I’m glad you find it cool that I’m a Finn. My location is mentioned in my DW profile although I can't remember ever adding it there, and I avoid telling people that my mother tongue is Finnish before they've given my fic a try. I'm afraid there's another reason for bias.
Oh, thank you for telling me that about smut. I still don't write smut and I don't think I ever will (because it makes me feel uncomfortable regardless whether it's first-person or not, and this is due to my asexuality, and I want to make it clear that I absolutely do not condemn it or people who like to read or write it). Now I wonder if the small sex scenes (mature/R-rated, I guess) I've learnt to include (never as the focal point or conclusion of the fic) are somehow off because of the first person. (I do have experience of sex – and, as proof, three adult sons I've given birth to). I'd love to hear your comment, if you read one of those.
When starting to write again after eight years, I didn't expect a good time for feedback (for first-five-novels-compliant Wolfstar fic). I just suddenly felt like continuing my work on the extensice story, and enjoyed composing one-shots for myself to read, and kept posting them on Livejournal, where there seemed to be nobody left in my fandom corner. Now that I've learnt where new and young fans are most active, and you've explained what their activity is like, I'm determined not to go to those platforms. But when I participated in two or three fests and looked around and saw that there is good, (and not only sex-wise) mature writing that gets comments, I started feeling the need of recognition and interaction.
At the moment I feel that there's some potential for a community on DW. You've truly saved me from feeling lonely and rejected when saying that you'll read more by me. And now your fannish-goals post has made me ever more hopeful. There are others on malenkayacherepakhas Snowflake post who like the goals of reccing more and, on the other hand, writing whatever they want. Perhaps we can build a community where we resurrect a culture of reviewing and reccing and supporting each other in all our diversity.
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Have you read my fannish history in this long post?
Oh, thank you for telling me that about smut. I still don't write smut and I don't think I ever will (because it makes me feel uncomfortable regardless whether it's first-person or not, and this is due to my asexuality, and I want to make it clear that I absolutely do not condemn it or people who like to read or write it). Now I wonder if the small sex scenes (mature/R-rated, I guess) I've learnt to include (never as the focal point or conclusion of the fic) are somehow off because of the first person. (I do have experience of sex – and, as proof, three adult sons I've given birth to). I'd love to hear your comment, if you read one of those.
When starting to write again after eight years, I didn't expect a good time for feedback (for first-five-novels-compliant Wolfstar fic). I just suddenly felt like continuing my work on the extensice story, and enjoyed composing one-shots for myself to read, and kept posting them on Livejournal, where there seemed to be nobody left in my fandom corner. Now that I've learnt where new and young fans are most active, and you've explained what their activity is like, I'm determined not to go to those platforms. But when I participated in two or three fests and looked around and saw that there is good, (and not only sex-wise) mature writing that gets comments, I started feeling the need of recognition and interaction.
At the moment I feel that there's some potential for a community on DW. You've truly saved me from feeling lonely and rejected when saying that you'll read more by me. And now your fannish-goals post has made me ever more hopeful. There are others on