What is your favorite songs from fictional worlds?
Mine is
The knights will get the glory
The king will keep his throne
We won’t be in the story
Our names will not be known
So pick up your sword, boy
Here they come again
And down here in the mud,
It’s us who holds the line.
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It gives me feels.
Do not look
Do not listen
Do not fear or cry
The dust will fly
We'll all be safe
When all the Goran die
"Dust to dust"
nursery rhyme regarding techmaturgical weaponry
the ones from game of thrones.
The bear and maiden was my favorite cause of that episode,
fucking peasant
Til shade is gone
til water is gone
Into the Shadow with teeth bared
Screaming defiance with the last breath
To spit in Sightblinder's eye on the Last Day.
Bring me a bottle or two, me lad
Bring me a bottle or four
For the company fine O’ women and wine
Is what I’m looking for
Bring me my big ol’ knife me lad
Bring me my rusty ol’ gun
For the wine and the women ain’t coming’ for free
And there’s plenty of work to be done
There’s plenty of folks hereabouts, me lad
Whose bellies and purses are fat
They drive company cars, smoke expensive cigars
And have men to take care of their hat
They don’t give a care for us poor hatless fools
Though out in the gutter we sit
But the thing ‘bout full bellies and purses me lad
Is both are well easy to slit
Bring me a bottle or two, me lad
Bring me a bottle or four
Shake the dust of my cloak, bring me my best smokes
An’ leave all your regrets at the door
So make sure your ol’ knife is sharp, me lad
An’ make sure your powder is dry
For the world is awash with fools, blood, and gold
And all men are just waitin’ to die
Tolkien wrote so many beautiful poems and lyricis. My personal favorite is always going to be Durin's Song.
I think the best rendition of it I've ever heard is this one (just DON'T look at the video, it's distracting as fuck).
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It's too long to post it all (you can easily look it up), so I'm going to post only the last verse:
The world is grey, the mountains old,
The forge's fire is ashen-cold;
No harp is wrung, no hammer falls:
The darkness dwells in Durin's halls;
The shadow lies upon his tomb
In Moria, in Khazad-dûm.
But still the sunken stars appear
In dark and windless Mirrormere;
There lies his crown in water deep,
Till Durin wakes again from sleep.
that's pretty good, what's it from?
>Khazad-dûm.
>Mirrormere
>Rhyming with made up words
What a cheat.
I loved the lyrics from some of the songs in The Wheel of Time, and there's actually a fan band that has done some decent productions of them in my opinion.
Dance with Jak o' the Shadows
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Coming back from Tarwin's Gap
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Color of Trust
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It helps to have understanding of the background behind them, without it I suppose they might not make sense, but i think they are quite good.
Wouldn't be the first.
>ow the edge
even the latest hands of gold are very cool.
I'm not the only one who enjoyed that old video?
My orc.
Not fictional but I like this one a lot:
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
some of his songs are alright. I like the Dornish mans wife.
Rule One: do not act incautiously when confronting little bald wrinkly smiling men!
are you talking about yoda?
Now we see the violent inherent in the system.
Dance with Jak O' the Shadows is better.
>Quality Retort
The Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear from Dune is neato IMO
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
it is from a setting where Named people, (White Knight, Thief, Black Knight) acquire considerable power just by being Named. So common folk knows that fighting them is often a suicide.
when I was a kid I had an elfquest comic. Is the only comic book I ever had as a kid.
I never knew how it ended.
You are bringing back memories.
Is elfquest worth it? I've been seriously considering giving it a go.
The story is decidedly mediocre.
If you aren't into topless guys cuddling wolves, I'd say skip it.
they look like goblins then elves. Short, big ears, ride wolves. Definitely goblins.
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lyrics are too long to post
Purty good. What's it from.
>not posting the superior version
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So is this series worth it, or is it just masturbatory feminist drivel? If it is that's fine, after all I understand that quite a bit of what I read is power fantasies as well, it's just not my cup of tea.
I'm pretty sure the intention was to simply be empowering, but yeah, it pretty cmuch comes across os manhating schlock, with most of the bad guys being rapists,cartoonishly mysogonistic, underestimating the main characters for being women etc.
Lots of good music though.
Some Mercedes Lackey book.
I didn't know that one existed, thanks!
I've never touched the books, it's just a good song.
Supposedly one of the characters mentioned doesn't like the song (it's written by a minstrel in-universe) because it's an exaggeration of what happened, though.
So I find many of Lackey songs very nice. Is her writing good, worth reading?
And I just realized that i don't have time anyway. SIgh.
"Empowering" media is never handled properly. Period. Rather than show them as competent equals they always overcompensate by making them perfect and clearly superior while turning everyone else into incompetents. It always completely fails to convey the message and alienates most of the potential readers.
I've unironically used this is real life.
It didn't work.
*in
story time?
I'm terrified of falling. Not heights, falling. Every so often, Marines have to go through swim qualification, which involves jumping of a fifteen-foot dive into a pool. I repeated the litany all the way up and still couldn't jump. It's an irrational fear, and it affected me more after I got out of basic training, where I did the thing with no problems.
End of the story, I got pushed.
>fifteen-foot dive
Don't quote me on this, by the way, because I'm not positive of the distance and it could be my memory making it out to be taller than it actually is. Quick Googling couldn't turn up the proscribed height.
May I suggest climbing? Becuase after the climb you have to jump. The first time it terrified me and I just scaled down. Then I started jumping from a 20cm climb, 40cm, 60cm and at a certain point I was ok. You can slowly increase the height at your own pace.
The point is that with the equipment it is really fast to try and try again.
Then I'm not really sure if beating your fear is a worthwhile process. If it rarely encumbers your normal life is it worth traumatizing your mind and trying to get over it? No idea.
I already know that I can get over it if the circumstances are dire enough. That's good enough for me, even if I still ain't gonna fucking touch the high dive at a public pool or go cliff-jumping.
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.
>Is her writing good, worth reading?
Not really.
The better stuff is average, most of it is rather trite.
You're honestly better off listeing to the songs.
>"Empowering" media is never handled properly.
It can be.
For all the creepy fandom stuff, My little Pony does a pretty great job of providing strong female characters, same for Last Airbender and Steven Universe.
It's just that a lot of writers don't have the chops to be empowering without getting hamfisted about it.
I can't speak for My little Pony or SU since I don't watch that cancer, but Avatar was never about female empowerment, and that's why it worked. Instead of trying to make empowered female characters they just made competent female characters. There is a difference. Intentional attempts at empowerment never work as well as a balanced cast with strong female characters who have more to their character than just being an "empowered" woman.
I actually like cliff jumping now, though it was a bitch that first time. For me personally I got over it and jumped off the cliff because if i didn't my mates would have ragged on me and my girl was watching, so I grit my teeth and went for it. Course I probably don't have the same aversion to heights that you do.
