• title - artist
  • lyric

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• metamorphosis - infinity song
  • i've never had a decent answer to a single question // my personality, it lends to bad first impressions // you're basking in the light of day, a resurrection on your grave // like flowers in the breeze, you sway, but rooted in the dirt you'll stay
• this song is a curse - frank iero
  • but if i had my way, we would all be sorry

• night shift workers
• insomniacs
• the transitional period from august to september
• unfinished writing
• difficult women
• europop
• stomach pain
• librarians
• dead birds
• masochists
• back pain
• coconut crabs
• the overwhelmed

• nina simone
• doechii
• jenny holzer
• saul williams
• geoff rickly
• audre lorde
• princess luna
• rina sawayama
• rarity
• paige lewis
• ida b. wells
• bell hooks
• w.e.b dubois

approx. in order of acceptability

• IBM thinkcenter
• 2000s rivers cuomo

common settings found in my dreams

• dark, dense forests
• house parties
• theatrical productions, backstage and booth
• apartments
• school hallways (elementary/middle, high school rarely, college often)
• university campus
• shopping malls
• strip malls
• school busses
• grocery stores
• university dining hall
• libraries
• hotels
• trains, train stations
• locker rooms, gyms, indoor pools
• parks and campgrounds

common themes and motifs

• rarity
• trixie
• princess luna
• pinkie pie
• fluttershy
• starlight glimmer
• maud pie
• queen chrysalis
• applejack
• discord
• zecora
• princess cadence

gothic

• anemouth
• cloister black
• faith collapsing
• flesh wound
• iglesia
• jack pirate
• kingjola
• old england gothic
• perry gothic
• por siempre gótica
• seagram

scraggly

• art dystopia
• nightmare
• pasión acústica
• death mohawk
• metalshow
• heartless

ransom/mismatch

• sugar we're going down - fall out boy
• daddy lessons - beyonce
• 21 guns - green day
• holiday - green day
• check yes juliet - we the kings
• mama - my chemical romance
• bust your windows - jazmine sullivan
• black sheep - metric

• constance
• dove
• iris
• isolde
• fern
• juniper / june
• minerva
• antonia

• bergamot
• vetiver
• aldehydes
• petrichor
• oud
• smoke/burnt match
• patchouli
• lavender
• rosemary
• mandarin orange
• green tea
• oakmoss

a fun perfume collection could be themed after ...

• modes (music theory style. phrygian n shit)
• cryptids
• solar system
• phases in a star's life cycle