#music to write by

[novella-november]

New writer's reblog game:

In a reblog or reply, post a set of song lyrics that you most associate with your current writing work, (even if it thematically has nothing to do with the actual plot) :D

[hockeyspiral23]

T's Empyrean Playlist

I never used to write to music, but I started for the truth in our scars, and decided on some mood music, and here we are.

It's in iTunes since I am a technology dinosaur (yes I still have old iPods floating around that I use) and all music I own so I have no idea how I can share it other than this painstakingly typed out list.

Feel free to ask any questions on why anything is on this list. Some things are because they were specifically written for the series, some I found on other Empyrean-related playlists (Fantasy Fangirls, Rebecca Yarros's own for FW and IF) and some are because I thought they fit. Fun fact! My current favorite song is on this list, as is the one previous.

This is all just in alphabetical order by song title.

Afterglow - Smash Into Pieces Animal I Have Become - Three Days Grace Atlas Falls - Shinedown BAD GUY - Smith & Myers Bend the Rules - Smash Into Pieces Black Sea - Natasha Blume Bleed - Smash Into Pieces Bleed Out - Within Temptation Boomerang (feat. Jay Smith) - Smash Into Pieces Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea - MISSIO Breathe - Tommee Profitt & Fleurie Burn It Down - Linkin Park Burning In The Skies - Linkin Park Codex - Joel Sunny Coming For Your Throne - Beth Crowley Control - Halsey Dangerous - Shinedown Dangerous Hope - Beth Crowley Dark Wings - Within Temptation Death of Me - Bookish Songs Collective Deep End - Ruelle Drive - Apocalyptica Drumming Song - Florence + the Machine Empire - Shakira End of the World - Beast in Black Everything They S4y - Smash Into Pieces Eyes Shut - Bookish Songs Collective Face the Music - Conjure One Fallen Souls - Ours Falling - Bookish Songs Collective Farewell - Apocalyptica Feral - Bookish Songs Collective Fly or Die - Bookish Songs Collective For My Sake - Shinedown For the Glory (feat. Hollywood Undead) - All Good Things Freefall - Bookish Songs Collective From Hell With Love - Beast in Black Gasoline - Halsey Getting Away With Murder - Papa Roach Gravity - Bookish Songs Collective Hallelujah I'm Not Dead - Citizen Soldier Heavy Is the Crown - Linkin Park Here to Fall - Yo La Tengo Hero of the Day (S&M version) - Metallica Heroes Are Calling - Smash Into Pieces Hope - Apocalyptica Hope - Shinedown How Did You Love - Shinedown How's the Heart? - Nightwish I am not a woman, I'm a god - Halsey I Know Places (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift I Will Not Die Today - Bookish Songs Collective I'm Alive - Shinedown In the Shadows - The Rasmus In Vain - Within Temptation Just Pretend - Bad Omens Legends Never Die - League of Legends & Against the Current Let Us Burn - Within Temptation Look What You Made Me Do - Taylor Swift Losing Control - Bookish Songs Collective Love Don't Die - The Fray Luminary - Joel Sunny Martyr Of The Free World - Epica Midnight - Bookish Songs Collective Miracle - Shinedown Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince - Taylor Swift Miss Blue - Filter Monster - Imagine Dragons More Than This - The Cure My Name - From Ashes to New No Easy Way Out - Digital Daggers Not Strong Enough (feat. Brent Smith) - Apocalyptica Nothing Else Matters (S&M version) - Metallica Orpheus - Shawn James Play With Fire (feat. Yacht Money) - Sam Tinnesz Paradise (What About Us?)(feat. Tarja) - Within Temptation Raise Your Banner (feat. Anders Fridén) - Within Temptation Rise - Apocalyptica Ritual - Within Temptation Safe - The Brevet Seven Days - Bookish Songs Collective Six Feet Under - Smash Into Pieces Sleepwalking - Smash Into Pieces Somewhere Around Nothing - Apocalyptica Stand My Ground - Within Temptation Stitches - Orgy Teardrop - Massive Attack The Catalyst - Linkin Park The Chosen One - Smash Into Pieces The Reckoning (feat. Jacoby Shaddix) - Within Temptation The Tradition - Halsey Thick as Thieves - Shinedown Trigger - Smash Into Pieces Undertow - Ivy Venom - Smash Into Pieces Villains - Bookish Songs Collective Watch Me Fly - Bookish Songs Collective Watching Over You - Smash Into Pieces We Go to War - Within Temptation What Do You Make of Me? - Beth Crowley Who's Afraid of Little Old Me? - Taylor Swift

