LOL- Your bookshelves have the same *ahem* "personal organization system" mine do! (i.e., I've given up trying to sort by subject, and now they're pretty much size-graded, although I do try to keep non-fiction out of the fiction) And I should have known you were a Gene Wolfe fan, just by the fascinations your writing displays.
FB- Haven't commented on the latest yet, just because I didn't realize it was posted- busy summer, so I didn't see it pop up on the flist, and I'm not sure I expected more in the 'verse. The original was presented as a finished one-shot, and was great, so a lot of people came to read and comment, just because it was very timely too. The second and third were less so, (right now there are a lot of post finale fics- I think yours kicked off a whole lot of PTSD fics, in fact, so the sequels are tending to get lost in the crowd) & required reading the first, so it's a WIP, and that puts people off- most will wait and comment at the end. Besides, As I recall, you weren't committed to anymore than the one sequel, and at first even insisted it was only a one-shot.
And yeah, sequels, meh- you know! And Wincest does scare many off- it's just kind of "eeuw" that this fandom's OTP is incest. Many prefer case fics & gen to porn, slash and especially incest. (I'll never understand how females manage to consider M/M slash the hottest sort of sex, myself- never thought sex was a purely spectator sport before fanfic!;) Thanks to folks like you and Astolat, I've been forced to reconsider my kneejerk rejection, though..hate to miss good fic because of prejudice! Even so, it's not something I go looking for. And yeah, the people hoping for porn might have felt cheated.:) too bad! Double whammy on the wincest warning there though!
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And I should have known you were a Gene Wolfe fan, just by the fascinations your writing displays.
FB- Haven't commented on the latest yet, just because I didn't realize it was posted- busy summer, so I didn't see it pop up on the flist, and I'm not sure I expected more in the 'verse.
The original was presented as a finished one-shot, and was great, so a lot of people came to read and comment, just because it was very timely too. The second and third were less so, (right now there are a lot of post finale fics- I think yours kicked off a whole lot of PTSD fics, in fact, so the sequels are tending to get lost in the crowd) & required reading the first, so it's a WIP, and that puts people off- most will wait and comment at the end. Besides, As I recall, you weren't committed to anymore than the one sequel, and at first even insisted it was only a one-shot.
And yeah, sequels, meh- you know!
And Wincest does scare many off- it's just kind of "eeuw" that this fandom's OTP is incest.
Many prefer case fics & gen to porn, slash and especially incest. (I'll never understand how females manage to consider M/M slash the hottest sort of sex, myself- never thought sex was a purely spectator sport before fanfic!;)
Thanks to folks like you and Astolat, I've been forced to reconsider my kneejerk rejection, though..hate to miss good fic because of prejudice! Even so, it's not something I go looking for.
And yeah, the people hoping for porn might have felt cheated.:) too bad!
Double whammy on the wincest warning there though!