Huh. I'll admit to being a victim of the stale issue when it concerns meta posts or what have you that people make. I don't comment on old posts often because it feels like the conversation is over or has gone on to new things. But I don't ever feel that way about fic. It's like, Should we talk about Margaret Atwood's first book of short stories just because the next ones were way way better? (which I know *you're* not saying that)