#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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Re: Fic Discussion- Burn Our Fingers and Change Our Names

[(Anonymous)]

I keep telling myself I'm gonna wait until this story is complete to finish reading it, because it's silly and melodramatic and unnecessary, but every time I see a new chapter I pounce on it like I'm a starving rat and it's a can of Pringles that just fell from the sky.

Re: Fic Discussion- Burn Our Fingers and Change Our Names

[(Anonymous)]

IT'S SO BAD but so goooood.

Withholding my kudos is the only thing maintaining my dignity.

Re: Fic Discussion- Burn Our Fingers and Change Our Names

[(Anonymous)]

na

IKR?? before i read it, i thought that comment from upthread about the big bad middle school bruins was deliberately ott, but they LITERALLY are middle schoolers! they won't answer his calls! they don't invite him out! no one will sit with him in the cafeteria!

no lie, i live for this shit. i wish hockey rpf had like 1000% more whump and lemonfic.

Re: Fic Discussion- Burn Our Fingers and Change Our Names

[(Anonymous)]

*lemon chicken fic, dammit

Re: Fic Discussion- Burn Our Fingers and Change Our Names

[(Anonymous)]

I love that fandom lingo means that both "lemon fic" and "lemon chicken fic" are valid phrases but with COMPLETELY different meanings.

Re: Fic Discussion- Burn Our Fingers and Change Our Names

[(Anonymous)]

na

Could someone explain them to me? It's one of those things where I've heard these phrases for years but never in any kind of self-explanatory context...

Re: Fic Discussion- Burn Our Fingers and Change Our Names

[(Anonymous)]

A "lemon" fic is an old-school fandom term for something porny/NC-17. I honestly have no idea as to the origin. I know there used to be some distinction between lemons and limes, but by the time I got to fandom circa 2002 that was falling out of favor and I never figured out the difference.

Lemon chicken fic is a particular trope where everyone else in the story is really mean to the central character, but then (usually) realize their behavior was wrong/based on a misunderstanding, and comforting apology follows. I think the origin is SGA fandom - someone who was there might be able to answer this more specifically.

Re: Fic Discussion- Burn Our Fingers and Change Our Names

[(Anonymous)]

NA

I was never in the fandom, but apparently in SGA there was a famous fic where everyone is mean to Rodney after he screws up in canon. This includes lemon chicken being served in the cafeteria when everyone knows Rodney is allergic to lemon, presumably done deliberately to spite him. So it's that level of OTT meanness/woobification.

I think a lot of Bennguin fic that starts out with Seguin on the Bruins dips into that tropiness a little, but I could use some more with a larger variety of villain.

Re: Fic Discussion- Burn Our Fingers and Change Our Names

[(Anonymous)]

NA

Someone actually compiled a list, rated by degree of lemon-chicken-ness, of all the fics that involved Rodney being forced to be penitent, with varying degrees of hurt/comfort after he'd been punished enough. (My fav was the one where he died saving Atlantis and the whole expedition realized how much he'd done for them and wept at his deathbed, all tearfully wishing they'd been nicer to him in life. But it was too late! Poor, poor Rodney.)

Oh, SGA fandom, the gift that keeps on giving.

Re: Fic Discussion- Burn Our Fingers and Change Our Names

[(Anonymous)]

Given that the bad thing Rodney did was destroy a solar system, the phenomenon is really interesting. I think it says a lot about how people relate to their faves and handle criticism of them that's still really prominent in fandom today.

Here's a quick rundown on it: http://fanlore.org/wiki/Post-Trinity_Phenomenon

Re: Fic Discussion- Burn Our Fingers and Change Our Names

[(Anonymous)]

It was uninhabited!

Re: Fic Discussion- Burn Our Fingers and Change Our Names

[(Anonymous)]

Counterpoint: McKay and Sheppard would have died too if not for the deus ex machina.

Re: Fic Discussion- Burn Our Fingers and Change Our Names

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I just went to look for that link to post and got side-tracked :D. Good times.

(It was only 4/5ths of a solar system! And it was uninhabited!)

Re: Fic Discussion- Burn Our Fingers and Change Our Names

[(Anonymous)]

It was 5/6ths, wasn't it? /missing the point

Re: Fic Discussion- Burn Our Fingers and Change Our Names

[(Anonymous)]

Huh. Thank you. You'd think I'd have figured out lemons.

The SGA thing, I had no chance. :)

Re: Fic Discussion- Burn Our Fingers and Change Our Names

[(Anonymous)]

The lemon term originated in manga/anime fandoms and I've been told by people in that side of things that it actually originated among native Japanese-speaking fandom before migrating to non-native speaking manga/anime fandom and eventually the rest of fandom.

Google seems to back that. Looks like there was a soft-core thing in the 70s called "Cream Lemon" that resulted in "lemon" becoming actualfax Japanese-language slang, which was adopted by people in fandom as a handy descriptor/rating.

Re: Fic Discussion- Burn Our Fingers and Change Our Names

[(Anonymous)]

Ikr. It's ridiculous and tropey and falls apart if you think about it even for ten seconds but I'm addicted

Re: Fic Discussion- Burn Our Fingers and Change Our Names

[(Anonymous)]

I couldn't get into it at first, but then the second time I went back I just skipped all the Bruins stuff and started from him and Jamie making eyes at each other and it's so thoroughly enjoyable that way.

Re: Fic Discussion- Burn Our Fingers and Change Our Names

[(Anonymous)]

...me too. I genuinely am looking forward to the next chapter.

Re: Fic Discussion- Burn Our Fingers and Change Our Names

[(Anonymous)]

na

Based on how this chapter ended, I think there's hope that Tyler is going to be suitably traumatized for a while and will do some emotional processing before he gets his HEA, so I'm cautiously excited.

Re: Fic Discussion- Burn Our Fingers and Change Our Names

[(Anonymous)]

sa

NOPE.

Re: Fic Discussion- Burn Our Fingers and Change Our Names

[(Anonymous)]

lol

Re: Fic Discussion- Burn Our Fingers and Change Our Names

[(Anonymous)]

Well that was underwhelming.

Re: Fic Discussion- Burn Our Fingers and Change Our Names

[(Anonymous)]

AHAHA

But also same. I was only reading this fic for the emotional fallout, and it robs me of that? What a waste of time.

Re: Fic Discussion- Burn Our Fingers and Change Our Names

[(Anonymous)]

...that was the fictional equivalent of a ruined orgasm.