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Chesnari; A Wraeththu Couples Fanmix
Topic Started: Jun 15 2008, 07:39 PM (181 Views)
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Also, they are totally not as much, like, gay porn as this mix makes it sound if you haven't done so. Wraeththu are hermaphrodites who just use male pronouns, thank you very much. (If you have somehow missed my constant spazzing about this.) Anyways, the couple are all amazingly shippable and wonderful and 80s music for all etc etc yay!

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1) By Your Side – Sebastian Bach (Calanthe/Pellaz)

I feel you when you're watching from afar
To young to leave me standing
I wonder where you are
The precious time we spent
My fondest memories
I'll hold on to the promise
That you made to me

You know I'll never let you go
You know I'll never hurt so bad
And if it takes a thousand years
I will be right there by your side
You know I'll never hurt so much
When I lost you I was blind
And every time I catch my tears
You are right there by my side


“I’m not the same person, Cal. You do realize that, don’t you?” There was a hint, just a hint, of a certain wistfulness I’d recognize after a hundred years, never mind thirty.

“Neither am I, Pell, but we’re not strangers, are we?”

He smiled. “No. It doesn’t feel like that. I don’t know how it feels. Maybe we should see. The truth is I’ve waited a long time for this. Dreams, hopes; oh, I’ve had plenty of those! Now they are gone. If it’s ruins beyond this, then it’s ruins! I’ll think about it another time.” He turned over. “Pick the glass from my skin first, Cal. I may be immortal, but not impervious to pain. Here I am; yours. I always have been. Want to come home now?”

There were not shooting stars, no huge explosions. We didn’t even know if we were truly in love as we’d once thought; only time would tell us that.


2) With Or Without You – U2 (Calanthe/Pellaz/Caeru)

See the stone set in your eyes
See the thorn twist in your side
I wait for you

Sleight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait without you

With or without you
With or without you

Through the storm we reach the shore
You give it all but I want more
And I’m waiting for you

With or without you
With or without you
I cant live
With or without you


Pell said, “Rue, do you want to know why I hated you?” and the air went cold.

Caeru rubbed his arms. “If you want to tell me.” He said, meaning ‘no’.

“It was because I wanted you to be Cal, and you weren’t. I felt you were taking his place, and if I let myself grow to love you, I would be reinforcing that belief, doing what Thiede wanted me to do. In a way, it was pure stubbornness on my part. It must have hurt you a lot. I won’t apologize because it would sound pathetic after so much mental cruelty, so lets just open another bottle of wine and talk about something else shall we.”

But it was said; that’s all that matters. I caught Caeru’s eye and winked. He smiled back. Sometimes it would be necessary for us to join forces against Pellaz and keep his ego under control. Not too often I hope.


3) If You Want My Love – Cheap Trick (Swift/Seel)

Yes, I thought you were a mystery girl,
A special girl in this crazy old world.
You couldn’t see me when I laid eyes on you.

Cause lonely is only a place.
You don’t know what its like
You can’t fight it.
It’s a hole in my heart, in my heart.

If you want my love you got it.
When you need my love you got it.
I won’t hide it.
I won’t throw your love away

You hold the secrets of love in this world.
I’m hypnotized by your every word.
A special face, a special voice,
A special smile in my life.


I felt as if I had never spoken to him before, yet at the same time felt that I knew him intimately. It was so easy to reach out and stroke his face. He rubbed against me like an animal. I put my hands in his hair as I had longed to so many times. (Is this real? Is it?) “I have never seen anything like you,” I said.

“Then see it all,” he answered and opened up the covering of furs as if it was his own skin. I stared, entranced. He seemed to glow. (I must be dreaming. I must be!)

“Do you hate me, Seel?”

“Do you have to ask that?”

“Yes.”

He shook his head and his eyes were shining like distant stars. “No, I don’t hate you.” He reached out for me, his face like the face of a person who has seen the lights of home shining out to him through a storm. “Have you waited a long time for this?”

“Yes, a long time.”

“You have searched?”

“I didn’t know I was searching.”

He smiled. “You were, though, you were. And now you have found.” He put his hand upon my face and brought my lips to his own. What I experienced within his breath is beyond words. It left me gasping, as if I’d been drowned, yet I wanted more. I wanted him so much, it was like pain.


