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fpbA couple of days ago I read an outrageously bad and insulting fanfic passage. I left a brief though angry review, noted here that I was worried this might get me in trouble with FA again (which was the only thing that really mattered to me) and left it at that.
Someone else, however, was not willing to. The news must have gone like wildfire among the author and her friends, since my LJ was soon under siege by a company of irate people who wanted... well, what DID they want? Their polemic did not seem to want to deny that the author had written wha she had written, but that she might possibly not have meant it, because it was spoken by one of her characters, and because that character later went on to do some rather nasty things to someone or other. On further debating, it turns out that the character is the survivor of a whole family slaughtered by Voldemort, a situation that compares with Harry Potter's and hardly suggests that she is not to be trusted; and that it is as a result of this trauma that she eventually viciously abuses someone. Not that I could be bothered to read the story, but none of this suggests that her account is unreliable.
The strangest feature of this sequence of events is that the author was actually one of the people who had attacked me, but, until unveiled by someone else, she kept her identity hidden from me. Once unmasked, however, she showed not the least embarrassment. That she had plainly started her game with the hope of remaining unrecognized and perhaps manipulating me did not seem to faze her.
What annoys me the most is that the bunch then reformed and migrated to someone else's blog, where they proceeded to pat each other on the back about their inept performance. Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire, although in this case the feminine gender would be more indicated. I have had to resist my impulse to go after them and the further bunch of twits who gathered to offer them support; life is too short, and after all I have had more damaging enemies. But it does leave a sour after-taste in the mouth - even after the author, in the safety of someone else's blog, all but admitted that the passage in question was insulting. Which did not prevent one late-comer from trying to start the polemic all over again, repeating like an echo-chamber the exact same arguments that I had already answered to more than satiety.
Someone else, however, was not willing to. The news must have gone like wildfire among the author and her friends, since my LJ was soon under siege by a company of irate people who wanted... well, what DID they want? Their polemic did not seem to want to deny that the author had written wha she had written, but that she might possibly not have meant it, because it was spoken by one of her characters, and because that character later went on to do some rather nasty things to someone or other. On further debating, it turns out that the character is the survivor of a whole family slaughtered by Voldemort, a situation that compares with Harry Potter's and hardly suggests that she is not to be trusted; and that it is as a result of this trauma that she eventually viciously abuses someone. Not that I could be bothered to read the story, but none of this suggests that her account is unreliable.
The strangest feature of this sequence of events is that the author was actually one of the people who had attacked me, but, until unveiled by someone else, she kept her identity hidden from me. Once unmasked, however, she showed not the least embarrassment. That she had plainly started her game with the hope of remaining unrecognized and perhaps manipulating me did not seem to faze her.
What annoys me the most is that the bunch then reformed and migrated to someone else's blog, where they proceeded to pat each other on the back about their inept performance. Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire, although in this case the feminine gender would be more indicated. I have had to resist my impulse to go after them and the further bunch of twits who gathered to offer them support; life is too short, and after all I have had more damaging enemies. But it does leave a sour after-taste in the mouth - even after the author, in the safety of someone else's blog, all but admitted that the passage in question was insulting. Which did not prevent one late-comer from trying to start the polemic all over again, repeating like an echo-chamber the exact same arguments that I had already answered to more than satiety.
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