Sarcasm? Hardly. I have only been aware of you for about a couple of months and half of that time I was pissed at you and didn't read much.
You were pissed at me?
Somehow that went right over my head. Now I'm curious what I did to piss you off. I'm decidedly not pissed at you. You
get things.
If I was trying to be sarcastic to get under your skin, I can think of several more effective ways to try rather than trying to acknowledge that I am impressed at your having the mettle to make a career out of something you truly enjoy.
Fair enough. (PI, btw, this is what my lack of confidence can look like when it manifests.)
I kept away from your fractals for the same reason I kept away from PI's writing. They're clearly hobbies you guys do for fun, not like you're looking for professional publication or a commercial product or something. I would have loved to turn the Submissions forum into a really brutal, no-holds-barred critique forum, but I just don't think it's going to happen here. People's areas of expertise are too divergent and people aren't serious enough about their work to really want or benefit from it. Though I did get some pretty cool comments about those two decoy pieces I put up. (Especially DD's, which were dead on target, and the one about how the contest one was bland - it
was - and I suspect that's why it won, because it could be mistaken for patriotic and was nice and politically safe. LOL, it was called
Tribute but nobody ever asked me what it was a tribute to.) So it's possible it could work.