Fans! A Musical About the Series of N00bs!

[sab]

runpunkrun
They'll make a Broadway musical about us. Fans!

iamsab
They WILL!
OMG, we have got to write that musical.

runpunkrun
/dancing in our Broadway musical, throwing my hands above my head
It can have REAL TROLLS.

iamsab
With hits songs like "Tentacle Porn is Fun for Everyone!"



runpunkrun
And SOCKPUPPETS. It'll be like CATS!

iamsab
And "He Only Thinks He Loves Her"
Oh, god, TOTALLY sockpuppets and trolls.

runpunkrun
"Gay for a Day"

iamsab
And kormantic's solo! "The Sad Ballad of MAry Sue's Blues!"

runpunkrun
YES, sitting at the bar, singing to her beer!

iamsab
Exactly! Being all pudgy and confused!

runpunkrun
And someone sending an inappropriate gift basket of dildoes to a TV star.
/true story

iamsab
Even now in the glory days of meta, kormantic's fic is still prob my favorite meta fic.
Totally.
Also a MANIPS makeover scene.
Where people are airbrushed gay!

runpunkrun
And their heads are put on other peoples' naked bodies!

iamsab
Exactly. They roll in on flats.
The peppy TV boy who found himself slashed one day gets to sing his hit song, "My Hed is Pastede On Yay"

runpunkrun
Oh, we need a BNF solo.

iamsab
Oh god, totally.

runpunkrun
hee!
And a Fandom Flounce.

iamsab
Like, "Someone's Going To Pay Me To Write Harry Potter Fic Someday: A BNF Aria"

runpunkrun
And someone who got famous by scratching the serial numbers off a fic and publishing it as an original novel.

iamsab
Yes! "Defickating!"

runpunkrun
Do you mean giafickating? or whatever

iamsab
And a song all about acronyms "OMG, the UST! My OTP got Jossed!"
I meant de-ficking.

runpunkrun
And what is de- -- AH, right.

iamsab
But a gafiating song is ALSO important.
"I'm Deleting Everything, Bye Bye"

runpunkrun
It is. And someone who changes their name every two days.

iamsab
And of course the big opening group number, "Nobody's As Clever As Me And My Online Friends!"
Yes!

runpunkrun
Oh, we'll need "I'm Famous on the Internet."

iamsab
Oh god, of course, that's the first act finale.
People will be singing the chorus during intermission.

Oh, and a REMIX.
The 2nd act will have a remix of a song from the first act

runpunkrun
And then a fight scene/flame war?

iamsab
Framed in a song about remixing. "I Mix It Up."
And then a giant flame war/fight scene.

runpunkrun
Also: a "(You Must) Cease and Desist" number.

iamsab
OOH.
And "Snacky's Law!" musical number.

runpunkrun
Sung by Nazis.

iamsab
And at the end, in the finale, EVERYONE IS GAY. And the finale is "Everyone Is Gay on Tee Vee"
Hah, totally.

runpunkrun
We'll need a list mom character, too.

iamsab
Oh yeah.
Who constantly interrupts people when they're OT.

runpunkrun
And renames their threads.

iamsab
And deletes posts. Oh, that's a great duet, a fanfic writer and listmom, "My Post Got Deleted!"
And something about people being possessive about characters. "I Don't See Him That Way" could be a nice liltly slow song.

runpunkrun
And a "We Don't Like Their Kind" song about RPS/chan/incest writers.

iamsab
As well as the regular challenge numbers, "In a Canadian Shack," "Little Black Dress," "Yuletide"
Yes! Totally.

runpunkrun
It can change every act, who we don't like. And the RPSers'll be added in to the chorus singing about how gross the chan writers are.
etc

iamsab
And something about vidders. Their vids will splash on the backdrop. "I Cut It Gay."
Totally!

runpunkrun
Oh, DEFINITELY Yuletide. With jingling bells and people pulling their hair out.

iamsab
Yes!

runpunkrun
And we need the "We're In Your Fandom, Slashin' your Doodz" type number. And all the male vidders and fanboys can look terrified.

iamsab
Hah! OMG yes.
And "I'm a Lesbian But I Write Gay Porn!"

runpunkrun
AND we need a chick pretending to be a gay guy so that she's more popular. And our token actual gay guy.

iamsab
Totally.
What's the name of this musical. Fans?
Or Fans! (A Musical)
Or Fans! (A Musical about....something!)

runpunkrun
What kind of subtitles do musicals often have?

iamsab
I have no idea.
There's always, like, Bambi! A Comic Opera

runpunkrun
/snort

iamsab
Or, something like that. Or Potatoes! A Musical in Three Acts.

runpunkrun
Okay, so what kind of subtitles would fans have? "You Don't Understand Them!" "Nerds!" "They do WHAT on the internet?"

iamsab
Hah! Yeah, like. Fans! A Nerdy Underword in Two Acts.

runpunkrun
I think if we can't have a fabulous subtitle, we can just be Fans! Do we want a z? Fanz! No. FanZ! More no.

Comments

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

this is awesome. i would totally pay a dollar to see this show.

[vandonovan.livejournal.com]

Oh, ow. That's just glorious. I'd totally go to the opening premiere.

FanZ: Winning Ur Internets.

Sab is eating chicken right now, but we forgot to say...

[runpunkrun]

Other possible musical numbers:

"Please Like My Story (And Review)"
"TBC/WIP Dance"
"NSFW"

Re: Sab is eating chicken right now, but we forgot to say...

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Yes, and the chorus from the WIP Dance: "Part One of Questionmark!" It'll be like a rock musical number, like Tommy. With lasers. And ending with, like, "Part Nine of Questionmark!" And then the TBC shimmy, and... blackout.

[thingswithwings.livejournal.com]

AMAZING. Just. Amazing.

but where is the adversarial duet, "Warnings!"?

And plus also you need an academic who stands off stage left and gets an occasional spotlight in order to explain what's just happened.

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

We'll laugh, we'll cry! We need it.

[cazling.livejournal.com]

Amazing. I would so pay to see this. "We're on ur Broadway, subverting ur tropes."

[scrubschick.livejournal.com]

I would totally travel across town to see this!

How about a song about spoilers? Of course, all I can think of is the Barney song: "I spoil you. You spoil me. We're a bizarre family"... Sorry. Go scrub your brain.

And a big West Side Story-ish fighting number with knives and finger-snapping and snazzy jazz dancing about the main characters' hair:
"It was better in season three!"
"No, it wasn't!"
"Yes, it was! It was! It was!"

"I Write Songfic and I Have No Shame," sung by the fifteen-year-old character.

[noelleleithe.livejournal.com]

Don't forget that big show-stopping number "The Lurkers Support Me In E-mail."

[runpunkrun]

How could we forget that? That's KEY!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is just fantastic. And I don't even like musicals.

You don't have to have a special separate fandom flounce; flouncing and gafiating are the only fandom equivalents of the exit.

[ainsley.livejournal.com]

Based on our earlier conversation, and this, I suspect I need to get to know this punk person. *g*

[beerbad.livejournal.com]

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLZ!

[projectjulie.livejournal.com]

I WANT IT NOW.

and then I want the metavids to the songs from the musical!

[petronelle.livejournal.com]

I have just fallen hard for Slings & Arrows and wandered into your journal through that mechanism. This is brilliance of a different stripe, and I love it.