#in peer gynt me thinks

[estcaligo]

Made this list while I was in the mood

Classical music pieces that I associate with twst characters

* these pieces are available to listen to on youtube. Perhaps I will make a video with them one day. But I doubt it. * I apologize for any mistakes, it was a lot of information to digest * updated because I forgot to add Presto for Malleus, sorry!

Malleus - Vivaldi - The Four Seasons - "Summer" - 1 Allegro Non Molto and 3 Presto (I mean of course these ones. Add evil overblot laugh here too.) ok also Schubert - Erlkönig (The Elf King), D. 328

Sebek - Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet, Suite No. 2, The Montagues and Capulets "Dance of the Knights" (it's just him. period.) or Rachmaninov - Musical Moment No.4 in E minor or Rachmaninov - Prelude in C Sharp Minor (Rachmaninov for Sebek in general lol)

Silver - Grieg - Peer Gynt, Suite no. 1 "Morning mood" or Debussy - Clair de lune (from "Suite bergamasque") (Yes, basic, but it fits so so much so)

Lilia - Chopin - Fantaisie impromptu in C-Sharp minor, Op. 66 (first notes - Lilia's evil grin, then whimsical nature and the whirl of memories of countries he has been to. When it goes hard, it's cooking, some violence, and then when it gets gentle, it's when he remembers Silver's childhood. Then he softens in general but also reminds us about his playful nature and strong character.)

Idia - Vivaldi - The Four Seasons - "Winter" - 1 Allegro Non Molto (resembles how Idia speaks when he's getting confident and how his character, in general, opens up. And kinda gives me his genius vibes)

Ortho - Graun - Gigue in B-Flat minor (sounds like super-fast calculation is going on. But also, some notes sound like random signals and/or signs of creativity/sudden thoughts in AI) also Chopin - Etude Op. 10 No. 5 (Black Keys)

*Erik Satie for Octa in general. Gives me mysterious underwater vibes*

Azul - Satie - Gnossienne No. 1 and Gymnopedie no.1 also kinda Chopin - Nocturne Op. 9 No. 1 (pondering, deep in thought, underwater, calculating, but also melancholic…)

Jade - Satie - Gnossienne No.3 (such big Jade vibes)

Floyd - Liszt - Mephisto Waltz No. 1 (hehe)

Leona - Haydn - Symphony No. 49 in F minor ' La Passione ' (it's long, but it's worth listening. I just imagine Leona's character and lore in general here)

Jack - Händel - Suite no. 11 in D minor. Sarabande (not really sure about this one. But it gives me 'strength and determination and values' vibes today)

Ruggie - Mozart - Symphony No. 40 in G minor, IV. Allegro assai (reminds me how he can adapt and be different if needed. Also, it sounds quite boisterous, like Ruggie is going fast, fast, fast and earning a lot, lot, lot!)

Kalim - Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492: Overture (specifically wanting to throwa feast)

Jamil - Chopin - Waltz in E minor, Op. Posth. (he's so skillful and makes it look like he's not even trying, but he's super hardworking. Also, some parts sound like his occasional emotional outbursts) also - Chopin - Prelude in E Minor (I can't explain it, but it's just Jamil for me. I feel so sorry for him - he's such a cool and talented (and handsome) guy, and such destiny mgd. Or maybe I'm just in a melancholic mood today)

Vil - Vivaldi - The Four Seasons - “Spring” - 1 Allegro (won't be original meh. like there're so many classical pieces that fit Vil but I don't really wanna bother here so)

Rook - Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro: "Non più andrai, farfallone amoroso" (instrumental) (ookay it was hard with Rook because I think a lot fits him but I'll stop with this one or I'll never finish this list)

Epel - Litvinovsky - Pelléas and Mélisande: III. Galliard. Navire dans la tempête (Galliard. Ship in a storm) (unrelated but my life is divided into before seeing Epel in Book 7 dreams and after)

Riddle - Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 I. Allegro con brio (duh. basic but c'mon. it suits him)

Ace - Litvinovsky - Suite for Strings "Le Grand Cahier": IV. Nos Etudes (yes that's how I feel Ace)

Deuce - Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a: March of the Toy Soldiers (Deuce the honour student edition)

Cater - Beethoven : Sonatina in F Major plus "a glimpse of a depressed real Cater" one - Chopin - Mazurka in A minor, Op.17, No.4

Trey - Beethoven - Sonata No. 8 in C Minor Pathetique, Op. 13 (Adagio cantabile) (I tried to find someting "normal" meh so went with this today)

Special mentions

Rollo - Mozart - Requiem, 3 Dies Irae Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565 Orff - Carmina Burana: Fortuna imperatrix mundi. O fortuna (super super obvious but c'mon it's basically canon)

Baul - Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries (ya Baul has big Wagner vibes for me)

Grim - Edvard Grieg – In the Hall of the Mountain King (the escalation lol)

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

Something about the ever escalating chaos in Amulette d'amour makes me think of Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, "In the Hall of the Mountain King." It's like the theme song of the vibe the fic's continuing escalation gives me. (Appropriate I suppose given that I've always liked that music and I also love the fic - huge shoutout to you and therealvinelle for creating something so outstanding).

