Tuesday, January 15th, 2019 06:45 pm
To DTA Fans
To DTA Agitators - I got the box! And I apologize; it took an extra week to get it from the office and a day to get to opening it completely. I meant to write this about a dozen times, but I wanted to do more than 'Thanks', and if I did a quick 'thanks' I'd never get to the long version (I do know myself).
Note: I am not sure if you want your names used or what usernames you'd like, so please tell me in comments if it's okay and what names to use.
This was literally the most thoughtful gift I've ever received in my life. The sheer amount of work and coordination kind of left me speechless.
First - I'm going to be honest, the best part was the thought involved in the accompanying quotes on each item. I mean the items were amazing, but adding fic quotes to each one for context was goddamn amazing. I keep trying to decide how to put it together somewhere, like with a scrapbook and pics??? I have never scrapbooked but by God I will learn.
Second - the letters were equally fantastic. I loved knowing about the origins, like the above.
Three - I have already been complimented on the jewelry. I literally bought a new shirt to go with the longer necklace because I thought the intricate work would show up better against a grey background and be noticed. Trust me, it was noticed; mostly 'how did they do that?" me: '....magic'.
Four - I am never in my life going to have cold feet again. I love the socks.
Five - the sheepapodes made me laugh out loud and traumatized Child.
Six - that box was amazing. I read the letter that came with it and am in awe because seriously you made that???????
Seven - the individual item boxes were amazing. See one above with the quotes.
I'll put up pics when my phone is charged. My phone is in late-stage slow-death of battery and I didn't realize how much until I started this entry and it was like at 2% and trying to die. There's a reason I bought a supplementary tablet.
I really don't say enough how much I appreciate all of you; many of you have become trusted friends and I love how many people have taken Down to Agincourt and made it their own.
I wrote it with literally no expectation of posting it; it was written to fit my tastes and expectations, things I thought were tailored for me and not many people would really be into or like. When I began to post, I never expected to get very many readers. I figured it would only appeal to those who matched me pretty closely on stories meant to be read more than once, ones with information that you can only find on re-read because you need later context; I find that fun personally, but I don't expect anyone else to. It's slow as fuck and I dropped the pace to a crawl for Book IV. Those were deliberate decisions, and not ones that I thought many would really want to try.
(It probably also didn't appeal to many when the first half of Book I was depressing as fuck.)
At no time did it ever occur to me so many people would not only read it and love it, but take it apart and rebuild it in their own image; how could I imagine that? I love comments and kudos and recs, don't get me wrong, but the highest compliment possible is when people read it, thought about it, and said "I can make something new out of this." It's the purest essence of transformative fandom; to write your own image into a story, to read the images of others. Every time someone posts something, they make the work better than it would have otherwise; you showed me something new I didn't see. And I thank you so much for that.
Note: I am not sure if you want your names used or what usernames you'd like, so please tell me in comments if it's okay and what names to use.
This was literally the most thoughtful gift I've ever received in my life. The sheer amount of work and coordination kind of left me speechless.
First - I'm going to be honest, the best part was the thought involved in the accompanying quotes on each item. I mean the items were amazing, but adding fic quotes to each one for context was goddamn amazing. I keep trying to decide how to put it together somewhere, like with a scrapbook and pics??? I have never scrapbooked but by God I will learn.
Second - the letters were equally fantastic. I loved knowing about the origins, like the above.
Three - I have already been complimented on the jewelry. I literally bought a new shirt to go with the longer necklace because I thought the intricate work would show up better against a grey background and be noticed. Trust me, it was noticed; mostly 'how did they do that?" me: '....magic'.
Four - I am never in my life going to have cold feet again. I love the socks.
Five - the sheepapodes made me laugh out loud and traumatized Child.
Six - that box was amazing. I read the letter that came with it and am in awe because seriously you made that???????
Seven - the individual item boxes were amazing. See one above with the quotes.
I'll put up pics when my phone is charged. My phone is in late-stage slow-death of battery and I didn't realize how much until I started this entry and it was like at 2% and trying to die. There's a reason I bought a supplementary tablet.
I really don't say enough how much I appreciate all of you; many of you have become trusted friends and I love how many people have taken Down to Agincourt and made it their own.
I wrote it with literally no expectation of posting it; it was written to fit my tastes and expectations, things I thought were tailored for me and not many people would really be into or like. When I began to post, I never expected to get very many readers. I figured it would only appeal to those who matched me pretty closely on stories meant to be read more than once, ones with information that you can only find on re-read because you need later context; I find that fun personally, but I don't expect anyone else to. It's slow as fuck and I dropped the pace to a crawl for Book IV. Those were deliberate decisions, and not ones that I thought many would really want to try.
(It probably also didn't appeal to many when the first half of Book I was depressing as fuck.)
At no time did it ever occur to me so many people would not only read it and love it, but take it apart and rebuild it in their own image; how could I imagine that? I love comments and kudos and recs, don't get me wrong, but the highest compliment possible is when people read it, thought about it, and said "I can make something new out of this." It's the purest essence of transformative fandom; to write your own image into a story, to read the images of others. Every time someone posts something, they make the work better than it would have otherwise; you showed me something new I didn't see. And I thank you so much for that.
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But that doesn't change that we love you and we love your fic and [waves hands vaguely]
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You can feel free to refer to me by my Twitter handle @ cin_nic or Luna Leaf as I seem to be going by these days.
Best of Winter Holiday wishes (a bit belatedly)!
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I hope the socks fit, I had to make an educated guess from around 5200 miles away. May you have warm feet always.
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(Feel free to mention me if you like, my username is more or less the same everywhere, but my only tangible contribution was the bit of doggerel about socks).
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Wow. It looks so good...
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Before you start, if you watch nothing else, watch 5.04 "The End" - the fic picks up both moments and 2.5 years after that episode ends. (Really.) Or I think someone put together a full Recommended Viewing For Background list if you want that.
(And it is. So good.)
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This is not that: this is a written summary of the bits of Supernatural, story and character backgrounds, that set the scene for the fic:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/
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I love fic that does that - takes one episode and runs with it. This is quite the marathon, though, isn't it? I'll bet it was wonderful, waiting on updates and sharing that experience. I used to love that on LJ - it'd be, ohhhhh, a new chapter of Captive Prince just posted! and then radio silence as everyone read it. What fun!
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Okay, first: don't think of it as a million words but like, three novels. Each is fairly encapsulated. Trust me, as the writer, I don't think of how many words the total is if i can help it. It's just--yeah, a lot.
Two--if you hate it, seriously, that's fine. When I say I didn't expect many readers, I meant I expected maybe three, ten if I was lucky. It's long, it's slow, and because when i started I never expected to post it, I wrote it literally for myself; it was experimental in playing with unreliable narrators, pacing, misdirection, going in depth in very short time frames, and uh, fun with logistics of how to run a militia camp sometimes in too much detail. So it may not be your thing.
That said: I really, really hope you enjoy it! This is so exciting!
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I have the episode up on Netflix right this very minute. The fic is on my Kindle. I'm all set. :)
And I did the same thing with the fic I just wrote - it's much, much shorter, but I wanted to read something like it, and there wasn't anything, so I just talked about it with everyone (and I mean everyone) and then plunged in. \0/
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I'll contact you via message.
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