Don't leave a voicemail, seriously.

Someone saved one of my fics on delicious with this caveat: Some typos and glitches and errant clauses, but great original voices. New journal title? Pull up a chair, all we got around this place is typos, glitches, and errant clauses! hahahahahaha

Which leads me to pontificate on my personal philosophy about fanfiction--no one's paying me for it so I slap up here whatever I cobble together. Sometimes, meh, I might get someone to read it over. Sometimes, meh, I edit it. Mostly I type, c&p, and you read it. Sometimes I even forget to put it through spellcheck. If that ruins it for people, they can refuse to read my material. I won't cry.

I know some people work really hard on their fic, and I respect that and understand that for some people it's a matter of craft and all that. That's cool. Get on with your bad self. I might even enjoy the fruits of that labor when I read something from time to time, so I appreciate your effort. Me? Yeah, if I have to look at something too long I trash it and start over again. I don't like needy pieces of writing. Either it's working from the get-go or it's going to give me issues and if it gives me issues? TRASH.

The way I interact with writing is a product of doing it for a long time. When I first started writing, I had a totally different attitude--as everyone should when they're new at something. Listen to your elders, children! Now, meh, whatever, read my fic, don't, either way I'm going to write it because I can't NOT write, so you get what I serve.

I also have a particular style that I think people don't always understand. Because I write a close 3rd, internally consistent voice, sometimes my characters think things that aren't correct--that is they misspeak or misapprehend the world and I leave that in the story. I fully expect people to think I'm just stupid. That's fiiiine, I'm secure enough that what Random Reader in Cairo thinks doesn't affect my self-image. Hell, if you know me you know what YOU think doesn't affect my self image, so evs! Every once in a while that Unreliable Narrator debate lights up fannish circles, and I never respond because my views on this are thus--what narrator in reality is fully reliable? That is, what real human being is absolutely correct and honest all of the time? My personal writing philosophy is that I write people, people are untrustworthy. I never thought to say--watch out that you don't just accept when X character says they think A that it's true. Could be totally untrue. Some people are more trustworthy than others--Jim Kirk? Pretty above board guy, as in his self-delusions are buried deep enough that if he says he likes orange juice, probably he likes orange juice. Gerard Way? Do not believe a single thought in his head. I think this philosophy blooms out of my own personal worldview--I always expect people to be lying unless I can verify facts. That's not judgmental, I mean, I don't care that they're lying. No big deal, what do I care if someone's story about summer holidays down the shore are true or not? What's important is if it's a good story and they entertain/enlighten me. Truth, I say as a philosopher, is subjective. Don't talk to me about truth unless you're ready to bring some ontological evidence into the room with you. (PS: I will probably just listen and think you're insane.)

All of that is to say: yes, you will find typos here, and untrustworthy characters and fiction that you think says one thing but that I intended to say something completely different. That's all cool, we're all just people here.