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thewingedwordIn fanfic news, I spent a good bit of time (with my conscious brain) reading The Scene Is Dead by synchronik , a story which I heartily wish I could recommend to you. It deals with vampires in the most realistic and least sexy way I've ever encountered, like an anti-Anne Rice, and something about that is primally attractive. The story itself manages to be dark and violent and serious without feeling too self-indulgent, just enough messed up at the edges and roughened. In mood it reminds me a bit of do nothing for the dead by ladyjaida , breaking your heart and making you love the feeling.
The structure is another brilliant and integral aspect of the work; the story is broken up into "scenes" of varying length, alternating with "secondary sources" varying from Anne Rice and Edgar Allen Poe to french articles on tattoos. Off-kilter enough to avoid pretention, vague while being deeply meaningful, it's reminiscent of the bizarre narrative style ofpetronia 's A Proof By Contradiction (Eight Primary Sources, Fragmentary). Even more brilliantly, at the end of each scene one must follow a link to the following source and onward, forcing the reader to immerse his or herself deeper in the story willingly, consciously making the decision to go on as opposed to simply scrolling idly through.
It's long, deep, painfully depressing, and beautiful. The ending leaves you confused and conflicted and feeling as though some monumental realization brushed past you in the dark. And the very worst part is I can't recommend it to anyone because it's in no-one's fandom. No one I know but me is crazy enough to read twenty-some-odd scene-chapters of RPF about a band of quasi-emo punk rockers, no matter how inventive and breathtakingly original it is. Dammit. So I wrote this review, to express my deep love and admiration for the geniussynchronik , who wrote a bloody story about My Chemical Romance and made it art; and my utter despair at having ventured into the forbidding and lonely depths of bandom.
ETA: I don't know why I love things so much. Don't read it, for the love of god, so I can stay crazy mostly in my own head.
synchronik , a story which I heartily wish I could recommend to you. It deals with vampires in the most realistic and least sexy way I've ever encountered, like an anti-Anne Rice, and something about that is primally attractive. The story itself manages to be dark and violent and serious without feeling too self-indulgent, just enough messed up at the edges and roughened. In mood it reminds me a bit of do nothing for the dead by ladyjaida , breaking your heart and making you love the feeling. The structure is another brilliant and integral aspect of the work; the story is broken up into "scenes" of varying length, alternating with "secondary sources" varying from Anne Rice and Edgar Allen Poe to french articles on tattoos. Off-kilter enough to avoid pretention, vague while being deeply meaningful, it's reminiscent of the bizarre narrative style of
petronia 's A Proof By Contradiction (Eight Primary Sources, Fragmentary). Even more brilliantly, at the end of each scene one must follow a link to the following source and onward, forcing the reader to immerse his or herself deeper in the story willingly, consciously making the decision to go on as opposed to simply scrolling idly through.It's long, deep, painfully depressing, and beautiful. The ending leaves you confused and conflicted and feeling as though some monumental realization brushed past you in the dark. And the very worst part is I can't recommend it to anyone because it's in no-one's fandom. No one I know but me is crazy enough to read twenty-some-odd scene-chapters of RPF about a band of quasi-emo punk rockers, no matter how inventive and breathtakingly original it is. Dammit. So I wrote this review, to express my deep love and admiration for the genius
synchronik , who wrote a bloody story about My Chemical Romance and made it art; and my utter despair at having ventured into the forbidding and lonely depths of bandom.ETA: I don't know why I love things so much. Don't read it, for the love of god, so I can stay crazy mostly in my own head.
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Date: 2007-03-09 07:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-09 09:03 pm (UTC)The main focus of the review is a real-person fic for the band My Chemical Romance, which you've probably pretty much gathered. You could google them if you wanted reference pictures, but that's pretty much all the info you'd need, even though it mentions other bands in passing.
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Date: 2007-03-09 09:07 pm (UTC)The second I saw Touya and Shindou, I had a "How the hell did I get into a Hikaru no Go fic?" moment.
I'd read the SPN fic before, and I like MCR okay--but I've only heard that one Helena song by them.
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Date: 2007-03-10 01:29 am (UTC)You've WHAT? *flails melodramatically* That's a crime! It's terrible! Actually, you've probably heard more songs by them and don't realize it, which is how it went with me. And if you've been alive the past six months you must have heard "Welcome to the Black Parade" on the radio at some point. Their most recent album (The Black Parade) is an honest-to-god masterpiece, a genius work. And since I've listened to that, I've gained more appreciation for Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, their previous album.
So, um. Go forth and listen! If you go to their website (just google it!) it plays their current single, Famous Last Words, and you can watch the music videos for other singles. Which are awesome. Particularly the one for "I'm Not Okay".
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Date: 2007-03-10 02:02 am (UTC)Thank you
Date: 2007-03-24 03:57 pm (UTC)Justin
Re: Thank you
Date: 2007-03-27 07:42 pm (UTC)