4) Feel Like Making Love – Bad Company (Pellaz/Galdra)

Baby, if I think about you
I think about love
Darlin’ if I live without you
I live without love
If I had the sun and moon
I would give you both night and day
Of satisfying

Feel like makin’
Feel like makin’ love
Feel like makin’ love to you

And if I had those golden dreams
Of my yesterdays
I would wrap you in the heaven
‘Til I’m dyin’ on the way


“It’s time,” Galdra murmured. “The day is here. It will begin now. Everything.”

“I know,” Pellaz said. He put his mouth against Galdra’s own and Galdra pulled him down beside him, kicking aside the blankets. “Touch me,” Galdra said, a whispered message in Pell’s head.

Pellaz drew back and stared into Galdra’s eyes as he caressed him intimately. “You are oceanic,” Pellaz said. “If I put my ear against you, I would hear the sea.”

“I have wanted this all night,” Galdra said.

“You should have said so.”

Galdra smiled. “No, you needed something. It doesn’t matter. Do you have time for this?”

“I don’t care whether I have or not. I’m staying a little longer.”


5) Dreams – The Cranberries (Ulaume/Flick)

And now I tell you openly, you have my heart so don't hurt me.
You're what I couldn't find.
A totally amazing mind, so understanding and so kind;
You're everything to me.

Oh, my life,
Is changing every day,
In every possible way.

And oh, my dreams,
It's never quiet as it seems,
'Cause you're a dream to me,
Dream to me.


One night, in bed, he confided his thoughts to Ulaume, and Ulaume took Flick’s face in his hands. “I haven’t given up hope,” he said. “I know that one day Lileem will return to us. I feel it in my heart.”

His courage and conviction washed over Flick like the waves of a warm ocean.

“Trust me,” Ulaume said.

“With my life,” Flick murmured.

It was a special moment. Nothing was said, but Flick lay back and offered himself. There was a sweetness to this surrender he could not describe. His whole body ached. When he felt Ulaume inside him, he thought he might die from the feeling of completeness and love that swelled through his heart.


6) All Of My Love– Led Zepplin (Tyson/Moon)

Should I fall out of love, my fire in the light
To chase a feather in the wind
Within the glow that weaves a cloak of delight
There moves a thread that has no end.

For many hours and days that pass ever soon
The tides have caused the flame to dim
At last the arm is straight, the hand to the loom
Is this to end or just begin?

All of my love, all of my love, all of my love to you
All of my love, all of my love, all of my love to you


When they finally shared breath, Moon felt as if he turned into a silver liquid, which slipped down through Tyson’s arms and ran all over the ground at their feet. There were no physical sensations and hardly any images, just this quicksilver feeling of being set free. We could talk the road of light to the moon. We could keep on walking.


7) 1,000 Stars – Big Country (Cobweb/Snake)

There are people I have loved
Hypnotized by lies
In defensive disguise
Some say protect and survive
I say it's over

The luck of a thousand stars
Can't get me out of this
The luck of a thousand stars
Losing its charm

Hold me through the darkest night
I feel secure in your arms
While all the city's on fire
It's not between you and me
But we are losing


Galhea was burning and Ithiel was dead. The future held no certainty, but it seemed to Cobweb as if a small pocket of tranquility existed in that room. For a while, nothing else existed. He didn’t care how little time they might have; he intended to take this slow, give Snake as much pleasure as he could. The whole town could come banging on the door and he would pay no heed. He sensed what they were doing was important, beyond mere surface bliss. This was healing on a deeper lever, perhaps essential for the journey ahead. Aruna became trance, the rhythm of tides, of the moon across the sky. It held within it the essence of eternity and the stairs of angels to the stars.


8) Only Us – Peter Gabriel (Terez/Raven)

I hear you calling me
Yes I hear you calling me
Home from the great escape
Yes I can read you loud and clear

The further on I go, oh the less I know
Friend or foe, there's only us

The further on I go, oh the less I know
I can find only us breathing
Only us sleeping
Only us dreaming
Only us

I'm coming home again, home again
And I hear you calling me home again
I am coming home again


Raven and Terez had become like a statue carved of wood, pained to look real. They sat upon a sofa beneath the window, as motionless as stone and utterly silent. They looked dead, but he knew they weren’t. Joined lip to lip, sharing secrets deep and dark, a lifetime of information perhaps.


