Hmm. Secret identity of Bad Nikita Writer?
Maybe this is why she hasn't been around any more. Maybe she's busy churning out awful romance novels.
No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
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Dana - Jan 07, 2008 8:16:49 am PST #4856 of 10436
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
JZ - Jan 07, 2008 12:21:57 pm PST #4857 of 10436
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh, dear Lord, that's brain-wreckingly awful. And eerily Nikita-esque. How is it even possible that excellent Buffista writers like Susan and erika are still fighting their way toward that first publication when this idiot has managed to rook some publishing house into forking over money for multiple horrid novels? How could she possibly get even a single book deal, let alone a stack of them, in anyplace but Bizarro World?
Dana - Jan 07, 2008 12:32:21 pm PST #4858 of 10436
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
The punchline to the joke is that the people at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books have caught the author plagiarizing various research articles about Native American culture, pretty much dropping passages wholesale into her books.
Which probably proves that it's not BNW, since I doubt she ever did any research.
Anne W. - Jan 07, 2008 4:41:16 pm PST #4859 of 10436
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
What amuses me is that one of the articles she apparently plagiarized was about ferrets. Ferrets.
DebetEsse - Jan 07, 2008 4:48:01 pm PST #4860 of 10436
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Not just any ferrets, Anne, Black-Footed Ferrets.
Consuela - Jan 07, 2008 8:02:51 pm PST #4861 of 10436
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Endangered black-footed ferrets, no less.
This might be my favorite Yuletide story this year: [link]
Because it's perfect Max Headroom, perfect voices and a plot that's all commentary on vidding and corporate ownership of the media.
... well, okay, it's also Edison/Bryce, but it's not explicit, and the story does in fact acknowledge the age issue. Still, you could read 3/4 of the way through the story and get most of the good stuff.
P.M. Marc - Jan 07, 2008 8:25:05 pm PST #4862 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
It's really well done.
Unfortunately, I couldn't get over the Edison/Bryce.
Cass - Jan 07, 2008 9:48:01 pm PST #4863 of 10436
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
but your avocado may vary.They are words, but I don't quite understand them in this order.
Endangered black-footed ferrets, no less.I should have realized, when I was reading this story earlier, that we'd have the best commentary on it.
erikaj - Jan 08, 2008 11:13:53 am PST #4864 of 10436
Always Anti-fascist!
Writing your own stuff is harder, JZ. Especially in a genre not replete with throbbing members and stuff.
Fay - Jan 08, 2008 5:12:26 pm PST #4865 of 10436
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Speaking of which - am I the only person that didn't know some dickhead had set up his own journal and been posting Thamiris's posts and pretending they were his? And her fucking bio? And even stealing comments she'd written to other people and using them to comment on other people's journals? I mean - what the fucking fuck?
This I found profoundly offensive. I'm delighted to hear his ass got canned in the end, but I still want to drop a tonne of bricks on his head. Jackass.
On a much cheerier note, though - holy crap, I cannot adequately express my love of Audiofic. All of you should be out there recording audiofic right now! Yes! So that I can listen to it! Yes!