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Back in 2014, I happened across a PacRim fanfic on AO3 with an intriguing description and clever tags.
Then I started reading it and immediately became obsessed. (This is, I gather, a pretty common phenomenon for readers of Designation Congruent with Things and Clean White Room’s work in general.)
So naturally, a fanmix.
This is…a pretty specifically themed mix. The idea is that Newt puts the first half together in a fit of - not emo, he resolutely resists the emo hipster Jedi thing, but melancholy, which is fair, after all, it’s been a rough few weeks, he cannot lie on that front, and so sometimes he just likes to listen to specific songs that resonate with the complexities of his emotional state. Which is fine, and normal, and not emo.
Except that Hermann reads the track list and gives Newt a look that’s a little bit pained and also possibly a tad horrified? And Hermann is wound up tight enough as it is, dude does not need more Geiszler-related angst in his life, so Newt decides to make another playlist of more cheerful songs, or rather to extend his initial playlist. (Hermann points out dryly, when Newt insists on playing the expanded mix to him, that the tone of the second half is not as much ‘cheerful’ as it is “an utterly bizarre mixture of resignation, personal triumphalism, and sentiment”.)
(Hermann pointedly does not ask about the artist duplication, probably because knows that Newt’s explanation will inevitably invoke Descartes.)
Oh man, while I do not claim to be good at it, writing in DCwT!Newt’s voice is SO FUN.
Track list - and illustrative/over-explanatory quotes - below the cut. The original Tumblr post linked to the specific chapters where each quote came from, but the work has since been pulled down from AO3.
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Then I started reading it and immediately became obsessed. (This is, I gather, a pretty common phenomenon for readers of Designation Congruent with Things and Clean White Room’s work in general.)
So naturally, a fanmix.
This is…a pretty specifically themed mix. The idea is that Newt puts the first half together in a fit of - not emo, he resolutely resists the emo hipster Jedi thing, but melancholy, which is fair, after all, it’s been a rough few weeks, he cannot lie on that front, and so sometimes he just likes to listen to specific songs that resonate with the complexities of his emotional state. Which is fine, and normal, and not emo.
Except that Hermann reads the track list and gives Newt a look that’s a little bit pained and also possibly a tad horrified? And Hermann is wound up tight enough as it is, dude does not need more Geiszler-related angst in his life, so Newt decides to make another playlist of more cheerful songs, or rather to extend his initial playlist. (Hermann points out dryly, when Newt insists on playing the expanded mix to him, that the tone of the second half is not as much ‘cheerful’ as it is “an utterly bizarre mixture of resignation, personal triumphalism, and sentiment”.)
(Hermann pointedly does not ask about the artist duplication, probably because knows that Newt’s explanation will inevitably invoke Descartes.)
Track list - and illustrative/over-explanatory quotes - below the cut. The original Tumblr post linked to the specific chapters where each quote came from, but the work has since been pulled down from AO3.
( Read more... )
