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[pinkie]

I remember a time when i used to load my stories on ffnet and sometimes i would get a review.
Those reviews come in my old e-mail, a hotmail address i now only use for spam and redirect other messages if necessary. So today i checked it for the first time this month and found two reviews.
By 'mariah'. Mariah does not have a profile of her own, a so-called anon. review. Normally i don't care about that, but i have had a very trying week and i wish i could simply put the brat in her place!

review

"hey great story but the dates are impossible! First minerva was only born in 45 so she would be 12. i dont think dumbledore would fall in love w/ a twelve year old and the other would have to be in the 70's at least. sorry to tell you that i sound like a **."

Erm... yeah... First of: Dear Mariah, learn to capitalize and use some interpunction. It makes the reading a whole lot easier. Second: Minerva was born around 1925. She started teaching in 1956. This last little bit of information you can find in "Order of the Phoenix".
Third: if you are grossed out by MMADness, please do not review. Please do not read. Please, steer clear from my work.

review 2:

"not bad. not bad. i liked alot. well done keep em coming"

Thank you. I think...


Dear readers, i am in a foul mood and i simply wish i could completely lash out at the little miss. I am naturally aware that neither story is my best work. In fact, my best work is not ever going to be on ffnet. But being spoken to as if i were a little ten year old and being told off for something that is clearly right. I have been a MMAD-shipper for five years now. My research is all up-to-date. I don't need this, but boy, does it feel good to simply be as crabby as i possibly can!

[OSUSprinks]

Oh you have every right to be pissed about that one. Where on earth did she get her facts? And regardless, IT'S FANFICTION! lol

[MMADfan]

May 18, 2009 6:33:06 GMT -5 pinkie said:

I remember a time when i used to load my stories on ffnet and sometimes i would get a review.
Those reviews come in my old e-mail, a hotmail address i now only use for spam and redirect other messages if necessary. So today i checked it for the first time this month and found two reviews.
By 'mariah'. Mariah does not have a profile of her own, a so-called anon. review. Normally i don't care about that, but i have had a very trying week and i wish i could simply put the brat in her place!

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Dear readers, i am in a foul mood and i simply wish i could completely lash out at the little miss. I am naturally aware that neither story is my best work. In fact, my best work is not ever going to be on ffnet. But being spoken to as if i were a little ten year old and being told off for something that is clearly right. I have been a MMAD-shipper for five years now. My research is all up-to-date. I don't need this, but boy, does it feel good to simply be as crabby as i possibly can!

I don't blame you one bit! What an idiot!

I've gotten only a few ffnet anon reviews that have really irked me a lot, enough to delete them. Two of them were for the first chapter of RaM telling me that Albus is gay. (I wonder whether they tell slash writers the equivalent.) Another one told me that Albus wasn't as old as I have him in RaM and that it's disgusting to have him with Minerva anyway, since he's so old. (It's clear that the story was begun well before DH came out and JKR revised her timeline AND I have AU warnings and note that my stuff isn't compliant w/ DH or anything JKR has said since DH came out, and if you don't like the ADMM pairing, why did you click on a story that is clearly an ADMM romance?)

People who "review" anonymously and say things like that, then don't even leave an email address, are immature jerks.

That person is probably a teenage flamer (I do wonder why the person continued to read and then "reviewed" a second time if she doesn't like ADMM and thinks you've got important stuff wrong), and she (or he) clearly is illiterate and/or doesn't have any respect for the people who read her poorly written comments.

You have every right to be grouchy about that "Mariah"!

[OSUSprinks]

It was somehow satisfying to "hear" you say immature jerks, Madam.

[sylvadragon]

Oh that must have been annoying, it does make me want to scream when people don't say anything about how the story is written but just review to say that it's not canon or whatever. I've had a couple of comments for an Albus and Minerva video that I made telling me that it's impossible for them to be together because Dumbledore is gay, duh. *Grumbles.* It was the duh that was tacked on the end that really got me and I did wish for a time that I wasn't a muggle and could jinx the person responsible.

However since I have a very hot temper and have learnt in the past not to loose my temper with people on the internet I normally try not to loose it and just shrug off comments like that. Though I confess it isn't always easy.

My normal response to the Albus gay stuff is JKR said that after the final book was published so it doesn't count. *Glares at JKR*

[OSUSprinks]

So what if he is gay? This is fanfiction! I, for one, find ADMM more likely that Lucius or Severus and Hermione. Does that mean I yell at people that she is with Ron? No!

[SakiJune]

Oh I can understand you very well, Pinkie... it happened the same to me, and maybe worse.
Do you remember that review "Little Miss Sevenoaks" got on ff.net? I am still shocked about it, after many months. I was nearly accused of... oh well, again, "too much age difference".
Writing a story about a love that begins when the girl is very young and the man is much older is a very difficult to do without crashing against readers' feelings and discretion; but that time I really tried hard to communicate the respect and pure intentions Filius had towards a ten-year-old Mona... and how affection had slowly changed into something deeper.
As you explained, there was not such a problem with your fic, as the only trouble was the reviewer's ignorance about JKR's canon, isn't it so? Well, why don't these people go and see Wikipedia or some good HP site?