#damien verve

[ofviolentdeath]

@lungsandlips liked for a random starter and got Verv

"You're certainly a new face. Am I in the wrong place or are you some shiny new friend no one gave me the heads up?"

[elliespuns]

what’s ur music taste like?

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are there any songs that remind you of joel and ellie??

I love music in general (who doesn't?), but I'm not a big fan of today's music. There are only a few pieces here and there that are not rubbing me in the wrong way, and it happens very rarely for me to hear a modern song and like it. I avoid the new music scene on purpose because it seems soulless to me.

What I love is the indie music scene. Some of you are probably familiar with this genre, but for those who are not; these are mostly songs from independent artists who are not commercial or famous. They mostly write and make their own music too, which is something I highly appreciate in the music industry. Whenever I find out the new musicians I just discovered make their own music without trying to sell their soul, it immediately makes me like them even more. From the indie scene, I love Damien Rice the most, I'd say. He's my all-time favorite musician, and he's such a lovely, good man. He wrote all his songs, and he makes his own music too. 

Other indie musicians I like are, for example, Yaeow, Mehro, Hayd, The Hope Arsenal, Low Roar, and Night Traveler… these are mostly melancholic songs with deep lyrics. Those who might ring a bell as being a little bit more known are probably Joshua Radin, The Paper Kites, and Angus & Julia Stone.

Another genre I like is shoegaze. I BREATE for this, it always brings me so fucking high. Cigarettes After Sex and Mazzy Star are the greatest examples.

Aside from my 'unusual' taste in music, I'm a sucker for good old classics. 70s, 80s, and 90s music is something I can listen to and never get tired of. My favorite would probably be R.E.M., The Smiths, The Verve, BoDeans, Blur, The Cure, and many others I can't think of right now!

I'm gonna post my Joellie songs in a separate post later. There are a few and I want to pay my full attention to it... 🥰

[slutburn]

siantmiller: POOR DEAR PAMELA played by Carey Mulligan in Emerald Fennell's @saltburnfilm

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Hair and Make-Up Design

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Supporting Pamela's vaguely masked misfortune, uncomfortably dressed from breakfast through to bedtime, my start point was the hair.

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It had to be red! Bold, out-there, a statement. Long enough, but not so as to compete with her clothes, soft but structured, kooky and eye catching. And it needed to work in the 'red' room when we first see Pamela in Saltburn.

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Karen Elson sprang to mind, with a pinch of Kate Bush and Florence Welch. Via Zoom, I met Carey during her filming commitments to Maestro, and discussed my mood board looks, Due to availability, our 1st and final fitting would be the day before filming.

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Carey's fabulous wig maker Jessica Lalande, sent me some colour samples to try out in the sets and against the costumes from Costume Designer, Sophie Canale. Once chosen, the wig was made, uncut, with plenty of length to work with.

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The make-up look was partly inspired by a Chanel campaign from 2007, our story setting. Further to this; looks with similar tones, which defined the eyes plus a hint of the 30's. Adding a wine coloured lip stain and super dark wine nails, which were pre-prepped and stuck on. I wanted Carey's brows to be well defined below her mid-forehead fringe, and with a touch of over extension. The roundedness of the eye makeup lending itself to her wide eyed, naive, doll like and slightly sorrowful demeanour.

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The tattoo designs have a deliberately hand-drawn quality, done by me using a Blackwing Matte pencil on cartridge paper, developed for in-house printing with ProCreate.

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These were inspired by many things including, Amy Winehouse, Russian mob ring tattoos, and nightmares of losing her teeth - which I took from Pamela's historical drug dependency. The Damien Hurst Pharmacy-era capsule tattoo, stems from a back story Carey and I devised, which references a past relationship Pamela had with a rock star from The Verve 'R•ash'. The 'Lucky' horseshoe is my nod to @luckychap

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Brilliant application by

@andrewsimonin wig & cut ❤️@sarakramer_makeup ❤️

[cto10121]

you are the only active european musicals blog i know, so... do you maybe know why did delete on prie from later productions of romeo et juliette,, because it's one of my favorite songs and i'm sad abt it now

They deleted On Prie???? Last I checked, the Revival cast had it with Sans Elle, and the Italian version has it. Are you talking about this recent version with Damien and Cecilia in the roles?

Regardless, On Prie is definitely one of the better Revival songs. I like the lyrics, even if the idea is a Duo du Desespoir retread, and it has drive and verve. It’s tied evenly with Sans Elle in my opinion—perhaps having both dragged down the show’s pacing too much? I would just personally have it right after Avoir Une Fille and before Le Poison. If I find out they deleted that over Tybalt or the new Tu Dois Te Marier, I’ll go postal.

