A tiny little FST -- or mixtape, or playlist, or whatever you'd like to call it -- inspired by the Rose Bride. This originally appeared on the Wired on 29 February, 2024 -- leap day, and of course, Anthy's birthday. Why? Well, a leap year birthday is a special thing, and I love her. It's honestly as silly and simple as that. This is my gift to a character who I see along the edges of my mirror☆, who I adore in all her sadness and complexity and tragedy and beauty, who helps me make sense of my own.
Have some songs that I personally find Anthyesque, whether they reflect her story or her heart or both. You might not feel that they fit, and that's more than okay! Fandom is subjective, and that's the beauty of it.
- Björk - Bachelorette (SP/YT)
- A Perfect Circle - Rose (SP/YT)
- Tori Amos - Precious Things (SP/YT)
- Manic Street Preachers - Little Baby Nothing (SP/YT)
- Kylie Minogue - Dreams (SP/YT)
- Suede - Shadow Self (SP/YT)
- KOTOKO - Suppuration -core- (SP/YT)
(Hell yeah, they're downloadble mp3s. Get your nostalgia back on already and steal some music off the internet like we all used to. Lain approves, you know it. ♥)
☆ - Because, sadly, that I need to say this whenever I say I relate to her: no, I do not think, nor have I ever thought, that I am Himemiya Anthy. If someone tells you that I do/have, let me unequivocally state that you are being lied to.