four new rambles

[arduinna]

After reading one too many stories full of epithets, I started writing an essay/ramble/rant thing about "elegant variation", which expanded into these cheesily named things:

Variety Is the Spice of Life... and I Need Some Tums (This one's sort of the 'base' essay.)

Purple Fanfic's (total lack of) Majesty

Epithets: Fandom's Designated Hitters

'Said' Is Not a Four-Letter Word

And, thanks to a bunch of friends who chimed in with examples from their fandoms, I pulled together a list of epithet examples from all over, just for fun:

Epithets

Comments

[the-shoshanna.livejournal.com]

Oh, lord. These essays are wonderful; I'm not sure whether to fall over laughing, sputter helplessly, or marry you. If only more people would read them and take them to heart; you have the rare ability to speak in ways that people who makes these sorts of errors will understand, unlike me, who can only sputter, "But -- it's so awful!" which doesn't help anyone who doesn't see why.

[aka-arduinna.livejournal.com]

Hee, thanks! And trust me, these started out as "But -- it's so awful!" They took a lot of... honing. Yes.