It's funny -- they don't tell you that when you become a BOFQ you start skimming the sex scenes. *g*
Prepare to uncouple -- uncouple.
Oz ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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 5:51:30 pm PST #9565 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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.
Connie Neil - Mar 09, 2005 4:26:35 am PST #9573 of 10000
brillig
I pretty much skim the sex myself, unless it's an author I adore. I'm always harping on there being too much sex in stories, but it's more of a "does this advance the plot or characterization?" point of view. Otherwise I start feeling like somebody who watches TV with a checklist of things they're going to complain to the FCC about the next day.
Steph L. - Mar 09, 2005 4:28:42 am PST #9574 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Huh. I pretty much read Batfic *only* for the sex.
I won't say I skim the plotty stuff, because Batfic writers (the good ones) manage to advance the plot through Teh Sex, mostly b/c the Batfam is so incredibly emotionally fucked-up.