Small Fandom Bang Art: Lavender for Luck (Art) & the only remedy for love (is to love more) (Mix)

[kat_lair]

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Title: Lavender for Luck (Art) & the only remedy for love (is to love more) (Mix)
Artist: MistressKat / kat_lair 
Author: noxelementalist 
Fandom: The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
Characters: (in the fic) Vincent Owens/William Grant, Agnes Durant, Original Female Characters
Rating/Category: PG for some of the lyrics (G for the fic)
Warnings: n/a

Story Summary: The first few months of after-life is never easy (or, how Vincent Owens learned to stop worrying and love the world)

Link to fic master post: Fic on AO3

Artist notes: I'm not familiar with the canon but noxelementalist brought the characters alive in a slow, gentle story about self-discovery and self-recovery. The story is both melancholy and hopeful, about ends and beginnings, and that's the feeling I tried to go with the mix. The mix title is a quote from the story and encapsulates the heart of it. The mix follows the story somewhat chronologically. Art also on AO3. Resource credits here.

Fic Cover

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Fanmix: the only remedy for love (is to love more)

Notes: The story takes place in Paris at the turn of the year 1970-71, the protagonist saying goodbye to his old life whilst slowly forging new connections, all the while he waits for his lover to return. noxelementalist brings the characters alive in a slow, gentle story about self-discovery and self-recovery. The story is both melancholy and hopeful, about ends and beginnings, and that's the feeling I tried to go with the mix. The mix title is a quote from the story and for me it encapsulated the heart of it. The mix follows the fic somewhat chronologically. 

 

Mix Covers

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Listen to the mix

• Youtube playlist
• Spotify playlist

 

Songs:

Here Comes The Sun ~ Nina Simone
Little darlin' its been
A long cold and lonely winter
Little darlin' it feels like
Years since you've been here

Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely ~ Anna Ternheim
Show me the meaning of being lonely
Is this the feeling I need to walk with?
Tell me why I can't be there where you are
There's something missing in my heart

Introduction To The Snow ~ ミラクルミュージカル (Miracle Musical)
A part of thee in the key of what we know to be every part without me
Knows only two can make it light

Love Potion No. 9 ~ The Clovers
I took my troubles down to Madame Rue
You know that gypsy with the gold-capped tooth
She's got a pad down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine
Sellin' little bottles of Love Potion No. 9

Crying Wolf ~ Lizzie No
I feel madness
Creeping like a night sweat
And now my legs are tired
From walking with the spirits

Season Of The Witch ~ Karen Elson
You've got to pick up every stitch
Oh no, must be the season of the witch

Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien ~ Edith Piaf
Non, rien de rien
Non... je ne regrette rien
Car ma vie... car mes joies...
Aujourd'hui... ça commence avec toi...

Saturn ~ Sleeping At Last
With shortness of breath, you explained the infinite.
How rare and beautiful it is to even exist

Auld Lang Syne (Arr. P. Breiner) ~ Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra
Instrumental

Heavy ~ Birdtalker
Leave what's heavy
What's heavy behind
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The only way to lose that fearful feeling
Replace it with love that's healing

Better Love ~ Hozier
When our truth is burned from history
By those who figure justice in fond memory, witness me
Like fire weeping from a cedar tree
Know that my love would burn with me
We'll live eternally

Comptine D'un Autre Ete L'apres Midi ~ Yann Tiersen
Instrumental
 

 

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Comments

[margaret_r]

Gorgeous artwork! And some good songs. I love Edith Piaf.

See, the creativity is coming back:)

[kat_lair]

Thank you very much! Well, the fic is set in Paris so some French songs were essential :D

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe.