Well, we may not have parted on the best of terms. I realize certain words were exchanged. Also, certain... bullets. But that's air through the engine. It's past. We're business people.

Mal ,'Serenity'


Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers  

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


Jars - Aug 17, 2004 1:28:41 pm PDT #8862 of 10000

Hmm... Mount Eagle publishers, apparently. I think they might be Irish. Fay, if you can do better than

Sailing along, everything fine one day and then out of the blue a kick in the teeth to pull you up.

and I know you can, these people will publish you. How many metaphors does a very short sentence need?

It's the moving tale of a young Irish woman whose husband is paralysed shortly after their wedding, who then falls in love with her sister's husband. It's like a bad episode of Emmerdale.


Fay - Aug 17, 2004 1:41:34 pm PDT #8863 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Oh dear.


erikaj - Aug 17, 2004 1:41:41 pm PDT #8864 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!

Yikes.(Or whatever the equivalent is for Irish folk.) So you could say "I got an Emmerdale feeling off of it."(Which she'll take as praise and you'll know otherwise.)


Jars - Aug 17, 2004 1:47:58 pm PDT #8865 of 10000

So you could say "I got an Emmerdale feeling off of it."(Which she'll take as praise and you'll know otherwise.)

Ah ha! This just might work. Thank you. I still feel like I should finish it though, painful as it will probably be. I shall never again think derisive thoughts about the Nikita writer that Dana quotes at us. Possibly.


erikaj - Aug 17, 2004 1:53:07 pm PDT #8866 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!

Not like I've been in that situation, or anything.(And I'm worried I do that to somebody right now, AINFG.)


Am-Chau Yarkona - Aug 17, 2004 10:36:27 pm PDT #8867 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

Oh, I dunno. I thnk it's quite bad enough.

Err... thank you, I think.

I've drafted a response to the flame I recieved yesterday-- though I do wonder if I'm spending too much time on this woman. Looking at my website, I think there's actually only one story she can be talking about (and yes, I had to Google to see if I'd published an S/X story somewhere else and forgotten to add it to the website. But nothing, so I think I'm fairly safe in my deduction).

Edit: I had put it here, but I think I'll move this to my lj, where I can f-lock it-- she's quite unlikely to be lurking here, but I'm having a paranoia moment. Most of you are on lj, and on my f-list, I think (if you're not, I'm amchau, let me know who you are and I'll friend you).


Lyra Jane - Aug 18, 2004 6:02:39 am PDT #8868 of 10000
Up with the sun

Am-Chau, I saw the response in your journal, and I think that it's fine if you want to enter into a dialogue with her. (I might just delete her message, myself.)


Am-Chau Yarkona - Aug 18, 2004 6:12:14 am PDT #8869 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

Thank you, Lyra. I've sent it now. Apparently, I don't have 'peaceably letting it go' in my nature, even though I don't have time to follow Fay's advice and enter into a proper dialogue with her.

(edit: is that 0 the missing one from her spelling of pr0n? I like to keep track of these things.)

edited again: I didn't mean that to sound bitchy. Just, you know, typo joke. And I seem to be in danger of wanking about my own posts.


Susan W. - Aug 18, 2004 6:18:18 am PDT #8870 of 10000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

In my tiny mind:
smut=bodice ripper;
erotica=literary porn, not always nice;
porn=unnaturally big breasted women or uncannily well-endowed, but otherwise boring-as-toast, men doing tacky and not at all arousing for the very tackiness things, all enhanced by an excess of gratuitious genitalia shots or description, topped with unbelieveable plot, settings,and characterization.

Deena's tiny mind and mine are alike, except that I'd add an additional category between smut and erotica labeled "sexy," that's basically, er, well-written smut. The distinction between sexy and erotica being that erotica is about The Sex, while sexy just includes a little or a lot of it while being about anything from The Love to The External Action Plot.

I'd give examples and stuff, but my child just woke up and demands food.

(Deena also speaks to me WRT my bizarre fascination with the Michael/Nikita badfic.)


Fay - Aug 18, 2004 7:27:29 am PDT #8871 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

nods.

Yes, these categories make sense. And the tacky element that makes something porn - yes. In written sex, it's the language that makes me wince and think 'porn' in this way - all those horrendous euphemisms like 'her luscious melons' and 'his enormous manhood' and 'her love-juice' and yada yada yada godawful nonsense.

The TFN badfic is every bit as weirdly compelling as Lydia's infamous Core story was.

Link?