I had to click back on that to see what you meant by "fast moving gif". That's not what I was referring to! It's the tumblr entry itself, with the teacups.
Dawn: You're not fleeing. You're... moving at a brisk pace. Buffy: Quaintly referred to in some cultures as the Big Scaredy Run Away.
'Touched'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
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§ ita § - Feb 27, 2012 6:04:36 pm PST #7659 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
WindSparrow - Feb 28, 2012 3:30:00 am PST #7660 of 10434
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
I saw that too. But the gif (it seemed awfully big for a user icon) was just too distracting for me to gaze at the teacup pictures long enough for it to bug me. So I guess you and I both have a problem with things on that page, just not the same problem.
§ ita § - Feb 28, 2012 5:42:03 am PST #7661 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The problematic thing isn't that tumblr entry, so much as the entire tumblr (which I'd never heard of before 4 minutes before making that post, nor the martin+freeman+is+a+hedgehog tag which is all over tumblr, per se, but just the random not too infrequent comparison posts that would float up my feed, and then be followed by just a hedgehog doing the backstroke in the bathtub and people complaining about invading Freeman's privacy, and by that point my brain has bought in and thrown away the keys.
Liese S. - Feb 28, 2012 6:32:42 am PST #7662 of 10434
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
What about the hedgehog's privacy? Will no one think of the hedgehogs?
§ ita § - Feb 28, 2012 7:07:47 am PST #7663 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They need us more than we need them,
Wait, what am I even saying anymore?
WindSparrow - Feb 28, 2012 7:11:42 am PST #7664 of 10434
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Ok, I think I see now. That is not right like a thing that is not. Right. And I think I am rather glad that I have not been exposed to it enough to really have my brain get too into it.
Juliebird - Mar 01, 2012 10:24:33 pm PST #7665 of 10434
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I was talking with my beta about stopping my own fic mid-planned-outline just to give myself time to come up with more plot to frame the relationship stuff in. She made me feel better by pointing out that plot was Hard, and that's why most fics just focused on the relationship stuff and ignored plot (i.e. Fluff). So now I'm curious as to whether this is the real reason there is so much plotless fluff
Anne W. - Mar 02, 2012 1:20:13 am PST #7666 of 10434
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
So now I'm curious as to whether this is the real reason there is so much plotless fluff
I think that might be the reason for some of it, but I also think that some plotless fluff is written primarily for wish-fulfillment or self-comfort.
Speaking of plotty fic, I have noticed a trend (at least on AO3) in one of my fandoms for plotty fic to involve a whole lot of telling and not much showing. Maybe it's just me, but it feels like stories are edging closer to synopses.
WindSparrow - Mar 02, 2012 6:23:43 am PST #7667 of 10434
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Speaking of plotty fic, I have noticed a trend (at least on AO3) in one of my fandoms for plotty fic to involve a whole lot of telling and not much showing. Maybe it's just me, but it feels like stories are edging closer to synopses.
Plot IS hard. When I was writing my monster plotty fic, "show, don't tell" was something I frequently reminded myself of. Yet, so much of the plot was driven by wacky psychological stuff, it was hard to find the line between describing though processes without doing too much "telling" and finding some way to "show" the introspection. And the characters kept doing unexpected things...
Yeah, fluffy banter is soooo much easier.
P.M. Marc - Mar 02, 2012 6:31:48 am PST #7668 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I don't find plot all that difficult, to be honest. Actually, one of the reasons I rarely finish anything these days is that I'll start with something PWP, and wind up with a novel's worth of plot to justify it in my head, become more interested in the plot, and I just don't have TIME to write long things.
Speaking of plotty fic, I have noticed a trend (at least on AO3) in one of my fandoms for plotty fic to involve a whole lot of telling and not much showing. Maybe it's just me, but it feels like stories are edging closer to synopses.
Drives me nuts, and you are not wrong.