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[const_victoria]

Looks like Norrsken moved fandoms at last. Well, that's a bit disappointing, but for some reason I'm much less upset than I would have been, say, a year ago. Maybe if there is something Nordic-related in the 4th volume, she will make some more art, but I'm not getting my hopes too high, neither for art nor for the volume. To be honest, I've been

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[miezen]

Hopefully vol. 4 will turn out awesome. I'm pretty excited, personally.

[const_victoria]

Well, I'm sure there will be a lot of stuff I'll enjoy when scans and translations are out; just trying to save myself some (pretty inevitable) initial disappointment - "Oh, so there is no___ or ___ and very little ____ after all..."

[ Although according to the early spoilers, there will be some Nordics at least and that's quite reassuring. :) ]

[miezen]

I AM ALREADY DISAPPOINT IN VOL. 4 DUE TO SPOILERS IF THEY'RE TRUE

FUCK NO ROMANIA CAN'T BE MALE

/CRIES

[const_victoria]

DAMN, I NEED TO GO TO BED BEFORE I'M WILLINGLY SPOILED ACROSS THE UNIVERSE AND BACK.

BUT WHAT ABOUT PORTUGAL

[yuuago]

I'm trying to remain optimistic about the volume, but it'll be cautious optimism until I see it for myself. I've heard some Interesting Things, but we will see. :)a

[const_victoria]

Yep, same. =) Although I had to give up avoiding spoilers - now they are everywhere and it's just too tempting

[yuuago]

I figure, since I won't be able to hold this in my hands and read it myself, I just can't be bothered avoiding spoilers. I'll just poke my nose wherever I want! :Vb It's so tempting, anyway.

The fandom slowing down doesn't bother me so much, though you do have a good point about the lack of fresh art. It's disappointing. Though who knows what sort of turn it will take when the new volume really picks up.

With regard to fanfic, I think there are two things going on.
1. There is a large volume of it (I'm primarily talking about the kink meme here) and it always seems that when the overall amount goes up, the harder it is to find anything that's actually good2. I'm getting more, eh, particular about what I read. There are things that I would've read in 2009 that I would've enjoyed, but to read the same thing now, or a similar thing with the same sort of characterization... I wouldn't be able to get through it, and I'd backbutton almost immediately. Whenever I go looking for fic it seems I always end up ranting on twitter about "WHY THE

[const_victoria]

I wonder how much we would have lasted otherwise, considering that things seem to go rather slowly this time. :D It looks like even Japanese fans are still catching up. But it's fun too - collecting all those bits and pieces of information.

Hmmm, I see. I'm weird when it comes to fanfiction - like, super picky and laid back about it at the same time. I have a couple of authors that are just spot on to me in terms of DenNor characterization, as for the rest - I just know in advance it probably won't be a perfect fit, so there is little to no disappointment if it turns out underwhelming. There are several things that squick the hell out of me (tsun!Norway, abuse from either side, slapstick), but now they are not as prevalent as before. So, I rarely end up starry-eyed and squeeing after reading something, but mostly it's... okay. Gives some food for thought, at least - different interpretations of characters, foreign headcanons, ideas I can recycle.