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*sigh* People don't RTFM, do they? :)
Sep. 24th, 2005 01:10 amBoth A Really Bad Idea and Can't I Like Girls Too? have now been posted at Astronomy Tower. OK, I'll admit it -- submitting them there instead of TDA or Riddikulus was a blatant attempt to trawl (or possibly troll?) for reviews.
Bizarrely, the slightly ironic "warnings" line in the summary of Can't I Like Girls Too? ("Contains references to slash, which may offend some people. Contains references to het, which may offend some other people") has been replaced with the rather meaningless "Warnings: References to slash and het" in the Chapter Owls. I don't think whoever prepares that list quite got the joke.
Talking about getting jokes -- while they've garnered more hits than my other oneshots (which, given their shippy nature, was kind of expected) some of the reviews do rather tend to show that people don't read the author's notes at the end. Both of them are, to a large extent, no more than sendups of particular shipping ideas, and this is clarified in the notes, but several of the reviews rather suggest that the commenter hasn't noticed this ... Again, kind of expected, quite fun, but on the whole I like it better when people get the joke. So maybe readers should be encouraged to RTFM -- or at least RTFAN. :)
Chapter 26 of NTLJ has been submitted to FA, so expect to see it appear in about a week; it's the long but unavoidable Tonks-Kingsley cards-on-the-table chapter, and is unusual for this story in that it focuses mostly on canon events (from the Auror POV).
On a side note, I read in the local paper today that one of the 14(!) candidates for the newly created elected executive Mayor position here in Torbay was named Grimble. Since I invented that surname off the top of my head for Tonks to use as an alias, I was delighted to find someone was actually called that ... What's more, I'm sure I saw the chap in Sainsbury's today. Possibly I should treat this as a Sign. Oddly cool. :)
Bizarrely, the slightly ironic "warnings" line in the summary of Can't I Like Girls Too? ("Contains references to slash, which may offend some people. Contains references to het, which may offend some other people") has been replaced with the rather meaningless "Warnings: References to slash and het" in the Chapter Owls. I don't think whoever prepares that list quite got the joke.
Talking about getting jokes -- while they've garnered more hits than my other oneshots (which, given their shippy nature, was kind of expected) some of the reviews do rather tend to show that people don't read the author's notes at the end. Both of them are, to a large extent, no more than sendups of particular shipping ideas, and this is clarified in the notes, but several of the reviews rather suggest that the commenter hasn't noticed this ... Again, kind of expected, quite fun, but on the whole I like it better when people get the joke. So maybe readers should be encouraged to RTFM -- or at least RTFAN. :)
Chapter 26 of NTLJ has been submitted to FA, so expect to see it appear in about a week; it's the long but unavoidable Tonks-Kingsley cards-on-the-table chapter, and is unusual for this story in that it focuses mostly on canon events (from the Auror POV).
On a side note, I read in the local paper today that one of the 14(!) candidates for the newly created elected executive Mayor position here in Torbay was named Grimble. Since I invented that surname off the top of my head for Tonks to use as an alias, I was delighted to find someone was actually called that ... What's more, I'm sure I saw the chap in Sainsbury's today. Possibly I should treat this as a Sign. Oddly cool. :)