9) Love Of My Life – Queen (Vaysh/Ashmael)

Love of my life, you hurt me,
You broken my heart, now you leave me.
Love of my life can’t you see,
Bring it back bring it back,
Don’t take it away from me,
Because you don’t know what it means to me.

Love of my life don’t leave me,
You’ve stolen my love and now desert me,
Love of my life can’t you see,
Bring it back bring it back,
Don’t take it away from me,
Because you don’t know what it means to me.


“Ashmael, you said it’s been years since… how do you feel about Vaysh now?”

He shrugged. “Fell? I can still smell his blood, even now. He was so beautiful, so alive. Losing him was like losing life. Everyone worshipped him…” I had gone cold, although the night was warm.

“But now, how do you feel now?” I insisted.

“Now?” Ashmael wrinkled his brow. “Now… something lives in a body that looks like Vaysh, but is it him? I watched him die and I spent a year demented with grief. Now? What can I feel? Vaysh is dead.”

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He was lying on the bed, half conscious. Two empty bottles stood upon the table where the light glowed. Nothing was knocked over. I went over and sat down beside him. “Vaysh.” I shook him and he made a sound. “Vaysh.” His eyes opened and I could see the redness.

“Pell, get out of here,” he said.

“No, no.” I took him in my arms and he wept anew. Vaysh was soume, more so than any other har I had ever met. The female was strong in him. He seemed made to be my consort, yet Thiede had scoured him barren; such justice.

“What is it?” I asked.

“His eyes,” was all he said, but I knew. To someone, what lived in Vaysh’s body was not Vaysh. “What am I, Pell? Why am I still alive?”

“Oh, Vaysh, Vaysh,” I murmured and put my mouth upon his brow. His skin was hot and dry.

“I am a monster!” he said and tried to pull away from me. “You try to make me feel better but I know, I know there is no hope for me. What hope is there for someone who can only repel, who makes hara back away in revulsion?”


10) The River – Bruce Springsteen (Pellaz/Caeru)

Then I got Mary pregnant
And man that was all she wrote
And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat
We went down to the courthouse
And the judge put it all to rest
No wedding day smiles no walk down the aisle
No flowers no wedding dress

That night we went down to the river
And into the river we'd dive
Oh down to the river we did ride

I got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company
But lately there ain't been much work on account of the economy
Now all them things that seemed so important
Well mister they vanished right into the air
Now I just act like I don't remember
Mary acts like she don't care

But I remember us riding in my brother's car
Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir
At night on them banks I'd lie awake
And pull her close just to feel each breath she'd take
Now those memories come back to haunt me
They haunt me like a curse
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true
Or is it something worse
That sends me down to the river
Though I know the river is dry
That sends me down to the river tonight
Down to the river
My baby and I
Oh down to the river we ride


Pellaz didn’t wait to hear Caeru’s protests, but left the room. He knew the way to the bedchamber because, on many occasions over the years, driven by drink and maudlin sentiment, he had visited his consort here and had cruelly taken aruna with him, only to ignore him for weeks afterwards. He remembered well the bleak bitter mornings of self-recrimination and disgust. He had believed his motive had been to wound and damage, to make sure Caeru never got too comfortable of too happy, but now he realized there had been true desire, released by wine: a secret, unacknowledged yearning to seek the essence of that night when Abrimel had been conceived.


11) I Want to Know What Love Is – Foreigner (Ponclast/Abrimel)

I’m gonna take a little time
A little time to look around me
I’ve got nowhere left to hide
It looks like love has finally found me

In my life there’s been heartache and pain
I don’t know if I can face it again
I can’t stop now, I’ve traveled so far
To change this lonely life

I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me


“Before you, I have never loved,” Abrimel said. “It is what I want.” He smiled. “My place is here, with you. I won’t stay in Imbrilim for much longer.”

“I need you there, Bree. You must report to me on whatever you hear of the Gelaming’s plans.”

Abrimel took a deep breath through his nose. “I don’t belong there.”

