
This is less an outfit post than me prancing around at magic hour in a dress I’d forgotten I had, with hair that’s finally, finally long enough to be messy. (Seriously, HOW could I have forgotten this dress? I thrifted it two years ago for $13; something similar on, say, PinupGirlClothing would run over $100. I need to count my damn blessings.)


I also thought I’d share an interest of mine that I don’t often mention here: medieval and Renaissance music. I am an absolute fool for madrigals, for antiphons, for hymns, for requiems, for lutes and fifes and minstrels. This is not exactly something people expect from me. I often feel like nothing about my personality is really cohesive, to the point where I’m like “if I were a fictional character, I would call myself unrealistic”. There’s a constant undercurrent of awareness that people probably think I’m “trying too hard” or making myself a special snowflake. I try not to care, but I am also loath to seem like a poseur.


Anyway, here is the medieval/Renaissance/Celtic music playlist you didn’t know you needed!
- “English Dance”, Dufay Collective (A L’Estampida is a fantastic album and what got me into medieval music hardcore)
- “Abrase El Reyna Del Cielo”, San Antonio Vocal Arts Ensemble (again, the whole album’s fantastic. another of my inaugural ones.)
- “Now Is the Month of Maying”, The King’s Singers
- “Da que Deus Mamou”, Arany Zoltan (this will be stuck in your head indefinitely)
- “Non E Gran Cousa”, Arany Zoltan
- Also interpreted as “Santiago” by Loreena McKennitt
- “Greensleeves”, Celtic Woman
- “Scarborough Fair”, Celtic Woman (yes, this song existed before Simon & Garfunkel)
- “Siuil A Run”, Clannad
- “A Mhiurnin O”, Clannad
- “Whiskey in the Jar”, The Dubliners (THIS IS THE BEST VERSION OF THIS SONG AND IF YOU DISAGREE WE WILL HAVE WORDS)
- “Donal Agus Morag”, Altan
- “Dulaman”, Celtic Woman (fun fact: this song is about how awesome seaweed is)
- “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen”, Loreena McKennitt
- “Hardcore Medieval Party Mix”, various artists
- “Militis Fidelis Deus”, The Evangelist (antiphons in general are MY JAM)
- “Three Basse Dance”, Ulsamer Collegium
- Arany Zoltan’s entire YouTube channel
- Seriously go listen to Arany Zoltan



