Wash: Don't fall asleep now. Sleepiness is weakness of character. Ask anyone. You're acting captain. Know what happens you fall asleep now? Zoe: Jayne slits my throat, and takes over. Wash: That's right. Zoe: And we can't stop it.

'Shindig'


Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers  

This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.


Phill - Nov 21, 2003 1:34:02 pm PST #6688 of 10000
I like to talk about politics with people that agree with me, and I like high class places.

Her slick interiors easily manipulated with the familiar stratagem of an old mathematician, achieving in her unique way the perfect equation a number of times.

Funniest. Thing. Ever.


erikaj - Nov 21, 2003 1:36:28 pm PST #6689 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!

Not to me...I barely passed math. :)


Elena - Nov 21, 2003 1:58:19 pm PST #6690 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.

this was a no-holes barred type of experience, literary and figuratively.

I have no words for this...

But, you know, since she used the math metaphor earlier in the story (and I am stunned that these scenes are all from one story) I guess that's why she's using literary here now.


Dani - Nov 21, 2003 4:24:46 pm PST #6691 of 10000
I believe vampires are the world's greatest golfers

Oh my freaking lord.

Dana, it's cruel to make a seven-months-pregnant woman laugh so hard.

They were all beautifully atrocioius, but for sheer non-sequiturness I think the Florida Marlins reference wins my vote.


Rebecca Lizard - Nov 21, 2003 5:46:36 pm PST #6692 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

... So, Google isn't picking it up.

Can I have a link to this woman's website?


Connie Neil - Nov 22, 2003 7:05:40 am PST #6693 of 10000
brillig

Sometimes I feel like the only person left who knows the difference between "reign" and "rein."

No. No, you're not. I practically give universal recs anytime I see it used correctly.


Dana - Nov 22, 2003 7:28:31 am PST #6694 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Can I have a link to this woman's website?

a) I wouldn't want to link to the site anyway, because of referrer logs, and

b) She doesn't have one. It's posted on a Nikita board.


Theodosia - Nov 22, 2003 8:10:02 am PST #6695 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I reserve my scorn for 'phase' and 'faze' substitutions.


P.M. Marc - Nov 22, 2003 10:37:18 am PST #6696 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

Even for a horsey type, it's easy to type reign for rein, and then the freaking spellcheck doesn't catch it.

And, err, *ifyou'renotusingbetas* it can slip through.

Though I caught it the one time I typed it wrong, it was in a beta'd story, and it didn't slip through, I'm always worried that it will.

Being as I'm using betas less and less for shorter material. Which is an uncomfortable thing to admit to, but true.

Coastal, for example, I didn't send through a beta pass. I just re-read and tweaked with it a few days later, when I got home from L.A. I feel like I'm going to hell for this.


Elena - Nov 22, 2003 2:42:33 pm PST #6697 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.

Past and passed is my particular red flag.