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

[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.