It's hella early.

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I just want to make it clear that I'm seriously, seriously chuffed that you guys seem to like Telegraph Avenue so much. It means a lot to me, and the next chapter will be up soon. Theoretically. But before we go any further I think I need to point a few things out which I thought were pretty obvious from the get go:



1. Jamie is not a mass murderer in hiding.

He is not an abuser, a dominatrix, or somebody who gets off on seeing Seth hurt. He's just a guy, for better or worse. He is *not* responsible for Seth being where he is. If you're thinking this, or hoping this, perhaps you need to read a different story.


2. Harassing my betas for spoilers is not cool by me.

Again, I'm really touched that you guys are enjoying the story so much and I appreciate the enthusiasm, but dude, no. That’s just wrong. They may find it amusing it, but they’re doing *me* a favor, don’t make them regret that.

ETA: Apparently I got the wrong end of the stick, so my apologies for that, but the same rules still apply overall:

Enthusiasm = Good. Brilliant. Amazing. Harassment = bad.

Nobody likes being harassed.


3. The story will be ready when it's ready, not before.

I think that's pretty self explanatory.



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And poor Jamie. How does it strike you when people lash out at another character just because he's in the unfortunate position of being in the middle of the OTP?? Dude, I hate that. Both Lois and Chloe have taken a lot of bashing in some of my 'verses for that reason.

For the most part people have been seriously cool with Jamie, they seem to be rooting for him, which makes me happy. But every now and then somebody's like, so what's wrong with him, and my hackles go up. Why does something have to be wrong with him? Can't he just be a nice guy who's attracted to Seth and who Seth likes? Is there a quota?

This is just random thing though, and nothing like what I believe happened with your Bradbury verse. That was just jacked. I don't understand the need to villify one person just to make somebody else look good. Whatever happened to things like, I don't know, *merit* and allowing for people to be human?

I haven't been thinking a lot about Smallville recently, but as far as I'm concerned Lex deserves as many options as possible. I don't do the OTP thing as much as write about who I think seems good together. I don't think that should exclude everybody else, except Lana because she's selfish and annoying.