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[turps]

Happy Birthday wishes go out to both lazydwarf and luciamad I hope you both have fantastic days ♥

People that know this stuff better than me, explain what a one shot is in terms of storyfinding comms.. I thought it meant a one off story, but that doesn't make sense. Because do people really only want to read multi part epics where the total of each chapter is less than 1000 words? Wait, what am I saying? Of course they do.

I have such a love/hate thing going on with storyfinder comms. ¹

I want to read epic length stories where someone gets impregnated by aliens. and someone steps up to be the baby daddy, but there's a crash and the baby is aborted so the boymomma loses his mind with grief and there's blood vomitting and then Mikey dies.

I'll read any pairing but I hate waycest, Gerard/Ray, Bob/anyone, Mikey/Frank and no Ray sex please, ewww. No stand alones, and it has to be rated G or above.

¹ In which I mean I love them beyond reason really, and yes, I'd read that.

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[nopseud]

I always understood 'one shot' to mean a single story rather than a series -- by series, I mean a set of stories each of which is complete in itself, but which are all set in the same 'world' with the same version of the characters. Not a single story posted as chapters.

But that might not be the right definition for bandom.


Also I'm confused. Is the person asking about a story they actually read before, do they expect someone to write it for them, or are they asking on the off-chance that there just happens to be an alien MRPEG with space-ships crashing and ass-miscarriages and blood vomitting and then Mikey dies?

[turps33.livejournal.com]

That makes sense. It's just not a description I'd seen used until bandom, other fandoms may use it too.

Someone really needs to give me a fandom specific fannish terms dictionary.

Well, that description is mine, a sort of pulled together list of stuff I see all the time. But it's surprising how often insane stuff like that comes along.

I've seen some crazy requests, really specific ones too. Which always makes me wonder if they really expect someone to know a story like that, or are just fishing and hope something thinks that's the best idea ever OMG! I must write that.

Sadly the paring thing happens all the time though.

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

that's the definition I'd use for one shot, or single shot.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Cool. At least that's one thing crossed off the list of things I need to know.