I'm going, i'm going! Even if I have to brainwash people.

Contacts:
Proven Guilty, Chapter 1:
"Find out why," he said. "You have contacts within the Courts. Find out what's happening. Find out why the sidhe haven't gone to war."

Rapport:
Storm Front, Chapter 1:
"Oh. Is this, um. Harry Dresden? The, ah, wizard?"
No, I thought. It's Harry Dresden the, ah, lizard. Harry the wizard is one door down.

I don't know why, but I saw this as Scholarship:
Dead Beat, Chapter 2:
Bob wasn't supposed to be a sleeping nightmare waiting to wake up. Bob was supposed to be my wisecracking porta-geek.

Alertness, possibly?:
Blood Rites, Chapter 3:
"Wow," Thomas said. "Talk about your luck."
"Yeah. It's sort of a first for me."

Conviction (maybe I'm biased, but I think this is perfect):
Grave Peril, Chapter 2:
"You have a good heart, Harry Dresden," Michael said, a fierce grin stretching his mouth. "God will smile on this choice."
"Yeah. Tell Him I said hello, and ask Him not to Sodom and Gomorrah my apartment, and we'll be even."

I like reading fanfiction when there's nothing else for me to read, or when I'm stuck on the computer with nothing else to do. Although some of it is incredibly disturbing and the plot isn't much more than a basis for ship (or worse), some of it is well thought out. I usually write my own stories in my own fashion, and reading someone else's work (if it is well done) gives me some inspiration.

Mary Sues in general are rather tiring and are rarely interesting, made to carry out disturbing fantasies. One of my favorite sites, Smartania, has something they call "Suckfic Massacre" where they rip apart awful fanfiction painfully into little pieces line by line. Quite a few of the stories are Mary Sues which makes them hilarious.

I was also a beta for a fanfiction writer at one point. It was rather painful at one point when she stopped listening to my comments.

So, I like well-written fanfictions, but the rest can just go away. Real life fanfictions, too. I just don't get those.

I'm just going to have to agree with everything you say now.  but, yeah, I'm all but tempted to skip out of school early and run to my borders to read the chapter, even though I've already got the hardcover copy. I'm going through withdrawl or something. 

Quote from: Priscellie on February 01, 2007, 03:02:45 PM

At my local Borders, they've been telling me February 8th.

Schedule changes have been known to happen.  I'd trust Borders.

I wouldn't. They've lied to me about numerous things.