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Going on week two of random mid-sleep wakeups wherein I am convinced I have badly overslept and missed my entire shift.

What even is causing this? (Don't say stress, I'm sure it's stress! But what is causing the stress!? Is it lack of sleep? Because the lack of sleep sure ain't helping, gotta say.)

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Title: Unknown Reciprocation (IGNORED OBSESSION)
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel
Characters/Pairings: Valentino/Vox (Staticmoth)
Notes: I think it's easy for the Staticmoth community to come up with a lot of songs to portray the toxicity of the relationship, which is definitely there, but I wanted a softer mix about the quiet desperation of their desire to have more than they have. Which they both want, but won't talk about. It of course still includes their obsession over each other, because even at their softest that can't be ignored.

Unknown Reciprocation (IGNORED OBSESSION) album cover made by me on Canva

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Track List

Once Upon a Dream - Lana Del Rey
I can't help but start with one of the first songs I attributed to their relationship when I started writing about it. It comes with a lot of headcanons about their beginnings and their separate lives on Earth, but I can't listen to this song without it being theirs.

Even without my headcanons, it touches upon the faint awareness they have of each other's true feelings, but how distant it is, because they refuse to allow themselves that sincerity while awake and talking to each other.

Lyrics
I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream
I know you, that look in your eyes is so familiar a gleam
And I know it's true that visions are seldom all they seem
But if I know you, I know what you'll do
You'll love me at once
The way you did once upon a dream

Ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, mmm
But if I know you, I know what you'll do
You'll love me at once
The way you did once upon a dream

I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream
I know you, that gleam in your eyes is so familiar a gleam
And I know it's true that visions are seldom all they seem
But if I know you, I know what you'll do
You'll love me at once
The way you did once upon a dream

Abnormally Attracted To Sin - Tori Amos
At the moment, both are very unrepentant Sinners, with no desire to change that about themselves or each other. This song is soft and coaxing--likely close to how they both find it easy to indulge themselves in their baser wishes. Which includes the physicality of their relationship.

Lyrics
Impeccable peccadillo
You are off your guard
Pussy willow groves
There by the church
Don’t go in if you are

Abnormally attracted to sin
Abnormally attracted to sin

She may be dead to you
But her hips sway a natural
Kind of faith that could give
Your lost heart a warm chapel
You’ll sleep in her bell tower
And you will simply wake

Abnormally attracted to sin
Abnormally attracted to sin

Impeccable peccadillo
I know who you are
Tales of longing sway
Lost without a verse
Hymns of swing lay low
There by the church
Don’t go in if you are

Abnormally attracted to sin
Abnormally attracted to sin

She may be dead to you
Kind of faith that could give
Attracted to sin
To sin
To sin

El Mañana - Gorillaz
I had attributed this song to the two before Season 2, but after Season 2 it definitely fits them better. Vox was willing to die because his own obsession with revenge caused him to ruin everything he had gained in the public eye. Valentino (and Velvette, their best friend) was not enough to keep Vox from wanting to off himself when he lost everything else. No doubt Season 3 will show him furious, but there ought to be a soft despair as well to the knowledge that your friend, business partner, and love of decades was willing to die (and kill everyone else, including you) because of failure.

Lyrics
Summer don't know me no more
He got mad, tiresome
Summer don't know me
He'd just let me low in myself

'Cause I do know love
From you then
Just dying

I saw that day
Lost my mind
Lord, I'm fine
Maybe in time, you'll want to be mine

Don't stop the bud when it comes
It's the dawn, you'll see
Money won't get there
Ten years passed and now you'll flee

If you do that
I'll be sworn
To find you

I saw that day
Lost my mind
Lord, I'm fine
Maybe in time, you'll want to be mine

I saw that day
Lost my mind
Lord, I'm fine
Maybe in time, you'll want to be mine

Maybe in time, you'll want to be mine
Maybe in time, you'll want to be mine
Maybe in time, you'll want to be mine
Maybe in time, you'll want to be mine

Fly on the Wall - t.A.T.u.
A song explicitly for Vox and his need to watch everything, everyone, but especially Valentino. Even when he is ignoring him in the finale, he has a camera focused on him. We don't know if Vox is jealous of everyone Valentino sleeps with, but we know he hates Angel Dust, and he doesn't have a problem immediately tossing a girl in Val's lap into his shark tank instead of sending her away. No doubt he can't always get rid of everyone Val is with, Valentino is a pimp and it's his job to seduce people into his employ, but Vox is always watching and wanting.

