Liveblogging ChicagoTARDIS: Saturday (I Aten't Dead edition)

... that she was so ignorant of Doctor Who that she'd tried to look up the word TARDIS in the dictionary and then called her agent, who laughed so hard at her he put the phone down and she had to...a new planet." "The TARDIS will go out of control." There were also jokes about writing an all-cliche story: Cliche of the Daleks.) Nick also said that he's known Gary Russell since '84 and thus there aren't...

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Ciencia Ficcion

... Adam. The teacher knows I write ciencia ficcion y fantasia, and she asked me what I thought.  I didn't know the word for "cliche" ("cliche," says my Spanish dictionary.  Who'd a thought?), so I said the ending was very common in science fiction. I'm not trying to put down Marco Denevi, whose only ...

Dragon Age: Origins - the beginning!

... romance this guy: Yes, I am aware that my picture shows up under the "shameless" entry in the dictionary. Shut up. I ended up with a character named Maria. I was surprised to see that you weren't...the ritual ends up having one out of three candidates survive, OSHA would not approve), we then go to cliche #219 and have the adviser to the king betray him. Seriously, I'm surprised he didn't have ...

WotD TF2 Drabbles: DEUX (MA)

So I've been exercising my vocabulary and writing by doing little drabbles a day based on Dictionary.com's Word of the Day and other such related words. Thing is, I've been doing most all of... in his life. "We will make it out of zis mess," he assured with an aggressive hiss, "zis terrible cliche love story." Sniper blinked before pulling on a small smile. "Yeah," he cooed, "I believe ya." But did...

hobby - means to an ...

... 'purpose' in the "intent" connotation and i couldn't help but think of the "ways and means" cliche that goes along with "function and purpose" and all the other cutesy cliches journalists just love stuffing in articles ... to sweeten it up. it's not bad now. Oh right, anyways, so i plugged "means" into dictionary.com and came up with a bunch of synonyms. i hemmed and hawed and didn't find anything ...

...is preferred with him, and he carries a worn out journal and an even more worn out Romanian-to-English dictionary, and he can be seen writing in one and reading the other, respectively. He's a hardworker, and ...want to play this well, and in a way that won't devolve into oh-it's-another-Victorian-crossdresser cliche. I don't want her to make easy mistakes, like, "Oops, I'm changing in a public place...

Nimby says, "Sampler."

... in their eleven year old male bodies. • You do realize, author persons, that putting something like expose' or cliche' or touche' into a fic only shows your readers that you're too damn lazy to track down the proper code ... is it, if you can't even manage that much, to haul your ass off to a place like dictionary.com and look the word cliché up, so you can copy and paste the é? Geez. And to have a...

"damsel in distress" in Italian

A dictionary translation gets me 'Damigella in pericolo' . But would you actually say this in Italian to convey the cliche of a passive heroine needing to be rescued by a knight in shining armour? If not, what would you say? ...oh, and for bonus points, what's the Italian equivalent of 'knight in shining armour'?

ask the author: linzeestyle

... which, Spinning the City Lights , deals really heavily with Fall Out Boy's imagined next album, "a rhyming dictionary and things seen." I pulled extremely heavily from other songs to write that story: The New Left's "...'ll never do anything like "House Lights" again, because I don't want it to become my fannish cliche. But I'm proud of it, and it remains the best thing I've ever written. I'm sorry...