it's the second day of the @cold-boy-tapes event, modded by the lovely @bell-swamp-fitzjames! here's my take on a playlist for a modern Tozer's commute — specifically, a modern Tozer that's a part of my AU project with @bossboo where Little runs a record store.
Playlist · 10 Songs
tracklist and lil drabble about the context of this playlist in the Record Store AU under the cut!
tracklist (meant to be played in order):
man made of meat - viagra boys
dog dribble - getdown services
the view from the afternoon - arctic monkeys
houseplants - squid
boys in the better land - fontaines d.c.
uno ii - viagra boys
head down for the conversation - getdown services
i'm scum - idles
creepin' up the backstairs - the fratellis
crying lightning - arctic monkeys
drabble/context:
none of this is particularly spoiler-y when it comes to the main plot of the Record Store AU, but here's what i had in mind when i put this together:
in this AU, Tozer works as a firefighter in the same city where Ned runs his shop, Colossal Records. after meeting Ned, Tozer starts frequenting the shop more and more. he's not much of a music guy at all, really; he likes what he likes, but doesn't think much of it. he doesn't even fully realize how much there is to know about music until he hangs around the shop, and sees Ned (and Tom Hartnell, who also works at Colossal!) in his element.
in the process of the two getting to know each other, Tozer tries to make it seem like he knows more about music than he actually does by looking up bands, Shazam-ing lyrics and songs, etc. to keep up with conversation (this is not an attempt to impress Ned or to have an excuse to talk to him or anything like that. why would he want to do that + don't think about it too hard + whatever). Ned also starts keeping a mental log of what sorts of songs Sol likes when he's around the shop (once again. nothing to see here. it's very normal to keep track of every single time a particular person compliments the records you play over the shop speakers, actually), and then this playlist of recommendations is born. Little definitely doesn't let on how much consideration he's put into making the tracklist and testing the transitions between each song. Sol definitely doesn't tell Ned that it's turned into his go-to for his commute.
(shoutout to Hartnell, by the way, who inevitably helps Ned share this playlist with Sol.)
Ned making this playlist for Sol is also why the playlist shares artists from the original davechella playlists for Little (squid) and Tozer (fontaines d.c.).
if you're wondering what the vibes at Colossal Records are like, @bossboo's AMAZING playlist captures that perfectly. if you want more nibbles of this AU, here's an old WIP Wednesday and a little (har) sketch of Ned. absolutely no idea when i'll start properly writing this project out and posting it on ao3, but stay tuned!
You know I gotta follow-up Hickey with Billy Gibson, everybody's second favorite bitchy steward. So take a second playlist for day 2 of @cold-boy-tapes
If it weren't for the bit, this playlist would be all-women. To me, Billy has the same music taste as the most problematic (non-swiftie) white woman you know with a little riot grrrl thrown in for funsies.
Best listened to on shuffle, and as a palate cleanser after Hickey's playlist. Songs under cut!
You Oughta Know by Alanis Morissette
Motion Sickness by Phoebe Bridgers
bad idea right? by Olivia Rodrigo
Dead To Me by Kali Uchis
Play Date by Melanie Martinez
I'm Gonna Catch Me A Rat by Fabienne DelSol
Dealer by Lana Del Rey
My Kink Is Karma by Chappell Roan
Kill Her Freak Out by Samia
U Should Not Be Doing That by Amyl and the Sniffers
I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone by Sleater-Kinney
i'm gonna tell my therapist on you by Pinkshift
When Doves Cry by Shilpa Ray
All Good Things (Come To An End) by Nelly Furtado
Nothing Matters by The Last Dinner Party
Criminal by Fiona Apple
Schizophrenic Playboy by The Cranberries
I Want You to Love Me by Fiona Apple
head, shoulders, knees, and ankles by hemlocke springs
Judas - Hurts Remix by Lady Gaga
Bitch by Allie X
I Threw Glass at My Friend's Eyes and Now I'm on Probation by Destroy Boys
For day 2 over @cold-boy-tapes, let's see what Cornelius Hickey is listening to! Oh god, for real? Oh sweet Jesus. Unironically? Oh man, okay you do you, dude. You're never getting the aux. No, we're not taking a vote on it. Wait, why is everybody taking your side here? *I Know What Boys Like starts playing so loud you can no longer hear me*
Best enjoyed shuffled, for max whiplash. Is there a theme here? You decide. Songs under cut
Getting Naked, Playing with Guns by AJJ
Weird by Vivian Davis, John Salewski, and Skip Harstirn
