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.
That's the thrill of living in the Hellmouth! There's a veritable cornucopia of fiends and devils and ghouls to engage ... Pardon me for finding the glass half-full.
Giles ,'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.
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
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 It's all over fanfic, and I'm starting to see it in unpublished genfic.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.
Betsy HP - Mar 11, 2005 6:21:19 am PST #9621 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
This is for Plei:
![[link]](http://www.logocracy.com/BatmansDeadlyContact.jpg){kind=link}
Can people recommend post-eps for "A Human Reaction" (Farscape s1)? Google is giving me no love, and I can't figure out Leviathan's interface; it says there are 64 Farscape fics, but it only shows me the first page.
Steph L. - Mar 11, 2005 6:24:40 am PST #9622 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
This is for Plei:
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That is one of my favorite Bat!HoYay panels EVAR!
P.M. Marc - Mar 11, 2005 7:36:40 am PST #9623 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
Betsy, isn't that a great picture?
Check my last 50 LJ entries for the one where I requested S1 fic. Suela put some links in my comments. I think I was requesting it right after I saw A Human Reaction.
brenda m - Mar 11, 2005 7:38:09 am PST #9624 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Oh, that's excellent.