Ohhhhh, man. I just discovered that the entirety of BSG is up on Netflix Instant Watch now. It's like they know exactly how to suck away all of my time. (Yes, I think a rewatch might be coming. Perhaps after I watch, er, The Dresden Files? I heard the series was terrible, but that was from a fan of the books, which I believe I've mentioned my love/hate relationship with before.)
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settiai, five ways you can tell a fic is by me:
1. Literary reference (or occasionally song lyric) in the title, usually footnoted because by now it feels WRONG not to cite my sources.
2. Fluffy, schmoopy, (hopefully) funny, plotless G-rated cuteness. The highest rating I've ever slapped on something I wrote was PG-13.
3. Hand-holding. Failing that, dancing. No, really. I'm surprised no one's pointed out how often those two things crop up in my fic, 'cause honestly, I'm not sure I've written more than five without either one. Hand-holding is apparently my go-to shippy maneuver. Oh, and poking, tickling, and play-wrestling come up fairly often as well. (I think this explains why I ship so many pairings whom I can imagine interacting with each other as if they were both twelve, because it's kind of all I know how to write.)
4. SEMICOLONS. They are my favorite punctuation mark. I use them probably too much, and should try not to have such ridiculously long sentences, but you will pry my semicolon key out of my cold, dead hands. (Also, em-dashes. My love for em-dashes is infinite. I will fight you for them, Emily Dickinson.)*
5. Snarky banter and dryly sarcastic narration. Even in my few angst-fests, I'm always trying to make people snicker at least once. It's just not fun unless I smile a couple times while writing it. Hell, I have no fewer than six fics which exist purely for the purpose of setting up a punchline at the end. There's a reason "humor" is the number one free-form tag I've used at the AO3.
* Not really for fic, but during informal writing such as this, I am also over-fond of the noble parenthesis. Not to mention the footnote.
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settiai, five ways you can tell a fic is by me:1. Literary reference (or occasionally song lyric) in the title, usually footnoted because by now it feels WRONG not to cite my sources.
2. Fluffy, schmoopy, (hopefully) funny, plotless G-rated cuteness. The highest rating I've ever slapped on something I wrote was PG-13.
3. Hand-holding. Failing that, dancing. No, really. I'm surprised no one's pointed out how often those two things crop up in my fic, 'cause honestly, I'm not sure I've written more than five without either one. Hand-holding is apparently my go-to shippy maneuver. Oh, and poking, tickling, and play-wrestling come up fairly often as well. (I think this explains why I ship so many pairings whom I can imagine interacting with each other as if they were both twelve, because it's kind of all I know how to write.)
4. SEMICOLONS. They are my favorite punctuation mark. I use them probably too much, and should try not to have such ridiculously long sentences, but you will pry my semicolon key out of my cold, dead hands. (Also, em-dashes. My love for em-dashes is infinite. I will fight you for them, Emily Dickinson.)*
5. Snarky banter and dryly sarcastic narration. Even in my few angst-fests, I'm always trying to make people snicker at least once. It's just not fun unless I smile a couple times while writing it. Hell, I have no fewer than six fics which exist purely for the purpose of setting up a punchline at the end. There's a reason "humor" is the number one free-form tag I've used at the AO3.
* Not really for fic, but during informal writing such as this, I am also over-fond of the noble parenthesis. Not to mention the footnote.
