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]

It's not canon. And I don't know where it came from. I guess someone may have used it in a fic, but why!? It sounds...stupid. Sorry.

[ipitydaf00l.livejournal.com]

I don't think your first two are just QAF only, as I've seen it in many different fandoms in over a decade. I'm not sure who initially started it, but it seems to be a common thing. (I've been told the second one can be found in romance novels as well...) It makes me giggle and question the amount of suction is involved in their kissing. :D

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.

[xheartrockx.livejournal.com]

Temmett definitely sounds like a pairing name made up by the fandom or an author. Maybe the author even used in their fic. Maybe in a scene like the one were Justin comes up with "Britin".

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.

[moonbrightnites.livejournal.com]

In this fandom, the phrase that always makes me cringe is references to Brian as "the older man" -- mostly because you just know how much Brian would hate said writer for pointing that out. ;)

[confused-bliss.livejournal.com]

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. =)

[wjsc99.livejournal.com]

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. ;-)

[mysid.livejournal.com]

I think most of the ones you mention aren't so much QaF-fandom cliches as they are bad-erotica cliches. If you want to find the first uses of them, we'd probably have to look through the "Letters" secions of porn mags.

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.