Dawson's Creek??
I tend to use things like "tender ministrations" only ironically, like "deep, abiding love", which phrase had its own acronym in X-Files Land. Okay, I only ever used that one once, and it became "deep, abiding hatred" before I was done with it.
Although, okay, what is a good word for that? That covers a whole class of behaviors at one blow, from erotic massage to raspberries on the belly? Attentions? See -- we're word-poor for this concept.
Suddenly, my brainahs gone all tangent-y, thinking about "tender fenestrations". Save me from this terrible boring part of my job.
So many people's fics would be improved with a good thesaurus and a dictionary so they can figure out the nuances.
Dawson's Creek??
Well, I said it was guilty. And there really are some good Pacey/Joey stories out there. I've just read all of them, and so was have been trying new things. Not good.
thinking about "tender fenestrations"
Windows have feelings too, Nutty.
I was just reading a published book in which someone was waiting for something with "baited breath," and I got annoyed at the typo, but then I realized that the thing he was waiting for was fish, and I got confused as to whether it was actually a typo or just a really bad pun.
tender fenestrations
I am now officially envisioning a Dawson's Creek/French Revolution crossover fiction attempt, in which Marie Antoinette (who was, after all, famous for shoving her hairdresser out the window to his death on the cobbled court a few storeys below) tries to seduce Pacey with promises of cake.
http://www.capesidediaries.com/showfic.php?ficid=417
Crimean War Dawson's Creek Fiction
(It actually isn't that bad, and I like the other stuff the author writes.
BTW, can I alternately thank everyone for forgiving my sloppy typing (this, as well as not seeing the typos when I read before posting, is apparently a side effect of this damned multiple sclerosis), and bless the fact that the phoenix, unlike most boards, doesn't set my poor typing in stone after 30 minutes?
So I can go fix "corssover", for instance.
Crimean War Dawson's Creek Fiction
(blinking) - into the Creek of Dawson rode the Six Hundred? Must check this out.
Although, okay, what is a good word for that?
What's wrong with the old-fashioned "caresses" or, for that matter, "foreplay"?
As far as sloppy typing, that would be the pot calling the kettle black, and wrod, on the editing chances.
