MSTie fics are written in transcript format.

MSTie, rarely spelled MiSTie, is a term for a fan of the show Mystery Science Theater 3000.

MSTie lead to the creation of the verb MSTing ( or misting ) in the fanfiction community.

Others are called " fix-it fics ," because they rewrite the story so that the events in question did happen, but the fan fiction undoes the consequences.

Only those story tellers will remain who can `` imitate the style of the virtuous ''.

In fact, his only disciple -- the only person to imitate his style -- was W. S. Graham, who seems to have imitated him without much understanding, and who has since moved on to other methods.

* In episode 17, season 5 of " Family Guy ", entitled " It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One ", the Griffin family is wearing powdered wigs in their living room and Stewie Griffin begins playing several classical compositions, including those by Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel, when Peter Griffin, as Salieri, says " Play Peter Griffin ", alluding to the 1984 film Amadeus, when the disguised Salieri character requests that Mozart imitate his compositional style.

However, later blues and rock and roll musicians attempted to imitate both his songs and his musical style.

The Romantics such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats ere attracted to the simple and natural style of these folk ballads, encouraging them to imitate the style

German film director F. W. Murnau had recently made The Last Laugh and Sunrise and was the most critically acclaimed director in Hollywood, and Hawks's attempted to imitate Murnau's style with this film.

One of the qualities most admired by his contemporaries was his terribilità, a sense of awe-inspiring grandeur, and it was the attempts of subsequent artists to imitate Michelangelo's impassioned and highly personal style that resulted in Mannerism, the next major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance.

Traditional opera, often referred to as " number opera ", consists of two modes of singing: recitative, the plot-driving passages sung in a style designed to imitate and emphasize the inflections of speech, and aria ( an " air " or formal song ) in which the characters express their emotions in a more structured melodic style.

He has influenced many younger creators ( Giorgio Cavazzano was his inker during the Sixties ) and many have attempted to imitate his style.

A skilled writer and orator, Coluccio drew heavily upon the classical tradition and developed a powerful prose style based on the Latin of Virgil and Cicero: " I have always believed ," Salutati wrote " I must imitate antiquity not simply to reproduce it, but in order to produce something new " In this sense his own view of humanism was broader-based than the antiquarianism of the generation of humanists he fostered.

This, coupled with the literal translation style of the texts, which imitate the tone and cadences of Li's colloquial Chinese speech, can make Falun Gong scriptures difficult to approach for Westerners.

Newspapers at the time reported that Cagney intended to consciously imitate Cohan's song-and-dance style, but to play the normal part of the acting in his own style.

Despite its similarities to American theatrical Blackface, Ganguro fashion has no racial connotations, and the style is not meant to imitate black people.

Vaux-le-Vicomte was originally planned to be constructed in brick and stone, but after the mid-century, as the middle classes began to imitate this style, aristocratic circles began using stone exclusively.

) The success of that album inspired hundreds of " Folkies ", or the American folk music revival to imitate the " Belafonte style ", but with a more folk-oriented flavor.

He professed to imitate the simplest style of Lysias, avoiding long periods, and expressing himself in short, jerky sentences, without modulation or finish.

This is not a coincidence ; the style is meant to imitate khazone and paraliturgical singing.

White bands were beginning to spring up attempting to imitate the “ hot ” jazz style that the black musicians played, but rarely did any racial mixing occur in a professional setting ( In a non-professional setting, however it was becoming more and more common ).

These bands, perhaps the best-known of which being the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, attempted to imitate the fast virtuosic style of their black counterparts.

For example, his idea that a teacher should encourage students to profit from his or her own talents rather than to imitate a teacher or the style of a popular dancer is a present ideology of dance.

In the mid-1970s, Eric and Ernie recorded a tribute album, Morecambe and Wise Sing Flanagan and Allen ( Phillips 6382 095 ), in which they performed some of the earlier team's more popular songs in their own style, without attempting to imitate the originals.

The earliest compositional use of the technique was in the first version of Engelbert Humperdinck's 1897 melodrama Königskinder ( in the 1910 version it was replaced by conventional singing ), where it may have been intended to imitate a style already in use by singers of lieder and popular song, but it is more closely associated with the composers of the Second Viennese School.

