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noraineversomething about hozier's songs makes me go absolutely feral.
maybe it's my love for all the sounds of the guitars, or maybe that perfect mix of blues and folk and dark nights and endless forests that makes my brain both calm down and kick into the overdrive. or maybe it's the lyrics verging on poetry just enough to be vague but still understandable by me. or maybe it's how he sings them, like his life depended on it.
whatever it is, it makes me want to write.
while the main theme in most of his songs is very clear - it's love, duh - i find myself almost endlessly fascinated by the wide range of how varied this theme is from song to song. It's the endless devotion to your lover bordering on worship in take me to church, foreigner's god or work song. It's the gentleness of finally finding peace in like real people do or in a week. It's the affection in movement or grisly dedication in shrike and the dysfunctional relationships in cherry wine and almost.
i could go on, but that's not the point.
the point is, love and relationships between two people are so ever-present in hozier's pieces, i understand why so many fics (and probably original fiction as well) were born out of some of the more popular ones. so why not take all of his songs and turn them into a series, each of the installments connected with each other just by their inspiration being hozier's discography?
that's exactly the challenge that I decided to take up. match every song with a loona pairing and write a short story based on the lyrics and the general feel. why loona? the amount of possible couples, possible dynamics, even if the unnie and maknae lines are separated, makes the task of picking and matching 34 of them to songs an easy feat.
granted, at first that wasn't my idea at all. i was just writing one ficlet based on one song, and then decided to write another as a gift, and then another, and... now i'm sitting at seven completed fics and seven wips. only twenty more songs to go!
here are the links to my thoughts on each of the published fics so far, linked as i write and put them out here. i hope you'll enjoy this little insight into what drives me absolutely bonkers, as well as my interpretation - and explanation of said interpretation - of each of the songs.
maybe it's my love for all the sounds of the guitars, or maybe that perfect mix of blues and folk and dark nights and endless forests that makes my brain both calm down and kick into the overdrive. or maybe it's the lyrics verging on poetry just enough to be vague but still understandable by me. or maybe it's how he sings them, like his life depended on it.
whatever it is, it makes me want to write.
while the main theme in most of his songs is very clear - it's love, duh - i find myself almost endlessly fascinated by the wide range of how varied this theme is from song to song. It's the endless devotion to your lover bordering on worship in take me to church, foreigner's god or work song. It's the gentleness of finally finding peace in like real people do or in a week. It's the affection in movement or grisly dedication in shrike and the dysfunctional relationships in cherry wine and almost.
i could go on, but that's not the point.
the point is, love and relationships between two people are so ever-present in hozier's pieces, i understand why so many fics (and probably original fiction as well) were born out of some of the more popular ones. so why not take all of his songs and turn them into a series, each of the installments connected with each other just by their inspiration being hozier's discography?
that's exactly the challenge that I decided to take up. match every song with a loona pairing and write a short story based on the lyrics and the general feel. why loona? the amount of possible couples, possible dynamics, even if the unnie and maknae lines are separated, makes the task of picking and matching 34 of them to songs an easy feat.
granted, at first that wasn't my idea at all. i was just writing one ficlet based on one song, and then decided to write another as a gift, and then another, and... now i'm sitting at seven completed fics and seven wips. only twenty more songs to go!
here are the links to my thoughts on each of the published fics so far, linked as i write and put them out here. i hope you'll enjoy this little insight into what drives me absolutely bonkers, as well as my interpretation - and explanation of said interpretation - of each of the songs.
