This is the main masterlist to all of my art and fics and resources. I made it so this lj might be easier to navigate since I know my tags are a bit of a mess.




( Smallville Creations ) fanfics and fanart

These are the last of them :)

 

I got the letter "L" from mer_moonchild

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter
2. List (upload if you want) 5 songs that start with that letter
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

1. Live and Let Die - Guns n' Roses
2. London Calling - The Clash
3. Lying to Yourself - Asia
4. Life Less Frightening - Rise Against
5. Lonely Street - Kansas

Zip file - http://download.yousendit.com/BB61E99559039A00

Sometimes, you read a fic, and it's interesting and wonderful and then something happens and it annoys the hell out of you. These are the things that really really annoy me.


10. Great fics that are shorter than 1000 words

Sometimes when you read a really good fic, you never ever want it to end. And some times some fics are so good with great ideas behind it and the character dynamics are just perfect and the wording is just amazing and it's over in a couple of hundred words. Really, that's just evil! It's especially bad in femme fics because there is never enough long femme fics around.

9. Romance fics that have characters admit they love each other too soon

There is a book that is considered the Romeo & Juliet of Thailand. It's called Ku Gum and it's the epic romance about a Thai girl and a Japanese soldier during World War II. I'm pretty certain that it's very historically inaccurate, but it's still very popular. For those who don't know any Asian history, during WWII, Japan "occupied" Thailand (note the air quotes) and in the story the Japanese soldier falls for a Thai girl who was the daughter of a Thai general. The girl however hates the Japanese (and was helping American prisoners escape), but the soldier was persistant and a love/hate relationship develops. They end up getting married for dimplomatic reasons and even throughout the marriage, the girl insists she still hates him. Then there were bombs dropped, and as the soldier lays dying, the girl finally admits that she loves him.

Now, I'm not expecting in a fic that the characters don't admit they love each other until one of them is dying, but still, I think timing is key in a good romance and sure some fics do it early and it's still works but other times, you can tell that it's just too soon. And it's not just saying I love you to each other, but also admitting that love to themselves and i think it depends on the fic and the characters but sometimes you can tell the timing is just not right. For example, in a Cassie/Chuck fic a hard ass like Major John Cassie would never admit he was in love with Chuck to himself the moment he realises he feels something for him, maybe he'd go with weird attraction or "caring" first but he wouldn't jump in with the four letter word.

8. Badly written yo-yoing

I know I just complained about couples getting together too soon, but still, the opposite is just as bad. I of course have nothing against yo-yoing perse, I'm a big fan of UST, what bothers me is how it's written. I think once again it comes down to character development, does the yo-yoing lead anywhere for the characters? I think a little yo-yoing is fine if it doesn't drag on for too long. I don't know how to explain it better than that but an example would be canon Clark and Lana of season 3 Smallville, now that was bad yo-yoing, you can clearly tell that the only reason they keep playing the will they/won't they game is because the writers don't know what the hell to do with Lana's character.

7. The Slash Cheerleader

Kind of like the Madonna/Whore Complex in mainstream media, but in slash, the women just aren't the ones that are love interests. Either they're the bitch with no redeeming qualities getting in the way of slash or they're the cheerleaders of slash, pushing the two guys together. Now I don't see anything wrong with a girl being supportive, it's just the dichotomy is everywhere added with the fact that sometimes you feel like the only purpose of the female character is to cheer the slash. Also, when the characterization is off I do feel like it's not so much the female character being supportive as the author putting herself into the story and fangirling about slash from within the fic.

6. The use of the term "scissoring" in slash fics

Pretty self explainatory

5. PWPs that aren't kinky

It's just a taste thing. For me it's either long plotty fics or porny fics that are kinky.

4. Femmeslash fics that are clearly guys writing out their porn fantasies without any characterization behind it

This would have ranked to be on the same level as slash fics that make male characters come off as women except i don't stumble onto these often enough for it to rank as high. Still, even in porny fics I expect some characterization (even out of character characterization), otherwise they're not really the characters at all, just bodies having sex with character names on them and well, frankly I'd rather just watch porn and then imagine the characters there myself on my own.

