don't get it

[simplyn2deep]

first let me say that I know that fanfic is fiction and people can write whatever they want

maybe I should just stop reading an writing fan fic.

I'm going to drive myself crazy trying to figure out why authors do certain things and how readers fall all over it with praise.

Comments

[tkeylasunset.livejournal.com]

Hey BB. I feel your pain. Just write it off, whatever it was that struck you wrong. Your views are not theirs.

This is the why I've stopped reading "reviews" of the episodes. All the so-called fans do is complain.

We love our show and we love our boys. Nothing else really matters!

[landrews.livejournal.com]

I see that all the time, even if certain fics are completely out of character (and yeah, it takes some work but in even the most wildly implausible AU, you can still stay loyal to character) or what they are doing in, say, a reality-based fic is so non-researched and wrong that you can hardly read the story and then peeps jump all over it with lavish praise and I'm all, 'what?'. If something's good with rough edges or unbalanced moments or a non-native speaker, I usually find something encouraging to say (though I'm as guilty as the next reader for occasionally dropping by, bookmarking for later or liking what I read and thinking I'll comment later, but later never happens :-)), but when it's just bad... no. And I've read so many really great fics that garnered like three or four feedback comments that it really makes me scratch my head and sometimes I think those questionable fics and peeps are all 14 yr olds in the same school, lololol.

It'd be a shame for you to stop reading and miss gems like Your Bright And Tiny Spark by imaginary_iby, though granted, after yesterday's offerings on my flist, I was thinking the same, lololol.

How'd you do on your big job test??

[simplyn2deep.livejournal.com]

well I won't completely stop reading fanfic, but I won't read something from an author I don't know. I won't miss anything that imaginary_iby posts on AO3. I get alerts when they post.

I haven't heard anything back from the county about the test. They had close to 6,000 applicants to test so I'm not expecting to have results for another few weeks. I don't know if they'll also be sending out interview letters at the same time of if there will be more of a wait.