#taikatalvi

[secretly-a-trickster-goddess]

The transition “Taikatalvi” has to “Storytime” is perfect.

[daletrafra]

Paroles de la chanson “Taikatalvi” de Nightwish

[lowlychild]

atarinkë and telperinquar

[cinematicjourney]

Moomins and the Winter Wonderland (2017) | dir. Iran Capelan, Jakub Wronski

[skruttet]

Moomin Puppets

1958 - Onnellinen muumiperhe - Finland (stage)

1959 - Die Muminfamilie - West Germany (TV)

1974 - Muumimuinasjutt - Estonia (stage, recording is 1984) 1975 - Pöörane muumisuvi - Estonia (stage)

1977 - Opowiadania Muminków - Poland (TV)

1977 - W dolinie Muminków - Poland (stage)

1978 - Mumi-trol - Russia (TV)

1993 - Det osynliga barnet - Sweden (stage)

2005 - Une saison dans la Vallée des Moumines - Switzerland (stage)

2009 - Taikatalvi - Finland (stage)

2010 - W dolinie Muminków - Poland (stage)

2013 - Moominland Midwinter - UK (stage)

2014 - Muminki - Poland (stage)

2014 - Moominsummer Madness - UK (stage)

2014 - Муми Тролли и большое наводнение (The Moomins and the Great Flood) - Russia (stage)

2015 - Mummitrollet og det usynliga barnet - Norway (stage)

2016 - Муми-тролль и шляпа волшебника - Russia (stage)

2017 - Mischief and Mystery in Moominvalley - UK (stage)

2017 - ムーミン谷の夏まつり (Moominsummer Madness) - Japan (stage)

2020 - Det osynliga barnet - Finland (stage)

2020(?) - Муми-тролли - Russia (stage)

2020 - Рождество и муми-тролли - Russia (stage)

2021 - Hur gick det sen? - Sweden (stage)

2021 - Granen - Sweden (stage)

2022 - Kris och katastrof i mumindalen - Finland (stage)

2022 - Da julen kom til Mumidalen - Denmark (stage)

2023 - Hvem skal trøste Knøttet? - Norway (stage, revival from 1998?)

There's also the puppet theatre at Muumimaailma.

There's probably even more I don't know about!!!!! Lemme know if you have one I could add to the list!

[viperwhispered]

It is here! The playlist for Emi's first year at NRC, and her relationship with Jamil.

Don’t get spooked by the Finnish in the first song, the rest are in English.

Basically, this mostly follows the timeline of Emi’s first year in NRC (for more details, you can check her intro post and the timeline of her relationship with Jamil). All from her pov, pretty much.

You can probably tell when the Jamil feelings start to take hold, lol.

Funnily enough, My Land was the first specific song that came to my mind when I started this up (hi Azul apparently the mood for your schemes is very specific). For the rest, I combed through my spotify library (and oop did it take longer than I anticipated).

There’ll also be a few bonus songs in a reblog, including some for Jamil's point of view (because tumblr likes to be silly about showing posts with links and I don't wanna try my luck more than I already am).

Also if someone would prefer a youtube version to more easily access the songs, do let me know!

Anyways, there'll be some rambles and explanations under the cut, both for my thought process and for what each song was chosen to represent.

Taikatalvi

I wanted to start off with something in Finnish, to express where Emi’s coming from before waking up in the coffin at NRC. Palasia by Harmaja was also a very strong contender, but I figured this had more of a magical and fairytale vibe which suited this occasion. Plus, like, Nightwish as a band has been with me about forever, so it was quite fitting from that perspective, too.

The Worlds Forgotten, The Words Forbidden

It seems to me this one might be reasonably self-explanatory. Emi doesn’t know where she is, she doesn’t remember where she’s coming from, and she’s not exactly having a great time trying to figure out what is happening. The joys of surprise isekai 🙃

Whatever Makes You Feel Superior

Our first overblot song. Emi’s rule following has its limits, too, and her first impressions of Riddle sure ain’t the most favorable.

Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams

Basically, about Emi generally trying to cope with her situation and keep her hopes up. I also thought of using Turn the Page by Blind Guardian or Wishmaster by Nightwish to specifically refer to her escapism via books, but unfortunately those had to go when I was cutting down the playlist.

Mindfall Remedy

For Leona’s overblot - yep, Emi doesn’t have a huge amount of sympathy for Leona either, at least in the moment when she’s just scared. It Won’t Fade by Sonata Arctica was also a strong contender, especially with all the pack and animal imagery, but it didn’t quite fit - plus we already had another song from that album, and I figured I’d go for more variety instead.

