[fic]Obsidian - one
This is not an update of Falling from Heaven, I'm so sorry. T_T As some of you may know I have been working on an original story for a while, and after all sorts of trials and errors, and changing my mind three times a day as to whose story and which generation I want to write first (the cast kept expanding T_T), I have managed to arrive at a
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I've always felt guilty about you taking such a long break for this! :(
Your story is a good story, and you know that my advice has always been to post it, to let people read and get proper feedback from actual readers! It can only help you and make your story better!
Anyway, it's so nice to see you back on LJ! It seems to me that so many of us got caught up in RL and stopped being active. I miss you guys all the time!
And with all that said, I have just one more *tiny* suggestion! *dodges bricks*
Fictionpress is a shit site. I hate it to pieces. They censor you left and right and the platform is no good for comments and interactions. It's the worst. You should consider also making an account here: https://archiveofourown.org/
This place is great! It is intended primarily for fanfiction, but people post original fics here too. In fact, some of my favourite original fics in the last couple of years came from here. Also, it has a great 'kudos' method for people who are too shy (or lazy) to comment, to leave quick feedback telling you they liked your story. It has a subscribe button, tags and everything! It is discussion friendly because it has a comment system similar to LJ. I do also believe it is more popular than ff.net, fictionpress and aff.net, so you may get more readers there! <3
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I am already on archiveofourown just didn’t know if it’s appropriate to be posting originals. I’ll do that then. Thanks for the suggestion.
How are you, BTW? Any hope of seeing you write again?
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Ao3 is great! I think that the people posting originals there put the fandom down as 'Original Works'. Also, in my (admittedly, limited) experience, people are very friendly there, but I haven't been very active anywhere in a very long time, so I can't really make any claims for sure. :( I do think, though, that most of LJ moved there at some point. Ff.net and its affiliates are cold, strange and unfriendly. You have freaks there getting upset at you for leaving them enthusiastic comments on their fics, ffs! =_=
I'm doing OK, considering, but in truth, I haven't been well in a long time. I've been having a good period after quitting that shitty job and the shitty people that kept launching me into depressive cycles. I was back on meds for a few months, did well and stopped taking them after the crisis blew over, but I never fully got back to the way I was before. I'm calm and functional on most days now, but I'm mostly very apathetic and distant, sort of just going through the motions. It is very hard to get excited about things, and when I do, it doesn't last long.
I will probably write again because the stories are still there in my head, they never left me even at my worst, it's just that I'm no longer really motivated to put them down and share. In free time, I prefer to just drift. I think it is more likely that I will go back to drawing first, because sometimes I do still draw, it's just that I never finish my work because it's crap, LOL. :P
I did get excited about a fandom recently again, though, which is a good sign, I guess! I just really, really hope it lasts, because I miss being so excited stories and characters! It really does help me push through all kinds of RL shit.
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I totally understand about feeling apathetic and distant, but I attribute that to the fact that we haven't had anything to squee or get excited (or throw shit) over for some time. For all the crap YA has put us through, those were some really great years with *something* to discuss and having enough clever, brilliant people to discuss it with was just grand. We were just spoiled rotten for that. Other people usually drift through life too, you know. I mean you have to see all the bored moms with too much money just hanging around the school waiting for it to be over and taking pictures of their kids doing all kinds of ordinary things like picking their noses then sharing it on instagram. Coming from that, I'm so glad I can always go back to read your terrifying rant over GRRM or some shit I wrote. LOL
I would really love to read you again, anything you write really and am super excited at what you can do with your new degree (though I'm sure you already knew how to do most of those things!). I am in serious need of a good read and I have this really bad habit of sticking to just my favorite authors and not trying new ones T_T And the great ones take at least three years to write. *sighs* But drawing is great too if it pushes you through RL shit lol, assuming, of course, that you would share them with us!
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LOL, I can't say I learned anything useful with my new degree, unfortunately! I just read a crapton of boring books and crammed some more useless grammar into my head, but I don't give a fuck, it was the degree I was after, not additional knowledge. Though I do have the academic credentials now to pick stories apart, hahahahahahaha! *smug*
Anyway, we'll see if I come back eventually and what I'll come back with. I've always wanted to finish DC at least, but VF really pissed me off and left me with a lot of disgust for both the canon storyline and the characters. I haven't checked the new chapters in years, plus my will to write anything has been extremely low for a long time now.
