artemis: walking through a forest, hearing the leaves rustling in the leaves, feeling content and happy, holding your journal to your chest, scaling the nearby trees to feel like you're on the top of the world, inhaling the scent of leaves and rain
euphrosyne: skipping across an old rickety bridge, bursting with joy, feeling the breeze in your hair, a book tucked into your bag, a cup of coffee in your hands
persephone: running across a field in spring, holding hands with someone you love, looking at how spring emerges, laughing up at the sun, seeing birds fly across the sky
dionysus: avoiding going to class, feeling like life is stretched out endlessly in front of you, sitting at an empty baseball field, reaching into a bucket of popcorn, drinking slushies at 3 in the morning
aphrodite: going to a coffee shop with the person you love, being best friends, unconsciously looking for them everywhere, realizing you never have to try when you're around them
Summary: Because of his Creed, Din Djarin chooses to die instead of removing his helmet in front of you. Will this brush with death cause him to find another way?
Pairing: The Mandalorian/Din Djarin x Fem!Reader (no use of y/n)
Status: In Progress. 16/17 Chapters + Epilogue
I discovered this wonderful fic on AO3 ages ago and was instantly hooked, I was so delighted to find Catie on tumblr and she’s since become on of my closest friends and favourite people in general.
hellooo queen megha i wanted to give you a brief reading update also for any of your followers that care to follow along lol so i read rock paper scissors and it was okaaay the plot was good but the writing was kind of cringey at times like i don’t know how that got past an editor lol but anyway i then decided to try another book called that sometimes i lie and that i just finished last night and i really liked it. it had a really good plot i think and had an unreliable narrator which is one of my favorite narrative devices and i think it’s also being made into a series or something too but anywayyy i wanted to suggest those to you if you haven’t read them and see what you’ve read recently! also PS I hope you’re doing well 🤍
idk how it got past the editor SCREAM KSJDJEJEJ and ooh I've heard good things about Alice Feeney so I'm excited to try sometimes i lie!!
probably not sorry. i dont read a lot of fic and i dont like most of what i do read. i am categorically almost impossible to please. go read in better light by catie and emma though because thats the best one
The second one is a must, I think it's the first or one of the first prosenna fics I read, and I'm still obsessed with it and its narrative. And I really really like the first one as well, mostly cause I think it's crazy to get such a well done season-long narrative fic for a ship that's 30+ years old. And the third one was posted recently by the same author and I liked it it a lot as well :) (also you should look thru antimonyandthyme's prosenna tag!!!! A couple really good ficlets, if you haven't already seen them of course)
catie ilysm. omg
super funny story i just finished reading link 1 (was recced in the survey!!) and link 2's in my own rec list :)))) will def check #3 out heeheeeeee and OMG YES. athy's prosenna is devastating i think its what got me into them??? and some truly truly insane kangeiko stuff
"The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins—but in the heart of its strength lies weakness: one lone candle is enough to hold it back. Love is more than a candle. Love can ignite the stars."
- MATTHEW STOVER, ROTS NOVEL
(r)
• youth by daughter
"my eyes are damp from the words you left,
ringing in my head, when you broke my chest,
ringing in my head, when you broke my chest,
and if you're in love, then you are the lucky one,
'cause most of us are bitter over someone,
setting fire to our insides for fun,
to distract our hearts from ever missing them,
but i'm forever missing him."
• home by catie turner
"feelings were fleeting, but now i'm surrounded,
visions of you shaved into the side of my head,
and as i sleep on the other side of the country,
i wonder how it feels to be safe in the palm of your hand,
and i just want to go home."
• broken by anson seabra
"if you see the boy i used to be,
could you tell him that i'd like to find him?
and if you see the shell that's left of me,
could you spare him a little kindness?"
"am i broken? am i flawed?
do i deserve a shred of worth,
or am i just another fake,
fucked up lost cause?
and am i human? or am i something else?
'cause i'm so scared and there's no one there,
to save me from the nightmare,
that i call myself."
• runaway by aurora
"i was painting a picture,
the picture was a painting of you,
and for a moment i thought you were here,
but then again, it wasn't true, dah,
and all this time i have been lyin',
oh, lyin' in secret to myself,
i've been putting sorrow on the farthest place on my shelf."
• overwhelmed by royal & and the serpent
"i get overwhelmed so easily,
my anxiety keeps me silent,
when i try to speak,
what's come over me?
feels like i'm somebody else,
i get overwhelmed."
(joel to r)
• leave a light on by tom walker
"and i know you're down and out now, but i need you to be brave,
hiding from the truth ain't gonna make this all okay,
i see your pain."
• it'll be alright by cody francis
"oh, my child i know,
you're hurt and you can't let go,
it's not your fault and you don't deserve,
all the bad and the hurt."
• half light by banners
"it makes me feel nervous,
you have that look in your eye,
oh, what takes over?
what is it that holds you tight?"
