Public criticism is EVIL!
My friends list brought me some lovely wank this morning-- and for a fandom I'm not even in! Still, oversensitive authors and fanfiction flamewars are universal, right?

First, Elffy-chan posts a fairly innocuous rant about the things that annoy her in lemon fanfiction, using a few specific fics to illustrate her points. As criticism goes, it's pretty fluffy; in almost every case she points out that she really did like the fics in question, it's just that certain aspects of them got on her nerves.

In the comments, Amet, apparently the significant other of one of the authors whose works were critiqued, weighs in: "It's one thing to write an essay about your pet peeves and send it out for debate. It is quite another to pick on other authors who you KNOW will be reading what you write and point out where their fics pissed you off in PUBLIC."

darkwingedangel begins her reply with "Hello dipshit", and the wank goes on for the next 30 comments or so, eventually encompassing the true meaning of love, the purpose of Livejournal, the need for profanity, and the propriety of public criticism. Eventually they seem to come to the conclusion that it's perfectly fine to not like an aspect of a fic-- as long as you don't say anything about it in public. Because, like, that's totally mean and stuff.