Reavers ain't men. Or they forgot how to be. Now they're just nothing. They got out to the edge of the galaxy, to that place of nothing, and that's what they became.

Mal ,'Bushwhacked'


Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers  

This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.


Lyra Jane - Apr 14, 2003 8:27:24 am PDT #4810 of 10000
Up with the sun

Wild, flailing guess, but maybe the writer was confused by some of the US/SoCal-specific slang you used, wanted less of it, and was trying to phrase the request as a positive rather than a negative?


askye - Apr 14, 2003 8:29:17 am PDT #4811 of 10000
Thrive to spite them

I'm trying to think of international slang, but the only thing I can come up with are the bits of British slang I use and the odd bits of slang I picked up from an Australian chat friend. I'm pretty sure the slang he uses isn't so much Australian as his own weird way of talking.


P.M. Marc - Apr 14, 2003 8:31:13 am PDT #4812 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I used to know a bunch of Puerto Rican slang, but I've forgotten all of it, and besides, I'm not sure I could work in "your momma bangs ugly ferrets" or whatever the worst of it meant if I tried.


shrift - Apr 14, 2003 8:32:26 am PDT #4813 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I think you should reply with "Hose off, eh?" in true Bob and Doug fashion.

Well, it's either that or write a story entirely in Ebonics, but if I did, there'd be a long line of people waiting to clobber my ass.


Am-Chau Yarkona - Apr 14, 2003 8:33:48 am PDT #4814 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

I'm not sure I could work in "your momma bangs ugly ferrets" or whatever the worst of it meant if I tried.

I would love to see you try. Some day... Obscure slang useage challenge, anybody? Could be weird or hysterical.


P.M. Marc - Apr 14, 2003 8:36:07 am PDT #4815 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I would love to see you try. Some day... Obscure slang useage challenge, anybody? Could be weird or hysterical.

Well, first I'd have to remember the expression, and as I no longer speak the language...

I miss speaking Spanish, I think.


shrift - Apr 14, 2003 8:37:07 am PDT #4816 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

wanted less of it, and was trying to phrase the request as a positive rather than a negative?

I'm guessing that might be the case, but I'm still sitting here wondering how on Earth I could do that. I mean, it's like asking me to write a John Crichton POV without making any pop culture references.

Not only would it be dead boring, it would in no way resemble the canon characterization. If that makes any sense.

I shall remain baffled, and diminish into the west.


Am-Chau Yarkona - Apr 14, 2003 8:44:53 am PDT #4817 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

Well, first I'd have to remember the expression, and as I no longer speak the language...

Now you're making excuses.

Very reasonable ones. It would still make a good challenge, though, to dig up the strangest bit of slang you know and find a way in which a character might use it.

It would probably have to be multi-fandom, and allow/encourage original characters.


Am-Chau Yarkona - Apr 14, 2003 8:45:50 am PDT #4818 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

I shall remain baffled, and diminish into the west.

sudden visions of writing a slash-the-slashers entry for the Inappropriate Elf Challenge


Lyra Jane - Apr 14, 2003 9:12:20 am PDT #4819 of 10000
Up with the sun

My attempt at a drabble.