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Swan tilted his head as if he were listening to a sound only he could hear, “You write her clean,” he said, “Safe, expected, easy.”
That was what it was supposed to be. Winslow, rewriting his music to be perfect, with the perfect conclusion, with the perfect person who would fit neatly into her song like a puzzle piece, and yet, the words laughed at him. Instead, they handed him his heart that was so full of rot it couldn’t stop beating Swan’s name, each pump a depressing reminder of just how he was so, so pathetically beyond his depth.
Swan finds the paper that Winslow discarded on the floor, and decides to have a talk with him about it. (A direct continuation of my "let's work it out on the remix" one-shot.)
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Phoenix was a lovely girl. From her eyes he could tell she was bursting at the seams with ambition—ready to conquer the burdens of stardom through the means of her vocals. It was the little things he picked up, the way she held herself up with passion, sang with it, carved her name into her rendition of his Faust.
She was the first option, the safe option. The option that didn’t leave Winslow double-taking in his own mind and wondering why the words on his rework described dirty blonde hair and rose-tinted glasses.
Winslow Leach after having accepted Swan's deal is reworking Faust to be tailored to Phoenix, yet his words describe someone else.
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manchild by barkingcats
Fandoms: The Rocky Horror Show - O'Brien, Rocky Horror Picture Show
17 Sep 2025
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Magenta was her confidante—her other pea in the pod, bird of a feather. That night, while they watched Janet from the monitor, she pulled Magenta in, and really looked at her eyes. Or when she'd look from afar, watching with unfamiliar fondness as the woman would work so diligently. Or perhaps... when Eddie's death didn't so much phase her as much as she had liked because she had her head turned to another woman.
"Hey. He's out cold."
PROMPT: An absurd babysitting job wherein Columbia and Magenta are tasked to look after Rocky.
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let's work it out on the remix (swanslow) by barkingcats
Fandom Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
06 Jun 2026
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my collection of swanslow fics because i am that obsessed ok
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