Amulette d'Amour by me and @therealvinelle

You know, you start your month just trying to appraise an amulet and somehow you end up with a fake wife who was accosted by Dumbledore and now you're tutoring an eight-year-old.

In other words... you're absolutely right.

Look, @therealvinelle, great praise!

[aloysiavirgata]

Let’s call it a deleted scene from Mount Abora, @inutilidadesbytamara

***

Scully’s hand on his boxers wakes him into the dark, her mouth at his throat.

“I can’t sleep,” she murmurs against his jaw. “Too quiet.”

“Scully…”

She squeezes him lightly in reply and he groans.

“Shh,” Scully says. She nuzzles her nose into his ear, kisses his temple.

He’s half-hard and the air of the room makes him gasp when she works him free of the fabric. She’s got her mouth at his collarbones, his pectorals, his navel.

“No complaints but I thought-“

“Let me,” she says, and he’s not sure if you can snap your own spine arcing off a mattress with extreme force but the only person he could ask is currently short-circuiting his parasympathetic nervous system with her lips.

“Oh my god,” he hisses, twisting the sheets in his fists so he doesn’t grab her hair and scalp her by accident.

Scully’s mouth is hot and slick and she’s doing something uncanny with the flat of her tongue while her nails dance over his scrotum and then she sucks at him, actually sucks, and her teeth graze the head of his cock, that ridge is her hard palate, there’s that tongue thing again and where in the world did she -

He nearly weeps when she pulls her mouth away.

“Scully,” he pants, the air now agonizing.

She takes him in her right hand, begins stroking, while he makes a desperate sort of trapped animal whimper.

“Shh,” she repeats, tongues his frenulum as she moves her hand around him.

His heels kick into the mattress.

Mulder’s eyes are adjusting to the room and he looks down to see Scully’s pale, precise hand around the darker skin of his cock; Scully’s breasts moving under the silk pajama top he can see down; Scully’s aristocratic cheekbones in sharp relief because Jesus Christ almighty, her cheeks are sucked in around him.

Scully.

It’s too much, visual overload even in the dark, and he grinds his hips up against her hand, her mouth, doesn’t care in that second if he chokes her and he cries out when she draws him halfway back down her throat.

“Scully,” he breathes again, because it’s otherworldly to say his partner’s name when they’re like this, while she’s, well, fucking him with her mouth because there is absolutely no other way to describe what her jaw is doing right now; he thinks of her in his lap with her skirt up and her ass in his hands as he thrust up into her sinuate body, how he’d buried his face in the fragrant wet heat of -

Scully’s found a steady rhythm now, her hand and her mouth and her tongue and her teeth, and his nails are cutting into his palms and he’s biting the insides of his cheeks because otherwise he’s going to make it maybe another thirty seconds and what is the etiquette here, hey Scully seems like you have a solid gag reflex but you should know I’m -

Her hair is brushing against him and it’s absolute torture, her tongue at his glans, Agent Scully’s serious little mouth with her ripe lips -

“Oh my god,” he groans, and now his fingers are lacing through her hair because he absolutely has to touch her somewhere while she does this if he can’t grasp at her hips like when -

“Scully,” he says, and “Oh my god,” again and both over and over until they might be the same thing because his sacral spine is pulsing like a supernova and when Scully said she wanted to make this work he didn’t know it would be like this with her, he didn’t know, didn’t understand that she is his touchstone and his true north and his recondite talisman and she is somehow also a woman like other women, that she aches like he does, that she desires -

There are stars and stars and stars in the dark and he’s gasping her name with his hands in the cool silk of her hair, riding out the crest against her hot tongue while his head presses back deep into the nest of pillows and his toes curl.

His heart crashes blood joyfully through his veins, like the big kettle drums in Peer Gynt. He twitches a few more times against her hand, spent but ambitious,

“Wow,” he says, breathless.

She laughs a little, tucks her hair behind her ear. “Wow yourself.”

He reaches down for her and she moves up next to him, on her belly this time. She props herself up on her elbows.

“What was that for?” he asks warmly. “I want to make sure I do it again and stay in your good graces.”

