2856: Listening To You – Chapters 4-6

Title: Listening To You
Author: heyheywhatcanido
Media: Music
Topic: Tommy
Genre: Angst / Hurt/Comfort / Unhelpfully Specific AO3 Tags
URL: Chapters 4, 5, and 6
Critiqued by BatJamags

Hello once again, patrons. I’m your host BatJamags, and from me, you get opinions. Like the fact that this fic sucks. I just realized I should’ve been doing something seasonal. I’m going to count this because of:

All right, so it’s not especially festive. Cut me some slack here, I’m trying to make excuses.

Last time, Tommy Walker wandered around as his senses faded in and out until someone who could help found him and took him to a hospital, but then just kind of decided to be nonspecifically mean to him instead. He escaped, and then wandered around as his senses faded in and out until someone who could help found him and took him to a disturbingly non-Euclidean corner of the Formless Void that certainly could have been a hospital, but then just kind of decided to be nonspecifically mean to him instead. We left off as he escaped.

I left out some of the “better” twists and turns, but honestly, who cares.

Actually, the Who should’ve used Who Cares as an album title. It would’ve at least been more descriptive of whatever the hell that thing they released in 2020 was than just making it a self-titled.

Anyway, onto Chapter Four’s summary:

I imagine Beatrice as Tina Aumont but with short hair :)

Author, if you aren’t going to put any work into your descriptions, I’m certainly not going to research them. >X[

2855: Listening To You – Chapters 1-3

Title: Listening To You
Author: heyheywhatcanido
Media: Music
Topic: Tommy
Genre: Angst / Hurt/Comfort / It’s AO3 so there are also some oddly specific and unhelpful tags slapped on as well
URL: Chapters 1, 2, and 3
Critiqued by BatJamags

Hello once again, patrons! I’m your host, BatJamags, and I’m back with an angsty little microfic called “Listening To You.” You are, unfortunately, about to get the story.

So, I have a habit of sort of fixating on one musical artist at a time. And… my current focus is Who?

Large Warship the Owl: Hoo.

Yes, exactly.

Large Warship the Owl: Hoo hoo. Hoo hoo.

What do you mean, those jokes stopped being funny decades ago?

All right, all right, enough clowning. I mean these guys:

Basically, they’re a band that included the guitarist who literally invented hard rock, the singer who did the “YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAH!” scream you probably know best from the CSI meme, the drummer who inspired Animal from the Muppets because he was basically a human cartoon character, and the bass guitarist who was stealth the coolest of the four in spite of all that.

We do our best to avoid real person fic here because dude, that’s weird even for us. But what I’ve found for today is not a real person fic (other than an ambiguous borderline case in the second chapter that goes nowhere; we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it). The Who’s most successful album was Tommy, which is a rock opera and thus has its own plot and characters, written by the band’s guitarist and main songwriter Pete Townshend. It’s intended as sort of a metaphor for Townshend’s comparatively obscure religious beliefs, but can still at least be followed from plot point to plot point without the background reading.