->Arrow

Hi Arrow!

Ack, sorry! I have just discovered the notification of your reply got marked as spam by my ISP and therefore wasn't sent to the in-box that I actually use--which is not the ISP's webmail, but Thunderbird running on my actual computer. (Call me a control freak--you wouldn't be the first--but I prefer dealing with programs on my own computer over running them in cyberspace. I know the battle's already lost, but that token protest makes me feel better. :)

So, yes, I'm on AO3 at: j_s_cavalcante. (BTW, that took some frakkin' work, figuring out how to code that. Is there an easier way? How did people find the cute little AO3 user icon in the first place? Despite what I said above, I don't use a client like Semagic. I could never get it to work for me. Probably because I refused on principle to read the frakkin' manual. I'm of the black-box school: technology should just WORK, like a light switch. Anything you need a manual for is too damn complicated. It's like chopsticks, which are infinitely preferable to a knife and fork: proof the chef did all the work requiring sharp implements. :)

I still think HTML is hilarious, many years after I should have stopped being amused (not to mention disturbed) that we're essentially back to the early days of word processors.... This is why I forsook the other dozen WPs I learned and started using MS Word exclusively. It was the only one with a MENU, way back when (*cough* MS-DOS *cough*). Instead of a pile of [expletive redacted] codes to memorize.

In conclusion, Ray Kowalski. In other words, people with ADHD should totally run the world, MWAHAHAHA...except we'd misplace it. :)

So, where was I? I put all my DS stuff up on AO3 last year, all except for the four pieces of the Academic AU, and I probably should give up and post them there, too. I was just holding them back because they're essentially parts of a WIP and therefore are subject to revision.

I've been holding back my old Star Trek stuff because most of it isn't ready for prime time. So I understand perfectly about one's early work. Mind you, I do expect great things from you, but I promise with regard to your early work to remember that it's, you know, early work. :)

Now as to S&H--I've never been in touch with the fandom (except for a couple of brief convos with sjames_centre), but as a teen I loved the show! And it was the first one that I loved for its slashy bits even though I didn't quite think of things going further than cuddling. But it had un certain je ne sais quoi that got me and my sister squealing with delight every time one of them got blown into the other's arms or they climbed into a bed together. :) Really subtle, that show was. Anyway, I don't read S&H fic often, but that's because I don't stumble upon any very often, and I don't often go looking for anything outside whatever fandom I'm being serially monogamous with at the moment. All other considerations aside, I haven't got time for that.

I haven't even had much time for DS; haven't been around much for the past year, what with school and the reno of the Art Cave, etc. So that's why I didn't know you were not around, either. If I'd known, I would have wept bitter tears, and also threatened to kick you in the head or something (like Ray) but not really (like Fraser)...just, YOU CAN'T LEAVE! WAAAAAH. Do not want.

Okay, well. I'll attempt to keep the lights on in the Canadian shack, should you decide to return. :)

Hoey Mobuffs! I gotta get back to work.... I hope all is well with you. {{{hugs}}}