#the great shipwreck of life by iamx

[pirunika]

IAMX is honestly the only musician whose every song I like...like I go thru the album n its ALL good.nothing compares

[gutterspeak]

finally broke down and made a fic playlist for guiding star . for my mental health

I have to fiddle with it still and make it look nice but here's a track from it that might be my final straw and turn me into an animatic artist

[himiamx]

[bloodwards]

tagged by @seamgreen thank you for thinking of me beloved 🥰

Rules: put your music in shuffle mode and post the first five songs.

Tagging @communistfries @danystargaryens @saintirulan and anyone else who feels like doing it, feel free to tag me so I can snoop 👀

[crackinthecup]

@gerardspuppy thank you so much for the tag :D <3

RULES: put 5 songs you actually listen to, then tag 10 people.

In a Perfect World by Poets of the Fall (listened to this on repeat while writing Reason to Try)

Falling Stars by Aviators

The Great Shipwreck of Life by IAMX

Ghost River by Nightwish

Passive by A Perfect Circle

Tagging in no particular order: @elevenelvenswords, @alackofghosts, @mostvaliantandmostpround, @gardensofthemoon, @saintstars (if you want to!)

[anticidic]

*whispers*

when you get this, list 5 songs you like to listen to. then send this ask to 10 of your favourite followers (but no pressure)

whisper-screams oo, thanks sm for including me in this!! 🫶

Bee My Honey — Masayoshi Soken

When I'm Gone — Eminem

Akaza (Demon Slayer) Killer — None Like Joshua

The Great Shipwreck of Life — IAMX

Hellbent — Autoheart

[dont-call-me-algernon]

@crabbycatt-noraitt-norai Thanks for the tag!!

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

D – Dance Macabre (Ghost)

O – Own My Mind (Maneskin)

N – Not Gonna Die (Skillet)

T – The Great Shipwreck of Life (IAMX)

C – Culling of the Fold (The Decemberists)

A – A Good Song Never Dies (Saint Motel)

L – Lay All Your Love on Me (ABBA)

L – Laplace’s Angel (Will Wood and the Tapeworms)

M – Mark Chapman (Maneskin)

E – Emperor’s New Clothes (Panic!At The Disco)

A – Absolution (Ghost)

L – Lonely Dance (Set It Off)

G – Gossip (Maneskin)

E – Enchanté (Dirt Poor Robins)

R – Roaring 20s (Panic!At The Disco)

N – Neutron Star Collision (Muse)

O – Over the Hills and Far Away (but like – specifically the Nightwish cover)

N – Natural (Imagine Dragons)

Let me tell you, this game made me realise that I do not know, let alone listen to a lot of songs that start with the letter O or with the letter N because those took some serious thinking lmao

aaand 18 are definitely too many people to tag, so I’m gonna just leave the game to anyone who sees it on their dash and wants to steal it, as usual!

[valeriianz]

Hi, @chaosheadspace here. (Anon cause sideblog and stuff).

I have a question regarding your playlist for the playlist you made for your Dreamling band AU. (Which is very good, btw. I'm looking for new music atm and was elated being greeted with someone saying "I want to skin you alive". Glorious.)

Did you choose the songs you think they might have played or did you choose songs that embodied the characters and the setting for you? Please feel free to ramble at length.

Hello! Oh goodness... I'm so happy to receive this ask. I've never thought much about music while writing fics (I don't even listen to music while I'm writing, I find it very distracting) but given this is a BAND au, it was almost inevitable (90% of the songs on the playlist were added before I even published the fic). Allow me to ramble, since you've given me permission haha.

All of these songs already exist somewhere on my Spotify, I listen to a lot of indie and alt rock and remember coming up with the idea for Bolt in the Blue and daydreaming A LOT about Endless as a band and what they might sound like. So, while I was commuting to work, cleaning my apartment, doing laundry, I had my Spotify on a constant shuffle and every time a song popped up that made me think about Endless, I tossed it into a playlist. A lot of edits were made before I decided to publish the final draft lol.

