Open letter

[kat_lair]

Dear Fanfic Author,

If you are not going to bother answering comments, then I'm not going to bother with leaving you one, no matter how much I liked your fic. And no, I'm not talking about comments a few days old that you just haven't gotten around to yet. I'm talking about comments that were left several months ago and haven't been acknowledged with even a simple 'thank you'. Also, if it's clear that you're only answering comments left by your in-crowd or other so-called BNFs, then I will be doubley disinclined to acknowledge your fic in any way. Because nothing gets up my nose faster than that sort of high-school elitism and if that makes me a petty bitch then so be it. You can take your entitlement issues and 5 pages of unanswered comments and fuck off.

Ask me if I care,
Kat

Comments

[iniq.livejournal.com]

Word.


Of course, someone can just forget to answer one, but when it's every comment on every chapter, it's a bit ridiculous. And those will be the ones who apologize for spamming your flist with posting a multi chapter story... when they could just alter the fucking date and have just the master post appear on their flist. The irony. So smart, so self-centered, such good writers, such big morons...

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

*nods* Or my personal "favourite": The fic writers that go "if I don't get at least x-number of comments I won't continue this". Oh bo-fucking-hoo.

Like I said above: talent is worth shit all without some humility.