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Apr. 17th, 2011 06:53 pmGot this in the mail today for "Starchild":
"FE8 is hardly my favorite so having the focus on Eirika and Ephraim was a big turnoff for me. I'm glad I gave it a chance anyway. I actually think you're making me like them a lot more."
Awwww. Nice semi-anon reviewer with no FFNet account who therefore cannot be properly thanked.
Y'know, I consider FE8 to be my "mainstream" interest compared to my other interests re: Fire Emblem (Archanea/Valencia), so it doesn't really register with me that E&E might actually turn readers off. I mean, I know that FE8 is still very much a dark horse and that E&E don't excite the love and passion that fans give to, say, Hector and Lyn, but...
I mean, I deliberately billed it on FFNet as a story featuring Ephraim (as opposed to Marth, who actually gets more screen time) because I thought that would make the story seem less fringe and bizarre.
-x-
It's cold. It's mid-April, most of the trees aren't even in bud, my daffodils still aren't in bloom, and when I went to the park today it was snowing. I like spring. Why is nature vacillating between summer and winter?
-x-
I still wonder why it is that I can tear through non-fiction books like crazy but look at fiction recommendations and just feel either "meh" or repelled. I don't know if it's that Harry Potter killed my desire to read popular fiction the way X-Files turned me off television, or what. I used to read fiction, follow anime, dabble in manga, and now it's basically been a straight-up diet of non-fiction for... three or four years? I think it's another aftereffect of 2007, which was my personal Year From Hell. Coinciding with the release of HP7, oddly enough.
"FE8 is hardly my favorite so having the focus on Eirika and Ephraim was a big turnoff for me. I'm glad I gave it a chance anyway. I actually think you're making me like them a lot more."
Awwww. Nice semi-anon reviewer with no FFNet account who therefore cannot be properly thanked.
Y'know, I consider FE8 to be my "mainstream" interest compared to my other interests re: Fire Emblem (Archanea/Valencia), so it doesn't really register with me that E&E might actually turn readers off. I mean, I know that FE8 is still very much a dark horse and that E&E don't excite the love and passion that fans give to, say, Hector and Lyn, but...
I mean, I deliberately billed it on FFNet as a story featuring Ephraim (as opposed to Marth, who actually gets more screen time) because I thought that would make the story seem less fringe and bizarre.
-x-
It's cold. It's mid-April, most of the trees aren't even in bud, my daffodils still aren't in bloom, and when I went to the park today it was snowing. I like spring. Why is nature vacillating between summer and winter?
-x-
I still wonder why it is that I can tear through non-fiction books like crazy but look at fiction recommendations and just feel either "meh" or repelled. I don't know if it's that Harry Potter killed my desire to read popular fiction the way X-Files turned me off television, or what. I used to read fiction, follow anime, dabble in manga, and now it's basically been a straight-up diet of non-fiction for... three or four years? I think it's another aftereffect of 2007, which was my personal Year From Hell. Coinciding with the release of HP7, oddly enough.
