Something about this girl just screams 'TROLL'

[farla]

Hey everybody, meet pokemongirl2523, writer of a story 'titled' the story of DOOM ("Title has nothing to do with the story. I couldn't think of one, so that ended up being the title.") The rest of the summary is It's about a girl and her Vulpix, when girls were not allowed to have pokemon, let alone battle them. Folow their adventures inside!.

I reviewed, and today there's a response in the second chapter. For some reason, I have a hard time taking it seriously. Something about it just smacks of troll.

AN: Now, I will answer to one of my reviewers, who decided to give me the longest lecture about writing a fan fiction I’ve ever seen.

Karla: Boy, didn’t anyone tell you not to read something if you don’t like it? You could’ve looked at it, said “This is bad, I don’t want to read it,” instead of giving me a long lecture. I mean, yes, I made a couple mistakes, but everyone does! I’m sure you do too, unless you’re God. Which you aren’t. And so I capitalized where I wasn’t supposed to. So what? I’m sorry the gender kept switching, I’ll fix it in this chapter, not that you’ll care. You’ll find something to lecture me about anyways. I’m sooo sorry that she thinks out loud. She just does. And I’m sorry that I couldn’t think up a better plot. I like it the way I did it. I realize that I made a mistake about the pokeball belt, and I’m sorry, I’ll watch out for things like that later on. The professor obviously believes in women’s rights, and the Vulpix was abandoned. I declare that now. Why would he need pokemon? I mean, it’s not like people come up to him every day, asking for pokemon, do they? And what did you expect her to do to be prepared, get plastic surgery? Yeah, right. It’s not like there was anything else she could do! I’m sorry, but I’m not the best at narration and describing. That’s the way I am. Thank you and good bye.

Flaming of the name Karla is intentional. Unless you’re that jerk that gave me the lecture, no offense. None at all.

Comments

[jaxmalcolm.livejournal.com]

You know, I read a bit of it earlier, but I couldn't quite tell what to make of it. I mean, with a title that and a story that looks very much like an actual attempt at a fanfiction (by most authors on FFNet), I couldn't tell if it was supposed to be horrible or what.

So, basically, I'm just as confused as you are.

Are teenaged girls really that hard to tell apart from teenaged boys, by the way? It seems to me that no one can tell this Julie character isn't a boy. I would have figured it out with just the name "Jules."

I'm wincing at the fact that she has a Vulpix as a starter, though.

Other than that, the fact that she called you "Karla" amuses me. After all, the K isn't that close to the F. I'm half-tempted to leave a signed review myself, just to see how she'd screw up my username.

[farla.livejournal.com]

I don't even get the point of changing my name - I mean, if you're trying to insult someone, you *don't* want to try to protect their identity at all. You want to advertise it as much as possible so it'll stick in people's heads, and then when they see a story by me they'll remember.

I'm intending to email her soon...probably politely. When I'm circling before going in for the kill, I like to be polite.

[jaxmalcolm.livejournal.com]

To your point about insulting others: Exactly.

On the other hand, it's almost like MAD-style flaming. It's obvious who she's talking about, and that might have been part of her intention. I must admit, though, that the method was much more effective when the magazine changed Ash's name to "Ass."

[farla.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I mean, plenty of people don't know me and I'm sure some of those people probably won't bother to check the reviews, and surely those would be her preferred target audiance. I've seen a lot of readers answer back to reviewers without ever actually reading the reviews. Picture this - her loyal reader immediately copies 'karla' into the address bar and heads off to flame, not needing to read the review because obviously I'm just a jerk.

Plus, she didn't even change it into something actually insulting, like calling her poopgirl2523 or something lame like that.

Why are the people mad at me always so lame and pathetic?