[ SECRET POST #4887 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4887 ⌋

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Comments

[venusundae]

i think this is a reasonable frustration.

tho if they are not being mean about it, they might not realize that they are saying something that's bothering you rather than just striking up conversation about what they like in a fandom so small only two people are writing? i think it's fine if you tell them you don't want comments like that under your actual fic. it's just their own luck you write any pairing they like at all~

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, some of them are comments on the fic that were like "well, this isn't (pair), but I gave it a chance anyway and it's good (and so on).

It is frustrating, but just putting it out there helped.

[(Anonymous)]

oooof bigtime. the shitty backhanded compliment. fandom collectively needs to shed that habit - it's not actually a compliment if you say "well it would have been better if..."

no. those people are shitty and that's not how you praise something you liked. at the worst I will accept "I'm not usually into X/Y but that was great" because it sounds more like someone genuinely isn't into your pairing or your fandom but tried it and liked it because you're just that good. that's a compliment.

I feel you that it's harder to call out that sort of shit in smaller fandoms or small rarepair circles. what can you do besides grit your teeth and save the eye-rolling for behind their backs.