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So, I needed a link to "Season of Courtship" for vastly important reasons (aka a Tumblr meme), was too lazy to track it down and googled it instead, which of course brought up:
(1) The relevant passage, where I got the title from in the first place.
(2) The Lulu/Amazon page. (It paid for a whole term's worth of textbooks!) I have no idea if there are any reviews besides the 'there's no sex and Elizabeth is WHITE!!!' one, which kind of makes my skin crawl.
(3) A really nice rec from someone who doesn't really love P&P. I'm always sort of ambivalent about these: not sure if I should be flattered that even someone who doesn't like P&P likes me fic, or discomfited that my fic is so far from P&P that it appeals to completely different tastes. I did appreciate that they didn't go the 'I enjoyed it more than the original, therefore BETTER THAN AUSTEN OMG' route - just that it appealed more to them. Also, they rated it R, which is ... huh? Are references to someone else's adultery rated R now? Or fade to black wedding nights?
(4) The epic_rants critique. I assume it's more valid than the vaguely racist review, since I remember something about the inconsistent titles (I changed my mind when I was posting, and then forgot to change them all the way through, which was naturally confusing - I corrected it later), but didn't feel like re-reading it. Or rather, I was very tempted, but knew I'd probably just get upset and then think it through and probably end up overhauling it for a ... seventh time or something and I didn't feel like doing that. I have quite enough WIPs without turning a fic I finished five years ago into one.
(5) A torrent download. I don't quite understand torrenting something that's available for free and can be downloaded at, say, AO3, but I guess I'm flattered that it merits quasi-piracy.
(6) More recs.
(7) A Russian translation. I vaguely remember that (they asked for permission and everything <3), mostly for the hilarious Google Translate version.
(8) My nine-part response to that fangirlblog essay on Padmé Amidala. My tags caught Google's roving eye, I guess.
(9) The version over at a side LJ.
Possibly just going to my AO3 page would have been faster.
(1) The relevant passage, where I got the title from in the first place.
(2) The Lulu/Amazon page. (It paid for a whole term's worth of textbooks!) I have no idea if there are any reviews besides the 'there's no sex and Elizabeth is WHITE!!!' one, which kind of makes my skin crawl.
(3) A really nice rec from someone who doesn't really love P&P. I'm always sort of ambivalent about these: not sure if I should be flattered that even someone who doesn't like P&P likes me fic, or discomfited that my fic is so far from P&P that it appeals to completely different tastes. I did appreciate that they didn't go the 'I enjoyed it more than the original, therefore BETTER THAN AUSTEN OMG' route - just that it appealed more to them. Also, they rated it R, which is ... huh? Are references to someone else's adultery rated R now? Or fade to black wedding nights?
(4) The epic_rants critique. I assume it's more valid than the vaguely racist review, since I remember something about the inconsistent titles (I changed my mind when I was posting, and then forgot to change them all the way through, which was naturally confusing - I corrected it later), but didn't feel like re-reading it. Or rather, I was very tempted, but knew I'd probably just get upset and then think it through and probably end up overhauling it for a ... seventh time or something and I didn't feel like doing that. I have quite enough WIPs without turning a fic I finished five years ago into one.
(5) A torrent download. I don't quite understand torrenting something that's available for free and can be downloaded at, say, AO3, but I guess I'm flattered that it merits quasi-piracy.
(6) More recs.
(7) A Russian translation. I vaguely remember that (they asked for permission and everything <3), mostly for the hilarious Google Translate version.
(8) My nine-part response to that fangirlblog essay on Padmé Amidala. My tags caught Google's roving eye, I guess.
(9) The version over at a side LJ.
Possibly just going to my AO3 page would have been faster.