Questions. And cleaning up.

[ninedin.livejournal.com]

Dear All,

I've skipped intoduction in my first post and maybe it was a good thing, after all; and it was good because only today I had a chance to browse all the messages of this community and find myself mentioned in the context of the mess I've made. I'd like to clean up a bit, if I may. .

(if I may not, or if it's too OT, please feel free to delete this post).

It's all rather old stuff, from two or three years back, but I feel I should explain myself nonetheless.


Point 1. Much less important. Yes, I am writing a book on C. S. Friedman and yes, I would like to include a short chapter on fan response, but please be certain that no titles, no names and no journals will be mentioned. What I intend to do is to make a short chapter about a) the types of response existing on the net (fan sites, fics, fanart) and b) the main trends in fanfiction (slash stories, prequels etc.); they are interesting exactly because they show what specifically piqued the interest of the most active and most creative group of fans. I am definitely not going  to discuss particular texts. 

Point 2. Much, much more important. I am sorry. I know it sounds silly and doesn't justify me, but I did not want to be rude and I know I was and I apologize.

In a page which I have at some point published on my website I have attempted at reviewing (points in 0-10 scale) certain fics. I have made a note that the reviews reflect only my own, private, personal view as a reader and not any objective value of the texts. Still, I know now what i didn't know then: that while I am perfectly entitled to have my own opinions on other people's writings, I definitely should not express them in a condescending, unpleasant kind of way. For this, I am very, very sorry. I would't have done it now and I regret having done it then. Please accept my apologies.

I do not regret liking/disliking certain stories, because it's a private thing, a reader's opinion. I do, however, regret having expressed my liking/disliking in this particular nasty way.

So I will be staying away from the discussions for now, just reading and watching the analysis that you've making while rereading. Have fun!

(no subject)

[alice_montrose]

We are flattered to let you know that the Coldfire Trilogy has its own entry on fanlore.org, and our little community gets mentioned:

Fandom

The Coldfire Trilogy has a small but insanely loyal base in fandom, most notably found on the Yuletide Archive and the LiveJournal community The Hunter's Forest. Unsurprisingly, the primary slash pairing in the Coldfire fandom is Tarrant/Vryce.

From October 2005, the fandom saw an increase in activity that lasted for several months following the creation of the Coldfire Fanfic Index and the community hunters_forest.

Coldfire Trilogy @ fanlore.org

Edit: Aaaaaaaaaaaand I you want to test your Gerald knowledge, try this! We can all be doomed together! XD