if i had to pick a song that i think perfectly encapsulates the amazing devil i think i would have to say it's not yet/love run. it just has everything for me : it has the drama and variety of the instrumentals and vocals that they show throughout their other songs, it has the highs and lows, it has the storytelling. it has the harmonising of multiple lines of thought and song, it has the callbacks to other songs, it has the moments where joey and madeleine break through with their laughter. it has those key messages that tad perfectly convey: the fantasy that's grounded in reality, the struggles and the overcoming of them, and the people that help you with that, and the relatability of it all. it has that feeling of love and safety and hope all from their vocalisation of a single line. it's like everything they put into their music is brought together in this single song
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the other side of oblivion
ya girl is back at it again with another DE fic ✌️ 4,528 words, pretty heavy angst (with an uplifting conclusion), and features a healthy sprinkling of some of my favourite quotes from the game.
this was written rather obsessively over the course of 2 days, most of which fell in the early hours of the morning because i apparently Do Not Know how to maintain a proper sleep schedule when i'm inspired to write. bit of a different format than the usual as well, which was fun to try it out!
as always, love to hear your thoughts if you read it (tysm for reading regardless 💖), share if you'd like, and hope you enjoy :)
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sometimes i remember that i can post wips on the internet. what a beautiful world!
[disclaimer: this is recorded on a phone mic with an incredibly cheap instrument. just wanted to get a feel for this song before i can take a stab at it in earnest with all the bells and whistles!]
it's called mercies, written about episode 203 of a certain sky pirate podcast from olivia's perspective! keep an eye on this page because i hope to have it fully finished by the end of next week :)
[lyrics below the cut]
am i happy? what is happy?
it’s a face i’ve known before
i felt, some time, its tender hand
on some familiar shoreline
i was, of course, a young woman back then
forge faultless edge, absolution depends on
obedience, intelligence, he’s grateful and it ends
see, i can be honest
to that and friendship, denny--
drink and we’ll descend
(i ask you--) tell me how you’ll make me better
as we unbreak until we shatter
a reborn admiral, somewhat admirable,
this kindness you’ve invented
go on, insist existence
go on, is that what’s more?
i’m not, of course, the young woman i’d been.
you tread my world with inferior men
how strange, the notion you know “better”
you whose lessons left my head
you who answers me and bends
you who raises all that’s buried
you who comes here as my friend
have i been in love, you question
yes, of course, is my reply
i don’t think twice but i don’t sacrifice
it would appear our well’s run dry
of course that’s what your love is
you give ‘till ash remains
you’ve never known me if you reduce me to this
i breathe i feel i recover but if
to love is to be hollowed then i’ll never love again
gift your defiance at your leisure
and drink to honesty and friendship
yes, to honesty, and friendship
well, in the name of honesty and friendship
i believe that somewhere out there lies a joy no man has seen
they wait for me, those undiscovered rediscoveries
though all i’d have are empty maps and vast forbidden lands
if he was dead and buried, if my weight was all i carried
there’d be no one else
mercy. what is mercy?
(it's) being spared the fate i’m due
set my chin above the wild rushes
from my bloodline cleave my youth
watch me see my mercies through.
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