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tonnaree · August 20, 2015 6:11 pm

Just me, but I don't care about variety in my fic relationships. I only read johnlock. It's what I like.
Doesn't matter if it's a "friends to lovers" or an "established relationship" as long as Sherlock and John are together on the last page.

And as long as it's written well I can take any level of explicitness. I like cute and fluffy but I also like hot and hard and everything in between.

Vhanja · August 20, 2015 6:38 pm

Yeah, I'm a bit single-minded when it comes to Sherlock fanfic as well. It can be pure romance, pure fluff. case-based, slow build, pure PWP, whump, angsty, dynamic AU, humour, short, long, explicit or mild - but if it's not Johnlock, I'm not interested.

Schmiezi · August 21, 2015 4:34 am

tonnaree wrote:
Just me, but I don't care about variety in my fic relationships. I only read johnlock. It's what I like.
Doesn't matter if it's a "friends to lovers" or an "established relationship" as long as Sherlock and John are together on the last page.

And as long as it's written well I can take any level of explicitness. I like cute and fluffy but I also like hot and hard and everything in between.

I am with you here. The only thing I don't like is when the plot is finished and there are seven more chapters left so you know what the boys will do exessively. Not that I mind them doing that, but I avoid pwp fics and I hate it when a good plot is finished by seven pwp chapters.

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gently69 · August 21, 2015 6:45 am

That's a really good point. Also don't like those kind of endings. That always seems like: I HAVE to write some more chapters but I don't know what about.

Harriet · August 21, 2015 7:39 am

Oh, it seems she then exactly *knows* what to write about

gently69 · August 21, 2015 8:01 am

Yeah, but if you start good... with a well designed plot and end with several chapters describing Sherlock and John jumping into each other beds... that's poor writing for me.

Pwp should be something separate.

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Harriet · August 21, 2015 8:08 am

Come on, she made such an effort to finally write about what she really wanted, so let her

gently69 · August 21, 2015 8:13 am

Tastes differ. Right, I don't have to read it.

Mattlocked · August 21, 2015 10:47 am

Thank god I"ve never read such a "lengthened" story so far......
And I agree with you: Johnlock it is. If It isn't, I'm not interested.
So if you please would move over and let me and my Kindle lie next to you girls...?

SolarSystem · August 21, 2015 10:55 am

Come on, Mattlocked, admit it: you're only reading case fics. Dry and serious case fics.

mrshouse · August 21, 2015 10:55 am

Who doesn't around here? Ask tonnaree.

Harriet · August 21, 2015 11:30 am

Where are those "lengthened stories" to be found, anyway? I mean, even the term ... !

tonnaree · August 21, 2015 11:54 am

Mattlocked wrote:
Thank god I"ve never read such a "lengthened" story so far......
And I agree with you: Johnlock it is. If It isn't, I'm not interested.
So if you please would move over and let me and my Kindle lie next to you girls...?

*Sides over for ML*
*hands her a blankie and a pillow*

Would you like a Jammie Dodger sweetie?
Oh, and there's an outlet over there for you to recharge your Kindle.

This Is The Phantom Lady · September 2, 2015 5:01 am

Is FanFiction.net down or is it just for me?

RavenMorganLeigh · September 2, 2015 6:20 am

This Is The Phantom Lady wrote:
Is FanFiction.net down or is it just for me?

It's down for me, too.

RavenMorganLeigh · September 24, 2015 5:07 pm

I'd just like to say that (and this is only my opinion) that we should be careful in the way that we discuss authors-- it's too easy to forget that they are also fans, just like us-- and may actually be on the forum and read what we say about them. One author was talked about here, on this thread-- and folks said some rather hurtful things about her writing. She read it, folks. Her feelings were terribly hurt, and now, she's considering not writing any more.

And that would be a tremdous loss to the fandom.

We're not in a vacumn-- we should assume that the authors we discuss are reading what we say about them.

And, maybe we should remember that they write all those stories for free.

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tonnaree · September 24, 2015 5:28 pm

tonnaree wrote:
We have threads specificaly for recomendations, but I just want to talk about fan fic in general.

What do we love? What do we hate? What totally weirds us out?

What I would never do is bash specific stories or authors by name. It is an act of bravery to create anything and I have only respect for someone who tries.

This is from my original post when I started this conversation. If we've gotten away from that at some point I am deeply sorry for not catching it. While we can discuss likes and dislikes I agree that we should not mention authors or fics by name.

RavenMorganLeigh · September 24, 2015 5:35 pm

tonnaree wrote:
tonnaree wrote:
We have threads specificaly for recomendations, but I just want to talk about fan fic in general.

What do we love? What do we hate? What totally weirds us out?

What I would never do is bash specific stories or authors by name. It is an act of bravery to create anything and I have only respect for someone who tries.

This is from my original post when I started this conversation. If we've gotten away from that at some point I am deeply sorry for not catching it. While we can discuss likes and dislikes I agree that we should not mention authors or fics by name.

Or , at least, if we're going to mention names-- we can try to be kind.

tonnaree · September 24, 2015 7:05 pm

I would prefer to leave out names altogether. This is really not suppose to be a critical discusion of anyone's work. Just a conversation about fic in general.

Vhanja · October 14, 2015 8:32 pm

Yay, new chapter up for Rebellion! (Third installement in the Grace-series). It's Christmas every time she updates!