Tusk by Fleetwood Mac
Maneater by Nelly Furtado
2econd 2ight 2eer (that was fun, goodbye.) by Will Wood
Kiss Off by Violent Femmes
This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both of Us by Sparks
The Valley of the Pagans by Gorillaz ft. Beck
Hacker by Death Grips
Kiss Me, Sun of God by They Might Be Giants
The Hangman Song by Jean Ritchie
Circus by Britney Spears
The Real Slim Shady by Eminem
You're Gonna Go Far, Kid by The Offspring
Hey You by Pink Floyd
Kill Bill by SZA
I Fink U Freaky by Die Antwoord
Oh No! by MARINA
Paper Planes by M.I.A
Escapade by Janet Jackson
Literal Legend - 2 by Ayesha Erotica
Problems by Mother Mother
Hysteria by Muse
Many Men (Wish Death) by 50 Cent
Song 2 by Blur
Cannibal by Kesha
Bark Like a God by Sloppy Jane
I Know What Boys Like by The Waitresses
Roses by Outkast
Go Hard (La.La.La) by Kreayshawn
Hell and You by Amigo the Devil
Cryin' These Cocksucking Tears by Willi Carlisle
Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) by Pet Shop Boys
My biggest modern Fitzconte headcanon (that I will never incorporate into anything lmaoo) is that every time JFJ breaks Dundy’s heart, Dundy sits in his car and blasts Katy Perry’s The One That Got Away and ugly cries
happy @cold-boy-tapes kick-off day! thank you @bell-swamp-fitzjames for putting on the cold boy event of the summer!
above is the link to my spotify playlist for Modern Day Edward Little's gym session. This is sort of like if a music playlist could be horny. Tracklist and write-up below the cut.
This is a very specific flavor of Edward Little who visits the gym. At first I thought I would make a sludge metal or nu metal or rap metal playlist for his gym workouts. The idea was he's sad guy but he still lifts weights.
However, awhile ago I was talking with @werewolfsone about what I think Ed would be like at the gym. Between difficult sets I have a habit of just sort of staring off into space and dissociating, completely empty-headed. I thought Ed might also be prone to gym dissociation. Mack thought that maybe Ed might enjoy being a gym himbo (thembo? bimbo?) and I really love that idea. So here is the playlist for an Ed Little who isn't sad at the gym, because he's getting horny at the idea that his gym dissociation is making him dumber.
Bang Bang Bang by Sohodolls - This one is a lot slower and calmer but still sexy. Great song to start stretching and warming up to.
I've Seen Footage by Death Grips - I personally go right to cardio after my warmup (I don't know if that's correct. I don't actually know how to work out.) But this is really fun and can help motivate when you have to move quick.
Where's Your Head At by BasementJaxx - not sexy yet but I think that Ed might like the high bpm. Also kind of hypnotic....
JOYRIDE by Kesha - High bpm and to me this is a pervert song. Probably because I saw a fanedit of Crash (1996) set to this song.
Bathroom Bitch by HOLYCHILD - Very fun song to lift weights to. Very horny. The line "I wanna drip it from my ass to the floor" is one of the horniest lines in music ever written I think.
Girl, so confusing by CharliXCX - CharliXCX is gay guy music to me. It's like catnip to gayboys. The bass on this is also really yummy. A few tracks on this playlist are more thembo Ed to me, and this is one of them.
Satisfaction by Benny Benassi, The Biz - you aren't allowed to work out if you don't listen to this song. Your work out actually doesn't count if you don't listen to Satisfaction.
Emo Boy by Ayesha Erotica - Ed is kind of the emo boy in this situation.
Vacation Bible School by Ayesha Erotica - Have you thought of femboy4femboy edving? I have.
Girls in Bikinis by Poppy - You can imagine Ed imagining girls in bikinis or you can imagine Ed wearing a bikini. I think they're both correct. "I wanna see boys in bikinis too, they'd look good on you."
Final Girl by Graveyardguy, Slayyyter - This is a fun song and also a cool pervert song for individuals who enjoy Perpetrator/victim-type roleplays.
Slumber Party (feat. Princess Nokia) by Ashnikko, Princess Nokia - this is yuri joplittle to me.
Boys by CharliXCX - This song is so adorable and fun and cute. You don't even have to be attracted to men to like this song. The workout has ended so you can imagine Ed is laying on the floor with a medicine ball nearby him, all of the anxiety has been wrung out of his body through the help of lifting heavy and listening to gay guy music while fantasizing about dumbification.
🥳 Today, June 14th, on the 213th anniversary of the birth of the historical Henry Le Vesconte, we present the collective Dundy Bingo card, complete with ships and prompts!
Click on the image for getter quality.
