Transcript by ApproxTenCats EFA Episode 220 - We Built This Shipy on Rock n Roll [ph] – Indicates preceding word has been spelled phonetically [sic] – Indicates preceding word has been transcribed verbatim MUSIC : Write My Story by Olly Anna ANNOUNCER GUY : You've tuned in to the Earp Fiction Addiction, a fan podcast all about Wynonna Earp fanfiction. Join our intrepid host DarkWiccan and Delayne as they dive deep into the sometimes sweet, sometimes spicy, and always varied world of fanfiction for the Wynonna Earp fandom. MUSIC : A Proper Story by Darren Korb DARKWICCAN : Thanks Announcer Guy and welcome everyone to another episode of the Earp Fiction Addiction, the podcast dedicated entirely to Wynonna Earp fanfiction. I am your host, DarkWiccan, and with me with her earbuds in as I wave frenetically at her, trying to get her attention, is my fantastic co-host... DELAYNE : [laughter] Hi it’s Delayne. DARKWICCAN : It’s about time. Trying to get your attention for about fifteen minutes here. DELAYNE : Sorry, man, you know, when the music moves you, you just, you gotta be in it. DARKWICCAN : Yeah, I completely understand. I am also a child of “the music” so I get it, I get it. But I can only guess you were listening to one of several playlists. DELAYNE : Several playlists. Yes. DARKWICCAN : Yeah. DELAYNE : [laughter] But I’m not going to tell you which one. You know what how about you tell me which playlist you think it is and I will not tell you which one I’m actually listening to. DARKWICCAN : [laughter] Okay I will do that right after I tell everybody about our Patreon. Hey everybody we got a Patreon, at patreon.com/efapodcast. If you would like to become a subscriber of the show, all funds we receive go directly back into the production of this show and any perks and special things, rewards for our patrons. Again that’s patreon.com/efapodcast, we have multiple tiers you can join, everything from just getting a shout out on the show to getting an audiobook once every few months so check it out, see if that’s something you want to do. But if you prefer to have something you can hold in your hands please do check out our Redbubble store redbubble.com/people/efapodcast/shop and check out one of our many awesome wares, including things you can wear. DELAYNE : [laughter] DARKWICCAN : However you would like to support, even what you are doing right now, listening with your ears, ear holes, to our voices at you. That is supporting the show. Following us on Twitter, following us on Facebook, telling your friends about us, that is supporting the show. We accept all forms of support. DELAYNE : Yes. While you have your headphones in and listening to us let’s get back to the music. DARKWICCAN : Yeah, now that that awkward mess is over, thank god, or goddess, or flying spaghetti monster or you know, cosmic muffin or whatever you believe. DELAYNE : Cosmic muffin, that’s a new one on me. Ah anyway let’s not get derailed again. Back to the music. DARKWICCAN : You know what? Cosmic muffin would be a great band name. DELAYNE : [laughter] Yes. DARKWICCAN : [laughter] Yes, cosmic muffin is my Jefferson Starship cover band. DELAYNE : [laughter] DARKWICCAN : Alright, music, let’s talk about it. It’s got notes. They frequently harmonize with each other. And when the notes go in the right order they affect you and you have a feeling. DELAYNE : Lot’s of feelings. DARKWICCAN : Today we’re talking about stories that have lots of feelings that revolve around notes that go up and down and frequently harmonize with each other. DELAYNE : [laughter] DARKWICCAN : It’s been a very long day. It’s been a very long day. Ok. Playlist fics. Talking about playlist fics. DELAYNE : Playlist fics. DARKWICCAN : Fics that have playlists attached to them, because the authors were inspired by the music and took that inspiration and wrote a story that revolved, or involved or was heavily influenced by “the music”. And we’re going to focus on one fic in particular today but we can’t start talking about that one until we provide the absolutely necessary shout-outs to other very well known and excellent songfics, can’t see but I’m making air quotes, songfics or as I like to call playlist fics. [inaudible] of them all, the Big Kahuna, the incredibly influential Eighties Mixtape AU, also known as It’s Like I Wrote Every Note With My Own Fingers by GilliganKane AKA PirateKane and