...er, whut?

[burntcopper]

once again I managed to get a bunch of Torchwood readers with an 'augh, totally unexpected!' end line. (see Dinosaur) ...I thought it was fairly obvious and just amusing/standard trope end when it came to Dinosaur. And I got the 'bwhahahaha' comments again when I wasn't *meaning* to be funny, or at least was only going for a 'satisfying nod at end/vaguely enjoyable'.

:scratches head: perhaps my sense of humour detector when it comes to my own stuff is flat. And I'm too well-versed in 'shock' endings. Even though I'm normally one of those people who rarely gets the end of the detective story, or only vague inklings when the author dropped anvils early on.

Fandom : telling you you're funny when you didn't mean to be.

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[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

they're all going 'bwhahaha' at the post before this one. Which has an embedded reporter talking about getting a job observing Torchwood for reality tv/bbc wildlife, and then it turns out to be Janet the weevil. Hmm. Maybe it's the fact that I keep 'em short. Dinosaur I was blinking a lot because everyone *knew* what happened to Yvonne, and I could've sworn I've read fiction that uses a very similar pattern, like those codas you get at the end of biopics. I was going for 'slightly mournful' at the time, not 'crunch'.

In future, all fic will be like unto this. Lulling you into a false sense of security before cutting you dead with the last line.