Working through my collection of memes...
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Try to write all the different categories of fanfic (angst, fluff, UST, bromance...can you think of others?) in 10 words or less.
Angst:
It takes time, getting used to the idea of "gone".
Fluff:
They're in 1912 the first time he kisses her goodnight.
UST:
He watches his hands as he works, follows every motion.
BromanceSmarm:
(What? I think "bromance" sounds silly, is all.)
"I'm glad you're alright," he says. "And thank you."
Darkfic:
He winces, involuntarily, as the other man raises the syringe.
Adventure:
She feels like she's been running forever; still they follow.
Smut:
"Shut up and fuck me."
"What, now?"
"Yes, now."
"...Okay..."
Crack:
It all went downhill once the ninja pirate zombies appeared.
And one from me:
The Bonsai Story Generator transforms your story from a coherent fic into a series of pseudo-profound word salad sentences, perfect for incomprehensibly poetic fic.
Plug in one (or more) of your fics and post three (or more) of your favorite bonsai story sentences. No fair picking sentences that come out almost the same (i.e. "What's that?" or "She stood there" or something like that). Annotate as you like.
From The Waiting-Room World:
"A new, unknown life become concrete as he observed, spiraling out the storm. " I rather like this one, actually.
"There is no basis in stasis." lol rhyme
"His dreams are full of atmosphere and drift into another universe."
"He is grave and empty space." Another one I rather like. I might use it, if I can ever write an entire fic in poetical nonsense.
"Mathematics is functionally useless, no mind."
"The endless testing of forgetting, after all."
From Block Transfer Computations
"You’re in spite of ages, at least the long way." So there.
"He hasn’t been shed with another faint smile, supplies in no state to do any sort because then he’ll forget it, or third time instead of elimination if he wasn’t careful; any equation became easier than the relative coordinate stability...I would’ve thought of any sort because why would it need the projector, then, just the clothes making him look that he could still see around the weight of ages, at first." The trouble with having quotation marks in there is that they tend to chop up an otherwise nicely nonsensical sentence.
"After a – a library with that absurd scarf of working through sounds that wouldn’t crumble and he sounds almost like apologizing."
From An Experiment, of Sorts (1/2):
"That’s not even a good time, though."
"Run more to sit down and those faraway planets, telling probably half-true stories of the galaxy. " There's a couple of words missing there, but now it almost makes sense.
"The screwdriver stays at three in spite of light. It might even touch it."
"It occurred to interest you. " Nicely solipsistic, I think.
"He didn’t seem to occupy your generous offer of the day, he’d said I doubted that."
From Concerning Multiverse Theory:
"She pins down right now, because you know there is it? " A rearrangement of just two words would have made that make a bit of sense.
"Or had some way to the bones – for as long ago – the universe like her, feels like her, feels like she was his choice, the lower rib as she buttons up the pretense of some sort." I rather like it up until the last clause.
"Perhaps sentient beings exist even those where divergence at all."
"Conclusion: Theory provides no way to tell a choice, any other, or to spare you the pretense of other, outside changes."
"I’ve told him to tell her what he saw in superposition, a way to trigger fracture." Poetical technobabble!
"What increments are you?" Why is a mouse when it spins?
Back to my research paper. Good night, good night.
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Try to write all the different categories of fanfic (angst, fluff, UST, bromance...can you think of others?) in 10 words or less.
Angst:
It takes time, getting used to the idea of "gone".
Fluff:
They're in 1912 the first time he kisses her goodnight.
UST:
He watches his hands as he works, follows every motion.
(What? I think "bromance" sounds silly, is all.)
"I'm glad you're alright," he says. "And thank you."
Darkfic:
He winces, involuntarily, as the other man raises the syringe.
Adventure:
She feels like she's been running forever; still they follow.
Smut:
"Shut up and fuck me."
"What, now?"
"Yes, now."
"...Okay..."
Crack:
It all went downhill once the ninja pirate zombies appeared.
And one from me:
The Bonsai Story Generator transforms your story from a coherent fic into a series of pseudo-profound word salad sentences, perfect for incomprehensibly poetic fic.
Plug in one (or more) of your fics and post three (or more) of your favorite bonsai story sentences. No fair picking sentences that come out almost the same (i.e. "What's that?" or "She stood there" or something like that). Annotate as you like.
From The Waiting-Room World:
"A new, unknown life become concrete as he observed, spiraling out the storm. " I rather like this one, actually.
"There is no basis in stasis." lol rhyme
"His dreams are full of atmosphere and drift into another universe."
"He is grave and empty space." Another one I rather like. I might use it, if I can ever write an entire fic in poetical nonsense.
"Mathematics is functionally useless, no mind."
"The endless testing of forgetting, after all."
From Block Transfer Computations
"You’re in spite of ages, at least the long way." So there.
"He hasn’t been shed with another faint smile, supplies in no state to do any sort because then he’ll forget it, or third time instead of elimination if he wasn’t careful; any equation became easier than the relative coordinate stability...I would’ve thought of any sort because why would it need the projector, then, just the clothes making him look that he could still see around the weight of ages, at first." The trouble with having quotation marks in there is that they tend to chop up an otherwise nicely nonsensical sentence.
