#paratactician

[derseprinceoftbd]

IT'S HARROW TIME, LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOO

pT mentioned

Oh dammit. Please someone provide me with the new dramatis personae list?

[biscuitcrow]

everyone drop what you’re doing and go read strider’s edge by paratactician now. i love strider’s edge dave.

[tazmuir]

the favour of the chain: a harrow the ninth fst

My first readers made me soundtracks for Gideon when it came out. When A.K. Larkwood’s book came out, in thanksgiving, all I did was make her and her wife some beautiful original placemats (”Love Means Never Having To Say You’re Csorwe”) and in return they have spent the last few days texting me pictures of a young dog who is good at sitting. You don’t get those: they are mine. I will give this instead, in my generosity, created by my very first reader: the remarkable pT.

I realise that today everybody is very busy nose-deep in the newest dark book about anxious goths having the mopes (Midnight Sun) but if you enjoy these tunes even a fragment of what I enjoyed them, a fun time is in store for you. There are no spoilers, but there is no point in listening to this unless you have read the newest book about navel-gazing vampires with commitment issues (Harrow the Ninth).

1. introduction 2. Placebo - 'Meds'

passers-by were looking at me as if they could erase it

3. Al Stewart - 'Marion The Chatelaine'

when the great collector found her, she was just a girl she rang a chord inside him, and he stole her to the centre of his world

4. Jim White - 'Ghost-Town Of My Brain'

girl listen here you're just a leaf caught in God's secret hurricane

5. Chumbawamba - 'Amnesia'

burns are red, bruises blue out with the old, cheated by the new

6. Kevin Ayers - 'Lady Rachel'

now nothing can harm her at least, not very much

7. Eels - 'Friendly Ghost'

last night I heard someone walking through my bedroom door

8. Gorillaz - 'Every Planet We Reach Is Dead'

what are we going to do?

9. The Mountain Goats & Kaki King - 'Thank You Mario But Our Princess Is In Another Castle'

I wondered if I'd wake to find myself in flames

10. Linkin Park - 'Crawling'

against my will I stand beside my own reflection

11. Johnny Cash - 'The Mercy Seat' (Nick Cave cover)

and in a way I'm yearning to be done with all this weighing of the truth

12. Lady A - 'What If I Never Get Over You' 

what if I'm trying, but then I close my eyes and then I'm right back, lost in that last goodbye? 13. Meatloaf - 'It's All Coming Back To Me Now'

there were nights when the wind was so cold that my body froze in bed

14. The Dandy Warhols - 'Sleep'

well, I could sleep forever

15. conclusion

16. album-only bonus track

[whatsinthesmoothie]

Shoutout to @paratactician for writing one of my favorite pieces ever

[derseprinceoftbd]

I think we're at a point in the Fandom where very few people are going to get this, it's sad.

[derseprinceoftbd]

Wait

Is Palamides from *Gideon-timeline*!?!?!?

WAIT

HOLY FUCK

SCARLET AND BIBLE BLACK

[tazmuir]

go loud: a gideon the ninth fst

As threatened, before I let myself go nuts wallowing in cosplay and art, I muft acknowledge the gifts I was given when Gideon the Ninth did not even have a publication date. My three first readers gave me an FST, and the first FST I got was from paraTactician, to whom sharp-eyed readers following along from fandom may have noticed the book was dedicated to.

Obviously getting FSTs is the main reason why anyone actually writes a novel, let’s be honest with each other

1. introduction 

2. The Killers - 'Bones' I don't really like you

3. Supergrass - 'Kick In The Teeth' you cut me down, but there ain't no use in crying

4. The Lonely Island - 'Space Olympics' we can't really enforce a curfew / as there is no light or sound

5. Editors - 'Papillon' if there really was a God here, he'd have raised a hand by now

6. Assemblage 23 - 'Let Me Be Your Armor' let me help you with the trials you're going through

7. Bad Lip Reading - 'Carl Poppa' this whole thing where random dead people try to kill me's gotta go

8. Puscifer - 'Indigo Children (JLE Dub Mix)' no more need for the old empire

9. P!nk - 'Please Don't Leave Me' can't you tell that this is all just a contest

10. Radiohead - 'Where I End And You Begin (The Sky Is Falling In)' like a house falling in the sea

11. Grieves - 'October In The Graveyard' mighty is the bitter blade / crimson beaded water falling out of your grave

12. Zedd feat. Foxes - 'Clarity' you are the piece of me I wish I didn't need

13. Gordon Lightfoot - 'If You Could Read My Mind' a ghost from a wishing well / in a castle dark or a fortress strong

14. Suzanne Vega - 'The Queen And The Soldier' your Highness, your ways are very strange

15. conclusion

[derseprinceoftbd]

Which fic should I reread first (it's been a while)?

The Serendipity Gospels

Vienna Game

Strider's Edge

Voting ended onJun 23, 2024