[ SECRET POST #3307 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #3307 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.


__________________________________________________



02.


__________________________________________________



03.


__________________________________________________



04.


__________________________________________________



05.


__________________________________________________



06.


__________________________________________________



07.


__________________________________________________



08.


__________________________________________________



09.


__________________________________________________



10.


__________________________________________________



11.


__________________________________________________



12.
















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 078 secrets from Secret Submission Post #473.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Just last night I stumbled across a songfic where the author had clearly put a lot of thought into how to integrate the song with the story.

The song was presented as having been written by Character A about their feelings for Character B, and the fic had A perform it on stage, filtered in 3-4 lines at a time between prose passages describing all the feelings people were having about the performance - B in particular, who had turned up unanticipated in the audience, and this was a big revelation moment about A's feelings, etc.

As songfics go, it was really well done! - except for the part where it fell completely flat, because the song that the author thought was oh so perfect to describe the relationship between the two characters, I couldn't connect to them at all. I was like "Yeah, that song is kind of angsty... and I guess their relationship until now has been kind of angsty (sometimes, like most long-running relationships between people are sometimes), but - other than that, I got nothing." So all the prose passages and the big reaction at the end made no sense whatsoever. The author would've done much better to leave the lyrics out and just describe the effect.

Lyrics will very often not have the effect on other people that they have on you. Literally the only time I've ever seen this kind of thing work was in humour fics, where people chose deliberately inappropriate songs on purpose.