Scully strokes his nose with her forefinger, presses her thumb to his lips. “Hasn’t anyone ever done something for you without strings attached?”

He considers this. “I don’t think so, actually,” he confesses, lipping the pad of her thumb like a horse with a sugar cube.

When he kisses the inside of her wrist it feels like the petal of a magnolia.

Mulder gathers her to him and they drift back to sleep in the languid rhythm of his heartbeat.

[ryttu3k]

Classic 100 weekend! My shortlist (and 41-strong longlist) are here, will be keeping track of everything beneath the cut! Bolded entries are from my shortlist, regular text will be longlist, others I really dig will be asterisked. Let's see how we go!

98. Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade (getting started on the longlist early on!)

95. Beethoven - Symphony No. 5* (listen I longlisted three other symphonies, 5th didn't fit)

94. Hisaishi - My Neighbour Totoro* (I do have Hisaishi longlisted, but for Spirited Away)

92. Rodgers & Hammerstein - The Sound of Music* (I think this was on either Mum's longlist or shortlist. Either way, I grew up on this!)

90. Strauss Jr - On The Beautiful Blue Danube* ([muffled space shuttle docking in the distance] Anyway I'm a quarter Viennese this shit's genetic)

86. Westlake - Babe* (got Westlake in my shortlist for Antarctica, but Babe is lovely too!)

84. Westlake and Lior - Compassion* (just a beautiful piece)

83. Einaudi - I Giorni* (huh, I thought I actually did longlist this)

78. Jenkins - Adiemus* (oh hey I know this! I have Benedictus from The Armed Man in my longlist, didn't realise this was his too)

76. Williams - Jurassic Park (longlist! For a very silly reason - my brother and SIL used the main theme as their wedding march, so got some lovely associations with it)

73. Jeffes - Music for a Found Harmonium* (didn't longlist it but totally should have!)

71. Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (technically I longlisted it for the third movement and they only played the first, but oh well)

67. Williams - Indiana Jones* (how much Williams will be on here? Yes)

61. Elgar - Pomp & Circumstances (the first appearance of something from my shortlist! This one got on the list because my grandmother loves it so much and gets so much comfort and joy from it)

57. Ravel - Bolero (here is a super fun drum corps version! Lowkey want to be the cymbalist who looks like she's having too much fun, and also those two drummers at the end who are leaping into the air. Such great energy!)

56. Hisaishi - Howl's Moving Castle* (another Hisaishi! Still waiting for Spirited Away (Nausicaa wasn't on the nominee list, alas), but honestly, any is good)

54. Copland - Anthem for the Common Man (I also really like the Emerson, Lake, and Palmer version :D Oh, they just played a snippet of it!)

52. Powell - How To Train Your Dragon* (I do love me some Romantic Flight)

48. Saint-Saëns - Carnival of the Animals* (I have the Organ Symphony on my shortlist and Samson et Delilah (for Bacchanale) on my longlist, but I enjoy this too! Also Danse Macabre, but not sure that'd make it onto a list of music to make you feel good...)

47. Copland - Appalachian Spring (my favourite of the two Copland ones I had on my longlist!)

46. Theodorakis - Zorba the Greek (literally how can you not enjoy this piece?)

45. Sibelius - Finlandia* (pieces that make you want to visit the Arctic)

43. Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture (my first memory of this: the very first Symphony Under the Stars in the Domain, January 1992. I had just turned five. Featured live cannons, fireworks, and the bells of St Mary's Cathedral, and it definitely made an impression!)

39. Grieg - Peer Gynt* (I basically grew up on this, thanks to a Grieg-loving Mum)

36. Westlake - Antarctica feat. Penguin Ballet (it's a penguin ballet <3)

35. Beethoven - 7th Symphony (this was my top choice and it should have been much higher up ;_; And they only played the second movement, my fourth-favourite of four!)

34. Vangelis - Chariots of Fire (I mean I longlisted it, but better than the 7th?)

28. Orff - Carmina Burana (this was one of the first live concerts I ever saw. When Ave Formosissima transitioned into the O Fortuna reprise I got chills. I also goddamn adore Ave Formosissima into the techno version of O Fortuna, but...)

27. Richter - Four Seasons Recomposed (the reorchestration that made me fall in love with Four Seasons. I liked bits before but this is just... next level. You know how sometimes you have a super elaborate and detailed painting and there's so much you lose a lot of it, like, say, Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights? And then you see details and you're just, "I didn't know that was there!" and you can focus on that and just marvel at the genius of it? This is like the musical version, by taking excerpts and celebrating them!)

26. Saint-Saëns - Organ Symphony (hilariously one of my Sunday morning Traditions(tm) is listening to this, so. I still kept my Tradition(tm)!)

