I am pouting.

[sweetprince]

Does it ever upset you when you see a theme that you've written on extensively get recced, and none of your stories get named? Maybe I'm just psycho, but I really start questioning everything I've ever written. I do not like it.

Unfortunately, what is the solution? World, bend to my will!

ETA: and now there is themed post for Angels and Demons. balefully, I NEED YOU TO TELL ME I AM THE AWESOMEST AT ANGELS AND DEMONS RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE NOBODY ELSE SEEMS TO THINK SO!

Comments

[trueshellz.livejournal.com]

To not care?
Your fics are awesome!
x

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I can't help it if I want people to read them! *trembling lower lip*

[trueshellz.livejournal.com]

*snuggles you tightly*
x

[arabella-hope.livejournal.com]

It wasn't ME, was it?

(just as paranoid)

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

*sigh* No, don't worry about it, I should just like hide myself from the rec sites.

[arabella-hope.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sometimes those things are EVIL.

UM, you can rec me something of yours! I just lost ALL my fics to read, so :D

And *I* think you write awesome stuff, so. THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS.

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

*cries* No, self-rec is evil! I have too much pride and not enough shame to do that! The incident I'm actually speaking about is every time religion in fic comes up. How many fics have I written involving religion in some capacity, HOW MANY? FOUR. Ugh! *runs and hides*

Yes, right, I should make sure to take you shopping with me, so that I can tell people, HEY, IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, ANG SAID IT WAS AWESOME, AND SHE'S ALL THAT MATTERS, YOU FUCKS!

[arabella-hope.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY! My opinion is the most important! Fuck everyone else. THE INTERNET WAS MADE FOR ME :D

Well then. I will have to browse your tags and NOT be lazy *g*

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

I'd go with my memories actually. They're a little more organized. *scuffs toe*

NO! Now I'm complicit in the self-reccing. *pulls blanket overhead*

[arabella-hope.livejournal.com]

...um. I am shocked to see that I've missed A LOT. ANG IS MADE OF FAIL.

Shall immerse myself after work <3333

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

Well the early stuff is made of fail. SO DON'T READ THAT? I don't know.

YOUR ICON IS AMAZING!

[balefully.livejournal.com]

YES.

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

Good! I hate that. I'm like, BUT MY STORY IS WAY AWESOMER!

[balefully.livejournal.com]

YOU ARE SO, SO, SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE AT ANGELS AND DEMONS OBVIOUSLYYYYY!

[ignited.livejournal.com]

I get like that with the weirdest shit. No, literally: if I see requests for crack or animal transformation I'm all "OVER HERE". Because I am silly.

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

Yes! You do some of the best silly! You should be getting recced up the wazoo for that shit. *growls*

I want somebody to give me a plaque that says, "Lauren, you write awesome religion fics." Then I'd be okay!

[gestaltrose.livejournal.com]

Lauren, you write awesome religion fics, Lauren, you write awesome religion fics, Lauren, you write awesome religion fics, Lauren, you write awesome religion fics...etc...

I love your stuff. I haven't been reading because I've been writing but I LOVE your stuff.


*snuggles you*

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

FTW!!!

[kashmir1.livejournal.com]

ALL. THE. TIME.

S'why I took a few 'themed' rec communities off of my flist.

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

It's like, the only thing I can divine from this is that you think my work is shit. I'm hoping that it's just that you didn't read it, but WHAT IF IT'S NOT.

[kashmir1.livejournal.com]

Well, if it counts for anything, *I* don't think your work is shit.

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

Same goes, baby! I'm still trying to catch up on your SGA stuff.

[kashmir1.livejournal.com]

<333

EE! I should be posting something in the next few days too. Short little silly fluff piece but it's the first thing I've written solo since June.

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

Hmmm-- maybe this is the solution I should be looking for!

I just get bummed out about it, over and over again. :(

[kashmir1.livejournal.com]

It works for me!

If you don't see it, it's like it's not happening. ;)

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

Yes! The ostrich method is SO much better than randomly getting your feelings hurt again and again!

*applauds you* ;)

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

It is though!

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

I know-- I'm starting to seriously consider this as a solution. :D

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

Yeah the latest one at spn_themes...oh, I wanted to bash my head against the wall. I was like, HEY, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO WAIT TWO DAYS AFTER I POST THIS BEFORE MAKING ME FEEL BAD!

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

Yes! Jeez, I just wrote a Ruby fic this last summer (which is really off-the-wall for me).

Unfortunately, it all depends on what the reader's reading, and it appears that the answer is... somebody else. :(

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

Srsly. *goes off and creates sock puppet*

[dea-liberty.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it upsets me too. :( *hugs tight*

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

It fucking sucks, dude! Unfortunately I'm at a complete loss what to do about it! Not care, I guess.

[walkawayslowly.livejournal.com]

No, me too, definitely. A couple of months ago the spn roundtable did an original character rec and, like, fully half of my big bang was told from the POV of an original character. But was I mentioned AT ALL? Nope. So yeah, I get you. I'm sorry. :/ *smishes*

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw that too, I was like um, I wrote a story with three extra Winchester brothers. *sigh*

People are stupiddddd!

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

Does it ever upset you when you see a theme that you've written on extensively get recced, and none of your stories get named?
All.The.Time. Seriously-- you write an amnesia story, and when the recs roll out yours is never mentioned. Or post-S3 finale, or several forms of major crack, and still not mentioned in theme-based rec posts.

Unfortunately, what is the solution?
Grumbling into your beer? (or Diet Coke, as the case may be for me) Often, rather than a solution I do what you're doing, which is to question whether everything I write is crap. :(

Cookie?

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

And I want to be like HEY, LOOK, I WROTE SOMETHING, but even if I had no shame, I'd know better than to self-rec. Clearly we should all create sock puppet journals to rec our own stuff with. THIS IS THE BEST SOLUTION.

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

Clearly we should all create sock puppet journals to rec our own stuff with. THIS IS THE BEST SOLUTION.
Certainly the most devious AND the most tempting. ;)

[dark-reaction.livejournal.com]

I'd be really good about it, we could make it an institution, APPLY HERE IF YOU FEEL LIKE YOU GOT MISSED ON A THEME AND WISH FOR EVERYBODY TO KNOW ABOUT IT, and use the sock puppet journal to rectify it.

See, you missed dark_reaction's awesome fic Even If (http://dark-reaction.livejournal.com/159715.html), and you don't know it now, but the fic is actually the cure for cancer! SILLY YOU, FORGETTING TO REC IT!