Downvoting · 5:00am Oct 18th, 2015
I feel as though this is the third time where attempting to add my story to more groups than I usually do and branch it out results in me receiving backlash that I wouldn't normally have gotten. Oh well, it's the hard knock life I guess. Normally when I complain about stories being so uneven in downvotes/upvotes by the time I wake up the next day it's closer to normal.
Maybe it says something about me and my inability to really process criticism. I've always hated when people complain a story receives hate just on the merits of it being M/M because that always seems like an excuse to not improve yourself and think about why they might not have enjoyed your work. My emotions are currently fighting a bit right now trying to both pull me down saying it's because I didn't make it as good as I could have and at the same time tell me it's likely not my own fault and due to exposing it to the wrong people who knee jerk down vote. Maybe I'm having such an emotional reaction because Blossoming Roses was actually very important to me, and even starting a sequel scares me to death because I'm afraid of tainting it because I'm trying to re-live the artificial high I made for myself or something. Again, as I said, I'm sure if I continue writing the voting will balance out and I'll do fine. People are going to hate my work on first impression emotional reactions alone and I guess I'm going to have to accept that one way or another.
Or it's easy to tell yourself, I suppose.
Here's what I say, when I did my first CareMel story not too long ago, I received the kind of votes where it was almost half in half. I supposed it's because that the original one shot was new and out of the open that, of course it was prone to those who don't like gay pairing and therefore they down vote it.
In truth, I'm rather curious that since you're bring this back, I wonder where you're going to go from here. I for one am rather happy that you are back and continuing something interesting.
For what you got, it's off to a good start. A sort of what happens after "happily ever after." And I hope we get to see where Blueblood and Fancy go from here.
So please, don't stop.
I haven't read the story yet so I can't create a meaningful response here, but still, for a M/M story you didn't receive that many downvotes...
3478759 it's just that I'm not really used to 50/50 downvotes. And like I said it favored more upvotes bu morning. Yaaaay anxiety making me shitpost blog.
I'm still happy to see it being written, and it's a story I look forward to reading!