Reposting because the formatting messed up when I ported from Ao3. Apologies!

If you have to copy your comment and repeatedly send it to me until I address it, it's harassment fyi.

I hate writing these chapters or posts. I hate the fact that I even have to address this, but it seems a reminder needs to be provided.

I allow access to this story without an account out of kindness. I understand not everyone has, can get, or wants an account to read stories. I do the same for comments and reviews as well. But lately, it seems people have been taking this as blanket agreement to write whatever they want to someone unseen on the other side of the screen. So lets have a frank talk, and it is most definitely one where your opinion is not needed or asked for.

I am going to preface this with some information before addressing what one person feels is me censoring their 'critique' (Don't worry hun, I wouldn't dream of censoring your words, please do show your arse some more) I am a 31 year old parent, I am NOT a woman. This assumption of my gender and then the patriarchal tear down of me and my ego because of that assumption was sexist and a little transphobic but anywho that is not why we are here.

I am going to express a few main points I think we all forget, myself included.

1. Fanfiction is written for free

2. Fanfiction is not written by professionals

3. I do not write for anyone other than myself, this is the same for most other authors.

4. The only way to get better is practice, no one is born an amazing writer, myself included.

5. I and many other authors on fanfiction sites never claim to be amazing or perfect, I am okay with how fallible I am as well as my writing.

6. Criticism and harassment are very different and its easy to cross that line when you make things personal.

7. While you are entitled to your opinion you are not entitled to make your opinion known to everyone.

So please keep those in mind because I feel the above is how we have basic respect for one another as authors and readers. Without any kind of basic kindness or giving out criticisms in good faith all you're doing is tearing down someone who is a novice, doing this for fun, is learning, or is exceptionally young and may not be as resilient to criticism given in a cruel manner. I could go into the definition of criticisms but to be honest that would be condescending because I truly believe we all know what a criticism actually is and I do believe the person who wrote these angry messages to me knows this as well. The attempts to get under my skin, undermine me as a person and author, and also goad me into a response for a momentary satisfaction. Perhaps I am feeding into that, perhaps not. But at the end of the day I want this person to stop. I've read your comments, forcing me to reread it over and over, acknowledge it and what I view as a cruel comment that doesn't help me as a writer or help the story at all so here, I am responding. It just may not be the kind of response you are looking for.

Based off your level of aggression and your clear anger and vitriol towards me and my story since most of your comment were a personal attack on me and my character (no not mira, I am talking about a persons character/personality) rather than my story, fine lets talk. Just know no, you will not get to talk back. I have the power to remove comments and limit anonymous ones for a reason, and I have no qualms doing so as I do not view that as me losing, I view that as you losing.

So lets get to the meat of it shall we! Do not worry I screenshoted all your comments and I will transcribe them below, I am not someone who just deletes. Please, even my email retains copies. You don't reach 31 writing online without keeping receipts. Your excellent work of finding my other fanfiction site and checking both of them to see if I responded is the definition of obsessed and desperate. I can only assume because of this you want one of two things, for me to either stop writing all together or remove this story and cry about how right you are. I am sorry to say none of that is going to happen. I write for me, I write for free, and your condescending comments about me as a woman just don't ring true because I am not a woman. Oops.

So without further adue, here is your comments for all to see with my response. Although, I will say making an admission you didn't really read the story and seem to just be running of my tags suggest there was never an intention to criticize but you know what, I will address it as if it were just for you because I am so nice.

Comment of AO3:

You know.. these ofcs that come to another world always are so shallow, arrogant and elitist, when they act like they never had anyone who cared for them before. I mean there are people that live under devastating living conditions, are neglected by their caretakers, and are for a bunch of different reasons, for which they are not responsible for, unable to make and uphold meaningful connections with their fellow humans. Not all people struggle the same, it is not the pain Olympics. I have suffered endlessly in ways worse than what you could even come up with. Perhaps for me the simpler sorrow of just mental illness etc is nicer. I explore other stories as not every person and story needs a tragic backstory. Specially with women, its a sexist trope to expect suffering for a woman to become strong or have a story worth telling. Its weak, its lazy, and frankly despite not being a woman I think its insulting and not a good look. I'm sorry you view women so narrowly.

