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[pepper_field]

(Almost forgot:)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

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[pepper_field]

It's frustrating, isn't it? Ah well, these things are sent to try us. And to make us work harder to be better next time, hopefully. :S

[vickyocean]

Still loving Jack in the field. :)

I have a very visual memory, more for images than words though. I'm bad about remembering peoples faces, but I can remember what they had on. Guess it's all those years of working in retail.

I find I accidentally quote movies in my fics more than anything else. Sometimes I'll change it. Sometimes I'll leave it in as an homage and to see if anybody gets it.

[pepper_field]

*g* I thought you might like that one.

I have a terrible memory for faces - but for clothes I'm even worse! I'm borderline male about clothes - I almost never notice if someone is wearing something new. Odd, isn't it, what the brain chooses to notice? I remember landscape really well, for some reason. I don't get lost much.

And movies, yes - I don't mind quoting them so much, at least it's a different medium. *g* I tend to quote the same movies, time and again. Often The Princess Bride. *loves*

[vickyocean]

For a while I was quoting Tombstone quite a lot. Jack so so channeling a combination of Doc and Wyatt that it was sad.

Speaking of Tombstone I sense an icon making mood coming on. I *need* some Doc Holiday icons.

Movies and shows I obsessively watch tend to fall into my vocabulary and never leave. Lately from my recent House obsession I've noticed a lot of 'Everybody lies' and 'It's never lupus'. You'd be surprised how much you can use "It's never lupus."

[pepper_field]

Ooh, Tombstone. "I've got two guns, one for each of ya." *g* I like Doc Holliday in any film - Tombstone? Yes. Wyatt Earp? Yes. Gunfight At The OK Corral? Yes. Young Guns? Yes. All very different portrayals, all the highlight of their movie. Odd, that.

And also, "I want your blood, I want your soul, and I want 'em both right now." Loved Ringo, too.

[holdouttrout]

You know, I recognized that line in a vague “I think that sounds like something Jojo might have written” way, but I wasn’t too concerned with it. It seemed like a good homage (and now that I read that story again, it really does work).

Besides, it’s So True. And it fit the story nicely.

In other words, I wouldn’t worry about it if I were you.

[pepper_field]

It is true, isn't it? Ah well, I shall float serenely on and forget about it.

Homage, yes. That's what it is. Not me copying. Nonono. *shakes head violently*

:)

[rigel_7]

I get that feeling sometimes as well :D I'll be writing away quite merrily and then one line will stick out like a sore thumb, I then obsess over it for ages and usually end up taking it out.

And i have to say that writing SG1 fic is an odd experience, after such a long time of writing my own stuff. I find little things creeping in that most definitely don't belong! lol

[pepper_field]

I've found, after going through a couple of serious fandoms now, that I go through three stages: 1) New to it, write my own take on the show (often using what I later discover are cliches, but what I think are Totally Original), 2) After obsessively immersing myself in everyone else's fanfic, writing stuff that mirrors the take I like on the show/film/whatever, and 3) Finally finding how I like to write the fandom.

And then I run out of ideas. *g*