on your playlist.

[genification]

CHARACTER PLAYLIST PROMPTING MEME
MUSIC IS AN ART FORM WHICH HAS ALWAYS INSPIRED CREATIVE WORKS, BE IT OTHER PIECES OF MUSIC, DANCE OR WRITING. THIS MEME IS A WAY TO LET OTHERS BE INSPIRED BY MUSIC YOU ASSOCIATE WITH YOUR CHARACTER TO CREATE A SCENE. HAPPY LISTENING! HAPPY PLAYING!


How to play -

1. Comment with your character's name, fandom and preference in the subject line.
2. In the comment field, leave at least two song titles (links welcome) from your character's playlist for others to choose between.
3. Others leave a starter for your character with a scenario inspired by one of the songs.
4. Thread it out!

Comments

edward teach | our flag means death

[fxckery]

i] I change shapes just to hide in this place
But I'm still, I'm still an animal
Nobody knows it but me when I slip, yeah I slip
I'm still an animal
- Miike Snow, Animal

ii] How can I help it, how can I help it? How can I help what you think?
Hello my baby, hello my baby, putting my life on my brink
- MIKA, Grace Kelly

iii] Heard he in love with some other chick
Yeah, yeah, that hurt me, I'll admit
Forget that boy, I'm over it
- Little Mix, Shout Out To My Ex

iv] [pick anything from here, honestly]

mordred | arthuriana

[cynnen]

i] I was chasing highs
In more than a million nights
More than a million times
But you've just turned me inside out
- ItaloBrothers, Inside Out

ii] I pirouette in the dark
I see the stars through me
Tired mechanical heart
Beats til the song disappears
- Lindsey Stirling, Shatter Me

iii] Bitch, we can get petty, tell me if you ready
I was playin' nice, we can change the setting
- Snow Tha Product, Petty

iv] They say oh my God I see the way you shine
Take your hand, my dear, and place them both in mine
You know you stopped me dead while I was passing by
And now I beg to see you dance just one more time
- Tones and I, Dance Monkey

sarica — fantasy oc — ota

[legislatory]

[ info. quick rundown: legislator/adviser to the Sacred Council and the senate in his country, a world inspired by Ancient Greece/Rome. manipulative and controlling at worst, charming and charismatic at best. talks a lot of bullshit, but makes it sound good. m/m for shipping, wide ota for gen. can do canon mashing, multiversal shit or possible AU'ing, depending on your pref. assumed cr welcome, love writing first meetings, too, though, so bring whatever. no smut unless prior cr and ooc agreement. ]


01. i'll be your ghost, your game, your stadium / i'll be your fifty-thousand clapping like one / and i feel all right and i feel all right / cause i worked it out, yeah, i worked it out / i'll be doing this, if you had a doubt, till the love runs out, till the love runs out - Love Runs Out, OneRepublic

02. and all i gave you is gone / tumbled like it was stone / thought we built a dynasty that heaven couldn't shake / thought we built a dynasty like nothing ever made / thought we built a dynasty forever couldn't break up / it all fell down - Dynasty, MIIA

03. i find comfort in the sound and the shape of the heart / how it echoes through the chest from under the ground / as the hills turn into holes, i fill them with gold / heavy stones, fear no weather - Empire, Of Monsters and Men

+ BONUS INSTRUMENTAL

04. the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. - The Arena, Lindsey Stirling


Or bring your own!

Birdie Lewis | OC | Vampire: The Masquerade | OTA

[acaseofyou]

1 → Marika Hackman - You Come Down
     Take my lungs, pour the songs that we've sung / Into a ready-made flask / Mouth open wide as you drink it inside / Drips through the hole in your mask / But you could always make me hurt

2 → The Back Porch Majority - Freedom Bird
     Once I caught a little bird / And I taught her a song / It was a silver song / Open the door and she was gone / She was gone, she was gone / On the wings of the wind / Through all the wings of the wind

3 → Sara Bareilles - Once Upon Another Time
     Once upon another time / Somebody's hands who felt like mine / Turned the key and took a drive / Was free / I recall the sun sank low / Buckley on the radio / Cigarette was burning slow / So breathe

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percy de rolo | critical role c1 | ota

[thebadnews]

i. Ugly, I'm so very ugly
I'm ugly, inside and out, there's no denyin'
Love me, why would you ever love me?
No one has ever loved me yet, pretty baby
Skeleton key, it won't open up
It won't open any lock I have on me
- skeleton key, mark lanegan

ii. I will find you in the black light
Of that cold, dry land
Nevermind who held you last night
Come and take my, come and take my hand
Every tether is tangled and twisted
Thеy slowly sever your heart from thе whole
Iron shackles, hungry jackals with eyes like coal
- scavengers, thrice

iii. You are that space that's in between
Every page, every chord and every screen
You are the driftwood and the rift
You're the words that I promise I don't mean
We're drunk but drinking, sunk but sinking
They thought us blind, we were just blinking
All the stones and kings of old will hear us screaming at the cold
- the horror and the wild, the amazing devil

iv. wildcard (here is a full playlist for inspiration!)

