A reader in search of a specific plot

[thebullet]

I'm sure everyone has run into the readers who write just about the same critique of every story based upon their own particular and very weird world-view. Am I the only one who finds these guys tremendously amusing?

There is the HOPELESS ROMANTIC who may truly be one of the sickest motherfuckers on the planet. He probably works for the Bush Administration. Let's just say that I never want to bump into the guy walking down the street. I think in real life he is a perp on Law and Order SVU.

There is this Don9999 (fill in your own numbers) guy who rates every story based upon whether there is a pregnancy. I'm sure that Don is bearing his own cross and I sympathize, but shut the fuck up about our fucking stories! If we wanted to get the girls pregnant, we'd get them fucking pregnant! Stop marking down our stories because there are no pregnancies. Better yet, go write your own fucking pregnancy stories! I wrote a rape fantasy story and he downgraded it because he felt the rape wasn't really a rape. DUH!! OF course it wasn't really a rape, it was a fucking fantasy! That's the point. And sorry, she didnt' get pregnant!

I love the guy who only writes opinions on stories about cheating wives. He writes only in capital letters and is seriously challanged in his use of the English language. Because he regularly drops both nouns and verbs, it sometimes takes as long to translate his opinion as it does to read the story. Invariably he is screaming down (at least I think that's what the capital letters are for) writers who have slut wives and wimp husbands in their story. Not only that, his definition of wimp husband keeps moving further and further to the right. A response to infidelity anything short of divorce is too good for this guy. Personally he'd like the wife and the cheating friend/boss/whoever to be shot. He believs that infidelity is an executable offense.

Let's face it: someone in his past really cut his balls off.

Does anyone else have favorite readers/critics/coorespondents?

 

[BlackShanglan]

I love the guy who only writes opinions on stories about cheating wives. He writes only in capital letters and is seriously challanged in his use of the English language. Because he regularly drops both nouns and verbs, it sometimes takes as long to translate his opinion as it does to read the story. Invariably he is screaming down (at least I think that's what the capital letters are for) writers who have slut wives and wimp husbands in their story. Not only that, his definition of wimp husband keeps moving further and further to the right. A response to infidelity anything short of divorce is too good for this guy. Personally he'd like the wife and the cheating friend/boss/whoever to be shot. He believs that infidelity is an executable offense.

Let's face it: someone in his past really cut his balls off.

Does anyone else have favorite readers/critics/coorespondents?

He's mine! You're right, he's fabulous. His bizarre little manifestos litter the loving wives area. It staggers me that he has such TIME to devote to reading stories he hates and then writing angry, mispelled missives about them.

What do you think he does for a living?

My personal favorite was "DEATH TO ALL POOFS." First of all, it was posted in response to a story in the "Gay Male" section. Doesn't cruising the "Gay Male" stories looking for ways to be offended seem a little, oh, I don't know - gay? And how does one take any sentence with the word "poof" in it all that seriously? No good war cry should involve a word as fluffy and cute-sounding as "poof."

 

[curious2c]

Heh...I've had quite a few like these um...readers. That one...with the all caps...he seems to love to dog me on all my wife stories. I've had a few tell me I'm a sick minded person. Some have told me that they'd never put up with my wife like I have...I have to wonder about those...*shrugs* to each their own I guess.

I love it when someone jumps all over me and their post or feedback is full of poor english skills, not spelled right, and very poor grammar too. Such 'experts' always cause me to have a snicker or two.

Yeah, I suppose everyone here has gotten some kind of repponse like these. When they really get wound up about the characters in the story...then I know I've done my job well. Afterall, they have begun to believe that this really happened just as I wrote it, and their emotion is coming out in writing to me. Consider that most people who read any stories will ever vote or feedback or even comment...it is an achievement of sorts.

 

[davidwatts]

There are a whole lot of people that comment on stories here who really shouldn't be on the streets unsupervised. I say that knowing full well that one of my stories pleased MR. CAPITAL LETTERS to no end. I was going to point him in the direction of the disclaimer at the beginning of the tale about the tongue in cheek nature of the story but....eh, I'm sure he'll get me eventually anyway.