“I know, and as soon as we know what action the Tigron plans to take, you’ll move here permanently.”

“Very well. I’ll stay there for now. I have my dreams to sustain me.”

Ponclast took Abrimel’s face in his hands. “You are of my heart,” he said. “The ceremony will be a formality. We are already bonded in blood.”


12) When Love And Hate Collide – Def Leppard (Loki/Geburael)

Got the time got a chance gonna make it
Got my hands on your heart gonna take it
All I know I can't fight this flame
You could have a change of heart, if you would only change your mind
Cause I'm crazy 'bout you baby, time after time

Without you
One night alone is like a year without you baby
Do you have a heart of stone?
Without you
Can't stop the hurt inside
When love and hate collide

I don't wanna fight no more, I don't know what we're fighting for
When we treat each other baby, like an act of war
I could tell a million lies and it would come as no surprise
When the truth is like a stranger, hits you right between the eyes


There was no way to pretend sharing breath, it just happened. In the inky swirls of Geburael’s soul, Loki received impressions of their time together in Freygard. He remembered, and was grateful for the fact that he hadn’t known about Diablo at that time. Had feybraiha changed him also?

Diablo came into the room, and Loki tried to immerse himself in Geburael’s breath. Think only of me, Geb. Remember us. Keep him out.

Diablo laughed, in a sly humorless way, but at least he left the tower. In the heightened perception of breath-sharing, Loki heard Diablo’s creepy footsteps padding away.

Loki drew away from Geburael, wiping his mouth. “He’s gone. We convinced him. He fell for it.”

Geburael smiled wistfully. “So did I,” he said.


13) 18 And Life – Skid Row (Calanthe/Zackala)

Accidents will happen they all heard Ricky say
He fired his six-shot to the wind that blew a child away.

18 and life you got it
18 and life you know
Your crime is time and its
18 and life to go

18 and life you got it
18 and life you know
Your crime is time and its
18 and life to go


Zack turns his face up to me. “Pull me up!” he says, and reaches towards me. There is no time. I have no weapon. There is not enough time. “Cal!” One by one, behind him, the predators begin to move. Some of them are smiling. The look so furtive. “Pull me up! For fuck’s sake, Cal, pull me up! What’s wrong with you?!” There is disbelief in Zack’s voice, a certain crack, a certain realization that I cannot, will not help him. “Cal!”

I stand on the wall. It is just seconds, but seconds that pass like hours. Everything is so slow. I am turning. Below me, on the other side of the wall, is safety and another alley. Just seconds. I am turning, so slowly stem-light, neon, damp, viscous walls. A distant shout. I am turning. Noises below me are the howls of the pack.

“Cal!”

At last, desperation. He is afraid. I love you, Zack. I pull myself up, to jump.

“You fucking bastard! Cal!”

He can’t believe I’m turning away. But, then, he does believe. I feel something hit my arm. A brick. A dead dog. A curse. Who knows? I have heard many curses. I land on the other side of the wall, closing my ears to the sounds; the sickening, dull sounds of flesh under attack. I land on feet and hands and my arm buckles. I look. I am wet and warm. It is blood; Zack’s knife in my arm, to the hilt. With a sad, desperate cry, I wrench it from the flesh. I can feel nothing. I stumble, I start to run. I keep on running.

We thought we were immortal. Now we are both dead…


14) Hungry Like The Wolf – Duran Duran (Darquiel/Tava-Edzen)

Stalked in the forest, too close to hide
I’ll be upon you by the moonlight side
Do-do do do, do do do, do do do, do do do, do do
High blood drumming you our skin it’s so tight
You feel my heart, I’m just a moment behind
Do-do do do, do do do, do do do, do do do, do do

In touch with the ground
I’m on the hunt I’m after you
Scent and a sound, I’m lost and I’m found
And I’m hungry like the wolf
Strut on a line, its discord and rhyme
I howl and I whine I’m after you
Mouth is alive all running inside
And I’m hungry like the wolf


From the shadows, a shape emerged. It moved slowly to the center of the room and then crouched down, its arms stretched forward. It was a har wearing a magnificent wolf skin. The head was set with glass eyes, which Darq felt looked at him directly. Moving to the slow rhythm of the drum, the har got to his feet, swaying this way and that. Darq swallowed thickly. The dancer was Tava-edzen.

