Speranza just posted in her LJ saying that there is no translation of the two bits at the end of the story.
Well, you'd better not be thinking what I think you're thinking, because my answer is the same as always — no threesomes unless it's boy-boy-girl. Or Charlize Theron.
Harmony ,'First Date'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Dana - Sep 07, 2007 10:44:32 am PDT #4324 of 10436
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
P.M. Marc - Sep 07, 2007 6:35:57 pm PDT #4325 of 10436
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
(But by way of disclaimer, the list of stories I find to be improved by being gen is... um... I had one or two written down somewhere in case the question ever came up.)
I will cling to readers like you when my first choc_fic story posts.
Because really, it COULD have been gen, and taking it to slash involved a subplot, but there was a slash in the prompt! And, well, damn it...
I'd missed writing blow jobs
amych - Sep 07, 2007 6:39:45 pm PDT #4326 of 10436
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
choc_fic? hmm? took me a minute. remembered. yay!
Also:
there was a slash in the prompt!
An obvious case of punctuational determinism! How could you be expected to do otherwise?
yay blow jobs!
P.M. Marc - Sep 07, 2007 6:50:06 pm PDT #4327 of 10436
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
[link] Choc_Fic.
AKA, a challenge of AWESOME.
An obvious case of punctuational determinism! How could you be expected to do otherwise?
I was helpless before it! It couldn't be helped!
amych - Sep 07, 2007 7:05:16 pm PDT #4328 of 10436
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I was helpless before it! It couldn't be helped!
Egg-zackly!
In other news, if I'm even going to try for Days of Awesome, my shows need to be so much more jewy. Tis sad.
Consuela - Sep 07, 2007 7:57:12 pm PDT #4329 of 10436
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I think I would have liked the story better if it had been gen.
Nutty is me in this. I ended up skimming the porn: I've read too much McKay/Sheppard to have any emotional attachment or response to the sex scenes. And like Nutty, I wish the story had been more ambitious, more challenging. Eh. Perhaps I'm just hard to please today. On edit: which is not to say it's not well-done; I just wanted more and different from it. Which is really my issue and not the writer's.
I also feel just a tiny bit snubbed, since the structure of telling the story through a variety of historical lenses, interspersed with straight narrative, is one I used less than two months ago, and got no more than a nod. Okay, yeah, not 55,000 words and I'm not Speranza, but it's not like the form was invented for that story...
Fay - Sep 07, 2007 9:53:29 pm PDT #4330 of 10436
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Oooh! Linky link, 'Suela?
Katie M - Sep 08, 2007 4:08:35 am PDT #4331 of 10436
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Consuela - Sep 08, 2007 5:52:08 am PDT #4332 of 10436
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Fay, here: [link]
Like I said, neither epic nor slash, but it's not that unusual a format.
Eh, I sound all bitter and sour grapesy, which I don't mean to be.
Theodosia - Sep 08, 2007 7:05:09 am PDT #4333 of 10436
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I do think Cesperanza is very talented, but there is enough fannish awe that she's accumulated over time that I think fannish critical circuits get overwhelmed about her current work.