[ SECRET POST #155 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #155 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 114 secrets from Secret Submission Post #023.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Sunday, June 10th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: Here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[jantra.livejournal.com]

I don't care that people call the chars in LF OOC. I care that they say ALL of my work is like that. Big difference, to me.

The problem I have is that people don't just keep their dislike to themselves, instead they sneak around (and I'm using another person's words with 'sneak') and make terrible comments and images about someone else's work which they do not have to read. Imagine if you were at school, and suddenly a friend of yours goes, "Grayout, I just found out this rumor about you..." And you find out that most of the school has been laughing at you behind your back. It is painful and you just can't believe it. You admit that (perchance) you gained some pounds, but then having the rumor be you're a whore and pregnant? That is sort of how I feel about this thing. (Forgive my language, I do not mean to offend, just popped into my head as an example.)

If you read an epic fic where Hughes prances around in a tutu all the time, written JUST BECAUSE THE AUTHOR COULD, you'd be annoyed, wouldn't you?

I would do a O.o and just not read the fic. I would not berate it or hate the person that wrote it.

People say I 'spam.' People don't even understand what is going on. In all of my fics, they have been PREWRITTEN. As in we had been working on it for a while and are posting the beginning when we're months into it already. So I can afford to update more then some authors who are writing chapter-to-chapter. I didn't realize that being able to update often was considered bad.

But if it's just this one story, who cares?

It seems, sadly, a lot of people care, or none of this would have happened.

It happens, and a lot of OOC!fic writers are like that. Maybe you're the exception? But being that, you've gotta understand that MOST OOC!fic writers really couldn't give less of a shit and fandom people have gotten used to that and will treat you accordingly, even if it's not entirely your fault.

I do care about my writing and people's comments, or I wouldn't be here typing this. People just... I came to defend myself from some very nasty comments and all I do, when I am nothing but polite and honest, is get yelled at, laughed at, hated. That is what hurts and bothers me so much.

Ness... ah, the poster above you, she/he was the first person who really sat down and spoke the honest and open truth while not sounding mean and downright cruel. I mean, I had people COME TO MY LIVEJOURNAL and troll post! I... I mean, guh?? >.<

Was defending myself stupid? Trying to offer evidence that maybe people are wrong? I mean... there are a ton of people who have not even READ my fic and just hate me/it on principle! I try to offer some proof that I can write in other fashions, and people tell me I am 'name dropping' and 'desperate' and such things. It just feels like I cannot win!

Thank you for your post, by the way. I hope you respond.

[grayout.livejournal.com]

Honestly speaking, you probably can't win. Some people are just not going to like your fic/not like your writing on principle and well uh... that's just kinda how it is? I understand your reaction and I don't think it was wrong or stupid, but sometimes there just isn't anything you CAN do, because people are stubborn like that.

"I would do a O.o and just not read the fic."

Exactly, but what if it was a continued series where he kept doing that and it was posted all over comms you watch? Plus, you wouldn't know he did that until you read the first chapter, went wtf, then stopped. And then you see another chapter up, and another, and another, continuing along the same vein, and all these people comment saying OMG ILU THIS IS G8! I mean, not that I'm condoning attacking you anonymously or trolling you, but you can see how it gets on people's nerves, right?

By asking 'who cared,' I was kinda advising you not to.

"I don't care that people call the chars in LF OOC. I care that they say ALL of my work is like that. Big difference, to me."

But they haven't READ all your work and therefore can't judge it all. If you make that argument to any unbiased person, they'll understand that you're not the one being obtuse about it here. I get that and I haven't even read any of your stuff. And if they don't want to then well... their opinion has no basis.

Also, unrelated but funny:

"You admit that (perchance) you gained some pounds, but then having the rumor be you're a whore and pregnant?"

*DEAD* Mpreg! aeghajkeghaekjtghkej

[jantra.livejournal.com]

Mpreg! XD Enjoy the babies!

By really... thank you for your posts. They gave me a lot to think about.

[grayout.livejournal.com]

"I mean, not that I'm condoning attacking you anonymously or trolling you, but you can see how it gets on people's nerves, right?"

Oh yeah, by that I meant like, you can understand why, not saying that they SHOULD or that they're RIGHT in feeling this way. I'd be irritated probably but I wouldn't bash the author. >>"