Yes, and I had Chapter 8, part 2 up as both parts 1 and 2 for four hours before I caught it. I made the mistake of taking a nap. LOL.
Apparently in our rushing we also missed bunches of Jared / Jensen swaps, which also pissed off a lot of readers, so I totally re-edited and re-posted chapter 4 this morning, and made tweaks to chapters 6 and 7. And i'm still sure there's more out there. If your human is actually inclined to read the *final* version at some point, tell her to let me know if she sees any naughty silly mistakes. This human owes your human a case of tecate an you, kitty, deserve a shipping container full of premium catnip. :D
HOTDS is going to be huge, but unless I wind up with art for every chapter, and art divider, and art that bears text that I need to display the text somewhere else, it shouldn't be too bad to post. Bad, but like 8 hours of work bad, not 20.
Brilliant read, well thought out plot and back history all set within a believable world.
Only a couple of things though, in several instances you have used either Jared or Jensen's name when I think you have meant the other one's, also You used the term Agent Ackles when Jared was arguing with Morgan when it should have been Agent Padalecki. Nothing major, just threw me from the story line as I had to think just who exactly was being referenced and it disrupted the flow of the story for me.
But other than that, congratulations on an epic BB and definately one I will be adding to delicious and my own personal rec lists.
The "Agent Ackles" mishap is fixed, and I'm not sure what happened in Chapter 4... I think I might have grabbed the second-to-last version of the HTML when I posted it, to be honest *facepalm*, but I've gone through and fixed the Jared / Jensen confusion in both parts and reposted them. There may be a few more strays thoughout, but I hope I've caught the vast majorty, if not all. Switching their names is like my writing kryptonite. I know I do it and I watch out for it, my betas do the same, but with a fic this long... I think we were all a bit befuddled by the time it was ready to post. Thank you so much for reading despite it's many flaws. I appreciate your patience!
There are quite a few more name switches still in the fic, at least four but probably much more. I noticed it a lot in the later chapters and actually wondered if you originally wrote it with the roles reversed or something.
Hi I just wanted to let you know that I loved your story, you created such a convincing world, loved the restrictive religious element and loved the bit where Jensen almost got his wish to become an acolyte, (you may have made me shed a tear at that point). All in all I loved it. (I also noticed the mix up of Jared and Jensen, particularly in chapter 4). However it was a great story, so fast paced and interesting it didn't seem like it was 146k long!! I'm going to pm you for a pdf if that's ok. xx
Wow, thanks for reading so quickly. You know... five of us (myself and four betas) read this, and *still* didn't route out all that insidious Jared and Jensen name swapping... it's one of the things I hate about writing J2 fic--it's very easy to just type the wrong name since they both start with "J" and often when you're editing, since you know what it's supposed to be, you gloss right over the mixup. Much like a word misspelled as another word, there's no way for spell-check or any other program to catch it, and since it's context-dependent it doesn't show up easily on proofreading. I'm going over chapter 4 with a fine-toothed comb right now, and will have it fixed shortly, and I will also send you the PDF as soon as I've done that! (I want to get the name flipflops fixed in that, before I send it out
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Oh, and I forgot to actually say THANK YOU for reading. I'm really glad you found the world convincing and that the religious aspects worked for you! :)
Very interesting world you've built here. It was a very entertaining read, though like the others I was thrown out a few times by the swapping of Jared & Jensen, and I noticed a few places where you only had part of a word (I didn't note them, sorry!), though I could usually figure out what you were trying to say there.
However, I really enjoyed the world building and I'd love to see more in this universemaybe them trying to build a life together after the epilogue? LOL. Though, if you're anything like me, you're done with this universe for a while. Still, I really liked the world and the characters.
LOL... I can't say I'll never revisit this world, but I am going to take a break from it for a little while. I have other stories, and 'verses that have been on hold, and other uh... things in life to get back to. That being said, I can definitely envision a situation in which I would write a time stamp or something... especially if it was set in the Union or one of the Colonies. I have ideas about what things are like there, but I didn't really have the idea to explore them much in this story. Thanks so much for reading!
Oh, and if you read this way earlier, you may have noticed that Chapter 8, part 1 and Chapter 8, part 2 were identical... *facepalm* I fixed it and now chapter 8, part 1 is actually displaying like it's supposed to. :)
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I'm glad you like the coding!! :D Hope you enjoy the story!
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Yes, and I had Chapter 8, part 2 up as both parts 1 and 2 for four hours before I caught it. I made the mistake of taking a nap. LOL.
Apparently in our rushing we also missed bunches of Jared / Jensen swaps, which also pissed off a lot of readers, so I totally re-edited and re-posted chapter 4 this morning, and made tweaks to chapters 6 and 7. And i'm still sure there's more out there. If your human is actually inclined to read the *final* version at some point, tell her to let me know if she sees any naughty silly mistakes. This human owes your human a case of tecate an you, kitty, deserve a shipping container full of premium catnip. :D
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Yay on your post!! :)
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Only a couple of things though, in several instances you have used either Jared or Jensen's name when I think you have meant the other one's, also You used the term Agent Ackles when Jared was arguing with Morgan when it should have been Agent Padalecki. Nothing major, just threw me from the story line as I had to think just who exactly was being referenced and it disrupted the flow of the story for me.
But other than that, congratulations on an epic BB and definately one I will be adding to delicious and my own personal rec lists.
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However, I really enjoyed the world building and I'd love to see more in this universemaybe them trying to build a life together after the epilogue? LOL. Though, if you're anything like me, you're done with this universe for a while. Still, I really liked the world and the characters.
Great job.
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Oh, and if you read this way earlier, you may have noticed that Chapter 8, part 1 and Chapter 8, part 2 were identical... *facepalm* I fixed it and now chapter 8, part 1 is actually displaying like it's supposed to. :)
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