...the Victorian porn is attached to 130 other pages of Victorian . . . stuff, so I dunno if you wanna read all that. AND I'M NOT EVEN DONE. It looks like it's going to be 150,000 words. Why do I do this? But they were arguing about LITERATURE and POLITICS I had to let them. She buys him Adam Smith! He buys her Keats! I--I--I have a character with what seems to me a very Victorian Eastern (hers is Middle Eastern, not Orientalism) fetish, and I don't know how to write it without being offensive. Because I think *she's* offensive now, but that back then her interest would have been very innocent. The problem is this is a fetish I invented in my head, so I can't just say they didn't know any better, since I do know better. ...I can't believe I'm writing this; I had to research thermodynamics.
Yes! I heard about the Age of Sail kink meme...haven't looked at it yet so I don't get distracted...
Huh! I dunno what icerocket is. You were one of the awesome people I was thinking of who's actually given me con crit. I do love con crit, and I love to see people say mean things about me on delicious. But honestly, if some of the comments on delicious were comments to my actual fic, I'd be ...more offended by them than I am.
It stings a little, when I look on delicious and see something negative, but it's really easy for me to defend whoever did it because I know they mean the comment for themselves and not for me. If they'd left the comment for me, I'd totally be able to get over it and think about what they said, but still, it'd sting more.
Luckily almost all con crit I've ever gotten in comments to my fics were comments like yours, where you could say what you liked, or I knew the commenter had a respect for me or my writing, so it didn't feel like it was coming out of nowhere. I love that kind of con crit! I wish everyone did it.
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Yes! I heard about the Age of Sail kink meme...haven't looked at it yet so I don't get distracted...
Huh! I dunno what icerocket is. You were one of the awesome people I was thinking of who's actually given me con crit. I do love con crit, and I love to see people say mean things about me on delicious. But honestly, if some of the comments on delicious were comments to my actual fic, I'd be ...more offended by them than I am.
It stings a little, when I look on delicious and see something negative, but it's really easy for me to defend whoever did it because I know they mean the comment for themselves and not for me. If they'd left the comment for me, I'd totally be able to get over it and think about what they said, but still, it'd sting more.
Luckily almost all con crit I've ever gotten in comments to my fics were comments like yours, where you could say what you liked, or I knew the commenter had a respect for me or my writing, so it didn't feel like it was coming out of nowhere. I love that kind of con crit! I wish everyone did it.