Never? --Hardly ever.

[petronia]

Thinking about drabble. XD The concept is so weird that my brain is compelled to deal with it in complete seriousness, I'm afraid - meaning that the bit that's really sticking in my gears is something along the lines of, "Peace Maker Kurogane's continuity stops dead in 1868 or so, but... HMS Pinafore wasn't premiered until a decade later! Damn!"

The first idea would've been so charming, too. But okay, okay, I go home, I write. XD

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In recent months I've variously felt the urge to soundtrack: Death Note, Eroica, Angel Sanctuary, Good Omens, Mirage of Blaze... It never goes anywhere, I get four or five tracks in and stop for lack of material (usually I have a clear idea of what genres/types of music relate to a series in my head, i.e. what the real soundtrack should sound like if the series were to be animated, but the intersection between that and songs with lyrics that also relate is small). But you know what would be a good idea? Soundtracking a series without telling people what it was, and seeing if anyone can guess.

You know what would be an even better idea?

Soundtracking a Falsificatio series, one that doesn't exist anywhere except in one's head. Then having people recount the plot they "hear" in the ST, and seeing if it bears any relation to the ST maker's concept. XD

Comments

[quixotic-sense.livejournal.com]

An Eroica FST would me mad cool, though. Y'know, in the flamboyantly campy, big-haired, juuuust this side of parody kind of way that was the actual manga -- rather than the serious Cold War OMG!!111! fanon floating around slash fandom a while back. O_o

[akatonbo.livejournal.com]

...I'm dying to know what you've got for Eroica. (My Dorian likes Cock Robin's When Your Heart Is Weak, and my Klaus steadfastly refuses to admit listening to Garbage's Drive You Home on repeat.)

Not sure if I'm really going to do Truth or Drabble or not... I mean, I could always just volunteer, but I want to get my flist in on it too, so.

(I've seen at least one other game in progress, btw, in a different part of my flist.)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Oh, it is flamboyant and campy. No akchul NATO versus Warsaw Pact business from me, I've been motioning against angst in Eroica from the first.

I just haven't got enough music. XD

[petronia.livejournal.com]

It's one of those STs that're more sound than meaning, methinks. But huh - Eroica is the one people want to see? XD;;

Other game: ooh, where?

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't a Good Omens FST have rather a lot of Queen, though?

The last two ideas are utterly gorgeous, and excruciatingly demanding, it seems to me.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

It would indeed. In fact to make a GO FST you'd first have to go through the book, make a list of all the songs mentioned, and then pad that out to 75-80 minutes, possibly with the addition of really doofy eighties songs that mention angels.

...This is not a bad thing. Any mix that has both "Killer Queen" and "I Should Be So Lucky" on it cannot be a bad thing. Though I suspect Neil Gaiman would not actually concur.

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

I'd brake for that mix. XD

[akatonbo.livejournal.com]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/stanayitnuh/

In various posts all well up near the top.

And, well, of the fandoms you mentioned, Eroica is the one I genuinely share, so of course it's the one I want to see.

...damn, that reminds me I forgot to see if the first volume had made it into Ingram's database yet. I put through a zillion manga orders at work today, half probably for things I won't see until December. :P I can't wait for translations of Emperor Waltz -- I would happily stop the story right there, I adore it so, even if some of the things that came later have been fun too.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

...Gosh, I really should make a comm.

(Do you write Eroica fic? Apologies in advance if this seems like a dumb question, I can't keep people's fandoms straight at all these days. ^^;)

[akatonbo.livejournal.com]

I toyed with the idea for a while, but never really finished much of anything, which is usually my problem. (Also, it was one of those fandoms where all my ideas were too big for me to handle alone. I get big ideas in GB, too, but I have people to RP with and that greatly ups my chances of producing something more than a vignette.)

[meril.livejournal.com]

The first volume of the English-language Eroica hit comic shops today (I just picked mine up this morning) so, it's out now at least in that realm of availability.

[quixotic-sense.livejournal.com]

The Scissor Sisters cover of "Comfortably Numb"? XD

I wish I could write comedy, because I've got Dorian/Klaus/Caesar plotbunny lurking at the back of my head. Unrequited crush + competition, not threesome, alas.

[akatonbo.livejournal.com]

It occurs to me, after some thought -- Truth or Drabble would be great for /existing/ comms. Say, fandom-specific. Everyone has a common frame of reference, and anyone who posts regularly in the comm has given even the strangers in the comm some idea of what it is that they do, which would help people who don't know each other well come up with good challenges or questions. This has me wanting to strike up a game in gbcomm or fuda_100 as well as my own flist.