Freude : minimal context
For those who might wonder, Freude is a book-sized fanfic (and by that I mean a 500K brick of a fic) I have been working on for 3 full years.
While the "book" progressed, I produced related art and this is the place where I put it.
The purpose of this blog is to find, perhaps, by chance, one more nuthead who would sit in that incredibly narrow niche of interest and enjoy this content. I am aware of how improbable it is but I am an optimistic bear.
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The concept looks like a lost bet.
I was disgruntled about the Lucifer Netflix series and the original Gaiman comic David Bowie-looking Lucifer being replaced by an overly handsome guy falling for the blonde, bland, tasteless fabricated avatar of any 35-55 years old housewife who would watch the show. The barely veiled Hollywood device to have female audience hooked to the series irked me.
I was seduced by the idea of Gaiman's Lucifer falling for a human being, but it had to be a truly exceptional one. Someone wilder, someone brighter, someone who'd echo in history.
The first name that came to my mind was Beethoven.
He would be someone the Devil could fall for.
I started the fic on a whim, expecting a few pages of a joke, but right now it's over 900 pages of a joke, starting in 1803, ending in 1827, following with as much accuracy as I can the actual life of historical Beethoven, with the added twist of a smitten devil following his footsteps.
I will tag the Lucifer fandom and hugely disappoint the Netflix series fans. I will tag the Beethoven name and repel the classical music afficionados. This thing belongs nowhere and only makes sense for a few.
It won't stop me.
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For reference, thus, I will use the Third Series of the Gaiman comics:
Where Lucifer looks like 1976's David Bowie, as he should.
For Ludwig Van Beethoven I will take Paul Rhys from the BBC Documentary "The Genius of Beethoven" with the extraordinary Charles Hazlewoood.
I know there have been groundbreaking movies about Beethoven with huge actors, but I apologise, to me there is only one Ludwig.
This roughly explains the content of the blog.
Being allowed by a twist of fandoms to draw David Bowie and Paul-Rhys-Beethoven holding hands is all that matters.
This is the shit I live and breathe for.