No, no Charles/Erik vid bunnies!

[giandujakiss]

No, no, no! Go away! *makes cross sign with fingers*

Here, watch Rolling in the Deep instead.

The awful thing about Charles/Erik is that there's a horrifically large backlog of unfinished fic and it's killing me. I try not to read the WIPs because I can't stand the suspense, but somehow I got sucked into this amazingly, heartbreakingly brilliant thing at the kink meme and it seems to have stalled out on July 21st. Anon, if you can hear me, oh please, finish this!

Comments

[ratcreature]

You WIP link reminds me of a question I have about how these kink memes work: That post reached 10000 comments, so where do the updates go after that, if the author hasn't stalled, and how do you find them? I've seen links to overflow posts, and update posts, and such, but I'm just lost navigating them. Do you have to search through all of that and hope you find a trace of your WIP somewhere?

[giandujakiss]

I have absolutely no idea. I only find things through Delicious links.

Oh, wait - the post itself says there's a new post just for overflows? http://1stclass-kink.livejournal.com/7003.html?format=light

[ratcreature]

I applaud the efforts of the mods organizing things like this, but I can't help but think that you are working against the infrastructure. I find this whole setup really inconvenient. Usually once I found a WIP to follow through delicious I just track the thread, and get both comment and new part updates (which is sort of spammy), but then I don't notice when the post is full, and no updates come anymore. I have found only one of the WIPs I'd been tracking again in that overflow post, so I guess the others just aren't being continued, or not yet, but seriously. At least back in mailing list days WIP updates landed in your inbox without you having to complete some sort of scavenger hunt to track down part. /crotchety oldtimer voice

[giandujakiss]

Yeah, I don't track the WIPs precisely because I don't want to get spammed with the feedback. It's not a great system; I just don't know if there's a better one. Me, when I find a WIP that looks good, I make a note of the URL and periodically check back to see if it's complete yet. It is, of course, awesome when an author is doing updates in her own journal - then I can track the posts without getting the comments as well.

[ratcreature]

I follow too many WIPs for manual URL checking to be convenient. Currently it's 26 X-Men WIPs, most on kinkmemes.

[elz]

I join you in hoping that WIP comes back to life. So good, sigh!

[giandujakiss]

I know, right? And I can't even stalk the author because I don't know who it is.

[mrkinch]

Thanks for the link! I'm perfectly willing to be sucked into brilliant WIPs, even though the three others that I'm reading have all stalled.*bangs head*

[giandujakiss]

You're welcome - hope you enjoy it. And, god, I hope the author finishes it someday.

[kore]

DAMN that is GORGEOUS. (And I actually left feedback this time! Instead of being too shy! Even if it was incoherent!)

[giandujakiss]

Glad you liked :-).

[kore]

I try not to read the WIPs because I can't stand the suspense, but somehow I got sucked into this amazingly, heartbreakingly brilliant thing at the kink meme and it seems to have stalled out

You DID NOT just do that to me. (Altho I don't know why I am complaining, given The Inside and the show about VR. Oh Inside, how I miss you, and we barely even met....)

-- OH MY GOD, and I had already left a comment on this post. (Albeit not with the Inside ref.) Need more coffee.

[giandujakiss]

You DID NOT just do that to me

If I have to be in pain, I want everyone else to suffer as well. Same for The Inside, and same for VR.5 (oh, VR.5!!!)