huinare: (canis lupus maironi)
Huin ([personal profile] huinare) wrote2013-01-05 02:11 pm

Summarize one of your stories as a Broadway musical soundtrack, pls

So I went on a complete mental tangent off one of [livejournal.com profile] pandemonium_213's comments (concerning a mask), and began imagining my really originally-titled “Of Draugluin” as a Broadway musical.  Once I realized I had several actual song titles of the cracky persuasion in mind, I decided to just indulge my stupid sense of humor and create a whole cracky Broadway musical tracklist for the WIP to date.  

People who write stuff, please swipe this idea, because I want to see other crack!Broadway soundtracks to other peoples’ fics. =D

Melkor’s March  (Ancalagon, Chorus)
The World is My Laboratory   (Mairon, Chorus)
Contractual Lupine Indwelling  (Draugluin)
Werewolf Lullabies  (Whelps)
The World is My Laboratory / Contractual Lupine Indwelling (Mairon, Draugluin)
What the Fuck Did I Get Myself Into?  (Pallandë, Draugluin)
Valinor, Fuck Yeah (Valar)
Trees Are People Too (Draugluin, Ancalagon)

Note 'laboratory' would definitely be pronounced the 5-syllable way.

[identity profile] pandemonium-213.livejournal.com 2013-01-05 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL! I swear, you have a hit on your hands!* When does it open?

I love the titles, but "The World is My Laboratory" sends me (and my Dark Muse) well and truly over the edge, howling with "Bwa-hahaha's!" all the way! :^D

Er, I can't think of which of my interminable ficcish hackery I'd turn into a musical.

*In fact, your idea is more original than some of the tired old retreads like Newsies and Rock of Ages. *shudders*

[identity profile] huinare.livejournal.com 2013-01-05 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose it opens when we have an entire show, i.e. when I finish the story (*sigh*)!

"The World is My Laboratory" probably suits the DM even better than it suits Huinish!Mairon, though it suits him well enough too. =D

I'll bite.

[identity profile] dwimordene-2011.livejournal.com 2013-01-05 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Gotta test the new router, right? Right.

This is a tracklist for A Very Rain of Sparrows, mostly because it's the most recent multi-chapter story I've written that wasn't a drabble series.

Prologue:
Imperial March (instrumental dance number, performed by Gondorians and Northmen)

All Things Are Quite Grand and Glorious in Gondor (Scribe)

Act 1:
Just Another Day Without Dad (Aethrin, Fardhan, Alweth)

Eastshore Blues (Aethrin, Fardhan, Eastshore village chorus)

A Man's World (Aethrin, Alweth, Fardhan)

Act 2:
In the City of the Ship King (Fardhan, Malgath)

Everybody Loves A Penny/He's A Princely Puzzle (Pelargir chorus)

Brother, Get Yourself a Job (Aethrin, Malgath, Fardhan)

Promises (Fardhan, Aethrin)

Act 3:
The River Flows Free (Eldacar, Northman chorus)

Everything's Fine on A Farm/Ain't No Fare Fight(Eastshore village chorus)

Waitin' on a Call (Fardhan, Calandil)

No Woman Like An Eastshore Lass (Calandil, Alweth, Fardhan, Gilriel, Aethrin, Meithel)

Promises, Redux (Fardhan, Aethrin)

Act 4:
Death and Taxes (Eastshore village chorus)

Take My Hand (Calandil, Alweth)

Just Another Day Without Dad/No Pride for a Widow (Alweth, Fardhan)

Promises, Redux/Plans (Fardhan, Aethrin; Fardhan)

Bells For You (Aethrin, Malgath,Alweth, Calandil, Eastshore village chorus)

Finale:
Closing the Book (Scribe, Northman and Gondorian choruses)




Re: I'll bite.

[identity profile] huinare.livejournal.com 2013-01-05 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
One must definitely test the new router. Right!

Nice, you've divvied yours up into acts like a proper musical. "All Things Are Quite Grand and Glorious in Gondor," "Brother, Get Yourself a Job," haha. And one might indeed expect a "Death and Taxes" in a Dwim-fic!musical. (Now I need to read the story to see who needs to get a job & c...)

[identity profile] shadowbrides.livejournal.com 2013-01-06 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Uhm. Here are some;

Order imposed (Noldorin lords)
Anthropologist Abroad! (Finrod, humans)
Wake up and smell the future (Noldorin lords, maidens, maiden-aunts, cooks, Finrod, one farting human)
Drink the day away (Sindar, sylvan subjects)
Shells, Beads, Mirrors, Possibly Some Smoke (Noldor, humans)
Shine bright, your hair gives light (humans)
Tell me off before you go go (Finrod, Andreth)

[identity profile] huinare.livejournal.com 2013-01-06 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL. Finrod is totally an anthropologist, isn't he? Never thought of it like that.

Oh, drunken sylvan elves, your legacy lives on.

[identity profile] shadowbrides.livejournal.com 2013-01-06 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
One of my first stories posted as shadowbrides is actually about Finrod the anthropologist and the novelty of farting humans, so yes. :P

[identity profile] huinare.livejournal.com 2013-01-07 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait, where is this, I don't think I've read it?

So you're in the "Elves don't fart" camp? How do they expel the gaseous byproducts of digestion? XD

[identity profile] shadowbrides.livejournal.com 2013-01-08 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, it is part of a series called And After A Time The Elf Kings. My very first post was also part of that project. The formatting went kinda wrong, so the original post isn't pretty to look at. I just uploaded the introduction on the SWG: http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/archive/home/viewstory.php?sid=1690, the fart chapter called "The Fragrance of Friendship: can be found here; http://shadowbrides.livejournal.com/3985.html. Yes, I can write humour. I just avoid it and go for the dying/doomed people, usually. :P

And no, not really. The entire series isn't exactly serious philosophizing. xD

[identity profile] huinare.livejournal.com 2013-01-08 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, yeah, elves not farting totally makes sense for humorous purposes.

Yay, will read later. =D

[identity profile] huinare.livejournal.com 2013-01-08 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
AHAHA. Both are funny, but that fart one, omg. Thanks, I needed a good laugh.