The filling-in-details-in-the-middle thing annoys me too. You generally only get it in stuff that emphatically didn't have a beta, since it's clearly stuff where the author went, "Oh right, I should have said this earlier." So if she/he or someone else were to go back over it even once, they could have moved it.

Or, sometimes they just don't care. But it's very much like someone telling a joke -- "Oh, and I forgot to tell you she had a poodle with her..."

I recently read a story with very strange syntax. I'd say it was someone imposing the syntax of their native language on their imperfect English, except that I learned from my Human Development teacher that only one group uses Verb-Object-Subject, and that group consists entirely of Yoda.

Together are Seth and Ryan fated to be, hmmm?

Catching up on BBF, they're having a conversation like we had in Natter the other day on grammar/spelling issues

WHY did they have to have this conversation while I was gone? Trying to find actual recs in the NINE MILLION STUPID NITPICKY AND OFTEN INCORRECT POSTS ABOUT GRAMMAR is driving me a little bonkers.

WHY did they have to have this conversation while I was gone? Trying to find actual recs in the NINE MILLION STUPID NITPICKY AND OFTEN INCORRECT POSTS ABOUT GRAMMAR is driving me a little bonkers.

There were like, three. You want I should track 'em down for you?

And the curriculum for CA schools, which is pretty much irrelevant. Although, I bookmarked some excellent sites for reference when writing, so it wasn't a total waste (not waist.)

Nah, I'm through most of the posts. It's just funny that I've been in fandom so long (it seems) that arguments about nitpicks irritate me more than the actual nitpicks.

I wish there was a digest just for the recs. Hell, just for the links--I don't want to know what people think about the stories. It's been a long, long time since I read really good BtVS fic.

Welcome home, Dana.

I wish there was a digest just for the recs. Hell, just for the links--I don't want to know what people think about the stories. It's been a long, long time since I read really good BtVS fic.

Well, you can always go to the bookmarks section, which gets updated pretty often.

Thanks! Glad I got to see you.

I am busily pursuing one of my new obsessions, House fanfic. Especially since I haven't caught up on any of my TV yet.