Also, I was telling myself I should talk about something that WASN'T football RPF, but you know what, ehhhhhh I like what i like and I do the work I do.
Word. If you don't like/aren't proud of your own work/ can blow your own trumpet, who's going to, right?
But you really spewed/haemorrhaged/gushed (?) out a LOT of words in 2017.
I think your word count in one's year's fic for you is like... equalled to about three years worth of mine. I'm dead impressed.
Your Five Times Fic isn't as bad as you think it is.
Yes, your latter stories are a lot stronger in that after that initial podfic, you know what you wanted to write about and the themes you wanted to focus on (moving from Christian and EVERYONE else to your main rare pairing). Now, you have a handle on what you want to do, so you're reacting to the clarity in the latter stages what you want to do when it comes to your newer fics, but it's stronger than you think.
With regards to fic 3- to be fair, the fest that hosted it was really small. On top of that, it's a super rare pairing written for a team that hasn't had much of a look in (in terms of Football RPF) until relatively recently.1 .
It might be one of those fics that will be revisited over time (because Christmas comes every year). And sometimes, the fics that you consider your best fics are the ones that get passed over, and the ones that you go, "Ugh, seriously, you guys?" are the ones that are like... reader catnip. Take it from me, you just don't know what hits people in the feels and moves them to comment (and personalities are a big draw).
Actually, I liked the fic Stay In My Eyeline, because you really had Christian dynamic to the point of out of character recklessness, and the Belgian contingent going, "Uhhh, nope." As well as the sadness around Oranje just failing. However, at the end, Christian was just glad to be there despite everything, knowing that when he returned to London, he'd be wrecked by the whole journey around it, but didn't care (to Toby's off-screen consternation, I'm sure). It was really emotional, but everything was handled quite well.
Hah. I think I've said enough about no. 1 from my side, really. But I do like what you did with it, and some parts I truly love. Especially, Chapter 6 and 7, the music scenes and how you tied it into the mood of the narrative, as well as the outro in chapter 16. It's really a piece of work that feels alive and tangible, and I'm glad that I got to experience it, the mood reminded me of the soaps I'd listen to on the radio growing up.
1Let's put it this way, when I posted a Vertonghen /Adebayor fic way back in 2015 I got excited fangirling over posting a gen fic of this pairing. The fic itself was PRETTY dour, but the person who fangirled in question was the only one writing about Hotspur fic. It was AU, and about BAE (not the most... popular of players towards the end of his career). A lot of ppl didn't start writing about Tottenham Hotspur in earnest until 2016. So you have your work cut out with this lot
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Word. If you don't like/aren't proud of your own work/ can blow your own trumpet, who's going to, right?
But you really spewed/haemorrhaged/gushed (?) out a LOT of words in 2017.
I think your word count in one's year's fic for you is like... equalled to about three years worth of mine. I'm dead impressed.
Your Five Times Fic isn't as bad as you think it is.
Yes, your latter stories are a lot stronger in that after that initial podfic, you know what you wanted to write about and the themes you wanted to focus on (moving from Christian and EVERYONE else to your main rare pairing). Now, you have a handle on what you want to do, so you're reacting to the clarity in the latter stages what you want to do when it comes to your newer fics, but it's stronger than you think.
With regards to fic 3- to be fair, the fest that hosted it was really small.
On top of that, it's a super rare pairing written for a team that hasn't had much of a look in (in terms of Football RPF) until relatively recently.1 .
It might be one of those fics that will be revisited over time (because Christmas comes every year). And sometimes, the fics that you consider your best fics are the ones that get passed over, and the ones that you go, "Ugh, seriously, you guys?" are the ones that are like... reader catnip. Take it from me, you just don't know what hits people in the feels and moves them to comment (and personalities are a big draw).
Actually, I liked the fic Stay In My Eyeline, because you really had Christian dynamic to the point of out of character recklessness, and the Belgian contingent going, "Uhhh, nope." As well as the sadness around Oranje just failing. However, at the end, Christian was just glad to be there despite everything, knowing that when he returned to London, he'd be wrecked by the whole journey around it, but didn't care (to Toby's off-screen consternation, I'm sure). It was really emotional, but everything was handled quite well.
Hah. I think I've said enough about no. 1 from my side, really. But I do like what you did with it, and some parts I truly love. Especially, Chapter 6 and 7, the music scenes and how you tied it into the mood of the narrative, as well as the outro in chapter 16. It's really a piece of work that feels alive and tangible, and I'm glad that I got to experience it, the mood reminded me of the soaps I'd listen to on the radio growing up.
1 Let's put it this way, when I posted a Vertonghen /Adebayor fic way back in 2015 I got excited fangirling over posting a gen fic of this pairing. The fic itself was PRETTY dour, but the person who fangirled in question was the only one writing about Hotspur fic. It was AU, and about BAE (not the most... popular of players towards the end of his career). A lot of ppl didn't start writing about Tottenham Hotspur in earnest until 2016. So you have your work cut out with this lot