This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?

Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'


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.


Lee - Jan 16, 2008 10:11:16 am PST #4998 of 10436
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I'm the flip side, I guess. I tested myself last night, to see if I could make it through stuff that wouldn't make me blink in any other fandom, and I just couldn't do it.

Oddly, this is me too. I didn't have a problem with River/Simon really, but I just can't read Wincest. Unless it honks, or has gremlins.

It's the other stuff like wingfic and rpf that I never thought I would read.


esse - Jan 16, 2008 10:15:33 am PST #4999 of 10436
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

It's so beautiful to see barriers broken for other people. It reminds me of the halcyon days of my youth, before popslash systemically destroyed everything I thought I knew about myself and rebuilt me into something...well, if not better, then certainly hella more open-minded about fic. And pairings. And the 'cest. And wings, and AUs, and kink, and animorphing, and threesomes, and orgy-fic, and sex pollen, and, and, and.


Beverly - Jan 16, 2008 10:16:14 am PST #5000 of 10436
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

It's the other stuff like wingfic and rpf that I never thought I would read.

Well, this is more what I was talking about, actually. I still cringe at most Wincest, and especially parent/child.

I started out and am still, basically, a gen girl. In any fandom. Shenannigans are ancillary to good, plotty gen, for me. PWP is fun, and I do enjoy it, but gen remains a basic food group. Not grope, as I started to type.


shrift - Jan 16, 2008 10:21:58 am PST #5001 of 10436
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

My boundaries are mutable. I may be able to Go There in one fandom and not another. It all depends on the characters and how I relate to them.


Beverly - Jan 16, 2008 10:22:37 am PST #5002 of 10436
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Ooh, looka that, 5000!

SA, I hear you. But in my case, I was already really open-minded IRL about a lot of things that bore me in fic. Maybe because it's not new discovery for me. I have very few squicks, actually--there's more I don't read because of boredom than stuff I avoid due to squick.

open-minded about fic. And pairings. And the 'cest. And wings, and AUs, and kink, and animorphing, and threesomes, and orgy-fic, and sex pollen, and, and, and.

See, everything in there is basically fun. Except for the 'cest. I *saw* the River/Simon. I could just never go there. It just...no. Too much parent/child in that particular pairing.


Dana - Jan 16, 2008 10:22:51 am PST #5003 of 10436
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

It all depends on the characters and how I relate to them.

Except for sex pollen. There's always room for sex pollen.


Aims - Jan 16, 2008 10:23:28 am PST #5004 of 10436
Shit's all sorts of different now.

So many terms I have no idea what they mean.


Ailleann - Jan 16, 2008 10:24:49 am PST #5005 of 10436
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

Give it time, Aimee. Give it time.


Dana - Jan 16, 2008 10:26:37 am PST #5006 of 10436
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Sex pollen probably means exactly what you think it means.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 16, 2008 10:26:39 am PST #5007 of 10436
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Thank you Aimee!

Also, for some reason, the only thing I cannot read is wingfic. I'll read incest or rpf, but the wing thing just seems as crazy as the my little pony fic. I am sure, though, someday someone will post a great wingfic, and I will be sucked into that, too.