22. Williams - Star Wars (damn, I thought this'd be top 10!)

20. Dvorak - New World Symphony (thought this'd be higher too, honestly! Lots of surprises up this end.)

19. Beethoven - Pastoral Symphony (made it to the top 20! Unsure if Eroica will get in, so we're basically just waiting to see where Choral comes in. Top 5 or bust!!)

18. Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker* (one of my first ballets! Granted, one of a lot of people's first ballets...)

12. Shore - Lord of the Rings (and The Hobbit) (surprised this did so much better than Star Wars, but very pleased!)

8. Elgar - Enigma Variations* (particularly Nimrod, Mum's favourite)

7. Jenkins - The Armed Man (specifically Benedictus. I'm still uncertain if this makes me Feel Good or just makes me Feel A Lot, but either way: emotions)

5. Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue (my beloved <3 Lovely orchestral version)

2. Holst - The Planets (surprised it got in so high, but pleased!)

1. Oh, you know :)

Current count

Shortlist: 6/10 (Pomp and Circumstances, Penguin Ballet, 7th Symphony, Four Seasons Recomposed, Organ Symphony, Star Wars)

Longlist: 17/31 (Scheherezade, Jurassic Park, Moonlight Sonata, Bolero, Anthem for the Common Man, Appalachian Spring, Zorba the Greek, 1812 Overture, Chariots of Fire, Carmina Burana, New World Symphony, Pastoral Symphony, Lord of the Rings, The Armed Man, Rhapsody in Blue, The Planets, aaand Choral!)

[hojiteaversion]

DLS Characters as Classical Music Pieces

Laia: Um. I was just gonna say it's really graceful and elegant, but Wikipedia says: "'Le cygne' illustrates the fleeting nature of beauty with its interpretation of the legend of the 'swan song'". So, uh. Guess it fits!!

Millie: Mischief and chaos. Clownery. Buffoonery.

Vlad: The kind of piece you'd find in one of those "pov: you're waltzing with your soulmate when you realize they came back wrong" playlists, probably

Leo: Yeah, it's soft. Yeah, it's complex. Yeah, it makes you wanna cry. Yeah, it's beloved. Leo Nolan!!

Sandra: ...Listen, it's what Sandra deserves! To rule a beautiful land of sweets, and to end the night with her beloved, dancing to one of the most beautiful musical pieces ever made. She is a magical sweetheart. She deserves the world and the Tchaikovsky masterpiece!!

Noe: Mischief and chaos. Clownery. Buffoonery.

Hasan: I think this one has strong moments, and then there's a bit of a lull, you know? Anyway, I like to think that represents those years he was dead dead

Mehmed: It just sounds like someone who has secret nefarious plans. And, I'm not gonna lie, this one kind of reminds me of The Imperial March, and that guy was good by the end too, so, it fits! Plus, it being a waltz mirrors Vlad's piece 😉

[pompohills]

Wip MASTERLIST

FINISHED

Writing on the wall Will Stetson/Seb & painter

Le portrait - Calogero/Seb

PLANNED (things will be added or removed) (yes a lot, this media just gets me going)

IN WORK

New born - muse / Sebastian

Peer Gynt - Cysmix (peer pressure animation meme) / expendable tryna survive

...

IDEAS...

Face à la mer - Calogero & Passi / Sebastian

Mama's boy - Dominic Fike /Sebastian

SIU - Maretu /Sebastian

SNOBBISM (cover) - Mafumafu /Sebastian

¿Porqué te vas? - Jeanette /Seb

The bidding (cover) - Chonny Jash /Sebastian

Choke - I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME /Sebastian

In my mouth - black dresses / Sebastian

Perfect nothing - Ghost and Pals /Sebastian & expendable

Crime and punishment - Ado / Sebastian and expandable

Terrible things - Axie / expendable

Stay calm - Griffinilla / expendable

Where's your head at - Basement Jax / expendable

Conversation with strangers (I like writing on walls)- Caitlin Cook / uh.... VARIOUS

MEDUSE - Nuvfr / in thinking

My god is the sun - Queens of the Stone age /

The meat grinder - jerma remix - japanesecoffee/ Sebastian

Stop nagging me!Neru - Owatap/ Sebastian

Sonic snapcube fandub funny moments/Sebastian and various

*drum roll*

Rolling girl - wowaka - Seb and various

[annachum]

Some songs/music in my Loki x Sigyn ( MCU ) Playlist

. Love story by Taylor Swift

. Solveig's song from Peer Gynt

. Snowman by Sia

. Just give me a reason by Pink and Nate Ruess

. Beauty and the Beast

. Carmen by Lana Del Rey ( actually I think that song fits both of them btw )

. Salvatore by Lana Del Rey

. Queen of Disaster by Lana Del Rey

. Walking the Tightrope from The Greatest Showman

. Breathe from In the Heights ( a song I think fits Sigyn )

. I'm going slightly mad by Queen ( a song I think fits Loki )

Yes I bet Sigyn would defo be a fan of Lana del Rey's songs

[alteredsilicone]

I've seen adaptations of Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck, Brand and Hedda Gabler, I've also seen a ballet performance of Peer Gynt and I think I read the book sometime in high school...