Does it look like a periodic table? Absolutely. But it is firmly believed that the average Terror fan possesses at least two Master’s degrees and an unhealthy amount of hubris. Together we can do it!
🫢 How does it work?
Choose a timeline from the first column and a ship from the top row. Find where they intersect and discover your prompt (see the illustrations below). Fancy fitzconte in the Future? Then your prompt is Apocalypse AU.
Not feeling that particular prompt? Choose one of the replacement prompts instead.
Check out the Rules & FAQ post for the basic guidelines and event details.
Hope you find a square you like. See you on July 1st!
Example on how to see the prompt for the ship and timeline + some ideas for each timeline:
Timeline & Historical Themes for Inspiration
Antiquity & Mythology
Ancient Greece
Greek mythology and the Olympian gods
The Odyssey
Ancient Rome
Gladiators
The assassination of Julius Caesar
The Trojan War
Oracles and prophecies
Middle Ages
Knights and chivalry
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Vikings and Norse exploration
The Crusades
Castles, sieges, and feudal politics
Monastic life
Robin Hood
The Black Death
Joan of Arc
Renaissance & Early Modern Period (14th–18th Centuries)
Romeo and Juliet
Royal rivalries and succession crises
Witch trials
Revolutions and political upheaval
Exploration and the Age of Discovery
Pirates and privateers
The Enlightenment
Court intrigue
Canon Era (19th Century)
Pre-canon adventures
Canon events
Post-rescue AUs
XX Century
World War I
The Roaring Twenties
World War II
Resistance movements
Espionage and intelligence work
The Cold War
The assassination of John F. Kennedy
Space Race
Modern Times (21st Century)
Social media and bloggers
Bog corporations
Academia
Future
Space exploration
Dystopia / Anti-Utopia (Mad Max, The Matrix, Blade Runner, etc.)
cold boy tapes, day 1: crying in the dark (Goodsir)
i made a Goodsir-focused playlist for day 1 of @bell-swamp-fitzjames's playlist event, @cold-boy-tapes! this is inspired by the end of Goodsir's arc in the show — morfin's death, mutiny camp, and deciding his own fate.
Playlist · 10 Songs
playlist icon credit to @normalmammal! tracklist + some lyrics with "liner notes" under the cut •ᴗ•
tracklist (meant to be played in order):
etienne - ethel cain
don't have a strong explanation for this one, but i think it sets the tone for the playlist and what it references. the song is an ode to the architect etienne louis boullée, according to one of ethel cain/hayden anhedönia's old tumblr posts.
wandering star - portishead
i associate this track with the despair and some of the anger Goodsir must have felt during the last two episodes of the show. there's a bitter edge to some of the song, especially the second half, that reminds me of the edge in some of Goodsir's dialogue in the later episodes (i.e. his sarcastic "good" in response to Crozier's request to cut open Irving; the lack of comfort he offers Gibson at mutiny camp, especially in contrast to how he spoke to David Young at the start of the series; his initial refusal at Hickey's orders to butcher Gibson).
please, could you stay awhile to share my grief?
for it's such a lovely day
to have to always feel this way
and the time that i will suffer less
is when i never have to wake
wandering stars, for whom it is reserved
the blackness, the darkness, forever...
the chorus of the song is also a reference to scripture — Jude 1:13, part of a description of the fates of false teachers and ungodly men: "raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever." to me, this connects to Goodsir's implied disagreement with Crozier's insistence in episode 10 that he is clean despite everything, and the feelings of crushing moral failure that he carries with him ("if ever i was a doctor, i am one no longer").
i also really wanted to include this song because a) it's my favorite portishead song, and b) to shout out the fucking amazing edit Cig made to this song last year!
not - big thief
i love the spiraling nature of this song. the lyrics grapple with ineffability, being unable to articulate what's being experienced. dealing with and witnessing things that cannot be explained is connected to Goodsir from the start of the series with the death of David Young, so this felt like a fitting pick.
not to die
not dying
not to laugh
not lying
not the vacant wildness vying
drawn to the blood - sufjan stevens
debated a lot about which sufjan song to include here (guy who cannot resist the urge to put a sufjan stevens song in a sad playlist), but decided to go with this one because of the chorus:
for my prayer has always been love
what did i do to deserve this?
i imagine Goodsir reflecting on the Expedition here, especially after butchering Gibson.
there's also a reference to dragons in the fourth verse, which neatly ties to another song on this album, "no shade in the shadow of the cross" that is featured on my Collins playlist of a similar kind. couldn't resist the tidy connection there.
real house - adrianne lenker
at some point, Goodsir must have yearned for his family back home and thought back to his childhood. that's what i think of with this song.
