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I don't know if there's an etiquette here that I'm breaking by talking about this, but anyway...
When I'm on the internet I don't often wander very far from my usual haunts. I have a few LJ communities I watch and a few users (fantastic when notifications are actually working properly), and I poke around on AO3 and FF.net from time to time. Otherwise I don't really do much.
Since notifications have been borked lately, I've been really paranoid about missing notifications about entries and comments, so I've been refreshing my flist (which I don't usually even look at, since I'm used to getting emails) and checking the homepage for the last few comments just in case...
Today, I was poking around on the home page, making sure I wasn't missing anything. Once I was done, I wound up wandering down to the popular entries area. I'd seen![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fandomsecrets pop up a few times, and had already gotten curious enough about it to click it once or twice. It's not really my sort of thing usually, but some of the observations were kind of funny and insightful. Bored, I thought why the hell not.
I clicked today's entry and was scrolling down...and #27 caught me off guard.
On the off chance the poster of #27 ever sees this, I'm not offended, it's just...weird seeing my fic mentioned. If it helps, the beginning of chapter 3 kind of took me by surprise, and I've never been really happy about it either. I've kind of gone on at length in some of my journals about how it weirds me out. So, yeah. Consider it con-crit well received.
I kind of have an idea of why scenes like this tend to turn out like they do with me. It's nothing traumatic or anything, I just have a moderate phobia regarding mental illness (not of people who are mentally ill, but of mental illness occurring in myself or people I care about).
Which really probably explains approximately a third of my stories pretty completely...so yeah. It wasn't intentional, but in hindsight I'm more than willing to admit to that being an author-walk-in moment.
Anyway... Oh, look! Puppets! /shameless diversion
Sorry. This song always makes me smile.
I think the best thing about it is that, if you can look past the fact that it's being sung by Jason Segel with his hand up muppet!Dracula's ass, it's actually an incredibly awesome, romantic song. :D
When I'm on the internet I don't often wander very far from my usual haunts. I have a few LJ communities I watch and a few users (fantastic when notifications are actually working properly), and I poke around on AO3 and FF.net from time to time. Otherwise I don't really do much.
Since notifications have been borked lately, I've been really paranoid about missing notifications about entries and comments, so I've been refreshing my flist (which I don't usually even look at, since I'm used to getting emails) and checking the homepage for the last few comments just in case...
Today, I was poking around on the home page, making sure I wasn't missing anything. Once I was done, I wound up wandering down to the popular entries area. I'd seen
fandomsecrets pop up a few times, and had already gotten curious enough about it to click it once or twice. It's not really my sort of thing usually, but some of the observations were kind of funny and insightful. Bored, I thought why the hell not.I clicked today's entry and was scrolling down...and #27 caught me off guard.
On the off chance the poster of #27 ever sees this, I'm not offended, it's just...weird seeing my fic mentioned. If it helps, the beginning of chapter 3 kind of took me by surprise, and I've never been really happy about it either. I've kind of gone on at length in some of my journals about how it weirds me out. So, yeah. Consider it con-crit well received.
I kind of have an idea of why scenes like this tend to turn out like they do with me. It's nothing traumatic or anything, I just have a moderate phobia regarding mental illness (not of people who are mentally ill, but of mental illness occurring in myself or people I care about).
Which really probably explains approximately a third of my stories pretty completely...so yeah. It wasn't intentional, but in hindsight I'm more than willing to admit to that being an author-walk-in moment.
Anyway... Oh, look! Puppets! /shameless diversion
Sorry. This song always makes me smile.
I think the best thing about it is that, if you can look past the fact that it's being sung by Jason Segel with his hand up muppet!Dracula's ass, it's actually an incredibly awesome, romantic song. :D
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Date: Saturday, 25 February 2012 02:50 pm (UTC)From:I feel ya about good concrit generally being the type people give when they don't think you're listening.