Inspired by...
The lamb aside, it's clear that I make gratuitous use of references to/from music, poetry and quotations.
How would you like to introduce yourself? What do you think is true?
- Back in N.Y.C. (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | quote (riff) - "gets it out of me"
- Biko (song) - Peter Gabriel | quote (riff) - "the color is dead"
- Romeo and Juliet: Act 1, Prologue (play) - William Shakespeare | quote - "I lay my scene"
- Days of Wine and Roses (movie) - Blake Edwards | title quote - "days of wine"
but the thing i can't find is something i don't need, i think
the blood i used to abide is a river i no longer know how to read
- Fair Youth (poem) - William Shakespeare | title as title
- Ring Out, Wild Bells (poem) - Alfred Tennyson | title in title (riff)
- So Much (song) - Peter Gabriel | lyrics as chapter titles
- Put the Bucket Down (song) - Peter Gabriel | lyrics as chapter titles
- Red Day on Blue Street (song) - Tony Banks | lyric as chapter title
It's strange information to have. It's strange information to hold.
- You Can't Take It With You (movie) - Frank Capra | quote - "the longest and the sharpest claws"
- The Wizard of Oz (movie) - L. Frank Baum | quote - "the man behind the curtain"
I'm sure that if I walked back into that land of confusion, you'd say, "you're no son of mine," and it'd be just another day in paradise for you.
- From Genesis to Revelation (album) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as title
- Genesis (band) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title/lyric drops throughout
- Please Don't Touch (song) - Genesis (Steve Hackett) | title quote - "please don't ask and please don't touch"
- Another Day In Paradise (song) - Phil Collins | title quote - "another day in paradise for you"
- I'm Not Moving (song) - Phil Collins | title quote - "I'm not moving"
- The Royal Scam (song) - Steely Dan | title as title
The purpose: to see if I can communicate maturely, without just saying "you're evil and I hated you" or piling cliché upon cliché.
- Iolanthe: Good Morrow, Good Mother (opera) - Gilbert and Sullivan | lyric quote - "good morrow"
- Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 1 (play) - William Shakespeare | quote - "the undiscovered country"
- What A Way (To Show I Love You) (song) - Gilbert O'Sullivan | lyric quote - "no more sorrow"
How strange, to feel a human emotion so ardently. How strange, to desire such a thing as death.
- I Got A Name (song) - Jim Croce | lyric as title
- Ulysses (poem) - Alfred Tennyson | quote (riff) - "as he was"
Is it a war of attrition, or merely a battle of attention?
- Games Without Frontiers (song) - Peter Gabriel | lyric quote - "endless, innumerable, ever-final"
- Star Trek: The Final Frontier (movie) - Gene Roddenberry | quote (riff) - "ever-final frontiers"
It becomes a pointless question, Val realizes. There can be no right answer.
- In The Cage (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
- Games Without Frontiers (song) - Peter Gabriel | filename pull
How strange, to feel a human emotion so ardently. How strange, to desire such a thing as life.
- I've Seen Fire and I've Seen Rain (song) - James Taylor | title as title
- Whispers of Immortality (poem) - T.S. Eliot | quote - "skull from skin"
- Ordeals, Mortifying : Ideals, Mollifying (poem) - Rose Redacted | quote - "seen, reached, touched"
Or, the private and intimate life of the house. Let's be damned for what we really are.
- Star Trek: The Next Generation (show) - Gene Roddenberry | quote in summary
Let's learn something about ourselves. Let's look in and out and over and beyond.
- Virtual Insanity (song) - Jamiroquai | title in title (riff)
All must know that a Box of Legions does not a conoissoeur make - although it might very well a dust allergy cause.
- Games Without Frontiers (song) - Peter Gabriel | title as title (translation)
- Star Trek: The Original Series (show) - Gene Roddenberry | quote (riff) - "never be parted"
- Who Has Seen the Wind? (poem) - Christina Rossetti | title quote - "Azzar didn't see the wind"
- Games Without Frontiers (song) - Peter Gabriel | title as title
Mimi doesn't want to give up on the dream of self-determination. She can't! She won't!
- Human (song) - The Killers | lyric as title
Someone has to give everyone their memories back. Someone has to remember it all.
- Sultans of Swing (song) - Dire Straits | lyric as title
Another Tumblr post roundup, this one somewhat less fru-fru cutesy. Somewhat.
- Calling a Wolf a Wolf (poem) - Kaveh Akbar | motivating piece
- Breakage (poem) - Mary Oliver | motivating piece
This isn't about him finding out. This is about how it goes when he keeps thinking he will, and doesn't.
- Gold Dust Woman (song) - Fleetwood Mac | lyric as title (riff)
There is nobody in the world like Dr. Martha M. Masters.
- Behind Blue Eyes (song) - The Who | lyric as title
Is it messy, formulaic or problematic? What it is is maddeningly self-stable.
- Almost Gothic (song) - Steely Dan | lyric as title
That's her style, to jerk me around.
- Almost Gothic (song) - Steely Dan | lyric as title, lyric as summary
Go ahead, give me some eyes - good, and now fix me with a nice, clean, dirty look.
House's fellows have a certain form of cultural foothold that he doesn't. No pun intended.
- The H Gang (song) - Steely Dan | lyric quote - "the ultimate five-chord band"
It'd be asinine to pretend that there's anything doctors and lawyers mutually exclusively can't do.
Together, however, the loopholes start to look like a beautiful molecular structure.
- Sign In Stranger (song) - Steely Dan | lyric as title
Thirteen observes the differential in behavior between one independent child and another.
- Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More (song) - Steely Dan | lyric as title
- Love in an Elevator (song) - Aerosmith | title as title
I asked for a lift - they said, get used to the pain.
- The Weather In My Head (song) - Donald Fagen | lyric as title, lyric as summary
It is strange, to be so at home in such a place. And the things there will be to miss about it...how many reasons are there?
- Of Foreign Lands and People (song) - Robert Schumann | played/discussed
- Full Moon and Empty Arms (song) - Frank Sinatra | discussed/played
- Piano Concerto No. 2 (work) - Sergei Rachmaninoff | played throughout
Collection of drabbles based on a rigorous list of combinations - C(23,2) = 253 - throughout the cast.
(Of particular exclusion: Rachel Cuddy, Mark Warner and Lydia Bohm.)
- You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want) (song) - Joe Jackson | title as title (riff)
You don't need someone to tell you what you're already thinking. But it might be nice, sometimes, you know?
- Porgy and Bess: It Ain't Necessarily So (song) - George Gershwin | title as title
All of it, the posturing and the process, has been about the reckoning of a man robbed of faculty against a world that knows he will still find a way to do anything.
- Sky Blue (song) - Peter Gabriel | lyric as title
"I said I always want to kiss you. During my subconscious fantasy of opioid withdrawal."
- i carry your heart with me(i carry it in) (poem) - E.E. Cummings | line as title (very vague/riff)
Maybe it's not so important to always choose wisely.
- Star Trek: The Next Generation (show) - Gene Roddenberry | quote (riff) - "damns us all"
It's like an isoceles triangle!
- The Odd Couple (show) - Garry Marshall | quote as summary
Yes, the compassion is in the room with us. It's bleeding right out of me.
- More Than This (song) - Peter Gabriel | lyric as title (riff)
Is the gratitude in the room with us right now?
- The Messiah: And the Glory of the Lord (opera) - Georg Frideric Handel | lyric as title (riff)
I force myself to stand and let it pass; let the missed opportunities wash over me. I try not to have too much fun.
- I Want You To Want Me (song) - Cheap Trick | title quote - "I want you to want me"
- Love to Be Loved (song) - Peter Gabriel | lyric quote - "let it pass, let it go, let it bleed"
- Melt (album) - Peter Gabriel | cover reference - "my face is melting"
Let me be painted as a stranger, fin state.
- Good Bones (poem) - Maggie Smith | motivating piece
I seem to have abandoned my substantive journal; I cannot trust so earnestly in incessant communication.
- Richard II: Act 3, Scene 2 (play) - William Shakespeare | quote - "letting death have its day"
- Romeo and Juliet (play) - William Shakespeare | reference - "Mercutio and Tybalt"
The two halves of our brains are always fighting toward a common goal.