"when you're in the half light,
it is not you i see,
and you live a half life,
you only show half to me."
(joel & r)
• daylight by david kushner
"two sinners can't atone from a lone prayer,
souls tied, intertwined by our pride and guilt,
(oooh),
there's darkness in the distance,
from the way that i've been livin',
but i know i can't resist it,
oh, i love it and i hate it at the same time,
you and i drink the poison from the same vine."
HOWL I LOVE YOU!!!! your song recs are actually my favourite things EVER. i can’t even express how much i love these. so so amazing. edit: howl. after going through all of these….. you have outdone yourself. you are amazing.
also yes this whole thing is just going to be me sobbing and crying and making myself sad about how much i made r suffer. WHAT OF IT. leave me to ramble!
ALSO ALSO heheh he this gif is so good. giggling. gonna watch that film JUST for this moment BAHAHAH
youth — sobbing. this song is just … emotional. its so good. and i think it’s just so :( poor r she’s going through it. “i’m forever missing him” is just so so real for this fic. bc she really just … can’t not think about her dad :( also the lyrics “shadows settle on the place that you left / our minds are troubled by the emptiness” is so r and joel coded. they are both suffering sm OOPS
home — i know this is going to be a common word here but.. sobbing. once again. this song is so :( AND ITS NEW TO ME!! i like hearing new songs and i trust in you and you specifically howl. ANYWAY. also the “so when are you coming home” is so …….. heartbreaking. gut wrenching. R’S DAD ISNT COMING HOME. and she knows it. and the exact lyrics you said like the sleeping on the other side of the country …….. bc her dad never made it there with her … it just makes me so sad.
broken — AAAAAHHHHH. (this is me violently sobbing and crying). and and and. i really like “please, wont someone take me home / before i lose my mind?” BUT SHE CANT GO HOME. and she really does feel like she’s losing it but like … she can’t bring herself to care. AND THOSE LAST LYRICS YOU SAID???? reader my beloved joel will be there soon :( also,,, that is exactly how joel felt and he just didnt want r to be stuck in that mindset yk, to be alone, to have nobody to pull her out of that nightmare yk
runaway — (i accidentally deleted this one…. i-) anyways AS I WAS SAYING. I LOVE THIS SONG. and in relation to this????? what if i cry, specifically, “and for a moment i thought you were here” is so so so. like you know those moments after losing someone and then like. you forget, even if its just for a moment, and then you remember and its just the worst all over again??? yeah, i know that. and yes i will be applying that to r. soz. r suffers with me. and and and “but no, take me home / take me home where i belong / i got no other place to go” like r just wants to be back home with her dad. she’s so sad. UGH. yeah. this song <3
overwhelmed — omg i’ve never actually heard the full song before now :0. anyway. also. this is so r on the journey to bill and frank’s like … before she just … fades. its mfing debilitating dude. also yes bc every time she gets .. overwhelmed, r fr does struggle to hold on to herself
leave a light on — JOEL TO R CODED YOURE SO RIGHT. “i see your pain” has me sobbing and crying because :( I KNOW I PUT A BIT OF A SPIN ON JOEL’S GRIEF AFTER SARAH but tbf we dont see it in the show or anything yk??? like we KNOW he did some … bad things, but lets be real. he didnt deal with it at all. he just fell into darker habits. and i just think him knowing exactly what r is going through, even though it will be different, he still KNOWS. and he can recognise it. and joel just makes me so sad. “but i need you to be brave” sobbing so hard. yes i will relate every song lyric to joel miller/my own fics. what about it. as we should. joel of all people KNOWS how much courage it takes to NOT fall into that headspace. my babies
it’ll be alright — howl ive never heard this song before and i……. im not ok. what the hell. this is so joel miller coded. yes he would relate this to ellie as well canonically. but r…….. its so much worse. joel KNOWS about the bad and the hurt. and joel KNOWS that out of all the people who deserve it .. r is not one of them. AND AND AND “how much longer will you suffer in this life? / but dont give up, just hold on tight / it’ll be alright” what if i sob and cry. joel just wants to reassure r man. these poor tortured souls. maybe one day ill write a happy fic (doubtful)
half light — yes on each and every level. THIS ONE IS SO PERFECT. “it makes me feel nervous / you have that look in your eye” bc joel recognises it :( joel KNOWSSSS. he knows. he’s all knowing. he knows exactly what that look means. he’s seen it in his own eyes. “it is not you i see / and you live a half life” OH WHAT JOEL WOULD DO TO TAKE AWAY ALL OF R’S PAIN. to make her ok and whole and happy. he wishes he could fix it. but he knows he can’t :( nothing can fix that pain, after all, he would know. im losing my mind rn
daylight — THIS ONE FITS SO WELL TOO. idk how you ALWAYS do this. how do you never miss???? “souls tied, intertwined by our pride and guilt” ??????????????????????? no because joel and r literally are mirrors of each other. they both feel the exact same guilt. and they always will. and the pride that they BOTH have in trying to handle it all alone. like yes r accepts joel and tess’s help (not that they really give her a choice) but she doesn’t WANT to connect, she doesn’t want to talk about it. and i imagine joel to have been the exact same way, only going on for tommy, and yes eventually tess, though u can imagine how long he spent refusing to admit even to himself it was bc he cared about her SMH. ‘business/survival’ is what he woulda told tommy about looking out for her. “you and i drink the poison from the same vine” hmmmm yes they really do. they r one and the same. they’ll self destruct till there’s nothing left tbh. and and and “tellin’ myself its the last time / can you spare any mercy that you might find” is joel coded and no i needn’t say more.
