Argh! How do you do that thing on Livejournal where your post contains a link to the rest of you post? I *cannot* figure it out. It's driving me bugfuck.
Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.
'War Stories'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Holli - Feb 19, 2003 9:59:44 am PST #3638 of 10000
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
P.M. Marc - Feb 19, 2003 10:01:10 am PST #3639 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
t lj-cut text="Witty Cutline Here"
Holli - Feb 19, 2003 10:02:09 am PST #3640 of 10000
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
Thank you! Wait- where does the actual cut text go? Sorry, but I'm kinda hopeless at this.
Micole - Feb 19, 2003 10:03:51 am PST #3641 of 10000
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
t lj-cut text="witty line here"
Text blah blah
t /lj-cut
More text that will show up in your main entry if you want it to.
P.M. Marc - Feb 19, 2003 10:04:17 am PST #3642 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
When you make your entry, you use the cut tag, and then keep writing the entry. So if this were LJ, everying I typed below
t lj-cut text="New! Improved! With Paragraphs!"
Would only show up if you clicked the link. It would still be part of the post, but it would be hidden in the friends and recent entries view.
Damn. I keep typing lj-cute.
Connie Neil - Feb 19, 2003 10:11:18 am PST #3643 of 10000
brillig
So "lj-cut text" is the HTML instruction? Like "font" etc.?
Connie Neil - Feb 19, 2003 10:28:59 am PST #3644 of 10000
brillig
Consuela - Feb 19, 2003 12:15:26 pm PST #3645 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, god. I just got a piece of feedback that... well, it utterly and completely Missed. The. Point.
I wrote a story about loss and grief and the dangers of family in the Uncharted Territories. About uncertainty and about how hope and story can get you through, maybe.
And the feedback was on the order of, "Yay, proof that John and Aeryn can have a baby and still have adventures!"
I want to reach through the computer and demand, "Did you actually READ the story?"
Gah. And ::boggle:: and ::hysterical laughter::
Fandom: more proof for the theory that people are stupid.
Connie Neil - Feb 19, 2003 12:19:04 pm PST #3646 of 10000
brillig
Consuela, I feel your pain. I write a story about Spike getting his bite back, and the feedback I get is, "Ooo, slash, ick poo." Come on, he's out, he's bad, he's feeding on a neck near you! And there was a guy-on-guy kiss and suggestions of more and that's what caught her. Sigh.
shrift - Feb 19, 2003 12:36:39 pm PST #3647 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I just got a piece of feedback that... well, it utterly and completely Missed. The. Point.
The only consolation I can find in those moments is knowing that someone, somewhere, did get it.
And I got it. I thought the story was gritty, painful, and... fraught. Like the show can be. Loss. Pain. Choices. Consequences.
Some people are in it for One Big Happy Family escapism, and that's fine. Some of us are in it for the sound of the broken pieces reshuffling themselves in the dark, trying to recreate the whole of before, failing, and forming something different.
Both hope, but not the same kind.