Oh, whee, I'm having a kerfuffle in my LJ from someone objecting to my non-use of fanon elements like consorts and mating rituals and mates and all that. Plus the new arrival is going "I haven't read all the previous parts, why is this so confusing?" Possibly a legitimate reminder to tell new folks where the rest of things are. I never expect to attract new readers who haven't been faithfully following events.

That's a legitimate whee, by the way. One of my regular readers is taking the new arrival to task. Someone cares enough to tell me I'm doing it wrong!

I'm having a kerfuffle in my LJ from someone objecting to my non-use of fanon elements like consorts and mating rituals and mates and all that.

Dude. Dude. I cannot begin to list the ways in which this is wrong like a wrong thing which is wrongity wrong wrong wrong.

Dear lord. Not just objecting to non-use, but claiming you've got things wrong because it doesn't follow the overdone fanon ritual shit?

As if. Suppose she likes "childe" too, right?

Well, I like "childe", so I can't get too overwrought.

I, too, was all "No one recced my story! I am a blight on the face of fankind! I shall never write again to save us all the pain!" Regardless of how foolish it was.

Well, the problem with Yuletide is that in a world of obscure fandoms, there are still popular ones (Good Omens) and ones that no one has ever heard of, like the one I wrote in. Which makes any comment I get precious and joyful.

Oh! Hopefully this won't repeat a prior rec by someone else, but I ran across Yahtzee's "Goodnight, Moon" Joan of Arcadia fanfic the other day. (It crosses over with events, but not characters, from The Day After Tomorrow.) This is good enough that it brought tears to my eyes when I've never watched a single episode of the TV show.

Definitly read Goodnight Moon, at the end I was crying.

Also the Yuletide challenge produced two Winnie the Pooh stories, both Eyeorecentric which were very very good. Nice, sweet, G rated gen stories.

Be prepared with Kleenex for Goodnight Moon. Possibly lots of Kleenex.