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Lived in Ireland for a spell and a buddy of mine and I decided to be very stupid and bike (some of) the Wild Atlantic Way. For those who don't know its a very narrow and hilly scenic road (with hardly any shoulder) around the Western parameter of the island. Needless to say neither one of us were marathon ready but we gave it a hell of a go and played Two Steps from Hell to make our journey epic. This song was by far my favorite of theirs. Although I was bed ridden for about two days after sans feeling in my legs and backside, it was worth every moment.

A bhith รฒg agus gรฒrach. ​
 
I really enjoy this song. Even though it makes me sad when I listen to it, I think that's what makes it special. It reminds me of the people and things I've lost, and really touches on those feelings of grief and uncertainty. And, overall, it's just a beautiful-sounding song.


 
A little heavier music but an experience worth listening to so wanted to share! Ren have incredible music surrounding mental health as a main focal point. A modern bard so to speak :3

 
This isn't gonna be a feel-good kinda song, just a warning lol


I've been listening to Sopor Aeturnus/Anna-Varney for probably around 20 years now, but I had forgotten about them for awhile, only to get back into listening to them last year. I was listening to this specific song last year when I got the call that a beloved family member passed away. The despair of the main chorus of the lyrics really hit exactly how I felt, angry about what had happened. It was also a bit fitting, because Anna-Varney has been aggressively queer their entire life, and the relative in question, though significantly older, was sort of similar in that way. He was a loud and proud queer AIDS survivor, a black sheep of the family, and a queer elder that I found solace in.

I've been listening to it a lot again lately because of, well, how things are going out in the world right now. [Not losing hope btw, this is just the despair part of the emotional rollercoaster]
 
teefies said:

This song actually comes with a secret command and it's "Have fun."
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I decided this is the song I need to pick to create a plot out of. Thank you Teefs for this beautiful gem. Original post. (Link!)
Obviously, that little bit at the beginning had me squinting. Then the beat hits, and I'm bobbing like 'hell yeah. This is quite good.' Then it slows a little, and I'm like 'oh, boss music!' Then we're bobbing again. Then it brought back that beginning bit into the song, and I'm like 'Whoa! Fuck yeah!' Then build, build, build, and it just stops.
So here we are, with it on loop while I try to pull this all together. It's giving me platformer game boss fight. Like a fun carnival or fae one. Where you just weren't expecting the music to hit so hard, but you really should have.
It had, like, A Hat in Time vibes. Which, is hard for me to explain, because there's such good music in that game. I don't know exactly which song this reminded me of, so I'm just going to link my favorite from the game.
It also gave Pokemon battle. But then, I also just finished Legends Z-A recently and have been listening to those tracks a lot. And.. Is it synth? I think it's that weird synth-y thing that just feels so Pokemon to me. Let me try to find one that has what I'm talking about... (However, my favorite themes from Z-A are Ivor, Jacinthe and Lysandre. In that order. Feel free to fight me.)
This isn't exactly what I need it to be, but you can kind of hear it in there...
And, for some reason, I thought of King Dedede from Kirby also. I don't know why. But here are some of his themes so maybe it'll make sense?
Dreamland

Nightmare in Dreamland

Sorry about all of that, but now you kind of have context for where my brain is at.
Ease into the scene. You're uneasy. Something feels off.
Then you're startled and suddenly you're running. But, it's like you're going in circles. Maybe this is a dream. Maybe you're in another world.
Whatever is chasing you is laughing. Things happen around you. Puffs of colorful smoke and glitter. Vines popping up, paired with glowing mushrooms or flowers. Always almost in your way, but intentionally missing. It's like they're playing with you.
You're stopped. A masked figure floats in front of you bowing, their clothes colorful and full of ruffles. They float around you for a moment, and then they take your hands. They stand behind you, starting a bit of a dance while puppeteering you through the steps.
You pull away, or maybe, they let you. And, you're running again. They stand in your way once or twice, before you realize to avoid them you have to copy the dance they showed you before.
They laugh again, watching you run for a moment. Then those distractions from before pop in full force. Directly in your way. Directly in your face. Grabbed by the vines like puppet strings, tugging you for that dance. Then they let go. You stumble forward and run again. Faster. Faster. Tripping. Sliding. You can feel that figure behind you.
Thud. You hit the ground.
You've escaped.
But.. Where are you? And.. Who where they?

