Fandom is wacky

[ratherastory]

Dear Fan,

It's very nice of you to review my stories. From the looks of it, you might even be a BNF, although it's kind of hard to tell. Certainly you're prolific, and I've seen your name bandied about fandom since I joined. It's great that you took the time to review my story on fanfiction.net, really and truly.

That being said, telling me basically that "h/c: ur doin it wrong" is a little silly, given that my story is very clearly labeled as horror, and not h/c.

I get that you're primarily a h/c writer, and hey, I've totally enjoyed your stories too. If h/c is what you're looking for, then please, by all means, read the stories I've written that are labeled as such. If you want h/c, then reading the "horror" story is not going to work out for you.

Love,

Me

Comments

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

UGH. Some people just don't realize that the point of certain stories is not a happy ending or comfort or whatever they want it to be. I know someone who hated Ten Thousand Miles because they felt I didn't care about what happened to Sam and that the whole thing was just about Dean suffering pretty. Which, great, have your opinions, I don't mind. But honestly, haven't you just sort of insulted all those families who do lose people forever in real life and never find out what happened to them? Just because you want loose ends tied and happy endings doesn't mean that's what a certain plot calls for.

Deprivation was awesome as it was. *grumpy*

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

*smishes you*

Exactly. Way to miss the point. "Ten Thousand Miles" was gorgeous, and while it broke my heart into a million tiny pieces (I read "My Life Has Gone Off Its Tracks," but I'm still too damned upset to comment), I thought that the fact that Dean never found Sam was damned brilliant. It broke my heart, but it was brilliant.

I swear to God, reading your stories shaves a year or five off my life every time. I'm going to die young, and it's your fault. ;)