Jaina (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
effervescible) wrote2002-01-28 07:16 pm
effervescible) wrote2002-01-28 07:16 pm
silly, silly people
Weekend was fun. Josh came up. Anime was had. More on that later. Right now I feel like writing about something that has me alternately rolling my eyes and laughing my ass off.
What is it with fic authors thinking they're so damned high and mighty that any criticism at all is a personal attack that wounds them deeply? Without mentioning any names, last night and today I got wind of a certain author in the SM fandom who, as a result of an ASMR thread where her fic was mentioned in a not-completely-favorable manner (a bunch of people complimented it, others voiced their reservations, but nothing major) and one negative review on ffnet has become a whiny crying baby and is threatening to quit fic altogether. Geez, self-important melodrama much? Flames are one thing. Negative reviews are another thing entirely.
To all the annoying authors out there: YOU ARE NOT YOUR FICS. Negative feedback is not a personal attack. Get over it. If you post in a public forum, you should expect to have to deal with the fact that not everyone likes you at some point. People aern't obligated to only post nice reviews. And if someone does leave a negatvie review, they are not obligated to leave an e-mal address so you can whine to them that they are wrong wrong wrong for not loving your precious prose. If you think people actually having standards and preferences takes all the fun out of fic, maybe you're not ready to share your work with the world. If you're that damned sensitive, maybe you should find a cave and hunker down there with the rest of the crybabies who whine that it's not fair that people want things such as characterization, plot, and believability in fic. If you do decide to leave, don't post a passive-aggressive woe-is-me note so your followers will realize how put-upon you are and rush to boost your sagging ego. It's annoying and a manipulative bid for attention.
Suck it up already. Do you think people are being way too harsh and judging your work too critically? Well, if you don't believe them, why should you care what they think? If you're secretly worried that they might be right, why don't you try working and improving your work? Like it or not, fic archives are a public place and not your personal ego-massagers. Get over it already.
What is it with fic authors thinking they're so damned high and mighty that any criticism at all is a personal attack that wounds them deeply? Without mentioning any names, last night and today I got wind of a certain author in the SM fandom who, as a result of an ASMR thread where her fic was mentioned in a not-completely-favorable manner (a bunch of people complimented it, others voiced their reservations, but nothing major) and one negative review on ffnet has become a whiny crying baby and is threatening to quit fic altogether. Geez, self-important melodrama much? Flames are one thing. Negative reviews are another thing entirely.
To all the annoying authors out there: YOU ARE NOT YOUR FICS. Negative feedback is not a personal attack. Get over it. If you post in a public forum, you should expect to have to deal with the fact that not everyone likes you at some point. People aern't obligated to only post nice reviews. And if someone does leave a negatvie review, they are not obligated to leave an e-mal address so you can whine to them that they are wrong wrong wrong for not loving your precious prose. If you think people actually having standards and preferences takes all the fun out of fic, maybe you're not ready to share your work with the world. If you're that damned sensitive, maybe you should find a cave and hunker down there with the rest of the crybabies who whine that it's not fair that people want things such as characterization, plot, and believability in fic. If you do decide to leave, don't post a passive-aggressive woe-is-me note so your followers will realize how put-upon you are and rush to boost your sagging ego. It's annoying and a manipulative bid for attention.
Suck it up already. Do you think people are being way too harsh and judging your work too critically? Well, if you don't believe them, why should you care what they think? If you're secretly worried that they might be right, why don't you try working and improving your work? Like it or not, fic archives are a public place and not your personal ego-massagers. Get over it already.
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amen
This will be my last letter for either 6 months or a year. Probably a year.
Thank you all so much for your supportive letters, I love you guys so much and you really cheered me up. Some of you wrote me and said that you thought I was over-reacting, but I don't think so. I discovered even more disheartening conversations about my writing on ASMR Board last night when I did a search on 'nameless person'. One in particular was a conversation about how sick they were hearing about 'Fanfic X'. I'm too stressed and depressed about the whole fanfic world at the moment and also my hectic life. I never realised until last night just how many things I'm doing; Acting, Modeling, Writing Novels, Fanfiction, trying to start a Publishing
Business, do Web Design and trying to find a full time job. I'm burnt out and any negative comments, even if they were trying to be constructive, are hurtful to me.
I'm completely cutting myself off from the Lists and I will keep the
Archives, but may not update them until my break is over. I've also written to Alicia Blade and told her that I can't take over 'First Love'. She'll be disapointed, so if someone would like to take the Archive over for her, then please do write her.
I'll keep in touch with anyone who wants to write me, but from today I'm gone. Those on my 'nameless person Fics' list, please stay if you like and post your own fanfics there until I come back in a year.
See you all in a year!
Hugs,
Nameless person
So it's official... a shame she can't take the heat but... I've seen more heat in a freezer honestly. However... I suspect the loyal followers of first love will be pleased to know that their archive will have to be designed by someone else. I'M NOT VOLUNTEERING!
Right... but seriously Jaina... you are so right.
*Shrugs*
oh well... at least she won't be posting any more if you pay me $100 announcements ... and *snorts* good thing she never saw what people were saying at aria's ink or the bitch-board... then she'd REALLY think that maybe someone was annoyed by her financial endeavors...
Late Reply
Both need to STFU and go for a walk and stay off the internet for awhile.