We moved into a real house
A wild field behind it
I wanted to be an inventor
Collected scraps to make a portal
I wanted so much for magic to be real
younger & dumber - indigo de souza
Goodsir's ability to find wonder and experience curiosity throughout the Expedition is one of the many reasons i love his character. as horrible things keep happening and he's unable to save the people around him, though, i imagine this side of him wavering, and him internally struggling with that — maybe even hating himself a little for being so naïve. i connect bits of this song to that, as well as the exhaustion that he must have felt being constantly in demand to care for others around him, especially after Carnivale.
verse 3 in particular for me connects to the scene in the tent following Morfin's death, where Goodsir is being comforted by Silna.
Sometimes I just don't wanna be alone
And it's not cause I'm lonely
It's just 'cause I get so tired of filling
The space all around me
And the love I feel is so powerful
It can take you anywhere
And the love I feel is so very real
It'll drag you down...
small hands - keaton henson
keaton henson is a Goodsir-coded artist, imo. i picked this song in particular because of these lines:
miss you terribly already,
miss the space between your eyelids
where i'd stare through awkward sentences
and void through awkward silence
and the refrain:
and i,
i hope for your life
you can forget about mine,
forget about mine...
i imagine Goodsir thinking about/speaking to Silna, here. the song references a breakup and lingering feelings about an ex, but with Goodsir and Silna, it feels much bigger than that.
i think of the "awkward sentences/awkward silence" as a nod to them learning how to communicate with each other earlier in the series. the refrain could be Goodsir feeling guilt about the horrible things that have happened since he's/the Expedition's entered Silna's life, and a parting wish that she can forget about him/them, somehow.
of course, Silna couldn't possibly forget the trauma she's endured, but a naïve wish like that feels fitting to Goodsir's character, too.
a burning hill - mitski
my absolute favorite goodsir-focused edit by the amazing @guiildenstern is to this song. the lyrics directly reference Goodsir's final actions in episode 10, expressing his exhaustion and meeting his limit:
today i will wear my white button-down
i'm tired of wanting more
i think i'm finally worn
and how he uses his own death and body as a final act of justice, to poison Hickey and the other mutineers:
i am a forest fire
and i am the fire, and i am the forest
and i am a witness watching it
last words of a shooting star - mitski
this is a companion song to a burning hill here, and mainly references Goodsir's tidy ritual of "washing" and dressing himself before taking his own life.
and i am relieved that i'd left my room tidy
goodbye...
tears in the typing pool - broadcast
broadcast is my favorite band! i decided to close with this (selfishly - everyone go listen to broadcast NOW) mainly because of the ending lyrics:
the page turns on me and you
across that white plain
the land is unchanged.
all the love in the world for Cig for running this event. see y'all for day 2! ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶
COMMANDER – a playlist for the girl behind the mask.
War, glory, pain, envy, power, death, deception, gender, and sad girl music for the @cold-boy-tapes event. For best results, play in order.
Search and Destroy – Florence + The Machine
I'm the world's forgotten boy
The one who searches and destroys
Man – Neko Case
I'm a man
That's what you raised me to be
I'm not your identity crisis, this was planned
Glory and Gore – Lorde
Glory and gore go hand in hand
That's why we're making headlines
Remember My Name - Mitski
I need somebody to remember my name
After all that I can do for them is done
Oh No! - Marina and the Diamonds
Maybe this is all a test
‘Cause I feel like I'm the worst
So I always act like I'm the best
Money Power Glory - Lana Del Rey
I want money, all your power, and all your glory
Hallelujah, I'm gonna take you for all that you've got
Beautiful Boy - The Last Dinner Party
The best a boy can ever be is pretty
He launches ships on which he sails to safety
And what I'm feeling isn't lust, it's envy
Dance The Pain Away - Haute & Freddy
What's in your heart?
What's in your way?
Why don't we dance the pain, dance the pain away?
Brothers In Arms - Joan Baez
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me, my brothers in arms
A Pearl - Mitski
It's just that I fell in love with a war
Nobody told me it ended
Compulsive Liar - Ezra Furman
The longer you stay in there
The more you'll get distorted
The more contorted all your lies will have to be
Afterlife - Sharon Van Etten
Don't you try to save me
Tell me I'll be fine doing what I like
Will you see me in the afterlife?
Knockin' on Heaven's Door - Antony and the Johnsons
Mama, put my guns in the ground
I can't shoot them anymore
That long black cloud is coming down
I feel I'm knockin' on Heaven's door
And Dream of Sheep - Kate Bush
Let me be weak
Let me sleep
And dream of sheep
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dailybridgerton
romaincrisis
dededos
vaporwave
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