Sponsorship: Velveteen vs. The Epilogue.

Thank you for writing this! <3 <3 <3

SWAT-trained raccoons!

I love all the little details that imply how big the world is; it sounds like the Fairy Tale Girls have quite the track record. The level of worldbuilding here is impressive.

A satisfying wrap-up that leaves me wanting to see the next story arc. I hope you get inspiration to revisit this universe someday.

I haven't posted my appreciation on each post of these, but I've been loving each installment, and eagerly awaited each one. This was an excellent wrapping up of the current storyline, with places to go when and if the muse takes you.

And I've got a reminder for August to get the next volume, very excited!


Thanks so much for these, again.

Thank you for apologising. I will admit that I was very shocked and upset but deleted my initial reply so as not to just lash out. I have a lot of respect for you but did not have the spoons to read three pages of comments addressed to you. I was merely offering an olive branch and attempt to help. I can see that being too tired would affect how you felt when you replied but would hope that too many people trying to help would be better than none. The ten or so authors that I read on LJ usually have their posted fiction beta-read before posting it but still appreciate line edits. I will try to remember that you do not like line edits but I do not promise anything - unless the post itself says something about not wanting edits then I will not remember. I have multiple sclerosis and my most major symptoms are cognitive and memory related. Hence I have removed you from my LJFriends list so that I no longer read you on LJ and behave towards you as I would any of my other LJFriends. Instead I am following your LJ on my Google Reader. This means that I will not fall into the trap of treating you like my other LJFriends and will likely never comment/reply but will still be able to read your public posts. I have liked everything that you (and Mira, of course) have written that I have read to date, despite not reading the Toby books as yet. I will miss reading you on LJ but feel that it will be safer for both of us if I step back from your LJ that small amount.

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*sniffle*

But I get the feeling that the year with the seasons is exactly what Velveteen needs to get some perspective, some self-forgiveness, and maybe be able to go back to being Velma.

I put off reading this until today because I didn't want it to end. But that was a beautiful, bittersweet epilogue that wasn't so much an 'ending' as a 'natural break'.

I hope that one day circumstances allow you to write more. Until then, I just want to say thank you.

Thank you so, so, so much. More than I have beads, even. That much.

You have helped reawaken a love for superheroes that been in a glass box for more than four decades. You and the friends who got me watching certain movies and reading certain fanfic.

Thank you.

Thank you for reminding me why I love superheroes. Ridiculousness, tragedy, hope. Hope maybe most of all.

My thanks also, for reasons ranging from logical to not so much.

There's a long story behind why I got hooked on this, part of which I hinted at in replying to shanejayell upthread. Not so much rekindling a love for the genre in my case as it was yourself accidentally collaborating with others in keeping it from fading in my heart in the first place. You timed Velveteen's tale very well where that was concerned.

I expect that I'll be wanting to buy the hardcopy editions when my own finances permit. That may be a while, but that's alright. Some things are worth waiting and working for.

Yeah. IT's kinda sad that comics these days just aren't speaking to me anymore. Theres too much 'reboot/rebrand/restart' going on rather than telling good stories.

Putting it in Velveteen terms, it's the Marketing Department running things, rather than the superheroes....