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williqueen pointed out this awesome internet toy that purports to tell you whose authorial style a given piece of text most resembles. I had great fun putting my fic into it and seeing what it spit out. And then, as it continued to put out more and more male authors, I kept going in kind of a grudgy way, wondering if they even had any female authors on there. I finally managed to get J.K. Rowling on my SG-1/Harry Potter crossover. (Commenters to williqueen's entry and williqueen herself did manage to get a few more female authors, so they're out there.)
Anyway, for your amusement and my own, here's a list of what my fic going back to approximately 2004 (with selected entries from earlier) got, with snarky commentary where appropriate. Which, given the crazy this spit out, is pretty much everywhere.
A truly disgusting amount came out most like Dan Brown. I'm working hard not to be offended here. Grrrr. They were, in reverse chronological order:
We Were Very Tired, We Were Very Married
Biological Inefficiencies
Wings
Schoolyard Tricks
Not Exactly Kansas
When Once the Young Heart of a Maiden
Getting to the Pointe
Wide Unto Life
Focus
Cinder Rocket Jockey
I guess they're all...short? Ish? Most of them do have a sort of subdued humor to them, but I never found that in The da Vinci Code. I am at a loss.
Second-most popular was Chuck Palahniuk, which, given what I know of him, strikes me as...egregiously WRONG. I mean, I never write above PG-13. I don't write horror. What gives?
The Little Dreams We Dream (Are All We Can Really Do)
Five Things That Never Happened to Susan Ivanova
Closet Idealism
Morning in Three Movements
Tools of the Trade
Newton's First
The Christmas Spirit
At first, I thought the connecting thread had to be the present tense. But then it pinged the last three, which are in past. My other thought is science fiction--all but one are for SF fandoms (and make use of that), and the one that isn't uses some scientific jargon. There are more recognizable-as-SF authors on the list of possibilities, though. Again, I am at a loss.
Coming in at third (in a tie with our next contestant), was Arthur Conan Doyle. Finally, one where the connecting thread is obvious!
Every Dance Like a Graph of the Heart
Dancing Without Music
Lovers and Madmen (And Also Canadians)
The Truest Language
Word Problems
Two Musketeers and a Dead Guy
Yes my friends, all but one of my due South fics (and a crossover) are listed here. Oh, Fraser. You are so Sherlock Holmesy, apparently. Even when you aren't detecting anything. (And I feel like Thatcher has to count here somehow, since she's often the POV character for these pieces, but I really don't think she's his Watson.)
Also with six is Stephen King. While not blindingly obvious like the last one, at least the similarities between these are visible.
Shine On, Harvest Moon
A Field Guide to North American Birds
They Didn't Teach This in Grad School
Language Lessons
It's a Sweet Ride
Lights Out
Four of them? Pretty much written as jokes. All of them? Elements of weirdness. Apparently this program was thinking of Stephen King at his more "gentle, semi-amusing, character-based ghost story" end rather than, I dunno, Carrie.
Next, we have the one that thrilled my heart: James Joyce. :D :D :D "Amo, Amas" in particular makes a lot of sense, given that Marcus is the POV character, and we all know being in his head is like wandering through a large chunk of the Western canon in a stream of consciousness. At least I think it is, anyway. (I need to write more Marcus someday. Oh, hell, I did not just get an idea involving Marcus and Ulysses, no no no, I refuse!) The others, well, somewhat less, but whatever, Joyce!
A Heart for a Compass (or, A Proposal, the Modesty of Which Is Irrelevant)
The Backstreets of Heaven
Amo, Amas, I Love a Lass
The DRDs Strike Back!
...Yeah, that last one's a headscratcher, but maybe they were taking into account Joyce's focus on the lower classes of Dublin? Er.
The last one before we get into statistically insignificant samples is J.D. Salinger. I...think it has to do with alcohol? Because these all feature it, I think, and in one case the two characters are drunk for the entire story.