So while this did start out as what I imagined Endless would sound like, I also started to think about what each member might contribute to said playlist. I thought of it like... when you're at a show and music is playing through the speakers while you wait in the crowd and the stage is being set up. I could picture the whole band making a playlist and contributing equally.

I tell you, and myself, that it's not that deep. It's music that gives me vibes for the band only, and doesn't reflect the fic at all. Well, except one song. Mile Deep Hollow by IAMX is such a Dream song to Hob that it makes me vibrate while listening to it now:

So thank you You need to know That you dragged me out Of a mile deep hollow And I love you You brought me home 'Cause you dragged me out Of a mile deep hollow

I mean... no explanation needed. Hob is Dream's light and is the one who inspires him and drags him up from a deep darkness (kind of spoiler but eh, I like to think I'm pretty predictable and we could all see that happening from a mile away).

But the other tracks? Eh... I mean some definitely give off vibes but I wouldn't connect any of them to the fic itself. Even the fic title, Bolt in the Blue, while obviously taken from the LPX song, is not indicative of the story at all (that's a separate post though, it's all a metaphor lmao). Which is why, secret's out, I'm currently building a new playlist that will go along with the fic chapter by chapter lol. But that won't be ready until Bolt in the Blue is finished. I kind of realized, very recently, that I wanted a proper playlist to go along with the themes and characters in the fic.

So, while Endless' Personal Playlist is exactly that- just songs that one: I imagine the band could actually write and perform but also two: all made together and music they'd all rock out to in their tour bus... this new playlist I'm making will accurately describe and emulate the plot. I'm having a fucking blast building it and can't wait to share it with everyone :)

And just for fun, here's who I think added what track to the Endless playlist (as I've stated in the past, music is subjective and who you connect each song to is up to interpretation. And here's mine, and yes, there are some repeats):

Dream:

Poison by Alice Cooper Mile Deep Hollow & The Great Shipwreck of Life by IAMX Nothing Personal by Night Riots Don't You Forget About Me by Billy Idol

Death:

Bolt in the Blue & Slide by LPX Stone Cold Crazy by Queen Shout by Placebo Holy Mother by Starbenders

Despair:

Human & High by Anavae Blue Monday by Orgy Everything Black by Unlike Pluto Stone Cold Crazy by Queen

Desire: High by Avavae Youth Gone Wild by Skid Row Shout by Placebo Modern Day Cain by IDKHBTFM Hang on to Yourself & Massacre, The New American Dream by Palaye Royale

Delirium:

Maniac by Carpenter Brut Youth Gone Wild by Skid Row Call Me a Saint by YOKANA Don't You Forget About Me & Mony Mony by Billy Idol

Alright, I'm finished lol THANK YOU for letting me ramble!! I hope everyone reading enjoys the rock n roll or at the very least discovers something new from the playlist :D

[noirtek]

I’LL BE PETER PAN AND YOU JUST BE PRETTY

[chouchinobake]

thank you for the tag °\(0w0)/°

on a goddamn loop, these times

anyone who wants, feel free to join <3

@bloggedgirl tagged me to share 5 songs I've been listening to these days.. thank you darling!

yes I'm basic

I tag @eidorina @allthisfiddl @heavenlydreamangelflyhigh @julswood @littlestrizh @akkawi @lunecrypt @villagevvitch @apantomancja @sugartear @gentle-death-envoy @pavelkaramazov

and everyone else who wishes to participate!!

[alienjock]

Hi!!

he calls the mansion not a house, but a tombwe’re never done with killing timetwo coffins for sleepi’ll pick you upwe can make you understand

[gutterspeak]

thank you @arendaes & @dujour13 for the tags! :] I tried to pick from my favorite songs and artists!!

