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nudgeling · 5 months

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I've had a resurgence of listening to First Aid Kit recently so I decided to pair up a bunch of their songs and lyrics to traffic characters and ships. I'm surprised they’re not more popular in fandom spaces since they’re pretty similar genre-wise to both Crane Wives and the Oh Hellos, so consider this is my community pitch (+ commentary cuz i wanna)

Fleeting one - BigB

"My love is a fleeting one / My man could be anyone / And our love is a setting sun / My life is fleeting one / My work is just a web I've spun / Oh, my life is a setting sun / Baffled by the lives we were lent / We met the end too soon / I was honest when I told you / We're as cryptic as the moon"

BigB has a bit of a history with wavy loyalties. The secret soulmates with Grian, betraying Cleo, and most recently tricking Skizz (I know that was resolved but a pattern is a pattern my man). And well, not that I have any clue what the man's up with all the cryptic gaslighting but I feel like that applies as well.

The lyrics outside the chorus seem to be about a couple falling out of love, but I like to apply it to him and Cleo, which still fits fairly well. Angst galore ofc.

Wolf - Pearl

"When I run through the deep dark forest long after this begun / Where the sun would set, the trees were dead, and the rivers were none / And I hope for a trace to lead me back home from this place / But there was no sound there was only me and my disgrace"

Scratch this being the most Pearl-like FAK song, this is the most Pearl song ever. It's basically what started this whole project. All the lyrics and all the vibes just screams DL Pearl. The song is also a bop, one of my personal favs, if I were to recommend just one of these to listen to then this is a strong contender.

Josefin - Martyn

"You go home with feet bare in the snow / You raise up your head to the dead / You seek of such magical things / And nobody knows where you've been"

This smells of watcher lore guys. Don’t have much more commentary than that, it’s just watcher lore straight up.

King of the World - Lizzie

"I keep running around / Trying to find the ground / But my head is in the stars / And my feet are in the sky / Well I'm nobody's baby / I'm everybody's girl / I'm the queen of nothing / I'm the king of the world"

The lyrics is giving Last Life Lizzie, but it’s also one of the more whimsical-sounding songs on the list which feels very Lizzie in general.

I'll admit the rest of the lyrics isn’t particularly easy to tie into the life series since there’s a bunch of specific modern references like going to the airport and traveling through states, but I love the song way too much not to include it. Might be the personal favourite.

Rebel heart - Desert duo

"You told me once I have a rebel heart / I don't know if that's true / But I believe you saw something in me that lives inside you too / Now I all I hear is the wind / There’s a storm coming through / Did I misplace or forsake my love now that I gave it to you?"

Picking just one lyric section from this song was difficult. Every single word, top to bottom, fits Scarian like a glove. It also slams in a "But I know you truly saw me / Even if just for a while" which just MMMM. Makes me wanna bite someone.

I Found a Way - Treebark

"We play the game with skillful hands / And so I asked for your demands / "Give me your love, give me your gun" / And you traced us back to where we begun"

Tbh this song could apply to a lot of traffic dynamics but it had a lot of loyalty themes which is why I put it at Treebark specifically. That being said: man. It works so well. Specifically Martyn POV. The gun in the lyric above would ofc be the beheading, plus the song later mentions the protagonist having a lot of guilt and being prone to running. It's got C!Martyn all over it.

My Silver Lining - Skizz

"I try not to hold on to what is gone / I try to do right what is wrong / I try to keep on keeping on / Yeah I just keep on keeping on / I hear a voice calling / Calling out for me / These shackles I've made in an attempt to be free / Be it for reason, be it for love / I won't take the easy road"

This is another one where it just is Skizz. He’s probably been the most consistantly loyal and good-natured person in the series, doing anything and everything for his team. I feel this especially with how he was in Limited Life, being determined to spread some light into the world despite the game they found themselves in. When making this list I found that most of these songs could fit multiple dynamics/characters, but this is his song, full stop.

Stay Gold - Flower Husbands

"The sun shone high those few summer days / Left us in a soft, wide-eyed haze / It shone like gold / It shone like gold / But just as the moon, it shall stray / So dawn goes down today / No gold can stay / No gold can stay"

👏ANGST👏GALORE

Another one where I just want to quote the whole song. The song is all about grieving time periods and memories you can’t get back, to which I'm thinking late-game 3rd life, post-3rd life divorce or s1 empires characters having weird nostalgia. I go feral for all of it.

