My god, is she *trying* to make people hate her?

I think she's one of those people who consider themselves mavericks and thus not bound by the conventions/etiquette of the fannish community. She's got quite a lovely website, but she made the mistake of drawing a bunch of the stories from writers with a presence on LJ and long experience in fandom. If she'd stuck with the FFN crowd, I suspect nobody would ever have noticed.

She claims that the service she provides is for people who aren't fans and wouldn't know where to look for good stories, and now they can just download her PDFs. But in reality, what non-fans are going to look for fanfiction to begin with? There's no point to the exercise.

Man, fandom kills me.

This, for instance, is a Bad_penny report about Chuck Shurley, the writer from SPN, who became a ficwriter in Supernatural fandom, and then caused a wanksplosion.

It's SO AWESOME. It's not even really an SPN story, so much as it is a story about reality and writing and how the invisible people in our computers are actually real people too, even the ones we hate.

That story was flat-out amazing. I wanted to click every user name and link.

I wanted to click every user name and link.

Me too! I was so disappointed that most of them were just links back to the post itself.

I hope she's getting lots of feedback for it; it's so creative.

Just finished it! So good!

Then I got confused as I read the comments, because I thought it was still the fic...

Julie is me.

Just to be clear, in a completely metaphorical sense.

What are some active SPN fic comms on LJ other than sn_fic, supernaturalfic and spn_gen that would accept a long gen fic? To put it bluntly, I've got a case where I have had a hard time finding an audience for a story. The few comments I have received have been gushing (so I'm reasonably sure the story doesn't suck), but they've been few. Hearbreakingly few, and I don't know what to do about it.

I feel bad posting about this because it sounds all beggy and whiny, but the frustration has been building, so if I'm going to ask, this is the safest place to do so.

Does it have any other angle? Is it pre-series? Hurt boys? Involve one or more angels?Anything like that?

It's a mix of pre-series and S1/early S2, although it pulls from canon through S6. It's basically about how John learns about the plans for Sam (also, his time in and escape from Hell). It does involve angels to a degree. I did xpost at papawinchester.

Also, although it's technically gen, it's heavily John/Mary.

Well, I was thinking things like spn_gabriel or spn_castiel if the involvement was heavy enough, or the hurt Dean or hurt Sam community if they get whumped. I don't think it would qualify for Weechesters. If there is a community for Mary, I'm sure it doesn't get much traffic, sadly.

I can't think of any other niches, but my brain is fuzzy right now.