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Someday AO3 will come up with a way to filter using exclusions instead of just inclusions. THAT WILL BE A GREAT DAY. Because Sherlock fics I'm not interested in include:

Benedict Cumberbatch RPF that's tagged as Sherlock for some reason. (Even if he goes and films Sherlock in the fic, it's not a Sherlock fic. At least not by my reasoning.)
The bazillion James Bond crossovers since everyone's decided that Q is Sherlock's baby brother.
Anything to do with Supernatural.

And some other things I'd probably add to the list. I need something like AO3 Savior! Searching just the John/Sherlock tag might help some, but I'm also interested in gen fics. And then there are fics like this that would still make it through:

Rose Tyler/Sam Winchester, Castiel/Dean Winchester, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, The Doctor/River Song

That's like...everything I don't want rolled up in a ball! XD

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I've rec'd the Sherlock fic Till We Have Cases before. Looks like the author accidentally deleted (AO3 should have an "ARE YOU REALLY SURE?" on that) the story, and so it's in a new location. (Spreading the word in case you have subscribed to it.)

http://archiveofourown.org/works/488558/

And it's just a good excuse to re-rec this fantastically charming and intelligent Greek Gods AU. It's a WIP, but the author is good about regularly updating. They're also extremely well versed in Greek mythology, and a lot of humor stems from it.

“…So let me see if I’ve got this straight now. No father.”

“Boring. None needed.”

“But your mothers—”

“Are the Muses.”

“At least four of them…. But not all?”

“We’re never been entirely sure. It often seems best to assume all of the Nine were involved, as they have something of a tendency to hunt in a pack.”

The Prince spluttered at the image and put the tea safely aside. “But at least four.”

“Well, that many were willing to admit after the fact that something had happened. I have never, of course, been able to discount the possibility that one or another of the four had chosen to take the heat for one or more of her sisters…”

Current Mood: awake

With the migration of people from ff.net to AO3, I'm really wishing that there was a betaed/not betaed check box that you could filter by. It would be WONDERFUL. (And if some people tried to cheat and check the box without an actual beta, there should be another box the readers can check marked BULLSHIT.)

Now sometimes it's genuinely not needed and there is such a thing as typos and little mistakes, even using a beta. But I'm talking about the fics that make mistake after mistake after mistake after mistake. It's... JUST. GAH. I'm not sure if it's because people are too damn lazy to have someone look over the fic or what. (Again, some fics don't really need a beta - just depends on the writer.)

And in a semi-related note, it's never a good idea to use "sausage" in a sex scene in a non-ironic way.

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Important discovery! While the Sherlock tv series fic has overwhelmingly pregnant John, the fic from the Sherlock RDJ movies has lots of pregnant Holmes.

Maybe it's the height that determines the mpreg preference?

Jude Law = 6'0"
RDJ = 5'9" = PREGNANT

Benedict Cumberbatch = 6'0"
Martin Freeman = 5'7" = PREGNANT

:O

I'm actually not quite sure what makes for mpreg preferences in fandom. I don't think it's woobieness, since Sherlock is woobied more than John. Maybe John is the exception due to his cuddly jumpers. Because cuddly jumpers = babies?

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Hmph. I think I'm getting a bit tired of pairing the spares when reading fic. It seems like a particular pitfall in Sherlock fandom. If the story is about one pairing, there seems to be this irresistible compulsion to at least mention that everyone else is paired up. Maybe in this fandom it's to up the penis ratio?

I have spares pairing fatigue.

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You know how fanfiction.net is an evil place? And one of the reasons is that it's horrible to read fic there, but if you want it on your ereader you have to cut and paste and stuff?

Fan Fiction Downloader

It will download multiple chaptered fics from ff.net (and a few other sites) and throw them into mobi or epub or pdf files, all formatted and everything! I've tested one and it works! (Well, it seems like it works - haven't read the fic all the way through yet.)

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I've recently broken my own rule about reading WIPs. And really it's only served to remind me why I don't read WIPs. In writing I was never able to write WIPs - I tend to write backwards - but this is about reading, not about writing.

For one, I hate cliffhangers. Okay, I don't mind them at a chapter break and I'm only mildly annoyed when there's a week between shows, but anything more than that and I honestly do hate them. A lot of times they're used simply because of a break, and not because of anything that would normally happen. Like "I'm pregnant!" or "Character X is DEAD! (We totally swear! Okay, maybe not.)" UGH. CLIFFHANGERS. They rate up there with ridiculous plot devices thrown in to sustain never-ending UST on shows. Or...badly done sexual tension. Or jumping over sharks!

For another, and more specifically related to fanfic, oftentimes you have no bloody clue when you'll be seeing another part. Or even if you'll be seeing another part. Will it be a week? Two weeks? A month? HELL. Remind me why I didn't wait until it was complete again?

And it seems like the better the fic is, the more frustrating its WIPishness is! Don't update a mediocre fic? Eh. No big. Don't update a fabulous fic? OMG. SHOOT ME. WHY DO WE LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE THIS GOES ON?

Now I know that writers don't owe anything to their readers. Being a writer of fic, I know nothing's worse than the pressures of writing at times, especially when the muse isn't around. But on the flip side I don't think that readers necessarily owe it to writers to follow an incomplete story from week to week (or month to month).

