G. Awesome! I *like* slave fic; it hits a lot of my kinks. I just feel that there are way too many that're badly written, and don't take advantage of the examination of power dynamics (that's the main kink it hits) that the genre lends itself to so well.
F. It makes me sad 'cause I love long fics but am not so much into HP.
Then you should *REALLY* ( I can't emphasize this enough) read Cambiare Podentes. It's novel length, incredibly written, and takes a far deeper look into slavery than any other slave fic I've read. Not to mention, Harry's in his last or next to last year, and he HAS to be enslaved to Snape to save the Wizarding world.
Yay! Questions!marenficDecember 1 2006, 17:06:46 UTC
[E]-- I think it's a great organization tool now that you've mentioned it but I would never notice on someone else's journal. It's weird, but I very very rarely read subject lines. I would never do it because I'm not even organized enough on my journal to add tags or organize all my fic in memories so that people can actually find it. I am bad.
[H]-- romanticalgirl and inlovewithnight write HH fic and I'm sure it's quite good based on other fic in fandoms I do read. As an aside, I added HH to my Netflix list because you recommended it (in some post where I was freaking out over Jamie Bamber, I'm sure).
[J]-- I don't know! I disliked Connor very much in 3 and 4, but I loved what they did with him in 5 and would have liked to see much much more of him. I find myself absolutely adoring Connor future fic and there was a time when I wouldn't imagine that to have been possible.
[K]-- You're not the only one. Particularly after seeing some advance panels on EW's site and seeing that Buffy is in a fugly costume. Buffy Summers would *never* wear a fugly
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Re: Yay! Questions!letteredDecember 1 2006, 17:16:07 UTC
e. I don't read subject lines much either, but for some reason ones organized with brackets *always* catch my eye.
h. Maren! I don't know how much you're into period drama, but this series is awesome. The weirdest thing is I can't say why; it's so...adventurey and swashbuckly, very Dickensonian. But if for nothing else, Jamie Bamber is *so* amusingly different it's funny, and I know how you love him so you're sure to get a ginormous kick out of it.
Re: Yay! Questions!marenficDecember 1 2006, 17:29:07 UTC
But if for nothing else, Jamie Bamber is *so* amusingly different it's funny, and I know how you love him so you're sure to get a ginormous kick out of it.
Well, Archie's floppy hair already makes me want to giggle. I've heard he's very fangirly :)
Hey, someone recently recced a Buffy/Connor fic you did, I think? I can't wait to read that.
Re: Yay! Questions!letteredDecember 1 2006, 23:54:29 UTC
All the hair is really bad, because it's supposed to be bad, but none of the actors have long hair. I find Bamber's (and Horatio's) to be particularly snort-worthy.
The DC Fic index community should have some. Not that I recall where it is, exactly. But I've seen it!
E. How do you feel about...having the general subject of a post in brackets in the subject line? For instance, a post titled, "[meta] Can Soulless Spike Be Redeemed". Do you do that, the "[meta]" part? Have you done it? Have you thought about doing it? When you see other people do it, does it make you feel a certain way? It always makes me think: "I should do that! Then I would have to go back and do that to every post. Dear god, am I really that anal? Is that person as anal as I am? OMG I'M NOT ORGANIZED" *frantic hyperventilating and quick scrolling past the post* Not really, but something like that.I do it because I'm the least organized human on the planet. It's like a lo-jack for my thoughts
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After YEARS of LJ, and being Miss Random Subject Queen, I realized OMG, I couldn't freaking FIND posts I *knew* I'd made.
I haven't been around years...but I'm having the same difficulty. Actually, I don't know why I so often need to go find old posts of mine, but it's happened enough to where about a month ago, I spazzed and retitled every single post I'd ever made since I got to lj. Now I might need to do it again, with brackets. I...fear myself.
Annoying Noise. I mean, authors notes. I hate having to write those things.
I have a love/hate relationship with them. I hate reading them, get on with the story please. I love writing them, I get to explain what I'm on about. But then writing them becomes a torturous process, because I try to make them short so as not to annoy myself, who hates to read them. I'm...bad at writing short.
