Ficlet music meme
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scripps
Rules:
1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
2. Put iTunes or equivalent media player on random.
3. For each song that plays, write something related to the theme you picked inspired by the song. You have only the time frame of the song: no planning beforehand: you start when it starts, and no lingering afterward; once the song is over, you stop writing. (No fair skipping songs either; you have to take what comes by chance!)
4. Do 5 of these, then post.
Fandom: The History Boys
Pairing: Dakin/Scripps
Rating: PG-13 to be safe
Rock and Roll Queen – The Subways
Oxford is different to Cutler. They’re young, and single, and living away from home for the first time. They meet other young people from all over the country, and in the first weeks of term it feels like they spend more time at parties than doing anything else – lectures fade to simply the dull periods between partying, to be used only for nursing hangovers and steathily catching up on sleep.
Piazza, New York Catcher – Belle and Sebastian
Dakin meets a girl in their first week at Oxford. He claims she’s the love of his life, barely seems to remember saying the same thing about the girls at home. He’s the picture of romance for a few weeks, then they break up when he meets someone else, someone new and prettier and more exciting. Scripps watches and rolls his eyes, knowing that eventually his friend will fly too close to the sun, metaphorically speaking, and get burnt. He’s right, of course, and when Dakin gets burnt he turns to the one person who is always around. Scripps laughs, and gives him no sympathy.
Seventeen – Repo! The Genetic Opera
Their second year of university, they arrive on campus and marvel at the new students. “Were we ever that young, mate?”, Dakin asks. Scripps shakes his head in amazement at how young, and small, and naïve the new kids are. “I don’t think we were ever that young, Stu.”
Gold – Repo! The Genetic Opera
The longer they spend at Oxford, as classes get harder and lecturers more demanding, they find themselves nostalgic for Cutler, when they were the toast of the school, rather than just two more students.
Later, when Dakin is raking it in as a tax accountant and living the high life, and Scripps is living rather less luxuriously (but rather more happily), Oxford takes on the golden tint of nostalgia as well, when they meet in bars and restaurants to discuss memories.
Separate and Ever Deadly – The Last Shadow Puppets
“Dakin’s always been a bit magnetic,” Scripps tells a girl at a party. “He sort of draws you along in his wake.”
She frowns, and he tries to explain his friend’s tendency to, as people put it these days love ‘em and leave ‘em. “He’s practically deadly in that respect.”
“Well,” she smiles coyly, “people say you’re a bit like that yourself.”
He can’t bring himself to disagree.
scrippsRules:
1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
2. Put iTunes or equivalent media player on random.
3. For each song that plays, write something related to the theme you picked inspired by the song. You have only the time frame of the song: no planning beforehand: you start when it starts, and no lingering afterward; once the song is over, you stop writing. (No fair skipping songs either; you have to take what comes by chance!)
4. Do 5 of these, then post.
Fandom: The History Boys
Pairing: Dakin/Scripps
Rating: PG-13 to be safe
Rock and Roll Queen – The Subways
Oxford is different to Cutler. They’re young, and single, and living away from home for the first time. They meet other young people from all over the country, and in the first weeks of term it feels like they spend more time at parties than doing anything else – lectures fade to simply the dull periods between partying, to be used only for nursing hangovers and steathily catching up on sleep.
Piazza, New York Catcher – Belle and Sebastian
Dakin meets a girl in their first week at Oxford. He claims she’s the love of his life, barely seems to remember saying the same thing about the girls at home. He’s the picture of romance for a few weeks, then they break up when he meets someone else, someone new and prettier and more exciting. Scripps watches and rolls his eyes, knowing that eventually his friend will fly too close to the sun, metaphorically speaking, and get burnt. He’s right, of course, and when Dakin gets burnt he turns to the one person who is always around. Scripps laughs, and gives him no sympathy.
Seventeen – Repo! The Genetic Opera
Their second year of university, they arrive on campus and marvel at the new students. “Were we ever that young, mate?”, Dakin asks. Scripps shakes his head in amazement at how young, and small, and naïve the new kids are. “I don’t think we were ever that young, Stu.”
Gold – Repo! The Genetic Opera
The longer they spend at Oxford, as classes get harder and lecturers more demanding, they find themselves nostalgic for Cutler, when they were the toast of the school, rather than just two more students.
Later, when Dakin is raking it in as a tax accountant and living the high life, and Scripps is living rather less luxuriously (but rather more happily), Oxford takes on the golden tint of nostalgia as well, when they meet in bars and restaurants to discuss memories.
Separate and Ever Deadly – The Last Shadow Puppets
“Dakin’s always been a bit magnetic,” Scripps tells a girl at a party. “He sort of draws you along in his wake.”
She frowns, and he tries to explain his friend’s tendency to, as people put it these days love ‘em and leave ‘em. “He’s practically deadly in that respect.”
“Well,” she smiles coyly, “people say you’re a bit like that yourself.”
He can’t bring himself to disagree.
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Date: 2009-11-23 10:28 pm (UTC)Rock and Roll Queen
I love the initial rush of freedom before they'll realise they actually have to do some work.
Piazza, New York Catcher
Love how Scripps knows exactly how it'll turn out. He's always the observer.
Seventeen
So true, how quickly we forget. We used to do it all the time in school, marvel at how young the first years looked. Good use of the prompt/song.
Gold
I love how Scripps is happier with less money than Dakin.
Separate and Ever Deadly
Yay for Scripps being flirted with. Dakin casts a large shadow but I'm happy she liked Scripps. She's obviously a sensible girl *g*