Apart from the wolf pelt down his back and over his head, he wore a long skirt of what looked like multiple strands of rope weighted with coins. There were gold bracelets around his ankles and up his arms. His chest was bare. Around his hips hung a huge golden disk that concealed his groin; it clearly represented the sun. But for this apparel, he was naked. As he turned, the strings of his skirt swung out in a circle. His arms coiled like smoke. Now the other instruments came back in, one by one, and voices began softly to sing once more. It was hypnotic, rhythmic, tribal. Tava-edzen was the epitome of a har, both gracefully feminine and fiercely masculine. As he rotated his hips, the candlelight danced on the sun disk. His body seemed boneless, moving in complicated steps, swaying, undulating. Darq was consumed by desire. If he didn’t touch this har, he’d die.


15) Rocket Queen – Guns N’ Roses (Calanthe/Panthera)

Here I am
And you're a Rocket Queen
I might be a little young
But honey I ain't naive
Here I am
And you're a Rocket Queen oh yeah
I might be too much
But honey you're a bit obscene

I see you standing
Standing on your own
It's such a lonely place for you
For you to be
If you need a shoulder
Or if you need a friend
I'll be here standing
Until the bitter end
No one needs the sorrow
No one needs the pain
I hate to see you
Walking out there
Out in the rain
So don't chastise me
Or think I, I mean you harm
Of those that take you
Leave you strung out
Much too far
Baby-yeah

Don't ever leave me
Say you'll always be there
All I ever wanted
Was for you
To know that I care


I recognized his smell, his slenderness and took one of his hands in my own. He gripped it hard. We didn’t say anything at all. For a while, we just lay like that, and it wasn’t calculated when I turned to face him. I just did it. In the moonlight, I could see he was weeping silently, his face all wet, like he didn’t really want to be there, but couldn’t help himself. I understood that. Out first kiss was fumbling, like children, breath visions fleeting and undecipherable. He had never been touched before except in violation, he had never given love. His skin, perfumed with the earth smell of cinnamon, was like cat-skin, furred yet smooth. I wanted to pounce, plunder that lithe pliancy; only some vestige of good sense held me back. I had to speak, because there were necessary words; even though he knew I was thinking them anyway.

“Thea, I understand what you’re giving me. I really do. Don’t get hurt because of this, will you. Promise me that, you won’t get all churned-up and grieving. In the future…”

“Hush,” he said. “I’m not a child. I know what I’m doing; all of it.” Nearly all of it. He smiled. “I don’t want you to show me anything. It must be this way.”

No, he was not a child, but he was afraid. I knew that because the caressing went on for far too long. I was starting to think he wouldn’t dare and I’d have to indulge in my original desire of conquest. I held him close, burying my nose in his wondrous hair, trying so desperately to feel passive to him, not frightening, not engulfing, just receptive, yearning. He stroked my skin, fascinated by it, because it was not a skin covering cruel desires to break and tear.


16) Dead Ringer For Love –Meat Loaf (All those little one night stands and random sexual encounters that are the sprinkles on top of the cupcake for these books)

Rock n’ roll and brew, rock n’ roll and brew
They don’t mean a thing when I compare ‘em next to you
Rock n’ roll and brew, rock n’ roll and brew
I know that you and I oh we got better things to do

I don’t know who you are or what you do, or where you go when you’re not around
I don’t know anything about you baby, but you’re everything I’m dreaming of
I don’t know who you are, but you’re a real dead ringer for love
A real dead ringer for love

Ever since I can remember you been hanging round this joint
You been trying to look away but now you finally got the point
I don’t have to know your name and I won’t tell you what to do
But a girl - she doesn’t live by only rock n roll and brew


Seel started herding me towards the door. As we left, he called back over his shoulder. “Just start thinking about aruna, Cal!” And he laughed.

“What’s that?” I asked him, not really expecting an answer.

“The finest time of your life, little Pellaz. If only I could be you."
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From what I can discern from Wikipedia, the idea is pure crack. Har Har they remind me of Enayla's faeries in that respect. I'll have to read these and grab a few songs ;)

Are most of the characters in the books druggies? Like in Francesca Lia Block Books?
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