teddy_radiator | If You Don't Like It, You Stop Reading

From my review basket on Lay Me Low today. This is review #477:

Derelict Author: I can't even believe the reception this story has gotten. Most of the characters seem so OOC as to be ridiculous (Snape using "lass" every other word, really?), the story arches are trite (Hermione asking Snape to marry her? Hermione getting almost raped but feeling super horny within a chapter!), the overuse of deux ex machina type spells/curses (the blood spell? Snape's "Dark Caress" curse?), and the "lyrics" at the beginning of each chapter? I read through this entire story to try and give it a chance based on all of the reviews I read, but it's just too OOC for me to even get behind it.

My Response: Sorry you don't like it. I'll admit it's not my best work, but then again, I haven't read yours, so I don't know what type of fiction you write. The wonderful thing about fanfiction is that not everyone has to enjoy every story. I think the fact that I've had a lot of good reviews on it is that is does have a lot of things that people like to read. There are a lot of stories out there I don't like. I stop reading them. I suggest you do the same with this one - it is obviously distressing you to the point of rudeness.

Well, one out of 477 ain't bad. So the author of Debauched, Dissipated, and Dissolute hates this story. I think I'll give it a read. I had hoped to be able to read her body of work to see what she feels is a proper story, but I'm afraid this is it, Ashwinder wise, so.... a prolific writer, then.

Yeah, I'm a little pissed off. If I don't like a story, I stop reading it. I don't trash it, I don't belittle it, I don't demoralise and discourage the author - I just stop reading it.

Actually, it couldn't come at a worse time. I'm getting a little exhausted with the story, and my poor beta is nagging me to finish chapter 20. I think this means that DM and I really need to put in some quality time on it.