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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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	kijikun 2013-02-26 06:07 am UTC (link)
	Kudos make me a very happy writer. I wish I got them one at a time still though. There was something more satisfying about it. OT: Does anyone know a plugin to expand threads on journalfen when using chrome? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ashinae 2013-02-28 07:00 am UTC (link)
	They really are all the validation I need sometimes. I understand the reasoning behind the digest version of the kudos messages, but it was kind of fun to get the individual messages in a "we now interrupt your regularly scheduled life to give you a pat on the head" sort of way. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kijikun 2013-02-28 07:02 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, especially when you write for a small pairing or fandom. My only complaint is that I wish you could give kudos for each chapter, if just so I can make sure a writer knows I'm still digging their stuff. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ashinae 2013-02-28 07:08 am UTC (link)
	I never thought of that, but that would be a really awesome idea! (Reply to this)(Parent)

janegraddell
2013-02-28 07:31 pm UTC (link)

Caveat: I know next to nothing about writing/developing scripts. I made this work on my Mac, but I have no idea how to fix it if it won't work for anyone else. I also know that there are new script protocols since this script was written, and tried to change them to match, but I have no idea how that might affect its functionality long-term or if it's vulnerable to bugs. I only know enough about scripts to be very dangerous. :)

With that in mind.

If you have a newer version of Chrome you can install Greasemonkey-type scripts directly as extensions. The script I've been using for years to unfold threads on JF is here:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5552

To run the script on Chrome, you need to download it first by clicking "Install." At this point, Chrome will say "OMG you can't do that!" because Chrome won't let you install scripts from a third-party site. Ignore Chrome for the moment, and just find the file on your computer ("5552.user.js") and open it in a text editor. (Be careful to edit it and save-as only in plain-text or ASCII.) Edit the "@include" field to change it from:

@include http://*.livejournal.com/*

to

@match http://*.journalfen.net/*

("@match" is the code Chrome recognizes over "@include"; they mean the same thing. I *think* you add other LJ-esque sites by adding new @match lines for each site. I think. When you edit the file, save it and re-install using the instructions below to make the changes in Chrome.)

Once you've done that, open your Extensions page in Chrome and drag the file from your finder/window and drop it on the Extension page. It will ask you if it's okay for the script to access your info everywhere, and if you say yes it will install.

There's more information on installing scripts here:

http://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2664769&p=crx_warning

And some more general information on scripts in Chrome here:

http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/user-scripts

I hope this works for you, too. :)

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	janegraddell 2013-02-28 07:34 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, I forgot. You don't have to re-start Chrome when you install scripts, but if you have the page you want to run the script on open when you install it, you have to re-load it for the script to run. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dorothy1901 2013-03-01 09:18 pm UTC (link)
	It worked! Here, have this life-size chocolate statue of all the Doctor Whos. :) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	janegraddell 2013-03-02 03:39 pm UTC (link)
	I'm very glad it worked. :) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kijikun 2013-03-02 05:06 am UTC (link)
	It worked perfectly! Thank you! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	janegraddell 2013-03-02 03:33 pm UTC (link)
	\0/ You're very welcome. :) (Reply to this)(Parent)

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