[manitat]

MOJO’s Top 100 Epic Rock Tracks:

01 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody

02 Led Zeppelin – Stairway To Heaven

03 The Rolling Stones – Sympathy For The Devil

04 Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond

05 The Doors – The End

06 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights

07 The Beatles – A Day In The Life

08 Elvis Presley – An American Trilogy

09 Meat Loaf – Bat Out Of Hell

10 Richard Harris – MacArthur Park

11 The Beach Boys – Heroes And Villains

12 Don McClean – American Pie

13 Ike & Tina Turner – River Deep, Mountain High

14 Derek & The Dominos – Layla

15 Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath

16 David Bowie – Space Oddity

17 U2 – Bullet The Blue Sky

18 ELP – Fanfare For The Common Man

19 John Leyton – Johnny Remember Me

20 Kraftwerk – Autobahn

21 Procul Harum – A Whiter Shade Of Pale

22 Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells

23 King Crimson – The Court Of The Crimson King

24 Radiohead – Paranoid Android

25 Bruce Springsteen – Jungleland

26 The Shangri-Las – Past, Present And Future

27 The Walker Bros. – The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore

28 Yes – The Gates Of Delirium

29 Jethro Tull – Thick As A Brick

30 Prince – Purple Rain

31 Wings – Live And Let Die

32 Lynyrd Skynyrd – Freebird

33 Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life

34 The Velvet Underground – Sister Ray

35 Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Welcome To The P...

36 Can – Mother Sky

37 Oasis – Champagne Supernova

38 Thin Lizzy – Roisin Dubh (Black Rose) Rock Legend

39 The Darkness – Christmas Time

40 Joy Division – Decades

41 Rush – Xanadu

42 Genesis – Supper’s Ready

43 The Who – Baba O’Reilly

44 Eric Carmen – All By Myself

45 Klaatu – Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft

46 Deep Purple – Child In Time

47 Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead

48 Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballe – Barcelona

49 Alice Cooper – Halo Of Files

50 Blue Oyster Cult – Don’t Fear The Reaper

51 Guns & Roses – November Rain

52 The Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony

53 Lou Reed – Street Hassle

54 Ultravox – Vienna

55 The Nice – The Cry Of Eugene

56 Pulp – Common People

57 The Electric Prunes – Holy Are You

58 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Carny

59 Primal Scream – Higher Than The Sun

60 Scott Walker – Such A Small Love

61 Mountain – Nantucket Sleighride

62 Fairport Convention – Tam Lin

63 The Eagles – Journey Of The Sorcerer

64 Gordon Lightfoot – The Wreck Of Edmund Fitzgerald

65 Rainbow – Stargazer

66 Leonard Cohen – Memories

67 The LA’s – The Looking Glass

68 Supertramp – Fool’s Overture

69 The Monkees – Randy Scouse Git

70 Sonic Youth – Tunic (Song For Karen)

71 The Stone Roses – Breaking Into Heaven

72 Roy Harper – The Lord’s Prayer

74 McAlmont & Butler – Yes

75 The Grateful Dead – Dark Star

76 Klaus Schulze – Friedrich Nietzsche

77 David McWilliams – The Days Of Pearly Spencer

78 Julian Cope – Safesurfer

79 Buffalo Springfield – Broken Arrow

80 Iron Butterfly – In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

81 Alex Harvey – Isobel Goudie

82 Flowered Up – Weekender

83 David Gates – Suite: Clouds, Rain

84 Fleetwood Mac – The Chain

85 The Bevis Frond – Tangerine Infringement Break

86 Spiritualized – Don’t Just Do Something

87 ELO – Eldorado Overture

88 Spock’s Beard – The Healing Colors Of Sound

89 Iron Maiden – Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

90 Patti Smith – Land

91 Kiss – Odyssey

92 Aphrodite’s Child – The Four Horsemen

93 Metallica – One

94 Dexy’s Midnight Runners – This Is What She’s Like

95 John Miles – Music

96 British Sea Power – Lately

97 Bob Dylan – Hurricane

98 Billy Joel – Scenes From An Italian Restaurant

99 Diamond Head – Am I Evil

100 Damien Rice – Eskimo

[riverdamien]

Damien of Molokai

"Sloughing Towards Galilee!

May 10, 2024

The Feast of Damien of Molokai

".. .But I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.  ."John 16:20-33!

The saint we celebrate on May 10, Damien de Veuster, had the same verve. An internet search yields two telling photos of Damien. In one, he is a young, broad-shouldered, farm-boy-turned-missionary. In the other, he is older and portly. Beneath a wide-brimmed hat, his face is swollen and disfigured by the leprosy that would go on to take his life. That strapping young man left his native Belgium and spent his life among the lepers of Hawaii. He lived and died, fearless.

Damien had already been several years in Hawaii, when the authorities, in an effort to contain the spread of the contagion, began to ship the lepers to the remote peninsula of Molokai. Each leper was ripped from his or her family and community. Each man, woman, and child suffered some stage of the disfiguring and debilitating illness with no hope of cure. In the remote and inaccessible Molokai, with only the bare necessities of life, the lepers’ sorrow soon gave way to despair. Refuse piled up. Dead bodies lay unburied. Drunkenness and debauchery were rife.

When the Hawaiian bishop asked his priests for a volunteer to live among these abandoned souls, Damian came forward first. On May 10, 1873, he landed on Molokai to serve the 800 residents. He began by addressing their basic needs –the essentials. He bandaged wounds. He buried the dead. He flexed his farm boy muscles in a thousand tasks: rebuilding huts, planting trees, digging gardens, building a system to carry water. He taught them songs and organized a school.

Early on, Damian chose to ignore all the words of caution about proper hygiene. He washed the bodies of the lepers, dipped his food in the same dish with them, placed communion on their tongues. Long before he contracted leprosy himself, he began his homilies with the words, “We lepers…”—such was his willingness to identify with those he served.

But Damien was keenly aware that no sheer force of will could keep a man among such misery. No human being can persevere in the face of wretchedness on principle alone. What anchored Damien’s existence was a living reality: Christ present here and now.

