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Writing fanfic is totally like running a restaurant.
Taken from a kind anon, with some small changes made.

Ice, an author of some regard in the Avengers fandom, is no stranger to wank. A few months ago, she attached a long author's note to one of her fics that, simplified, requested readers not leave kudos (still needs caps):

"You know what? I am currently in too much fucking pain and under too much fucking stress to give a flying fuck about social conduct.

I had one simple wish — no kudos.

I keep on asking that on every fic and every fucking time on every fucking one of them, there's a person who just... what? Can’t help themselves? Well done. Thanks for reminding me, over and over again, that I must, indeed, not post my stuff and hope for a simple fucking courtesy to respect my fucking wishes."

Fail_Fandomanon and Tumblr got ahold of the story and promptly spammed it with kudos.
Since then, her fics have continued to be subject of kudosing and - in her mind- low comment counts when compared to the rest of the fandom. Thus, she decides to leave the ficdoms in a blaze of glory.

By writing a longform analogy comparing writing fanfic to running a restaurant. (Original link BALEETED, caps HERE.)

This immediately lands on Avengersanon, Fail_Fandomanon and Tumblr, and subsequently her comment pages fill up with snark. (All deleted: page 1, page 2, page 3, and page 4, with bonus fic.). There's even podfic! After trying to orphan the piece (since deleted), Ice deleted all of her Avengers fanfic, leaving her table AO3 account empty of Avengers content.

For a bonus treat, be sure to read this gem from the wank report, in which a disgruntled ex-ficwriting mousie pops up to sympathize with Ice and humblebrag about her important profic writing career, eventually declaiming all feedback-denying fanfic readers and non-pro fanfic authors as a "whiny ass bunch of freeloaders" and "doormats," respectively, who may or may not be in an abusive relationship.

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loopywafflehead
2013-03-01 03:56 pm UTC (link)

OP, a couple of corrections and links from the people at wank_report:

I should point out that Ice's "no kudos!" fic was also passed around a lot on Tumblr, so it's misleading to say that all of the kudos came from f_fa, although as you see from the thread, some did.

You've also got the order of events wrong. The kudos-leaving from f_fa and other places was all after the author posted a fic with the "You know what? I am currently in too much fucking pain and under too much fucking stress to give a flying fuck about social conduct...." author's note, rather the note being something edited in just before it was taken down.

Also, it was not the author who reposted and orphaned it.

the wank got featured on fandom secrets too.

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	miraba 2013-03-01 04:00 pm UTC (link)
	I made the changes before I posted. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	loopywafflehead 2013-03-01 04:03 pm UTC (link)
	I'm just going to go and hide now. Sorry about that! And for the repost - I clearly need sleep. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mcity 2013-03-03 12:51 am UTC (link)
	This reminds me of how artists on dA occasionally talk about how they're rather have comments than faves. One person even complimented me on having a high comment count to go with my large number of faves. It felt like I had gotten a stare and a nod from the Thought Police. (Reply to this)

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