So the next time anyone hears me talking about wanting to read a WIP, slap me. HARD. AND THEN SLAP ME AGAIN.

Current Mood: grumpy and driven insane

( Anthem for Doomed Youth by Carola Dunn )

( One of Our Thursdays is Missing by Jasper Fforde )

( The Attenbury Emeralds by Jill Paton Walsh )

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( The Attenbury Emeralds by Jill Paton Walsh )

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What on earth possessed someone to write the 3rd mini-series in the Anne of Green Gables series? It's not based on any books, and while I could see potential, the whole thing boiled down to a hot mess. And let's not even talk about some of the dialog. Oy. Just...WHY? It's not like they were out of material from the books.
I have much of DW's S5 coming on Netflix now, so I can pick up with episode 3 and dwrewatch. I still can't quite get excited about it though. It's not as if I'm loathing the thought of it, more that I just can't get in the mood. I wandered off after ep 2 last year, but I'll give it another shot.
The new Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane book is finally coming out in the US tomorrow! *luffs Harriet and Peter* I've ordered it from Amazon, so I probably won't have it until next week though.
I tried out two book series recently, both of which I'm ditching after the first books. The first is the Aunt Dimity series. It was okay. I wasn't all that into the supernatural angle though. Meh. The second was the Hannah Swensen mysteries (the cookie/dessert mysteries), which I didn't like at all. I found most the characters really off-putting. And a love triangle was introduced that was already mildly annoying in the first book, but after a bit of snooping I learned the love triangle is still going on 14 books later.

UGH. Even if I liked the characters, I'll run screaming from any perpetual UST. It's why I haven't been able to pick up Chuck again. I know they've resolved the relationship stuff, but they annoyed me way too much getting there.

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What on earth possessed someone to write the 3rd mini-series in the Anne of Green Gables series? It's not based on any books, and while I could see potential, the whole thing boiled down to a hot mess. And let's not even talk about some of the dialog. Oy. Just...WHY? It's not like they were out of material from the books.
I have much of DW's S5 coming on Netflix now, so I can pick up with episode 3 and dwrewatch. I still can't quite get excited about it though. It's not as if I'm loathing the thought of it, more that I just can't get in the mood. I wandered off after ep 2 last year, but I'll give it another shot.
The new Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane book is finally coming out in the US tomorrow! *luffs Harriet and Peter* I've ordered it from Amazon, so I probably won't have it until next week though.
I tried out two book series recently, both of which I'm ditching after the first books. The first is the Aunt Dimity series. It was okay. I wasn't all that into the supernatural angle though. Meh. The second was the Hannah Swensen mysteries (the cookie/dessert mysteries), which I didn't like at all. I found most the characters really off-putting. And a love triangle was introduced that was already mildly annoying in the first book, but after a bit of snooping I learned the love triangle is still going on 14 books later.

UGH. Even if I liked the characters, I'll run screaming from any perpetual UST. It's why I haven't been able to pick up Chuck again. I know they've resolved the relationship stuff, but they annoyed me way too much getting there.

Current Mood: busy

I've been reading several book series in the cozy mystery genre lately, and they've all wound up with twins for the main character. It's not that I care if the author waves a baby wand over the character (murders must be solved no matter what's going on in your life -- especially in the English countryside where bodies are tripped over daily), it's that they're all TWINS.

At least 3 of the recent ones I've been reading have gone down the twin hole. The first one I laughed at. The second was a "heh." Now I'm starting to get irked. Are all the cozy mysteries I pick up doomed to twins? What is it with this genre and twins?? Or is this a carryover from the romance genre -- is it littered with twins too? (I don't really read romance novels.) I know twins populate much of fanfic, but I guess I didn't realize it was a published works thing too. Twins happen about 3% of the time in real life but seem to happen about 80% in fiction. XD

I guess I don't see twins as "these people must REALLY love each other to have twins!" but "OMG, twins would be twice as many diapers! And twice as much crying! And twice as much lack of sleep!" Unless the point is to torture the characters a bit with all that. HEH.

(Apologies to anyone if they are a twin or have twins.)

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I'm still trying to get over the flu. Fortunately the fever part of it is past and now I just sound like a frog.

I've been re-reading the Thursday Next series and my favorite bits of it still are the dodos. :D Even Alan (Pickwick the dodo's unholy terror offspring) and Hamlet (as in the Hamlet).

( A couple of quotes from Something Rotten )

I was amused when reading We'll Always Have Parrots to find fannish shenanigans. I was smirking when actors were explaining to a police detective what slash was. Also when a couple of the actors were amusing themselves with an oral reading of badfic, while the screenwriter and another actor were having "eeeeek!" moments.

It would not surprise me AT ALL if the author started life in fandom. :D

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I'm reading a book where the author's opted to write out accents. I don't mind slang and the occasional apostrophe, but I hate it when I have to re-read a sentence of dialog several times just to decipher it. Also it seems a bit insulting to the reader - as if we can't possibly imagine different accents on our own without help. Anyway, it's completely distracting and never fails to take me out of the story.

In other news, I was planning on going to a fair today, but it's raining. I might still go for a while, but rain makes me want to be lazy. (And go back to the book to slog through accents. :D)

Current Mood: lazy

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Entries tagged with reading

Am sometimes a fic snob.

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I'm learning things! Things that must be shared!

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Never again! (Until next time.)

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