This is insane. I need to stop re-reading this damned story.

Would I sound like a complete ass if I send feedback again with "Just checked. Yep, still gets me. Every time. Three of them today."?

No.

I sent feedback.

For something I'd already feedbacked.

Sigh. BUT IT'S SO GOOD!!!

What are you reading?

Amends the Next Time, a post-Apocalypse Nowish (Rain of Fire) Gunn/Wes story.

I sometimes read fanfic and want to red-pen it, and never send feedback because it would be full of "You have no notion of subject-verb agreement." I think I should've gone into editing instead of Latin.

And the evil Farscape fans (whom I love) have now planted Giles meets Aeryn in my head and it won't go away! There is no sex but I think extensive intellectual warfare might work.

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Weep. Weep weep weep. Post The First stuff in Buffy.

I sometimes read fanfic and want to red-pen it, and never send feedback because it would be full of "You have no notion of subject-verb agreement." I think I should've gone into editing instead of Latin.

I often want to red-pen things. In a past life, I proof-read and red-penned things all the time. Now, however, I mostly just beta-read and do an occasional copy-edit-on-the-fly when we're pinched for time at work.

p.m. marcontell -- Misha pointed me here because of your comments on "The Last Virtue."

I was a beta reader on that -- or as much of one as I could be, in the holiday rush. And while I would certainly never presume to speak for anyone else about their work, I will say that I disagree that the story, or her work in general, is plot-driven rather than character-driven. Heck, TLV barely has a plot at all; the Kwanzaa framing device is mostly there as a container for the various studies of Gunn's interactions with the rest of the crew. And the discussions I have with Yahtzee about her work are almost never "But Spike needs to get the amulet back to Giles in time for the frobznitz to work!" and almost always "I think that Wesley would be hesistant to be the first to reach out after everything they've been through, even if he wants to be." That is, about the characters, not the plots, which are frequently massively rewritten in her stories to fit where she thinks the characters are. You might disagree with her readings of the characters, but she's not the sort of writer who says "oh, wouldn't it be cool if Lionel Luthor took up tap-dancing?" (Which, now that I think of it, it would, but precisely because it would be so wildly out of character. Still, I'm not going to write it. You see my point.)

Anyway, that's me venting. And hi.

I sent feedback.

Good. Because Sheila and Te are the reason I started reading Wes/Gunn, and they're the reason I started writing Wes/Gunn, and when they both stopped writing Wes/Gunn, I got very cranky.