[ SECRET POST #4716 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4716 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I agree that you (the figurative you) don't get to opt out of concrit and then be mad that you didn't get more comments. If you opt out of concrit, you do so with the knowledge that you may be opting out of some comments that would've been 85% praise and 15% concrit.

like "hey idk if you know, but this is bullshit" then that's fair to me. but i think in general its ridiculous to come for authors for stuff you just don't like.

I don't know. I guess it's just difficult to distinguish between the two.

For instance, there was a VERY prolific BNF in my last fandom who always wrote the canonical female love interest as a complete and utter psycho bitch. I mean this was character assassination 101. She made this character stupid and inept and abusive and psycho and screechy and shrewish (and insisted, when prompted, that she was just writing the character as she truly was). I thought this was bullshit, and I also thought her writing would've genuinely been better if she'd toned down her hatred of this female character a little - maybe let the character at least be a capable bad guy or something.

But I never left a comment saying anything to that effect, because it was pretty clear that she wasn't interested in hearing it. So the only reason I'd have been doing it was because I wanted to let her know I thought her characterization was BS. And would that've been a good thing to do? I don't really see how.

[meadowphoenix]

i don't think you're wrong in that the distinction is hard to make, but for commentary i mean, like if character a is racist or something and it doesn't seem like characterization but like the general worldview that author is writing with.

But most of the time, I just ignore. I did comment once when the author had characters advocating eugenics and the author's note was pretty certain about the decisions the character made but not necessarily the racial implications of it (my comment was like "so did Character X mean to imply that black people are thugs and shouldn't be included in the community because that sounds racist"), but after I got pushback i just went on my merry way. I just ignore ridiculous characterization, that's an author clearly trying to put puzzle pieces together where some had to be straight up cut off, and that sort of dedication is intentional so i'm just not leaving anything. thankfully in most AO3 fics i read, they include whether they're going to bash.