Ok. Imma get lambasted for this, but here goes.

I have no problem seeing ads. I respect that if I'm getting a commercial product or service for 'free', then I'm paying another way.

If I have to see ads, why not see ads that might be relevant to my interests? I mean, I'd rather see an ad for a video game than a bank.

I don't see what all the FUD is about. What the fuck are y'all surfing that you're so protective of?

I'm doing the final edits on my first now. At nearly 50.

I've been aware of fanfiction for a while. I don't really remember how I first found out about it, but I'm heavy into remix culture (like fan-edits and mashups). I assume it was somewhere in that mix.

I have some ideas for other fics, but I'm not sure I'll write another. This one I felt deserved to be written, but the others are just zany ideas.

Honestly thought this was going to end with the narrator holding a salute to Karen, as she becomes increasingly more frustrated, until she thinks to return a modicum of respect with a salute of her own.

While I agree his language can be impenetrable for modern audiences, remember it's just hundreds of years of evolving linguistic norms that have made it that way.

He wasn't trying to be haughty when he wrote (the uneducated folk loved his work).

But his grasp of story structure, pacing and tension was intuitive and near flawless. In multiple genres.

And yes, I have a writing degree, so I'm in the circlejerk.

Edited: Ok, I see it now. I'm a total tosser. Sorry

A surprise, to be sure. But a welcome one.