Lyrics
When you're naked in the shower
When you're sleeping for an hour
When you're big, when you're small
Oh, I wish I was a fly on the wall
When you're with her after midnight
When you kiss her in the daylight
When you break Barbie doll
Oh, I wish I was a fly on the wall

Wanna see who you are
Every inch, every scar

From your head to your toes
I would be there
From your bed to your clothes
I'm the air

When you think you're alone
I'll be down the hall
I could see it, if I was a fly on the wall
What you do in your room
I could see it all
You undress, I wish I was a fly on the wall, yeah (Yeah)

For the drama that you're drinking
And the dark thoughts you are thinking
And the love notes that you scrawl
Oh, I wish I was a fly on the wall

Silently, I arrive
You don't know I'm alive

From your head to your toes
I would be there
From your bed to your clothes
I'm the air

When you think you're alone
I'll be down the hall
I could see it, if I was a fly on the wall
What you do in your room
I could see it all
You undress, I wish I was a fly on the wall, yeah, yeah
Wish I was a fly on the wall, yeah, yeah

Ever closer, ever nearer
When you're looking in the mirror
I would know who you call
If I was a fly on the wall

From your head to your toes
I would be there
From your bed to your clothes
I'm the air

When you think you're alone
I'll be down the hall
I could see it, if I was a fly on the wall
What you do in your room
I could see it all
You undress, I wish I was a fly on the wall, yeah, yeah
Wish I was a fly on the wall, yeah, yeah

From your head to your toes
I would be there
From your bed to your clothes
I'm the air
What you do on your own
I could see all
When you think you're alone
I would crawl

When you think you're alone
I'll be down the hall
I could see it, if I was a fly on the wall
What you do in your room
I could see it all
You undress, I wish I was a fly on the wall, yeah, yeah
Wish I was a fly on the wall, yeah, yeah

Black & White - Sarah McLachlan
A lot of the power of the Vees comes from them peddling things that the Sinners want. And in order to have gathered that, they had to be the sort of people everyone would come to. They are performers, celebrities, and their brand is perfection. Vox in particular has a huge fear of failure. One he hurtles toward very fast, which Val doesn't understand enough to stop. Because Val is said by his creator not to completely understand all of his own actions, such as not understanding consent completely. And this is likely to bring him close to his own destruction in Season 3, so can Vox put himself together enough to stop Val from making similar mistakes as he had?

Lyrics
Unravel me
A distant chord
On the outside is forgotten
A constant need
To get along
And the animal awakens
And all I feel is black and white

The road is long
The memory slides
To the whole of my undoing
Put aside
I put away
I push it back to get through each day
And all I feel is black and white
And I'm wound up small and tight
And I don't know who I am

Everybody loves you when you're easy
Everybody hates when you're a bore
Everyone is waiting for your entrance
So don't disappoint them

Unravel me
Untie this cord
The very centre of our union
Is caving in
I can't endure
I am the archive of our failure
And all I feel is black and white
And I'm wound up small and tight
And I don't know who I am

Everybody loves you when you're easy
Everybody hates when you're a bore
Everyone is waiting for your entrance
So don't disappoint them

Everybody loves you when you're easy
So don't disappoint them

Don't disappoint them
Don't disappoint them
Don't disappoint them
Don't

It Should've Been Me - Really Introverted Producer
Continuing on the theme of the previous track, this song has more of a beat while still not breaking out of the softer vibe of this mix. And the wonderful thing is this song can also be seen as from either of their perspective: from Vox who desperately wants Val, but is haunted by the thought Hell doesn't even have friends, let alone love; to Val who saw that Vox was willing to destroy him for "that stupid deer" and now he has to take over the company he and Vox built together to clean up his mess.

Lyrics
Not too loud, not too quiet
Don't be proud, don't be shy
It's rude to stare, oh, do I dare?
Keep it bold, don't be timid
Not too slow, make it quick
It's so unfair, I'm almost there

Lost in a fantasy, my very own Pandora's box
Swarmed by my jealousy
I hope that it doesn't show
Ire dipped in flattery, nobody's been as close as me
I spilled my guts and all for what?

