http://nightvision55.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] nightvision55.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] getithere2012-02-23 09:39 pm

Original authors of stock QAF quotes

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?

[identity profile] confused-bliss.livejournal.com 2012-02-24 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
In some fandoms when a certain pairing is shipped they meld the names into one. I am assuming this is a version of Ted/Emmett. Other fandoms you get - Brendan/Ste as Stendan, Christian/Syed as Chryed, Christian/Oliver as Chrolli... etc. I am sure the list of these is endless. But, just where I think 'Temmett' must have spawned from. Not one I intend to use in any of my fics, though. =)

[identity profile] aaa-mazing.livejournal.com 2012-02-24 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
And I wonder is it Temmet 'sit' or 'sits', 'is reading' or 'are reading'? Sounds like Siamese twins.

[identity profile] confused-bliss.livejournal.com 2012-02-24 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Lol. It does. Not a road I plan to go down! =)

[identity profile] aaa-mazing.livejournal.com 2012-02-24 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
They both are gorgeous, why blend them? *shrugs*

[identity profile] confused-bliss.livejournal.com 2012-02-24 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
I guess they blend them to showcase their favorite pairing. I'm not sure. =)