God I hate this shit...
So, I have this piece entitled Pretty Girl that I posted to FF (ages ago!) because I like their system a hell of a lot better than Dokuga. Someone (forget who) pressured me into posting Pretty Girl on Dokuga after I was said and done posting the drabble on FF. Now, I want to make it clear that I wrote the whole thing and had it ALL down completed before I even posted the first piece on FF. This took me four months on insanity--as I was focused on PG entirely. I even worked on it during my breaks and lunches at work.
So I began posting it on Dokuga to appease someone, but fuck me. It's three-hundred and something chapters long and I don't have the time of day to remember to update on a site I hardly get anything from--or fucking go to any more because the reading is SHIT (yes , I said this)--in the first place. So I've been slow on the uploads there...doing it when I remember that "whoa...I have a story to upload, dude".
After one of those such sessions, I received THIS review (which is one of the reasons I hate to upload to Dokuga):
tetralis has submitted the following review for Pretty Girl:
I followed your story in fanfiction.net and loved it despite being a drabble -I don't like drabbles really, they drag on too long, especially when updating takes forever and for just a handful of words; it seems that drabbles are all people write now a days, though. I was a little disappointed when it just ended like that, but appeased when you mentioned a sequel. Now I'm guessing the delay it due to your adding the story here. But judging by how your updates are so far in between and by the amount of chapters this story still has left, I feel that by the time you do add a sequel, if you ever really do, I'd forgotten what your story was all about. I won't be holding my breath, that's for sure.
This comment was posted anonymously.
ANONYMOUSLY.... Talk shit and run like a little bitch is all that says.
So I tried to look this person up based upon the name left to leave a remark. Several times in the past I've connected with someone this way and, honestly, several of my regular Dokuga readers--when I upload there--review anonymous. I know them, though. They are like a well worn blanket, lol. However, with this person (using ALL available options), I received NADA.
Punk ass bitch.
I uploaded 317 chapters on FF in seven months. Screw you. Do better. Oh wait. Can't find you....
Forgive the language or tone I've used hence, but it's been a hell of a week at work and I don't have time to deal with fanfic readers whines...
So, basically, my point of posting this (other than personal gratification of calling whoever tetralis is a self-important dork of major proportions--my youngest would call he/she LAME!) , is to leave my reply to them that I could not deliver on Dokuga thanks to the nonexistent system of regulating reviews. And if I'm wrong on this matter--if I cannot say NO ANONYMOUS REVIEWS on the website--then please correct me. PLEASE! Did this on FF and it solved a WORLD of ass-hurts (them--not me).
More than likely, this reply will not be as nicely worded as it was in my mind when I went on search for them the night before...
Dear tetralis,
While I'm glad you enjoyed PG on FF, I do not write for your enjoyment. I write for my own. I write to relieve stress that comes from real life--you do know what that is, right?. Writing fanfic is a joy and I'm not about to allow whatever pressure you "think" you have, to make that joy into something sour and bitter.
The second part of PG is in no way affected by the posting of the first part on Dokuga. Reviews like yours make me want to vomit. Seriously. There are stories I've been reading for YEARS that have uploaded once a year--if I am even that lucky. The author's work is so fucking remarkable that I haven't forgotten a moment. And no way in hell am I placing myself in that column, but hell. I've been around the block enough, hon. The second part of PG is going to be able to be enjoyed--because I know the fickle nature of readers--without the person EVER having had to read the first part (though, honestly, that's their loss, lol). No. It's nowhere near completed. But it won't be uploaded until it is.
If you can possibly remember something for some moment of time and are around for the sequel--that you don't need to read the first one to get into--then good for you. If you just can't sink your teeth into another drabble series--fuck you for you that on a personal basis--you OBVIOUSLY have no life outside of fanfic (I was in that stage, I know)-- and being someone who was there before I have nothing else to say on the matter.... It's something you need to personally work out.
As for me, you're nothing but a sentence on a computer screen. The only thing that bothers me is the fact that you were too cowardly to leave me any way to trace your comment back to you. Way to go, reviewer. You've made a strong basis for everything else you do in the future.
~LC
PS. May I add a very gallant FUCK YOU! without seeming a bit too much?!
(author's answer: No, you may not!)