https://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/determamfidd/132044751908/tumblr_nwumoa2FLE1r7vxd5?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio
https://determamfidd.tumblr.com/post/132044751908/audio_player_iframe/determamfidd/tumblr_nwumoa2FLE1r7vxd5?audio_file=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tumblr.com%2Faudio_file%2Fdetermamfidd%2F132044751908%2Ftumblr_nwumoa2FLE1r7vxd5

notanightlight:

A simple lullaby I wrote on a whim one night.  A dear friend of mine is having a baby, so this is dedicated to her!  

(this is the first thing I’ve recorded on my new mic and I am freaking out! the difference is magnificent!)

Oh Nota! This is glorious!

And oooh, new mic is SHINY! 

https://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/determamfidd/131196157758/tumblr_nw2kiyjZCV1r7vxd5?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio
https://determamfidd.tumblr.com/post/131196157758/audio_player_iframe/determamfidd/tumblr_nw2kiyjZCV1r7vxd5?audio_file=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tumblr.com%2Faudio_file%2Fdetermamfidd%2F131196157758%2Ftumblr_nw2kiyjZCV1r7vxd5

notanightlight:

This is a traveling song.  It starts as a simple melody, one voice alone, but it will not stay that way.  

This track will be sent to another musician, who will add something to it; a new harmony, an instrumental accompaniment, whatever they think will sound good.  Then they will post it with their addition and it will be sent on again.  

I can’t wait to see how this grows!

notanightlight:

Just a little fun designing songbirds of the fanmusicians I know!

@determamfidd, @the-dragongirl@flukeoffate, @aviva0017

EEEE I AM A PRETTY BURDIE

Oh my GOSH, Nota!!! I love you, dearest – this is just so gorgeous! holy hannah, do i have a lyrebird’s tail that is the actual best omfg

And the cradle song as my call!! EEEEEEEEE

lskjdhflksdagfldh the other burdies are just as wonderful, ahhh that cute as heck itty notabirb! The lovely and elegant Flukebirb! AWWW SWEET PURPLE AVIBIRD AND SPECKLED DRAGONBIRB

You are so magic, I love em so much! Thank you thank you thank you!!!!

so, I have always adored my ‘Secret Evil Dets’ icon (as made by the amazingly kind and ultra-ULTRA-talented notanightlight! I LOVE YOU NOTA) but it feels like the right time to shake it up a bit. I’ve had the same icon for a heck of a long time now, I guess…! Also, I cut all my hair off bc the Dwarfling kept chewing on it 🙂

And so…!

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(new icon is my beautiful dwarfsona, as made by the fab poplitealqueen! YOU SHOULD ABSOLUTELY GO BUY POP’S ART, bc commissions are open, and you too could get immortalised as a Dwarf!)

https://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/determamfidd/127288790428/tumblr_nsje2wbhER1r7vxd5?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio
https://determamfidd.tumblr.com/post/127288790428/audio_player_iframe/determamfidd/tumblr_nsje2wbhER1r7vxd5?audio_file=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tumblr.com%2Faudio_file%2Fdetermamfidd%2F127288790428%2Ftumblr_nsje2wbhER1r7vxd5

notanightlight:

I did the thing.  Written by the delightful morvidra!  You can read the lyrics here!

Enjoy!

UTTER PERFECTION

Garden Door

notanightlight:

You reap what you sow,
So I planted a door,
To take me to places I’ve not been before.

And though it may earn me,
Some curious looks,
I water it with passages read from my books.

I clear out the weeds,
(Save a few morning glories),
And dream about places known only in stories.

And when people ask me,
Just where will it go?
I tell them that I don’t really know.

But I can’t wait to see,
Can’t wait to go in!
Just as soon as it grows big enough to open.

-Notanightlight, 2015

https://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/determamfidd/120748635143/tumblr_npeiexJavJ1r7vxd5?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio
https://determamfidd.tumblr.com/post/120748635143/audio_player_iframe/determamfidd/tumblr_npeiexJavJ1r7vxd5?audio_file=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tumblr.com%2Faudio_file%2Fdetermamfidd%2F120748635143%2Ftumblr_npeiexJavJ1r7vxd5

notanightlight:

Sung as Gimrís, there is no song better suited to the relationship she was with Bofur, in my mind.  Sweet, silly, and head-over-heels… literally.

Guest appearance by my cat at the end, the little diva.

AH PERFECT ❤

https://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/determamfidd/118104145613/tumblr_nnt240cmtx1r7vxd5?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio
https://determamfidd.tumblr.com/post/118104145613/audio_player_iframe/determamfidd/tumblr_nnt240cmtx1r7vxd5?audio_file=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tumblr.com%2Faudio_file%2Fdetermamfidd%2F118104145613%2Ftumblr_nnt240cmtx1r7vxd5

notanightlight:

I have been working on a the outline for a new gigolas fic, but if I tackle this thing it’s going to be a doozy. It’s a bit of a period piece, and of course I made a song to go with it.  

This is partially to see if there would be any interest in a ghost hunter AU in which Gimli is a modern day Paranormal Investigator and Legolas is a spirit from the early 1900-1920s.

The song is very loosely based on Legolas’s Song of the Sea from LotR.

So I might have already let you know, but GODDAMN, THE IRON HILLS FOR ME. YOUR LYRICS THE MUSIC THE EVERYTHING PERFECTION. PER. FEC.TION. (and I cry every time I listen to any version of it.) I CAN’T WAIT TO HEAR IT IN THE PODCAST! THE GODDAMN IRON HILLS FOR ME. FOREVER. (yes, thank-you, very much, thanks)

sldkgfsljhgdfskjhgfsakha THANK YOU SO MUCH

It was absolutely a joint effort, that one! I wrote the words, the magnificent notanightlight composed the tune for the verses, and I composed the chorus. 

and then I spent the next few days swearing at it in musescore lolol

Thank you Nonnie! I am so SO happy you like it, I am hugely proud of our efforts and of all the people who have recorded it. IRON HILLS FOR MEEEEEE ❤