Day Three: Pain

Emi struggling to come to terms with the fact that welp, she could’ve died, and this place is dangerous, and scary, and strange, and everything. Basically, things are not great.

My Land

I felt the mood suited book 3 and Emi’s feelings there quite well. Azul basically got Emi on a warpath - Azul’s taken something of hers, her home as much as she has one, and she wants it back.

Plus, this has been a very motivational / inspiring / uplifting song for me for ages, getting me pumped up for dealing with difficult things, so I figured it’d be very fitting here, with Emi squaring up to deal with Azul’s schemes.

The Rest Of The Sun Belongs To Me

Basically Emi’s mood after book 3 / as winter break approaches. She’s still struggling, but she is hanging on, and seeing more of a light at the end of the tunnel as she’s adjusting more.

Asking For It

For Jamil’s overblot. This was a tricky one to pick a song for, because it’s like Emi’s angry and hurt, but not completely without sympathy. My other options were Chameleon Halo by Entwine or Sin With a Grin by Shinedown. Honestly, all of them could’ve worked, but again trying to pick just one. Girl’s fear and all sure is turning into anger here, tho - and she sure doesn’t appreciate the feeling of being fooled and used.

Life

For ADeuce and friendship in general. It’s not all bad here, is it, and Emi’s gonna be very touched when she realizes the lengths they both are willing to go for her.

Clevermind

Some reflections post Jamil’s overblot. Honestly partially included this just since it talks about what could've been in December, it just felt too fitting. Like, Jamil could've had more sympathy and stuff from Emi, and Emi recognizes it, but boy did he squander it.

Arabesque

I’m sure y’all can figure out who this refers to. (I’m thinking the Scarabia duo in general, tbh, but yeah Jamil in particular when book 5 rolls around.)

Plastic World

For Vil’s overblot. I also considered Curtained Life by Entwine. Nothing much to say tbh, I feel it fits quite nicely.

State of My Head

Grim’s gone (and so are a few others), and turns out Emi cares enough to be feeling very protective. Not like she can rush STYX guns blazing but yeah, she’s not exactly feeling meek here.

Bleeding for the Cure

For Idia’s overblot. Was a bit tricky finding something exact for this, but I think the mood’s pretty fitting here. Plus how Idia's feeling like she doesn't have a chance for a future outside STYX and all that fun stuff.

The Symphony

Things are looking more up, Ramshackle’s starting to get more cozy with what Emi & Jamil have been doing to fix it up, some of the anxieties have been leaving Emi. And, mayhaps, there are some feelings stirring?

A Dark Switch & Aquaman

Emi’s starting to realize her feelings for Jamil and commit to it. I could've stuck with just one song but I could not bring myself to do so.

The Looking Glass

For book 7. Comatose by Ayreon would’ve also been great, but again, trying to cull things down.

The rest is basically more or less sappy love songs for Jamemi’s future, lol. Still, it’s not all sunshine and roses - there’s times of separation in their future, with them being on different years on NRC, they gotta lean on each other, and it’s not like they always see eye to eye.

Honestly it was so hard not to make this too long with all the songs I wanted to include, but I’m quite happy with the range here.

And like, how could I not dedicate some time to being thoroughly sappy with these two.

Tagging @scint1llat3 @moonyasnow @bibi-cha

If anyone else would like to be tagged for Emi things, do let me know!

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Taikatalvi • Storytime • Ghost River • Slow, Love, Slow • I Want My Tears Back • Scaretale • Arabesque • Turn Loose The Mermaids • Rest Calm • The Crow, The Owl And The Dove • Last Ride Of The Day • Song Of Myself: From A Dusty Bookshelf, All That Great Heart Lying Still, Piano Black, Love • Imaginaerum

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[nemo-of-house-hamartia]

❄TAIKATALVI❄

[ichayalovesyou]

This is my carefully curated playlist based on Tumblr's favorite Mafia movie, Goncharov! It is arranged into story order but you can enjoy it on shuffle as well! Normally I color code which songs are about who, but this time around I wanted to leave it up to interpretation, although I think you might be able to tell who my favorite character is lol!

