I just got a comment I did not understand on my Yuletide fic. And I don't mean, like, spiritually...I mean I can't even tell if the person liked it or not because the commenter is not down with, like, sense-making and shit. Shrift, I really loved your Yuletide '08 Sports Night story...I meant to tell you that when I found it but I keep forgetting.
I'm sorry. You were going to ask me to choose, right? Did you want to finish?
Zoe ,'War Stories'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
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erikaj - Dec 29, 2009 12:48:41 pm PST #6436 of 10434
Always Anti-fascist!
Connie Neil - Dec 29, 2009 12:56:06 pm PST #6437 of 10434
brillig
said that there was "room for improvement."
Tell them that their comments has persuaded you to make an utter change in your life and that you will henceforth join a monastery in Bhutan and never darken the Internet's door again.
shrift - Dec 29, 2009 12:56:38 pm PST #6438 of 10434
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I think you're entitled to point out that you wrote the story X number of years ago.
If it had been a really old story, I'd be less insulted, but I think I wrote the story ze commented on in 2007 or 2008.
Shrift, I really loved your Yuletide '08 Sports Night story...I meant to tell you that when I found it but I keep forgetting.
Thanks! I wrote that the first Yuletide, and suffered silently through a lot of backhanded commentary about how Sports Night wasn't really rare, and that I should be punished somehow for writing it.
I'm just a happy fun ball today, aren't I?
Connie Neil - Dec 29, 2009 12:59:00 pm PST #6439 of 10434
brillig
I'm just a happy fun ball today, aren't I?
Are you bouncy?
shrift - Dec 29, 2009 1:03:50 pm PST #6440 of 10434
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
erikaj - Dec 29, 2009 1:04:03 pm PST #6441 of 10434
Always Anti-fascist!
Ok, then, it must have been '06 or 7. Well, it was new to me.(this stuff is supposed to be fun, people, dag.) That commenter has brass ones. Because it's not unusual for me to read a story and think that somebody missed an opportunity, but I would never tell the author that. I think I'd write my own damn story, if I cared that much.
Cass - Dec 29, 2009 1:05:15 pm PST #6442 of 10434
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
(Or as an exclamation of joy. AAAAAOOOOOOO!!!)
I kinda fear your joy. But will amend my A03 pronunciation once we stop boggling at the comment shrift got. Oooh, reminds me, I have a Yuletide window open and I want to go reeeeeeeeeead.
shrift - Dec 29, 2009 1:06:47 pm PST #6443 of 10434
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I think the first Yuletide was '03, actually! (Oh, my god, how is it almost 2010?!) And I am glad you liked it.
Lee - Dec 29, 2009 6:53:10 pm PST #6444 of 10434
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
From Yuletide, A Calvin and Hobbes story that won't make anyone cry: [link]
eta: Okay, so maybe it made some people cry. In a good way, I hope.
dcp - Dec 29, 2009 7:13:55 pm PST #6445 of 10434
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Excellent.