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Back on my classics bullshit.
Pygmalion from the Aenied would definitely wear black air forces in modern times. Mf really killed Sychaeus like it was just any other day of the week.
cosmic love in this club
(a thorki fanmix by brentofthefabulouswild) this particular fanmix was inspired by this AU idea i had where thor and loki are well-known partyphiles in the club scene but they ran in two very different social circles and they happened to meet in the city's newest and exclusive nightclub called "club asgard". naturally, intense sparks fly between them on the dance floor but some typical angsty drama happens between them before they can get their happy ending grinding underneath the strobe lights. the songs i've picked for this mix is basically the soundtrack of that AU idea--as if these were the very songs they would hear playing in club asgard every time they would meet. so if anyone is willing to pick up this crazy prompt to use for a long ass thorki slash fic, feel free to get creative! +++ "don't take me home till the sun comes up, till the sun comes up. right next to me, you wanna be till the sun comes up..." +++ 01 : finley quaye + william orbit + beth orton - "dice [layo + bushwacka! missing u mix]"
i was crying over you i am smiling, i think of you where your gardens have no walls breathe in the air if you care you compare, don't say farewell nothing can compare to when you roll the dice and swear your love's for me...
02 : björk - "human behaviour [underworld mix]"
they're terribly, terribly, terribly moody of human behaviour then all of a sudden--turn happy but oh, to get involved in the exchange of human emotions is ever so, ever so satisfying and there is no map--anxiety...!
03 : dido - "stoned [deep dish remix]"
and if you find one day find some freedom and relief with this freedom maybe maybe you will find some peace with this peace baby i hope it brings you back to me bring you home, take me home...
04 : late night alumni - "shine"
i'm not afraid i'm wrong i'm so afraid i'm right my deepest fear is that i'm powerful but who am i to shine? how was i to know you weren't the captain of my soul? all this time, you and i could've been pulled apart and i'd have stayed alive...
05 : skrillex + penny - "all i ask of you"
in comes the dawn i've fallen asleep with my head pressed against your flaws, all my love and something got in the way and your soul turned black as the sun grows somber took my heart and my love...
06 : florence + the machine - "you've got the love [mark knight remix]"
sometimes it seems the going is just too rough and things go wrong no matter what i do now and then, it seems that life is just too much but you've got the love i need to see me through when food is gone, you are my daily meal when friends are gone, i know my saviour's love is real you know it's real...
07 : underworld - "rez"
[instrumental]
08 : kaskade - "only you"
and it shows, because my heart beats so i will always love only you beautiful, so beautiful all this love is for only you i'll repeat this phrase through all my days with my last breath: only you...
09 : dennis de laat - "the sound of violence [main mix]"
i feel like i wanna be inside you when the sun goes down as long as i'm gonna be around you when the sun goes down, yeah...
10 : delerium + sarah mclachlan - "silence [tiësto's in search of sunrise mix]"
passion chokes the flower till she cries no more possessing all the beauty hungry still for more heaven holds a sense of wonder and i wanted to believe that i'd get caught up when the rage in me subsides...
11 : calvin harris + florence welch - "sweet nothing"
you took my heart and you held it in your mouth and with a word, all my love came rushing out and every whisper, it's the worst emptied out by a single word there is a hollow in me now...
12 : haley - "falling in love (with brazil)"
can love, even in times uncertain be the thing that carries us through? can love open a heart that’s frozen even when there’s nothing there for you? oh, so this is what it feels to be alive even though we stumble our way through one chance and then another one appears and then again another comes to you…
you can listen to the entire mix here.
the cold is warmth : a thorki winter chill mixtape born of cold and winter air and mountain rain combining this icy force both foul and fair has a frozen heart worth mining so cut through the heart, cold and clear strike for love and strike for fear there’s beauty and there’s danger here split the ice apart, beware the frozen heart... +++ 01 : up dharma down - tadhana 02 : björk - possibly maybe 03 : portishead - glory box 04 : dido - end of night 05 : lorde - royals [the weeknd remix] 06 : tina dico - moon to let [zero 7 remix] 07 : sarah mclachlan - fear 08 : schiller + andrea corr - pale blue eyes 09 : beth orton - paris train 10 : lamb - heaven 11 : womb - aftertaste 12 : linkin park - my december 13 : trentemøller + ane trolle - moan 14 : jam + spoon - suspicious minds 15 : the xx - chained 16 : aggie hsieh + william wei - driftwood you can listen to the full mixtape here.
himnaríki : a thorki valentine's day mix
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“Hear this now, I will always come for you…”
“But how can you be sure?”
“Because what we have is true love, Brother… You think this happens every day?”
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01 : florence + the machine - over the love
against the current, all alone everybody, see, i love him cause it's a feeling that you get when the afternoon is set on a bridge into the city and i don't wanna see i've seen to undo what has been done turn off all the lights let the morning come...
02 : sarah mclachlan - fear
they say temptation will destroy our love the never ending hunger but i fear i have nothing to give i have so much to lose here in this lonely place tangled up in our embrace there's nothing i'd like better than to fall...
03 : dido - northern skies [rollo's version]
i felt the green was blacker and the blue was darker still my roots are lying deeper than i ever think they will again. heartache and poverty under these northern skies...
