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aragarnaOkay, folks, I apologize for this little rant, but I'm getting increasingly annoyed by the comments I receive on AO3. All in all, I don't receive much comments there - which is probably because my main audience is LJ-based - but about 50 % of those comments (and usually the longest ones) are just rants about Peter and how wrong *my* vision of the show is.
I'm rather new to AO3, so I don't know if it has always been like that, or if it's a recent migration from FF.net, or just new fans of the show.
The reason why I stopped posting on FF.net is precisely because I was tired of dealing with all the Peter-bashing (and El-bashing, or Mozzie-bashing...). I don't think the comment section of a fanfiction is the appropriate place to share your (distorted) view of the show and tell the author how wrong they are.
But this feel so much like the USA forum trolls all over again. They are this little club of haters that enjoy spreading their hate of everything that is not pretty boy Neal.
I've got a bunch of comments on my S6 related fics arguing, in turn, that Peter would be a terrible and horribly abusive father, that Peter was a terrible and abusive friend to Neal, that Peter is arrogant and blind, that my portrayal of Peter is very nice and they'd wish the show would be more like that....
I even got a comment saying that my finale AU was great, but they wished I had also undone the pregnancy! (Dude, that's my story, I do what I want).
The one I received this morning, in response to my recent Why Does My Heart fic, was particularly refined. And there's nothing like reading this as you just wake up and check your mails... But you gotta love the irony of being accused of portraying Peter as "innocent Peter".
(For the record, I never said Peter was perfect or innocent, and most importantly, that was NOT the subject of the story at ALL. It's a post S6 fic, from Peter's POV. it's not dealing with anything prior to that, I have written things about other seasons in the past. And I do think I've been fair enough to Neal. If you don't give a shit about Peter's feelings, just don't read my fics.)
But my favorite part of that comment remains the first line. I can't resist sharing this. "Man, I really wanted to like this -- it's well-written and, unfortunately, in character."
So apparently my story that is accused of being "innocent Peter" (whatever that means) is "unfortunately, in character" ?! And that is a bad thing ?!
And don't even bother trying to then suck up to me by telling me what a brilliant writer I am otherwise. Just get the hell out of my fics.
What irks me the most about those comments is that they're arguing that it is my vision of the show, versus theirs. I'm perfectly aware that it might come across as pretentious, but I actually believe I have fair view of what the show actually is. I don't have this distorted version that there's one poor little innocent and pretty thing named Neal and that all the other characters are just mean and abusive to him. I don't ignore half of the things the character do so that it could fit my vision.
It's just not a matter of "visions". They're just seeing the show in a very distorted way, that is not fair to the show.
You can write whatever you want in your fanfictions, in your forum or your journal, I won't argue with that, but don't come and tell me my vision of the show is wrong. And more importantly, don't use my fanfictions as your soapbox.
ETA: Because someone thought that my "my fic isn't a soapbox, that is rude" reply on the fic page (which was a lot more polite than this post) to the mentioned comment was, well, very rude, I've decided to just delete the whole thread. So don't look for the comment over there. Yes, my AO3 is a dictatorship with no freedom of speech. I only accept praises and will jail any opponent who dares disagreeing with me.
I think George Clooney sums it up rather well:
"We're at sort of a cynical time in society. Don't ever read comments on anything! People can live anonymously, and I honestly think that when they were talking about freedom of speech in 1787, the theory was that you had to own your speech. It had to belong to you, and you actually had to take some responsibility for it. Now you can just sit alone and say horrible things, and it becomes fashionable to be shitty to people. [...] It's become a much more cynical time, a time when people think its fun to only be negative."
There, I feel better now.
I'm rather new to AO3, so I don't know if it has always been like that, or if it's a recent migration from FF.net, or just new fans of the show.
The reason why I stopped posting on FF.net is precisely because I was tired of dealing with all the Peter-bashing (and El-bashing, or Mozzie-bashing...). I don't think the comment section of a fanfiction is the appropriate place to share your (distorted) view of the show and tell the author how wrong they are.
But this feel so much like the USA forum trolls all over again. They are this little club of haters that enjoy spreading their hate of everything that is not pretty boy Neal.
I've got a bunch of comments on my S6 related fics arguing, in turn, that Peter would be a terrible and horribly abusive father, that Peter was a terrible and abusive friend to Neal, that Peter is arrogant and blind, that my portrayal of Peter is very nice and they'd wish the show would be more like that....
I even got a comment saying that my finale AU was great, but they wished I had also undone the pregnancy! (Dude, that's my story, I do what I want).
The one I received this morning, in response to my recent Why Does My Heart fic, was particularly refined. And there's nothing like reading this as you just wake up and check your mails... But you gotta love the irony of being accused of portraying Peter as "innocent Peter".
(For the record, I never said Peter was perfect or innocent, and most importantly, that was NOT the subject of the story at ALL. It's a post S6 fic, from Peter's POV. it's not dealing with anything prior to that, I have written things about other seasons in the past. And I do think I've been fair enough to Neal. If you don't give a shit about Peter's feelings, just don't read my fics.)
But my favorite part of that comment remains the first line. I can't resist sharing this. "Man, I really wanted to like this -- it's well-written and, unfortunately, in character."
So apparently my story that is accused of being "innocent Peter" (whatever that means) is "unfortunately, in character" ?! And that is a bad thing ?!
And don't even bother trying to then suck up to me by telling me what a brilliant writer I am otherwise. Just get the hell out of my fics.
What irks me the most about those comments is that they're arguing that it is my vision of the show, versus theirs. I'm perfectly aware that it might come across as pretentious, but I actually believe I have fair view of what the show actually is. I don't have this distorted version that there's one poor little innocent and pretty thing named Neal and that all the other characters are just mean and abusive to him. I don't ignore half of the things the character do so that it could fit my vision.
It's just not a matter of "visions". They're just seeing the show in a very distorted way, that is not fair to the show.
You can write whatever you want in your fanfictions, in your forum or your journal, I won't argue with that, but don't come and tell me my vision of the show is wrong. And more importantly, don't use my fanfictions as your soapbox.
ETA: Because someone thought that my "my fic isn't a soapbox, that is rude" reply on the fic page (which was a lot more polite than this post) to the mentioned comment was, well, very rude, I've decided to just delete the whole thread. So don't look for the comment over there. Yes, my AO3 is a dictatorship with no freedom of speech. I only accept praises and will jail any opponent who dares disagreeing with me.
I think George Clooney sums it up rather well:
"We're at sort of a cynical time in society. Don't ever read comments on anything! People can live anonymously, and I honestly think that when they were talking about freedom of speech in 1787, the theory was that you had to own your speech. It had to belong to you, and you actually had to take some responsibility for it. Now you can just sit alone and say horrible things, and it becomes fashionable to be shitty to people. [...] It's become a much more cynical time, a time when people think its fun to only be negative."
There, I feel better now.
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