Eh, more introspection.

[farla]

I was just looking over my last bunch of one-shots and realized that for a lot of them, some or all of the reviewers totally missed the point. Okay, I can actually see the (stupid) reasoning for Hatred, that's just militant shipping in action. But there's also Knowledge, where even the couple people who figured out the pokemon was dead either thought the girl had made a mistake (totally not the point) or tried her best, or something; Strife of Mere Immortals, where I don't think anyone got it and about half of them seemed to think one of the two was good, plus they seemed to miss the bit about twins, as in, same-species; and Absolution, where people actually argued against the point as if I believed it, and I don't know if anyone got that the absol was talking about a causal, karmic sense of suffering, which was why there was no point in saying sorry. And then there's the whole thing with The One Who Moved with most of the reviewers thinking it's a metapod for some reason, despite the poochyena.

So...are my stories too hard to follow? Are my reviewers just not paying attention? Do I really need ending author notes explaining the situation?

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[(Anonymous)]

Well, reading this, I see my review of Knowledge got it ridiculously wrong. ('Girl made a mistake.') Heh. It wasn't my first interpretation of it, though, just the one I settled on. I liked the way there were other ways of looking at it - I did feel I was going for a bit of a risky interpretation (the risk being that of getting it wrong and feeling rather stupid), but it wasn't exactly worrying. It was fun to take a guess. I say this in the hope that it might help you feel a little better. People can miss the point after having given the way you might have meant it a bit of thought. (I guess that's not much comfort unless they at least pass by the point somewhere along the way, though...)

[farla.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's understandable. I figured that most of the readers viewed the last lines as Joy saying it was nothing, rather than the rubbing-salt-into-a-wound closing as I meant it, or else they thought of pokemon centers as being like veterinarians rather than instant-cure facilities. It just bothers me because it's a viewpoint that's pretty much nonexistent in the fandom, and I was trying to put it out there for contemplation.