And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers  

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


Elena - Jan 08, 2004 7:44:57 pm PST #6973 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

I cannot wait for them to get to the part with the thing in the thing where they do that thing.


Connie Neil - Jan 08, 2004 7:45:50 pm PST #6974 of 10000
brillig

Oh, yes, they will scream. With the thing.


Elena - Jan 08, 2004 7:46:39 pm PST #6975 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.

CAN NOT WAIT.

As it is I compulsively reread the e-mails.


Connie Neil - Jan 08, 2004 7:47:53 pm PST #6976 of 10000
brillig

Which is good, because it keeps me motivated, because I want to see your reactions.


Elena - Jan 08, 2004 7:51:11 pm PST #6977 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.

At first I thought that you should know what my reaction will be. Then I realised that there is a myriad of possibilities. Will I squeal? Will I gasp? Will I weep? Will I pant? Will I somehow manage to combine all these reactions and suffer a massive embolism?


Connie Neil - Jan 08, 2004 7:52:41 pm PST #6978 of 10000
brillig

No embolisms for Elena! And do you really think I've told you everything? Some things should be a surprise, my dear.


Elena - Jan 08, 2004 7:57:16 pm PST #6979 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.

I'm quite sure that you've not told me everything. What I do know haunts me.


Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 08, 2004 11:54:16 pm PST #6980 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

why have so many writers fixated on him, and did they invent his charm wholesale?

As Katie said, he's blond and evil. He's a natural choice if you want to make a suggestion that things might not be as black and white as Harry, and the canon, see them; if you personally find Harry as annoying as Harry finds Draco, you find yourself on Draco's side; and there's also the big thing of HP fandom as a whole, which is that the fun part is writing the characters not as presented in canon, but as adults. And Draco-- being so incrediably 'sterotyped' in one role, bascially little!Lucius-- has plenty of room to be developed in a hundred different ways into an interesting adult character.

Also, evil. And blond. And, of course, amazingly good looking. And potentially having an obsession with Harry, though frankly I find it a bit hard to read anything more into the canon than 'Potter is very famous; let's pick on him'. (Although I will admit that Hermione probably has a bit of a nearly-canon unmentionable crush on Draco. Though that may be me projecting.)

YourDracoMayVary.


Anne W. - Jan 09, 2004 1:06:44 am PST #6981 of 10000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Non-fiction is often a great deal more fun to read than fiction. The real world has a better imagination than anyone else gets credit for.

Wrod. For the past several years, I've been reading more non-fiction than fiction. (Not that I've been a slacker on my fiction reading or anything...) Combine real-world oddness with a gift for language and a passion for one's subject, and wowza!

BTW, I'll second the recommendation for the Writer's Digest crime series--I refer to my "Body Trauma" book frequently.


erikaj - Jan 09, 2004 4:49:55 am PST #6982 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!

And of course, "A Year On The Killing Streets" which I cannot pimp highly enough. Best. Crime. Book. Evah(independent of my initial desire to match the detectives to their characters) Simon's quite the stylist.