Next up on the Duelling Fics... McTabby!
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icarusIn every test, there must be one easy question. Every contest should have one round where the winner is obvious... or is it?
Our next contest is tougher than you think. Flip Humour vs Serious Fics, WiPs vs Completed Work, Poetry vs Fiction.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mctabby is known for making people laugh till they wet their pants, and for starting a cult with TWIB.
Which will win?
Wet Pants, or Cult?
The polls are now closed. The results are posted here.
Two Worlds And In Between
That Potter Slash
Write-ins galore!
Head Of Slytherin (direct link - Head of Slytherin
Got a MALFOY as my SEX TOY
PtQ in a Nutshell
You Look Tired, Harry Potter
Remember, tell us why you like it, no fic bashing (take it over tohpbnfdm_lives where everyone is armed and dangerous), and thanks to amanuensis1 I do accept write-ins.
The fine print:
Previous votes are Anna, Minx, Maya, Amanuensis, Rushlight, Sushi, Aspen, Cybele, and Cassandra Claire.
Void where prohibited.
Our next contest is tougher than you think. Flip Humour vs Serious Fics, WiPs vs Completed Work, Poetry vs Fiction.
mctabby is known for making people laugh till they wet their pants, and for starting a cult with TWIB.Which will win?
Wet Pants, or Cult?
The polls are now closed. The results are posted here.
Two Worlds And In Between
That Potter Slash
Write-ins galore!
Head Of Slytherin (direct link - Head of Slytherin
Got a MALFOY as my SEX TOY
PtQ in a Nutshell
You Look Tired, Harry Potter
Remember, tell us why you like it, no fic bashing (take it over to
hpbnfdm_lives where everyone is armed and dangerous), and thanks to amanuensis1 I do accept write-ins.The fine print:
Previous votes are Anna, Minx, Maya, Amanuensis, Rushlight, Sushi, Aspen, Cybele, and Cassandra Claire.
Void where prohibited.
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Date: 2004-01-22 11:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-22 11:45 pm (UTC)I laughed until I cried, a coworker fell out of chair when reading 'That Potter Slash.' But I confess that I am a cult member. The imagery and magic of TWIB is not to be matched, and unlike most WiPs, it hasn't faded from memory.
TWIB it is.
See? Like that.
Icarus
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Date: 2004-01-23 12:01 am (UTC)I vote for "That Potter Slash" because it really did make me laugh until I cried. My Moony and I both absolutely love it, and it also uses my favourite childhood author's work without insulting him (at least, in my opinion). :)
There we are. :D I think I may go read it now... Hee!
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Date: 2004-01-22 11:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-22 11:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-22 11:48 pm (UTC)SSFF (http://snapeff.ebonyx.org/), if I may.
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Date: 2004-01-23 12:57 am (UTC)When I read the first chapter of this fic, my heartrate went crazy with the power of her descriptions and the vividness of the world she creates and the sheer unmatchable charisma of her characters. Even now, my pulse is speeding up with the memory of it. It left me shellshocked, that fic, and nothing has ever quite been able to touch it since.
It's a beautifully crafted story, which I could read again and again just appreciating the grace of how it's put together: what McTabby reveals and what she conceals, and the tiny, bleak hints she gives us of what is to come. You can *feel* how intricately it's been constructed. Ooh, be still my beating heart!
But what (on my shallow reading level) grabs me most is that, by making her characters so swoon-inducingly well-spoken, and just a touch foppish with their lute playing and their absinthe habit, and emphasising the solidness of their group of four, and cunningly removing all women from their world, she has created the most erotic and slashiest slash I have seen ... all without ever needing to reveal naked flesh.
This is not, of course, a vote *against* McTabby's poetry. You Look Tired, Harry Potter is a gorgeous thing. Short and funny, yes, but showing the same perfectionism and love of form that makes TWIB such an elegant creature.
[I am distraught to have missed Amanuensis and Maya and Ms Claire!! I will never go offline again!!!]
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Date: 2004-01-23 01:07 am (UTC)But I've never read TWIB, so who knows? I might like that.
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Date: 2004-01-23 01:14 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-01-23 01:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-23 01:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-23 02:03 am (UTC)If it's too late, though, I'll vote for "That Potter Slash"!
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Date: 2004-01-23 03:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-23 03:52 am (UTC)PtQ in a Nutshell. Sheer brilliance.
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Date: 2004-01-23 04:13 am (UTC)Brilliant. Brilliant.
Do you plan to do a deathmatch between other people's stories when you're done deathmatching them against their own?
... Although I guess that might not work, because some stories are just so different that one can't begin to compare them. Amanuenis' stories, for example, are brilliant smut--and TWIB is brilliant, historically minded plot.
Hmm.
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Date: 2004-01-23 07:38 pm (UTC)Nope. But I've a list of about a hundred BNFs to work from, so it'll be a while before I run out. ;)
... Although I guess that might not work, because some stories are just so different that one can't begin to compare them.
You've hit the nail on the head. You can't compare apples and oranges. Also, that doesn't accomplish much unless you're doing critical analysis such as
Here, instead of asking the question 'who is more popular' we're asking something that authors are pretty interested in: how do your stories stack up against each other? And why?
Icarus
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Date: 2004-01-23 05:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-23 05:38 am (UTC)Or her Summary Executions. Do those count as fic?
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Date: 2004-01-23 06:43 am (UTC)Lemme flip coin.
TWIB it is.
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Date: 2004-01-23 06:51 am (UTC)Well, one gets the impression that the pants-wetting humor is part of the [Unknown site tag] daily diet. :) Maybe we take it for granted.
Part of the charm of TWIB is that there's just not enough of it--it's one of only a few WIPs I'll go back to and re-read each time I see a new chapter posted. (Put that statement in the future, since I didn't read it until fairly recently.) It's kickass. As is Julius Marvolo, who would spank Voldemort if he could reach beyond the grave.
So we're teased just enough to go back for it, whereas the short but incredibly funny fics become part of the collective humor conscious--but might not be re-read. Or something. Even though they are just as funny the second time around. YMMV. TWIB! TWIB!
Write-inners might want The Guy with the Eye or the Tom Riddle thing (I can't remember if it's been named yet or not).
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Date: 2004-01-23 06:58 am (UTC)Reading it aloud in silly voices is a favorite pasttime of everybody in my dorm. It has brought much laughter and complaints to the RAs because we're laughing too loud.
And all it takes is one of us to murmur, "No naked Remus on his back", and we're laughing for hours.
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Date: 2004-01-23 07:38 am (UTC)Because it got me trying to sing and laugh at the same time.
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Date: 2004-01-23 07:45 am (UTC)Best fic in the fandom.
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Date: 2004-01-23 08:32 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-01-23 07:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-23 07:19 pm (UTC)Reading it was lots of fun.
I was rolling on my bum,
Laughing as if I was mad.
So, I'm going to put my vote
on That Potter Slash.
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Date: 2004-01-23 08:19 pm (UTC)No, I'm not. "Head of Slytherin" is a work of genius unparalleled in human existence. (Plus, it nearly made me wet myself.)
If I ever go to one of my cousin's Civil War re-enactments (the other Civil War :P), if they start singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic, I'm going to have one Hell of a lot of explaining to do.
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Date: 2004-01-23 08:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-23 08:33 pm (UTC)Snape: Oh do come in, Miss Granger - I wasn't
busy at all - I was just KISSING MY ASS GOODBYE!!!
*nods sagely*
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Date: 2004-01-23 08:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-23 09:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-23 09:44 pm (UTC)Icarus