#this turned out even more nistrid centric than i thought it would haha
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fandom + album challenge
Hi this isnât a thing, Iâm just inventing it right now because I was listening to one of my all-time favourite albums this morning and every single track seemed to remind me of Humans (because my entire mindset is just stuck on Humans obviously)
So I hereby create this challenge: take a fandom, take an album, list the tracks, and relate each song to a character/pairing/other aspect of the fandom. Once you start, it gets almost uncannily easy to find the links...
My fandom is obviously Humans, and the album Iâm starting with (Iâll probably bore you with a few of these posts) is Ingrid Michaelsonâs Lights Out. The album was released in 2014 and the show started in 2015, so when series 1 was on I already knew the songs, but a lot of my associations have totally changed since then (for instance, there was no Nistrid in 2015...)
1. Home
Shame to start off on such a tenuous one, but âthis is my home, where I go when Iâve got nowhere else to goâ could be Mia returning to Laura in series 2 (yes I know itâs because she was Anita and was registered to their new address BUT Miaura is life.)
2. Girls Chase Boys
Oh, this is so Mia to Ed! âI'm a little let down but I'm not dead / There's a little bit more that has to be saidâ she wants closure, in the most epic way possible... âYou played me now I play you too, let's just call it overâ and then tells him to leave, amazing, we stan an absolute queen.
3. Wonderful Unknown
Nistrid! Because of Niska having just said ILY to Astrid on the phone, and then talking about how the end never seems far away:Â âOh, nothing lasts forever but the sound of love astounds me every time that it callsâ aaaaah.
4. You Got Me
Umm, do I have to say that this is obviously Nistrid since Astrid literally tells Niska âYou wonât lose me. Youâve got meâ at the end of s2? But also, this bit about Niska going off to do terrifying things but only so that she can come home to Astrid: âwhen I see the curve of the earth in your willow eyes, I'm a rocketeer coming home after years at the speed of light / and suddenly you're there, like a pearl in the palm of the universeâ
5. Warpath
Ummm... well the word Warpath fits Niska quite well because itâs what sheâs always on. If we take it out of context âYouâve got me running round town like a woman on a warpathâ is about her gay revenge plot :DÂ
6. Handsome Hands
This has a faint Leotilda vibe but Iâm not sure if it will come out with just the lyrics. Letâs try âI think I'm the only one who really knows / What the emptiness inside of you will show usâ with them being tied together by a year of Mattieâs bedside monologues... Also special points to âWe are only tiny babies living right here, gone the way of someone else's bygone yearâ because they are only babies and Leo really has had a âbygone yearâ hehe
7. Time Machine
Mia and Ed again: âYour broken âsorrysâ don't mean a thing: You made that bed, good luck falling back asleep!â Amazing. Also the chorus: âIf I had a time machine, and if life was a movie scene, I'd rewind and I'd tell me: run.âÂ
8. One Night Town
Leo and Mattie. âYou're the one with the pioneer heart / I'm the one with the brand new startâ I think this fits? I donât know how to articulate why I think sheâs the âpioneer heartâ but his complete reinvention as a human is his âbrand new startâ lol. Also this for Leoâs new way of looking at her in his memory: âLight up our memory, never knew what they meant to meâÂ
9. Open Hands
(This is a frickin beautiful song ughhh) Miaura? For the parting of the ways at the end of series 1... âNow go on and drift away, the tide can hold you out / Go quiet now, go sound, go safe / Open hands are hard to hold onto anywayâ
10. Ready to Lose
Now this is the most Nistrid song I know, in fact. The chorus line is âIâm ready to lose everything but youâ which is so Niska, whoâs reckless and so brave but also so afraid that it will cost her Astrid (that conversation in 2.8 again). But also this from the verse, oh my life, spot on: âIt's the heart in you, I know it in my bones, that made me change direction when I thought âbetter off aloneâ.â Is this not the perfect line
11. Stick
One of my favourite songs, this one. Anyway, it now gives me Laura feelings, because of her being upset over Neil, which I may be reading into, but I kind of... you know that I donât ship Laura and Joe, but:Â âThere's a part of you that stays with me someone else gets to know.â Sometimes thatâs just how it is.Â
12. Afterlife
Another gem... this could probably apply to a lot of ships but weâll just go Nistrid, shall we? âLiving like you're dying isn't living at all. Give me your cold hands, put them on my heart.â Also the chorus is amazing, âWeâre gonna be alright, weâve got the fight in us.â
13. Over You
Hmm... Mia pining for Ed even though she knows heâs a human dumpster fire. âOver, I'm so over you: the way that you said that you'd always be true. And maybe if I tell myself enough, maybe if I do, I'll get over youâ
14. Everyone Is Gonna Love Me NowÂ
A little oblique, but this bit gives me Max feelings, that line to Mia about being alone:Â âIf I knew the way to less alone / Then it wouldn't sink me like a stoneâ
15. My Darling
Okay! Nistrid! So we have:Â âEveryone likes the same stupid things / Everyone sings the same love songsâ which reminded me of Niskaâs lines about talk being mostly noise. Then the chorus:Â âYou make me all the things I wanna be before Iâm goneâ sobbbb about her line to Mia again, about the end not being far away. Okay, so thereâs those, and then..... this.... line.... I donât know how to feel about this relevance to Niska really:Â âAnd I know that Iâve been broken since the first time that my father put me down on the floor.â Well, eek. But itâs followed by:Â âFor the first time in such a long time, I need moreâ yasss Nistrid.
16. When I Go
Finishing off on a general note for the series as a whole, because organic/synthetic solidarity: âIf everybody made a little space right by their side, oh there'd be room enough.âÂ
idk if I should tag people to do this also or just say: please tag me if you end up choosing an album/fandom to do this with, cause Iâd love to read it! :DÂ
(edit: based on reactions Iâm going to pretend as if I tagged @epicfics @sircarolyn and @turned-her-brain all along :P)
#long post#music#c4 humans#nistrid#leotilda#miaura#this turned out even more nistrid centric than i thought it would haha
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