The slow tick

[iwatchus]

I put a tentacled demon story in E&V, and it's done quite well. Nobody complained that it should be in SF&F. And I put a story about a witch's curse in Group. Again, no complaints.

My lone LW story had been written thinking it was SF&F, but I was convinced by the older (not) and wiser (maybe, certainly some wise-asses) authors here that I should post it in LW, because it really was a BTB story. It was my first story I submitted after my original series, so I had no idea. The story had a fantastical element that actually B'd the B. In the end, I did not get nearly as nasty comments as I was expecting from LW, but the nastiest few all said that the story should have been in SF&F.

 

[LargoKitt]

There do seem to be some stories that have plenty of readers and votes. But there are a lot of new stories every day, and everybody is competing with everybody else.

I would modify this slightly. When you go to a familiar restaurant you know that the gung bao chicken is great, the moo shoo 'meh', and that sometimes they get the egg rolls really right. So, here we know some writers are going to deliver the goods, though they may have an off day with an experimental 'dish'. But I don't always go to the 'specials menu' thinking that's where stuff will be most tasty. Like a meal, I follow my nose to 'what I am in the mood for.' Someone might recommend something. Something might get a Michelin star. Maybe a holiday dish. And there are those days when someone says, "Have you ever tried Korean? Try this!"

 

[LargoKitt]

Every time I see this thread, I think…

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Ain't they cuddly...!

 

[LargoKitt]

My lone LW story had been written thinking it was SF&F, but I was convinced by the older (not) and wiser (maybe, certainly some wise-asses) authors here that I should post it in LW, because it really was a BTB story. It was my first story I submitted after my original series, so I had no idea. The story had a fantastical element that actually B'd the B. In the end, I did not get nearly as nasty comments as I was expecting from LW, but the nastiest few all said that the story should have been in SF&F.

I have not been privileged to have a story that really stirred up a storm of evil comments, no matter the category. What I have felt, from time to time, is that the reader was disappointed. A Lesbian story not deep enough into the relationship and too heavy on the heavy breathing. A spooky story that didn't raise enough chills, a story that didn't quite get the reader off. All these are instructive and a challenge to 'really get there' in the next story. That, and getting the names right so Madge doesn't become Mary mid-narrative.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Ain't they cuddly...!

I had like ten of them on me earlier this year, still makes me shudder

 

[LargoKitt]

I had like ten of them on me earlier this year, still makes me shudder

Once picked 23 off my dog. Brrrr!

 

[EmilyMiller]

Once picked 23 off my dog. Brrrr!

It was a woodland / meadow trail behind a PYO farm early in the year. Have walked it many times before. I guess we just hit it wrong, they were swarming. I still found five on me at home and one was walking around the inside of the car

 

[MrPixel]

Glad somebody else (!!!) was reading the same thing into that subject line.

Yeah, to me "the slow tick" was the one that didn't make it all the way up to my crotch before digging in.

Take it from someone who had (thank goodness) alpha-galactose syndrome.

 

[LargoKitt]

It was a woodland / meadow trail behind a PYO farm early in the year. Have walked it many times before. I guess we just hit it wrong, they were swarming. I still found five on me at home and one was walking around the inside of the car

And dog ticks are the sweeties because they are bigger and don't give you Lyme disease or Rocky Mountain fever. That said, they are vampires for real. Now do I assume you shudder every time someone posts a Tiktok clip?