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So I finally got around to doing that "I Write Like" meme, just to see if I got any consistency at all.  Twenty-five different writing samples (all from fics) yielded 10 different authors, though Stephen King and David Foster Wallace showed up much more often than any of the others at 8 and 7 times, respectively.  Which is a bit funny, since I love Stephen King but, God help me, I cannot get through an entire D.F. Wallace book to save my life.  Not even the ones of reasonable-length, and I almost never give up reading a book in the middle.  I even made it through American Psycho, even though I was by turns horribly nauseated and astoundingly bored.  But now is not the time for my Why Does Everyone Think Bret Easton Ellis is So Fucking Great, He Is Average at Best and None of His Characters Are Remotely Likeable rant.

Interestingly, I got almost entirely contemporary authors -- Jack London and Nabokov each showed up once and Raymond Chandler twice, but everyone else I got was/is alive and writing during my lifetime.  I don't know exactly which criteria the generator uses, but I'm not entirely surprised.  I use a lot of short paragraphs and a ton of dialogue and don't engage in a whole lot of description, so maybe that has something to do with it.  I did get Stephenie Meyer twice and Dan Brown once.  I haven't read any of the Twilight books, so I don't know what Meyer's actual writing is like -- should I be worried?  As for the Dan Brown... well, let's just call that a total anomaly, shall we?

I've got another Nina-verse fic just about finished.  I was going to wait and post it right after the humiliation fic to balance out the nasty with schmoop, but the nasty just isn't coming together.  Possibly because it's (go ahead and get your pearls clutch-ready) ZQ/Jeremy Irons with only background Pinto, and after the initial idea, my brain is now attempting to reject it.  Which one of you Jeremy-Irons-loving bastards has been hacking into my dreams?  Anyway, I might just go ahead and post the schmoop.

Wow, this post had more hostility in it than I'd originally intended.  I would like to hereby apologize to: Jeremy Irons, the estate of David Foster Wallace, fans of Bret Easton Ellis (even though you are woefully misguided, I still love you), and people who have not yet seen Inception.  Dan Brown can go jump in a lake and see if his piles and piles of hundred-dollar bills save him from the ravenous alligators.  THEY DON'T EAT MONEY, DANIEL.  YOU ARE STILL MADE OF MEAT LIKE THE REST OF US.

FIC: Star Trek RPS -- You Can Even Bring the Effant

Title: You Can Even Bring the Effant
Author: the_deep_magic
Pairing: Pinto
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 4,908
Warning: kid!fic and all its accompanying fluff/schmoop, Mrs. Quinto as a character
Disclaimer: Nina, Tory, and Aunt Ruth are mine; everyone else is not
Summary: Zach’s cousin has run off and left her daughter behind.  Who’s going to take care of her?
A/N: The official beginning of the Nina ‘verse.  If the first part looks familiar, it’s because I wrote it for my timestamp meme a few months ago.  This takes place in early 2012; Nina is about two and a half.

( Chris followed the noise to the guest room, where a crib had been set up by the bed. Lying in it, surrounded by a wealth of stuffed animals, was a little girl just waking up from her nap. )

Nina 'Verse Master Post/Timeline

Series: Nina ‘verse (may get a better title later)
Author: the_deep_magic
Pairing: Pinto
Rating: varies by part
Disclaimer: Nina, Tory, and Aunt Ruth are mine; everyone else is not.
Warning: tons o’ schmoop, various Pine and Quinto relatives as characters
Description: Zach and Chris adopt and raise a little girl named Nina

2009
Zach and Chris get together (April)
Nina is born (September)

2012
You Can Even Bring the Effant (PG-13, 4,908 words)

2021
Your Changing Body (PG-13, 4,532 words)

2024
Smells Like Teen Spirit (PG-13, 2,255 words)