Peach was nervus, butshe new she had ta do it. She sliped into the costum and put on make-up. Spot came behinde her and squeezed her sholder. "Yas gonna be amazin'1" he gave her a quicky kiss on the lips.
She wen on stage and was scared, but saw spot smiling and got through it.
There kiss was amazin, an they were only have pretendin' ta be in love.
At the end they got s atsandin' ovation and everythin'. Spot hugged peach tp his chest...
A/N: Ok. I am going to stop right here. So, if you haven't figured out by now, this entire fic and this penname are both fake. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am a fake. I am not an awful writer (Whee! Look at me use proper grammar and spelling!). However, before you begin throwing the produce at me, please allow me to tell you a little bit about this. Please read all of this.
It started out as a joke with a friend and I didn't expect it to last long. However, I was amazed by the amount of positive reviews I received on the first chapter alone. Further more, even when left a negative review, the reviewer treated the story as though it were a real fic. The only person to question its authenticity was Owlhoot (major props for getting that one). It hit me that fics like this had not only become accepted by certain fanfiction readers, it had also become something of the "norm." I don't mean that all the fics are like this, but it doesn't surprise one to see this kind of fic on here. In fact, I understand this fic made it on to newsiesues, a livejournal community (thanks guys! It makes me proud to know it was worthy of five years in the Refuge). Personally, this appals me considering the writers on this site are (supposedly) 13 at the youngest. Yet people are able to accept that a 13-year-old would write this. If that is the case (and sadly I've seen evidence that it is) it saddens me that it has come to this.
I will give you the statistics of this story. The "Hits" counter reset halfway through writing this story, so this is the number of hits I had after the counter had been reset: 438. Before the counter was reset, I think I had somewhere in the vicinity of 250 hits, so that's a pretty impressiveshowing for something which was written specifically for the purpose of being bad. I received 14 reviews (one of which doesn't count, so really 13). Four were 100 percentpositive; two were positive, but with attempts to offer constructive criticism; five were blunt criticism (nice work, by the by); one was on to my game.
I would like to say that I think Gamble 7 is the sweetest person on the face of this earth. I could tell how hard it was for her to give that constructive criticism, not knowing how I'd react (don't be afraid to give criticism, though). This brings me to another point. If there is one thing that I cannot stand more than anything on this site, it is the way I've seen authors treat reviewers who didn't give them completely positive reviews. It's not "mean" to tell someone what you think of their story. I don't care if you leave me a flame, I am grateful for every review I get because it helps me grow as a writer. If you ignore these reviews, you are ignoring your own potential. If you are choosing to put your story up here for all to see, you can't blame others for telling you what they think. You took the initiative and (indirectly) asked them for their opinions. I have seen people send their "goons" on others who left them negative reviews. People are afraid to review a story with their penname in fear of having their stories flamed by disgruntled "writers" and their followers. A person who has a penname should not have to leave anonymous reviews in fear of retribution. It is not right and it is not fair.
One person in particular has been especially rude. I saw her flame another person's story for no reason stated other than the fact that it was a slash fic, yet, when given constructive criticism on one of her own stories, she called the review a "flame" and told the reviewer that if she didn't like the fic she just shouldn't read it (Which completely defeats the entire purpose of the review system. It is not only for you to receive lavish praises. If that's all you're looking for, show your stories to your friends and spare us the trouble). I'm not going to name this person, but hopefully she knows who she is.
On the subject of slash, I want to say nowthis had nothing to do with slash vs. het or any of that nonsense. I've seen fantastic hetstories and awful slash stories. The only reason I chose to do a het fic is because it's much easier to insert a Mary Sue into it than it would be for slash.
I'm a bit glad to be done with this because it was the hardest thing I have ever had to write in my life. Seriously. I now leave this to the readers, expecting to get an inbox full of flames (and maybe some non-flames). Before you say it, yes, I know I have no life. Yes, I know I could have spent this time being more "productive." Yes, I know I'm a mean person, but to be honest, mean things are always happening on this site, so it's not as though I'm the first.
I'm sure this fic will end up getting deleted, so I have every intention of posting my speech in Sweet Peach Blossom's profile (in case others want to see it). If you think I'm leaving this fic, never to hear the flames I receive, you are incorrect. I have every intention of reading what reviews/messages/whatever I get from all of you, so rest assured I will hear you.
Oh, if anyone out there wants to know what happens to Spot and Peach, uh...she becomes a famous actress, they get married, she pops out a few babies, and so on with the happily every after.
That is all and thank you for your time.