ficlet and comment and recs

stungunbilly mentions:
I am increasingly of the opinion that anti-pairing and/or anti-slash etc. rants are really a plaintive cry for more stories that suit a person's taste.

which kinda. . . yeah. ::covers face with hands::

so in repentance I answered the request for Snape/Neville...

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Watched the Secret Window trailer and. ::stares off into middle-distance:: whoa yeah. sleep tousled Johnny? anyday of the week thank you please may I have somme more?

and his voice? dear. lord.

(many thanks to suffire for the link)

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...and once again ponderosa121's left me gaping with her Spike (Cowboy Bebop) and her Sands (OUaTiM).

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and this is one of the cutest pics...well, if you like white mice.

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This is *so* worth checking out:

King of Hearts by lassiterfics

It's Murder By Numbers fic and it states:
About the movie Murder By Numbers, CM has this to say: "murder by numbers is the slashiest movie ever. well, maybe with the exception of fight club, but minus the whole desperately wanting to fuck yourself bit."

Having seen the movie I will fully attest that, yes, it's probably one of the slashiest things ever. This is partly because the guy who played Richard did a Ben Hur (ie. played it assuming a homosexual relationship without bothering to tell the other actor...I kid you not, and it works.)

This is an opposite to my rec Te's fic Other People's Problems in that you *don't* necessarily need to know who the characters are before you head into the fic. It's a total characterization fic of the two boys, only the description's in the actions and the actions are in the descriptions and whoa but that's possibly *the* most laden kiss I've chanced upon, in terms of how much of *who* the boys *are* comes out from it.

In terms of backstory: Richard (popular bully and playboy) and Justin (reclusive geek) were two very opposite boys who kills a woman just to prove they could get away with it and to show how much freedom they had from society's rules.

Truth is stranger...

So. We've accidentally dropped a bomb on Yorkshire?

::facepalm:: no. words.

(pointed out by potterwitch)

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Leopard Slug Aerial mating

0.o;;

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So, how manly can one look while sporting pink?

madam_h gives us the answer:
Angoragorn and Maragorn Sue

Do not consume liquids while viewing.

You have been warned.

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stevie_jane makes the Snape/Hermione look fantastically good...

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Okay, so I got completely fed up with those Hogwarts Sorting Quizzes that are *completely* obvious. It's unsatisfying to be sorted Slytherin, when I KNOW what questions to answer.

In denial and rebuttal I've created my own:

Hogwarts Sorting Hat

Please, crashtest it, I'm trying to think of more questions and to refine it, and to think of less obvious questions but I don't have any good perspective on the questions so far...

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fabu makes interesting commentary on why we write fanfiction.

It reminds me of an article I read somewhere on a rant page (I'm not sure where's the link) about fanfiction writing as a sociologial gateway, ie. you're not really part of the fandom community (or at least not part of the 'inner circle') unless you write, and that *this* was part of the reason why there's such a bad reaction to negative criticism.

Namely, there's a major difference between ficcers who write to *write* and ficcers who write to participate in the *community*. There is, of course, an overlap; but probably how far you are a ficcer who writes to socialize indicates how little you can stomach/accept criticism.

After all, if you are presenting fic to be accepted into a community, *any* negative comments about the fic is a direct reflection on your acceptance into the community and is a negative comment on the auther themself. And in the anonymous and fluid sphere of the internet, it's *much* easier to get away with being a bit spoiled and selfish as our egos huff in indignation.

mehp. I realize that I have a bit of a tendancy to react that way with beta's, which is allllll the more reason why I'm curling myself around their feet going thank you thank you THANK you for putting up with me and helping me make my fic better. Thank you calichan. Thank you hippediva. Thank you lil_neko. Thank you inkbug. Thank you linaelyn. Thank you majokai. Thank you slashygood. And thank you Munky! You guys are god-sends and blessed beyond belief. Thank you.