The Curious Incident of the God in the Night-time ...

[speaker_to_customers]

I knew when I started posting my stories on fanfic.net that it would probably depress me and I was right. It has done.

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[elisi]

You certainly opened the floodgates with this one! As someone fairly new to the whole fandom thing (I've only been reading fanfic for about a year), I have to say that when I first started looking around I came across ff.net, but it never appealed to me. I think the first place I found was BAPS, and then allaboutspike, which is still my favourite - the stories are well chosen, and the index exemplary! Then after a while I discovered LJ and... well, the rest is history! And as someone said before me, LJ has much nicer interaction!

But from a very casual standpoint, ff.net never interested me. I might go look up your stories though, since I've been meaning to read something of yours - anything you can recommend?

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Yes, LJ does have much nicer interraction. The next best thing to sitting with each other and discussing things face to face, probably.

I might go look up your stories though, since I've been meaning to read something of yours - anything you can recommend?

That depends what you like. The funniest of them are probably 'Pyromania', 'I am the Walrus', 'Merry Sport' and 'When Glory Shone Around'.

'Smells Like Teen Spirit' is not in the least funny. In fact avoid that one, and therefore the sequel 'Come As You Are', unless you can cope with extremely disturbing events. Some people say it's the best thing I've done; others hate it.

Why not just go to My main fiction page (http://www.speaker-to-customers.me.uk/buffyverse/fiction.htm) and take a look and see if there's anything you like the look of?

[elisi]

Thank you - will have a poke around. And now I'm curious - disturbing how?

Main problem I've discovered after I started writing myself, is that I have very little time to read... life is complicated sometimes!

(Oh, and I've wondered for ages - what's your icon?)

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Quote from a review of my 'Nirvana' stories by P Gavigan:

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" has no vampires, no world menacing forces lurking out of sight, none of the usual horrific elements that go into fan fiction. So what makes it one of the single most terrifying stories that I have ever read? Because it takes Dawn Summers on a journey of sexual oblivion that is as barren and empty of meaning as the worst of pornographic excesses. Yet the tone that the author
establishes, the sense of heart numbing wretchedness, the desperation for anything to alleviate the sense of rejection, emptiness, and guilt that Dawn feels, makes it a story that was so disturbing I could only bear to read it once.

The sequel, "Come As You Are" lightens up a bit, but it's not fluffy by any means and there is character death.

On a lighter note, my icon is a Kzin, an alien warrior from the 'Ringworld' and 'Known Space' stories by Larry Niven. The main Kzinti hero in the stories is Speaker to Animals, the inspiration for my screen name.

[elisi]

Thanks for the review!

Oh! I've read Ringworld, but it's years and years ago - I guess I should re-read it!

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Replying here because you've turned off comments on your own most recent post - you've got my lj username wrong in your recs. 'costomrs' should read 'customrs'.