[ SECRET POST #2538 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2538 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 079 secrets from Secret Submission Post #363.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Do you ever leave negative reviews?

[(Anonymous)]

Did just the once. Usually, if I don't like a fic I just quit reading and find something else, no big deal. If I do like and finish a story, I always comment with a good review and I see no problem adding a quick mention of a typo or a niggling plot/character issue if I have one - I'll express that in a nice way, couched in praise and listings of what I did like. Balance is usually overwhelmingly on the positive or at worst even.

But OMG this one author.

One of the fandoms I love is relatively obscure, so it's VERY HARD to find fic. And there's this one author who is SUPER prolific, but unfortunately a horrible writer - cliched plots, OOC characterization, poor dialogue and oh so saccharine and fluffy it makes my teeth hurt despite constantly...

So I got pretty used to back-buttoning hard, but sometimes a summary would catch my eye, or a drabble would flit across my radar and I'd accidentally read one.

I finally snapped when she posted a new "story" which was quite literally an old, well-worn joke (yes, as in a joke you'd tell in two minutes at a party, and not a good joke but a real groaner) dressed up in the fandom, complete with angst and feelings and horrible, horrible dialogue. But the last straw was that this thing got a huge flood of kudos.

I left her a what I considered a nasty comment, pretty much calling her out for doing what amounted to an "insert character names and angst here" hackjob.

It backfired, but in the way I expected. She brightly happily replied saying she was so glad I'd read and enjoyed it, thanking me for all my nice and kind words, and how clever I was to have noticed her "reference". Kind of felt cheated- there I was, finally snapping and pouring out my hatred of her work, and there she is, too darn stupid to GET that she's been panned.