- Star Trek: The Original Series (show) - Gene Roddenberry | quote - "sometimes feeling is all we have to go on"
- Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (game) - Monolith Soft | quote (riff) - "can't do a thing if you're dead"
- 12 Angry Men (play) - Reginald Rose | quote - "you can suppose anything"
Whatever you are, be a good one, some past president said. Mythra's version is perhaps even more pragmatic: be whatever it is you can be that gets you a passing grade.
- Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 1 (play) - William Shakespeare | quote - "thousand natural shocks"
Really, how much could happen in the span of an afternoon dress rehearsal, followed by a just-shy-of-sunset matinee?
- Peter and the Wolf (work) - Sergei Prokofiev | played throughout
Everything Flora knew could not hope to prepare her - not unless she got canny, and remembered.
- Angels in America (play) - Tony Kushner | quote as title
Two ears; one mouth. Let's all listen up !
- The Tempest: Act 1, Scene 2 (play) - William Shakespeare | quote (riff) - "hellions are empty"
They didn't have to tell anyone. They could just imagine.
(But they did, eventually, have to perform.)
- Scheherezade (suite) - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | played throughout
Often, Flora prayed. She was human; indeed, she prayed.
- These Hands, If Not Gods (poem) - Natalie Diaz | title as title (riff)
Or, parting and never parted.
- Star Trek: The Original Series (show) - Gene Roddenberry | quote in summary
We do these things in the name of love, or else just simply for closeness.
- Pour Some Sugar On Me (song) - Def Leppard | title as title
...to hide behind the glare of an open-minded stare.
- Am I Very Wrong? (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as title
A big, bulky outside observer, and a fitting conversation partner for the old fella.
- Do It Again (song) - Steely Dan | title as title
They try to make sense of things, in Aionios.
- Green Earrings (song) - Steely Dan | title as title
Somehow, the tales of the golden country sound a little...different.
- Rikki Don't Lose That Number (song) - Steely Dan | title as title
At last, this intriguing roleswap between the Flesh Eater and his holy parallels.
- Babylon Sisters (song) - Steely Dan | title as title
Flora arrives to the universe of the Endless Sea.
- Reelin' In The Years (song) - Steely Dan | title as title
No matter the locale, their feelings remain the same.
- Hey Nineteen (song) - Steely Dan | title as title
They're transplanted somewhere above lost planets and people, now.
- Deacon Blues (song) - Steely Dan | title as title
The terrific trio make their appearance as the Elements.
- Pretzel Logic (song) - Steely Dan | title as title
When examining the tale of the chicken or the egg, one must also consider the strength of will required to peck one's way out of the shell.
- Xenoblade Chronicles X: Black Tar (game) - Hiroyuki Sawano | lyric as title (riff)
- Revolutionary Girl Utena (anime) - Kunihiko Ikuhara | quote as summary (riff)
Or, proof by contradiction that Addam did have to marry Flora as part of his lordship.
- A Real Live Girl (song) - Robert Goulet | title as title
A gulf can be thousands of miles. A gulf can be an instant.
- Romeo and Juliet: Act 2, Scene 2 (play) - William Shakespeare | quote as title
- Xenoblade Chronicles 1: Parting, And... (game) - Monolith Soft | filename pull
Her infinite variety other women cloy - well, but Flora's not worried about that. She hardly thinks any other women can tell.
- The Winter's Tale: Act 5, Scene 1 (play) - William Shakespeare | quote as title
And suddenly the gravity of the celestial ring is realigned, restructured.
- Henry VI: Part 1, Act 1, Scene 4 (play) - William Shakespeare | quote as title (riff)
Rather than prescriptive, let's be proscriptive; let's just see what works.
- Star Trek: The Next Generation (show) - Gene Roddenberry | quote (riff) - "and let's be damned, you know, let's be damned"
I don't know a single thing, and I'm so lonely. But the Aegis knows everything, you see.
- Spoken For (song) - Flavor Foley | lyric as title, quote in summary, parody/riff
Now, when a cowboy does these things, you have to understand, he oozes just about the only thing one can besides sexuality and pus: charisma (and homosexuality).
- The Office (show) - Greg Daniels | quote in summary (riff)
- Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (movie) - Gene Roddenberry | quote - "to each according to his gifts"
fair play must mean that rules are rules, and not meant to be broken.
- Scenes From An Italian Restaurant (song) - Billy Joel | lyric as title
At first it had been an obligation. Now it's just fun.
- The Odd Couple (show) - Garry Marshall | quote as title
Even cautious Phasma can sometimes be a little bit too curious, too granting, for their own good.
- When You Wish Upon a Star (song) - Cliff Edwards | title as title
once a month is too often. my body is not enough.
- Torna: The Golden Country (game) - Monolith Soft | quote (riff) - "I hang over doom"
Minoth was not one who could not be shaken. Malos was the rock that could not be moved.
- The Messiah: Thus Saith the Lord (opera) - Georg Frideric Handel | conceptual reference
- The Messiah: I Know My Redeemer Liveth (opera) - Georg Frideric Handel | lyric quote (riff) - "the redeemer cometh"
but i couldn't bear that it's me, it's my fault
- I Walked (song) - Sufjan Stevens | lyric as title, lyric as summary
engaging with this the only way i know how, because i'm still like that.
(note - only tagged as Lineage Theories because that's how everything else in a similar vein is, not because i'm casting aspersionary doubt.)
- Billie Jean (song) - Michael Jackson | fancam reference
L'Seren are free of earthly cares, but oh so endlessly curious.
- White Christmas (movie) - Danny Kaye | quote - "the nut a mile and a half"
seren voice Keep falling in and out of love? wrong. overdrive
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (book) - J.K. Rowling | reference - "Felix Felicis"
Well, but you know - who do you like like?
- I Like Myself (song) - Gene Kelly | lyric as title
Some days, it seems like the only hobby anyone has is thinking about family drama that's already long gone by.
- Internal Combustion (work) - David Gillingham | conceptual reference
I celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume you shall assume, for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Or in other words, we are one.
- O Captain, My Captain (poem) - Walt Whitman | title as title (riff)
- Song of Myself (poem) - Walt Whitman | quote in summary
- Come, Said My Soul (poem) - Walt Whitman | quote in summary
It was easy to follow what Grandpa taught her. Iona's life was hardly precarious, anymore.
- Fiddler on the Roof: If I Were A Rich Man (song) - Chaim Topol | script quote (riff) - "a prayer for the Praetor"
Matchback for this.
- The Honeymooners (show) - Jackie Gleason | quote as title, quote - "to the moon"
Eventually, one finds this out: I don't know how to live.
- Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (game) - Nintendo | title as title
Well...there's only one word for it. Bellissima!
- Harold In Italy (work) - Hector Berlioz | played throughout
So this is how it feels, to be born again, and born again.
- Star of Sirius (song) - Steve Hackett | title in title, spiritual connection
To see the world through Jenny Slate's eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility. As she will remind you, we live on an ancient ball that rotates around a bigger ball made up of lights and gasses that are science gasses, not farts (don't be immature). Heartbreak, confusion, and misogyny stalk this blue-green sphere, yes, but it is also a place of wild delight and unconstrained vitality, a place where we can start living as soon as we are born, and we can be born at any time. In her dazzling, impossible-to-categorize debut, Slate channels the pain and beauty of life in writing so fresh, so new, and so burstingly alive that we catch her vision like a fever and bring it back out into the bright day with us, and everything has changed.
---- dust jacket blurb for Jenny Slate's Little Weirds, pub. Little/Brown/Co.
- Little Weirds (essay) - Jenny Slate | motivic reference
take it for value: my life's overarch.
- My Heart Will Go On (song) - Celine Dion | title quote - "my heart goes on"
ISBN 9781620114988...data not found. Searching...
- Supper's Ready (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
the prize we sought is won.
- O Captain, My Captain (poem) - Walt Whitman | title as title (riff), quote as summary
and take me with you, when you go, eh?
- West Side Story: Somewhere (song) - Leonard Bernstein | lyric quote - "there's a place for us"
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and work unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
-- Gustav Mahler
- Song Symphonist (essay) - Gustav Mahler | motivating quote
as if this wound will be the deepest of all things, tonight
- We're Going On A Bear Hunt (poem) - Michael Rosen | motivating work
- Walking in the Air (song) - Howard Blake | lyric quote - "I'm sure I could walk on air"
Is this really who we are? Could we possibly be so different?
