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... for The MAD Doctrine continue to puzzle: a few weeks ago I posted it to ff.net (I always also post my stuff to ff.net, simply because it *is* the biggest archive there is, and for many people who aren't as deeply into fandom as we here tend to be it's still their main or only source of fic). Usually you get at least a couple of comments there - The MAD Doctrine got none. I wonder why. Not shippy enough? Too shippy? Not enough Gene? Hell, even the blatant Mary Sues there get comments!

Ah well. It's ff.net. Who understands ff.net?

Interestingly, comments on LJ have dried up completely after the first couple of days, too. This feels unusual - but it may be just normal, I dunno.

Heh. All of which reminds me: I need to get back to my big trawl of mars_daily... I'm sorry, I've been a bit in the dumps the last couple of weeks. Also, distracted by visitors, and computer games, and new furniture.

I openly, and even with some pride, admit that one of my purposes in life is making people uncomfortable and/or sad by writing fic that's heavy on the angst, and occasionally outright disturbing. So, after having a bit of a conversation today about that, I decided to have a look at my collected feedback (yes, folks, you read that right. I collect my feedback. It helps when the writing neurosis rears its head; nurturing an inflated sense of my own talent is one of the things that *sort of* helps against the neurosis, at least for a while, until someone or something takes me down a few pegs again.)

So here's an overview of feedback telling me how I succeeded at this purpose of mine (anonymised, naturally, and heavily abridged):

( How to inflate my ego... )

(You may imagine my tongue lodged firmly in my cheek when I wrote the first sentence of this entry.)