Fic Rec Friday Rec Round Up Week 29
If Music Be the Food of Love: Songfic
This week, @elleelleg splashed on the scene, saying:
Shakespeare wrote If music be the food of love, play on, so this week, let’s recommend Fics Inspired by Song Lyrics 🎵
Do you have a song you love that someone just happened to turn into a beautiful fic? Have you discovered new songs or artists because someone else’s words inspired you to open your music app? Is there a song you were not completely sold on, but have to admit the lyrics fit perfectly into the moment? Have you ever heard a song on the radio and thought ‘Where do I know this from?’ only to realize ‘Oh yeah, I read this fic.’ Or have you just listened to Songs from a Broken Chair and Gemini one too many times while visualizing Noah’s voice and words into D + P’s love story.
(It looks like the term songfic is for fics that include song lyrics, so I think not all of these qualify, but it made a handy shorthand for the post subtitle.)
Good Winter by @distractivate and its podfic by @rhetoricalk [the album For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver]
the Hard to Imagine series, in particular Let Me Write My Own Line and Love is a Polaroid by coffee_and_glitter / @fictasticvoyage [the songs Hopeless Opus and Polaroid by Imagine Dragons]
I'd Swing With You for the Fences (and its coda I'll Keep Your Brittle Heart Warm) by @nontoxic-writes [the song Peace by Taylor Swift, but also many specific songs mentioned throughout and a playlist linked in the notes]
In My Life by coffee_and_glitter / @fictasticvoyage [the song In My Life by The Beatles]
Iris by AWorldOfDreams / @a-noble-dragon [the song Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls]
It's Moving Me Along by coffee_and_glitter / @fictasticvoyage [the song Anna Begins by the Counting Crows]
just a line in a song by @blackandwhiteandrose [a collection of drabbles, each inspired by a different song lyric—the collection title is from Sugar, We’re Goin Down by Fall Out Boy]
Language of Love: Part 4 (Season 5) by PandorasDaydream, in particular Chapters 5 and 31 [the songs Life's for the Living by Passenger and Annie's Song by John Denver, but there are songs throughout and an annotated playlist in the last chapter]
My Heart is like Paper (yours is like a flame) by @smallumbrella369 [the song Such a Simple Thing by Ray LaMontagne but also other music throughout and a linked playlist]
Music moves him by @smallumbrella369 [the song Love Is a Bitch by Two Feet but there is also a linked playlist]
My Heart Was Glass, You Dropped It by @brokenchairwrites [the song champagne problems by Taylor Swift]
Not Today by @obsessedwithdavrick [the song This Isn't My Day by Ian Lake (if you watch the video you will be able to spot one Noah Reid)]
'tis the damn season and its podfic (and its sequel take my hand, wreck my plans) by dameofpowellestate / @mymariahcarey ['tis the damn season and willow by Taylor Swift]
The Trouble With Wanting by houdini74 / @mostlyinthemorning [the song The Trouble With Wanting by Joy Williams]
“Where words fail, music speaks.” by @characterassassination-at-9am [the oeuvre of Noah Reid is woven throughout]
Well, this took a long time to put together because I had to listen to everything multiple times. Please make all my work worth it by doing the same.
If you see any mistakes, please holler. At me.