Wash ,'War Stories'
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
I burned my early notebooks of Star Wars fic. I've still got the stories, but I just couldn't bear to look at the first drafts any longer.
If we invite Rio's friend, we might mess up his research. Would this be one of those things best served by a Yahoo Group or something?
Sounds like Rio's friend is less interested in talking to ficcers than he is in finding fic about old shows.
Check this out: a gorgeous story by Shaye. Not a happy one, mind you. But a gorgeously-written one.
And send her email if you like it, do?
That's sitting in my mailbox until I can get to it. I read the first three paragraphs.
And Sophia Jirafe just posted something interesting. Neat, although I'm not sure I buy it, but the writing is good.
That dystopific was certainly interesting-- it was well-written, if in a style I don't generally fall over in palpitations for. And if I squint I buy the Xander-dead backstory.
I vaguely remember something about yahoo groups changing the word expression to the word statement. Is this true and do we know why?
Yes, it's true, and it's some weird programming thing...I want to say Java, but I'm sure ita knows better.
"expression" gets changed to "statement", and anything ending in "eval" gets changed to "review" (i.e., medieval becomes medireview.)
Yes, it is true, Sophia. They also change all uses of "eval" to "review", so that "evaluate" becomes "reviewuate".
Has to do with Java commands, or so they explained to me. I think it's crap -- nobody else does it, and it only happens, IIRC, when something goes through YG into a Yahoo mailbox.
I'm sure a more technical person has a better explanation. But it caused much entertainment when friends of mine kept talking about going to the Medireview Fair. Sigh.
X-post-amundo with Dana.