- Yakuza: Like A Dragon (game) - Ryu Ga Gotoku | title as title
portamento into disparate parts
- Star Trek: The Next Generation (show) - Gene Roddenberry | "loving the data like geordi laforge"
I could reference back and remember that Minoth either is or isn't exactly as I imagine him. Or I could just keep on imagining him...
- Frankenstein (novel) - Mary Shelley | motivating quote
- A Year with Swollen Appendices (essay) - Brian Eno | motivating quote
- Ordeals, Mortifying : Ideals, Mollifying (poem) - Rose Redacted | quote - "seen, reached, touched"
The world relies on me to be noncommital, so that it can keep its peace.
- East Is West: Embraceable You (song) - George Gershwin | title as title (riff)
I know that I must file away these fortuneless feelings!
- The Messiah: The Trumpet Shall Sound (opera) - Georg Frideric Handel | lyric quote - "and we will be changed!"
There is a yawning spectrum along which the disconnect might be found, emplaced.
- The Worm King's Lullaby (poem) - Richard Siken | motivating quote
If we are not suffering in silence, we are not suffering at all.
- The Messiah: His Yoke Is Easy (opera) - Georg Frideric Handel | title quote - "the yoke is not easy"
I need someone to save me from myself.
- The Messiah: If God Be For Us (opera) - Georg Frideric Handel | title as title (riff)
Mythra's just another negative girl. She doesn't believe in much of anything.
- Negative Girl (song) - Steely Dan | lyric as title
- Proverbs 10:2 (verse) - The Bible | quote as title (riff)
Pyra and Nia: two pure and noble spirits, clamoring and rising free.
- Symphony No. 5 (work) - Sergei Prokofiev | symphony collection
This is all leading up to the moment where we know we have finally found God.
- Symphony No. 8 (work) - Anton Bruckner | motivating work
She's forgotten, Pyra realizes, what it feels like not to feel a light flickering at the cracks between the lines.
- Symphony No. 5 (work) - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | symphony collection
(not to be taken seriously)
- i carry your heart with me(i carry it in) (poem) - E.E. Cummings | parody/riff
I don't know what my perfect story looks like. Do I want to?
- Hungry Heart (song) - Bruce Springsteen | lyric as title
Minoth hates to have to apologize, but it's all he can think to do. If Mythra agreed, he would know it by now.
- I Love You, I'm Sorry (song) - Gracie Abrams | title as title
half a life never appealed to me
- All or Nothing at All (song) - Frank Sinatra | title as title, lyric as summary (riff)
Addam can protect Hugo from things he'd never dreamed of.
- You Can Call Me Al (song) - Paul Simon | lyric as title
Pyra wonders how to find her way, as the future floating within and without the past - and no, it won't be by counting!
- Symphony No. 5 (work) - Dmitri Shostakovich | symphony collection
this is such a fake Ass quote
- Dandelion Wine (novel) - Ray Bradbury | motivating quote
- Iolanthe: Good Morrow, Good Mother (opera) - Gilbert and Sullivan | script quote - "now I confess..."
History lives forever. Don't you think?
- Ballad of Big (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | lyric quote - "with his boots on next to his men"
Mythra wonders - is it enough to be beautiful?
- Juna (song) - Clairo | lyric as title
C(11,2) shuffled once, plus my characteristic weakness at the end.
C(13,2) shuffled as necessary: my characteristic weakness at work.
- Star Trek: The Original Series (show) - Gene Roddenberry | quote as title (riff)
A kiss for luck and we're on our way... Not so simple as.
- We've Only Just Begun (song) - Carpenters | lyric as title (riff)
Quite fine in filigree indeed!
- A Trick of The Tail (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | lyric quote - "peeked out beyond"
How can it be a second wind? There's hardly any motion at all.
- Barbie Girl (song) - Aqua | lyric as title
Only time can tell how far forward the connection will carry.
- Candide: Quod Erat Demonstrandum (opera) - Leonard Bernstein | lyric quote - "best of all possible worlds"
- Iolanthe: When I Went to the Bar as a Very Young Man (opera) - Gilbert and Sullivan | script quote - "poetic holy motion"
The extent of your will; like a song that presents proudly its motifs and develops them all, all, all.
- Ordeals, Mortifying : Ideals, Mollifying (poem) - Rose Redacted | quote - "seen, reached, touched"
Shania's life that could have been...
- She's a Rainbow (song) - The Rolling Stones | title as title (riff)
- Paint It Black (song) - The Rolling Stones | title as title (riff)
But they've got their own concerns. Haven't they?
- Domino (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | lyric as title
Today, this fine Wednesday, I worried endlessly about dates and the impossible task of preserving the human mind. But everything is alright, after all.
- Visions of the Emerald Beyond (song) - Mahavishnu Orchestra | title as title
Sena often keeps Aegaeon up at night, but he doesn't mind.
- Ordeals, Mortifying : Ideals, Mollifying (poem) - Rose Redacted | quote - "seen, reached, touched"
Lora discusses the thousand natural shocks with Minoth.
- Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 1 (play) - William Shakespeare | quote as title, quote in summary
Cole marks himself much too old to survive a lightning strike, but he's got no choice, now, has he?
- Short Ride in a Fast Machine (work) - John Adams | title as title
Isn't it so good to be there when you're needed?
- Black Light (album) - John McLaughlin | tracks as chapters
(kallvis, bit by bit)
- Birds of Fire (album) - Mahavishnu Orchestra | tracks as chapters
Shania had been cut off from the knees since birth, it felt like. But maybe Ghondor could help with that.
- Star Trek: The Voyage Home (movie) - Gene Roddenberry | quote as title
No one could ever mistake Ghondor for a guy. Not really.
- Star Trek: The Next Generation (show) - Gene Roddenberry | quote as title
"I am yours, you are mine - you are what you are."
- Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (song) - Crosby, Stills and Nash | title as title (riff)
So messy. So discomposed. So ungovernable.
- The Book of Love (song) - The Monotones | lyric as title
ask it where it was, and how it got there
- A Tale of Two Cities (novel) - Charles Dickens | quote in title
- Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Drifting Soul (game) - ACE | title in title
How Brighid could be on fire, forever, and not be consumed was an enigma to Mòrag. It shouldn't have been, though - Mòrag herself had survived the flames many a time.
- Exodus 3:2 (verse) - The Bible | conceptual reference
sure fine whatever
- Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me (song) - Elton John | lyric as title (riff)
Indulge me the melodrama - it's all I have to give.
- Sonnet 116 (poem) - William Shakespeare | quote - "changes but never alters"
What entropy is there in a feedback loop?
- When They Cry (game) - Ryukishi07 | quote - "without love, it cannot be seen"
- Star Trek: The Original Series (show) - Gene Roddenberry | quote (riff) - "untouching and untouched"
- I Have the Touch (song) - Peter Gabriel | title as title
So, of course, the address by "dear Hugo" to "dear Addam" is a hot, distant euphoria.
- Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes (song) - Paul Simon | lyric as title
No mitigating circumstances now - it's only common sense.
- Lay Your Hands On Me (song) - Peter Gabriel | title as title, lyric as summary
On the merits of being true to one's own self.
- That Voice Again (song) - Peter Gabriel | lyric as title
truths only discovered with lips sealed and minds mumbling.
- Romeo and Juliet: Act 1, Scene 5 (play) - William Shakespeare | quote as title
And the story just kept on going.
- Candide: Quod Erat Demonstrandum (opera) - Leonard Bernstein | lyric quote - "best of all possible worlds"
Three possibilities, each equally likely and equally embarrassing.
- Star Trek: The Original Series (show) - Gene Roddenberry | scene remapping
(previously unwritten ship - 2/3) #07
- Supper's Ready (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
(previously unwritten ship - 1/2) #40
- Time Table (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
(previously unwritten ship - X/3) #22
- Supper's Ready (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
(previously unwritten ship - 1/2) #--
- Horizons (song) - Genesis (Steve Hackett) | title in title (riff)
(previously unwritten ship - 3/X) #14
- The Battle of Epping Forest (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
(previously unwritten ship - 2/3) #17
- Can-Utility and the Coastliners (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
(previously unwritten ship - 2/3) #03
- Watcher of the Skies (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
The relic reignited wonders.
