I've had back to back to back work, but at least managed to get out to see Captain Marvel, which was...okay, I guess (will have more of an opinion after I see it once more next week), and Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse again at the second run theatre. It was great to see the latter again and not have the disgusting, horrible girl and her mother who came in late to it the first time I saw it, and ruined the entire thing. Otherwise, it's mostly been nose to the grindstone, except for having the chance to finally see The Expanse season 3, which I loved most of. Ugh, Drummer, I want to marry her and devote myself to her.
I'm trying to give myself a break in between pages and tumblr's just so dead these days, so I thought I'd do this fun meme I saw on
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musesfool's page a while ago.
"If your fic were an album, what would the track list be?"
I don't use song lyrics for all my titles, but I have used them, or poems, a few times, so it might already be songs anyway.
1. The popular, catchy one:
Your 21st-Century Boy (Captain America, Steve/Bucky), which is appropriate, I guess, since the title's a play on T Rex's 20th Century Boy and it's a comment fic about Bucky not having any of your gendered marketing bullshit.
2. The obscure early one no one bought at the time:
These Things Do Not Remember You (The Professionals, Bodie/Doyle) - This wss written for a zine long before internet fic was a thing, so right there you have a limited audience, and I never heard much about it at the time. Over the years, though, I began to hear more things from people, and even got a few comments when I posted it to AO3. None of that's surprising, since it was a death story.
3. The "experimental" one, written when you were possibly on some substance:
Assumption (Buffy, Spike/Buffy) - this one's easy because I was actually experimenting with this one: prose poetry, and meter and punctuation. Buffy getting spit out of heaven and Spike taking care of her seemed like a good way to do that, and despite how pretentious it all is, I think the story itself qua story turned out well.
4. The slushy one: I have no idea what this means, but I guess I'll try to think of it sonically, in that feedback, grungy way, which still makes it hard to pinpoint a fic. I guess maybe
Mercy Street, which was an Angel the Series fic about Dana the slayer seeking redemption from Spike after the episode "Damage."
5. The brash, loud one, mid album:
I can't remember how this started (but I can tell you exactly how it ends) (Captain America, Steve/Bucky) - I suppose just because time loop and it was a different way to get Bucky back to himself.
6. The one born of your depressive introspection:
The Gift of Forgetfulness (Pacific Rim) - Definitely born of the sadness and grief of years of losing people, and about my fascination with the Drift being akin to twinship.
7. The bitter one about your ex/former manager/cat:
Save my life and I'll save yours (Captain America, Steve/Bucky) - My attempt at making the shitshow of Civil War make better sense. The story itself isn't bitter, but I sure was.
8. The one only you like, you insular weirdo:
Tonight, I Dream in Technicolor (Captain America) - I mean, there's a couple people who liked it, but it always bummed me out that it bombed so bad just because I thought it was a really cool and unusual idea.
9. The genre-hopping crossover hit:
There Must Be a Joke in Here Somewhere (The Middleman/Captain America) - I mean, this is the default since I only have a couple crossovers and the other two aren't really genre-hopping at all, mixing up Steve and Bucky with Wendy and the Middleman is the only one that plays with the conventions of both canons and mixes it up.
10. The one where you tried to be "modern":
The Fire Ships (Captain America) - I don't know that this is something you can really extrapolate to fanfiction, but...I guess then I'd just say this second-person look at the events on the helicarrier through the Winter Soldier's eyes.
11. The anthemic final track:
Don't Wait Up for Me (Captain America, Steve/Bucky) - I had a tough time deciding this because that's not a writing style I have used much, but Bucky getting closure for himself I guess is a little Born to Run.
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