Jukebox Dear DJ Letter
Apr. 4th, 2018 09:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
schlitzie_ramoneWell, hello dear, lovely creative person who got assigned challenging little me! Aren't you brave?
Seriously, though, I'm not requesting anything too weird or hard to do (I hope!)
A few little things - I tend to prefer slash/femslash to het if you put any romance in there. And I also tend to prefer cute, happy and/or funny to dark and angsty. My last and second-to-last requests, to be sure, do have the potential to be horror-themed or mildly angsty, which I’m fine with, but even then I would prefer atmospheric and chilling and delightfully spooky or angst with a happy ending to out-and-out gory or hopelessly angsty if you go that route.
My hard and fast do not wants are unhappy endings, excessive angst, non-con, female characters bring submissive to male ones in any way, and character death.
A lot of my requests this round are for circus, sideshow and carnival-themed songs. I’m getting well known for my love of such things – especially the old-time freak shows and the darling pinheads (some of the songs are about pinheads, but even for the ones that aren't and have a carnival theme, it would be totally awesome, if appropriate for the story or picture, if a sweet pinhead character was included, even if they were only a side character rather than the protagonist). But of course there’s so much more fun stuff that can be put into these types of stories/artworks as well – the Ferris wheels and merry-go-rounds, the hot dogs and cotton candy, the performers of all kinds – especially the clowns! Happy clowns, funny clowns, melancholy clowns, scary clowns – I love ‘em!!! :)
Not all of the requests have circus themes, however – so if you really can’t do circus, there are other things you can write or draw in there! :)
On to the fandoms and requests! In no particular order!
1) Schlitzie – John Kite
I'd love something celebrating Schlitzie - his life, his career, how beloved and sweet and innocent he was... anything along these lines. More biographical info can be found about Schlitzie here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlitzie
2) The Carnival Is Over – Dead Can Dance
I’m not so much interested in the lovers told about in the song, I’m more interested in the “fabulous freaks” – the sideshow performers who are getting ready to leave town. What are their daily lives like? How was the show for them, and what went right or wrong? How do they feel as they pack up and move on to the next show?
3) Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves – Cher
The part that I’m interested isn’t really the failed love story told in the song, but about what happens to the narrator’s daughter, the child born in the wagon of the traveling show in the last verse. What is it like for her, growing up as part of a carnival? Is she a sideshow performer, perhaps, or friends with the ones who society calls “freaks”? What is her relationship with her family like, and what adventures does she have on her travels?
4) Pinhead – The Ramones
This song has an autobiographical element, outlined in the link below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabba_Gabba_Hey
I'd adore something based on either the Ramones themselves and their reaction to the Freaks film, or something about the pinheads in Freaks and how adorably sweet they were, or the adventures of the Ramones and their onstage pinhead... anything that would fit the theme and be cute, basically! :)
5) Palisades Park – The Ramones
As with Dead Can Dance’s “The Carnival Is Over” my main fascination is with the carnival people themselves rather than the lovers in the song. How do they feel about all the funny, odd, annoying or fascinating things that happen during their day, the canoodling couples on the Ferris wheel, the bratty kids throwing tantrums, the heckling drunks, their own everyday loves and hates and working lives?
6) Monkey Man - The Specials
What if this was about someone, preferably male, who really fell in love with a giant ape-man (a sentient ape alien from another planet?), or with someone who was cosplaying in a gorilla suit? The song implies rumors and misconceptions galore happening – what sort of chaotic comedy could be unleashed? How tall would the tales get? What would be the truth of the matter, and how would the actual romance play out as opposed to the imagined goings-on everyone else is talking about?
7) Snowblind – Black Sabbath
No, this is NOT an attempt to shoe-horn in a request in the Frozen fandom, LOL! Nor, despite the drug references implied in the song, do I necessarily want a drug-themed story or picture (although if you go with the “hallucination” theme mentioned below, drug use could possibly be a factor). What captivates me about this song is the description in the lyrics of ice and snow and frozen landscapes – perhaps you might want to create something about a person who is dreaming or hallucinating about ice and snow? Or who has retreated to a snowy place to recover from some trauma or other? Or perhaps someone is lonely, and decides to run away from the cruel world to this safe but cold place, and they find someone to love and explore this frozen wonderland with?
8) The Carnival Is Over – The Seekers
I’ve received fic for this one before and loved it, but am feeling like requesting this childhood fave again! <3 A totally different song from the one above! In this one, the love story does intrigue me. The lyrics tell of characters who are like “Pierrot and Columbine” – and Pierrot clowns have always struck me as being quite feminine in appearance, so this love story could easily be between two women, one a clown and the other either another carnival performer or worker, or a visitor to the carnival… what caused them to part, and what would happen if they were able to meet again and rekindle their romance? Would they at last get the happy ending they long for?
9) Carnival of Rust - Poets of the Fall (Music Video)
Not only does the carnival setting intrigue me in this video, but the female masked character also – I see her as the protagonist – and why she desires the doll. Perhaps it’s a haunted doll, and she needs to free the child spirit within the doll vessel by winning her at the carnival? Why does the woman wear her mask – is it some form of magical protection for her? And at the end, the woman seems tired and sad and instead of carrying the doll like before, she’s drooping over and holding the doll by the hand as if the doll/child could somehow walk on her own. Perhaps the doll’s spirit now has befriended the woman and guides and protects her? Does the woman ever return to the carnival, and are the people there all her adversaries or has she made some friends and alliances among them?
