Archive of my Own (feat. Kasane Teto)

This little gremlin discovered fan fiction and is really excited to tell you all about it! STREAM THE SONG HERE: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/zynthesiren/archive-of-my-own BUY THE SONG HERE: https://zynthesiren.bandcamp.com/track/archive-of-my-own-feat-kasane-teto Direct links to my music pages: https://open.spotify.com/artist/142FA3QrrqyAtMd4LcPjqH https://listen.tidal.com/artist/45842929 https://music.apple.com/us/artist/zynthesiren/1748863625 https://www.deezer.com/en/artist/254496252 INSTRUMENTAL AND LYRICS HERE: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11SzYJ_2q1vURibssEe68L2TpAZF23CzG?usp=sharing Vocals were made with Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro https://dreamtonics.com/synthesizerv/ Voice bank - Kasane Teto SV2 https://kasaneteto.jp CREDIT: Original song by Zynthesiren Metal Instrumental, Vocal notation, Video editing and Animation: Zynthesiren Lyrics: Zynthesiren and LovelyMetalhead Proof-read and extra help: LovelyMetalhead Extra lyric video art by Andromeda Blackfang Cover and Thumbnail Art: SlipLupkie https://vgen.co/slipLupkie https://sliplupkie.carrd.co Zynthesiren logo: Holo Dreamz https://www.fiverr.com/holo_dreamz https://www.instagram.com/holo.dreamz.designs/ Mix and Master: Slaughtered Studio https://meconnect.ru/slaughteredstudio Archive fun facts: - The idea for the song came from when LovelyMetalhead and I started watching Heated Rivalry and had a laugh when we learned it was loosely a reworded Stucky fanfic, or Steve + Bucky from the Marvel movies. We started talking about books like Fifty Shades that used to be a Twilight fanfic and The Love Hypothesis, which is a Reylo fanfic. Seeing fanfiction get turned into books and eventually movies inspired the base idea for this song. The conversation then led to “What if we did a Teto song where she’s obsessed with AO3 fanfics and starts writing her own?” and from that, this song was born - I decided to go for a more Pop Punk style for Teto, in a similar vein to a MonochroMenace song. The chorus is also a deliberate Interpolation of Ode to Joy, which came from when we wrote the lyric “Your fanfic sparks joy in my heart” and I used the Canon in D chord progression, as a reference to Green Day’s Basket Case - The majority of the terms and tropes in the song is all thanks to LovelyMetalhead, who had a pretty deep understanding of Ao3 and writes their own fanfictions. (don’t ask what their Ao3 handle is, It’s a government secret) So the most fun part of the song was to squeeze in as many references as possible. Like categorising how spicy a fic is by fruit, and Dead Dove contains material that will be upsetting to some - Originally, the song was just going to be Teto as a fangirl. Verse 2 would actually be her correcting her favorite author as part of a parasocial relationship. That was later changed to her becoming a writer when we wrote the first pre-chorus line - The MSPaint style artwork returns! Except this time, I’m not drawing with photoshop, but Aseprite. Some sections like the choruses and the bridge were drawn by Andromeda Blackfang, and then I redrew them in Aseprite to give Teto that detailed pixel art style - When we were working on this lyric video, we were wondering if the fanfiction in the song was gonna be real or a made up one. My Plan was to have it be a love story between either Steve+Bucky or Steve+Logan/Wolverine. More likely the latter since that is LoveyMetalhead’s OTP. But then after I added a one-off joke with “Good Morning Sex on TV” on the first verse fanfic (referencing both American Dad and Family Guy as a joke), Lovely said “what if we made it Brian+Roger the Alien” and that was so funny that we made that the only pairing, as a running joke. (and Andromeda got to draw them making out sloppy style and I got to make that into pixel art!) - Due to time constraints, I didn’t get to squeeze in as many cameos as in Ragebait. I was also kind of stuck on who to add in verse 2 as the spell checker troll/fan. I first wanted it to be Len or Rin, but drawing their hair was frustrating. I settled on Anri Arcade so I could turn her twin tails into devil horns, similar to Teto in Ragebait - The bridge section’s lyrics were originally part of a Confession of a Rotten Girl cover. I was working on a HXVOC version and I wanted to spice it up by adding my own original rap lyrics during the leadup to the breakdown. That cover was shelved due to other projects taking priority, but I was really proud of those lyrics, so I added it to this song instead - This is the first time I’m sharing my new Zynthesiren Sona design. Her design is very inspired by Solaria (Obviously) but I wanted her to be more Goth/Metal. You’ll get to see a more detailed design once the artist I hired starts working on the reference sheet