so that was weird
Jan. 25th, 2010 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jlhYou guys, I may have spent too long on LJ, because I just got flamed for slash for the first time in I don't even know how long. Let me explain:
I've spent most of the last week reformatting my first novel-length story so I could put it up on some other ship-centered archives and finally repost it on FA where the formatting got messed up in the server move. (It was a lot of horrible technical blah blah having to do with making sure a file is actually html when it says it is, weird coding issues, removal of smart quotes, etc., and it ate my life.) One of the places I've also posted the story (and will post subsequent D&G stories) is the Fire and Ice Archive, but it only just went up so I can't speak to that.
The other ship archive I put the story on was Portkey, where the story had been linked a long time ago. But now Portkey is a proper archive and I thought, heck, it's a H/Hr story so I'll put it there. I went through their author approval process (you have to submit some fics) and they had a few comments about my stories—mostly, that I needed to label all my NC17 stuff as "extremely NC-17", which, fine. But also that they needed me to put a "warning" for slash. Now I don't mind labeling EWFS—which also prominently features Seamus/Dean—as slash; I wouldn't want anyone who didn't like slash to stumble upon the story.
I just looked at the reviews and, well, two strange things. First, a few people wondered why I posted the entire thing in one go. It is fairly long—15 chapters and 70,000 words—but after all the blah blah blah on LJ about how people who post in chapters are comment whoring and people being worried about WIPs and so many preferring to read when the whole thing is posted, I decided to post it all because I could, figuring that people could read in pieces if they wanted to. It certainly makes me feel better about posting in chapters on LJ.
And then of my eleven reviews, despite the "warning" and the inclusion of Seamus/Dean as a ship in the summary, four were bashing me for the slash (though one did so "nicely"). I'm really sad that this still goes on in some parts of the het side of fandom; I've become so used to "bitextual" shippers that I'd actually forgotten how often this goes on. I did get some nice reviews, so I will be posting my other H/H stories and the sequel there, but I won't be linking from here, that's for sure.
I'm telling you, writing a story with more than one ship in it is always punished and never rewarded. Between this and the delusional thing and all the Adam Lambert fans who think Rymon is "squicky" I'm glad to be moving further into Star Trek fandom, and I never thought I'd say that.
I've spent most of the last week reformatting my first novel-length story so I could put it up on some other ship-centered archives and finally repost it on FA where the formatting got messed up in the server move. (It was a lot of horrible technical blah blah having to do with making sure a file is actually html when it says it is, weird coding issues, removal of smart quotes, etc., and it ate my life.) One of the places I've also posted the story (and will post subsequent D&G stories) is the Fire and Ice Archive, but it only just went up so I can't speak to that.
The other ship archive I put the story on was Portkey, where the story had been linked a long time ago. But now Portkey is a proper archive and I thought, heck, it's a H/Hr story so I'll put it there. I went through their author approval process (you have to submit some fics) and they had a few comments about my stories—mostly, that I needed to label all my NC17 stuff as "extremely NC-17", which, fine. But also that they needed me to put a "warning" for slash. Now I don't mind labeling EWFS—which also prominently features Seamus/Dean—as slash; I wouldn't want anyone who didn't like slash to stumble upon the story.
I just looked at the reviews and, well, two strange things. First, a few people wondered why I posted the entire thing in one go. It is fairly long—15 chapters and 70,000 words—but after all the blah blah blah on LJ about how people who post in chapters are comment whoring and people being worried about WIPs and so many preferring to read when the whole thing is posted, I decided to post it all because I could, figuring that people could read in pieces if they wanted to. It certainly makes me feel better about posting in chapters on LJ.
And then of my eleven reviews, despite the "warning" and the inclusion of Seamus/Dean as a ship in the summary, four were bashing me for the slash (though one did so "nicely"). I'm really sad that this still goes on in some parts of the het side of fandom; I've become so used to "bitextual" shippers that I'd actually forgotten how often this goes on. I did get some nice reviews, so I will be posting my other H/H stories and the sequel there, but I won't be linking from here, that's for sure.
I'm telling you, writing a story with more than one ship in it is always punished and never rewarded. Between this and the delusional thing and all the Adam Lambert fans who think Rymon is "squicky" I'm glad to be moving further into Star Trek fandom, and I never thought I'd say that.
