#protectorateandcircuit

[dandelionsyrup]

I'd love to help with a Genji fanmix! Utsusemi is my favourite character so I'll give some thought to her. (Who are your favourites, by the way?)

Yay! Thank you. My favorites are Fujitsubo and Murasaki. Aoi and Rokujo too because I somewhat identify with them. I also really like Yuugao, but that’s mostly because I like her story arc.

By the way, did I miss anyone? I realize that I left out Akikonomu, Akashi no Himegimi and the Horny Old Lady but they’re more peripheral and I don’t know too much about them…

[dandelionsyrup]

It's going to just be Kagerō and Sarashina for now but if this mix goes well I'll probably make ones for Murasaki, Izumi, Njiō, and Sei Shōnagon in the future ('Blank Space' works for Sei Shōnagon on no fewer than two levels!). The idea is four songs for Kagerō, four for Sarashina, and one (probably 'Beryl' by Mark Knopfler) for both of them/the women of the Heian period in general.

I see. Uuuh, “My Kind of Love” by Emeli Sande works as another Kagerō song. A song about a mother’s love might also go into the that section…

Oh, I’ve been wanting to make a Tale of Genji fanmix since forever. Will you help me out with it? I think it’ll focus only on Genji’s own story (thus excluding the Uji chapters) and the main ladies (Fujitsubo, Aoi, Rokujo, Yuugao, Murasaki, Akashi). But songs about Suetsumuhana, Utsusemi, Hanachirusato, Onna San no Miya, and Tamakazura are also appreciated.

Sei Shōnagon and “Blank Space” - that breaks my heart in a good way :’)

[dandelionsyrup]

I've made the potentially somewhat embarrassing choice of associating 'Dark Paradise' by Lana Del Rey with the Kagerō nikki. If you're not familiar with the song, I'd love it if you could listen to it (or, if you can't stomach listening to Lana Del Rey, look up the lyrics) and tell me what you think.

I haven’t read Kagerō nikki, just summaries of it. But I think “Dark Paradise” is a really good fit. 

What other authors/works are you including? Are you going to include the men? 

Anyway, on my part I have “Into Trouble” by Lilly Wood for Izumi Shikibu and/or Lady Nijō.

[dandelionsyrup]

If you're interested in hearing more about that fanmix idea I could use a second opinion.

Omg yes. As far as I know, there is not one fanmix on 8tracks on the not-forgotten Heian authors. There isn’t even one for the Tale of Genji. So you might want to make one or several fanmixes for all Heian authors.

I recommend using some songs from the soundtrack of the anime “Genji Monogatari Sennenki” just to get that Heian mood. My favorite tracks are 高雅 (Kouga), 朝明 (Asake), 孤影 (Koei), and 愛執 (Aishuu). You might also want to check out the soundtrack of the 1987 Genji Monogatari anime. 

For modern songs that fit Heian authors, I’ll have to get back to you later on that. I can’t think of any good ones off the top of my head right now.

Thanks for considering my opinion :)

[ache-of-saint-vick]

protectorateandcircuit replied to your post “+Phillips Brooks is one of those blesseds who hasn’t aged well. Partly...”

It doesn't seem to me like I would get much from reading this material, but do you think I might?

Probably not the precise stuff I've got queued. Phillips Brooks was first and foremost a pastor and preacher; he wrote lectures and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons of sermons (of which there are seven anthologies in the local college library, and I suspect that isn't complete), but not really books. And I haven't read the sermons enough to pick out important Tumblrable excerpts.

But the sources I reblog them from? Possibly. At the very least I'd have someone else to sort out what the hell was in the water we were drinking in those days.

[athenaltena]

protectorateandcircuit replied to your post:What’s interesting at the bookstore is that in the...

Which of course betrays some sort of fundamental inability that a lot of people seem to have to take note of the fact that dystopian fiction tends to be written with some sort of social commentary (which may or may not be hyperbolic) in mind.

True, and I think people forget that a lot of dystopian fiction started as a way to criticize was what was actually going on in real life but with a layer of fiction to disguise that fact/evade the censors. In comparison a lot of the stuff being published today just seems way too safe. The people who wrote that older stuff were well aware it was happening in reality and that's why they did it the way they did.

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protectorateandcircuit replied to your post: cypsiman2 asked:What's a song you...

Relevant to Vienna Teng: I’m going to see her again in April, for the second time in under two years! I’m really excited!

That is really exciting! I would love to go see her one day! I hope you have fun! 

[absynthe--minded]

protectorateandcircuit replied to your post:HELP I JUST GOT A REALLY PAINFUL FINGON HEADCANON

DO TELL

So I'm writing this story with the-disposessed about Findekáno's rescue of Maitimo from the mountains outside Thangorodrim, right?

And I really started thinking about why he was going to Angamando in the first place.

Like, the in-text reason is that he wanted to mend the rift between his family and Maitimo's because they used to be friends. I tend to think that the truth was somewhere along the lines of "well my boyfriend got captured by Satan, I gotta go save him now", but at the same time it doesn't make sense.

Because nobody thought it could be done. I'm fairly certain the house of Fëanáro and its followers had given Maitimo up for dead by the time Finno went off on his damn fool idealistic crusade. Why would somebody do what he did? Go to Angamando, unarmed, unprepared, when realistically you couldn't expect to find anyone?

I think he went there to die. Either to offer himself up as a replacement for Maitimo (they're both eldest sons of the heirs of Finwë, and Finno at least has more value politically since Fëanáro's not exactly there to do anything about his son's imprisonment) or to wait to be killed. I'm fairly certain that  arriving in Beleriand, finding out your uncle (and youngest cousin) burned to death, finding out that your friend/cousin/lover (take your pick) was captured, and being forbidden by both self-styled High Kings of the Ñoldor from going after said prisoner would drive you to desperation. Especially since both sides of the family despise one another, there's been no decisive military victories that you've seen, you've come off the worst road trip ever, and there just seems to be no hope at all. A suicide mission doesn't seem so unlikely. After all, if he's dead, he'll get to see Maitimo again, won't he?

I've always felt that Finno, while valiant certainly, is impulsive. Russandol might be the brash, emotional, reckless one, but he's older and learned to temper that recklessness. Finno? Not so much. I picture him grabbing his harp and storming out because fuck you Artanis, Maitimo can be found and freed and then only really realizing what he's doing once he's too far away to return without looking like a disgrace. In fact, I'm willing to bet he didn't expect to actually find his cousin, at least not like that. And it's finding Maitimo that spurs him to action and restores his hope.

(Basically all this spurred from a mental image of a screaming/sobbing Findekáno pounding on the doors of Angamando and pleading with Melkor to take him instead)