I'm a fish inside a birdcage
My brother always sings me songs
With his beak he tries to soothe me
He makes me feel that I belong - Rule #4: Fish in a Birdcage
I was tagged by @cowboybrunch in this post here. Thank you so much!
Rules: Pick an OC and post a song you relate to them, an image that represents them in some way (aesthetic, picrew, art, etc), and a quote of dialogue or narration from them. Totally feel free to expand and explain!
Very gently tagging to participate, should you feel so inclined: @clairelsonao3, @starlit-hopes-and-dreams, @i-can-even-burn-salad, @mysticstarlightduck, @keeper-of-all-the-random-things, plus an OPEN TAG if you think this looks fun!
OC: Will Wardrew, The Prince of Thieves & The Queen of Lies
Song: "Rule #4" by Fish in a Birdcage
I am a fish inside a birdcage / My brother always sings me songs / With his beak, he tries to soothe me / He makes me feel that I belong / He has a wild imagination / And tells me things that must be true/ Like there's a world where I can take flight/ Where I can freely move / So carry me from these walls, brother of mine / Show me the world outside / It has to be true / I'm counting on you/ To be my wings and my eyes
I went with an autumnal theme for Will's lil aesthetic board (oh yeah, I cheated and made a board) - Bree often associates him with spring and with 🍃green🍃, but TPOT & TQOL take place in autumn and I do think the oranges and browns fit Will's general vibe a little better., at least in TPOT specifically. 🍁
Who better to give us a sense of who Will is at the beginning of TPOT than his big bro?
Spell out your URL using song titles that can describe your muse/OC, then tag as many people as there are letters in your URL!
I did this last year here, but there are always new tunes goin on to the playlist and I am a sucker for a music meme and will do them a million times, as @tacitruin well knows c': ty for the tag my esoteric waif wife ༝༚༝༚ ✧˚ ༘ ⋆。♡˚
Gonna be a good girl and make this version heavier on the themes and lighter on the memes c': and have kept things mostly to Ren, but some tracks are just tracks I vibe with for both of them, so I've include lyrics and a little explainer about why after each and put a cut after H c:
A: A Model of the Universe - Jóhann Jóhannsson
Spotify | YouTube
This one's an instrumental which has big Ren vibes for me. I listen to it often when I am writing memory salad drabbles. Just sounds like the right kind of tune for remembering other people's lives, I dunno c':
R: Rule #27; Drunk on Pride - Fish in a Birdcage
Spotify | YouTube
"Long after they lost their names..."
As some folks may know I headcanon Oli and Ren were Nymian sailors in a past life. So there's a lot of thematic lyrics crammed into this song for drabbling that bad end of theirs. Also this band slaps. I have loads of their songs on the playlist c':
C: Control - Halsey
Spotify | YouTube
"And I tried to hold these secrets inside me, my mind's like a deadly disease..."
Just a lot of big ol' bad echo Ren Vibes in this one. She literally knows things she shouldn't and it's 99.79% likely to get her in trouble, you know what I'm saying?
H: Hey Jealousy - Gin Blossoms
Spotify | YouTube
"Well tell me do you think it'd be alright, if I could just crash here tonight?"
A CalRen ship song if there ever was one. I think it's self-explanatory enough c':
A: A Wolf at the Door - Radiohead
Spotify | YouTube
"Don't look in the mirror at the face you don't recognize..."
"Kicks you in the teeth. Steel toe caps. Takes all your credit cards..."A double-banger here. I often listen to this song when I just want to head movie little scenes of the two of them doing things they probably shouldn't have been doing. (They did a lot of that circa 1574 in Othard according to my drabbles c': )
I: I Do Not Want This - Nine Inch Nails
Spotify | YouTube
"I have lived so many lives all in my head..."
"Bamboo puncturing the skin and nothing comes bleeding out of me..."
Another track that I listen to for both blorbettes. It's very vibes for two bitches who've had so many bad ends c':
C: Comics - Caravan Palace
Spotify | YouTube
"Oh, my pops used to say I'm a trophy..."
This song is about someone who could maybe have been a good girl but she got involved in bad things, so it's perfect for Ren really. (Also the refrain has the word murder in it c': )
Side Note: The lyrics of this song available on Spotify and Google are pretty disputed by a lot of Caravan Palace fans, myself included. For example, google and Spotify will tell you this line is 'oh my pops used to say I'm a chumpy' not only is this incorrect, it makes no sense. A lot of fans theorize the album is about a hooker and trophy makes more sense in that case and so that's the version I go with.
L: Like You Want To - Kita Alexander
Spotify | YouTube
"Oh what you wanna be? Why won't you come with me take a piece of this for free?"
Another CalRen ship song. Those two are idiots. No, I won't elaborate.
U: Up Around the Bend - Creedence Clear Water Revival
Spotify | YouTube
"Leave the sinking ship behind..."
"You can ponder perpetual motion, fix your mind on a crystal day..."
For both blorbettes again, I use this when I want to make a head movie montage of the sort of shenanigans they've gotten up to. It's actually one of the husbo's picks, but I still put it to good use c':
M: Mama's Gun - Glass Animals
Spotify | YouTube
"Little voices, buzzing poison, backward noise drown everything..."
"In the summer silence, I was getting violent..."This song actually features as the soundtrack for one of the aforementioned things they probably shouldn't have been doing in Othard circa 1547. To keep a long story short, someone ended up losing a lot of blood, but they deserved it.
I: I Am Not A Woman, I'm A God - Halsey
Spotify | YouTube
"Take 'em with me to the grave in a suitcase..."
"Maybe I could be a better human with a new name..."
This is probs one of my top Oli/Ren theme songs, along with Begin Again by Purity Ring. Like, yeah, I'm a slut for Halsey, but also this just touches on a lot of themes which work for the blorbaes. Keeping secrets, playing god etc.
