sorry no it's not going to be updated

[tielan]

I always feel a little bad when a note from ff.net tells me that someone has subscribed/followed one of my stories. Particularly the ones from old fandoms - Merlin, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG1, and so forth.

I'm glad that you liked the story enough to want to see more, but...yeah, nope. Sorry. You'll be waiting a LONG time for that...

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[scribblemyname]

I know this feeling so well.

[tielan]

♥

[alexseanchai]

It me with Supernatural. Especially the ones on ff.n: Most of my SPN is later than that and on AO3! But I rarely have the cope to PM saying "more thisaway". Like, what if it's That Story they want more of? There isn't more of That Story!

[tielan]

I don't respond to comments on ff.net anymore. The response interface is not very friendly IIRC, and I just don't post there either after significant volumes of my fic turned out to have explicit sexual content and I couldn't post it on ff.net.

[alexseanchai]

True and true

[beatrice_otter]

Well, for years I somehow did not have the "send me emails when someone comments" turned on at ff.net, so I didn't respond because I didn't know I was getting comments! But after I got that fixed, I responded a few times, found out that their reply to comments function sucks, and stops bothering.

I do crosspost everything there, because I don't write explicit sex anyway, and I like having redundant backups.

[grav_ity]

This happens to me, too. And I'm all "Why are you subscribing to a COMPLETED STORY?"

[tielan]

Oh yes, the subscribing to stories marked 'completed' is particularly bewildering.

(This time, at least it was a story that could have had another chapter added, although it's more in the nature of a series of ficlets around a certain premise.)

[beatrice_otter]

I subscribe to all stories that I like enough to bookmark. Why not? It doesn't hurt anything, it takes no time to do, and maybe they will tack an epilogue on. It does happen once in a blue moon, even with fics marked complete. (What I dearly wish is that AO3 would let you know if a work that was not in a series when you subscribed to it got made part of a series, so you would know a sequel had been written.)

[jelazakazone]

It me. Like, I haven't posted new fic in years. No chance of me going back to old fic any time soon. Like, ever. LOL.

[tielan]

I still have the files! I take them out and poke at them from time to time, woefully.

Although at least one...it was a big bang of 40K+ words, and someone did cover art for the story. The art was so bad, it drained away my willingness to edit the story and post it...

[jelazakazone]

Ugh, it's awful when collabs sink the project. :( Could you throw the art away and forget about it? The death of Arthur killed all my fannish enthusiasm.

[tielan]

Well, it wasn't fully finished (I just pulled it out and read it through) and I think it got jossed by quite a few things in the season after it was to be posted so... :/

I don't know, maybe someday. :D

[jelazakazone]

Jossing is bad for the fannish juju. At least it is for me. Thanks for sharing recent pics of quilts. I loved the one you gave the married couple. I hope they like it too.