User blog comment:Adelina Le Morte March/Fanfiction Pains: annoying things I've noticed related to Merlin fanfics/@comment-5763053-20130127035357/@comment-5659316-20130127042319

Miss Stacey aerist,

Please don't be so quick to jump down my throat with "Don't like, don't read". I AGREE with that. Did you not READ what I wrote, my friend? All I said was that I don't want explict content in SUMMARIES, and that people who don't like both characters invovled in a pairing cannot really call themselves "shippers" of said pairing.

Honey, I love fanfiction, too, more than you can possibly imagine. You don't know what fanfiction helped me through in my life. And, yes, I think, regardless of quailty, pairing, themes, etc, that each fan has something special to add -their little thimbleful, if you will- to the fandom. And I'm not telling people to STOP writing for whichever pairings they like, indeed, all I'm requesting is that they FOLLOW already SET rules on most fanfiction sites to begin with. And if I feel the need to point out that it is highly improbable for a male character to give birth, even with the involvment of magic, how is that bashing or stiffling another's contriubution to the fandom? Trust me, better they get a polite, though annoyed, repremind/reminder from ME, to keep their summaries clean and maybe try to follow the rules of basic human science (but still, to each their own!) than from some harsh reviewer who really IS telling them to stop writing what they love. Is it not so?

I hate to say this, but I feel the need to so here goes: If the people who are "offended" by this post -though I stated clearly no offensive was intended- really think I'm being "harsh" are they ever in for a rude awakening in life. I'm being NICE about this, darlings, though admitedly with a touch of snarky humour. I haven't bashed any pairing, even the ones I disagree with, only asked people to keep the public summaries (not even the actual STORIES, mind you) cleaner.