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Do you put Tuckerisms/In-jokes in your fics?

Discussion in 'Fan Fiction and Writing Resource' started by ZebulaNebula, Feb 22, 2006.

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  1. Juliet316

    Juliet316 Chosen One star 10

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    Jon, Ish, I don't have the prologue finished yet (it's the Best of Both Worlds AU that I've been talking about), when I get it done I'll mail it off to you guys.
     
  2. Rose_Skywalker

    Rose_Skywalker Jedi Padawan star 4

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    I used a line from the Rocky Horror picture show in one of my fics, but nobody got it. :(
     
  3. MsLanna

    MsLanna Jedi Master star 6

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    I do...[face_blush]
    But I'm not expectin people to find them, they're hilarious enough to me.:D

    But then I think a line like it's raining bounty hunters is self-explanatory.

    In a not yet posted chapter will be a refence to Pratchett, but quite hidden, so...
    But like with his books, you don't have to get all the in jokes, but the more you get the funnier.[face_laugh]
     
  4. Souderwan

    Souderwan Jedi Grand Master star 6

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    You just plain crack me up, Yodi!! [face_laugh]
     
  5. poor yorick

    poor yorick Ex-Mod star 6 VIP - Former Mod/RSA VIP - Game Host

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    I name drinks after people. :p

    This started a long time ago as a return-favor (or just a payback?) to solojones for turning me into the equivalent of a soft-core porn queen in "The Shadow of the Chosen." I turned her into what was basically "intergalactic Jack Daniels" in response. Lots of people have been turned into drinks in my fics since then . . . a surprising number of TFN usernames make very good GFFA drink names, and apparently I write about drinks a lot. :p
     
  6. SpiritofEowyn

    SpiritofEowyn Jedi Padawan star 4

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    Inspired by this thread. I have recently put in another reference.

    Heart of Gold a nightclub/bar on Corusaunt is referencing A firefly episode where Inara figures out she loves Mal, and everything gets messed up and ruined. Is this a sign of where the fic is headed? [face_mischief] The waiters are inspired from the bar in that episode.

    I have yet to be able to successfully put someone's name into a fanfic. It never sounds right or Star Wars-y enough. How were you able to make someone's name sound like a drink?:confused: "I'll order a kateydidnt, DarthIshtar and an Idrelle" Sounds sooo odd and too much not like drinks.
    How do you manage it?
     
  7. TheCrazyRodian

    TheCrazyRodian Jedi Master star 4

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    Though your screen name rather lends itself to being mistaken for a drink, doesn't it?

    A Spirit of Eowyn on the rocks, please. :p
     
  8. DarthIshtar

    DarthIshtar Chosen One star 10

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    "He said... we haven't had that spirit [of eowyn] here since 1969" ~The true lyrics to Hotel California by the Eagles.

    Noelie and I are developing a universe for an OC named Noela Ovorp (the one whose last name is Provo backwards and whose first name is a corruption of Noelie's). She keeps doing things like making the youngest sister Meredith (the first part of my pen name) who has red hair and green eyes (like me) or another sister whose name resembles her own sister in real life. It's rather fun.
     
  9. thesporkbewithyou

    thesporkbewithyou Jedi Master star 4

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    *nods* I do whenever they fit.

    For my Dare Challenge vig, the name of the cantina it took place in was based of the phrase "Once in a blue moon". For a V-Day vig I wrote, I put a different spin on Padme's line "Anakin, you're breaking my heart."

    Okay, those aren't exactly in-jokes. But in a recent vig I wrote, I made a MacBeth reference (that play is just awsome!) and for Ophelia's challenge the main OC in my excerpt (who was created for that) was based off of Indiana Jones.
     
  10. TheCrazyRodian

    TheCrazyRodian Jedi Master star 4

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    I like to word certain sentences or descriptions to echo images and themes and lines from classic sources--especially the Bible. I don't do it a lot, because I'm not a big fan of saturating my writing with transparent allusions to well-known things, but a metaphor here, a snippet of dialogue there can work very well.
     
  11. 1Yodimus_Prime

    1Yodimus_Prime Jedi Master star 4

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    "Heart of Gold a nightclub/bar on Corusaunt is referencing A firefly episode..." - Spirit

    I just want to point out that this is actually a double reference, because The Heart of Gold is also the name of the prototype ship in "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" which contains the infamous Infinite Improbability Drive. Now there's a layer to this thread I don't think anyone has touched on (for sanity's sake, most likely) ...unintentional in-jokes and references. Yow
     
  12. SpiritofEowyn

    SpiritofEowyn Jedi Padawan star 4

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    Rodian-:eek: I'd never thought of that. I just think LOTR that the possibility of it being a drink never filters through.

    1YPrime- I hadn't thought of that even though I've read some of those books and saw the movie.8-}

    Mara and Luke go out-- Improbibility drive. :p

    I do wonder about those unententional references. Literary Criticism is based on seeing what was never meant.
     
  13. MsLanna

    MsLanna Jedi Master star 6

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    The boards seem to prey on my mind more than I thought.
    I think I unconsciously name characters similar to screen-names I see often. TZake Keila for example or Jemimah.:oops:

    The problem with unintentional jokes is that you don't know they're there. And those who find them will most likely think they belong there (like the Heart of Gold) and not bother mentioning. Except if you're making a really gross mistake.
    At leasdt I hope then somebody would speak up.
     
