I will read your stuff

[crankyoldman]

Ok folks. Since I'm making it a goal to do more reading in addition to making stuff, I want to know what you want me to read. It doesn't have to be good. It doesn't have to be long. If it's fanfic of a fandom I don't know it might be a little hard for me, but I'm willing to at least give it a shot. Maybe you can give me a little background what it's from?

Hell it can be any art. If you made it, I want to see it.

But I want to read it, I want to read it where you want me to read it, and I want to leave a comment. So throw me links. I can leave concrit if you want or just something happy, whatever you want. I will leave SOMETHING positive, at the very least.

If you feel like you want to do something in return, then cool. If not, that's also cool. I just want to read/see some stuff and comment on it. And I'd rather you tell me where to start, because you might be in a messy state of creation and I know how that goes.

Hell feel free to share this with friends, I'll cut it off when I've hit peak recs. XD Just don't rec someone else's work. Rec your own. Invite me to a gdoc. Take a phone pic. I don't care how I get it.

(This is brought on by wanting to practice what I preach, also being less of a hermit)

*Caveat: It has to be in a free format of some kind. You don't have to send me your whole book that you have up for sale, I can read some of it and if I like it, I'll probably buy it at some point. If it's super long and out on the webs I will at least leave a comment on the first chapter until I finish it, probably with commentary as I go along and am interested in things. I'm a fast reader but not light speed. I will do what I can. XD

*Caveat 2: If the grammar is all over the place, I'll say so, but I won't nitpick. I'm a reader, not an editor.

Comments

[novel_machinist]

<3 You're already my very captive audience

[crankyoldman]

You don't count. And I can always escape.

[novel_machinist]

Remind me to sit on you when I get home. <3

[shipwreck_light]

Sent you an email!

Have you read Jack's stuff? bookblather's? I can pull up my RBF shortlists (best of) lists too if you like.

Plus, if you like WK, I curate a list of good fic.

[crankyoldman]

I didn't actually get an email?

And I have read Jack's stuff (not the most recent, I have to go back and read some backlog and catch up), and I don't know bookblather but I know that she is your girlfriend. So go ahead and give me something of hers.

(What's WK? God, I sound like a grandma who is never on the internet)

Once I get through the people who have requested here I'll go ahead and ask for that shortlist.

[shipwreck_light]

Here 'tis!

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/Jealous_of_Roses_Arc_01

Anyway, that's most of the first story arc (there are some backstory bits and part of what's maybe an AU hanging out in that account as well).

BB posted this recently and I luffs it: https://rainbowfic.dreamwidth.org/1226555.html

I have shortlits for her and Jack when you want them.

WK is Weiss Kreuz. Animated for $50 and a diet coke, Weiss Kreuz was primarily an excuse for two voice actors to hang out and have UST with each other. To make a long story short, it ended when they moved in with each other.

[lassarina]

I have an original fiction filter and I would love some feedback, if you have time/bandwidth. Top two posts as of this moment are a worldbuilding quicknote and a semi-edited first chapter (i.e.: still needs more work but basic polish has happened.) Second chapter is coming soon.

[crankyoldman]

Yeah sure, I'll go over and take a look!

[nashipants]

I have a novel in-progress? Drak has a link to the Googledoc already, but the first chapter is also online at in_do_ri for comments, if you want to request access to the comm. (And if you don't that's fine too.)

[crankyoldman]

Cool. Requested access, will comment when I start reading!

[thene]

I can't remember how much Metal Gear you've played... (among other things) I have written this pretentious as fuck femslash-and-torture fic about Clark, the Hunter siblings, and philosophy of science, and a Joy/Sorrow romance set during the Chinese Civil War. Apologies if you can't read those.

I have also written a bunch of FF stuff. I like femslash crossovers! Here is a short funny one about Quistis/Elena!

[crankyoldman]

I've played the first one, but I have gained enough through osmosis to read those I'm sure. They sound fascinating and hell I've read plenty of fanfic from fandoms I only know half about so I've got a leg up!

And waaa, Quistis/Elena. Looking forward to it!