Bonus empires:

Heavy storm - Sausage

"I saw, I saw, I saw, I saw an old photograph / And the picture that appeared / Well, it took me back to the times / When she was around / She used to play that old mandolin / And the moon and the sea invited her in / I wish that I had told her by then / What she knew deep down / That she only wished that time would come back"

S1 Sausage angst my beloved. Or s2, could work either way, but I'm partial to s1. "She" could be either Pearl or Gem, however there is a "he" in the first chorus which is very much Fhwip. Like Stay Gold it’s all about grieving old times, so I like to imagine a post S1 Sausage grieving his old family :D

#might make a part 2 at some point if i feel like it #i got so much more #trafficblr #3rd life #last life #double life #limited life #secret life #scarian #treebark #flower husbands #pearlescentmoon #inthelittlewood #skizzleman #ldshadowlady #empires sausage #nudge.rambles

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bruhhemianrhapsody · 5 years

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tagged by @lilithenaltum this literally took me like an hour lol here it is babe

Pick your top 10 ships without reading the questions. [or if you’re a one ship dedicated blog, feel free to answer all of them for just that one, or do all the ships from one fandom, this is just for fun]

1. arthur x eames

2. ironprincess (tony x shuri)

3. winterhawk (clint x bucky)

4. frikey (frank iero x mikey way)

5. natasha x shuri

6. symbrock (eddie brock x venom)

7. blackfrost (loki x natasha)

8. brio (beth x rio)

9. klaus hargreeves x dave

10. stucky (steve x bucky)

Now answer the questions fo your followers can learn a bit more about your ships

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Do you remember the episode/chapter/scene where you first started shipping 6? [symbrock] - i mean? the whole movie was just Like That yk

What’s your favourite fanfiction for 4? [frikey] -

no brainer we used to be friends by ladyfoxxx. my fucking ride or die fic man. used to be my fav fic of all time, now sits at second, but still it’s pretty close

What’s your favourite fan art/picture for 2? - [ironprincess] - uhhhh fuck idk man there so much good stuff genuinely i cant choose

What’s your favourite headcanon for 1? - [arthur x eames] - arthur has a daddy kink pry it from my cold dead hands. biggest brat, are you kidding me. “go to sleep mr. eames” BITCH the way he says that shit he’s always looking to get his ass beat.

What do you like most about the dynamic between the people of 7? - [blackfrost] - the fact that nat definitely takes NONE of loki’s shit lol that kinda explains itself

When 9 have sex is it more giggly or more serious? - [klaus x dave] giggly are you kidding me, klaus prolly calls dave daddy by accident and ends up rolling if the bed with laughter at his face. the silliest, dumbest sex you could imagine

Out of all the ships who do you think have the best chemistry? - either brio or arthur and eames. if you’ve watched inception... specificity like… gets me every damn time, they’re so good together.

Which ship has the strongest bond? - symbrock or stucky

Which ship do you spend the most time reading fanfiction for/talking/writing about? - arthur x eames, ironprincess and winterhawk

Which was your first ship? - from the list? frikey

If 6 were to break up, how would it happen? - [symbrock] - they’re the same being you absolute fools

Between 3 and 8, who would last the longest if they were in a zombie apocalypse? - [winterhawk, brio] - both? but if i have to choose prolly winterhawk cuz they’re like… actual superheroes yk

Does 7 hide their relationship, and if so, why? - [blackfrost] - nah fam, loki has never done anything subtle in his life are you kidding me

What is 9′s favourite date to go on? - [klaus x dave] - the vietnam war babie ;)) nah but fr klaus would love if dave took him and did all the classic date things (dinner, a movie, goodnight kiss at the door) but never admits it bcuz he has a thot reputation to uphold

What’s your favourite canon moment between 10? - [stucky] - all of the 1940’s, bcuz the only good stucky is shrunkyclunks and that’s the tea

What do 5 argue most about? - [nat x shuri] - the fact that natasha has NO communication skills to be heard of and shuri has about 0 patience so they clash a lot

If you had to pick an OTP which would you chose? - god only one? winterhawk, but arthur and earnes come close in second

What’s the biggest kink that 1 shares? - [arthur x eames] - dream sex (duh are you kidding me) especially exploring older man/younger man role play in said dream. arthur has a daddy kink pry that from my cold dead hands cowards

Do 8 want children? - [brio] this question answers itself lol, hell yeah

Between 10 and 4, which would you rather became canon? - [stucky, frikey] - 10 of course, i don’t condone shipping real people actually in real life, they have wives and kids don’t do that

Does 2 do much PDA? And does it annoy their friends? - [ironprincess] - so much. another self explanatory one. shuri loves to sit in tony’s lap and he never takes his hands off her lol

Which of the ships would you say is the most romantic with each other? - uhhh fuck symbrock prolly

How would the proposal between 5 go? - [nat x shuri] - nat proposes on their five year anniversary, she takes shuri to russia for the first time and takes her to the russian street markets. she drops down on one knee in the middle of the road like a lovesick fool and shuri also cries like a lovesickfool bcuz they’re in love and that’s how it goes

Who cooks more often in 3? - [winterhawk] - bucky. clint would burn the house down lol are you kidding me. bucky knew how to bake back in the 40’s and still makes kickass pie and cookies and bread n shit

Tagging: im not gonna tag anyone fools do it if you wanna

#abt #tagged #long post

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