Original authors of stock QAF quotes
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Hello guys!
I've read reams of QAF fic, and you know how the same phrases keep cropping up ... like "he let out a breath he didn't know he was holding" or "they only stopped kissing when the need for oxygen became too great"... not to mention Justin's ass "gripping like a velvet vise"!
I know Justin's "shell-like ear" came from the episode where Linds and Mel were trying to choose a father for Mel's baby, but how about the term "Temmett"? I don't remember it being canon, so does anyone know who originated it? I guess these phrases came from fics that had a great influence on later writers, and I just wondered if anyone knows which they were?
Got any favourites of your own?
I've read reams of QAF fic, and you know how the same phrases keep cropping up ... like "he let out a breath he didn't know he was holding" or "they only stopped kissing when the need for oxygen became too great"... not to mention Justin's ass "gripping like a velvet vise"!
I know Justin's "shell-like ear" came from the episode where Linds and Mel were trying to choose a father for Mel's baby, but how about the term "Temmett"? I don't remember it being canon, so does anyone know who originated it? I guess these phrases came from fics that had a great influence on later writers, and I just wondered if anyone knows which they were?
Got any favourites of your own?
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Date: 2012-02-23 09:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-23 10:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-23 10:09 pm (UTC)And yeah, there are times when you can read a fic and know who wrote it by their 'tells'. There's a writer in HP fandom that I can pick out of any anon fest because she makes the same SpaG error every single time.
Oh, and the "kissing until the need for air arose" thing?
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Date: 2012-02-23 10:14 pm (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2012-02-24 02:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-23 10:17 pm (UTC)I always assumed that Temmett was started from one person and it spread, it reminds me of a 'pairing' name, when they would combine names of characters instead of listing them separately.
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Date: 2012-02-23 10:46 pm (UTC)As for the other lines... I'm pretty sure I've used them myself and don't them all that much. There are "worse" lines to be used in fics or general in writing. My personal pet-peeve is "weaping cock" and variations thereof.
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Date: 2012-02-23 11:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-23 11:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-24 02:18 am (UTC)And the bad sex excerpts inspire me to make ridiculous icons.
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Date: 2012-02-24 09:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-24 10:13 am (UTC)A lot of what gets posted there is on purpose bad. And a majority of what's written seriously is so misogynistic that I could have no qualms about sporking it.
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Date: 2012-02-23 11:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-24 12:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-24 01:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-24 01:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-24 01:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-24 01:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-24 11:48 am (UTC)Now, as soon as any part of either character 'jumps' or 'twitches', especially if accompanied by a 'hungry' or 'lustful gaze', I go into fast-forward mode.
They bother me a lot less . . . now that I don't read them. ;-)
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Date: 2012-02-24 01:28 pm (UTC)And if 'Baby' as term of endearment is used I'm out at once. Disturbing.
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Date: 2012-02-24 03:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-24 03:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-24 10:22 pm (UTC)YES. THIS. A MILLION TIMES THIS.
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Date: 2012-02-25 02:20 pm (UTC)Blech!
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Date: 2012-02-25 06:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-29 07:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-24 08:32 pm (UTC)And I agree with the poster above who said that "Temmett" originated post-"Brangelina" and the that ilk. For a while there, NO well-known couple seemed able to escape being given a conjoined name.
I'd like to know who first decided that Brian's middle name is "Aidan". It's become pretty widespread in fanon since then.
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Date: 2012-02-29 07:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-29 07:36 pm (UTC)