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

Glowing - Phantogram

Until There Is No End - Lorn

The Great Shipwreck of Life - IAMX

The Road - Black Lab

Eyes A Mess - BROODS

Running Up That Hill - MEG MYERS

Starshine - Gorillaz

Precious - Depeche Mode

Empty Hands - Mother Mother

Aristocrat - Poppy, Garibay

Kill The Lights - The Birthday Massacre

oh my god 11 tags. okay here we go. no pressure tagging: @desnas, @aelyosos, @kaleido-scope-lady, @crows-of-buckets, @the-raging-tempest, @thesolemnhour, @mountainashfae, @starlightcleric, @stinkrascal, @shiawasekai, @cassynite sorry for any potential double tags!!! <3

[shisasan]

IAMX - The Great Shipwreck of Life

[a-passing-storm]

Thank you for the tag!

Welcome Back, Misery by Shayfer James

*deep inhale* okay so the song. the song is Letter To My Penis by Rodney Carrington...

Sweetest Chill by Siouxsie and the Banshees

i don’t dance by I Hate Myself Because

Toxic by Kurt Hugo Schneider and Casey Breves (it’s a cover there is a long story behind this one)

Must We by Shayfer James

...this is on Shuffle I swear, but Troublemaker by Shayfer James

Main Title/Trinity Infinity by Don Davis 

The Great Shipwreck of Life by IAMX

........... For the Departed by Shayfer James

My playlist almost certainly has more Polyphia and MCR than Shayfer James, but Spotify is in a mood today, I guess.

No pressure tags: @i-soh8you @obonyxiam @leafamaranth @angerycat @paysomeonetopaysomeone @theromaboo @desalys @drummers-bang-harder @waryofthemist007​ @2for2long ​

10 Songs, 10 People

Thankyou so much @buginateacup for tagging me in this ^^

I’ll tag:

@proupagandist

@sheriiam

@hergan416

@methpring

@shreddedleopard

@shadowstarkanada

@aihakei

@shinyphoenix

@cyborg-squirrel

@a-really-hot-caterpillar

Rules: Put your music on shuffle and list the first 10 songs that come up.

I'm gonna go with my iPod's masterlist for this - it's about 2000 songs long... and there is no theme. At all. (If I did my current one, it'd all be Cocoa Otoko, and while I love representing, that's no fun.)

Let's go~

Let's Have a Home Party (orig. ホームパーティをやろう) - MUSICAL HETALIA THE BEST 「always love」

Mooning - GREASE

The Closer - VIXX

Growing Pains (너는 나만큼) - Super Junior D&E

Reunited - Undertale the Musical (Toby Fox ft. Alex Beckham)

Out of Love - FTISLAND

Bad Boy - Cascada

Desire - ATEEZ

Faded - Alan Walker

The One That Got Away - Katy Perry

...welp that's certainly a mix there.

[rainingmusic]

IAMX -The Great Shipwreck Of Life

[jotatetsuken]

NBNC Chapter 1: I Hate to Admit it, But...

Summary: Kento Nanami’s a renowned private investigator in Japan, who’s known to deal with cases that deal with paranormal activity or what’s known to him as “cursed energy.” When Ijichi, the assistant manager of his PI firm gets a call to look into another case, Kento recognizes that this case was earlier declared an open-and-shut case by (F/N) (L/N), another renowned PI who was known to have solved cases within days of receiving them. Initially irked with her methods of solving the cases, especially since she's not like him, he decides that he has to approach her for help, else this will remain a cold case yet to be solved. As time passes by, secrets slowly unravel, the distance between them decreases, and the outcome would come out as a surprise to them.

Pairing: Kento Nanami x Fem! Reader Genre: Private Investigator AU, Angst, Fluff between Nanami and Reader Warnings: Mentions of blood, murder, death, usage of weapons, fighting, crying, slight manga spoiler in the last chapter (just to add context! Dw since this is an AU, I won’t be involving the canonical storyline too much) Taglist: Please fill this if you want to be a part of the tag list for this story :) Word Count: 2337

A/N: I'll try to update once a week or once in two weeks because I'll strive to be regular. Also, it may be unedited, so please let me know if there are any spelling or grammatical errors of that sort. In addition, the storyline is mine, but the Jujutsu Kaisen characters belong to Gege Akutami. :D I appreciate interaction with this post of any kind in the form of reblogs, likes, and comments. Finally, I'd also appreciate NO reposts in any other format or website whatsoever, as this will be crossposted on Wattpad as well. Thanks in advance :)

