Brainstorming post: 2016

[morbane]

As nominations will begin in approximately 4 days, this post is a place to bounce ideas around, gauge interest for your preferred songs & music videos & other pieces, and decide what to nominate.

You have 8 nominations this year. This and other rule updates are on AO3.

This post is also on LiveJournal - check the comments there as well.

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[deep_dark_waters]

Mostly gonna be recycling requests from previous rounds, I think:

Book Smart, Street Stupid - Sarah Slean: Lyrics | Youtube

This always made me think of a university student finding her way at a time when not many women were able to attend. Not sure about prompts yet (other than historical) but I love the feel of it.

Cassandra - ABBA: Lyrics | YouTube

It's about Cassandra of Troy, but I've always wanted a modern day/future apocalyptic sort of take on her - trying to warn people about some impending doom and not being believed.

Circus - Tom Waits: Lyrics | YouTube

Vivid ensemble cast with a ton of tiny backstory snippets to expand. "There was Yodelling Elaine, the queen of the air, who wore a dollar sign medallion, and she had a tiny bubble of spittle around her nostril, and a little rusty tear for she had lassoed and lost another tipsy sailor" <3

Small Town Dracula - Hawksley Workman (video): Lyrics | YouTube

I already loved the song but was so ridiculously charmed by the video. Weary vampire dad or grandad and overexcitable tiny vampire child.

The Traitor - Martha Wainwright: Lyrics | YouTube

Favourite Cohen cover. With a woman singing, it makes me want some kind of historical/fantasy wartime melancholy f/f love epic...

When the End of the World Came - The Jane Austen Argument: Lyrics | Youtube

"When the end of the world came it passed like an awkward remark" is just about my favourite opening lyric to a song ever <3

Still dithering on the others. Definitely some Bowie but I have to choose one from a ridiculously long list (probably Cygnet Committee or Memory of a Free Festival or something from Outside). Also maybe one of Rufus Wainwright's fairytale type songs, either Evil Angel or The Consort.

[morbane]

Yessss, I'm glad to see The Traitor again.