FYI: prompt taking

[misqueue]

I got a phishy email (gmail flagged it as suspicious) at an address I don’t use publicly with a long prompt asking me to write a big fantasy AU Glee fic. I didn’t recognize the user name as anyone I might know from around fandom, so I deleted it.

It started with “I hear you take prompts…”

So, just in case this was from someone legit and not some random internet hacker trying to fool me into replying to their suspicious email address so they could try to sell me Viagra, iPads, and skeevy porn—

I don’t fill unsolicited prompts. I’ll let you know on tumblr or here and/or livejournal if I am taking prompts; when I’ve got enough, I’ll let you guys know with a follow up post. My brain just isn’t nimble enough to take other folks’ complex AU prompts out of the blue. I’m a slow writer and it takes me a while to develop ideas.

Thanks and sorry!

Comments

[auntsarentgents]

WTF. Some people...

(What's your Tumblr name, BTW?)

[misqueue]

Yeah, it was a weird thing to get unsolicited. After a bit more poking through my various accounts, I think it may have come from S&C, so probably not a hacker. I do appreciate folks may like my writing, but I'm not a machine!

Over on tumblr, I'm misqueue. I updated my profile here too, since that was out of date. Oi.

(Your Blaine icon is fab!)

[stultiloquentia]

How peculiar.

[misqueue]

Yeah, I had forgotten to change my email address over on S&C when I made a proper one for my nom de plume, but it was still an odd note to get.

[wowbright.livejournal.com]

I like that you specified "skeevy porn" rather than just saying "porn." This is a solution to a linguistic dilemma I've had. Now, when I tell people I love porn, I can clarify: "I love porn, but not *skeevy* porn."

[misqueue.livejournal.com]

Heh. I think the porn spammers are under the impression that the only people who look at porn on the internet are sexually repressed middle aged straight men.