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We light up the bars of the world With the decadent essence of innocence Free but sharp We can be the satellite guiding through the dark, oh

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For the salaryman turned detective turned private investigator, work may have seemed to be taxing, but he loved what he did. Sure, Kento Nanami didn't like the number of lives lost to get to know whether the concerned subject, was guilty. But, in the end, he had to let go and not let his heart get in the way of how he went about things. One day, as he flipped through the files and ran his fingers through his hair, for a moment his mind was jolted by the sound of the roaring thunder outside his medium-sized louvered windows. Just for a moment, with his face resting on the same hand that ran his fingers through his hair, he peered outside. He was a simple man who cared about the simplest pleasures in life, and that was reflected in his setup. Earthern interiors, a couple of plants, stacks of shelves full of files, stationery, and only the detective license would be visible when you entered his firm.

One thing that didn't change about Nanami, however, was that whenever he'd be fighting, he'd get treated, but would wear the stained shirts the same night, so as to remind himself what happened whenever he was making notes. He clicked his tongue upon realizing that he had again forgotten to change his pristine cobalt blue shirt that had some spots of blood on it. Lightly patting his head for his minor sin of omission, he softly smiled at the beautiful weather even though he was a little irritated by the fact that the rain would delay his journey back home when he heard someone knock on his door and call out to him.

“Nanami-kun, would you like some tea?” Ijichi asks as he enters Kento’s office. Startled by the sound of the door opening, Kento turns to Kiyotaka Ijichi, the assistant manager, and smiles softly at him. “Hello, Ijichi-kun,” he says as he continues to read some of the files that were a part of the huge stack on his desk. “Maybe later? I'd rather have a cup of coffee right now. It’s going to be a long night full of documenting these cases,” he slams the file that he was holding onto the desk and puts his hand on his forehead.

He was exasperated, done for the day. In the fall-winter seasons, as the number of Cursed Spirits and Curse Users increased, his work would pile up. Life as a private investigator seemed like a much-needed change for Kento Nanami, but he wasn’t sure how he’d be able to manage all the paperwork alone. Even if Ijichi and he worked together to solve all the pending cases, it was difficult for him to get this done. When he was stressed, he had this habit of fidgeting with his collar so as to get himself to concentrate and breathe a little. As a blessing in disguise, he stopped doing so when Ijichi's phone rang, but to his dismay, it was someone’s voice he desperately did not want to hear. "Nanami-kun, you have to talk to him," Ijichi says, putting the phone on speaker.

“What is it now, Gojo-san?” Nanami sighs. A cheerful response from the other side of the phone cried out, “How’s my favorite kouhai doing, Nanamin?” To Satoru Gojou, the head of the Tokyo Jujutsu Detective Agency, the nickname Nanamin seemed like a word of endearment towards his dearest junior. To Kento Nanami, however, it was a painful reminder of his past.

While he enjoyed working under Gojo for 3 years, the last case he worked with him led him to a personal loss at the hands of a cursed spirit. This, and the way the TJDA handled the case, caused Kento to be so full of rage but decided to hold it all in and instead resigned from the agency to start his own PI firm. This led to Ijichi resigning as well because he wanted to support and look in on Nanami.

It’d been four years since and his firm's clearance rate stood up to 60%, twice more than that of the TJDA! Two years in, he'd later agreed to take in the said agency as a major client without being directly involved in the agency. It benefitted him greatly: Whatever the assigned members of the TJDA couldn't solve, either Gojo could solve them or Nanami could. Nanami had a simple motto in life: to adhere to facts and judge on that basis. When he did have to delve deeper into the case, he'd keep a notes section on his laptop (or phone) to note down the points that the concerned client presented to him, so that he'd not forget what he was trying to solve. Keeping his past at bay was something he knew best.

