Original authors of stock QAF quotes

[nightvision55.livejournal.com]

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?

Comments

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, it's fine! It's just...Temmet!?! *shudders*

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? vamphile wrote a fic about that called Mouth Breathers, IIRC. It's about that very thing. It's hysterical.

[nightvision55.livejournal.com]

I love vamphile's fics, but I don't recall that one! I'll check it out.
Thanks!

[wouldbedorothy.livejournal.com]

Lol, I tend to think use of "Temmett" in fic works when it's Brian kind of eye-rollingly referring to them in his head, how sickeningly couple-y they were. But the whole couple portmanteau thing didn't become universally popular (used not just by fans but by news media and general public) until well past Ted and Em's break-up. Probably, the days of Brangelina, around 2005. I'm pretty sure it was the baby of daytime soap fandom. I think we started squishing names around 2000. Before that, it was always just initials.