Okay, this is just getting ridiculous. I usually consider myself to be a fairly level-headed person, but a certain reviewer is really starting to get on my nerves.
Last night, I received a PM from the gentleman responsible for my breakdown last week, one Rubberman 2025. Right after I had explicitly told him to never contact me again. Here are the contents of his message, and I would really like to know if I'm wrong in being incredibly offended by this.
You have received a private message from:
Name: Rubberman2025
Subject: requesting permition
i know, you don't want me contacting you, but i refuse to make the same mistake twice. i'm planing to write a story, and post it on FFN. there for, i request permission to use your OCs in my stories.
This message came after approximately twenty different versions of him groveling via e-mail, and several rather offensive 'ideas' for edits to my chapters. Here is an example of one of said ideas, and I'm sure that all of you can understand why I am incredibly not amused.
You have received a private message from:
Name: Rubberman2025
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some one aught to transemute a nose onto envy's back, right above his ass, making sure that it's hooked up to his scence of smell. that way, every time envy farts\drops an ass bomb\cuts the cheese, HE ENDS UP SMELLING IT! WAHAHAHAHA, WAHAHAHAHA, WAHAHAHAHA! i hope this gives you a great laugh.
Now imagine receiving about five more PMs with roughly the same kind of content, and you'll get a fairly decent idea as to how incredibly pissed off I am. All of these e-mails were sent after both my beta ArabianDaze and I requested him to leave me the hell alone. I swear to god that I actually saw red when I received this particular PM with this idiot actually having the gall to ask if he could use my characters after everything he put me through.
I had given him a final ultimatum previous to the first message, which consisted of this:
I am highly curious to know what part of 'Leave me alone' do you fail to comprehend? I do not wish to have any form of communication with you... AT ALL. Since being polite has obviously not gotten anywhere through your skull, allow me to be blunt.
Leave me the HELL alone. Failure to comply with this request will result in me blocking you, and reporting you to the site admins for continued harassment.
And no, that does not mean that you can use my personal e-mail to continue to send me messages either. Because that will result in a report of harassment to Yahoo as well. I have absolute zero interest in anything that you wish to say to me, and quite personally, I have no use whatsoever for any of the idea that you have sent me thus far. When I told you earlier to leave me be, I really did mean it.
I really do not wish to resort to underhanded tactics, but so far you have left me no choice. If you fail to leave me alone and stop sending me e-mails of any kind, I will inform all of my reviewers exactly who you are, on TOP of the report to the site admins. Have I made myself clear now?
I really tried to be cold, but polite. Really, I did. But what I received just made me so mad that I just lost it. Let it just be said that my response to this moron was not PG. Actually, I think that it went more along the lines of an R rating, because I was so mad. Due to his actions, I have kept my promise in stating that I would tell everyone his name, because right now I feel that this a-hole deserves everything that he has coming to him. I have also blocked him, and have reported him to FFN for continued harassment.
However, I am going to be keeping a very close eye on this individual in the future. Because, so help me God, if he does use any of my characters after I have expressly forbidden him from doing so… well, it won't be pretty.
On another, more positive note, I have calmed down a bit when it comes to the idea of quitting 'What One May Never See'. After talking things over with my beta quite extensively, I have come to the decision that I really don't want to quit the story. I would feel absolutely awful for abandoning it after I have worked so hard to get to the point that I have, and I am far too attached to the characters and plot to just sever all ties to it. Not to mention the fact that I was absolutely swamped with incredibly thoughtful reviews from all of you who wished me well, and apologized for all of the stress that I was dealing with at the time. You guys sure know how to make a girl feel appreciated, you know that, right?
So, sometime within the next few weeks, I will be posting the next chapter for 'What One May Never See'. I'm already halfway done with it, so it's just a simple fact of me sitting down and writing my ass off so I can get it finished. Thank you all so very much for all of the support and well-wishes that you've sent me so far, and I apologize for putting you guys through the wringer the way I did.
Also, major kudos goes to my beta/roommate/best friend, ArabianDaze for letting me vent the way she did, and for keeping me from making a very big mistake.
