What are your fan fiction gripes?

Discussion in 'Fan Town' started by OtherCat, Aug 27, 2016.

  1. garden

    garden lucid dreamer

    I once had someone comment, "Why is it discontinued? It’s an awesome story!” on a fic that was 5 years old at the time. Not only that, but it was maybe 2k words long, I only ever wrote one chapter, and I wrote the damn thing in middle school. Are you serious.
     
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  2. dky

    dky burnt toast

    o lord ik that feel a really bad fic of mine was more or less abandoned and i got like 3 people telling me to make more, and, when am i updating? i cant even read the damn thing without cringing js
     
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  3. Pesh

    Pesh schtroumph

    ^^^^^
     
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  4. ChelG

    ChelG Well-Known Member

    I got nagged multiple times over a fic I wrote at sixteen, ten years later. I ended up giving the person permission to write a new version themselves and blocking them because I just didn't want to have that discussion anymore.
     
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  5. Aya-non

    Aya-non Well-Known Member

    Oh, gosh, we could probably just have a fanfic reviews thread. Because I have stories. Like, a few wonderful reviews that nearly made me cry, don't get me wrong. But also some ridiculous/awful stories.
     
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  6. dky

    dky burnt toast

    ftw people feel the need to constantly tell you your spelling/grammar mistakes in a very short manner

    that, and this as their sole comment:
    "That flashback was really poignant."

    now all i am is confused because does that mean you liked it or it was too sad for you or it was some conveluted, old timey insult of some kind?

    i know wht poignant means I just don't know what they were trying to convey by telling me this and its unnessasarily confusing.
     
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  7. blue

    blue hightown funk you up

    i suspect they mean it was effective at affecting their emotions, and as a compliment? at least, that would be what i meant if i wrote it that way.
     
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  8. dky

    dky burnt toast

    aaaah ok, that makes sense. it just startled me is all cause it was all they said and i'm used to comments that have, i donno, more umph to em, ya'know?

    whenever i get these short messages that can go either way i always feel bad, like theyre somehow gettin a stab at me even if it was entirely innocent. the woes of emotional ephasis that is lacking with text
     
  9. unknownanonymous

    unknownanonymous i am inimitable, i am an original|18+

    yeah, basically the "me, an intellectual" version of "the flashback gave me feels."
     
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  10. blue

    blue hightown funk you up

    haha, yeah, i know exactly what you mean. i don't have a lot of experience with fanfic reviews, but i see something that, rationally, i know has a 90% chance of being a compliment, and my brain finds the one negative way to read it and runs away with it. :P
     
  11. palindromordnilap

    palindromordnilap Well-Known Member

  12. tinyhydra

    tinyhydra a dingus

    I get the feeling that Undertale is a story that attracts a lotta soapbox preachers.
     
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  13. dky

    dky burnt toast

    Of course it is, i should have guessed.

    i have a moment of panic everytime i open my inbox honestly, AO3 can just be such a negative place at times i always worry
     
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  14. coldstars

    coldstars get Jazzy on it

    /raises hand/ I haven't looked at AO3 comments in months because even compliment reviews make me nervous. My inbox is...very full
     
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  15. dky

    dky burnt toast

    i had like seven in mine the last time i let it fester but i can never keep myself away for long because im desperate for validation to feed my ego

    (also, does anyone know if theres a forum to talk about fics you've written because i'd love to have people from here's views on my shit)
     
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  16. peripheral

    peripheral Stacy's Dad Is Also Pretty Rad

    best comment i've ever gotten is (as a positive among the gripes):

    "I absolutely love this and the first two paragraphs are the best description of being agender I have seen anywhere and they fit perfectly on my ipod and I have a screenshot of them."

    I wrote the fic in question before I knew the word agender existed, and just.

    Yeah.
     
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  17. ChelG

    ChelG Well-Known Member

    Speaking of good comments, I wrote a fic for a kinkmeme prompt involving a non-stereotypical portrayal of OCD and used my own experiences with POCD for it. I got a lot of really sweet comments and commiserations, and it feels good to know I helped spread the word. Should go back and finish that one some time... I don't think I came across as preachy. Hope not.
     
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  18. unknownanonymous

    unknownanonymous i am inimitable, i am an original|18+

    the writing thread, maybe
     
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  19. dky

    dky burnt toast

    I recently wrote a fic about a character with a very wide array of mental issues, and drew almost entirely from my own experiences and issues for the story.

    For the most part it focused on dissociation and depression of said character, and someone told my my descriptions of his mental illness' were spot on and perfectly written.

    And it was flattering but at the same time upsetting because I drew from myself to get there.
     
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  20. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    ...:::|||
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    One of those comments is my response to the other one. #tinyfandomproblems
     
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