All We Know for Truth
A Most Dangerous Temptation
Farskate: A Story of Champions (and All Those Other People, Too)
Several authors came back for two fics each. More or less, I suppose, they make sense.
Raymond Chandler: Constantly Risking Absurdity, That Old Olympian Magic [Does Chandler traffic in dancing and cities?]
Douglas Adams: Sand and Saltwater, Chance of Impossible Thing Before Breakfast; Insanity Continuing into Afternoon [I am extremely gratified that the Atlantis crack!fic got this result. Don't quite get why the other one managed it, but maybe it has to do with Atlantis in general?]
Jack London: Sex on the Beach, The Morning After [Short, terse, focused on non-human/biped characters...yeah, that makes sense.]
J.K. Rowling: Making Magic, Democracy in the Uncharted Territories [Well, the first is the SG-1/HP crossover, so yes; the other...again focuses on DRDs? I dunno.]
Ian Fleming: Being Real, Crichton Pan [I...can't think of two fics less like James Bond. I don't know what's going on here.]
Margaret Atwood: The Other Path, The Chia Pet [The only other female I got. I'm not really seeing what they have to do with each other or with her.]
Finally, several returned for one fic each. Here the program seemed to break down entirely.
Mario Puzo: We'll Crack the Darkest Sky Wide Open [Ivanova and Garibaldi join the mob on Minbar?]
Isaac Asimov: How We Were Transfigured [Uhhh...is it saying this one was robotic?]
H.P. Lovecraft: Two Parts Vodka, One Part Vermouth (A Love Story) [The hell?]
H.G. Wells: Mud is a Many-Splendored Thing [Okay, now it's just messing with me.]
Kurt Vonnegut: Flowers in Summer [This is because of the time travel, isn't it? There's no other explanation.]
Robert Louis Stevenson: That Kind of Dancing (Another Mystery) [I could see Charley as a Stevenson character, actually. And it does have foreign adventure.]
Vladimir Nabokov: Pumpkins and Glass [Bwahahahahaha! This has to be because it's about Kaylee's pink dress.]
J.R.R. Tolkien: At the Edge of the World [Cheating. It's LOTR fic.]
Mark Twain: A Share of Winters [Not what I associate with Twain at all, but maybe it was going for a connection between John feeling lost and Huck Finn occasionally feeling the same way?]
I also put in a couple grad school papers for giggles. My thesis got James Joyce again. Given that there's obviously a limited bank of potential results, this is understandable. However, since my argument was that Eavan Boland rejects male-derived traditions which seek to represent Ireland via the static feminine (including those put forth by Joyce) and instead represents the nation via these other, personal, methods, it's also hilariously ironic.
However, the biggest WTF of all goes to my paper on social/ballroom dance, Virginia Woolf, and Fed Astaire and Ginger Rogers: H.P. Lovecraft. I...buh? Did it have something to do with the section on the language of unanimism; i.e., waves, circles, and eddies? (Alternately...paper needs more Cthulu?)
williqueen pointed out this awesome internet toy that purports to tell you whose authorial style a given piece of text most resembles. I had great fun putting my fic into it and seeing what it spit out. And then, as it continued to put out more and more male authors, I kept going in kind of a grudgy way, wondering if they even had any female authors on there. I finally managed to get J.K. Rowling on my SG-1/Harry Potter crossover. (Commenters to williqueen's entry and williqueen herself did manage to get a few more female authors, so they're out there.)Anyway, for your amusement and my own, here's a list of what my fic going back to approximately 2004 (with selected entries from earlier) got, with snarky commentary where appropriate. Which, given the crazy this spit out, is pretty much everywhere.
A truly disgusting amount came out most like Dan Brown. I'm working hard not to be offended here. Grrrr. They were, in reverse chronological order:
We Were Very Tired, We Were Very Married
Biological Inefficiencies
Wings
Schoolyard Tricks
Not Exactly Kansas
When Once the Young Heart of a Maiden
Getting to the Pointe
Wide Unto Life
Focus
Cinder Rocket Jockey
I guess they're all...short? Ish? Most of them do have a sort of subdued humor to them, but I never found that in The da Vinci Code. I am at a loss.
