally normal way of coping with the Alectopause right?

[tangents-within-tangents]

Thinking about the song "Ship in Port" by Radical Face and clones

Thinking about the line "Farewell to the chains we were born into" and what that can mean for the clones

Thinking about how "But I have always stayed in place/Under that old illusion that it's safe" could equally describe Hunter, Echo, and (s1+2) Crosshair's complete opposite approaches to the Empire and post-war life.

The way Crosshair clings to his identity as a soldier of the Empire

And Echo as a soldier of the Republic

But Hunter puts his identity as a soldier behind him

Crosshair fights for the Empire to gain purpose

Echo fights against the Empire to save his brothers

And Hunter decides the Empire is too strong to even try to oppose

"A ship in port is a safer one"

"but it's not the reason it was made"

"So forgive me if I wander off"

"And forgive me more if I just stay"

Thinking about what The Bad Batch could have been if it had more fully explored the differences between those ideologies

(Thinking about what The Bad Batch could have been if it had dedicated more screen time to the 'reg' clones within the Empire and the underground network's fight to free them , instead of just sidelining Echo and Rex for a hypothetical clone rebellion show we might never get)

[dark-twist-fairytales]

"The Devil Went Down to Georgia" except it's Caprice singing it as "The Devil Went Down to Yona" while playing the fiddle.

[prcttyinpcnk]

Okay. So! Cool idea I just had!

I figured that since Phiona is a tarot maiden, I figured that maybe her wand has different forms that represent the minor arcana! The sword is self-explanatory, Cups is a whip, the Wand is a scythe (The wand represents earth, and scythes are used for harvesting, and The Pentacle is either a dagger or a broomstick (still deciding.)

[bardic-inspo]

URL Music Game

Tagged by the lovely @astarionancuntnin 💜

Tagging forward @thewickedkat, @electricshoebox, @persephotea, @mj-bites, @thegalaxysedge22, and @fablewritesnonsense if you feel like doing this! No worries if not!💜

(Idk what the actual rules are but it seems like just pick a song for each letter of your URL? We'll go with that! I just typed in the letter to my liked songs on Spotify and scrolled until I found one I liked that started with it.)

(Spotify only allows for 10 song links per post, so I just put a YT link for the last one)

B: Bleed American - Jimmy Eat World

A: Another Place - Bastille

R: Raphael's Final Act - Borislav Slavov

D: Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes - Fall Out Boy

I: I Caught Fire - The Used

C: Champagne Shit - Janelle Monáe

I: I'm Coming - Tove Lo

N: Nola 1 - PVRIS

S: Stripped - Depeche Mode

P: Perfect Symmetry - Keane

O: Once Upon a December - Christy Altomare

[bardicbird]

am i perhaps writing a very first-drafty script for a musical version of pathologic. where the ‘route’ for each performance is chosen by the audience in a meta scene led by an executor? am i having fun adding onto existing dialogue? yes.

[tenshiharmonia]

I just came across this song, and oh my goodness, this is so adorable and catchy ! :3

[bardic-tales]

Hey happy WBW! I'm invading your inbox with a music ask! Is there a particular artist or genre or even song that gets you really in the zone for writing/your world/your story?

Happy WBW! Thank you so much for the ask and I hope your day is going well.

The type of music that really gets me in the zone for writing differs from WIP to WIP and the genre that I am currently writing for. For example, for Fantasy Worlds Collide, I typically listen to a remix of Linkin Park, Eminem, and Falling in Reverse. This is the theme of Fantasy Worlds Collide. This is my protagonist's theme song.

For general writing, I have a playlist devoted to writing on spotify. It has a mix of 80s, 90s, and modern music. It's about 15 hours long.

[i-love-your-light]

Hark, adventurer!

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I am a full-time freelance singer/songwriter and producer, and one of my favorite types of commissions to work on is custom songs for people's D&D games and characters!! I have made bard songs about backstories, world-building songs to be used in-game, theme songs for actual play podcasts- the possibilities extend all throughout the realms!

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You can also find a short youtube video of sample songs here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12WirA1VOAI

When you message me on fiverr or through email, mention that you saw this post on tumblr and I will set you up with a 10% discount code for your first order! I hope to create some bardic inspiration for you soon :)

[thesixthstar]

Fellas is it weird to tell yr housemate he has the voice of a goddamned angel?

[ofluckandmagic]

Alixandre Dumont Headcanons

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He was born in Baldur’s Gate’s Lower City, and studied through the College of Lore. He never knew his biological parents.