Still, this is not the case for the protagonist here, as we here have another case of the Bella Swan syndrome: Just like Bella from Twilight, Mira here feels alone, not because no one cares or could care in the modern world for her, but because she herself doesn't really care for the people there. She just doesn't value the people where she came from. She instead overvalues her fresh romantic and sexual relationship, like she doesn't know how the world works, and she could never fall in love again. As thus, she acts overly dramatic and theatrical, since Mira, like Bella Swan, upholds Zuko, while she herself remains dull and without much of an own agency, since she wants to build her whole life around Zuko. If you read my story you'd know that a. isn't true and doesn't happen (mostly because if you read the story she is upset she almost died and lost Iroh but whatever go off I guess) and b. that her issues are centered around mental illness, one I do happen to share. I'd explain which and why but I know the next accusation is that Mira is a self insert (she isn't, her personality is based off someone I knew growing up cause I be old, I have many other places to draw inspiration other than myself) so the ableism here isn't cute or a good look. Honestly I am not going to give this much more attention beyond calling that out because it sickens me that people minimize mental illness and trivialize it to this degree. Take it elsewhere bud, I have no space for that here.

I could write more, but for these reasons alone we should seriously doubt that this is a better love story than twilight. Nice admission you didn't really read it. If you had you'd know the romance was very sparing and barely happened before it ended. Truth be told my stories revolve around love in a larger scope than just romantic and most of my story has been love in the matter of friendships and family so I mean, its clear you didn't read any of my story.

Comment two sent on :

You know.. these ofcs that come to another world always are so shallow, arrogant and elitist, when they act like they never had anyone who cared for them before. I mean there are people that live under devastating living conditions, are neglected by their caretakers, and are for a bunch of different reasons, for which they are not responsible for, unable to make and uphold meaningful connections with their fellow humans.

Still, this is not the case for the protagonist here, as we here have another case of the Bella Swan syndrome: Just like Bella from Twilight, Mira here feels alone, not because no one cares or could care in the modern world where she came from for her, but because she herself doesn't really care for the people there. She just doesn't value the people there. She instead overvalues her romantic and sexual relationship, like she doesn't know how the world works, and she could never fall in love again. As thus, she acts overly dramatic and theatrical, since Mira, like Bella Swan, upholds Zuko, while she herself remains dull and without much of an own agency, since she wants to build her whole life around Zuko.

I could write more, but for this reasons alone we should seriously doubt that this is a better love story than twilight.

Since the author has such a fragile ego that she can't stand critique, and this here is reasonable critique and not flaming, I copied it from another side before she deleted it, and reposted it here. Minimal effort, but I had a good laugh. I have addressed everything else above so lets address this. It isn't reasonable critique because to do so you'd need to have actually read my story and not attack me and who I am. Critiquing a story critiques the story, not the author as a person. Weak this just shows your argument has little value because you resorted to mockery and gendering me for a sexist comment. Not a woman, sorry. Also thank you for showing you wish to harass me after I cut contact and showed you I didn't wish to interact with you. This level of desperation is more laughable than your faux supposed win over me for finding both of my accounts on two different websites and checking them to see if I have responded. FYI You are not entitled to have your comments viewable on MY story, nor are you entitled to make your opinions known. I reserve that right on my story, not you. Freedom of speech only protects you from ramifications of the government, it doesn't mean I have to give it any space in my life.

I will not stop writing this story or posting it, nor will I stop deleting your comments so I'd get bored now and move along. I hope this satisfies your obsessive want to have your opinion heard by me a stranger.

To everyone else, take note that this is not rare on fanfiction sites and is part of the reason many authors have given up and left. Some are nastier, some are tamer, but it doesn't change the fact that fandom and fanfiction is a hobby done for you all, and myself, for free by people who are passionate. If we tear them all down we will have less and less people providing content. If that is what you want okay I guess, can't stop you, but if it's not, remember manners and kindness because many things people write are close to their heart and soul and everyone puts a piece of themselves in their art. 2020 sucks, lets not make it worse for each other. I have only ever written one criticism I know wasn't a real criticism. It was on a Walking Dead fanfiction and I got my nose out of joint and took my opinions as fact and criticisms and tore someone down. Nicer than this, but not at all with any kindness. It is one of my many regrets and I carry what lesson I learned there with me. I do not know if I hurt that author, but I probably did for someone that was personal to me, not them. It wasn't cool so please, don't make the same mistakes. Be better than I was in that moment and this person here in this moment.

I'll be back with more soon because despite this one opinion, many more enjoy and like my story. And, despite how rude this comment was, there was some good insight on how twilight did romance wrong so if nothing else, maybe we can all use that knowledge for ourselves mine included. Might as well find the silver lining and gain someone as opposed to giving this any more attention that it deserves. This will hopefully by my first and last authors note and I will be posting two chapters to make up for it. Unfortunately, this became something I had to address because the reviewer felt entitled to harass me until I did. Even I can take the reminder to not fall into tropes, its just a shame that one good piece of insight and wisdom was bathed in vitriol and personal attacks.

Have a wonderful rest of your weekends all.