N: Not Your Kind of People - Garbage
Spotify | YouTube
"Don't want to be like you, ever in our lives..."
Another one of the husbo's picks for the playlist that I end up putting to good use when I want to write scenes between Ren and her "Maternal Progenitor".
A: Arrival in Nara - Alt J
Spotify | YouTube
"Though I cannot see I can hear, her, smile as she sings..."
Ren's memory drabbles are non-visual. She doesn't see anything from other people's memories, but she can hear, smell, taste and feel things from other people's memories. Also, could I ever make a playlist and not put Alt-J on it? No. No I could never.
₊°༺❤︎༻°₊ 。 Gonna tag these beauties in for some music fun! 。 ₊°༺❤︎༻°₊ 。
Obvs I am starting with @gatheredfates (Sea, I know you have more tunes for me, don't hold out on me!) and also @eorzeanflowers, @zeloinator, @violet-stormbringer, @ofscorchedearth, @luck-and-larceny, @aethericfist and @starforger As always no pressure if you don't want to do it/have already done it. 。 ₊°༺❤︎༻°₊ 。
And also if you're not tagged and want to do it, do it and tag me because I love sharing tunes c': ₊°༺❤︎༻°₊ 。
Don't feel any pressure to do this on any set time BUT 🎲 + 13 please 💕
HELLO!! 🥰 💕💕💕 I decided to compile the questions all into one, I hope that’s okay!!! 💖
Also I made a mistake and was rolling last night using my last braincells so I forgot that maybe it’d be good to screenshot the results and not just.. note them down JDFKGL BUT these were fun to do and figure out regardless, though I’ll say the Wheel had a very funny bias 😂 ANYHOW!!!
Send me 🎲 + a number and I will put ALL my OCs into a randomizer and choose the first OC after the number of randomizations to make something for.
🎲 13 ROLLS
SKYRAH (headshot)
🎲 7 ROLLS
SKYRAH (Little facts)
🎲 9 ROLLS
BETHAN (Four songs from their playlist + why they’re there)
🎲 13 - (SKYRAH)
🎲 7 - (SKYRAH)
A Little something about the character
SKYRAH is an OC made in the Merlin fandom. She’s a witch that struggled to control her magic due to the environment she previously grew up in being volatile towards the idea of anyone having it. Her lack of control is however what ends up aiding in her escape. She’s begrudging and not above seeking revenge against those that have wronged her, though she's not one to act out recklessly. Her methods are precise and thought out.
She plays the role of an antagonist for a good while because of it given her standing in the story and who she's up against.
🎲 9 - (BETHAN)
Four songs from their playlist + why they’re there
1. Child of the Stars - Fish in a Birdcage
I picked the song out last summer, though I can’t remember why I put it there back then. Nowadays though it fits right with one of the bigger dynamics she has with someone else, Zarina (her fairy godmother).
She is a “Child of the stars”, a child raised by a fairy. And a lot of the empowerment from the lyrics, is something she probably could have heard from her during the time she had lived with her.
2. The Saints I - Dirt Poor Robins
Simple: Longing.
Beth is a character that longs to step out of the shadows she had existed in and find a better place. She longs to not feel alone (keyword is “feel” here), and find her sense of belonging in the world and amongst others. To "be among their numbers". To be seen for who she is rather than the idea of what people had of her.
3. I will Prevail - Kate Shindle (from Wonderland)
The only thing I can really say about this choice is… The Vibes™. It was about the vibes…
I really don’t have any other grand reason for it being there, but when first modelling her character it just felt so right for it being there! Haven’t let it go as anything but a Beth song since even if the lyrics just aren’t 100% correct.
4. Grace Kelly - Mika
A song that talks of looking for your identity. What else can I say BHSDJFBHKRJ “I could be brown, I could be blue, I could be violet sky. I could be hurtful, I could be purple I could be anything you like.” is just taking from the chorus but a lot of what Beth’s character is about it’s about her trying to find that “self”.
Both inside of herself, but at first it was finding it in others. (“I tried to be like Grace Kelly, But all her looks were too sad. So I tried a little Freddie, I've gone identity mad”) She’d try modelling herself after those she looks up to or cares about with varied results.
This was a tricky one, but I’m going to go with Marya Baratheon on this one. It’s not perfect, but something about the imagery I like. Idk, just a vibe really.
❌️⭕️send a random song and I'll say which OC it fits the most❌️⭕️
I love this song so much so I associate it with every oc and a half-
But Fish in a Birdcage is such a Sharkstar and Lanternglow song, with how Lanternglow has access to the "world outside" (Starclan and the realm of the living)
Plus, Shark's name and the fact he's stuck in the Dark Forest quite literally makes him a "Fish inside a birdcage"
I would seriously recommend listening to Fish in a Birdcage, and all their other songs cuz it's GOOOD. (Caleb Hyles' cover of Fish in a Birdcage is tasty too)
no I just like sirens and bells and fish so I just kind of combined them
it’s from my OC (A.k.a. the Minecraft guy in my header )
but if you’re looking for a band may I suggest
“Fish inside a birdcage”
Great songs, good people (I hope to God they stay good people I don’t want to recommend a band and find out about 30 years later that they did some shit)
Hwiiii its corbibibi. i'd like to drop near (death note, "good soil, bad seeds" by A lot like birds, bastide 18), and aleister (crash fever, "hand me my shovel, i'm going in" by will wood, flat 2). -- in their place though i'd like to reserve distortion from crash fever, as well namza (corbi oc, a corbc if you will), and the song "rule #4 - fish inside a birdcage".
hi corbibibi!
aleister and near have been sent home for oyu, and distortion and namza, as well as the song rule #4 have all been reserved for you until june (haha) 6th!