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darthfox:
Ask me for "top five" lists of pretty much anything, and I will list you my top five of that thing or things.
Note that if you ask for something that requires any knowledge of pop culture that can't be gleaned from reading slash, I'm likely to disappoint, as I'm sadly out of touch with my own culture.
darthfox: Ask me for "top five" lists of pretty much anything, and I will list you my top five of that thing or things.
Note that if you ask for something that requires any knowledge of pop culture that can't be gleaned from reading slash, I'm likely to disappoint, as I'm sadly out of touch with my own culture.
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Date: 7/20/05 01:31 am (UTC)Top five things you look for when choosing to read a slash story?
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Date: 7/20/05 01:31 am (UTC)Top Five Ice Cream flavors :P
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Date: 7/20/05 01:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/20/05 01:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/20/05 01:40 am (UTC)top five things to look for when beta-reading a story
top five TS-fic sensory descriptions
top five worst euphemisms for orgasm
top five favorite among your own stories
(i love this meme. *picks your brain*)
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Date: 7/20/05 01:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/20/05 01:45 am (UTC)Top five pairings to write.
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Date: 7/20/05 01:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/20/05 01:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/20/05 02:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/20/05 02:09 am (UTC)1. I already know and like the author's work.
2. Rating is NC-17, or at least R-for-sex.
3. Featured characters are among my current obsessions.
4. No warning for torture. (Other warnings are a maybe/maybe not, but if there's torture in it, I won't be able to read it.)
5. No grievous awfulness in the summary, author's notes, beta thanks, etc., suggesting that the author is a bad writer or a fool.
Sorry. Not so interesting.
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Date: 7/20/05 02:12 am (UTC)1. Haagen Dazs Honey Vanilla.
2. Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia.
3. Baskin Robbins Gold Medal Ribbon.
4. Ben & Jerry's Honey I'm Home. (Note honey theme)
5. Homemade strawberry ice.
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Date: 7/20/05 02:16 am (UTC)Yes, I can agree with you on nearly all those (although I can deal with some torture, depending on the context).
Funnily enough - although I gravitate towards NC-17 stories every time when I'm cruising for a read, some of my best fic moments have been in G or PG-13 stories...
And, please, very interesting, because it's always interesting to know what motivates other people! Thanks so much for responding! *hugs*
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Date: 7/20/05 02:23 am (UTC)1. Talking about sex. I've recently discovered a kink for talking about sex instead of doing it -- when they can't do it, when they've decided that they can't ever do it. Pornangstporn!
2. Finger-fucking. Not as preparation but just for fun.
3. Hands on faces. I don't know why that always gets to me, but it always, always gets to me.
4. Kissing, except that it's almost never done well. I can't do it well myself.
5. Grooming. Since Sentinel is currently on my mind, I'm remembering some story where Jim brushes Blair's hair. [happy sigh]
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Date: 7/20/05 02:28 am (UTC)Who doesn't like salival affection? Okay, so I'm a dog person.
1. Talking about sex. I've recently discovered a kink for talking about sex instead of doing it -- when they can't do it, when they've decided that they can't ever do it. Pornangstporn!
Oh man, you know... writing about Bruce in particular over in DCland is just. EVERY LITTLE THING HE THINKS IS SEXUAL. Whether he knows it or not. Especially if he doesn't. Characters like that may very well *be* my new love. It makes me want to go back and write more due South or something, because... FRASER. *ahem*
4. Kissing, except that it's almost never done well. I can't do it well myself.
Yeah, kissing. I just. I can't. I CAN'T. It's like pulling *teeth*. A well-written kiss is a sex scene in and of itself (or can be). I sometimes wonder if I'd be as *much* of a pornographer if I didn't find writing kisses so damnably... *thingy*
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Date: 7/20/05 02:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/20/05 02:33 am (UTC)1. A Wrinkle In Time. If I remember correctly, this is the first book I ever bought myself.
