I do write, and I'm tired and frustrated of this argument that everyone needs to tiptoe around my feelings when they're talking among themselves someplace designed for them to do that. I'm a grown up. I can handle seeing people not like my fic. I don't like personal attacks but those get screened here. If I get upset, I'll go whine about it privately, but I don't expect meme to change what it's doing. In that situation, I don't think meme has done anything wrong.
If I read a fic that warns for something I don't like, and I read it anyway, no one here would approve of me complaining to the author about it, because the author did their due diligence. But somehow if I'm wearing an author hat, and I click on a discussion about my fic someplace where I know people can say negative or positive things, it's the readers who are discussing the fic who are at fault if I get upset, even though I know what anon meme fic discussion entails and I chose to look at it anyway. This is stupid.
"I should be able to pretend that authors aren't the intended audience for memes in order to exonerate myself from guilt if someone gets hurt by what I write"
I have no guilt. Zero. I'm not exonerating myself of anything. And I don't think people who don't like my fic should feel guilty for telling other people why they don't like it, even if it's not helpful or constructive to me as a writer. If they're being nasty to me on AO3 or tumblr, they can kindly fuck off. Here, they're just having a conversation.
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Re: Fic recs - Contour Feathers
From: (Anonymous)I do write, and I'm tired and frustrated of this argument that everyone needs to tiptoe around my feelings when they're talking among themselves someplace designed for them to do that. I'm a grown up. I can handle seeing people not like my fic. I don't like personal attacks but those get screened here. If I get upset, I'll go whine about it privately, but I don't expect meme to change what it's doing. In that situation, I don't think meme has done anything wrong.
If I read a fic that warns for something I don't like, and I read it anyway, no one here would approve of me complaining to the author about it, because the author did their due diligence. But somehow if I'm wearing an author hat, and I click on a discussion about my fic someplace where I know people can say negative or positive things, it's the readers who are discussing the fic who are at fault if I get upset, even though I know what anon meme fic discussion entails and I chose to look at it anyway. This is stupid.
"I should be able to pretend that authors aren't the intended audience for memes in order to exonerate myself from guilt if someone gets hurt by what I write"
I have no guilt. Zero. I'm not exonerating myself of anything. And I don't think people who don't like my fic should feel guilty for telling other people why they don't like it, even if it's not helpful or constructive to me as a writer. If they're being nasty to me on AO3 or tumblr, they can kindly fuck off. Here, they're just having a conversation.