Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.

'Underneath'


Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers  

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


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

ION.

Um. Ew.

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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 terrifically busy with my ennui.

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.


Rebecca Lizard - Nov 11, 2002 4:29:49 pm PST #767 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, of course, wrod! The problem with platform fic itself is that it flattens and caricatureizes the characters [say that three times fast! & I'm pretty sure I spelled it wrong, too] to suit its chosen message until the entire thing is just a travesty of a piece of writing.