#music i write to

[eddiediazismyhusband]

Music I Write To:

recently I’ve been getting some anon asks about what kind of music i write to while i write/what specific songs/albums i listen to

i mentioned a while ago that i typically don’t like listening to music with lyrics when writing as the lyrics and vocals tend to distract me when trying to write (my brain is wired weird, i know) so i typically only listen to film scores when writing.

now with that caveat, i usually circulate a few different scores that i’m fixated on, depending on the mood of the fic im working on (note: this is not an endorsement of some of these films nor their narratives, i simply just love listening to pretty music and that’s all some of these are… you’ll probably be able to pick out which ones im referring to)

currently, my favorite/go-to film scores are:

Anna and the King by George Fenton

My Sister’s Keeper by Aaron Zigman

Murder on the Orient Express by Patrick Doyle

You’ve Got Mail by George Fenton

Flightplan by James Horner

Jane Eyre by Dario Marianelli

Sense and Sensibility by Patrick Doyle

anyway, just wanted to make a general post since i had a few different anon besties asking me! if anyone else is like me and likes to listen to film scores while they write, drop your favorites in the reblogs or give some of these a listen if you haven’t 💕💕

[artemisdesari-blog]

Within Temptation - Fire And Ice (Official Music Video)

Continuing the Careless To Let It Fall playlist posting: Fire and Ice by Within Temptation. Another band that I absolutely adore and one which I often use when writing difficult or breaking relationships. In this case, it’s the relationship between Obi-Wan and Dooku after the Clone War has started “where’s the love we once had, is it all a lie?”, “In silence I hold on to you and I” and so many other lines. It’s a truly heartbreaking song and really gets me into the headspace for their dynamic as the war continues and Obi-Wan begins to question SO many thing about his life and his relationships with certain other characters. 

[mickimomo]

Music I’ve Been Jamming To While Writing

Ok, so, I’m just going to list the ten most played bangers from my many writing playlists. 

Temptation - Raveena 

Ungodly Hour - Chloe x Halle

Slippin - Danni Baylor

Five - Kanii

Dark Roast - Ruffin

Love Again - Alex Isley, Jack Dine

Lingo Starr: DRUNKEN MASTER - Tobi Lou

Worlds Away - Chxrry22

LUV (I KNOW I WANT THIS FOR REAL) - Q

SORRY NOT SORRY - Tyler, The Creator

Bonus Song: CTRL - Mysie

If you’ve got any bangers you’ve been looping, drop it in the comments!

[frankierotwinkdeath]

Y’all want Taylor Swift to be gay so bad but you won’t even write femslash about her

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[theoldaeroplane]

worried that thing you put in your art or writing or game or music is too self-indulgent, too self-referential, too niche for anyone but yourself? fear not! you can do whatever you want forever. and you should.

[saixria]

Somewhere in Apollo’s hospital on Olympus

[noknowshame]

always a fun time when real life people are doomed by their own narratives. like guys you know it doesn’t have to be like this right? this isn’t a stageplay the foreshadowing isn’t real until you make it real

[fandomtrash-whataboutit]

Never getting over Penelope matching Odysseus’ wits, his love, his intensity, and generally his freak. There was no other way to write their reunion. Jorge we had nothing but faith in you and you wholeheartedly delieved

[iguessthisisanewobsession]

The ring was small and silver with a single emerald embedded in the metal.

It wasn’t something flashy, it probably cost less than the smallest gem from his vault all together.

But it was perfect.

Which made it so heartbreaking to turn it down.

“Dick.. you know me so well.. I wish I could take this ring, i really do.”

Dick was still on one knee in the little apartment, but he put the small box down on the floor as he asked.

“Then what’s stopping you?”

Danny let out a bitter chuckle,

“The US government.”

[protagaster]

Calypso, gesturing to herself and the rest of the suitors: Now, which of us will be the object of your attraction?

Odysseus, very obviously uninterested in any of them: Hm, wow, what great options. This is going to be so hard.

[Penelope walks in, hair disheveled and clothes ripped up. She is also covered in blood]

Penelope: Oh, sisters. I’m back from war.

Odysseus, with hearts in his eyes while he shoves every single woman out of the way: Hello, sailor!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Look what we've become.

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[merp-blerp]

Wait, so Polites's instrument is a mallet. And Polites is killed with something very similar to a tool mallet, a club...

JAY I HATE YOU—

[backpackingspace]

Athena with odysseus: surprise attacking odysseus and bodily slamming him to palace walls (for awareness training). Randomly kidnapping him from the palace to drop him in the woods (or the ocean or on two memorable occasions on a completely different island) (survival training), using her full strength in sparing matches (odysseus has many broken bones) dragging him up by his wrist so they're face to face. Not being careful with how often she uses quick thought or any of her other powers (what? He seems fine. She's sure odysseus has always been a freak it's definitely not brain damage it's/fine/hes /fine)

Athena with telemachus, after she accidentally knocked him out once: right right odysseus and penelope taught me how to do this when they had me babysit you. Gotta be gentle so so gentle. Gotta support the head gotta craddle humans not yank them up by the wrist (she knew odysseus was a freak why didn't he say anything??) Can't just funnel her full power into the kid gotta be so gentle.

[sporesgalaxy]

TWO THANGS

when I say "love" with no descriptors, I don't mean romantic by default

when I say "art" with no descriptors, I don't mean visual by default