I think I also saw When We Dead Awaken but that one didn't speak to me.

Probably should read Doll's House. That one seems to be the most popular for its themes.

[tigreblvnc]

Hahaha! omg no I’m not hiding anything! I just don’t interact much with people or posts other than sometimes liking, so my blog is left empty:). I liked you and your writing, so I really had to comment and talk with you, you're very intriguing! :)

And I do in-fact write! Only for myself and family, I’m too shy to actually post. I mostly have just been doing poetry lately!

I’m glad we have the same thoughts about knowledge! I love pursing knowledge in almost everything I can, even if it’s just a little bit, I just want to be so knowledgeable that people immediately think of me whenever they have questions about anything! Like an encyclopedia! So far I’m succeeding :)

I didn’t know you knew classical pieces!! I love Swan lake by Tchaïkovski I also love his The nutcracker piece, another favourite of mine would probably be Dies Irae! Do you have any other classical piece that you like or even recommend? I’m trying to find more pieces to listen to! Ah! My apologies I rambled off again, I’m quite excited, I haven’t met/seen anyone with similar interests to me!

Intriguing, why?

I'd love to read you.

I took the time to gather some classical music that I really like. I have classified them in alphabetical order and starting with the name of the artist because they are often more telling than the title of the piece itself.

Classical music recommendations:

Bach Jean-Sébastien - Toccata and Fugue in D minor

Chopin Frédéric - Prelude op. 28 n24 in D minor ❤️

Chostakovitch Dmitri - Jazz Suite, Waltz No. 2 ❤️

Grieg Edvard - Peer Gynt Suite No.1 ❤️

Haendel Georg Friedrich - Sarabande

Kalinnikov Vasily - Symphony No 1.

Lully Jean-Baptiste - Marche pour la cérémonie des Turcs

Mussorgsky Modeste - Night on Bald Mountain

Offenbach Jacques - Can Can Music

Prokofiev Sergei - Peter and the Wolf

Rachmaninoff Sergueï - Piano Concerto #2 in C Minor, Op. 18 ❤️

Ravel Maurice - Ma mère l'Oye ❤️

Ravel Maurice - La Pavane pour une infante défunte

Rossini Gioachino - William Tell Overture: The Storm ❤️

Saint-Saëns Camille - Le Carnaval des animaux : Aquarium

Tchaikovsky Piotr Ilitch - Swan Lake ❤️

Van Beethoven Ludwig - Symphony No 7 A-Dur, op 92

Verdi Guiseppe - Requiem 1 - Dies irae, Libera me ❤️

Vivaldi Antonio - Concerto for Mandolin in C Major RV425

I also really like movie and video game soundtracks! I have a lot of tracks if you're interested. By the way, would you like to share some songs that you like? :)

[satureja13]

*Edvard Grieg’s ‘Peer Gynt - Morning Mood’ is softly playing*

But something is wrong. There is someone else in Vlad’s room...

*Vlad just waving his hand because he’s too tired to do sth else*: “Jack... Jack - wake up... what are you doing here?” (Jack is sleeping on the floor again, like always when he’s worried. He’s protecting Vlad from Kiyoshi since he couldn’t kill him last night...)

Jack: “Vlad! I need you to trust me on this! We have to go to the temple this weekend!” Vlad: “Ok.”

Jack crying: “How are you supposed to trust me just like this?” (Jack seems really revved up from his encounter with Kiyoshi...)

Vlad: “Why shouldn’t I? You’re my best friend.” (the photos of Ji Ho in the pic below hahaha)

Jack: “The council is after you! We don’t even know why! You shouldn’t trust anybody!”

Vlad has the sneaking suspicion that this whole conversation is about Jack and his mysterious alpha and not about him...

Vlad: “Jack, do you remember when I drank Ji Ho’s blood and I knew that I could die? And when I was blind, I trusted Kiyoshi who cared for me. And the event on Winter Solstice, I was still blind and had to trust all of you to keep Ji Ho and me save. And when I let Luci take over my body, I have to trust him that he will let me come back. I trusted myself and I trusted my friends to do the right thing and that everything would turn out well in the end. And it did... well, until now at least. Trust us, Jack. And if you should stumble - we will catch your fall. Hm?”

