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Okay... apparently I have a fan. Proof: http://thawrecka.sphosting.com/recs/r-hp.html

I am thrilled. No, really, I am. I used to believe no one but one or two people I'd basically begged to had read that story. And I've only been recced twice before in my life (once for that selfsame story above, and once, way back when, for Sometimes We Believe, in HL fandom), so I'm naturally very excited now.

But why the f... do people not see the necessity of telling authors that they're being recced? I mean, hey... yeah, I know, I don't always give feedback either, so that's cool... but putting a link up on your website and writing:

"This is heartbreaking Sirius/Remus set during OotP that actually makes me cry. It really gives the sense of the past pressing in on them, and the whole thing is so true to canon."

is quite something different. I'd like to *know* when someone does that! Not that I *mind* being recced, hell no... But I want to know when I make people cry! Call me self-centred, call me obsessed with fame, call me pathetic, call me whatever you like - but frell, *tell* me when I make you cry!!!!!!!! (Maybe just call me a sadist. *g*)

Hezmana.

Anyway... thank you, whoever you are. I do appreciate it. I feel loved. I would feel even more loved if you'd told me, but hey...

Heh... based on the amount and quality of feedback that is my most popular story by far. How ironic - my greatest success happened in a fandom I don't usually write. *g*

(Edited to add: There may seem to be a contradiction here, since I claimed, above, that no one but a few people I had begged to read it had read that story. It's true, I have had more feedback for other stories. However, those were posted to boards, and on boards you generally get a lot more feedback than you get for stuff on your own website. This is literally my only story that has managed not only to get feedback but to get recommended with *zero* publicity from my side. Wow.)

Edited to add: I think to celebrate my first appearance on a recs page (the other recs were informal ones on lists and on LJ) I will finally revise the story according to