FST meme - because goddammit im having emotions

[failure]

Tag in with your characters and then tag with songs that fit them. Explanations are always excellent. Suggesting songs you think fit other characters is also amazing.

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[failure]

oh my god i've got a long list of bastards

mari elsa rhea dee miach nathan leonard richie OTHERS as i remember them

Elsa

[homeunhaunted]

Ghosting - Mother Mother

And this is why I have decided
To pull these old white sheets from my head
I'll leave them folded neat and tidy
So that you'll know I'm out of hiding

I've been ghosting
I've been ghosting alone
Ghost in the world
Ghost with no home
I remember
I remember the days
When I'd make you oh, so afraid

And this is why I have decided
To leave your house and home unhaunted
You don't need poltergeist for sidekicks
You don't need treats and you don't need tricks

Think You Can Wait - The National

What I'm thinking is simple
I'll sell apples and ice water at the temple
I won't make trouble
I'll pull the devil down with me one way or another

We've been running a sleepless run
Been away from the baby way too long
We've been holding a good night gone
We've been losing our exits one by one

I'll try.
I'll try, but I couldn't be better.

I'm trying to think of a way to explain this one because it's her concept song and the one I think of when I think of her. I don't know. I guess the powerlessness/sense of giving up is what does it. Just the exhaustion. Not an entirely negative exhaustion! Just exhaustion.

Laughing With a Mouth of Blood - St Vincent

And I can't see the future
But I know its got big plans for me
(Oh what does it see?)

All of my old friends aren't so friendly
All of my old haunts are now all haunting me

Hideaway - The Weepies

Even the stars sometimes fade to gray
Even the stars hide away

I see the bare moon raise his big, bald head
I see my friends played the fool
I'll make my own way in the wide world
Just now I don't want to wander too far

Humiliation - The National

I survived the dinner
And the air went thinner
I retired to the briars by the pool
It gets so loud

If I die this instant
Taken from a distance
They would probably list it down
Among other things 'round town

Because what would any Elsa FST be w/o a song about crippling social anxiety?

Body Work - Tegan and Sara

I get shy in these lights
I feel my pulse doing overtime

Green Gloves - The National

Falling out of touch with all my
Friends are somewhere getting wasted
Hope they're staying glued together
I have arms for them

Take another sip of them
It floats around and takes me over
Like a little drop of ink
In a glass of water

Anyone's Ghost - The National

Say you stayed at home
Alone with the flu
Find out from friends
That wasn't true
Go out at night with your headphones on, again
And walk through the Manhattan valleys of the dead

Didn't want to be your ghost
Didn't want to be anyone's ghost
Didn't want to be your ghost
Didn't want to be anyone's ghost

But I don't want anybody else
I don't want anybody else

wrecking ball

[mementomari]

I could probably do Mari's using Mountain Goats songs alone PTSD is a helluva thing. So I'll start with those and diversify probably.

The Doll Song - The Mountain Goats

i've got seven little dolls
in a bag
and i tell the dolls my troubles
and the dolls say "nag! nag! nag! nag!
is that all you ever do?
is that all you're capable of?"
and i say to the little dolls
you have no compassion
baby, i'm talking to inanimate objects over you
i'm talking to inanimate objects over you

i started reading the bible
1 corinthians 13
where paul talks all about love
but i don't know what he means
because he says that love is kind
that has not been my experience
so i set the bible on the kitchen table
and yelled at the bible til i was no longer able

Keeping House - The Mountain Goats

Cursing the moment that saw him draw breath
The ghost on your doorstep is starving to death

You spray down the windows, you wipe them all clean
And you douse your old clothing with fresh gasoline
And the ghost on your doorstep is soaked wet with rain
And he clutches his stomach and howls at the pain

And you can stay busy all day
He’s never going away

So let all the lights blaze, keep your heart light
Play really loud music all hours of the night
And when you set the table, set it for two
The ghost on your doorstep has to eat, same as you
Same as you

Cry for Judas - The Mountain Goats

Sad and angry, can't learn how to behave
Still won't know how in the darkness of the grave

Sax Rohmer #1 - The Mountain Goats

Bells ring in the tower, wolves howl in the hills
Chalk marks show up on a few high windowsills
And a rabbit gives up somewhere and a dozen hawks descend
Every moment leads toward its own sad end

[...]

