somniloquence

Welcome to the Party, Pal (3645 words) by gwyneth rhys
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Brooklyn Nine-Nine (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Steve Rogers, Norm Scully, Jake Peralta, Terry Jeffords
Additional Tags: Community: intoabar, Die Hard References, Mistaken Identity, Steve Rogers and the 21st Century, Hostage Situations
Summary:

“Sure you were,” the cop said petulantly. His face was alarmingly red and he was sweating profusely as he fumbled a pair of handcuffs out of a jacket pocket. The thief was long gone, and even if Steve ran at top speed, he’d probably never find him. “Funny how you’re the one who’s got a ladies’ backpack in your hands.” He looked forlornly at the sidewalk. “My wings,” he lamented. “All the slut sauce.” Steve half expected him to close with “oh the humanity.”

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My entry for this year's Into a Bar challenge, in which Steve encounters Norm Scully from Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Of all the characters in all the fandoms I signed up with, I would never have expected to end up with Scully as my assignment. At least it wasn't Hitchcock? This is the first time I've written in over half a year. I fear I might be sliding into the same nonwriting territory I got into after sis_r died. And also afraid I'll never finish the WIP.

My intoabar assignment is amazing! I picked Bucky Barnes as my character who goes into a bar and meets someone from either Brooklyn Nine-Nine or Schitt's Creek, and I got Bucky meets...Rosa Diaz, and I am very excite!!1! about this. You know that Rosa and Bucky could bond over so very many things. I have only a small germ of an idea, though, so if you have some sort of interesting prompt, I'm listening. I can't guarantee that anything is going to be the magic idea, but I'm not super impressed with my own, either. Minimum word count is only 500, though, so it doesn't have to be something super complex.

I caught a little bit of the movie Blinded By the Light on the free HBO weekend last week, and I was a little flummoxed by it because the part that I saw was mostly pretty cute but the new wave guy at their school was criticizing the main character for his Bruce obsession by saying that Springsteen is "dads' music" and "it's 1987." Like, wtf? Born to Run came out in 1975, my dude, and unless all your fathers were siring children at 12 years of age, not hardly. Like, yes, lots of kids their age were into new wave and power pop, but there were plenty who were also into classic style rock & roll, and Springsteen was actually at the height of his popularity in the mid-'80s. Born in the USA was released in '84, and it was a megahit of much greater proportions than any other album he'd done, even his critical darling Darkness on the Edge of Town or The River.

I was in high school when Born to Run came out, and I remember how much of a backlash there was for being a Springsteen fan at the time, because of the Time and Newsweek cover thing. His first albums were very much under the radar, and he just wasn't super well known until Born to Run came out. He started playing large arenas pretty quickly after Born to Run, but when it first was released, I saw him at a very inexpensive concert in a fairly small venue by his later standards. But he didn't become such a household name until the early mid-'80s, so it's very very weird to me that they were saying that in the movie.

And of course, now I've got about three Springsteen songs kind of on permanent earworm rotation in my head.