Current song adventures

Finals week produced quite a few half-baked filks.

• The ship that rescued the Titanic, the Carpathia, effectively pulled a steampunk stunt to do so. That one’s a verse along but sounds good so far.
• I forgot the lyrics to Toast for Unsung Heroes but remembered that one part rhymed with “also”, and that another line ended in “ before”. This resulted in my brain insisting it was “to boldly go” in the first verse, with “where no man’s gone before” at the end. The fact that “Here’s a health to Gene Roddenberry” scans to it didn’t help.
• Got further along in what I will only call Elevenses for now, which has been going since July. Some people may have heard me mention this one before; I know I’ve seen facepalms when I mention how it’s written.
• There’s now a theatrical superstition song going as well.

Most notably, ttto When A Felon’s Not Engaged in his Employment and entirely due to Ellen Kranzer’s “sitting in the hallway filking” story, which was stuck in my head at ten at night a week back:
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