I know I shouldn't let idiot reviews get to me. Especially when they can't properly spell, punctuate, or capitalize, let alone string words together in anything that resembles a coherent thought. But when the story I've worked so hard to write, the story I've busted my ass trying to make realistic and believable and GOOD, goes COMPLETELY over their idiotic little heads, I feel like I failed as a writer.

Because, honestly, do these people think that me, one of the shippiest D/L shippers out there, who runs a D/L C2 at ff.net, who has the most cumulative posts at an all D/L forum (when I joined at the end of August), would write an NY fic where Danny and Lindsay DON'T end up together? Especially when it says "eventual D/L" in the summary?

I got a review - anonymous, of course, because this person obviously didn't have enough of a spine to sign it - where the person goes, This should not be in a D/L C2! IT'S EVENTUAL D/L. Not all stories start out with Danny and Lindsay happy and fluffy and in love. Also, I don't know if they happened to notice that the only C2 it's archived in is the one that I maintain. But I didn't add my fic, one of the staff did. Actually, I think it was my gamma - who KNOWS that yes, it IS a D/L fic.

And also, seeing as how I AM a writer, and I want to write for a living, eventually, when someone completely tears apart a fic I wrote, it hurts. I pour my heart and soul into these. I agonize over details, over dialogue. Especially Ghosts. I have a beta, a gamma, and a...whatever comes after gamma (I know in the alphabet it's delta, but that sounds weird). I have revised each chapter at least twice. In the case of chapter 6, which was my favorite thing I've ever written EVER, I revised it about a dozen times. I am seriously working my ass off on this fic, because I didn't want it to be like my others, which were fluffy with no real plot (which of course everyone loved - go figure). This is what I do, people. And if someone criticizes the way I do it (in such a manner as to be seen as insulting by other people - not just me), then that burns. Constructive criticism is fine. But if you're going to be a pissy, whiny little brat, I'm going to kick your f*cking ass.

People are morons. Do you hear me, morons? You are morons.

Not anyone reading this, of course. ;)

Should anyone like to read said fic (I'm quite proud of it), here is the link:

Ghosts in the Wind

Yes, it is an NY fic, and I know some of you don't read NY fics. But it's probably one of the best things I've ever written.