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selenakTop Ten Signs You're Reading A Selena Fanfiction
1) Lots of dialogue or interior monologue, little plot, though there are a very few exceptions.
2) Sometimes, there are confusions as to the position of the " and the , - this is because of German-English spelling system differences.
3) Usually the main character isn't a fandom favourite.
4) If the story has an actual pairing or UST, the characters getting paired are middle aged.
5) If on the other hand it stars a Pretty Young Thing*, it's usually gen and deals with anything but sex.
6) You could come to odd conclusions what the show was about based on my fanfic, for example:
a) Alias = The Arvin Sloane Story
b) Angel = The One About Darla And Her Son
c) Babylon 5 = Aka The Ambassadors, starring Londo Mollari, G'Kar, Londo's Aide And Centauri Prime, With A Subplot About A Telepath Named Bester ....
(Buffy and Star Wars are exception, as what few stories I wrote actually tend to focus on Buffy and that Anakin/Vader guy (even if he's not actually in the story)...)
7) What is this thing called a happy ending?
8) Mindmessing rules! This author must adore manipulative characters.
9) Family relationships are twisted and interesting that way. Even if it's not blood family at all.
10) Either![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
honorh, kathyh or andrastewhite appear somewhere in the credits as thanked beta-readers and/or
inspiration. (If this is a Centauri story, substitutehobsonphile.)
*Or young-appearing-thing.
1) Lots of dialogue or interior monologue, little plot, though there are a very few exceptions.
2) Sometimes, there are confusions as to the position of the " and the , - this is because of German-English spelling system differences.
3) Usually the main character isn't a fandom favourite.
4) If the story has an actual pairing or UST, the characters getting paired are middle aged.
5) If on the other hand it stars a Pretty Young Thing*, it's usually gen and deals with anything but sex.
6) You could come to odd conclusions what the show was about based on my fanfic, for example:
a) Alias = The Arvin Sloane Story
b) Angel = The One About Darla And Her Son
c) Babylon 5 = Aka The Ambassadors, starring Londo Mollari, G'Kar, Londo's Aide And Centauri Prime, With A Subplot About A Telepath Named Bester ....
(Buffy and Star Wars are exception, as what few stories I wrote actually tend to focus on Buffy and that Anakin/Vader guy (even if he's not actually in the story)...)
7) What is this thing called a happy ending?
8) Mindmessing rules! This author must adore manipulative characters.
9) Family relationships are twisted and interesting that way. Even if it's not blood family at all.
10) Either
honorh, kathyh or andrastewhite appear somewhere in the credits as thanked beta-readers and/or inspiration. (If this is a Centauri story, substitute
hobsonphile.) *Or young-appearing-thing.
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Date: 2006-01-20 05:57 pm (UTC)Named Bester ....
Wait, that's NOT what this show is about?
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Date: 2006-01-20 07:51 pm (UTC)methinks I have a week of space shows coming up!
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Date: 2006-01-20 08:29 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-01-20 06:07 pm (UTC)ad 4) And I love you for that. *g* Although, truly, I'd love to see you tackle S/V, especially now that you're finding Vaughn half-way interesting...
ad 7) *snicker* See above.
ad 8) And you make us do just that. (Not that I didn't have a deep love/hate relationship with Arvin Sloane from the get-go.)
Well, we all know Alias is the PERFECT show for that. Mmh. Hope the next ep arrives soon...
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Date: 2006-01-20 07:25 pm (UTC)If I write S/V, it would probably be set in early, early season 4, which is where I find them most interesting. But there is so much else to write first?
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Date: 2006-01-20 07:30 pm (UTC)And oh, fair enough. Just thought I'd mention it. *g*
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Date: 2006-01-20 10:53 pm (UTC)I was going to say that I thought that *was* what B5 was about but it looks like
I don't think I've ever been an inspiration, have I? Now I'm worried *g*.
6.)
Date: 2006-01-21 01:21 am (UTC)I would like to watch 'The Ambassadors'.
Possibly also 'The Arvin Sloane Story' - but only if it also involved lots of SpyDad. (Gotta watch Alias S3... I have it here, just never watched it...)
Re: 6.)
Date: 2006-01-21 06:41 am (UTC)*points to icon*
The Ambassadors: apparantly, this show would be very popular on my flist. This cheers me up.*g*
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Date: 2006-01-21 08:54 am (UTC)LOL!
Hey since we're talking about selenak stories, can I ask here about that story I said we'd be starting in Mar/Apr? My co-writer and I have a mailing list and it'd be nice for you to join in, come up to speed with where the story's been and [plans on] going to...