[embyrinitalics]

on spotify

[cryscal]

what do you like to listen to when writing

My main requirement for stuff to listen to while writing is no words. I'll listen to songs with lyrics to gear up for writing, stuff that matches the characters and/or the vibe, but once I hit the keyboard I don't want words from outside my head mixing it up with the ones inside.

So yeah, I listen to a lot of instrumentals. Classical, chamber, new age, ambient ... and nature sounds are also good. If it happens to be raining, I'll open my window a little and listen to that. 😊⛈️

[two-bees-poetry]

twenty years across the sea

[fipindustries]

I cannot stand the parodies of modern major general, they're overdone and simply not as good as the original. They've done them about everything, whatever topic, big or small.

And when i notice one of them my eyes will always start to roll.

The diction's always slurry when they rush the complicated words, and adding many fricatives will turn it so cacophonous. The slanted rhymes are silly and they keep just making more and more, please someone stop the parodies of modern major general.

The scanning of the lyrics in the meter is unbearable, they emphazise the syllables in ways that are untenable, in short in matters musical, prosodic and ephemeral, i cannot stand the parodies of modern major general!

[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.

[ochiody]

idk why athena didnt interrupt him

[novella-november]

Hey this is neat. I now have little guys!

Anyway, does anyone have playlist they use for writing?

My current personal playlist is literally just the album "declaration" by the band "Red" but it highly depends on your personal music tastes! I will sometimes make a playlist for specific fics or story ideas, but in this case I saw this band had a (New to me, it's over a year old at this point) album I hadn't listened to before and decided to just open it up on youtube and play it on repeat while writing XD

So, I guess it really depends, what genre are you writing and are you looking for purely instrumental music that sets a mood in the background without distraction, or music with lyrics?

if anyone has playlists to share, feel free!

[castielsprostate]

having talented friends is so wild!!!!!! like. YOU!!!!!!!!!! YOU made THAT. YOU DID THAT?!?!?!?! YOU created!!!! THAT!!!!!!!!!!! WOAH!!!!!! praise!!!!!!!! praise for one thousand years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[charles-breaks-beakers]

HETEROSEXUAL CIS-PEOPLE LOOK HERE

Snaps my fingers at you as you scroll past this post

Look at me. Listen.

I'm not the best at serious posts, but that article up there reminded me of how important it is that people like you stand up for us. So hold on while I try to get this out of my mushy end-of-work-day brain.

We could fight this fight ourselves for decades trying to reach the equal laws, gender affirming trans healthcare that doesn't have a 2-5+ soul-eating years of waiting time, medical care with equal knowledge of lgbtqia+ bodies, and, what is often forgotten, inclusion in the little everyday areas of life like our way of speaking or things being set up or designed with the existence of queer people in mind.

But you joining in could get us there so much faster.

The power you have as a hetero cis person is that you set the standard for what is seen as the average way of treating us among other hetero cis people. You have been given the power of deciding what's "normal" and I'm begging you to use it.

Richard Green is a great example of to what extent your actions can help our situation, and smaller ways of support still add up to a great impact on society, and could make the days of the queer people you interact with.

Educate yourself before you speak up, but don't be silent.

[myjetpack]

My latest @guardian books cartoon.