'War Stories'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I don't know if there are any Robert Jordan fans here but I heard today that he has some horrifying and mostly uncurable blood disease.
I should probably google you guys a real source. . . but I was told one of the treatments involved getting rid of your marrow (well, holding it outside of the body) - killing the thing that causes the problem and then putting the marrow back.
And it doesn't necessarily work.
And here is a source.
Did we talk about this here?
I can't remember.
And here I thought wingfic was an urban myth.
What's wingfic?
Oh, Raq, you had to go there.
She's not the only one who wants to know. Come on, guys, don't make us Google our way blindly into some chamber of horrors!
Yes. Please do not subject us to google.
wingfic = uh, basically stories in which people grow wings, right? That's how I've seen it used. I was going to say that it often involves the person being or becoming an angel of some sort, but I can think of several stories in which there isn't really any angelic subtext.
wingfic = uh, basically stories in which people grow wings, right?
Yeah, that's pretty much it. So many, many ways for a bad writer to take that and go places no one deserves.
Isn't that an X-men thing?
Oh yeah, it's quite often very bad. Although not always!
Heh. This is the Wikipedia definition of wingfic, which is quoted in five of the first ten Google hits:
Wingfic is a specific type of Slash fiction in which one, and sometimes both, of the two characters (usually both from a fantasy novel) grows wings. Usually the stories will involve the character who has grown wings feeling disgusted with their new form, and the other character must show them they are beautiful via sexual intercourse (sometimes in midair).