Well part of it, for me anyway, is that somehow I've ended up being friends with nearly all the authors whose work I liked... we sort of drifted together into the same circle here at lj. So I don't often go beyond that group because... why bother? LOL
As for the rest of it, I just haven't had time, period. I have time to either read or write, but ~1 hour in the morning (that also sometimes gets sidelined into other fandom things) is not time enough for me to do both. I've been trying to focus that time on writing in the hopes of finishing Identity Crisis in the foreseeable future, which means I'm not reading a whole lot outside of mirsan_fics these days.
now you guys are making me feel weird for being so hyper-conscious of it
My "who cares?" attitude has a lot to do with the fact that I'm confident most of fandom hasn't ever heard of my media influences. I don't listen to mainstream music (with a few exceptions, most of the music I listen to is either Finnish/Swedish, British, Russian, or Japanese, and only the Russian stuff tends to be pop). I don't really watch popular tv, and I don't get behind cliche and tropes like vampire stuff or glorified soap operas.
So for example, when I posted The War is Over, the number one comment I got was "I've never heard of that song". The last piece I wrote for mirsan_fics was heavily based on a song, and so is the one I'm poking at currently. Hell, the current one even takes one line directly from the song that inspired it. (Once it's posted, I challenge anybody to tell me which song it is, if they think they can guess.)
-shrugs- So if no one but me is going to notice it (and knowing my taste in movies and music, no one else will), why worry about it? It adds an extra dimension for me, but doesn't seem to detract for anybody else at least not for people that aren't special snowflakes.
no subject
As for the rest of it, I just haven't had time, period. I have time to either read or write, but ~1 hour in the morning (that also sometimes gets sidelined into other fandom things) is not time enough for me to do both. I've been trying to focus that time on writing in the hopes of finishing Identity Crisis in the foreseeable future, which means I'm not reading a whole lot outside of
now you guys are making me feel weird for being so hyper-conscious of it
My "who cares?" attitude has a lot to do with the fact that I'm confident most of fandom hasn't ever heard of my media influences. I don't listen to mainstream music (with a few exceptions, most of the music I listen to is either Finnish/Swedish, British, Russian, or Japanese, and only the Russian stuff tends to be pop). I don't really watch popular tv, and I don't get behind cliche and tropes like vampire stuff or glorified soap operas.
So for example, when I posted The War is Over, the number one comment I got was "I've never heard of that song". The last piece I wrote for
-shrugs- So if no one but me is going to notice it (and knowing my taste in movies and music, no one else will), why worry about it? It adds an extra dimension for me, but doesn't seem to detract for anybody else
at least not for people that aren't special snowflakes.