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I'm really enjoying reading all your responses, so I'm double dipping, and because there's now precedence I'm sending more than one. I'm limiting myself to artists /I/ own albums of, ahem, "Send me a band/artist" Natalia Kills, Barenaked Ladies, The Monkees, and Maria Mena.

cheaterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr but okay, why not. Just got out of a Zoom meeting and need a palate cleanser -- and I know B.L. and the Monkees, obv, but let’s just do the ‘like I don’t know them’ version anyway --

Natalia Kills

First song Youtube took me to: Problem (Explicit) [!!!! so naughty.]

First Impression: haha, fun intro! This is like--club music in a very Cool and Darkly Lit club in a movie, where the sexy sweaty people are half-lit by neon and grinding avariciously on each other.Do I like it?: haha, I do. It’s got a good beat and I dig the vibe. I’d drink a $12 cocktail to this. It’d be really good to work out to. Her voice is fine, too--it’d be easy for it to slip into annoying, but she keeps it on the right side of that, and I feel like it’s the right amount of effects to keep it fun and clubby but she’s still recognizable.Would I listen to more from them?: checking it out right now, fam--next song is Mirrors. Hm, more electronic-y--lol, I just got the strongest sensation of going to the moon in FF6. ...sigh, and now I have to skip some music video b.s. to get the song to actually start. ...and this one I do like a lot less. It’s more--er, traditionally poppy? Kinda sounds like she’s doing a Lady Gaga impression, just with a less powerful voice. Probably not going to be a go-to, but I wouldn’t mind hearing it in a bar! [I see a bunch of youtube comments about how she ‘ended her career’ though, soo maybe I won’t.]

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Barenaked Ladies

First song Youtube took me to: haha, of course it’s One Week.

First Impression: the dream of 1998 is alive on Youtube, is my first impression, haha. How can you hear this song and not be rocketed back to then? lolol--the top youtube comment is:list songs that werent on the shrek soundtrack on any physical level, but were there spiritually-- yes, that’s it exactly.Do I like it?: I never really had an opinion about the Barenaked Ladies. They were always primarily silly poppy cheer, but at the time I was listening to Pearl Jam and Tool and Ben Harper, and I didn’t really have a lot of overlap. They’re perfectly fine, though--my feeling with a lot of stuff I know from younger days, even if I didn’t really like it then, is just pleasant nostalgia. Like Bush. Didn’t love Machinehead then, but listen to it now and I’m like, d’aw. Gavin. Baby.Would I listen to more from them?: Why not, let’s have a lil nostalgia trip. It’s All Been Done Before--well, that’s appropriate. :D You know, because of this, I’m going to have to go on a little Harvey Danger binge. Stuff that could’ve been on the Clueless soundtrack. omg, what were they called--the Mighty Mighty Bosstones? Yeah, we’re stopping in there too, later.

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The Monkees

First song Youtube took me to: I’m A Believer (of course!!)

First Impression: aww, here it is. <3 It really is a sweet song, kinda overshadowed by its own fame. (...speaking of the Shrek soundtrack.) This gentle 60s sound is one that I kinda miss--I don’t know, are there any modern bands that copy the vibe? There’s a gentleness to the mix which is appealing. Very sunshine.Do I like it?: Of course! How can you not? It’s like--cultural backbone music. My parents were never really into the Monkees, though. My dad liked the Beatles, obv, but he went more the psychedelia direction with the 60s, and my mom was a Joan Baez person. It has a cultural touchstone but not a personal nostalgia touchstone, for me. But even with that--it’s just so... nice. Just pleasant as hell. Would I listen to more from them?: kind of a silly question for this one. Of course, of course. Ha, I forgot they had a show. I picked out Pleasant Valley Sunday--you know, I mentioned ‘strummy harmony that all sounds the same’ as one of my playlists; I could also make a ‘pleasant 60s pop that all sounds the same’, and it would just be so... relaxing to listen to. idk what it is about that style of recording, but I miss it. Really backgrounded drums, usually a jangly keyboard, simple guitar, sweet voices. Like a sunny day in a field of flowers.

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Maria Mena

First song Youtube took me to: Just Hold Me

First Impression: oh--what an interesting voice! Got that husky slight fry thing happening, but it’s super pleasant. The music feels pretty background here, which I guess makes sense since the name of the band is her name. Do I like it?: yeah, although it feels throwback too, but to a thing that’s just out of my grasp. Like--Alanis Morissette? Hmm, not exactly that, but--prominent girlvoice, secondary music. Designed for women to sing along to while driving, maybe. It’s perfectly pleasant, though, and I really do like her voice. It’s really natural, which I appreciate.Would I listen to more from them?: curious to see if another song has the same feel; I’ve been brought to All This Time (Pick-Me-Up Song). Man. She’s really pretty, isn’t she. And this is sugary and kind--ha, and could almost be a Disney Princess repairing-your-heart montage song. Very cute. idk if I’ll listen to her whole catalogue, but I think she’s very sweet.

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#music meme #phew #now i'm gonna blast flagpole sitta while i wash the dishes #i DO wanna publish 'zines and rage against machines #who doesn't?#also 'if you're bored then you're boring' has been Really Real during quarantine #stephanie-likes

The Color Thesaurus inspired series (21/?)

Latte - 1x07 Hookman

Your, uh, half-caf, double vanilla latte is gettin’ cold over here, Francis.

