Hallelujah!!!! It's finished!!!

[velja]

I can't believe it!
I finished writing my epic RH story "A Fortnight Of Smiles"! It's done! Finished, posted, read, commented on... it's done

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Huh

[velja]

I wasn't aware that I was complaining about fanfiction.net. In fact, I'm sure that I didn't. The platform fanfiction.net is great and I'm certain that I didn't mean to complain about it.
What I did complain about in my previous ramblings was the fact that I felt attacked by some reviews, as I'm sure many other authors felt as well, to the point that I thought about giving up the story.

For me it is true that I have never before, in other fandoms, been attacked like I was in RH fandom. I felt like being surrounded by children sometimes, and that's what I was complaining about. I didn't mean those terrible sex spam reviews, I know that they can happen everywhere. I meant those reviews that bashed my story. For me it's true that some fans in the RH fandom are less tolerant and more immature than in other fandoms. That's my experience, and I've stated it openly. Doesn't mean I was complaining about the whole fandom though.

And you are right that I didn't return the curtesy of mutual collaboration and support. That's because I rarely read other works. I haven't read Amarathe's often praised "Quintessence of Life", so of course I couldn't comment on that. I don't make it a habit to say something about someone's work unless I've read it. And since I haven't...
Oh, and BTW, you don't know how many PM's I've exchanged with others who encouraged me. So how would you know how much support I've given? You can't know.
Just because I didn't support them in public reviews doesn't mean they didn't have my support.

But thank you for liking my story.

Re: Huh

[velja]

I want to say sorry. I was mean in my review. I was too stressed out last week and tried to pour out my anger at some people and you. So you have my apologies if I offended you.

I wanted to say that I’m shocked how unhelpful some authors and people are! I saw Margret Thornton, romayne, jadey, Art Counterclockwise, Amaranthe Athenais, and several other people who openly supported others when the fandom was attacked by spammers. I really feel sympathetic to authors who were attacked and I loved how cooperative they were helping each other! MargretThornton posted encouraging reviews to every story she didn’t read at all! Amaranthe and jadey supported several authors, though not as much as Margaret Thornton! Margaret impressed me! She is great!

But I never saw anything like that from you. You know I’m right.

Then I saw your posts that someone said something critical and you complained. This strikes me as strange from a person who doesn’t help others on the fandom. That’s all. That’s fair enough to say.

I’ve been reading RH fandom for more than three years and I was also shocked when I saw spamming reviews. I thought you all should combine strengths and keep together, some did act this way and some not. You were not among them, you know.

I only said what I saw in the fandom, in reviews to other stories.

I apologize if I say what you don’t like.

I loved your story, I’m Guy/Marian shipper and I’ll read your sequel though I will probably not comment.

I'm like you. I’m a consumer on the board too because I only read and never post reviews. But perhaps we should be more active. I think I should change and post reviews to great stories which I read, but I... am a looser. Maybe I'll grow up and create an account, then will support good authors... I know I should, but I'm so disorganized.

Good luck.

Re: Huh

[velja]

You have every right to say what you think and I'm not offended. I was a bit surprised, I admit, about what you wrote but that's just because usually nobody replies at all to my ramblings here on my LJ. This is pretty much just a way to let my thoughts out with nobody reading them.
I have very few people who write in my LJ, so I was surprised to read your reply, that's all.
But you made me think and I know that you're right. I am a consumer and I don't support other authors on ff.net as much as I should.
If I do support them, it's mostly in PM's where no one else sees it. Perhaps I should be more active, I know.

But I don't think I will be more active in the RH fandom because the story I wrote was the first and the last I will write for it. I'm not really into RH anymore, it was just a brief fascination and now that it's almost done, I'm not planning on being involved in RH any longer.
But I have other fandoms I've been intrested in for years, and now that you made me think about it, I plan to be more supportive and involved there.
So thank you for giving me a push in the right direction (even if it's not in RH fandom).