Winter In Naples

“You Need The Fear of God Put Back Into You Goncharov”

Taikatalvi by Nightwish from Imaginaerum • Ruler of Everything by Tally Hall from Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum • Birds With Broken Wings by Ben Caplan from Birds With Broken Wings • Istanbul by They Might Be Giants from Flood • The Cat Came Back by The Laurie Berkner Band from Laurie Berkner’s Favorite Kid Songs • Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz from Gorillaz • Champagne Taste by Eartha Kitt from Totally Crazy • Amar y Vivir by Carlos Rivera from Mexicano • Crazy = Genius by Panic! At The Disco from Death of a Bachelor • Farewell Wanderlust by The Amazing Devil from The Horror and the Wild • Time is Running Out by Muse from Absolution • Aha! by Imogen Heap from Ellipse • Modern Day Cain by I DON’T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME from Modern Day Cain

The Ball

“Your Husband Is As Tasteless As His Counterfeit ‘Boots’, Dear Sister”

Vampire by People In Planes from Beyond the Horizon • Don’t Mess With Me by temposhark from The Invisible Line • There’s A Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven’t Thought of It Yet by Panic! At The Disco from A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out • Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps by Daniel Boaventura & Carlos Rivera from Your Song • Careless Whisper by George Michael from Ladies & Gentlemen The Best of George Michael • Real Men by Mitski from Lush • As The World Falls Down by David Bowie from Labyrinth • I’m A Funny Dame by Eartha Kitt from The Essential Eartha Kitt • Sin un Amor by Carlos Rivera from Mexicano • Bad Romance by Lady Gaga from The Fame Monster • Señor Amante by Kika Edgar from Señor Amante • Take Me To Church by Hozier from Hozier • Disarm by The Civil Wars from The Civil Wars • Femme Fatale by Coyote Kid from The Skeleton Man • Monkeys Uptown by Iron & Wine from Kiss Each Other Clean

Two Cigarettes, One Flame

“A Perfect Pearl Need Only Circumstance, No?”

Pretty Little Head by Eliza Rickman from O, You Sinners • Runs In The Family by Amanda Palmer from Who Killed Amanda Palmer? • 551 by Dessa from Castor the Twin • Wife by Mitski from Lush • The Bed Song by Amanda Palmer from Piano Is Evil • The Moon Will Sing by The Crane Wives from Coyote Stories • Evening On the Ground (Lilith’s Song) by Iron & Wine from Woman King • Better Love by Hozier from Better Love • Arms of A Thief by Iron & Wine from Around the Well • Where Evil Grows by The Poppy Family, Terry & Susan Jacks from A Good Thing Lost: 1968-1973 • Eric by Mitski from Lush • Angie by Bert Jansch from Bert Jansch • I Want To Be Evil by Eartha Kitt from That Bad Eartha • Don’t Get My Hopes Up by S.J. Tucker from Mischief • You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart by Sinéad O’Connor from So Far: The Best of Sinéad O’Conner • Dulce Mal by The Chamanas from Dulce Mal • Don’t You Dare Forget the Sun by Get Scared from Built For Blame, Laced With Shame

The Clock

“How Can Time Be Still, And Still Running Out?”

Blindness by Metric from Fantasies • Come Away To The Water by Maroon 5 & Rozzi from The Hunger Games: Songs of District 12 And Beyond • Era Escuro by Faun from Luna • Fly Me to The Moon by Melodicka Bros. from Fly Me to the Moon (Space Rock) • Glass Heart Hymn by Paper Route from The Peace of Wild Things • Where Butterflies Never Die by Broken Iris from The Eyes of Tomorrow • I Hope Your World Is Kind by Auri from Auri • Ballad of Jeremiah Peacekeeper by Poets of the Fall from Temple Of Thought • Broken Crown by Mumford & Sons from Babel • Dirt And Roses by Rise Against from Avengers Assemble • Marked Man by Mieka Pauley from The Science of Making Choices • If I Had A Heart by Fever Ray from Fever Ray • I Think I Smell A Rat by The White Stripes from White Blood Cells • Paranoid Android by Radiohead from OK Computer • Cool by Ansel Elgort & Mike Faist from West Side Story • That’s My Boy by Vast from Turquoise & Crimson

Ambrosia, The Blood of The Gods

“I’m Gonna Kill That Mario!”

