[unfic] in place of thought, questions

[glossing]

Some random questions that have been sloshing around in my brainpan lately:
1. Does the proliferation of fandom-specific newsletters mean there's less need for fic-communities? (I'm thinking of comms as fic-posting platforms here, rather than niche outlets for 'ship cliques and the like.)

2. If an ensemble has a canon queer character - or a couple

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[marginalia]

i can't remember the last time i posted to a community when it wasn't for a challenge, mostly because i get really fucking annoyed when the community is deleted & i lose the feedback.

it's hard for me to say, though. i mean, i think now i watch more newsletters than i do communities, but i certainly don't read off of either of them. i read ... not much at all. except apparently popslash in the middle of the night.

i'm going to have to think about #2, because i can't think of any examples right now. maybe the shower will help.

[glossing]

I hadn't posted to communities (other than, yes, challenges) for a while, but getting into Marvel fic made me look at the options. I'm not seeing much use for the communities now that there are *two* comicsdom newsletters.

i read ... not much at all. except apparently popslash in the middle of the night.
Your secret is safe with me.

Enjoy the shower. :D

[marginalia]

one one hand, i feel the need to defend this on the basis of the fact that i'm still just reading nsync & i have not given in to emobandom. on the other... i'm not sure that is much of a defense.

do newsletters over communities make it harder for new authors? like... i don't care that much, i guess. i am okay with my 3-5 comments. but other people might care more about getting out there.

[dorrie6]

do newsletters over communities make it harder for new authors?

I think they do a little bit. In fact, I think I've had this experience as an old author trying to reach new readers when she's suddenly writing things that don't appeal to her friends list anymore.

[marginalia]

:nod: i can see that. especially for you, with a rare pairing in a big fandom. the stuff i write (or want to write) that doesn't appeal to my flist doesn't have a fandom at all, so a newsletter is a moot point.

[dorrie6]

Someone should start the Jaci Newsletter. "Jaci Daily" or something. Except I suppose that's your journal. :)

You know, I've wished sometime that I was just a newbie, because it would be a whole lot easier to find an audience in some ways. Like, I could crosspost all over creation because I didn't know any better. Hee.

[marginalia]

also it would imply i was -writing- every day, which, not so much :)

i don't think i even managed to do that when i -was- new. like, it wigged me out to post to a community -and- my journal, so i have a lot of just links in my journal now. which is why i have to go and backpost old fic now. what a pain.

[dorrie6]

Back in our lotrips days, you could join one community and meet everyone. Remember when it was enough just to post at Fellowshippers? I used to do the same thing--I'd post in the community (which was without exception either fellowshippers or contrelamontre) and then link in my journal. It gets so much more complicated in HP, what with the hugeness of it all.

[marginalia]

oh man, fellowshippers! i am all nostalgic for old skool lotrips now. n'aw! and remember when we used to -do- contrelamontre? heh.

and for me in hp, enough people read me who care, i guess, for my purposes, so i don't feel the need to crosspost. sometimes people ask me to post things to communities, like a harry/ron story once, and it was so odd, because it NEVER would have occurred to me.

[oneangrykate]

except apparently popslash in the middle of the night.
Oh my god, I thought that was my unique perversion!

Um, carry on.

[marginalia]

\o/

i don't know what it is! i am totally normal all day long and then it hits 11:30 or midnight on a work night and i am all "omg sparkly dance boys!" sigh.