Fandom Snowflake 2021 #14: This Is The Remix

[silveradept]

Challenge #14 told us to remix a work into another medium, or to rec works that had been remixed into other media.

Not going to lie, the first thing that popped into my head was "gotta go find some remix recs, because I don't art well, or podfic, or otherwise."

And I have one or two of them, like how I can say kisahawklin made a podfic of my Librarians/Warehouse 13 work "And the Cartomantic Caper" and it's a delight to listen to. I like my works, but it's really pleasing to think that someone took the time to record one of them and mix it all together.

But, I've also been working on being okay if things don't turn out great, and as I was thinking about things, I realized I had an idea, but I wasn't sure if I could do it. So, naturally, I tried to do it and see what happened.

I remixed a work of my own, called We Didn't Start The Fire, based on a great tasted but discarded story idea from alexseanchai.

Specifically, I remixed it so the story itself would follow somewhat closely the cadence of the original song, and this is the result.

Enjoy?

Comments

[alexseanchai]

😸

[silveradept]

☺

[muccamukk]

That's such a fun idea. I love fan lyrics <3

[silveradept]

It's a great idea, and it takes being able to keep the thing in your head to try and make things match up where possible.

[tsuki_no_bara]

i love that you remixed your own fic, and the fact that you tried to match it to the rhythm of we didn't start the fire (which is fun to sing but i bet difficult to match to new lyrics) is especially cool.

[silveradept]

It's not easy. The internet helps by providing the text of the lyrics, so I can usually hear that part in my head, and then I try to match it to the original. It didn't always work, but it hopefully is close enough for filk.

[sjh2009]

I listened to the Librarians, etc, podfic the other day and really enjoyed it, despite not knowing the fandoms. I've bookmarked your fic page to explore your stories later.

I loved the remix of we didn't start the fire, that really worked.

Thank you for taking part.

[silveradept]

The reader is excellent for that podfic. I hope there are other works you enjoy from my page, it's a little all over everywhere.

I'm glad the remix worked for you. I want sure anybody would be interested in such a thing.

[sleeplesspotato]

The podfic URL is broken ("workd" should be "works").

[silveradept]

Thank you. It works properly now. (Tyops everywhere...)