3. Romance fics that have a great dynamic before the characters got together that turn to OOC annoying sappy mush once they become a couple

I really hate it when this happens. The worst one i think was a Buffy/Faith that was really really great, then they got together and it was all, oh I love you so much baby! I'd do anything for you, your the most perfect and prettiest girl in all of Toyland... ok not really but along those lines. Also saw the same thing happen to Brooke/Sam, Harry/Draco and Sam/Dean and really, it's a tragedy when this happens. Lots of perfectly good fic that I suddenly find myself no longer able to stomach. Just because they got together doesn't mean the bantering has to stop, they can still tease each other and have their egos clash or whatever. They're still the same characters, and Draco will probably still say Slytherin is better than Gryffindor, and Dean Winchester will probably still say "No chick Flick moments", even if he doesn't mean it as much as he did before and chances are Faith and Buffy will still continue to compete with each other in almost everything, just maybe occasionally they'd let the other one win. I enjoy cutesy fluffiness in a fic and the fluffiness that comes when a couple finally gets together is really gives me the warm and fuzzies but IMO there's a lot of difference between fluffiness and out of character annoying sappy mushiness.

2. Slash fics turn male characters into a woman, unintentionally

I love genderswap fics and mind fuck fics where the male characters get turned into women, whether physically or mentally, I even enjoy the weird fics that have them that way deliberately, so no, that's not what I'm talking about, what I'm talking about is when a male character gets totally out of character and comes off sounding like a woman and you can really feel it in the fics. This happens way too often in slash IMO.

1. Bashing of characters that are an alternative love interest to the main characters

This is the most annoying thing in a fic for me, and it's even more annoying in how wide spread it is, it's just everywhere and I suddenly find myself unable to continue lots fics because of it. Seriously, a relationship is about the people involved in the relationship and how well they fit together as persons. If you have to resort to making the opposition look bad just to make it work then maybe those people shouldn't be in a relationship in the first place. It's a relationship, not the fucking Miss World pageant! It's also even worse for me in slash fics, as much as the slash cheerleader annoys me, her counter part, the bitch is even worse and it seems to happen so much with the leading lady in any fandom with lots of slash. I know the author don't mean it, but the way it's written does come out like slash authors hate women (or well, women in the media actually) and it's even worse when the female characters are written out of character and without any sort of character depth... of course the way John Winchester gets bashed in a Sam/Dean, Dean/John fic is really bad as well. I hate fics that have him as the monster just to further the Sam/Dean storyline, it's a waste of a really great and complex character IMO.

And I managed to upload a few more.

Ok, finally got round to making one character handpuppet icons. Also uploaded some new stock photos

Sample

Sorry i don't have the individual character icons yet but i haven't figured out how i'm gonna do those yet. Anyway here are the shipper stuff, if there's any ship you want that i don't have, just tell me and i'll try to make it for you.




Some cast icons, based on s4, s5 and s7 and JLA




Credits

Handpuppet templates belong to </a></b></a>lynxgriffin

Hybrid Genesis
</b></a>
Mayang

Oxoniensis


For more handpuppet stuff, look under the handpuppets tag.

Here's a Lana wall, this one is made mostly by </a>fotw_sv though.

Credits

Text from song "Dangerous Mind" by Within Temptation

Hybrid Genesis

Misplaced Moments

da fonts

sinful_caesar

I also want to add that I have just started a Smallville screencaps folder on my photobucket account. It's not organized by episode and not complete yet and the caps are not huge (835x480 pixels) but I just thought it might be helpful for smaller pieces and for people who doesn't want to go through 10 pages of caps in an episode looking for scenes of their favourite ship since I'm organizing my caps be character and ship. So far only the Chloe/Lana season 1 and some of season 2 caps are completely uploaded though.

They're here

Finally got round to making these. Once again, templates and style belong to </a></b></a>lynxgriffin

Here are the super heroes

 

And my all time favourite none regular character of SV

Other puppet stuff is under the handpuppets tag :)