I'm Kinda Ashamed To Even Post This But...

[redbrunja]

Has anyone ever had the experience of searching for fic by skipping through the favorites list of authors that write the ship you like, clicking on their favorites page and going, "hey, that's my story! The one I assumed no one read!" followed immediately by, "thanks for reviewing bitch! Way to make me feel the love!"?

Okay, just me then?

I feel pathetic whining about this but, hello? I had no reviews on that story. If you liked it enough to favorite it, would it kill you to tell me so?

I feel really bitchy whining about this, but I worked hard on that story and it would have been nice to know that you (generic, non-reviewing-you) liked it.

I know this is making me a better member of fandom, because now part of my decision regarding whether to comment or not is how many reviews the authors have, and at this point, if I like a fic enough to favorite I'm sure to leave a review, even if it's just 'I really liked this.'

Also, I'm been flamed. Now I know I've made it. (I'm very zen about this, because feel I totally won that argument.)

Additionally, someone (who was not me) took my landry out of the washer, which was only in the washer after it stopped running because I waited an extra ten minutes so I didn't have to take some one else's dry clothes out of the dryer.

I'd say I picked the wrong night to wash clothes, except that every bra I own is dirty, as are my jeans, most of my socks and the majority of my underwear.

Thank god I get a massage tomorrow. I feel very tense. (And, gee, I wonder why.)

Comments

[ex-kittu9.livejournal.com]

I hate it when that happens. Although, as a result, I am really good about leaving comments for a while after, as sort of a karmic thing, I think.

Also, laundry causes aches of both the head- and heart- variety. I think I end up folding a lot of clothes that aren't mine, because then I feel less awful about moving the load.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Since I started posting fic, I have been really good about commenting when I put something in memories or favorite it.

Wow, you're way nicer than most of the people in my dorm. My main problem with the landry thing is I kinda got bit for being nice to someone else, and I really hate the idea of someone I don't know knowing what my landry looks like.

[mzminola.livejournal.com]

I only get sad if none of my friends say anything because I don't post anywhere besides my journal but I do hit refresh on my e-mail page over and over and over, hoping for comments and just about anything.

As for the flaming, I think what got their knickers in a twist was the "when suddenly no one is writing slash" line. Then you explained, and they apoligized. Isn't it nice when the flamers are polite?

Ouchies about the laundry. Is there a way to say "excuse me, my laundry's walked off," and a place for people to return it when they realize "hey, these aren't my socks!"

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I tend to refresh my e-mail more than I should.

In retrospect, I kind see where they're coming from, and she was rather polite for a flamer. However, considering the massive amounts of slash the exist in every fandom I've ever been in, I think's it's unrealistic to ever think that there will be no slash, and, frankly, I really am hoping for a het revival sometime in the near future.

It's not that people take my landry, it's that they pull it out of the washer and put it on the table and I just hate the idea of someone else touching my underwear.

[mzminola.livejournal.com]

I'm finding more canon slash in the library, so maybe you'll find more fanfic het on the internet.

...yeah, that could be bothersome/creepy.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Please god let that be true. Also recently two authors who write het on my flist got into Saiyuki, so I have some hope.

Also, I just finished Godchild, and well, I kind of don't want to admit this, but...... I kind of see where you're getting the Riff/Cain, because, oh my god, I live only for you?

The thought of people touching my underwear without my permission is totally creepy.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Been there. Especially with my Fables stuff. At first I figured there was just no one reading it, as I generally write for microscopic fandoms and my early stuff generally sucked.

But then I came across a few people who stuck it in favourites or C2 communites or their LJ memories without saying anything. It's frustrating.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

The thing about that, besides it being rude generally, is that in small fandoms you run the risk of having nobody writing, because why would you when you get more feedback from other things?

In my small fandoms I review things that need the author to be another couple years older and have a beta reader for it to be truly enjoyable fanfic, just because I'm trying to keep the few people writing that ship writing (also I hope if they get really constructive critism, they'll get better.)

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

I try to give good feedback on everything, but sometimes . . . I might be having a bad day, where my concentration is all platypus, and come across a good fic that I think deserves a proper review, something more than 'OMG you rock!' but realize I don't have the focus. So I set it to the side and vow to do a kickass review as soon as my brain cooperates.