I am coming home to you
With my own blood in my mouth
And I am coming home to you
If it's the last thing that I do

Avocado Baby - Los Campesinos!

'tween the breadth'a your arms span I was a renaissance man, books of lies stacked either side you were my carrell

A heart of stone, rind so tough it's crazy, that's why they call me the avocado, baby

Oh it won't get better, that doesn't mean it's gonna get any worse.
Your final draft's a life-long love letter, signed to the man who will be driving your hearse

Don't Swallow the Cap - The National

Tiny bubbles hang above me.
It's a sign that someone loves me.
I can hardly stand upright
Hit my head up on the light
I have faith but don't believe you
This love ain't enough to leave you.

I have only two emotions,
Careful fear and dead devotion.
I can't get the balance right.
Throw my marbles in the fight.

Everything I love is on the table.
Everything I love is out to sea.

I'm not alone,
I'll never be.
Into the bone,
I'll never grieve.

I'm tired, I'm freezing, I'm dumb
When it gets so late I forget everyone.
I need somewhere to stay.
Don't think anybody I know is awake.
Calm down, it's alright,
Keep my arms the rest of the night.
When they ask what do I see,
I see a bright white beautiful heaven hangin' over me.

Graceless - The National

I'm trying, but I've gone
Through the glass again
Just come and find me
God loves everybody, don't remind me
I took the medicine and I went missing
Just let me hear your voice, just let me listen

All of my thoughts of you
Bullets through rock and through
Come apart at the seams
Now I know what dying means

I am not my rosy self
Left my roses on my shelf
Take the wild ones, they're my favorites
It's the side effects that save us

Bus Stop Boxer - Eels

I don't miss where i came from
But each night i dream about being back home
When i wake up in the morning
I'm too tired
And tired of being alone

So i get up and go downtown
And pick me out a little piece of ground
Where i can prove something to the world
I can prove something to the world

A Life of Arctic Sounds - Modest Mouse

as long as you're gone,
i can't apologize
for all the things that i haven't said and done

Lemonworld - The National

This pricey stuff makes me dizzy
I guess I've always been a delicate man
Takes me a day to remember a day
I didn't mean to let it get so far out of hand
I was a comfortable kid
But I don't think about it much anymore
Lay me on the table, put flowers in my mouth
And we can say that we invented a summer lovin' torture party

I'm too tired to drive anywhere, anyway right now
Do you care if I stay?

(Mari/Abel)

Welcome Home - Radical Face

All my nightmares escape my head
Bar the door, please don't let them in
You were never supposed to leave
Now my head's splitting at the seams
And I don't know if I can

Want You Gone - Jonathan Coulton

Goodbye my only friend
Oh, did you think I meant you?
That would be funny
if it weren't so sad
Well you have been replaced
I don't need anyone now
When I delete you maybe
I'll stop feeling so bad

Go make some new disaster
That's what I'm counting on
You're someone else's problem
Now I only want you gone

[spacebat]

i'm so bad at remembering my character lists when i don't have lj-login.

umeka penelope kim gully hyun moirine issac pearle on and on into infinity

[failure]

I was relistening to City Middle by The National and thought of Mari and Moirine:

I've got five hundred in twenties
And I've got a ton of great ideas

[...]

Parking your car, you said, I'm overwhelmed
You were thinking out loud, you said, I'm overwhelmed
You were parking your car, you said, I'm overwhelmed
You were thinking out loud, you said, I'm overwhelmed
You said, I think I'm like Tennessee Williams
I wait for the click
I wait, but it doesn't kick in

It seems like the perfect storm of self-destruction and anxiety, tbh!