It's kind of giving... Goblin King from the Labyrinth.. No?
 
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Bonus Round;

I chose @firefly 's post for Camino de Llamas


You've lived in a quaint village your entire life, everything is perfect. You know everyone else who lives there, everyone is warm and pleasant to each other. You would likely take over your family's farm and be set for life until you grow old. You know the person that you will likely end up marrying and having children with. Things would be enjoyable, no complaints, and everything would essentially be lined up for you. Every week you make your way to the heart of the village and sell your family's wares at the market, enjoying the feeling of the warm sun on your skin, the pleasant cobblestones under your feet. It's at this time you see that around the same time there is a llama herder that also uses a path through town. You realize that you've never actually left your village. You've gone to the outskirts and neighboring farms to look at the rolling lands around you, sure. But there's never been any reason for you to leave, never travel beyond how far you can see at the highest point in the village. There's an entirely different world out there, different farmlands, wildlife, nature, and people you've never met before. What is life like out there? You've never really been warned against it besides the bedtime stories when you were a child that were mostly just warnings to not wander off alone when you were young. It's not like any of the fellow villagers have told you about monsters or bad people. If you ask, they merely shrug with a smile and say that they've found what they wanted here, in the village.

You're a young adult, your whole life ahead of you. Do you take the somewhat easier route and stay with what's familiar where you'd know a general timeline of how your life would go? Growing old, surrounded by your children and grandchildren, in the same place you were born? Or do you let your curiosity about the world guide you, and explore what lies beyond that you've never stepped foot in before?

Note: This is just my interpretation but the song makes me feel like this could be a wonderful 'slice of life' like plot, or casual adventuring. To compare it to some known games: If you stayed, what's to say it can't be as cozy as playing Stardew Valley, Harvest Moon, or Rune Factory? If you left, maybe it would be like Yonder, Eastshade, or Spiritfarer.
 
This is a comfort song for me. A friend added it onto our roleplay playlist, which has become my comfort playlist, and when I feel down it helps to listen to this song on repeat, if not just listening to the playlist itself.
I'd love to write something for someone else's song but I don't think I'm capable right now.
 
The song I'm choosing is Eternity by Allen Warren. This song isn't one tied to childhood memories, but, it means a lot to me. Not only do I feel lost from myself quite often, but I've lost two grandfathers, three uncles, a cousin, I've had friends die as well, even one I witnessed. I think about how wonderful it could be, to have them back, but, I know that this place is where I belong.

As well, I'm with someone I want to be with for Eternity, but, he won't have me his whole life. And, I hope things song can comfort him, after I'm gone. Music soothes me, and I hope it will soothe the scars I leave behind.
 

this song is so powerful imo. like it speaks to me on a personal level but it also inspired me to write a whole scene for this one game that I had with James but he said i sucked. my character was a sort of bard type that could make animals do what she said. the magic worked on people too but at a cost. depending on what she told them to do would determine how much strain the request would put on her voice. if it was to simply go to sleep her throat might itch, but if she told you to hurt yourself she'd hurt just as bad. or something like that. anyway.. James' character was a mean old mage guy that stole her power for himself and of course she grew to despise him but couldn't do much about it. I wanted to use this song in a scene where she was dying to finally rid herself of him but had to convince herself to be patient. :>โ™ก
 

This song has been stuck in my head for a bit now. It's right at the intersection of my obsession with historical music and with epic fantasy, especially epic fantasy with a nice smattering of fictional language on top. Wheel of Time was the series I was reading when I first got seriously into roleplaying and probably the one that influenced my own writing and interests the most. The show wasn't great, but at least it gave us this absolute banger of a song (indirectly, because Amazon never had the sense to like, record a proper musical version and release it outside the show).
 
