- Warnings:m/m sex...and you may want tissue close for the ending.
- Word Count: 16,000 and M/M sex.
- Warnings: crusing
- Summary: When bodies sharing a disturbingly similar cause of death start turning up, homicide detectives Timothy Hutton, Christian Kane, David Boreanaz, and Misha Collins begin to suspect a serial killer is at work. Finding the culprit becomes their number one objective.
- [Author's Notes] BTW, READ THE WARNING, it's bad, really, first time writing this kind of fic and I'm like WTF AM I WRITING THIS IS SO WRONG. Never trying this again. Ever >.>"
5 Sep 2010
I've actually got quite a large backlog of these shoes but I keep not posting them because I'm too apathetic to go through the process of opening the Picasa website and clicking through the whole web uploader, then copying the code to post.
I was reading in a het fandom located primarily at fanfiction.net for a couple of days last week and I started thinking again about something I've thought about before.
After reading consistently in just one fandom for a while, we start to adjust our expectations to the body of work. In a large, highly active media fandom, we may reject out-of-hand a story which is exactly as well-written as another story that might, being one of the best-written in a smaller fandom, become one of our favorites.
As we read, we automatically map what we've read (a bell curve?) and adjust our reading habits accordingly. I don't mean to suggest this is an irrational behavior, or one that we're unaware of. It's totally expected and rational. It's just that sometimes, this automatic Conservation of Expectations (can anyone give me a better name for it?) leads to my overall standards getting a bit lost in the noise to the extent that I actually have difficulty comparing a particular story outside its own fandom, as illustrated by this bit of conversation from a 2007 post called profound truths about the healing cock:
It's interesting how that works. I mean, in the situation referenced in that conversation, I didn't even think there was anything ludicrous about the obvious crack element in that story (i.e. non-canonical epilepsy + history of childhood sexual abuse in the background of a story) until I reread the bookmark years later, because the overall level of crack in the fandom in question was apparently high enough that my brain didn't classify that as cracky. (Is Pros really that cracky? Or maybe I failed to notice the crack because I was focused on something else - the prose being "rather elegant" or the lack of clichés which I was tired of?)
1. She totally did. We have it bound around here somewhere.
After reading consistently in just one fandom for a while, we start to adjust our expectations to the body of work. In a large, highly active media fandom, we may reject out-of-hand a story which is exactly as well-written as another story that might, being one of the best-written in a smaller fandom, become one of our favorites.
As we read, we automatically map what we've read (a bell curve?) and adjust our reading habits accordingly. I don't mean to suggest this is an irrational behavior, or one that we're unaware of. It's totally expected and rational. It's just that sometimes, this automatic Conservation of Expectations (can anyone give me a better name for it?) leads to my overall standards getting a bit lost in the noise to the extent that I actually have difficulty comparing a particular story outside its own fandom, as illustrated by this bit of conversation from a 2007 post called profound truths about the healing cock:
cimorene: It's funny how when you're reading a bunch of stories in a row, something that's really weird can seem not that weird, and then when you come back to it later you're like: "Summary: Blair goes undercover in a mental hospital as a gay teenager with nothing else wrong with him and is nearly raped and killed by an evil ex-con orderly under orders from the evil hospital director, and Jim goes berserk and turns into a caveman without the power of speech and pulverises the orderly, and then they have soul-bonding sex."
It's interesting how that works. I mean, in the situation referenced in that conversation, I didn't even think there was anything ludicrous about the obvious crack element in that story (i.e. non-canonical epilepsy + history of childhood sexual abuse in the background of a story) until I reread the bookmark years later, because the overall level of crack in the fandom in question was apparently high enough that my brain didn't classify that as cracky. (Is Pros really that cracky? Or maybe I failed to notice the crack because I was focused on something else - the prose being "rather elegant" or the lack of clichés which I was tired of?)
1. She totally did. We have it bound around here somewhere.
trials & tribulations of tagging
5 Sep 2010 09:09 pmI make a plebefic header post just about every day (Science suggests that in the past year the average is 1 day in 2). That's a lot of posts. When I started saving them and posting them 5 per day, in summer 2007, I really had no notion that it was going to become such a long-term thing. At that point, all the scattered occasions I'd posted them in the past had simply been tagged "badfic", so I kept that tag on them until last week.
Aaaaand as a result, my "badfic" tag was completely unusable for finding any posts except the header posts. Whenever I'd want to find a specific old post from that tag, I'd have to wade through pages and pages of headers instead.
