Backhanded Complements
Sep. 14th, 2006 06:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
farlaAnd yeah you are good, but why waste your time on Pokemon?
This is about the dozenth time one particular reviewer has told me this. Not only is it somewhat insulting for him to say what I spend time on is a waste, but it really makes me wonder how much he actually likes my stories, given how much time he's spending trying to convince me to stop.
Wow very dark. You should try prozac.
Not only does this imply I'm mentally ill, saying that the only reason someone could write that is that they're so severely depressed as to be unbalanced does not reflect well on the story quality either. And telling me how to 'fix' my 'problem' of writing these stories again makes me wonder how she could actually like them.
With complements like these, who needs flames?
This is about the dozenth time one particular reviewer has told me this. Not only is it somewhat insulting for him to say what I spend time on is a waste, but it really makes me wonder how much he actually likes my stories, given how much time he's spending trying to convince me to stop.
Wow very dark. You should try prozac.
Not only does this imply I'm mentally ill, saying that the only reason someone could write that is that they're so severely depressed as to be unbalanced does not reflect well on the story quality either. And telling me how to 'fix' my 'problem' of writing these stories again makes me wonder how she could actually like them.
With complements like these, who needs flames?
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