But I have a doctor's note for cases like that.

Other times, I'll even volunteer to beta. I try to be more tolerant of nonspecific issues when it's a tiny fandom, since it should get points for existing. But there are times . . . *shudder*

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

When I don't have time to give things the reviews they deserve, I open a new browser and plan to to it when I have some more time (and that is how I get twenty browsers open at once, and then spent like an hour at some point playing catch-up.

Yeah, with I hate it when you're so desperate for a pairing and the writing is so bad that you can't even enjoy it- there's bad writing where you can see the glimmer of something good so it's okay, and then the stuff where your like, 'oh pain' but you just keep reading. (Or maybe that's just me.)

Also, I just finished mean seasons (Oh Bigby, Oh Snow,) and would love links to your essays. Also, poor Snow. Imagine having seven babies. I bet she's going to you six billion diffrent kinds of contraceptives if she ever sleeps with Bigby again (which of course she will). I did love that shot of him waiting outside the delivery room with the wolf-shadow behind him and his claws out.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Get Firefox. You can open seperate tabs in one browser, makes life easier.

It's just -- weird when there's one that's fine as far as spelling and grammar go, but messes up on other levels. I mean, Girl Genius strikes me as a fandom that is very hard to really create a Sue in. I mean, a bad one, not a canonical one (Oh, Shaenon!). If you create a character who's a really powerful Spark with umpteen kazillion nifty devices, they're just awesome unless you completely screw up.

But I read a story in which someone managed it.

Oooh, splendid! And, yeah, I'm thinking there'll be major attention to birth control in the future. Probably it'll never be brought up directly in the comic, but there's no way she'd go without. Over 44 hours in labour . . . *sympathetic wince*

If you're interested, you can also check out some of my fic. What sort of thing are you looking for? Funny? Creepy? Romantic? AU-y?

One of the better essays. (http://fabletown.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=599) And it's on the best Fables site out there. But since there's people who hang out there who are legally obligated to report fanfic to DC's lawyers, as far as anyone there is concerned, I don't write any.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Well, I think I'd find the tabs more confusing- this way it's easier to tell that I really need to write some reviews.

Thanks for the link to that essay- it was fun reading. Yeah, I think Snow would make sure that pregnancy never happened again. I winced at her "shot me-I promise I'll die!"

I'd love to read some of your fic- how are you with labeling for spoilers? I'm really enjoying not knowing what's going on, but I'd love to read your fics.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Whatever works best for you, then.

Yeeeeah. She'd probably make severe threats to Bigby if he even suggested going without.

And the weird part: genetically speaking, it's her fault she had a litter. She's a twin, so there's a genetic tendancy toward multiple births indicated, and unless there's something weird going on where wolf phermones induce hyperovulation, there's no biological way she can blame the numbers on him.

The fact that I haven't written much recently is on your side. Check it out here (http://fairest1.livejournal.com/tag/fanfiction), and only 'Time After Time' is set in a spoilery area for you.

(and please excuse some of the ones I wrote after signing up for fanfic100 . . . quantity seemed to win out over quality for a time)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I thought wolves typically had litters with more than one pup? Huh, I could be wrong with that one. You're right, the biology of that one is really screwy, considering that none of the pups look alike.

I'd go read those then. (Yay, fic!)

Also, I think Bigby is way too smart to suggest going without protection, and only the fact that they were under a spell let this happen in the first place.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Yeah, seven is the average for wolves -- but multiple births aren't determined by the father. It's an entirely maternal factor, unless the ovulation cycle was messed with somehow. If they were identical pups, it might have been the wolf gene that caused the zygote to split, but fraternal siblings?

. . . it only means I've thought about it too much.

No question. He was there during the delivery, he knew just how much pain Snow was in, and he wouldn't want to repeat the experiance unless they'd discussed the matter extensively and agreed on everything.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I'm glad that you thought too much about this- I'm interested. I wouldn't tell Snow though- I have a feeling this one is going down in history as 'Bigby's fault.'

Yeah, that's what great about Bigby; he's all about protecting Snow. And I have a feeling 'agreed on everything.' would be 'agreed never to have this happen again.' Although, if Bigby didn't get to really raise his cubs....

