#talking scribe

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It feels good to be writing again.

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I made a podfic of my own work today and it was very fun.

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The itch to write and yet the emptiness inside. No idea, no WIP appealing enough. No words.

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Name 4 songs that you consider YOURS. Songs that no one else understands like you. Songs that they can try to pry from your cold dead hands.

Tagged by @greyaged ages ago, thank you!

The Sailor's Bonnet by The Gloaming

Watch by Billie Eilish

4.000 ÎLES by FAUVE (bonus Vieux Frères & Blizzard & Cock Music Smart Music)

Pause by Eddy de Pretto ft Yseult (bonus Parfaitement & heureux :))) & Crash <3)

I feel bad not putting either Hozier or Syberia OST somewhere in there ahah but I couldn't pick only one track! Explaining a bit behind the cut.

Tagging @chromatic-lamina @the-obsessive-writer and whoever sees this and wants to play!

The Sailor's Bonnet is heavily linked to me writing One Piece and just loving Irish music. They're a great band. They haven't played in years but their concert in Paris is a memory I'll forever cherish even tho the metro broke down and made me miss the beginning (Ah, Paris !).

I'm connected to Watch on a more personal level I relate to the anger, the fire raging within and the need to let it out and revel both in the destruction and the exploration of your newfound freedom.

FAUVE is a French band I listened to as a teen/young adult and I fell in love with their prose, their voices and the way they wrote about inadequacy, pain, hope and support... Their songs are the embodiment of hurt/comfort to me if that makes sense.

The first guitar notes of Blizzard are seared in my brain and a beloved friend used to play them to me so it made it extra special. The sometimes dissonant choir in 4000 îles gives me chills every time. They're chanting "emmène-moi" (take me back) and gosh yeah that precise feeling.

Same for Cock Music Smart Music, the refrain is a weird mantra I've been singsonging for years now : La parole comme vaccin contre la mort (Speech like a vaccine against death) La parole comme rempart contre l’ennui (Speech like a shield against boredom) Parler, parler, parler encore (Talking, talking, talking still) Parler pour affronter la nuit (Talking to battle/brave the night)

Although the closest people to me know I'm not that much of a talker but hey, written words/stories are a speech of sorts!

Not attending a FAUVE concert before they disbanded is also one of my life's biggest regrets. I could've gone to one, my first year of uni, but the prospect of going alone was too scary. It took me years to build the confidence and to allow myself to claim the right to go wherever I pleased.

Eddy de Pretto is my fave French queer singer. Love his voice, his music and his prose once again. Pause is a balm on my soul. Parfaitement is a reminder that there's not one perfect way to live your life and be happy and that it's okay. The musicality of the words is some parts of heureux is crazy to me, even when they're quite crude. And once again I relate a lot. It's about being sad when you have no reason to be, about distraction and hope too.

Crash <3 is about rage and revenge. The a cappella intro always gets me. And once again the words are beautiful.

Nos larmes qui scintillent saillantes tel un glaive (Ours tears sparkling sticking-out like a knife/gladiator sword)

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Getting back to writing thanks to that February challenge and today's prompt fit an idea I had but boy oh boy I've forgotten how to properly write dialogues in French.

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Currently in that pre NaNoWriMo phase where all I can think about is writing. I want to write I want to write I want to write I want to write I want to write I want to write I want to write I want to

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Listening to First Time and thinking about that twisted WIP with some Buggy/Doflamingo. I reopened it yesterday and I still like it.

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Tagged by @chromatic-lamina

Post the last sentence you wrote (fanfic / original / anything) and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence.

So she breathed deep and steady, smelled the salt and the rain, and watched as the storm passed.

Don't have 18 people to tag so whoever comes across this and feels like playing: consider yourself tagged. 🌟 @the-obsessive-writer ?