*flails*

[twist_shimmy]

We've been open for a week, and I thought I'd post and share some stats that are just making me-- okay, I'll be honest. They're making me gape. Every time I have noticed one of these I have gone :o because you all are turning this into so much more than I'd even wanted to hope for!

Stats!

• 50 subscribers, most of whom appear to have been directed here by scarylady, our one-woman People of Thedas Auxiliary Club.
• 17 intro posts. Thanks to lenna_nightrunner and elysium_fic for starting this trend.
  
• 85 journal entries in one week. They've covered art, fic, gameplay, modding ideas, you name it.
• 1590 comments and counting.
• The most commentary received was 148 comments on a single post.
• The Alistair tag has been used 27 times.
• The Zevran tag has been used 16 times.
• Our most popular PC, according to tags, is the f!Tabris.

Conclusion!

So I'm sitting here, sipping my coffee, analyzing this data, and coming to a conclusion:

WE ARE RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME.

And because we are ridiculously awesome, I declare the next few days to be Zevran Love Days! There's already a lot of Zev-love here, but if you've been meaning to post art, prompts, or fic that is Zev-related, let this be your cue to do so.

Caveat: We're the People of Thedas. You can post stuff even if it's NOT Zev-related, but if you want to participate in the Antivan Love-In, have at it. :D

TL:DR!

Keep doing what you're doing, darlings. Comment, post, have fun. We're so awesome because YOU are, omg. If you haven't pimped the comm and want to, banners are here. If you're pimping to an LJ comm, please warn me beforehand so Lenna and I can be prepared for sudden influxes. If you're scarylady, you are amazing. That is all.

Questions, comments, ideas for comm things you'd like to see implemented this week? Comment here and let me know. I'm working out the details for a kink thread, so let me know if you've got thoughts on that score, too.

Just here to flail/dance/congratulate each other? Comment. We can have a sexy, sexy party. Zev would be so proud.

::EDIT::  Okay, you guys, the sexy, sexy party has been had and my inbox is weeping. Why you do this? Why you so awesome?


Don't you deserve a rest? Wouldn't it be nice to just... nap for a while?  The comm will go on without you....

Shimmy: "Hey, thanks Sloth."
Sloth: "Can I eat them?"
Shimmy: "Didn't you just have Niall?"
Sloth: "...I'd hate you, but too much effort involved."


*goes back to working on this oneshot before elysium_fic  kills her. :D*

Comments

[elysium_fic]

Well, even those of us who write the Warden that Everyone Wants to Fuck (it was part of the prompt that she should be a "slut who loves it" so you can't blame me entirely) catch shit, most notably because Certain Readers can't handle sexually active female characters unless the male characters are either "getting even" by boffing someone else, or throwing tantrums and shit-fits.

[twist_shimmy]

I can't wait to see what people think of the Emotionally Disturbed Warden Who Wants to Fuck All of Thedas. *twitches*

[elysium_fic]

I'm sure Certain Readers will tell you exactly how you should have written the story.

[amhran_comhrac]

Yes, but that's the whole twist behind your story. So for you it works. (Very well!)

And my main character basically considers sex to be slightly more friendly than a handshake (especially at this point in the story). So I have zero qualms with sexually active female characters. I just break cannon by making it so not everyone has the hots for the warden.
I can't understand how "I loathe the chantry and circle and will fuck anything that isn't a templar. I suspect the only other surviving warden who is also a templar thinks I'm a maleficar and may kill me," and "I spent years training to be a templar and want my first time to be special. I suspect the only other surviving warden, who I know didn't spend a single night at Ostagar in her own tent, or the same tent twice, is a blood mage who may kill me" speak of massive unresolved sexual tension to a small segment of my readers.

I'm constantly amazed I've managed to even make them gradually become friends in a somewhat believable fashion without one slaughtering the other.

[elysium_fic]

I just break cannon by making it so not everyone has the hots for the warden.

I wouldn't call that canon. Fanon, definitely.

The remark about sexually active female characters was aimed at a specific reader who left me feedback over at AFF and left Shimmy feedback on 2P1B (we sussed it out that it was the same guy) who gave both of us shit for having our f!PC fuck someone who wasn't Alistair.

Your readers may be coming from the "opposites attract" angle, perhaps, but meh, that's been done plenty of times.

And sometimes readers just mistake your intent. I know for a while there, some readers were trying to make my PCs relationship with Zevran to be something it totally was never going to be. Which is flattering, in a way, because it means they're internalizing what's going on. But it can leave you scratching your head as a writer.

So I definitely know the feeling.

[twist_shimmy]

Most of my head-scratching moments have come from my readers' reactions to Strangers With Cookies. Talk about opposites attract. That's more of "We're Lonely and Also Convenient."

[scarylady]

And Woe Betide any of us who write one character having an attraction for someone who doesn't actually return it.

They sit on the edge of their seat waiting for her to crack because hey, she's going to, right?

No. Not necessarily.