This is genuinely well-meant advice to all the poor fools who waste their time lurking on this LJ

[fpb]

I gave it to one particular person, and now I repeat it to everyone of the dozens of sad, vindictive, time-wasting twerps who cannot seem to live without finding something to blame me for.

Of us two, which one values the other the more? Which one goes looking for the other's writing, seeking for reasons to be indignant and sarcastic, hanging on to whatever reference may be twisted into a reason, an excuse, a springboard of any sort, merely to attach your name to mine? To me, you mean very little, except perhaps an occasional opportunity to be sarcastic at your expense. What is it that makes me so important in your eyes, that you just insist on commenting on me, as if I mattered? And, please, don't give me the usual nonsense about me being a pseud. The world is full of pseuds, but other pseuds like you do not generally get obsessed with them.

And now I have a suggestion for you. Forget I exist and do something constructive. Leave f_w and other similar gathering-points for inadequates and - write a song; write a story; draw something; start an OU degree - Hell, get a a CIMA qualification, become an accountant, draw up the accounts for a company. Do something saner with your time than persecute someone you do not know for reasons that do not exist.

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[pandoraculpa.livejournal.com]

It constantly amazes me that there are so many, many people out there willing to devote so much time and energy into something they profess to hate. But then again, I have to remind myself that I've been lucky to surround myself on LJ with reasonably mature, intelligent people, and that the vast majority of folk here are actually adolescents full of hormones and self-righteousness, and very little else.

Poor saps. Even with you telling it to them plain, it's obviously going to take them many more years to gain the wisdom to understand that the more you feed something, the more it grows. And normally I'd sail right past a post of this nature with only a mental nod of acknowledgement, but I'm more than slightly sick of suffering fools lately, and just wanted to let you know that I can commiserate. Wait until they grow enough brains to actually debate you; until they do, it's a waste of your time to even engage them.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I would never have figured you of all people for a victim of this sort of thing. You have my sympathy.

[pandoraculpa.livejournal.com]

It's not so much here (which is why I have to remind myself of those things aforementioned) as in real life, where no one has immunity from imbeciles. There's too many of 'em out there; why should we have to deal with them while we're (hopefully) relaxing online too? Truth to tell, what you're going through is precisely why I held off from fandom as long as I did, and why I've always been so aloof once I got there. Wank just pisses me off, as it's most often uninformed, venal and petty. And it's just so not worth it all.

(besides, I'm opinionated as all hell and would be a lightning rod too, if I cared to involve myself in the drama that passes for fandom. And who has time for that?)

Be well, sir, and don't let the bastards get to you.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

In this case, it is mostly a matter of a person who was a friend of mine and decided, for mysterious reasons, that all the things she had been saying about me for months on end (including a Niffle on FA) were wrong, and all the people we had been laughting at together were right... I have issues with her stability and her politics, but mostly what I find is funny.