  14. Drabba_the_Hutt

    Drabba_the_Hutt Jedi Master star 4

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    Do I put in-jokes and referential humor into my stories? No, no I don't.
    Oh no I don't.
    Oh yes I do.
    Okay, then, I guess I don't.*

    Seriously, though, anyone who knows me knows that much of my humor, whether in my fiction, my captioning, or just straight conversation is often referential, some of it rather obscure. It's even been suggested I footnote my posts.** [face_mischief]

    Of course, whenever people start expecting in-jokes, invariably they will find some that aren't there. I'm going to disagree with some others and say that I don't think you can make an in-joke or reference without meaning to because the intent is what makes it a reference. You can't tell an in-joke if you're not in on the joke.

    People have told me on quite a few occasions that they found where I made a joke about X when I'd never even heard of that and either didn't intend a reference at all or intended one to something else. It's a bit hard to tell them that they're wrong because part of the appeal of referential humor for readers is the feeling when you get it that you've connected a bit with the author and with others who get the joke; you're part of a group through a bit of shared experience. [The less pleasant corollary, of course, is that those who don't get the joke are outside this group.] But if the author wasn't making that reference, then there is no shared experience; the connection isn't there. So yes, intent is necessary for an in-joke.

    Wow, that sounded a lot more serious than I'd intended. Well, I need to go. It's starting to pour outside, and I need to make sure the cake was brought in.***


    EDIT: So how many people said the audience bits aloud? Darn, I was hoping it'd be more of you.




    *English panto with a Warner Bros. twist.
    **But I'm not going to do it. :p
    ***Especially since someone destroyed my impossible-to-replace recipe card.
     
  15. DarthIshtar

    DarthIshtar Chosen One star 10

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    I recently wrote a story called "For the Common Good" and one of the bits was inspired by Emma Thompson's notes on how she convincingly burst into tears for one of the scenes in Sense and Sensibility by thinking of how she cried when her father died. As a result, the character's name became Iema Sonthom.
     
  16. ZebulaNebula

    ZebulaNebula Jedi Master star 5

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    Oh, I almost forgot a Morrowind reference in one of my OC's names.
     
  17. DarthIshtar

    DarthIshtar Chosen One star 10

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    Oh, and I forgot about naming Han Solo's ex-girlfriend in "The Problem with the Pint-sized" after ophelia.
     
  18. poor yorick

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    The girlfriend who emotionally scarred him for life, as I recall. I was strangely honored . . .

    Ish was a non-alcoholic beverage in one scene of my huge freaking fanfic novel. Alas, Anakin chose to go beverageless.
     
  19. leiamoody

    leiamoody Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    Hey, anybody who gets inspired by Emma Thompson is doing a good thing. (Her and Ken, they were so lovely together...ah, sorry, tangent :p).

    As for myself, I do this sometimes. Although it's not always a joke so much as it is including a word that most people have to look up. Like one of the responses I wrote for ophelia's picture challenge. The word "pleroma"...yeah, that's a kicker.

    But I do engage in occasional bouts of word twisting. This one particular story I'm working on has Han coming from a planet called Nothi Sautn. I changed the lettering of a certain phrase that in its proper form, was supposed to have been inscribed over the portico of the temple at Delphi. Not very clever, I know, but hey, it fits the theme I'm going with.

    I also have done a little twist on the name of the wine Blue Nun, by calling something "Aqua Priestess". That's not even close to clever, that's just third-grade!
     
  20. MsLanna

    MsLanna Jedi Master star 6

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    I can't help it. It sometimes even seems I'm thinking in quotes.:eek:
    One moment I'm happily writing the fic, next moment Fett is using Pet Shop Boys' lyrics.:oops: I'd say that is not normal.

    I wonder if it happens to others. That when you write certain situations the first word that come to mind are quotes, lyrics or other stuff.
     
  21. DarthIshtar

    DarthIshtar Chosen One star 10

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    They always claim that you're not allowed to use quotes from earth in the archives, but I got away with Han saying of Luke, "NOt all who wander are lost."
     
  22. MsLanna

    MsLanna Jedi Master star 6

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    Really?
    That's news for me. Maybe I should have a look. Do they give any reasons?
    I mean, some quotes are just good. (Like the one you used[face_love], can't beat Tolkien's poetry...)
     
  23. Eleventh_Guard

    Eleventh_Guard Jedi Master star 5

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    In my latest fic, I have four things that could be called in-jokes. The name of an asteroid is an anagram of Eleventh Guard; the name of a planet is an anagram of April Fool's (without the apostrophe); the name of a ship is partially a takeoff of a character's name; and the pairing itself was carefully selected and is somewhat of a joke in and of itself.

    I was bored yesterday... XD
     
  24. Jade_Pilot

    Jade_Pilot Jedi Master star 5

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    I do this, too! In my Ben challenge vignette, I used my Master's name as a character Ben was interested in. I LOVE inside jokes!
     
  25. maderic

    maderic Jedi Knight star 3

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    All the time. I toss in subtle references to the films, to other movies, books, people I know--etc, etc..it never ends. In The Fallen Shroud, for example, there's a system named the Juhar system noted for as the galaxy's vineyard. This is a play on my friend's last name (Harju). The name Kysslik-Tyyes Faanu comes from a time when a friend came into the room and said, "Guess what, guys?" which, to me, sounded like "kiss-lick ties" (needless to say I wasn't paying much attention at the time).

    Etc, etc, etc.
     
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