Also, you can tell it's not gonna have a happy ending when the main guy's all bumpy.

Tara ,'First Date'


Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers  

This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.


Fay - Feb 09, 2003 1:16:21 pm PST #3400 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

? What discussion is that?

Also - just say no to eye-gauging.


Dana - Feb 09, 2003 1:20:37 pm PST #3401 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

The one that Plei dubbed "It's Shipper War Time Yet Again in BBF-Land."


esse - Feb 09, 2003 1:20:39 pm PST #3402 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

But once you'd done that, you did concentrate on character.

This is true. I guess I'm just saying, don't knock the ooh-pretty response. Because sometimes it brings good things.

The discussion on BBF makes me want to rip my eyes out.

Do tell. I went to no email as soon as the purring argument began.


Dana - Feb 09, 2003 1:24:52 pm PST #3403 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Let's see. It goes something like this.

You people who like B/A are crazy.

No, you people who like B/S are crazy and are just smacking down the B/A people so much we're afraid to rec anything.

No, no, all you het people are crazy and like to smack down slash.

But slash is icky! And non-canonical.

Way more canonical than your crap het recs.

Well, I've got the right to say if I don't like something.

Not unless you have a good reason.

Who decides what's a good reason?

I do. Shut up.

And then the moderators come in and complain because someone, yet again, has forgotten spoiler space.

And yet I keep reading.


Dori - Feb 09, 2003 1:27:04 pm PST #3404 of 10000
Pretty angsty boys make everything better.

Dana, bless you!

That discussion has just been making my head explode, and dammit, do you know how hard brains are to clean off a brick wall?


askye - Feb 09, 2003 1:27:27 pm PST #3405 of 10000
Thrive to spite them

The moderators only care about spoiler space?


Dana - Feb 09, 2003 1:29:05 pm PST #3406 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

The moderators only care about spoiler space?

Oh, no, not only. The moderators are generally sane people, and boy, would I not take that job for anything, because within 24 hours I'd put the whole list on moderated and only let through posts I agreed with.

The spoiler rules on the list are more strict than other places, and people have a very hard time remembering it.


Fay - Feb 09, 2003 1:34:07 pm PST #3407 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

The one that Plei dubbed "It's Shipper War Time Yet Again in BBF-Land."

Ah. That one. The one right there in front of me with "Look, Fay, I'm the discussion in question" written all over it in neon, you mean? Damn, I can be a silly cow. Reading too quickly and carelessly. My bad.

I guess I'm just saying, don't knock the ooh-pretty response. Because sometimes it brings good things.

SA, I can understand why you're saying this. But I didn't say it was always a bad thing, I said that having that impulse as a springboard for fic and not giving a damn about good characterisation was a bad thing, and that imho the pretty isn't enough to make a pairing sexy. Anything can be a springboard for good writing.

Moreover, this disclaimer was an aside - the main thrust of my post having been pro-unconventional pairings, for the obvious reason that I write them. Including crossovers in which the inspiration is at least partially, if not wholly, one of "Oooh pretty."

And I seem to be in a very arsey frame of mind. Sorry. Backing off now.


esse - Feb 09, 2003 1:36:15 pm PST #3408 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Nah. I know what you mean. Are you working on any right now? I know there's the Dracofic that Ate Your Brain.


Rebecca Lizard - Feb 09, 2003 1:37:56 pm PST #3409 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

Fay, don't be a goose, no one is (ever) annoyed at you.