Tolerance for different viewpoints

[agilebrit]

Okay. I realize that my "Christian Spike" stories are a *little* out of the mainstream of BtVS fanfiction. And I can live with that. I don't bash slash stories (altho they're not my particular bag, generally)--so is it too much to ask that others show me the same "tolerance" I show them?

I guess this little rant is coming about, not because of any recent events (my few reviewers have been lovely, thanks!), but because of a discussion on a board I frequent, about the sexual orientation of the various characters in BtVS. Apparently this topic is one ripe for reasoned, non-flaming discussion. However, I have the feeling that if I opened a topic discussing religion--I would get a very different reaction. I don't really have anything concrete to base this on, other than the fact that it's probably known on that board that I write Christian!Spike, and I asked a question about one of my fics...and got zero responses, altho over 40 people looked at the post. Not one of them saw fit to say Yes, it's okay, no it sucks, what if you did THIS to clear up any confusion...

And it's probably childish and selfish to want to get SOME sort of response when I'm asking for damn HELP, and to have my feelings hurt a little when no one says "boo." Heck, it probably means that yep, I was doing fine with it, and no one wanted to waste the bandwidth to tell me so.

But it would have been nice if ONE person had said SOMETHING.

Comments

[nodrogg.livejournal.com]

Well, that's why I very much appreciate your own comments, and try to make helpful ones of my own.

My reason for delving way the bleep back here was to ask a ridiculously simple newbie-type question to which I already have a good notion, but nonetheless: What is "drabble"? It sounds like what used to be called "flash fiction," a short-short story. Has it rules?

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

A "drabble" is, technically, a ficlet with exactly 100 words. Lots of people use the term a lot more loosely than I do, but if you want to be technically correct (and I'm a little anal when it comes to that), a true drabble is no more or less than 100 words. A "double drabble" is 200 words; a drabble-and-a-half is 150 words, and so on.

To get even more technical, a "flashfic" is less than 500 words. And a "short-short" is between 500 and 1000 words. A more long-winded explanation can be found here.

lol You don't have to go all the way back to something I posted ages ago to ask me a question. Heck, I like to pontificate as much as the next person, and, really, there's no such thing as a dumb question. You can also IM me if you like. :-)

[nodrogg.livejournal.com]

It's just as well that heddychaa has many friends; if she encounters my entry about Paul Whatsisname, the "Art Twit from a Canadian university," she's likely to be lethally offended...

Hi. The name's Heather, or Heddy if you so prefer. I'm...from British Columbia, Canada, though I was born and spent most of my childhood in New Brunswick, which is the place I consider home above all others. Currently I'm... at Simon Fraser University (where I'm a first year student of Arts), but my home base can be found in an ugly little backwater town in the northern part of the province...

Oops. As it is, the entry was swiftly buried under other friends' entries, and she's not likely to see it.

I'll know if she does, I'm sure.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Well... *tries to be charitable* Not all University Arts students are flaming commie-libs, even the Canadian ones.