Just to clear some things up before I start posting…
PLEASE FLAME RESPONSIBLY.
By "responsibly" I mean that you should not be so much of a coward as to not put your
name (or pseudonym) and e-mail address on a flame. Try to use correct spelling,
punctuation, and grammar. I would respond much better to "I didn't like your fic because
I don't think you did a good job of portraying ______ (fill in the blank)" than "ur fic sux
they arent gay your sick". Just because I do not flame back is not an open invitation to
send me lots of hate mail. I can handle profanity and insults so long as you are insulting
my writing and not me as a person. If a summary or the opening author's notes say "1x2"
or "3x4/4x3", then that is a pretty good bet that it will contain yaoi. Male/male
relationships. If you aren't open-minded enough to deal with that sort of thing, please go
somewhere else. DO NOT FLAME, because it is your own fault for not bothering to
educate yourself before you begin reading fanfiction. I do not put up blatant yaoi
warnings, because the pairings alone should be enough. It is a waste of both your time
and mine to flame me because YOU failed to notice a warning. Besides- if you start
reading a fic and realize it isn't at all what you wanted to be reading, then you can quietly
go somewhere else. That's all there is to it. And to be totally honest, I don't really mind
flames- at least they mean that I have gotten a reaction out of the readers, and isn't that
the purpose of writing? Flames are in a way a success, because I have elicited a response
from the person doing the flaming. And flames will only make me write more of what
you don't like- chances are, you will hate the fics that I most adore. Funny how things
always turn out like that, isn't it? But I'm not laughing.
So in conclusion, all I can really say to you is this:
PLEASE FLAME RESPONSIBLY.
Thank you,
Lady Grelyn
PLEASE FLAME RESPONSIBLY.
By "responsibly" I mean that you should not be so much of a coward as to not put your
name (or pseudonym) and e-mail address on a flame. Try to use correct spelling,
punctuation, and grammar. I would respond much better to "I didn't like your fic because
I don't think you did a good job of portraying ______ (fill in the blank)" than "ur fic sux
they arent gay your sick". Just because I do not flame back is not an open invitation to
send me lots of hate mail. I can handle profanity and insults so long as you are insulting
my writing and not me as a person. If a summary or the opening author's notes say "1x2"
or "3x4/4x3", then that is a pretty good bet that it will contain yaoi. Male/male
relationships. If you aren't open-minded enough to deal with that sort of thing, please go
somewhere else. DO NOT FLAME, because it is your own fault for not bothering to
educate yourself before you begin reading fanfiction. I do not put up blatant yaoi
warnings, because the pairings alone should be enough. It is a waste of both your time
and mine to flame me because YOU failed to notice a warning. Besides- if you start
reading a fic and realize it isn't at all what you wanted to be reading, then you can quietly
go somewhere else. That's all there is to it. And to be totally honest, I don't really mind
flames- at least they mean that I have gotten a reaction out of the readers, and isn't that
the purpose of writing? Flames are in a way a success, because I have elicited a response
from the person doing the flaming. And flames will only make me write more of what
you don't like- chances are, you will hate the fics that I most adore. Funny how things
always turn out like that, isn't it? But I'm not laughing.
So in conclusion, all I can really say to you is this:
PLEASE FLAME RESPONSIBLY.
Thank you,
Lady Grelyn