The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody

[tzikeh]

This was posted to a Remus/Sirius community I'm on:

Much as I love general R/S fics (i.e Sirius + Remus = Awww!/Crushing Angst), I've been feeling the need to read something with an actual plot, narrative twists and all that. Does anyone know any fics that include R/S (either as a main or background pairing)that also have a proper plot? Preferably action/adventury, but i'll take anything. Basically the antithesis of PWP - it's really quite difficult to explain what i'm talking about! (emphasis mine)

Hm.

According to her, it's really quite difficult to explain what she's talking about.

It's a relatively simple term; one usually learns it in grade school.

I believe the term she's looking for is STORY. Not a PWP, not an angst-fest, not a drabble... you know, a STORY.

*headdesk*

Comments

[dragovianknight.livejournal.com]

There's something vaguely disturbing yet hypnotic about the...jiggliness of your icon.

::stares at it some more::

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. This person should be glad they are not in UNCLE fandom, where people would now be telling her how she doesn't *really* like slash the way she should because she's asking for stuff with a plot... ;)

[dragovianknight.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, how Uncle fandom has fallen! I remember when that's where some of the plottiest stories were found!

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

Still is. That's what the arguments are about.

[dragovianknight.livejournal.com]

Okay, people arguing over it weirds me out, but thank goodness the plotty stories are still there.

[gloss]

owowOW my *brain*!

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

Lol!

That's all I can say.

Love your icon, BTW.

[frahulettaes.livejournal.com]

oh dear. lost in her own meta.

[taraljc.livejournal.com]

and people wonder why I'm a bitter old fandom queen.

(well, no, I don't think anyone wonders, since I tend to tell anyone at the slightest provocation.)

cheers to her for wanting something with a plot, tho. she's already risen in my estimation just for that. I was run out of one fandom on a rail for daring to suggest that storeis with plots are better than stories without plots.

[dragovianknight.livejournal.com]

Oh, please, tell me you're kidding! Please?

...or at least warn me away from the fandom...

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

I do love your Prisoner icon.

bwa!

[thermidor.livejournal.com]

That actually made me spew!

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

I just put out a recs request the other day (in dS) for fic with plots, but I don't *think* I had any particular trouble explaining that I wanted actual stories. Apart from that, she and I are, like...identical twins!

On a related note...I'm beginning to wonder if people are losing interest in writing stories with plots. Non-pwp, non-drabble fiction seems mighty thin on the ground in a lot of fandoms.

[finabair.livejournal.com]

Ah, but is the writer of this note or her audience the inspiration for the percussion music your noggin is producing? I mean, if she's writing to a bunch of folk who don't seem to produce a story when they write, but they call what they've written a story, then...it WOULD be quite difficult to explain what she's talking about...to them.

Also, love the Prisoner icon. It somehow captures much of the essence of the entire show, right there...

<g>

[lapillus]

Given that most writers of "modern" fiction seem to have a similar difficulty, it is perhaps not surprising that fans do, also.