Fandom Snowflake Challenge, Day 8 – Love Meme

[aadler]

 
Continuing the meme/challenge begun and tracked here.

Fandom Snowflake Challenge, Day 8 – Love Meme

In your own space, create a love meme for yourself. Let people tell you how amazing and awesome and loveable you really are. Leave a comment in this [the assignment] post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so. Surf the comments and find people to give love to.

Like a number of people, I thought at first that this called for me telling others how awesome I think I am. And I could do that, but it’s a relief to discover I’m just supposed to leave this up here — begging for candy — and wait to see what I receive.

I will go so far as to follow spikedluv’s lead in listing out a few prompts that can be followed, which also are things I’d like to know:

• How did you learn about me/how did we meet?
• Do you have a favorite fic by me? If so, what and why?
• Have I given constructive feedback to anything you have done? (Because if I haven’t, I should have.)
• Just say something nice but true (yes, you may have to scrounge around for something), because I’m prickly and arrogant and pretty much focused on my own stuff, but I need love just like everybody else.

And there we are.

Comments

[angrboda]

♥ ♥ ♥

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

We really connected through the Feedbackathon. What you had to say about This is the End for Which We Twain Are Met really affected me and then later, your kind words aout Civilian just blew me away. Thank you again.

As for you - you're talented, honest, and true to yourself, all qualities I admire greatly. I am proud to know you as both a writer and a person. You're one of a kind.



Gabrielle

[aadler]

I wasn’t being kind about “Civilian”. What I said about that story was what I believed. I didn’t even think it was the best one you’d done, it just happened to strike me perfectly right, and I was happy for the opportunity to produce a companion piece (and doubly happy that it pleased you).

As for being true to myself:

“Be yourself. Unless you can be Batman. Always be Batman.”

[turlough]

A little driveby love from a stranger!

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

I don't recall where I first heard of you but I do know you really came under my radar when you asked me to participate in the remix, which was so wonderful of you because I've been wanting to ever since I first heard about them.

I really like your story Check and Mate because it's just so funny and a delightful crossover drabble. I believe that Maxima Culpa is my favorite of your stories though. I can so see Buffy making that choice which is, indeed, better than the alternative.

[aadler]

Appreciated. eilandesq is the most faithful participant in cof_remix, but your debut was the most spectacular I’ve ever seen, so ‘giving’ you an opportunity worked out great for us.

Yes, several people liked “Maxima Culpa”. Never hurts my feelings.

[starbuckssue.livejournal.com]

Hi I'm Sue, I don't believe we've run across one another in fandom but that's one of the things that makes this challenge so much fun as it brings us all together in one big fandom family, something which I think makes all of us a little awesome.

*Hugs*

[aadler]

Thanks.

[snogged.livejournal.com]

I'm stopping by your post via the snowflake challenge.

Hope you don't mind me dropping by your journal to offer some love and a smile for the day!
<3 :)

[aadler]

Yours is a familiar name, you’re regularly referenced in a lot of the things I track, and I know I’ve even read a few of your pieces. Your presence is always welcome, even in a passing sense like this one.

[snogged.livejournal.com]

Yours is a familiar name as well.
Gotta love the Buffy fandom! :)

[rscreighton.livejournal.com]

<3 <3 <3

[akamine_chan]

Hee. Well, you are also welcome to tell us how awesome you are. Most of us know you are awesome, but lists are good. <3

[alisanne.livejournal.com]

You're awesome and brave for doing this! ♥

[sparrow2000.livejournal.com]

I had a dig back through my end of year reviews, which are pretty useful barometers of my fandom experience in any given year, and discovered that I first came across your work back in 2010 when I read Otherwise a Perfect Sky – a story that just bowled me over. I’ve danced in and out of your output intermittently ever since with the out periods mainly having to do with RL reasons or just having a reading list that was ludicrously long.

One of things that I really appreciate about your writing is your craft – the smoothness of a plot structure, the care with you choose your words and shape your characterisations – that craft adds immensely to the reading experience for me. And I have said elsewhere, but it bears repeating that I really like how you write around the edges of canon, focusing on small events or characters that get caught in the tides and eddies of the grand drama of the main Buffy characters and by doing so, often give a twist in perspective to those main canon players. As for a favourite story, that’s a hard one, but I think if pressed I’d say Under the Gun – I loved the ambiguous nature of Giles in this story and how you took the continuity of the original story to build on that world. Yeah, I loved that one a lot.

And yes, you’ve commented on my stuff – your feedback on my summer_of_giles story A Single Stick of Kindling made me extremely happy, so thank you.

Keep writing and I will keep reading – perhaps not immediately when RL gets in the way, but I will get there in the end! :)

[aadler]

With “Otherwise a Perfect Sky” as your introduction to me, how did everything else I did NOT seem like a letdown?

The plotting and characterization for which you give me credit … I write the kind of stories I like to read. I’m not just having fun (though writing Buffyfic is great fun), I’m trying to build a world I can believe in, treat the endeavor with the respect it deserves. If that works for other people, bonus.

I just checked it, and my commentary on “A Single Stick of Kindling” was quite restrained. I read the story again, for context, and you deserved better than I gave you. That was nicely done.

Finally, “Under the Gun” was written quickly, to meet a deadline, after I’d determined that I wouldn’t be finishing “Into the Abyss” in time to submit it for that year’s summer_of_giles. I was satisfied by what I’d done there, but wouldn’t have listed it (and don’t) among my best works. That you cite it as your favorite just shows that we can’t always predict how our stories will be perceived, which can be a reward as well as occasional pitfall.

Thank you.

[sharpiefan (from livejournal.com)]

Drive-by love from a random stranger via the Snowflake Challenge.

I don't know you, but I salute you for serving your country, and for that long (I only did three and a half years in the Forces, myself).

Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship. - Eric Massa

[aadler]

When you reach what would have been your twenty-year mark (assuming you haven’t already), you’ll feel at least some regret that you didn’t hang in there. Everybody does.

I went in partly from duty and mostly for the hell of it, and stayed for sheer love of that life. It was a privilege.

[texanfan.livejournal.com]

I've read your full body of work and trying to figure out which is my favorite would take much longer than I have at present as it would involve rereading almost all of them.

But I can tell you what I find awesome about you as a writer. To echo sparrow2000 it is your craft. Your building of a scene is truly evocative and you're wonderful at fight scenes but what I absolutely love is something I don't find enough in fandom, amazingly crafted plots. It's one of the same things I adore about nwhepcat. Not only is the writing well done but the stories are riveting as well.

Outside of fandom, I am intensely grateful for your service to our country. I'm honored to know you.

[aadler]

My biggest problem with a fight scene is not over-indulging myself, I love them so much. Keeping it appropriate to the narrative, not letting it dominate or overshadow the rest of the story. Fight scenes are fun.

Plotting is just my effort to tell the kind of story I enjoy reading.

And serving in the Army … I’m only sorry I didn’t get to do more of it.

[rycolfan.livejournal.com]

I don't know you, but I'm dropping off some love anyway! ♥

[scripsi.livejournal.com]

Because everyone who has participated in The Snowflake Challenge is awesome.