However, receiving a call from THE Satoru Gojo, was something he'd not expected. Gojo was known in the crime-solving community to be the smartest and the strongest detective all over Japan, even better than Nanami. So, to receive a call from HIM was all the more surprising. “Gojo-san,” Nanami replied, “firstly, please don't call me by that nickname. It still hurts, after what happened.” Shaking his head in annoyance, he continues, “secondly, it's weird that you call me after my office hours. Usually…” “Usually I call you during office hours and I trouble you to come to have lunch with me or something like that,” Gojo replies with his usual chirpy voice.

“Yes, something like that,” Nanami answers. “So, is there a case that's been troubling you lately?” A small smirk then appears on his face, where he says, “you're finally admitting that you can't solve everything, aren't you?” A sound of clicking tongues appears on the other side of the phone as Gojo cries, “Nanamin! Don't tease me like that! You know me, I'm the strongest detective there is!” A pregnant pause loomed across the conversation, broken by their chuckles, with Gojo continuing, “however, yes. There's been a case that was assigned to the TJDA which I can't solve either.” “Huh?” Kento raised an eyebrow at such a seemingly vacuous response. “That's interesting. I don't believe you. Nothing's been too difficult for you to solve. How is this any different?” Gojo first sounded solemn, “Nanamin! As you senpai, you must understand that there will be some cases that will always be out of my scope of solving,” then continued to whine, “would you be able to look into it, pleaseeee?” Rolling his eyes, Nanami reluctantly says, “Alright, FINE! Please send it to me, I'll look into it. Now hang up before I change my mind.” Gojo's grin was audible when he returned to his chirpy voice. “Thank you, Nanamin! Will send the details to See you soon. Byeeeeeeeeeeeee.”

When Kento reached his office, he noticed Ijichi being there already. Just what was this case all about? “Ijichi-kun, this case better be good! Please tell me the details.” As Ijichi bowed to him, he grabbed a file from the rust-colored couch he was sitting on, fiddling with it for some time. He then replies, “Nanami-kun, the victim is Junpei Yoshino, aged 18, a freshman student in kinesiology in UTokyo.”

Kento was taken aback a little bit. He mumbled “Junpei Yoshino,” as if the name felt familiar like something he remembered. He then goes to his files cabinet and rummages through ones that were arranged alphabetically. He was grateful that he’d gotten the files organized so that it’ll be easier for him. When he found the concerned file, he looked at it like a boy had just found his treasure trove of gold. Going through the file, that’s when it clicked. “Ijichi-kun, remember the murder of three people that happened at the cinema? Junpei was the subject to be investigated.” Ijichi nodded at him, “Yes, Nanami-kun. The bodies had been transmogrified and this modus operandi clearly suggested that this was done either by a Curse User or a Special Grade Cursed Spirit. I remember that he was the accused in this matter. Didn’t you and Itadori-kun work on this case?”

Kento nods, “yes I did. It was to get Itadori out of probation. Poor him, though. Yaga-san was hard on this guy just because of inexplicable connection with Sukuna. Anyway,” he goes to Ijichi and goes through the file in his hand, “It is said that the cause of death was reported as asphyxiation, however, that was done post-mortem. So that means..."

“That he was killed by something else?” Ijichi answered, “Probably a Curse User or a Cursed Spirit?” Kento nods, replying, "Yes. I believe so. I still do not understand, however, why can't the TJDA solve it? Moreover, why did Gojo-san have to call me?"

“Firstly,” Ijichi continues while pacing around back and forth, “this ties to the other case of people jumping off Yasohachi Bridge as well. While police say that it’s a case of self-harm, rumors say that they were being pushed off the bridge, implying that was an external source involved. Yasohachi Bridge is pretty desolate, so few people travel on it. Secondly,” he trails off as he goes to grab another file, “ there was also Junpei-kun's mother, Nagi Yoshino, who was killed by a Cursed Spirit. Finally, there was this abduction and murder case of UTokyo transfer student Evelyn Keating where all circumstantial evidence led to Junpei-kun. Since they all tie up together, this makes it worth investigating. Also, I don’t think Gojo-san can’t or won’t solve the case."