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

Eh, for dumb fans, I always turn to the group of anonymous (go figure) that had trouble realizing that my uber-tragedy All Hallow's Eve wasn't a stroke and cum piece. They were very disappointed that it was hard to jerk off to that piece. The fact that they tried makes me worry about the human race.


As far as vargas111 (my incarnation of Dan9999), I feel like a long-standing cosmic joke has finally reached the punchline. When I first read his comment to my one and only Loving Wives story in which he stated: "What kind of wife fixing service is it that does not leave her pregnant or itching to be pregnant? <g>"

Now, the piece in question was clearly and unmistakably an anti-misogynistic piece in which two guys play on a guy's desire to "train" his wife to be more subservient and basically video tape him having sex with a prostitute practicing the domination "technique" and then play it to the wife to get her vulnerable enough to sleep with the guys and get videotaped doing it to show the misogynistic guy how much an idiot he was.

Finally, now I understand his single-minded obsession, I understand his comment better and can stop being as scared of the readers in Loving Wives as I was. Yet, the random <g> is still a mystery that will haunt me to my dying day. Is it a demonstration that he got it after all and is trying to grin or is it like the G's on the garage doors in my mom's old days in New York and some guy named Vinnie is going to show up at my apartment and demand I write a pregnancy story?

Why does it all have to be so mysterious?

 

[thebullet]

some guy named Vinnie is going to show up at my apartment and demand I write a pregnancy story?

I strongely recommend that you keep them pregnancy stories comin'.

I'm here to tell you that reader feedback does affect what I write. I wrote a simple little rape fantasy - non-violent, more reluctance than rape. A reader threatened to emasculate me or set the FBI on me. I got the picture and now I don't write no stinkin' rape fantasies.

 

[wishfulthinking]

Ouch.

I'd have left you guys some feedback, but I would probably be considered dumb!

 

[Carl East]

I had one the other day, who said he enjoyed the first sixteen chapters but didn't like the final one. He then gave me a one vote. Just in case he actually reads this, FUCK OFF lol

Carl

 

[cantdog]

I had one the other day, who said he enjoyed the first sixteen chapters but didn't like the final one. He then gave me a one vote. Just in case he actually reads this, FUCK OFF lol

Carl

This sounds legitimate to me, Carl; sorry. There they are, five possible votes, and the man felt you'd cut out on him the way you ended it. I've felt that way about some movies.

Especially, now that I think of it, movies which deviate from the book's ending in order to replace it with a lame-o ending.

He may well have voted fours and fives right along through fifteen chapters, and then registered his displeasure on the sixteenth. To me, this sounds like a totally natural and understandable thing. The man cannot know about our 4.5 threshhold, he was simply voting as he saw them.

I imagine, since five possible vote choices exist, people ordinarily use all five as a matter of course, mostly without evil intent of any kind.

 

[Guest]

I get feedback from the "hopeless romantic". He always goes on about unprotcted sex, and the thrill that she might actually get pregnant.

Things like this:

"<<He felt so good inside me I didn't want it to stop.>>

This 'hopeless romantic' PREFERS that she is UNABLE to stop - so that they are mutually UNABLE to avoid his copious ejaculation directly into her reproductive organs.

Even better yet is the idea that she was UNPROTECTED at the moment, perhaps because they both had mixed feelings about pregnancy. Accordingly, she accepted his seduction on the mutual promise that they would pull apart JUST BEFORE his ejaculation.

Accordingly, I prefer that they used all of their strength to cling to each other as they both thoroughly enjoyed having his cock reaching into the center of her body. But that extreme pleasure instantly turned to horror as his cock began squirted copiously into her depths, thus exposing her to the RISK of a somewhat unwanted pregnancy!"


Bit difficult when the "she" has been sterilised and the "he" has had a vasectomy. Heh heh!

Oh well, his feedback is always fun to read.

