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Mystical Mechanistics Of Outrageous Fortune [Dieselpunk Mechagirl Yuri Quest] (Reboot)
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In Which I Ramble Pointlessly About Music (Or, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things)
ColdGoldLazarus
Contrary Quester, Spreadsheet Queen, Pink Flamingo
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Do you like music? I like music. I haven't the foggiest clue how music works, but I really like music.
In fact, I'm one of those obnoxious sorts of writers who will listen to a song and more often than not, instantly connect the song to at least one of the ongoing writing projects I've been thinking about, even if at first glance it doesn't seem to have much to do with the project at all. And generally I tend to compile whole playlists worth on youtube connecting to my various projects. (And sometimes I make ones for my friends' ideas, too, because screw it.) And then struggle to resist the urge to foist those playlists on anyone who expresses even the most remote bit of interest in the associated story, even if it risks some variety of spoilers.
I don't want to spoil y'all, but I am certainly in the mood for some music-foisting tonight, so here's a few specific selections from the already-way-too-dang-long playlist I have connected to this particular project, and my braindead-at-three-AM rambling about their dubious relevance. Feel free to ignore at will, but you may find something to like here, or at least it should hopefully give a better idea of what to expect from this whole impending trainwreck.
A song I just really like in general, (Even if most Rush fans would rather forget it and the entire album it's from) this is one I actually mentally associate with a few different projects, including my original novel that's been sitting on the backburner for frankly waaaay too long now. However, the connection the song has with this quest is on another level, having been a significant contributing factor to shaping my early ideas on it from the initial concept to what it looks like today. It has lingering influence in the overall tone of the war end of the plot, and in a somewhat indirect way has helped inform some of the character dynamics you'll run into down the line. Basically, if MMoOF was a show or something (instead of an overblown semi-interactive work of amateur fiction in some obscure corner of the internet, written by a hopelessly thirsty girl with way too much understanding of the tropes associated with one end of the plot and not nearly enough with the other end (and so instead opting to get by through a mixture of begging advice from more military-minded friends and taking unhealthy amounts (and by unhealthy amounts I of course mean any amount) of inspiration from Michael Bay action scenes)) I'd absolutely want this to be the title theme.
Of course, I'd want this to be the title theme for a wishfully imagined series adaptation of the aforementioned unwritten/vaporware novel, too, so maybe the takeaway here is that I just love this song way too fucking much.
For something far more painfully on-the-nose than the last selection, here's a love song about mechs. (It also comprises pretty much a full quarter of my pitiful knowledge base of the Mecha genre.) Even if the more electronica style of it doesn't quite mesh with the whole awkwardly forced-yet-halfassed dieselpunk elements of this setting, the lyrics pretty well describe potential scenarios down the road. I first listened to it years before coming up with the first inklings of this quest, but upon rediscovering the artist afterward, it didn't even take a full listen for me to impulsively shove it onto the playlist. Again, it's a love song about mechs. For a premise as stupidly niche as this is, it doesn't get much more fitting than that.
4ikai is an interesting artist, in that they're a side-project by the same musician behind She and Imagery By Sound, artists I've previously obnoxiously shilled all over this site. It's the same person doing all the same things for all three, so on some level I have to wonder what the point even is, but in the case of 4ikai it's actually justified by the stark difference in tone and style between the songs released under this label, and the ones released under the other two. Why She and Imagery by Sound are distinct entities from one another, however, I still don't understand; but at this point the digression is getting a little too off-topic even by my standards, soooo let's roll it back a bit, shall we?
Frankly, half of 4ikai's (admittedly still small) selection of songs are in the MMoOF playlist, and contribute a fair amount to its overall bulk. (The half that aren't here are instead in my Waves Of Change ancilliary playlist, but that's another story entirely. Literally.) This one in particular isn't even the top piece, or the first one I'd point to in relation to this quest, but it won out because A: All the others are connected to pretty specific ideas; locations, characters, moments, etc. and B: Because frankly 4ikai's style is so maddeningly consistent that there isn't much difference between choosing this one over one of the others.
At any rate, the point is that I think it does a pretty solid job of describing the more relaxed side of things, and the overall tone of life in Mzendzyovka. In a way I'd say it's a more important piece than the above two, in that regard.
This song is a far far more recent discovery than the other three, (as in, about a week or so before I even posted this thread) but it seems to be a reasonably decent fit for the sort of shenanigans that await on the Social end of things. I mean, what can I say, it's a fun listen.
There are of course a significant number of songs that differ greatly from these four, with some particular genre flavors being associated with specific cities in the valley, and quite a few headbangers awaiting an appropriately over-the-top battle scene written with a dubious grasp on physics or tactics or any of the other things that make a battle scene work, but hopefully this is at least a pretty decent tonal baseline. Or at least, I hope you like the songs? I don't even know what I was aiming for in writing all this up here, but hey, no point in deleting it now. (Well there is a point in that it would spare me the embarrassment of waking up to find that I'd posted this for all to see, but my dignity's been nonexistent for ages now, so this is a drop in the bucket.)
