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.)

Well, suffice it to say that some ficcers' version would have to take the short squad car. And I don't think it's fair. I'll spare you the pimping, though. And the things they do with Kay's speech. Cause she's got a habit, huh? Of ending sentences like that. And in some people's ham-hands, it makes her sound like "Sling Blade," Annoying.

Kisses like individual syllables of tongue-slippery Braille,

Please. Just no.

Methos is back and Shrift's got him! Yeeeeaaaa!

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Why do I do this to myself? If the author has unironically used the word "ficcies" in a sentence, delete the email and run far far away! Do not give in to the temptation to see just how bad it is!

FYI for all West Wing fanfic fans, Spitz the Cat has finally (after 10 months) added another chapter to her ongoing Joshua Monologues (I've linked to the NC-17 version). Probably the best AU Josh/Donna fanfic I've read.

Some kind of charming SGA CrackFic for your Saturday afternoon.

I think I've rarely had so much pure giddy fun in a fandom before.

Oh, that was hysterical.