Lou

 

[thebullet]

Tatelou:
Now I am truly impressed. Anyone with the intestinal fortitude to hang on to "HOPELESS ROMANTIC's" email is stronger than I am. It gives me the whillies every time I read anything from him. When he sends me an email, I shudder and then deep-six it. I mean, the guy is truly sleazy!

Curious2c:
I had recently read one of your stories and remembered a public comment that was less than flattering. So I went back and found it:

YOU CAN TELL A MAN DIDN'T WRITE THIS
09/13/04 by Anonymous in USA
A MAN WOULDN'T BELIEVE THIS CRAP IF HE IS A MAN.RESPECT AND TRUST ARE FOUNDATION OF MARRIAGE,IF YOU LOSE THAT ITS ALL OVER.THIS WHORESLUT DISH HER HUSBAND IN FRONT OF THE WORLD,SO HE SHOULDN'T EVEN BEING HOME WHEN SHE GOT THERE.HIS LAWYER OFFICE OR HOTEL WHERE HE SHOULD HAVE BEING,THIS BITCH COULD HAVE AIDS OR ANYTHING.WHERE EVER HE GO SOMEBODY HAD SOME OF HIS WOMAN AND DON'T GET MAD SHE WAS A WHORESLUT FOR ANOTHER MAN.HE WAS A WIMP FOR TAKING HER BACK

One can only envy you the literate and cultured readers that your stories attract. But is it true, Curious2c? Are you really a woman? Your bio claims you are a man. Fess up!

 

[curious2c]

Heh...yeah...I'm a man alright...At least I have the um...proper equipment between my legs to pass as a man.

Actually, that particular comment I wanted to reply to...and talked myself out of it. I have to ask myself why he read the story at all to begin with...Kind of like a thread I saw around here somewhere...why go post in a gay/lesbian forum an anti-gay/lesbian comment...if you don't like it don't read it.

I've had comments from others similar to that one too. Some of them need to work on spelling and grammar. Other than the caps on the above one...pretty articulate in some ways.

All I know is whatever I did, I provoked him into writing the comment to begin with, so...in my mind...I did well.

 

[Guest]

Tatelou:
Now I am truly impressed. Anyone with the intestinal fortitude to hang on to "HOPELESS ROMANTIC's" email is stronger than I am. It gives me the whillies every time I read anything from him. When he sends me an email, I shudder and then deep-six it. I mean, the guy is truly sleazy!

Yeah, but he's funny, too.

 

[curious2c]

Yeah, but he's funny, too.

Heh...When I first started getting feedback I used to print it out. After a few stories I realized that I wouldn't have room in my whole house eventually, if I kept writing...so I began to save them to disc's. I like to read them...especially when I am getting full of myself...I can come across one of 'those' anons and get put back in place real quick.

 

[Carl East]

This sounds legitimate to me, Carl; sorry. There they are, five possible votes, and the man felt you'd cut out on him the way you ended it. I've felt that way about some movies.

So in effect what you're saying is that although I gave this guy a lot of pleasure from chapters 1 to 16 I deserved a 1 because he didn't like the ending? Have you ever seen a film called Braveheart, I hated the ending to that film, but the movie it self was great.

My point being, the work alone that went into writing that story deserved more than a one. Besides, I honestly think this guy was going to give me a one whether he liked the ending or not. Some people just can't help them selves.

Carl

 

[Weird Harold]

I wrote a simple little rape fantasy - non-violent, more reluctance than rape. A reader threatened to emasculate me or set the FBI on me. I got the picture and now I don't write no stinkin' rape fantasies.

My first story -- an anti-rape, "be careful of who you pick on because appearances can be deceiving" tale -- generated a very long thread in the story feedback forum essentially driven by an anti-rape activist who chastised me for about two weeks before he finally admitted HE HADN"T ACTUALLY READ THE STORY!

Some people are just simply irrational about their fetishes and squicks.

 

[cantdog]

I wonder how many of us got a feedback based on just an assumption from the title?

Sobering thought, Weird.