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🎶 The Ultimate Music Game! 🎶

Taken from Tumblr. Please put a number(s) between 1 and 66 in a comment and I will answer in a new post!

1. Are you an albums person or a singles person?

2. Do you still buy CDs (or other physical media)?

3. Do you listen to more oldies or more current stuff?

4. Is there a song you love but don't like its music video?

5. Is there a song you don't like but like its music video?

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I received three lovely gifts over at fandomgiftbasket!!

01. A very fun and thoughtful Feyd-Rautha fanmix (I especially liked the inclusion of Paint it Black and Gasoline).
02. A fic about Ronan and Adam taking a day off (The Raven Cycle) from cornerofmadness. It's so domestic and sweet!
03. A fic featuring Liz realizing that Kyle is into both her and Max (Roswell New Mexico) from scintilla10. This so so sexy and the character voices are so well done!

I wrote 4 gifts:

•Teen Wolf, Stiles/Allison, Sneaking Around (rated T)
•The Expanse, Amos/Prax, This Life With You (rated T)
•Hades (game), Hades/Zagreus, Whore of the Underworld (rated E)
•Regular Show, Mordecai/Margaret, Ice Cream (rated T)

( Four more songs for the song challenge )

I recently finished reading Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater. SO SO good! Ronan was my favorite character from The Raven Cycle trilogy already, but this book still blew me away. I loved Jordan & Hennessy. Declan Lynch!! He's one of those characters I can't adequately explain how much I love. I relate to him, he is me, he is so different from me, he's also sexy as hell? Like I said, it's hard to say.

Also almost finished watching Jujutsu Kaisen season 1. I literally laughed out loud at several parts, but it's also dark and gory and intense. Megumi Fushiguro is still my favorite. Itadori/Fushiguro though ♥

Here are three more songs for the 30 days 30 songs challenge: ( under the cut )

This gifset on tumblr comparing D-Day shots from Band of Brothers and Masters of the Air captures the dramatic differences in perspective we got from that day in the HBO war universe. I've actually come to appreciate that part of Masters of the Air much more, since the air war had been going on way before D-Day and it seems like they were trying to make that point by glossing over the ground invasion.

Title Tag Game Rules: write out any fic titles you have that are based off of lyrics, list what songs they're from, and tag some writers! :-) (if you don't have a lot of finished fics, you can include your wips, or if you have way too many to list out, pick your faves!)

These are the last five fics I wrote with song lyric titles:

1. Drew the Line Right Through You - from Katy Perry's song Never Really Over (RNM, Max/Kyle)
2. A Home For All Seasons - from Sia's song Snowman (Band of Brothers, Johnny/Bull)
3. Snowfall Kind of Girl - from Ingrid Michaelson's song Snowfall (Roswell, Maria/Michael + Max/Liz)
4. Love Asylum, Like an Island - from Hayley Kiyoko's song Feelings (RNM, Isobel/Rosa)
5. Some Kind of Disaster - from All Time Low's song Some Kind of Disaster (RNM, Max/Kyle)

Comfort Characters Meme: What are your top five comfort characters?

Mine are ~
1. Allison Argent
2. John Egan
3. Max Evans
4. David Webster
5. Sam Wilson

In other news, I'm really digging this cover of Espresso by the Wallows.

Day 8: Tell me something about the last fandom thing you wrote. Or the last thing you read. Or the last thing you recced. Or all of them.

Roswell New Mexico is the answer to all three! Still hyperfixated a year and change later, which is nice because the fandom is very fun (even though it's mostly on Discord). Max Evans was my original blorbo (see: my icon) but on rewatch, I loved Kyle Valenti even more. And Liz and Maria are two of my favorite female characters on television. Currently working on the last chapter of my Kyle/Max/Liz crack fic where two of them wake up married for a bingo challenge. I have some more Kyle/Max and Maria/Michael/Alex stuff on the back burner.

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The AO3 DDOS attack kind of freaks me out. It seemed so personal/malicious - someone just wanted AO3 users to feel the pain, and to cause problems for the volunteers/site itself?? And this happening now, after the situation with the volunteers getting CSAM spam?? :( I will probably go and download some of my own fics, maybe cross post them here. I don't have the energy to do that for all of them, but it's worth it to preserve some of my favorites.

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I've been listening to this album after someone made icon textures for the lyrics, and it's so dreamy and OTP-worthy. Also, maybe I should use bandcamp more.

Miranda Lambert came out with a new song called If I Was a Cowboy, and it quickly rose to number one on my makeshift list of very specific songs about women flipping gender around. I put the songs in one place in this post. Am I missing any?

Watch on YouTube

Look at the costumes! Her love interest is a woman! She toes the line between masc and fem, although maybe leans on the fem side, and the lyrics are mostly about just doing whatever the hell you want.

( The other songs I thought of )

Your main fandom of the year?

Steve Rogers and Tony Stark of MCU.

Your favorite film watched this year?

Wonder Woman! Thor: Ragnarok. Also, don't tell anyone but I had a fun time watching Justice League.

Your favorite book read this year?

The Conscious Bride. Really helped me put into words everything I've been feeling as I prepare for my wedding.

Your favorite album or song to listen to this year?

Right to It and World on Fire by Ashe and Louis the Child. Also, this fanvideo: The Night We Met featuring Steve Rogers/Peggy Carter.

Your favorite TV show of the year?

Teen Wolf s6b and Wynonna Earp s2.

( The rest under here )