Jukebox 2022 Letter
Apr. 15th, 2022 11:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meddiDear Author,
Thanks so much for writing for me! I'm very excited to see what you come up with.
I'll include general thoughts/prompts for the fandoms below, but if you have a different idea, please feel free to go with it!
I'm happy for either gen or shippy fic. In general, what I am particularly interested is the themes/atmosphere of the songs/music videos, especially where they are taken in a rather literal way.
General likes:
Swan Song - The Mechanisms (Song)
I adore this song, especially the relationship between The Odette (a battleship, once human) and Siegfried (her captain). There is so much potential to explore their history together. First meeting! Discovering deception! Trying to figure out their changed relationship!
Feel free to make this one rather dark if you want (the song certainly is) but I would prefer an ending that isn't completely hopeless.
Hallucination - Regard & Years & Years (Music Video)
The best way I can describe this one is Squid Game but dance? Stunning music video with fun costuming and choreography. All of the Years & Years music videos have such great potential for worldbuilding, and this one is no different! Are they there voluntarily or not? What do they dance for? Who are those watching?
Feel free to draw on other music videos from Years & Years (the ones for the Palo Santo album, in particular, set up a really interesting dystopian world which this one could mesh with).
Midnight City - M83 (Song)
Kids with superpowers! Does everyone have superpowers (and their powers are just stronger) or are they special? Where are they locked up in? What kind of place do they build for themselves once they are free?
Brother Run Fast - Kaleo (Song)
I would love some sort of dystopian/post-apocalypse spin on this. Who is the group in question and who are after them? What have they done/what are they trying to protect?
Bones in the Ocean - The Longest Johns (Song)
This one is such an ear-worm and tells the tale of a sailor suffering extreme survivor's guilt from being the only one to survive a shipwreck. What actually did happen during that shipwreck? How did the sailor survive? How does the sailor learn to make peace with all they have been through? Lots of potential for delicious angst.
There are mentions of ghosts of those who died in the lyrics, which could be interesting if it were literal. How does the person react to these? Are the a comfort or a burden? Can everyone see these ghosts trailing after the sailor or just them?
Hoist Up the Thing - The Longest Johns (Song)
Only just came across this song but it's a lot of fun (and it's 100% Stede's theme song from early Season 1 of Our Flag Means Death). Incompetent pirates! Or adventurers! (both are great) So much potential for comedy gold. I would love anything with chaotic fun and the crew failing in hilarious ways.
Is it everyone who is incompetent? Everyone but one person who is just exasperated by the lot of them? Only the captain? Whatever works for your fic!
I do love OFMD, so feel free to lean on that for inspiration (but that's very much not expected).
Thanks so much for writing for me! I'm very excited to see what you come up with.
I'll include general thoughts/prompts for the fandoms below, but if you have a different idea, please feel free to go with it!
I'm happy for either gen or shippy fic. In general, what I am particularly interested is the themes/atmosphere of the songs/music videos, especially where they are taken in a rather literal way.
General likes:
- hurt/comfort
- fluff
- found family and deep friendships
- quiet intimacy
- surealism/atmospheric fic
- characters being very protective over each other
- unexpectedly BAMF
- world building
- explicit smut (fade to black/morning after is fine)
- setting change AUs (e.g. coffeeshop, high school) - exception is Brother Run Fast (though no Modern AU please)
- anything touching on current events (especially war/politics)
- A/B/O
- de-aging/age regression
- infidelity
- (specific to Swan Song): changing pronouns from those used in canon
Swan Song - The Mechanisms (Song)
I adore this song, especially the relationship between The Odette (a battleship, once human) and Siegfried (her captain). There is so much potential to explore their history together. First meeting! Discovering deception! Trying to figure out their changed relationship!
No other Mechs knowledge needed for this one (it's basically standalone), though feel free to lean into any Mechs lore if you feel like it.
Here's an animatic if you would like some more inspiration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeemXV8igPs
Achilles Come Down - Gang of Youths (Song)
Feel free to make this one rather dark if you want (the song certainly is) but I would prefer an ending that isn't completely hopeless.
Hallucination - Regard & Years & Years (Music Video)
The best way I can describe this one is Squid Game but dance? Stunning music video with fun costuming and choreography. All of the Years & Years music videos have such great potential for worldbuilding, and this one is no different! Are they there voluntarily or not? What do they dance for? Who are those watching?
Feel free to draw on other music videos from Years & Years (the ones for the Palo Santo album, in particular, set up a really interesting dystopian world which this one could mesh with).
Midnight City - M83 (Song)
Kids with superpowers! Does everyone have superpowers (and their powers are just stronger) or are they special? Where are they locked up in? What kind of place do they build for themselves once they are free?
Brother Run Fast - Kaleo (Song)
I would love some sort of dystopian/post-apocalypse spin on this. Who is the group in question and who are after them? What have they done/what are they trying to protect?
Bones in the Ocean - The Longest Johns (Song)
This one is such an ear-worm and tells the tale of a sailor suffering extreme survivor's guilt from being the only one to survive a shipwreck. What actually did happen during that shipwreck? How did the sailor survive? How does the sailor learn to make peace with all they have been through? Lots of potential for delicious angst.
There are mentions of ghosts of those who died in the lyrics, which could be interesting if it were literal. How does the person react to these? Are the a comfort or a burden? Can everyone see these ghosts trailing after the sailor or just them?
Hoist Up the Thing - The Longest Johns (Song)
Only just came across this song but it's a lot of fun (and it's 100% Stede's theme song from early Season 1 of Our Flag Means Death). Incompetent pirates! Or adventurers! (both are great) So much potential for comedy gold. I would love anything with chaotic fun and the crew failing in hilarious ways.
Is it everyone who is incompetent? Everyone but one person who is just exasperated by the lot of them? Only the captain? Whatever works for your fic!
I do love OFMD, so feel free to lean on that for inspiration (but that's very much not expected).
