http://nightvision55.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] nightvision55.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] getithere2012-02-23 09:39 pm
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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?
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[identity profile] wjsc99.livejournal.com 2012-02-24 11:48 am (UTC)(link)
Yikes! The use of stock terms is exactly why I can't read QAF sex scenes anymore. Who knew that sex between two beautiful men could be reduced, time and time and time again, to a dozen or so painfully over-familiar cliches? It's the quickest way to bring an otherwise-great fic to a sudden halt.

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. ;-)

[identity profile] love4movies.livejournal.com 2012-02-24 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Lol. I hate it, when Brian has to have Justin NOW. Not that I ever read one, but that sounds very romance novel with Fabio on cover to me. ;)

And if 'Baby' as term of endearment is used I'm out at once. Disturbing.

[identity profile] wjsc99.livejournal.com 2012-02-24 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Brian's use of 'Baby', and other terms of endearment, doesn't bother me at all. I always got the impression that he could easily fall into that type of behavior -- if he'd been allowed to heal enough to peel off the protective "I don't do..." mask.

[identity profile] love4movies.livejournal.com 2012-02-24 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
It isn't the use of an endearment that disturbs me. What disturbs me is stuff like 'He pulled out of his baby.' Call me old-fashioned, but that kills it for me.

[identity profile] wouldbedorothy.livejournal.com 2012-02-24 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
It isn't the use of an endearment that disturbs me. What disturbs me is stuff like 'He pulled out of his baby.' Call me old-fashioned, but that kills it for me.

YES. THIS. A MILLION TIMES THIS.

[identity profile] wjsc99.livejournal.com 2012-02-25 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I can definitely agree with that! I also hate sex-talk combined with the phrases "his boy" or "his beautiful boy".

Blech!

[identity profile] nightvision55.livejournal.com 2012-02-25 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
'Baby' always make me cringe, too. Although the worst thing for me is calling eyes 'orbs' ... does anyone really say that?

[identity profile] sungaizing85.livejournal.com 2012-02-29 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
overzealous fic writers? wanna be newest Meyer's? bwahahaha
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