FIC: "Lift the Burden" (SGA) John Sheppard / Rodney McKay

Title: Lift the Burden
Author: Lobelia; lobelia321
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: John Sheppard / Rodney McKay.
Spoiler (and possibly pre-requisite): SGA 3x14. 'The Tao of Rodney'.
Length: 1,500 words
Summary: John gives Rodney a meditation lesson.
Rating: G
Disclaimer: I did not invent these characters or this storyworld. This is an amateur story, not written for profit. No coypright infringement is intended.
Feedback: Yes, please, even if it's just one word! Don't be shy. I love it all. And I reply to it all. *g*

Warning: Behind the cut, there be spoilerish fic and pics for SGA 3x14.
( Thinking is bad. Best to be thinking about something I'm not really thinking about. Like... shafts. )

Rodney's Struwwelhaar

Rodney's hair is morphing into John's hair.

( Visual evidence from 3x14 )

I just deleted a post by accident

Okay, I just did a horrible thing.

I deleted my fic 'Tao of Rodney' by mistake, including all the lovely feedback left on it (this was over 23 comments!).

What do I do? My skin is running hot and cold. This post is really important to me, including all the comments. The comments made me so happy, and I didn't keep a copy.

I blame this horrible new update journal format, argh!

Does anyone know what to do? Has this happened to anyone? Will the FAQ help?

I am rigid with shock. I don't know what to do. I feel like crying.

ETA: The wonderful lazlet just pointed out that the comments will still be in my email inbox. I never check my email and had totally forgotten about that! Duh and double-duh but this is so glad-making!

FIC: "Tao of Lust" (SGA) Rodney McKay/Radek Zelenka (REPOST)

Title: Tao of Lust
Author: Lobelia; lobelia321
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: Rodney McKay / Radek Zelenka.
Spoilers: 3x14. 'The Tao of Rodney'.
Length: 1,800 words
Summary: Zelenka wants to be healed.
Rating: 18
Disclaimer: I did not invent these characters or this storyworld. No copyright infringement is intended. This is an amateur story, not written for profit.
Feedback: Yes, please, even if it's only word! I love all feedback. I also reply to it all. :-)

Note: A horrible thing just happened. I accidentally deleted the original post of this fic, including all the lovely comments I got (at least 23 so somebody never got a reply). Those comments made me so happy that I ended up writing another fic almost immediately! (This is 'Lift the Burden'). I am very upset about this but am not sure I can undelete or retrieve the post. (I blame this new Upload LJ format...) I am reposting this before I burst into tears. Don't feel you have to repost your feedback but I would be so, so grateful if you would because I found the feedback so very helpful in making me think about my writing, and I loved meeting all the new people and now I can't remember you all. *facepalms*

ETA: I am the world's biggest fool. As lazlet just pointed out, all the comments will still be in my email inbox, so they are not lost! :-)

( Zelenka entered the lab. His hair stood up at the back, as if freshly washed and then hairsprayed. He pushed up his glasses. )

thinking about feedback

I meant to make a post about this later on but now that I have lost all the lovely comments that so many kind people have made so far on my fic 'Tao of Lust' (posted yesterday; I had at least 23 comments on there, some of which were my own replies) I need to post this straight away or I will forget what I wanted to say. It will be a bit chaotic in my head but I am desperately trying to remember everybody's kind and helpful and happy-making feedback comments and they have dissolved into the ether. Which is upsetting me so I will post this quickly before I get a chance to brood.

It is also a post about my more general attitude to feedback, philosophical and literary issues of reader-response and how a fic acts independently of its author.

Navel-gazish musings about my relationship to feedback

( General musings about what feedback means for a fic )

( More specific musings about what I can learn from my feedback )

( How 'Tao of Lust' relates to 'Lift the Burden' )

Feedback shows me the way. It's then up to me to choose to take that way or to go along a different one. :-)

Links to everything mentioned herein:
My Fic Nr.1: Tao of Lust (repost without comments, *weeps*)
My Fic Nr.2: Lift the Burden
The metafandommed feedback etiquette post
Arthropods series
One of my writing experiments from earlier this year (John Sheppard opens a door)
Another writing experiment from spring (Fic: Essence of Kerosene, Rodney/Eldon)
FIC: Tibet
liviapenn's feedback thread
Here I gushed over Gerard Genette
A thing I said about Roland Barthes
Walk on By, sung, in fact, by Dionne Warwick (and not Dusty Springfield, *g*)