On Snot Overproduction and the Writer's Ego

[vulgarweed]

It may be just a virus. Yesterday was a solid 8 on the death-warmed-over scale, today's more like a 6.7. We'll see. More tea.

Good thing, as I'm busybusybusy.

In other news, a fic of mine made GAFF!!

Finally! I was starting to feel like the most obscure NNF (No-Name Fan) ever.

It is, of course, an intentional crackfic--and a smutty one at that-- and it is three years old (but then I wouldn't have put it up at Skyehawke recently if I were nearly as ashamed of it as I should be), but hey! The biggest ego-stroke was the poster who said it was actually well-written and in-character, and that made it worse.

Heh.

Now, stories of mine have been mentioned in their "The Antidote" section twice that I know of, but that's just not the same. (And what amuses me about that is that the two stories were "The Ring and the Crown" and "Wrong Turn at Yesod." Not only can I not think of two pieces of anything I've ever written more different from each other, I can't conceive of how two pieces could be more different. I guess only if one of them lacked porn...)

More pseudoephedrine, please!

Also, congratulations to the first person to finish her go_exchange assignment. She knows who she is, and she rocks.

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[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Here's the thing: I lurk on that site because when it's funny, it's really funny. But there's a very small percentage of skillful sporkers, overwhelmed by a large percentage of prudish, squeamish teenagers who are, IMNSHO opinion, squicked all too easily by the slightest hint of the outré. And the self-righteousness factor is off the scale. It's always funny to see someone go off on a rant about something violating some alleged point of a very long and intricate and occasionally contradictory canon source (Tolkien and Star Wars and Star Trek pop up frequently) and then having someone else, who knows more, point out..."well, actually..."

So it's part "as Wilde says, the only thing worse than being talked about...," part "An insult from the right people is a compliment," and part "yay, audience!"


You're SICK too, oh that sucks. Talk about insult to injury. I hope you get all the pampering you deserve (which is a shitload....)