Seriously, though, I'm not requesting anything too weird or hard to do (I hope!)
A few little things - I tend to prefer slash/femslash to het if you put any romance in there. And I also tend to prefer cute, happy and/or funny to dark and angsty. My last and second-to-last requests, to be sure, do have the potential to be horror-themed or mildly angsty, which I’m fine with, but even then I would prefer atmospheric and chilling and delightfully spooky or angst with a happy ending to out-and-out gory or hopelessly angsty if you go that route.
My hard and fast do not wants are unhappy endings, excessive angst, non-con, female characters bring submissive to male ones in any way, and character death.
A lot of my requests this round are for circus, sideshow and carnival-themed songs. I’m getting well known for my love of such things – especially the old-time freak shows and the darling pinheads (some of the songs are about pinheads, but even for the ones that aren't and have a carnival theme, it would be totally awesome, if appropriate for the story or picture, if a sweet pinhead character was included, even if they were only a side character rather than the protagonist). But of course there’s so much more fun stuff that can be put into these types of stories/artworks as well – the Ferris wheels and merry-go-rounds, the hot dogs and cotton candy, the performers of all kinds – especially the clowns! Happy clowns, funny clowns, melancholy clowns, scary clowns – I love ‘em!!! :)
Not all of the requests have circus themes, however – so if you really can’t do circus, there are other things you can write or draw in there! :)
On to the fandoms and requests! In no particular order!
1) Schlitzie – John Kite
I'd love something celebrating Schlitzie - his life, his career, how beloved and sweet and innocent he was... anything along these lines. More biographical info can be found about Schlitzie here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlitzie
2) The Carnival Is Over – Dead Can Dance
I’m not so much interested in the lovers told about in the song, I’m more interested in the “fabulous freaks” – the sideshow performers who are getting ready to leave town. What are their daily lives like? How was the show for them, and what went right or wrong? How do they feel as they pack up and move on to the next show?
3) Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves – Cher
The part that I’m interested isn’t really the failed love story told in the song, but about what happens to the narrator’s daughter, the child born in the wagon of the traveling show in the last verse. What is it like for her, growing up as part of a carnival? Is she a sideshow performer, perhaps, or friends with the ones who society calls “freaks”? What is her relationship with her family like, and what adventures does she have on her travels?
4) Pinhead – The Ramones
This song has an autobiographical element, outlined in the link below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabba_Gabba_Hey
I'd adore something based on either the Ramones themselves and their reaction to the Freaks film, or something about the pinheads in Freaks and how adorably sweet they were, or the adventures of the Ramones and their onstage pinhead... anything that would fit the theme and be cute, basically! :)
5) Palisades Park – The Ramones
As with Dead Can Dance’s “The Carnival Is Over” my main fascination is with the carnival people themselves rather than the lovers in the song. How do they feel about all the funny, odd, annoying or fascinating things that happen during their day, the canoodling couples on the Ferris wheel, the bratty kids throwing tantrums, the heckling drunks, their own everyday loves and hates and working lives?
6) Monkey Man - The Specials
What if this was about someone, preferably male, who really fell in love with a giant ape-man (a sentient ape alien from another planet?), or with someone who was cosplaying in a gorilla suit? The song implies rumors and misconceptions galore happening – what sort of chaotic comedy could be unleashed? How tall would the tales get? What would be the truth of the matter, and how would the actual romance play out as opposed to the imagined goings-on everyone else is talking about?
7) Snowblind – Black Sabbath
No, this is NOT an attempt to shoe-horn in a request in the Frozen fandom, LOL! Nor, despite the drug references implied in the song, do I necessarily want a drug-themed story or picture (although if you go with the “hallucination” theme mentioned below, drug use could possibly be a factor). What captivates me about this song is the description in the lyrics of ice and snow and frozen landscapes – perhaps you might want to create something about a person who is dreaming or hallucinating about ice and snow? Or who has retreated to a snowy place to recover from some trauma or other? Or perhaps someone is lonely, and decides to run away from the cruel world to this safe but cold place, and they find someone to love and explore this frozen wonderland with?
8) The Carnival Is Over – The Seekers
I’ve received fic for this one before and loved it, but am feeling like requesting this childhood fave again! <3 A totally different song from the one above! In this one, the love story does intrigue me. The lyrics tell of characters who are like “Pierrot and Columbine” – and Pierrot clowns have always struck me as being quite feminine in appearance, so this love story could easily be between two women, one a clown and the other either another carnival performer or worker, or a visitor to the carnival… what caused them to part, and what would happen if they were able to meet again and rekindle their romance? Would they at last get the happy ending they long for?
9) Carnival of Rust - Poets of the Fall (Music Video)
Not only does the carnival setting intrigue me in this video, but the female masked character also – I see her as the protagonist – and why she desires the doll. Perhaps it’s a haunted doll, and she needs to free the child spirit within the doll vessel by winning her at the carnival? Why does the woman wear her mask – is it some form of magical protection for her? And at the end, the woman seems tired and sad and instead of carrying the doll like before, she’s drooping over and holding the doll by the hand as if the doll/child could somehow walk on her own. Perhaps the doll’s spirit now has befriended the woman and guides and protects her? Does the woman ever return to the carnival, and are the people there all her adversaries or has she made some friends and alliances among them?