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...
Nobody can tell Marmaduke what to do. That's my kind of dog.
Trick ,'First Date'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
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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
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.)
Susan W. - Mar 10, 2005 3:23:50 pm PST #9618 of 10000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
And what's with the obsession with full names, first, middle, and last? It's all over fanfic, and I'm starting to see it in unpublished genfic. I can't quite put my finger on why, but it just looks somehow...amateurish to feel compelled to open a story with, "Buffy Anne Summers blah blah blah."
sumi - Mar 10, 2005 6:55:18 pm PST #9619 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
It's as if they're compelled to reveal the incredible depth of their knowledge of the show by using her full name.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 11, 2005 6:17:40 am PST #9620 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
But that just makes me think that it's being narrated by her mom after finding an excessive phone bill or notice from the principal's office about fights at school.