good afternoon, good evening, and good night!

[tielan]

One of the goals I set myself earlier this year was to write 12 Teyla, team-centric, or Teyla/John longfics (over 10,000 words).

Thinking back, it was a slightly ambitious goal; I've since discarded it. In spite of people insisting that John/Teyla is now "popular", there's just no audience or enthusiasm for this pairing. Hell, I wrote a 60,000-word story for it and got maybe ten pieces of feedback - ten people who thought it was a good story. So, no, this isn't a pairing that anyone wants to encourage, which, to me, means it's not a pairing anyone wants to read. Forget about a sequel.

And no, the direction of the show (no Teyla, no John/Teyla interaction) isn't helping.

So, there'll probably be a lot less John/Teyla work coming out of me in future. In the absence of anything to be excited by, and the absence of anyone being encouraging, I'm not going to bother. I've done my time, tried to prompt people who can't be bothered to move their asses, tried to teach people who don't want to learn, tried to encourage people who are mediocre to lift their game, tried to be uplifting and cheerful and positive.

Enough.

Comments

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

Er ... did you look at the feedback on the other Big Bang stories? There were a few runaway hits, but quite a lot of stories (including a lot of the Sheppard/McKay ones, even those with relatively well-known writers) got fewer comments than yours. It's just a big, overwhelming ficathon; I've only had time to read a couple of stories in it myself. Not that I'm saying you aren't entirely within your rights to retreat from fandom if you want to, but the response that you got to your story is better than what a lot of people got to theirs..

[tielan]

I used the Big Bang as an example. It's not the final straw, and the cliqueyness of the feedback process isn't the only issue at stake - it's one part of a greater frustration I'm feeling.