TheGaySmurf. Absolutely have to shout that one out, it is, when we chatted with both Smurf and Pirate both this season and last season we touched briefly on the fact that this is technically a songfic series but it doesn’t feel like a songfic series, so, because instead of... DELAYNE : Hence the “songfic” in air quotes. DARKWICCAN : Absolutely, so we have to tip our hats to that immense series of stories. Also have to give a big old wave to Bootsncatz for her story Wishin’ and Hopin’ , that also has a playlist on Spotify and it is fantastic. It is totally classic retro 1950s and 60s. I love listening to the playlist whether I’m reading the story or not, it’s just a feel good bunch of songs man, it just takes me back to a time I did not live in, but that my mom lived in so you know [laughter] DELAYNE : You have a connection to it. You understand it enough to appreciate it. DARKWICCAN : Yes. And another fic I want to give a shout-out to before we dive into our main one today is My Love Heaven’s Not Too Far to Touch by Maidenstar, this is a story that has multiple playlists on Spotify that go along with it because this is a San Junipero AU and much like in the television episode from Black Mirror the characters jump through different times within about a twenty year swing or so, and so each of the years that they visit, well not each but most of the years that they visit Maidenstar actually created unique playlists for those individual chapters so I definitely have to shout-out to that. The thing that all of these stories have in common is that while they do have accompanying playlists and they do reference the music either by title or by dropping a few lyrics here and there they don’t heavily rely on the music to tell the story, it’s more of a place setting thing. Now in the case of 80s Mixtape AU that it is genuinely more both a combination of place setting or time setting but also emotion. So the fic that we’re talking about and putting our focus on today is the fic Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands by iwaseliteonce and this is a very unique story in that not only does it have a playlist but is also truly a songfic in that it does use entire chunks of lyrics to tell the story but unlike most songfics that do that it’s not annoying. DELAYNE : [laughter] You’re just gonna lay it all out there. Yeah. DARKWICCAN : I mean... DELAYNE : No diss to songfics but it sometimes comes across as a little annoying. DARKWICCAN : Well, I’ve talked about this before. I’ve confessed this before. This isn’t news. I mean, it’s news if somebodies tuning in for the first time but it’s not news. I am not a fan of songfics as they are traditionally known which is basically you open... DELAYNE : There’s a whole hunk of lyrics and a little tiny bit of exposition. DARKWICCAN : Yes, exactly, there’s like two sentences of expository prose and then somebody just cut and pastes the lyrics off goodlyrics.dot.com just [cut and paste sound effect] DELAYNE : [laughter] DARKWICCAN : And then there’s like a chunk of little expository prose at the end and that “there you go, hey you wrote a fic.” No you didn’t, you just quoted some lyrics at me, you didn’t write a fic. DELAYNE : But that’s definitely not what we’re talking about today. This, uh, I can’t even describe how it is done but I love how it is done. Does that make any sense? DARKWICCAN : Yeah, I totally get what you’re saying. This is a story where especially if you listen along to the playlist while you’re reading the story, this is a story where the music is the story and the story is the music. Our main point of view is Nicole, in fact our only point of view is Nicole, it is also a first person piece which I’m typically very wary around first person pieces as well, that’s a real touchy I mean this fic is really ticking all the boxes where normally I’d go, “uhh, thanks but no thanks. I mean I’ll read it because I gotta read it but uhh” DELAYNE : [laughter] Same. DARKWICCAN : I mean first person stuff is really difficult to write, I think I’ve written one or two. DELAYNE : I say we’ve talked about it before, we had a whole episode. DARKWICCAN : Yeah, we did. And it’s so, so difficult to do well. Because you are just, whether you want to or not you’re putting so much of yourself into the character that it’s possible to lose the core of the character and just be writing an autobiography essentially.