I have avoided that by deciding that I will not look at anyone's recs, as I have a system worked out.
Except that one time when I saw one of my fandoms mentioned, but it wasn't my story. Yeah, a little bit crushed.
You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
DebetEsse - Dec 26, 2007 1:15:46 pm PST #4786 of 10436
Woe to the fucking wicked.
shrift - Dec 26, 2007 2:42:49 pm PST #4787 of 10436
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Does anyone else wade through recs posts and feel their ego getting crushed bit by snivelling bit as their stories refuse to show up in anyone's recs?
The previous three years, I wrote in a comics fandom and two anime/manga fandoms, and those aren't fandoms that tend to show up much in recommendations posts. I just assume I'm not going to get recommended, and then I'm pleasantly surprised if it happens.
P.M. Marc - Dec 26, 2007 2:47:02 pm PST #4788 of 10436
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Anne, it's not just you. I am so guilty of that. I felt better when I searched del.icio.us for the story title and saw more people had it saved than had commented. Try that!
Atropa - Dec 26, 2007 3:02:28 pm PST #4789 of 10436
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I felt better when I searched del.icio.us for the story title and saw more people had it saved than had commented. Try that!
Oooh, I should do that. But my recipient really liked the story, thank goodness!
Anne W. - Dec 26, 2007 3:36:06 pm PST #4790 of 10436
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
But my recipient really liked the story, thank goodness!
Yes. This. That's always nice. My pinch hit recipient was effusively happy and the main recipient posted in her LJ that she was thrilled to bits that I picked the prompt I did, but that she'd been up for 48 hours straight and would read and review once consciousness had returned.
It's going to take me forever to work through the stories even in the few fandoms I know.
DebetEsse - Dec 27, 2007 2:01:35 pm PST #4791 of 10436
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Made of win: A Buffista posted a comment on one of my stories (without knowing it's mine, of course.)
Dana - Dec 27, 2007 2:25:09 pm PST #4792 of 10436
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I LOVE when that happens. It's balm to my writerly ego when my friends comment on my stories without knowing it's me. Yes! I do not suck!
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 27, 2007 5:55:28 pm PST #4793 of 10436
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
How do I love thee, SGA crack!fic? Let me count the ways... [link]
esse - Dec 29, 2007 3:12:49 pm PST #4794 of 10436
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Oh, those parantheticals are brilliance. and this is for the win:
"Sheppard, are you talking to your hair again?" McKay asked.
"What? No," Sheppard lied.
I am slowly coming out from my yuletide coma. and this is just the first round of story-reading, too. The next is when I go back and re-read some stuff for canon and then go read the fic I skipped the first time. Ah, perfected systems.
Fay - Dec 30, 2007 9:41:47 am PST #4795 of 10436
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Oh. Dear. God.
Did everyone already read the Sesame Street Porn?
I haven't laughed so hard in MONTHS. I mean, it was horrified, brain-go-boom laughter, but...OMG. See, I never did read that Carebear S&m story, but this....good heavens. Bert. Ernie.
...It's so horrifyingly in character, that's the thing.