2. The Song of Hiawatha. Seriously, I checked that out over and over. I don't know why I loved it so.
3. Little House in the Big Woods. For someone as lazy as I am, I really like reading about other people's hard work.
4. Island of the Blue Dolphins, for much the same reason as 3.
5. A sci-fi collection, whose title I can't remember, but which included an Anne McCaffrey short story called "The Littlest Dragonrider," which introduced me to the joys of sci-fi when I was eight years old, and without which I wouldn't be who I am today. (There was also a story about an alien who had searched all the known galaxies to find out which species had the best life, and had decided it was Earth housecats!)
Kidlet's current favorites are The Hobbit, Dealing With Dragons, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice In Wonderland, and a Pogo cartoon collection.
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Date: 7/20/05 02:46 am (UTC)I'm weak on some of the areas a beta reader needs, so how about this:
Top five things *I* am able to spot as a beta reader.
1. Voice problems. Characters who don't sound like themselves.
2. Motivation problems. When I need more to convince me that a character would do what he's doing.
3. Triteness, especially in sex scenes.
4. Insufficient sensory specificness in sex scenes.
5. Awkward sentence structure.
Top five things my beta readers find for me:
1. Pacing problems. Slow, boring places. Too much stop-and-start.
2. Plot problems. Action that seems out of order, tensions that wax and wane instead of building steadily.
3. Motivation problems, as above.
4. Too much thinking, too much talking.
5. Not enough moving around doing things.
TS sensory descriptions -- it's been too long! The only one I can come up with is something Livia wrote when we collaborated on Nuance (http://trickster.org/res/nuance1.html), where Jim feels the shadow that Blair's hand casts on his back in the light of the lamp.
Orgasm euphemisms! I may have to do some research on that one, much as it pains me. The only ones that come to mind are more just cliches, like "over the edge" and "like a freight train."
My favorites among my own stories ... hmmmmm.
1. Broadway Hotel (http://trickster.org/res/broadway.html) (Due South)
2. Loving North (http://trickster.org/res/loving.html) (Due South)
3. Bed and Board (http://trickster.org/res/bed.html) (Harry Potter)
4. Warning (http://trickster.org/res/warning.html) (Stargate Atlantis)
5. Telemachos (http://trickster.org/res/telemachos.html) (Horatio Hornblower)
Thanks! Those were fun.
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Date: 7/20/05 03:04 am (UTC)1. People singing, unless they sing in canon. Even then, if song lyrics are listed. Or quoting poetry. Especially if it's supposed to be their own.
2. Moronic puns. As in "I'm so screwed. No, I only *wish* I were." And "It's hard. Well, literally." And "He couldn't even think straight, Heh. Straight."
3. Screen after screen of nothing but characters explaining to each other how they feel. Especially when you've got a canon character who's guaranteed not to know what he feels (say, Jim Ellison or Harry Potter) or one who's guaranteed not to tell (say, Benton Fraser).
4. Musing. Especially first-person present-tense musing. Especially musing while watching your lover sleep.
5. Fetishizing anal sex. You know, like those stories where you have five sex scenes of various types and then one character whines to the other, "When are you going to make love to me?"
Those are random. Give me a couple of weeks and I can come up with the ones I really hate the most!
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Date: 7/20/05 03:41 am (UTC)I like the beta lists. Very helpful.
And now I'm going to have to go reread Nuance (gee, darn). :D
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Date: 7/20/05 04:16 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/20/05 04:18 am (UTC)I loved:
A Wrinkle in Time
Little House/Woods
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Must be a geek generation thing. :P
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Date: 7/20/05 04:25 am (UTC)I've always loved, loved your TS fic, but your dS fic is unbelievable. Ooh, ooh, and 'American Way'! OMG! So clever! So hot! So well written!
Anyway.
Livia wrote when we collaborated on Nuance, where Jim feels the shadow that Blair's hand casts on his back in the light of the lamp.
Oh, I remember that! That was fantastic.
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Date: 7/20/05 04:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/20/05 04:29 am (UTC)