How to tell you're reading a jamjar fic.
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1) In-jokes and things which are funny to me.
2) Lots of sentences will lack subjects.
3) It's pretty likely to have a threesome.
3a) The odds of this increase significantly if the fic was started in chat
3b) At least two of the characters involved are unlikely to have much canon interaction, nonetheless, the author's notes will claim that it still makes sense. And blame someone else for it.
3b) Sometimes, there will still be a threesome even if there are only two characters actually involved.
4) There will be a scene in which people eat, or at least have a cup of tea together. This will probably be as important, in my mind, as anything else that happens in the fic.
5) There will likely be a subtext of generalised love, if it's not made explicit, for the whole world.
6) In scenes with a lot of emotional stuff, the characters will pay a lot of attention to their surroundings, thus allowing them (and the author) to avoid thinking (or writing) about all the emotional stuff.
7) "If possible, people don't say things." She pushed her hair back. "Oh, they might speak, but they avoid saying stuff, in the "says jamjar" kind of way."
8) Things, especially at the end, will generally be unsaid. I like my confessions nicely circituitous, and people will often communicate by talking about something else entirely. Or possibly, by getting someone a cup of tea or something.
9) It'll probably be triggered by someone else, a drabblememe or a challenge, and is likely to be a combination of "it seemed like a good idea at a time," "What happens if you mix this with this?" and "Hmm,I wonder how long can I hold this extremely hot poker for."
It's hard to identify traits in my own fic. What sort of things do you think are markers on my fic? Becauserubynye twigged that I'd written her ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
3_ships because of the spelling and that it was "plotty", and I'd always thought that I tended to write fic where nothing happened, or things happened, but they weren't really, like, a storyline or anything, just, you know, things that happened.
brown_betty1) In-jokes and things which are funny to me.
2) Lots of sentences will lack subjects.
3) It's pretty likely to have a threesome.
3a) The odds of this increase significantly if the fic was started in chat
3b) At least two of the characters involved are unlikely to have much canon interaction, nonetheless, the author's notes will claim that it still makes sense. And blame someone else for it.
3b) Sometimes, there will still be a threesome even if there are only two characters actually involved.
4) There will be a scene in which people eat, or at least have a cup of tea together. This will probably be as important, in my mind, as anything else that happens in the fic.
5) There will likely be a subtext of generalised love, if it's not made explicit, for the whole world.
6) In scenes with a lot of emotional stuff, the characters will pay a lot of attention to their surroundings, thus allowing them (and the author) to avoid thinking (or writing) about all the emotional stuff.
7) "If possible, people don't say things." She pushed her hair back. "Oh, they might speak, but they avoid saying stuff, in the "says jamjar" kind of way."
8) Things, especially at the end, will generally be unsaid. I like my confessions nicely circituitous, and people will often communicate by talking about something else entirely. Or possibly, by getting someone a cup of tea or something.
9) It'll probably be triggered by someone else, a drabblememe or a challenge, and is likely to be a combination of "it seemed like a good idea at a time," "What happens if you mix this with this?" and "Hmm,I wonder how long can I hold this extremely hot poker for."
It's hard to identify traits in my own fic. What sort of things do you think are markers on my fic? Because
rubynye twigged that I'd written her 3_ships because of the spelling and that it was "plotty", and I'd always thought that I tended to write fic where nothing happened, or things happened, but they weren't really, like, a storyline or anything, just, you know, things that happened.
