Fan fiction ate my standards.
Actually, I wouldn't mind having a discussion about this story. Do we have a protocol for that? Whitefont?
Giles: Helping out with the dishes makes me feel useful. Dawn: Wanna clean out the garage with us
Saturday? You could feel indispensable.
'Dirty Girls'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Dana - May 09, 2005 6:22:06 am PDT #9941 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Katie M - May 09, 2005 6:26:48 am PDT #9942 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
Hrm. It's been out for, what, a week? Week and a half? I'd be okay with blackfont, but then I've already read it.
Theodosia - May 09, 2005 7:18:49 am PDT #9943 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'd be OK with either. That story pushed most of my fan buttons.
Jars - May 09, 2005 7:19:24 am PDT #9944 of 10000
The only thing I hate more than MPREG is MPREG that makes me like it. Which is what Shalott's story did. I'm blaming hormones. Am I allowed do that? Do hormones account for me not particularly minding the cloying domesticity?
I'm blackfonting this becaue it's not particularly spoilery anyway.
Dana - May 09, 2005 7:20:35 am PDT #9945 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
And it's not even the first time she's done it. Her genderfuck Master and Commander story is...something else.
Jars - May 09, 2005 7:26:28 am PDT #9946 of 10000
Her genderfuck Master and Commander story is...something else.
Yes, this. I fear to read, yet cannot turn turn away. I wish I didn't like it so much. I shouldn't like it so much. And yet...
Katie M - May 09, 2005 7:27:53 am PDT #9947 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
Hee.
I think there are a couple of points where I think "no, uh-uh, too easy." It felt less like "oh, of course, they'd do that" and more like "oh, well, they have to do that so the plot goes where she wants it to go." But on the other hand, where she wanted to go was lots of fun, so.
Theodosia - May 09, 2005 7:35:32 am PDT #9948 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"
It was sheer self-indulgence from end to end, which is fun when it's done this well.
Fay - May 09, 2005 7:36:35 am PDT #9949 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
What fandom are we talking? Links?
Dana - May 09, 2005 7:37:28 am PDT #9950 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Stargate: Atlantis. shalott's site is www.intimations.org.