#wsrtwts

[jazzically]

clarionglass on ao3 (wsrtwts) came up with "spoogle" and i am writing to inform the populace that that is how i will be referring to jon for the foreseeable future

[clarionglass]

FUCK YOU HOLD ON YOURE BAD DECISION BLUES AND THE DOCTOR WHO GAME CHANGER GUY???????? WHAT ELSE HAVE YOU DONE

ahahaha yes that's me!

lol i'm hardly a Big Name (and honestly for that i'm thankful), but i guess i do kinda have three Things that people might recognise me from in different corners of the internet! the first two, as stated, are bad decision blues (for anyone who doesn't know, i wrote a lil song based on a text post by cuuno-moved) and the doctor who/game changer au aka the game master au aka the sam reich!master au, which is the brainchild of me and the exceptional @northernfireart, and i'm insanely proud of both and also very much wilded out that they took off in the way they did!

magnus archives fans may also recognise me from my tma chatfic 'we should ride this wave to shore', which again, lil project i started just for fun that also appealed to a good few people (probably because i was writing absolute crack to cope with the emotional trauma that was tma season 5 lol). oh god oh fuck it's been about 18 months but i promise i will finish the sequel at some point, my brain has been consumed by other things recently but i do have the plot in my head, i just need to. write it.

so that's me! i've tagged this post with my personal organisation tags for all three if anyone is curious about the stuff i get up to :)

(also, a cryptic hint re bad decision blues: watch this space! i've finally made a decision to act on Some Stuff, so there may be updates coming at some as-of-yet undetermined future point,,,,)

[clarionglass]

holy shit wait i followed you for the sam reich master thing but YOU wrote those magnus chatfics??? i think of those so often and they genuinely occupy such a special place in my heart, i know it’s been a while but if you’re ever inspired to write more i would love love love to see it

augh that's so nice of you to say! i'm honoured that my silly fics mean so much to people, thank you so so much for reading and i'm glad you enjoyed them <333

and aaaaa i'm getting there,,,,, i haven't closed the tab with that gdoc on it and every so often i click into it and half a chapter stares up at me accusingly ^^; one day!!! i have so much fun writing that one that when i inevitably tip back into tma hyperfixation, i'll smash it out :D

[clarionglass]

it has been. oof. six months. but for anyone following me who is still interested, we’re 7 pages deep (and i usually write about 10 pages per chapter) into the next chapter of the chatfic! in the words of granny weatherwax, i aten’t dead, and neither is the fic :) schedules are not promised, but hopefully the wait won’t be too much longer!

[clarionglass]

lyrics. i desire them. literally any i just have brainrot for the wave 'verse.

:))))))

i'm gonna give you a chunk from verse 1, and some supplementary info in lieu of the midi file i still have to clean up in terms of rhythm syncing with words :)

One hand holding a lover’s, one holding an ending Both the knifeshine and yearning rang awful and true All while singing a promise through tears that fell freely “I will follow, my love, unto you”

the extra info is: the instrumentation in this one is Meaningful in terms of characters,,,,,, we've got vocals (obv), bass, violin and harp, which was a really eclectic combo to write for but i think it turned out pretty alright! also i managed to sneak in two different variations of the dies irae, one is the original plainchant and is v obvious, the other is a (very) modified version of the dies irae from britten's war requiem, which is really just in as an easter egg to me :P

[clarionglass]

what time is it? self promotion time!

made a bowerbird of me from beginning | latest chapter

the sequel to we should ride this wave to shore! including jon taking an involuntary holiday, zoom dnd, and a fucking ton of metafictional Stuff to come because, to paraphrase the doritos meme, i’m always a slut for metafiction :)

ch 5 summary: [Transcript description: A Zoom video call. The first open screen shows Sasha, the host of the meeting, sitting at her kitchen table. A cupboard and a few shelves are visible in the distance behind her, and she shifts in her chair as she waits for the others to enter the call.]

[clarionglass]

hyello my babes it is time for your latest dose of blatant self-promotion! 

we should ride this wave to shore latest chapter | start from the beginning

the latest chapter takes a brief sidestep from the typical chatfic format to provide you with....... the script and lyrics for the fic’s forthcoming Fuck Off Jonah Magnus Arena Spectacular! this is a rewrite of a Few (11) sea shanties/folk songs, plus an encore, with narration by the one and only Jonny del Oculo,,,, (reports of Jonny d’Ville’s death have been greatly exaggerated ;) )

so sit back and enjoy the retelling of the tale of gertrude robinson, with a mechs-esque twist! it very vaguely links back to the greater mechs canon, and hopefully contains some singable bops :D

[clarionglass]

Archive the Thing!

a sneaky peep at the content i’m working on for the chatfic concert ;) this is the encore piece which came to me in a flash this afternoon (i’m already rewriting like ten other shanties/folk songs???? please somebody stop me) and i’m way too excited about it not to share Something so without further ado: Archive the Thing! (to the tune of Hoist Up The Thing by the longest johns, please listen to this because it’s amazingly sung and also stupid brilliant fun :D)

Fresh out of college, with grades straight from hell I browsed for a trade at which I could excel An ad for an archive in need of some filing Well, I like to research, so I’m glad they’re hiring

What luck, says I, to find such good fortune! A few white lies later, I ran down the stairs Bought a few tapes and a cardie or two Sat in my office, then yelled at the crew:

Archive the thing! File away the whatsit! Why’s that not working? I should tape-record it! Staple that page! (That's not right!) Now I've got it! Trust me, I'm in control!

I don’t know the order to file these away And Martin let in a dog on our first day Why did Gertrude shove all these files in a box? They’re all jumbled up, was her head full of rocks? 

Archive the thing! File away the whatsit! Why’s that not working? I should tape-record it! Staple that page! (That's not right!) Now I've got it! Trust me, I'm in control!

There’s worms all about, and a mystery door I’ve been kidnapped loads, but I don’t know what for Now there’s cops in the archives, and Melanie’s knives The way this is going, how will I survive?

But I’ve got Tim and Sasha, and Melanie too Basira and Daisy, my great archives crew And Martin, my rock, whose tea is the best Come on, you bastards, let’s clean up this mess!

Archive the thing! File away the whatsit! Why’s that not working? I should tape-record it! Staple that page! (That's not right!) Now I've got it! Trust me, I'm in control! (x3)

Archive the thing! File away the whatsit! Why’s that not working? I should tape-record it! (BLOODY HELL!) Staple that page! (These are ancient!) Now I've got it! (Screaming) Trust me, I'm in control! (MUMMY!) Trust me, I'm in control!