Get thee behind me, Songfic! The only really decent one I've ever read (and very few things make me hit the back button faster than songfic) was one based in the episode Shades of Grey and utilizing the actual passage from Pagliacci that Jack was listening to (Vesti la Giubba) when Maybourne came around. There is a lot of canon foundation for that one. Otherwise I tend to find that some (painfully young) person has based a story about people at least 20 years her senior assuming that - say - Jack regularly listens with passionate attention to the song stylings of Adam Lambert or Justin Beiber, because this is the music the author knows and loves. *shudder*
As to reading, or for that matter writing, I chose the combination of the first three choices. I am musical and enjoy both making and listening to music, but I am primarily a visual learner, so auditory input, provided it is music I already know, is not much of a distraction, and can help concentration when I get stuck on something. When my kids have been too loud or the day has been too busy, silence is a comfort.
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Date: 2011-05-09 04:30 am (UTC)As to reading, or for that matter writing, I chose the combination of the first three choices. I am musical and enjoy both making and listening to music, but I am primarily a visual learner, so auditory input, provided it is music I already know, is not much of a distraction, and can help concentration when I get stuck on something. When my kids have been too loud or the day has been too busy, silence is a comfort.