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(I posted the first one of these here, but when I added the second one on AO3 I forgot to also do it here, so now here it is all at once...)

These are the playlists for both parts of my Remus/Tonks story, "Be the Light in My Lantern" and the sequel "Raise Your Lantern High." Let me tell you a story about how that all started...

Basically, way back when I started writing this story, I had a silly idea about using a song snippet/quote at the start of each chapter – in large part because I wanted to use the "traditional" song "God Rest Ye Merry Hippogriphs" as one of them!

But once I started thinking about songs that might work well with the story, I couldn't stop. It became a parallel project: creating the fanmix, one song per chapter, where the song's lyrics and hopefully even overall feel would reflect something about the content of that chapter. It was an epic project, at one point involving 40+ scraps of paper spread out across the kitchen table to determine which songs fit best with which chapters...

The end results of all that overzealous focus now exist in listen-able playlist form! Embedding the links isn't working well here, unfortunately, so I'm going to link to the same thing on AO3 instead. Here you can find both playlists (one for "Be the Light in My Lantern" and one for "Raise Your Lantern High") as well as the tracklists. YES, feel free to consider the "Raise Your Lantern High" mix a teaser for the upcoming story!

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ETA: 8tracks, which hosted the playlists, has since stopped streaming, so the links I had used may eventually stop working. So instead I wrote up the tracklist for the Be the Light in My Lantern story mix in a separate post, and now here's the tracklist for the Raise Your Lantern High story mix:

RAISE YOUR LANTERN HIGH STORY MIX

1. Get Back On – Roland Satterwhite
     (for Chapter 1: Get Back On)
2. Past in Present – Feist
     (for Chapter 2: Sympathy from All Sides but the Right One)
3. Promise Me – Lucy Kaplansky
     (for Chapter 3: To the Wolves)
4. Winter When He Goes – Tracy Grammer
     (for Chapter 4: Origin Stories)
5. The Bridge – Halla Norðfjörð
     (for Chapter 5: Quiet)
6. Rambling Man – Laura Marling
     (for Chapter 6: Knocking on Doors)
7. Dancing in the Dark – Bruce Springsteen
     (for Chapter 7: Enquiring Minds)
8. Short Skirt/Long Jacket – Cake
     (for Chapter 8: Nymphadora Tonks and the Case of the Dodgy Bookseller)
9. Spanish Dancer – Patti Scialfa
     (for Chapter 9: From Different Angles)
10. Little Bird – Lisa Hannigan
     (for Chapter 10: Samhain Night)
11. We're a Mystery – Lindsay Phillips
     (for Chapter 11: Midwinter Nights)
12. Going Home - Ásgeir Trausti
     (for Chapter 12: Christmas at the Burrow)
13. Your Company – Markéta Irglová
     (for Chapter 13: Coming Together and Moving Apart)
14. Wolves – Josh Ritter
     (for Chapter 14: Questions and Offers)
15. Alone Apart - The Swell Season
     (for Chapter 15: Alone Apart)
16. Animal – Myrra Rós
     (for Chapter 16: The Duel)
17. When I Get There – Lucie Thorne
     (for Chapter 17: Worse Than No News)
18. Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) – Florence + The Machine
     (for Chapter 18: Scents of Spring)
19. Secret Heart – Ron Sexsmith
     (for Chapter 19: Beltane Eve)
20. Golden Heart – Mark Knopfler
     (for Chapter 20: Making a Scene)
21. Sigh No More – Mumford & Sons
     (for Chapter 21: Returning)
22. Mississippi – Bob Dylan
     (for Chapter 22: Raise Your Lantern High)

In honor of the fact that "Raise Your Lantern High" (i.e., Be the Light in My Lantern Pt. 2) is coming sooo soooon – and with many thanks to

nerak_rose who pointed me in the right direction to finally figure out how to make an online fanmix! – I've put together the official Be the Light in My Lantern Playlist.

These are the songs from which I drew the quotes that head up each chapter of the story (and yes, that's so dorky, but I'm a singer and I really do think in music sometimes!) It's a quirky mix of a few well-known classics (the Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, etc.) and a whole lot of relatively unknown, wonderful singer-songwriters I've discovered or even been lucky enough to know personally over the years. Definitely gives insight into my music interests; also gives insight into what I've been listening to over the five years it's taken to write this story! A labor of love, and an homage to singers I admire. Okay, I'll shut up now and link to it:

You can find the tracklist and a link to the mix here.

Or just go straight to listening to it here.

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ETA: 8tracks, which hosted those playlists, has since stopped streaming, so that link may eventually stop working. So instead I'll add the list of tracks here (though without links) for those who are interested:

BE THE LIGHT IN MY LANTERN STORY MIX

1. Hello Goodbye – The Beatles
        (for Chapter 1: The Newest Member of the Order)
2. Si Tu Disais – Calexico
        (for Chapter 2: Cleaning Days)
3. Bird on a Wire – k.d. lang (cover of Leonard Cohen)
        (for Chapter 3: Werewolves and Woes)
4. Become You – Indigo Girls
        (for Chapter 4: The Captive and the Cousin)
5. Angel with a Broken Wing – Jennie Stearns
        (for Chapter 5: Surviving October)
6. Lantern – Josh Ritter
        (for Chapter 6: The Classics Reimagined + became the title to the whole story!)
7. Feeling the Pull – The Swell Season
        (for Chapter 7: Feeling the Pull)
[The song for Chapter 8: 'Tis the Season would be "God Rest Ye Merry Hippogriphs," which of course doesn't exist...though maybe I'll do a little demo recording at some point...]
8. Rexroth's Daughter – Joan Baez (cover of Greg Brown)
        (for Chapter 9: Who You Believe Yourself to Be)
9. Let's Do Everything Again For The First Time – Of Montreal
        (for Chapter 10: Everything for the First Time)
10. Lover, You Should Have Come Over – Jeff Buckley
        (for Chapter 11: A Cautious Distance)
11. Heart Full of Holes – Mark Knopfler
        (for Chapter 12: Healing Wounds)
12. How Old – Ginger Redcliff
        (for Chapter 13: Breakout)
13. Waiting for My Real Life to Begin – Colin Hay
        (for Chapter 14: A Little Hope)
14. Sweet on Me – Aly Tadros/The Sweetness
        (for Chapter 15: Things Unsaid)
15. Here We Go Again – Angus & Julia Stone
        (for Chapter 16: The Calm Before the Storm)
16. Everywhere I Go – Richie Stearns
        (for Chapter 17: The Storm)
17. How Will He Find Me – Deb Talan
        (for Chapter 18: The Aftermath)

(RAISE YOUR LANTERN HIGH STORY MIX track list is in a separate post, HERE.)

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