It should've been me
You should have picked me from the start
And after everything I've done for you
You don't think it's bizarre?
It should have been me
Where do you think I got my spark?
I chiseled down my personality, 'til it's a work of art

There you arе, can't they see it? I'm in awe, could it be?
"It's rudе to stare" yes, I'm aware!
What a sight, nearly perfect
You alright? Does it hurt?
I will be there, you know I care!

Caught in my fantasies, don't look inside Pandora's box
Push down the jealousy
No, nobody needs to know
Please don't think less of me!
I'm but a lonely soul, you see
Oh, what a shame, I've gone insane

It should've been me, I oughta be there by your side
Just think of all the possibilities that we could bring to life
It should've been me, I think I need you to survive
So now it's your responsibility to make me stay alive

Trapped in this travesty, you've opened up Pandora's box
Struck by reality, it's time to wrap up the show
Yes, it is how it seems, I'm full of animosity
And here I am, where do you stand?

It could've been me, although I'm better than the rest
My polarizing rationality just couldn't pass the test
It could've been me
But I'm unsure of my intent
Surely my fragile hospitality would shatter from the stress
It shouldn't be me, and here I thought I was above
But now it's clear to me you saw that I'm unworthy of your love
It shouldn't be me, and I'm okay with that, because
I truly only want the best for you and I am not the one

It couldn't be me, it should've been me

Curses - The Crane Wives
It's shown in Season 1 that when even Velvette can't calm Val down, Vox can. And Val waits for him to do so. They both have problems, but while Vox's is implied to be more manic, Val's is an anger that he doesn't seem to bother controlling unless he has to show himself as the boss to his employees. Even then, we don't know how successful that always is.

Fire is also symbolic to Val, who has powers of typhokinesis (control of smoke). Sinner's bodies and powers often reflect the way in which they died, so a lot of fans assume Val might have died to some sort of "burning", whether literal or not.

Lyrics
There's a fire in my brain and I'm burning up
Oh my, oh my
Keep running for the sink but the well is dry
Oh my, oh my

Every word I say is kindling
But the smoke clears when you're around
Won't you stay with me, my darling
When my walls start burning down, down, down?

This house says my name like an elegy
Oh my, oh my
Echoing where my ghosts all used to be
Oh my, oh my

There's still cobwebs in the corners
And the backyard's full of bones
Won't you stay with me, my darling
When this house don't feel like home?
When this house don't feel like home?

Oh ashes, ashes, dust to dust
The devil's after both of us
Ooh, lay my curses out to rest
Make a mercy out of me

This tired old machine is a-rumbling
Oh my, oh my
Singing songs to the secrets behind my eye
Oh my, oh my

All my aching bones are trembling
And I may yet fall apart
Won't you stay with me, my darling
When the war starts in my heart?
When the war starts in my heart?

Oh ashes, ashes, dust to dust
The devil's after both of us
Ooh, lay my curses out to rest
Make a mercy out of me
Oh ashes, ashes, dust to dust
Tell me I am good enough
Ooh, lay my curses out to rest
Make a mercy out of

Within You - David Bowie
While Vox is very much the picture of a narcissist, it is shown that he does want to have people to share his success with, even as his enemy Alastor uses Vox's need to show Alastor he is better than him (to impress him) to push them away. With likely about 45 years of knowing each other and a partnership, all the effort Vox has done for his own power in this time would be done also for Valentino. Even when they occasionally treat each other badly.

Lyrics
How you turn my world, you precious thing
You starve and near exhaust me
Everything I've done, I've done for you
I move the stars for no one

You've run so long, you've run so far
Your eyes can be so cruel
Just as I can be so cruel
Oh, I do believe in you
Yes I do

Live without your sunlight
Love without your heartbeat
I, I can't live within you

I can't live within you

I, I can't live within you

Show Me Love (Extended) - t.A.T.u.
And to end with Val's desire to get Vox back to himself and the life they once lived before they started reaching for Heaven. It even appears that he goes to seduce Vox into making up after their argument, only for him to hear Vox say how he doesn't need him or Velvette to Alastor. This pain isn't the usual one they give to each other. Everyone else Val has a sexual or romantic relationship is replaceable (except for his own obsession, Angel Dust, which shall likely prove to be his downfall in Season 3 as Alastor was for Vox in Season 2), but he's losing Vox and he doesn't understand why.

This lack of understanding over Alastor's manipulation of Vox is why another obsession is likely to come close to tearing them apart in Season 3. Nonetheless, deep down they are closer than that. And we shall all see if it is enough to take them back to where they were, or actually bridge this lack of communication which has kept them both pining for years.

