Shinshi Doumei Cross scans

Tales of Symphonia is exasperating me right now, so instead I'm entertaining myself by scanning things. SO. Scans from Shinshi Doumei :D



( It's a Cinderella story )

A favorite rant

The Guide to Graceful Posting

"Feedback is a delightful thing, a thing all authors hope for, but demanding it is exceedingly ungraceful. I would even go so far as calling it disgraceful. While certain online forums have instituted a system in which feedback is explicitly offered as an exchange for stories, this is not common in English-speaking fandom, as yet. By and large, please remember that fic is a social exchange, not a commercial one. Feedback is not the coin with which readers must buy your stories. Readers have no contractual obligation to you, just as you have no contractual obligation to them, bar what individuals may arrange between themselves on a case-by-case basis (fic for art, for example). Any stipulation such as "I won't write the next chapter unless I get X number of comments" invites the response, "Fine, don't." The assumption that you are entitled to feedback just because you posted your work is self-centered, insensitive and rude. These are not graceful things. Begging for feedback is not particularly graceful, either. If you wish to invite feedback, the graceful phrase is "I would love to hear what people think of this."

I HAVE BEEN JUSTIFIED. *runs away sobbing with joy* Too many Japanese sites use their porn as a lever to get comments out of their visitors. Too many Japanese etiquette sites agree with it. And I am sick of it. THINK OF THE PORN, PEOPLE! THE PORN! Were you thinking of me when you wrote it? *_* <---probably not Those don't sound like threats to hide the smut...and another chapter is still somehow a really different thing from, uh, smut. Weep.

EDIT: ( Personality test everyone's taking )

興・奮・寸・前v

A package just came for me in the mail. A package from Japan. It's beautiful.

A package came all the way from Japan for ME.

*has not opened the package yet* What?