- Candide: What's The Use? (opera) - Leonard Bernstein | lyric quote - "a sense of proportion"
(previously unwritten ship - X/3)
- Visions of Angels (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
(previously unwritten ship - 3/1)
- Visions of Angels (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
(previously unwritten ship - 1/2)
- Looking for Someone (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
(previously unwritten ship - 2/1)
- Stagnation (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
(previously unwritten ship - 2/X)
- The Knife (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
(previously unwritten ship - X/1)
- White Mountain (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
(previously unwritten ship - 3/2)
- Dusk (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
(previously unwritten ship - 2/X)
- Harlequin (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
(previously unwritten ship - 3/2)
- For Absent Friends (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
(previously unwritten ship - 3/2)
- The Return of the Giant Hogweed (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
(previously unwritten ship - 2/3)
- Seven Stones (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
(previously unwritten ship - 1/3)
- The Fountain of Salmacis (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
(previously unwritten ship - 1/2)
- Harlequin (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
(previously unwritten ship - 1/2)
- Harold the Barrel (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
(previously unwritten ship - 1/X)
- The Musical Box (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
I knew him well, and hath borne him on my back a thousand times. Continue to do so, in point of fact. We will not speak of such an end.
- Hamlet: Act 5, Scene 1 (play) - William Shakespeare | quote as title (riff), quote in summary
- Seinfeld (show) - Jerry Seinfeld | quotes as chapters, parody/riff
And, truth to tell, she lights up well, so I, for one, don't blame her!
- The Mikado: The Sun Whose Rays (opera) - Gilbert and Sullivan | lyric as summary
But, fierce and bold, in fiery gold, he glories all effulgent!
- The Mikado: The Sun Whose Rays (opera) - Gilbert and Sullivan | lyric as summary
thank you berry for enabling me
- Sonnet 18 (poem) - William Shakespeare | quote - "as a summer's day"
It's not compulsory heterosexuality. It's something much stupider than that.
- The Mikado: Your Revels Cease! Assist Me, All Of You! (opera) - Gilbert and Sullivan | lyric as title
In attempt to be earnest, all things turn nonsensical.
Addam learns to give his wife a kiss.
- The Mikado: Were You Not to Ko-Ko Plighted (opera) - Gilbert and Sullivan | lyric as title
Minoth hasn't lived in Auresco for long, but it's not the city that makes him feel like he's on the brink of something too big to understand.
- I'm Not Moving (song) - Phil Collins | lyrics as title
There are rules, and then there are exceptions. Minoth is, as ever, quite a troubled, indecisive soul.
- The Boxer (song) - Simon and Garfunkel | lyric as title, lyric as summary
- Cardigan (song) - Taylor Swift | lyric as title, lyric as summary
"You look just like him."
"Truly?"
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture (movie) - Gene Roddenberry | quote - "this simple feeling"
- Supper's Ready (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
After it all, it is still about rights, and reassertions.
- Firth of Fifth (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
With use case expended, they expire together.
- Fifty Miles From The North Pole (song) - Steve Hackett | lyric as title
And still the warmth lingers, even in untouchable places.
- Star Trek: The Final Frontier (movie) - Gene Roddenberry | quote as title (riff), scene remapping
Of course I know him. He's me.
- Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (movie) - Gene Roddenberry | script quote - "has always been. will always be."
humans see what they want to see
- Final Fantasy XIV (game) - Square Enix | spiritual reference
- Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country (movie) - Gene Roddenberry | quote as summary, quote - "what you want is irrelevant"
"So you were together, with Alvis?"
- Revolutionary Girl Utena (anime) - Kunihiko Ikuhara | quote as title (riff)
"I cannot help my suspicion."
"I know. But I can."
- Trans-Island Skyway (song) - Donald Fagen | lyric as title
Slow, and gentle, a ripple issuing from the instance of time.
- The Red Flower of Tachai Blooms Everywhere (song) - Steve Hackett | title as title
Now, I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!
- Star Trek: The Original Series (show) - Gene Roddenberry | quote as title, quote as summary
The night, cool and shifting, is its own little world.
- The Dangling Conversation (song) - Simon and Garfunkel | title as title
Most people who throw their food do so due to the subconscious fear that if they don't, later they may sit on it !
Always a reason. Always preparation...for that wonderful moment.
- The Odd Couple (show) - Garry Marshall | quote as title
So simple it doesn't need explanation. And on, and on, and on...
- You Can't Take It With You (movie) - Frank Capra | title as title
The unlikely (no, quite likely) Nia- pair are mischief and its maintainer - though perhaps not in the order you'd expect.
- Hairless Heart (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as title
and in the streets the children screamed; the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed
but not a word was spoken; the church bells all were broken
- American Pie (song) - Don McLean | title as title, lyrics as summary
- John 3:16 (verse) - The Bible | quote (riff) - "for god so"
To be palatial is not to be at peace.
- Star Trek: The Original Series (show) - Gene Roddenberry | quote as title
He'd try, at least. Oh, how he wanted to try.
- Star Trek: The Voyage Home (movie) - Gene Roddenberry | title as title, scene remapping
A house of dead-eyed stares perches on the shore, permanently faced to the depths.
- Mercy Street (song) - Peter Gabriel | lyric as title
I could be wrong, but I'm not. Now tell me, what kind of love have you got?
- Victim of Love (song) - The Eagles | title as title, lyric as summary
I hate to see her going, but I sure do love to see her walking away.
- Dodo (Lurker) (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | lyric as title
"I'm conducting an experiment," said Amalthus.
- The Colony of Slippermen (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
Aletta is a simple, warm country home. Of course Minoth's first real escape from Indol is all bound in to love.
- Throwing It All Away (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | lyrics as title
There's a long silence.
"Well. That's a good thing, isn't it?"
#divorce
- Star Trek: The Original Series (show) - Gene Roddenberry | quote - "all the time in the world"
- Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (movie) - Gene Roddenberry | quote - "enterprising young men"
Age not just before beauty, but with, and leading, and travelling on.
- A Tale of Two Cities (novel) - Charles Dickens | quote - "recalled to life"
The world is beautiful, due to the people living in it. (playlist here)
- Seven: A Suite for Orchestra (album) - Tony Banks | tracks as chapters
Brighid ponders.
- The Book of Love (song) - Peter Gabriel | lyric as title
Persistence runs, cold and hot. (playlist here)
- Five (album) - Tony Banks | tracks as chapters
It means nothing, to stand here.
Doesn't it?
- Macbeth: Act 5, Scene 5 (play) - William Shakespeare | references in title/summary
As a generally artistic young person, I started thinking about how the symbols we array over ourselves to evoke the intrinsic romance of death could be...realized.
- Games Without Frontiers (song) - Peter Gabriel | lyric quote - "if looks could kill"
- Anyway (song) - Peter Gabriel | lyric quote - "they say she comes"
- Back in N.Y.C. (song) - Peter Gabriel | lyric quote - "we don't believe in pain"
- Don't Give Up (song) - Peter Gabriel | lyric quote - "so many men no one needs"
- I Don't Remember (song) - Peter Gabriel | lyric quote - "empty heart and empty bed"
- Family Snapshot (song) - Peter Gabriel | lyric quote - "because I'm alive"
The pot simmers, trying to boil righteousness, before it explodes.
- I Was Just Trying to Be Brave (song) - Hans Zimmer | spiritual reference
It's a good morning in Aletta Manor. It always has been.
- Barbie Girl (song) - Aqua | lyric as title
But did you know that when it snows...
She is like nothing else they have known.
- Kiss From A Rose (song) - Seal | title as title, lyric in summary
It's raining again in Mor Ardain, when he sees her.
- Fading Lights (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | lyric as title
Some things are just meant to be, even if they don't look so black and white.
- Well, Did You Evah? (song) - Cole Porter | lyric as title
- These Hands, If Not Gods (poem) - Natalie Diaz | title as title, quotes as summary
It is curious how often you humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.
- Star Trek: The Original Series (show) - Gene Roddenberry | quote as title (riff), quote as summary
Malos has nothing. Nothing at all.
- FM (song) - Steely Dan | lyric as title, lyric quote - "no conscience, no compass"
As Origin's final pendulum swings...
- Beyond Antares (song) - Nichelle Nichols | lyric as title, lyric in summary
- Star Trek: The Original Series (show) - Gene Roddenberry | source of song
The stream of consciousness runs dry, without free-flowing (conscious) thought.
