Well, in my "Happy as a rafter in the marketplace" example, I had a whole story in my head about how HAPPY a rafter in the marketplace would be, looking down on all the people, living life.
Kaylee: Can I? Zoe: Sure. He's out, though. Kaylee: He did this for me, once.
'Safe'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 10, 2005 11:59:34 am PST #9608 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Katie M - Mar 10, 2005 12:01:19 pm PST #9609 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
The usual way, I suspect: random, accidental insemination at a fertility clinic in Tupelo of a beautiful young ingenue who bears an infant son and then dies tragically in a golf cart incident, leaving behind a fortune and a beautiful-yet-emotionally-damaged Postimpressionist little boy.
Well, okay, yes, obviously.
Dana - Mar 10, 2005 12:19:56 pm PST #9610 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
It loses something when you leave out the golf carts and the mystery of how Gaugin's frozen spoodge got to Tupelo.
Doesn't it always?
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 10, 2005 12:30:07 pm PST #9611 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
See now, I had this whole story built up in my head about a Tahitian beauty whose hopes for domestic life with the painter were dashed deciding to take vengeance by raising her offspring to torment and confuse the French for generations to come...
Lyra Jane - Mar 10, 2005 12:52:24 pm PST #9612 of 10000
Up with the sun
"Per say" annoys me because people who write it clearly think they're being smart.
shrift - Mar 10, 2005 12:55:46 pm PST #9613 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
See now, I had this whole story built up in my head about a Tahitian beauty whose hopes for domestic life with the painter were dashed deciding to take vengeance by raising her offspring to torment and confuse the French for generations to come...
I, too, began with the exotic Tahitian beauty, but the story quickly got derailed by my brain demanding, "What do Tahitians look like, anyway? Because Roy Dupuis does not strike me as an exotic Tahito, yo. Blah blah genetics blah blah imperialism I'm putting far too much thought into this and I now see the flaw in my original plan is that it FAILS TO INCLUDE ELVIS ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE WHEN YOU ADD ELVIS OMGWTFUFO."
Dana - Mar 10, 2005 2:04:22 pm PST #9614 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Rougher than usual day at work, honey?
shrift - Mar 10, 2005 2:33:47 pm PST #9615 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Rougher than usual day at work, honey?
You know that sound Westley makes after Count Rugen uses The Machine on him for the first time? I've been making that noise all day.
Susan W. - Mar 10, 2005 3:09:08 pm PST #9616 of 10000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
My pet peeves are "free reign" and "tow the line," especially because I see them more often than the correct versions these days.
Oh, and I've noticed a lot of writers with an otherwise good grip on grammar are flummoxed by plural possessives. I got a manuscript back from a critiquer with the phrase "soldiers' wives" circled. I puzzled for several minutes before I figured out she was correcting my correct usage.
Anne W. - Mar 10, 2005 3:15:55 pm PST #9617 of 10000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Susan, those are my peeves as well. I also get tetchy when people use "flare" when they mean "flair."
Don't even get me started on epithets (the tiny slayer, the blond vampire, etc.)