sometimes the world is just so pretty

[lettered]

So I once read this fic on ff.n where someone had taken Vonnegut's short story Long Walk To Forever, taken out the names, put in Buffy and Angel, and changed some phrases.

And there's song fic, most of which is randomly inserted lyrics, but anyway, you try to write around a framework, I guess? Maybe.

And then there's that thing you do where you take a romcom plot and adjust it to fit canon and your characters.

I feel like I'm doing something in between these three things, except I seem to be taking geometric proofs and dissertations about wormholes and randomly inserting Bruce and Tony's names in various portions. Sometimes I kind of jigger the order of equations and add exclamation points and Steve saying, "What's going on, guys?!?" It feels like writing porn. It feels, in fact, hotter than most porn I read.

Also, this expresses pretty much all the things I ever wanted to about Bruce and Tony. Hopefully it's ALL OVER THE INTERNET by now, but it needs more:

It started with fanart. Then a song.

Then someone actually wrote the music for the song and sang it, because whoever they are they're effing gorgeous: here they are being gorgeous.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

HOLY SHIT THAT IS AMAZING. I am laughing so hard. I'm amazed how that song came to what I was imagining in my head when I read the lyrics, too. I think the singer and me grew up watching the same musicals.

Oh man, how much do I want Avengers: The Entire Fucking Musical now? We already know Whedon can do musicals, he needs to get on that ASAP.

Also, I'm excited for that fic!

[neery]

Why is DW suddenly logging me out all the time. >:(

[lettered]

hahahahaha I WANT THE MUSICAL TOO. Maybe it's about the aftermath of the Avengers movie. Hawkeye and Natasha totally have a recovering from mind-control song (it's called, When Your Mind Isn't Yours and it ends with one of them singing, "And in the end / My mind still isn't mine," and the other one singing, "It's yours.") Aaaaaaaaand there's a total learning-things montage for Steve (Have you ever seen Batboy, The Musical? That's what I'm thinking).

Anyway, yeah, the song sounded exactly like how I heard it in my head, but I think that's because the way the lyrics were written made it really, really obvious exactly what type of song it was and how it should go. I was really impressed with them.