I got bored midway through and started having canon issues, which is often my problem. I lame.
Wash: Well, I wash my hands of it. It's a hopeless case. I'll read a nice poem at the funeral. Something with imagery. Zoe: You could lock the door and keep the power-hungry maniac at bay. Wash: Oh, no, I'm starting to like this poetry idea now. Here lies my beloved Zoe, my autumn flower, somewhat less attractive now she's all corpsified and gross...
'Shindig'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
P.M. Marc - Nov 07, 2002 12:51:43 am PST #757 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
Rebecca Lizard - Nov 11, 2002 3:52:33 pm PST #758 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
Michele T. - Nov 11, 2002 3:54:04 pm PST #759 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
I couldn't even get past the title of that.
Lizard, Jesus drinks himself to sleep when you read the badfic. It's true.
Dana - Nov 11, 2002 3:54:28 pm PST #760 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Proof, again, that a having a platform does not a good fic make.
amych - Nov 11, 2002 3:57:04 pm PST #761 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Gah!
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Elena - Nov 11, 2002 4:00:05 pm PST #762 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.
Oh, god... I made it to bit about Xander being in Vegas with Anya and Giles. What the fuck?!?
Rebecca Lizard - Nov 11, 2002 4:07:04 pm PST #763 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
And the problem was that it was almost well-written, I mean not *excellent*, but the cadences of speech kept promising that this person would give me a light and enjoyable read with the occasional nice line, all with decent technique. But then it kept being really bad.
Or maybe I was just sick when I read it.
Elena - Nov 11, 2002 4:07:30 pm PST #764 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.
Delirious with fever, most likely.
Rebecca Lizard - Nov 11, 2002 4:08:31 pm PST #765 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
Oh, dear.
P.M. Marc - Nov 11, 2002 4:19:06 pm PST #766 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
Proof, again, that a having a platform does not a good fic make.
It came to me in my inbox, and Paul finally told me to stop ranting about it because "It was bad, deal!"
But, I had serious "dude, you so don't understand these characters" moments along with the "platform fic bad" moments.