Tropes deeply embedded in our cultural frame of reference? Some fandoms, Aliens Made Them Do It just doesn't quite work with canon? Over consumption of trashy romances at tender ages (see answer
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Picking a few random ones to answer, because I should really be working on a paper:
K. Does the idea of the S8 BtVS comics make anyone else sad? It depresses me and for the life of me I can't figure out why. I would not be upset if there was an S6 of AtS. I mean, I'm glad that there'll be L. more Buffy and that Whedon is doing it, but it feels kinda bittersweet to me, and that makes me feel like I'm being a spoil sport.It makes me sad, in a way, because I really liked the idea that Buffy's story was kind of . . . not over, but in a place where she could be relatively happy, and now it will probably be revealed that she's horribly traumatized and depressed and people are dying and all kinds of awful Whedon-things. On the other hand, I'm kind of selfishly happy that there will be new material that I can consume at the same time as everyone else, instead of doing the DVD thing and getting spoiled for everything the instant I wander on-line. (No, I'm not bitter that I knew that Buffy would die and that she was in heaven and Tara was
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OMG DON'T READ YOUR FIRST COMMENT NOTIFICATIONletteredDecember 2 2006, 00:17:27 UTC
Um. Um? I can't remember whether you've gotten to see all of AtS. In view of the whole spoilers conversation, I edited this comment. I'm a real ditz.
I really liked the idea that Buffy's story was kind of . . . not over, but in a place where she could be relatively happy, and now it will probably be revealed that she's horribly traumatized and depressed and people are dying and all kinds of awful Whedon-things.
Maybe this is what makes me sad, too.
(No, I'm not bitter that I knew that Buffy would die and that she was in heaven and Tara was going to die and Willow would flay Warren and Spike would die and come back. Not at all :)For some reason, I didn't really care about spoilers. I have difficulty assessing my mood at the time, but I got into Buffyverse fandom almost simultaneously with Buffyverse itself, and it was just so limiting to try to stay spoiler free. I didn't actively search for spoilers, but yeah, knew most of it before it happened. This is the part that I cut 'cause I started talking about which spoilers I knew
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Re: OMG DON'T READ YOUR FIRST COMMENT NOTIFICATIONviolaclaireDecember 2 2006, 04:44:12 UTC
I can't remember whether you've gotten to see all of AtS. In view of the whole spoilers conversation, I edited this comment.
No, it's okay! After I realized I was spoiled for pretty much everything anyway, I stopped caring so that I could read all the amazing-looking post-NFA fic. Plus, TNT's syndication schedule was so weird that I saw NFA before I saw most of S3. So, I haven't seen everything yet, but I still know all the general plot points. You don't have to worry about spoiling me :)
First time I saw her she drove me nuts and I thought she was the most annoying things on earth. But after I watched her several times I noticed that her meals seemed REALLY good and REALLY easy, so I started making some.
Heh, that's what Big Sis says. She actually claims that she still finds Rachel Ray insanely annoying, but she watches the show religiously and uses the recipes a lot. Maybe eventually she too will succumb to the perkiness that is Rachel Ray?
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I *like* slave fic; it hits a lot of my kinks. I just feel that there are way too many that're badly written, and don't take advantage of the examination of power dynamics (that's the main kink it hits) that the genre lends itself to so well.
F. It makes me sad 'cause I love long fics but am not so much into HP.
Thanks for all your answers!
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Kinks ahoy!
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[H]-- romanticalgirl and inlovewithnight write HH fic and I'm sure it's quite good based on other fic in fandoms I do read. As an aside, I added HH to my Netflix list because you recommended it (in some post where I was freaking out over Jamie Bamber, I'm sure).
[J]-- I don't know! I disliked Connor very much in 3 and 4, but I loved what they did with him in 5 and would have liked to see much much more of him. I find myself absolutely adoring Connor future fic and there was a time when I wouldn't imagine that to have been possible.
[K]-- You're not the only one. Particularly after seeing some advance panels on EW's site and seeing that Buffy is in a fugly costume. Buffy Summers would *never* wear a fugly ( ... )
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h. Maren! I don't know how much you're into period drama, but this series is awesome. The weirdest thing is I can't say why; it's so...adventurey and swashbuckly, very Dickensonian. But if for nothing else, Jamie Bamber is *so* amusingly different it's funny, and I know how you love him so you're sure to get a ginormous kick out of it.
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Well, Archie's floppy hair already makes me want to giggle. I've heard he's very fangirly :)
Hey, someone recently recced a Buffy/Connor fic you did, I think? I can't wait to read that.
