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dragonlady7) wrote2019-07-29 02:31 am
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I have been loving the comments on Basking this past week, even if I have had extremely limited...
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I have been loving the comments on Basking this past week, even if I have had extremely limited internet access– I’ve done my best to answer comments but I’m sure I’ve missed some, please don’t let that deter you.
There was a line that I had intended to be an illustration of their mutual awkwardness after sex but somebody commented yesterday to point out that actually it came across as sort of icky and gender-essentialist, which was jarringly out of place in the fic as a whole and didn’t even have the flimsy excuse of fitting in with the POV character’s worldview either, and once it was pointed out I had to admit that was a totally warranted take, it really was hard to even see what I could possibly have meant by it once I actually, like, read what I’d actually written and not what I’d intended it to mean.
So I fixed it, and there’s something else there that hopefully is less jarring at least. I have in the past really felt like editing published works was sketchy practice somehow (i don’t know, do people leave notes when they edit fic? I try to with journal entries but it’s not the same thing, is it? are there ethics about this? I just don’t know), but in this case it was demonstrably a way out-of-place line, besides being objectively offensive, and did not even remotely convey my intention to boot. (Not to say that I’m not a person who could harbor such thoughts, I’m sure that contributed to it in the first place!)
So, at any rate, my deepest and most sincere apologies to anyone that line really super grossed-out, because it was super gross, and not at all what I intended for the fic, and absolutely didn’t do justice to Crowley’s POV at all either. I can defend my process all I want of how that line got in there in the first place, but the end takeaway is that it didn’t work, so there’s really nothing else to say besides to apologize.
So, it’s gone now, and there don’t seem to be any other wild missteps in it, so. Fingers crossed.
I should have beta readers but I just don’t, and so any missteps are solely my own.
I have been loving the comments on Basking this past week, even if I have had extremely limited internet access– I’ve done my best to answer comments but I’m sure I’ve missed some, please don’t let that deter you.
There was a line that I had intended to be an illustration of their mutual awkwardness after sex but somebody commented yesterday to point out that actually it came across as sort of icky and gender-essentialist, which was jarringly out of place in the fic as a whole and didn’t even have the flimsy excuse of fitting in with the POV character’s worldview either, and once it was pointed out I had to admit that was a totally warranted take, it really was hard to even see what I could possibly have meant by it once I actually, like, read what I’d actually written and not what I’d intended it to mean.
So I fixed it, and there’s something else there that hopefully is less jarring at least. I have in the past really felt like editing published works was sketchy practice somehow (i don’t know, do people leave notes when they edit fic? I try to with journal entries but it’s not the same thing, is it? are there ethics about this? I just don’t know), but in this case it was demonstrably a way out-of-place line, besides being objectively offensive, and did not even remotely convey my intention to boot. (Not to say that I’m not a person who could harbor such thoughts, I’m sure that contributed to it in the first place!)
So, at any rate, my deepest and most sincere apologies to anyone that line really super grossed-out, because it was super gross, and not at all what I intended for the fic, and absolutely didn’t do justice to Crowley’s POV at all either. I can defend my process all I want of how that line got in there in the first place, but the end takeaway is that it didn’t work, so there’s really nothing else to say besides to apologize.
So, it’s gone now, and there don’t seem to be any other wild missteps in it, so. Fingers crossed.
I should have beta readers but I just don’t, and so any missteps are solely my own.