#dm playlist

Dark Matter

DISAPPEAR is the first new one, placed with Soulbound. Starset songs continue to be about Shiroganes, which is all I'll say for this one (and I guess at this point 'Shirogane' really means anyone closely associated with Team Voltron. Krolia's point about House Shirogane in Carry Me Home is pretty spot on)

(Stone heart, paired with empty eyes/That stared right through mine)

SOMETHING WICKED is. well. I'll leave you with my initial reaction.

(When all of the forces/Have been overrun/You'll whisper, serpent tongue/What you fear you have become/Something wicked this way comes...)

Dystopian Fiction

TUNNELVISION is Team Earth saying "no, fuck you Sanda and Torrent, we don't care if we're charged with treason people deserve to know"

(You took me for a fly/And fancied yourself a spider in a web of little lies/What a nice surprise/When the curtain's pulled back, you can see the whole trap inside/And now the emperor has got no clothes/What a lovely show/When your cover's blown, you’ll never know/'Cause you can’t see past your nose)

Design Your Universe

okay this playlist is in a weird spot bc like. it is DM canon. But it's not the DM canon we know and love. Hopefully we'll see some characters from it in the next thing I post (except my current free time is mass effect bc I don't need to brain and my creative energy is spent on projects)

Divide and Conquer explains where things changed from the DM canon we know and love. It's about how a dictator, no matter their intentions, is never the correct choice.

(Seek the mastermind/The one who’s always right/We’re searching now and endlessly to set us free/Seek the mastermind (Seek the mastermind)/There’s no one you will find)

Martyr of the Free World is a very specific piece of that chang from main canon, the martyr of the Blade equivalent

(If you gun down the messenger/You guarantee that she will be made/Into a saint/A martyr of the free word)

Cosmic Vertigo is here for the same reason as in the main playlist

(Just enjoy it while it lasts/Cling not to the broken past)

The Land of Unicorns is Gloryhammer finally making a comeback, and Team Voltron meeting up with, well, Team Voltron.

(Ride far away, cross the mighty River Tay/Over mountains into the unknown/Follow your heart, let it guide you through the dark/To the Land of Unicorns)

Return to Me is another fight over the Black Lion, but the players aren't who you think, which is the final goal of Storm the Castle

(Return what you have taken from me/Rightfully mine, I will not allow this, thief/Think you know this weapon in your hands?/You are a fool, I am his only command)

(We will not be prisoners/In a kingdom taken hostage by her crown)

Unleashed is from the perspective of The Matriarch, for once, showing a little about how this version of her was not particularly willing

(Where was I meant to be?/I feel I'm lost in a dream/Long for the day I can be myself/Free)

Hootsforce is mostly here bc it's fun. But it's also about a final battle.

(Fight for the king, for the hammer and the ring/Fight for the ancient story)

Design Your Universe, as the title track of this one, is all about how a simple change can change the world. It's also uh.... pretty literal