#mono maims and destroys.

[queen0fm0nsterz]

now what the hell is going on here

[queen0fm0nsterz]

Mono being melted far more than Six and their hands both being completely melted hurts

them

[justsomeantifas]

Actual Fascists: [advocate for the murder and oppression and exploitation of marginalized populations, the continuation of using violence and genocide as a means of destroying the lives and communities of oppressed people, and champion the use of imperialism and colonialism in order to further their exploitation of others]

Actual Fascists: [justify the slavery of black people]

Actual Fascists: Women should stay home and have children and have access to nothing that even remotely resembles civil rights or autonomy over their lives and their bodies.

Actual Fascists: Gays are a cancer.

Actual Fascists: [don't care if trans people are murdered in broad daylight]

Actual Fascists: I'm going to destroy and deface the private property of immigrants and other people I don't like, and smash the windows and spray paint slurs on the walls of their community centers and places of worship.

Actual Fascists: [murder black people because they accidentally cut them off while changing lanes]

Actual Fascists: [attack Muslims using acid in order to hurt and maim and intimidate them]

Actual Fascists: We need to have a race war in order to cleanse our country of all the people we don't like in order to establish a pure, white nation.

Actual Fascists: Militarism and the development of a military-industrial complex that relies on the continued use of war is an important and necessary facet of creating a strong, unified, mono-ethnic nation, and using that military might to commit ethnic cleansing is important and necessary for the defense of white people.

Actual Fascists: [ask questions like, 'Is black genocide okay?']

Actual Fascists: [destroy lives, destroy homes and destroy families with impunity and without a single, solitary ounce of self-respect or decency or morality, let alone a moral compass of any sort.]

Antifas: Yeah, no, this shit is wrong because hurting other people is wrong.

Some Fucking Ignorant Ass Who Was Born Yesterday: OMGGGGGGG WHY AREYOU SUCH A FASCIST HOW DARE YOU USE EXTORTION AND TERRORISM IN ORDER TO FORCE PEOPLE TO GIVE IN TO YOUR DEMANDS. WHAT IS THIS SHIIIIIIIIT, WHY ARE YOU COMMITTING PROPERTY DAMAGE AND VIOLENCE AGAINST OTHERS????? DON'T YOU KNOW THAT SOME PEOPLE WANTING TO KILL YOU IS JUST??? ANOTHER OPINION????? OMGGGGGG WHATS WRONG WITH YOU.

[ludi-ling]

People, after literally 10 YEARS I have put together a YouTube playlist for the House of Cards, Book 1 soundtrack. Thanks to @raspberry-yogurt​ for the kick up the ass and inspiration to finally do this.  

Most of my fics I see play out as movies in my head. Naturally there has to be a soundtrack. These are the songs that either played through my head while I wrote, or that fit exactly the mood of the story after the fact. THIS IS 40 TRACKS LONG, and goes through the entire story in chronological order, chapter by chapter. 

Notes below in case you’re interested.

1.  Björk – Hidden Place - This was always the theme tune. House of Cards = the safehouse = the hidden place.

2.  King Black Acid – Wake Up #37 - Rogue wakes up to a world gone to shit.

3.  Natalie Imbruglia – On the Run - Rogue doesn’t want to leave her bed. ‘Cos who wants to face a broken world?

4.  The Stranglers – Strange Little Girl - Just Rogue.  It’s what she is.

5.  Mich Gerber – Sirens Call (Quishm) - Rogue opens the curtains and sees what the world has turned into.  She starts to comes to terms with it.

6.  Metric – Glass Ceiling - Mystique teaches Rogue her craft and turns her into a Brotherhood soldier. Rogue is on her knees, crawling through life.

7.  Belltower – In Hollow - The mission to destroy the Sentinel parts factory. Rogue feels like a dead woman walking, yet for some reason she cares enough about a necklace to go and rescue it.

8.  King Black Acid – Soul Systems Burn - Rogue meets Remy again and loses her virginity to him.

9.  Sugababes – Come Together - Remy. “Got to be good-looking cos he’ so hard to see”. True story. (Beatles version is better. But in my hc Rems likes this version better, cos sexy ladies are singing it.)

10.  Norah Jones – I've Got to See You Again - It’s the song the busker on the street corner is singing in chapter 7. “To not touch your skin is not why I sing.”

11.   Radiohead – No Surprises - Because really, both Remy and Rogue are just a little bit dead inside. Bringing down the government, with hearts full like a landslide. 

12.  Metric – Poster of a Girl - Rogue becomes an underground espionage whore. A poster of a girl, for other men’s pleasure.

