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Big Pimpin' Pity Party
So this is something I've been wanting to do for a while now, and I hope y'all will all join in...
In comments to this post:
1. Pimp the story whose feedback most disappointed you. I don't mean your best story, or your worst story, or the story you guess could've been better. And I don't mean the story that got the least feedback. I mean the story that you thought would get more feedback, or felt should get more fb. The story for which you only got 2 reviews, and hoped you'd get 5, or the story you hoped would get 500, and only got 200. Even the story you wrote just so fandom would notice you--you included assbabies and kittens, just for those extra reviews--and then zada, zero, nil. Or 500, but not 20,000. Or even the one that got satisfying amounts of fb, but that you thought the Clem fans would flock to and the Clem fans ignored.
1a. Post a link to that story.
1b. Why’d you think it’d get more fb? What did you expect to appeal to and didn’t? Don’t be embarrassed to say how badass it was.
1c. Why d’you think it didn’t get that fb? Don’t be too proud to whine, complain, or feel sorry for yourself. Happens to the best of us, baby.
If you want:
2. Pimp a story by someone else you feel should’ve gotten more fb. Whether it’s a story you beta’ed, saw on your flist, or just randomly found. Again, not so much The Best Story Ever, as The Really Great Story No One Else Knows About.
2a. post a link or where to find the story.
2b. tell us about the praise/appeal of the story.
2c. tell us how under appreciated this person/story is.
3. Pimp this post. If there’s a lot, maybe I can compile and post a list of Unappreciated Gems Of Fandom, Which You Should Have Loved . . . For These Reasons.
Pimp yourself. Throw yourself a pity party. Ask why no one loved you. Or at least that one fic. I’m serious, here. Everyone has a fic they secretly cherish and feel sorry for, and occasionally pet with sparkly tears in their eyes . . . even if they never felt like they could ask the world why their little woobie story was so unloved. Now's your chance.
Pimp others, and offer them your hand so we can skip through the sunshine. Yes I am a fluffy mushlet; I don't care.
In comments to this post:
1. Pimp the story whose feedback most disappointed you. I don't mean your best story, or your worst story, or the story you guess could've been better. And I don't mean the story that got the least feedback. I mean the story that you thought would get more feedback, or felt should get more fb. The story for which you only got 2 reviews, and hoped you'd get 5, or the story you hoped would get 500, and only got 200. Even the story you wrote just so fandom would notice you--you included assbabies and kittens, just for those extra reviews--and then zada, zero, nil. Or 500, but not 20,000. Or even the one that got satisfying amounts of fb, but that you thought the Clem fans would flock to and the Clem fans ignored.
1a. Post a link to that story.
1b. Why’d you think it’d get more fb? What did you expect to appeal to and didn’t? Don’t be embarrassed to say how badass it was.
1c. Why d’you think it didn’t get that fb? Don’t be too proud to whine, complain, or feel sorry for yourself. Happens to the best of us, baby.
If you want:
2. Pimp a story by someone else you feel should’ve gotten more fb. Whether it’s a story you beta’ed, saw on your flist, or just randomly found. Again, not so much The Best Story Ever, as The Really Great Story No One Else Knows About.
2a. post a link or where to find the story.
2b. tell us about the praise/appeal of the story.
2c. tell us how under appreciated this person/story is.
3. Pimp this post. If there’s a lot, maybe I can compile and post a list of Unappreciated Gems Of Fandom, Which You Should Have Loved . . . For These Reasons.
Pimp yourself. Throw yourself a pity party. Ask why no one loved you. Or at least that one fic. I’m serious, here. Everyone has a fic they secretly cherish and feel sorry for, and occasionally pet with sparkly tears in their eyes . . . even if they never felt like they could ask the world why their little woobie story was so unloved. Now's your chance.
Pimp others, and offer them your hand so we can skip through the sunshine. Yes I am a fluffy mushlet; I don't care.
Hm.
There are some stories where I thought I'd get more comments, but they weren't my usual style (or my usual fandom), so I brought most of them to ff.net. Anime is bigger at ff.net, I guess. But at LJ most people know me as a B/A girl, and so my B/A stories usually get the most attention. Except for Agape (http://community.livejournal.com/kitteninthedark/90213.html).
Agape is BtVS, B/A and *gasp* with a happy ending. But beside that, Agape has something few Lenifics can claim: Plot (and length. My average is 1200 words. This was 14K plus words). Personally, I like it because the voices in it feel real. Most times I've had to fight with the characters to keep the dialogues Jossverse-like. Here I only had to go with the flow, and I think that is reflected in the story itself. It feels a bit out of control sometimes, like when Angel moves in. But it's from Buffy's pov so I liked that as a reader it's an unknown why Angel accepts the situation.
What I liked most about it is that I think I got Buffy and Angel to be friends. Angel is still with Nina, Buffy is still with the Immortal. And okay, the happy ending is very between lines, but! The point of this story was not to make them run into each other's arms and be happy ever after. The point was to show they could work together, that love didn't need to be reborn from ashes but that it could also be a new, beautiful thing.
Okay, that last sentence is what the sequel should be about. But I mean it about the friendship. They share, they tease each other and they bicker like hell has broken loose in their living room. And they like it.
Quite frankly, I feel it's been the best I've written since Courting Sin and, yes, I was a little - or a lot, lol! - crestfallen at the lack of reviews.
Now, why it didn't get those reviews? Bad timing? Long parragraphs? The fact that I acknowledged there'd be B/S and B/I in the Summary? (actually, that was quite the kiss of death. hm) The thank you notes? The very fact that it was B/A friendshippy instead of 'shippy? The first scene? No, really, I blame that first scene. It was too recount-y, and it had long parragraphs.
All of the above?
About 2) Simple.