vampires will never hurt you

[mauvais_pli]

I have two mini-mixes for you today, born, seemingly, of an absolutely warped mental state

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[somebraveapollo]

I LOVE Sex on Fire, but mostly what I want to know is, what's the translation pun?

[mauvais_pli]

That cover blew my mind, ngl!

And the pun is, uh, sort of lame. 'Witch' in russian is ведьма [ved'ma], the etymology of the word is basically an archaic verison of 'to know' and the word 'mother', which is no long jump to 'woman'. Plus I tried to play around with 'no' and 'know' (and between my friends & I, we like to purposefully screw up that spelling) but I sort of gave up.

[somebraveapollo]

Mmm, plus bonus Bob Marley reference! Always a good thing.

Also, awesome etymology for witch. Were there witch-hunts in Russia?

[mauvais_pli]

Were there witch-hunts in Russia?
Yeah, there were laws against witchcraft, but as far as I'm aware the 'hunts' didn't reach Europe/Catholic world levels. I read something about domestic laws, how a husband could punish a wife is suspected of witchcraft, but couldn't divorce her, or some such. I don't have indepth information, and I'm sure there must have been regional / temporary spikes in witch-persecution activity, but it was not a Thing.

[moderntrickster]

Loooooove them! A couple of these (I'm not going to tell you which~~) are on my forthcoming Lucrezia Borgia mix. :D

[mauvais_pli]

That is very intriguing, well done. Also exciting, so I'm looking forward to it XD

[moderntrickster]

I like that we have similar taste in music. Your playlist reblogs on Tumblr are always exciting, too! :D

[mauvais_pli]

Just stand there 'cause I'm gonna (internet)hug you.

[cordialcount]

All the art under Know Woman No are absolutely gorgeous, and I'm cheered there are that many great songs with expletive-happy vampires in the world.

[mauvais_pli]

I'm glad you like it! My tumblr existence is not for nothing if I find stuff like that, I find.

And aw, you look right through me. "songs with expletive-happy vampires" is basically what I was going for, and, uh, no regrets XD

Also your icon is so gorgeous *drools*

[cordialcount]

I am so weak for gold and black. *g*

Do you draw most of your music recs on tumblr by following specific aggregators, or more roam around in your search for lovely things?

[mauvais_pli]

A few of the people I follow are themselves music nuts, sometimes for specific genres. For instance, my latest haul was from plenilune and her (one) (two) music tags, mostly of folky and gothic persuasion. Then I do follow a couple bandom blogs and a few people who predominantly post music, OneWeekOneBand, and whatever just shows up on my dash randomly. However, I also recently followed jehandsome who regularly goes through the fanmix tag and from whom I now reblog most mixtape/playlist things, which saves me going into the tag myself.

But then I also often re-discover some song or two in my own music library and go exploring in the artist's discography, and associated acts and such.

[ikel89]

Ah, no archive for all of the music goodness?

[mauvais_pli]

It's a box folder! I thought you said those worked for you to download whole?

[ikel89]

Worked now, thanks! (false alarm, or I still can't brain .___.)