13.  Imogen Heap – Have You Got It In You? -  Rogue’s mission to assassinate Kincaid. Remy comes in a takes the murder on his own hands.

14.  Madonna – To Have and Not to Hold - Rogue and Remy’s second night together. The rules of the game say no attachment, but maybe you want it. “Like a moth to a flame, only I am to blame.”

15.  Imogen Heap – The Moment I Said It - The morning after. Saying goodbye on bad terms is the worst...

16.  Silverchair – Miss You Love - ...Except that Remy really misses Rogue.

17.  The Velvet Underground – Stephanie Says - “There can be no emotion, there can be no feeling. If we allow ourselves to feel then we might as well die.” “It’s so cold in Alaska.”

18. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Time Zones - Rogue looks at the clocks in the hotel lobby.  Time means nothing - or does it? (When I burned this soundtrack, this was the break between disc 1 and 2).

19.  Massive Attack – Inertia Creeps - Rogue’s mission to seduce Troy Rifkind ~ Rogue’s third night with Remy. Basically this song is pure sex.

20.  Massive Attack – Dissolved Girl - More Rogue’s third night with Remy. Cos this song is pure sex the sequel.

21.  Thom Yorke – And It Rained All Night - Remy carries on with life and his crazy capers, but for some reason he’s a little distracted.

22.  Coldplay – Clocks - Always saw this as a crazy montage scene in my head, backed up by this song. Rogue and Remy going about their messed up lives, on missions, always close by, always thinking about one another, but never intersecting. “You are home, where I wanted to go”.

23.  Imogen Heap – Glittering Clouds (Locusts) - Rogue’s on the nation’s most-wanted list. What it’s like being invisible but infamous. “Don’t blame me, don’t maim me, I can’t help what I am.”

24.  Nouvelle Vague – I Melt with You - Rogue and Remy’s fourth night together. That indestructible feeling of being with someone you love.

25.  PP Arnold – Angel Of The Morning - The morning after. Just this whole song, basically.

26.  King Black Acid – Rolling Under - The Mystique-Rogue-Irene relationship. “You’re beautiful because you cried the tears trapped in your mother’s eyes. She told you that she loves you so and never wants to let you go. You’re beautiful because you tried to hold onto the little child who always knows you’re loved”.

27.  Lamb – Gabriel - Rogue comes to the dangerous and comforting conclusion that she’s in-love with Remy.

28.  Robbie Robertson – Unbound - And Remy kind of but doesn’t come to the conclusion that he’s in-love with Rogue.

29.  Mono – The Outsider - Rogue and Remy learn the truth about one another in the worst way possible.

30.  New Order – Crystal - When relationships go bad. “I’m a man in a rage/with a girl I betrayed”.

31.  Bic Runga – Sorry - Rogue and Remy’s argument in chapter 20. Neither can say sorry.

32.  Mono – Playboys - The mission with Anton Simmons.  Inside Rogue’s still angry at Remy, even though he kept her living all these years.

33.  Belltower – Too Late - Rogue and Remy’s last night together.  What they found together seems too late. “If every word unspoken flowed into my head. They’d get tied up, waiting to be seen. Too late, too late for me.  They come too late.”

34.  Badly Drawn Boy – Once Around the Block - The interlude. Rogue and Remy remember their youth at the Xavier Institute, when they were endlessly chasing one another and getting nowhere. “I want to repair your desire and call it a gift that I stole from just wanting to live.”

35.  José González – Heartbeats - “We were in-love.” (Suggested by Katjen, way back in the day).

36.  Natalie Imbruglia – That Day - It’s Rogue’s day of reckoning, the day of the mission at the Hound Pens. “And I’m nothing, and I’m true, and only a brave man can break through”.

37.  Imogen Heap – Closing In - Storming the Hound Pens. “I hope that you make it/I hope that you find your way.”

38.  Björk – Undo - Rogue steals Rachel Summers’ chronoskimming powers and battles against the Timestream to get back to Remy.

39.  Imogen Heap – Just For Now - Yes, I know it’s a Christmas song. But it’s also Romy finding each other and leaving their pasts behind together.

40.  Dido – Take My Hand - Closing credits. ;)

[hellshire-harlot]

I mean, think about it. In this world, children are ruthlessly hunted down and killed without mercy. She has had to kill, maim, and destroy in order to survive, and her nine-year-old mind just isn’t equipped to deal with that. In her eyes, betraying Mono was her only choice. It was an incredibly hard and painful decision to make, but like I said, she thought it was her only option. She can’t afford to carry that guilt with her, not when she has to claw and bite and fight for her next breath. As before, she had no choice but to leave him behind, close the door, and forget about him.

