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aprilstarchild) wrote2017-01-22 09:23 pm
aprilstarchild) wrote2017-01-22 09:23 pm
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So for ages now, when I happened to hear songs (for instance, while at a grocery store) that I only became familiar with via going dancing at Shut Up and Dance back in the day, I would feel a level of gut-wrenching nostalgia. Not happy wistful nostalgia, but nauseating depressing nostalgia, that feels a bit like "I will never do anything that transcendentally fun that made me feel both relatively cool and super hot, ever again in my life, as I am now Too Old and Too Nerdy," and I logically know that's complete and utter bullshit, but nostalgia is not good at listening to reason.
(Related: songs that I became familiar with at Midnight Mystery Rides. Which are apparently still happening?? I should start going again--I get off work around ten, which gives me plenty of time, and don't have to be at work on Saturday until 2pm, and I regularly stay up to three and four am on worknights anyway now. I just have to, y'know, not get drunk. Which I admittedly used to do on MMRs. Good lord I can remember that once right after Shawn and I started dating that I weaved across NE Glisan from the I-205 bike path singing Yellow Submarine, or that time I was leaving the end point on the Springwater and wobbled into the fence several times before I gave up and walked for a mile. ANYWAY if Shawn goes I'll know at least one person at MMR. God only knows the rest of the people I met through Ye Olde Portland Bike Scene have all moved away and/or had kids.)
Anyway I figured out how to cure a song making me painfully nostalgic:
1. Make a playlist for whatever fic I'm writing and put those songs on said playlist. Listen to playlist over and over and over, both when writing the fic and when not writing it.
2. Write a scene in which my OTP dances to said song, and/or spend a lot of time imagining it, whether I put it in the fic or not.
VOILA. Now those songs remind me of an AU fic I wrote of my OTP.
Songs this has worked for, so far: Bizarre Love Triangle by New Order, Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division, and Just Like Heaven by The Cure. Literally they all make me think of one of my fics. Specifically chapters eight and nine. Also I'm damn proud of that story, warts and all.
(LOL I was so glad to be done with that fic so I could move on, because good lord the process of writing it ate me alive, I was so obsessed with it....but now that they've had something of a happy ever after I keep wanting to go back and write more epilogues that are just them being happy and also fucking.)
(Related: songs that I became familiar with at Midnight Mystery Rides. Which are apparently still happening?? I should start going again--I get off work around ten, which gives me plenty of time, and don't have to be at work on Saturday until 2pm, and I regularly stay up to three and four am on worknights anyway now. I just have to, y'know, not get drunk. Which I admittedly used to do on MMRs. Good lord I can remember that once right after Shawn and I started dating that I weaved across NE Glisan from the I-205 bike path singing Yellow Submarine, or that time I was leaving the end point on the Springwater and wobbled into the fence several times before I gave up and walked for a mile. ANYWAY if Shawn goes I'll know at least one person at MMR. God only knows the rest of the people I met through Ye Olde Portland Bike Scene have all moved away and/or had kids.)
Anyway I figured out how to cure a song making me painfully nostalgic:
1. Make a playlist for whatever fic I'm writing and put those songs on said playlist. Listen to playlist over and over and over, both when writing the fic and when not writing it.
2. Write a scene in which my OTP dances to said song, and/or spend a lot of time imagining it, whether I put it in the fic or not.
VOILA. Now those songs remind me of an AU fic I wrote of my OTP.
Songs this has worked for, so far: Bizarre Love Triangle by New Order, Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division, and Just Like Heaven by The Cure. Literally they all make me think of one of my fics. Specifically chapters eight and nine. Also I'm damn proud of that story, warts and all.
(LOL I was so glad to be done with that fic so I could move on, because good lord the process of writing it ate me alive, I was so obsessed with it....but now that they've had something of a happy ever after I keep wanting to go back and write more epilogues that are just them being happy and also fucking.)