I'll be a Pollyana and say that I don't like the idea of a thread dedicated to mocking badfic. Yes, we all do it, and sometimes we even point people to it, but...I dunno. God knows there's enough fic out there that deserves it, but...
Book: Where's the doctor? Not back yet?
Zoe: (beat) We don't make him hurry for the little stuff. He'll be along.
Book: He could hurry... a little.
'Safe'
Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Dana - Sep 18, 2002 8:08:30 am PDT #13 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Sophia Brooks - Sep 18, 2002 8:08:34 am PDT #14 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I lurk there, Herself, and I like them. And I had just posted about the moderators being a little overzealous.
Duh-- already said it.
Herself - Sep 18, 2002 8:11:14 am PDT #15 of 10001
Peel it and see
Maybe they could just fit into what we have now. What DO we have now? We've got a thread where we recommend, and another where we post bits of what we're writing, yes? Perhaps that's enough. Personally, I enjoy the badfic mockage thread but I'm not gonna stamp my little feet about it. I guess in our two threads we do all the same things that happen at TwoP in about five separate threads. So yeah.
Of course if I go over there and tell people about here, Ace will probably ban me or something. ;)
Beverly - Sep 18, 2002 8:12:35 am PDT #16 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
No posting boxes anywhere ita. Thanks.
Dana - Sep 18, 2002 8:14:32 am PDT #17 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
We've got a thread where we recommend, and another where we post bits of what we're writing, yes?
We've got one for discussion "Fan Fiction: Readers, Writers, and Enablers". And then we've got Bitchy Fic and PPO for Buffy and Smallville.
I don't want to come across like I'm high and mighty about the badfic. I mock the badfic. But I don't necessarily want to institutionalize it.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 18, 2002 8:16:49 am PDT #18 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
The badfic thread is hysterical, but I feel mean about it.
P.M. Marc - Sep 18, 2002 8:28:51 am PDT #19 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I like the badfic mockage as a running joke with the DRTBF, but don't really want to see a whole thread of it.
also kind of fear an influx of many TWoP posters, but that's just residual trauma from when I hung out at MBTV
Angus G - Sep 18, 2002 8:34:17 am PDT #20 of 10001
Roguish Laird
This is going to sound horribly snobbish, but perhaps people on TWoP could just privately nudge the posters they like over here, without making board-wide announcements? Because I'm all for new people, as long as they're exactly like us.
Theodosia - Sep 18, 2002 8:36:39 am PDT #21 of 10001
'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'm with Angus, which isn't strange because otherwise we're twins in every aspect of our lives. Well, sort of, by which I hardly at all. But I agree with him anyway.
Jen - Sep 18, 2002 8:38:13 am PDT #22 of 10001
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
Angus, I like your idea. Certainly, rescue people from the sinking ship and help them get to the dry land and beautiful climate of our island. But TWoP gets an enormous number of hits and I fear a stampede if a link is posted to the message board there.