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Okay, I needed to cheer myself up, so you guys are getting a music post, albeit a rather shorter one than usual.

Five Songs I Wasn't Expecting To Be Fannish (that totally are)

1. Due South: The Journey of the Featherless by Cloud Cult

Got myself a mission
I'm going to find heaven
I made crepe paper wings
I think they'll carry me well

I left you a love poem
the best i have written
my favorite words
were the ones i couldn't spell

This was the first Cloud Cult song I ever heard (thank you,

colourofsaying!), and it is just Ray Kowalski all over, manic and unbalanced and desperate and totally, completely head-over-heels about Fraser.

2. Supernatural: The Ghost Inside Our House by Cloud Cult

we saw a ghost inside our house
or was it wishful thinking?
oh god, don't leave us by ourselves
or we're bound to take up drinking

please send us a miracle
so i know that there is meaning
except i think that it's a miracle
just to be *here* breathing

This is maybe stretching the theme a little, because I knew this song was Sam and Dean as soon as I heard it, but I really wasn't expecting it to be when I downloaded it, and it so, so is. It doesn't even have to read as all that shippy; as much as I love the hot gay incest part, I'm equally fascinated by the insane, dysfunctional, codependent family dynamic, and this fits that in a wonderfully low-key, kind of sad way.

3. Firefly: Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect by The Decemberists

And here I dreamt I was a soldier
And I marched the streets of Birkenau
And I recall in spring
The perfume that the air would bring
To the indolent town
Where the barkers call the moon down
The carnival was ringing loudly now
And just to lay with you
There's nothing that I wouldn't do
Save lay my rifle down

This song drove me crazy for a long time, because I knew it had to fit one of my fandoms, but I couldn't decide which one. And then I was walking to the grocery store and I heard the line about being vagabonds who travel without seatbelts on and all of a sudden I thought, of course, it's the Browncoats, who else would it be. There's something compelling in the bitter revolutionary whose revolution has come and gone, I think, and The Decemberists have lyrics twisty enough to hold that.

4. Doctor Who: Cannot Lay My Head Down by Wolfstone

I cannot lay my head here
This place is not my home
I cannot take a rest here
I'm bound to carry on

Lead me down your road Kathy
Lead me down your road
For if I cannot stay here
Then I will share your load

I promise that the next music post I do will be all Doctor Who, all the time, because a few weeks ago

colourofsaying and I were bored one night and came up with the most epic Doctor/Master playlist in existence. But in the meantime - I don't know what this song is actually supposed to be about, because I've thought of it as a Doctor song from pretty much the first time I saw an episode of Doctor Who.

5. Iron Man movieverse: Please Don't Do This To Me by The Plain White T's

You call me in the middle of the night
Saying that you just got home
You're lucky I'm even still awake
Awake enough to answer the phone
But I knew it would be you'cause I was hoping that you'd call
Hoping you'd say that you were sorry
But you don't apologize at all
And it's not ok and it's not alright
What have you been doing with those guys all night?

The fact that I don't actually especially ship it does not change the fact that this is 100% Tony/Rhodey. This would be the song playing in the background of the fight at Tony's birthday party in the second movie. Oh Rhodey, you put up with so much for that beautiful bastard.