- Star Trek: The Original Series (show) - Gene Roddenberry | quote - "the essential process of all existence", quote - "let me help", quote - "emotional security", quote - "all things end", quote - "an error? a choice."
What else is a good friend/prince/husband for if not safety and comfort?
- The Caves of Altamira (song) - Steely Dan | lyric as title
The not-so-up-and-coming Tornan prince has some new, and quite pressing, duties and responsibilities to attend to.
- The Caves of Altamira (song) - Steely Dan | lyric as title
Assume the bases of Xenoblade Chronicles. Assume also the writings of the philosopher Voltaire. Now, prove a contradiction.
- Candide: Quod Erat Demonstrandum (opera) - Leonard Bernstein | title as title, lyrics as summary
- Candide: Make Our Garden Grow (opera) - Leonard Bernstein | lyric quotes throughout
- Candide (novel) - Voltaire | spiritual reference
Aionios is, in some respects, a world built entirely on preconceived notions.
- Star Trek: The Original Series (show) - Gene Roddenberry | quote as title, quote - "never truly parted"
Everything was going well. The performance was agreeable to all.
- Star Trek: The Original Series (show) - Gene Roddenberry | quote - "as if he'd always been there"
Not this way. Not this time.
- Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (movie) - Gene Roddenberry | quote as title (riff)
It's a razor-thin decision, and she's bleeding out.
- One Night in Bangkok (song) - Murray Head | lyric as title
- Star Trek: The Original Series (show) - Gene Roddenberry | quote - "never and always"
Mythra comes together. (playlist here)
- Six Pieces for Orchestra (album) - Tony Banks | tracks as chapters
And though I know you couldn't care, you oughta...
- You Might Recall (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | lyric as title, lyric as summary
(drabble series, and a slightly more bona fide reason for the word count)
- You Might Recall (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as title, lyrics as chapter titles
Stand up and fight!
But...why?
- The Knife (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as title (riff), lyric in summary, periodic italic quotes
Rex and Mythra talk about their predilections. It's been a long time coming.
- My Head Sounds Like That (song) - Peter Gabriel | title as title
"It weighs as it should."
- Old Soul (song) - Saint Motel | title as title, music video reference
- Final Fantasy XIV (game) - Square Enix | quote as summary
- Dance on a Volcano (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | lyric as title, lyric as summary
- Genesis 19:12-19:26 (verse) - The Bible | parody/riff - Lot's wife
- Star Trek: The Original Series (show) - Gene Roddenberry | quote as title
They're floating.
Good god, we're really out here.
(he/they Kirk - they/he Spock)
- Spectral Mornings (song) - Steve Hackett | title as title
If it's difficult to focus on the kindest truth, then might I suggest looking at each other? (he/she Kirk - they/them Spock)
- I Like Myself (song) - Gene Kelly | title as chapter title
- It's You I Like (song) - Fred Rogers | title as chapter title
- People Like Us (song) - Talking Heads | title as chapter title
It takes time to come to terms with his emotions. Of course, in multiple ways.
- Dodo (Lurker) (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | lyric as title
(shalvis, bit by bit)
- Inner Worlds (album) - Mahavishnu Orchestra | tracks as chapters
Lora blinks rapidly. Stutters.
Generally, she's entirely out of her depth, only she isn't at all concerned with swimming.
- The Lady Lies (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as title
Egil fights until he can't anymore, but the thing that dies isn't his spirit.
- Silver Rainbow (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | lyric as title
(Date is approximate - an old Tumblr post.)
- Your Virginia (letter) - Virginia Woolf | quote as title (riff)
- The Greatest Gift (song) - Henry Mancini | lyric as title, lyric as summary
As they say, that's affinity for ya!
- Rainbow Connection (song) - Kenny Loggins | lyric as title
A collection of "m"slash drabbles, based on Maurice Ravel's Gaspard Suite.
- Gaspard de la Nuit (suite) - Maurice Ravel | movements as chapters
A loose sequence of spirk drabbles, inspired by the eponymous suite, as is my way.
- Le Tombeau de Couperin (suite) - Maurice Ravel | movements as chapters
A collection of femslash drabbles, based on Maurice Ravel's Miroirs Suite.
- Miroirs (suite) - Maurice Ravel | movements as chapters
i want the secrets your secrets haven't found
- Human (song) - Dodie | lyric as summary
Cheering. I can't stand it.
- On an Island (song) - David Gilmour | lyric as title
- The Battle of Epping Forest (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
Or, hatred, strife, and lies in a heterogeneous form - nahhh...couldn't be!
- The Battle of Epping Forest (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title, lyric as summary (riff)
- Wicked: What Is This Feeling? (song) - Stephen Schwartz | filename/caption pull
sleep...won't you allow yourself fall?
- Ripples (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | lyric as title, lyrics as chapter titles
Id growls. "Why should I assume that you're any different?"
Bart grins. "Because I am."
- Camino Royale (song) - Steve Hackett | lyric as title
Nah, I'm only kidding. You can have anything you like.
- The Coffee Song (song) - Frank Sinatra | lyric as title
You know the drill. Has life again destroyed life?
- Watcher of the Skies (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title, lyric in summary
Together we stand, divided we fall...
- Hey You (song) - Pink Floyd | lyric as title, lyric as summary
Would you care to dance?
No, not even.
Won't you dance with me?
- The Balance of Nature (song) - Dionne Warwick | title as title
It was uncomfortable. It didn't make sense. It was the routine.
- Tonight, Tonight, Tonight (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | lyric as title
Angel, fallen. Demon, risen.
Stand with direction...the world.
- One for the Vine (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
don't surround yourself with yourself
- I've Seen All Good People (Your Move) (song) - Yes | title as title, lyric as summary
Oh, Lora is absolutely fascinating.
- Many Too Many (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as title
please, please, please, open your eyes
- Dreaming While You Sleep (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as title, lyric as summary
"If I'm not your Driver..." Addam starts, clearly leading up to a grand conclusion.
"If you're not my Driver," Minoth repeats, biting the words and then chewing them up into a paste.
- Elsa's Song (song) - The Amazing Devil | lyric as title
do you really want to live forever?
- Living Forever (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | lyric as title, lyric as summary
Mythra has nothing. Nothing at all.
- Third World Man (song) - Steely Dan | lyric as title
Mythra seeks out Minoth instead of Addam, that night. (As ever, perhaps.)
- Mary Shut the Garden Door (song) - Donald Fagen | lyric as title
(maybe not so mild as originally intended)
- Way of the World (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | lyric as title
There they go...
- This Is The Picture (Excellent Birds) (song) - Peter Gabriel | title in title, lyric as summary
Free to flutter in memories of their wasted wings...
- In The Cage (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title, lyric as summary
"Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined."
- Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
- The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us! (song) - Sufjan Stevens | lyric as title
- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (novel) - Ocean Vuong | quote as summary
The feeling is exquisitely simple and extraordinarily clear.
- I Don't Care Anymore (song) - Phil Collins | title as title
Egil and Jin play a simple game. A classic game.
- I've Seen All Good People (Your Move) (song) - Yes | title as title
And the stupid face, the glasses, and the gun!
It's clear enough what this is about, isn't it?
- The Goodbye Look (song) - Donald Fagen | title as title, lyric as summary
They're lost, and they're not even at sea.
- In Too Deep (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as title
I happen to think that there's, oh, everything in it.
- The Book of Love (song) - Peter Gabriel | title as title, lyrics as chapters
Someone says he's Jesus Christ - but I don't care.
- Happy the Man (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as title, lyric as summary
Was I wrong? I know why...
- Please Don't Ask (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as title
Do you know what you have done?
- Domino (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as title (riff), lyrics as chapter titles
I'm one of many, I speak for the rest, but I don't understand...
Minoth spends some time rattling around the ideology of the incipient Org Torna.
- Man of Our Times (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | lyric as title, lyric in summary
"He said it was hell, living here."
"What, in Torna?"
- Mad Man Moon (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | lyric as title
Jin gathers himself after the calamity.
- Stagnation (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title, lyrics as chapter titles
Ooh, I'm just a busy bee, still alive in my hive...
- Say It's Alright Joe (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | lyric as title, lyric as summary
Sometimes hurt people hurt people, and sometimes they heal other hurt people instead.
- Harlequin (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as title
Once there was a way to get back homeward...