04 : kaskade - floating
now in the silence i find myself alone it’s just what i wanted to be on my own floating on the water stare at you tonight so keep up the magic space of time you light...
05 : jack johnson - constellations
it was just another night with a sunset and a moonrise not so far behind to give us just enough light to lay down underneath the stars listen to all the translations of the stories across the sky we drew our own constellations...
06 : schiller + anggun - always you
went from the east to west with stories to erase from my heart, my fingers, and my face i've tried my very best no matter wherever I am there's nothing I can do cause my love has only one name and it is you...
07 : björk - hidden place
he's the beautifullest, fragilest still strong, dark, and divine and the littleness of his movements hides himself he invents a charm that makes him invisible hides in the hair can i hide there too? hide in the air of him seek solace, sanctuary...
08 : moony - perfect soul
but now i've found the sun it's in your eyes you're my angel make me feel the love every time you think of me oh, i'll be loving, loving you...
09 : late night alumni - beautiful
there you are finally the answer take my hand never release the sweetness, the magic, and happiness i've found in you 'cause you're beautiful something in your eyes tells me i have found a love that never dies i don't have to dream reality is beautiful in you i never felt more true...
10 : sia - my love
my love, leave yourself behind beat inside me, leave you blind my love, you have found peace you were searching for relief you gave it all gave into the call you took a chance and you took a fall for us...
11 : télépopmusik - don't look back
and i'm standing over here watching you over there smiling, happy, unaware oh, life is spinning round you're going underground forgetting who we were let's try and keep it just one more day...
12 : sigur rós - ágætis byrjun
nokkrum dögum síðar við tölum aaman á ný en hljóðið var ekki gott við vorum sammála um Það sammála um flesta hluti við munum gera betur næst Þetta er ágætis byrjun...
a few days later we speak again but it didn't sound good we were all in agreement in agreement about most things we'll do better next time this is a good beginning...
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You can listen to the fanmix I curated here.
Please also check out the accompanying fanfic I wrote and posted over at Archive Of Our Own/AO3 also titled "Himnaríki". Thanks!
She was degraded by the Aeniad, she was a powerful queen of an important kingdom (Carthage) and she was a good one even so being under the mentoring of Juno (most important olympic godess); but as always Aphrodite's (Venus) shipping reflexes went a little to far, uniting her son (Aeneas) and her; reducing her character as another vapid women who decides to unalive herself and while doing so cursing Rome to be enemies of her kingdom. Rendering her character to a 2 dimensional charicature of her true self.
I apologize for using also the greek gods names, in my opinion Venus is in this part mostly Aphrodite's. Her syncretism with Venus (a roman fertility goddess) is still really recent in the Aeniad and to be honest is still very much her greek counterpart, in some parts she is Venus Generatrix but in Dido's tale she is still Aphrodite Pandemos. The Aeniad if you look really closely in it's structure is really similar to the Illiad and Odyssey and more obvious in it's final part, not mentioning the protaganists of this epic are Troyans.
So to sum this up, Dido was setted up as a really good character that lossed most of her agency after meddling with Aeneas.
Sorry for the ramble but is a pity what happened to her; if he could have been a bit more clever and set sailed with her, maybe nothing bad could have happened; founded Rome (not really, down the line Remulus and Remus where the ones, mostly Remus); then after settling move back to Carthage and supervise everything there, with a loving wife, a great kingdom and more.
But then we will forgetting that the Aeniad was written by Virgil as a foundational tale and Dido's role was to set up an excuse for the rivalry between Carthage and Rome (that will sublimmate in the Punic wars); so either way she is bound to lose because of the narrative, making her a tragic character to an unforgiving narrative.
this could be a very niche post but i mourn dido. she was a refugee who built a civilisation from the ground up!! she was a queen!! she was everything aeneas needed to be!! when we first meet her, she's compared to diana. diana goddess of the moon, diana goddess of the hunt. dido was so radiant and loving and warm, even without venus' fatal meddling, she opened her arms to the trojans and welcomed them to her land.
dido of carthage was such a powerful woman, she was the epitome of a person - she was pious, she was strong and she was so, so beautiful. venus ruins her. venus is a real villain of the trojan war and it does not get talked about enough‼️ yes the whole helen thing but cmon!! dido!! venus ruined dido's life - this rational, calm-headed woman is rendered a helpless victim to Love and its follies.
she believes her and aeneas to be married and then he just turns around and walks out on her. (I don't blame aeneas, i actually really like him. he too was a victim of the gods' whimsies - "I seek Italy not of my own will.") but it ruins her. aeneas has up and left and with it venus' interest in dido wanes but the arrow of desire remains stuck in her very soul, staining sticky red love all over her life.
when i think about dido's death i honestly get so sad because the last cry for help to diana when the priestess is performing the death rituals is just fucking heartbreaking. it's a jarring reminder of how dido used to be before aeneas, before the gods sunk their claws into her life.
beautiful dido, who glowed like the moon, now lies dead and burnt to ash on a pile of clothes and carvings of a man who never even loved her.
And when we meet Which I’m sure we will All that was then Will be there still I’ll let it pass And hold my tongue And you will think That I’ve moved on….
I will go down with this ship And I won’t put my hands up and surrender There will be no white flag above my door I’m in love and always will be……………