But we're still in a place where wanting to say "Actually, that story didn't work for me" or "I feel like this trope is starting to be overused" or "Okay, I've read at least six dozen examples of this trope done poorly - does anyone have an example of it being done *well*?" is so horrible that it should be kept hidden away?
Not at all. I happen to love meta and discussions like this as a matter of fact and I'm happy to see them and coms that support them. I can lose hours to them. I'm not talking about critiquing or even criticizing someone's writing in an analytical way, I'm talking about personal attacks. What I'm specifically talking about keeping to yourself and people that you know aren't running to tell tales are the kind of comments that come up on anon memes and obviously in other places calling out specific authors and either pointing and laughing or ripping and shredding. The first happens to 'badfic' writers more often and the 2nd I've seen usually with popular or so-called BNF writers. Unfortunately fandom is too small that something that occurs on a public forum is something that won't get passed along, either accidentally, out of genuine care or maliciously.
Again,for me writing a fic someone doesn't like is passive unless that fic is aimed specifically at the person who doesn't like it. Posting publicly and saying the writer should throw their laptop into a lake and jump in after it is active.
As you said, we have very different takes on it but, I said, I wasn't on Prospect-L so if I've called them out of turn, I apologize.
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Not at all. I happen to love meta and discussions like this as a matter of fact and I'm happy to see them and coms that support them. I can lose hours to them. I'm not talking about critiquing or even criticizing someone's writing in an analytical way, I'm talking about personal attacks. What I'm specifically talking about keeping to yourself and people that you know aren't running to tell tales are the kind of comments that come up on anon memes and obviously in other places calling out specific authors and either pointing and laughing or ripping and shredding. The first happens to 'badfic' writers more often and the 2nd I've seen usually with popular or so-called BNF writers. Unfortunately fandom is too small that something that occurs on a public forum is something that won't get passed along, either accidentally, out of genuine care or maliciously.
Again,for me writing a fic someone doesn't like is passive unless that fic is aimed specifically at the person who doesn't like it. Posting publicly and saying the writer should throw their laptop into a lake and jump in after it is active.
As you said, we have very different takes on it but, I said, I wasn't on Prospect-L so if I've called them out of turn, I apologize.