Anyway, sorry I didn't make myself clear. I see the chapters and some new stories, but I still think we all need some cat nip, hehehe.

I'm bound and determined to finish the stories to not let my readers hanging in the wind somehow.

we have a fast Internet connection at home again (FINALLY, after two months of struggling ... arghh).

After first indoctrinating you with empty promises that it will be immediate and no problems at all? And then they wonder why they get death threats by now…. Anyway, welcome back and here’s more for catching up (beating you to death with that link): http://community.livejournal.com/aurlco/

Oh and Blue, congrats on the working high speed. Got mine for the first time since leaving college (along with the cable) freaking AMAZING!!!

I was telling Mia last night that I suspect the fact that we've spread ourselves across several different places on the web may have added slightly to the feeling that no one is around-- before, when we went to one board to check in, it seemed a bit more peopled (especially when there more than only writers there.) Now we have BBWW, RH, IMs and LJ, and few people have gone to DAR in recent weeks.

Should we make a better effort to come and check in one central location more often, say, *here?"

What kind of stories do you like?

Action/adventure?

Drama?

Fluff?

Family?

Just S1 or S2?

Laughing good time?

Long?

Short?

Here's a goodie to get you started, it has a bunch of stuff, she's still working on it (I hope :-P ). http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2238013/1/Thoughts_in_the_Dark

And

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2639645/1/Winters_Chill Because it's v-day and it's one of the best transitions into a relationship out there.

Welcome!!!!!

Umm Winter's Chill was finished just over two years ago...It's actually one of the saddest things since that's Shy's story that I wanted to never end.

And Mouse updates when she can and remembers to check in with ppl so we know she's still out there. :-P

Stories

Laugh

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3340856/1/Wing_Man

You might also want to check out, her 'Close Call' but be forewarned you may bash your computer.

Fluff

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/185262/1/

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2594023/1/

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2842293/1/At_Least_This

Crud, too many options (which is the one with Maria? I think it's Moves)

-Mari does this like amazing expanding of a single moment/event, so it takes you to this level of true beauty when normally you'd just skip over it. She does killer snippets (I really like snippets).

http://www.fanfiction.net/u/938823/Mari83

Make you lo-like Normal :-P

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3832201/1/As_Normal_As_It_Gets

Never read, but ppl seem to love

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2165868/1/Getting_Away_From_It_All

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2237039/1/Concurrent_Jurisdiction (ncis x-over)

My first FFN 'wow' reading experience

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2140630/1/Still_Waters

I am soooo missing a bunch...I need to use that favorite button more.

Kay girls your turn to offer up suggestions.

"People," Mia-style!

Not to mention, if it's been accepted for years without thought by profs on tests then it TOTALLY counts as normal. :-P

Along with...

w/ = with

bc = because

+ = and

And hello 2 e's!!! I really got to get that fixed. :-(

If you still need more fic-recommendations, here’s the link of our Christmas-in-July and Christmas-at-Christmas challenges.

http://www.fanfiction.net/community/Christmas_Challenges_2007/48389/

And here two snippet threads in case you need a quick read

http://www.fanfiction.net/topic/9434/2690500/1/

http://www.fanfiction.net/topic/9434/145813/1/

Never read, but ppl seem to love

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2165868/1/Getting_Away_From_It_All

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2237039/1/Concurrent_Jurisdiction (ncis x-over)

YES for both!

*sleep* before posting

Which would mean no time left for posting I assume?

Where did the edit-button go?

EDITED to say that I'm an idiot and Mia a genius. Thanks!

Okay, just trying to give you credit-- I see it in your posts way more than others! :D

if it's been accepted for years without thought by profs on tests then it TOTALLY counts as normal.

My household prof wouldn't weigh in on whether or not he's ever seen it on a test-- OR if he'd accept it, thought or no! ;} (but given that he himself isn't exactly "normal" maybe his vote wouldn't be illustrative, anyway!)

Ha! Even better-- no blue books (at least, last I heard)! Music prof, almost exclusively grad level classes-- so, seminars, makes students do presentations, musical examples to be analyzed, etc... tests more likely to have analysis questions, questions with several mini-essays... (and for undergrads, still lots of what used to be called "drop the needle" tests! ;})

Blue books?

if it's been accepted for years without thought by profs on tests then it TOTALLY counts as normal.