#spnedit #nothingidputbeforeyou #sasquatchandleatherjacket #jensenscomedyelbows #stephanie-likes #brother feels #my creations #1.07: hookman #color thesaurus series #latte #I kinda loved that Sam drank frou frou coffees #although I don't think we see something like this again #screencaps from #home of the nutty

THE SUPERNATURAL GIF CHALLENGE | cassammydean vs. stephanie-likes round 28 | Brothers + Favourite Outfits | Purple Plaid & Orange Plaid

stephanie-likes replied to your post: alright which popular WTNV blog found my textpost...

If you go to tumblr labs and turn on the one bubble tree you’ll be able to see

yoooo that’s so cool I didn’t even know about that!!

#stephanie-likes

"Send me a band/artist" Jessie Reyez

what I’m enjoying most about this little exercise is all of these people popping up who I’ve never even heard of. it’s an adventure!

Jessie Reyez

First song Youtube took me to: DO YOU LOVE HER (apparently the caps are part of it)

First Impression: mellow keys, that’s nice. Oh--this that kind of--effortful ladysinging. I like that it’s sort of unpolished--I’m reminded of British r&b. Is that what this is? I’m bad at genres.Do I like it?: It’s okay! ...I made the mistake of watching the music video for 30 seconds and now I like it less, haha. Let’s try another song--hm. Coffin... feat. Eminem? What?? Oh, but I like this one better--kinda old-timey melody. I’m waiting around to see how on earth Slim Shady will get involved. ...Wow, he doesn’t sound how I remember. Still, it’s fun!Would I listen to more from them?: Hm, this one I probably wouldn’t seek out? But I don’t hate it, again. Especially when it gets a little more hippety-hoppety, it provides some texture that’s fun.

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#music meme #tbf i think the last time i heard eminem was 8 mile #and before that it was like #the actual slim shady songs #so he sounds a lot more grown up now #stephanie-likes

The Color Thesaurus inspired series (20/?)

Ruby - 3.09 Malleus Maleficarum

In Dante's Inferno, Rubicante is one of thirteen members of the Malebranche who guard the eighth and second-deepest circle of Hell. Ironically in terms of Supernatural's Ruby, this is the circle in which the sins of fraud and witchcraft are punished.

#spnedit #sasquatchandleatherjacket #stephanie-likes #jensenscomedyelbows #wetsammywinchester #color thesaurus series #ruby #3.09: malleus maleficarum #beautiful ladies of spn #ruby 1.0 #fave ruby #screencaps from #home of the nutty #my creations

Fanfic Writers: Director’s Cut. ⭐️

ooh, a tricky one. A section I just wanna talk about… okay, I’m gonna go with this, from my cannibalism story a long hard day, a long hard night:

It seems important that he not be in the bunker, for what's going to happen. He drives north in his awful stolen car and turns off his phone for the ride. Hours on near-empty highways, moving fast under vaulted starry skies. The moon's carved down to the thinnest sliver, hanging low over the flat black landscape before it slips over the horizon and then Sam's alone in the dark, his stomach growling and empty, his eyes steady on the dashed yellow line slipping past.

There's a crossroads, seven hours later, in the middle of a huge grassland. National park, protected against development. No one around. He leaves the car on the side of the road. Dawn's threatening, thin grey light diffusing over the sky and a pink glow off to the east. He faces west, looks out over all the empty nothing. A tree, a mile down the road. A pointless wire fence marking the division between the road and the bare land. The morning air whispers cool over his face, fills his lungs clean and easy. He breathes until the sun crests the horizon and light breaks over his shoulders, and then he pops the trunk and gets his bag, hefts it with his good arm, and starts.

So, I like this section a lot, for the imagery and for how Sam’s internal narrative is--flat and unemotional and steady. Dean’s been taken from him, and when Dean’s gone Sam and soulless!Sam start to have a lot in common.

But the reason I’m highlighting it is that this was one of the first things I wrote, very very early on, and it just poured out easy as that--I don’t even think this was edited, other than a typo maybe. It does mark the last point, though, where the fic was going the way I intended, which was... frustrating in the moment.

I had intended for this story to be a sort of dreamy haze of a story. Like one of those Hannibal scenes where stuff is just happening to the characters, and in the dream formed by wacky cinematography and rich detail and insanity everything just seems... normal, like the next obvious step, and the characters drift into something of horror because there’s nowhere else to turn. Unfortunately... I can’t do that. I mean--I can, but I realized very very quickly that Sam’s point of view and the circumstances demanded a close, real, unfortunately meaty (ha.) treatment of what was happening. If I let everything drift by in a haze, it would be lovely but it wouldn’t be meaningful, and just the fact that Sam’s going this far really had to feel like something hard. Raw. Otherwise, what was the point of doing it?

So from this section we moved into Sam kidnapping that demon and finishing the spell, and the brakes slammed on the hazy intent and we shifted into: oh, fuck, now this is going to be a lot more complicated. Once again, plans gangin’ aglee--and what I thought would be a maybe 10k story ending up at almost 40k instead. The kink meme was not really designed for these sorts of fics. Oh, well. I think the story’s much better than it would have been, and I ended up being almost absurdly proud and fond of it. Just goes to show--follow where the story is, not whatever you thought it was. Hopefully it goes okay. It’s why I always call myself a ‘landscape architect’ of a writer. Sure, you plan. The trees will grow how they want, though.