I like the term "beta-reader" better than editor or proofreader. A beta-reader is less dictatorial than an editor, but comments more on the actual content than a proofreader.
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Anne W. - Oct 05, 2002 4:15:47 pm PDT #359 of 10000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Rebecca Lizard - Oct 05, 2002 5:23:45 pm PDT #360 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
In other news, I thought [link] was kinda good. Several parts seemed rather... gratuitous, but there was a funny, Jossy vibe here and there.
Consuela - Oct 05, 2002 6:02:34 pm PDT #361 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Rachel Lee Arlington! I'll be damned. I didn't know she was still ficcing. She wrote one of my favorite XF smutfics, "With a Vengeance".
That was kinda fun, and the dialog was good.
Amber B. - Oct 05, 2002 9:12:40 pm PDT #362 of 10000
I'm beginning to understand this now. It's all about the journey, isn't it?
Rachel Lee Arlington! I'll be damned. I didn't know she was still ficcing. She wrote one of my favorite XF smutfics, "With a Vengeance".
Oh my god! Some of the first smut I ever read was Rachel Lee Arlington. I *adore* "With a Vengeance", and have a huge soft spot for her Scully/Krycek stories. Off to read her new stuff!
Nutty - Oct 06, 2002 7:21:51 am PDT #363 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
RL, 'neat' means with nothing mixed in -- no ice, no garnishes, no seltzer or tonic or anything. Same as 'up' or 'straight', and my grandfather, a veteran abuser of his liquor, used to laugh at people who say 'straight up' because it's redundant.
Of course, he finally gave in and started ordering his martinis "up, with a twist", because if he just ordered them "with a twist" they put in vermouth, which he didn't want. (A twist is one of those little curls of lemon skin.) But every time he did this in my hearing, he felt the need to explain that 'up' technically does not include twists either.
He had vermouth issues.
Angus G - Oct 06, 2002 7:24:05 am PDT #364 of 10000
Roguish Laird
So what was in his martini? Just gin? I didn't realise that was still considered a martini!
Anne W. - Oct 06, 2002 7:32:14 am PDT #365 of 10000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
In college, the recipe for the Perfect Martini, was "pour chilled gin into a martini glass and think nice thoughts about Vermouth."
Nutty - Oct 06, 2002 7:59:55 am PDT #366 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Yeah, he liked to say that you introduce the gin to the vermouth. "Vermouth, this is gin. Gin, this is vermouth. Which is going back in the cabinet now."
Although he used vermouth at home, and I think he had some places at which he was a regular where they rinsed the glass with vermouth and then filled it with gin.
old school, yo.
Dani - Oct 06, 2002 8:43:41 am PDT #367 of 10000
I believe vampires are the world's greatest golfers
he had some places at which he was a regular where they rinsed the glass with vermouth and then filled it with gin.
That's how we did it at the place I tended bar in university.
I blame the BRQG (well, okay, and my desperate need to procrastinate) for the fact that I went looking for the infamous NSync/Pern crossover and read some of it last night.
It's not badfic in the traditional sense of the word; it doesn't have enough grammar/spelling issues to choke a cat, nor is there an egregiously-named MarySue. If you did a search n' replace with all the boy names, it'd be a pretty decent Pern story.
P.M. Marc - Oct 06, 2002 10:50:04 am PDT #368 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
In college, the recipe for the Perfect Martini, was "pour chilled gin into a martini glass and think nice thoughts about Vermouth."
This is my FiL and his brother.
The gin & tonic? Keep gin in fridge with a bottle of tonic; look at the tonic when pouring the gin.