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jukebox_festYour assignment is due in ~6 hours, or according to this countdown.
There are two new pinch hits. Please email jukebox.mod@gmail.com or reply in a comment (please include your AO3 name and your email) to claim them:
Pinch hit #8
Request 1 by ExtraPenguin
Automatic - Amaranthe (Song)
Fanfic
DNW: Dystopias of any stripe – I want lightish shades of grey currently, character death, humiliation, embarrassment, incest, pregnancy/children/motherhood, violence to fingers or eyes, noncanonical permanent disability or the acquiring of such, animal harm (especially negative outcomes for horses), sexism, homophobia, racism, etc and narratives built solely around them, religion, especially real-world religions, plots based entirely on miscommunication, pure introspection/character study/slice of life or angst
See my letter for prompts.
Letter: http://extrapenguin.dreamwidth.org/68425.html
Request 2 by ExtraPenguin
Dangerous - Within Temptation (Song)
Fanfic
DNW: Dystopias of any stripe – I want lightish shades of grey currently, character death, humiliation, embarrassment, incest, pregnancy/children/motherhood, violence to fingers or eyes, noncanonical permanent disability or the acquiring of such, animal harm (especially negative outcomes for horses), sexism, homophobia, racism, etc and narratives built solely around them, religion, especially real-world religions, plots based entirely on miscommunication, pure introspection/character study/slice of life or angst
See my letter for prompts.
Letter: http://extrapenguin.dreamwidth.org/68425.html
Request 3 by ExtraPenguin
Endless Forms Most Beautiful - Nightwish (Song)
Fanfic
DNW: Dystopias of any stripe – I want lightish shades of grey currently, character death, humiliation, embarrassment, incest, pregnancy/children/motherhood, violence to fingers or eyes, noncanonical permanent disability or the acquiring of such, animal harm (especially negative outcomes for horses), sexism, homophobia, racism, etc and narratives built solely around them, religion, especially real-world religions, plots based entirely on miscommunication, pure introspection/character study/slice of life or angst
See my letter for prompts.
Letter: http://extrapenguin.dreamwidth.org/68425.html
Request 4 by ExtraPenguin
Let It Roar - Battle Beast (Song)
Fanfic
DNW: Dystopias of any stripe – I want lightish shades of grey currently, character death, humiliation, embarrassment, incest, pregnancy/children/motherhood, violence to fingers or eyes, noncanonical permanent disability or the acquiring of such, animal harm (especially negative outcomes for horses), sexism, homophobia, racism, etc and narratives built solely around them, religion, especially real-world religions, plots based entirely on miscommunication, pure introspection/character study/slice of life or angst
See my letter for prompts.
Letter: http://extrapenguin.dreamwidth.org/68425.html
Request 5 by ExtraPenguin
Sonne - Rammstein (Song)
Fanfic
DNW: Dystopias of any stripe – I want lightish shades of grey currently, character death, humiliation, embarrassment, incest, pregnancy/children/motherhood, violence to fingers or eyes, noncanonical permanent disability or the acquiring of such, animal harm (especially negative outcomes for horses), sexism, homophobia, racism, etc and narratives built solely around them, religion, especially real-world religions, plots based entirely on miscommunication, pure introspection/character study/slice of life or angst
See my letter for prompts.
Letter: http://extrapenguin.dreamwidth.org/68425.html
Request 6 by ExtraPenguin
Stand My Ground - Stratovarius (Song)
Fanfic
DNW: Dystopias of any stripe – I want lightish shades of grey currently, character death, humiliation, embarrassment, incest, pregnancy/children/motherhood, violence to fingers or eyes, noncanonical permanent disability or the acquiring of such, animal harm (especially negative outcomes for horses), sexism, homophobia, racism, etc and narratives built solely around them, religion, especially real-world religions, plots based entirely on miscommunication, pure introspection/character study/slice of life or angst
See my letter for prompts.
