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Top ten signs you're reading a fic by marinarusalka
1. It's been beta-read by ndancer. A fact for which you should all be profoundly grateful.
2. It's got a crappy title, usually taken from song lyrics at least a quarter century old.
3. A minor character from canon will play a major role or even be the protagonist. The canon protagonist will often be nowhere in sight. If a character is widely reviled in the fandom, they'll be portrayed sympathetically in the fic.
4. There will be many mentions of what kind of food the characters are eating. Important scenes will take place in kitchens and restaurants.
5. The same grammatical quirks will occur over and over. Like sentence fragments. And sentences beginning with conjunctions. Same thing goes for punctuation -- I'm very fond of m-dashes, for example; I also overuse semicolons. Fortunately, ndancer has cured me of my addiction to ellipses. Well... maybe not completely.
6.There will be a lot of snarky bantering. If a character doesn't bring the snark in canon, I'm not likely to be interested in writing them.
7. There's usually a plot.
8. If there's explicit sex, it's slash.
9. Original characters, male and female, show up with distressing regularity. They're not necessarily the love interest, but they're usually important to the plot.
10. Characters spend a lot of time shrugging, tapping their fingers, and running their hands through their hair during conversations. They also mutter a lot.
1. It's been beta-read by ndancer. A fact for which you should all be profoundly grateful.
2. It's got a crappy title, usually taken from song lyrics at least a quarter century old.
3. A minor character from canon will play a major role or even be the protagonist. The canon protagonist will often be nowhere in sight. If a character is widely reviled in the fandom, they'll be portrayed sympathetically in the fic.
4. There will be many mentions of what kind of food the characters are eating. Important scenes will take place in kitchens and restaurants.
5. The same grammatical quirks will occur over and over. Like sentence fragments. And sentences beginning with conjunctions. Same thing goes for punctuation -- I'm very fond of m-dashes, for example; I also overuse semicolons. Fortunately, ndancer has cured me of my addiction to ellipses. Well... maybe not completely.
6.There will be a lot of snarky bantering. If a character doesn't bring the snark in canon, I'm not likely to be interested in writing them.
7. There's usually a plot.
8. If there's explicit sex, it's slash.
9. Original characters, male and female, show up with distressing regularity. They're not necessarily the love interest, but they're usually important to the plot.
10. Characters spend a lot of time shrugging, tapping their fingers, and running their hands through their hair during conversations. They also mutter a lot.