Post-Party Post (Clean up and discussion.)

[karaokegal]

Thanks to everybody who attended either as a writer or a reader.

You guys are awesome and I love you!

First things first, a bit of pimpage. If you only attended the first two or three nights you might have missed some awesome costumes. People were showing up until the very last minute posting stories, so PRETTY PLEASE go back, and see if you

Comments

[hannahrorlove]

I don't know...I read the Feedback Meme stuff, and I kinda have to agree. I mean, I'm a big Torchwood fan, but the stuff you put in your headers doesn't make me want to read your stories.

I'd have listened to more music if you put it on Yousendit rather than Sendspace - I can only get one song from SP at a time, and it's slower than YSI. But I had fun coming to it, and being able to dress up like that.

[karaokegal]

That's the one critique I actually think has some merit, and if you noticed the most recent fic has none of those warnings at all. And is getting hardly any comments. Presumably I could have tweaked the header to promise more J/I and gotten more readers, but that's really not what the story's about.

I'm a sendspace gal. End of story. That's where I started and that's what works for me.

Thanks for attending in your fabulous costumes. Glad you enjoyed.

[hannahrorlove]

Just the one about the warnings? Not about overzealous simplified characterizations? Because something that common probably has some truth to it.

In regard to headers, I just put in the minimum amount of information with as little personal details as possible, and let the work stand on its own merits. Seems to be working so far.

It's a matter of convenience for the people downloading - maybe you could do a poll to see if the rest of the audience cares or it's just me.

[karaokegal]

Yup. No more warnings. Everybody's on their own from now on.

Even if it's a "J/I" story that references Jack building shrines to Gwen's beauty or imagining in graphic detail how much he'd rather be screwing Owen every time Ianto offers him a cup of coffee.

Mostly I track the downloads. If I hear a massive outcry against Sendspace, I'll reconsider.

[hannahrorlove]

Heh. See, that's funny because it's out of character for Jack and Owen and...well...nevermind.

It's not an outcry so much as a murmured complaint. Does tracking downloads matter all that much?

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[mad_jaks]

that's funny because it's out of character for Jack and Owen

I'm pretty sure Jack would rather be screwing anyone than drinking a cup of coffee...

imagining in graphic detail how much he'd rather be screwing Owen
And fyi, in my Fanon - as in many other people's - that thought itself is not (necessarily) out of character for Jack.

Re: deliberately obtuse comment

[joanne_c]

I like you.

*is deliberately obtuse too*

Re: deliberately obtuse comment

[mad_jaks]

*bounces*
I'm ever so equal opportunities, me :D

Re: deliberately obtuse comment

[karaokegal]

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Re: deliberately obtuse comment

[mad_jaks]

Well, you and I know we don't see eye to eye on the Gwen thing but- when all's said and done it *is* JACK

Re: deliberately obtuse comment

[karaokegal]

Somehow I'm perfectly able to have calm, rational disagreements with reasonable people when it comes to Gwen.

[joanne_c]

Owen is bisexual (according to RTD/Chris Chibnall). You think anyone bisexual is going to work with Jack and not fantasise at least?

[karaokegal]

Considering that Owen was VERY interested in Jack's sex life in both Day One and A Day In The Death, plus all that subtext/handsiness between them in Fragments. I'd say they're both thinking about it (at the very least).

[rustydog]

Hee! Love that icon.

[karaokegal]

Feel free to borrow and credit to