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SONGS OF THE STAG: an annotated playlist 🎵🦌

SONGS OF THE STAG: an annotated playlist 🎵🦌

Music plays such an important role in my writing process, and nothing quite beats writer’s block like sticking my headphones on and going for a walk with my playlist cranked at full volume. The main playlist I use for working on the SotS duology is over 10 hours long and growing every month, but I’ve selected a handful of songs that for me, truly embody the characters, themes, and narrative of Song of the Stag.

The playlist can be found at the link in my bio and the songs are sorted in chronological order of the story. Over the next couple of months, every day (or so) I’ll be sharing 1 song from the playlist alongside my notes about why it resonates with me and the novel.

This playlsit is where Taylor Swift, Tide Lines, and the Arcane Soundtrack collide. It’s truly chaotic 💃

I’d like to issue a formal apology to the attendees of my hogmanay party last night after…

I’d like to issue a formal apology to the attendees of my hogmanay party last night after @rosielleny-reblogs and I subjected them to an hour and a half lecture about the Solavellan lore complete with microphone and visual aids

I sometimes think of that awful Scooby Doo Loch Ness movie, and how I would set a story in Scotland…

poisonandpages:

I sometimes think of that awful Scooby Doo Loch Ness movie, and how I would set a story in Scotland that more accurately reflects my country. I wind up losing it at the idea of Fred accidentally starting a fight by walking into a Celtic pub wearing white orange and blue on Old Firm match day, Shaggy and Scooby unable to help as they’re busy scranning a whole Blue Lagoon out of business.

Velma and Daphne take a museum tour; Velma pesters the guide about all the different ways to say mystery-related words in Scots and Gàidhlig, Daphne wields a broadsword with one hand and tans a whole 2 litre irn bru with the other.

In the countryside Scooby gets accidentally carried away by a flock of sheep and is taken across 3 fields before the gang get him back. In the city Shaggy gets accidentally carried away by a flock of ravers and is taken across 3 nightclubs before the gang get him back.

They go to Edinburgh so Velma can get lost in the National Library archives and Daphne gets into a fistfight with some snobby university students.

Fred really struggles with the narrower roads and the Mystery Machine winds up in a hedge.

rocky horror picture show asks what would happen if frankenstein’s creature knew its purpose from…

string-star-lights:

rocky horror picture show asks what would happen if frankenstein’s creature knew its purpose from birth. it also asks “what if victor frankenstein did drag and a lot of cocaine” which is a frankly more important question

n8nt:

n8nt:

no one is there for you like the music you listened to at your lowest point in high school

blossoms-phan:

no one is there for you like the music you listened to at your lowest point in high school

The problem with “senseless violence” narrative around the UnitedHealthcare CEO is that it ignores…

unveilandresist:

murderouswidowsmatter:

The problem with “senseless violence” narrative around the UnitedHealthcare CEO is that it ignores the inherent violence of the insurance industry. Denying someone lifesaving care is violence. Subjecting someone to drawn out periods of pain before treatment is violent. The industry is made up of millions of acts of violence everyday, with the CEO at the helm guiding it all. This is not unprovoked and it’s not an overreaction; it is just harder to ignore

there’s no way this hasn’t been done yet but come on, she is the epitome of this tweet

snake-eggs:

there’s no way this hasn’t been done yet but come on, she is the epitome of this tweet

my mom didn’t believe in lying to children so when I first asked about santa claus as a small child…

maculategiraffe:

my mom didn’t believe in lying to children so when I first asked about santa claus as a small child she was like “oh santa claus is another name for a man named saint nicholas who lived a long time ago. he was a very kind and generous man and he loved giving people presents and he would do things like put presents in people’s stockings when they were hung up to dry by the fire, so they would find them and be surprised. so now when we give presents at christmas it’s fun to pretend saint nicholas or ‘santa claus’ brings them. and we hang up stockings by the fire and when we get up in the morning there are presents in them, just like if saint nicholas was still alive to bring them!”

so that thanksgiving one of my uncles said jovially “so mac, are you being good for santa claus?” and little (not quite three year old) mac looked up and raised an eyebrow and said witheringly “he’s dead.”

i hate that being emotionally unavailable is so associated with masculinity. which is why i must…

mosswiind:

inthecut2003:

i hate that being emotionally unavailable is so associated with masculinity. which is why i must stay emotionally unavailable. for feminism.

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