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- If you don't send me feedback, I will sob uncontrollably for hours on end, until finally, in a fit of depression, I slash my wrists and bleed out on the bathroom floor. My death will be on your heads. Murderers
. -- Unknown, on feedback
BTS List - That's why he goes bad, you know -- all the good people hit him on the head or try to shoot him and constantly mistrust him, while there's this vast cohort of minions saying, We wouldn't hurt you, Lex, and we'll give you power and greatness and oh so much sex...
Wow. That was scary. Lex is like Jesus in the desert.
-- pricklyelf, on why Lex goes bad
LJ - Obi-Wan has a sort of desperate, pathetic patience in this movie. You can just see it in his eyes: "My padawan is a psychopath, and no one will believe me; I'm barely keeping him under control and expect to wake up any night now to find him standing over my bed with a knife!"
-- Teague, reviewing "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones"
LJ - Beth: god, why do i have so many beads?
Jenn: Because you are an addict.
Jenn: There are twelve step programs for this.
Beth: i dunno they'd work, might have to go straight for the electroshock.
Jenn: I'm not sure that helps with bead addiction.
Beth: i was thinking more to demagnitize my credit card.
-- hwmitzy and seperis, on bead addiction
AIM, 12/24/2003 - I could rape a goat and it will DIE PRETTIER than they write.
-- anonymous, on terrible writing
AIM, 2/17/2004 - In medical billing there is a diagnosis code for someone who commits suicide by sea anenemoe.
-- silverkyst, on wtf
AIM, 3/25/2004 - Anonymous: sorry. i just wanted to tell you how much i liked you. i'd like to take this to a higher level if you're willing
Eleveninches: By higher level I hope you mean email.
-- eleveninches and anonymous, on things that are disturbing
LJ, 4/2/2004 - silverkyst: I need to not be taking molecular genetics.
silverkyst: though, as a sidenote, I did learn how to eviscerate a fruit fly larvae by pulling it's mouth out by it's mouthparts today.
silverkyst: I'm just nowhere near competent in the subject material to be taking it.
Jenn: I'd like to thank you for that image.
-- silverkyst and seperis, on more wtf
AIM, 1/25/2005 - You know, if obi-wan had just disciplined the boy *properly* we wouldn't be having these problems. Can't you just see yoda? "Take him in hand, you must. The true Force, you must show him."
-- Issaro, on spanking Anakin in his formative years
LJ, 3/15/2005 - Aside from the fact that one person should never go near another with a penis, a bottle of body wash, and a hopeful expression...
-- Summerfling, on shower sex
LJ, 7/22/2005 - It's weird, after you get used to the affection you get from a rabbit, it's like any other BDSM relationship. Only without the sex and hot chicks in leather corsets wielding floggers. You'll grow to like it.
-- revelininsanity, on my relationship with my rabbit
LJ, 2/7/2006 - Smudged upon the near horizon, lapine shadows in the mist. Like a doomsday vision from Watership Down, the bunny intervention approaches.
-- cpt_untouchable, on my addition of The Fourth Bunny
LJ, 4/13/2006 - Rule 3. Chemistry is kind of like bondage. Some people like it, some people like reading about or watching other people doing it, and a large number of people's reaction to actually doing the serious stuff is to recoil in horror.
-- deadlychameleon, on class
LJ, 9/1/2007 - If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Fan Fiction is John Cusack standing outside your house with a boombox.
-- JRDSkinner, on fanfiction
Twitter - I will unashamedly and unapologetically celebrate the joy and the warmth and the creativity of a community of people sharing something positive and beautiful and connective and if you don’t like it you are most welcome to very fuck off.
-- Michael Sheen, on Good Omens fanfic
Twitter, 6/19/2019 - Adding for Mastodon.
-- Jenn, traceback
Fosstodon, 11/6/2022
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From:The popularity of one main pairing depends on lots of factors that again may vary from fandom to fandom, but off the top of my head, I can think of a few:
1. Inherent conflict or greatly differing position.
Skeptic + believer, Vampire + Vampire Slayer, vampire + human, "good" one + "bad" one, spy + assassin or civilian, Earth astronaut + alien warrior woman, in general scientist + soldier. This is admittedly a huge, perhaps the biggest one for me...but not only me, given a look at the majority of my previous and current fandoms. *g*
2. Identification
Simple enough, the ability of a character, casting choice, or dynamic to evoke feelings of Yes, That Is/Could/TOTALLY SHOULD! be me. I debated whether to put this after the Attraction level, but frankly, I think this may matter even more. Certainly a lot of SGA fiction reflects an, uh, somewhat strong empathy with Rodney.
3. Attraction
Kinda self-explanatory, although I think this one is somewhat over-estimated as a reason for writing. Not, mind you, for reading or fanning a show, necessarily, but creative output in the fiction realms has to be fueled by more than this, I feel. For all the complaints that people "just like JM's abs" or that Supernatural is "just about teh pretty," I think not many authors are motivated only by their personal reaction to character A and/or B.
These also underline why I don't do the John/Ronon thing--that pairing pings neither 1 nor 2, and 3 alone has never been a reason for me to write. TV is full of pretty people; I want differences, delightful contrasts, opportunities to explore and ultimate bridge gaps, and I think I already tl;dr'ed about this in your LJ? John/Rodney pings 'em all on all sides (although the Rodney attraction is subdued and my John identification stronger than the Rodney one), and of course, although that is arguably a sub-set of #1, I crave banter and dialogue like whoa. Neither John nor Ronon are quippy, talkative people by nature, and as a dialogue writer who thrives on verbal sparring, I just don't feel any incentive.
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