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keiramarcosLike many readers in the SGA fandom -- I mourned the exit of a certain author from the fandom. Every time I see a link to her LJ name with a little line through it, I frown. I still visit her website and I read what she writes in other fandoms but I do miss her quite a lot in the SGA fandom. I didn't quite get her decision to cut herself off entirely from the fandom -- I mean I certainly understood the reasons that were given and all that but I didn't get it on a gut level because I was still being kind of whiny and selfish but also rather relieved she didn't delete her fic outright and give us all the finger as some people SO CLEARLY DESERVE.
Here's the thing -- I've been avoiding my email since October of last year after I broke my foot in a series of unfortunate events. Recently I've been plowing through it and trying to organize but it's difficult because there is a LOT of email to go through. I don't even know how I get that much email but that is neither here nor there.
While I was broken I didn't write much and I didn't post on my wordpress site at all. I did manage in a fit of cracky lunacy manage to produce a 100k of Harry Potter fic which I didn't plot at all and wrote on like a MAD MUGGLE zealously over a period of three weeks. It was insane but kind of fun and also rather relaxing considering my circumstances at the time. I posted it on my website mostly to amuse myself and a few readers who I had been teasing with the idea.
I don't expect everyone who visits my site to read the HP fic and I certainly don't expect you to comment on it if it's not your thing. I really don't. What I do expect is the following:
1. That you respect my right to write in any fandom I so choose.
2. That you NOT make ridiculous assumptions about how I spend my time.
3. That you not give me instructions on what I should be writing in an effort to make YOU HAPPY.
4. That you remember that this is my hobby and not my job and I do it because it's fun and when it stops being fun-- I'll find something FUN to do.
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, I received emails from 11 different people since November actually ORDERING me to update my site with the fan fic they wanted to see.
Yesterday I received this:
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RIGHT. I posted this on my LJ on the off chance that perhaps she was right and there are those of you who feel the same exact way.
Open Letter to Asshats,
It's people like you that cause some authors to leave the fandom. It's people like you that made me not want to ever write in the Sentinel fandom again. It's arrogant, self-important, selfish people like you that make me want to take all of my toys and go home. It's people like you that makes me want to make my site members only. It's people like you that make me kind of regret making myself so available to readers.
Here's the thing -- I've been avoiding my email since October of last year after I broke my foot in a series of unfortunate events. Recently I've been plowing through it and trying to organize but it's difficult because there is a LOT of email to go through. I don't even know how I get that much email but that is neither here nor there.
While I was broken I didn't write much and I didn't post on my wordpress site at all. I did manage in a fit of cracky lunacy manage to produce a 100k of Harry Potter fic which I didn't plot at all and wrote on like a MAD MUGGLE zealously over a period of three weeks. It was insane but kind of fun and also rather relaxing considering my circumstances at the time. I posted it on my website mostly to amuse myself and a few readers who I had been teasing with the idea.
I don't expect everyone who visits my site to read the HP fic and I certainly don't expect you to comment on it if it's not your thing. I really don't. What I do expect is the following:
1. That you respect my right to write in any fandom I so choose.
2. That you NOT make ridiculous assumptions about how I spend my time.
3. That you not give me instructions on what I should be writing in an effort to make YOU HAPPY.
4. That you remember that this is my hobby and not my job and I do it because it's fun and when it stops being fun-- I'll find something FUN to do.
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, I received emails from 11 different people since November actually ORDERING me to update my site with the fan fic they wanted to see.
Yesterday I received this:
Keira,
I realize that you're probably one of the most prolific writers I follow in the fandom and that you don't want to hear complaints but I have to email and tell you that I absolutely hate the HP fandom and I don't think you should write in that fandom anymore.
The SGA fandom is losing fic writers left and right and I just thought you'd be one of those people that stuck around and would continue to give us good stuff to read but instead you wrote that HP fic that I can only assume borders on child porn. I couldn't even bring myself to read any of it. Don't you have any clue how young and immature that fandom is? Why would you waste your time on it?
I really do love your writing so I don't want you to get mad or take this as a criticism of your site but I thought you should know how I feel and I KNOW I'm not alone in my disappoint on this issue.
Thanks for listening,
********** ***********
I realize that you're probably one of the most prolific writers I follow in the fandom and that you don't want to hear complaints but I have to email and tell you that I absolutely hate the HP fandom and I don't think you should write in that fandom anymore.
The SGA fandom is losing fic writers left and right and I just thought you'd be one of those people that stuck around and would continue to give us good stuff to read but instead you wrote that HP fic that I can only assume borders on child porn. I couldn't even bring myself to read any of it. Don't you have any clue how young and immature that fandom is? Why would you waste your time on it?
I really do love your writing so I don't want you to get mad or take this as a criticism of your site but I thought you should know how I feel and I KNOW I'm not alone in my disappoint on this issue.
Thanks for listening,
********** ***********
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RIGHT. I posted this on my LJ on the off chance that perhaps she was right and there are those of you who feel the same exact way.
Open Letter to Asshats,
It's people like you that cause some authors to leave the fandom. It's people like you that made me not want to ever write in the Sentinel fandom again. It's arrogant, self-important, selfish people like you that make me want to take all of my toys and go home. It's people like you that makes me want to make my site members only. It's people like you that make me kind of regret making myself so available to readers.
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Date: 2011-02-11 06:37 pm (UTC)LMAO.
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Date: 2011-02-11 06:48 pm (UTC);-)
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