lexualhealing just asked basically the same thing a week or two ago after someone called her a BNF in chat and there were some interesting responses about how exactly one "gets there".
Me, I think if you're around long enough, people know your name because you actively participate (write well, make pretty art, post thoughtfully), and have an ever growing friends list, someone's eventually going to call you that.
You write VERY well. Kyoto Song gets the most play because it was the first fic where you really blew people away, so it sticks in people's memories. That's not to say subsequent fics haven't been just as impressive, because I can think of several other of your fics that unquestionably put you in the top tier of SV writers, talent-wise. Plus, the pretty art, the pretty web design, the pretty thoughts. *loves jed*
I also tend to think that once the BNF'dom is established, it's pretty static, i.e. why we still think of Jenn and Te and others as our BNF's even though they haven't done anything in ages. Also why it's so hard to know when others "arrive". You're certainly as well known and respected as anyone active in SV fandom at the moment. Perhaps not as well known as Tham, for example, since you used her name above, but then, she's written in many other fandoms, hasn't she?
Anyway, like I told Lexual, someone called me a BNF in chat a few weeks ago, and it threw me (hard) for about two seconds and then I shrugged it off. It's just a function of being around awhile and being visible, IMO. And, like Rhi said above, nothing good can come of it. To be clear, I don't think I am IN ANY WAY a BNF. *You* on the other hand, are skirting dangerously close...
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Date: 2004-03-12 01:53 pm (UTC)Me, I think if you're around long enough, people know your name because you actively participate (write well, make pretty art, post thoughtfully), and have an ever growing friends list, someone's eventually going to call you that.
You write VERY well. Kyoto Song gets the most play because it was the first fic where you really blew people away, so it sticks in people's memories. That's not to say subsequent fics haven't been just as impressive, because I can think of several other of your fics that unquestionably put you in the top tier of SV writers, talent-wise. Plus, the pretty art, the pretty web design, the pretty thoughts. *loves jed*
I also tend to think that once the BNF'dom is established, it's pretty static, i.e. why we still think of Jenn and Te and others as our BNF's even though they haven't done anything in ages. Also why it's so hard to know when others "arrive". You're certainly as well known and respected as anyone active in SV fandom at the moment. Perhaps not as well known as Tham, for example, since you used her name above, but then, she's written in many other fandoms, hasn't she?
Anyway, like I told Lexual, someone called me a BNF in chat a few weeks ago, and it threw me (hard) for about two seconds and then I shrugged it off. It's just a function of being around awhile and being visible, IMO. And, like Rhi said above, nothing good can come of it. To be clear, I don't think I am IN ANY WAY a BNF. *You* on the other hand, are skirting dangerously close...
/pessimistic naval gazing (of yours and mine!)