The obvious solution was to remove the "badfic" tag from the header posts only, but I couldn't think how. I thought there ought to be some kind of batch-edit function. Dreamwidth does have an Edit Entries page, but you can't batch edit tags the way you can edit metadata in many music players. And anyway, I'd have to be able to take "Posts tagged with 'badfic' and 'headers & summaries'" as the group to edit, then overwrite all the tags on those posts with just one (in order to delete the tag from those posts but leave it on other ones). Dreamwidth doesn't yet have "and" filtering for tags, and Edit Entries doesn't work by tag anyway - the only thing you can do with posts grouped by tag is rename or delete their tags. And there's not a way to search for "Posts tagged 'X' but not 'Y'".
At first I thought that such a batch-edit feature might be useful, so I was considering submitting it to![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png)
dw_suggestions, but then I realized it usually wouldn't be very useful. If you're talking about batch-editing all posts with a certain tag or combination of tags, it would certainly be useful to be able to re-set the security on all of them at once or to delete all of them at once (this might already be in the pipeline - I'm not sure, but it sounds familiar), but the ability to edit all their tags at once? In order to batch-edit the tags, you'd have to overwrite what was already there, and how often would you want to take a group of posts which all have different combinations of tags and erase all of those, thereby losing information? You usually wouldn't. You'd want to rename a single tag, everywhere it appeared.
waxjism thought I'd have to go through the "headers & summaries" tag and manually delete the "badfic" tag from each and every post, which would probably have taken the next six months or more (more, probably, because I'd get bored and give up). Fortunately I realized I could do it backwards: what I did instead was skim backwards through the "badfic" tag, opening every post that wasn't to do with plebefic headers in a new window (total: 79; total posts tagged "headers & summaries": 336). In the "edit tags" page for each entry I deleted "badfic" and replaced it with a new tag, "greeble". When that was done I deleted the "badfic" tag from the Manage Tags page, then renamed "greeble" to "badfic". It was still labor-intensive compared with how I wish the internet/computers worked, but at least I was able to finish in a couple of hours.
It's so annoying when you are completely sure that the computer should be able to do this (like Delicious.com! It should be able to filter out all duplicates on the Recent page instead of showing every single person who saved something!) and it just can't (yet).
Aaaaand as a result, my "badfic" tag was completely unusable for finding any posts except the header posts. Whenever I'd want to find a specific old post from that tag, I'd have to wade through pages and pages of headers instead.
The obvious solution was to remove the "badfic" tag from the header posts only, but I couldn't think how. I thought there ought to be some kind of batch-edit function. Dreamwidth does have an Edit Entries page, but you can't batch edit tags the way you can edit metadata in many music players. And anyway, I'd have to be able to take "Posts tagged with 'badfic' and 'headers & summaries'" as the group to edit, then overwrite all the tags on those posts with just one (in order to delete the tag from those posts but leave it on other ones). Dreamwidth doesn't yet have "and" filtering for tags, and Edit Entries doesn't work by tag anyway - the only thing you can do with posts grouped by tag is rename or delete their tags. And there's not a way to search for "Posts tagged 'X' but not 'Y'".
At first I thought that such a batch-edit feature might be useful, so I was considering submitting it to
dw_suggestions, but then I realized it usually wouldn't be very useful. If you're talking about batch-editing all posts with a certain tag or combination of tags, it would certainly be useful to be able to re-set the security on all of them at once or to delete all of them at once (this might already be in the pipeline - I'm not sure, but it sounds familiar), but the ability to edit all their tags at once? In order to batch-edit the tags, you'd have to overwrite what was already there, and how often would you want to take a group of posts which all have different combinations of tags and erase all of those, thereby losing information? You usually wouldn't. You'd want to rename a single tag, everywhere it appeared. waxjism thought I'd have to go through the "headers & summaries" tag and manually delete the "badfic" tag from each and every post, which would probably have taken the next six months or more (more, probably, because I'd get bored and give up). Fortunately I realized I could do it backwards: what I did instead was skim backwards through the "badfic" tag, opening every post that wasn't to do with plebefic headers in a new window (total: 79; total posts tagged "headers & summaries": 336). In the "edit tags" page for each entry I deleted "badfic" and replaced it with a new tag, "greeble". When that was done I deleted the "badfic" tag from the Manage Tags page, then renamed "greeble" to "badfic". It was still labor-intensive compared with how I wish the internet/computers worked, but at least I was able to finish in a couple of hours.It's so annoying when you are completely sure that the computer should be able to do this (like Delicious.com! It should be able to filter out all duplicates on the Recent page instead of showing every single person who saved something!) and it just can't (yet).