So sometimes you want to write
happy fic. Maybe even a bit of (urk) sap.
And it doesn't co-operate with you, because it all just gets clogged down in depressing introspection and you don't know what to do about it.
For me, what usually helps, is finding the correct type of music. This time, it took a bit of searching and in the end, I realized it wasn't actually happy music that I needed, but happy, vivid lyrics. Go digging through the memory banks and there, aha! A vague image of a song we used to sing back in school, some frantic googling for the half-remembered words (wine, valley, gold?)
The internet knows everything, of course, although I did end up a bit disappointed with the vocal alternatives I could find. Doesn't matter, the song lyrics are
exactly what I need for happy Luffy/Zoro fic (though whether I can actually translate my mental images into actual words still remains to see)
For future uses and in case anyone is curious about obscure Swedish songs set to Bach tunes, here you go - choral version and lyrics, with my translation.
( Video for 'Nu grönskar det i dalens famn' )( Nu grönskar det i dalens famn / Now it blooms in the embrace of the valley )As a bonus, I got to recall how you hand-code a html table. What fun -_-