And cue the first of the unfollowings, of course. It was probably the person who left the...

And cue the first of the unfollowings, of course. It was probably the person who left the comment. 

I’m immensely grateful for all of you who have commented so far. It’s never been about not getting enough praise or something like that, and I fully understand that not everyone will like what someone creates, but I’m just tired of having to deal with this crap. Of course we can tell ourselves that it was just one person, blah blah blah, every single time it happens. We can tell ourselves not to give the comment the power to ruin our days and make us feel two inches tall. We can pretend it doesn’t hurt, but it does, and I’m angry that we have a culture of allowing people to do this to people who are donating their time and creativity to the community at large. I’m tired of spending hours and hours and hours working on a story, all for a single hater to come and lob a bomb at not just it, but at me personally. How is that in any way okay? The obvious answer is that it isn’t, but we are we supposed to do about it? 

I’ve now written 54 stories in this fandom (51 Johnlock and 3 Freebatch). I just passed the milestone of 1,250,000 words cumulative. My blog isn’t monetized (though about 10 of you bought CDs from me - thank you!!) and I have never once left anonymous hate on someone’s tumblr or told them to kill themselves because they had the nerve to disagree with a character interpretation or to write something that isn’t to my highly subjective personal taste. Not even ONCE. It’s easy to not do it. I also don’t unfollow people who post things I don’t like or agree with, unless it’s hate speech (about real people!!) or something. I’m perfectly capable of reading a post and saying to myself, “yeah, I don’t see it that way” and scrolling on by, particularly if I like the person who posted it. It’s actually not hard at all. 

I’m sorry to vent. I’m just really tired of this crap right now.