And now it's my turn to say, I get it. He is a fanfiction writer's dream. I just rewatched "Burning Down the House" with my kids tonight (what? everybody needs fandom, even preteens), and I was struck by how much is and isn't said in his little monologue while Fraser searches the car ... from the outside. Even more telling than that, though, are his facial expressions throughout the episode. From his wink when he answers the phone, to his "posturing" with Motherwell, to his shy grin when Fraser asks him out to dinner, Callum tells us so much about Ray it's like he was there all along.
Or, maybe I'm a hopeless fangirl. Could go either way. :) But I can say I'm positive I'll explore it all in fiction one day. Probably sooner, rather than later. *g*
What's a "prompt on your flist"?
First, there are no dumb questions. That what I tell my students anyway. Of course, sometimes I'm lying to them ... but not to you.
I'll answer this backwards. A "flist" is the bastardized abbreviation of friends list. Teh internets makes me lazy. My flist is the list of posts I get when I click on Friends.
The prompt part of it is all sdraevn's fault. In her post (which you can read by clicking on "here" in the first sentence of my post) she talked about how a story starts. She explained how she ended up with that line, "sometimes you *want* to fall," eating her brain. And then she outlined how it might end up an Atlantis fic. And then she said, gee, wonder what you guys would do with this, write me something, any fandom.
So, I said "baaaaa" like the sheep I am, and rushed off to write. The rest, as they say, is history. Or, at least, a really long explanatory comment.
There you go, question answered. Oh, and the short version of the answer is, I stole somebody's story idea, but she's okay with it. *eg*
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Date: 2006-01-10 02:06 am (UTC)And now it's my turn to say, I get it. He is a fanfiction writer's dream. I just rewatched "Burning Down the House" with my kids tonight (what? everybody needs fandom, even preteens), and I was struck by how much is and isn't said in his little monologue while Fraser searches the car ... from the outside. Even more telling than that, though, are his facial expressions throughout the episode. From his wink when he answers the phone, to his "posturing" with Motherwell, to his shy grin when Fraser asks him out to dinner, Callum tells us so much about Ray it's like he was there all along.
Or, maybe I'm a hopeless fangirl. Could go either way. :) But I can say I'm positive I'll explore it all in fiction one day. Probably sooner, rather than later. *g*
What's a "prompt on your flist"?
First, there are no dumb questions. That what I tell my students anyway. Of course, sometimes I'm lying to them ... but not to you.
I'll answer this backwards. A "flist" is the bastardized abbreviation of friends list. Teh internets makes me lazy. My flist is the list of posts I get when I click on Friends.
The prompt part of it is all sdraevn's fault. In her post (which you can read by clicking on "here" in the first sentence of my post) she talked about how a story starts. She explained how she ended up with that line, "sometimes you *want* to fall," eating her brain. And then she outlined how it might end up an Atlantis fic. And then she said, gee, wonder what you guys would do with this, write me something, any fandom.
So, I said "baaaaa" like the sheep I am, and rushed off to write. The rest, as they say, is history. Or, at least, a really long explanatory comment.
There you go, question answered. Oh, and the short version of the answer is, I stole somebody's story idea, but she's okay with it. *eg*