Bad luck & other depressing things

[wiseheart]

I've missed the nomination window of the MEFAs. Granted, I haven't written any new Tolkienfic for oh, two years or so? But I tend to have my old stuff nominated, just to be remembered in the fandom until I can pick up writing for it again. Well, I've missed the opportunity this year, and nobody in the yahoo groups where I'm semi-present posted a reminder. Too bad, but it can't be helped now.

Reading Torchwood fic on FF.Net is increasingly nauseating. Save from a few heroes like milady_dragon or aviv_b, the Gwack is rising; and so is Miracle Whip related drivel. And I can't even help even out things - the stuff I write is at the moment strictly episode-related AU, with a lot of original dialogue rewritten and used differently. It would be still enough for some idiot to report me and have my account yanked. I can't risk that. So I can't post my stuff to the Pit of Voles. Well, at least I don't get flames this way, either.

I'm so frigging depressed it isn't even funny. It's strange how little it takes to reach that stage in these days.

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

You actually made *notes*? You're amazing! :)
Be careful with your hands, though, don't overstress them in my behalf. It's delightful enough to know that you liked the story.

Forgot to add: TW fanfic contains a great lot of mindless porn indeed. As much as I generally like Jack/Ianto *points at icon*, I only read a few selected authors in these days, and generally avoid anything rated above T most of the time. I haven't got any problems with slash, you know that - hell, I *write* the stuff - but there are only that many times that I can read how Jack and Ianto are getting at it before falling asleep. And that's the pairing I actually *ship*!

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

I realised that if I wanted to write good comments for long stories I had to make notes - otherwise I get to the end and can't remember specific things that I enjoyed (brain fog is such fun!).
My hands seems to be doing fine at the moment - not fully better, but not painful, just clumsier than before the problems started - so I'm trying to carefully do a lot more typing and writing (I have a nice ergonomic pen so it is easy to write - although reading it afterwards it harder ;)

Yes - I like reading Jack/Ianto as well - but I much prefer stories where the characters are in character and well, I generally prefer stories with plot, not that I have anything against porn and certainly end up reading quite a bit of it. ;)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me, too. But I prefer it to come wrapped into an enjoyable story.

Be careful with your hands!

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Exactly! :D

*hugs*

My brain seems to be more of a problem than my hands at them moment (though I'm being careful of them), looking back at my comment on your story last night - it really doesn't seem coherent, at the time I didn't realise how much it jumped all over the place especially in terms of grammar etc, I hope you can understand it. :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't worry, if I can understand my own English, I can understand anything. ;)

Your coffee icon is lovely. I've downloaded a few lately, following the lead of espresso_addict, but they aren't half as pretty as yours. So I give you the coffee boy instead.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

cool. :)

It is very shiny. Snagged it from someone's icon journal ages ago, because it was so nice.

btw, I was downloading A Big, Fat Torchwood Wedding to read later (not allowed to read more today until I've finished typing up the corrections to my b5 story - that really needs a title) and noticed that the links to the chapters from the index page on dreamwidth point to insane journal. I don't know if this was deliberate or an oversight so I thought I'd point it out to you. :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh. Sorry. That's because I simply imported my Insane Journal to Dreamwith in a single batch and couldn't bring up the strength to re-link the individual chapters. But they're in one row, so if you simply click Next Entry you'll get the story in the right order - or so I hope. ;)

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Not a problem, I just wasn't sure you know. :)
I think I've got it all, and am enjoying reading it - although I haven't got very far yet - as I have been trying to get things done. :)