Damien found in the Eucharist his source and center. He built an adoration chapel and spent hours himself before the Blessed Sacrament. “Without the continuous presence of our Divine Master in my poor chapel,” he wrote, “I would not have been able to persevere in my resolve to share the lepers’ fate.”

He taught the lepers to pray with him before the Blessed Sacrament, to offer their sufferings in union with his Sacred Heart. And thus their deaths, united to that of Christ, began to speak of the Resurrection. “The cemetery and huts of the dying,” he confessed, “are my most beautiful books of meditation.” And so, in the end, when Damien discovered in his own flesh the telltale signs of the disease, he could rejoice: “There is no longer any doubt about it—I am a leper. Praised be the Good Lord!” Death came three years later. Though ravaged by the disease, Damien was at peace and died with a smile on his face.

Damien is my religious name, given me by the Order of Christian Workers, the first of the century, a name given because I work with the “lepers of our society,” and one which with use in California has become one my of legal middle names. I own it proudly!

Suffering is the crucible in which one’s trust in God is tested, and intensified. Fidelity under the presence of suffering is what keeps us in God.

 Jesus described this experienced in the Gospel today, it happens again and again, symbolized by the woman in labor.

In two days I will remember a rainy night on May 12, many years ago,  driving down a rural road from my church, the tires slipped, and the car landed in a ditch, crushing my young brother’s chest, killing him instantly, launching me into the worse suffering of my life; some years later when I suggested to my District Superintendent, I was questioning my sexuality, and he removed me from my parish within a day, and all of my clergy friends, several hundred, turned their backs on me in those moments, my suffering was intense, and in the grindstone of suffering my life has been shaped.

Many years later as I sat in one of the restaurants where “Toast” now is, a seminarian, an older woman, said in much fear, “You need to get off these streets now or you will be labeled as one of THEM.”

Damien was labeled one of “them”, he was accused of sleeping with the women (that is how he caught leprosy—never mind he bathed, bandaged, and held them in death), stealing money, and not truly believing in God; and finally he suffered immeasurably from the disease.

I find myself agitated with individuals who believe they understand what being “gay” or “homeless” is like, for only in experiencing that suffering can one understand, you�� can never go home and take off your clothes and forget about it, for you always remain “gay” or “homeless” when you experience both of them. I fight all the time not to over eat because there were days on the street I did not have food, and have a closet full of clothes because there were months and I mean months  I had only those I was wearing, take two showers a day, for there were times I had every two weeks,  the wounds remain.

The streets are my home, and I am considered as my homeless friends are considered a leper by many.

 Yet, like Damien, what I have found, is:

“Home,” says Glinda the Good, “is a place we all must find, child. It’s not just a place where you eat or sleep. Home is knowing. Knowing your mind, knowing your heart, knowing your courage. If we know ourselves, we’re always home, anywhere.” [3]   Deo Gratis! Thanks be to God!

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Fr. River Damien Sims, sfw, D.Min., D.S.T.

Post Office Box 642656

San Francisco, CA 94164

www.temenos.org

paypal.com

415-305-2124

Fr. River Sims, D.Min., D.S.T.

Director

Prayer of St. Brendan!

"Help me to journey beyond the familiar

and into the unknown.

Give me the faith to leave old ways and break fresh ground with You. Christ of the mysteries I trust in You to be stronger than each storm within me.

I will trust in the darkness and know that my times, even now, are in Your hands.

Tune my spirit to the music of heaven,

and somehow, make my obedience count for You"

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(Temenos and Fr. River seek to remain accessible to everyone. We do not endorse particular causes, political parties, or candidates, or take part in public controversies, whether religious, political or social--Our pastoral ministry is to everyone!

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[stinging-metal]

I got tagged by @toffeeandtatertots to list 5 songs that I like so tadaa!

I Dropped Out - And The Kids

2. Exciseise of mouth - Doddodo

3. Requiem - STOMACHBOOK

4. Cat Man Vampire - Damien Hearse

5. Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve

I'll tag @lyric-abaddon @artblockedgremlin @atlasrayz @motherarts @satanic-witchcraft @ch3rie-pop @rockstar-ruby @ab-art-07 @imactuallysoup @3amclothesmonster @allister-1903929 @sincerecinnamon /nf!! And anyone else who wants to join :33

Tagged by @bambiraptorx to list five songs I like to listen to?

Gonna add a spin with these five, because not only do I like to listen to them but if you play them at a party I will sing along to them without question. (not a complete list, but hey)

Jaws by Lemon Demon

Sugar Boats by Modest Mouse

Neon Medusa by The Midnight

Dichotomy by Harmony Butler aka @peacelovetrombones <3

Becky Apples from Centaurworld

@emangel2718 @thelamebat @theultimateultimateweapon and @ninjastar107 if y'all wanna add some music feel free

[lonerpunk]

Hiro and Damien <3

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Hiro Oda is @smilepal oc

Damien Verve is @cayennenpopsicles oc

Glove and neck cyberware conversions by dazwrap

Render and model conversions by Lonerpunk

[wanderingaldecaldo]

Pride Tees [gender inclusive]

A collection of Pride Tees for your V to show off their pride this month (and every month)!