Are you telling me Six didn't only drop Mono, but also choose to forget about him too?

[vajra-furor]

Actual Fascists: [advocate for the murder and oppression and exploitation of marginalized populations, the continuation of using violence and genocide as a means of destroying the lives and communities of oppressed people, and champion the use of imperialism and colonialism in order to further their exploitation of others]

Actual Fascists: [justify the slavery of black people]

Actual Fascists: Women should stay home and have children and have access to nothing that even remotely resembles civil rights or autonomy over their lives and their bodies.

Actual Fascists: Gays are a cancer.

Actual Fascists: [don't care if trans people are murdered in broad daylight]

Actual Fascists: I'm going to destroy and deface the private property of immigrants and other people I don't like, and smash the windows and spray paint slurs on the walls of their community centers and places of worship.

Actual Fascists: [murder black people because they accidentally cut them off while changing lanes]

Actual Fascists: [attack Muslims using acid in order to hurt and maim and intimidate them]

Actual Fascists: We need to have a race war in order to cleanse our country of all the people we don't like in order to establish a pure, white nation.

Actual Fascists: Militarism and the development of a military-industrial complex that relies on the continued use of war is an important and necessary facet of creating a strong, unified, mono-ethnic nation, and using that military might to commit ethnic cleansing is important and necessary for the defense of white people.

Actual Fascists: [ask questions like, 'Is black genocide okay?']

Actual Fascists: [destroy lives, destroy homes and destroy families with impunity and without a single, solitary ounce of self-respect or decency or morality, let alone a moral compass of any sort.]

Antifas: Yeah, no, this shit is wrong because hurting other people is wrong.

Some Fucking Ignorant Ass Who Was Born Yesterday: OMGGGGGGG WHY AREYOU SUCH A FASCIST HOW DARE YOU USE EXTORTION AND TERRORISM IN ORDER TO FORCE PEOPLE TO GIVE IN TO YOUR DEMANDS. WHAT IS THIS SHIIIIIIIIT, WHY ARE YOU COMMITTING PROPERTY DAMAGE AND VIOLENCE AGAINST OTHERS????? DON'T YOU KNOW THAT SOME PEOPLE WANTING TO KILL YOU IS JUST??? ANOTHER OPINION????? OMGGGGGG WHATS WRONG WITH YOU.

[evelynnsometimes]

Actual Fascists: [advocate for the murder and oppression and exploitation of marginalized populations, the continuation of using violence and genocide as a means of destroying the lives and communities of oppressed people, and champion the use of imperialism and colonialism in order to further their exploitation of others]

Actual Fascists: [justify the slavery of black people]

Actual Fascists: Women should stay home and have children and have access to nothing that even remotely resembles civil rights or autonomy over their lives and their bodies.

Actual Fascists: Gays are a cancer.

Actual Fascists: [don't care if trans people are murdered in broad daylight]

Actual Fascists: I'm going to destroy and deface the private property of immigrants and other people I don't like, and smash the windows and spray paint slurs on the walls of their community centers and places of worship.

Actual Fascists: [murder black people because they accidentally cut them off while changing lanes]

Actual Fascists: [attack Muslims using acid in order to hurt and maim and intimidate them]

Actual Fascists: We need to have a race war in order to cleanse our country of all the people we don't like in order to establish a pure, white nation.

Actual Fascists: Militarism and the development of a military-industrial complex that relies on the continued use of war is an important and necessary facet of creating a strong, unified, mono-ethnic nation, and using that military might to commit ethnic cleansing is important and necessary for the defense of white people.

Actual Fascists: [ask questions like, 'Is black genocide okay?']

Actual Fascists: [destroy lives, destroy homes and destroy families with impunity and without a single, solitary ounce of self-respect or decency or morality, let alone a moral compass of any sort.]

Antifas: Yeah, no, this shit is wrong because hurting other people is wrong.

Some Fucking Ignorant Ass Who Was Born Yesterday: OMGGGGGGG WHY AREYOU SUCH A FASCIST HOW DARE YOU USE EXTORTION AND TERRORISM IN ORDER TO FORCE PEOPLE TO GIVE IN TO YOUR DEMANDS. WHAT IS THIS SHIIIIIIIIT, WHY ARE YOU COMMITTING PROPERTY DAMAGE AND VIOLENCE AGAINST OTHERS????? DON'T YOU KNOW THAT SOME PEOPLE WANTING TO KILL YOU IS JUST??? ANOTHER OPINION????? OMGGGGGG WHATS WRONG WITH YOU.