NOT THAT THIS HAS EVER HAPPENED TO ME OR ANYTHING

[schmerica]

Do you ever go online and one day on your friends list/in the delicious tags/on somebody's rec page/in a community/whatever, there, just sitting there waiting for you is a link to this story, and when you read the description or the summary you're so excited you almost can't stand it, because OMG this is exactly the pairing/genre/cliche you've been dying for, and now you get to read it, YAY-=

--And then the story kind of sucks?

And you're really bummed because not only was that a disappointment, but NOW you're really really craving that pairing/genre/cliche more than they were before, AND you can't even whine about it in your journal, because if you do people will be like "Oh, you're looking for that? Because so-and-so wrote that, here you go! Problem solved!"

This is my sadface, you guys. Seriously.

Comments

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

YES. That sucks.

I particularly hate it when the opening/set-up looks vaguely promising/non eye-sporky, and then you get a couple pages in and everyone turns into an emotionally retarded 13 year old girl.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yes! It's even WORSE then. Vicious teases, sigh.

[angelchildr.livejournal.com]

...oh god. Posts like this make me so paranoid. *facepalm*

*crawls off to hide all fic*

But yes! I hate that! Argh! >:-|

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha. For future reference, if I was going to be talking about anyone I have friended in an entry like this, it would be filtered beyond all sanity.

[inkdot.livejournal.com]

All the time. ;____;

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Don't they know that whining until people write me things is one of my greatest pleasures?

[violin-road.livejournal.com]

I'M SORRY MY THREESOME WAS NOT UP TO STANDARDS

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I GUESS YOU WILL JUST HAVE TO TRY HARDER NEXT TIME

[blondiusmaximus.livejournal.com]

UGH, GOD, IT MAKES ME SO ANGRY. I have read so many stories that could have been AWESOME but then they cop out in the last few chapters and become COMPLETE CRAP and they are immediately relegated to bad!fic. The loss of such potential just SLAYS me. So I read more bad!fic. For a kink fix.



MY LIFE. SO HARD. :(

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh. If only everyone in fandom would just write directly to MY PREFERENCES, this would not be a problem! Everybody would be happy!

Well, except the McSheppers, I guess.

[minim_calibre]

ALL THE TIME.

Sigh.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*sighs along with you*

[offtheceiling.livejournal.com]

ALL THE TIME, DUDE.

ALL. THE. TIME.

D:

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

BITCHY SCHOOLGIRL GERARD DISAPPROVES.

[dsudis.livejournal.com]

I WILL FIGURE OUT HOW TO WRITE FAIRY TALE PORN NEXT TIME, I SWEAR.

NOT THAT I AM PLANNING ON WRITING ANOTHER FAIRY TALE OR ANYTHING OH GOD NO.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Do you really need porn when you have maidenhead jokes? I THINK NOT. All fic could benefit from that!

(Except whatever fic someone is about to write and post where THE MAIDENHEAD JOKES GO ALL WRONG AND I WEEP.)

[jezrana.livejournal.com]

Not that specifically, but if other people constantly rave about a fic that I wasn't crazy about, it makes me feel all awkward and >_>.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Heh. That's when AIM conversations with bitchy friends come in handy!

[shrift.livejournal.com]

YES. MY EMO TEARS, LET ME SHOW YOU THEM.

Every once in a while, though, I stumble over something that is EXACTLY what I didn't know I always wanted to read. Kinda makes up for the crushing disappointment.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

That is so true! That really does make up for everything else.

[overloved.livejournal.com]

YES! sometimes my friends link to think that i end up hating and i doubt our very friendship!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha. "Really? No, but really? Huh."

[impertinence.livejournal.com]

I read a Ray/Gerard prisonfic that was horrible and had a lot of rape and now I want to fix it. :D

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I have to admit, I approve of things when it leads to FIXING.

The story that hurt me earlier was actually something that I have kinda written before, but no one else had that I know of. MOOOOORE.

[miss-saigon.livejournal.com]

I hate that, and I'm one of those masochistic people who can't just leave the story once I realize it's going to suck. Last night I went to bed at 4 am when I had to be at work by 9 and it wasn't because the story was great is all I'm saying:(

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Awww, SAD. I am generally okay with abandoning longer sucky fic. Sometimes my very short attention span comes to my advantage!

[raveninthewind.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain, from personal experience and also vicariously, as someone who often longs for unpopular pairings or themes. *sigh*

The thing is, as a reader (not writer) I am so captive to the vicissitudes of writerly tastes that I have trained myself to ENDURE the TORTURE. But not without occasional whining and brandishing of spork.

[sociofemme.livejournal.com]

oh my god. i hate when that happens. SO MUCH. and you know, if it's a thing I've been dying for, a lot of times I keep reading, even though I HATE myself, just because--it SHOULD be good. *weeps*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*weeps with you*

[elucidate-this.livejournal.com]

that happens to me SO MUCH. also, i kind of want to know what specific fic you are talking about because i am not a very nice person.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, sorry! I had to strip all identifying details.

[insunshine.livejournal.com]

THAT HAPPENS TO ME ALL OF THE FREAKING TIME, MAN.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

SO NOT COOL.

[stele3.insanejournal.com (from livejournal.com)]

Pst. Hey. You.

You're the go-to girl for this sorta thing. You gotta link to the Gerard-licking-Mikey's-nipple? Or, or, or, do you have a link to the full explanation of Frank-sucks-dick-for-$10 story?

Man, I feel like we're making a drug deal here.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha. I do not have the link to the licking thing -- I can ask around, though!

The thing with the dick-sucking was in a public entry in my journal, but I had to lock it down to friends-only at the request of one of the people giving the information.

[miss-lurker.livejournal.com]

Delurking...

That's when I turn to delicious and cross my fingers. =)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Delicious is good when it's just a pairing, but sometimes it's harder to find the tags for what you want, I find.

[blueandbrady.livejournal.com]

It's so sad. Yet, I continue to read in hopes that it will get better, but it doesn't. And it's even sadder.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*sigh!*

[harriet-vane.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, even worse, people keep leaving comments on my story about how they wish it was Brian/Brendon (which, WHAT? WERE YOU NOT PAYING ATTENTION?) and I'm fairly sure no one has ever written that, and I kind of want it. NOT in my universe, where it makes no sense and would break many hearts, but somewhere else. Where it would also make no sense.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha. I WOULD PROBABLY READ IT.

[greyandgrey.livejournal.com]

Dude, that happened to me with Patrick/Rhianna once. It was totally terrible. *woeface*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*grouchy face*

[valerie-z.livejournal.com]

Yes yes yes! I hate when there's a huge chaptered fic with a premise I like, and I get so invested in it, and then in part 27 someone gets raped by a leprechaun or something.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, that would be the WORST, yeah.

[foxxcub.livejournal.com]

*pets*

YES, I HATE THAT SO MUCH. ;__;

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH.

[stungunbilly.livejournal.com]

Yes, it happened to me yesterday. Fortunately, not in my current favorite fandom, whew.
And also, I, like every other person who just posted a story and read this, am convinced it had to be ME that wrote the one that disappointed you.
I know, intellectually, that the odds are against it. But paranoia is so narcissistic.
::thinks about Frank and Patrick having sex until the fear has passed::