I have the time so I will sin, yeah I'm just a boy but I will win, yeah Lost songs of lovers, fellow travelers, yeah Leave me sad and hollow, out of words

It could happen to you So think for yourself

If I should stumble Catch My Fall - Billy Idol

From the Beginning  ~  Underwater Love  ~  Latest

[sataidelenn]

I have some thoughts about the Blacksmith, and bear with me because I’m just throwing spaghetti at the wall with this somewhat disjointed analysis.

So in the story of Peer Gynt, the titular wastrel is nearing the end of his life and is approached my a mysterious man at a crossroads. The man introduces himself as the Button-Molder, and claims that he is here for Peer, as he has not accurately displayed the design with which he was originally printed (lost his purpose, in other words) and must be melted down and made new. The conversation calls back to an earlier part of the story, in which Peer is asked by the troll-king what the difference between humans and trolls is. The answer is that while humans say, “Be thyself”, the trolls’ maxim is “Be to thyself enough”. In living for himself, Peer has acted more like a troll than a human, and only narrowly escapes being reforged by learning how to truly be himself, which he finds through the love that his wife Solveig has for him.

Ruby, of course, is about the furthest thing from selfish you could be, but she’s still trying to be enough in herself, trying to mold herself into being something other than what she was meant to be because she feels that is what others need or expect. And just like Peer, the only way she’ll escape being melted down and turned into something else is by recognizing the love that her friends and teammates have for her. And I think that Jaune will be instrumental in that.

Jaune started his arc (Heyo!) trying to be to himself enough. He didn’t go to Beacon because he wanted to help people as a Huntsman, he just wanted to be a hero. It was all about his own image, about being the knight in shining armor, not the damsel stuck in a tree. After Pyrrha died, he swung to the opposite extreme and didn’t care about himself at all, to the point where he sounded borderline suicidal when taking to Cinder.

To me, Jaune’s moniker of the Rusted Knight calls to mind a character from George MacDonald’s Phantastes, whose armor became rusted after he disgraced himself, and had to fight until the repeated sword-blows scraped the rust from his armor and made it shine again. Shedding innocent blood is one of the worst betrayals of chivalry, and so it makes sense that Jaune’s armor would be stained red the same as his sword was last volume, and that he wants to atone for his failures, but there is another possibility for where the show might be going with him.

In contrast to what most of us thought, Jaune seems to still have his identity and memories intact; however, his previous focus on his image is gone. His name was not recorded in the story, his helmet obscures his face, which isn’t even the face any of his companions knew before, and the crest on his shield is almost completely obscured. Neither his own image or the family name he struggled to live up to are important to him anymore. However, he is also not succumbing to self-loathing like he did after Pyrrha’s death, which can be just as self-centered as his earlier obsession with his image. No longer either the hero or the martyr, he’s simply protecting whoever needs it in whatever way he can. I don’t know whether the Herbalist or the Blacksmith had anything to do with this, but I think he’s figured out how to be truly himself.

Ruby, meanwhile, is still firmly in the martyr mindset. She is disgusted with herself for never being enough, to the point where she is considering becoming someone else who could be enough to herself. And I think that Jaune could be in a position to flip the script on the pep talk about leadership that she gave him back at Beacon, and let her know that she doesn’t have to worry about being enough because it was never about her, and her failures, but about the people that she can help. Once she understands that, I think she’ll finally know how to be herself rather than what she expects herself to be; as Little put it, how to Ruby Rose.

[grandhotelabyss]

Favorite plays? Best plays? Do many overlap?

I've pretty much confined myself to the classics, so yes, they overlap, almost comically so.

Ancients: I need to reread the Oresteia—I haven't actually read it since a one-sitting rapture by Vellacott's old Penguin Classic translation on a Sunday night in my teens—but as a founding myth of civilization, it doesn't get any better. Then Sophocles's Theban plays, then Medea and Bacchae for Euripides. Never quite got Aristophanes and have yet even to read his most famous comedy. The Romans, the medievals: pretty much a blank, despite what Shakespeare took from Terence and Seneca. The East: pretty much a blank, though Kalidasa and a volume of Noh plays sit somewhere on my shelves.

Shakespeare: Hamlet is best—as in the best play ever written and the big bang of literary modernity—then Lear. Among the less-discussed, my favorite is The Winter's Tale. My current novel is obsessed with The Tempest. I have a less intimate relationship with the comedies and histories than with the tragedies and romances, but do admire Much Ado and Twelfth Night and the Henriad. Among non-Shakespearean early modern English plays, I've adored The Duchess of Malfi.