Enjoy!
In fact, I'm one of those obnoxious sorts of writers who will listen to a song and more often than not, instantly connect the song to at least one of the ongoing writing projects I've been thinking about, even if at first glance it doesn't seem to have much to do with the project at all. And generally I tend to compile whole playlists worth on youtube connecting to my various projects. (And sometimes I make ones for my friends' ideas, too, because screw it.) And then struggle to resist the urge to foist those playlists on anyone who expresses even the most remote bit of interest in the associated story, even if it risks some variety of spoilers.
I don't want to spoil y'all, but I am certainly in the mood for some music-foisting tonight, so here's a few specific selections from the already-way-too-dang-long playlist I have connected to this particular project, and my braindead-at-three-AM rambling about their dubious relevance. Feel free to ignore at will, but you may find something to like here, or at least it should hopefully give a better idea of what to expect from this whole impending trainwreck.
A song I just really like in general, (Even if most Rush fans would rather forget it and the entire album it's from) this is one I actually mentally associate with a few different projects, including my original novel that's been sitting on the backburner for frankly waaaay too long now. However, the connection the song has with this quest is on another level, having been a significant contributing factor to shaping my early ideas on it from the initial concept to what it looks like today. It has lingering influence in the overall tone of the war end of the plot, and in a somewhat indirect way has helped inform some of the character dynamics you'll run into down the line. Basically, if MMoOF was a show or something (instead of an overblown semi-interactive work of amateur fiction in some obscure corner of the internet, written by a hopelessly thirsty girl with way too much understanding of the tropes associated with one end of the plot and not nearly enough with the other end (and so instead opting to get by through a mixture of begging advice from more military-minded friends and taking unhealthy amounts (and by unhealthy amounts I of course mean any amount) of inspiration from Michael Bay action scenes)) I'd absolutely want this to be the title theme.
Of course, I'd want this to be the title theme for a wishfully imagined series adaptation of the aforementioned unwritten/vaporware novel, too, so maybe the takeaway here is that I just love this song way too fucking much.
For something far more painfully on-the-nose than the last selection, here's a love song about mechs. (It also comprises pretty much a full quarter of my pitiful knowledge base of the Mecha genre.) Even if the more electronica style of it doesn't quite mesh with the whole awkwardly forced-yet-halfassed dieselpunk elements of this setting, the lyrics pretty well describe potential scenarios down the road. I first listened to it years before coming up with the first inklings of this quest, but upon rediscovering the artist afterward, it didn't even take a full listen for me to impulsively shove it onto the playlist. Again, it's a love song about mechs. For a premise as stupidly niche as this is, it doesn't get much more fitting than that.
4ikai is an interesting artist, in that they're a side-project by the same musician behind She and Imagery By Sound, artists I've previously obnoxiously shilled all over this site. It's the same person doing all the same things for all three, so on some level I have to wonder what the point even is, but in the case of 4ikai it's actually justified by the stark difference in tone and style between the songs released under this label, and the ones released under the other two. Why She and Imagery by Sound are distinct entities from one another, however, I still don't understand; but at this point the digression is getting a little too off-topic even by my standards, soooo let's roll it back a bit, shall we?
Frankly, half of 4ikai's (admittedly still small) selection of songs are in the MMoOF playlist, and contribute a fair amount to its overall bulk. (The half that aren't here are instead in my Waves Of Change ancilliary playlist, but that's another story entirely. Literally.) This one in particular isn't even the top piece, or the first one I'd point to in relation to this quest, but it won out because A: All the others are connected to pretty specific ideas; locations, characters, moments, etc. and B: Because frankly 4ikai's style is so maddeningly consistent that there isn't much difference between choosing this one over one of the others.
At any rate, the point is that I think it does a pretty solid job of describing the more relaxed side of things, and the overall tone of life in Mzendzyovka. In a way I'd say it's a more important piece than the above two, in that regard.
This song is a far far more recent discovery than the other three, (as in, about a week or so before I even posted this thread) but it seems to be a reasonably decent fit for the sort of shenanigans that await on the Social end of things. I mean, what can I say, it's a fun listen.
There are of course a significant number of songs that differ greatly from these four, with some particular genre flavors being associated with specific cities in the valley, and quite a few headbangers awaiting an appropriately over-the-top battle scene written with a dubious grasp on physics or tactics or any of the other things that make a battle scene work, but hopefully this is at least a pretty decent tonal baseline. Or at least, I hope you like the songs? I don't even know what I was aiming for in writing all this up here, but hey, no point in deleting it now. (Well there is a point in that it would spare me the embarrassment of waking up to find that I'd posted this for all to see, but my dignity's been nonexistent for ages now, so this is a drop in the bucket.)
Enjoy!
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Alexandra
ColdGoldLazarus
Contrary Quester, Spreadsheet Queen, Pink Flamingo
- Location
- Challenger Deep
- Pronouns
- She/Her
A proper piece of Alexandra art that a friend of mine did a few months back!