Many of you will remember the Vamp!Giles story I started over 10 years ago. Ten years! I've always sworn I'd finish it, but I've begun doubting it. I've got a summary for what will finish it out. Everyone's read WIPs that seem abandoned, would have you more or less respect for an author who formally announced that a story isn't going to be completely finished but could provide an outline of what would have happened? Heck, I could even put in the scenes I wrote in an effort to kickstart me to doing the bits that bogged me down.

I think that I would salivate at any snippet offered on a story I'd waited to be finished. And if the author said no mas, fini, I'd be happy to take what I could get and glad that I wouldn't be getting anymore.

There's a SPN writer who keeps promising due-by dates and fails to deliver, that's awful. Being promised incomplete but final is less cruel.

The story does not bring me joy anymore, which I certainly do not need at this particular time. Thank god I've managed to find my writing, I've turned out a few stories in the Avengers universe, and it pleases me greatly that I can still do that. And there's even someone who occasionally emails me gentle requests in a fandom I left pre-Buffy. I need to write where there is reward, though it seems like spurning Art-with-a-capital-A.

If it had been an incomplete story that I'd really enjoyed, I would happily read a summary of how it ended up and a few scenes. It's nice to have that closure.

I just got another deeply insane comment over at AO3. Is something in the air lately?

(Nothing bad, just someone being extraordinarily literal.)

I posted a bunch of short pieces of fic (mostly 5-Things pieces) for More Joy Day, as follows:

XF, Discworld, and SG-1: [link]

Lymond Chronicles, Avengers/SHIELD, and SG-1: [link]

Dana, I get those! We need a word for the mixture of "That's nice." and "What the Hell?" Commenter did explain that she's foreign, which helped a little, but still.

I sort of want to answer, because I think it's a genuine question, but on the other hand, I have almost no idea what to say.

It's been a while since I actually got a "When's the sequel?" comment. I'm a little tempted to respond with, "Look at the top of the page. Note the year this story was posted. Extrapolate from there."

Festivids is rocking my world. This is a ridiculously awesome Pacific Rim vid: [link]