Fan Brats, they worry me.

[kippurbird]

*headdesk*

Fan brats...

So, I posted Seduction up on the Pit and I got a review that says, "That's So Mean". I decided to write her a note saying why I decided to write it the way I did. I indicated that I found Edward's behavior inappropriate and dangerous among other things.

She replied to me thusly:

I'm sorry, I didn't mean it as a flame or anything, only that TO ME it was a mean, because, well, I guess I'm just a romantic and personally I would be kind of flattered if someone liked me enough to sneak into my room and watch me sleep. And in Midnight Sun he admits to himself that he's being a bit creepy by 'stalking' her, but at the same time justifies it by telling himself that he has to be there to protect her because he loves her and if he wasn't there her bad luck would get her killed.

This is my reply:

I never in anyway thought it was a flame!

Please. I just wanted to show you WHY I wrote it as I did because you thought it was mean.

//I guess I'm just a romantic and personally I would be kind of flattered if someone liked me enough to sneak into my room and watch me sleep.//

Are you really sure about that though? It's the sort of behavior that could get him arrested first of all. Second, if he feels it's okay to sneak into your room, what else would he feel it's okay to do. What if it wasn't Edward sneaking into Bella's room but Mike? Would that still be romantic?

//And in Midnight Sun he admits to himself that he's being a bit creepy by 'stalking' her, but at the same time justifies it by telling himself that he has to be there to protect her because he loves her and if he wasn't there her bad luck would get her killed.//

How exactly is she going to get killed by sleeping? No one's going to come into her room (beyond Edward) to try and kill her. The idea is utterly ridiculous. This is not justification, it's merely an excuse to indulge in inappropriate behavior.

Again, I am not saying you are wrong but merely showing my POV.



On an amusing note, several people have thought that this one shot means more to come. I've gotten a few reviews asking for the next installment and one person telling me if I want more reviews I have to update regularly. =D

Comments

[the-norseman.livejournal.com]

URL please.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

To what?

[the-norseman.livejournal.com]

To the story silly, so I can read the comments! :-P

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

OH! No, these were by Private Message.

[subieko.livejournal.com]

If it's a oneshot, make sure to mark it 'complete'--you can do it on the same page where you can update the summary and stuff like that. Otherwise, readers might well think there's more to come, since it's labeled 'in progress'.

Also: I find it really creepy that there are people who find it ROMANTIC to sneak into someone's room and stare at them. I mean, okay, if your girlfriend/boyfriend falls asleep on the couch next to you, yeah, it might be kind of cute if you watched them sleep saying 'awwww, they look so sweet' to yourself or something. BUT THIS IS NOT LIKE THAT. Edward is just...oogh. He's disturbing. O_o

But at least your reviewer wasn't a rabid fanbrat--the crazy, screamy ones are the worst.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

I did mark it complete. Somehow, even on other complete on shots, people keep on wanting to know when the next chapter is.

But at least your reviewer wasn't a rabid fanbrat--the crazy, screamy ones are the worst.

This is true. Though I would like a couple of them.

[karaotter.livejournal.com]

Personally, if a guy broke into my room just to watch me sleep, I wouldn't find it romantic and flattering. I'd find it grounds for a restraining order.

Stalking somebody isn't a "bit" creepy. It's just creepy.

[shmeiliarockie.livejournal.com]

Yay, you used the Mike question! (I wonder what she'll say, if anything at all.) I too would like to have the url of the fic on fanfiction.net, please. That's so going in my favorites.

[evewithanapple.livejournal.com]

and personally I would be kind of flattered if someone liked me enough to sneak into my room and watch me sleep

Oh, god. I posted a rant on my LJ awhile ago about girls like this- specifically, it was about fangirls of Guy of Gisbourne from BBC's Robin Hood- but the gist was that the media keeps romanticising stalking/abuse, and girls keep eating it up and believing it, and I really hope they don't carry it over into real life, because in real life, it ends up escalating to murder.

[amamelina.livejournal.com]

OMG, they use that "It's romantic" crap so often, that I had de'ja vu while reading that. They really need new material. I hate de'ja vu.