Playlist meme

[dolorosa_12]

I have a new laptop: poor old twelve-year-old Walter has been replaced by shiny new Lotis, following my tradition of naming computers after sentient machines from 1990s Australian children's fiction. (Walter was named for a sentient spaceship in Victor Kelleher's Earthsong; Lotis is named for a sentient lift in the TV show Lift-Off. The common theme is that both sentient machines transport their passengers to wonderful places.)

Of course, this coincided perfectly with a meme doing the rounds that is just made for me, via goodbyebird:

Put a song for every letter in your url! Challenge yourself and make it a fan-mix!

The only one of my current fandoms that most people are likely to know is Dune-the-recent-films, so Dune it is! I feel it's a canon whose fanmixes need to consist of celestial, unearthly, and inhuman-sounding songs, so that's what I went for.

D: 'Don't Save Us From The Flames' (M83)
A ghost is screaming your name

[Bonus/alternative: 'Dust and Echoes' (God Is An Astronaut)]

O: 'Our Demons' (The Glitch Mob)
Everything you ever did is coming back around/ I can't help you, if I'm weaker

L: 'Lush Longing' (NNHMN)
Revenge is a dish/ the knife stabbed/ in the centre of a mirror

O: 'Öxnadalur' (raised by swans)
Take me over your palace walls ... I belong with you there/ I belong/ Ashes in the air

R: 'Rising Sun' (Covenant)
My eyes grow darker/ guide me now/ I can barely see your face/ just lead the way

O: 'Ozerna' (Onuka)
I'll gladly tell you about dreams/ I'll lead you through fog in grey horizons/ I'll show you, show you, show you [translated from Ukrainian]

S: 'Standing on the Shore' (Empire of the Sun)
The star explodes a storm/ a billion seasons born/ a shock to the waves I know, breaking far from shore

[Bonus/alternative track: 'Sacrifice' (Minuit Machine); It's like I'm waiting here to die/ it's like I'm a divine sacrifice]

A: 'All is Violent, All is Bright' (God Is An Astronaut)

Extra hard mode would be to find appropriate songs that start with an _ symbol, with a 1, and with a 2, but I draw the line at that, and my username here would be just dolorosa if someone hadn't snaffled it first and then promptly never posted again!

Mostly the artists are those I would have used for this playlist, but not necessarily those specific songs, and there are artists I would have included if their song names had fit the structure!

The fun thing about using these songs for Dune is that their lyrics fit just about every character...

Comments

[kore]

Covenant!!

[dolorosa_12]

I love that album! It's not necessarily the track I would have chosen, but I was constrained by the available letters.

My husband edited the final stretch of his PhD to that Covenant album on continuous repeat, so it's always associated with a sense of a weight lifting from the shoulders for me.

[vriddy]

Now I'm wondering why you picked '12' when your username was taken, but I also see your account was created on December 31st 2011, so I have a theory... 😂

[dolorosa_12]

Your theory is a good one, but it's not correct!

I had the 12 in my username back in the Livejournal days, and it's part of my Wordpress blog username (dolorosa12), both of which were set up long before 2012, and both of which required the 12 because 'dolorosa' was already taken.