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Shoutout to the complete rando who commented "are you writing a fanfic or a sleeping cure either way it's curing my insomnia" on chapter 8 of The Protector because it might have been rude but it's so funny in the way it raises so many questions. Like. How did you make it through eight chapters of the fic if it's so boring it makes you sleep. Do you fall asleep on a chapter every night and it lulls you gently into sweet dreams about child murder and psychological torture ? Is it you little nighttime ritual, tuck yourself in your little bed with your little blanket, grab your little phone, read your little fic? Do you sometimes damage your phone falling asleep on it? Do you listen to it in audio form, is this a "mommy reading you to sleep situation?" Either way, you're a real champ for soldiering through eight chapters of a fic you fight so insipid it literally lulls you to sleep.
In all seriousness, what baffles me about the hate comments I've gotten so far on ao3 isn't even the disrespect for people putting out work over here for free that you could just choose not to read. It's the fact that they read the whole thing, the utter silliness of reading around 80 pages of something you don't enjoy, then dutifully informing me that you did not enjoy it.
"but glitter, how will they know that the story is bad if they don't read it whole?" Well, I knew Houellebecq's books were not for me at all after three chapters, but I admire the commitment. Except there's a difference between a story not being for you and a story being bad. I like the stories I write. Other people like the stories I write. Not everyone has to, art is subjective, etc. That should be obvious. If my writing is so consistently boring to you, you should have noticed after the first chapter and, as you are neither my beta nor my editor, you didn't need to push yourself to continue reading something you will find boring just to give me your review. You don't need to, as in a memorable occasion, carry through five out of five chapters of fanon characterization after the first chapter very clearly tells you"i wanted to play with these classic fanon tropes for a bit" and then explain to me in detail how it sucked because it was so ooc. Who is holding you at gunpoint to read fanfics you don't enjoy? That seems like a cruel and concerning thing to do.
This is too silly, I can't even get mad about such unserious behaviour. Like, what are you doing. Literally why.