Letter: http://extrapenguin.dreamwidth.org/68425.html
Request 7 by ExtraPenguin
Storm the Sorrow - Epica (Song)
Fanfic
DNW: Dystopias of any stripe – I want lightish shades of grey currently, character death, humiliation, embarrassment, incest, pregnancy/children/motherhood, violence to fingers or eyes, noncanonical permanent disability or the acquiring of such, animal harm (especially negative outcomes for horses), sexism, homophobia, racism, etc and narratives built solely around them, religion, especially real-world religions, plots based entirely on miscommunication, pure introspection/character study/slice of life or angst
See my letter for prompts.
Letter: http://extrapenguin.dreamwidth.org/68425.html
Pinch hit #9
Request 1 by AlexSeanchai (EllieMurasaki)
Athena - CircusP & CrusherP (Song)
Fanart, Fanfic
Athena is the Goddess I pay most attention to. This song encapsulates a lot of who She is, but also it's about Her giving instructions—marching orders, perhaps—to a listener. Tell me about the listener: who is she, what is she doing, what does Athena need her to be doing instead? Does "release the goddess inside you" imply that the listener might undergo apotheosis, becoming a Deity herself as Ariadne and Heracles did?
Letter: http://alexseanchai.dreamwidth.org/1632024.html
Request 2 by AlexSeanchai (EllieMurasaki)
Tomb of the King - Damh the Bard (Song)
Fanfic
Stories forgotten. Magic destroyed. And in the end, what gain, and to whom?
Letter: http://alexseanchai.dreamwidth.org/1632024.html
Request 3 by AlexSeanchai (EllieMurasaki)
Mary Mary - SJ Tucker (Song)
Fanfic
Mary mother of Jesus had a hard life to live. Tell me about that.
Alternately: "slivers of the goddess that they never let us see" is the line that most strikes me in this song. In a polytheistic world, where apotheosis is not unheard of (and may well be how Mary's mortal son got to be a god in the first place), who was Mary, and who did she become?
(Bonus points if you cross this over with Arcade Fire's "Abraham's Daughter".)
Letter: http://alexseanchai.dreamwidth.org/1632024.html
Request 4 by AlexSeanchai (EllieMurasaki)
Wild Maiden - Kellianna (Song)
Fanart, Fanfic, Podfic
Who is the Wild Maiden, and who are her dancers?
(This request is tagged Podfic because, while ordinarily I'm not much for podfic, I'm hoping for a fill that has music in. If you're not podficly inclined, though, no worries at all.)
Letter: http://alexseanchai.dreamwidth.org/1632024.html
Request 5 by AlexSeanchai (EllieMurasaki)
Woman of the Earth - Spiral Dance (Song)
Fanart, Fanfic, Podfic
Divination and dancing and being out in the elements with the wild forces of nature. Feel the magic! Feel the music! The "rhythm of the land" and the "spiral dance" and the "songs that the old ones sang".
(This request is tagged Podfic because, while ordinarily I'm not much for podfic, I'm hoping for a fill that has music in. If you're not podficly inclined, though, no worries at all.)
Letter: http://alexseanchai.dreamwidth.org/1632024.html
Request 6 by AlexSeanchai (EllieMurasaki)
Mother of the Crows - Seanan McGuire (Song)
Fanfic
This is such a perfectly polytheistic song, even though I know nothing of McGuire's religious beliefs and, to the best of my knowledge, the Mother of the Crows is McGuire's invention. How does that polytheism play out in the singer's life? What festivals does she celebrate for the Mother of the Crows? What does she do at regular intervals to honor Her, to make offerings to Her, to ask Her blessings? Who else does she worship, and what stories exist about the Mother of the Crows and the others of Her pantheon?
Letter: http://alexseanchai.dreamwidth.org/1632024.html
Request 7 by AlexSeanchai (EllieMurasaki)
Earthquake Weather - Seanan McGuire (Song)
Fanart, Fanfic
Tell the story of the particular lines I quote in my letter. Weave in other elements of the lyrics if you can.