I recently discovered a really good string quartet group that I absolutely adore. I am a school teacher and I always like to have music playing on low while the students work on their classwork. I was looking for modern pieces done instrumental and this was my favorite:

 

This one was so hard because there are so many tracks I just adore, but I finally settled on this one. When I write, if I listen to music, I tend to really only listen to instrumental tracks because lyrics distract me. This is one of my favorites, it's just such an incredible piece of music with so much emotion in it. Even without the context of the game, it conveys so well the feeling of the buildup before a final showdown, and I love it so much.
 
Ooh I love this idea so much!

Okay so I'm pretty old school. But this is one of my favorite songs because everytime I listen to it I imagine this montage while I'm falling in love with someone. It just sounds like how I imagine falling in love sounds like. It's a song that always makes me dance and when I'm down and I don't know what to do I'll put this song on and just groove it out in the middle of my kitchen. And no matter how sad I am. Tears could be coming down my face. I always feel a little bit better.




I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!
 
I know that this song has been everywhere for some time now. But the last few weeks I've been in the trenches helping a family member leave an abusive, neglectful husband; so it's been in my head a lot. It's also been helping the healing of said family member as well, to show them that their decision to leave was a sound one. I was also raised by someone like this, and also like the lyrics say, my other parent merely watched and didn't get us out of there quickly enough. So, yeah. It's been an inspiration lately but also definitely an anthem in its own right.


 

So I know the instructions were ONE song but I couldn't help my overeager self and put my two top songs. Although if I had really really had to go one, it would be The Score.

The first song beinnnng Five Seconds of Summeer - Teeth and the second being The Score - Stronger. Anyone who has written with me or is due to knows I am a very high energy person. I like the action, the grit, sex, nitty gritty details, you get it and I feel like these songs compliment that personality of mine very perfectly.

One of my favorite lyrics from Stronger is:

"I'm obssesive by deciscon, I'mma do this till I'm dead."

I feel like that really defines me and helps me enhance and cope with my writing. Been doing this for a couple years now and like the song says, I am obsseseed with, don't think I could ever stop writing even if I tried. It has happened before and I always end up coming back.
 

I love the way this song starts out calm with a mellow bass scale, then explodes onto the scene with the rest of the band. The surreal lyrics make me think that the singer is trying to recover from that which ails him, but maybe sees a silver lining to it as well. I can relate: times when I was sick, I formed memories both from the trippy dreams I had and the shows I watched while awake.

On the CD, it fades into another song in a totally different style and genre: a calm duet with a talented woman. I tend to think of Down With Disease and If I Could as one big song bc of this.
 
Iโ€™m back for Round 2 bebe :coolcoolcool:

Hokay! Iโ€™ll be honest, I struggled for a lil bit there with this, but the promise of a badge looms seaux here I am!

The song Iโ€™m doing my prompt on is Jumbleeโ€™s submission: Miike Snowโ€™s- Genghis Khan

Another confession: I only listened to 55seconds of this song before I settled on this prompt. Calm down, calm downnn. I did listen to the song in its entirety, multiple times actually, but my idea was born within a minute. Or perhaps, it was right after I heard the chorus.

The aforementioned chorus sings;
โ€œAnd I get a little bit Genghis khan.
I donโ€™t want you to get it on,
Wit nobody else but me.
Wit nobody else but me.โ€

I do apologize @Jumbled, since youโ€™d mentioned this song gave you ~good vibes, but I dunno.
Despite the peppy melody, and catchy chorus, it was giving toxic love imo.. And from there, the prompt sort of wrote itself.

