User blog comment:Umbrello/Self Promotion Makes Me Feel Weird/@comment-28088262-20150724110534/@comment-26030957-20150728005900

Oh, we still read each other's stories, what I meant was it felt like a normal thing to go and read someone's pastas and then ask them to read yours. When I first joined I would go and read every single story by a particular author and then ask them to read my work. I never really considered it an act of shameless self-promotion, more like a group of fellow artists, a band of brothers, supporting each other. You know, like the lost generation of Hemingway, T.S. Elliot and F. Scott Fitzgerald  or the beat generation of Kerouac, Burroughs, and Ginsberg. I didn't see any shame in it and didn't know I'd be coming to a random blog where people were talking about me and putting links to all the times I've asked some one to read my stories. Looking at this blog right now, it seems like ninety percent of the people commenting on it have asked me to read one of their stories at one time or another.

I'm also bat-shit crazy with a badge and a tattoo to prove it and I don't give a fuck if I look shamless or not, I'm a fucking struggling artist and want to get myself out there. So, take this:

If you get a chance would you please take a look at my new pasta The Number of Darkness and tell me what you think? I am looking for feedback. If there is a story you would like me to read and review please tell me. I hope I'm not bugging you. Thank you so much.

Yours Truly,

Humboldt Lycanthrope