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I did it. I made the Amy Pond playlist. It's a contradictory mix of songs about Amy as a child, Amy as a goddess, Amy as the girl who waited, Amy as the woman who brought the doctor back from the dead, Amy as asexual, Amy as a woman who loves great enough to break the laws of the universe, Amy as a stagnant wife, Amy as someone who takes her destiny into her own hands, Amy as Orpheus and Cassandra and Sleeping Beauty and Persephone and most of all, Amelia Pond.
People Don't Change People, Time Does :: The Wombats :: Fix Yourself, Not the World (2022)
At last - done! This song is absolutely the theme song of the Stalled Recovery AU, btw
The battle with Volo is particularly traumatizing to Akari in this AU for.. reasons. It takes her a very, very long time to come to terms with it... It was a good thing Ingo showed up, to put it mildly
Made my first fan edit in over a decade (in my day they were called fanvids). Apparently you can't use copyrighted music longer than a minute on tiktok (it was easier to get round copyright in my day also) so this one is just for you tumblr. Also let's ignore the clips with logos in because I'm not getting clean versions to re-edit it, it's 8am and I haven't been to sleep (thanks ADHD hyperfocus stopping me from literally noticing the sun coming up!)
Edit: Had some sleep so now time to write a ridiculous number of words about a 3 minute edit! This was a lot of fun to make, I forgot how fun video editing is and capcut is a dream compared to windows movies maker and sony vegas (which was what all the cool kids were using for some reason in the mid 2000s but I never got the hang of it).
It also reminded me how fun some of the dance numbers are. Like I love Dancing in the Moonlight and Twistin' the Night Away. I know for the latter they originally had a choreographed routine but it was scrapped and and they were told improvise and have fun. It's something that definitely comes across in the final scene and it makes it feel more authentically like three siblings messing around.
Also in editing the video scenes I noticed stuff I wouldn't have otherwise. Emmy breaks multiple times because she's having so much fun (it's left in because it makes sense for her to laugh in the moment but Emmy's laugh is very different to Allison's).
The weird dance Diego does with the sword during Another One Bites the Dust, and the fact Lila has to fully step back at one point to not get hit in the face! I always thought Lila was just pulling Five in by the hand for a hug in the same scene but you can see them dancing together in the background throughout. I knew they danced together at the wedding but Five was blackout drunk at that point so it's fun to see him dancing with her at a time when he's...well not sober, but definitely less drunk.
Also as an aside, in the first draft of the script for S1E1 it's shown explicitly that Five is uncomfortable with touch after years in the apocalypse. Though the scene in question didn't make it into later drafts, it still feels implied to me throughout season 1 and it makes me feel happy to see how far he's come, seeming genuinely comfortable with Lila's affection. Also if anyone is interested in the idea of him struggling with touch @soshadysoquiet has a great fic exploring this (though rather than my view that he's become accustomed to, and comfortable with touch it posits that he's dealing with so much due to the apocalypse he doesn't recognise touch as the cause of his distress).
I also think there's a sort of theme happening in the partner dances during Footloose, rather than the characters being paired randomly but that will take long enough to explain it needs it's own post, even if this one wasn't already obscenely long.
and when mitski said “mom, am i still young / can i dream for a few months more” and when Fleetwood Mac said “Well I’ve been afraid of changin / cause I built my life around you”, and when New Order said “To the childhood i love, rrplaced by fear”, and when Lorde said “it feels so scary, getting old” and when Arcade Fire said “somethin filled up/ my heart with nothin/someone told me not to cry” and when the Wombats said “people don’t change, time does” and when The Front Bottoms said “I’m scared I’m going to die as lonely as I feel right now” and when late night drive home said “my head is too full of ghosts and i’ll drown” and when Bright Eyes said “Cause what is simple in the moonlight/ By the morning never is” and when Taylor Swift said “don’t you ever grow up” and when Bears In Trees said “you used to be so pure, so fragile and raw” and when The Mountain Goats said “It’s good to be young, but let’s not kid ourselves/ It’s better to pass on through those years and come out the other side/ With our hearts still beating/
Did some testing on a dollar tree sketchpad (brand is crown jewelz!) and besides the paper texture being a bit scratchy to the touch, it's actually not that bad! It even took markers/highlighters pretty well too which made me hella impressed!
As @evelynhug0 so kindly requested, I'm going to release each of the main character playlists (and one for the main ship, Rachel and Daiyu) once a week leading up to the release of the book!
With the book coming out next week, here is your final playlist, the big guns: the ship playlist for Rachel and Daiyu, our enemies-to-lovers lesbians draped in fire/lightning symbolism/magical powers, shared trauma, an absolutely brutal understanding of each other, and a shared love for drama. Both self-admittedly overdramatic with a love for Shakespeare, both know how to hit where it hurts and how to help each other cope- it'll just take a few duels, awful attempts at communication, and the world falling apart around them to get to that point.
Oh, and a few life-shattering secrets coming to light, but, well, y'all will have to read the book in order to hit that point, right?
Excerpt:
Daiyu and I are not that different, at the end of the day. We’ve had to do everything needed to conform to what Councilors and Headmasters and Administrators expected of us. We’ve had to kill, to maim, to torture. Neither of us really had a choice.
“Because you’re like me,” I murmur.
Daiyu's gaze snaps up to meet mine. She leans forward, her off-the-shoulder blouse falling slightly to expose more of her sculpted shoulder. “What was that?” she snaps, voice a smoky rasp that sends goosebumps up and down my arms.
“You’re like me,” I repeat, “You don’t like—"
And I’m cut off by Daiyu lurching a few inches forward and pressing her lips to mine.
I've kissed girls before, but not like this. Not girls who I've spent years hating—or, at least, rivaling. Not girls who I’ve cooked with and roasted and dueled in the hallways of the Academy and helped practice their theater lines. Not Lady Macbeths-in-training, not Headmaster’s daughters, not girls who take my breath away with their mere existence.