rhienelleth | Fannish post

My Mom's in town, and we're going to see Mr. and Mrs. Smith together tomorrow afternoon. I'm so excited!

Also, I've written on All the Stars Asunder, my Tyr/Beka Andromeda fic for the first time in...years? I went and read episode recaps to remind myself of show canon, and then got disgusted when reading about the exit of Tyr's character. I'd forgotten how much that pissed me off when it happened.

That's ok, because in my little world, that never happened, and I'm going to finish the fic anyway. Unfinished WIP's bug me.

Also, I hunted up some Dr. Who fic tonight, but have yet to find anything really great. Recs, anyone?

By the by, I've never previously encountered this, but I've decided it is now a pet peeve of mine when reading fic to have the author's intro read something like this:

FicTitle
Author
Pairing
Rating
Note: Ugh. I hate this fic.

WTF? You wrote the fic, but you hate it. Why are you posting it, then? If you, the author, hate it, why the hell should I waste my time reading it?

You know why I write fic? Because something essential is missing for me from the show, movie, book, whatever I'm writing fic about. I write it because it's what I want to see or read. And when I'm done, I love it. Because it's exactly what I wanted it to be. Maybe time passes and when I go back and read it, I notice mistakes or sentences I wish I could re-word, but I never hate anything I post. Sure, I've written things I don't particularly like -- do you think I show them to anyone?? No! Come on. Nervousness or modesty is fine, but please don't ever preface a work you're posting for public consumption with "I wrote this, and I hate it." or "I don't know why I wrote this piece of drivel."

Because I don't know why I should read it then, either.