Fandoms & Songs

I have MANY thoughts on songs and what fandom they make me think of so I’m putting them all here cause I don’t have the time or energy to learn to animate or edit

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Hello! I am Fandom and Songs because thats the best name I can think of. You can call me Fandom, Song, FS, any variation thereof, or just my name Kody :)

Any pronouns may be used to refer to me

IGNORE THE DEFAULT PROFILE PIC I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO PUT YET

This blog is exactly what it says on the tin, it’s just songs (or rarely audio clips) that I think would really good with a certain character/fandom.

Posts will be inconsistent because I make a post every time I’m listing to a song and go WAIT— (do keep in mind this blog is currently very young that’s why it’s so sparse.)

I am heavily multi-fandom, I have my fingers in every little thing *waggles my autistic fingers at you like a cartoon villain* but I am alas only one guy

SO if y’all have a fandom/character and a song that goes together feel free to tell me!

Also most of these posts will come in batches associating with my current interest, and my music taste heavily revolves around folk and musicals so again, please give me you’re suggestions or I will just post one thing for like a year lmao

The general format of my posts is

Song Title by Artist

Fandom - extra (this will be a ship if applicable, or a specific AU or Fanfic I’m referencing or just any specifications that go with the song and fandom)

And beneath the Read More cut will be a lyrical breakdown and my thoughts, as well as the characters I believe are best suited for the song, not all of my posts will have this breakdown or will have only small sections analyzed or just be me gesturing wildly and screaming incoherent nonsense at you.

You may also notice posts being edited or changed, this is usually because I’m going back to add a proper analysis once I have the time or energy, or to add on to my previous thoughts and scream incoherently at you some more.

Posts may also not have an analysis because it’s from a comment/ask, however that said, please feel free to include your own analysis or general thoughts (or incoherent yelling) in your post and I will copy + paste with credits to you

This blog was highkey made because I need more fandoms to use folk music or musicals ESPECIALLY CRANE WIVES BECAUSE THEIR SONGS ARE GOLD AND ARE PERFECT FOR MOST FANDOMS

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Take Me to War by The Crane Wives

Demon Slayer - Shinobu Kocho

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Yall im on an actual roll today lmao

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You’re Not Welcome by Naethan Apollo

BNHA - Villain Deku AU

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Feed the Machine by Poor Mans Poison

Transformers One

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Grievances by Sparkbird

Batman comics - Nightwing

LISTEN IT FEELS LIKE IT FITS JUST LOOK

(Also just a reminder that this is not the whole song I cut out a lot of repeating chorus’)

“You dropped into my life

When I needed you most

That should've been the first red flag”

Bruce adopting him after he lost his parents

“You smiled at me like a parasite in need of a host

Slipped a contract out of your bag

And when I frowned at the empty quill

You jabbed me with a dull syringe”

Parasite as in Bruce saw kinship in this angry little boy and instead of ohhhh idk therapy and support systems encouraged him to become a vigilante like himself (i love Batman don’t get me wrong but cmon man.)

“I don’t like to be pressured

I don’t like to be pushed”

This is the general chorus but I feel like it works

“It was an ominous start

But you said the money came from your heart

And you only wanted the very best for me

You wanted me to succeed

But in your own particular sense

At a particularly painful expense”

SHAKES YOU SHAKES YOU SHAKES YOU BITES THE BARS OF MY ENCLOSURE DO YOU SEE THE VISION IT JUST WORKS IS THIS NOT THE MOST BATMAN PHRASING EVER

“The independence of my body and my mind

From the particulars of all your extracurriculars

The fog of obligation grew so thick I couldn't even breathe”

AKXJAKZOAPAP SHAKES YOU SHAKES YOU SHAKES YOU DO YOU SEE IT DO YOU SEE THE VISION “your extracurriculars” REFERRING TO BRUCES VIGILANTISM AND DICK BECOMING ROBIN AND THE OBLIGATION OF BEING ROBIN BECOMING TO MUCH PRESSURE DO YOU SEE

“I don't like to be pressured

I don't like to be pushed”

I see this working as the transition from Robin to Nightwing

“Another twist of the knife

Another turn of the screw

Another perfect time to thank myself

For drumming up the courage to burn bridges with you”

GESTURES WILDLY DO YOU SEE DO YOU LIKE THIS WOULD BE THE TENSION BUILDING BEFORE HE LEAVES GO BE NIGHTWING ON HIS OWN

“And for all the shit you talk about me

I should think you would be thankful as well

But you just can't seem to let it die”

RATTLES THE BARS OF MY ENCLOSURE

“So we should probably discuss it when I see you in hell

I made a list of the grievances that I never got a chance to air:

