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TW: mentions of rape and murder

School project about Cassandra, Princess of Troy, sister of Hector and Paris. She was a priestess of Apollo and got his favor. He gave her the gift of prophecy, but when she rejected his advances he cursed her so that nobody would believe her. She predicted how Helen entering the city would bring ruin (of course, not Helen’s fault but still) and how the Trojan Horse brought doom. Nobody believed her and thought she was insane. During the sack of Troy, she fled to the temple of Athena, where she was found, attacked, and raped by Little Ajax. After that she was brought to Agamemnon and made an enslaved concubine to the king, until she was murdered by Clytemnestra, a death she foresaw.

saw a lot of Trojan war stuff on my dash, so thought I would post this! Song is Icarus by the Crane Wives

Characters in order of appearance: Cassandra, Apollo, Paris, Helen, Hector, Achilles, Statue of Athena, King Priam, The Greek army, Little Ajax, King Agamemnon, Apollo statue, Aegisthus, Clytemnestra, Ghost of King Priam, Ghost of Queen Hecuba, Ghost of Hector, holding his son Astyanax, and the ghost of Paris

Nobody by the Crane Wives is THE Chelldos song send post

Beautifullll

AROACE FLAG COLORPICKED FROM THE CRANE WIVES' BEYOND BEYOND BEYOND

MY MOM JUST GOT ME TICKETS TO GO SEE THE CRANE WIVES IN CONCERT IM DYING!!!!!!

I now have a reason to live

New Crane Wives album time to listen religiously until I have the whole thing memorized!

If you have Spotify reblog this and tag what your number one song on your “on repeat” playlist is.

I'm always thinking about Jason because fixation so my judgement is biaised because every song I listen to makes me think about at least one of my Jasons, but here are some songs though were definitely written for and about canon Jason Todd, and I will take no criticism (but you are definitely welcome to add your own songs):

-Take me To War, by The Crane Wives

>"But I keep snapping at Goliath hands with all of my tiny might"/ "All of the fire I swallowed, all of the sparks that went down in my guts, I am always burning out"/ "I'll be the sweetest thing to ever scare you"

The Robin -> Red Hood transition is so seamless

-Little Soldiers by the Crane Wives

> "On the broken back of all the words we spared, Like little soldiers in the trenches; It was a march we made towards ruin and despair, But we held hands all the while"

I always rant about how how Jason's character and story is centered around love, this is the song that plays in my head while I'm yapping

-Blue Lips by Regina Spektor

> "He took a step but then felt tired, He said I'll rest a little while; but when he tried to walk again, he wasn't a child"

If you ever wanna be sad about Jason's resurrection, catatonia and stolen childhood, this is the song to listen to

-The Horrors and The Wild by The Amazing Devil

"Think of all the horrors that I promised I'd bring, I promise they'll sing of every Time you passed your fingers through my hair and called me child, Witness me old man I am the Wild"

> If Under The Red Hood has one song it's this one

-The Old Witch Sleep and The Good Man Grace by The Amazing Devil

"There's a fire burning/And I'm learning to be/So much more than my tiredness/ So much more than that old witch sleep wishes/ She kisses my eyelids, and I/Breathe"

> If Red Hood: Lost Days (minus the gross bits) has one song it's this one

-Elsa's song by The Amazing Devil

>"And you'll throw some sage and lillies/ And roses where I'll rot/ Of all the flowers you picked/I knew you would forget/ Forget-me-nots"

idk who Elsa is this is about how Jason was grieved but he wasn't remembered

(Yeah I'm pretty convinced that at least either Madeline Hyland or Joey Batey read Under the Red Hood so many of their songs fit so well I restrained myself to three but there are so many)

-A Burning Hill by Mitski

>"I'm tired of wanting more, I think I'm finally worn/ For you have a way of promising things/ And I've been a forest fire"

Jason admitting loss and giving up on begging Bruce is something that can be so personal actually

