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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) 2009-04-20 04:05 am UTC (link)
	I love being rec'd but I never know what to do once I find out it's happened. Help me, ~~Obi-Wan~~ F_W, what's the etiquette here? Is it okay to go and say "OMG thanks for the rec!" or is it better to just beam in delight and say nothing? frets (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lozenger8 2009-04-20 05:02 am UTC (link)
	If I see it within the week, I usually say thanks. If not, I think it generally looks too stalkery. Mostly because the chances are I was, er, doing a search on my own name. ... whistles innocently (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2009-04-20 05:37 am UTC (link)
	Oooh, good rule of thumb, thanks. And my god, who would ever do such a thing as self-google? looks hugely innocent (Reply to this)(Parent)

(Anonymous)
2009-04-20 10:35 am UTC (link)

I've been recced once or twice, and every time I've looked at the comments of a rec posts, it's been 95% the recced writers thanking the reccer, and 5% actual readers thanking for the recs.

I sometimes think reccing is for the benefit of the egos of the writers. Might just be this particular fandom, though. (No, I didn't comment to thank the reccer. I suspect this hurt my future chances of being recced.)

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littlemousling
2009-04-27 12:35 am UTC (link)

Late to the party, but: I, for one, use recs HEAVILY when they're available, and I almost never remember to thank reccers. I doubt I'm the only one. So while it may look like an ego exercise (and I don't know your fandom, so maybe it is, there) I'd assume there are a lot of people clicking the links and disappearing.

(In fact, just to be specific, I love recs list in SGA, due South, and especially Merlin, because there is SO much crap being written in that fandom it's unbelievable.)

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	shadowmonkey 2009-04-21 01:49 am UTC (link)
	I didn't have a lj account at the time, so I saved myself a moral dilemma. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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