Second-most popular was Chuck Palahniuk, which, given what I know of him, strikes me as...egregiously WRONG. I mean, I never write above PG-13. I don't write horror. What gives?
The Little Dreams We Dream (Are All We Can Really Do)
Five Things That Never Happened to Susan Ivanova
Closet Idealism
Morning in Three Movements
Tools of the Trade
Newton's First
The Christmas Spirit
At first, I thought the connecting thread had to be the present tense. But then it pinged the last three, which are in past. My other thought is science fiction--all but one are for SF fandoms (and make use of that), and the one that isn't uses some scientific jargon. There are more recognizable-as-SF authors on the list of possibilities, though. Again, I am at a loss.
Coming in at third (in a tie with our next contestant), was Arthur Conan Doyle. Finally, one where the connecting thread is obvious!
Every Dance Like a Graph of the Heart
Dancing Without Music
Lovers and Madmen (And Also Canadians)
The Truest Language
Word Problems
Two Musketeers and a Dead Guy
Yes my friends, all but one of my due South fics (and a crossover) are listed here. Oh, Fraser. You are so Sherlock Holmesy, apparently. Even when you aren't detecting anything. (And I feel like Thatcher has to count here somehow, since she's often the POV character for these pieces, but I really don't think she's his Watson.)
Also with six is Stephen King. While not blindingly obvious like the last one, at least the similarities between these are visible.
Shine On, Harvest Moon
A Field Guide to North American Birds
They Didn't Teach This in Grad School
Language Lessons
It's a Sweet Ride
Lights Out
Four of them? Pretty much written as jokes. All of them? Elements of weirdness. Apparently this program was thinking of Stephen King at his more "gentle, semi-amusing, character-based ghost story" end rather than, I dunno, Carrie.
Next, we have the one that thrilled my heart: James Joyce. :D :D :D "Amo, Amas" in particular makes a lot of sense, given that Marcus is the POV character, and we all know being in his head is like wandering through a large chunk of the Western canon in a stream of consciousness. At least I think it is, anyway. (I need to write more Marcus someday. Oh, hell, I did not just get an idea involving Marcus and Ulysses, no no no, I refuse!) The others, well, somewhat less, but whatever, Joyce!
A Heart for a Compass (or, A Proposal, the Modesty of Which Is Irrelevant)
The Backstreets of Heaven
Amo, Amas, I Love a Lass
The DRDs Strike Back!
...Yeah, that last one's a headscratcher, but maybe they were taking into account Joyce's focus on the lower classes of Dublin? Er.
The last one before we get into statistically insignificant samples is J.D. Salinger. I...think it has to do with alcohol? Because these all feature it, I think, and in one case the two characters are drunk for the entire story.
All We Know for Truth
A Most Dangerous Temptation
Farskate: A Story of Champions (and All Those Other People, Too)
Several authors came back for two fics each. More or less, I suppose, they make sense.
Raymond Chandler: Constantly Risking Absurdity, That Old Olympian Magic [Does Chandler traffic in dancing and cities?]
Douglas Adams: Sand and Saltwater, Chance of Impossible Thing Before Breakfast; Insanity Continuing into Afternoon [I am extremely gratified that the Atlantis crack!fic got this result. Don't quite get why the other one managed it, but maybe it has to do with Atlantis in general?]
Jack London: Sex on the Beach, The Morning After [Short, terse, focused on non-human/biped characters...yeah, that makes sense.]
J.K. Rowling: Making Magic, Democracy in the Uncharted Territories [Well, the first is the SG-1/HP crossover, so yes; the other...again focuses on DRDs? I dunno.]
Ian Fleming: Being Real, Crichton Pan [I...can't think of two fics less like James Bond. I don't know what's going on here.]
