I'm afraid that happens far too frequently, not necessarily that particular word, but with anything that a person hasn't run across except in that sort of context. I laugh and go on. Although, it does make me wonder if they have a beta.
I'm on a roll, tonight, reccing fics. I came across something that those who are a fan of Narnia might enjoy; it deals quit intelligently with The Problem of Susan. I especially like the way the author took a quote by C.S. Lewis to shove it down his throat that Susan would be welcomed back to Narnia when she grew up. The Queen's Return by HonorH. (I actually went looking for her on AO3 for a particular Doctor Who/Firefly crossover and stumbled on this instead.)
Aww, SailAweigh, that fic made my damn allergies flare up!
And in the interest of sharing awesomeness where I've found it...
Five Ways Ekaterin Never Met Miles at Twenty by sahiya is a really lovely short Vorkosigan-verse fic.
No Reservations: Narnia by Edonohana is just what it sounds like--Anthony Bourdain in Narnia. And it works SO WELL.
And a good bit of Sleepy Hollow fanfic, since that's mostly what I read these days:
Unlike most of what I read in the fandom, Five Times North Star Assistance Helped the English Guy by Fyre isn't a sexy Ichabbie story, but it's all kinds of awesome.
If you share my affinity for Ichabbie, you should read everything CreepingMuse and JWAB have written for the fandom, but start with their joint project, Yours, Ichabod: Letters of Love and Lust between the Captain and the Lieutenant. And then you should read CreepingMuse's She and He and JWAB's Point of No Return.
Shoqed by AmbrosiaJones gives us something the show hasn't so much as hinted about--Abbie and Jenny's father.
Happenstance by MissMaudlin is an excellent rendition of the "OMG there's only one hotel room left" trope.
Damn, I really need to get caught up with Sleepy Hollow. I fell out midway through season 1, I just had too much on my plate and without a DVR I couldn't keep up. Plus, I was buying enough TV shows off Amazon, I had to draw the line somewhere.
Oh, Tafkar! Yeah, she's great.
And No Reservations Narnia is so. freaking. awesome.
Damn, I really need to get caught up with Sleepy Hollow.
It's my favorite show at the moment, but I have to give fair warning that it went through one hell of a sophomore slump. S2 opens well and ends well, but there's some dodgy stuff in between.
And No Reservations Narnia is so. freaking. awesome.
It's one of my favorite re-reads. The Bourdain voice is just perfect.
Thanks for posting the link to "The Queen's Return," Sail. Maybe I've become one of those people, but it feels right in terms of C.S. Lewis' stories in a way that Gaiman's story doesn't.
That's what I liked, too, Matt.
I don't think there's anything wrong with being those people. I quite liked "The Queen's Return", as well.
Speaking of, I think I'm reading a fic sponsored by ikea. It's been mentioned at least six times in the first thousand words of a forty thousand word story. It really feels like product placement in an otherwise serious story. Now I'm having visions of fic writers having characters expound on the wonders of ovaltine and getting paid for it.