Letter: http://alexseanchai.dreamwidth.org/1632024.html
Request 8 by AlexSeanchai (EllieMurasaki)
Out of the Woods - Taylor Swift (Music Video)
Fanfic
This seems like it's set in a land of magic, doesn't it? The trees growing from the sand and the earth as she walks by. The ethereal nature of that bright blue gown against the shadowed forest, against the snow. Falling through the sea into the desert and then the snowy forest, still damp with saltwater. The wolves that chased her earlier now standing tamely beside her.
The lightning is a particularly striking visual, as is the forest on fire. And the final moment, when the her who has been through all this touches the shoulder of the her who isn't visibly marked by these experiences.
"I remember" is a repeated line. What is the significance of her memory?
"She lost him, but she found herself, and somehow that was everything."
Letter: http://alexseanchai.dreamwidth.org/1632024.html
Request 9 by AlexSeanchai (EllieMurasaki)
Which Witch - Florence + the Machine (Song)
Fanfic
The imagery is obviously a witch trial and witch burning, akin to those spoken of in Spiral Dance's "Burning Times". The oft-cited (certainly Spiral Dance cites it) statistic, which let me just point out is false, is that nine million European women died.
So. What did this woman do to be deemed a witch in need of burning? Is she really a witch to begin with?
Looking at the "never to return / but I never learn" and "say I won't return / but I never learn" lines: is reincarnation in play?
("We are the granddaughters of the witches you didn't burn" and "They tried to bury us; they didn't know we were seeds" and etc.)
If you want to play with the "nine million" story, what else is going on in this world that's resulting in nine million such women's deaths over the course of a couple centuries? (That's tens of thousands of witch burnings a year.)
Letter: http://alexseanchai.dreamwidth.org/1632024.html
Request 10 by AlexSeanchai (EllieMurasaki)
Dance in the Circle - Heather Alexander (Song)
Fanart, Fanfic
What are faerie promises worth? Faerie treasures, faerie rewards, faerie wisdom?
Letter: http://alexseanchai.dreamwidth.org/1632024.html
Pinch hits #5 and up are due at 11:59pm EDT Thursday 1 June. (Countdown).
Treats can be posted freely until reveals (collection will then be set to moderated).
There are two new pinch hits. Please email jukebox.mod@gmail.com or reply in a comment (please include your AO3 name and your email) to claim them:
Request 1 by ExtraPenguin
Automatic - Amaranthe (Song)
Fanfic
DNW: Dystopias of any stripe – I want lightish shades of grey currently, character death, humiliation, embarrassment, incest, pregnancy/children/motherhood, violence to fingers or eyes, noncanonical permanent disability or the acquiring of such, animal harm (especially negative outcomes for horses), sexism, homophobia, racism, etc and narratives built solely around them, religion, especially real-world religions, plots based entirely on miscommunication, pure introspection/character study/slice of life or angst
See my letter for prompts.
Letter: http://extrapenguin.dreamwidth.org/68425.html
Request 2 by ExtraPenguin
Dangerous - Within Temptation (Song)
Fanfic
DNW: Dystopias of any stripe – I want lightish shades of grey currently, character death, humiliation, embarrassment, incest, pregnancy/children/motherhood, violence to fingers or eyes, noncanonical permanent disability or the acquiring of such, animal harm (especially negative outcomes for horses), sexism, homophobia, racism, etc and narratives built solely around them, religion, especially real-world religions, plots based entirely on miscommunication, pure introspection/character study/slice of life or angst
See my letter for prompts.
Letter: http://extrapenguin.dreamwidth.org/68425.html
Request 3 by ExtraPenguin
Endless Forms Most Beautiful - Nightwish (Song)
Fanfic
DNW: Dystopias of any stripe – I want lightish shades of grey currently, character death, humiliation, embarrassment, incest, pregnancy/children/motherhood, violence to fingers or eyes, noncanonical permanent disability or the acquiring of such, animal harm (especially negative outcomes for horses), sexism, homophobia, racism, etc and narratives built solely around them, religion, especially real-world religions, plots based entirely on miscommunication, pure introspection/character study/slice of life or angst
See my letter for prompts.
