This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday. Of course, you could smash in all my toes with a hammer and it will still be the bestest Buffy Birthday Bash in a big long while.

Buffy ,'Potential'


Supernatural 2: Why is it our job to save everybody?  

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Lee - Dec 22, 2010 7:24:36 am PST #16733 of 30002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

That's creepy.

And yet, you shared it with us.


§ ita § - Dec 22, 2010 7:26:24 am PST #16734 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Oh, Perkins, if I ran back and shared all the creepy things with you, no one would trust me again, or ever click on my links.

And I couldn't have that.


Juliebird - Dec 22, 2010 7:52:49 am PST #16735 of 30002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

oh god, all the times I've wanted to run in here and share the creepy trauma I've subjected myself to...

Annoying mistakes that I've been seeing too many times: "weary" where it should be "wary", "wonder" when it should be "wander" and "wandering" when it should be "wondering".


JenP - Dec 22, 2010 7:55:56 am PST #16736 of 30002

Random tweet: This conversation is cracking me up.


§ ita § - Dec 22, 2010 7:56:55 am PST #16737 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Loose instead of lose. People, do a specific spell check for "loos" before you publish your fic, and refer to some sort of loose/lose bible before you go forward.

There are a number other, and they drive me nuts, but nothing like loosing control, when you know that's not what they meant.


Juliebird - Dec 22, 2010 8:02:46 am PST #16738 of 30002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

I read a badfic where an OFC started off with one name in the first paragraph and it was immediately changed to something else for the rest of the fic. Or there's moments where the author is unable to keep track of where the characters are in a room: "Dean stood by the window" followed immediately with "Cas joined Dean where he sat". And I see tons of contradictory statements (within the same paragraph or in consecutive paragraphs) by characters and I don't know which one was the actual intended narrative.


§ ita § - Dec 22, 2010 8:23:33 am PST #16739 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I tried to read a Dean/Castiel/Gabriel (not related to each other) fic, and boy, the threesome scenes were badly described. No idea who was where or why. It wasn't high art to start off with, but when there's no porn payoff, what's the point?

D/C AU reclist. Nothing I hadn't seen there before, and in fact, I'll be making some suggestions, but just in case.


Juliebird - Dec 22, 2010 3:26:58 pm PST #16740 of 30002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Sam & Dean song like whoa:

Iron & Wine's "Resurrection Fern"

In our days we will live
Like our ghosts will live
Pitching glass at the cornfield crows
And folding clothes

Like stubborn boys across the road
We'll keep everything
Grandma's gun, and the black bear claw
That took her dog

And when sister JoLaurie says "Amen,"
We won't hear anything
The ten-car train will take that word
That fledgling bird

And the falling house across the way
It'll keep everything
The baby's breath, our bravery wasted
And our shame

And we'll undress beside the ashes of the fire
Both our tender bellies wound in bailing wire
All the more a pair of underwater pearls
Than the oak tree and its Resurrection Fern

In our days we will say
What our ghosts will say
We gave the world what it saw fit
And what'd we get?

Like stubborn boys with big green eyes
We'll see everything
In the timid shade of the autumn leaves
And the buzzard's wing

Dunno if it's viddable, but I hope that's on someone's fanmix.


Juliebird - Dec 22, 2010 5:13:09 pm PST #16741 of 30002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

I have decided: there needs to be mandated warnings in fic about which character is going to be villainized. If RPF can warn for even the presence of CMM, then all fic can warn for Evil!Sir. John is NOT a canonical bad guy.


§ ita § - Dec 22, 2010 5:34:36 pm PST #16742 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Character bashing should totally be warned for. Sometimes I hate people.