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[kindkit]

I'm rather sad that only one person commented on my Torchwood fic. In fact, I don't seem to get many comments on anything in this journal anymore, and it worries me.

Thereforce, I beg for comments nudge the lurkers poll!

Please only take the poll if you have this journal friended or read it at least occasionally.

Comments

[dorrie6]

Just FYI, I have a fic of yours open in a tab to read, and it has been there since the beginning of the month. I will read it. Seriously. Eventually. And comment. :)

[kindkit]

Wheeeee!

Out of curiosity, which fic is it?

[dorrie6]

The Summer of Giles fic.

[malnpudl]

I'm rarely reading anything but dS and SGA these days, so for me it's mostly fandom drift.

But I hang around because you're smart and interesting and insightful and I like you.

[kindkit]

*blushes*

[lord_dingsi]

I've got your Torchwood fic open in a tab. Actually, I've got three posts of yours open in a tab. But I have some fourty tabs open altogether. (That's what Session Saver does to you.) Sometimes I get around to actually replying to, or writing about (as intended), one of them. Sometimes I don't and close the tab after I had it open for three months. I'm notoriously bad at commenting or replying to comments (or at least that's what it feels like).

But I read. Boy, do I read, and think, and make shiny plans about writing the Best Comment Evar.

Same with emails, btw. I collect comment notification emails (or general pen-pal style emails) like book shelves collect dust.

It's horrible, but I don't know what to doooo.

P.S.: Don't mention the irrational but very peristent fear of annoying people (in this case, you). I know it's stupid. Just... pretend it doesn't exist. I try to work on it

[kindkit]

You're the second person who's mentioned keeping a fic open in a tab--I'm beginning to think tabs are the enemy! (I don't use tabs, myself, so I tend to forget that other people do.)

I totally understand the desire to make the Best Comment Evar (I feel it too, and in any case I'm pretty bad about commenting) but of course, the OP just gets . . . silence. And any non-flamey comment is better than silence!

As for Jack/Ianto . . . I think my story sort of got caught between Scylla and Charybdis, fannishly. People who don't ship Jack/Ianto weren't likely to read it, and people who do ship Jack/Ianto may have been put off either by having the Ianto/Lisa pairing there as well, or just by the fact that it wasn't a happy story.

[lord_dingsi]

And any non-flamey comment is better than silence!

True, dat. I complain about it myself. Somehow, when you get no replies, you always assume it's because people either were absolutely uninterested, or they read it and thought it sucked. Which does not, actually, overlap with reality, but that's how you feel.
And yet, commenting is... hard.

No, I don't get it, either.

I think my story sort of got caught between Scylla and Charybdis, fannishly (...) people who do ship Jack/Ianto may have been put off either by having the Ianto/Lisa pairing there as well, or just by the fact that it wasn't a happy story.Well, I can only speak for me, but the lack of happy endings is one of the things I like about your stories. Or perhaps "lack of happy endings" isn't quite the right way to put it... but your fics often have this dark atmosphere that I am drawn to. Not the grim-and-gritty dark. It's more ... the way you write about the characters, they are often broken in so many subtle ways. Sometimes they cope. Sometimes they cope, but in a very

[kindkit]

the lack of happy endings is one of the things I like about your stories

The funny thing is, I do in fact like happy endings when they're possible. But they're hard to accomplish, both in life and in writing. Especially as I'm much more interested in characters who are, as you say, broken rather than in happy, well-adjusted characters. (I didn't particularly love Jack during S1 of Doctor Who--it was the unhappy, messed-up Jack of Torchwood that I fell in love with.)

I don't have a problem with a Ianto that is read as mostly/actually gay by people, but I'd have a problem with people declaring that his love for Lisa wasn't real

Oh yeah. Everything in canon shows us that Ianto loved Lisa obsessively, and in fact feels more for her than he does for Jack, even by the end of the season. But the same canon also shows us that Ianto and Jack are sleeping together and that Ianto, at least, has pretty strong feelings for Jack. So there's no need to choose, no need to denigrate one relationship to make room for the other.

[sageness]

I go through fandom binges where I'll, for example, read thirty Torchwood fics in two days. I'm presently NOT in a Torchwood space but I know I'll come back around to it again before too long. I do LOVE that you're writing TW and I'm looking forward to devouring it -- I just need to be in a more amenable mental space for it when I do. :)

[kindkit]

Yeah, I totally get the "fandom binges" thing--I do that a lot myself.

[be_goddess_like]

I read your journal pretty regularly. Unfortunately I'm more of a lurker than a commenter. However, if getting more involved means keeping you writing, I will happily do so!

[kindkit]

Heh. It's not that I'm likely to stop writing. But I think we (and I mean me too, because I'm often quite terrible about commenting on other people's stories) tend to forget how discouraged writers feel if they don't get many comments.