>>35 You know what? I've been thinking about your response for a while now and I think your attitude is exactly what we don't want in this community. How dare you try to brush off legitimate critique like we're complaining about nothing, and then talk down to people who have been a part of this community far longer than you, just because you think your fic is perfect? That is not going to fly here. We are not FF.net or DA, and we've prided ourselves on being able to give our valid critique and take it with grace. You wrote a laughable and yet horrible fic and then you defend it and the poor choices you made in it, and on top of that you act condescending to those who are critical of you. It's clear that your acknowledgement of your faults and your refusal to change anything just proves you're just paying us lip service and that is not going to fly. In fact, your behavior is childish enough that I could very well dish out an underaged b&, but I won't. Even if you don't agree with all the critique you're given, the fact is that anybody who's giving it to you is doing you a favor, even if that critique is negative. You are spitting in our faces by claiming that we are mistaken or wrong or that we're reading into it in a way that you didn't intend. People are not always going to pat your butt, and I find the number of buttpats you've gotten over this disturbing and indicative of the fact that there are people here who think that this is their hugbox. It isn't. It never has been. If I had nearly as many people responding to a story I wrote saying that it was fucked up and just plain bad, you're damn right I would listen to how I could improve it and would do so right away, partially because of embarrassment but mostly because I want to get better as a writer and as an artist. I actually have re-written chapters of stories because of people saying it was bad or it had problems, and you can bet I am grateful to the people who are steering me away from getting to full of myself and calling me out when I write something that sucks. That's how it should be. You're welcome to come back in a few weeks and try again, but mark my words: we don't appreciate your attitude around here, and you are not nearly as talented as you think you are to think you can get away with it. This goes out to the rest of the writers as well. Anybody acting like this will get a ban. If you can't put on your big boy/girl pants and take some critique with grace, you are not going to be welcome around these parts. You've been warned.