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How to detect your friendly neighbourhood fanfic author...
From various people on my f-list, but I think I spotted it first at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
espresso_addict 's LJ ...
Top ten giveaways that you are reading a story bybimo:
1. If you don't happen to be friends with the author, chances are that you've discovered the story only by accident
2. You are puzzled by the rather absurd title, which only makes sense in retrospect once you are finished with reading
3. The text itself is quite short, roughly between 500-1500 words, and the plot description doesn't strike you as very helpful since there is very little actual plot
4. However, there's a surprisingly catchy opening sentence or paragraph
5. The author clearly prefers Microcosm to Macrocosm, the focus on details to the creation of earth-shattering epics. The characters' inner worlds are more important than their current surroundings
6. To a certain degree, the author's language and choice of words mimics that of her characters.
7. Lots of other 'Modernisms' as well. Open embrace of the present tense, free indirect discourse and interior monologue. Occasionally a slight tendency towards Imagism
8. One of the story's main themes is "Friendship and loyalty, or the lack thereof"
9. The author is utterly non-romantic and doesn't really believe in 'happily ever after'. Even the more hopeful endings bear traces of underlying dilemmas and impending doom
10. If you are involved in only one or two fandoms, it will be somewhat difficult for you to find other pieces by the same author. While Bimo has actually produced quite a lot of stories over the years, they were all written for different TV shows
espresso_addict 's LJ ...Top ten giveaways that you are reading a story by
bimo:1. If you don't happen to be friends with the author, chances are that you've discovered the story only by accident
2. You are puzzled by the rather absurd title, which only makes sense in retrospect once you are finished with reading
3. The text itself is quite short, roughly between 500-1500 words, and the plot description doesn't strike you as very helpful since there is very little actual plot
4. However, there's a surprisingly catchy opening sentence or paragraph
5. The author clearly prefers Microcosm to Macrocosm, the focus on details to the creation of earth-shattering epics. The characters' inner worlds are more important than their current surroundings
6. To a certain degree, the author's language and choice of words mimics that of her characters.
7. Lots of other 'Modernisms' as well. Open embrace of the present tense, free indirect discourse and interior monologue. Occasionally a slight tendency towards Imagism
8. One of the story's main themes is "Friendship and loyalty, or the lack thereof"
9. The author is utterly non-romantic and doesn't really believe in 'happily ever after'. Even the more hopeful endings bear traces of underlying dilemmas and impending doom
10. If you are involved in only one or two fandoms, it will be somewhat difficult for you to find other pieces by the same author. While Bimo has actually produced quite a lot of stories over the years, they were all written for different TV shows