Save me from myself. And fandom.
So a little over a week ago I tried to do this meme:
1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
2. Turn on your music player and put it on random/shuffle.
3. Write a drabble related to each song that plays.
You only have the time frame of the song to finish the drabble
You start when the song starts, and stop when it's over. No lingering afterwards!
4. Do ten of these, then post them.
Now, the length of a song equals about a sentence at my writing speed, but here are my drabbles/sentences anyway:
1. She Won't Come To Me - Corb Lund Band
Spencer watches Brendon try to approach the filly slowly, calmly, the baby halter and lead rope hidden behind his back.
2. Up - Shania Twain
Fuck.
Too. Much. Red Bull.
Spencer is so going to murder someone with, like, a rusty spork when he finds out who told Brendon where the secret stash was.
3. Everybody Says Don't - Anyone Can Whistle
"Dude, it's fucking Sondheim."
Ryan is less than impressed with this argument.
4. Sweet Home Alabama - Lynard Skynard
It's a driving day and Spencer's just getting to that point in highway driving where you mind just, like, completely abandons the task of keeping the van on the road to your body and fucks right off.
5. Barbie Girl - MxPx (Yes, this is a hardcore cover of the Aqua song.)
Ryan won't shut the fuck up about Jac, and how she betrayed him, and is a heinous, no-talent bitch or whatever. And Spencer gets that he's hurting, really he does, but he's going to have to punch his best friend in the face in about half a minute.
6. Light My Candle - RENT
(I didn't actually write anything here because I started trying to cast a Rent AU. Also see: The rest of this post regarding how I spent the rest of my week.)
7. America - West Side Story
The first time Ryan meets Ray's family, he kind of feels like he's been dropped into the middle of a hurricane.
(I would like to sincerely apologize to Ray Toro, his family, and Puerto Rican Americans everywhere.)
8. Stranger Than Fiction - Bad Religion
Brendon lies on the crappy futon mattress on the floor of his crappy apartment staring up at the cracks crawling across the ceiling. There's a package of Stone Wheat Thins by his elbow, but he's too exhausted to extricate one and get it to his mouth right now.
9. Same Thing In Reverse - Boy George
[INSERT EPIC BRENDON COMING OUT FIC HERE.]
10. Willkommen - Cabaret
Brendon learned the hard way that what worked on stage to make the girls scream did not come across so well in one-on-one flirting situations.
Yes, I'm a musical theatre geek. That's not the point. Or actually maybe it is. Anyway, I've spent all week obsessing about this goddamn RENT AU. It took me most of that time to come up with a cast list I'm mostly happy with, and I'm still stuck on Benny. :P But even so, this thing has clearly got its claws firmly implanted in my brain. I have listened to the entire Original Broadway Cast Recording three times in the past two days. I think it may end up being my Big Bang fic instead of the somewhat self-indulgent Andy/Spencer/Brendon kink!epic I had planned.
I'm maybe kinda freaking out though. I've never written this type of AU where you're fitting the characters into an existing storyline before, and I have no idea what the fuck I'm doing. How close should I keep it to the original play? How do I resolve the ensemble cast into a coherent POV? How do I fit the emotionality of a musical into a fic without it seeming ridiculous? Who the hell is Benny???
So, um, anyone want to handhold/cheerlead via email/IM while I freak out about how the fuck I'm going to textually render La Vie Boheme?
1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
2. Turn on your music player and put it on random/shuffle.
3. Write a drabble related to each song that plays.
You only have the time frame of the song to finish the drabble
You start when the song starts, and stop when it's over. No lingering afterwards!
4. Do ten of these, then post them.
Now, the length of a song equals about a sentence at my writing speed, but here are my drabbles/sentences anyway:
1. She Won't Come To Me - Corb Lund Band
Spencer watches Brendon try to approach the filly slowly, calmly, the baby halter and lead rope hidden behind his back.
2. Up - Shania Twain
Fuck.
Too. Much. Red Bull.
Spencer is so going to murder someone with, like, a rusty spork when he finds out who told Brendon where the secret stash was.
3. Everybody Says Don't - Anyone Can Whistle
"Dude, it's fucking Sondheim."
Ryan is less than impressed with this argument.
4. Sweet Home Alabama - Lynard Skynard
It's a driving day and Spencer's just getting to that point in highway driving where you mind just, like, completely abandons the task of keeping the van on the road to your body and fucks right off.
5. Barbie Girl - MxPx (Yes, this is a hardcore cover of the Aqua song.)
Ryan won't shut the fuck up about Jac, and how she betrayed him, and is a heinous, no-talent bitch or whatever. And Spencer gets that he's hurting, really he does, but he's going to have to punch his best friend in the face in about half a minute.
6. Light My Candle - RENT
(I didn't actually write anything here because I started trying to cast a Rent AU. Also see: The rest of this post regarding how I spent the rest of my week.)
7. America - West Side Story
The first time Ryan meets Ray's family, he kind of feels like he's been dropped into the middle of a hurricane.
(I would like to sincerely apologize to Ray Toro, his family, and Puerto Rican Americans everywhere.)
8. Stranger Than Fiction - Bad Religion
Brendon lies on the crappy futon mattress on the floor of his crappy apartment staring up at the cracks crawling across the ceiling. There's a package of Stone Wheat Thins by his elbow, but he's too exhausted to extricate one and get it to his mouth right now.
9. Same Thing In Reverse - Boy George
[INSERT EPIC BRENDON COMING OUT FIC HERE.]
10. Willkommen - Cabaret
Brendon learned the hard way that what worked on stage to make the girls scream did not come across so well in one-on-one flirting situations.
Yes, I'm a musical theatre geek. That's not the point. Or actually maybe it is. Anyway, I've spent all week obsessing about this goddamn RENT AU. It took me most of that time to come up with a cast list I'm mostly happy with, and I'm still stuck on Benny. :P But even so, this thing has clearly got its claws firmly implanted in my brain. I have listened to the entire Original Broadway Cast Recording three times in the past two days. I think it may end up being my Big Bang fic instead of the somewhat self-indulgent Andy/Spencer/Brendon kink!epic I had planned.
I'm maybe kinda freaking out though. I've never written this type of AU where you're fitting the characters into an existing storyline before, and I have no idea what the fuck I'm doing. How close should I keep it to the original play? How do I resolve the ensemble cast into a coherent POV? How do I fit the emotionality of a musical into a fic without it seeming ridiculous? Who the hell is Benny???
So, um, anyone want to handhold/cheerlead via email/IM while I freak out about how the fuck I'm going to textually render La Vie Boheme?