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ao3, author entitlement, bitter so bitter, deep fanfic thoughts, dogpile, everyone entitlement, fandom: the avengers, fanfic, far too complicated, kudos, misplaced anger, reader entitlement

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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	cairea 2013-02-25 04:24 am UTC (link)
	I got kudos from someone with the username Andraste once and the combo of kudos on a fic that gets few views as it is and the username made my fucking week. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ashinae 2013-02-25 04:28 am UTC (link)
	squeak Was this Dragon Age fanfic, by chance? (I need to update my icons to reflect new fandoms... sheesh.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

cairea
2013-02-25 04:35 am UTC (link)

No, sadly. I've never actually written DA fanfic even though I have an embarrassingly extensive headcanon for it. It was a really old Yami no Matsuei ficbit I wrote as part of a drabble challenge.

But that's part of why it made me so happy. I got the notification on my phone while I was at work and I actually laughed out loud at the idea of a goddess liking my old fic enough to call my attention to it. XD

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	ashinae 2013-02-25 05:00 am UTC (link)
	Now I kind of have this idea in my head of signing up with the username of some deity just to leave kudos for people. But I'd probably have wanted to pick Andraste, and clearly she's already taken. Now I'm bummed out. And want to write some Fenris/My OMC Hawke smut. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	jay_linden 2013-02-25 08:23 am UTC (link)
	And want to write some Fenris/My OMC Hawke smut. No one is stopping you OMG. PS: I also need new icons to represent new fandoms. And since some of these new fandoms are your fault.......... (Reply to this)(Parent)

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