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[kaigou]

Over the past two or three weeks, there've been an awful lot of people subscribing suddenly. *shifty eyes* I'm not entirely certain who to blame who to thank. Instead, if you don't mind, please use this thread to introduce yourself.

poll results for readers' choices:
story/narrative analysis 93.1%
snark and rants 82.8%
fandom meta: 86.2%
fiction critiques 79.3%

Comments

[trickster_tree]

I first stumbled on your journal when you wrote your "Dear (Not Just Urban Fantasy) Author" series, but only recently got a public journal myself. Sticking around because I enjoy reading thoughtful analysis on pretty much any topic (I've been following your posts on Avatar, frex, although it's been so long since I saw the show that I don't have much to contribute). I'm also a speculative fiction/fantasy writer, so your posts that treat aspects of genre fiction are of particular interest to me.

[kaigou]

Someday I'm gonna take those way-too-long posts and, y'know, actually edit them for clarity. I ended up back on one of them awhile back and was like, man, I do the loopy circular stuff so much, what's the point in even numbering anything?

posts that treat aspects of genre fiction

They're lots of fun, even if every time I open my mouth I think, here is another reason I'll never be published. Honestly. How many more people can I piss off, this month?

[trickster_tree]

It will never cease to amaze me how up-in-arms people get about critique of genre fiction. I mean, I love fantasy with the long-suffering love, but often for what it could do rather than what it does – which is all the more obvious when someone steps outside the tropes long enough to use them rather than be used by them.

(I sort of squawk with laughter at the prospect of being published. I have too many queer characters running around, for one.)