bleh, whine
10 May 2019 20:58![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
extrapenguinGuardian rewatchalong, ep 12 is up!
All in all, this week has been pretty successful fic-wise, in that I've started publishing that 40k work for MDZS and put out that Guardian breeding kink one. (My Guardian porn log still has #5 from here and a Shen Wei/Ye Zun/Zhao Yunlan threesome that are written and need editing that is less than the editing the prior porn log ones needed, so yay!)
However. I know it's only one shortish chapter for the MDZS work, but the response has been abysmal. Some of it is on the form of presentation – though I didn't expect quite as big an allergy to undisclosed endgame ship fic – and the rest ... idk. My other works haven't gone down as badly! I know I write more thought-provoking fic for a fandom mostly reveling in quick emotional hits, but bleh. If I hadn't already written all of it, I'd abandon the WIP. :P (Even now that I have, I'm still sorely tempted. Never let it be said that penguins aren't touchy.)
I've decided to participate in a mini-rumble. I have one challenge done, but the "close crop" thing is surprisingly hard. I have several candidates but none of them work! There's no voting, though, so I guess I'll try once more tomorrow, then pick the one I most want concrit on and submit. Bleh. (Edit: Complaining about it on the internet worked! I have made one more and submitted my icons.)
(Other activities for the weekend: editing fic, incl. 520 assignment. Writing something short for the TGE filthfest. Posting ch 2 of the MDZS WIP.)
Oh yeah I'm also coming down with the flu! That is not fun. I hate it.
All in all, this week has been pretty successful fic-wise, in that I've started publishing that 40k work for MDZS and put out that Guardian breeding kink one. (My Guardian porn log still has #5 from here and a Shen Wei/Ye Zun/Zhao Yunlan threesome that are written and need editing that is less than the editing the prior porn log ones needed, so yay!)
However. I know it's only one shortish chapter for the MDZS work, but the response has been abysmal. Some of it is on the form of presentation – though I didn't expect quite as big an allergy to undisclosed endgame ship fic – and the rest ... idk. My other works haven't gone down as badly! I know I write more thought-provoking fic for a fandom mostly reveling in quick emotional hits, but bleh. If I hadn't already written all of it, I'd abandon the WIP. :P (Even now that I have, I'm still sorely tempted. Never let it be said that penguins aren't touchy.)
I've decided to participate in a mini-rumble. I have one challenge done, but the "close crop" thing is surprisingly hard. I have several candidates but none of them work! There's no voting, though, so I guess I'll try once more tomorrow, then pick the one I most want concrit on and submit. Bleh. (Edit: Complaining about it on the internet worked! I have made one more and submitted my icons.)
(Other activities for the weekend: editing fic, incl. 520 assignment. Writing something short for the TGE filthfest. Posting ch 2 of the MDZS WIP.)
Oh yeah I'm also coming down with the flu! That is not fun. I hate it.
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Date: 2019-05-13 00:41 (UTC)the author and the reader being invested in the pairing together, which is part of what I love about fanfic
Yes, this! I hadn't quite thought of it like this before, but I feel the same way. The shared love for the pairing is part of the enjoyment.
There's always a contract between the author and the reader; the exact expectations vary according to genre and a lot of other indicators, but the reader does always have certain expectations going in (romance will have a happy ending, horror can/will be a twisty non-happy ending, thriller may kill a main character or characters... that kind of thing).
If these expectations are not met, readers will be disappointed or even angry, because they feel that the author has breached an unspoken agreement. In the case of romance, for example, part of the agreement is that the main couple is apparent at least at the half-way point, and that they will get together at the end.
With fanfic, I think the pairing itself is part of the contract for many readers, too.