Anyway, it's great to see you on Ao3! I've always thought of migrating my stories there and locking down my LJ, but I guess laziness is the curse of my existence! :P
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Oh damn. May God have mercy on me those whose stories you pick apart, now with CREDENTIALS!!! Lol
VF new chapters? Let’s just say it has deteriorated from being able to digust on both plot and character to what resembles another instagram post featuring some kids picking their noses. I believe Mikhail made an appearance visiting some guy in a hospital room about 2 years ago. He is still in the hospital room two years later. What happens while he’s at the hospital possibly still peeling some oranges for some guy whose name I don’t remember? Let’s see. Cute Aki eating food, vegetable and fruits, making *cough* phone call to his rapist Fei and texting Fei (No, I am not kidding with you, nor is it a figure of speech), lovely Aki sweepting the floor, Aki thinking of Asami while sweeping the floor, Aki thinking of calling Asami and some other shit while sweeping the fucking floor, Fei walking into some trap requiring Asami to save him (again)... I mean you can probably get yourself a doctorate degree and then come back to check if Mikhail has made it out of the parking lot (and it might take another two chapters for him to find the key to start the damn car while Aki eats three other meals) ! OMG seriously, if you want to show off drawings of your kids doing household chores and eating vegetables please do it on your bloody instagram account or facebook!
No no no. Don’t lock your lj. I need it alive!! And you just need to find a book that inspires to write again!
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So, interesting, I went to the link above and Instagram is asking me to sign in by supplying a weird username I'm not familiar with and one of my old icons. The only reason I suspect it may be mine is because of the icon, but the name is off and not something I'd pick. Also, I know for a fact that I never made an Instagram account. I tried once, ages ago, to vote for you in some photo contest, but couldn't do it because you had to have a smartphone, you couldn't make an account over the PC. I remember being forever bitter at the discrimination, hahahaha! So, this is suspicious!
Ahahahaha, this VF summary is too good! Jesus, was there actually a time when we were all in a pitch of excitement, expecting an explosive, angsty, bloody showdown between two mafia bosses at the docks of Hong Kong, where at least one dies a tragic and horrible death? WTF happened to this story??? Or how stupid were we to read so much into something that was never there? Wow. Just... wow.
I personally stopped reading when Aki moved in with Asami to become his personal servant and cook him breakfast wearing nothing but an apron. OK, I would have lived with that too, but when YET ANOTHER random guy showed up to sexually assault him because he is just that damn irresistible, I just never went back. But thinking back, it is actually the incest!Tao and the onsen threesome were the final nails in the coffin. Especially the incest!Tao part, I could never look at the characters the same way, even removed from the manga. Asami and Akihito were dead to me for a long time, but that stupid novel thing came along and took away Feilong too. I just feel so much disgust with VF whenever it comes across my dash. It’s like someone sat down and did an actual statistical study on how best to kill the fandom and then went there and did it. :(
Anyway, sorry for the rant. I always get carried away on LJ. *goes hide*
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Oh yeah, I had to skim the new VF all the time to keep myself from finding the fact that he moved in, gave another guy a bj, and all other stupid thing acceptable! Whih is why I don’t remember any of the new guys name. And TBH from the lackof enthusiasm on the comms, I think the new set of villains she created are not working and ahe knows this which is why she has to bring back both Mik AND Fei, to bring back their fan base again. She even threw a bit of AsamixFei bone as fanservice. She’s desperate. But really, she needs to start loving her side characters and write them with respect and get out of her AxA obsession again to make the story work. For now it’s just empty, meaningless fanservice and dragging it along.
No don’t apologize. I miss your rant so much. Please do rant about anything including your burnt toast yesterday and etc lol
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I think that YA chased off the Fei fans for good. I seriously doubt any are coming back, regardless of what she does now. She really ruined VF, which is a shame. Also, I think that the comms went dead when the Fei fans went away (and there was nobody left to bully the AxA people, ahahaha). Lots of the life on the comms left with us, I think. Or maybe I just think so because there was nothing of interest for me left, so it felt like they were dead.
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