Someone just left a hundreds-of-words long screed against MCU canon and characterisation and fanon and shipping in (multiple) comments on a fic I wrote a few years ago and then was incredibly shocked that I a) saw it and b) replied, telling them to kindly either a) read something else or b) keep their thoughts to themself/their blog/their twitter.
I mean, it’s a comment box. To leave comments. For the author. Did they think they could do the equivalent of taking a dump in my mailbox without me seeing it? It’s not a fucking Tumblr reblog. It’s a direct comment. To me. About my story.
Also, the whole thing was completely without a) full stops and b) coherent trains of thought.
It’s too early in the day for this shit.
Please, from the bottom of my heart, keep this kind of shit out of your comments on people’s fanworks. It’s not helpful. It’s downright depressing, and all authors take away from it is that you hate everything that they wrote about and carefully tagged for, but you chose to read it and get angry about it anyway. Why would you even read something you know you will hate? Why would you then rant to the author about hating it? Why? Do you know you can read things you like? Do you know there’s a thing called outside? Do you know chocolate exists? And ice cream? Those are pretty good. Please consume those instead. Thanks.
knitting in the dark 