I wish people did that IRL, so that when I space on someone's name, I can just wait on a third person to address them.

I keep trying to make people get into situations where they are alone outside the front of my house to try and lure my nosy (but nice) neighbor out. Because then they can ask her name. I've chatted with her far too much to admit I don't remember it.

This is a golden disclaimer:

I am not bad with grammar, I am actually very well with it. This story I repeat is unedited, so yes, there will be mistakes. I just wrote the story for people who are bored out of their minds and can't find anything else to read. There is just so many words that it will take time to catch all of the mistakes. Thank you for all of those who are concerned. The mistakes are not corrected because I haven't had the chance to go over the story and my keyboard is less then functional.

(I was gonna go with just the first sentence, but I love "then functional" too...)

As a note, this is the story that swaps bare and bear, and really close to each other. I've never seen a fic of this length just go whole hog for the wrong word so many times *as* well as have so many words that are red squiggles in most technology since 2005. It's really execrable.

Oh, and the story is full of consistency and logical errors, emotional cheap shots, just generally crappy 54K+ that I did a lot of skimming through, since it was so golden.

They do say that incompetent people are far more confident of their ability than those who are actually competent...

A lot of 14-year-olds are that confident, too.

The story does seem to have an adolescent (or, at best, untested) view of both biology and physical and emotional intimacy, and also LIFE.

"I am actually very well with it" is gonna stay in my head for a while. As well as the scene where it sounded like Cas left his womb on Dean's dick and walked away. Twofer, she is.

How do people feel about characters that either didn't get a full name in canon being written into AUs, or got a name that (Lucifer!) just isn't going to slide (Death!) into (Alpha!) normal conversation. I think 97% of the attempts I've seen have been clumsy, and the attempts that include actor names (or when characters use their actor names as pseuds) are jarring in the extreme.

(Still agog at Alexander Northman, but there are many things worse with that story...)

It can get hella awkward. I dislike when Lucifer keeps his name in a non-angel AU and then the characters all have to comment on how messed up his parents were to name him after the devil. Just call him Luke. There was one cute one that called him Morgenstern. I've seen Death get some normal names like Mortimer, but then gets descriptions that fit both the character and the actor to clue you in. Awkward is when the writer expounds upon how the character got the nickname that is actually the characters name.

I love all the pre-Rapture names for Castiel's vessel.

But in a way, having to come up with a new name for a character can sometimes be a way to disguise an obvious villain, and sometimes the sussing out can be fun.

I'm a bit miffed at maychorian for posting that Coming Down on a Sunny Day is complete, but only posting a fan mix that she says she does when she's halfway through a project. My inference is that she's done the first draft and is now editing. So frustrating, I was very excited to see the word "complete" and have it not mean what I thought it should mean. Evil mean tease.

In the past month I've seen at least two stories I follow "complete" with "I'm not finishing this, I hate this, it makes me feel worthless, what I really want to do is delete this." chapters.

Ah, I almost prefer abandonment.

Shit, man, after a couple stories with spoilery author's notes (I know, it's not spoilery if it's the story, but still...) I missed the author's notes that said "I am Cas, Balthazar is my ex, and Dean is this guy I knew that I slept with but was seeing someone else. Clearly the pregnancy thing had to be changed up because Cas can't get pregnant, but my ex beat me so badly I mis..." The rest isn't important. Rest assured, that was not an SPN story, not in any rational meaning of any of those words. I did start skimming when Dean pulled his truck into an illegal parking spot and wasn't concerned if it would be towed, but still...

The breadth of choices people make fascinates me only in the abstract, it turns out.

And now I having a serious issue with characterization. The next time I read a fic in which I see John Reese of Person of Interest portrayed as a possessive, large and in charge, stereotypical "Alpha Male" I'm gonna leave a review asking what the author has ever seen on screen that makes 'em think that is a reasonable theory of character for him.

The next time I read a fic in which I see John Reese of Person of Interest portrayed as a possessive, large and in charge, stereotypical "Alpha Male" I'm gonna leave a review asking what the author has ever seen on screen that makes 'em think that is a reasonable theory of character for him.

HA. HA.

John Reese is a character who is desperate to be owned and given purpose and told what to do so that he can give his undying loyalty. At best you still could consider him possessive, but possessive only of his Squishy (aka reclusive billionaire). And that's not really possessiveness so much as devotion.