snowflake 2k26 #10

[queenslayerbee]

Challenge #10: Big Mood (Board).
CHOOSE SOMETHING YOU LOVE AND CREATE A MINI MOOD COLLECTION OF THREE (or more) ITEMS THAT EVOKE YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT IT. You don’t have to limit yourself to visual media, or collect the items into a special format like a square (though you can if you’d like).

I love putting on music to set the mood while I'm writing. Among other things, but I get a bit more involved with Writing Playlists than with Studying Playlists or Workout Playlists (where I often just download a instrumental blues/trap youtube playlists respectively and call it a day LOL). I download my music instead of using spotify or similar services, so I can always drag the few chosen songs I want for a while, switch it up, add and remove songs, have them on repeat if that's what's working at the moment... And I always use instrumental music, because it's great for building an atmosphere without distracting me. 

I thought I'd share the songs I've been putting on to write lately! Although other than some outlining/looking over WIPs, these days I've mostly just done a handful of threesentenceficathon prompts lol (you can see them here, alongside my own prompts in the first post of the event. #selfpromo).

• Dave Porter - A Carol for Carol. The entirety of Pluribus's soundtrack is in rotation, but this one is my favourite.
• Bear McCreary - Wondrous Love. Black Sails's soundtrack (and Bear McCreary in general) is another recurrent visit around here LOL.
• Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto for violin, strings, and basso continuo in A minor RV356 No. 6 Op.3 "L'estro Armonico."
• Christophe Beck - Close Your Eyes.
• Clint Mansell - Lux Aeterna. Usually I pick songs he did for Black Swan but this one is getting to me more, lately.
• Ara Malikian - Bachelorette (Björk cover).
• Lolita Ritmanis - Catwoman: Chase Me.
• Hans Zimmer & Junkie XL - Beautiful Lie. Another A+ soundtrack IMO.
• Angelo Badalamenti - Laura Palmer's Theme.
• Kerenza Peacock - Dancing Folk: I. First Movement.
• Gwenifer Raymond - Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark.
• Bioshock soundtrack - Welcome to Rapture. I can't concentrate enough to play videogames but I sure love their OSTs.
• Jed Kurzel - The Covenant. The Alien prequels' soundtrack also goes in and out a lot lol.

I would love to hear your favourite instrumental songs, albums, film or videogame soundtracks... More to add to the list :P

Comments

[catness]

Looks like an interesting list! I also like Hans Zimmer. I'll try out all these tracks later. Here is my favourite game soundtrack: Gabriel Knight collection, by Robert Holmes. https://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/gabriel-knight-mysteries-soundtrack-gabriel-knight-1-3 (Warning - a couple of songs are with lyrics, designed as a lost Wagner opera.)

[queenslayerbee]

Hans Zimmer is a great composer!

Thanks for the rec :D. I'm on the first song rn and I can already tell I'm going to like it. And hey, I do love Wagner's operas, so I'm sure I'll enjoy those too.

[goodbyebird]

This is a great list of songs. I've yet to try the Pluribus score, but I've heard a lot of praise.

[queenslayerbee]

It's really good! Dave Porter has quickly raised in my list of favourite composers.