Y'all should be reading this, though hopefully not right before you're to sit down at the table for Christmas dinner with a good portion of your extended family.
You're most absolutely welcome for the rec and are owed a large, gushy, feedbackliscious note to the tune of 'guh.' Melted my brains that last little bit after the Florida sun has been having its way for the past three days. Your story was gorgeous. Evocative and sexy and lush with just enough detail that I could focus on the boys and the incredibly *hot* things they were saying and doing. InCharge!JC? I am goop. *inserts more superlative adjectives* I'd also like to amend that to outrageously sexy.
Also, off topic but for the record, I didn't mean to imply that there should be quality restrictions imposed on next year's Don We Now Our Gay Apparel, not at all. All I was trying to convey, and anyone who talked to me in the three days it took for me to work up the guts to submit myself for the challenge will tell you the same, I *agonized* about the implications. Because I was taking on more than my insane, reticent muse, more than my own whims, more than what might be within my ability to be true to. And regardless of the fact that I've read an *awful lot* of fic for my short time in the fandom, this was still going to be my first time writing popslash, too, so that was a factor as well. And righteously indignant commentary is something I'm known for, and my friend was nearly in *tears* when she was telling me about it, as was I for her as I read the story. I *know* you don't call out an author like that in a public forum (keep it to vague laments about the quality of fic, tralala, which I've never done but that's what they tell me is etiquette). I kept it deliberately vague for that reason, but if I had any idea other people than my friends read my journal who might recognize her or worse, tell her about what I said about something she *may* have actually put effort into writing (that was my own assumption, and the only thing that I'll apologize for if I'm wrong), I might go back and edit the entry just to it's even more vague. But the fact is it *didn't* seem like the author had particularly tried or cared, or if they were truly that novice at the fandom/writing/whatever, it's my opinion that they shouldn't have undertaken the formidable task of this challenge, which I'm sure is the one thing we'll agree upon, that it's unique in its methods and intent. I worked bloody hard, and it just didn't feel like the particular author had.
Sigh. I like this fandom. And all the people I've met so far. This wasn't my intent, and that's my peace.
I think everyone has accidentally started a mess at least once. Lord knows I have posted things I should not have, and once you apologize there's nothing else to be done. It'll blow over, just keep writing. *offers tea* (I would highly advise against editing the entry, btw, which could be taken very much the wrong way. Experience from past kerfuffles...)
As for editing, all I did was take out the pairing reference to avoid from most people recognizing who the author was, simply because, while I'm personally beyond merely thinking it was in bad faith, the author herself hasn't stepped up yet, so there's still the marginal chance that the story was in fact written with good intentions, in which case I'll apologize to her as well.
Sigh. Thanks for the tea, it does help. Kudos to you again on the story.
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Date: December 25th, 2002 07:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: December 25th, 2002 11:02 pm (UTC)Also, off topic but for the record, I didn't mean to imply that there should be quality restrictions imposed on next year's Don We Now Our Gay Apparel, not at all. All I was trying to convey, and anyone who talked to me in the three days it took for me to work up the guts to submit myself for the challenge will tell you the same, I *agonized* about the implications. Because I was taking on more than my insane, reticent muse, more than my own whims, more than what might be within my ability to be true to. And regardless of the fact that I've read an *awful lot* of fic for my short time in the fandom, this was still going to be my first time writing popslash, too, so that was a factor as well. And righteously indignant commentary is something I'm known for, and my friend was nearly in *tears* when she was telling me about it, as was I for her as I read the story. I *know* you don't call out an author like that in a public forum (keep it to vague laments about the quality of fic, tralala, which I've never done but that's what they tell me is etiquette). I kept it deliberately vague for that reason, but if I had any idea other people than my friends read my journal who might recognize her or worse, tell her about what I said about something she *may* have actually put effort into writing (that was my own assumption, and the only thing that I'll apologize for if I'm wrong), I might go back and edit the entry just to it's even more vague. But the fact is it *didn't* seem like the author had particularly tried or cared, or if they were truly that novice at the fandom/writing/whatever, it's my opinion that they shouldn't have undertaken the formidable task of this challenge, which I'm sure is the one thing we'll agree upon, that it's unique in its methods and intent. I worked bloody hard, and it just didn't feel like the particular author had.
Sigh. I like this fandom. And all the people I've met so far. This wasn't my intent, and that's my peace.
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Date: December 26th, 2002 06:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: December 26th, 2002 09:42 am (UTC)Sigh. Thanks for the tea, it does help. Kudos to you again on the story.