Lyrics
Аллё

This was an accident
Not the kind where sirens sound
Never even noticed
We're suddenly crumbling
Tell me how you've never felt
Delicate or innocent
Do you still have doubts that
Us having faith makes any sense

Tell me nothing ever counts
Lashing out or breaking down
Still somebody loses 'cause
There's no way to turn around
Staring at your photograph
Everything now in the past
Never felt so lonely I
Wish that you could show me love

Show me love, show me love, show me love
Show me love, show me love
Till you open the door
Show me love, show me love, show me love
Show me love, show me love
Till I'm up off the floor
Show me love, show me love, show me love
Show me love, show me love
Till it's inside my pores
Show me love, show me love, show me love
Show me love, show me love
Till I'm screaming for more

Random acts of mindlessness
Commonplace occurrences
Chances and surprises
Another state of consciousness
Tell me nothing ever counts
Lashing out or breaking down
Still somebody loses 'cause
There's no way to turn around

Tell me how you've never felt
Delicate or innocent
Do you still have doubts that
Us having faith makes any sense
You play games, I play tricks
Girls and girls, but you're the one
Like a game of pick-up-sticks
Played by fuckin' lunatics

Show me love, show me love, show me love
Show me love, show me love
Till you open the door
Show me love, show me love, show me love
Show me love, show me love
Till I'm up off the floor
Show me love, show me love, show me love
Show me love, show me love
Till it's inside my pores
Show me love, show me love, show me love
Show me love, show me love
Till I'm screaming for more

Show me love, show me love
Give me all that I want
Show me love, show me love
Give me all that I want
Show me love, show me love
Give me all that I want
Show me love, show me love
Till I'm screaming for more

Show me love, show me love, show me love
Show me love, show me love
Till you open the door
Show me love, show me love, show me love
Show me love, show me love
Till I'm up off the floor
Show me love, show me love, show me love
Show me love, show me love
Till it's inside my pores
Show me love, show me love, show me love
Show me love, show me love
Till I'm screaming for more

Show me love, show me love
Show me love, show me love
Show me love, show me love, show me love
Show me love
Show me love, show me love

Show me love, show me love, show me love
Show me love, show me love
Till you open the door
Show me love, show me love, show me love
Show me love, show me love
Till I'm up off the floor
Show me love, show me love, show me love
Show me love, show me love
Till it's inside my pores
Show me love, show me love, show me love
Show me love, show me love
Till I'm screaming for more

Extra
Every Time We Touch - Daniel Avidan
I can't add this song to my playlist, but I definitely would if I could. It's a cover, but slower with a different intensity than the original. The lyrics fit Staticmoth, and this version fits the vibe of this mix.

Lyrics
I still hear your voice when you sleep next to me
I still feel your touch in my dreams
Forgive me my weakness, but I don′t know why
Without you it's hard to survive

′Cause every time we touch, I get this feeling
And every time we kiss I swear I could fly
Can't you feel my heartbeat fast, I want this to last
Need you by my side

Your arms are my castle, your heart is my sky
They wipe away tears that I cry
The good and the bad times we've been through them all
You make me rise when I fall

′Cause every time we touch, I get this feeling
And every time we kiss I swear I could fly
Can't you feel my heartbeat fast, I want this to last
Need you by my side

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Title: Changed His Life
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Homophobia, Slurs, Off Screen Homophobic Violence
Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Relationships: Ilya Rozanov/Shane Hollander
Tags: Established Relationship, Shane and Ilya are outed,
Summary: Shane's life changed so much from a single action.
Word Count: 6,355

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and why is this the first time I've seen this fanvid?

(It's short. Go watch it, you don't need to know literally anything.)

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Title: Impractical
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
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Characters: Varian, the Travellers.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 500: Amnesty 50, using Challenge 431: Travelling Light.
Setting: After the series.
Summary: No matter how tempting they might be, some things are simply impractical for the travellers to burden themselves with.
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The program book's at the printers, and I got four hours of sleep last night. That's actually excellent! Historically, it's been an all-nighter. But the head of programming got me the info a little early, and I've been working on the layout for some time now so that I could have all the inevitable battles with recalcitrant graphics and inadequate computer memory before the last minute.

