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.

Comments

[runcible.livejournal.com]

:">!!

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Hee! Yay you.

[tyellas.livejournal.com]

OMG am liek totally jealous U rule!!!!!

[tehta.livejournal.com]

You're not getting much destructive criticism there, though... mostly complaints from people who aren't into tree porn for some reason.

[quantum-witch.livejournal.com]

Wow. Is it supposed to be an honour to have your work show up on sites that trash you? Is that because they are pitiful people who get too much attention? Or because it's, well, free advertising for you?

And guess what? I'm starting to get the flu too. Wanna take a wild stab in the dark who at work gave it to me?

[fictualities.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaa, I've always loved that fic. It's hilarious, and the pollen at the end is perfect. Yay treesex!

[aphrodeia.livejournal.com]

It is indeed an honor. I make a policy of not posting on the New Releases board, but if I did, I'd moon Jira for you. :D She irks me.

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[dreya-uberwald.livejournal.com]

Oh dear Adam, the Pippin/Merry/Treebeard thing has left me rather squicked, yet snickering dementedly. I daresay that I'll never be able to look at a venerable old oak for some time without my mind filling with innuendo.

I must admit that I sometimes check the new releases section of GAFF in the perverse hope that somebody's reported one of my fics (am certain that the Harry/Draco MPREG caused by Crowley having an orgasm deserved it). Still, I'm just not prepared to write, say, NC17 Hastur/Ligur BDSM smut (or indeed anything Hastur/Ligur related that goes above an innuendo laden PG13) for the purpose attaining this.

[very-improbable.livejournal.com]

Okay, my personal favorite comment?

S/he's actually writers well, I agree.

(All right, my second favorite next to the OP, who can't wrap her mind around the "audible grin" concept. She don't read much, do she?)

[maggiehoneybite.livejournal.com]

Go you. (Have the people there honestly never heard of crackfic?)

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

You got GAFFed?! I am so jealous!