removing people from the shoutout lists seems a little harsh, I was looking forward to getting more Nessian fic recs/shoutouts and caty has some really good ones :(
WHAAAAT? No, I am sorry, I probably should have phrased it differently - I did not remove her from a shout-out list with her stories. Oh god, I removed her from one of my "additional people lists (where I give shout-outs to people without adding stories" and gave her a shout-out in a separate post!!!
Im really enjoying Louis Tomlinson's Faith in The Future.
Also if people are into Taylor they should consider Flowers for Vases by Hayley Williams and Emails I Can't Send by Sabrina Carpenter.
They have different but similar taylor vibes.
For other artist recs Sigrid, Griff, Orla Gartland, Chloe Moriondo, Catie Turner, Baby Queen, Joshua Bassett, Cavetown, Alessia Cara, Dodie, EASHA, Troye Sivan, Kelsey Ballerini, Girl in Red, Tate Mcrae, and others. They have either some similar vibes to different Taylor's eras or have cited Taylor as an inspiration ( i didn't include basic like Olivia Rodrigo, Masie and Gracie or people currently opening for her because those are more obvious).
I have no idea if any of these people are controversial so fair warning on that.
for when you're ready to move on, accept what has happened to you, tired of feeling shitty, aching to run into the arms of someone who loves you, feeling light as a feather:
I'm rewatching MC and have been reading lots of fic and yours were some of the ones that made me switch from reading mostly Shandy to Sharon x Brenda. (So if you've recently gotten anon kudos on fics from like 2015 hello). Anyway that's on the brain and when Catie Turner "Push You Away" came up on my daily mix today I was like wow this is Brenda POV. So... definitely give it a listen :)
Thank you for the rec! It's here if anyone wants to listen:
I will take this as u enabling me to continue thinking about this fic non-stop. Anyway I have more song recs
Marinette POV
Fourth of July - Sufjan Stevens >> LB mourning CN’s death "the evil it spread like a fever ahead / it was night when you died, my firefly" "what could I have said to raise you from the dead?" "though it never felt right, My little Versailles" and also every other lyric in this song its so sad
Dancing With Your Ghost - Sasha Alex Sloan >> every time LB visits his statue. "How do I love again?" "I'm still your girl" "how do I trust again?" like the chorus of this song I can just see ladybug dancing while she mourns the loss of her partner
You’re Somebody Else - flora cash >> Marinette realizing Adrien isn’t who she thought he was
Happiness is a butterfly - Lana Del Rey >> ok this is me projecting enemies-to-lovers onto maricatwalker b/c the romantic tension they have is PALPABLE
Back to December - Taylor Swift >> Marinette regretting never fully accepting her feelings for CN before it was too late
Adrien POV
Gasoline - Halsey >> Adrien thinking he’s not human, he’s a monster, he’s not in control
Love Me Less - Max, Quinn XCII >> Adrien thinking LB can never forgive him for what he is / has done
Right where you left me - Taylor Swift >> Adrien watching all his friends grow up, get married, start careers, but he’s still frozen six years in the past
People Watching - Conan Gray >> more of Adrien never getting to live his life while all his friends move on
Strange - Celeste >> Adrien lamenting how LB looks at him like she doesn’t even know him anymore
God Must Hate Me -Catie Turner >> this one is self explanatory, we all know adrien has ISSSUES
My tears ricochet - Taylor Swift >> “I didn’t have it in myself to go with grace/ and you’re the hero flying around saving face/ and if I’m dead to you why are you at the wake?” PLEASE adrien is permanently in his sad-girl autumn and this is his song
Lila POV
Breakfast - Dove Cameron >> “let me show you power” this is Lila Rossi’s ANTHEM “one by one hung on my necklace” IT FITS SO PERFECT
YES MOM - Tessa Violet >> “I’m the one to beat” yes Lila we know you’re scarier than Gabriel you have made that VERY clear
You should see me in a crown - Billie Eilish >> Lila has a god complex
I Feel Like A God - Deathly Romy >> again, god complex just doubled down