Oh, Reviewers...

[dreiser]

My summary for Fragile Things on fanfiction.net is the following:

My Otome. Haruka/Shizuru. Femslash. In a single moment of violence, those who matter most to Haruka Armitage and Shizuru Viola are lost. Together they try to restore the broken pieces of their lives and learn to exist without the person they love.

I also have this warning in the first chapter in bold font:

WARNING: Major character deaths, angst, violence, and extreme situations.

Now, most people would read these things and put 1+1 and get 2. Except this person who read it and somehow didn't see how "Haruka/Shizuru", "learn to exist without the person they love", and "major character deaths" would be fairly clear signals that Natsuki is going to die in the fic. Unless they didn't read any of that.

D:<
2009-09-10 . chapter 1
how dare you you kill natsuki! this is an outrage! >:[
not happy at all...

Honestly? This is probably one of the funniest reviews I've gotten on a fic in awhile but I'm peeved as a Haruka/Yukino shipper. Why is it not an outrage I killed Yukino? It's her bad hair isn't it? She gets no love.

Comments

[th0u-art-that.livejournal.com]

LOL. What an outrage! haha

FF.net reviewers (on anime stories, at least) aren't the most coherent people on the planet. I've gotten some good shit too. I especially love the people who think they're entitled to tell you what you should be doing with the characters in your own story.

[dreiser.livejournal.com]

It's a horrible outrage! Writing anything but Shiznat is scandalous.

[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

*pats*

Obviously that reviewer is not the smatest tack in the box. *lol*

[dreiser.livejournal.com]

It's not like it's upsetting to me. My first reaction was to laugh at it. I suspect they didn't read the summary nor the warning.

[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

Heh!

Also, love the Elfquest icon.

[dreiser.livejournal.com]

I have a couple of Elfquest icons but this is my favorite. Skot just got smacked by Leetah and they're all shocked about it.

[wolfie.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHA. Ha.

Okay, so wasn't that funny, except it was.

Why, fandom, why?

[dreiser.livejournal.com]

Oh no, it's totally funny. Why do you think I made a post about it? It's the use of D:< and >:[ though. I think it adds a special something.

[wolfie.livejournal.com]

Oh, so wait, that was an anon reviewer? Even better. XDD

[dreiser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was. They signed it D:< to express their immense displeasure. lol.

[seangaffney.livejournal.com]

Because for FFNet Mai-XXXX fans, no other women exist except Shizuru and Natsuki. MAYBE sometimes Nao. But that's it.

[dreiser.livejournal.com]

Too bad Natsuki sort of bores me and I'm baffled by shipping her with Nao. I just don't fit in with the cool kids.

[cactusmilkshake.livejournal.com]

If you want, I could leave you an anon review raving about how unhappy and appalled I am that you killed Yukino T-T and WTFG why ther is SHIZHARU in this fic D:!?! HARUKINO IS CANON! Emoticons optional, hehe.

[winstonta.livejournal.com]

I've been slacking when it comes to cyber stalking you, so I just now came across this entry, and I apologize for the belatedness :) But omg lol at the hilarity of it.

I personally love both pairings, and have a fondness of Yukino that most likely stems from a youth of being the overlooked nerdy friend as opposed to love interest (though I do have to say that I've got much nicer hair than Yukino--one of the rare few things I allow myself some ego over).

I could very easily see Shizuru and Haruka turning to each other in their grief over losing their special people, and considering all the tension (mostly on Haruka's side, of course) between the two, I could definitely see some sparkage there. But the sheer stupidity of reviewers astounds me. I myself may ramble on like a crazy person, but there's generally some purpose to my rambles. And seeing as how I've basically met my point, I shall end things here and say later :)

Keep up the awesome!