You need "Redux," though.

That's what I meant. Mark italics with astericks, if you please. You can send in the body of the email if you like.

I love how folks keep citing the Indian food refs in "Reflections". I should give FayJay a credit line.

connie, a nice hot vindaloo would probably make her happy, as well. Alas, it doesn't seem feasible in terms of carryout.

BTW, SA, insent rather a while back, answering yours.

(I'm prepping to cater a party for 70 furry convention survivors tomorrow. Busy woman. Cookies, shaped liked rabbits.)

BTW, SA, insent rather a while back, answering yours.

Got it. I'll get back to you before I leave.

Cookies, shaped liked rabbits.

::suh-NERK!!::

Steph, I kid you not. The theme was "Alice in Wonderland" and they've got a nice cake with that them going, but three days to cluge up a party with pastry shaped like a Tom Petty video? I think not.

Deb, insent.

I figured out what story I'm going to do with the remix. Now I just have to figure out the how.

Archive requests generally mean that someone (the archvist) enjoyed your fic so much,

t coughs

Hi, deb.

Meep! Rebecca, was that an archive?

OK, I am completely and totally ignorant about all this. I thought an archive was just having something stored somewhere (by strict definition, I suppose it is) - and a rec is something along the lines of what I got in email from the nice lady who thought I should try my hand at original fiction.

I am a dope about protocol, I don't want to step on anyone's toes, and anyone who likes my stuff is worthy of cookies in my world. Tell me what's what, someone?

And it occurs to me, that last paragraph is how I feel about Bureaucracy, too.

Meep! Rebecca, was that an archive?

I was just being silly. That was archivage, in the strictest sense, as in, I'm hosting your story on my website. (And I *would* love to build you a personal archive, as I have for FayJay, for example, if you happened to want to keep [link] and your fic life separate, or you wanted someone else to do the coding and maintenance work.)

But archiving someone else's stories generally means you have a site that's thematically focused (dark Dawn fic; or Giles/Anya fic; or Wishverse fic), and you find a evil-Dawn-in-the-Wishverse-after-Giles-and-Anya-have-gotten-together fic and it's really good and you email the person and say, Hey, can I host your story on my e-D-i-t-W-a-G-a-A-h-g-t site?

(There's also people, I guess, who have an archive for things they just like a whole damn lot. I haven't seen much of that, though-- it's less useful, certainly, from a reader-end standpoint.)

A rec is a public statement of recommendation. There are recs sites, like the lovely PolyRecs, where specific people or teams of people maintain lists of stuff they think ought to be reccomended; and rec lists/threads, like BetterBuffyFics or our Fan Fiction thread, where anyone who's a member can post a rec of a story. And recs don't have to be uniformly positive. Many times I've said, "This is kind of good. The second half is better than the first" or "This is okay, except her Cordy voice makes me grit my teeth with anger" or "I don't usually like this author, but this story is worth a few minutes of your time". It's not always "This is AMAZING!" But a rec is a "recommendation" (after all) and is intrinsically, I feel, a go-read-this sort of thing-- if I post something in order just to talk about it, or make fun of it, I'm not necessarily endorsing it, I'm not necessarily "reccing" it.

Feedback is a private response to the author of a story, saying what you thought. (Not *always* private-- things like LJs, or this thread, facilitate my being able to say "Needfire ROCKS" to you quite publicly; but I'm of the old-fashioned sort who believes it's Not Really Feedback unless it's a private email. LJ comments &c are only sort of semi-feedback, damn it.) Like recs, feedback can range from "I loved your story" to a six-page letter that examines the fic in depth. They're not always necessarily completely praise; but my feeling is they're generally mostly positive. 'Cause, why go so much to the effort for something you hated?