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

[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.