I'm just unimpressed when there are no golf carts, frankly.
We die horribly and painfully, you go to hell and I spend eternity in the arms of baby Jesus.
Gunn ,'Not Fade Away'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Katie M - Mar 10, 2005 8:03:42 am PST #9595 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
Dana - Mar 10, 2005 8:07:47 am PST #9596 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Yeah, this is the one where Michael is Gaugin's secret heir. Doesn't have quite the same ring, I admit. Apparently the golf cart one has finally been finished, although the chapters got eaten in a board hiccup. I'll be on the lookout for it.
Katie M - Mar 10, 2005 8:30:21 am PST #9597 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
Gaugin? Er, painter Gaugin? How does he get to have secret heirs?
Sophia Brooks - Mar 10, 2005 11:33:08 am PST #9598 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
First I read this a "Gaugin's secret HAIR" and was even more confused!
But what I really came here to post was about how fanfiction has made me realize how weirdly many people hear/spell what I would consider common phrases. I mean, I thought the words of Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Dah included "Happy as a Rafter in the marketplace...", but still it just makes me giggle a bit:
for example, I just read
I have the near uncontrollable urge to yell `good riddins' as Amy leaves the debate, but somehow I hold my tongue.
DebetEsse - Mar 10, 2005 11:40:33 am PST #9599 of 10000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Oh, oh. Can we play the "most annoying mis-heard phrases" game?
The people who say "Doggie Dog World"? Make me want to do minor acts of violence.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 10, 2005 11:41:20 am PST #9600 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 particularly fun when you run across a long passage full of multi-syllable words to indicate the speaker is a genius, and the author doesn't know how to spell really ordinary ones like "are" or "you're."
Yeah Shakespeare, you've convinced me that Daniel Jackson is a "genus" without compare.
Steph L. - Mar 10, 2005 11:41:56 am PST #9601 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
The one I despise is "for all intensive purposes."
Scrappy - Mar 10, 2005 11:45:25 am PST #9602 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Good one, tep!
How about with "baited breath"?
§ ita § - Mar 10, 2005 11:46:31 am PST #9603 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It seems a fic should be written that validly has both baited breaths and intensive purposes.
Dana - Mar 10, 2005 11:48:24 am PST #9604 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I saw a rec the other day that used the phrase "a mute point".