Here's the story, of fanfiction.net, I sometimes review. I try to make them nice, polite, but critical at the same time. There's this story called 'Crimson and Clover' in the Galactik Football-section of the site. I left behind this review:
I read it, and altough I like your prose (A bit akward from time to time, but that can be forgiven due to English not being your first language)
However, and I'm sorry to say this: Raven is a Sue. Not only does she get Sinedd to fast (We're talking walking Jerkass, hard to approach, hates-Snow-Kids-by-default-and-D'jok-in-particular-Sinedd here), shes to beautiful. People turning around because she's walking by? This is GENESIS! Inhabited by TONS of different creatures, most of them not even human-looking, and probably have different notions on what's beautiful or 'odd'. We're talking about the City where both Sonny and Bleylock/Vader can walk around almost normally. I can understand that from Micro-Ice, but not from an entire, inter-galactic city.
And I'm sorry, the plot is just to Romeo and Juliet for my tastes.Polite, direct, me (I think).
Now, one of the author's real-life friends, left this remark:
Oh, shut up, paranoidgirl! You just can't appreciate a well-written fic. You're envious because your stories are crap!Which triggered a few responses, which I directed in a personal message, basically saying that he's petty and immature (I used those words.... maybe not the best idea.) and that it's all a matter of opinion and that, leaving quality out of the equation, our stories are too different (I usually write angsty one-shots with slashy overtones, she has a multi-chaptered het-romance story.), and (Dumb, now I think of it) that he probably hasn't even read mine.
Now he left this review at my story, Breakup:
crappy...honestly, you should stick to the things you know, like vaccuming )And it hurt.... especially the last line, I admit, I can have my bouts of extreme feminism from time to time, but
like VACCUMING?! That draws the line.
I don't know what to do.... I know I probably should ignore this (And I probably should've started ignoring with that after the scathing remark, heck, I'm even doubtful if I should post this article, asking for help), but.... I don't know, something inside me tells me I should fight this, to at least make a point.
If anyone can help me on how to handle this, I'd be appreciative.