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Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers  

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


Consuela - Mar 08, 2005 5:42:07 pm PST #9563 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Ah.

Shalott's story was the first of her SG universe stories I didn't love to death, I think in part for some of the reasons other people have stated elsewhere. Also possibly because the quality of the writing didn't overwhelm my extreme t shrug about the characters. And the plot kept getting derailed by sex scenes.

At least to me.


Vonnie K - Mar 08, 2005 5:49:39 pm PST #9564 of 10000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

I haven't read shalott's latest--I did like her previous SGA story a lot, but that was funny, well-plotted with the sex at the end that made sense. Maybe I'll give it a miss then.

And the plot kept getting derailed by sex scenes.

Heh. That was my problem with Iolokus--good plot, lovely writing, but by book 3, I was just sick of all the sex.


Consuela - Mar 08, 2005 5:51:30 pm PST #9565 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

It's funny -- they don't tell you that when you become a BOFQ you start skimming the sex scenes. *g*


Katie M - Mar 08, 2005 5:56:37 pm PST #9566 of 10000
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies

Hee. Sad but true.


Consuela - Mar 08, 2005 5:57:35 pm PST #9567 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Katie, are you around on YIM? I may need to bounce some ideas off you...


Katie M - Mar 08, 2005 5:58:34 pm PST #9568 of 10000
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies

Yeah, hang on.


P.M. Marc - Mar 08, 2005 9:13:27 pm PST #9569 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

It's funny -- they don't tell you that when you become a BOFQ you start skimming the sex scenes.

So, if I confessed that StSS was my Secret Fandom Shame, I'd pretty much be admitting I'm a BOFQ before my time?


Consuela - Mar 08, 2005 9:20:03 pm PST #9570 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Only if you explain what StSS is.

On edit: Oh, duh. Skimming the Sex Scenes.

Well, if that's your secret shame, it's mine too, and that of a number of people I know. There are very few writers out there who can really make me pay attention to a sex scene. It has to say something about the characters or the plot, or be really well written.


P.M. Marc - Mar 08, 2005 9:22:16 pm PST #9571 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

Skimming the sex scenes.

(I'm having typing issues, and decided I was feeling too lazy to try to actually type it up there.)

(It took me three times to type it here without making horrible typos.)


Lyra Jane - Mar 09, 2005 4:25:12 am PST #9572 of 10000
Up with the sun

I started skimming the sex scenes early in my fandom life, both because I used to read fic at work (I don't anymore) and because I figured out pretty quickly that very few of them add more to the story than saying "and then they had sex" would.