Modern European: Is Goethe's Faust a play, exactly? It's not not a play. It rivals Hamlet on the one side, Ulysses on the other. Then Ibsen, for the differently Faustian Peer Gynt and Brand, and for The Wild Duck—the greatest bourgeois tragedy, Arthur Miller be damned—the play that marks the transition from the smug naturalism of A Doll's House and Ghosts and An Enemy of the People to the chastened symbolism of The Master Builder and Hedda Gabbler and When We Dead Awaken. Shamefully, there are plays in the realist cycle I haven't read, though, and I still need to get to Emperor and Galilean. As for other dramatists, Chekhov's fine—I like The Cherry Orchard but somehow missed Three Sisters—and Strindberg still awaits my attention.

Modern British: Wilde and Shaw, Shaw and Wilde! Anarchist aestheticism vs. socialist realism in perhaps their best and purest forms, a double-helixed locus classicus. Salomé, The Importance of Being Earnest; Man and Superman, Major Barbara. After them, who? More Irish: Yeats's symbolic ritual drama, Synge's vernacular pageant (The Playboy of the Western World—so good), and, among our contemporaries, By the Bog of Cats. Beckett is fine, Endgame more interesting than Godot. Among the modern English, I never quite got Pinter; Stoppard, Shaw's heir, interests me more, Arcadia being the best I've read or seen. And then, if we can stand in her blast radius, Sarah Kane, more for 4.48 Psychosis than for Blasted.

Modern American: We owe it all to O'Neill even if he's uneven, like Dreiser among the novelists. I like Strange Interlude, if only for the novelty, and of course Long Day's Journey into Night. Still need to read The Iceman Cometh. Tennessee Williams is best—A Streetcar Named Desire is the great American play to go with Moby-Dick as the great American novel and Leaves of Grass as the great American poem for a star-spangled gay-male trifecta—and then August Wilson, more for Joe Turner than for Fences, though I still need to read the whole Century Cycle. Arthur Miller: overrated, as I've implied.

I'll leave you to compile the shadow-list of my obvious omissions; it's terrifying when you start thinking about how much you haven't read.

[melting-houses-of-gold]

30, 23, 11, 5 and that's all the numbers I can remember

SO MANY 👁👄👁

5) something to play loudly: the planets by gustav holst

11) something i never get tired of: Gimme Gimme Gimme by ABBA

23) a song you think everybody should listen to: this bitter earth/on the nature of daylight from max richter & dinah washington

30) a song that reminds you of yourself: in the hall of the mountain king from peer gynt (it feels like my brain at all times)

Send me a music ask (list here)

[alexafaie-asd]

Two of my favourite pieces of music of all time. Would certainly end up on my Desert Island Discs list (if stranded & only had 8 pieces of music you could listen to). Pitting them against one another doesn't exactly seem fair, but I'm interested in what others think.

[a-bee-wizard]

here are my ongoing knitting WIPs

Hippa Tulippa mittens:

i've been using them to test/practice various ways to tension my floats, and as a result the sizing is VERY funny. My plan is to knit the top part of the remaining mitten very tight so that they will at least kind of match lengthwise, and then hope I can block out the worst of my gauge sins.

Probably about 4 hours of work remaining? ~2 more to finifh the main part of the mittten (including some sewing and weaving in ends), and 1 hour each for the thumbs.

Poet sweater

I love this yarn!!!!!!! it's an alpacka/silk blend, and im already planning to use it again, soon!! The sweater looks kind of weird since I haven't blocked it yet.

Maybe about 5-6 hours left? The stockinette part is fast, but the half twisted rib on 3 mm needles took FOREVER on the first sleeve, lmao.

Woolly waffle sweater

So first of all: this thing should be moved to a longer cable because it looks so sad. Second of all: some of the construction choices for this sweater are super weird. Like i've never done an "m1" increase - as in NOT M1L or M1R, just M1. AND it has short row shaping, but not really any proper short rows? i think it's optimized to be as easy as humanly possible to physically do for someone who has never knit a sweater before, but as someone who has i'm constantly thrown off guard. But I mean, it WORKS so i'm not complaining.

Also this yarn (peer gynt) is the first proper scratchy wool yarn i've used (i have a lot of texture hangups) and im not sure how i feel about it. The texture is BIZARRE, it's like almost rubbery? I think it's going to feel and look great with some actual use (so it can absorb like. skin oil) but knitting with it is very strange.

I guess about 20-30 hours more work? That folded hem (half twisted rib AGAIN) took forever to do.