I don't like to be lied to

I don't like to be tricked

I don't like to be gaslit

I don't like to be groped

I don't like to be blackmailed

I don't like to be stalked

I don't like to be threatened

I don't like to be trapped

I don't like to be

Pressured pressured pressured pressured

Pressured pressured pressured pressured”

DO YOU SEE THE VISION DO YOU. I SEE THIS AS NIGHTWING POINTING OUT ALL THE SHIT HES HAD TO GO THROUGH WITH FROM VILLAINS FROM A YOUNG AGE. LIKE A MONTAGE OF ALL THE LIFE THREATENING SITUATIONS HES BEEN IN

RATTLES BARS OF MY ENCLOSURE AND FROTHS AT THE MOUTH DO YOU SEE

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SICKAKCJAO IM AT WORK RN SO I CANT DO AN ANALYSIS BUT HEAR ME OUT:

Little Big Boy by Madds Buckley

Batman - Jason Todd

LISTEN ITS SO JASON CODED SHAKES YOU SHAKES YOU SHAKES YOU BITES THE BARS OF MY ENCLOSURE ILL BE BACK AFTER WORK TRUST

Edit: IM BACK. IGNORE THAT THIS IS DAYS AFTER I POSTED THIS. LYRICAL BREAKDOWN TIME:

“Brimstone fire and eyes aglow

Little big boy's making the whole world know his name”

Jason’s Lazarus green eyes, and making his name as Red Hood.

“Raised on pillars and shining lights,

Breathing smoke for the right to keep his place”

Gestures wildly, being raised by Batman and being Robin and so SO determined to prove himself worthy as a Robin.

Also “breathing in smoke” could be a reference to the bomb 👀

“Never satisfied 'till they all see

How big this little boy can be”

GESTURES WILDLY, same as above, just Jason’s desperate need to prove himself and this could also be used to refer to Jaybin going after The Joker.

“Well the water's rising

Tide's comin' in

Does little big boy know how to swim?

In a pond filled with fish bigger than him

Oh little big boy's gonna see how little he really is”

HE WAS JUST A BABY SOBS. HE WAS JUST A LITTLE BOY AND HE WAS FIGHTING THESE BIG POWERFUL VILLAINS

Also I see that last line being Joker actively mocking him before Jaybin dies, on that note I lowkey love how like- condescending (?) this song feels.

Like the tone works really well for Jason and Joker’s dynamic (Joker mocking him, Jason remembering his words) as well as Jason’s own self deprecation/internal monologue (Jason hating himself/putting himself down/calling himself a child (even though he never really got to grow up))

Like the song is the tone of an outsider telling a tale, like oh look at this dumb little kid who wanted to be a superhero and died trying, yknow?

“Well he clawed up cliffs 'till he was sick

But desperation's a tricky fickle thing

It never really sits still”

Clawing out of his own grave/the Lazarus pits

“And all getting higher is gonna do is make you look

As small as the whole world looks to you

To you”

Again like an outsiders pov? Or maybe Batman being critical? Like him becoming Red Hood/taking up killing makes him small/pathetic?

“Never satisfied 'till they all see

How big this little boy can be”

But Jay is determined to do it anyway

“Well the water's rising

Tide's comin' in

Does little big boy know how to swim?

In a pond filled with fish bigger than him

Oh little big boy's gonna see how little he really is”

A parallel to Jaybin being a little kid amongst villains, now Red Hood fully stepping into the world of crime.

Maybe the last part, “see how little he is” is a reference to him still being a kid at heart. Like he’s doing all this work to protect people but in the end he just wants to be Robin again and he just wants his dad SOBS

“Well the water's lapping at your heels boy

Do you really feel like

The world's gonna end if you're not at the top?”

LISTEN JUST LISTEN ITS AKFIAKDKAL IT JUST WORKS. BECAUSE YES. THATS JUST HOW BATMAN RAISED HIS KIDS. THEY HAVE TO BE ON TOP OF EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME.

“'Cause once you claim that throne

Once you call it all your own

The climb never (never)

Never (never)

Never stops (never)”

Claiming the throne as in properly taking up Red Hoods mantel, like, he can never go back once there’s blood on his hands. And the climb will never stop because there will ALWAYS be more crime, more villains, more bloodshed. That’s WHY he became Red Hood in the first place, to fill the power vacuum because he knows it will never stop.

“Well the water's rising

Tide's comin' in (tides coming in)

Does little big boy know how to swim?

