Jukebox exchange 2026
Apr. 26th, 2026 04:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trefoil_underscoreJukebox jukebox jukebox! Thanks for reading my letter. Prompts are optional, gift option is toggled on/treats are appreciated, I like any POV, tense or fic rating and I like both art and fic. For Jukebox I'm generally happy to receive anything unusual or outside of my usual wheelhouse as this is a different sort of exchange; if a song I've requested inspires you in any way, I'd like to see what that is!
Likes:
DNW:
Specific Prompts!
Chaos Theory - GRiZ X Wooli (Song) (Lyrics)
AN UNSTOPPABLE CRESCENDO OF INFINITE ENERGY!
This gives me incredible sci-fi mad scientist (/wizard? /symphony conductor with the tuning/baton tapping at the beginning??) vibes. It's so over the top and joyful, there's a kind of giddy awe at the raw power and beauty of the universe. I'm curious what you'd make of this character's morality. I'm feeling morally questionable antihero who shows up to save the day but with significantly more explosions than desired.
Firebird - MDK ft. Nick Sadler (Music Video)
And this is entirely optional but IF you want more information to jump off from here, there is also a "lore" page, with 1-Infinite, 3-Lightspeed and 5-Critical Hit being the ones concerned with the Firebird/Phoenix/Guardian. Infinite basically recaps the music video and the other two cover the aftermath, in which the Firebird blasts off into space in search of reinforcements and gets into a space battle with another overpowered creature. There's also a lot of wacky hijinks in which Warrior gets rescued and subsequently annoyed by a dirtbag gamer wizard. You may peruse for your amusement/further context if desired, but don't feel compelled to make your fic/art compliant with the wider canon.
This is just so campy and high-energy and colorful. I think the Warrior of Wubstep and the Firebird should be friends and keep saving each other from the crazy predicaments they end up in. Perhaps a look at their next meeting after the end of the music video. Also, any worldbuilding about how and why the Firebird ended up guarding the Jelly Castle, and/or is it the other way round? Had Warrior seen it before the invasion?
Magenta Mountain - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (Song) (Lyrics)
What do you mean? You can't see it?
There's a lot of interesting stuff going on in this song. The 3 different perspectives, the post-apocalyptic vibe, the mountain itself. What happens when the "it's not real!" friend also starts seeing things, presumably after the mountain-searcher has already left? Do they ever find their way to the mountain as well?
Murder at the Bingo Hall - Amigo the Devil (Song) (Lyrics)
I was looking around trying to track down who the biggest threat would be
Seeing the fear in everybody's eyes, and apparently it was me
I guess I know why
I love the energy here. How do you interpret this song? Is it an old-timey gambling hall? This contradicts some of the song details but I’m not opposed to some delicious anachronism stew, an AU, time travel or what have you. Or is it really just average Wednesday night bingo, which the town maniac reigns over with an iron fist? Is he terrorizing the old folks from the retirement home? Or is it some dark fantasy version of bingo night where lives and magic are on the line? Does this town just get really really competitive about bingo? What on earth is at stake for this game? A tea cozy? Water rights to the whole valley? Who’s the singer? Is there indeed a murder at the bingo hall or is he just "Killing it?" Both...??
Raspberry Cane - Youth Lagoon (Music Video) (Lyrics)
This dimension and the next, the living and the dead
I'm fascinated by the potential worldbuilding here. What's up with all the creatures? How do the lyrics about sleep/death, the wavering between optimism/pessimism, intersect with the visuals? Why does the old man in the first scene smile when he sees the giant-weasel-like creature? (Is that a smile or a grimace? I could be misreading it.) I think he's also in the scene with the burning.. pylon? Fire tower?, so I wonder if that was his first experience with these creatures.
Sailing the Solar Flares - Dirtwire (Song)
This one's an instrumental! I thought it would be interesting to throw an instrumental in here as a sort of free space to do what you want and see what might happen. You can use the title as a jumping off point for ideas or just let the sounds inspire you. If you want, you could do sort of an abstract synesthesia thing.
sever the blight - hemlocke springs (Music Video) (Lyrics)
It's so charming, charming, he'll find a replacement for me
This music video is gorgeous and trippy and has a whole storyline. What’s going on with the two women? Do they know each other? Are they old friends/lovers? Or did the new wife only just recently find out about the wife in the basement, and decide to rescue her?
Up the Hills - Current Swell (Song) (Lyrics)
Your little black book won't help you now, but you still got your good old friend denial
Who's the singer here? A person, or some omniscient observer, or what? I love the schadenfreude of it all, mocking a powerful douchebag who's finally experiencing helplessness at the hands of a disaster far beyond their ability to control.
Likes:
- Canon divergence or compliance
- different first meetings
- character studies
- Worldbuilding
- mental illness/PTSD
- injury/disability
- concussions/head trauma treated seriously
- gallows humor
- hurt/comfort (or hurt/no comfort, whump)
- weird west
- horror AU or playing up the horror of canon
- ghosts/undead
- hair petting/head touching to show affection
- darkfic, fluff, smut, gen, humor, anything in between.
