[ SECRET POST #5695 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5695 ⌋

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Comments

[terrorgutz]

1st point sounds more like a problem with very young fic writers, to me. While I've not encountered that specific type of thing before, I've seen similar things, and it always comes with the vibe that the writer is probably quite young, and I can see that especially if it's from some sort of RPF (depending on what is being written about and what type, not talking down to RPF writers here). I definitely can see that being annoying, they'll most likely grow out of it. Overall, sounds like some wattpad type stuff.

Last thing just annoys me. Anyone should be able to mod comments and limited access. It's sort of a dick move to laugh at people for not wanting to (possibly) face harassment, coming from someone who writes more "problematic" stuff in a fandom that's not as accepting of that as I'd like it to be. I like to have control over who sees/comments on certain fics, due to harassment I've faced in the past that could have been prevented if I had turned the limit access on. I have enough trouble with my real life, I don't need to be getting stressed out from my online presence, too. I imagine some others hold the same sentiment.

[(Anonymous)]

Re: limiting access and/or comments

Yup!!!

Got a couple negative comments and the first was a pretty legit criticism, and I didn't think too much about it. Replied with "appreciate your criticism but I did ABC instead of XYZ because EFG. No hard feelings" and was like, "Oh well. What I write isn't for everyone."
Second comment was just straight up asshole. Came off petty and personal because it was a pseud (months later this account was deleted) with one sentence that wasn't even about the fic, it was aimed directly at me as a writer.
At first, I thought it was just a random asshole but when I told a friend about it they seemed eager to change the subject and made a "members of this fandom wouldnt do this" comment that felt really defensive for no reason (but I brushed it off as maybe I'm reading too much into people's words). I kept telling myself this friend was likely busy with work like they had told me but IDK...as the months went on I've come to suspect they were the asshole who left me that comment.
If it wasn't them, because I've known this friend for almost 2 decades, they likely were talking a lot of shit about me behind my back as they hate read my fics and one night maybe one of their friends was emboldened enough to leave me a comment to show me up and make our "friend" feel better about how they dislike me/my fics.

When my suspicions grew, I decided to screen my comments on AO3. I honestly don't give any fucking shits if anyone thinks I'm too sensitive or whatever about receiving criticism that I screen and mod my comments. Good that they have the thick skin to allow anyone to just say whatever they want on their fics, but I don't want to encourage any "friends" to use my fics as a way for them to partake in their asshole behavior just because they're feeling envy/hurt/anger/annoyance/I don't know over my stupid fucking fics.

Sorry, I didn't mean to dump this here....I haven't talked to anyone at all about this and I think I've been wanting to say this 😳😅