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author entitlement, baleetion, cult of nice, fandom: stargate, fanfic, flouncing, thoughts on yaoi, writers are often pompous douches

My concubines are lame. Drown them all!
SGA ficcer is not getting the acclaim she says she deserves. So she is going to delete her LJ. Her 560 "friends" are not fawning enough so what's the point?!

There are at least 60 comments on her epic fic's last two chapters now. I'm too lazy to figure out how many there were before she flipped out. Also she posted the last chapter only yesterday.

And the mea culpas pour in--three pages of "I'm sorry/I suck/Plz don't go."

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And one of them thinks she can get some LOVE IF SHE FLOUNCES TOO!

When someone points out the flounce. sardonicsmiley doesn't argue much.

And she is finally called on her tantrum.

LOL ENTITLEMENT DEBATE.

eta: WOT? "I'm turning commenting off until the last part, because otherwise that would just be too much."

So she turned commenting off and then bitched about no comments? O_o

eta2: All this for an alias change?

ETA3: BAHLEETION!! (saved pages below)

page 1, page 2, page 3, and expanded smackdown. And page 4 thanks to longtimegone! :D

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(Anonymous)
2009-04-19 11:26 pm UTC (link)

A writer is not entitled to feedback of any kind. We put our shit out there for people to read, they'll read it or they won't, but they don't owe us JACK for the privilege of reading what we spew. By the same token, readers aren't owed fic by an author. We write and publish it because we'd like others to read it and enjoy it, because we want to express something or tell a story. It goes out into the void and if anyone shouts back, fine. If they don't say a damned word, that's the cost of doing business. It's the risk you take when you put something out there for people to read. They might love it, they might hate it, they might say nothing at all. If you can't handle it, gtfo.

--MadLori (madlori.livejournal.com)

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	ari_o 2009-04-19 11:30 pm UTC (link)
	You can't expect people to be sensible. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2009-04-19 11:38 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, I can expect it, as long as I also expect to be disappointed most of the time. -ML (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ari_o 2009-04-20 12:26 am UTC (link)
	That was what I meant with my sarcastic tone--which I guess got lost in the intertubez. (Reply to this)(Parent)

rennyn_alerothi
2009-04-19 11:34 pm UTC (link)

This. I don't know why this is so hard for people. Folks who equate their fanfic = their self-esteem need to find a hobby that is more validating. I mean, we play in a medium where we're having to justify its own existence all the time, when we're not praying for it to stay just under the radar of folks who might really try to shut it down.

Also, if she isn't getting enough OMGfeedback, maybe that says something about the quality/lacktherof of her writing, and she ought to work on that first.

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	empy 2009-04-20 12:42 am UTC (link)
	we play in a medium where we're having to justify its own existence all the time, when we're not praying for it to stay just under the radar of folks who might really try to shut it down. THIS. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	purple_shoes 2009-04-20 05:44 am UTC (link)
	I <3 your logic. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sddalek_inc 2009-04-21 12:41 am UTC (link)
	Agreed. Thank you. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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