The ways of fame

[wiseheart]

I've just discovered that "Annúminas" has made it into "The Worst of the Worst LOTR Stories" comm on FF.Net. *g*

I'm so proud!

Of course, considering the fact that it's a Mpreg story, it's not surprising that some people would hate it on principle.

Comments

[lethe_lloyd]

I only post here ( as back-up) and LOTR fanfiction.com, because that takes adult and has an admin who discourages flaming, sporking and bullying. It's a friendly site, although much smaller, but it has off-topic stories too ( one of my f-list posts V for Vendetta and The Cell fics there. Of course LOTR is the main fandom. )

I can't respect a site whose admin allow bullying and flaming, and create a place where these ugly-minded people can congregate and mock and sneer, yet won't allow Adult? If there was more Adult allowed, I think they would get a broader range of people reading the stories, who would have chance to line up against slash-haters. As it is, people like me who like well written slash/erotica read it elsewhere, review it elsewhere and discuss it elsewhere.

Twice on ff.net I wandered into forums and got caught in the crossfire of two different groups who had running feuds going, and it didn't leave a nice taste in my mouth, especially when I took a mod up on the offer to post recommended fics. I looked them up, linked them, found passages to quote, wrote why I liked it, and they were deleted because the mod didn't like the authors. ( Aislynn was one of those deleted ) - what the heck has that got to do with the quality of a story? There are also some terribly patronizing and smug people who believe they are the sole arbiters of good Tolkien fanfic, who actually write very dry and unexciting stories, but have massively inflated ego's. Sometimes I cannot believe how cocksure they are of themselves and how condescending to other people.

I post on Aislynn's forum sometimes, as I follow her story and she is a really lovely person, and I like to show I support people I read in public, and others who post on her forum are very decent too, but the rest of the place appalls me. I much prefer LJ as I can choose whom I talk to in a civilized atmosphere.

Heh! It's not FF.Net alone. The story holds the proud record of being the quickest refusal from HASA, too. Twenty minutes after it had been recced, it already had the necessary numbers of refusal. ;)

HASA is very elitist. Much as I hate ff.com, I am not keen on sites who set up a system of judging stories and have the power to refuse them. That is a snobbish attitude which chafes me. What's wrong with just letting people upload and then giving concrit if you feel it is justified?

[wiseheart]

I like the policy of SoA - they accept a writer, not a story, and once you're accepted, you can post your stories, as long as they're within the site's guidelines. Unfortunately, they don't accept slash, adult stuff or crossovers, although the latter is still a mystery to me.

I mean, I can understand that they don't want "Harry Potter the Tenth Walker" fics in the archive - I wouldn't want those, either - but once they have an established writer, they can be reasonably sure that s/he wouldn't write such tripe, right?

[lethe_lloyd]

but once they have an established writer, they can be reasonably sure that s/he wouldn't write such tripe, right?

Yes, my view is a good writer cannot write a bad story, whatever it is. I am reading a tenth walker-self insert one of my f-list wrote just as an experiment, to see if she could do it. I love it. She's a fantastic writer and can turn an over-worked and infamous plot-line into something readable and believable. So, yes, I would trust a good writer not to suddenly produce rubbish.

[lhun_dweller]

Are you suggesting I submit my "Harry Sue's Adventures at Hogwart" someplace besides SoA??? [weeps rilly rilly rilly big tears...]

[wiseheart]

*hands over Kleenex*

There, there. You will have to find another home for your grand epic, I'm afraid.