“His reputation,” Nanami sighs as he drinks his fourth cup of coffee, “as the best detective of the TJDA, heck the whole of Asia that's dealt with these cases, precedes itself, Ijichi-kun. But, I'm guessing he has other pressing issues to deal with.” Ijichi nods in agreement, saying, “unfortunately like the Resurrection Doll case, again. Additionally, this case is one of the previous cases of...” his voice trailing into the air. Kento's mouth gapes wide open when he looks into the previous investigator's notes and realizes that he might need to collaborate with one of the few people he doesn't actually want to work with. “(L/N)-san's? Really?”

“Yes, Nanami-kun. She's one of the most popular PIs, other than you of course.” Now Nanami was conflicted in his opinion about (F/N) (L/N). As someone who liked to analyze facts and make decisions based on them, he thought that she was too stupid to rely on her intuition and her unconventional methods to win cases, and for her to solve cases within DAYS of receiving them from her clients sounded very inane. “Ijichi-kun,” Kento says as he sinks into his office chair with an exasperated look, “you're aware that I don't exactly think highly of her, do you?”

“Yes, Nanami-kun. I apologize that we have to talk about her,” Ijichi answers, bowing profusely, “especially because she's your opposite, and very much like Gojo-kun. However, there are certain details that are amiss in this case, and we need unconventional methods for this. We have to approach her for help.” Standing up, he goes to the coat rack, collects his raincoat and umbrella, closes the office, and tells Ijichi, “Well, whatever. Let's get this done with.”

The next day, Ijichi and Nanami booked an appointment with the female PI. Upon reaching her office, they knocked on the door that had the sign: “(F/N) (L/N), MS in Criminology, Private Investigator”

“Does she really have to brag about her degree?" Nanami clicks his tongue in annoyance. “Nanami-kun,” Ijichi puts his hand on his shoulder, “it's okay, she believes people would value her credence when they see that she's licensed to investigate,” and knocks on her door. To their surprise, they realized that the door was open, and upon entering the office, their eyes widen in surprise, as they see her, dancing!

With no care in the world, she had her eyes closed, was swaying her body to fast-paced music, snapping her fingers to the beats, as she sang melodiously. Her black blazer atop her peach full-sleeved shirt was swaying with the air to the beats of the song, “The Great Shipwreck of Life,” by IAMX. Little did she know that there were two guests standing in front of her.

“I didn't know that you like to kill your time, dancing, instead of focusing on other cases,” Nanami speaks, causing (F/N) (L/N) to open her eyes and break from her trance. She straightens her blazer and approaches the two men, the clanking of her heels reverberating in her office room, and bowed in front of them, “I don't know if y'all did handshakes or something, so I chose the easiest option because I don't want to be in y'all's bad books or anything. Nice to meet you, I'm (L/N) (F/N).” She kept talking as she asked them to enter and take their seats. “I've been a detective in the States for the past one and a half years, that's when I'd moved to Japan to be closer to my family. I like to introduce myself before I'm asked anything. So, Mr. Kento Nanami, was it? What did you need?” She sat in her office chair and smiled at him.

“Well, (L/N)-san,” Nanami came forward and put his hands on the table, with a straight face, saying, “you and I have different working methodologies, which I'm not really comfortable with when it comes to solving cases. However, I hate to admit, but, there's one of my cases, that's linked to one of your cold cases, and I'd like us to solve together.” Slumping her shoulders forward, with her hands on the table, (F/N) spoke, "So Gojo-kun was right about you. He knew you'd come to me, eventually," causing Nanami to roll his eyes. “One of my cold cases, huh? It's pretty rare that I have those," she says, grinning, “even if I were to help you, I have one question for you, Mr. Kento Nanami. What's in it for me?”

Hello there, welcome to the first chapter of No Body, No Crime. I hope you enjoy this ride :D Do fill out the form mentioned at the start or you can send me an ask if it's convenient, if you want more updates on this story or on any other fandoms. :) If it's in bold, I can't tag you, so, please send me an ask if you want to be added with your new username :) Tagging: @2dmensupermercy @bmthevick @akaashi-todorki @mrskenmakozume @cuz-like-why-not @beware-of-the-rogue @saltyvanilla @ohtobiors @hyeque @animated-moon