What's Included:

12 different Pride decals

7 recolors with stitching removed (black, white, gray, red, blue, pink, purple)

Cropped tee (with sleeves)

Muscle tee (no sleeves)

readme with usage instructions and item code

>>>>>>>>>DOWNLOAD HERE<<<<<<<<<

Important Notes:

Use one color and one decal at a time. You can use different mesh mods for each gender, but use only one per gender at a time!

This mod affects any casual tee, so you can get cropped/muscle tees on the originals, however the original decals will show in full size on the Witcher and one of the Samurai shirts so use at your own risk. I will release a set of the regular tees later and address it then.

Since this mod affects any casual tee, anything replacing or changing the same mesh will conflict. You can solve this by changing the load order and prefacing the mesh mod with `00_` to ensure it loads earlier.

Much thanks to @gloryride, @cayennenpopsicles, @arcandoria, @shippinin, @itsstillnunyabizu, @breezypunk, @miss--river, @rosslincyberpunk77 and @dustymagpie for testing and photos!!

All my love to @86maylin for teaching me another new thing! I wish we could connect our brains by osmosis. 😘

Have ideas for other slogans or decals?

I would love to release another set. Find me on Lizzie's or AMM discord servers or hit up my ask box here!

[glowcrizzle]

Today is the 1 year AO3 anniversary of Slow Show by @mia-ugly. I am beyond grateful that this experience (and it is an experience) has existed in my life for a year and felt it needed commemorating. 🎂  

I’m not a creator but I made this playlist for me, so I could take the fic with me, have it with my eyes closed, while driving -- you get it. Today seems like an appropriate day to share it. 

It’s a. It’s a lot. Excessive you might even say. Tumblr will only give you the first 100 songs in this, so, Spotify will fulfill you (or overwhelm you). If you hit my username on the playlist, there are separate playlists for each chapter. 

This is also on Apple Music, if that’s your jam, just hit me up and I’ll send you the link. 

🎉 Happy Slow Show Day!! 🎉 

13 pages of track-lists and excerpts below the cut. Godspeed! 💙

Key:

Songs from Mia’s soundtrack

Songs from the Fic

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--Title--

Slow Show – The National 

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--Prequel--

Loverman – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 

Devils – Say Hi 

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--Chapter 1--

Here I Go Again – Whitesnake 

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bad guy – Billie Eilish 

-trash a set and shag your husband

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Something About You (ODESZA Remix) – Hayden James 

-what it would take for Avery Fell to let his guard down

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A Little Wicked – Valerie Broussard 

-The handkerchief in his hand is now stained purple

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You Light Me Up In the Dark – The Hounds Below

-His hair catches the light like a halo, making him look more of an angel than ever.

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Lazarus – David Bowie 

-This could be a problem

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--Chapter 2--

Unsteady – X Ambassadors

-much easier than talking about the way his heartbeat is still racing

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Heart of a Dog – The Kills

-Call me darling again.

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The Twilight Hour - Still Corners

-Looked across the set and thought, Ah fuck me. I’m in love with him.

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God’s Mistake – Tears for Fears 

-Avery: He’s closed his eyes again, mouth going flat and still.

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Lounge Act – Nirvana

-Tell her all the terrible things I want to do to her husband

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Transatlanticism – Death Cab for Cutie

-There’s a strange urgency tonight, though, and Crowley can guess why.

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Do I Wanna Know? – Arctic Monkeys

-What could it hurt?

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Clueless – The Marias 

-“Better - yeah. ‘S late.”

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Motel – Meg Myers

-The hotel room is another disaster

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--Chapter 3--

Alone in a Room – Asking Alexandria 

-“I’m having a moment here!”

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Since You’ve Been Around – Rosie Thomas 

-makes Crowley feel like he can breathe again

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Home Again – The Disco Biscuits 

-It’s starting to feel like home again

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Every Other Freckle – alt-J

-Perfect. Ridiculous and impossible and perfect.

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Something For the Longing – The Orchids 

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As Far As I Can See – Phantogram 

-it’s been a really, really long time

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Sinister Kid – The Black Keys 

-“Mothering buggering shit-”

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All These Things That I’ve Done – The Killers

-Crowley fists one of his hands against his forehead, shuts his eyes tightly.

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--Chapter 4--

I Like Me Better – Lauv

-I liked the outline of your face under the stagelights

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I Do This for You (ft. Marlene) – Giorgio Moroder

-“Let me see what I can do. About your precious Hamlet.”

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The Longing – Imelda May 

-Avery POV: “Look at him like - like - you can’t let him see the way you look at him.”

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Just a Man – Los Lobos

-Avery POV: like he’s being led into battle and not onto a set to do the job he loves

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World In My Eyes – Depeche Mode 

-wants to make that bastard purr

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Tired (ft. Gavin James) – Alan Walker

-Let me be a magpie for you

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Blow My Mind – The Benjamin Gate 

-Avery: “I know you now.”

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Breathe You in My Dreams – Trixie Whitley

-Crowley’s seen that expression on Avery’s face in his dreams

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Love Me Like That (ft. Carly Rae Jepsen) – The Knocks

-What have I done to - oh. Oh. Right.

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Like Real People Do - Hozier

-“Sure, angel, what- whatever.”

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Clearly – Grace VanderWaal 

-Crowley waits for the rest of the night.

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Gwendel – PeelsDeen 

-Az sits in the back seat, away from Crowley. Alone.

