The insanity of it all...

[swatkat]

I'm honestly surprised by the direction this entire M/N essay thing took. I mean, if you post something up on a public forum, how can you expect *everyone* to provide you with nothing but glowing praise? Considering that ship_manifesto is a place to pimp your pairing and get others hooked to it, why should others not take an issue when you say that 'fic in X. fandom is bad, bad, bad', especially when you don't read, or aren't even interesting in reading fic in that fandom? I wish the OP hadn't over-reacted or gotten so defensive about the entire matter - I thought everyone was being very civil and asking pertinet questions. It's a pity that some people can't handle disagreements. *shrug*

Meanwhile, I'm still very much in love with Buffy/Faith, and am looking around for good fics (which is *hard* to find!). Maybe I'll have to contact some shippers after all.

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[nell65.livejournal.com]

And unfortunately at this point I'm sure she would sooner chew glass than even read a rec'ed LFN HR fic, much less find anything of merit in it. Rip it to shreds more like. Which isn't even difficult to do with the classic English LIt canon if you've got a mind to...bah.

Her whole "everyone knows" that LFN fanfic is "particularly bad" is maddening because there is no possible rejoinder once she turned it into well "you're just personally upset because I said all the fic in your fandoms sucks. Not that I've read very much or even followed the links on the pages I did mange to find in my not especially exhaustive search of the interweb. And you can't make me read or like any more than I've already peeked at. And if you do like any of that garbage it is because your standards are lower than my exquistely fine ones. And if you disagree with my empty assessment it is because you can't face honesty."

Well. Um. Yeah. Once you've turned into a "stopped beating your wife yet?" proposition it is pretty unanswerable.

If she'd just said "I don't *like* LFN M/N fic very much as it is mostly sappy romance fic" - who of us would have disagreed? Instead she made it an assertion of oveall quality based on a small, random sample.

I was actually thinking of looking around for some Spuffy links. Thanks to her, I will be staying far away as at this point I'd find it garbage on principle - which is hardly fair to the authors in question.