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[sekiharatae]

"Treadmill is of the devil," says Zoe.  Biggles suspicious but uncertain.

Also, much depression here over recent review.  But puppies make me laugh, and SGA is teh awesome.

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[momcalling.livejournal.com]

Hey there, Tae. Re: review depression. I guess the anonymous triad was the kicker, huh? It's not written well enough to make it easy to approach for examination, so I'm not sure what the main beef is. Maybe the style with which you write "the sexy stuff". ??? OK, here's my take on it. You have said yourself that you wanted to explore different ways to tell about Tifa and Cloud's enthusiastic lovemaking. There is a Tae stamp to a story, yes. It's why we (I know I'm not the only one!) check your site regularly and frequently. 'Cause we knows what we likes and we knows where to get it. That might be frustrating for a writer, it might seem like being pigeonholed, but for me it's a blessing. You cannot know how much your steamy sexy stories have meant to me. Long before I had the courage to tell you, I was devouring every story over and over again. The steamy ones as well as the tender charming ones (like "Ore no Panda") (I still wonder what you misheard in your grogginess that put the idea for that title and story in your noggin.) But back to the sex stuff. I've branched out now and am devouring old fashioned paper books now, in addition to fan fiction. And the books I want to read are found in what's called the Romance section and it's subsections. I have spent my life OUT of that aise; I would rather have died than hold in my hand a romance novel with those bodice-ripper covers. But now that's what I crave. And now I've plowed through enough of them to have favorite writers. One of the things I judge them on is their ability to write the sexy stuff. Again, I knows what I like, and I sure as heck know what doesn't work for me. I read my favorite authors because they are in some ways predictable. I don't have time to spend on what doesn't do it for me. I have noticed that writers who turn out large numbers of books in a particular genre somehow are both predictable and not so much---phrases are familiar, scenes are set in familiar ways, the same words are used ... but when the writer is good, those aren't problems 'cause there is newness worked in there, too. It's hard to explain. As others have said, if the person doesn't like your stories, there is no compulsion to read them. But you have graced my life with a juicyness that I had lost--getting old and encountering health adventures of all sorts have taken a toll on me and the person in the recliner chair across the room. Reading stories isn't the same as the way it used to be, but they have lit the spark of fun and flirting that had gone missing. And that, my friend, is a treasure beyond measure. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts (recliner chair person and me), and please keep writing whatever pops into your talented head. I'll be here, reading glasses at the ready! mc P.S. The other night, crawling into bed after another great story full of lap-clenching tingles, my special person said, in his sleep, "I'm going to make sure my next wife reads these stories." Truth.