Something's fishy here...

[thistlechaser]

Would you believe that amanuensis1 wrote Finding Nemo (Gill/Nemo) slash? Would you believe that it's good? See for yourself!

I came in early today, and I'm mostly caught up on work email now. In a way I'm not unhappy to be here (it's good to be forced out and to see other humans in person), but I would really, really, really rather be home, still in bed, looking forward to a day of watching anime. Co-worker will be out all next week, and since we're the only two who do this work, that will suck some serious ass. Oh well.

They got the heat here at work fixed, and so it's nice and warm and toasty at the moment. If I was doing much walking around it would probably be too warm, but it's nice for just sitting here. ...hm, AC just kicked on. Hope it won't get too much cooler.

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[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

*hugs you* Thank you so much!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Awww, welcome! :)

... Wow.

[peppygrowlithe.livejournal.com]

I didn't want to bother posting in her journal, because there are 85 other comments and I'm just some weirdo she's never heard of, so I'm instead posting in your journal! Perhaps I'm convincing myself that you care about my hugely spamming comments, I don't know. Read it tomorrow when you're bored or something!

(Oh, and I know, I'm not on the MUSH.... sorry, I just woke up maybe half an hour ago, remembering "Oh hell, I gotta print something out!". While the six pages were printing, I went to LiveJournal, and... well... I was going to be on for three minutes tops, but the idea worried me, and I went expecting to laugh, but... well, read.)

I don't read slash. It's not necessarily because the idea of gay men having sex with one another disgusts me; if you put down a good slash fic in front of me that would interest me (say with characters from a TV show I really enjoy), I'd read it with about as much eagerness as I would read a non-slashy fic... which isn't much eagerness at all. For being such a rabid RPer, I really don't read many online fics, much less slash... and even the ones I do read, I tend to skim.

But I'm going to say that that was probably the best slash fic I have ever read and ever will read.

I'm totally amazed at how incredibly... *accurate* she was. I feel *inspired*, and I never thought that gay fish loving could ever do something like that to me. She was so perfectly in character, she had such skill and such personality, and the fact that I was reading pedophilic animal sex didn't turn me away for a second! It's actually *scary* of me when I put in those words!

I enjoyed pedophilic fish sex.
I enjoyed pedophilic fish sex.
*I* *enjoyed* *pedophilic* *fish* *sex*?
It's amazing how if you read it with all the emphasizing, it actually does make sense; every word is somehow shocking in its own way.

Thistle, you are so going to use this for fuel to tease me, but if all slash is nearly this good, I'm going to be as obsessed with it as you are.

And good gravy, that scares the heck out of me.

I'm going to bed.

Re: ... Wow.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I'm glad you liked it!

Thistle, you are so going to use this for fuel to tease me, but if all slash is nearly this good, I'm going to be as obsessed with it as you are.

She's (in my opinion) one of the top HP slash writers (or plain ol' writers), so unfortunately I can't say that all slash is this good. There's lots of good out there, but there's some bad as well.

I enjoyed pedophilic fish sex.
I enjoyed pedophilic fish sex.
*I* *enjoyed* *pedophilic* *fish* *sex*

Copy. Paste. Save!

;)

Re: ... Wow.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Hee. Thistle pointed me here. You dear. Am giggling and thrilled at your reaction! The phrase "gay fish loving" is repeating in my head and I'm giggling even harder. The whole reason I couldn't believe I was writing it was precisely because it wasn't just silly fun; I wanted to treat it with same attention I would any smutty story--even if it was Disney fish. And you've reminded me exactly why I do that when I write. Thank you so much.

Re: ... Wow.

[peppygrowlithe.livejournal.com]

... Eek. She actually acknowledged my existence. Stop quivering, oh hands, and type without making an idiot of yourself.

I just said what I thought was true, because it really is; when it comes to writing, especially erotic fics, there seems to be a general lack of... personality. Feeling. You know? Even those people with their perfect grammar and spelling, those who can perfectly spell and define every word in the dictionary, the ones who get straight A's in their English Language and Literature classes, even they often (usually? Almost always?) lack the personality and care that I read in your story. The actual sexual aspects of the story were tasteful, but what really interested me was the actual relationships between the characters, their thoughts and reactions and interactions with one another, all of which led up to the end. It was cute, fascinating, and beautiful, all at the same time.

Believe me, I'm trying my best to sound mature and calm right now; if Thistle was online, I would probably be squealing to her like a teenage girl at a Backstreet Boys concert. Maybe for my masculinity's sake, it's good that she's not. ;)

Re: ... Wow.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Well, I hope you know that I was squeeing madly and unashamedly over your feedback! No maturity or calm at all, hee. It was such a delight to be linked to your response.