So remember how I said I was going to do just text re-recs last week? I, uh, lied. In my defense, text is hard to re-rec, especially when it's a tiny story, and I'd just spent a lot of time on the music re-recs and had a lot of other stuff to do that day, and also, I kinda felt re-rec'd out. So I didn't want to. To make up for it, however, my fortnightly regular re-RECs this time around are serendipitously more text-heavy than usual. So I only lied to you, like, halfway.

Audio

Hope (a piano duet) by megancarns - This is just... wow. I really don't have any words for this besides "stunning". I mean, I've always hugely admired people who can write music, because I was born without the part of my brain that renders me capable of doing such things, but this is such an extra-complex and nuanced composition it makes in in super-duper awe of the talent required to think this up. Wow. Just... wow.

In the Rain (with Robo J) by The Morning Hollows - Instant addition to my mental hitRECord mixtape! Sure, the lyrics are simple and often repeated, but they're so heartfelt and unusually sweet I honestly don't care. Plus, you can really tell the extra work that was put into this by playing the drums and piano instead of just computer-generating them. Adorable. Gorgeous. The perfect spring love song.

My Heart Carries Stones by amferraro - I know, I know, I have this rule that even if I love a RECord that everyone and their mother is posting about, I try not to, just because I feel like I'd rather use my time to pimp out RECords that I feel aren't getting enough love. And this song of amferraro's is everywhere, plus I rec him every time I get the chance and should probably back off, but this song has banjo. I don't think you understand how much my folksy hippie parents have brainwashed me to have an instant emotionally positive reaction to any time a man with a husky voice sings along to a banjo. The instinct runs deeply and is impossible to shake. And, much like Sufjan Stevens (and this song totally sounds like a missing cut that he left off one of his states albums), I am not only instantly drawn to it, I feel compelled to share it with everyone. A lot. All the time.

Images

Tea and Shortbread by letsclimbtrees - I am utterly enamored with all of Lindsey's drawings. They are adorable and whimsical and I want them all to be real. Especially this one, which makes me giggle every single time I look at it. Look at that tea and shortbread dance! It's so cute that, should I ever encounter shortbread (and tea) that does that, I wouldn't even eat it. And I love me some shortbread.

Circles and Scales Texture by rejjie - Still in awe someone made this from my stuff. Heck, I'm still in awe of rejjie, period. That girl is a wizard with graphics creation. This could be used as a texture, but I'm just as enamored with it on its own. I would, like, wallpaper my room in this, I'm not even kidding.

Text

Whiskey in my Ears by AeB - Hello, sexy. I love the writing on its own, but this is begging, nay, pleading, to be made into a jazzy tune by someone who can actually write music. (Unlike, as we have previously discussed, me.) I will lend you my throatiest, huskiest vocals. It'll be fun. But this is begging for a re-mix. It wants it so bad.

Laws of Motion by fractaldust - I have a confession to make that is not actually that surprising: I hate math and pretty much anything to do with it. Math makes me feel like someone has taken a plastic bag, wrapped my brain in it, and is slowly depriving it of both oxygen and the will to live. And, since physics is basically a science dedicated to math, it should come as no surprise to anyone that I loathed that as well. But I respect the fact that Dusty's feelings on math are pretty much the opposite of mine (and I even find it adorable, kind of like when a little kid tells me how much they like Hannah Montana). So while I am almost always deeply fond of or charmed by Dusty's writing, it's rare it actually moves me on a fundamental level because let's be honest, math just doesn't do that to me. But this poem, which is a love poem based on Newton's three laws of motion, totally does. I read it and went "oh, that's what she's been on about this whole time!" because hey, I get it! There's poetry in math!

Sometimes. If Dusty's the one writing it. And no one is making me learn about vectors.

But I Do Not Have A Kitten by anthologia - Okay, so imagine if instead of writing about eating plums when he wasn't supposed to or wheelbarrows, William Carlos Williams wrote about kittens. It would be awesome. And also, can I just say, this poem sounds like a kitten. Don't ask me how a poem sounds like a kitten, because I can't really explain it, but it totally does, and is adorable.