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So got back from class at 12:30 yesterday and, minus a little discworld reading, slept until 8:30 thismorning and more class. yum.
The presentation did not go badly. The midterm-- ah, there were mitigating factors.
The best part was getting to catch up on my flist after all that time. I decided to try an experiment and actually leave comments for all the entries I wanted to comment on instead of doing my usual and freezing up out of shyness. We'll see how that goes. q:
Meanwhile, three fics of mine were recc'd by compelety separate people. After months of no reviews whatsoever. How odd.
Also, they changed the friends listing on the userinfo page. I've been hoping for that for a while. My friended by ratio looks much nicer now. *g* Maybe while I'm in this unusually outgoing mood I'll go ahead and bring my flist up to 100 like I've been planning for awhile. Everybody, rec me a journal! (edit: and if I don't have you friended, feel free to mention your own name!)
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maeglinyedi posted a thing about what she likes in fic, the questions for which I have stolen without permission
Short or long? Any length, really. To quote some writing book or other: just as long as it ends at the ending, and not before or after. On the other hand, I've almost never run across something I thought was too long.
PG or NC-17? PG, really. That is-- I don't like sex-for-sex's sake, and if there isn't plot or character development happening during the smut, I'd just as soon read about the characters doing laundry or pouring themselves cornflakes for breakfast. Please, just fade to black. But very few things are better than sex (not necessarily explicit, note my one NC-17 fic which has no explicit references to sexual organs at all) that *does* advance characterization . . .
WIP or complete? Does anyone actually prefer WIPs? I prefer complete, definitely, but I will read WIPs if only because I'm so desperate for anything good to read.
First-time or established relationship? Established. Definitely. I think I'm in the minority here, but I get really sick of first-time. Especially now I'm reading Highlander, where some authors have dozens and dozens of D/M first-time stories. Yeah, I'd like some sort of believable explanation for how they got together, but I'll settle for something like "we were really, really drunk and we're lucky it worked out for the best" as long as the characterization is good enough. There are only so many first-time stories that can be written, and most of them have been. Repeatedly. I'd rather read about them dealing with the reality of a relationship.
Plot or PWP? See the PG-13 question. Basically, if you could change the names and a few descriptive words and have it work in a completely different fandom, I see no need to read it. I will read plotless things if the character or mood or description or humor is good though . .. modern literary taste overvalues the plot.
Equals or opposites? Equals *and* opposites! Which-- as I touched on in a comment somewhere recently-- a yes, here-- can be a lot harder to do in slash. Anyway, yeah, I need the sense of equality in there somewhere (although my definition of equality can really stre-e-e-tch when necessary) or I get squicked, and I need the opposition or I get bored. But both of those are really more about characterization than pairing-- I've read Harry/Ron schmoop and Lucius/Ginny non-con that fits those definitions.
Now, to clean! SInce my organization technique for the past week has been "throw it on the pile."
The presentation did not go badly. The midterm-- ah, there were mitigating factors.
The best part was getting to catch up on my flist after all that time. I decided to try an experiment and actually leave comments for all the entries I wanted to comment on instead of doing my usual and freezing up out of shyness. We'll see how that goes. q:
Meanwhile, three fics of mine were recc'd by compelety separate people. After months of no reviews whatsoever. How odd.
Also, they changed the friends listing on the userinfo page. I've been hoping for that for a while. My friended by ratio looks much nicer now. *g* Maybe while I'm in this unusually outgoing mood I'll go ahead and bring my flist up to 100 like I've been planning for awhile. Everybody, rec me a journal! (edit: and if I don't have you friended, feel free to mention your own name!)
maeglinyedi posted a thing about what she likes in fic, the questions for which I have stolen without permission Short or long? Any length, really. To quote some writing book or other: just as long as it ends at the ending, and not before or after. On the other hand, I've almost never run across something I thought was too long.
PG or NC-17? PG, really. That is-- I don't like sex-for-sex's sake, and if there isn't plot or character development happening during the smut, I'd just as soon read about the characters doing laundry or pouring themselves cornflakes for breakfast. Please, just fade to black. But very few things are better than sex (not necessarily explicit, note my one NC-17 fic which has no explicit references to sexual organs at all) that *does* advance characterization . . .
WIP or complete? Does anyone actually prefer WIPs? I prefer complete, definitely, but I will read WIPs if only because I'm so desperate for anything good to read.
First-time or established relationship? Established. Definitely. I think I'm in the minority here, but I get really sick of first-time. Especially now I'm reading Highlander, where some authors have dozens and dozens of D/M first-time stories. Yeah, I'd like some sort of believable explanation for how they got together, but I'll settle for something like "we were really, really drunk and we're lucky it worked out for the best" as long as the characterization is good enough. There are only so many first-time stories that can be written, and most of them have been. Repeatedly. I'd rather read about them dealing with the reality of a relationship.
Plot or PWP? See the PG-13 question. Basically, if you could change the names and a few descriptive words and have it work in a completely different fandom, I see no need to read it. I will read plotless things if the character or mood or description or humor is good though . .. modern literary taste overvalues the plot.
Equals or opposites? Equals *and* opposites! Which-- as I touched on in a comment somewhere recently-- a yes, here-- can be a lot harder to do in slash. Anyway, yeah, I need the sense of equality in there somewhere (although my definition of equality can really stre-e-e-tch when necessary) or I get squicked, and I need the opposition or I get bored. But both of those are really more about characterization than pairing-- I've read Harry/Ron schmoop and Lucius/Ginny non-con that fits those definitions.
Now, to clean! SInce my organization technique for the past week has been "throw it on the pile."
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I'm a frosh at UMD and I found your journal through the UMD community. I'm on an people-adding spree recently, mostly so I'd have somebody to read. You seem quite cool, and you write well, so you're going on my friends list. ^_^ Hope you don't mind.
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okay now this is random, buuut...
The challenge you gave me for my Birthday Fic-A-Thon (Cassandra and Amanda): did you mean femmeslash? 'Cause that's what my filthy mind went to when I saw it.
*blush* Yes... going back to writing now. =-)
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But I'd seen you mention that you don't particularly like girlslash, so I really only meant anything with the two of them interacting at all, because I've seen hardly any of it and I really want some. (:
And don't sweat the lazy, lj comments are my preferred communication method anyway. q:
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Actually, another friend has just challenged me to some PotC femmeslash... *grins* I guess it's about time I branched out, yes?
I've got a little something done on yours, btw... it's light on the femmeslash, and only 2.5 pages. But I read above that you preffer to have the curtains drawn if the sex doesn't actually help with the character development, so I hope this will do.
Golly, it's been *ages* since I've written Highlander fanfic. I hope I got the girls right. =-)
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Yep. ::pimps new community::
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Anyhow, I have completed your fic, dear. It's currently residing happily on my LJ, awaiting your approval/hatred.