Fanfiction

So, someone has declared this Fanfiction Appreciation week and those of us who read fanfiction are supposed to praise a fanfiction writer a day.

As the week started yesterday, this means that I'm already a day behind. I'll do a quick twofer though. In the Smallville slash fandom, I find myself reading and rereading Amy's stories. She does gentle humor better than many and doesn't make Clark the butt of all jokes. Velvet was the first thing of hers I read. It's Clark/Lex smut, but I return to it like an old friend.

In the Stargate fandom, I have to give all praise and credit to alyburns. I had read a few slash stories when I was first getting interested in the series. Many of them were subpar (mostly because I hadn't found my favorite sites yet), and I stumbled across a story called My Country 'Tis of Thee. It's not an easy story to read. Among other things, it posits that some of our political leaders have fewer morals than a Port Said pimp with an underaged sister. But she caught me in her net and made me see and feel the relationships, the good and the bad of it all. Sideburns made me cry, DAMMIT. She caught me for the fandom.

Mind you, I think the fandom may want to throw me back. *g*

Television Without Pity Quote (Grammar)

Because everyone's gone all grammatical in the past week, I thought this was appropriate.

Miss Alli in her Amazing Race recap this week says:

"They close with one of my favorite grammatical forms, the irrelevant-disjunctive, when they say that people will think they're ditzy, but it's a game."

I'm hereby applying for the irrelevant-disjunctive to be an actual tense. I'll settle for it just being a mood, like the subjunctive, but really, it's so much more useful than that.

Favorite examples?