Letter: http://extrapenguin.dreamwidth.org/68425.html
Request 4 by ExtraPenguin
Let It Roar - Battle Beast (Song)
Fanfic
DNW: Dystopias of any stripe – I want lightish shades of grey currently, character death, humiliation, embarrassment, incest, pregnancy/children/motherhood, violence to fingers or eyes, noncanonical permanent disability or the acquiring of such, animal harm (especially negative outcomes for horses), sexism, homophobia, racism, etc and narratives built solely around them, religion, especially real-world religions, plots based entirely on miscommunication, pure introspection/character study/slice of life or angst
See my letter for prompts.
Letter: http://extrapenguin.dreamwidth.org/68425.html
Request 5 by ExtraPenguin
Sonne - Rammstein (Song)
Fanfic
DNW: Dystopias of any stripe – I want lightish shades of grey currently, character death, humiliation, embarrassment, incest, pregnancy/children/motherhood, violence to fingers or eyes, noncanonical permanent disability or the acquiring of such, animal harm (especially negative outcomes for horses), sexism, homophobia, racism, etc and narratives built solely around them, religion, especially real-world religions, plots based entirely on miscommunication, pure introspection/character study/slice of life or angst
See my letter for prompts.
Letter: http://extrapenguin.dreamwidth.org/68425.html
Request 6 by ExtraPenguin
Stand My Ground - Stratovarius (Song)
Fanfic
DNW: Dystopias of any stripe – I want lightish shades of grey currently, character death, humiliation, embarrassment, incest, pregnancy/children/motherhood, violence to fingers or eyes, noncanonical permanent disability or the acquiring of such, animal harm (especially negative outcomes for horses), sexism, homophobia, racism, etc and narratives built solely around them, religion, especially real-world religions, plots based entirely on miscommunication, pure introspection/character study/slice of life or angst
See my letter for prompts.
Letter: http://extrapenguin.dreamwidth.org/68425.html
Request 7 by ExtraPenguin
Storm the Sorrow - Epica (Song)
Fanfic
DNW: Dystopias of any stripe – I want lightish shades of grey currently, character death, humiliation, embarrassment, incest, pregnancy/children/motherhood, violence to fingers or eyes, noncanonical permanent disability or the acquiring of such, animal harm (especially negative outcomes for horses), sexism, homophobia, racism, etc and narratives built solely around them, religion, especially real-world religions, plots based entirely on miscommunication, pure introspection/character study/slice of life or angst
See my letter for prompts.
Letter: http://extrapenguin.dreamwidth.org/68425.html
Request 1 by AlexSeanchai (EllieMurasaki)
Athena - CircusP & CrusherP (Song)
Fanart, Fanfic
Athena is the Goddess I pay most attention to. This song encapsulates a lot of who She is, but also it's about Her giving instructions—marching orders, perhaps—to a listener. Tell me about the listener: who is she, what is she doing, what does Athena need her to be doing instead? Does "release the goddess inside you" imply that the listener might undergo apotheosis, becoming a Deity herself as Ariadne and Heracles did?
Letter: http://alexseanchai.dreamwidth.org/1632024.html
Request 2 by AlexSeanchai (EllieMurasaki)
Tomb of the King - Damh the Bard (Song)
Fanfic
Stories forgotten. Magic destroyed. And in the end, what gain, and to whom?
Letter: http://alexseanchai.dreamwidth.org/1632024.html
Request 3 by AlexSeanchai (EllieMurasaki)
Mary Mary - SJ Tucker (Song)
Fanfic
Mary mother of Jesus had a hard life to live. Tell me about that.
Alternately: "slivers of the goddess that they never let us see" is the line that most strikes me in this song. In a polytheistic world, where apotheosis is not unheard of (and may well be how Mary's mortal son got to be a god in the first place), who was Mary, and who did she become?
(Bonus points if you cross this over with Arcade Fire's "Abraham's Daughter".)
Letter: http://alexseanchai.dreamwidth.org/1632024.html
Request 4 by AlexSeanchai (EllieMurasaki)
Wild Maiden - Kellianna (Song)
Fanart, Fanfic, Podfic
Who is the Wild Maiden, and who are her dancers?
