my silence is my self-defence

We did not breakfast at home today. Walked into town—it rained, but English style, the kind where once you get inside you just find that you are wet—and went for brunch at JC Pinto's, where Beast had a Full English and I had Turkish Eggs with bacon and extra toast, very agreeable indeed. We had been accumulating tiny tasks to be done in town, and ended up spending a couple of hours buying various individually unimportant things. Like mothballs. Oh, the hardware shop in town is so awesome! Do you get tempted by such things? I bought a tiny whisk because it was there, and some living fertiliser plant seeds. as well as the cedar collars and anti-moth hangers and a box of cedar balls for my yarn drawer. Have been looking for moth repellent in Sainsburys for weeks. Go Thorne's!

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I have begun to receive spam from persons (or possibly not) desirous of improving my business's reach, marketing, success, whatever, etc. How nice of them.

I do not run a business. I have a website... for fanfic and Eng Lit essays. Sigh.

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So, anyway, I've been perusing a couple of fanfic subreddits of late, and would like to state the following in a place where I won't make any teenagers cry:

a) if you did not use a beta, I hope you write well enough that I won't notice. If you announce gleefully that you did not use a beta, I'm probably not going to bother to check whether I notice or not.

b) if you give an author's note, it had better be thoughtful, relevant, and coherent. I don't actually care about your life, and AO3 is an archive, not your social media account.

c) if you are tagging your mood, your zany, unconventional self, the fact that you have no beta and are proud of it, or the fact that you had had too much sugar when you wrote this story, I'll be noping the fuck out.

d) if you are embarrassed by your own fic, for the love of god do not say so. If you can't stand firmly and proudly behind your work, why post it?

Harrumph.