Someone left me a very nice (overly enthusiastic) comment, then topped it with praising my portrayal of borderline autism.

Um . . . I didn't?

Not on purpose, anyway, and when I double-checked the symptoms in adults, it's the complete opposite. And I don't think that was a language barrier issue.

How does AO3 work? Does one have to be a member to post fiction?

You just have to create a free account and user name.

Excellent. I'm thinking of actually putting some writing out there, which I haven't done since, like, 2006.

Excellent, Zen!

I'm packing my bags and moving over to dreamwidth and just cross posting from there. which means that I'll be stripping all the coding I put in, but as least it's not a future of being done yet not done.

It's a little sad. In the stress and everything after my mom got sick, I dropped out the little fic writing community I was in. I forgot about two websites where my stuff was archived - one I guess was purged, and the other I don't remember my login anymore, AND, I forgot that I had a yahoo email address in my pseudonym name. But that's still there and I remembered the password, so now I'm deleting four years' worth of spam.

I'm feeling a little snubbed. hoodie_time, a SPN hurt-comfort comm, rec'd a bunch of AHBL fics, and didn't include consumes thee. So I tooted my own horn in the comments.

Figures--the one thing I've written in years I liked enough to post. And yeah, it's four years old, but so are some of the others.

{{{Beverly}}}

Even though you (general you) tell yourself it shouldn't matter, that sort of thing still has the power to cut. Good on you for speaking up in the comments.

I feel like a brat. It shouldn't matter, you know? But the rec is for such a tiny, specific slice of SPN fic, and consumes thee is exactly that, more than gen, or Bobby-specific, or "angst" or any of the other labels people have labeled it. So it smarts a little to be overlooked.

Thanks for the hugs. I'll take 'em.