-Heaven Knows by The Pretty Reckless

>"Now you're on your knees with your head hung low/ Big Man tell you where to go/ Tell them it's good, tell them okay/Don't do a goddamn thing they say"

Crime Alley united!!! Also, "tell the big guy I said hello" :))) (the God/Batman amalgam in Death in the Family is such an incredible one-liner and works so well for Jason omg)

-For the Departed by Shayfer James

>"Now I must finished what I started/I'll write a symphony for the departed/And I have no time for second chances/ So I survive on bourbon blood and backward glances"

The amount of angst, dramatics and intense devotion to his cause at the cost of his life, the literature references, everything about this song? Jason at his angstiest for sure

-Goodbye by Bo Burnham

> "If I wake up in a house that's full of smoke I'll panic/So call me up and tell me a joke/ When I'm fully irrelevant and totally broken dammit/ Call me up and tell me a joke /Oh shit/ You're really joking at a time like this"

exploded warehouse parallel aside, this song feels like not being able to heal because you're not capable of asking for what you really need, wanting to come back but feeling like you aren't allowed to because it would ruin you or the you that was shaped by other's perception of you and most importantly, begging to matter and to have mattered. So. Jason.

I haven’t seen nearly enough love for Say It like i’m genuinely obsessed with that song

The fool in her wedding gown painting I did earlier this year, my camera ruined the quality though :,DD

The sketch of the painting I posted earlier, although I feel it's much better the the final product :]

Ok so genuine question here. If i where to start posting covers onto here or some of my own songs, would that be something people are interested in?

Some of the artists id do covers of are;

- Boygenius

- Phoebe Bridgers

- Ricky Montgomery

- The Oh Hellos

- The Crane Wives

- Coldplay

- Sticky Fingers

- Radiohead

- Adrianne Lenker

- Big Thief

- Noah Kahan

- Alex G

- Cavetown

And more

So would that be something people are interested in?

Not me sobbing listening to Never Love An Anchor thinking about Aelwyn and Adaine

Like

It so them

It’s so Aelwyn to Adaine

In the same vain as my last post, The Moon Will Sing (The Crane Wives) is so incredibly Fabian Aramaris Seacaster that is hurts

Like the whole song but these lyrics it just HITS so so HARD

Pleaseeee tell mee its not just me who has realised this BUT OH MY DAYS the amount of new music that has come out this year and new changes like noah kahan, the crane wives the new singer of linkin park, ALEX WARREN and hozier like i am getting feed this year with music

Im loving all this mew music and they are bangers as well

Oh my God this is amazing

The tma entities and some ships as the crane wives songs because I have crippling 🌈 a u t i s m 🌀

Jon/Martin; easier

Basira/daisy; the diving bell.. oh it could be fucking tongues and teeth too. I hate them they need to kill th-

Tim/Sasha; canary in a coal mine/how to rest

Melanie/Georgie; October. They get to be happy.

The Entities;

The end; pretty little things

The extinction; hollow moon

The desolation; shallow river

The slaughter; take me to war

The hunt; sleeping giants

The flesh; the hand that feeds

The corruption; know how/bitter medicine

The stranger; empty page

The buried; can’t go back

The web; nobody

The eye; new discovery

The spiral; metaphor

The lonely; never love an anchor

The vast; down the river

The dark; turn out the lights

Anyway go listen to the crane wives bc do it

Any crane wives song goes so hard I eat it up every single time it could literally be them screaming and occasionally singing woah wohah oaaahhoah and I'd fry to it religiously

Back in Mt crane wives phase again

THis happens every other month atp

I stg the more I listen to The Moon Will Sing the more I find of John in it like it was tailor-made for that golden bastard

OMG BABE WAKE UP NEW CRANE WIVES SONF JUST DROPPED!!!!!

Omfg, I'm so looking forward to relistening to this song and other unreleased songs to release!!!!!!!! ALNSIBDIHSIBSU :3