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Now I’m In It – HAIM

-Avery POV: It’s a look like an open grave, a look like desire tempered with grief…

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Flesh for Fantasy – Billy Idol

-Crowley isn’t lonely for the rest of the night

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--Chapter 5 (Avery POV)--

Smalltown Boy – Rosborough 

-1978, Hartlepool

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Bright Horses – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

-1986, Newcastle Upon Tyne

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The Runner – Foals

-1991, Bristol

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Shock To Your System – Tegan and Sara

-Tracy: “Why d’you let them?”

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Cracking Codes – Andrew Bird

-“Forever, of course. I’ll never -”

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Colour me In – Damien Rice

-Their fingers - just touch. Slightly.

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I’m Not in Love – 10cc

-Less to regret by not ever speaking of it.

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--Chapter 6--

Electric Current – Lower Dens 

-“I’ll let you know when you find it.”

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Guess I Miss(ed) You – The Daylights

-Keep talking, keep him here a little while longer.

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Reflecting Light – Sam Phillips 

-“don’t meet his eyes like that, it looks like it’s a lead-in to a kiss”

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King of Pain – The Police

-a good reminder of the kind of life he’s got to live

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I Wanna Get Better – The Bleachers

-and Avery’s gaze is so gentle it hurts a bit

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Feather – X Ambassadors 

-Avery: “Someone has to”

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Darker Side - Jonny Lang

-Avery: “Oh - good Lord.”

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Firestone (Acoustic) – Conrad Sewell 

-“Will you show me?”

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Velvet Gloves and Spit - Timber Timbre 

-“Anthony - ”

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Wrong – Depeche Mode

-Avery: “I have to go.”

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F**k it I love you – Lana Del Rey 

-“Not your fault, angel”

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--Chapter 7--

Somebody to Love – Queen 

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Heavenly – Cigarettes After Sex 

-“I fucking still.”

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Will Do - TV on the Radio

-“You too. I’ll see you there.”

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Monster – Colours

-No wonder Avery ran off like a thief after a heist

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Swallow My Pride – Ramones 

-“I feel fucking ill about it.”

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I Was Wrong - The Oh Hellos

-Avery: “I’m the one who has to apologize, not you.”

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The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret – Queens of the Stone Age

-Avery: “Please don’t tell anyone”

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Wait for Me – Kings of Leon

-Avery: “Right now, I’m just - a bit in pieces.”

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Don’t Stay – X Ambassadors 

-“You can - stay or leave or - whatever you like.”

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The Moth - Aimee Mann

-Avery’s eyes meet his, and then it’s like a car accident

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Red Door – Julien Baker 

-“I can - I can wait longer.”

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Can’t Pretend - Tom Odell

-“I wasn’t apologizing for that. This morning. I won’t.”

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Come Down to Me – Saving Jane

-Avery: “You were wonderful”

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Secret Smile – Semisonic

-And if sometimes he catches Az watching him between takes

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I Want More - KALEO

-Az laces both of their hands together, stares at them.

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I’m Gonna Do My Thing – Royal Deluxe 

-“So don’t tell me what will hurt me. I know what hurts.”

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--Chapter 8--

Perfect Day – Lou Reed 

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Remember to Breathe – Sturgil Simpson

-“You can’t sit in the car all night you absolute nightmare”

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Wild Love (Acoustic) – James Bay

-The two of them stare at each other and then both look away awkwardly.

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Seasons – Future Islands

-finally, fucking finally, he’s exactly where he wants to be

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Closer – Tegan and Sara

-Avery: “if you like”

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I Want All of You – The Verve Pipe 

-“If you think I can survive this without looking at you -”

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Use Me – Miguel

-whatever he sees in Crowley’s face makes him come to some sort of decision

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So Much Love – Depeche Mode

-Love, he said love

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Don’t Be Scared, I Love You – Bill Ryder-Jones

-I know you, Crowley wants to say, but doesn’t.

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Become My Dream – Silya & The Sailors 

-“Even if - anything, angel.”

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I Belong In Your Arms – Chairlift

-For nearly two weeks it goes like this.

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Faster - Matt Nathanson

-“You’re going to fucking kill me, angel -”

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Come Together (feat. Sivu) – LAUREL

-In case you think they don’t wake up together

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The High – Kelela

-Az has pulled a stool over to the edge of the tub

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Just in Time – Valerie June

-Then Az’s hand is on his shoulder, turning him around.

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I Can’t Take It – Tegan and Sara

-Avery: “Don’t rush, just - like this.”

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Like This – Jake Scott

-Avery murmurs and it takes Crowley back to their first kiss

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Terrible Love – The National

-Flinches away from him.

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Help You Out - Emarosa

-And he nods.

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--Chapter 9--

I Remember You – Ramones

-The first person Crowley loved was a liar.

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Brighter Skies - Race Banyon

-As if they were cut with a jigsaw, as if they were meant to fit.

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Not Tonight – Tegan and Sara

-When they reach the edge of the city, his hand slides out of Crowley’s.

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As Sure as I Am – Crowded House

-So Crowley kisses him.

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A Promise – Miriam Makeba

-And for awhile, he believed her.

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Mistaken for Strangers – The National

-They’re only two small words, but they still make Crowley’s teeth ache.

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Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye – Leonard Cohen

-“Good-“ Swallow, speak, leave.

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The Fear – Pulp

-Crowley should have been smarter this time. He really should have been.

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Take Me – Leela James 

-“I’d like you to close your blinds.”

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Whenever You Want It – Clare Maguire 

-“What do we do now?”

