[ SECRET POST #2437 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2437 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: Inspired by #10

[aubry]

'Feeling like a schoolgirl'

I hate it. I'm inside the head of a grown-ass woman enjoying a good shippy story and bam - there she is again "feeling like a schoolgirl" or "giddy as a schoolgirl" or "giggling like a schoolgirl again".

The women I like to read about include a Starfleet doctor, a Victorian housekeeper, several senior-ranking police and military types, a surgeon, the HBIC of Gryffindor, a witch who has never giggled in her life and various other po-faced martinets. And yet I've caught everyone of them feeling giddy as a schoolgirl in multiple fics. Rage.

And once you've noticed one instance, you'll see the phrase everywhere. Like when a spider's egg sac has hatched in your room.

Also badly Google-translated scraps of language in dialogue. For some reason my native language is particularly susceptible to being used for doggerel during sex...

Re: Inspired by #10

[kaijinscendre]

I hate "blushed like a _______" myself.

I bet that second one would be awful if you knew the language well enough. What is your native language if I may ask?

Re: Inspired by #10

[aubry]

Irish. I think the Scots have it even worse. There are enough characters of Scots/Irish descent that writers are tempted to have them use exotic terms of endearment, and not enough native speakers around to balance them. (Though I've seen plenty of poor French too.)

In fairness, it can be very funny. I fondly recall an old Buffy/Angel fic where Angel called Buffy "my strange heart-attack".

Re: Inspired by #10

[(Anonymous)]

It's "Making out like teenagers" that does it for me. Like, I did 0 making out in my teenaged years so I may already be biased, but something about how often it shows up to denote, like, giddy reckless passion or whatever annoys me.