"After a – a library with that absurd scarf of working through sounds that wouldn’t crumble and he sounds almost like apologizing."
From An Experiment, of Sorts (1/2):
"That’s not even a good time, though."
"Run more to sit down and those faraway planets, telling probably half-true stories of the galaxy. " There's a couple of words missing there, but now it almost makes sense.
"The screwdriver stays at three in spite of light. It might even touch it."
"It occurred to interest you. " Nicely solipsistic, I think.
"He didn’t seem to occupy your generous offer of the day, he’d said I doubted that."
From Concerning Multiverse Theory:
"She pins down right now, because you know there is it? " A rearrangement of just two words would have made that make a bit of sense.
"Or had some way to the bones – for as long ago – the universe like her, feels like her, feels like she was his choice, the lower rib as she buttons up the pretense of some sort." I rather like it up until the last clause.
"Perhaps sentient beings exist even those where divergence at all."
"Conclusion: Theory provides no way to tell a choice, any other, or to spare you the pretense of other, outside changes."
"I’ve told him to tell her what he saw in superposition, a way to trigger fracture." Poetical technobabble!
"What increments are you?" Why is a mouse when it spins?
Back to my research paper. Good night, good night.
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Also, that generator is just asking to be overused. *clicks*
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Isn't it, though? I spent far too long on that generator.
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Man, I'd forgotten about that movie. And I begged and begged my parents to take me to see it, way back when. :D
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Ooh, the Bonsai thing is fun. I get frustrated with it quickly because nothing of mine comes out sounding good like that. I've run six stories through it and only come out with maybe three lines that stood on their own...sigh.
"His dreams are full of atmosphere and drift into another universe."
Like that. Why can't I get sentences like *that*? Fantastic.
"He is grave and empty space." -- that IS profound.
Finally, poetical technobabble ftw.
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...a thought occurs to me. The first Pirates of the Caribbean had pirate zombies, right? And the third had ninja pirates, sort of, in the form of Sao Feng's crew, although I suppose they wouldn't really be ninjas since they're Chinese, not Japanese...anyway, the point is, clearly there need to be Japanese pirate ninjas who stole some of the cursed treasure from the first movie, so we can have ninja pirate zombies.
I suddenly have this urge to watch the third Pirates movie again. Which I haven't had...pretty much since it came out.
The reason I picked those four fics to Bonsai were that they were the only ones that came out interesting, heh. And in truth, the sentences I posted were pretty much the only good ones. I think one needs to write more poetic fic than I do to really make the thing work.
I got the idea from a post on
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But um, yeah. I think the trick of the Bonsai generator is that it requires a lot of time and patience. Time I clearly don't have, and yet spent today anyway, and I managed to come out with some interesting lines after all. Weirdly enough, some of the better ones were from "Piano Lessons," which doesn't have any poetic language at all.
anyway, the point is, clearly there need to be Japanese pirate ninjas who stole some of the cursed treasure from the first movie, so we can have ninja pirate zombies.
CLEARLY. I like the way your mind works!
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Time I clearly don't have, and yet spent today anyway
THE STORY OF COLLEGE, in ten words. XD
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*blinks* See, this is what I didn't understand about the comments. It's a bird. It's just an observation from a bird's perspective, isn't it? *ties into brain into knots* Now I've over-thought it and am confused! Ahhhhhh!
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Gaaaah. I don't know. *throws up hands*
I swear I'm going to leave it alone after this.
OK. Am done.
Re: I swear I'm going to leave it alone after this.
*shrug* Am done as well, I think. Like I said, there were some nice lines in there. They could just have stood to be spread out across a bit more story.
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Fair enough; blame the dude at TV Guide who referred to the House/Wilson smarm as "bromance" - the originator of the meme is a House fan.
And your microfics are ace. I am in awe.
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Oh, I do. :D It's not a big deal, but I guess I heard the term "smarm" first, and I've never heard two guys actually refer to each other as "bro" (I'm sure they do, but it still sounds odd to me), so "bromance" always sounded awkward.
Of course, my favorite term for smarm is still Jay and Silent Bob's "hetero man-love". *g*
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed them - I had fun writing them!
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Well, I always think of How I Met Your Mother...< ah ref="http://www.amazon.com/Bro-Code-Barney-Stinson/dp/143911000X">The Bro Code.
But I must admit that I have never heard of "smarm." Ever, in any context. Where did that come from?
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"Smarm" is a term I've heard from fic writers, referring to fic focused on close friendship/affection/love between two male characters that was nonromantic or nonsexual. I'm not sure where it came from, but I'd heard it used by ficcers before the more mainstream media ever caught on to bromance, so it's the phrase I tend to use.
Actually, no, that's a lie. The phrase I tend to use is hetero-man-love (or hetero life-mates), because it's a more amusing phrase and I like it better.
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