It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't satisfying, and I'm always annoyed at the "by googling a phrase you now know about ALL the fandom" or "I talked to one person, and one group of people, and now I can speak authoritatively about everything wrt fic" methods of going about things. And more things; but I'm also just generally irritable, because my paper isn't going quite as well as I'd like, and my back hurts.
You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 11, 2002 11:08:20 am PST #1451 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
DavidS - Dec 11, 2002 11:08:49 am PST #1452 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I figured people would be annoyed since she doesn't specifically make clear the distinction between slash and fanfic in general. On the other hand, she was obviously a regular reader of slash.
Connie Neil - Dec 11, 2002 11:08:56 am PST #1453 of 10000
brillig
Lizard needs a back rub.
Steph L. - Dec 11, 2002 11:10:22 am PST #1454 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Lizard needs a back rub.
t offers one hand, as the other is actually doing work that I get paid for
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 11, 2002 11:11:43 am PST #1455 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I'm also annoyed because I'm writing my goddamned paper about what makes fic so shiny-- that you're assuming authorative power over someone else's work. In coded academic language, of course, and I'm using Elizabeth Alexander, a poet, and the poem I wrote as fic for her poem, but it's the same ideas. And no, no, no article I've ever read addressed what I think are the most important issues raised by fic. I think it's doable, and it ought to be done, but I haven't seen it. That's because people are stupid.
Yeah. I'm really spiny today. Why do you ask?
Steph L. - Dec 11, 2002 11:13:59 am PST #1456 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
t carefully avoids the spines
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 11, 2002 11:15:06 am PST #1457 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I love Steph.
Connie Neil - Dec 11, 2002 11:16:46 am PST #1458 of 10000
brillig
Speaking of fic, I've finished all the A.J. Hall and the Tissue of Silver, and now I'm looking for more good Draco stuff. I don't want to dig undirected through the HP fan sites. Badly written teenagers in lust is not something I want to have stuck in my brain.
Dana - Dec 11, 2002 11:20:50 am PST #1459 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Check PolyRecs. We've got a couple Draco ones. Mostly Draco and Snape, I think. And...Resonant? posted a new one recently.
Michele T. - Dec 11, 2002 11:25:25 am PST #1460 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
It's a dumb piece, but the writer's not a brilliant person, so.