Sleepy Farla is sleepy

[farla]

So there's some more lulzy stuff happening. ^_^ I was worried once the thing with Silawen died down it'd be done, but ha! My evil meany-ness has evidently outlasted her feeble attempts at usurping my throne of being hated.

For starters, there's this review:

Farla,

The following review has been submitted to: Unoriginality 1: An Original
Trainer Story Chapter: 25

From: John Doe ()
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Forgive me if I may sound rude, but you spent (wasted, rather) a year of your
life writing an eighteen-chapter fic, trying to prove your point. That is
just...sad. I'm sorry, there's just no other way of putting it. If you can
think of something better, please tell me.

And reviewers on Serebii aren't "aggressively stupid" as you so put it. I had
a look around, and at least it's not like here, where amongst the fics of
lesser quality, shall we say, you get 10-year olds going about praising each
other's fics and giving each other high-fives. I'm not saying that everyone on
is like that, so please, nobody take offense. Basically, what you're doing is
delivering a point and explaining everything, but nobody's paying attention.
They just laugh at the funny bits, but don't take anything on. That said, this
isn't the case with your reviewers, so consider your good fortune.

Your generalisation of Serebii reviewers is insulting. All you're doing is
trying to claim a victory, but you're only going to take on the humour, not
the actual message. Therefore, your victory will be hollow. What you're
prepared to do to make your point is just sad. This is fanfiction on the
Internet. It is not "t3h srs biznes", so stop treating it like it is. For
heaven's sake.

I'm not quite sure where "The story wasn't finished for a year" = "You spent an entire year just writing the story" comes from. Evidently, other people have way more work ethic than I do. Also, they're really, really slow.

Bonus lulz can be found in the fact that this person (yes, I know I should try to figure it out, but tired, remember) is apparently trying to convince me my bit about Serebiifen is an inaccurate generalization. By behaving like why I hate Serebiifen. The fail blinds.

Probably started off over in this Serebii thread here. (Over here Unoriginality is mentioned, which is probably why the review is there rather than on Lucki, where it'd make marginally more sense.)

There's also some stuff on the Yami drama on Psychic's lj, and a bit back is some recounting of a few other well known dustups. I should be sympathetic for the whole "unfairly blamed despite best efforts" bit, but reading them all I get is "after my numerous acts of incredible favoritism, they were still jerks to me and kept causing more trouble". (The case is not helped by the fact that this hasn't so much "changed" as "moderately toned down, slightly, for these particular people". I suppose arguably it suggests this idea wasn't the best, but it seems to be because it didn't work out, more than that the act itself was wrong.) It is kind of interesting in that it suggests the old-school alliance system is dissolving, but seeing as this took years to finally out itself, there's no reason to think there isn't something similar going on right now that replaced it and won't be really known until it's been around a few years.

Which is all interesting in light of the discussion going on in whinier corners of lj about anon communities, namely yet another point in favor of them considering how incredibly fast such alliances seem to appear on any forum and how inevitably toxic they seem to be.

Comments

[razorleaf.livejournal.com]

That's a classic review. I mean, it's not obvious at all that they're Serebii-goers themselves, or anything. : P

Oh, by the by, this is worth a look.

Wank, gotta love it.