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At My Weakest – James Arthur 

-“It will be.”

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Komm zurück - Fotos

-For years and years and years, nothing did.

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Come on Get Higher – Matt Nathanson

-their feet sliding in the tub

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Lay Down – Sarah Proctor

-I want to wake up with you.

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Sort Of - Ingrid Michaelson

-Why is my heart breaking?

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Fairytale of New York – The Pogues 

-Just pump that shit straight into his veins.

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What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? – Ella Fitzgerald

-Avery: “What do you think?”

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We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together – The Velvet Underground

-“You want to grab dinner somewhere?” 

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Hiding – IAN SWEET

-Crowley stops walking. Looks at Az in the darkness.

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Romance Dawn – Radkey

-A slice of light cuts through the darkness.

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Crown of Love – Arcade Fire

-Crowley feels like the world has never been darker, and his heart will never stop beating

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Devil’s Backbone – The Civil Wars

-He thought he was ready for this conversation, but at the sight of Az’s face, his throat has gotten too tight to speak.

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Sinners – Lauren Aquilina 

-“If this all goes down in flames, if it all falls apart - we can go off together.”

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Please Forgive Me (Song of the Crow) – William Fitzsimmons 

-Avery: “It’s over. I’m - I’m so sorry.”

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Start a War – The National

-He twitches and trips and yet somehow manages to walk away without falling over.

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Broken – Daley

-And this soft heartache was somehow the sharpest of them all.

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--Chapter 10 (Avery POV)--

Daily Battles - Thom Yorke & Flea

-He tries to remember these things - but the background is still a chorus of beeping machines. There’s nowhere he can be but here. 

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Everybody Wants You - Red Hearse

-Go out and surround himself with people much more interesting and available than Avery. Better people, certainly.

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A Thin Line – Blackchords

-But still - roads not taken, and other fun middle-aged spirals.

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My Own Soul’s Warning - The Killers

-When was the last time someone asked Avery that? When was the last time he asked himself?

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Who Am I - NEEDTOBREATHE

-I miss you.  There. It didn’t hurt as much as he thought it would. 

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Wait for Me - Jack Curley 

-What he wants to say is ‘don’t find someone else. Not yet. You and your black leather and your cut-glass profile: you’re gorgeous and God knows other people want you.’ 

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Coming & Going – Amaal 

-“Two ships passing in the night,” he says quietly.  Then he takes a swallow of wine, lets it roll down his throat. “If you were here -” 

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Iron - Woodkid

-Crowley leaves him there, pressed against the wet brick wall.  Crowley leaves him there.  Crowley steps between Avery and a camera, and then leaves him.

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The Greatest Bastard - Damien Rice

-He can’t be the person that kicks Crowley into the ashes again. He can’t hurt him like this, and Avery’s going to hurt him - he already has. 

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No Right to Love You – Rhys Lewis

-He deserves someone like - like Daniel. Deserves to be loved in the daylight.

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If It’s Hurting You - Robbie Williams

-Time is a tricky business when you’re dying slowly; it skips like a flat stone on a quiet lake.

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Happy For You – Gayle 

-But surely - surely he’s allowed just this much. Just one message, just so Crowley knows that - that he’s happy for him. That Avery is so happy.

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I See You (ICU) - Phoebe Bridgers

-When Avery sees Crowley on the red carpet, it feels like the sudden remembrance of a lovely dream.

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Once In My Life - The Decemberists

-Crowley: “I know there’ve been some - hard times. That’s - that is what it is. But for me - it’s been a privilege. A dream. So.” He nods and nods and nods again. “Thank you.”

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Coming Down - Dum Dum Girls

-Tracy: “But I wasn’t. I was hurting you. This whole time, Az.”  She shakes her head, wiping frantically at tears that won’t stop falling. “He loves you.”

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I Don’t Know Anything – Little Voice Cast

-He’s afraid of finding out that all this time - he was doing the wrong thing anyway. He’s afraid that Anthony Crowley will never talk to him again.

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Sweet Sour - Band of Skulls

-"And you're fired"

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Heart Attack - Devarrow

-The sun is still rising when Avery gets out of the car, closes the door behind him. Though some of the roads have changed, his feet still know the way down to the docks of his youth. He was never a sailor, but the shoreline is familiar as a childhood sweetheart, as a long lost love. 

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Landslide - Robyn Sherwell

-He’s alone, and he’s nearly fifty years old. He could get on a ship, he could throw himself into the sea. There’s no one holding him back anymore. 

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All I Can - Sharon van Etten

-And he knows. He knows.

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--Chapter 11-- 

Salvation - The Strumbellas

- there’s a moment where he swears he sees a young idiot in black standing in the crowd. Red hair gelled up into spikes, black t-shirt full of holes and safety pins. A young man who has no idea how much he’s about to lose.

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Soldier - Fleurie

-And he’s still fucking here.

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Easier – Mansionair

-Then he gets the fuck above ground and he calls Beez (oh great, they’re his emotional-support-asshole now. That’s healthy).

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Deep End – Holly Humberstone  

-“I brought you cheese,” Beez says, and Crowley starts crying.

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Falling Short – Lapsley

-For the next few days, he lets his stupid body do what it needs to do to keep himself upright.

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Chariot (Stripped Version) - Gavin DeGraw

-Shit, this was a bad bad idea. 

