Mal ,'The Train Job'
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I'll have to get back to reading Laocoon's Children--I enjoyed Stealing Harry, but got bogged down in Cartographer's and gave up on the whole site.
I'm getting caught up on Fernwithy's fics now. Shifts was an excellent parallel look at OotP (what exactly were Lupin and Tonks doing during Harry's 5th year? One word: Smeltings!), and she's doing the same with Shades paralleling HBP.
Grr. I hate when I get pointless reviews on stories. It wasn't criticism - it was just pointing out a bit of canon that had nothing to do with the story, and that was addressed in a half-joking author's note.
Sigh...so I've been spoiled a bit for an upcoming SGA ep by, of all things, a blurb on a recs page. (The story that was blurbed has no spoilers for as-yet-unaired eps, but apparently has a similar storyline to one)
People, don't assume everyone has seen all the eps you've seen.
I hate when that happens, Sheryl. It's a common problem in the anime fandoms, since some fans rely upon the official U.S. translations, while others get the fan-translated stuff from the web. It's like the whole NAFDA thing, but in reverse.
I have a feeling that the same thing will happen when Dr. Who is released on SciFi. People will start watching, and then go to fan sites and get inadvertently spoiled by people who DL'd the eps as they were aired in the UK.
Gah! Why oh why does 97% of Luna-based femslash suck so badly? (This is hypothetical. I know the reason - the same reason Drusilla and River so often come out horrible in fic). She can be such a great character when written well, especially (IMHO) paired with Ginny, but finding the good stuff is so hard.
Plus, none of the good HP novelists write femslash, I think. Sigh. These are my first world complaints.
Feel like writing a new fic-novel Fay? Eh?
is she, you know, a nutter? (not Fay.)
Sí. Though I think most writers tend to take the 'eccentric' JKR gives her and move it to 'tragically mentally flawed deep in her beautiful soul full of metaphors about butterflies and shit.' When, really, it's better when she's just written as a bit daft.
Oh, yeah, I know the woman you mean now...I'm kind of a tourist in the Potterverse.And, dude, if I didn't love my Springsteen tag, I'd tag that butterfly thing. Mos def. In Homicide fandom, we have sort of the opposite problem with Detective Bayliss. Tim was molested and abused as a kid, which gives him great big gobs of personal issues, yes. But he also has worked murders for years and before that worked on Quick Response(Baltimore SWAT) and he can pretty much shoot out a fly's eye(although he might cry for the fly. He *is* very sensitive.) But I get tired of reading FetalPosition! Bayliss fic, because until the very end, Tim is a high-functioning damaged person who used to guard the *mayor*... and speaking of nutters...the woman trying to get a fictional man his dignity and props? Comes pretty close... But I guess it's important to me because of the real survivors I know. ETA: Also makes me wonder what Disneyland planet some of those writers are from that just has Sane and Healthy and Completely Decompensated on it. You know? Because I know it's like the Kinsey scale, you know?
I very much know the full scale of emotional issues, though I'm unfamiliar with your Bayliss example (H:LOTS is one of the 300 shows on my netflix queue, but since I have neither time nor money at the moment, netflix has been temporarily put on hold. So it may be a while.)