(This request is tagged Podfic because, while ordinarily I'm not much for podfic, I'm hoping for a fill that has music in. If you're not podficly inclined, though, no worries at all.)
Letter: http://alexseanchai.dreamwidth.org/1632024.html
Request 5 by AlexSeanchai (EllieMurasaki)
Woman of the Earth - Spiral Dance (Song)
Fanart, Fanfic, Podfic
Divination and dancing and being out in the elements with the wild forces of nature. Feel the magic! Feel the music! The "rhythm of the land" and the "spiral dance" and the "songs that the old ones sang".
(This request is tagged Podfic because, while ordinarily I'm not much for podfic, I'm hoping for a fill that has music in. If you're not podficly inclined, though, no worries at all.)
Letter: http://alexseanchai.dreamwidth.org/1632024.html
Request 6 by AlexSeanchai (EllieMurasaki)
Mother of the Crows - Seanan McGuire (Song)
Fanfic
This is such a perfectly polytheistic song, even though I know nothing of McGuire's religious beliefs and, to the best of my knowledge, the Mother of the Crows is McGuire's invention. How does that polytheism play out in the singer's life? What festivals does she celebrate for the Mother of the Crows? What does she do at regular intervals to honor Her, to make offerings to Her, to ask Her blessings? Who else does she worship, and what stories exist about the Mother of the Crows and the others of Her pantheon?
Letter: http://alexseanchai.dreamwidth.org/1632024.html
Request 7 by AlexSeanchai (EllieMurasaki)
Earthquake Weather - Seanan McGuire (Song)
Fanart, Fanfic
Tell the story of the particular lines I quote in my letter. Weave in other elements of the lyrics if you can.
Letter: http://alexseanchai.dreamwidth.org/1632024.html
Request 8 by AlexSeanchai (EllieMurasaki)
Out of the Woods - Taylor Swift (Music Video)
Fanfic
This seems like it's set in a land of magic, doesn't it? The trees growing from the sand and the earth as she walks by. The ethereal nature of that bright blue gown against the shadowed forest, against the snow. Falling through the sea into the desert and then the snowy forest, still damp with saltwater. The wolves that chased her earlier now standing tamely beside her.
The lightning is a particularly striking visual, as is the forest on fire. And the final moment, when the her who has been through all this touches the shoulder of the her who isn't visibly marked by these experiences.
"I remember" is a repeated line. What is the significance of her memory?
"She lost him, but she found herself, and somehow that was everything."
Letter: http://alexseanchai.dreamwidth.org/1632024.html
Request 9 by AlexSeanchai (EllieMurasaki)
Which Witch - Florence + the Machine (Song)
Fanfic
The imagery is obviously a witch trial and witch burning, akin to those spoken of in Spiral Dance's "Burning Times". The oft-cited (certainly Spiral Dance cites it) statistic, which let me just point out is false, is that nine million European women died.
So. What did this woman do to be deemed a witch in need of burning? Is she really a witch to begin with?
Looking at the "never to return / but I never learn" and "say I won't return / but I never learn" lines: is reincarnation in play?
("We are the granddaughters of the witches you didn't burn" and "They tried to bury us; they didn't know we were seeds" and etc.)
If you want to play with the "nine million" story, what else is going on in this world that's resulting in nine million such women's deaths over the course of a couple centuries? (That's tens of thousands of witch burnings a year.)
Letter: http://alexseanchai.dreamwidth.org/1632024.html
Request 10 by AlexSeanchai (EllieMurasaki)
Dance in the Circle - Heather Alexander (Song)
Fanart, Fanfic
What are faerie promises worth? Faerie treasures, faerie rewards, faerie wisdom?
Letter: http://alexseanchai.dreamwidth.org/1632024.html
Pinch hits #5 and up are due at 11:59pm EDT Thursday 1 June. (Countdown).
Treats can be posted freely until reveals (collection will then be set to moderated).
