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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 05:23pm on 11/08/2009
Augh, I really should go back and edit this entry so my reading standards look less fascistic. :(

I don't think that there should be NO WIRE HANGERS EPITHETS EVER, especially when all the people in a scene are the same gender. They can even be useful in some situations; say CJ and Abby had just had an argument over something, and Abby's trying to get her to leave for a bit, saying something like "'Jed will be back soon,' said the First Lady" would create the distancing effect very nicely, especially if she'd been referred to as "Abby" before.

But the trouble with this fic was that it used an epithet almost every time it referred to the characters, to the point where they were coming up with increasingly ridiculous and irrelevant titles for them for no other reason, it seemed, than to avoid using their names. In a fic that I otherwise rather liked it drove me crazy.

I have written fic! At last! But I cannot say what it is yet, as the authors are supposed to be a secret still. But I'll post it here as soon as I am no longer sworn to secrecy and all that. :D
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posted by [identity profile] sterling-sky.livejournal.com at 03:57am on 19/08/2009
The fact that you can use fascistic in a sentence pretty much just gets bonus points from me no matter what, so you know. ;D

Oh man, now I know EXACTLY what you are talking about. Especially if they start to get into super-specific detail type stuff, because honestly, I was reading a slash story the other day and I had to go back to screencaps of the episode because they kept referring to 'the taller man' and 'the shorter man' and it's like, Jesus H. Christ, people, Sam and Josh are maybe an INCH in height difference, what do you want from me? Anyways. Rant over. ;) Except to add another example of such, in which it was Josh and Amy and they went from names to titles to bizarre semi-titles, like 'the White House staffer said', which, depending on which season you're watching.... could be either one! Oi. And that's a het pairing, so... seriously, people. Get it together.

P.S. I have read about 60% of your fic and omgomgomgomg. Have I mentioned how much I love your stuff? Because, seriously. LOVE. Sfm I can't even. XD
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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 07:35pm on 25/08/2009
I was reading a slash story the other day and I had to go back to screencaps of the episode because they kept referring to 'the taller man' and 'the shorter man' and it's like, Jesus H. Christ, people, Sam and Josh are maybe an INCH in height difference, what do you want from me?

YES. YES IT WAS LIKE THAT. Unless one character's six foot three and the other's five foot five (which they are in some cases) I can't even *remember* which one's taller half the time. Hell, they all look tall to me. And this fic had "the Earther" because one of the characters was an alien and the author had already used human to describe the other and wtf that's not even a word I don't even. D:

I am so so glad you like that fic because it was a BEAR finishing it, I'll tell you. And it was my first real femslash and half the time I was thinking "I am writing Character/OFC, what the hell is wrong with me" and 6,600 WORDS IS TOO MUCH TIME TO SPEND IN ANYONE'S HEAD. So. Ahem. Yes. I'm happy you're enjoying it so far.
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