I haven't the foggiest. I mean, I can be tactless, but I didn't say 'lol u sux', the possibly-meanest I ever got was saying 'okay i'm not gonna lie, i don't like this scene at all. I think having the hero do that over there in this scene will have the effect of making him look like a bully and a creeper because of Trope X and Y. He's obviously not supposed to be, these things so IMO that scene probably should go down differently.'
And the smut scenes had this really overwrought narration. Which I also mentioned. None of the rest of the fic did that! Just the smut. Like, I have no objection to fancy words, I LOVE me some fancy words, and purple can have its place in prose if the hue is applied sparingly, I think. XD And writing smut a la Nora Roberts or something isn't inherently bad, either, but if the tone and language of the smut clashes with the tone and language of the rest of the story it just looks awkward.
I probably WAS tactless like hell but I didn't expect that kind of explodity.
I try to beta like I'd like to be beta'd, and to avoid the stuff I've had foisted on me by proofers who were just jerks. I will never try to rewrite someone's story according to my tastes, for example. Nor will I ever use 'my' OTP as a lens through which to read the narrative (Stickney has this problem, so do a couple friends who are much less intrusive and pontificate-y and will fully admit they are ship cheerleaders) or demand someone change a pairing. Nor will I tell someone that they MUST write THIS mythological being THIS way or I am (a) stupid and didn't do my homework because ALL vampires do THIS etc, or (b) a suckity suckmachine forever and ever. (I once had a friend's ex-boyfriend get up my nose for not dividing my fae into the traditional Seelie/Unseele and for 'neglecting to mention the Tithe' and telling me I was writing my heroine WRONG because *bunch of White Wolf Games infodump*. I said 'there is no tithe, I'm not working from the Christianized idea fo what fae are, I am not obligated to do this either, and in closing I am running the courts like THIS' and he just kept wall of texting and wall of texting and insisting my heroine had to be--something, I forget what. And whining about the tithe. And complaining about who and what Redcaps are in my storyverse, and how they work. And ON AND ON. So I told him 'you keep beaking at me and I will ban your ass'. He did, so I banned his ass.
And yeah. Experience is very subjective. I just try to err on the side of 'okay, does this tie into squicky things? If so, can I make it not?"
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And the smut scenes had this really overwrought narration. Which I also mentioned. None of the rest of the fic did that! Just the smut. Like, I have no objection to fancy words, I LOVE me some fancy words, and purple can have its place in prose if the hue is applied sparingly, I think. XD And writing smut a la Nora Roberts or something isn't inherently bad, either, but if the tone and language of the smut clashes with the tone and language of the rest of the story it just looks awkward.
I probably WAS tactless like hell but I didn't expect that kind of explodity.
I try to beta like I'd like to be beta'd, and to avoid the stuff I've had foisted on me by proofers who were just jerks. I will never try to rewrite someone's story according to my tastes, for example. Nor will I ever use 'my' OTP as a lens through which to read the narrative (Stickney has this problem, so do a couple friends who are much less intrusive and pontificate-y and will fully admit they are ship cheerleaders) or demand someone change a pairing. Nor will I tell someone that they MUST write THIS mythological being THIS way or I am (a) stupid and didn't do my homework because ALL vampires do THIS etc, or (b) a suckity suckmachine forever and ever. (I once had a friend's ex-boyfriend get up my nose for not dividing my fae into the traditional Seelie/Unseele and for 'neglecting to mention the Tithe' and telling me I was writing my heroine WRONG because *bunch of White Wolf Games infodump*. I said 'there is no tithe, I'm not working from the Christianized idea fo what fae are, I am not obligated to do this either, and in closing I am running the courts like THIS' and he just kept wall of texting and wall of texting and insisting my heroine had to be--something, I forget what. And whining about the tithe. And complaining about who and what Redcaps are in my storyverse, and how they work. And ON AND ON. So I told him 'you keep beaking at me and I will ban your ass'. He did, so I banned his ass.
And yeah. Experience is very subjective. I just try to err on the side of 'okay, does this tie into squicky things? If so, can I make it not?"