Huh

[farla]

Just got a spat of reviews on Inheritors. First one initially messaged me about the grammar guide and then reviews the first three chapters, then a second pops up and reviews the first two, then on chapter four an anon appears to explain:

After reading some other reviews, there seems to be general agreement that
Deus and the others are something related to Mew. I don't know the details; I
didn't read much. I haven't seen any real evidence that that would be the
case. If you expected everyone to get it by chapter 4, you didn't provide
enough hints. Is this a social experiment like Lucki? Did you actually
expect people to get it?

Which is especially weird given that, well, look at the page. Aside from the other random anons, only one person is confused, everyone else is talking about mewtwo.

This is hardly the only weirdness in stuff I'm seeing over there, though I'm not exactly sure what's going on.

In brighter news someone added Pokemon Revolution to the TvTropes rec page and already there is brewing crazy. Dunno if anything'll come of it - TvTropes seems depressingly lacking in true drama. Also, once again I'm credited as sole author.

Basically done with the next section of the guide.

Comments

[farla.livejournal.com]

Possibly more people are confused by Inheritors than is made obvious by the reviews; after all, reviewers are a self-selecting sample and some people probably wouldn't want to admit that they don't get it/don't want to guess in case they're wrong.

Oh, I'm sure. But it's weird to get a review starting off with "so I read the other reviews..." when the page of reviews below them has everyone but one saying it's mewtwo. I mean maybe they're saying they aren't convinced those people are right, but they're at chapter four presumably replying to the author's note, which said "if you look at the reviews, most people got it".

...also, is he using a deviantart account just to post fiction?

[negrek.livejournal.com]

I mean maybe they're saying they aren't convinced those people are right, but they're at chapter four presumably replying to the author's note, which said "if you look at the reviews, most people got it".

I don't know, to me it looked like a complaint that you didn't put in enough clues as to what pokémon Deus and company are and an implication that they don't believe many people are getting it, whatever your reviews may say. "Maybe some people get it, but I don't think you did a good job of setting it up."

Or who knows, seeing as it otherwise consists of such bafflers as "I don't know the details; I didn't read much."

...also, is he using a deviantart account just to post fiction?

So it would appear. May the internet have mercy on his soul.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Huh, yeah, that might be it. My only quibble with that would be I didn't say everyone would get it, and that's well within margin of error for even a regular review.

There's something about Inheritors that really sets some people off, I guess.