Stargate Fan Awards
Aug. 10th, 2009 09:12 amVoting closes on the Stargate Fan Awards in 5 days.
I'm in the process of trying to get my act in gear and vote. Gah. The Angst category is a nightmare. I started at the top and read down and all three of the stories I have read thus far were all possibiles for my vote. I probably will not be voting for myself here. Though I really love the final chapter of Serial Rediscovery, so who knows. I could cast a vanity vote. But I'm guessing not.
In contrast to the romance category, which is lamer than lame and I will be voting for myself, thanks! (Um. Hope nobody I love was on the romance list. Been a while since I reviewed it. Eep.)
[UPDATE: OK. Clearly, I should have gone back to review the content of the Romance section. AS Her Royal Highness AND![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
starglyph are both in there with *lovely* entries. I do know at one point as I was reading there I was quite exasperated. Hmmmm. *prods site* OK. I think it was actually a *different* category I was reading in, because that list in Romance doesn't look familiar at all. Oh, well, whatever. ONE of the categories SUCKED EGGS. But now I can't remember which one. Which means I have WAY MORE left to read than I thought. Until I hit on the category where everything sucked and I can go, yay, I read all these! In a sort of mixed emotions kind of way.]
Anyway, go and vote, all you SG-1 slashers! :D
In the process, this morning I was reading Eyes Wide Shut, by Pepe, and had a few thoughts. (Beware TOTALLY NOT SAFE FOR WORK artwork.)
First, a delicious, yummy piece of angsty goodness. Mmmmm.
But with odd things.
First, creeping Britishisms, but not too bad. The writing is excellent, so as a Yank who used to try to write Bean, I'm inclined to be not too critical.
But one thing really stood out for me.
She uses the phrase "go with." As in "I go with men."
Now, as a Yank, I thought this phrase basically meant "have sex with." But I always put it in the context of dating or at least sex by choice.
( Cut for minor spoilers )
So either it is a much more neutral term than I thought, and really is ONLY another way to say "have sex with." or, when Jack says, "Would you really have gone with it?" he's saying something very high school about a very dangerous and disturbing situation.
Here is where it is important to be able to identify your own regionalisms or have a beta who will do it for you. No matter how many times I told myself I was reading it wrong, that "go with" must just be a neutral term for "have sex with," Daniel, and particularly Jack, both seemed faintly ridiculous to me in this, because they were talking about sex and attempted rape like 15-year-old boys. Inexperienced 15-year-old boys. It would have been a much better piece if she had used a more dialectically neutral term.
And it is a warning to me, too, as a writer. Because this was a good read. Packed with intriguing insights, emotionally loaded, a hot adventure in first time that was believable and sizzling and real on a lot of levels. A really, really good read. Well written. And yet, with this constant, niggling problem obviously not even identified by the writer as an issue.
Makes me cringe every time I think of my Beanie, and scared to go back and see if I ever had him say "ass" instead of "arse." Probably I did. *refuses to look*
I'm in the process of trying to get my act in gear and vote. Gah. The Angst category is a nightmare. I started at the top and read down and all three of the stories I have read thus far were all possibiles for my vote. I probably will not be voting for myself here. Though I really love the final chapter of Serial Rediscovery, so who knows. I could cast a vanity vote. But I'm guessing not.
In contrast to the romance category, which is lamer than lame and I will be voting for myself, thanks! (Um. Hope nobody I love was on the romance list. Been a while since I reviewed it. Eep.)
[UPDATE: OK. Clearly, I should have gone back to review the content of the Romance section. AS Her Royal Highness AND
starglyph are both in there with *lovely* entries. I do know at one point as I was reading there I was quite exasperated. Hmmmm. *prods site* OK. I think it was actually a *different* category I was reading in, because that list in Romance doesn't look familiar at all. Oh, well, whatever. ONE of the categories SUCKED EGGS. But now I can't remember which one. Which means I have WAY MORE left to read than I thought. Until I hit on the category where everything sucked and I can go, yay, I read all these! In a sort of mixed emotions kind of way.] Anyway, go and vote, all you SG-1 slashers! :D
In the process, this morning I was reading Eyes Wide Shut, by Pepe, and had a few thoughts. (Beware TOTALLY NOT SAFE FOR WORK artwork.)
First, a delicious, yummy piece of angsty goodness. Mmmmm.
But with odd things.
First, creeping Britishisms, but not too bad. The writing is excellent, so as a Yank who used to try to write Bean, I'm inclined to be not too critical.
But one thing really stood out for me.
She uses the phrase "go with." As in "I go with men."
Now, as a Yank, I thought this phrase basically meant "have sex with." But I always put it in the context of dating or at least sex by choice.
( Cut for minor spoilers )
So either it is a much more neutral term than I thought, and really is ONLY another way to say "have sex with." or, when Jack says, "Would you really have gone with it?" he's saying something very high school about a very dangerous and disturbing situation.
Here is where it is important to be able to identify your own regionalisms or have a beta who will do it for you. No matter how many times I told myself I was reading it wrong, that "go with" must just be a neutral term for "have sex with," Daniel, and particularly Jack, both seemed faintly ridiculous to me in this, because they were talking about sex and attempted rape like 15-year-old boys. Inexperienced 15-year-old boys. It would have been a much better piece if she had used a more dialectically neutral term.
And it is a warning to me, too, as a writer. Because this was a good read. Packed with intriguing insights, emotionally loaded, a hot adventure in first time that was believable and sizzling and real on a lot of levels. A really, really good read. Well written. And yet, with this constant, niggling problem obviously not even identified by the writer as an issue.
Makes me cringe every time I think of my Beanie, and scared to go back and see if I ever had him say "ass" instead of "arse." Probably I did. *refuses to look*
