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[artioptera]

Arti I dont know if ur an avid ethel cain listener but the Willoughby Tucker ep has nathan and rachel written all over, listen to fuck me eyes, nettles and dust bowl if ur curious!!

dude!! 3 months too late to the answering machine, I'm sorry!

I'm lowkey obsessed with Ethel Cain now, she's an ultimate chill LiS/Nathan/Rachel listen vibe for sure! I LOVE all the songs you mentioned, those are actually my favorites <3 let me list my favorite lyrics from each and how they relate to Nathan/Rachel for me:

Fuck Me Eyes

I think the lyrics are both pretty self-explanatory in how they relate to Nathan/Rachel, but the "they all wanna take her out / but no one ever wants to take her home" always gives me the feels for lost girls like her. I also love how this song has such a positive vibe (written in major key ✌️) despite the fact that the lyrics and message are actually quite ominous/lonely, which gives it this despondent, eerie quality to me

Nettles

So I feel like this song has to do more with soldiers in war, but I tried to select some lyrics that I thought could be interpreted as both Rachel's experiences in the Dark Room and both of their passive suicidality (plus, I love the romanticized image of a graveyard as she sings it - "Lay me down where the trees bend low").

Dust Bowl

The first one feels so Nathan/Rachel - "Pretty boy / natural blood-stained blond" doing a lot of direct work (especially love what 'blood-stained' does in their context), "drive-in slasher flick again / feeling me up as a porn star dies" just feels like a metaphor for Nathan's attraction to Rachel, and the tragedy of the Dark Room. "All you could see was me /... 'Cause you wanted just to tell me who you were" feels to me like Nathan's slight obsession with Rachel, and how I could imagine how he likely latched on to her attention, and felt like he found someone, finally, who would listen to him — esp given how social chameleon-esque Rachel seemed to be.

Thank you so much for this ask and I apologize for responding a financial quarter late 😩

[artioptera]

I don't usually enjoy ship content but I've been starving for Nathan stuff and I stumbled on your "maxed out on revenge dick" and wow... it was so hot I died (I'm writing this from my grave) I love your characterization of nathan and max so much!!

Omg thank you so much!! I'm so glad you thought I got the characterization down, also rippp🪦😌🙏

(I have other ideas, not just for MOoRD, but other saucy fics, so do keep an eye out <3)

[artioptera]

Sisters in embroidery distress </3 maybe one day we'll pick it back up, but i hate when im not immediately good at something like hey everyone look at this bitch she's actively making an effort, it's so embarrassing!!! (Victoria voice)

I'm so curious what instruments you play! I've always wanted to learn the piano and maybe the guitar, couldnt tell you a single thing about music theory

catching up on my asks since I was put in the timeout corner omg thank you for this ask <3

mine are piano and currently learning guitar! (and also cello eons ago and self taught ocarina technically). we are the same!! :o

here’s a quick piano fun fact for you:

C major is the only scale that uses all white keys. Move up five notes to G? add one black key to get the G major scale. Go up 5 again to D? two black keys to get the D major scale, keeping the one from G. move up 5 again to A, and you have three black keys in the A major scale… each new major scale keeps the black keys from the last one, so you’re just stacking more on each time 😛

This is actually the “circle of fifths” you might’ve heard about!

now you're totally not stuck in the retro zone... happy face💋