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Fandom: FAKE
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Setting: After Like Like Love.
Summary: It was good having Bikky home for a visit, but it’s much quieter around the apartment now he’s gone back to college.
Word Count: 809
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Title: Searching The Stars
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The christofascists sure like to talk about “biological reality,” particularly lately. It’s stupid and meaningless, particularly given how much they hate science, but wow, do they like to whip that shit out against trans people when they think they can get away with it.

It’s not just against trans people, though. It slithers out eventually to any class of people they want to beat down as either inferior or eliminate entirely – lesbians and gays, women, anyone not white – it’s all “biological reality” sooner or later, their self-proclaimed “biological” superiority giving them the right to do horrible things to the rest of us.

Of course, their “biological reality” is always – always, never forget it – a stack of blithering bullshit sorted to suit whatever fascist political agenda they want to serve at the moment. None of it’s in good faith, so don’t treat it like it is. If they believed in biological reality – in biological science – they wouldn’t be a bunch of fucking vaccine deniers. They’d be all over vaccination, and yet, surprise! They’re not!

“Biological reality.” Their use of the phrase genuinely disgusts me.

Anyway, I was thinking about this, and came up with a teardown rant. Next time some fash brings their “biological reality” shit up as an attack on trans people, maybe try some variation of it.

You want to talk biological reality? Are you sure? Is that what you want to embrace?

Because great. Let’s talk biological reality.

Biological reality is that you are an animal. A mammal, of the clade of the great apes, no different from a chimpanzee, and very little different from a dog or a cat. Take any decent college course in anatomical biology and you will see every part of the biologically real you in every creature you dissect from the flatworm on up.

Biological reality is that you are a short-lived animal in the life of this world, and even shorter in the life of the universe. You were born through an accident of complicated chemistry to live briefly and then die, ending forever, and that’s it. You have no more soul – no more immortal part – than does a cockroach, and in the long term will leave exactly as much behind.

Biological reality is that you. are. an. animal. like. every. other. animal., and not one iota more.

So if you want to embrace biological reality, fucking do it, you clown, you fool, you coward. Because that is what you are embracing, because that is the actual biological reality. And you are no more made in the image of God than is a scarab, the dung beetle the ancient Egyptians thought holy.

But you won’t do that. You won’t embrace actual ‘biological reality.’ You can’t.

I don’t even mind that you can’t. I don’t mind that you don’t.

But my gods, I loathe the pretence – the filthy, disgraceful lie – that you do, and that you only pretend to do it as a weapon against others. You only claim you care about science when you think it’s a weapon you can use to hurt.

In my head, I deliver it hot; you’d probably want to present it cooler, particularly if you’re not in person and can’t get hot yourself, which is important for hot deliveries. Maybe deliver it cold. Maybe very cold. It’s up to you, by which I mean do not quote it, make it your own.

Just whatever you do, don’t deliver it nicely. Nice is the opposite of the point. Be mean, because there is no “nice” response to the lie of “biological reality.”

If that doesn’t work for you, maybe just use the vaccination thing. That’s easier, I suppose. But it’s also less… direct. Less personal. And it leaves them a little room, where “YOU. ARE. AN. ANIMAL.” doesn’t leave any.

These fuckers want to talk about “biological reality?” Fine.

Let ’em have it.

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Flisters, we have had results at last! The Great Cat Hunt has been on since Easter, but it's really hard to find a suitable indoor cat when all the shelters insist on the cats should have outdoors access. Because of living on a road with a good deal of traffic, that's just not something we dare offer them. (I mean, it seems to be going okay for the neighbours' cat who come into our garden a lot, but I really don't have that sort of bravery) And on top of that, there's the added difficulty of finding one that can be put together with an older cat and preferably not look like the older cat OR the cat that came before it. It has not been easy!

HOWEVER! Yesterday the God of Cats finally smiled down on us, and we drove nearly two hours each way, coincidentally to the same shelter that Holly came from. (And you know what, now that I think of it, I'm not entirely certain, Holly did not actually live in that very same cage...)

So here's Daisy! She's 27 weeks old and seems to be settling in. She has not yet met Holly (who is protesting wildly against the closed door), but she is interested in her surroundings and has had a good long nap on Husband's lap today. If she continues to settle in well, we will probably try to let them meet briefly on Sunday and see how that goes. Tonight, they will swap ends of the house, so Holly can get a good sniff at Daisy's smell and Daisy can explore the rest of the house before meeting Holly.