3315: The Lost Lupin - Hermione Granger, Remus Lupin... possibly more

[pottersues]

Don't forget about the fanfic contest.

TITLE: The Lost Lupin
PERPETRATOR: MaryRoyale
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Comments

[anonymous]

Well, aren't you all holier-than-thou (aside from Llevita19, who seems quite nice)? Seriously, this is a HP Burn Book. This "critique" reads like a high school bitch who's jealous of a rival. Not to mention the spelling errors. Glass houses and stones, y'all...

MaryRoyale writes for the fun of it, and if readers enjoy it (which they DO), great! What's wrong? Are you jealous of all of her reviews?

Grow up.

[anonymous]

I mean, it's as if you think that everyone has to follow YOUR rules for what an AU "should" be, or you blast them.

Guess what? You're not the boss. Of anyone.

Get over yourselves.

Sanctimonious jerks.

[pottersues]

Except they're not my rules.

Here is a quote from Big Bang Theory from Sheldon Cooper, "Penny, while I subscribe to the "Many Worlds" theory which posits the existence of an infinite number of Sheldons in an infinite number of universes, I assure you that in none of them am I dancing."

AU is short for alternative universe. Alternative universe otherwise known as parallel universe is based of scientific principles. If a writer can't be bothered to follow the rules of those scientific principles, then the writer is not writing an AU no matter how much they claim to be.

P.S. Popularity doesn't equate quality. Twilight is a prime example.

[yemi_hikari]

On top of this they're working with time travel, which is yet again scientific theory, but not bothering to delve into the ins and outs of said theory

[yemi_hikari]

To add to what Pottersues said, the AU genre's existed since the 1800s, so let me ask you this. What right do you have to come in and decide the definition of a genre which has existed for over a hundred years? Did you ever stop and think that the real issue here is that we take issue with the genre being butchered by a bunch of people who haven't a clue regarding the genre - who likely didn't read any original fiction for the genre prior to writing fanfic, and whose only familiarity with the genre is the butchering of said genre which goes on in fanfic

[yemi_hikari]

How does everyone know both you and Llevita19 aren't the writer throwing a tantrum because their story got featured?

And no, this is NOT an HP "Burn Book". I took the time to look up the definition of burn book in the urban dictionary and got definitions such as "a book which contains bitchy comments about other people, often friends, school mates, etc." Another is "a book where girls write bitchy, rude, horrible things about other girls that may or may not be true." ALL of the definitions say this.

Do you know what we're not allowed to do here on Pottersues? We're not allowed to attack the writer. We can call them out for poor behavior choices, just like I'm allowed to call you out for calling this a "burn book" when it's not. Worse, you're just another person trying to act like critique is a personal attack against people

[anonymous]

I'm not MaryRoyale, but there was no way on earth that I would log in under my actual user name. I'm not inviting that. I found this page because I was searching for The Lost Lupin

[pottersues]

Have you actually bothered looking at any of the other entries, or looking at the FAQs?

In the FAQ section the reason for not letting the writer know about the reviews written on the blog comes down to the fact we don't know if the writer is ready to handle critique, but we have had writers storm in creating sockpuppets to try and make themselves feel better. To sockpuppet, it can involve using multiple anonymous accounts, and also multiple LJ accounts, so logging in wouldn't disprove you're not the same person.

As for the author not being invited, far from true. If you'd bothered reading the Rule of Thumb before making assumptions about us, you'll find under the very first rule we don't mind the Suethor's finding their stories and participating in the conversations. It spells out the reason why we don't personally go out of our way to tell writers, the fact we've had "Not Bobs" come in and harass the commenters here, but we've had "Sals" who liked taking advantage of the fact certain writers weren't ready for critique to cause

[yemi_hikari]

I was definitely not trying to defend the mistake. I've honestly lost track of the times I've found myself discredited because of the grammar issues in my reviews AND my stories, of which I have no control over. We're not talking grammar where the writer doesn't bother using proper capitalization or end punctuation! It's an ad hominem attack, but so is everything else they've said.

I really hate the, "but someone's feelings might get hurt" part, because going through life attempting to avoid getting your feelings hurt is psychologically damaging. Getting upset because somebody didn't have something positive to say about your story does not compare at all to having someone say call you ignorant and uneducated because you're black, but doing so just trivializes what the latter goes through. It needs to stop.

[yemi_hikari]

Laziness

[anonymous]

Why is it that you people think that any sort of negativity equates to jealousy. Now that I think about it, you seem rather displeased at this review. Are you perhaps jealous of Pottersues in some way? Or are you saying that it's only okay to give a writer a negative review if they have practically no reviewers? I hope you realize how that made no sense

[pottersues]

Just to clarify, the blog's been around for over a decade, but not me. I'm actually the forth Pottersues and took over in 2012. If any of the Pottersues doubted what we do here, they would not have passed on the mantle to another person, let alone tried finding someone who would uphold the blogs values

[yemi_hikari]

That's the conclusion I've come to as well. As per the quote I found, "Sparing people's feelings is just a way to make yourself feel OK. It's selfish and pretty close to lying."

[pottersues]

The anon and Llevita19 probably aren't the same person, though it has been a few years since that person posted and there is always the chance of moving. I think for once we actually do have different readers defending the writer, but the work featured this time is actually popular enough for this to actually occur. It's still wank, even if not caused by the writer though.

[yemi_hikari]

Fair enough.

Is it just me, or has the writer's attitude towards writing AUs changed a bit since the posting of this? Their profile and newer stories don't seem to have the one can do anything in an AU attitude I remember from two, even four years ago. Or am I thinking of a different writer.

That means she's learned that a good AU isn't something that you just do anything. There are definitely rules to how you go about making the changes.