Familia by Nicki Minaj, Angel AA & Bantu from Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse • Onward & Upward by Tommee Profitt & Fleurie from Gloria Regali • The Horror and The Wild by The Amazing Devil from The Horror and the Wild • Breaking the Law by Judas Priest from British Steel • I’m Always Walking as Somebody Else from American Murder Song from Murder Ballads of 1816: The Year Without A Summer • The House Of The Dead by NADA5150 & Mr.Kitty from The House Of The Dead • Adore Me by StarKid Productions from Black Friday • Kill My Friends by gP. from Kill My Friends • 7 Rings by ChuggaBoom from 7 Rings • Heavy Rain by Youth Man from New Moons Vol.1 • Loki by The Mechanisms from The Bifrost Incident • Warflower by The Mayan Factor from In Lake Ch’ • Dead Butterflies by Architects from Meteor • Man or a Monster by Sam Tinnesz & Zayde Wolf from Man or a Monster • The Weeping Song by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds from The Good Son

The Bridge

“If We Really Were In Love You Wouldn’t Have Missed”

What Love Can Heartbreak Allow by Ben Caplan from Old Stock • The Wolf by PHILDEL from The Disappearance of the Girl • Animal Impulses by IAMX from The Unified Field • Don’t Make Me by MALINDA from Don’t Make Me • Shout by Tears for Fears from Songs From The Big Chair • Don’t Call Me Angel by Ariana Grander, Miley Cyrus & Lana Del Rey from Charlie’s Angels • Heaven Knows by The Pretty Reckless from Going to Hell • Castle by Halsey from BADLANDS • Mineshaft 2 by Dessa from Castor, the Twin • Die Anywhere Else by Julia Henderson & Lorenzo de Sequera from Dusk • A Death by an Unkindness from 4 Songs • Despedida by Antonio Pinto & Shakira from Love In The Time of Cholera • Daughter of the Sea by Sharm & Alison M. Sparrow from Daughter of The Sea • Jane Doe by Hail The Sun from Wake • Bag of Bones by Mitski from Lush • Girl Into Devil (I Belong to Me) by S.J. Tucker from Stolen Season

The Train

“We Could Burn It All Down”

Panacea For The Poison by Flobots from Survivor Story • Here Come the Ravens by Aviators from Dystopian Fiction • All Night Long by Peter Murphy from Love Hysteria • A Sadness Runs Through Him by The Hoosiers from The Trick To Life • The Deep by PHILDEL from Wave Your Flags • Irish Hour by Saint Sister from Where I Should End • There Is Still Time by Lorn from The Maze to Nowhere • Happy by Mitski from Puberty 2 • Burned Out by dodie from Human • Where To Begin by Adam Watts from When a Heart Wakes Up • Hungry Like the Wolf by Hidden Citizens & Tim Halperin from Reawakenings • Dark Matter by Les Friction from Dark Matter • I Found by Amber Run from 5AM • The Hearse (Stripped) by Matt Maeson from Bank On The Funeral • The Wolf in Your Darkest Room by Matthew Mayfield from Recoil • The Devil Wears A Suit by Kate Miller-Heidke from Nightflight • Sinking Ship by CAKE from Sinking Ship • Lessons by SOHN from Tremors • Black Sun by Death Cab for Cutie from Black Sun • Die Today by The Txlips Band & Guitar Gabby from Queens of A New Age • Blood Moon by Saint Sister from Madrid • Cinder and Smoke by Iron & Wine from Our Endless Numbered Days • Girl With One Eye by Florence + The Machine from Lungs

The Apple

“Tell Them I’m Sorry, For I Have No Sorrow Left to Give”

The Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid by The Decemberists from Hazards of Love • Conversations at the End of the World by Kishi Bashi from String Quartet Live • My Way by Chase Holfelder from Major to Minor Vol.2 • We Are Your Nightmares by Cast of Nevermore from Nevermore: The Imaginary Life & Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe • Oh Death by Noah Gunderson from Saints & Liars • The Coldest Goodbye by Mary Kate Wiles from Spies Are Forever • Cathedrals by Jump. Little Children from Magazine • Carry Me Out by Mitski from Bury Me At Makeout Creek • Ghosts With Heartbeats by Plastic Patina from Ghosts With Heartbeats • Blood by My Chemical Romance from The Black Parade

“The film is gone, the only proof thereof Upon a boot, a tag mark’d Goncharov...”

Quotes from the movie Goncharov (1973) provided through art by: @theshitpostcalligrapher @when-sanpape-arts @inthefallofasparrow @not-the-blue @cloudmancy

[yokyopeli]

Muumien taikatalvi (2017)[31.12.2023]

[tj-dragonblade]

Top 5 Nightwish songs, go!

