For space is wide and good friends are too few.
This is “Dear Seanan” (a parody of Seanan McGuire’s song “Dear Gina,” based on Seanan’s October Daye series), performed at FilKONtario 23 by Erin and Rand Bellavia. Lyrics by Erin Bellavia and Merav Hoffman.
(submitted by @mysecretorigin)
New song. And not TF2 filk this time! …Instead it’s Dragon Age II filk. Big difference. You can still enjoy it if you don’t play the game though.
I’m sorry, but Isabella is just too much of a BAMF to not have a song full of sexy sailing double entendres written about her.
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Let Me Go © Hannah M./PhemieC/Hamsters 2011.
Lyrics:Give me a deep blue ocean
And an open sky
The fickle kiss of lady-luck
and forget father time
Give me a challenge
give me a ‘x’ to find
I will spend my days in salty sprays
of every kind
And if you want me then you’d better be a pirate
You have this look, I’m hooked, I’m pretty sure I like it
But I won’t be here forever
I’m a storm that can’t be weathered
A ship to which no port is tethered and
you’ll never have better
So let me go
I’ll come back running, if the sea says so
Let me go
And you’ll see me running to the sea shells, oh.
Be my first mate
Oh I can’t wait for you to let me go
Nananananananananana…
Give me a laugh, lover
Give me a good tease
I’m more impressed by cleverness
than morality
So find a me a ship in a bottle
or a bottle of any kind
I will spend my days in wild ways
Until I go blind
And if you want me then you better be a scoundrel
I’ve got no time for little dogs that run around going
faster just to chase me
I prefer the other way, see
I like a little play
But at the end of the day you’ll have to
Let me go
I’ll come back running, if the sea says so
Let me go
And you’ll see me running to the sea shells, oh.
Be my first mate
oh, I can’t wait
for you to get with me
Maybe I’m shallow
But I’m not empty
I’m easy to catch, not to easy to keep
But I could drown in your eyes
They’re so and blue and deep
And I’m off to discover a land like no other
Your hand’s on my wheel, in command of your rudder
Love is a tempest, it’s wild but it passes
Love me like the ocean, endless and vast
Let me go…
Let me go…
I’m attempting to ruin @dog-of-ulthar‘s life with the revelation that I like folk music. Especially nerdy folk music. I don’t think I sing that well, but making @dog-of-ulthar freak out is worth it.
So this is the Lament for Boromir taken from Tolkien’s The Two Towers. It’s probably my favorite poem in Tolkien’s works. I feel like a lot of his poems and songs are overlooked because they don’t have melodies we can easily put to them so they’re not instantly appealing. This melody is borrowed from Colin Rudd’s version of the song but decided not to put any accompaniment with it since there wouldn’t have been an accompaniment with the song in the book. So I really can’t claim any part of this song aside from very poorly singing it.yeah anyway now I’m crying about folk music and dead fictional kings, so that’s great
Good. I consider this a success then.
All that I want is a single thing that’s mine
Is that so very selfish, or so much out of line?
All that I want is one corner of my own
One place were I can be myself and just my self alone
@obscenitiesandgeekery, the stars have aligned!
“Confusions,” by Mercedes Lackey, sung by Cecilia Eng
Thanks to @sumeriasmith, who did a lot of digging through poorly cataloged MP3 files to find this!
(I meant to post this a few days ago, but it got lost in the queue somehow)
Fair Lady Atlantia, she rides upon the wind
The bravest of warriors, and the poet’s friend
Though I’ve traveled for many days
She never seems so far away
Fair Lady Atlantia, my lady by the sea
A song about North Carolina…or the SCA version of North Carolina. “Fair Lady Atlantia,” by Efenwealt Wystle.
My computer died several weeks ago and I lost all my musical and artistic files. I got a new computer and am re-importing all of my cds, but it’s a slow process due to having to FIND those cds.
This is one song I have been unable to find anywhere, so here you go.
So a while ago I thought “I should write a song about Dragon Age, totally from scratch.” And a little voice at the back of my mind said “write about Solas” and made this face ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I’m calling this a hymn, but in truth I could just as easily call it “Solas, your head is so far up your ass Varric’s calling it a Deep Roads expedition, please stop.”
I knew the risk I took
When down beside you I had laid,
And lo, the breath of two new lives
Was well worth the price I paid
“Wolfen One,” by Heather Alexander
Suffer my soul, for the hunt is not over
The hounds follow me to the end of the earth
Through blood death and pain, I follow my calling
A road I have followed since the day of my birth
It’s really a pity that this recording is so corrupted, because from what I can tell it used to sound pretty neat. Now I guess it sounds doubly ominous, in a way.
“The Curse,” by Julia Ecklar
A little fairy comes at night,
her eyes are blue and her hair is brown
With silver spots upon her wings
And from the moon she flutters down.
This isn’t quite the Fairy Queen interpretation I’m used to (by which I mean, she doesn’t threaten to take anybody’s eyes out or steal any children), but it’s pretty.