#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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This is the twenty-sixth post of Deke Dangle RPF Anon, a community for all your ice hockey anon meme needs.

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Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Commiserations!! :(

I saw pointed tweets after I posted my first proper fic, saying 'I wish someone would write (my fic's premise) but (with one the key details I agonised over) being different'.

And then there was a 30-tweet discussion in a little group and I sat sadly on the sidelines, feeling glum because I couldn't get anyone interested in chatting about it on Twitter while i was writing the damn thing.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

DA joining the commiserations chorus.

My main beta, reading an early draft: "I'm not sure because I don't know a lot about this player, but maybe characterization problem?"

Me: "Good point!" [revises to fix the problem]

Me: "idk though is it fixed?"

Two additional betas, one who knows a lot about player in question, I checked in with for this specific issue: "yeah it's fixed and BTW awesome job!"

Random commenters after fic posts: "I really didn't like how [player] was [characterization issue that THREE PEOPLE told me was fixed]..."

Me: "WTF? Guess there is no pleasing some people."

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

FWIW, sometimes people are just... incorrect, when it comes to something be wrong in a fic vs. an authorial decision. I'm far from a faultless writer, but some of the complaints I've seen have been from people missing things on their end (e.g. "This was frustrating, should've fixed it" ... no? I meant for the audience to be frustrated at that point?).

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Or disagreeing with characterization, which is subjective anyway.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. Just like people are wrong about your fav canon, people are wrong about your fic. The real trick is to figure out which criticism is worth caring about.