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[fan_elune]

Top Ten Signs You're Reading A Fanfic By Fan':

10. Allusions to this and that. Can be to other fictions, series, whatever, can also be private jokes between me and friends, or just me and me. I like to amuse myself, clearly.

9. Eyeseyeseyes. And gazes, and looks, and stares. I will fixate on people's eyes and the way they look at other people.

8. When I don't fixate on eyes, I will likely fixate on hands. Because hands will tell you what eyes don't.

7. Very likely no NC-17-worthy smut, R will be the best you'll get. Often I'll actually skip over the smut, actually. And if you do find smut? There will be a point. It won't just be for the hotness.

6. It might take me pages and pages and pages to get two characters together, because I hate dismissing canon. But I'll take my time and get them together eventually, no matter how not-canon (or slash or het) they are. I'll just do it in my own time.

5. You'll get a very oral-like narration. Tolkien's style is the antithesis of mine. I'll stay close to the character, and view everything through his or her eyes. Stream of consciousness.

4. While the smut has to be pointy for me to write it, interaction between two characters can be written just for the sake of it.

3. OMG ACTION IT BURNSSS USSSS. I suck at action scenes. Writing them is like geeting teeth pulled out. It shows.

2. Plot? I need a plot? You mean bringing characters together for the fun of seeing them interact isn't enough? Fine, I'll find you a plot, but don't come whining to me if it's weak. I warned you. (I could never throw the first stone at RTD. Or any stone at all, actually.)

1. Bittersweet is the word. And angst, there's bound to be angst, unless I was specifically asked for fluff, and even then I tend to manage to sneak in a hint of angst here or there. It doesn't mean the ending is bound to be sad, but... bittersweet is the word. And I believe that happy endings are just temporary. It's what happens after the happy that's interesting.


And now, this meme - please guys, do it! Yes, I'm begging, because I'd love to see what you all come up with, even those of you who don't usually write fanfiction. (Especially those of you not versed in writing much?) Pretty please with the character of your choice on top? I'm listing a whole bunch of characters (as in, thirty) so you can really take your pick. No excuses, guys! There's bound to be one that appeals to you.

Leave a list of fictional characters in your journal that you would love to get a message from. It is your friend-list's mission, should they choose to accept it, to write you an in-character "letter" from a character on that list. Then they post their own list in their journal and the process continues!

1. Keith Mars (Veronica Mars)
2. Jonesy (Carnivàle)
3. Mal (Firefly)
4. River (Firefly)
5. Sark (Alias)
6. Jack Bristow (Alias)
7. Kira (ST:DS9)
8. Methos (Highlander)
9. Snape (Harry Potter)
10. Fred and George Weasley (Harry Potter)
11. Boromir (Lord of the Rings)
12. Chaucer (A Knight's Tale)
13. Germaine (A Knight's Tale)
14. Jim Profit (Profit)
15. CJ Cregg (The West Wing)
16. Analucia (Lost)
17. Desmond (Lost)
18. Faith (Buffy)
19. Nuwanda (Dead Poets' Society)
20. Stephen Maturin (Master and Commander)
21. Lindsey McDonald (Angel)
22. Michael Pinocchio (Harsh Realm)
23. Crowley or Aziraphale, I'm not picky (Good Omens)
24. The devil (Brimstone)
25. Kirill (The Bourne Supremacy)
26. Scud (DEBs)
27. Scott Summers, aka Cyclops (X-Men)
28. Cal McCaffrey or Dan Foster (State of Play)
29. Stuart Allan Jones or Vince Tyler (Queer as Folk UK)
30. Anybody from Boy Meets Boy

And I'm adding three characters I can't believe I forgot to start with what is wrong with me! Nine, Ten, and Jack. *facepalm*

I should be ranting about Lost (Eko! Jack! Sawyer!), The L-Word (OMG ALAN CUMMING! And Keram Malicki-Sanchez!) and Veronica Mars, instead I let myself get distracted by memes. I'm bad. Very.

Comments

[fan-elune.livejournal.com]

Wait a second here - Dan and you went on a date and you're not telling me anymore than you're telling the Press Corps? Claudia Jean Cregg, I thought we were friends. I am still coming in March, and I will make sure to extract every little detail out of you. In a painfully embarrassing way, since you won't give them willingly.

I'll be off plotting your demise, Miss Cregg.

Fan'

PS: pinch Josh's cute little tushie for me, will you? ...right, okay, I know, you want me to stop asking you to do that. Can you do Toby's then? That man needs love.

[greenie-breizh.livejournal.com]

You call me by my full name one more time and I'm unleashing the CIA on you. Y'know, if they can remember how to tie their shoelaces this time.

Anyway. I would tell you more about Dan and I, but Carol's having spelling troubles again *and* Josh is pratically reading over my shoulder, so I don't think this is the right place or the right moment. Let's just say there might very well be a second date - see, no need for painful or embarrassing. I've got enough of that around here, thank you very much.

-C.J.

PS : I do want you to stop. Do you have any idea how hard it would make my life at the office? It'll be hard enough after you've tried in March, which I'm unfortunately absolutely certain you will. And god, I am not going anywhere near Toby's backside. I can't believe I just wrote that. I really need to go back to Shadegg.

[fan-elune.livejournal.com]

C.J., honey, stop dissing the CIA. You know it makes you sound petty. And you don't wanna sound petty, now do you?

I'll do my best to keep my hands to myself, I swear. But those colleagues of yours are just too yummy. (Yes, Toby too. Aren't you just going to have nightmares over it now?)

- Fan'