Radical Face seems like it would be pretty good for Isaac since it's kind of Southern...not gothic, but something close to that. Southern Genealogical Epic??? I should know this. But anyway, I really like The Crooked Kind for Elia and Dee:

Some get dealt simple hands
Some walk the common paths, all nice and worn
But all folks are damaged goods
It ain't a talk of "if," just one of "when" and "how"

So, collect your scars and wear 'em well
Your blood's a good an ink as any
Go scratch your name into the clouds
And pull 'em all... down

The thunder plays it's drum
The air is heavy with the smell of storms
And I sit beside my brother and I feel him shake
As he laughs himself right back to sleep
And I'm laughin' with him

It's a bit more abstract than some of his other songs, but the idea of identification with family/blood seemed to be a pretty large theme in their interactions, so.

[spacebat]

I really like The Crooked Kind for Dee and Elia. Ugh, it's perfect, considering their lack of power/authority/social standing. And I feel like if all the Cosimo kids could accept each other's fuckups instead of pouncing on an opportunity to get a dig in, they'd be... a really functional family of fuckups.

Still gotta listen to the m/m one.

[failure]

I feel like Always Gold works for them too, on some levels. I mean! They definitely don't have the close knit relationship described but there's something about it that makes me think "Cosmo women -> Elia" tbh

And I was there, when you grew restless Left in the dead of night And I was there, when three months later You were standing in the door all beat and tired And I stepped aside

[...]

We were opposites at birth I was steady as a hammer No one worried 'cause they knew just where I'd be And they said you were the crooked kind And that you'd never have no worth But you were always gold to me

And back when we were kids We swore we knew the future And our words would take us half way 'round the world But I never left this town And you never saw New York And we ain't ever cross the sea

But I am fine with where I am now This home is home, and all that I need But for you, this place is shame But you can blame me when there's no one left to blame

Oh I don't mind

[dazzling]

I THOUGHT I COMMENTED i am so bad at fst memes but i'mma give it a try five days late

you know my characters!!! (cam, lucia, evie, emma, iris, ava, etc.)

[dazzling]

i know florence + the machine is overused in fsts in general and especially "rabbit heart" but it does fit evie:

Here I am, a rabbit hearted girl
Frozen in the headlights
It seems I've made the final sacrifice

This is a gift, it comes with a price
Who is the lamb and who is the knife?

I must become a lion hearted girl
Ready for a fight
Before I make the final sacrifice

she was such an impressionable and timid child that it's in my mind that in her bad end, she'd break and she'd come out balls out cray and something like a murderer. someday, i will think about what a good end for her would be like.

[dazzling]

tbh bird's playlist can half be comprised of marina and the diamonds and a lot of good and bad pop with some random historical asian drama instrumental soundtracks as a backdrop.

when i am less tired, i'll probably link stuff and be more... diverse and detailed.

[failure]

I already told you about Mistaken for Strangers and Cam

Maybe Get Lonely by The Mountain Goats for Iris post-Capesize?

I will rise up early and dress myself up nice
And I will leave the house and check the deadlock twice
And I will find a crowd and blend in for a minute
And I will try to find a little comfort in it

And I will get lonely
And gasp for air
And send your name off from my lips
Like a signal flare

And I will go downtown, stand in the shadows of the buildings
And button up my coat, trying to stay strong - spirit willing
And I will come back home, maybe call some friends
Maybe paint some pictures, it all depends

It's a kind of dignified loneliness that's as much about being constructive and getting things done as it is about getting overwhelmed by depression, which seems to fit!

[dazzling]

wow, that is pretty close to perfect!

you are great at this, green.

[spacebat]

this is the easiest response ever and i will think harder and bring you better ones later, but bloc party - zephyrus for post-ship iris and zeph.

ooh! and tegan and sara - you wouldn't like me for bird and tiger.