Important Author's Note:

Good morning, everyone. I have an important message to make.

At 3:28am this morning, I received a notification from Fanfiction about a guest review on the first chapter of my Avengers fanfic, PRINCESS OF MISCHIEF. I copypasted the message underneath in italic.

Emersonian,

A new review has been posted to your story.

Story: The Princess of Mischief
Chapter: 1. The Menaces From Outer Space

From: SaintHeartwing (Guest)

SaintHeartwing: Give my latest star wars story May the Force Be With you a good review or I will troll you, your s*** fics, your followers, report you AND spread rumors that you're a stupid Republican white supremacist!

I need a large amount of good reviews in order to win a contest, so just give me a good review
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Do not reply to this email.

I wanted to state that I'm surprised by such behavior. Fanfics are for the sake of writing what we are passionate and reviews are for stating what we think about the authors' writings, not as a way to blackmail people into reading their fanfics. It happened a few years ago when, for my other Avengers fanfic, a guest reviewer said there was 'no such thing as oppression against women' and that I was being a 'feminist libtard'. Naturally, I blocked that review.

My message is that regardless if you write positive or negative reviews, it is morally incorrect to use reviews to blackmail someone into reading your fanfic without asking nicely and threaten to bully you through incorrect rumors.

To the reviewer, I'm sure you wrote an amazing story, but I don't think you can really win a contest if all the reviews you got were possibly rooted in blackmail. I hope you think about that because I don't want to have to email a report to the site.

Have a great everyone. Keep writing on things that are meaningful to you.

Sincerely,

Emersonian

Fanfic author since 2015