Insta!rec: DDX, With Feeling

[bironic]

Posting started today at the bad!fic fest comm betteronvicodin, and the first story up is already brilliant:

DDX, With Feeling by dominus_trinus

Go check this out right now. It's an episode set to the songs of BtVS's "Once More, With Feeling" (which I know has been done once before, but this is really, really good), with great lyrics and meter and one-liners and characterization and in-jokes and everything. The fellows have a theory! Wilson and House do the Xander/Anya marriage song-and-dance! Wilson worries about his enabling! House has a duet with his pain! Nobody cares about Dawn minions running lab tests all night! Truly, a must-read if you like House, BtVS, RSL or musicals. You don't have to know the melodies to appreciate the fic, though it would certainly enrich your appreciation of what the author did here.

If you're somehow still not convinced, here is an excerpt from "I'll Never Tell":

WILSON (gestures to indicate HOUSE):
This is the guy that I do not ask why
I still hang around,
Even when he grins with glee as he runs me
Into the ground.
All these years, they just show
His vitriol won’t make me go.
There are just things that—no.
I’ll never tell.

HOUSE (mirrors WILSON’S gesture):
He is my friend to the end, will attend
To my every need. He’ll pay my bail when in jail
Will not fail my hungers to feed.
He’s loyal, he’s a wit,
We’re both screwed up but still we fit.
It’s just that he’s a bit—
Well. I’ll never tell.

BOTH:
But the things I could tell!

Go!

Comments

[azdaja-dafema.livejournal.com]

I'm going to enjoy that - I just watched that episode again the other day!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Oh, perfect - so you had all the melodies in your head as you read. :)

[jadesfire.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the link - what an inspired idea!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! Heh - I saw your post about it too. This is a promising start to the three-month betteronvicodin fest.

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

Hee, it's about time too! Thanks for the rec - I did start reading it but I came to the conclusion I'm really going to have to watch/listen to that Buffy ep again before I can go through it - it's driving me completely nuts not having the tunes properly fixed in my head so I can see whether the lyrics work. Yes, this is important XD

[bironic.livejournal.com]

It is! It's definitely worth it, too, because the lyrics fit so well. In the house_wilson cross-post, the author provided a link in comments to a YouTube user who has the songs uploaded, if that helps, and I have some mp3s around somewhere, if you like. Pathetically, I remembered the melodies to all but a few of the songs (some after a little memory-jogging) and was able to read right through.