Slash meta: please send friends over!

[thrihyrne]

I'd really love to get some more responses to my slash meta questions; I know I'm not writing an article to try and get in a sexuality journal or anything like that, but I'd like to get a wider selection of responses. I'm thrilled that as many of you have replied thoughtfully to my questions. Perhaps this will lead to another academic paper after this!

For those following my original fiction story, I wanted to say that I'm taking a short hiatus from it because a rather cracktastic bunny got me for a HP story for a friend's upcoming birthday, plus a Gimli story set during the period of The Hobbit. Plus I need to figure out some of the finer points of the khorite religion before I continue on, I think.

Hope everybody has a great weekend!

Comments

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

I'll miss your updates on the original fic. But I do understand the amount of thought and invention that goes into working out the details of their world. I'll be waiting, if not entirely patiently.

I find getting broad responses on this kind of meta usually requires a significant investment of my own time--just throwing the gaunlet down and waiting for a response hasn't worked that well for me within the fandom community. I find if I prime the pump with reactions and my own thoughts I get a lot tremendous feedback. Sometimes overwhelming almost. Giving me opinions and thoughts I never would have imagined. Or simply things I had heard before but reasoned more eloquently. Not sure how that much interaction spoils the result pool though if one is thinking of it on a scientific level. But responding or rephrasing the questions when one reads the answers draws lurkers into the discussion as well.