About ten days ago, I wrote a post about a comment that I had received on one of my fics. You know, a “This is good, but” type comment. This was for a fic that featured a tagged rare pair. I wasn’t happy with it, but I responded pretty politely, where I politely thanked them for the comment, told them I would probably be writing the pairing in the future, and to please not comment on any and all of my future fics, “lest they not like something else I write and write another rude comment”.
Well, I figured that would be that. I haven’t seen them comment again, nor have they shown up in my kudos. Which I was really happy about.
Until last night.
The other day for Advent (which I’m behind on, yikes), I posted a fic about Buck adopting a dog and helping train her to be a therapy dog for emergencies, you know, to make kids more comfortable after everything has gone crazy in their lives. It ended pretty open-ended, with me already privately planning to write a sequel for day 20.
It was very well received, getting a BUNCH of kudos and a good amount of comments. And then… And then they commented.
And what kills me is that their comment wasn’t rude. It just was trying to push me into writing a pairing that I wasn’t planning on writing. Not that there’s a problem with the pairing, it’s the main pairing in the fandom. But I hadn’t planned on it. Hell, I wasn’t planning on adding any pairings in any way. It was meant to just be friends and family.
But honestly, just seeing their comment made me want to throw up. I’d asked kindly for them to not comment, and yet they did. And they tried to direct my fic the way they wanted. And I’m not happy about that at all.
Initially, I was going to writing the sequel of the fic using the pairing that he didn’t like previously, but I just couldn’t do it. Not that I didn’t want to write the pairing, it’s just I didn’t want to write it while being spiteful.
Instead, I am going with a different plan. The same exact plan that I’d come up with initially. But the other thing is, I’m going to be turning on comment moderation across the board. I know that turns off a lot of commenters, but I’m going to explain in the bottom author’s notes exactly why I’m doing it. No names will be mentioned, but it hopefully will be obvious. I’m just sick of getting these comments.
So, yeah. That’s my plan. It’s been a weird day. And now I’m off to write a bunch more before dinner and watching the Hawkeye finale!
Until next time!