In a pond filled with fish bigger than him

Oh little big boy's gonna see how little

Oh little big boy's (he really is)

Gonna see how little he really is”

GESTURES WILDLY AND SHAKES THE BARS OF MY ENCLOSURE. DO YOU SEE?? DO YOU SEE THE VISION?! IT JUST WORKS SO WELL. ITS HIS SONG AKXJALXKAK

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DOAKXJAILS OKAY GUYS WAIT it’s like 2 am where I am rn and I’m tired af so no analysis tonight BUT HEAR ME OUT

Rät by Penelope Scott

Transformers One - Megatron

LISTEN I THIBK IT WORKS ITS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF D16 REALIZING HOW BAD SENTINAL IS AND HOW LONG HE WAS BEING USED AND AKDKALKSLAPA DO YOU SEE THE VISION

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Sorry for the lack of posts btw I haven’t been listening to as much music becuase I’ve found a dnd podcast I really like lmao

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Too Little, Too Late by Laufey

Batman - GhostBat anyone 👀?

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To everyone who’s commented on post, THANK YOU I LOVE YOU and I would love to reply to you guys but alas I’m having a system error where I am unable to comment. I have already reached out to Tumblr support and am hoping to hear back from them soon.

SO IM NOT IGNORING YOU, I WANT TO INTERACT WITH YOU I SWEAR *rattles the bars of my cage*

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IM FREE I CAN YAP NOW

[bugswags]

Tongues & Teeth is like Starscream if he wished to become a song

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Wait For Me by Hadestown

Transformers

Listen this song is so fucking applicable to nearly every transformer BUT

This song is so very Ratchet to me. The fact that ratchet is a doctor during war is heartbreaking, it’s such a painful job, but he’s also a FIELD MEDIC. His ass goes onto the front lines to save a life becuase he CARES so much

I see this song as Ratchet rushing to get to downed soldier, or a city under siege that is taking heavy losses. He’s begging PLEADING for them to hold on just a little longer until he can get there. He’s RUSHING into the battle front, through fire and bullets he’s desperate to get to the next soldier and drag them to cover, they just have to WAIT just a little longer for him to get there, just stay alive for a little longer please

Ratchet is so very Desmond Doss from Hacksaw Ridge to me, if you don’t know Desmond Doss is a famous field medic known for his continuous prayer of “Please Lord, help me get one more". Doss would continue to charge back into the fray over and over again to look for and recover wounded/dying soldiers, even enemy soldiers. He would do this ALONE for several hours pleading and praying to recover just one more soldier.

THAT is Ratchet to me. He loves and cares so much about everything. He is one of Cybertrons best doctors, so brilliant in fact that he cannot be risked on field. But Ratchet goes on the field anyway, because he loves each and every single soldier and he will bring them home even if it kills him.

Ratchet rushes into fire begging “wait for me”, hold on just a little longer, just stay alive until he can get there to help.

OR I just thought of this, Ratchet rushing to get to Bee during Tyger Pax

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To everyone who’s commented on post, THANK YOU I LOVE YOU and I would love to reply to you guys but alas I’m having a system error where I am unable to comment. I have already reached out to Tumblr support and am hoping to hear back from them soon.

SO IM NOT IGNORING YOU, I WANT TO INTERACT WITH YOU I SWEAR *rattles the bars of my cage*

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Just to add onto the Crane Wives post, that song is written from the perspective of her birth mother who she never knew as she was adopted as a child and moved across the globe. The song was written as a way to talk herself through how her mother may feel about her and the regrets she may carry as a mother who has never known her daughter. It’s been one of my favorites for a decade now :)

WAHHHHHHH

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I love starting out my explanations for my comics with "i think" like does she even know

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Ruthlessness by Jorge Rivera-Herrans

Batman Comics

*GESTURES WILDLY* THIS SONG IS PERFECT FOR JASON I MEAN *CONTINUES GESTURING WILDLY* JUST LISTEN TO IT

I just think this song goes very well with his Red Hood mentality, if you don’t know EPIC the musical then the general idea of this song is, quote, “ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves”.

The musical is based on Greek Mythology, specifically The Odyssey. I think the conversation between these two would be a fascinating reflection of Jason and Bruce.

Odysseus was “merciful” for sparing the Cyclops’ life (despite it killing some of his soldiers) and instead leaving it alive but blinded because “no more blood needs to be shed today” which I think parallels nicely with Bruce refusing to kill villains like the Joker because he doesn’t want to perpetuate the cycle of violence. (And if you wanna be really cruel, you can make Jaybin parallel Polities).

This song is Poseidon’s response to that event, essentially forcing Odysseus to realize mercy has consequences, because the Cyclops lived the Cyclops was able to call on Poseidon to kill Odysseus and his crew.

Ruthlessness is Poseidon (Jason) teaching Odysseus (Bruce) that mercy isn’t always the best option and that sparing the life of the Cyclops (The Joker) only allowed him to continue harming others.