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Day Fifteen of the fandom meme is a prompt very much to my taste, because I am all about the song lyrics:
O: Choose a song at random, what ship does it remind you of?
I have been listening to a lot of Promenade Cinema at the moment, so why not have a song selected at random from their discography?
I've chosen 'The Quiet Silently Wait':
To be honest, this could be any of my ships: I tend to like melodramatic 'us against the world' ships where at least one half of them is leading a revolution, usually against the beings/rulers/social class to which the other half of the ship belongs.
But in the instant where I first read the lyrics, the first ship that popped into my head was Tommy Shelby/Grace Burgess from Peaky Blinders. He's a 1920s Birmingham gangster, traumatised by his experiences in World War I and a childhood of the quiet violence that comes with extreme poverty, who reacted to his experiences by doing everything he could to insulate himself against the possibility of ever feeling fear again. (In his case this means terrorising everyone else and acquiring as much money as possible.) She is the spy sent to infiltrate his operation. (Together theyfight do crime!) They find happiness, occasionally, in quiet moments, in the dark, in the spaces between. But, mostly, they're doomed to tragedy — the fatal flaw for Tommy, for anyone whose greatest horror is the thought of ever being afraid again, is caring about other people. If you care about a single other person it is impossible to live without fear.
They're messed up, they hurt themselves and each other, and I still love them anyway.
( The other days )
O: Choose a song at random, what ship does it remind you of?
I have been listening to a lot of Promenade Cinema at the moment, so why not have a song selected at random from their discography?
I've chosen 'The Quiet Silently Wait':
I keep a candle for the nights when the lights go out.
I watch the sun depart & leave the sky to darkness.
Beneath the windows are the faces without features,
And in the mirror, the shadows drawing closer.
As the candle goes out,
They give you nothing.
Under street lights in the rain,
I am dissolving, I am dissolving.
As the quiet silently wait, see them smile.
To be honest, this could be any of my ships: I tend to like melodramatic 'us against the world' ships where at least one half of them is leading a revolution, usually against the beings/rulers/social class to which the other half of the ship belongs.
But in the instant where I first read the lyrics, the first ship that popped into my head was Tommy Shelby/Grace Burgess from Peaky Blinders. He's a 1920s Birmingham gangster, traumatised by his experiences in World War I and a childhood of the quiet violence that comes with extreme poverty, who reacted to his experiences by doing everything he could to insulate himself against the possibility of ever feeling fear again. (In his case this means terrorising everyone else and acquiring as much money as possible.) She is the spy sent to infiltrate his operation. (Together they
They're messed up, they hurt themselves and each other, and I still love them anyway.
( The other days )