I'm nonbinary, my body's 26 but honestly I'm so odd I don't have any idea what that means, or maybe that means I know enough to have no idea what that means? Who knows? Anyway, my obsessions are music, a lot of Brandon writing, the SCP Wiki (if you do not know that place, go there, it will blow your mind), and MUDs/similar games, MOOs, MUSHes, etc. I'm blind, so you can best get my engagement through text or audio, and admittedly I am stereotypically terrible at formatting.
I admit I haven't read much Brandon outside of the Cosmere and the end of WoT, once I had absorbed all of that I kind of had to stop reading anything of substantial size for a while. So bit by bit I'm chewing my way through different parts of the SCP Wiki's hubs (the Antimemetics Division is some doom) until I get good series energy again, and then I'm probably going to do it all in one massive run. Even though it's not all one series. I read Stormlight in audio, so now I'm going back and reading it slowly in Braille, there's something really nice about actually being able to see how someone wanted you to perceive the cadence and emphasis of a thing. As much as we can perceive cadence in text, anyway.
I'm a mishmash of emotions which is entirely too aware of itself. I have no idea when it is I really started as a concept, and happily have no idea when I'll end. No better or no worse than anything else around me, I just have ideas and the drive to explore others'.
Me and a few others are creating an abstract, concept Stormlight playlist, best listened to shuffled. When I initially thought of writing this, for over a month, all I could think of for my introduction were songs, most of the ones I put here are the ones I would have chosen. Which probably tells you everything you need to know about me, honestly lol.
Highlights, just titles because I can't links yet. I originally tried to do that, oops.
This is so Oathbringer to me, Stormlight and Mistborn, and, where we are, the whole universe. Who, at some point, doesn't know this? And doesn't it always lead to either the best or the most disastrous actions?
Thrice - The Dark
"Over town, the flags are up, every soul says they're fighting the good fight, paradox too plain to see, but only when the well runs dry..."
Blanco White - On the Other Side
All of the lyrics of this, so much. All of them. But, with an attempt at denoting the cadence lines in some basic way:
"Deceiver says, he says, you belong to me, you don't want to breathe the light of the others, fear the light, fear the breath, fear the others for eternity. But I hear them now, and hear the clarity, hear the venom, the venom in, what, you say, inoculated, bless this immunity."
Tool - Fear inoculum
And every bit of this. I couldn't pick a lyric if I tried.
Tool - Pneuma
This, to me, is the essential song of transformation.
"I choose to live and to lie, kill and give and to die, learn and love and to, do, what it takes to step through."
Tool - 46 and 2
Grandbrothers - Long Forgotten Future
Manu Delago - Mode 2
Manu Delago - Uplifted
This cadence is familiar... I have a feeling it's familiar to Stormlight too. Not because it's familiar to me. But because it's familiar to a concept. Humans do that, too. Not the same way. Not nearly so deeply. But they did, and some do, and it happens.
Alexandre Desplat - Courtyard Apocalypse (from the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II soundtrack)
Global Drum Project, all of it. Dances with Wood and Tars are the tracks on the playlist though
10 years - Writing on the Walls
Iamthemorning - Touching II
James Newton Howard - Bow and Arrow
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Andata
Gary Girouard - The Thinker
Gary Girouard - Nebula
Whitebear - Lost in Vibrations, Pt. 2
Anoushka Shankar - Boat to Nowhere
Anoushka Shankar - Crossing the Rubicon
Amethystium - Mono No Aware (opening)
Bruno Sanfilippo - Pianette
Hildur Guðnadóttir - Elevation
Slipknot - XIX
"There's a story meant to be told, but the door is shut in the cold..."
Blanco White - Olalla
Coldplay - Politik
A Perfect Circle - Feathers
Osi and the Jupiter - Baldur
Thomas Bergersen - Run Free
The Daydream Club - Improv #1 - A Tale of Two Modes
Christopher Tin - Haf Gengr Hriðum - "The Storm-Driven Sea"
James Newton Howard - My Name is Robert Neville
Grandbrothers - Wuppertal
Grandbrothers - Naive Rider
Grandbrothers - Stutie V
Grandbrothers - Newton's Cradle
Phil France - Transition
Grandbrothers - white Nights
Honorable mentions that didn't make it in due to being too specific to other things or not quite lining up the way I wanted them to, or that made it here due to being bits of me that weren't on the playlist.
"She took my portrait as well as she could do with someone who seemed to be not there at all..."
Josh Ritter - Dreams
"He can feel his skin like a prison, like a dying cage he struggles to live inside, he tries to call out but nobody hears him. At the ragged edge of the silence, in the calm that always comes with the violence, sleep inside the heart and the hope of redemption."
The October Project - Sunday Morning Yellow
Exocat - Demons Within
Rise Against - People Live Here
Shaman's Harvest - Tusk and Bone
So there's a bunch of the things that make up all the varying bits of my existence, the playlist link is going to land wherever those should go once I can post them. I look forward to participating, I've been reading for a bit. I'm quiet until I start talking, and then dear god do I start talking, so if I'm ever too noisy by all means, tell me to shut up for a bit.