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  • song,  Uncategorized

    SOUNDTRACK: Dangerous Animals by Arctic Monkeys, High Speed by Coldplay & Cool With You by Hers

    February 12, 2021 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to The Elite: Danger Zone by Brooke Blake & Ella Frank

    Soundtrack to The Elite: Need for Speed by Brooke Blake & Ella Frank

    Soundtrack to The Elite: Classified by Brooke Blake & Ella Frank

    Dangerous Animals is the pursuit between Panther and Solo. High Speed is them going fast and relishing every minute of it. Cool With You is them settling comfortably into a nice pace.

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    SOUNDTRACK: I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor by Arctic Monkeys

    January 8, 2021 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Joker’s Sin: To Die For by Davidson King

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    January 8, 2021 / No Comments

    Stop making the eyes at me
    I’ll stop making the eyes at you
    What it is that surprises me
    Is that I don’t really want you to

    And your shoulders are frozen (cold as the night)
    Oh, but you’re an explosion (you’re dynamite)
    Your name isn’t Rio, but I don’t care for sand
    And lighting the fuse might result in a bang, b-b-bang-oh

    I bet that you look good on the dance floor
    I don’t know if you’re looking for romance or
    I don’t know what you’re looking for
    I said, I bet that you look good on the dance floor
    Dancing to electro-pop like a robot from 1984
    Well, from 1984I wish you’d stop ignoring me
    Because you’re sending me to despair
    Without a sound, yeah, you’re calling me
    And I don’t think it’s very fair

    That your shoulders are frozen (cold as the night)
    Oh, but you’re an explosion (you’re dynamite)
    Your name isn’t Rio, but I don’t care for sand
    And lighting the fuse might result in a bang, b-b-bang-oh

    I bet that you look good on the dance floor
    I don’t know if you’re looking for romance or
    I don’t know what you’re looking for
    I said, I bet that you look good on the dance floor
    Dancing to electro-pop like a robot from 1984
    Well, from 1984

    Oh, there ain’t no love, no Montagues or Capulets
    Just banging tunes and DJ sets and
    Dirty dance floors and dreams of naughtiness

    Well, I bet that you look good on the dance floor
    I don’t know if you’re looking for romance or
    I don’t know what you’re looking for
    I said, I bet that you look good on the dance floor
    Dancing to electro-pop like a robot from 1984
    Said, from 1984

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    SOUNDTRACK: (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave by The Who & The Fire And The Thud by Arctic Monkeys

    November 3, 2020 / 2 Comments

    Soundtrack to Hot Shot: High Heat by Annabeth Albert

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    Possible Queer Story Prompts Inspired by Songs

    May 16, 2020 / 1 Comment

    Many times I hear a song and think, hmm that would make a good soundtrack for this or that novel. But once in a while, I hear a song and think, hey this would make a good book. Songs are basically stories with music anyway.

    This post is about songs that I think would make a good basis for a story. I have no storytelling skills whatsoever so I hope some creative mind somewhere would make these happened.


    NYC – Interpol

    “I had seven faces
    Thought I knew which one to wear
    But I’m sick of spending these lonely nights
    Training myself not to care
    The subway is a porno
    Pavements, they are a mess
    I know you’ve supported me for a long time
    Somehow, I’m not impressed
    “

    Prompt: A young immigrant cab driver, a mysterious non-binary individual takes a ride to nowhere, a city on the brink. Gritty, urban fantasy with something like what Tara Sim did with her clock spirits in Timekeeper trilogy but with cities.


    Knee Socks – Arctic Monkeys

    “When the zeros line up on the 24 hour clock
    When you know who’s calling even though the number is blocked
    When you walked around your house wearing my sky blue Lacoste
    And your knee socks
    “

    Prompt: A sapphic coming of age, new adult story involving midnight phone calls, stolen kisses in coat closets and the tantalizing zettai ryouiki


    CVS – Winnetka Bowling League‘

    “And I wanna buy you
    Chocolate hearts from CVS
    Kiss you too hard and follow you west
    Sing you sad songs on a Sunday afternoon
    Yeah I think I’d like to
    Tie you in ways that you can’t undo
    Dinner in bed and Korean food
    Say I love you just a little bit too soon”

    Prompt: Ok so taking it literally the entire chorus of this song had the makings of a fluffy rom com with a dash of kink.


