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

Just linked over from elynross...

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Why didn't you *tell* me you had a LJ?

"Only for Yuletide post," yeah, right. I would've missed these! And they are scrumptious. I'm enjoying the hell out of them.

Are they going up on the Symposium? Seems to me they deserve a wider audience.

Re: Just linked over from elynross...

[aka-arduinna.livejournal.com]

Why didn't you *tell* me you had a LJ?

Because it doesn't really count as one? *g* I'm still not an LJ person in any way; I literally just wanted to be able to post to the Yuletide community about the story I'd written, so the recipient had a shot at spotting it.

Basically, don't expect me to start getting chatty in here. *g*

I would've missed these! And they are scrumptious. I'm enjoying the hell out of them.

*beam* Thank you!

Are they going up on the Symposium?

Oh, huh -- that hadn't even occurred to me. I'll ponder that. Thanks!

Re: Just linked over from elynross...

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Basically, don't expect me to start getting chatty in here. *g*

Yeah, yeah, I've heard that before. Hell, I've *said* that before, fat lot of good it did me. You'll see. You'll start adding people to your flist, and then it'll all be over. The LJ, it is crack, in all senses: bad, and bad for you, but so, so addictive.

They really are wonderful essays. Every writer should read them.

Re: Just linked over from elynross...

[aka-arduinna.livejournal.com]

You'll start adding people to your flist, and then it'll all be over.

So I hear! I have pretty high resistance levels, though. :)