Is there any media (books, music, movies) that makes you feel things about Fairbrooke?
There are SEVERAL songs that make me feel Big Emotions about Fairbrooke. Here’s an incomplete list.
Flowers feat. nori by in love with a ghost also captures the mood of one of my favorite scenes and is what I consider the “theme” of the book. At least instrumentally. I was listening to it when I first got the image in my head that inspired the book!
Heart on my Sleeve by Mary Lambert: If Flowers is the instrumental theme, this is the lyrical one. It’s a big “Lydien” song (am I allowed to pick my own ship name?? TOO BAD IT’S HAPPENING). Lyrics like “let me be your night walk / locked eyes in the midday sunspark” and “you opened up the things I shut / full speed, got my heart on my sleeve” just DO THINGS to my HEART.
Night Go Slow by Catey Shaw: This song is one I found later, but I was SHOCKED by how well it fits this scene that happens near the midpoint. The first verse almost perfectly matches Eden’s POV, while the second matches Lydia’s, and the bridge and choruses match both of them. It GETS ME. And it just really suits the summertime romance vibes.
Fidelity by Regina Spektor: Another Lydien song!! It’s funny, because I picked this one specifically with draft 1 Eden in mind, but as she’s evolved this song actually winds up matching her and Lydia in different ways.
Your Fonder Heart by Anais Mitchell: This is a song I specifically associate with Lydia’s grandma, but honestly it’s just one of my favorite songs period, so it’s here too.
Pffffft I didn't notice your blog title changed until now lmao. So while I'm here, what do you like about MegMillan? I wouldn't say I don't ship it, just that it never sparked interest for me.
Hahaha yeah I changed it when that anon started going around telling people MegMillan was bad. This dude literally hit up THREE of my blogs with the same message xD I just deleted and IP blocked them, BUT, I’m a spiteful little bitch so I’ve been making MegMillan things and made my Blog Title that :,)
Honestly I started shipping it see pre existing MegMillan content around, mainly from Asian fandom artists, and it’s also a bit of “Character I project onto” x “Character I wanna fuck”. Which is the basis for a lot of my ships, and a lot of peoples ships hahaha more under the cut cause I’m rambling a lot I’m sorry
I feel like they have an interesting sort of chemistry! Survivor x Killer ships have always piqued my interest more in that sense. I very much like exploring potential power imbalances, and exploring how they could work through it. With Meg and Evan, I see it starting one sided and more physical with Evan being interested in her. I view him as more interested in women who’re strong and feisty, and his initial inclinations that she’s an animal to be hunted wear down as she becomes this difficult to catch Prized Prey. She’s bold, headstrong, smart (sometimes), and all of that sparks an interest in Evan.
Meg similarly likes a challenge. She’s not really well versed in romantic experience and she certainly isn’t looking for that in this hellscape, but she likes seeing how much she can get away with teasing him. I like to think it culminates in a dubiously consensual bout of sex and then Meg is just too insatiably curious about him (and look, getting fucked by a really strong man is kinda nice).
I view their relationship as... Complicated tm. ‘Cause I mean look, I don’t sugar coat the fact he’s a killer. He’s also one of her least favorites to go against. Realistically, getting a foot in a bear trap leaves you crippled the remainder of the trial, and she knows he won’t always favor her in case it upsets the Big Guy.
I have a lot of long winded ways I’d love to explore their relationship, and AUs, and ideas... I like the idea of them becoming closer emotionally, with Meg helping Evan realize and then deal with the fact his father was a piece of shit, and Meg realizing she has daddy issues from the fact her father left her mother and her when she was so little, and eventual bonding...
I guess like most ships where there isn’t a lot of character depth given, A lot of it is things I ruminate on in detail, my own headcanons and ideas for them, based on my takes of their characters! I see them as having similar personalities, but that they differ enough to cause a tension. It’s starts off mostly physical, a sort of beneficial thing cause Trapper Likes Her and for Meg sex is like Better Than Death and its Nice. But it would evolve into something a bit deeper, but still confusing.
ANYWAY THANKS FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK!!! If you ever have like, specific shit about I guess my headcanons of them, feel free to ask or even send it to my imagines blog @mistress-imagines cause I LOVE to talk about them.
Someone else who watches bsg!!! I’ve recently started watching it again and forgot how in love with Apollo I am lmao
yeah!!! it’s a criminally underrated/underwatched show. i’m a bit pissed with Apollo rn because he’s cheating on his wife, but. there’s a lot to love about the guy. i think tyrol’s my favorite right now, but i love all of the characters (except baltar. sorry 😬)
Ember by Katherine MacNamara is a song that makes me think of SOLE :)
Ooooh I like it!
“Your plan almost broke me / Just who am I?” gives me such Beth vibes, and the song in general just sounds like… futuristic I guess? Like kinda dark and grungy but with techno in there, too.
I don’t know music genre vocabulary but bottom line is YES thank you so much!
CONGRATS CONGRATS CONGRATS!!!! I love your music tastes so I'm looking forward to the grab bag haha. I'll go ahead and submit the name Evrin!
thanks darlin’! 💖 i actually had to stop myself from using MISSIO right off the bat bc it didn’t seem fair to give you music you already like but you should know the first E song i landed on was Everybody Gets High lmao
Eclipsed; Evans Blue you know i love the black inside your eyes, i saw they were eclipsed by mine // VANS; Arrested Youth in a world full of hopes and dreams, i get nightmares every single time i sleep // Raise My Flag; Ill Factor my victory is clenched in my bleeding hand, i know it’s me, just gotta break this spell i’m in // It All Adds Up; Shinedown every murder has a motive but you ain’t killin’ me // Natural Born Sinner; In This Moment did you really think by hurting me, i’d open up and just hand you the key?
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