US profs seem to be really cool with choice of words, mine might even criticize using ‘people’ in itself, without any abbreviation...

"drop the needle" tests

Sounds painful...?

(Whoohoo, now I can punish myself for off-topicness:-)

I *hope* Mia was joking about the abbreviations... though, sadly, there are lots of schools & profs which, more and more, will accept just about anything... (and a *huge* range of quality in both as well!) If she wasn't joking, let's just hope they weren't profs in English classes-- or worse, in teacher training courses! :P

Blue books?

Universal in colleges here-- for some essay-type (or "short answer") tests, exam questions are provided on a 1-2 page hand-out (or overhead, or e-mail, or...) but the student writes her answer in a "blue book" (or several!) --small, stapled booklets (what, 8" x 8"?) of maybe a dozen lined white pages for hand-written answers, bound in cheap, light blue paper. This is in lieu of an exam having one question at the top of page 1, then pp. 2-3 blank, then p.4 with question #2, then the rest of p.4 , and p.5 blank, and so on...

"drop the needle" tests

Sounds painful...?

And dated! Like many idioms, this one has outlasted the actual method what it describes! "Listening tests" -- as in, having to identify a composer, a musical piece, or both, on an exam (especially in classes for non-musicians, "intro to music" sort of classes) -- are often accomplished by the instructor playing a short, random chunk from the middle of the piece. In the old days, when records were used, the prof might "drop the needle" onto some random spot on the record, and have the class identify it from what was played. (of course, now hubby has all musical examples on his MP3 player & just plugs into the classroom's built-in system...)

I need to email a prof who still didn't manage to write down my topics / subjects after I already gave him a corrected version three times

Oh, Mari! Grrr, for you! And because he holds your future in his hands (as well as all that time you have put in so far!) you have to just smile patiently and give it to him again?? (or get that tattoo!)

Sounds like we need to drop the needle on HIM!

...and bad Shy for not only stalling from getting to work on this weekend's project, but doing so by pulling you further down the off-topic path... :P

(lots more fun than work...)

Ah well.

HI QUEENOFHEARTS!!! Good to see new faces around :) In addition to the earlier fic recommendations, you could try my way of looking for good fic to read. Steal from favourites. Haha. Fav. author and fav. stories links are probably the best way to find awesome fics. At least, if you're like me and have way too much time to spend online ;-)

Blue books?

I had bright orange script books during my finals last year, so not only were my hands cramped from all the writing, my eyes were teared up everytime I had to turn to the front page. Horrible.

Should we make a better effort to come and check in one central location more often, say, *here?"

I wouldn't mind all too much, seeing as how most of the time I forget to go to certain sites to check... Which now leads me to the question of why the *** aren't I getting any alerts !?!? Stupid FFn.

This is probably going to be the most uninformative, pointless post ever. Haha.

Off to bed. Party on, people!

Haha there wasn't even a smiley with it. I was TOTALLY serious. Man you're probably rolling more in horror over this than you were over the overpriced prof that taught me that I don't need the comma before and, which is still like my favorite thing ever. :-D Of course, this most likely never occurred in an English class, but that's only for the simple reason of they actually matched the amount of writing that needed to be done with the amount of time the test was alloted. even better, my lowest ranked school was ALWAYS the strictest.

I had bright orange script books during my finals last year, so not only were my hands cramped from all the writing, my eyes were teared up everytime I had to turn to the front page. Horrible.

Those would be the gold awful books. I hate those books. Last test I took with one I used four. Of course that was the same class that I spent 14 hours doing a take-home, which is also another good example of crazy profs since he had actually wanted the test back within 18 hours.

US profs seem to be really cool with choice of words, mine might even criticize using ‘people’ in itself, without any abbreviation...

I wouldn't say that. The leeway isn't that great, despite the allowance over an abbreviation or two during a test. Word choice, grammar, punctuation, hell even tabbing and line orientation (psych papers are very structured) are all lovely little red circles.

