Links, a rec, and a massive eye-roll/rant

[stoney321]

First, Hey, Don't Judge Me is cooking today (with lots coming later today, too.)
Game of Thrones! Hope you like your incest. And baby killing.
Dexter! The rewatch continues with the beginning of Season 2, eps. 1 - 3.
Touch! The new Keifer show that is steadily picking up steam.
Later today: Mad Men! Bomb Girls! And THE RETURN OF THE BORGIAS (but

Comments

[megobsesses]

This sucks. Like really, what's fundamentally wrong with these people? I'm watching each chapter show up in my inbox and yet am waiting til they're all up to dive in. So I can spend a whole day just reading it (even though I loved reading each daily update of Where there's Smoke, I decided to take a different tack with this one).

And now I'm second guessing my writing of a COMMENT for fear I'll be judged here!

At any rate, it pisses me off that you're being hurt over something that I'm anticipating loving so much. Especially when your writing and attention to detail, in both your story development and your grammar, far outstrip the vast majority of fanfic I've read over the last 15 years.

[stoney321]

Well, thanks for the vote of support. I don't need to be popular or to have my name on the top of recs list - I need to enjoy fandom, and it's getting harder to do, day by day. I just don't understand where people got the idea that I want to be condescended to? I don't know where they're getting the idea that I don't know things and must be educated?

I don't mean to drive people away - comments are great. Discussion is great. People giving me a droll look and telling me how I'm wrong isn't. Are you going to comment to me like that last one? Please don't. Do you want to talk about story and character and plot and the show and the boys and... - YES, PLEASE.

I guess I feel the distinction between the two is obvious, but maybe it's not? I honestly do not understand.

(And again, thank you. I have spent a lot of my spare time on this story, lovingly-so, and just wanted to put it out there, that's all.)

[flaming_muse]

I seriously don't know why this fic, which people profess to love, is getting you so many cranky-making comments, my dear friend.

My little note to everyone:

She's worked really hard on this fic and gets her feelings hurt like (or more than, because she really is a big ol' self-critical softie) everyone else, so please think about your wording and motivation when responding to something that - like most everything else in fandom - is a gift given freely and with love.

Also, there are few things more likely to make an author stop sharing her words with you than people being rude about them. If you like the fic, say so. If you find a typo, please mention it in a friendly manner. If you want to talk about the story and how it's making you feel, you will seriously make her day... unless you're rude about it. There's no reason to be rude or entitled. This is a GIFT from her to you.

[stoney321]

I CAN BARELY READ YOUR COMMENT WITHOUT BAWLING. I JUST WANT TO BE ORGANIC AND MAKE ART AND HELP PEOPLE.

You are my most favorite, and I cannot wait to hug your bones in just TWO WEEKS.

[quietdiscerning]

Hey I just wanted to say I'm sorry that you're having such a rough time of it and I think it's really great of you to be posting daily. Knowing this is coming every day makes me smile and I might whine about having to wait but really I'm very grateful knowing that tomorrow there's of definitely going to be another chapter. So thank you!

[stoney321]

Well, you are just a delight. (And it's not that I need praise -I mean, don't get me wrong, I'll take it! It's that I just don't need the "What you need to understand is...")

And tomorrow's chapter is HUGE. HUGE! I'm excited to post it for you! <3

[quietdiscerning]

Oh my God I'm so excited for this chapter you have no idea! Is it 10am yet? (I've totally figured out that you're an hour behind me so when you post at 9 it's 10 for me or if you post at 8 it's actually nine for me and so on and so forth and that's not sad at all...)
Seriously though I'm always so excited for your fic because I know that it's well written and interesting and the plot make sense, you just do fic really really well and I'm always excited to find that in this fandom.

[stoney321]

*buys you a million ponies*

*and people to clean up after them*

THANK YOU FOR THAT.

[dlgood]

Thanks. Gotta say. Killing off all the Royal Bastards is a great way to say "I am totally not concerned about those rumors that King Joffrey is the product of an incestuous union."

[stoney321]

Yeah, Joffrey isn't showing us that he's really qualified for the long haul, is he?

[dlgood]

He was watching "daddy" and learned the 'a king can do whatever he wants' lesson but not the 'piss off too many people and get yourself murdered' part.

Or whatever the last king before Robert did to get rebelled on. Not that I'm smelling rebellion, murder and incest on this show. I'm sure it'll work out roses...

[prosen8966]

I am so sorry people are bombarding you with anything negative, let alone typing errors which I imagine they can either ignore or, if it (apparently) is bothering them to the point where they feel it is necessary to bring it to your attention, INSTEAD, they should probably just go read something else instead. IMO.

If I have trouble with a story/ don't like the way it's developing/ feel that Kurt has become the scum of the earth (that's just an example b'c he's my favorite character on Glee)/ suddenly realize that political opinions not my own are likely to be peppered throughout the tale -- I do this wild, awesome, and quite similar to using a remote on a TV thing where I simply stop reading the story. That's it. I don't find it necessary (or advisable) or anything other than mean, really, to TELL the author that I'm doing this. I certainly am not going to continue reading a story I dislike, just for the joy of letting an author know what I believe is wrong with each chapter

[stoney321]

OH MY FUCKING GOD I WANT TO MARRY YOU. I laughed so hard at the turning the channel/shutting the window. I DO THAT, TOO. So good for my blood pressure, I must say