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.
We killed a homeless man on this bench. Me and Dru. Those were good times. You know, he begged for mercy, and you know, that only made her bite harder.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Hil R. - Mar 05, 2003 12:11:38 pm PST #3870 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
deborah grabien - Mar 05, 2003 12:13:41 pm PST #3871 of 10000
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
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.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 05, 2003 12:15:47 pm PST #3872 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
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.
deborah grabien - Mar 05, 2003 12:19:09 pm PST #3873 of 10000
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
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.
Susan W. - Mar 05, 2003 12:19:26 pm PST #3874 of 10000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Although, okay, what is a good word for that?
What's wrong with the old-fashioned "caresses" or, for that matter, "foreplay"?
erikaj - Mar 05, 2003 12:21:55 pm PST #3875 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
As far as sloppy typing, that would be the pot calling the kettle black, and wrod, on the editing chances.
askye - Mar 05, 2003 12:24:46 pm PST #3876 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
My current pet peeve isn't a badfic thing, it's just over used: "ghosted across". Susan's right, "caress" is good, "slid" is a good as well. There's really nothing wrong with the phrase itself, except I see it too much.
Nutty - Mar 05, 2003 12:25:55 pm PST #3877 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
"Foreplay" is a good word, I think, Susan, but "caresses" comes off as, I don't know, bad romance novel language. Like, I would never use the word "caress" outside of a soap commercial or a sex scene; whereas I use "ministration" or words closely related to it all the time.
Anne W. - Mar 05, 2003 12:28:16 pm PST #3878 of 10000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
The problem with a word like "ministration" is that it seems a bit too wishy-washy to describe a sex scene. It's too all-encompassing. It could describe a nurse tending to a patient in a manner acceptable under most hospitals' code of ethics, or it could describe a nurse tending to a patient in a manner more commonly seen in a XXX movie.
erikaj - Mar 05, 2003 12:28:49 pm PST #3879 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
I don't know. I think there are scenes where caress is really appropriate, if the sex is soft enough."Tender Sarah Mclaclan love" as it were.