Beyond Selidor

wehappyfew indirectly gave me the idea to redo the music lyrics meme with pairings instead of characters. I had so much fun the last time that I jumped at the chance.

Choose fifteen characters pairings. Then put your playlist/music library on shuffle. Your first song with lyrics is your first character pairing, and so on. For each song, choose lyrics that resonate with the corresponding character pairing.

1. Nick Ryves/Mae Crawford (The Demon's Lexicon trilogy)
2. Allan 'Allyman' Manne/'Presh'|Wai-Chan (Galax-Arena)
3. Isidore Orbus/Babylonne Kidrouk (Pagan's Daughter)
4. Marcus Novius Faustus Leo/Noviana Una (Romanitas trilogy)
5. Anji/Mai (Crossroads trilogy)
6. Willow Rosenberg/Tara Maclay (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
7. Mario Ferrone/Elaine Taylor (Space Demons trilogy)
8. Emily Fields/Maya St. Germain (Pretty Little Liars - TV series not books)
9. Asterion/Noah (The Troy Game series)
10. Arcturus Mesarthim/Paige Mahoney (The Bone Season)
11. John Connor/Cameron Phillips (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)
12. Ichabod Crane/Katrina Crane/Abbie Mills (Sleepy Hollow - TV series)
13. Nahadoth/Yeine Darr (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)
14. Scott McCall/Allison Argent (Teen Wolf)
15. Will Parry/Lyra Silvertongue (His Dark Materials)

( Songs and lyrics behind the cut )

It's clear from this that I listen to Florence + The Machine and The Naked and Famous way too much.

My brain seems to respond to everything in one way: make a playlist. This playlist is basically a spirit-lifting, carry-on-being-awesome, you-are-stronger-than-this, inspirational playlist. It's a mixture of songs with emotionally-appropriate lyrics and songs which, when I listen to them, never fail to make me feel as if I could take on the world.

( You can't have my fear )

So yeah. When I'm back in the UK (ie out of Germany, a country despised by youtube) I will make this into a playlist on youtube. Because I'm cool like that.

Sometimes my brain worries me.

So, I generally have some bizarre commentary running through my head whenever I'm walking, and this commentary usually has a soundtrack. Without any warning, as I was walking to my German class this morning, the Heidelberg cobblestones brought to my mind the most vivid image: Babylonne Kidrouk, the protagonist of Pagan's Daughter, rushing through the streets of 13th-century Toulouse, wearing an iPod, playing 'Firestarter' by The Prodigy. Hey, don't blame me, I'm just a product of my Gen-Y remix culture!

You know how I do geeky things like make playlists for fictional characters? Yeah, guess what I did next...

( Firestarter: A Babylonne Kidrouk Playlist )

Babylonne would totally listen to melodramatic dance music. And if not, she would listen to angsty 90s nu metal. You know it's true.

So, I'm meant to be learning German modal verbs, but what ended up happening was that sophiamcdougall and I discussed making playlists for stories/characters. And then of course I began whining that all my fandoms are small, and WOE IS ME, THE STORIES THAT GRIP ME ALWAYS HAVE A FANDOM OF LIKE TWO OTHER PEOPLE.

And then I had to make a Presh/Allyman* playlist. Because that's how I roll.

( I change shapes just to hide in this place but I'm still just an animal )

Wow all my ships are dark. Dark dark dark. (Also, I had to seriously refrain from using the same Tiësto and Florence+The Machine songs I use for all playlists because 'Rushes into my heart and my skull' and 'No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world' are very very Ronni lyrics and I always tend to associate them with EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE.)

*Presh and Allyman are my favourite characters from Gillian Rubinstein's Galax-Arena books. I love those crazy, damaged, brilliant kids so much. So much it HURTS, you know.