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Definitely a good mission - that fic sounded horrendous.

The Agents seem to promise a lot of interesting events in the future, too. They certainly intrigued me, anyway.

Happy birthday.

for not encountering those fanfics that do.

Either that, or hated enough to be remembered. Yeah, probably that one.

As for me, it seems to be monsoon season in southern England. I like it. I don't like hot weather. Makes me sick. The downside? Thunderstorm after thunderstorm. Can't even play Left 4 Dead.

Well, there are a few fantasy books/series with sentient tall ships already... the Liveship Traders from Robin Hobb is the most well-known example. There's another in which the ships are dragons, but they're not quite sentient. I can't remember the title right now. And I would have like to get my hands on the "Sails ans sorcery" anthology to see if there are others.
But the main difference between these and my ideas is my sentient tall ships have their own society.

This has been written and beta-ed for at least a month or so. I have no excuses for leaving it until now, except that I am very good at procrastinating ad livejournal evidently hates me. I eventually gave up on using it and made a new site, which was *more* grounds for procrastination.

So, yeah. The mission is at http://nadineandjodi.webs.com/missionone.htm and hopefully the next one will be up much sooner. It was beta-ed by Pads, and is rated K.

I dunno about you, dear, but we always do label our het as such. Not that we write just het by itself, but if it's in there with the slash, then we warn for both.

One reason I'm fond of obscure pairings that are neither confirmed nor denied nor vaguely alluded to in the least either way in canon, is that one can have fics with an established relationship in, without people being able to say "that's OOC!" And if you've got an established relationship in there, the fic doesn't have to be filled with all the getting-together romantic wossnames and first-time angst and such. It can have plot instead, and be like any book or fic in which Plot Occurs and two of the characters happen to be together.

(Of course, this does not stop me from being a sucker for a well-written first time fic, but constant romance just gets boring.)

Just because that's the terms used in general, and they make sense, doesn't make it sound any less stupid.

...of slash/het fics that aren't romantic?

I ask because everyone here seems to be working on the assumption that slash/het has to be of the romantic variety. This isn't necessarily true, especially in a one-shot PWP or a fic dealing with a subject such as rape or stalking.

Possibly a Hopeless Romantic, but I'd like to think I have some sense. That said, if you're asking what I like to read, then it'd be lovely to have more stories around that don't involve romance at all... but then, it's rather hard to cut it out entirely, since all character interaction between a pair (or not-pair, as the case may be) can be affected by the percieved relationship - body language, terms of endearment, and so on.

As for labels, maybe we should start a habit of labelling all stories as "slash" OR "het" OR "no romance" - treat the "het" label as being as necessary as the "slash" label and see if it catches on?

In practically all of Marcedes Lackey`s books there is at least one slash pairing amoung the het. Most of the time it is just a background mention, but some times it is the main character.

She is also not discrimenatory in gender as well. She slashes both. About one couple in ten in her stories are slash, which I think is about right statistic.

These books are aimed at an older teen to adult level of reading (I read most of them when I was younger though). But since she writes fantasy, that maybe one of the reasons that she goes by unnoticed in that regaurd.

Leto

And they do have reasons for being the terms - slash because of the use of the / character, e.g. the classic pairing: Kirk/Spock.

And het is an abbreviation for 'heterosexual', as I'm sure you can guess :)

Sentient tall ships? This I have to hear about.

The story in mind isn't fantasy (see above), but I do have a few other ideas I'd like to see in writing someday.

I got one of my Agents off of you! She's been nagging at me the way characters do. "Hey Fiveclawed, you said you'd write me once summer break started, but it's nearly August and you haven't done *CENSORED*! Get up off your lazy tuchus and get back onto LJ!" This is problematic, since LJ doesn't seem to be working at the moment, but it doesn't matter to her. She's threatening me with her necromancer bells.

The original story involved this Tibetan woman who was living in exile who comes back to Tibet after her long-lost brother contacts her. I actually finished the story but saved it onto a USB drive, and then my mother LOST IT. After that I had a hard time bringing myself back to the story, and then the Tibetan riots broke out in China, so I think I'm gonna have to put some pretty major changes into place. Like I said, I'm not working on it now; I'm focusing on writing fan-based stuff to get back into the swing of things. Think training wheels on a bike.

By jar of evil you mean what exactly? Is it Sealed Evil in a Can that is never to be opened or something to be thrown at enemies to explode evilness over everything?

Thank you!

I am doing hotly. And by hotly, I mean I think the house's AC is broken. Hope you're having better luck where you live.

I am about to go on vacation tomorrow so I can:t promice a speedy beta. But I can read for continuity and accuracy.

letohaven @ hotmail . com

Leto

it seems somewhat silly to have a world where people live for relationships alone.

Mostly true, except when the protagonist is a teenage girl. Obsession with potential romances is a common theme of those years.

I was pondering last night why I like plot in books, but I'm less fussed when I'm reading on the screen. Didn't come to any conclusions at all, except possibly that fic with lots of plot tends to be on the long side, and I've more patience for a long read in book form. Will keep mulling over that one, though, because it's clearly not just me, if the majority of fanfic's anything to go by.

it was where I was playing it that was.

L

As long as it's a goodfic, anything goes. And as long as it's realistic, no ten-second romances or anything; I'm vehemently against the concept of 'love at first sight' and related things. Love takes time or hardship, and lots of fics apply neither of the two to the pair. These are normally considered badfic.

Mostly, though, I prefer nonromance plots or ones where the romance is not the main plot. I like stories more when the ships, canon or not, occur as an aside instead of dominating the story. Large or small, it's subplots most of the time. After all, it seems somewhat silly to have a world where people live for relationships alone.

...you may enjoy this: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4413505/1/