Dragon Quill

Responses remain civil. Most people are appreciative.

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“And yes, I admit, my story seems cliché, following the trope of other stories out there, but let me ask you something. How often do you run into a Pokémon fic, or any other fic in general, that has done anything original? I can almost guarantee there are stories like mine that would be written the same way, and you probably gave them some criticism as well, but you should know that not everyone is perfect.”

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An author took it upon themselves to fight me over something I said a month ago to someone they don’t know.

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That Korrasami person comes back to complain at me again, but responses are otherwise calm.

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In which an author does not throw a tantrum when learning their story violates the guidelines! But also a lot of people block me for petty reasons.

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In which I seem to come to a reasonable compromise with an author upset over the concept of public reviews, for once.

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“This title is in Latin. The grammar rules for Latin are different from the ones for English. I should know, because I took online Latin classes in high school”

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Something interesting occurred in this batch: I gave two authors essentially the same review, yet the responses I received were quite different, and quite detailed. For those interested in how content of review correlates to author response, I draw your attention to this case study.

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“About the Pokemon names being capital, they are being treated as pronouns for the story, not for grammatical sake.”

It’s time for replies! For anyone new, these posts are 50% about wallowing in the most ridiculous things people say and 50% about letting sane people say their piece. Once, in the beforetimes, they were almost entirely screaming madness, but those days have passed. (more…)

“Although, please ask Farla not to message me. I really don’t need a repeat of this conversation. Thanks!”

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Calm responses this week. For the moment at least, people have stopped freaking out over grammar corrections.

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“Pokemon are written with Capitals”

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“The person I wrote this story with wanted us to use master when referring to the male character and I had no objections. It has jack-shit to do with power-play or the like and the word was simply used as a means of not having a name for him. It was either master or owner, and my partner thought master sounded better, end of story. Whether or not it’s creepy is a subjective issue that varies wildly from person to person.”

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