You seem to be kind of missing the point. Jack *said* e liked the story, and the comment about the slashiness was clearly -- to my eyes -- a matter of personal taste. It seemed less slashy than the books. *That's* not a criticism. That's an observation. Neither of which is worthy of this sort of defensiveness. Or perhaps you didn't mean to come off quite so... rabid?
As for your research -- yes, it's clear, you've actually done some. However, it's not clear from the *story*. It's not like you put those links in your story notes, man. You just wrote your story with an historical perspective rather different from the common/modern one, and I don't think it's so far beyond the realm of possibility that it would read as ignorant/racist. This is the chance you took -- deal with it.
From an outsider's perspective -- I'm not even *in* the fandom, even peripherally -- I think it would be fair to say that you and Jack are familiar with *different* accounts of that period of history.
Which... is really no reason to get defensive. Let the research you did speak for you, take the feedback in good grace, and understand that not everyone is going to love what you do with a given set of characters. No matter how much research you do.
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Date: 2004-01-02 01:03 pm (UTC)As for your research -- yes, it's clear, you've actually done some. However, it's not clear from the *story*. It's not like you put those links in your story notes, man. You just wrote your story with an historical perspective rather different from the common/modern one, and I don't think it's so far beyond the realm of possibility that it would read as ignorant/racist. This is the chance you took -- deal with it.
From an outsider's perspective -- I'm not even *in* the fandom, even peripherally -- I think it would be fair to say that you and Jack are familiar with *different* accounts of that period of history.
Which... is really no reason to get defensive. Let the research you did speak for you, take the feedback in good grace, and understand that not everyone is going to love what you do with a given set of characters. No matter how much research you do.