Ah, that would be death becomes her I think.
I'll have to read your rant.
Hee! No, that was my rant :)
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Yay, thanks for the link!
Oh, I misunderstood!
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TKP, I am insomniac homework girl!
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But I love your insomniac homework girlness. You make me happy, when I see your name.
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The DC Fic index community should have some. Not that I recall where it is, exactly. But I've seen it!
E. How do you feel about...having the general subject of a post in brackets in the subject line? For instance, a post titled, "[meta] Can Soulless Spike Be Redeemed". Do you do that, the "[meta]" part? Have you done it? Have you thought about doing it? When you see other people do it, does it make you feel a certain way? It always makes me think: "I should do that! Then I would have to go back and do that to every post. Dear god, am I really that anal? Is that person as anal as I am? OMG I'M NOT ORGANIZED" *frantic hyperventilating and quick scrolling past the post* Not really, but something like that.I do it because I'm the least organized human on the planet. It's like a lo-jack for my thoughts ( ... )
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I haven't been around years...but I'm having the same difficulty. Actually, I don't know why I so often need to go find old posts of mine, but it's happened enough to where about a month ago, I spazzed and retitled every single post I'd ever made since I got to lj. Now I might need to do it again, with brackets. I...fear myself.
Annoying Noise. I mean, authors notes. I hate having to write those things.
I have a love/hate relationship with them. I hate reading them, get on with the story please. I love writing them, I get to explain what I'm on about. But then writing them becomes a torturous process, because I try to make them short so as not to annoy myself, who hates to read them. I'm...bad at writing short.
Tropes deeply embedded in our cultural frame of reference? Some fandoms, Aliens Made Them Do It just doesn't quite work with canon? Over consumption of trashy romances at tender ages (see answer ( ... )
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Picking a few random ones to answer, because I should really be working on a paper:
K. Does the idea of the S8 BtVS comics make anyone else sad? It depresses me and for the life of me I can't figure out why. I would not be upset if there was an S6 of AtS. I mean, I'm glad that there'll be L. more Buffy and that Whedon is doing it, but it feels kinda bittersweet to me, and that makes me feel like I'm being a spoil sport.It makes me sad, in a way, because I really liked the idea that Buffy's story was kind of . . . not over, but in a place where she could be relatively happy, and now it will probably be revealed that she's horribly traumatized and depressed and people are dying and all kinds of awful Whedon-things. On the other hand, I'm kind of selfishly happy that there will be new material that I can consume at the same time as everyone else, instead of doing the DVD thing and getting spoiled for everything the instant I wander on-line. (No, I'm not bitter that I knew that Buffy would die and that she was in heaven and Tara was ( ... )
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I really liked the idea that Buffy's story was kind of . . . not over, but in a place where she could be relatively happy, and now it will probably be revealed that she's horribly traumatized and depressed and people are dying and all kinds of awful Whedon-things.
Maybe this is what makes me sad, too.
(No, I'm not bitter that I knew that Buffy would die and that she was in heaven and Tara was going to die and Willow would flay Warren and Spike would die and come back. Not at all :)For some reason, I didn't really care about spoilers. I have difficulty assessing my mood at the time, but I got into Buffyverse fandom almost simultaneously with Buffyverse itself, and it was just so limiting to try to stay spoiler free. I didn't actively search for spoilers, but yeah, knew most of it before it happened. This is the part that I cut 'cause I started talking about which spoilers I knew ( ... )
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No, it's okay! After I realized I was spoiled for pretty much everything anyway, I stopped caring so that I could read all the amazing-looking post-NFA fic. Plus, TNT's syndication schedule was so weird that I saw NFA before I saw most of S3. So, I haven't seen everything yet, but I still know all the general plot points. You don't have to worry about spoiling me :)
First time I saw her she drove me nuts and I thought she was the most annoying things on earth. But after I watched her several times I noticed that her meals seemed REALLY good and REALLY easy, so I started making some.
Heh, that's what Big Sis says. She actually claims that she still finds Rachel Ray insanely annoying, but she watches the show religiously and uses the recipes a lot. Maybe eventually she too will succumb to the perkiness that is Rachel Ray?
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Yeah, I watched Rachel Ray for quite a while before the annoyingness turned into endearing cuteness.
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