- Characters with very intense hard to define relationships.
DNW:
- AI generated content
- unrequested genre-shift AUs
- explicit under 16 sex
- unrequested trans headcanons or a focus on "real-world" gender dysphoria (omegaverse or similar fantasy angst fine)
- scat/watersports
- spanking
- unrequested punishment/discipline kink
- lots of dirty talk/degrading sexual talk
- a focus on pregnancy
- ejaculating on face
- focus on nipple or spit stuff
- repeated/immersion-breaking consent check-ins esp. between characters it would be out of character for
- feminizing the character who's bottoming (ex. describing them as significantly shorter or more delicate than they are in canon)
- fingore/detailed descriptions of finger or toe injuries (unless it's about a canon injury or how a Lee Van Cleef character lost his fingertip)
- body parts freezing and breaking off
- characters suddenly "getting over" a canon long term disability or character tic
Specific Prompts!
Chaos Theory - GRiZ X Wooli (Song) (Lyrics)
AN UNSTOPPABLE CRESCENDO OF INFINITE ENERGY!
This gives me incredible sci-fi mad scientist (/wizard? /symphony conductor with the tuning/baton tapping at the beginning??) vibes. It's so over the top and joyful, there's a kind of giddy awe at the raw power and beauty of the universe. I'm curious what you'd make of this character's morality. I'm feeling morally questionable antihero who shows up to save the day but with significantly more explosions than desired.
Firebird - MDK ft. Nick Sadler (Music Video)
And this is entirely optional but IF you want more information to jump off from here, there is also a "lore" page, with 1-Infinite, 3-Lightspeed and 5-Critical Hit being the ones concerned with the Firebird/Phoenix/Guardian. Infinite basically recaps the music video and the other two cover the aftermath, in which the Firebird blasts off into space in search of reinforcements and gets into a space battle with another overpowered creature. There's also a lot of wacky hijinks in which Warrior gets rescued and subsequently annoyed by a dirtbag gamer wizard. You may peruse for your amusement/further context if desired, but don't feel compelled to make your fic/art compliant with the wider canon.
This is just so campy and high-energy and colorful. I think the Warrior of Wubstep and the Firebird should be friends and keep saving each other from the crazy predicaments they end up in. Perhaps a look at their next meeting after the end of the music video. Also, any worldbuilding about how and why the Firebird ended up guarding the Jelly Castle, and/or is it the other way round? Had Warrior seen it before the invasion?
Magenta Mountain - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (Song) (Lyrics)
What do you mean? You can't see it?
There's a lot of interesting stuff going on in this song. The 3 different perspectives, the post-apocalyptic vibe, the mountain itself. What happens when the "it's not real!" friend also starts seeing things, presumably after the mountain-searcher has already left? Do they ever find their way to the mountain as well?
Murder at the Bingo Hall - Amigo the Devil (Song) (Lyrics)
I was looking around trying to track down who the biggest threat would be
Seeing the fear in everybody's eyes, and apparently it was me
I guess I know why
I love the energy here. How do you interpret this song? Is it an old-timey gambling hall? This contradicts some of the song details but I’m not opposed to some delicious anachronism stew, an AU, time travel or what have you. Or is it really just average Wednesday night bingo, which the town maniac reigns over with an iron fist? Is he terrorizing the old folks from the retirement home? Or is it some dark fantasy version of bingo night where lives and magic are on the line? Does this town just get really really competitive about bingo? What on earth is at stake for this game? A tea cozy? Water rights to the whole valley? Who’s the singer? Is there indeed a murder at the bingo hall or is he just "Killing it?" Both...??
Raspberry Cane - Youth Lagoon (Music Video) (Lyrics)
This dimension and the next, the living and the dead
I'm fascinated by the potential worldbuilding here. What's up with all the creatures? How do the lyrics about sleep/death, the wavering between optimism/pessimism, intersect with the visuals? Why does the old man in the first scene smile when he sees the giant-weasel-like creature? (Is that a smile or a grimace? I could be misreading it.) I think he's also in the scene with the burning.. pylon? Fire tower?, so I wonder if that was his first experience with these creatures.
Sailing the Solar Flares - Dirtwire (Song)
This one's an instrumental! I thought it would be interesting to throw an instrumental in here as a sort of free space to do what you want and see what might happen. You can use the title as a jumping off point for ideas or just let the sounds inspire you. If you want, you could do sort of an abstract synesthesia thing.
sever the blight - hemlocke springs (Music Video) (Lyrics)
It's so charming, charming, he'll find a replacement for me
This music video is gorgeous and trippy and has a whole storyline. What’s going on with the two women? Do they know each other? Are they old friends/lovers? Or did the new wife only just recently find out about the wife in the basement, and decide to rescue her?
Up the Hills - Current Swell (Song) (Lyrics)
Your little black book won't help you now, but you still got your good old friend denial
Who's the singer here? A person, or some omniscient observer, or what? I love the schadenfreude of it all, mocking a powerful douchebag who's finally experiencing helplessness at the hands of a disaster far beyond their ability to control.