I cried today · 6:13am Sep 4th, 2017
No, no, I'm not trying to make you feel sorry for me in a dramatic sob story of mine meant to spark emotion. I'm not trying to break news of leaving a site I originally held so dear to me. I'm not trying to milk drama for more popularity. This is a positive thing.
You know when you see something that makes you happy enough you start to get tears streaming down your face? That happened to me today. I logged on and what I saw was some significantly positive feedback on my work. People caring about the time and effort I've put into writing, mostly on In My Head, but also on my other fiction. I've been given hope that maybe this site doesn't hate me so much after all. Sure, there are a few people who are still hanging around in the comments, hating on me, but I'm also being defended.
I received a bit of advice in the comments of my last blog: to write for the people who like me, not the people who don't. I think I'll take those words to heart, now that I know that those people aren't so few and far between. Thank you so much for the support so far. I haven't decided whether or not I'm going inactive yet, but I am leaning in a different direction than I previously was.
Thank you, lovely readers, for bringing back my emotion. You likely haven't seen the last of me here. This, I say with heavy sincerity: I love you all.
Glad to hear from you. I hate that such vitriol exists in the world, and it was good to see people reading your story and enjoying it. As I said, such work is not my thing (I am a sucker for paranormal fiction, personally), but it was competently written and didn't deserve what was going on.
I wish you well if you want to keep writing, or not, but just remember: we are not all like that.
—Damaged
I haven’t gotten around to reading your work yet (I know it’s short, but I’ve got a backlog of things I’ve agreed to proofread for people, so I feel guilty reading anything else until that’s finished), but I’ll second Damaged here: I’m thrilled to hear things are starting to look up for you. I have a feeling that’ll continue, going forward. This site is huge, with hundreds of thousands of members; it’d be statistically impossible for it to not have some awful people on it. And, as too often is the case, a lot of those awful people congregate and can direct their animosity at one thing all at once. But that’s not all this community is. Fimfiction and the MLP community as a whole are both full of all kinds of people, including many who want to have you, and who want to hear from you. It sounds like some of those people finally found their way to your story, and I think you can safely take that as a sign of positive things to come