Margaret Atwood: The Other Path, The Chia Pet [The only other female I got. I'm not really seeing what they have to do with each other or with her.]
Finally, several returned for one fic each. Here the program seemed to break down entirely.
Mario Puzo: We'll Crack the Darkest Sky Wide Open [Ivanova and Garibaldi join the mob on Minbar?]
Isaac Asimov: How We Were Transfigured [Uhhh...is it saying this one was robotic?]
H.P. Lovecraft: Two Parts Vodka, One Part Vermouth (A Love Story) [The hell?]
H.G. Wells: Mud is a Many-Splendored Thing [Okay, now it's just messing with me.]
Kurt Vonnegut: Flowers in Summer [This is because of the time travel, isn't it? There's no other explanation.]
Robert Louis Stevenson: That Kind of Dancing (Another Mystery) [I could see Charley as a Stevenson character, actually. And it does have foreign adventure.]
Vladimir Nabokov: Pumpkins and Glass [Bwahahahahaha! This has to be because it's about Kaylee's pink dress.]
J.R.R. Tolkien: At the Edge of the World [Cheating. It's LOTR fic.]
Mark Twain: A Share of Winters [Not what I associate with Twain at all, but maybe it was going for a connection between John feeling lost and Huck Finn occasionally feeling the same way?]
I also put in a couple grad school papers for giggles. My thesis got James Joyce again. Given that there's obviously a limited bank of potential results, this is understandable. However, since my argument was that Eavan Boland rejects male-derived traditions which seek to represent Ireland via the static feminine (including those put forth by Joyce) and instead represents the nation via these other, personal, methods, it's also hilariously ironic.
However, the biggest WTF of all goes to my paper on social/ballroom dance, Virginia Woolf, and Fed Astaire and Ginger Rogers: H.P. Lovecraft. I...buh? Did it have something to do with the section on the language of unanimism; i.e., waves, circles, and eddies? (Alternately...paper needs more Cthulu?)
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Date: 2010-07-13 07:44 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-07-13 05:28 am (UTC)BWAH! You are the anti-Palahniuk, and I mean that in the nicest... wait, there is no un-nice way to mean that. : )
Alternately...paper needs more Cthulu?
But what paper doesn't??
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Date: 2010-07-13 06:05 am (UTC)Yay, I am the anti-Palahniuk! (I've read an excerpt or two. They...did not make me think of him as a kindred spirit, let's say.)
But what paper doesn't??
Indeed, indeed. Perhaps I could get Modernism/modernity to take it by inserting a section on how Cthulu likes to boogie...
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Date: 2010-07-13 03:26 pm (UTC)Ugh, just thinking about him gives me the revolted heebie jeebies all over again...
Perhaps I could get Modernism/modernity to take it by inserting a section on how Cthulu likes to boogie...
Cthulu is known for being the life of the party!
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Date: 2010-07-13 06:40 am (UTC)SERIOUSLY. WTF. It gave me Dan Brown for the first few pages of my thesis! Apparently it thinks my thesis is crazy numerology -- bearing in mind that one of my central goals is demonstrating that information theory entropy is not crazy numerology. Bah.
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Date: 2010-07-13 06:11 pm (UTC)Perhaps it also delights in returning the most ironic possible match for theses, as with Joyce for mine.
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Date: 2010-07-13 12:51 pm (UTC)Also, hahaha, I put in the first section of one of my lesson plans and got Isaac Asimov.
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Date: 2010-07-13 06:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-13 02:41 pm (UTC)I'm thinking whoever made the meme thing based their comparison on words that were used most often in each author's writings rather than the writing style itself.
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Date: 2010-07-13 06:13 pm (UTC)I have a feeling "Fraser" is a trigger word for Conan Doyle. Everyone who puts in dS fic seems to get that result.
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Date: 2010-07-13 02:48 pm (UTC)(Alternately...paper needs more Cthulu?)
Everything needs more Cthulhu. ♥
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