Speaking of, I would have really liked to hear more about why the Farm was so anti-Bigby. I can understand it in the begining, but after everything else, when Bigby's saved them all and they do love Snow and Rose Red is in charge... I'm suprised there wasn't a meeting where they're like 'he's gonna stay here, or have a little far off nook of the Farm all to his own.'

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Yep. I'm just going with the technicalities, not what Snow will stick with.

*begins to type sentance, hits backspace* I'll stick with saying that there's a possibility they'll discuss the matter in the future.

Well, Bigby did have a pretty fierce reputation, back in the day -- killing anything that crossed his path when he was in a bad mood. But he's been a poster child for reform since joining Fabletown, it's been said, and even before that he was more inclined to kill humans . . . hard to say why they singled him out like that. *says nothing regarding last sentance*

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

*wishes she had the rest of fables right now.*

Yeah, I love when Bigby's all 'I'm so badass I don't NEED to kill him to prove it,' and Bluebeard totally backs down. And Bigby always did like the humans. The three pigs are the only one's who'd I think would have a grude against him, and one of them's dead, and liked Snow to boot.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Had my computer not gone completely EVIL, this would now be the time I'd be heading to Sendspace and uploading stuff. Right after I get back from the computer repair place, promise.

*grin* Excellent scene. And given that one of the pigs was staying with him in the first trade, to his annoyance, that should have been settled.

Especially since no one he personally terrorized is now at the Farm.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Not a problem. I'm sorry your computer is evil though.

Yeah, the more I think about it, the more the Farm's anti-Bigby stance seems reactioanry and foolish. How can they not understand the awesomeness of the Big Bad Wolf?

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

*shakes fist at brain's general reluctance to get me out of the house* I'll send it ASAP. Promise.

Well, I think he seems less awesome if you're in a position where he may have eaten your extended family. Like my response to the criticism over the Aslan comment in #4 -- if you're ruling the next kingdom over from Narnia, having your critics compare you to the jesus-kitty, of COURSE you're going to think of him as holier-than-thou and a pompous bastard.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I think he seems less awesome if you're in a position where he may have eaten your extended family.

Very true.

[pretentioustfu.livejournal.com]

Wow, that flamer's an idiot. I'm like the reverse of you (in that I barely find good femmeslash or het, write either rarely, and prefer maleslash, which is the ultimate oxymoron since I'm primarily attracted to women in real life), but I'd never flame someone like that for simply disliking what I like.

Though I would keep in mind for the future that saying "I can't wait for the day slash/yaoi is no more" DOES trigger a bit of anger in those of us who are slash/yaoi fans because most of us have heard it from much more hateful and outright homophobic commenters. It would probably be less insulting to say you'd like to see femmeslash be equivalent in amount to male slash, and het already actually is or more prevalent in some fandoms.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yeah, "I can't wait for the day slash/yaoi is no more" is kind of bitchy.

Het is more prevent in some fandoms, but I'm been in very slash-centric fandoms for a while now, and even when I wasn't I always go the feeling that there was a lot of slash out there.

But my flamer is an idiot, and what really kills me is that is such an old post, she had to read through so many comments to get to mine that I find it really clear is was looking for someone to bitch at.

[pretentioustfu.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Flamers are idiots in general.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[wishforhome.livejournal.com]

Because of you, I'm going to go through my memories and make sure I've commented on everything.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I hope that's a 'you're insipired me to make sure that I'm a good commenter and letting people I love know I love them' and not 'ek, I better comment before I go to hell!'

I'm glad if I make people comment more (because comments are love) but people shouldn't feel back if they don't comment as much as they'd like to because, you know, there's this thing called real life that sometimes get in the way.

[wishforhome.livejournal.com]

More the first, and a slight bit of "Erk, I feel guilty because I know there's stuff on there I never got around to commenting on" and I should do that. Also? Great excuse to reread some fics that I love.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Well, glad to be of help. Just comment because you love the fic (and rereading is always fun).

I've actually had the expeince of rereading, forgetting I've commented, and then reading the comments, and went 'hey this reviewer said exactly what I would have' and then realizing it was me. ^_^