- Golden Slumbers (song) - The Beatles | title as title, lyric as summary
Sometimes I have to do what I have to do.
- The Broadway Melody of 1974 (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as title
NO COMPUTER STANDS IN MY WAY !
It's still Jin. It's always Jin.
- Karn Evil Nine (suite) - Emerson, Lake and Palmer | movements as chapters
Constrained to structured, sophisticated, over-socialized haunts, one cannot hope to comprehend all of what really makes up a life.
- For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her (song) - Simon and Garfunkel | title in summary (riff)
Akhos is a player who likes to get what he wants. And, if that doesn't work out...well, he'll always stay to watch the fireworks just the same.
- The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as title
- Dodo/Lurker (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title/lyric as title (riff), lyrics as chapter titles
What once was lost...still may never be found again.
- Dancing with the Moonlit Knight (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
Back at it again with the universal truths - this time at McDonald's.
- Supper's Ready (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | subtitle as title
No one knows what it's like.
- Behind Blue Eyes (song) - The Who | title as title, lyric as summary
Haze can't catch the fleeting moments; they run by altogether too fast.
- Time in a Bottle (song) - Jim Croce | title as title
Sadly now your thoughts turn to the stars! Where we have gone, you know you never can go.
- Watcher of the Skies (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as title (riff)
- 2992 (song) - MILLENNIUM PARADE | lyric as title
Pongo is lost. He has all but forgotten how to make an alien place a home.
- Home by the Sea (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | lyric as title
It's a little something about saying hello to the monster living under the bed, and a little something about relentlessly re-pasting the glow-up stars to your ceiling.
- The Fountain of Salmacis (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
It's impossible to miss an entire firmament ([de]con)structed in your mind.
- Revolutionary Girl Utena (anime) - Kunihiko Ikuhara | quote as title
How many times can I say I'm sorry?
- Something Happened On The Way To Heaven (song) - Phil Collins | title as title, lyric as summary
From time, the great healer, the machine messiah is born.
Malos brings absolution to the world. Of course he does. It is his destiny.
- Machine Messiah (song) - Yes | title as title, lyric in summary
A collection of "mslash" drabbles, based on Gustav Holst's The Planets.
- The Planets (suite) - Gustav Holst | movements as chapters
With Lora gone, Haze falls to pieces.
- The Waiting Room (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as title
Show me the pattern, one more time.
- Jupiter/Saturn (song) - Jay Cooper | title as title, lyric as summary
There's quite a many different ways to go, now.
- From the Gallows (song) - I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME | title as title
A collection of femslash drabbles, based on Maurice Ravel's Mother Goose Suite.
- Ma mère l'Oye (suite) - Maurice Ravel | movements as chapters
To Jin, the world. For Jin. For Malos.
- Sick of Losing Soulmates (song) - Dodie | title as title
centaur (n) - a mythical creature, half human and half horse, from the Greek kentauros (also ken-tauros, or "piercing bull")
In which Minoth is not such a summarily humanoid Blade.
- Dancing with the Moonlit Knight (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title, lyrics as chapter titles
And, as they say, sugar for my honey, but the description will do quite nicely either way.
- Sweets For My Sweet (song) - The Drifters | title as title, lyric in summary (riff)
They've been away [from each other] for far too long.
- A Trick of The Tail (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | lyric as title
In the capsule, the everlasting tomb, before goodbye, there is hello.
- everything i wanted (song) - Billie Eilish | title as title
...have to find the passage back to the place I was before...
- Hotel California (song) - The Eagles | lyric as title, some footnotes
Addam's too easy. It's quite a change for Minoth.
- Any Major Dude Will Tell You (song) - Steely Dan | title as title
Mythra and Minoth, alone as ever, talk about what it means to be alive.
- listen before i go (song) - Billie Eilish | title as title
It's a simple thing, and it's a sweet thing, and it's something they've learned to call home.
- The Musical Box (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
In the lonely gazebo, high above Ignas, they speak of simple things.
- Supper's Ready (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
Isn't it so good to be optimistic for the future?
- Kamakiriad (album) - Donald Fagen | tracks as chapters
"So."
"So."
"So I've never kissed anyone before."
- The Court of the Crimson King (song) - King Crimson | lyric as title
Fei reflects...again.
- Dancing with the Moonlit Knight (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
There are many ways for a new journey to begin. It took some doing, but this is mine. No comment on whether it should be ours.
- Cooperation, Compulsory : Codependence, Cosigned (poem) - Rose Redacted | quote - "we are nothing if we do not go together"
I'll keep a place for you, somewhere deep inside...
- Hold On My Heart (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as title (riff), lyric in summary
Maybe I'm a lonely man who's in the middle of something that he doesn't really understand.
Addam sneaks back home, just for a bit, and tries to make sense of it all.
- (Maybe) I'm Amazed (song) - Paul McCartney and Wings | title as title, lyric in summary
So much of their quest concerns proximity. It is a wonderful thing, to be close to the truth.
- The Musical Box (song) - Peter Gabriel | lyric as title
Not everyone is happy with the aftermath of the war.
- Dancing with the Moonlit Knight (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
- Ordeals, Mortifying : Ideals, Mollifying (poem) - Rose Redacted | quote - "seen, reached, touched"
There's something special about Mythra, here and now, that catches Jin's attention.
- Dancing with the Moonlit Knight (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
I come to you, defenses down. I trust you; you are not a child.
Or, it's the one where Hugo doesn't die - for real this time.
- Red Rain (song) - Peter Gabriel | title as title, lyrics in summary (riff)
Alvis keeps a big log, out in memory space.
- Big Log (song) - Robert Plant | conceptual reference
In a word, Mira is hostile.
- Dancing with the Moonlit Knight (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
When Lora turns twenty-one, the obvious next acquisition is alcohol. Isn't it?
- Dancing with the Moonlit Knight (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
They say that time is a healer, and now my wounds are not the same. I rang the bell with my heart in my mouth; I had to hear what he'd say.
- No Son of Mine (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as title, lyrics as summary
It was easy. Too easy. And thank the Architect for it.
- Tomorrow's Gonna Be a Brighter Day (song) - Jim Croce | title as title
So you think I'm a tough kid? Is that what you heard? Yeah, well, I like to see some action, and it gets into my blood...
- Back in N.Y.C. (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as title, lyrics as summary
Aletta is all commotion, when they return. The queen, then, just stands back and watches.
- Her Majesty (song) - The Beatles | title as title, lyric quote - "she's a pretty nice girl"
Try as he might, Addam cannot make sense of the pieces he has been left with, in heart and in home, after the Aegis War.
- After The Ordeal (song) - Genesis (Steve Hackett) | title as title
Newness can be a lonely, alienating thing. Or, it can show you quite simply and warmly, so naturally, all you'd been missing.
- Entangled (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | lyric as title
- Over the Rainbow (song) - Judy Garland | lyric as title
Broken people are all too eager to diagnose others as kindred. It's misery loves company, yes, and then something...a little more.
- Owner of a Lonely Heart (song) - Yes | title as title, lyric quote - "you've got to want to succeed"
Just for a moment, let your heart fly...
- I'll Tell The World About You (song) - Joe Walsh | title as title, lyric as summary
Walking in the country doesn't afford one many mirrors. Mythra struggles with their self-image all the same.
- Into the Woods: On the Steps of the Palace (song) - Stephen Sondheim | title in title (riff)
There's a grief that can't be spoken...
- Les Misérables: Empty Chairs at Empty Tables (song) - Claude-Michel Schönberg | title as title, lyric as summary
- Impossible Soul (song) - Sufjan Stevens | title as title, lyric as summary
We used to be so happy. That's all it was.
- Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Walking With You (game) - ACE | title as title
- Cooperation, Compulsory : Codependence, Cosigned (poem) - Rose Redacted | quote - "we are nothing if we do not go together"
Marcher. Voler. Rêver.
- Los Endos (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | lyric as title (translation)
Everything changes. Everything stays the same.
- Firth of Fifth (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
It is dark. It is not cold.
- Scarborough Fair / Canticle (song) - Simon and Garfunkel | filename pull, title as title
The grief of a man who has failed hardly deserves our sympathy. But doesn't Addam?
