My favorite part was the one in which she ranted about the poor-ass website designs. Dark font over pale background (ideally white)--is that so difficult? What drives me particularly batshit is the writers who post their fic to LJ, have their "comment" page (where the story gets read) designed in the same color scheme as their main LJ and Friend page, which happens to be one of those unreadable "pale-gray font in dark-gray background" (GRRR!) or "yellow font in orange background" schemes. I mean, it's their LJ and all, but have some consideration for the poor readers. Ow.
We can come by between classes. Usually I use that time to copy over my class notes with a system of different colored pens. But it's been pointed out to me that that's, you know...insane.
Willow ,'Showtime'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Vonnie K - Mar 09, 2005 5:52:33 am PST #9583 of 10000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 09, 2005 6:19:53 am PST #9584 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
And here I was worried about being too vanilla because I opted for black text on white background with a black header bar in my LJ. There's a reason newspapers kept the monochromatic text/page relationship when they went to color printing, yo.
Theodosia - Mar 09, 2005 7:35:02 am PST #9585 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I note in passing that Opera lets you shift your browser to your default color/font scheme with a shift-G (and toggles back with another) which makes dubious web pages much more manageable....
Betsy HP - Mar 09, 2005 7:44:05 am PST #9586 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
Dark font over pale background (ideally white)--is that so difficult?
Yo, Buffy fandom, I'm looking at YOU. Red on black is not your friend.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 09, 2005 8:04:13 am PST #9587 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
It's not as bad as thin orange text over electric blue, which I have seen before. I hope it's an indication that the website owner sees only in black and white, like a cat.
Which might explain the quality of the writing, now that I think on it.
Emily - Mar 09, 2005 9:28:06 am PST #9588 of 10000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
although if you read heavily in one pairing, one story starts looking like another after a while
Wordy ibn Word.
I think the way the story gets presented affects the amount of sex in it, too -- if it was written in full and only then "published", then the flow is different than if it's written in bits that get posted to lj as they're ready.
erikaj - Mar 09, 2005 12:11:52 pm PST #9589 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
I've discovered I can't PWP. I think I will and then it gets all deep.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 09, 2005 1:57:50 pm PST #9590 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Oh wow, Anne Rice is now venturing into writing sorta- Real Person Fic about Jesus.
SailAweigh - Mar 09, 2005 1:59:11 pm PST #9591 of 10000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
- covers eyes*
Won't look! Won't look! Ack, Matt.
Consuela - Mar 09, 2005 3:13:45 pm PST #9592 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
My feeling on shalott's story is that one of fandom's best writers posted a 45,000 word story in the pairing I'm into. I'm shutting up and being grateful.
Works for me. Actually, it didn't, but I'm glad it did for you. I think it's because I just don't care enough. Whereas I did cartwheels of joy when Shalott posted those two OT4s in SG-1.