"drop the needle" tests

Haha I was reading on the music floor a few months ago and they were like music cramming. Soooo peculiar to someone who has never been around that before. It's kinda not so weird now that you've explained it, very English class, with characters/stories, instead of song titles.

Slow as usual but want to add my hello! As you can see we're desperate around here to keep the M/L fires burning and jump every newcomer in the hope that they'll come back & visit often!

Yet another source for M/L recommendations: we had pulled recommended some of our old favorites in a thread here on BBWW, http://www.fanfiction.net/topic/9434/293580/1/

...always pleny of M/L around, for about every taste! ;}

Thanks, Annie, for sticking around, and especially for being so good about sending reviews and encouragement, even when you're busy -- it means a lot! It's good to know people are still out there reading M/L...

:*

~S~

Trying to trigger some fic-discussion as a very feeble counter measure to the recent quietness (writing this gives me such a broken record-feeling):

I guess in every fandom there must be a point where everything is read and told and written… However, when exactly this point is reached seems to be a very individual perception, some people losing interest very fast, others sticking around for longer and coming up with new ideas (and yet others leaving fascinating stories unfinished, but that’s another eternal issue) So my question: Is there anything left in DA that isn’t yet covered by fanfic, things you like to see which haven’t been written so far or would like to be done in a different way…?

Or turning the question around and putting it into a more pessimistic perspective: How far and how long can a fandom develop without any new input from its origins in TV or by a single author (and why and how is such original input different from the story lines and ideas that develop within a fan community)?

Is there anything left in DA that isn’t yet covered by fanfic, things you like to see which haven’t been written so far or would like to be done in a different way…? Short answer-- YES!! I have 3 fic in cold storage at this very moment (outline, cool-IMHO bits) that I am quite certain have not yet been done (trust me--no one else is this loco!) and no time to write them!

I have become obsessed with other characters before & have lost interest, but DA seems to engender SO much more!! Longer & more faux-profound response later-- but had to pipe up at this!

sure =^_^= the premise of DA, and the the fact that it ended so soon (which makes me wanna throttle the Powers That Be *twitch*) leaves such a vast area unexplored. with only 5,605 stories here (respectable enough, but nowhere near the "major" fandoms), the notion that every possible idea has been exhausted kinda makes me laugh. i dont have any specific suggestions right now- ill hafta think on it. id like to write some myself, but id prefer to get my hands on S2 and the books first hehe

Come on Mari, you know there's more. There are tons of things left to do! Fandoms can last for ages. Hell, there's still a small contingent of people writing Back to the Future fic after twenty years and only three movies.

Plus no one's written body switching or alien abductions or demonic possession or wing!fic or Whatever Happened to Herbal fic or What the Hell Was Up with Lydecker's Photos fic or Sketchy is Secretly One of the Escapees fic or Eyes Only Origin fic or or or---there's tons more out there. Personally I've been a bit distracted with original fic recently, but there's still a hell of a lot of DA fic we haven't seen yet. Fear not!

So nice to see that there are others seeing things less black. I guess I’m just too pessimistic again – and I see your points, it’s just watching the DA community shrink and shrink… I just like to know how peoples' minds work , what makes them leave etc...

Sketchy is Secretly One of the Escapees fic

Mind-reader, I’ve started a snippet with that a few weeks ago:-)

I have 3 fic in cold storage at this very moment (outline, cool-IMHO bits) that I am quite certain have not yet been done (trust me--no one else is this loco!) and no time to write them!

Ah, I see, frozen Logan needing warming attention:-) Seriously, now I’m curious and want to send a cloning machine so you can double into a working and a writing self. (And coincidentally, off the top of my head I can remember at least three of those ideas you tend to casually mention… )

Is there any way we can lure you into writing DA fic, Queenofhearts? Or hey (shameless advertising), did you see the Christmas in July-challenge – in case you come up with something you’d like to see in DA you could wish for it there…

Sketchy is Secretly One of the Escapees fic

Mind-reader, I’ve started a snippet with that a few weeks ago:-)

You have no idea how excited that makes me. =)

lol i dunno, maybe. depending on if i get hit with a good idea :D "Christmas in July" challenge... hm. i wonder *thoughtful* im in the midst of moving at present, but ill check it out anyway heehee

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