Subject: "I've Got Canon to Keep Me Warm"
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Posted on: 2014-12-15 05:10:00 UTC

After "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" by Irving Berlin(!), although I was following the Doris Day lyrics as recorded here. The original song is actually quite repetitive, so I've loosened up the rhyme scheme significantly. Entire verses also repeat, so I've only written each verse once for space's sake.

The filk leans more towards general canon love, and doesn't involve the PPC directly. Couldn't help it; that's just how the song wrote itself. Nesh, if you don't want it in the songbook, that's fine. I'm also worried it sounds too much like I'm dissing AUs and other goodfic that doesn't follow canon; my intent is that it's just about a good book (etc.) always being a reliable and unchanging companion.

Fandom's imploding, fics are exploding
But canon weathers the harm
What do I care how many fics swarm?
I've got canon to keep me warm!

I can't recall a worse shipping brawl
But I keep back from the brink
What do I care how many ships sink?
I'll always have my canon link!

Down with the inserts, down with the pairs
Back to the canon, you'll see how it fares
Flames are brightening, but my soul's lightening
And I can float high above
The fandom wank, I've had enough of
My heart is filled with canon love!

Out with the movies, any adaptation
Just cannot fill me with sad consternation
I know the form my world has always worn
Fills me with love to keep me warm!

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