Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.

[rsadelle]

So, I run this list. It's not the only Metallica slash out there. There are people on metslash who aren't on the list that dare not speak its name, and vice versa. There are some people on both lists. Most of the people who are no mail and/or lurkers on metslash are on both lists. Most of the people who post fic are only on metslash.

Every time I remind people about our archiving policies, I remind them that crossposting is okay. It is possible to post a fic to a list without granting archiving permission. I know that some of the people on both lists are writers. I know that some of them are extremely good writers. I know that they've posted fic to the other list. And yet, with the exception of one author and one story by a second author, none of them post to metslash.

Why not?

Is it because we don't automatically jump up and down and say, "Oh, you're so wonderful, that was the best story ever, when are you writing the sequel?" to every piece of fic that gets posted? Is it because I actually dare to say what I don't like about fic? I only wish someone would critique my fic the way I've critiqued other people's fic. Well, the more recent stuff anyway; I know just how bad some of my older fic is. Isn't that far more useful to you as a writer than unconditional praise for every word you write?

Or perhaps, like one person who recently unsubbed, they don't like it that I dare say that I don't like some of the writing and list policies of the other list. Apparently the fact that all three S's and various other people from the other list have said extremely negative things about metslash and me in their journals and journal comments is completely irrelevant.

Not that I'm bitter.

Comments

Re: response to Sofie and Kris.- Hamlet

[(Anonymous)]

I am a member of tallific and I know for a fact that there are times when the list understands that you are going to have to lurk...or not participate at all. For instance I am on Tallific and for a week and a half there I didn't say anything...I was laid up in bed in the hospital after being in the hospital.

I had friends who didn't ask Liz about me as much as some of the people on the list. Liz for those of you who don't know, is my best friend in the world and the one person who has stood by me through everything...Well anyways there I am laid up in the hospital and the day I go in for surgery one list member draws me a get well card and sends it through Liz and a lot of the members sent along thier well wishes...Like I said earlier I don't have friends in RL who cared that much about me.

Well anyways I missed dues, and yet I am still on the list...I just had to let them know the reason I wasn't posting at that point in time...

Re: response to Sofie and Kris.- Hamlet

[rsadelle]

I know better than to think that they're going to demand dues from someone in the hospital. It's the concept of dues in itself, the idea that you have to do something in fandom on a particular schedule that I hate.