#song of blood & stone

[scarymonsters-andsupercreeps]

Slipping through my fingers, all the time

Do I really see what’s in her mind?

[i-hear-a-sound]

hand in unlovable hand

[cupids-beaux]

i miss u kian stone

[panic-flavored]

Idea: What if, along with the "siren song" merfolk use to put victims into a trance, they also have one other kind of call that they only use as an absolute last resort.

It's basically known by merfolk as the "Death call." It's a very specific frequency and volume of sound that, when used, can burst the eardrums and major arteries of anyone within the area. Even those farther away can experience temporary to permanent deafness, severe headaches, and nose bleeds.

The reason that merfolk try never to use this call, even in very deadly situations, is because the frequency and volume are so harsh that it causes harm to themselves. Those who do use it are lucky if they escape with minor effects, such as bleeding of the gills and eyes, temporary loss of proprioception, or permanently altered vocalization. But in extreme cases, the call can lead to collapsed lungs and internal bleeding, causing an agonizingly painful death to the merfolk making the call.

Most merfolk are fortunate enough to never be put in a situation where the death call is nessecary and can go their entire natural life without having to make it. But with modern humans becoming mcu more of a danger to them, that luck is quickly running out.

[aeolianblues]

🎵 SONG-TO-GO 🎵

Okay I'm doing it! :D Friday is here, so I've got another Song-To-Go poll fresh from the oven! (It smells like peppermint.)

If you're new, hello and welcome! Song-To-Go is a weekly song poll (well. 'Weekly'.) released every Friday where I present you with new, lesser-known songs to listen to while you scroll. I might try and make it Christmassy, idk.

As always, choose songs based on the 30-second Spotify snippets if you don’t know them (and I try to make sure there’s always something you won’t know). If you like what you hear, go listen to the full songs, they’re yours to carry along on your scroll!

[latest poll, and playlist of everything so far (in order) and other/future picks]

Have fun!

This week, a festive tune from instrumental surf rockers Los Bichos (produced by Alex Kapranos from Franz Ferdinand). Gotta say, their debut album Let The Festivities Begin! came out in February of 2022. They were born ready for the holidays! Alt rock for fans of Muse or Royal Blood, courtesy of Canadian duo The Blue Stones. American alt rock cult icons Wedneday, Irish jazz group moondiver with those chill frequencies, and London-based, Brazil-made artist Nonô with a dancefloor-ready Portuguese banger.

Let me know what you liked! Tell me all about it, maybe even tell your mates (I mean reblog!) I try and have a bit of something for everyone each week, but anything you'd like to hear more of? I'm all ears.

Back next Friday with a new Song-To-Go poll, in the meanwhile, happy listening and happy holidays!

[art--harridan]

[Image description: A digital drawing based on the movie The Loved Ones. It depicts Lola and Brent in Lola's house on the night of their school dance, wearing what Lola picked out for them. Lola looms behind Brent who is sitting down. She puts a hand on his shoulder and wraps her other arm around him, holding a power drill that drips blood onto his trousers. Both of her hands are also bloodied. She rests her head against his hair - which crumples his crown - and smiles twistedly, staring directly at the viewer. One of her legs kicks up behind her. Meanwhile, Brent is also staring at the viewer, but his expression is full of restrained rage, his face downturned and his eyes glaring. Blood leaks out of a whole in his head. It also leaks out of his chest, where there's a heart and the letters "L" and "S" carved, and the holes left by knives speared into his feet to secure them to the floor. Glitter is mixed with the pool of blood at his feet. A few slivers drip from his clenched fist. A few balloons float around the room, and there's a discarded party horn on the floor. The background is Lola's house which looks normal, if not a tad bare. The cabinets curve around them. This piece is blue toned but more vibrant as it travels to the middle, glowing pinker.]

Inktober - Day 7 (Drip)

Film - The Loved Ones (Sean Byrne, 2009)

[grntaire]

if there’s one reason i know for sure that media literacy is dead it’s that there are people who slow dance and get engaged to this song.

[amaizified]

just recently got back on anxiety meds and needed a song for the alarm so now every morning kian stone screams at me to take me meds. it's quite beautiful actually

[leng-m]

One of my new auto-buy authors this past few years is Makiia Lucier. Her pacific-islands-inspired YA Fantasies have a heartwarming focus on family and setting that many books in the genre don't normally highlight. Her stories have a cozy atmosphere despite the sometimes grim turns the plots take. I don't see many people talking about her books, so I figure I do a bit of the talking.

[dreaminginsteadofsleeping42]

@sophisticatedswifts's fears of cardigan not making it onto the setlist of future tours has inspired me: What songs from Taylor's first 11 albums do y'all think have guaranteed spots on any future tour setlist?

[hazy-moonchild]

MY GOD IS THE SUN

the character is from this picrew!

[neopuff]

brother blood & cyborg // hungry like the wolf

[m-a-d-e-l-e-i-n-e]

I'm a little late to this lol but here are a very musically challenged 19-year-old's favorite albums of 2023 (as of the beginning of 2024) 🥳

(also these are not really in order yet)

Desire, I Want to Turn Into You by Caroline Polachek

This is Why by Paramore

Cuts and Bruises by Inhaler

Javelin by Sufjan Stevens

In Times New Roman... by Queens of the Stone Age

Take Me Back to Eden by Sleep Token

Cracker Island by Gorillaz

Hotel Bleu by Broadside

VOID ETERNAL by nothing,nowhere.

Exotico by Temples

RUCKUS! by Movements

No Joy by Spanish Love Songs

Unreal Unearth by Hozier

Memento Mori by Depeche Mode

Back to the Water Below by Royal Blood

Everything is Alive by slowdive

Holy Waters by Puma Blue

Losing What We Love by Knuckle Puck

Suicide and Sunshine by Trophy Eyes

Bad Dream Jaguar by Sun June

Scaring the Hoes by JPEGMafia and Danny Brown

The Last Remaining Light by Far Caspian

Asking for a Ride by White Reaper

Still Love by Teenage Wrist

The Maine by The Maine

[louisxleprince]

since sunfyre is *allegedly* ded in HoD and they love changing everything for no reason, do we think aegon’s gonna make alicent kill rhaenyra to give her something to do that season??

[loremaster]

evil evil playlist 10/10

heh heh heh.... join me... in hell.....

[magpigment]

my top three blood in the bayou songs on my playlist:

twin size mattress by the front bottoms (literallt THE timothy rand song. to me. oh yeah and also rolan and kian too. this songs got it all)

how i survived bobby mackeys personal hell by lincoln (mostly rand n rolan imo)

wichitalk by pigeon pit (rand and rachel, rand and rolan, rand n rolan n kian)