Does typing "Love is Blind" and a random fandom still work for a badfic catch-all? Lemme check... First page of Google can still call up a Buffy, Star Trek, and Harry Potter story. Star Wars is a bit iffier, as is X-Files, and Batman looks like a no-go. Based on typing "Love is Blind" anime, though, it looks as if there might be a treasure trove there if I actually knew any Japanese fandoms.

(I note with smugness that my blog entry on the subject is now Google's number 1 hit!)

A (feeble) submission to get the ball rolling:

...sword in hand, his bright green eyes burning with quixotic zeal. Most matriarchs her age rarely met such a vibrant, powerful hero, so she lingered with him, enjoying his lean muscular frame. Even before she finished, she knew he was the best she'd ever had. She loved him. She really loved him. Especially those eyes. With a contented sigh she stretched out on her bed of gold and with a gentle burp, wrapped her tail around the eggs...

Possibly the experience of confusing themselves multiple times in the first paragraph over which *particular* he or she it is they're referring to, when they've got two of the same sex involved as -- given this is badfic -- they'll be no other differentiating features, puts them off?

Searching google for "he loved her. He really loved her" gets eight hits.

Using the search "loved her. He really loved her" gets almost 5,000 hits, most of which seem to be fiction, and most of which seem to contain the full phrase.

It may be that google is on to you.

Am I the only one getting this?

How terribly unfortunate! And it reminds me that I have not been overly joyful at my Google results in general lately. I vote we deputize John Scalzi to investigate during his appearance at Google next Friday. He can ask us all to type in incredibly outre search strings at 11:45 PDT, and then slip off as the Google employees gaze in puzzlement at their search feed marquee, the Mission: Impossible theme playing in the background...

"He so loved her" gets some peoms and and badfic results, but "He totally loved her" pulls up television show discussion boards.

First page = "Results 1 - 10 of about 51,200", second page = "Results 11 - 12 of 12". This must be a side-effect of Google's recent changes to avoid link-spamming and Google-bombing.

What's really cool is that I looked at one of the dozen links it found, because it seemed so out of place amid the fanfic, and I wonder if it just might be one of the origins - the seed crystal, as it were - of the cliché!

A 1900 translation of a George Sand story, Indiana contains the sentences: Raymon loved her, he really loved her.

This clearly indicates a change in Google, not an improvement in quality of writing nor even a switch to a new cliché.

Even in the remote chance that zillions of bad writers on the 'net had shaped up and chosen en masse to abandon the cliché - which is appallingly unlikely - most of the samples already written would continue sitting around for decades to embarrass their authors. If there is one thing we should have learned from the past Internet decade, it's that it's awfully hard to escape your past words.

Okay, I missed this the first time round, but that is so going in the current novel-in-progress!

(Along with a gothic graveyard scene on Mars and a heroine whose nipples really do go "spung!")

This search result, by the way, includes one page that google warns may harm your computer, and not just from the bad writing:

She loved him. Dear Lord, she really loved him. She didn't have time to think. His kiss left them both breathless. He tasted her, let her taste him. ...
members.aol.com/velvtANGL1/Page131.html - Similar pages - Note this

Dead Poets Come To Life
Dead poets, authors, artists and composers come to life at
www.luminarygraphics.com

(Turns out they're peddling umbrellas with pictures of Poe on them, and such.)

I tend to imagine the nipples as sullenly muttering, but as there is a long tradition of "perky breasts", perhaps they should instead say it in a cheerful and perky voice. "Good morning! Spung!"

Anti-zombie umbrellas, presumably.

Women complain about men never listening to women, men just stare at our breasts.

With this new breast jewelry MP3 player, men would not only be staring at women's breasts, but listening to them too.

Sandy B. @ 29: If you're inquiring about why the word is being used, Heinlein used it several times to describe the behaviour of his female characters' nipples. It seems inappropriately onomatopoeic -- to me, it evokes the sound effects of, say, a Warner Brothers cartoon. (Not, I hasten to add, a cartoon where that sound was actually used for... oh, never mind.)

(Ok, Ok. Leaving now.)

To compensate for all the participants being XX?

(It asked me if I didn't want "She loved him. He really loved him." Which seemed bizarre, and when I clicked the "Did you mean..." link, I got no hits.)

I wonder if "wierd" finds bad Lovecraft-fic?

Too many hits. "wierd squamous" only has 1,370, but at least as many about cancer as Lovecraft.
"wierd rugose" looks slightly more promising, but still not very well targeted.
"wierd squamous rugose" does find a Making Light post as #2....

How very counter-intuitive.

#28 Mary Dell: Cue argument over the relative utility of umbrellas as anti-zombie weapons (Jim Macdonald ably representing the chainsaw delegation), segueing to a discussion about the potential of trick umbrellas like the Penguin's (tangent into the possibilities of Batman vs. zombie fanfic, secondary tangent into possible Batman/Penguin slash, ending abruptly with a link to said slashfic), eventually devolving into one's possible reactions to encountering a zombie author (set them on fire or throw them a typewriter?).

That ought to be good for a couple hundred posts, eh?

She loved HIM. She really loved HIM. But His Imperial Majesty, The Emperor of Japan, could never marry a gaijin.

She loved "Him". She really loved "Him". The rest of Buffy season 7 seriously sucked but she could watch "Him" all day.

A) +"that will change their lives forever":
29,300 hits
Top result in search:
The book "The Cayman Trench Caribbean Intrigue and Killer Diving Hold a Secret That Will Change Their Lives Forever" [sic]
...from AuthorHouse.

B) +"that will change her life forever"
4,860 hits
Among the top 3 results:
2 Fan Fictions.

C) +"that will change his life forever"
10,800 hits

She loved hymns. She really loved hymns.

“She loved him. She really loved him.”

Welcome to Heisenberg's realm, where the act of measurement/mention changes the results....

It's an iterative universe....