Yeah, I can tell it's May ...

[veronica_rich]

This makes the second troll my Will community has attracted from sparrabeth in the past month. (You've gotta scroll to the bottom of those pages for it.) Why do I think that? Oh, I don't know - just a hunch.

This wasn't a criticism of my writing style (which would be fair). It was simply an excuse to anonymously bitch in a minority forum and denounce anything that takes fan focus off Jack and/or Elizabeth.

And no, neither of these comments are particularly horrifying, but as it gets closer to May 23 and some J/E fans get meaner about not getting their way ... well, I haven't lived this long not to spot a problem a mile away. I don't want to have to resort to disabling anonymous commenting in a fan forum. Are there any community mods on my f-list who have dealt with this, with advice? I already made a short post asking "visitors" to the comm to be respectful of the members there, but I wonder if it'll work.

Geez o pete. I didn't realizing having a Will community would be like disagreeing with the Mafia! LOL


Seriously, I keep reading how J/E fans are so much older and more mature than us "13-year-old hormonal" Will/Orlando fans. Me no think so.

Comments

[yoiebear.livejournal.com]

In all honesty, I like all of the characters - some better than others, but I don't "hate" any of them. This especially goes for disliking someone because of their fan preferences.

In other words, the "mafia" can suck it.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't care for canon J/E, but I feel like I've always bent over backwards to explain that I'm annoyed with the filmmakers' storytelling capabilities that made it unbelievable to me, and to so many other viewers. Not that I was against it if explained logically; not that I was against it in fanfic (a lot of which I read and comment upon); but that I was against it as it was poorly set up. Also, I don't care for Will-bashing. People tell me, "But you criticize Elizabeth!" Yeah - I criticize poorly-explained behavior in any fiction. Jack's, too. Norrington's, too. (I'll happily make an Anita Blake post about the latter five books, if someone asks. It would probably make my POTC-bitching look like faint praise in comparison.) Will's characterization didn't run off the tracks like theirs did, IMO.

[yoiebear.livejournal.com]

I agree with you about the poor characterization and set up for a J/E storyline. If that is how it is going to end I want a much better explanation as to why.
I don't care for character-bashing, in general. If you have a reason to dislike a character or what they have done, I want to know why. Not just because.
I have stayed as far away from that environment in the PotC fandom as I can simply because I have enough of that shit in my real life, I don't want it in the tools I use to relax.