*sobbing*

I need you to understand. I tried to do a top ten a few years ago and managed to settle on a pool of 30 songs in no specific order. You have landed on one of the most difficult top-fives I could have been asked. Congratulations (and thank you, sincerely 💜). But I did it, after much thought and deliberation and with the caveat that ranking is extremely changeable after the first two:

1. Gethsemane I have to put this at number one since it is the most-played song in my library by a very wide margin. And it's very much a favorite. Gorgeous melody, so much devastating desperation conveyed, the frenetic piano runs, the cascading 'strings', the soaring vocals and some wonderfully poetic lines scattered thoughout the lyrics as well. 'Prayed more than thrice for you to see/The wolf of loneliness in me'. I love this song. So, so much.

2. Taikatalvi It's short but nigh on perfect, dark-waltzy 6/8 music-box intro swooping into melody equal parts foreboding and enchanting, vocals like a warning, by turns sweet or sinister, sweeping orchestrals, just. Extremely wintery and Fey all around. Follow the call and you may never see your own world again, but it may also be worth it.

3. Ghost Love Score Epic. I have been in love with this song since the first moment I heard it back in 2005. The perfect blend and interplay between the metal elements and the symphonic elements. All the time change stuff going on in the intro alone. The sweeping soaring lead vocal melody in the chorus over the choral chanting. 'If you be the one to/cut me I'll bleed forever'. The interlude through the middle, the switch to 6/8, the way it crashes back into the song after this break. The eventual return to the initial elements and the climactic rise in the melody I just. Yes Floor took the song to a whole new level, yes my favorite rendition is at Wacken 2013, but Tarja's studio version as linked above was the version I fell in love with and the version that introduced me to the band altogether.

4. The Poet and the Pendulum The melodrama and the bombast. The raw emotional journey, the discontent and misery and longing and anger-depression-despair, the final melancholy calm rising toward comfort and hope. The swings from melodic to discordant, the way it finishes like ripples on the ocean, soothing all that pain to peace and acceptance and moving-on. A 14-minute masterpiece of turbulence and exorcism.

5. Beauty and the Beast I will not deny that some of my love for this song is because it draws at least in part on the Disney version. 'Your ocean pulls me under/Your voice tears me asunder/Love me before the last petal falls'. Beyond that, I love the melodic change-ups, the back-and-forth vocals, the harpsichord patch on the keyboard, the rhythmic way it comes back in for the final section and the wordless soaring vocals over top as it finishes off, the growl at 4:20, that crystalline-delicate little melody tinkling over top of everything at 5:11. This was the one song back in the beginning that most clearly sign-posted where their sound was headed, the most 'Quintessential Nightwish' song off the first album, if you will. It's not particularly popular among the modern fans but holy crap I love it. So much. I am still so very emotionally distraught that we will never have the opportunity to hear a Floor-and-Marko version of this song, also.

Ask me my top 5 anything

[haljathefangirlcat]

Rules: pick a song for each letter of your URL and tag that many people.

Tagged by @maddenedbythesstars. Thank you!

H: Hell In A Handbasket by Voltaire

A: Advienne que pourra from La Legende du Roi Arthur

L: Lord Randal by Giordano Dell'Armellina

J: Joan by Heather Dale

A: Aedo by Vinicio Capossela

T: Taikatalvi by Nightwish

H: Hanno Ucciso Carlo Magno by BardoMagno

E: Ein echter wahrer Held by Schandmaul

F: Fegefeuer by Feuerschwanz

A: ... And Then I Noticed She Was A Gargoyle by Nanowar of Steel

N: Night Ride Across The Caucasus by Loreena McKennitt

G: Go Slowly Now, Sands Of Time by Tuomas Holopainen

I: I Am The Way by Marko Hietala

R: Rún by Skald

L: Le Bien Qui Fait Mail from Mozart l'Opéra Rock

C: Cha Cha Cha by Käärijä

A: Angels by Within Temptation

T: The Curse of Feanor by Blind Guardian

... okay, look, I'm not tagging that many people. XDD So let's just go with @janiedean @galarix and @octopuscato. Anyone else wants to do this? Consider yourself tagged.

[misfit-among-the-angels]

Nightwish - Imaginaerum for the album ask!

I want my tears back

Storytime

Last ride of the day

Ghost river

The Crow, the Owl and the Dove

Song of myself

Rest calm

Scaretale

Slow, love, slow

Taikatalvi

Arabesque

Thanks!