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selenak symptoms...
Jan. 20th, 2006 07:07 pmTop 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.