Chuck Hansen || Pacific Rim

[littlehansen]

a. I want you to hurt like you hurt me today and
I want you to lose like I lose when I play
What could have been
- Sting What could have been

b.Here we are, don't turn away now,
We are the warriors that built this town
From dust.
- Imagine Dragons Warriors

c. Do it on your own
It makes no difference to me
What you leave behind
What you choose to be
And whatever they say
Your soul's unbreakable
- Muse Invincible

C.

[soulmakingsound]

River and Chuck have their differences, of course. You couldn't find two more opposite people. But she considers him a friend, still. An ally. Someone to talk to, outside of the work she does with Newt and Hermann.

Which is why Chuck will find her outside his door, knees to her chest, hands over her ears.

Today is a bad day.

[littlehansen]

There are those who disapprove. The bratty arsehole pilot isn't good company, can only be a bad influence on a girl like River, or so they say (only ever out of earshot of Herc Hansen and the Striker J-crew). But the two of them are at least still in a similar age bracket, and while Chuck isn't sure he's the best company for her, either, he's there for as long as she thinks he is.

Returning from a walk with Max, he stops beside her, boot knocking against her foot lightly as he unlocks the door and holds out a hand to help her up.

"Get up, Tam-Tam, 'fore you get piles from sitting on the cold ground."

River Tam | Firefly | OTA

[soulmakingsound]

01. Girl In A Box by 76
02. Quiet from Matilda the Musical
03. Panic Room by Au/Ra
04. The Record Player Song by Daisy the Great

pietro maximoff | mcu

[ticketed]

1. did you just affectionately call me a scrotum?
2. fyi gin and iced coffee? not my greatest invention
3. you do resemble something that has been used as chew toy
4. sometimes in course of human events people get lit on fire

( or text him! )

4

[speediest]

sooooo no hard feelings
right???

[ticketed]

wellll
is still currently pending for review
not enough show of sincerity

4

[carmesi]

like spontaneous combustion, right?

[ticketed]

less spontaneous
more accidental?

2

[webdesigned]

why too much gin or too much coffee

[ticketed]

too much everything
i need to get rid of taste
k i got rid of taste
if you want the rest i have left cup on your desk
yw

2

[wordiness]

ew.

[ticketed]

precisely what i said

very ew

1

[chromiums]

Yes.

Affectionately, of course.

[ticketed]

it didn't feel very affectionate to me
but i will let it slide this once
mainly because i can't decide if i feel more amused or more offended right now

Theseus | Hades

[deltastrike]

Want You Gone, Jonathan Coulton
Well here we are again/It's always such a pleasure
Remember when you tried to kill me twice?
Oh how we laughed and laughed/Except I wasn't laughing
Under the circumstances I've been shockingly nice

Sweet Escape, Gwen Stefani
If I could escape
And recreate a place as my own world
And I could be your favorite girl
Forever, perfectly together
And tell me, boy, now wouldn't that be sweet?

Kylo Ren/Brianna Solo • r63!Star Wars • ota

[umbraeternam]

[ good with assorted canon points, divergence, post-canon, etc. open to canon, cross canon, AUs, OCs, and timeline shenanigans. ]

I lost myself into the night / and I flew higher / than I had ever, but I still felt small / I clipped my wings and fell from flight / to open water / and floated farther away from myself / and I swam in the wakes of imposters / just to feel what it's like to pretend / there's no dreams in the waves, only monsters / and the monsters are my only friends / they're all that I was / and never could be.
UNBECOMING ♫ STARSET

I made my way through hell again / I paid for my mistakes / next time I think I'll stay awhile and pour myself a drink / when I return I'll look for you, so listen for your name / if you can make it out above the roaring of the flames.
KINGDOM OF CARDS ♫ BAD OMENS

but now I'm letting go / and I can finally breathe / I can finally breathe / and my hands are open, reaching out / I'm learning how to live with doubt / I'm learning how to lean into the grey / 'cause I've had enough of black and white / I'll find another way.
THE GREY ♫ THRICE

