People want me to friend them based on the knowledge that they have written at least one fic with unknown qualities? And then sit back and hope that they friend me back? Give me a break.
I see friends locking reasonable only in private writer communities with unfinished works etc. Otherwise it's *stab stab stab*
People want me to friend them based on the knowledge that they have written at least one fic with unknown qualities? And then sit back and hope that they friend me back? Give me a break.
Especially when they state that they won't - I just don't understand why someone wouldn't want people to read their fic.
It feels like these writers feel more important with the restricting the access to their fics. And the reccers feel important because they belong to the writers friend lists. Grr, agh!
Flocked fics were actually the reason I got lj in the first place. Fortunately it isn't much of a problem in my main fandom (Harry Potter). Volume of the new fics is so great that for one flocked fic there is twenty open ones and besides the best ones are usually posted and recced in different communities and newsletters which are open for anyone to monitor.
Fan artists often flock their raunchier stuff though, but I find it undestandable. The best artists also tend to have separate journals for their art so people don't have to friend their mundane chatter.
Racy fan art is understandable, but locking fics in Stargate Atlantis fandom is insane. I can go great lenghts to review fics that have disappeared from the net (hello, waybackmachine!) but if it's intentionally f-locked? Wouldn't have wanted to read you stinking fic anyway!
People who lock their fics: either they want people to read their fics or they don't. I'm not going to sing and dance for one measly writer, for an archive, maybe.
People who rec the locked fics: Fuck you. Although sometimes they rec a fic that is locked later on. I've done it a few times myself and then gnashed my teeth when I've met the "protected entry blah blah". Repeat after me: either they want people to read their fics or they don't.
One more thing makes me go Stab stab stab!: Clicking recs just to notice that the authors have hit and run. In atlantis fandom, I already have learned to not to click recs for Danvers and Karen Mcfaddowhatthefuckever. Not the reccers fault, really, but still irritating as hell.
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Date: 2005-10-14 07:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-14 07:33 pm (UTC)Yeah, almost.no subject
Date: 2005-10-14 08:05 pm (UTC)I see friends locking reasonable only in private writer communities with unfinished works etc. Otherwise it's *stab stab stab*
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Date: 2005-10-15 01:56 am (UTC)Especially when they state that they won't - I just don't understand why someone wouldn't want people to read their fic.
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Date: 2005-10-14 08:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-15 07:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-14 08:22 pm (UTC)Fan artists often flock their raunchier stuff though, but I find it undestandable. The best artists also tend to have separate journals for their art so people don't have to friend their mundane chatter.
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Date: 2005-10-15 08:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-15 10:03 am (UTC)People who lock their fics: either they want people to read their fics or they don't. I'm not going to sing and dance for one measly writer, for an archive, maybe.
People who rec the locked fics: Fuck you. Although sometimes they rec a fic that is locked later on. I've done it a few times myself and then gnashed my teeth when I've met the "protected entry blah blah". Repeat after me: either they want people to read their fics or they don't.
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Date: 2005-10-16 09:20 am (UTC)