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.

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[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Yeah- I thought that was a little too general to say they were all Mary-Sues

It probably was; I make mistakes. Normally, I try to be careful about identifying who I am specifically talking to, but when it's six a.m. and the neighbors have awakened me with loud noise on my day off, I'm not inclined to give benefit of the doubt to a mealymouthed anonymous commenter, who couldn't be arsed to use even their psuedo online identity (really - do you think Veronica is my real name?) to whine at me about the clearly-stated pairing in the story. It'd be like me commenting on a J/E story to simply say "haha dumb pairing."

[philosophercat.livejournal.com]

I know how it is. Last time I bothered to see what JE (no /) fandom was up to, I saw the pathetic sight of a 50 year old woman chasing a professor from thread to thread, bashing absolutely everthing she said because said professor had once said- in an original post to a thread warning that she did not have a positive view of a particularly well-loved scene- that 'all' fans of the show were silly teenagers. I'm sure the prof was indulging in a little harmless exaggeration, at the tail of her post, but I'll bet she wishes she had just stayed out of the frey. I wasn't inclined to point out that, if 50-year-old fan doesn't want to be lumped in with teenagers, maybe she should not indulge in a one-person flame war crusade against someone else.