Itโ€™s lackluster & almost embarrassing, esp in comparison to some of the other prompts already thought up & submitted buuut, letโ€™s be honest, Iโ€™m only here for the badge & we awllll know it idc! :D

Seaux, without further ado, The Prompt:

Two characters are stuck in a toxic cycle where Char A pushes Char B away, but when Char B tries to leave, Char A becomes jealous & expresses desire for Char B, which encourages Char B to stay. Char B eventually takes a stand and tries to really leave, only for Char A to become full out crazy, toxic and possessive.

As an added bonus, this prompt is super versatile. You can keep it light, have Char A work through their demons & become the love Char B so obviously deserves, orrr you can go extra dark and turn the story into an encyclopedia of trigger warnings if desired. Example? start the story off with the couple already three months broken up, Char B has fully moved on & Char A just canโ€™t take it. They kidnap Char B & then ~ominous etc.
 


I'm going to use random names in my plot entry just for the sake of easier reading. It will be free to use if someone gets inspired to write this plot, or wants to take it and shape it to suit their own needs.
I'm going with the song posted by @Eternal Love posted here.



supernaturalโ€ข rags to riches โ€ข mystery โ€ข enemies to lovers... to enemies (it's confusing, okay?) โ€ข captive and captor โ€ข brainwashing โ€ข etc



Mary hadn't seen her roommate Jane in days, and it was nearly time to pay rent. Jane was known for struggling month-to-month, but she always came through with spare change from Blood & Plasma banks to make up for whatever she didn't have. It wasn't like Jane to leave for days, and she always answered her cell phone if she was gone long (not this time, though), so Mary broke into Jane's room, hoping to find some clue about where she went, and if she was lucky, maybe even her portion of the rent payment.

Instead of finding cash, Mary noticed a classy looking invitation on Jane's dresser. Way too classy. Custom printed, gold trim and embellishments with an address on the wrong side of townโ€”-because it was the rich side of town and Mary and Jane definitely weren't thatโ€”-and a time posted for a party being hosted later that night. Suspicious, Mary decided to check out the party and see if Jane was there. Maybe she was on some bender and hadn't come out of it yet.

Mary did her best to match the dress code, which was a black tie event, using one of her go-to dresses she wore when attending weddings (always the bride's maid, well not even). She used Jane's invitation to gain access to the soiree. Even in her formal dress she felt out of place, but people welcomed her openly and urged her to go enjoy herself. She lost track of time. Her mission to find Jane had quickly warped into perusing the trays of champagne and Hors d'Oeuvres, to being swept away on the dance floor by a series of men she couldn't quite remember saying 'yes' to.

The host of the party, John, took a liking to Mary before long, and as soon as he had, she seemed off limits to everyone else. He seemed to know she wasn't Jane, as he used her real name to greet her. Mary couldn't remember ever meeting this man before, but she began to recall why she was there and wondered if he was the type to have affairs from girls that lived on the other side of town. John was distracting and captivating. It was difficult to focus around him at first, but Mary struggled to keep her mind straight as he moved her across the dance floor. She needed to find Jane and it seemed like John knew more than what he was saying.

The party was drawing near and as Mary slowly glanced around the room, she realized something wasn't right. It was quiet, the dance floor was empty aside from her and John. She could see couples paired off along the dimly lit areas of the room but couldn't make out more than what looked like everyone getting incredibly familiar with one another. Was this a massive orgy or something? She turned her attention to John, he hadn't peeled his eyes away from Mary but something about him seemed different. Were those fangs peeking out from his smile?



I figured I could go on, but you get the gist, it's just a set-up. Why does John know her name? What happened to Jane, is she dead? Those donations to blood & plasma banks are starting to look more like donations to feeding vampires. Did John want Mary all along but he couldn't get to her for some reason? Maybe she wore a charm bracelet that wasn't fitting for their dress code so she removed it for the party. Blah, blah. Tons of possibilities here.

Okay bye!

 
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