I couldn't even get past the title of that.
Lizard, Jesus drinks himself to sleep when you read the badfic. It's true.
All right, no one's killing folk today, on account of our very tight schedule.
Mal ,'Trash'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Michele T. - Nov 11, 2002 3:54:04 pm PST #759 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
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.
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.
P.M. Marc - Nov 11, 2002 4:31:15 pm PST #768 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
See, if you have to write it, you should at least choose a character that suits your platform.
And make the circumstances realistic. IJS.
But, you shouldn't write it, cause, well, bad.