Zoe: We're getting him back. Jayne: What are we gonna do, clone him?

'War Stories'


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.


Sophia Brooks - Jul 19, 2012 1:25:41 pm PDT #7919 of 10434
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Not fanfic, but I got shamed on tumblr for pinning their pictures on pinterest without crediting. And these are just pictures she is posting from museum websites, not original work. But somehow I was stealing.


Atropa - Jul 19, 2012 1:36:11 pm PDT #7920 of 10434
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Hilariously (to me, at least), someone recently posted a photo of my hands/manicure from the GCS tutorial for the blood spatter manicure. About three notes in on the photo, the GCS fans started calling out the original poster for not not giving me credit or linking to Gothic Charm School.


Sophia Brooks - Jul 19, 2012 1:37:55 pm PDT #7921 of 10434
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Also, I don't even understand how you would credit on pinterest. The pin is a link back to the original.


Amy - Jul 19, 2012 1:39:37 pm PDT #7922 of 10434
Because books.

I'm pretty sure I must be doing Tumblr wrong. I just hit reblog and add a comment and some tags. I never erase previous remarks, though.


§ ita § - Jul 19, 2012 1:40:39 pm PDT #7923 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I've started doing a deliberate search when I encounter a picture I want to use on provocateuse--I search by image to see if it seems to be a tumblr-produced effort, and then I look for the original instead. I just...no. Don't wanna go there.

Plus the general colour palette that seems to be trendy of adult skin tones is kinda...candyish. What *is* the deal?


P.M. Marc - Jul 19, 2012 1:47:54 pm PDT #7924 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

The straightwashing of Irene is such a enormous and glaring thing that your pedantic brain latched onto something smaller so you wouldn't get fic rage fatigue?

No, I'm just more likely to be irritated by the small details, while boggling at the big things. I mean, seriously. It's almost impressively straightwashed. Part of the reason I keep reading is to see if the author ever acknowledges that she's writing a canon queer character as having an exceptionally het backstory. I'm... 26? chapters in, and not yet.


Amy - Jul 19, 2012 1:49:49 pm PDT #7925 of 10434
Because books.

Was Irene not straight in A Scandal in Bohemia? I've never read it, but I read all of Carol Nelson Douglas's Adler series except the last one, and she was very het there.


§ ita § - Jul 19, 2012 1:50:45 pm PDT #7926 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

She's gay in the TV show.


Connie Neil - Jul 19, 2012 2:04:51 pm PDT #7927 of 10434
brillig

But yes, het in the story.


Juliebird - Jul 19, 2012 2:05:18 pm PDT #7928 of 10434
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

I'm amused and saddened by properly spelled words that don't mean what the author thinks they do.

Vernacular diseases ftw!

That's right folks, the epidemic of everyone suddenly speaking the same local language caused the apocalypse. Suddenly, no one was able to hide behind geographical or cultural misunderstandings and deliberate heretofore hidden insults, and they blew each other up in a fit of pique.