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Quiet Light - The National

-There’s a text from Az later that night, and his name on Crowley’s phone makes him feel like jumping off a cliff.

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All That We Had is Lost - Postiljonen

-He’s not allowed to be in love with that man anymore. Wasn’t ever, really.

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Heal - Tom Odell

-It makes a rather hysterical laugh well out of his throat. Anthony fucking Crowley. You are still alive. 

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Let Me Go - HAIM 

-Crowley tries to ignore the soft, injured expression on the other man’s face as he turns away.

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A Beginning Song - The Decemberists

-“What’s more frightening than having a choice?”

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The Spark - William Prince

-And he likes to think he would have just burned the world to ashes with the power of his love, would have said fuck everyone, I choose you – but who knows. 

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Sharp Scratch - The Slow Show

-So stupid, I know, and I’m - sorry, I still love you and I’m tryin’ to stop and I will I just - needed to tell you that. I’ll be fine. You’ll be fine. Just miss you.

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Beautiful & Brutal – Plested

-Crowley moves without thinking. Falls like a stagelight, glass everywhere. He walks forward and is kissing Az before the door has even been pulled shut.

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Bad Chemistry - Fake Shark

-“I’ve been - thinking about this -” Az says between darts of his tongue against Crowley’s overheated skin.

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All We Do – Oh Wonder

-“But I - I love you. And I can’t -  hide. It hurts too much.”

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Broken Strings - James Morrison (ft Nelly Furtado)

-“I wouldn’t survive it. That way it was. I wouldn’t.”

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Stole the Show – Parson James

-But even on their distant shores, Crowley and Az don’t stop looking at each other. It feels like an ending. Maybe it is one. Not a happy ending, but not a bad one either.

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Level Up - Vienna Teng

-excerpt from Anthony Crowley: Out of the shadows, under the spotlight

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The Wire (Alternate Version) – Patrick Droney 

-Avery: “I’m rather in - in love with you.”

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Sweet Thing - Van Morrison

-“You can stay at my place. If you like.”

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Falling in Love - Cigarettes After Sex

-“I love you. I’ve missed you, and I love you, and I want you -”

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Stay - Cat Power

-He watches the slow flicker of awareness in Avery’s blue eyes. The curve of his mouth into a shade of smile that Crowley’s never seen before.

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Freedom - George Michael

-“To the world.”

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--Chapter 12--

Banks - NEEDTOBREATHE

-What he wasn’t used to was bringing someone else down with him, and jail would be a bloody blessing compared to seeing Az grey-faced and staring out windows, or that one time Crowley’s pretty sure the man was crying in the bathroom, trying to swallow down the sound so that Crowley didn’t notice (he clenches his hands into fists just thinking about it).

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Black Mambo - Glass Animals

-“It’ll have to be.” Crowley drops to his knees. “There’s a lot of ground to cover.” 

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Florets - Grace VanderWaal

-Crowley can let his fingers curl against Az’s palm, can watch him open as a flame, not caring who notices.

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Sight of the Sun - fun.

-That this longing won’t destroy him, and won’t destroy Az either. It’s not a shovel for burying Crowley alive - it’s a spade for planting things.

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Pale Blue Eyes - The Velvet Underground

-Az drops his hand onto Crowley’s knee (“What is this song? I rather like it.”).

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Only Everything (Acoustic) – Quinn Lewis

-“It’s nice to have someone make it for you, right? Sometimes,” Crowley says softly, too much love in his throat and in his hands. It’s hard to breathe around it, especially when Avery is looking at him.

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The Book of Love - The Magnetic Fields

-“You bought a cottage for us.” Crowley is an animal being taught to speak through scraps of meat and electric shocks. “This cottage.”

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Say You’ll Be Mine – Christopher Cross

-Avery: “But if you wanted -” Fuck, there are tears in Avery’s eyes. “If you want. I’d like to call you my husband. I’d like to say ‘let me ask my husband,’ or ‘I brought my husband with me’ or ‘my husband won a BAFTA’.”

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Anthem - Leonard Cohen

-Their broken edges match. And somehow, the light still shines through.

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Precious Love – James Morrison

-When the light catches them both, they shine. And so do you. So do we.

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Good Man (acoustic) - Josh Ritter

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If you made it this far...wow, hi hello. So, this is ours and my musical exposure is limited, if you’ve got a better song for an excerpt, feel free to shoot it over, more than happy for this to be a living changeable thing. 🤡 

[novemberhush]

Put your whole song library on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that pop up, then tag 10 others to do the same. Thanks for the tag, @zwaerg-eremon !😊

1) Everything Trying - Damien Jurado (I’m suddenly getting Johnlock feels listening to this song right now! I guess that comes from having read a few Johnlock fics in the last couple of days.)

2) Hanging on the Telephone - Blondie

3) I Can Change - Brandon Flowers

4) Trick of the Moonlight - Gareth Dunlop (Local boy who’s making a name for himself in the music world and who puts on a good show. I saw him in concert in Belfast last year and the atmosphere at the gig was great.)

5) Love is Noise - The Verve

6) Stay With Me - Sam Smith (I’m not a huge fan of his voice, but I do like this song.)

7) Everytime - Glen Hansard & Colm MacConIomaire (If you’re asking yourself if that’s two of the guys from The Frames covering Britney, the answer is yes! It was part of a series of cover version albums put together by an Irish radio station for charity. Glen also covered Justin Timberlake’s ‘Cry Me A River’ on one of the other albums in the series. How’s that for symmetry!)