- Natasha, Pierre, and The Great Comet of 1812: Charming (song) - Dave Malloy | title as title (riff)
- Cooperation, Compulsory : Codependence, Cosigned (poem) - Rose Redacted | quote - "we are nothing if we do not go together"
telling me the danger's past, i need not fear the icy blast again
- Down and Out (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title in title
- Undertow (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title in title, lyric as summary
Someone else, handily enough, finds Haze before the big man does. It's not much, but there is a story to it...
- Epitaph (song) - King Crimson | lyric as title
And to get what you wish, only just for a moment...
Lora and Haze and Addam and Minoth all take a daytrip into the woods.
- Unquiet Slumber for the Sleepers (song) - Genesis (Steve Hackett) | title as title
- Into the Woods: Moments in The Woods (song) - Stephen Sondheim | lyric in summary
It's not life. It's not death. It's just the way it goes.
- And So It Goes (song) - Billy Joel | title as title
She's a little explosion of hope...never turns the lights down low, she can go there if you want to though.
Pyra isn't just warm. No, not just.
- She Burns (song) - Foy Vance | title as title, lyric as summary
You can't fit the span of all emotive possibility into just ten minutes. But you can try - if you have a theme, that is.
- Cooperation, Compulsory : Codependence, Cosigned (poem) - Rose Redacted | quote - "we are nothing if we do not go together"
When the lonely, aging world is your only companion, you've got to look inward, haven't you?
- Dancing with the Moonlit Knight (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
On a clear day, you can see forever. Right?
- On a Clear Day (song) - Robert Goulet | title in summary (riff)
...you can tell me by the way I walk!
- I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyrics as title/summary
All things must come...to an end. Always.
- Blood of Eden (song) - Peter Gabriel | title in title (riff)
I can't forget you...
They stand at the railing, overlooking the sea that is no longer definitively endless but is so definitely boundless, and a reflective silence falls.
- You Wonderful You (song) - Gene Kelly | title as title, lyric as summary
"Grandpa, are you really going to write a play about Mister Vandham?"
Was it even a question?
- Dancing with the Moonlit Knight (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
For a writer, one who thinks of, nay realizes, quite a many words, having everything you pen upon yourself reflect into and onto another is quite vulnerable, is it not?
- The Stranger (song) - Billy Joel | title as title, lyrics as chapter titles
Shhh, it's starting!
- Sleeping with the Television On (song) - Billy Joel | title as title
To think of the immortal chance by which I found you...truly, could I ever?
- Camelot: If Ever I Would Leave You (song) - Robert Goulet | title as title
But I am lost within this half-world...it hardly seems to matter now.
Jin stumbles away from his past, but not quite toward his future.
- The Musical Box (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title, lyrics as chapter titles
Not obsolete just yet, are you? Rather, your story's only just begun.
- Kid Charlemagne (song) - Steely Dan | lyric as title
Careful what you wish for - or what you don't, rather.
- It (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
All that I am is fading. Has faded. And, so, what was I?
- Dancing with the Moonlit Knight (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
There's a lot of things you learn, traveling the world for a year. And, then, there are a lot of things you don't.
- Deacon Blues (song) - Steely Dan | lyric as title
Reyn is just like Gadolt.
No he's not.
- More Today Than Yesterday (song) - Spiral Starecase | lyrics as title
Let there be righteous glory in the name of our fathers,
To find the justice we all seek.
We stand arm in arm, as equals under the Titan's gaze,
Awaiting the peace that shall prevail.
For in that, there is honor.
-- Old Tornan Proverb: The Pillars
- Dancing with the Moonlit Knight (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
- The Pillars (poem) - AngryPurpleFire | quote as summary
They got a name for the winners in the world...I want a name when I lose.
- Deacon Blues (song) - Steely Dan | lyric as title, lyrics as summary
Trust me, won't you? It'll all turn out right eventually.
- Supper's Ready (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
"Hey, Cole, can I ask you something?"
Like Addam, are you? And so that's what it's about.
- Hamilton: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story (song) - Lin-Manuel Miranda | lyric as title
You know, that bodacious cowboy? Standing in the corner? The one with the spangled studs that match your eyes?
- Gaucho (song) - Steely Dan | lyric as title
"You're a human," the dragon groans.
"Is that a bad thing?" the prince asks, brightly.
"I'm not sure. It's never been a good thing before."
"Come now," says the prince, still shining. "Surely there must be something you like about us."
- Starless (song) - King Crimson | lyric as title
A series of character pieces, based on a series of character pieces.
- The Enigma Variations (suite) - Edward Elgar | movements as chapters
Go gentle, when there is a good night. Feel soft at the corners, if you must. No one else will see you that way, anymore.
- More Than Words (song) - Extreme | title as title
It takes a while, for Shulk to wake up.
- Dancing with the Moonlit Knight (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
The obvious composer buries his motives.
- The Light Dies Down On Broadway (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as title
"Prince, don't you...don't you ever get scared that we won't be able to do it?"
- With A Little Luck (song) - Paul McCartney and Wings | lyric as title
'Cause you were wrong and now, the best is yet to come.
- Praying (song) - Kesha | lyric as title (riff)
Jin deals in life. Then again, Jin also deals in death.
- The Dealer (song) - Steve Hackett | title as title
It's dark, in the Praetorium. The moonlight glints emptily on the tiles.
- Dancing with the Moonlit Knight (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
Love, I don't like to see so much pain...
- In Your Eyes (song) - Peter Gabriel | title as title, lyric as summary
In a word, their group is very alive.
- Softly, As I Leave You (song) - Frank Sinatra | title as title
Whatever way our stories end, I know you have rewritten mine by being my friend.
- Wicked: For Good (song) - Stephen Schwartz | title in title (riff)
- Family Snapshot (song) - Peter Gabriel | title as title
Boys will be boys. Blades will be Blades. Aegises will be Aegises. Until they aren't.
- Los Endos (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | spiritual reference
In all ways except physical, I am the trumpets in memento of all organisms.
What does that even mean?
- Memento of All Organisms ~ Memory of Fossil Energy (song) - ZUN | title as title, lyric in summary (riff)
Do not stand at my grave and weep;
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there.
I did not die.
- Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep (poem) - Clare Harner | title as title, lyrics as summary
- Cooperation, Compulsory : Codependence, Cosigned (poem) - Rose Redacted | quote (original) - "we are nothing if we do not go together"
"It's been a few years, since the war."
Keep writing. Nothing out of the ordinary. "Sure it has. You feeling okay?"
- Ripples (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | lyric quote - "portentous hand"
Minoth's tone just wouldn't stop jabbing. "Pretty odd thing, for a Blade, to wake up and find everybody looking at him like he's not the one they wanted."
- Well, Did You Evah? (song) - Cole Porter | lyric quote - "let's drink to your"
Addam and Minoth never talk. They only talk over each other, around each other, through each other. But where are you, when I need you? I can't say I'm lost if you think me so found.
- The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
For Lora, whenever I may find her.
- For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her (song) - Simon and Garfunkel | title as summary (riff)
Yeah, right. As if.
- Yah Mo B There (song) - Michael McDonald | title as title
Mythra hates Brighid so much. So, so much.
Doesn't she?
- Games Without Frontiers (song) - Peter Gabriel | lyric as title
A new side of oneself...you think some interesting thoughts, Minoth.
Oh, Jin, Jin, Jin. Why are you the way that you are?
- Dancing with the Moonlit Knight (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
And in the beating of your heart there is another beating heart.
For whom did Jin's heart beat? To what course, to what rhythm, to what end?
- Man of Our Times (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as title (riff), lyric in summary
- Driving The Last Spike (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | lyric as title
There in the midst of it, so alive and alone, words support like bone. Like...bone.
- Mercy Street (song) - Peter Gabriel | title as title, lyric as summary (riff), lyrics as chapter titles
I greet them with the widest smile, tell them how my life is one big adventure...
- Big Time (song) - Peter Gabriel | title as title, lyrics as summary
To keep in silence I resigned - my friends would think I was a nut.
- Solsbury Hill (song) - Peter Gabriel | lyric as title, lyric as summary, lyric in notes
Tell me, would you...who's got the placebo? Where's my control group? Were we really...prepared for this?
- Supper's Ready (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
Am I allowed to look at her like that?
She means everything to me.
- she (song) - Dodie | title as title, lyrics as summary
Yellow eagle flies out from the sun. Are you watching? Are you waiting? Are you ready?
