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 Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 7:27 pm Post subject: Categorizing fics |
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Could someone keep me on the right track here - I am debating about posting a very silly 'humour' fic (canon-correct but just plain stupid) but I'm not sure what the best category is to put it in if I do load it up.
Should it be A/U, since I'mnot seriously suggesting this is a real incident from the life of the Witch King or whatever, and it's just meant to be a laugh?
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| Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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I think AU would be a good place to put it...just on the safe side.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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Thing is it isn't really a 'what if' situation where Tolkien's world has been twisted to see how things work out, which is how I usually think of A/U.
It's a weird thing. Basically, it's a scene that might feasibly have happened in a normal canon story, but I have done it in a silly way, with slightly more humorous (at least I hope it's funny) dialogue. A bit tongue and cheek I think is the best way to describe it.
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DarkElfChilde
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| Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm. Well if you don't put it in the AU section, you can always add a little note at the top of some sort. Maybe say...slightly AU?
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| Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| I think all of my Very Silly pieces are categorised as Humour/AU. Not sure if that's right, but they certainly aren't canon-correct. Good lord, Gimli with Shag Carpet in the Glittering Caves. As *if*. |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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| DarkElfChilde wrote: | | Hmm. Well if you don't put it in the AU section, you can always add a little note at the top of some sort. Maybe say...slightly AU? |
Hmn. That's an idea. 
Still not actually sure if it should be posted to be honest. I've never done 'humour' before. And this really is silly and pointless and insulting to Ringwraiths 
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Post it anyway...apologizing in advance to all the Ringwraiths out there. 
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| Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| DarkElfChilde wrote: | | Post it anyway...apologizing in advance to all the Ringwraiths out there. |
Hmn. I suppose I can always delete it if my common-sense software kicks in. (Now is that optimistic or what? ) Good thing about the internet is it's really difficult to throw rotten tomatoes.
Stupid, but I'm more bothered about putting this nonsense on up for public consumption than I am about my serious stuff 
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DarkElfChilde
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| Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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I wouldn't mind reading it. 
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| Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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Now that you've teased us, you have to post it, SW. Nazgul and humor ... creative! What about putting it in the Palantir Section? Not that I know what is actually in there ... I should probably look before I advise anything goes there.
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I have a story in the Palantir section and I still don't know what it's actually for I just guessed it was sort of 'stuff what don't go nowhere else'.
That's a good idea though. That was where I put my last slightly daft thing.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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The Palantir section was created in case someone wrote a fic where giving too much info in the summary or in the category/character fields would spoil the surprise or the never-saw-it-coming twist in the fic.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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Ah. Oh well, the story I have in there would fit that. That's okay. So AU would be better for the humour one then.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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I've put it in AU under 'humour' at http://www.openscrolls.net/fanfic/story.php?no=1497
I don't think this is in breach of any guidelines. I hope it isn't.
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Ok, everybody go read this, and go *now*! 
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