* Rehren, T. and Martinon Torres, M. ( 2008 ) " Naturam ars imitate: European brassmaking between craft and science " in Martinon-Torres, M and Rehren, T. ( eds ) Archaeology, History and Science Integrating Approaches to Ancient Material: Left Coast Press

This became a very controversial liability issue with Japanese superhero programs ( not unlike those in America ), until shows like Android Kikaider ( 1972 ) added a safety bumper at the end of each episode, telling children not to imitate the impossible feats performed by the title superhero.

Linux XP is a discontinued fedora-based shareware Linux distribution designed to imitate Windows environment using GNOME desktop ; it could run some Microsoft Windows programs using the Wine compatibility layer.

Throughout the ages, Cao Cao's impressive victory at Guandu, the climatic event of his life, has drawn analysis by both historical commentators and militarists hoping to imitate his success.

It is at this time that we should imitate the Pilgrims by accompanying our prayers of thanks with the conviction that we shall continue to be in dire need for the Lord's protection in the future, if we are to have peace ; ;

The talking drums of Africa can imitate the inflections and pitch variations of a spoken language and are used for communicating over great distances.

Epics that attempt to imitate these like Milton's Paradise Lost are known as literary, or secondary, epics.

Much like the Brethren of the Common Life, he wrote that the New Testament is the law of Christ people are called to obey and Christ is the example they are called to imitate.

Some gemstones are manufactured to imitate other gemstones.

He also commanded the Jewish people to love one another ; that is, Jews are to imitate God's love for people.

The doppelganger of teas, Dancong teas are noted for their ability to naturally imitate the flavors and fragrances of various flowers and fruits, such as orange blossom, orchid, grapefruit, almond, ginger flower, etc.

In the words of Thomas Aquinas, " Since human beings are said to be in the image of God in virtue of their having a nature that includes an intellect, such a nature is most in the image of God in virtue of being most able to imitate God ".

… if you consider the Historical Playes of Shakespeare, they are rather so many Chronicles of Kings, or the business many times of thirty or forty years, crampt into a representation of two hours and a half, which is not to imitate or paint Nature, but rather to draw her in miniature, to take her in little ; to look upon her through the wrong end of a Perspective, and receive her Images not onely much less, but infinitely more imperfect then the life: this instead of making a Play delightful, renders it ridiculous.

Though the decline of the Roman Empire was the main subject which Zosimus selected, it was perhaps his ambition to imitate Polybius which led him to introduce various matters connected with Persian, Grecian, and Macedonian history, which are not very intimately connected with his main design.

Some Catholics are voluntarily, non-lethally crucified for a limited time on Good Friday, to imitate the suffering of Jesus Christ, although the Church greatly discourages this practice.

In the perspective of traditional Judaism, sex and reproduction are the holiest of acts one can do, the act through which one can imitate God, " The Creator ", and in order to preserve its sanctity there are many boundaries and guidelines.

Some brandies are aged in wooden casks, while some are simply coloured with caramel colouring to imitate the effect of such aging ( and some brandies are produced using a combination of both aging and colouring ).

Trade dress protection is intended to protect consumers from packaging or appearance of products that are designed to imitate other products ; to prevent a consumer from buying one product under the belief that it is another.

In Washington, D. C., domes are a common theme among the government buildings, originally meant to imitate the grandeur of ancient Rome.

Three quarters of the chapters of the New Testament are letters, were composed to imitate letters, or contain letters within them.

The poems are written in a wide variety of verse forms and show that Gautier attempts to imitate other, more established Romantic poets such as Sainte-Beuve, Alphonse de Lamartine, and Hugo, before Gautier eventually found his own way by becoming a critic of Romantic excesses.

Caine is a popular subject for impressionists and mimics, having a voice and manner of speaking that are distinctive, yet fairly easy to imitate.

I beg you to never again try to imitate those who are physically stronger than you.

Some works of art are pastiches in both senses of the term ; for example, the David Lodge novel and the Star Wars series appreciatively imitate work from multiple sources.

The belief is that students are signaled by disorder or rule-breaking and that they, in turn, imitate the disorder.