I don't know what went wrong, one day I was DJ-ing for a disastrous fashion show in Ponyville, the next I was warming the dance-floor up in Clopernicus, Manehattans biggest club. Behind me waited my teenage idol, Astro$RF, to drop the needle and really get the crowd going.
No more than a week later, Astro$RF was the one warming the crowd while I waited to drop the needle and really get the crowd going. But with this sky-rocketing fame pushing me into the public eye, I found myself in an influential position I did not ask for and never wanted. I hid behind my mirror-shades, but you can only hide for so long.
Chapters (8)
Is whis a... whatchamacallit, that fanfic with a junkie DJ with identity disorders? Anyway, is this a fan ending to that?Yes. Two Beats is the name. That one. Alright, this isn't a fan sequel, per se. But let see how this goes!
On the contrary. I find your criticism towards dubstep quite clever. I myself like the genre quite a bit, I admit; but I also admit that people nowadays are so trendy that they most likely are swallowing dubstep down just because it is something everyone else does. This isn't the point of your critique, though. It can mostly be expressed and infered in the sentence: "They lost their flavors" and that is exactly it! Dubstep is nice, sure. Kind of aggressive and, I guess. Mostly fast (not like a good D'nB though!). But in the end it is exactly that: bass kicks and drops without any sort of coherent melody to help you enjoy (or even create) an atmosphere. As much as I love the good examples of dubstep out there, I have to admit that they are mostly repetitive and boring after a while. Heard 30? Heard 'em all.
Again: The few good dubstep there are out there are the exception to this "rule".
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Yup, it is. Less of a fan sequel and more of a "I needed a DJ to act opposite Vinyl, and they slotted in fairly well"
I will never again use a gender-ambigious character in a third-person story. Not unless I somehow decide to write in a language that has a decent gender neutral third person pronoun. 
This is a mistake, let me correct it for you:
Missing the i
When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
Kinky, Vinyl. Very kinky.
Were = I was; you were; he was | We were; you were; they were
Where = Where did I put that pen?
Strangely as it feels to read this chapter, the story is correctly tagged. Most of the fanfic is a sadfic, even if the sad parts are more subjective that one could find at first glance. Vinyl's fear, although only properly presented in the 7th Track, is constant throughout the whole story. You can feel it in-between the lines of text. And the best point of the fanfic on my opinion: her fear is also ours.
Subtle, but true nonetheless.
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It sems to me that dubstep started out as one thing and ended up as another. The early tracks were more atmospheric, and didn't have as much of the signature WUBWUBWUB-bass, rather they went forsome really sweet ultra-deep sine-waves, kinda like someone doing an electronic version of old-school Jamaican dub music, go figure.
Ultimately, I think the main theme of the story is less “Dubstep is good/bad” and more that the electronic dance music scene is quite neophilic, for better or for worse, and it can sometimes be hard to mentally keep up with the changes.
I'm almost tempted to leave that error in there, cus its pretty funny once discovered, but I'm changing it to its intended meaning...
Good, because I had a lot o trouble with how to tag the story. For once, it isn't really a slice of life, altough my tendency for that is still there, it's a bit too upbeat for a Tragedy, I love my bittersweet endings.
And Dark is is usually... well, I asked plenty of people how they'd define dark to get a sense of where peoples head is at. And the usual idea is that dark is about the characters doing bad things or else about things that make people uncomfortable. My own definition is that Dark is the type of story that rubs your face in just how insignificant we are in the long run, but neither definition really fits this story.
In the end I chose to go with sad, because it is the dominating emotion, and also because the story, at least in my mind, has more to do with a mental state than the actions. If you get right down to it, the story is about Vinyl becoming successful and having her dreams come true, and if success would automatically mean happiness, the world would be a somewhat easier place to live in...
Oh, I definently agree. To me, a lot of the prudishness you'll see for “Moral Majority”-style groups seems to me like a kink in and of itself, like they have to treat sex as something forbidden and sinful, or else they don't get off on it.
What is it about my fanfics lately and getting very split ratings? Have people started to do it intentionally cus I mentioned I was amused whenever a fanfic got equal numbers of likes and dislikes?
I guess my approach might just be kinda “love it or hate it” by design, but I'd lie if I said I wasn't a little bitter about the fact that it prolly sabotages my chances at being read, and that from people who don't even have the decency to tell me what their problem with it is.
2254212 I guess that, since you think before you speak and your comments are somewhat acidic when you want them to be, you got yourself some lices. The kind of people that follow you around just to downvote everything you wrote. I think that we both know one of those people... Check your other fanfics to see if there are any downvotes in there.
Alas, that isn't clearly rule-breaking. For if they hate you (or started hating you), they'll most likely [blindly] hate what you write. And the downvote is clearly labeled "I disliked it."
This is another reason for me laughing at Sorren's face some other week. Basically, someone wrote a story she liked. Well I didn't. And the dislike button isn't meant for stories that are good. They are made for the subjective-me to place my call whereupon I wish.
I'm so glad Vinyl doesn't do drugs in this fic :3 I'm getting pretty tired of people always characterizing her as a drug addict or kinda slutty. It just annoys me so much, and its not how I imagine her at all.
Great fic so far by the way
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Then you should prolly not read any of my OTHER Vinyl fics...
Okay, S1lenc3 is sex and drug-free, but I've played around with her characterization a bit, cus I've had a hard time finding a character for her that I'm completely happy with.
Some interpetation have been darker than others, but for some reason, Vinyl keeps getting a raw deal in my stories.
I've often joked about writing a story called "Nothing bad happens to Vinyl Schratch" as karmic balance. One of these days...