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Mar. 20th, 2004 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aleathielRight. Remember the friend I sent some fanfiction to? Well I've just bitten the bullet and sent him a link to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aleathiels_fics. And a long explaination (which really made me think! Good for me!).
So, if you are here and reading this: welcome. Leave me a comment to say whether you are completely horrified with me! (You can leave comments without an account because I allow anonymous comments. But let me know it's you!).
Everyone else: Hold me tight while I wait for his response! (yeah, his reaction. I've sent a link to my slash to a guy. I really must be insane!)
Oh, and in the meantime, let me pimp![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
banabloom so that you can all join, read my fic and then vote for me at the end of the month so that I can win that picture! *g*
EDIT:He says he's received it. Now all I can do is wait.
EDIT ":He's online. On MSN. He's got it but he's got friends over so he's not read it yet. However he is showing his friends the Very Secret Diaries (which he had read long before I sent him anything from the fandom). So the dear boy is introducing other people to slash already. Gotta be a good sign.
aleathiels_fics. And a long explaination (which really made me think! Good for me!).So, if you are here and reading this: welcome. Leave me a comment to say whether you are completely horrified with me! (You can leave comments without an account because I allow anonymous comments. But let me know it's you!).
Everyone else: Hold me tight while I wait for his response! (yeah, his reaction. I've sent a link to my slash to a guy. I really must be insane!)
Oh, and in the meantime, let me pimp
banabloom so that you can all join, read my fic and then vote for me at the end of the month so that I can win that picture! *g*EDIT:He says he's received it. Now all I can do is wait.
EDIT ":He's online. On MSN. He's got it but he's got friends over so he's not read it yet. However he is showing his friends the Very Secret Diaries (which he had read long before I sent him anything from the fandom). So the dear boy is introducing other people to slash already. Gotta be a good sign.
Don't be nervous - I'm not a monster
Date: 2004-03-21 02:43 am (UTC)Fairly long post. Sorry. But figure it's necessary.
aleathiel has given me permission to post here. Normally I wouldn't post this sort of thing without checking with her first, but she clearly shares everything with you, and my reaction has become the basis of so much comment and interest that I guess it would be unfair not to.
I'm not a minor, although that wasn't all that long ago. And my mind has been down in the gutter for years, so none of that is aleathiel's fault.
I'm not convinced that I've read enough to make a properly informed post. I did stay up till 4am - I will confirm that. But that was because it was the first long piece aleathiel showed me. I knew she would be incredibly nervous about my reaction, and anyway, I was gripped. Your reaction, aleathiel, is also why I'm posting so early. I haven't read much - in fact I've only read the banabloom piece in addition to what you sent me before. But I figure the past 12 hours since the email has been hell for you.
I'm sorry I haven't been able to read more since then. But I wasn't prepared to stay up all night, as that would have sacrificed work, which has already come second to the trip to Boston and LA next week.
Ok. For the rest of you, aleathiel let me in fairly gently. It was always her choice what to send me, but from her comments I knew that some of the pieces were going to be fairly graphic. I think the only thing that has even slightly shocked me is how much she has written.
I'm going to stick my neck out (I don't like doing this generally - it's an ugly neck) and make a comment about the whole genre, having only read some of aleathiel's stuff. I have no problem with it. And aleathiel: do not fret.
As mithlondewen said, it's only a part of any of you. There must be something else in your lives - this can't earn a living for you. But even if you lived to write slash, I have no problem with that either. You all have impressive imaginations. At risk of repeating what I have in the past told aleathiel, you just push your imagination further than most of us, and then have the ability to write it down.
aleathiel: As for my opinion of you, it hasn't changed. You are still the same girl I knew before. I have now just seen a different side to you.
It's not what I'd naturally read, but I'm not going to stop there. I will read on...
Please, to everyone holding aleathiel's hand, just step back a sec. I think she desires a hug for her bravery. She took a huge gamble, and this time it paid off, just like it did for nitw1t. (Aside for azriona and nitw1t: get your hubs to start writing, I reckon they have it in them - they are male, after all.) But there are people who I suggest you don't let know about all of this.
CFeng
PS the two guys I showed the Very Secret Diaries to both were in hysterics. We only read a few, but they seemed to love it. And to confirm aleathiel again, I came across those long before she gave me any of her stuff to read.
Re: Don't be nervous - I'm not a monster
Date: 2004-03-21 02:47 am (UTC)I have to admit I'm really pleased! *sighs of relief*
Girls: look it's okay!
Re: Don't be nervous - I'm not a monster
Date: 2004-03-21 03:00 am (UTC)CFeng
(name given by sister's friends when I went to China 4 years ago. not just made up)
Re: Don't be nervous - I'm not a monster
Date: 2004-03-21 03:58 am (UTC)On a side note, that fic you said you'd beta for me is ready.. *gulp* what's your e-mail? Hey, you could even send it to your friend if he prefers the girl/girl thing!
tee hee.
Re: Don't be nervous - I'm not a monster
Date: 2004-03-21 04:37 am (UTC)I'll get it back to you as soon as I can. Have to do the newest chapter of Razzle's Cold Antiquity first.
Re: Don't be nervous - I'm not a monster
Date: 2004-03-21 04:45 am (UTC)CFeng
Re: Don't be nervous - I'm not a monster
Date: 2004-03-21 05:30 am (UTC)Aleathiel, I think we may have a complete convert here! (one without limits - wheyyy!)
As for the anonymity thing....my name's not really Nitw1t ya know.. ;P
Re: Don't be nervous - I'm not a monster
Date: 2004-03-21 05:50 am (UTC)my name's not really Nitw1t ya know
ROFLMAO. I can imagine your parents:
"Well dear, I was thinking of calling her Rachel. Or Emma. Or Louise."
"But I want to call her Nitw1t!"
Obviously Aleathiel is a screen name!
Re: Don't be nervous - I'm not a monster
Date: 2004-03-21 06:22 am (UTC)Tee hee.. After a while lets figure out what he likes and donate him a plot bunny! *wicked evil grin*
Re: Don't be nervous - I'm not a monster
Date: 2004-03-21 11:27 am (UTC)CFeng
Re: Don't be nervous - I'm not a monster
Date: 2004-03-21 11:42 am (UTC)(beta: second reader before the fic is posted. varies from simply picking up typing and grammatical errors to in depth discussions on phrasing and character motivation. The alpha being the writer his/herself)
Re: Don't be nervous - I'm not a monster
Date: 2004-03-21 02:56 pm (UTC)CFeng
Re: Don't be nervous - I'm not a monster
Date: 2004-03-22 12:37 am (UTC)I know. So do I! I use it as a good way to relax - it takes use of my brain but in a completely different way.
Plot? Depends what part of the fandom you're interested in.
Re: Don't be nervous - I'm not a monster
Date: 2004-03-21 11:39 am (UTC)Re: Don't be nervous - I'm not a monster
Date: 2004-03-21 11:40 am (UTC)Re: Don't be nervous - I'm not a monster
Date: 2004-03-21 11:00 am (UTC)*grin*
Aside to CFeng: I've been telling him this for well over a year. Does he listen to me? No, he's too busy crowing that his baseball team is Number One so far, but that's because the season hasn't started yet.
Re: Don't be nervous - I'm not a monster
Date: 2004-03-21 11:40 am (UTC)