In the pipeline (no pictures because i can not be bothered)

Merino socks. I impulse bought some sock yarn this summer, and need to get started on those once i finish the mittens. I want to knit them top down with 2x2 ribbing along the leg/foot. It's been a while since I did a heel flap and gusset, so maybe i'll do that. I know some people have a real bee in their bonnet about heel shaping but i just don't care - i just do whatever i feel like.

Mmaybe about 10 hours of work from start to finish? I'm not really a sock person, idk.

Mohair hat. I haven't knit with mohair before since it's kind of expensive and looks Very Texture (derogatory), but i think it can create a lot of cool colour effects and i'm ALL about that, so I want to at least try it out. Haven't decided on a colour yet though, maybe like a baby blue? OR: purposefully pick two different colours and see how they marl.

About 5-7 hours of work, depending on how much grief using two strands of yarn will give me lmao

Ankers sweater. I bought this pattern some time ago, but didn't get around to it for various reasons. BUT the other week i saw someone knitting it with two strands of my new FAVE alpacka/silk blend yarn, so now i'm all *george costanza voice* i gotta focus i'm shifting into alpacka/silk mode

[rarijackistheshit]

Yay button! Tell me all about the Catra Christmas Carol plx!

Sure!

Tw: Nothing of this will make sense if you don't read the story first. So go ahead:

There. Have you read it? Good. So...

On one hand, not much to tell, just another f*****g retelling of a tale old as time. I hadn't really been writing anything for ages and this was just something I found easy to do.

On the other, it was a very fun experience, I enjoyed writing it very much. The name was pretty much the starting point, with the three C's in a row. And with Catra being the major villian along with her redemption arc made her more or less the only scrooge possible.

Shadow Weaver as Marley was also clear from the start. Now that I think about it, Scorpia would have worked as well, if I wanted to go a bit more xlose to the original... but on the other hand, who wants dead scorpia?

The plot about the melting pot is stolen from Peer Gynt, but it feels a bit OOC for Shadow Weaver to be so remorseful, but... she is dead and she has seen more than us mortals so... eh. But it was a stretch, and a step away from the main plot.

What to include more then... Well, the three ghosts was a must, that was more about who fit which where. Christmas past is always Jiminy Cricket for me, and that was the reason for the first ghost being Angella. Swift Wind as present was more of an ass pull, but I hadn't written him in a while so... he's there because I wanted to. (Also, I wanted to have an annoyed Catra.)

When it came to make Mara/She-ra the third... To use her was pretty clear from the start. I wanted to do something different. Something a bit more light, and then throw in a twist. I'm as bad as that director we don't mention... oroginally it was supposed to be DT but they're not that sinister. Prime is evil enough. And Mara had to show up at the end. My constant pre-reader Bagge suggested more focus on the choice and that Catra had time left to change. I was going for something else but as usual, his suggestion was better.

Well, Catras life... having Hordak as her boss and Prime as some sort of etheral judge... Perhaps not the best match, but you know what, my fanfic, my rules.

Scorpia as the nephew, AND tiny Tim? Of course. I try to keep the cast restricted, and I couldn’t really see Frosta there.

Catras childhood, I went for "poor, strict but fair and Catra doesn't get it." Maybe it low hanging fruit, but the idea of never wanting to be poor again felt like it suited Catra, and.as in the show, she takes it to the extreme. Lonnie is my favourite supporting carachter and I want her in.my work a.m.a.p. and if she's there, so is Kyle and Rodge

Originally, Lonnie was to be the sole friend, but to not include Adora? Really? Of course not. The childhood friend turned rival had to be there, but to go the full enchillada and do Catradora felt like to much. Hence Glimmer. She kinda doubles as a high class person, someone Catra would look for as a sign of her status. It's not explicit, but part of Catras quest for power is to show Glimmer that she has enough to provide for someone like her. Also, Glimmer is much better as neglected gf. More drama. Now, is Angella her mother? Who knows?

As with 99% of all She-Ra fanfics, shipping has to be there. Scrooge did once have a fiancee, Catra still has one.

Originally, chapter one was written more ambiguously since I couldn't make up my mind if Glimmer or Adora was the LI. But as soon as I had chapter 2 written I knew.

Huntara was originally mermista but her voice didn't fit the part. Also, I have huge problems separating her and.Sea-Hawk.

(I also have enormous problems separating Glimmer and BOW. Making him.Glimmers pet felt a bit like a cop out, but come on! He HAS to be in her life!)

I have a few regrets. I threw in madam Razz mostly.because I wanted to,.and her part feels a bit unnecessary. I also feel I missed the opportunity to use her as spirit of Christmas past, it would make her later appearance so much better. But that's how it is when you make shit up as you write.

It annoys me I forgot to write what happened to Lonnie but... You know what, your idea of what happened to her is probably better than mine.

I think that was all?