    Something Good – Alt J

    “Something good, oh something good tonight will make me forget about you for now.
    Get high, hit the floor before you go.
    Matador, estocada, you’re my blood sport.
    But something good tonight will make me forget about you for now
    Forty-eight thousand seats bleats and roars for my memories of you,Now that I’m fully clean the matador is no more and is dragged from view.
    Get high, hit the floor before you go.
    Matador, estocada, you’re my blood sport.
    Forty-eight thousand seats bleats and roars for my memories of you,
    Now that I am clean the matador is no more and is dragged from view.
    But something good tonight will make me forget about you for now.”

    Prompt: A dark, angsty shifter story about a were-bull and a matador complete with enemies to lovers, forbidden love romance with lots of horns, blood, and roses. But make it a happy ending.

    This is the video that inspired this post. When I first saw it, I was in a shifter mood and thought there was SOMETHING between the bull and the matador, especially at the end of the song. Like they were sorry they had to do it to each other.


    Anyway, that’s me and my brain on gay. Hope you enjoyed this post. What songs do you think would make a good book? Where do you usually get your story ideas?

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    SOUNDTRACK: I Wanna Be Yours by Arctic Monkeys

    February 21, 2020 / 2 Comments

    Soundtrack to The Bounty Hunters: Promises Part 3 by A.E. Via

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    February 21, 2020 / No Comments

    I wanna be your vacuum cleaner
    Breathing in your dust
    I wanna be your Ford Cortina
    I will never rust
    If you like your coffee hot
    Let me be your coffee pot
    You call the shots babe
    I just wanna be yours

    Secrets I have held in my heart
    Are harder to hide than I thought
    Maybe I just wanna be yours
    I wanna be yours, I wanna be yours
    Wanna be yours, wanna be yours, wanna be yours

    Let me be your ‘leccy meter and I’ll never run out
    And let me be the portable heater that you’ll get cold without
    I wanna be your setting lotion (I wanna be)
    Hold your hair in deep devotion (how deep?)
    At least as deep as the Pacific Ocean
    I wanna be yours

    Secrets I have held in my heart
    Are harder to hide than I thought
    Maybe I just wanna be yours
    I wanna be yours, I wanna be yours
    Wanna be yours, wanna be yours, wanna be yours
    Wanna be yours, wanna be yours, wanna be yours, wanna be yours

    I wanna be your vacuum cleaner
    Breathing in your dust
    I wanna be your Ford Cortina
    I will never rust
    I just wanna be yours (wanna be yours)
    I just wanna be yours (wanna be yours)
    I just wanna be yours (wanna be yours)

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  • Uncategorized

    THE MUSIC TAG

    January 11, 2020 / 1 Comment

    Here are the rules:

    1. Write ten songs that come on shuffle (no skipping).
    2. Write your favorite lyric from each song.
    3. Tag some people.

    Thing is, I don’t make a playlist. When I’m in the mood to play DJ, I scroll through my entire album collection, pick a song, play it, then repeat the process seconds before the song is over. I don’t know why I prefer it like this.

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    THE MARVELOUS MUSIC TAG

    October 24, 2019 / 1 Comment

    I found this tag on YA On My Mind! I just had to do it. I’m not too obsessed with music, no.

    Creators:  Scribes & Archers and Of Rainy Days and Stardust Veins

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  • Uncategorized
    May 19, 2011 / No Comments

    https://neverhollowed.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/tumblr_llfjlaas1h1qg0y29o1.mp3
    http://neverhollowed.tumblr.com/post/5631783694/audio_player_iframe/neverhollowed/tumblr_llfjlaAS1H1qg0y29?audio_file=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tumblr.com%2Faudio_file%2Fneverhollowed%2F5631783694%2Ftumblr_llfjlaAS1H1qg0y29

    an early fave from the new album. had acquired a taste for humbug so yeah, this new one is good. needless to say, i miss their old sound, but bands evolve.

    *thank you lustformusic and FYRBIB for the links

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neverhollowed Never Hollowed By The Stare @neverhollowed ·
10 Jun

𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲—𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬.

COVER REVEAL: Shaken and Stirred by Lilly Atlas



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NEW RELEASE BLITZ: The Spy by Mell Eight (Excerpt & #Giveaway)


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Unrequited love can make you blind.

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Sometimes growing up means growing apart in this queer take on As You Like It featuring first loves and friend breakups, from award-winning author Julia Drake.

BOOK TOUR: Lovesick Falls by Julia Drake



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