Fic Glee: Burn This Town Down Tonight (1/4), Lauren/Puck, Tina/Mike ensemble (Marching Band AU)

[escritoireazul]

(Yay insomnia? I finally got this finished and edited; this is what's taken up a lot of my fannish time lately. Well, this and Tumblr.)

Title: Burn This Town Down Tonight
Author: escritoireazul
Written for: sotto_voice who loves marching band AUs

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[escritoireazul]

Ha! I'm not terribly full of restraint myself, especially when it comes to reading fic (or not staying up until the wee hours of the morning to write fic), so I empathize and am highly amused.

My brother was on drumline, and the guard and the drumline at my school really did team up a lot, and I marched winter drumline, so I have this intense fondness for it, even beyond my fondness of marching band as a whole. Even when I was in the middle of it, I was particularly intrigued by the intersectional dynamics, and exploring them now, with some distance, is so much fun.

that there is not a single fucking reference to Lauren's size in this entire story

WORD. I love Lauren SO MUCH, but the show pisses me off with how they handle her size (both when it was played off as a joke and now when she's getting an actual storyline and yet they don't know how to write a fat character without resorting to all the fat jokes).

It hasn't come up yet, but Kurt plays the piccolo. (I have been trying to work this really horrible joke into the stories, both this one and the Blaine pov one I just posted, and yet haven't found the right spot for it. SOON THOUGH.) And there will totally be making out in the practice rooms, GOD, ONE OF MY FAVORITE PARTS OF BAND. Drinking + making out on the bus, too, and the pranks. (I love your crows nest prank a lot, and may have to use that.)

Thank you SO MUCH for this comment. I love that you love the story, but also, having the chance to hear people's marching band stories is almost better than writing this in the first place, and I loved writing it. Marching band stories fill me with so much joy, and I love people rambling about their experiences to me. Thank you.

I can't imagine raising kids without a marching band. I only marched two years in undergrad, because my schedule was too busy junior and senior year, and I never could make marching during grad school work, but oh, man, to this day I miss it. I need marching band for adults, stat. I grew up in small town southern Missouri, and football and marching band was definitely the biggest part of my high school experience. To this day, fall is my favorite season because it means Friday night games and the sound of the drumline and the snap of the flags in the wind and the solid way a rifle toss hits your hands when you catch it.