#la la narf

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⭐ tell us about La-La Narf!! I loved that one!!

Oh jeez, La-La Narf.

La-La Narf is the greatest, longest, most popular fic I’ve ever written for any fandom, and I doubt I’ll ever get to that level again. It’s my Magnum Opus haha. When I wrote it it was for a fandom of like seven people and it never occurred to me that the fandom would grow and so many people would read it. I still don’t know how to feel whenever I see that fic on memes within the fandom, it’s both the mortifying ordeal of being known™ and really really flattering at the same time. It’s weird.

But, back to the fic:

La-La Narf was inspired by La Resistance, among others. I just loved those long ass fics with toon characters like in Roger Rabbit, but most of them were about kidnappings for some reason, very few involved the mice, and not a single one of them, to my knowledge, was romantic. So I basically wrote the fic I wanted to read, A long ass fic about the complexities of a Hollywood system where toons are treated both like celebrities and lower class.

The Main thing with La-La Narf was that I really wanted Brain to acknowledge that Pinky is too damn powerful. And then he realizes he can be just as powerful, just as funny, and that he’s allowed to have more than one interest. So that’s Brain’s arc. Pinky’s arc was more about him getting a better grasp of his toon powers and learn to use them. Brain was more about concepts (accepting that he can be more than the system tells him) and Pinky about symbols (newspaper roses, glittery bows, the color blue), but the theme in both is dreams. La La Narf is, at its core, about dreams.

It’s also the first and only time I’ve written the Warner siblings and it was super fun! Especially Yakko. I based the narration for the Warner siblings on Lemony Snicket’s The Reptile Room, specifically, because both the Baudelaire and the Warners discover a weird mansion and a really sweet and eccentric parent figure (Uncle Monty and Spielberg, respectively)

My favorite scenes are the Camptown Races song, that still gets stuck inside my brain from time to time, and the scene where Pinky ponders in front of his giant promotional cardboard while Brain secretly watches.

Thank you so much for asking, @impeccably-imbecilic ! I love talking about La-La Narf, it’s my favorite fic that I’ve written.

(sorry for the formatting, I’m on mobile)

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La-La Narf Chapter 8

Happy belated Christmas! My gift to you is more angsty mice!

Here’s a snippet:

“Oh, and this is my lifelong cagemate, narf!” Pinky took his wrist and pulled him closer, as if he was a ragdoll, and he realized he had zoned out during what was probably a boring and superfluous chat with an old gray squirrel in a purple silk dress.

“Is that how they call it now?” The squirrel retorted with a sarcastic smirk, raising her eyebrows at them. Pinky nodded with that naive smile of his, clueless, but Brain frowned, resenting the implication.

Their relationship was none of her business.

(Whatever relationship they had)

“Mhm! And my bestest friend in the whole world! Say hi, Brain!” He even lifted Brain’s hand, held by the wrist, and waved for him.  

“Oh, he speaks too?” The squirrel snickered, and Brain jolted his arm away from Pinky's grip. Glaring at the woman, hoping to look intimidating (an extremely difficult task given their size), he finally spoke

“Yes, madam; perhaps it was your hearing aid that was turned off” He retorted. Surprisingly, the squirrel laughed.

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La-La Narf Chapter 7

What? A Warners based chapter in my PatB fic?! 

It’s more likely than you think

Here’s a snippet:

The trip went off with a good start, except for a brief moment when Wakko tried to eat the helix, and Dot temporarily blinded the pilot with kisses. It was Yakko who saved the day then, singing a song about all helicopter models in chronological order. It was, as Yakko's songs tended to be, extremely long and annoying, but his siblings listened to him, enthralled, as they did with every list song their brother made up to educate them and help them ignore the fact that they had been trapped for decades inside the water tower. The humans didn’t know that, however, so by the model Bell OH-58 Kiowa, built in “nineteen sixty siiiix” they felt they’d lose their minds.

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La-La Narf Chapter 6 is up!

We got edgy for this one! >:D

Here’s a snippet!

“Did you come here to steal my tools, or are you gonna make yourself useful?” He asked, his voice missing the usual bite, sounding almost defeated “ Please , hand me that screw, Snowball. I need it for my machine. Pinky is in trouble, and I--”

Of course this was about Pinky.

“Pinky, Pinky, Pinky, it’s always Pinky with you.” He clicked his tongue “This is why you’re never taking over the world. That mouse has you wrapped around his little finger, you surrender to his every whim! Love is blinding you, my fair Brainy” He bopped Brain’s nose with the screw, leaving a little scratch; and snickered at the mouse's telling blush, finally giving him the metal piece. He expected a witty retort, but there was none.

A speechless Brain? What a blessing, what an oddity. And oh, what fun.

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La La Narf chapter 4 is up!

He smiled until he noticed he was smiling, and even worse, he noticed Pinky staring at him adoringly.

“Pinky, wipe that condescending little grin from your face immediately!” He snapped, but instead of being startled, Pinky giggled, as if he was the most harmless, tiny, adorable rodent in the world. “Whatever you're thinking, if you’re thinking at all, you’re mistaken, you hear me?! Mis--”

“You like performing, don’t you, Brain?” Pinky asked with a complicit grin

“NO, I DON'T!” Brain shouted, “This is preposterous! Don’t you ever imply that again, Pinky! I am… A respectable mouse of science, a future dictator, not a buffoon!”

“And you are… a very blushy mouse too!” Pinky interjected, and had the audacity to pinch his cheek, with that adoring little smile “Narf.”

By the time Brain had taken his mallet out of his hammerspace, Pinky was already running on the roof, shouting: “Brainy is a per-for-mer!” in a singsong voice. He tried to follow, but Pinky controlled gravity way better than he could.

That idiotic lanky mouse was fast, and more powerful each day.

And worst of all, he was right.

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La-La Narf Chapter 3

I don’t want the reboot hype to overshadow my humble lil fic, so I’m uploading today :3 I loved writing this chapter because it has a musical number, and I hope you love reading it too!

Here’s a snippet:

He spent that night hugging the newspaper clip, more conflicted than ever. He didn’t even know if the butterflies on his stomach were the good kind or the bad kind. His porpoise, in a kiddie pool somewhere in his hammerspace, was to make Brain happy. Brain fed him, named him and let him out of his cage, and for him, Brain deserved the world because of that. At some point in his life he decided he’d follow the chubby mouse forever, helping him with the world, since that was the key to unlock Brain’s smile. But on the other hand, he wanted to make other people happy too! Wasn’t there a way to make both Brain and the rest of the world happy?  

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27521152/chapters/67557134