krait: a sea snake (krait) swimming (Default)
Krait ([personal profile] krait) wrote2014-02-24 12:00 am

Snark incoming.

Possibly one of the most useful features of a sci-fi/fantasy fandom: it's really easy to weed out fics you don't want to read, just by checking to see which ones can't spell the fandom-specific made-up words correctly. Kismesitude? Paidi Aiji? Valdemarian? NOPE, sorry, no +1 hit count for you!

(Also useful in these fandoms: excluding "human AU" from your search results; but that's another rant for a different day.)
pebblerocker: A stern elderly alien woman. (Aiji-dowager)

[personal profile] pebblerocker 2014-02-25 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I would friggin' LOVE to read about Banichi in his equivalent of college, studying to be an incredibly good assassin. But only if it's set on his world, in his culture.

AUs that take people in a mundane setting, like a cop show, and put them in a magical fantasy or on a spaceship, can be pretty amazing. I don't get the impulse to make things LESS interesting.