Wanting to prove to himself that he wasn’t a ‘holed up’ scholar, he opted to explore the Entertainer background, and frequented parties in both the Upper City and Outer City with performances.

His father is a Guild Artisan, who primarily fashioned weaponry, but often sold to dealers in the Underground for a profit.

He’s fascinated by magic and mythology, but also had a habit of going against his Adoptive parent’s wishes. They had both hoped he would be an Artisan like them.

Alix is transmasc. He is mostly a guy, but also is not a guy. He uses He/Him and They/Them pronouns, but tends to prefer the former.

His Father wasn’t entirely thrilled about this revelation, despite wanting a son to begin with, and cut Alix out of the family when he went to college and discovered this about himself.

The Tadpole incident, and subsequent adventure was the first time Alix felt like he did not have to put on a performance about who he was, due to finally finding people who saw him as an equal in all ways.

He is Bisexual, Polyam and most certainly some flavor of Acespec. His preferences lean more masculine, but he also equally has found himself attracted to most people.

Alix is autistic and has severe anxiety. He manages the latter with a combination of his music and different herbs.

Despite his severe social anxiety, Alix is fantastic at using his bardic skills to perform songs or poems, showcasing a much more confident version of himself around his companions.

Charismatic but a smidge awkward when attempting to flirt, often blurting out his intentions without thinking only to overthink those interactions later.

Note: the next few headcanons deal primarily with the Startouched God AU

Alix was gifted godhood by being the son of a Tiefling and the star God, Celestian often referred to as the Star Wanderer, a title Alix upholds to this day.

He has tattoos all over his shoulders and back that are blotches of various purples, pinks and blues, which all actively display whatever constellations are in the night sky in all the realms depending on the season.

He spent his summers in the emerald environs, studying the tombs and scrolls there. In turn living among the refugees after his adoptive family disowned him.

The day he was taken by the Nautiloid, he was planning to leave to scout ahead for the refugees to have safe passage to leave the Emerald Grove.

Alix’s magic was partially sealed away and weakened by both the Tadpole as well as what he believes is Celestian abandoning him for a second time.

It is unclear whether this is the truth, or something Alix tells himself to deal with his trauma. Though, he does seem to have less of a grasp on his magic after the Tadpole.

Some minor deity-influenced powers include:

Foresight for weather based on star alignments and wind patterns (astronomy stuff)

The ability to draw magic from the stars themselves.

Minor medicinal/healing magic, often attributed to his bard skills

Mild wildshape-ing. He can take the form of a dark purple, black, and silver antlered stag after a like an attempt to become a Ceryneian Deer. It looks as though this its fur is made of constellations.

He can create small balls of light that resemble stars, which acts as using the ‘Light’ spell without a spell slot.

[tangents-within-tangents]

Arcadian Wild just being the epitome of comfort lyrics

Lara, don't you let 'em get your head down … Oh, Lara dear No matter what they say, may you hear The daybreak's near

Lara, keep an eye on the horizon Don't worry bout the rain, the sun is rising -Lara

From day one you pushed me forward Never once stopped to take a breath When I look for you, you're standing in my corner Holding up the world -Corner

When the darkness makes me feel like I'm far away from you You gently remind me that this never was nor will be true -Shoulders

Whether or not there'll be warmer weather, There's just enough sun to see, you're the light over me … Be the ground underneath my feet I'll walk with no need to worry … Be in the wind I hear whispering I'll carry you when your weary -Willow

Wake up and break yourself out of here Don't be one of the cold souls who disappears Stop believing and telling the lie Why don't you look your life in the eye? -Dopamine

Listen to my voice Close your frightened eyes Hide behind my love for you ‘Cause fear’s only a choice, one that we all must make someday So know you’re not alone in this -Rain Clouds (my personal favorite)

[thatophite]

It finally dropped *-*

[knight-of-ashes]

my friend Faraulf threw this bardcore filk of Old Town Road together in about an hour last week for a bardic competition over the weekend and I think y'all need to listen to it

[bardic-inspo]

when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers or moots (positivity is cool) 💖

Great minds think alike! Thank you so much for thinking of me, friends! @honeybee-bard, @pinkberrytea, @astarionancuntnin 💜

A Bar Song (Tipsy) by Shaboozey

2. Now I'm In It - HAIM

3. Deep in the Woods - Hayley Kiyoko

4. Nola 1 - PVRIS

5. THE BADDEST - K/DA