i swear, there's always one

[jennickels]

This is a review I just got on ff.net for Seven Sins:

This was pretty good except for the ending. You ruined the whole thing by
having him go after Carter. He should have gone after the first pretty nurse
he saw but no, you had to play to the J/S fans. I'm disappointed in you.
 

"Play to the J/S fans"?  Um, I am a Sam/Jack shipper.  Although I suppose it went from a completely teamy fic to slight S/J at the end but I didn't think I played it up that much.  I really wasn't even thinking Sam/Jack really when I wrote it but I guess the line the nurse says sold it as that.  Sigh.  There's always one to complain about something.  And they always reply anon or without a ff.net account so I can't reply back.

Being a shipper myself I don't really think of these things.  Do you take out any shippiness in an otherwise teamy fic to please the non-shippers or add ship in to please the shippers?  I write what I would want to read.  I like to read ship.  I love team adventure fics, too, but love when they have the shippiness in the background.  So, of course, that's what I write.  To be accused of putting ship in to please shippers cracks me up.  I put it in to please myself.

One freaking scene and it ruined the story for this guy (the name on the review was "John").  Oh well.  Back to what I was doing... which I can't remember right now.  I think I was going to go get myself some dinner, lol.

Comments

[cschick.livejournal.com]

Nowadays, reviews like that just make me chuckle, really. But I've always tended toward fewer rather than more warnings/headers/whatever-the-heck-you-want-to-call-them.

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

I was more WTF than upset. Mostly just giggling at the accusation. I really don't care.

People are really obsessed with warnings to the point that they sometimes give the entire story away. I hate them. I probably get a lot of people reading my stories and being frustrated I didn't warn for something because I don't think about it. I also don't put spoiler warnings since the show I write for ended years ago. If you're new to the fandom and haven't seen all the episodes then you should read the fanfic at your own risk of being spoiled.

I know I refused to read any until after I had seen all the episodes (coming into the fandom years after the show ended).

All the other reviews for that story on ff.net were positive with a request for an epilogue to see how Jack handled everything that happened.

[cschick.livejournal.com]

Although I know that this issue would have almost certainly have risen independently, I kind of curse the day when I and Natasha came up with the first formalized list of keywords/warnings/descriptors for Gossamer. While the 'ship ones were already being pretty widely used, they were about the only ones being regularly used back then.

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

Ahh, so I have Deirdre to blame. That explains it all.

Teehee.

Always the trouble maker, Dee.

[cschick.livejournal.com]

(And this user pic is in honor of the reader who once went off at us archivists because we did not have an options for a "dead alien fetus" warning, and sent us a few anti-abortion rants.)

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

Did dead alien fetuses come up a lot in fics?

It's been awhile since I've seen an episode of X-files and I've never ready any fic for it.

[cschick.livejournal.com]

There was a part of the mytharc that involved dead alien fetuses or dead alien/human hybrid fetuses. I don't remember which, not even sure that was ever clarified. Most of the "big" mytharc eps were during November or May sweeps and I think that there were dead alien fetuses in one of the season-ender storylines at some point. Thus, stories which may have involved dead alien fetuses or mention of the lab they were in.

Which leads to the question: if you object to dead alien fetuses, WHY IN THE WORLD are you watching the X-Files?

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

Which leads to the question: if you object to dead alien fetuses, WHY IN THE WORLD are you watching the X-Files?

No kidding.