8) A New England - Billy Bragg (How can you not love a song that contains the lyrics -‘I love the words you wrote to me/ But that was bloody yesterday/ I can’t survive on what you send every time you need a friend/ I saw two shooting stars last night/ I wished on them, but they were only satellites/ It’s wrong to wish on space hardware/ I wish, I wish, I wish you’d care’?)

9) Cry Me A River - Glen Hansard (LOL! The universe is having some fun! I’ve been writing these entries as the songs have been playing and after I wrote no. 7 look what popped up at no. 9!)

10) Holding Onto Heaven - Foxes

I tag @elysiumwaits @josjournal @malex-love-letters @weirdglittergirl @rolodexthoughts @grumpybonesey @under-the-silk-tree @sofancydancy @themcinebcnd @dreamer9817 and anyone else who wants to play. No pressure on anyone who doesn’t. 😘

[ofviolentdeath]

"I'll have to keep that in mind. Dude that did mine died about fifteen years ago now." He had been a shifter and had been on the older side when Damien had met him, so it wasn't the biggest shock that the man had died. "Nah, Verv's pretty good at explaining to people exactly what they're getting into and is more than willing to display the effects on himself." It was something he had had to do a lot in the beginning because not even Damien had believed that what he was selling was that good. "Bars are usually a good place, but there's also apps like tinder."

"Unfortunate. I could've done some damage." Silas would always regret the opportunities he didn't get even if Damien hadn't gotten any tattoos until well after he had gone. "If I ever get back into it and you want more, you know who to call." Honestly, he was itching to pick up a machine again but didn't quite trust himself just yet. "Well, that's fair. And the policy makes sense too for multiple reasons. Regardless of strength, you accidentally make one human float - you're gonna have problems." The laugh that had started coming from him was cut short by Damien's next statement which just earned a roll of the eyes. "Don't think sex is always the answer, buddy. Besides, even if I wanted to I wouldn't know where to start."

[mashamorevna]

Everyone still asks you about book/film recommendations (which is more than great!) but I wonder what music do you listen to?

I love my baroque/indie pop/rock: The National, Warpaint, Imogen Heap, London Grammar, Shiny Toy Guns, Maps, Foals, Bat for Lashes, PJ Harvey, Cat Power, Bastille, MS MR, Washed Out, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, mum, Arcade Fire, Lorde, The XX, Daughter, Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead, Beirut, Lykke Li, M83, Marina and the Diamonds, Feist, The Antlers, Portugal. The Man, Stars, Florence + the Machine, Of Monsters and Men, Metric, Blouse, Sigur Ros, Purity Ring, Twenty One Pilots, Damien Rice, CHVRCHES, Lana del Rey, The Sunshine Underground, Frightened Rabbit, TV on the Radio, Band of Horses, The Neighbourhood, Phantogram, Snow Patrol, Tame Impala, Unkle Bob, The Verve, Wye Oak ..

Recently, I got into Slowdive and that’s pretty much all I’ve been listening to on repeat. 

[kellysbookblog]

Because Love Can Bleed Into The Darkest Heart

The Watcher by Melanie Moreland is now live!

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Because Love Can Bleed Into The Darkest Heart

The Watcher by Melanie Moreland is now live!

To the world, I'm Damien DeSalvo, businessman. I own a security company, ensuring the safety of my clients. But behind the scenes, I'm known as the Watcher. I stay hidden, overseeing the secrecy of Hidden Justice—those who rid the world of its scum, one bad guy at a time. Until the day she stumbles into my path and one kiss changes everything. Stalked and terrified, Raven Bailey needs my protection. I need her. Can I find the man threatening the woman I love before he finds her? We're playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse. And I'm determined to win.

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New York Times/USA Today bestselling author Melanie Moreland, lives a happy and content life in a quiet area of Ontario with her beloved husband of thirty-plus years and their rescue cat, Amber. Nothing means more to her than her friends and family, and she cherishes every moment spent with them. While seriously addicted to coffee, and highly challenged with all things computer-related and technical, she relishes baking, cooking, and trying new recipes for people to sample. She loves to throw dinner parties, and also enjoys traveling, here and abroad, but finds coming home is always the best part of any trip. Melanie loves stories, especially paired with a good wine, and enjoys skydiving (free falling over a fleck of dust) extreme snowboarding (falling down stairs) and piloting her own helicopter (tripping over her own feet.) She's learned happily ever afters, even bumpy ones, are all in how you tell the story.

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[iheartmoosiq]

To say we’re excited about this newcomer is an extreme understatement. Turns out, we’re not the only ones who feel this way. Already named by tastemakers as Australia’s most exciting pop newcomer, TAMMA, an indie soul singer-songwriter based in Melbourne, delivers vibrant pop perfection on Beat You Down. Her deep husky voice and the song’s soaring choruses are reminiscent of both SIA and LÉON. After a rough few years of loss and devastation for TAMMIA and her family, Beat You Down feels like an exultant anthem about triumph over hardship. The song comes with a happy-go-lucky video directed by Damien Blue (Slow Pulp) and filmed at iconic Venice Beach, a place always full of life and verve. Beat You Down is an empowering, lifting song bursting with vitality. You’ll want to blast this one loudly from the top of the world. Beat You Down, out on True Music, is available, here.

[lonerpunk]

Kerry x Damien <3

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