Venus Envy wankage (not the Rita Mae Brown book)
Venus Envy, a webcomic whose central character is a MTF transsexual high school student, has had a dark arc. Erin Lindsey did warn that the story was going to take on a darker tone, oh... months back? and has been doing thus here and there.

The plot just exploded and people on the message board (beware, it's an EZboard) start out rather humorous but some are up in arms. How dare you! How could you! Give me teh funney back! First it starts out kind of mild but then there's...


"Really, I can't help feeling that after all the stuff of the past few months, it might be nice if something pleasant happened to Zoe for a change...

and then there's chime ins of "I've gotten tired of the constant melodrama, heartache, and the plain cruelity of the story surrounding the main characters."

which garners a reply of
"That's life for you, isn't it? Life is full of heartache and cruelty. It shouldn't be that way, but it just is at this time in history.

Erin deserves kudos more for going down this line than not."

Feanix states:
"Okay, before you all scream "melodrama" realise that some people lives arent very happy. Some people seem to go bad and get a little bit better, and just when you're thinking "hey, maybe life's not so bad after all" wham!! Everything falls apart.

Also, no one forced you to read it and you have no right to creative control. I think that was really nasty of all you people who said "we're sick of this". "

But AnimeLizzy or whatever says:
"There's just one thing - How FAR down the line is too far? Aparently, too far is when people start complaining about it."


Yeah, I chimed in as well with the "don't read it" nostrum. The wank seems to have mopped itself up since I went out and did laundry and came back but who knows...

Everybody's got triggers but if every author/artist/screenwriter/etc. worried about what would traumatize or anger people, there would be nothing to build fandoms around.

(edited for linkage feckup and because I always have another thing to say)