[Nema/Summer playlist] eyes focused like a microscope

[sharonaparadox]

[Nema/Summer] eyes focused like a microscope
Two young girls, one a scientist and the other a hero, figuring life out and falling in love. An Arrebatoshipping fanmix, mostly from Nema's perspective.
↪ [click the titles below for links to the songs!]

i. Young Summer - Alright
[i get the feeling you don't wanna leave yet / i can see it in your eyes / yeah, you can feel it]

ii. Mary Lambert - Heart On My Sleeve
[let me be your compass / the light that you see in a sunset / good love, your whole life (let me be)]

iii. Tegan and Sara - On Directing
[you’re directing me / your eyes focused like a microscope / get the cuts you need / eyes focused like a microscope]

iv. Linying and Evan Low - I Want You to Know (Zedd ft. Selena Gomez cover)
[i want you to know that it’s our time / you and me bleed the same light / i want you to know that i’m all yours / you and me run the same course]

v. Hayley Kiyoko - Ease My Mind
[i need you to be here / i need to see you crystal clear / like diamonds in a coal mine / in the moonlight when you appear]

vi. GILLE(ジル) - Lights (Ellie Goulding cover)
[you show the lights that stop me turn to stone / you shine it when i’m alone / and so i tell myself that i’ll be strong / and dreaming when they’re gone]

vii. Ani DiFranco - Overlap
[i search your profile / for a translation / i study the conversation / like a map / ’cause i know there is strength / in the differences between us / and i know there is comfort / where we overlap]

viii. The Hush Sound - You Are The Moon
[i will bring a mirror, so silver, so exact / so precise and so pristine, a perfect pane of glass / i will set the mirror up to face the blackened sky / you will see your beauty every morning that you rise]

Original tags from Tumblr post on January 13, 2017 (with added punctuation and paragraph breaks for easier reading):

i'm probably the least qualified person to make a fanmix for this ship, but if i don't, who will? never made a mix b4 and my music tastes run towards the weird and angsty, so it was tough trying not to make a generic femslash mix... and trying to fit the actual characters!

i decided to go more for an interpretation where they're a little older and trying to balance their lives and their work and their love for each other, but idk how well that came across since i'm more used to vidding where you only need one part of the song to fit, and you can discard or edit out anything that doesn't! but obvs i can't make a vid for these two since there is no footage for them and barely any fanart of the game period (and practically none of which has nema)

so some of these might need a little creative interpretation to fit the general theme? which if i'm being honest was mostly 'small scientist loves hero gf' haha. also i guess it seems unnecessary to have covers in this case, but, as a vidder, i tend to hoard covers so i can vid without hitting copyright. anyways, the covers are very chill and not performed by white people so maybe that is a plus. idk, i'm just used to hearing these versions now

also i didn't originally intend this to only have songs with female artists, but once i noticed that was how it was going i didn't fight it. my only real rules were no sexual themes (nema and summer are pretty young) and no ableist terms (the c word is v common in love songs). the fact that this ended up being basically a wlw mix is the only thing i'm really one hundred percent happy about

honestly can't believe i'm writing a novel in the tags but i wanted to explain some things without clogging up the actual post! anyways i'm done now