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.
Mal: Inara, think you could stoop to being on my arm? Inara: Will you wash it first?
'Heart Of Gold'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
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Sophia Brooks - Mar 05, 2003 12:15:47 pm PST #3872 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
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.
Susan W. - Mar 05, 2003 12:30:48 pm PST #3880 of 10000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
See, to me "caress" is much less purple than "ministration."
I'm just now writing My First Love Scenes for the non-fanfic novel, and I'm already feeling like Thesaurus Girl in my efforts to avoid using nice basic words like "touch" and "grasp" five times each in the same paragraph. I'm further limited by my first-person narrator's 1810 vocabulary, which rules out 21st century plain English like "have sex" and "make love."
Nutty - Mar 05, 2003 12:34:39 pm PST #3881 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Hm. That would be difficult.
"And then there was this -- um. And it was -- er. And then, whoa!" Suddenly, Miss Dashwood sounds like Keanu.