#I honestly feel completely VINDICATED on the sci-fi choices

[littleapocalypsekitten]

Oh, fuck, that's happened to other people? Alright, so a friend of mine with which I co-created a Legend of Zelda fanfiction showed me a YOUTUBE of a couple of guys analysing and complaining about our fic. I got the blame for it, because, while we both did the ideas for it, I wrote it out and it's under my name on Fanfiction dot net. The Great Desert - if anyone is interested. (I just waded through...so much cringe. My old fanfictions...ugh...) Anyway, I wrote a deeply imperfect fanfiction once upon a time. And, apparently a channel for Bronies of all people picked up on it, even though it wasn't MLP-related. (The fanfiction is Zelda, specifically, The Legend of Zelda as a magical western). So, this youtube review had this pair of guys talking about how the fic started out strong, but then they disagreed with some of our choices in the story to incorporate science fiction elements and an ending I rushed because I was getting tired of working on the fic and wanted to wrap it up according to the previous AOL roleplay logs between me and my friend I was working from. (Oh, yeah, this was Back in the Day). These guys concluded "SHADSIE! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!!!" because they were so upset about the sci-fi elements and the ending. My friend was annoyed at not being mentioned at all, even though I credited her on the work. She suspects that the Brony-boys left her name out of it because she'd become well-known in the MLP fandom by that time... But, yeah, they'd put our fic up on Good Reads and were criticising it like it was an actual original novella or something. I got a LOT of reviews on the damn thing after that that were very accusatory - You know, going over the problems I already knew existed in the fic and the sci-fi stuff which I do not think are problematic and enjoy having around. Very "What were you THINKING?!!!" reviews by randos as if I owed them something for a FREE fanfic posted on the Internet that they read of their own accord. Many of these happened right after that Youtube video was posted. It got to where I posted for some time, a disclaimer on my Fanfiction dot net profile (although I think I removed it eventually) that people coming to my page for The Great Desert should know that I understand the fic has some pacing problems and that no, I do not plan to change them because I've moved on to writing other things and that my library is vast, the fic was written years ago and my style has changed. Also, furthermore "What I was thinking!!!!" was "I was having fun writing a story with my friend." So, yes, I am absolutely familiar with Entitled Fan Phenomena. It is best ignored.