Epic Pipster Fanmix - Overture
Let me just preface this with the fact that I’m a little...odd. I hear or see something associated with a fandom, and it is forever linked in my mind. I have to convince myself that no, really, there is no significance, I just like that song, and this one would work better in context, and no, really, I have to get rid of that. I also love for things to have stories, despite not being able to write them fully worth a damn (hence the explanations of explanations you may have noticed in my previous posts of art and comments). AND I have this tiny complex where everything has to be in specific ‘important’ numeric groupings. All of which means that the cute little fanmix I originally set out to make for our favourite pairing, the Pied Piper and Trickster, exploded exponentially when I got all of you guys’ wonderful suggestions! (And let’s not even talk about what happened with the general Rogues list.)
It obviously couldn’t be just nine or thirteen, like any sane, normal mix you can find on the interwebs. Maybe twenty-one or twenty-four like my KH things or the Soundtracks to copperbadge’s Epic Fanfictions? (Those I had heard in my formative years as a fan. The type still sent out on burned cds as snail-mail was faster than downloads at the time. I still blame those for my propensity for long musicals.)
‘B-but story,’ my mind cried! ‘Arcs, characterization, and ART!’
So I set up my songs in Character and Plot Arcs. But twenty-nine just wouldn’t divide evenly, and by thirty-six I had already established that my artwork would be ‘era-related’ and come up with the seven thumbnail sketches I adored too much to ax. Well, the next factor of seven was forty-two, and six is a respectable number (though I prefer five or nine). Besides, forty-two is the answer to the question of life, the universe, and everything (though what the question is is up for debate). It’s perfectly valid!
But my brain wheedled and whined. ‘You can’t let all those brilliant song ideas go to waste!’ and ‘What if your audience likes the other versions better than yours?’
For the record: I hate my brain. No good has ever come of it.
Thus an Encore was born with twelve songs naturally falling into it, though only nine were technically new. You don’t know how frustrating it was that it wasn’t just one more! Luckily, I met mythnlynx, who had the perfect song for me as soon as I talked her into checking the boys out. Thank you, Jan! My brain will finally leave me beeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Of course, the New soon pushed out the Alternates, and I shifted those into their own folder.
Now, after months of delay, where I could only draw and colour sporadically around my other obligations, and a year and a half of compiling and re-compiling different songs into the right narrative flow I finally feel ready to release what the Playlist Formerly Known as The Epic Pipster FanMix of DOOM.
…I really shouldn’t have written this while jacked-up on coffee at 2am, ho-boy.
SO, with some further OCD ado, I GIVE YOU:
ON WITH THE SHOW
(Okay, a little ado...)
It obviously couldn’t be just nine or thirteen, like any sane, normal mix you can find on the interwebs. Maybe twenty-one or twenty-four like my KH things or the Soundtracks to copperbadge’s Epic Fanfictions? (Those I had heard in my formative years as a fan. The type still sent out on burned cds as snail-mail was faster than downloads at the time. I still blame those for my propensity for long musicals.)
‘B-but story,’ my mind cried! ‘Arcs, characterization, and ART!’
So I set up my songs in Character and Plot Arcs. But twenty-nine just wouldn’t divide evenly, and by thirty-six I had already established that my artwork would be ‘era-related’ and come up with the seven thumbnail sketches I adored too much to ax. Well, the next factor of seven was forty-two, and six is a respectable number (though I prefer five or nine). Besides, forty-two is the answer to the question of life, the universe, and everything (though what the question is is up for debate). It’s perfectly valid!
But my brain wheedled and whined. ‘You can’t let all those brilliant song ideas go to waste!’ and ‘What if your audience likes the other versions better than yours?’
For the record: I hate my brain. No good has ever come of it.
Thus an Encore was born with twelve songs naturally falling into it, though only nine were technically new. You don’t know how frustrating it was that it wasn’t just one more! Luckily, I met mythnlynx, who had the perfect song for me as soon as I talked her into checking the boys out. Thank you, Jan! My brain will finally leave me beeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Of course, the New soon pushed out the Alternates, and I shifted those into their own folder.
Now, after months of delay, where I could only draw and colour sporadically around my other obligations, and a year and a half of compiling and re-compiling different songs into the right narrative flow I finally feel ready to release what the Playlist Formerly Known as The Epic Pipster FanMix of DOOM.
…I really shouldn’t have written this while jacked-up on coffee at 2am, ho-boy.
SO, with some further OCD ado, I GIVE YOU:
ON WITH THE SHOW
(Okay, a little ado...)