What type of music do you listen to while reading fanfic?

[campylobacter]

You know that adage "If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it"? I need to find a busy person, or clone myself. Or just blow off everything & blow a Ba'al clone.

I am so frelling behind on some of my favorite fandom activities:

• finishing my stargate_summer  Big Bang story, due in a few weeks
• reading fanfic rec'd to me
• leaving feedback for fanfic I've read
• posting about the next phase of the daniel_vala  Layout Contest
• nominating my favorite fanworks for the Gatefic Awards
• posting a boring update on my battle with comment spam
• polling about story length preferences

I've experienced 2 consecutive days of WiFail, and y'all know what dialup is like. Anyway, my "reading stack" is formidable, but TICKY BOXES might amuse you:
[Poll #1739325]

Random question: If anyone is using a variation of Flexible Squares as your LJ layout, have you noticed any random default re-setting? I think LJ has rewritten some of its core code to thwart comment spam, and inadvertently broken layouts that may have had incompatible CSS.

Comments

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

When I'm checking email or reading non-fanfic LJ entries, I listen to songs.

On rare occasions, I listen to 1 song on Repeat for reading/writing fanfic, and use it as inspiration for a scene.

On every occasion, I cannot read songfic -- you know, where Author Sue has Character A quoting the lyrics to Character B instead of finding something original to say.

[lc59.livejournal.com]

And that is why I usually can't stand songfic. The only songfics I've like entailed using the stanzas as the inspiration for the piece...I believe Pip did that once and it was one of the few songfics I actually enjoyed.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

In the hands of a conscientious author, quoting lyrics can be a welcome enhancement. In the hands of a fool, it's an embarrassment to the reader.

[thothmes.livejournal.com]

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.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE link to that fic!

I was just telling sg_fignewton about my whimpering bout of emo-ness over the disrupted Team dynamic in SoG.
http://sg-fignewton.livejournal.com/202654.html

My first encounter with songfic was back in 1998 in The X-Files fandom; the movie "Titanic" had just come out Xmas of 1997, and every half-wit Duchovbot fangirl wrote a Mulder/Scully story with "My Heart Will Go On" in it. NOT ENOUGH BRAIN BLEACH.

[thothmes.livejournal.com]

The fic I was thinking of is this one by K.Sigfried (Niamh), but in looking over my archived fic (currently 15,784 in the ones I've finished, there are 2,522 in the other folder of ones that either I or the author have not finished) there is another here by Nausica.

If you are looking for Shades of Grey fic in general, this page on Stargatefan.com lists a fair number of them, most of them pretty decent, all of them gen.

I absolutely agree about the NOT ENOUGH BRAIN BLEACH, and I don't even follow X-Files. Ouch!

[sg-wonderland.livejournal.com]

I've done several songfics and I really try to stay un-sappy because I don't really see either Jack or Daniel as appreciating that type of music.

Canon tells us Jack does indeed listen to opera (Shades of Grey) and what with Daniel's piano (The Light), we can speculate about what type of music he would play. It is my personal fanon that Daniel is a talented pianist who tends toward the classics but can rip out some boogie-woogie when so pressed.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

My fanonical idea of what music Daniel listens to is a speculation based on his background. I assume he has a box of cassette tapes of UK alternative rock due to Sarah's influence in grad school (Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Talking Heads, The Smiths, Erasure), some vintage vinyl of Classical piano from his parent's estate, and an eclectic collection of the weirdest MP3s you've ever heard in every folk style & language on planet Earth: koto, bluegrass, mbalax, raga, zydeco, rai, mariachi etc.

[sg-wonderland.livejournal.com]

I think Daniel would have a variety of tastes in music, judging from his life adventures.