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I own some castles somewhere, too
I think del.icio.us (or whatever the current confusingly sans-full-stops nomenclature is) is bad for my mental health. I am become one of those people who obsessively follows how many people have bookmarked their fics. And who can see all too clearly the number of people bookmarking fics that have not COMMENTED on said fics, and who addend their bookmarks with praise that creates for me a very pleased shoulder-angel and a shoulder-devil who leaps up and down yelling REALLY. YOU THINK THAT. HOW NICE. WHY COULDN'T YOU HAVE TOLD ME TO MY FIGURATIVE FACE?
And then I go and breathe quietly in a corner somewhere.
Sorry, guys, I'd update with actual content if I had any. Instead all I have is one set of five characters who don't really want to talk to me, and another set of eight characters who will talk until the cows come home but not about anything relevant to their story.
Why do I do this to myself? Why couldn't I have picked a nice sanity-preserving hobby like, say, juggling knives?
And then I go and breathe quietly in a corner somewhere.
Sorry, guys, I'd update with actual content if I had any. Instead all I have is one set of five characters who don't really want to talk to me, and another set of eight characters who will talk until the cows come home but not about anything relevant to their story.
Why do I do this to myself? Why couldn't I have picked a nice sanity-preserving hobby like, say, juggling knives?
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OH MY GOD ME TOO ME FUCKING TOOOOOOO.
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I just don't get it - why, if you can take time to bookmark a story and make notes on it, and sometimes rec it, why wouldn't you leave a note for the author? *sigh* It makes me sad.
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Actually at this point I would settle for the ability to write sentences that I don't hate.
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I also obsessively delicious.com/url my own stories... what keeps me sane is pretending that people are bookmarking things for later and just haven't read them yet. It's probably not true in a lot of cases, but I hold to it. They just haven't read it yet! ^_^
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And, uh, I am totally guilty of doing the bookmarking-without-commenting thing. I didn't used to be but I have been going through the due South fandom and a lot of it is ... really old? and for some reason that means I feel really weird leaving comments. So maybe people are tagging your older stuff and then feeling awkward about commenting?? I have no idea. It bothers me also even though I do it. XD
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*grumps*
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I think this is the mood in which people start making ultimatums to the tune of not writing the next chapter of their omg epic gay vampire fairy romance until they get x number of reviews.
GYAH THAT IS SO TEMPTING sometimes. My favourite is when you're talking about fic six months after you posted it and someone's all "oh yes, I liked that one best of the series" and you weren't even bloody well aware they read anything you wrote because they EXPECT YOU TO BE FUCKING PSYCHIC.
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