- San Jacinto (song) - Peter Gabriel | title as title, lyrics in summary (riff)
They called me the reverend when I entered the church unstained...
My employers have changed, but the name has remained...
- The Battle of Epping Forest (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as title, lyrics as summary
When destiny calls you, you must be strong...
- You'll Be In My Heart (song) - Phil Collins | title as title, lyric as summary
- You'll Be In My Heart (song) - Kenny Loggins | title as title, lyric as summary
It's all a metaphor, isn't it? It's all the same.
- Dancing with the Moonlit Knight (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
The Aegis, high and mighty and perfect, snorts. A solar flare bursts out from the sun.
- Blinded by the Light (song) - Manfred Mann | lyric as title
- Ordeals, Mortifying : Ideals, Mollifying (poem) - Rose Redacted | quote (original) - "seen, reached, touched"
Keep calm, bright star. Alignment isn't easy. Homing...homing...you're home.
- Bright Abyss (song) - John Mark McMillan | title as title
Blades get the name of their true Driver imprinted somewhere in the back of their Core. That's not something Amalthus found out; everyone knows it.
- The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (song) - Peter Gabriel | lyric as title
Will the world remember you, when you fall?
- Les Misérables: Drink With Me (song) - Claude-Michel Schönberg | lyric as title
Won't you tell me how you feel?
- Come Talk To Me (song) - Peter Gabriel | title as title, lyric as summary
- The Sirens of Titan (novel) - Kurt Vonnegut | quote in notes
"So you're with him, now?" He addressed it to Jin, but he could just as easily have been talking to Malos.
- The Colony of Slippermen (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
Let me tell you what I wish I'd known, when I was young and dreamed of glory...
- Hamilton: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story (song) - Lin-Manuel Miranda | title as title
"Syrenne, did you know that you are the most beautiful woman I have ever met? Have I ever told you that?"
- The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
"How are you, Shulk?"
How am I. How am I?
- It (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
"Did you want something?" Flora asks, and though she's playful and consenting to the moment she does sound a little nervous. Minoth nods, simplicity in motion, and gestures quietly. "You, if that's alright."
- The Giant's House (novel) - Elizabeth McCracken | quote in notes
- Moominvalley in November (novel) - Tove Jansson | quote in notes
Does earth plug a hole in heaven, or heaven plug a hole in earth? How wonderful to be so profound, when everything you are is dying underground.
- Anyway (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyrics as summary
My distortion shows obsession...
- In The Cage (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as title, lyric as summary (riff)
Stay with me, I need support.
- Digging in the Dirt (song) - Peter Gabriel | title as title, lyric as summary
Lost not to history but to time, the memories will not resurface, not ever, but we can have a look anyway.
- Supper's Ready (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | lyric as title
The bitter harvest of a dying bloom...
- Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as title
Take some time to dwell on dreams. It's only human, you know.
- Hamlet: Act 5, Scene 2 (play) - William Shakespeare | quote as title
- Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone (book) - J.K. Rowling | quote (riff) - "dwell on dreams"
Said one author to the masses, "I come up with new crack ships and convince other people to enjoy them." Said another author to the first, "You're not thinking crazy enough."
- Games Without Frontiers (song) - Peter Gabriel | title as title
Everybody nosedive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap...or something like that.
- Steam (song) - Peter Gabriel | lyric in title, lyrics in summary
Have I come to too soon for you?
- Cuckoo Cocoon (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as title, lyric as summary
Two wrongs don't make a right. Two darks don't make a light.
- Duke's Travels (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | lyric as title
Fox the fox, rat on the rat. You can ape the ape, I know about that.
- Shock the Monkey (song) - Peter Gabriel | title as title, lyric as summary
In more desperate moments, one might quip softly that we very nearly always end as we began. But if we began alone...well, let's just not do that, hmm?
- Solsbury Hill (song) - Peter Gabriel | lyric/link in notes (riff)
You probably think this song is about you, don't you?
- You're So Vain (song) - Carly Simon | title as title
There are only so many union-mandated breaks you can slough off with someone before you realize you'd gladly play another six hours straight for another five minutes with them.
- Candide (suite) - Leonard Bernstein | played throughout
- Duke's Travels (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | sung/discussed (riff)
- Owner of a Lonely Heart (song) - Yes | discussed/sung (riff)
Still waters run deep, and all that.
- Kiss That Frog (song) - Peter Gabriel | title as title
Flames azure and feathers molting, she emerges glorious and unattainable...the Firebird.
- L'Oiseau de Feu (work) - Igor Stravinsky | movements as chapters
"He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'"
- Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus (work) - Ralph Vaughan Williams | motivic reference
So deep, so wide. Will you take me on your back for a ride?
- The Washing of The Water (song) - Peter Gabriel | title as title, lyrics as summary
All things must come...to an end.
- Blood of Eden (song) - Peter Gabriel | title as title
In French, they say "Tu me manques": you are missing from me. It is, indeed, quite a beautiful sentiment - though need the missing always be that of incompletion?
[Xenoship Week 2021 - Day 5: Letters/Journal]
- Set Me as a Seal (song) - René Clausen | title/lyric as title
Sometimes you're just left waiting a long, long time for someone to really, truly call you their own. [posted 2021-06-25 through 2021-08-06]
- Squonk (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Blood on the Rooftops (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Carpet Crawlers (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Turn It On Again (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- A Trick of The Tail (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- That's All (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Am I Very Wrong? (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Eleventh Earl of Mar (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Dancing with the Moonlit Knight (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Stagnation (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Aisle of Plenty (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Firth of Fifth (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Deep in the Motherlode (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Get 'Em Out By Friday (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Dance on a Volcano (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- The Lamia (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- One for the Vine (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Can-Utility and the Coastliners (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Home by the Sea (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Abacab (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- The Cinema Show (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Watcher of the Skies (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Camino Royale (song) - Steve Hackett | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- All in a Mouse's Night (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Fly on a Windshield (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Los Endos (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Mad Man Moon (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- No Reply At All (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Snowbound (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Entangled (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- The Chamber of 32 Doors (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- More Fool Me (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- The Musical Box (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Supper's Ready (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- The Battle of Epping Forest (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Heathaze (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Duke's Travels (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- The Fountain of Salmacis (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Follow You Follow Me (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Spectral Mornings (song) - Steve Hackett | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Shadow of the Hierophant (song) - Steve Hackett | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Robbery, Assault and Battery (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Burning Rope (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Tonight, Tonight, Tonight (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Where the Sour Turns to Sweet (song) - Genesis (Peter Gabriel) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Your Own Special Way (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Afterglow (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- Ripples (song) - Genesis (Phil Collins) | title as chapter title, lyric as chapter summary
- First Contact, Communion (poem) - Julian K. Jarboe | quote in notes (ch03)
- Stanzas, Sexes, Seductions (poem) - Anne Carson | quote in notes (ch06)
- Preach (poem) - Styn Van Meenen | quote in notes (ch07)
- The Stick-Together Families (poem) - Edgar Guest | quote in notes (ch14)
- Wild Geese (poem) - Mary Oliver | quote in notes (ch16)
- The Joy of Writing (poem) - Wisława Szymborska | quote in notes (ch20)
- The Little Prince (novel) - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | quote in notes (ch23)
- Holiday Inn: Be Careful, It's My Heart (song) - Irving Berlin | lyric quote in notes (ch28)
- The Rubáiyát (poem) - Omar Khayyám | quote in notes (ch29)
- Soul Mates (poem) - Rusty Berkus | quote in notes (ch38)
- Speech Time (poem) - Hera Lindsay Bird | quote in notes (ch44)
- Here Am I (poem) - Anis Mojgani | quote in notes (ch46)
- i carry your heart with me(i carry it in) (poem) - E.E. Cummings | quote in notes (ch48)
- Welcome to Night Vale (play) - Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor | quote in notes (ch49)
- Dandelions (post) - headspace-hotel | quote in notes (ch50)
- Romeo and Juliet: Act 2, Scene 2 (play) - William Shakespeare | title as scene title
- Mes Emmerdes (song) - Charles Aznavour | sung quasi-diegetically
social security (took care of this lad)
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Video Game) ¦ G ¦ NAW ¦ M/M ¦ for minorthirds ¦ 299 words ¦ 2023-05-08 ¦ Express Shipping ¦ AO3
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