#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

[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 as he shoves every single woman out of the way: Hello, sailor!

[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

[wickcipher]

I love the idea of Raph and Donnie having lasting effects!!! Are there any others apart from the eyes and maybe the hive mind thing? (Also does the hive mind thing affect how they interact with each other?)

Also I love your art!!! The comic is awesome, and I did not realise you were the one who made the awesome music video for the Cass Apocolypse series!!! Thank you for sharing!!!

Meanwhile:

They get a little mixed up sometimes...

[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.”

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Look what we've become.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[anthotneystark]

Had an idea at work but couldn't write it out until now lmao

Down on his luck Steve who refuses to give in to his parents and is desperately trying to figure things out for himself. But putting himself through school (i can never decide between nursing or education) is expensive. So he works two jobs, trying to save up and taking a few classes here and there, and the one job is in a restaurant. It's a fancier place, usually gets him decent tips, but the best nights are the ones where he's not waiting tables. The best nights are the ones where he plays the piano and sets the mood and has a little more freedom to enjoy himself.

Enter Rockstar!Eddie, who got out of Hawkins quick and never looked back. Who's at this fancy place for a work dinner and, as his bandmates (Jeff) demanded, he's trying to behave himself and remember which fork is which. But that's just not possible, not entirely, when he catches glimpses of a beautiful face, a face only rarely darting up from the piano in front of him. And look, Eddie's only human. He's smitten just from glimpses. He manages to get through the dinner, constantly watching to see if the piano man will look up again, but he's still playing by the time they're wrapping up.

So he skips out on riding back to the hotel with the others, goes to the bar area and decides it's not that creepy to wait for him. He waits and waits and waits and listens for the music to stop. The bartender is all but shoving him out the door when it does. With no other choice, he waits outside, smokes a cigarette to calm his nerves while he looks for a head of chestnut hair with an angel's face. Just as he's about to give up, he sees him. And he recognizes him. But just as much as that dismays him, he's still got hope enough to give it a shot.

He doesn't think Steve will recognize him anyway, but even if he does, Eddie's never been accused of making the best decisions.

So he slinks out from the shadows, which is a bad decision, and tries to get Steve's attention, which is a bad decision, and surprises Steve, who's first instinct is a fight response, resulting in Eddie getting punched in the face.

Because bad decisions.

Steve is obviously very apologetic, takes Eddie back home to get him ice for his face, and Eddie can't even protest because Pain. But once his face is numb and Steve's cleaning up the blood from his nose (very bruised but not broken) he's kinda staring and Steve, clearly embarrassed, is doing concussion tests. When asked "what's today's date" he responds with "our future anniversary". And when Steve asks him "what's your name" he responds with "your future husband" and Steve gives up on questions after that.

They obviously make out about it, even though they keep accidentally injuring Eddie further by knocking his nose.

And Eddie is right, it is their anniversary after all.

[loresung]

breaking my no commentary rule real quick to say, i love that odysseus became every monster he fought except for calypso. he asked penelope if she would fall in love with him again. he waited for her response. he was willing to accept a rejection. even when she provoked him, he was accepting the rejection but not the destruction of the symbol of their past love.