Comments | midnitemaraud_r: reading is fundamental

midnitemaraud_r

reading is fundamental

Feb 22, 2013 15:33

Ugh. It's been two weeks since I've posted because I can't really think of anything to post about.

Well, anything interesting.

Well, anything interesting to people who aren't me. :-P

Of course there was the whole Russian Meteor thing, the investigation of which is ongoing. Almost made me want to watch Deep Impact and Armageddon again. ( ( Read more... )

kinkalicious, clint/coulson - my other new drug, avengers, spacey goodness, fandom

Comments 23

red_squared February 22 2013, 22:32:46 UTC

A/B/O?

Involves corgis, y/y?

midnitemaraud_r February 22 2013, 22:53:16 UTC

Hahahaha! Alas the corgis are a completely separate entity. (And no bestiality either. So far. That I've seen.)

Except for that Corgi!Clint/Padfoot fic that I will never ever ever write.

bethbethbeth February 22 2013, 22:58:19 UTC

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red_squared February 22 2013, 23:03:16 UTC

Reservoir Corgis? :D

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ignipes February 23 2013, 04:04:58 UTC

My theory is that there is a greater proportion of fanfic writers now who read *only* fanfic, and very few or zero actual books, and thus wouldn't have the first idea how to correctly punctuate a sentence if their lives depended on it. The only reading they do does punctuation and grammar wrong, so they also do it wrong. ALL THE TIME.

midnitemaraud_r February 23 2013, 04:45:20 UTC

I wouldn't be surprised. I never really saw this in HP fandom, and I don't remember coming across it in my anime fandoms either - and they tended to skew young - but now it's everywhere in Avengers fic, and I'm seriously at a loss for words. And these stories have hundreds of comments and kudos by the time I get around to reading them, and nobody else seems to have said anything to the authors about it. (And the fact that it's multiple authors and multiple pairings, it's like a scourge! Plus, many of them do seem to have betas, so it's not just the authors, but their betas too! )

Granted, I haven't been reading many books at all lately either, and I have an affinity for run-on sentences, but at least I know how to write dialogue properly. :-P (And I have an excellent beta!)

coffeejunkii February 23 2013, 04:22:15 UTC

ok, if you could rec a decent phil/clint mpreg to me, i'd be forever grateful. yes, i've also fallen down the phil/clint rabbit hole recently...

midnitemaraud_r February 23 2013, 04:28:12 UTC

So Not Ever Gonna Happen In Canon. Title's a bit lame (:-P), and there's a bit of a 'heavy-handed' misunderstanding, but it's well written and fun.

It's so addicting!!!

coffeejunkii February 23 2013, 04:51:40 UTC

oh, i actually started reading that and then stopped for some reason. will return to it now! thank you :)

donnaimmaculata February 23 2013, 10:04:48 UTC

I don't think I've been on this kind of a tunnel-vision reading bender since my early days in Remus/Sirius.

I always love to see this sentiment pop up on my flist :-) "Ah, back in the days, when I was young and it was all about SBRL/SSSB/SSHP/HPRW/Hagrid/GiantSquid..."* It makes me feel nostalgic and grown-up and sad, in a good way!

*The / in this case indicate an "or", obvsly.