And here I thought wingfic was an urban myth.
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Consuela - May 30, 2006 3:42:06 pm PDT #514 of 28095
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Volans - May 30, 2006 3:47:18 pm PDT #515 of 28095
move out and draw fire
What's wingfic?
brenda m - May 30, 2006 3:57:19 pm PDT #516 of 28095
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, Raq, you had to go there.
JZ - May 30, 2006 4:02:10 pm PDT #517 of 28095
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
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!
Topic!Cindy - May 30, 2006 4:04:05 pm PDT #518 of 28095
What is even happening?
Yes. Please do not subject us to google.
Kate P. - May 30, 2006 4:04:45 pm PDT #519 of 28095
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
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.
brenda m - May 30, 2006 4:09:08 pm PDT #520 of 28095
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
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.
Topic!Cindy - May 30, 2006 4:09:44 pm PDT #521 of 28095
What is even happening?
Isn't that an X-men thing?
Kate P. - May 30, 2006 4:11:27 pm PDT #522 of 28095
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
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).
brenda m - May 30, 2006 4:14:07 pm PDT #523 of 28095
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
Isn't that an X-men thing?
Definitely not limited to that, but I can see where that would be top notch fodder.
(Someone get SA here to give her defense of Popslash (boyband) RPS wingfic.)