I can hold my own when I feel at home / I can be tender, I can be kind / when I'm on my feet / I can take the heat / but when I get low I prefer the cold / I can be a hard light to ignite / all my nightmares feel like real life.
CONSCIOUS ♫ BROODS

Christopher Pike | Star Trek | OTA

[failed_astrophysics]

1. It started with a low light
Next thing I knew, they ripped me from my bed
And then they took my blood type
It left a strange impression in my head
You know that I was hoping
That I could leave this star-crossed world behind
But when they cut me open
I guess I changed my mind
Spaceman - The Killers

2. There's a weight that's pressing down
Late at night you can hear the sound
Even the noise you make when you sleep
Can't swim across a river so deep
They know my name cause I told it to them
But they don't know where and they don't know
When it's coming, when it's coming
Keep the Car Running - Arcade Fire

3. Are they luring you back with old glories?
Drunk on the dregs of some darkened paradise?
Lulled by an alien feeling
Till you're suddenly blind
Till you're barely alive
With glass bones
Glass Bones - Shearwater

4. I've been reading books of old
The legends and the myths
Achilles and his gold
Hercules and his gifts
Spiderman's control
And Batman with his fists
And clearly I don't see myself upon that list
Something Just Like This - The Chainsmokers & Coldplay

Wilson P. Higgsbury | Don't Starve Together | OTA

[fausted]

1) When the daylight's gone and you're on your own
And you need a friend just to be around
I will comfort you, I will take your hand
And I'll pull you through, I will understand

And you know that I'll be at your side
There's no need to worry
Together we'll survive
Through the haste and hurry
I'll be at your side
When you feel like you're alone
And you've nowhere to turn
I'll be at your side

- The Corrs, At Your Side

2) If you think that you don't wanna smile
And if it takes just a little while
Open your eyes and just look at the day
You'll see things in a different way

Don't stop thinking about tomorrow
Don't you stop, it will soon be here
Oh, it will be so much better than before
Cause yesterday's gone, yesterday is gone

Oh, why not stop and think, think about the things to come
Oh, instead of all the little things you've done?
Now if you think life has been bad to you
Just think about what tomorrow will do

- Postmodern Jukebox, Don't Stop (1920s New Orleans Blues Fleetwood Mac Cover)

3) Strange how I fit into you
There's a distance erased with the greatest of ease
Strange how you fit into me
A gentle warmth filling the deepest of needs

And with each passing day, the stories we say draw us tighter into our addiction
Confirm our conviction that some kind of miracle passed on our heads
And how I am sure like never before of my reasons for defying reason
Embracing the seasons, we dance through the colors both followed and led

Strange how we fit each other

- Vienna Teng, Eric's Song

4) From my heart and from my hand
Why don't people understand my intentions?

Weird science
Plastic tubes and pots and pans
Bits and pieces and the magic from my hand will make
Weird science
Things I've never seen before
Behind bolted doors, talent and imagination...
Weird science
Plastic tubes and pots and pans
Bits and pieces and, bits and pieces and...

- Oingo Boingo, Weird Science

5) [or pick a song yourself, for your character, or your character's POV on mine!]

Wormwood | Don't Starve Together | OTA

[aloefriend]

1. All of my life I've been hunting
I've been a girl, I've been a boy
Digging my feet into the ground like an apple tree
Wanting to live with a purpose

Skin is a word, love is not a sin
People are bad, people are good
Just like the moon is a stone
But it's a star when it's dark and now she's hiding...

Let her save the world, she is just a girl
Let him save them all, he is just a boy

- Apple Tree by AURORA

2. Time is getting shorter and there's much for you to do
Only ask and you will get what you are needing
The rest is up to you
Plant your love and let it grow

Let it grow, let it grow
Let it blossom, let it flow
In the sun, the rain, the snow
Love is lovely, let it grow

- Let It Grow by Eric Clapton

3. Dearheart, take a look at you
I know how it feels, branches full of fruit

Life streaks and surges all in green
The bounty of the rain, the bounty of the spring
Dearheart, you can't keep them all
I wait with eyes closed, I'll lighten your load

Truth hurts, remember this
We are pooling our faith
You said it

- Stonefruit by Halou

4. I glow pink in the night in my room
I've been blossoming alone over you
And I hear my heart breaking tonight
I hear my heart breaking tonight, ooh

Do you hear it too?
It's like a summer shower
With every drop of rain singing
"I love you, I love you, I love you
I love you, I love you, I love you
I love you, I love you, I love you"

- Pink in the Night by Mitski

5. [You can also choose a different song from this playlist... Or pick a song yourself, for your character or your character's POV on Wormwood!]